The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe by Gorski, Philip S.

The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780226304830)

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The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe by Gorski, Philip S.

The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe

$99.00
The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe by Gorski, Philip S.

The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe

$99.00
Format: Hardcover
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What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the Reformation. By refining and diffusing a variety of disciplinary techniques and strategies, such as communal surveillance, control through incarceration, and bureaucratic office-holding, Calvin and his followers created an infrastructure of religious governance and social control that served as a model for the rest of Europe--and the world.

Author: Philip S. Gorski
ISBN-10: 0226304833
ISBN-13: 9780226304830
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2003
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.36w x 0.81d
By Philip S. Gorski
By Philip S. Gorski
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Philip S. Gorski is an associate professor of sociology and director of the Max and Marianne Weber Center for Comparative Social Analysis at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is coauthor of The German Left: Red, Green, and Beyond.

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