Article: The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia: Conservatives, Bureaucracy, and the Social Question, 1815-70.

The nineteenth-century Prussian bureaucracy has drawn an enormous amount of attention from generations of historians. Whether construed as Hegel's benevolent "universal estate," or as the early core of an ill-fated Prussian liberalism, or as an elitist monolith that sustained retrograde social interests well past the point of their natural death, the Prussian bureaucracy has been regarded as a key to the tortuous course of twentieth-century German history. In The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia, Hermann Beck promises to revise our understanding of the Prussian bureaucracy and to integrate his own findings into "the larger frame of the debate on ...

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