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The Emancipation of Writing: German Civil Society in the Making, 1790s-1820s Volume 48

The Emancipation of Writing: German Civil Society in the Making, 1790s-1820s Volume 48

McNeely, Ian

Hardcover

Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture, Book 48

General World HistoryGerman History

ISBN10: 0520233301
ISBN13: 9780520233300
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jan 21 2003
Pages: 345
Weight: 1.38
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.46
Language: English
The Emancipation of Writing is the first study of writing in its connection to bureaucracy, citizenship, and the state in Germany. Stitching together micro- and macro-level analysis, it reconstructs the vibrant, textually saturated civic culture of the German southwest in the aftermath of the French Revolution and Napoleon's invasions. Ian F. McNeely reveals that Germany's notoriously oppressive bureaucracy, when viewed through the writing practices that were its lifeblood, could also function as a site of citizenship. Citizens, acting under the mediation of powerful local scribes, practiced their freedoms in written engagements with the state. Their communications laid the basis for civil society, showing how social networks commonly associated with the free market, the free press, and the voluntary association could also take root in powerful state institutions.

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