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... tion . Deutschland , 1763–1815 ( Berlin , 1989 ) , esp . chs . 3 and 5. A positive assessment of Prussian conditions can be found in C. B. A. Behrens , Society , government and the Enlightenment : the experiences of eighteenth - century ...
... tion . Deutschland , 1763–1815 ( Berlin , 1989 ) , esp . chs . 3 and 5. A positive assessment of Prussian conditions can be found in C. B. A. Behrens , Society , government and the Enlightenment : the experiences of eighteenth - century ...
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... tion , and it carried them along in the Reform Bill debates . Many cabinet ministers were the most reluctant of reformers , but they justified their votes by reference to prescription . Grey asserted that reform must come because it was ...
... tion , and it carried them along in the Reform Bill debates . Many cabinet ministers were the most reluctant of reformers , but they justified their votes by reference to prescription . Grey asserted that reform must come because it was ...
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... tion from the serious business of rebuilding humanity . Adjusting the form of the state could never revolutionize society . But there were many others for whom reform in the English fashion looked too much like mere expediency , a ...
... tion from the serious business of rebuilding humanity . Adjusting the form of the state could never revolutionize society . But there were many others for whom reform in the English fashion looked too much like mere expediency , a ...
Contents
The Whigs the People and Reform | 25 |
Changing the Law in Germany in the Ancien Régime | 45 |
Notes on Contributors vii | |
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