The historical essays of Otto Hintze / edited with an introduction by Felix Gilbert ; with the assistance of Robert M. Berdahl

Translation of selections from Gesammelte Abhandlungen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Hohenzollern and the nobility.--Prussian reform movements before 1806.--Calvinism and raison d'etat in early seventeenth-century Brandenburg.--The formation of states and constitutional development.--Military organization and the organization of the state.--The origins of the modern ministerial system.--The commissary and his significance in general administrative history.--The preconditions of representative government in the context of world history.--The individualist and the collective approach to history.--Troeltsch and the problems of historicism.--Economics and politics in the age of modern capitalism.

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