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- catalog abstract ""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. This book treats the full array of handwritten and printed texts - from marriage contracts to local petitions to state-subsidized information media - that attended citizens' encounters with the state during Germany's transition to modernity. Engaging current debates in cultural history, historical sociology, and social and political theory, it fundamentally reassesses the relation between state and citizen in one of the world's most administrative societies."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12704198.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""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. This book treats the full array of handwritten and printed texts - from marriage contracts to local petitions to state-subsidized information media - that attended citizens' encounters with the state during Germany's transition to modernity. Engaging current debates in cultural history, historical sociology, and social and political theory, it fundamentally reassesses the relation between state and citizen in one of the world's most administrative societies."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-323) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. I. Official Power and the Paper Trail. 1. The Civic Landscape. 2. The Tutelage of the Scribes. 3. The Black Forest Cahier. 4. Constitutional Fetishism -- pt. II. Inscribing a Space of Freedom. 5. Transcending "Textual Serfdom" 6. Reading, Writing, and Reform. 7. Cataloging the Social World. 8. The Intelligence Gazettes.".
- catalog extent "xii, 329 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520233301 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies on the history of society and culture ; 48".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "Germany".
- catalog subject "300/.943/09033 21".
- catalog subject "Bureaucracy Germany History.".
- catalog subject "Civil society Germany History.".
- catalog subject "JN3221 .M37 2002".
- catalog subject "Written communication Germany History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Official Power and the Paper Trail. 1. The Civic Landscape. 2. The Tutelage of the Scribes. 3. The Black Forest Cahier. 4. Constitutional Fetishism -- pt. II. Inscribing a Space of Freedom. 5. Transcending "Textual Serfdom" 6. Reading, Writing, and Reform. 7. Cataloging the Social World. 8. The Intelligence Gazettes.".
- catalog title "The emancipation of writing : German civil society in the making, 1790s-1820s / Ian F. McNeely.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".