From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.
From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into… - Charles Tilly
From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into…
- Charles Tilly
Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accu… - Charles Tilly
Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accu…
Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens. - Charles Tilly
Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging wit… - Charles Tilly
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging wit…
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