Machine generated contents note: Section 1. The Powers of the State
1. Introduction: The social history of the state
2. Power, things and the coming of the technostate
Part I. The State of Things : Connecting
Section 2. 'Man is Made of the Post Office' : Making the Social Technical
3. The postal network becomes a system
4. Writing and postal technologies
Section 3. Postal Economy and Society : Making the Technical Social
5. Economising : the state and society
6. Postal society : learning the state
Section 4. Filing the Raj : Political Technologies of the Imperial State
7. Making centres
8. 'The faculty of arrangement'
Part II. The State of Men : Governing
Section 5. The Work of the State
9. The common knowledge of the state
10. The civil service statesman
Section 6. The Grammars of Governance : Pedagogies of the Powerful
11. Lineages of the liberal governor
12. Classics and the remaking of liberal education
Section 7. 'The Fathers Govern the Nation' : the Public School and the Oxbridge College
13. Making mastery
14. The domus
Section 8. Conclusion: Legacies of the Liberal Leviathan.
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The state of freedom : a social history of the British state since 1800 by Patrick Joyce. ISBN 9781107694552. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
