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.