Shaping History
Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 1998
Book
Hardback
237 pages
978-0-520-21170-4 (ISBN)
Description
As long as there have been governments, ordinary people have been acting in a variety of often informal or extralegal ways to influence the rulers who claimed authority over them. This text shows how ordinary people broke down the institutional and cultural barriers that separated elite from popular politics in 16th- and 17th-century Europe and entered fully into the historical process of European state formation. Wayne Te Brake's synthesis builds on the many studies of popular interaction of rulers and subjects more generally within the multiple political spaces of composite states. In these states, says Te Brake, a broad range of political subjects, often religiously divided among themselves, necessarily aligned themselves with alternative claimants to cultural and political sovereignty in challenging the cultural and fiscal demands of some rulers. This often violent interaction between subjects and rulers had particularly potent consequences during the course of the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, and the Crisis of the 17th Century. But, as Te Brake makes clear, it was an ongoing political process, not a series of separate cataclysmic events.
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First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth over boards
Illustrations
12 line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-21170-4 (9780520211704)
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Person
Wayne te Brake, Professor of History at Purchase College, State University of New York, is author of Regents and Rebels: The Revolutionary World of an Eighteenth-Century Dutch City (1989), and coeditor of Challenging Authority: The Historical Study of Contentious Politics (1998).
Content
LIST OF FIGURES
PREFACE
I
Breaking and Entering
Toward a Social History of European Politics
The Spatial and Cultural Dimensions
of Political Interaction
Ordinary People in European Politics (ca.1500)
2
Revolt and Religious Reformation in the World
of Charles V
Communes and Comuneros in Castile
Revolution and Religious Reform in Germany
and Switzerland
Patterns ofUrban Reformation
Dynasties, Princes, and Cycles of Protest
Patterns of Princely Reformation
Official Reformations and State Power
3
Religious Dissent and Civil War in France
and the Low Countries
Building "Churches under the Cross"
Popular Mobilization and the Coming of Civil War
The Character and Fate of Popular Protestantism
Popular Mobilization and the End
of the "Religious" Wars
Patterns of Religious Contestation
Revolutionary Reformations and State Power
4
The Political Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
The End of the Religious Wars?
The Spanish Crisis in Iberia: Catalonia and Portugal
The Spanish Crisis in Italy: Sicily and Naples
Multiple Revolutions in the British Isles
Revolution and Civil War in the French Fronde
Composite Revolutions and State Power
5
Popular Politics and the Geography of State Formation
Turning Swiss and Going Dutch
The Ongoing Formation of Composite States
Ordinary People in European Politics (ca. 1700)
REFERENCES
INDEX
PREFACE
I
Breaking and Entering
Toward a Social History of European Politics
The Spatial and Cultural Dimensions
of Political Interaction
Ordinary People in European Politics (ca.1500)
2
Revolt and Religious Reformation in the World
of Charles V
Communes and Comuneros in Castile
Revolution and Religious Reform in Germany
and Switzerland
Patterns ofUrban Reformation
Dynasties, Princes, and Cycles of Protest
Patterns of Princely Reformation
Official Reformations and State Power
3
Religious Dissent and Civil War in France
and the Low Countries
Building "Churches under the Cross"
Popular Mobilization and the Coming of Civil War
The Character and Fate of Popular Protestantism
Popular Mobilization and the End
of the "Religious" Wars
Patterns of Religious Contestation
Revolutionary Reformations and State Power
4
The Political Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
The End of the Religious Wars?
The Spanish Crisis in Iberia: Catalonia and Portugal
The Spanish Crisis in Italy: Sicily and Naples
Multiple Revolutions in the British Isles
Revolution and Civil War in the French Fronde
Composite Revolutions and State Power
5
Popular Politics and the Geography of State Formation
Turning Swiss and Going Dutch
The Ongoing Formation of Composite States
Ordinary People in European Politics (ca. 1700)
REFERENCES
INDEX