Shaping History

Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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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. "Shaping History" shows how ordinary people broke down the institutional and cultural barriers that separated elite from popular politics in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe and entered fully into the historical process of European state formation. Wayne Te Brake's outstanding synthesis builds on the many studies of popular political action in specific settings and conflicts, locating the 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 Seventeenth Century.But, as Te Brake makes clear, it was an ongoing political process, not a series of separate cataclysmic events. Offering a compelling alternative to traditionally elite-centered accounts of territorial state formation in Europe, this book calls attention to the variety of ways ordinary people have molded and shaped their own political histories.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-07-31
Mått:150 x 230 x 15 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:237
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520213180

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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).

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LIST OF FIGURESPREFACEIBreaking and EnteringToward a Social History of European PoliticsThe Spatial and Cultural Dimensionsof Political InteractionOrdinary People in European Politics (ca.1500)2Revolt and Religious Reformation in the Worldof Charles VCommunes and Comuneros in CastileRevolution and Religious Reform in Germanyand SwitzerlandPatterns ofUrban ReformationDynasties, Princes, and Cycles of ProtestPatterns of Princely ReformationOfficial Reformations and State Power3Religious Dissent and Civil War in Franceand the Low CountriesBuilding "Churches under the Cross"Popular Mobilization and the Coming of Civil WarThe Character and Fate of Popular ProtestantismPopular Mobilization and the Endof the "Religious" WarsPatterns of Religious ContestationRevolutionary Reformations and State Power4The Political Crisis of the Seventeenth CenturyThe End of the Religious Wars?The Spanish Crisis in Iberia: Catalonia and PortugalThe Spanish Crisis in Italy: Sicily and NaplesMultiple Revolutions in the British IslesRevolution and Civil War in the French FrondeComposite Revolutions and State Power5Popular Politics and the Geography of State FormationTurning Swiss and Going DutchThe Ongoing Formation of Composite StatesOrdinary People in European Politics (ca. 1700)REFERENCESINDEX