Combating the Hydra

Violence and Resistance in the Habsburg Empire, 1500-1900

AvStephan Steiner

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Combating the Hydra explores structural as well as occasion-specific state violence committed by the early modern Habsburg Empire. The book depicts and analyzes attacks on marginalized people "maladjusted" of all sorts, women "of ill repute," "heretic" Protestants, and "Gypsies." Previously uncharted archival records reveal the use of arbitrary imprisonment, coerced labor, and deportation. The case studies presented provide insights into the origins of modern state power from varied techniques of population control, but are also an investigation of resistance against oppression, persecution, and life-threatening assaults. The spectrum of fights against debasement is a touching attestation of the humanity of the outcasts; they range from mental and emotional perseverance to counterviolence. A conversation with the eminent historian Carlo Ginzburg concludes the collection by asking about the importance of memorizing horrors of the past.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-15
Mått:152 x 228 x 17 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Central European Studies
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:Purdue University Press
ISBN:9781612498041

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Stephan Steiner is a professor at Sigmund Freud University Vienna and head of its Institute for Transcultural and Historical Research. His research interests include migration, minority, and Enlightenment studies; Reformation history; and the history of mentalities. Steiner has written numerous publications on extreme violence in early and late modernity, including the monograph No Longer Wanted: Deportation in the Early Modern Habsburg Empire and its European Context (2014) and the edited volume Gypsies in Early Modern Europe (2019).

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionGlossaryAbbreviationsPART I. THE CONUNDRUM OF DEPORTATION AND COERCED LABOR1. Forgotten Chapters in the History of Violence: Deportation in the Early Modern Habsburg Empire and Its European Surroundings2. "An Austrian Cayenne": Forced Labor in the Early Modern Habsburg Empire3. Austria's Penal Colonies: Deportation, Resettlement, and Detention in the Habsburg EmpirePART II. PROTESTANTISM GOES UNDERGROUND4. "Acting as if in a Republic Already": Carinthian Underground Protestants Rehearse the Uprising5. Writing against Suffocation: Migrant Letters as Documents and Strategies of Survival6. A Tale of Two Cities: Protestant Preachers and Private Tutors in Vienna under the Rule of Emperor Charles VIPART III. THE TEACHINGS OF GYPSY HISTORY7. "Giving Short Shrift by Flogging, Hanging, and Beheading": A Gypsy Trial and Its Pitfalls8. The Enemy Within: Gypsies as External and Internal Threat in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Holy Roman Empire9. From Poisoned Pens to Procedural Justice: Remarks on Gypsy Agency10. Out of the Past: The End of Gypsy Slavery in BukovinaPART IV. IN CONVERSATION WITH CARLO GINZBURG11. There is No Meaning with a Capital "M": In Conversation with Carlo GinzburgNotesArchival SourcesBibliographyIndex