Shaping History - Ordinary People in European Politics 1500-1700 (Paper)

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-520-21318-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 237 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brake, Wayne Te

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).