Power and the City in the Netherlandic World

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15129-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 246 Seiten, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: The Northern World

In the absence of a powerful state, how was coercive power established within, over, and by the cities of the Low Countries? Eleven chapters covering the medieval and early modern periods explore this theme from various angles. Some chapters detail symbolic contests or armed struggle, while others focus on industrial control by urban magistrates or their attempts to regulate servants and maintain religious orthodoxy. The essays suggest that the Netherlandic world, in which cities have always loomed large, may have followed a distinctive path of political development that characterized the urban belt of Europe more generally. As such, this volume aims to create new understandings of the place of the Low Countries in European history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klooster

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction, Wayne te Brake and Wim Klooster
Keynote Address, Jan de Vries
The Rebellions of Southern Low Countries’ Towns during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Kelly DeVries
The Distorted Messages of Peace: Controlled and Uncontrolled Reactions to Propaganda in the Burgundian Low Countries during the Fifteenth Century, Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin
Beggars and Iconoclasts: The Political Culture of Iconoclasm on the Eve of the Revolt of the Netherlands, Peter Arnade
Confessional Cleansing: Why Amsterdam did not join the Revolt (1572–1578), Henk van Nierop
Power by Construction: Which Cities Where? Problems in Sixteenth Century Timber Supplies, Sawmills, and Labor, Elva Kathleen Lyon
Institutions, Politics, and Economic Policies in Habsburg Holland: The Decline of Gouda’s Brewing Industry, 1510–1568, Richard Yntema
Visible Power? Town Halls and Political Values, Joop de Jong
Stories about the Gallows Field: Power and Laughter in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam, Angela Vanhaelen
The Struggle over the Sabbath in Petrus Stuyvesant’s New Amsterdam, Joyce D. Goodfriend
‘There is no Service Here but My Service!’ Municipal Attempts to Regulate Domestic Servant Behavior in Early Modern Holland, Marybeth Carlson

Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wayne te Brake, Ph.D. (1977) in History, University of Michigan, is Kempner Distinguished Professor at Purchase College in the State University of New York. He is the author or editor of three books, including Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700 (1998).
Wim Klooster, Ph.D. in History (1995), University of Leiden, is Assistant Professor at Clark University. He is the author or co-editor of four books, including Illicit Riches: Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795 (1998).