Description
Book SynopsisShows 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. This book offers an alternative to traditionally elite-centered accounts of territorial state formation in Europe.
Table of ContentsLIST 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)
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