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Corporate Author Society for Netherlandic History (U.S.). International Conference (1st : 2001 : Columbia University)

Title Power and the city in the Netherlandic world / edited by Wayne Te Brake and Wim Klooster.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 22
Northern world ; v. 22.
Note Rev. papers presented at the 1st International Conference on this theme organized by the Society for Netherlandic History and held at Columbia University in June 2001.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Cities and towns -- Netherlands -- History -- Congresses.
Cities and towns.
Netherlands.
History.
Power (Social sciences) -- Netherlands -- History -- Congresses.
Power (Social sciences)
Netherlands -- Politics and government -- Congresses.
Politics and government.
Netherlands -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Social conditions.
Netherlands -- Politics and government.
Netherlands -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term Geschichte 400-1700
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Te Brake, Wayne Ph.
Klooster, Wim.
Other Form: Print version: Society for Netherlandic History (U.S.). International Conference (1st : 2001 : Columbia University). Power and the city in the Netherlandic world. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006 (DLC) 2006043938
ISBN 9781435657632 (electronic book)
1435657632 (electronic book)
1281399205
9781281399205
900415129X (alkaline paper)
9789004151291