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Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700
Wayne Te Brake
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Description for Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700
Paperback. Shows 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. Num Pages: 237 pages, 12 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 9. Weight in Grams: 372. Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700. 237 pages, 12 line illustrations. Shows 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. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JPA. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 9. Weight: 370.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
Number of Pages
237
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520213180
SKU
V9780520213180
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About Wayne Te Brake
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).
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