Lille and the Dutch Revolt

Lille and the Dutch Revolt
Author: Robert S. DuPlessis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2002-05-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521894173

This comprehensive study explains why Lille was renowned for adhering to the existing order.

Habsburg Communication in the Dutch Revolt

Habsburg Communication in the Dutch Revolt
Author: Monica Stensland
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 908964413X

De politieke denkbeelden van de rebellen in de Opstand (voorheen de Tachtigjarige Oorlog) zijn al langer onderwerp van wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Dit boek richt zich echter op het grotendeels onbesproken verhaal van het Habsburgse regime en zijn lokale aanhangers. Hoe dachten zij over het conflict en hoe reageerden zij op de beschuldigingen van de opstandelingen? De auteur heeft een verscheidenheid aan mondelinge, schriftelijke en theatrale media onderzocht om te ontdekken hoe het regime gebruikmaakte van de verschillende communicatiekanalen. Daarnaast is de reactie van gewone mensen op het conflict en op de tegenstrijdige berichtgeving in de publieke sfeer onderzocht.

The Early Modern City 1450-1750

The Early Modern City 1450-1750
Author: Christopher R. Friedrichs
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2014-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317901843

A pioneering text which covers the urban society of early modern Europe as a whole. Challenges the usual emphasis on regional diversity by stressing the extent to which cities across Europe shared a common urban civilization whose major features remained remarkably constant throughout the period. After outlining the physical, political, religious, economic and demographic parameters of urban life, the author vividly depicts the everyday routines of city life and shows how pitifully vulnerable city-dwellers were to disasters, epidemics, warfare and internal strife.

Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620

Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620
Author: Christine Kooi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2022-06-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316513521

This accessible general history places the Reformation in the Low Countries within its broader political and religious context.

Political Competition, Innovation and Growth

Political Competition, Innovation and Growth
Author: Peter Bernholz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642603246

This volume confronts an important historical hypothesis with empirical evidence from selected periods of history. The hypothesis in question states that competition among political and legal organisations in developing rules has been a crucial condition for liberty, innovation and growth in the history of mankind. It is due to Immanuel Kant, Edward Gibbon and Max Weber and has been revived and further developed by Nobel-Laureate Douglass C. North who contributes the first chapter. The volume brings together political economists, historians and legal scholars to discuss the role of political competition in the rise and decline of nations - both in theory and in a large number of case studies.

The Other Prussia

The Other Prussia
Author: Karin Friedrich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521027755

A study of national identity in Royal Prussia - the 'other Prussia', part of the Polish state from 1454 to 1793.

Authority and Society in Nantes During the French Wars of Religion, 1558-1598

Authority and Society in Nantes During the French Wars of Religion, 1558-1598
Author: Elizabeth C. Tingle is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781847791566

Elizabeth Tingle explores the theory and practice of authority during the sixteenth century in France, through an examination of the religious culture and political institutions of the city of Nantes. She provides a survey of the socio-economic structures of the mid-sixteenth-century city.

Spanish Naval Power, 1589-1665

Spanish Naval Power, 1589-1665
Author: David Goodman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2003-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521522571

The first comprehensive analysis of Spain's naval forces after the defeat of the Great Armada in 1588.

Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century

Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century
Author: Jeroen Puttevils
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317316630

Sixteenth-century Europe was powered by commerce. Whilst mercantile groups from many areas prospered, those from the Low Countries were particularly successful. This study, based on extensive archival research, charts the ascent of the merchants established around Antwerp.