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Author:   Wim Blockmans (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.843kg
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9781032063942

ISBN 10:   1032063947
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   31 January 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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CONTENTS Acknowledgements Table of Contents List of Illustrations 1. Historical roots of political voice - Voice and Representation 1 o A Unique Achievement 10 o Continuity? 15 - The State of Research 19 o Terminology 23 o Theoretical Points of Departure 25 o Political Participation Today 30 o This book 33 2. The Playing Field Is Demarcated: Communities and Political Landscapes - Increasing differences in development 3 - The geographic environment 6 - The formation of political units from a dominant core 13 - The imperial obsession 16 - Alliances of free communities 20 - Coasts, Rivers, and Land masses 26 - The Political Geography 28 - The Playing Field 38 3. The Players: the Formation of Political Communities - Estates and their Representation 3 o The First Estate: the Clergy 5 o The Estate of the Nobility 9 o Peace Movements 12 o Precedence 15 - Concentration of Power 24 o Counsel and Aid 24 o England: the Early Kingdom 26 o Dynastic Wars, Bad Kings, and Rebellious Barons 29 - Balances of Power: Catalonia and Aragon 38 - Dynastic Discontinuity 43 o Castile and León 45 o Brabant and Castile 48 - The Leading Actors 52 4. Game Changers: the Third Estate Makes Itself Heard - The Italian Polyarchy 2 o The Astonishing North 2 o The Social Composition of the Tuscan Population 13 o The Papal States 16 o The South 17 o Balances of Power 22 - Popular Sovereignty in Flanders 23 - Commercial Interests 33 - Peasants’ Voice 38 o The common concern for water management in the Low Countries 47 - Core Concepts in the Political Debate 51 - The Triangular Relationship: Prince, Nobility, Cities 56 5. Within the Lines: Institutionalized Political Voice - The Vulnerability of Princes 2 - The Iberian Cortes and Languedoc 5 - Abuse of Power and Tiranny in England 15 o Political Voice on War 22 o Representation of the Land? 27 - City Leagues in the German Realm 32 - The Microcosm of the Low Countries 39 o From the Meuse Region Urban League to the Land of Liège 39 o The First Social and Political Revolution: Flanders 43 o From City Leagues to the Brabant Constitutional Tradition 47 o Estates and Princely Ambitions 53 o Contrasts 57 - Expansion and Emancipation 65 6. Spectators Invade the Pitch - The First Religiously Inspired Revolution: Bohemia 1 - The Bourgeois Revolution in the Low Countries 5 o Church and Religion as Sources of Disruption 10 oThe First Sovereign Popular Representation 13 - Religious Polarization in the German Realm 27 - Elective Kingship and Regional Power in Central Europe 41 oPoland 41 oHungary 45 o Swiss Confederation 46 - Seizure of Power by the Privileged in France 48 - Republics Among Monarchies 56 - The Reformation as Catalyst 59 7. Distribution of Gain and Loss - Societies in Figures 2 o Numbers of People and Concentrations 3 o Composition of the Population 9 - Forms of Aristocratic Rule in Central and Eastern Europe 16 - Balances of Power in the Holy Roman Empire 31 o A Dramatic Case: Saxony 42 - Estates’ Members as Brokers in the French Periphery 45 - The Subjugation of Catalonia and the ‘long sleep’ of Iberia 51 - Conclusion 60 8. The Champions and the Excluded - Sovereign Republics 1 - Revolution Turning into Oligarchy: the United Provinces 5 - England and the United Kingdom: the Monarchal Republic 16 o The Bloody Road to a Constitutional Monarchy 17 o The Consolidated Parliament 27 - Sweden, a Separate Case 33 o The Formative Period 33 o Royal Voluntarism and Parliamentary Opposition 36 o Political Parties 44 - Colonies and the other Excluded 50 o Ireland 51 o North America 53 - Ascending and Descending Power 60 9. Conclusions. Participation versus Effectivity - A Dash of Political Anthropology 1 - Phases of Expansion and Contraction 4 o Political Voice? The development phase, 1100-1350 5 o Consolidation and trials of strength, 1350 -1600 9 o Constitutional Representation or Fiscal-military Monarchy, 1600-1800 15 - The fundamental dynamics 19 o Emancipation and Stiffening 19 o Representation from below 23 o State Power 25 o Institutional Inertia 30 o Continuity of Political Cultures 33 General Bibliography Index

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'[...] he aims to find an explanation for the way in which political participation has or has not taken shape over the centuries and in different places [the liberal revolutions before and after 1800].' Lauren Lauret, the low countries, 2024 - https://www.the-low-countries.com/article/the-struggle-for-political-participation-is-never-over

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Wim Blockmans is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. His previous publications include the co-editing of The Routledge History Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300–1600 (2016).

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