Description |
1 online resource (312 pages) |
Series |
UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books
|
Contents |
I. Town Politics in the Province of Holland. 1. The Urban Setting. 2. The Town Governments of Holland. 3. The Regents. 4. Party and Faction. 5. Religion, the Reformed Church, and Urban Politics. 6. Catholics, Dissenters, and Politics. 7. The Schutterij, Popular Influence, and Public Order -- II. The Politics of the Province of Holland. 1. The States of Holland. 2. The Stadhouder. 3. Provincial Administration and Courts. 4. Republicans and Orangists. 5. Urban Rivalry. 6. Religion and Politics in Holland -- III. Holland and the Politics of the Dutch Republic. 1. The States General and the Generality. 2. The Not-So-United Provinces. 3. The Influence of Holland. 4. The Power of the Princes of Orange. 5. Religion and the Dutch State. 6. Provincial Autonomy and the Survival of the Union |
Summary |
This is a study of the politics of the pivotal province of Holland and of its role in the political system of the Dutch Republic as a whole in the seventeenth century. It is an original, scholarly, and challenging analysis, which treats the reality of politics from the ground up. J.L. Price explores the politics of the towns of Holland in detail, examines the province's political system, and assesses the ways in which Holland influenced the policies of the Dutch Republic in its Golden Age. He argues, controversially, that not only did the decentralized political system of the Republic work well, but that a more unified state would have been a failure. Dr Price's novel approach to a complex and important subject sets politics in its economic and social context, and offers valuable insights into the practical politics of the Dutch during the period when they played a major role on the world stage |
Analysis |
Politics History, 1648-1795 |
|
Netherlands |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-306) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
|
English |
|
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
|
Print version record |
Subject |
Politics and government
|
|
Partikularismus
|
|
Politisches System
|
|
Particularisme.
|
|
Politieke situatie.
|
|
Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden.
|
|
Geschichte (1600-1700)
|
SUBJECT |
Holland (Netherlands : Province) -- History
|
|
Holland (Netherlands : Province) -- Politics and government
|
|
Netherlands -- History -- Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091001
|
|
Netherlands -- Politics and government -- 1556-1648. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091025
|
|
Netherlands -- Politics and government -- 1648-1795. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091027
|
Subject |
Netherlands.
|
|
Netherlands -- Holland (Province)
|
|
Niederlande
|
|
Holland
|
Genre/Form |
History.
|
Form |
Electronic book
|
ISBN |
9780191676000 |
|
0191676004 |
|