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Holland Under Habsburg Rule, 1506-1566 - The Formation of a Body Politic (Paperback)
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Holland Under Habsburg Rule, 1506-1566 - The Formation of a Body Politic (Paperback)
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Under what conditions were limited forms of self-government
possible in medieval and early modern Europe? While many historians
have sought an answer by investigating the development of
parliamentary institutions in emerging national monarchies and the
wider autonomy enjoyed by various city-states within their own
borders, James D. Tracy concentrates instead on a relatively
neglected phenomenon at an intermediate level of political
organization-the self-governing province. Focusing on the province
of Holland during the reigns of Charles V and Philip II
(1506-1566), Tracy argues convincingly that Holland effectively
underwent an apprenticeship in self-government. The seven provinces
of the Dutch Republic-among which Holland was the richest and most
populous-were the first in history to govern themselves by a
consensus among their towns and nobles. The foundations for this
internal cohesion were put in place long before the Dutch Revolt;
first by medieval provincial dynasties, then by the dukes of
Burgundy, and finally by the House of Habsburg. At the turn of the
sixteenth century, Holland was urbanized to a surprising degree,
with over forty percent of its population residing in some thirty
small and mid-sized towns. Forced by external threats to rise above
their economic rivalries, the towns joined together through the
forum of the provincial parliament, or States of Holland, which
came to assume a primary role in the management of public finances.
While noting that the growing autonomy of Holland did not make the
Dutch Revolt inevitable, Tracy points out that the revolt could
hardly have succeeded without provinces that already had a
tradition of managing their own affairs. In the broader context of
European political institutions, the circumstances that permitted
the provincial states to assume many of the functions of government
illustrate not only the capacity for self-government but also the
formation of genuine body politics. This title is part of UC
Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of
California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest
minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist
dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed
scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology.
This title was originally published in 1990.
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