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As long as there have been formal governments, there has been
political contention, an interaction between ruler and subjects
involving claims and counterclaims, compliance or resistance,
cooperation, resignation, condescension, and resentment. Where
political studies tend to focus on either those who rule or those
who are ruled, the essays in this volume call our attention to the
interaction between these forces at the very heart of contentious
politics. Written by prominent scholars of political and social
history, these essays introduce us to a variety of political
actors: peasants and workers, tax resisters and religious
visionaries, bandits and revolutionaries. From Brazil to Beijing,
from the late Middle Ages to the present, all were or are
challenging authority. The authors take a distinctly historical
approach to their subject, writing both of specific circumstances
and of larger processes. While tracing their origins to the social
history and structural sociology approaches of the sixties and
seventies, the contributors have also profited from subsequent
critiques of these approaches. Taken together, their essays
demonstrate that the relationship between mobilization for
collective action and identity formation is a perennial problem for
protest groups-a problem that the historical study of contentious
politics, with its focus on political interaction, can do much to
explain. Contributors: Risto Alapuro, U of Helsinki; Anton Blok, U
of Amsterdam; William Christian; Sonia De Avelar; Roger V. Gould, U
of Chicago; Marifeli Perez-Stable, SUNY, Old Westbury; Robert M.
Schwartz, Mount Holyoke; Marc W. Steinberg, Smith College; Carl
Strikwerda, U of Kansas; Sidney Tarrow, Cornell U; Marjolein 't
Hart, U of Amsterdam; Charles Tilly, Columbia U; Kim Voss, U of
California, Berkeley; Andrew Walder, Stanford U; R. Bin Wong, U of
California, Irvine.
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 states. In these states,
says Te Brake, a broad range of political subjects, often
religiously divided among themselves, necessarily aligned
themselves with alternative claimants to cultural and political
sovereignty in challenging the cultural and fiscal demands of some
rulers. This often violent interaction between subjects and rulers
had particularly potent consequences during the course of the
Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, and the Crisis of the
Seventeenth Century. But, as Te Brake makes clear, it was an
ongoing political process, not a series of separate cataclysmic
events. Offering a compelling alternative to traditionally
elite-centered accounts of territorial state formation in Europe,
this book calls attention to the variety of ways ordinary people
have molded and shaped their own political histories.
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. This text 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. Wayne Te Brake's synthesis builds on the many studies of popular interaction of rulers and subjects more generally within the multiple political spaces of composite states.;In these states, says Te Brake, a broad range of political subjects, often religiously divided among themselves, necessarily aligned themselves with alternative claimants to cultural and political sovereignty in challenging the cultural and fiscal demands of some rulers. This often violent interaction between subjects and rulers had particularly potent consequences during the course of the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, and the Crisis of the 17th Century. But, as Te Brake makes clear, it was an ongoing political process, not a series of separate cataclysmic events.
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