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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Shaping History
• Subtitle: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700
• Author: Wayne Te Brake
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 237
• EAN: 9780520213180
• ISBN: 0520213181
• ID: 04616335
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 372 g
• Dimensions: 152 × 226 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. July 1998

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