Holland and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century : the politics of particularism / J.L. Price.

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...

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Main Author: Price, J. L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1994.
Series:UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books.
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Table of 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.