Writing Political History Today (eBook)

Willibald Steinmetz ist Professor für moderne Politikgeschichte, Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey Professorin für Zeitgeschichte an der Uni Bielefeld. Heinz-Gerhard Hauptlehrte Geschichte an der Uni Bielefeld und am Europäischen Hochschulinstitut Florenz.

Contents 6
I. Introduction 10
The Political as Communicative Space in History: The Bielefeld Approach - Willibald Steinmetz and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt 12
II. Contested Concepts: »Politics« and »the Political« 36
Introduction - Willibald Steinmetz 38
From »Interest« to the »Political«: Speaking of Ruling and Reigning in Early Modern Europe – Martin Papenheim 46
From a Despised French Word to a Dominant Concept: The Evolution of »Politics« in Swedish and Finnish Parliamentary Debates – Pasi Ihalainen 58
What Did They Mean by Política? Debating over the Concept, Value, and Place of Politics in Modern Spain – Javier Fernández Sebastián 100
Navigating Around Politics: British Progressive Thought and the »Political« in an Expanding Transnational Perspective – Michael Freeden 128
III. Boundary Disputes: The Political and Other Spheres 148
Introduction – Heinz-Gerhard Haupt 150
Drawing Boundaries between Politics and Religion: Early Modern Politics Revisited – Matthias Pohlig 156
Political Economy and Statistics in the Late Ancien Régime – Lars Behrisch 176
Laws as the Basis and Object of Political Communication – Christoph Gusy 192
Depoliticalisation of the Private Life? Reflections on Private Practices and the Political in the Late Soviet Union – Kirsten Bönker 208
Moving across Boundaries: Rudolf Virchow between Medicine and Politics – Tobias Weidner 236
IV. Violence: Means, Object or End of Political Communication? 252
Introduction – Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey 254
»Catholic and Breton Forever«: Violence and the Visual in Early Twentieth-Century France – Eveline G. Bouwers 260
The Limits of the Legitimate: The Quarrel over »Violence« between Autonomist Groups and the German Authorities – Freia Anders and Alexander Sedlmaier 292
Vie chère, Violent Protest, and Visions of Protection: The Vie chère Controversy on the Eve of WWI in France (1905–1914) – Marcel Streng 318
V. Epilogue: Moving beyond the »New« Political History 350
Writing Political History after the »Iconic Turn« – Bettina Brandt 352
The Political, the State, and Governance: Reflections on Essentially Contested Concepts – Thomas Risse 360
Historical Politics Research – Luise Schorn-Schütte 370
The Opening Up of Political History – Henk te Velde 384
Political History Matters: Everyday Life, Things, and Practices – Frank Trentmann 398
Notes on Contributors 410