Power and Urban Space in Pre-Modern Holland - Dr Clé Lesger

Power and Urban Space in Pre-Modern Holland

Arenas of Appropriation in the Netherlands, 1500-1850

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Buch | Hardcover
312 Seiten
2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-41237-8 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
Cities and urban societies have many faces. In this study, the pre-modern cities of Holland are presented as arenas where power relations between social classes are expressed in a more or less permanent appropriation of physical space and through discursive strategies. The continuity of the power relations in the cities of Holland, spanning centuries, makes it urgent to look not only at the assumption of urban space as an expression of power relations within society, but also at the contribution of this appropriation to the acceptance and continuity of the existing power relations in pre-modern Holland.

Within this broad area, extensive attention is paid to: the very prominent and enduring appropriation of urban space in the field of housing; the less permanent, but violent appropriation of urban space during the public execution of scaffold punishments; the maintenance of public order by civic militias; and appropriation during riots and revolts. In addition, city descriptions, maps and pictures of the pre-modern cities of Holland are scrutinised for what they can reveal about the appropriation of urban spaces. These themes each have an extensive historiography, but they have never been brought together in an interpretative framework that fits in with Pierre Bourdieu’s model of society and the work – of especially John Allen – on power until now.

Clé Lesger is Associate Professor of History at University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is the author of several books, including The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange; Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, c.1550-1630 (2006) and Shopping spaces and the urban landscape in early modern Amsterdam, 1550-1850 (2020).

List of Illustrations and Figures
List of Maps
Introduction
1. Inequality and Power Relations in the Cities of Holland
2. Residential Appropriation of Urban Space in the First Half of the 19th Century
3. Resources, Power and Residential Appropriation of Urban Space
4. Power, Theatrical Violence and Ephemeral Appropriation of Urban Space
5. Discursive Appropriation of Urban Space
Conclusion
Appendix – Patterns of Residential Differentiation in the Cities of Holland, 14th – 19th Centuries
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 56 Maps
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-350-41237-6 / 1350412376
ISBN-13 978-1-350-41237-8 / 9781350412378
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