Randolph C. Head

Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons

Social Order and Political Language in a Swiss Mountain Canton, 1470 1620
Herausgeber: Elliott, John; Hufton, Olwen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of one of the most unusual political entities in early modern Europe, in the Swiss Alps.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780521893794
• ISBN-10: 0521893798
• Artikelnr.: 21735380

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of illustrations
Note on languages, orthography and abbreviations
Introduction: social order, politics, and political language in the Grisons, 1470-1520
1. Communalism and other political models in Europe and the Grisons
2. Rhaetia to 1520: geography, society, history
3. Local practice and federal government in the Freestate
4. From consolidation to communal politics, c. 1580-1620
5. Elite power and popular constraint in sixteenth-century Rhaetia
6. Reform, communal action and crisis, c. 1580-1620
7. Political language and political cosmology during the crisis years, 1617-22
Conclusion: democracy in early modern Rhaetia.