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In praise of ordinary people : early modern Britain and the Dutch Republic / edited by Margaret C. Jacob and Catherine Secretan.

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The discipline of social history has for many decades focused on the lives of so-called "ordinary" people. Less studied, however, has been the ways in which the perceptions and roles of these individuals changed over time - both in historical theory and practice. In particular, in Europe b...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Jacob, Margaret C., 1943- (Editor), Secretan, Catherine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:
Middle class > Great Britain > History.
Middle class > Netherlands > History.
Middle class.
Great Britain.
Netherlands.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Margaret Jacob and Catherine Secretan
  • PART I: A NEW SELF-PERCEPTION
  • 1. The 'Simple Burgher' of D.V. Coornhert (1522-1590): A Dutch Freethinker Opens the Door to a New Age; Dorothee Sturkenboom
  • 2. Common People as Individuals: Hobbes's Normative Approach to the Ordinary Mind; Luc Foisneau
  • 3. News as a Path to Independence: Merchant Correspondence and the Exchange of News during the Dutch Revolt; Jesse Sadler
  • PART II: THE CAPABILITIES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE AND THE BIRTH OF THE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL WORLD
  • 4. 'Ordinary' People and Philosophers in the Laboratories and Workshops of the Early Industrial Revolution; Larry Stewart
  • 5. Accounting and Accountability in Dutch Civic Life; Jacob Soll
  • PART III: NEW APPROACHES TO THE POPULIST VOICE
  • 6. The People in Politics: Early Modern England and the Dutch Republic Compared; Maarten Prak
  • 7. The Populist Voice of the Early Enlightenment; Margaret C. Jacob
  • 8. 'This fleshlike isle': The Voluptuous Body of the People in Dutch Pamphlets, Novels and Plays 1660-1730; Inger Leemans
  • 9. Ordinary People in the New World: The City of Amsterdam, Colonial Policy and Initiatives from Below, 1656-1664; Frans Blom and Henk Looijesteijn
  • PART IV: FORGING THE INDIVIDUAL
  • 10. Depression and Evangelicalism in the Family of Esther Tuke; Phyllis Mack
  • 11. Self-Disciple and the Struggle for the Middle in Eighteenth-Century Britain; Matthew Kadane.

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