Holland and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century The Politics of Particularism

by Price, J. L.

• ISBN13: 9780198203834
• ISBN10: 0198203837
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-04-28
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This original, scholarly, and challenging analysis treats the reality of politics in the Dutch Republic from the ground up. J.L. Price explores the politics of the towns of Holland in detail, examines the province's political system, and assesses the ways in which Holland influenced the policies of the Dutch Republic in its Golden Age. He argues, controversially, that not only did the decentralized political system of the Republic work well, but that a more unified state would have been a failure. Price's novel approach to a complex and important subject sets politics in its economic and social context, and offers valuable insights into the practical politics of the Dutch during the period when they played a major role on the world stage.

Author Biography

J. L. Price is Lecturer in History at the University of Hull.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Town Politics in The Province of Holland	p. 5
the Urban Setting	p. 11
the Town Governments Of Holland	p. 19
the Regents	p. 32
Party and Faction	p. 57
Religion, the Reformed Church And Urban Politics	p. 70
Catholics, Dissenters, and Politics	p. 81
the Schutterij, Popular Influence And Public Order	p. 90
The Politics of the Province Of Holland	p. 109
the States of Holland	p. 122
the Stadhouder	p. 134
Provincial Administration And Courts	p. 149
Republicans and Orangists	p. 154
Urban Rivalry	p. 172
Religion and Politics in Holland	p. 183
Holland and the Politics Of the Dutch Republic	p. 207
the States General and The Generality	p. 211
the Not-So-United Provinces	p. 221
the Influence of Holland	p. 235
the Power of the Princes Of Orange	p. 247
Religion and the Dutch State	p. 260
Provincial Autonomy and The Survival of the Union	p. 278
Select Bibliography	p. 294
Index	p. 307
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