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Combating The Hydra: Violence And Resistance In The Habsburg Empire, 1500–1900, Stephan Steiner
Combating The Hydra: Violence And Resistance In The Habsburg Empire, 1500–1900, Stephan Steiner
Central European Studies
Combating the Hydra explores structural as well as occasion-specific state violence committed by the early modern Habsburg Empire. The book depicts and analyzes attacks on marginalized people “maladjusted” of all sorts, women “of ill repute,” “heretic” Protestants, and “Gypsies.” Previously uncharted archival records reveal the use of arbitrary imprisonment, coerced labor, and deportation. The case studies presented provide insights into the origins of modern state power from varied techniques of population control, but are also an investigation of resistance against oppression, persecution, and life-threatening assaults. The spectrum of fights against debasement is a touching attestation of the humanity of the …
Making Peace In An Age Of War: Emperor Ferdinand Iii (1608–1657), Mark Hengerer
Making Peace In An Age Of War: Emperor Ferdinand Iii (1608–1657), Mark Hengerer
Central European Studies
This English-language translation of Mark Hengerer's Kaiser Ferdinand III: 1608–1657 Eine Biographie is based on an analysis of the weekly reports sent by the papal nuncio’s office to the Vatican. These reports give detailed information about the daily whereabouts of the dynasty, courtiers, and foreign visitors, and they contain the gossip of the court in addition to weekly analysis of some political problems. This material enabled the author to report on daily life of the dynasty and to analyze the circumstances under which policy was made, which has led to a balance between the personality of Ferdinand III …