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In praise of ordinary people : = early modern Britain and the Dutch Republic /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	In praise of ordinary people :/ edited by Margaret C. Jacob and Catherine Secretan.
Reminder of title:	early modern Britain and the Dutch Republic /
other author:	Jacob, Margaret C.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Middle class - History. - Great Britain -
Subject:	Great Britain. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137380524
ISBN:	1137380527 (electronic bk.)

In praise of ordinary people : = early modern Britain and the Dutch Republic /
In praise of ordinary people :early modern Britain and the Dutch Republic /edited by Margaret C. Jacob and Catherine Secretan. - 1 online resource.

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.

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 beginning in the sixteenth century, they were no longer simply ignored, feared, or denigrated by elites: they came to be seen, however cautiously, as having value through their skills and crafts, or in their ability to reason, or even in their contributions to anchoring the stability of the state. It is not accidental that these sorts of practices on the part of ordinary people became valorized more visibly in the English and Dutch contexts. After 1550, the Dutch Revolt cast ordinary people, particularly in urban settings, as participants on either the Catholic Spanish side or among the Dutch rebels and their reformed churches. Meanwhile, the English civil wars of the 1640s did something similar, and also produced a body of theoretical literature on the capacities of ordinary men and even women that became central to Western democratic thinking. In the fascinating array of studies gathered here, we see how the study of these participants' social identities imparts historical texture and enables us to understand early modernity with greater clarity.

ISBN: 1137380527 (electronic bk.)

Source: 711783Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

1006702
Middle class
--History.--Great BritainSubjects--Geographical Terms:

556574
Great Britain.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HT690.G7 / I5 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 305.5/50941

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