In Praise of Ordinary People [electronic resource] : Early Modern Britain and the Dutch Republic /
Jacob, M.editor.
Secretan, C.editor.
The discipline of social history has still not given enough attention to the ways in which the perceptions and roles of "ordinary" people changed over time. In these fascinating British and Dutch cases, we see how the study of this evolution imparts historical texture and enables us to understand early modernity with greater clarity.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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; 2 Common People as Individuals: Hobbes's Normative Approach to the Ordinary Mind; 3 News as a Path to Independence: Merchant Correspondence and the Exchange of News during the Dutch Revolt; 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 Revolution5 Accounting and Accountability in Dutch Civic Life; Part III: NewApproaches to the Populist Voice; 6 The People in Politics: Early Modern England and the Dutch Republic Compared; 7 The Populist Voice of the Early Enlightenment; 8 "This Fleshlike Isle": The Voluptuous Body of the People in Dutch Pamphlets, Novels, and Plays, 1660-1730; 9 Ordinary People in the NewWorld: The City of Amsterdam, Colonial Policy, and Initiatives from Below, 1656-1664; Part IV: Forging the Individual
10 Depression and Evangelicalism in the Family of Esther Tuke11 Self-Discipline and the Struggle for the Middle in Eighteenth-Century Britain; List of Contributors; Index
Includes index.
The discipline of social history has still not given enough attention to the ways in which the perceptions and roles of "ordinary" people changed over time. In these fascinating British and Dutch cases, we see how the study of this evolution imparts historical texture and enables us to understand early modernity with greater clarity.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Middle East—History.
Social history.
Great Britain—History.
Civilization—History.
European History.
Modern History.
History of the Middle East.
Social History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Cultural History.