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

Table of contents

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

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