His Majesty's Rebels: Communities, Factions, and Rural Revolt in the Black Forest, 1725-1745 - Couverture rigide

Luebke, David Martin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801433460 ISBN 13 : 9780801433467

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1997

Synopsis

In a series of rebellions that took place in the small, impoverished Black Forest lordship of Hauenstein between 1725 and 1745, David Martin Luebke finds evidence for a new and more nuanced view of peasant action and discourse on power and community. In the rebellions called the Salpeter Wars on which Luebke bases his analysis, the peasants of Hauenstein all sought to curtail the expansion of centralizing bureaucratic powers that were eroding traditional local autonomies. They could not agree how best to resist and two factions emerged, the quarrels between them escalating finally into civil war. After twenty years of bloody feuding, several lawsuits, three Austrian military invasions, and half a dozen rebel attempts to engineer the personal involvement of the Emperor, the Salpeter Wars ended with the destruction of precisely those autonomies that Hauenstein s peasant elites had set out to defend.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801433460
• ISBN 13: 9780801433467
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 270
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