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Cambridge University Press State Formation and Shared Sovereignty: The Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, 1488–1696

Name: State Formation and Shared Sovereignty: The Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, 1488-1696
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Product Description During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dozens of alliances asserting shared sovereignty formed in the Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries. Many accounts of state formation struggle to explain these leagues, since they characterize state formation as a process of internal bureaucratization within individual states. This comparative study of alliances in the Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries focuses on a formative time in European history, from the late fifteenth century until the immediate aftermath of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, to demonstrate how the sharing of sovereignty through alliances influenced the evolution of the Empire, the Dutch Republic, and their various member states in fundamental ways. Alliances simultaneously supported and constrained central and territorial authorities, while their collaborative policy-making process empowered smaller states, helping to ensure their survival. By revealing how the interdependencies of alliance shaped states of all sizes in the Empire and the Low Countries, Christopher W. Close opens new perspectives on state formation with profound implications for understanding the development of states across Europe. Review 'In his pathbreaking study, Christopher W. Close analyzes federations as an integral and in many respects indispensable part of the Holy Roman Empire's political culture. He shows how they shaped the Empire's face and provided the framework for its dynamic and open development for more than 150 years. Without understanding their traditions and their frictions, their common values and their complex disputes neither the empire's civil wars nor its capability to provide for domestic peace is comprehensible.' Thomas Lau, University of Freiburg'A meticulously researched, carefully argued contribution to early modern politics. The role of the enforced confessional orthodoxy of centralized states recedes far into the background. The vitality and resilience of small actors, buttressed by the Reformation and entangled in leagues whose filaments reached across Europe, rises to the fore. The corporate alliance becomes the central figure in state building. This is an important book.' Christopher Ocker, Australian Catholic University'This well-researched and well-written monograph is a recent addition to the mass of scholarship that represents the Holy Roman Empire as a real, living, breathing entity … Recommended.' C. Ingrao, Choice Book Description Offers new perspectives on how alliances in early modern Europe promoted shared sovereignty, and the impact on the evolution of the state. About the Author Christopher W. Close is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Saint Joseph's University. He has received several prestigious research grants from organizations including the German Academic Exchange Service and the American Philosophical Society. He is the author of The Negotiated Reformation: Imperial Cities and the Politics of Urban Reform, 1525-1550 (2009) and numerous articles in The Sixteenth Century Journal and European History Quarterly.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 110883762X
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Netherlands
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Release Date: 25 February 2021
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