Table of Contents
Contents: Preface, James C. Scott; Introduction, Beat Kümin; Part I Political Sites: Representing political space at a political site: the Imperial Diets of the 16th century, Henry J. Cohn; The princely court and political space in early modern Europe, Ronald G. Asch; Drinking houses and the politics of surveillance in pre-industrial Southampton, James R. Brown; Politics, clubs and social space in pre-industrial Europe, Peter Clark; Political spaces and Parliamentary enclosure in an upland context: Cumbria c.1760–1840, Ian D. Whyte. Part II Spatial Politics: Political and geographical space: the geopolitics of medieval England, Christine Carpenter; Social space and urban conflict: unrest in the German imperial city of Esslingen am Neckar, Alexander Schlaak; The spatial dynamics of parish politics: topographies of tension in English communities, c.1350–1640, Steve Hindle and Beat Kümin; Petitioning places and the credibility of opinion in the public sphere in 17th-century England, David Zaret; Which Switzerland? Contrasting conceptions of the early modern Swiss Confederation in European maps and minds, Andreas Würgler; Outwitting power: bogus kings and officials in early modern England, Tobias B. Hug. Part III Outlook: Comment from a historical perspective, Bernard Capp; Spaces in theory, spaces in history and spatial historiographies, Mike Crang; Index.