The Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. 1. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Craig E. Harline

      Pages 1-10

3. The Work of Herbert H. Rowen

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Herbert H. Rowen and the Tradition of Early Modern History in the U.S.

      • Theodore K. Rabb

      Pages 13-21

   3. Herbert H. Rowen and the Dutch Republic

      • E. H. Kossmann

      Pages 23-26

   4. Selected Reviews of Rowen’s Major Books

      • Craig E. Harline

      Pages 27-41

4. Making Sense of the Dutch Republic

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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   2. The Dutch Revolt: What Kind of Revolution?

      • Craig E. Harline

      Pages 45-62

   3. The Revolution That Wasn’t: The Coup D’État of 1650 in Holland

      • Craig E. Harline

      Pages 63-81

   4. Lieuwe Van Aitzema: A Soured but Knowing Eye

      • Craig E. Harline

      Pages 83-97

   5. John De Witt: The Makeshift Executive in a “Ständestaat”

      • Craig E. Harline

      Pages 99-107

   6. Management of Estates in the Seventeenth Century: John De Witt, The States of Holland and the States General

      • Craig E. Harline

      Pages 109-119

   7. John De Witt and the Triple Alliance

      • Craig E. Harline

      Pages 121-138

   8. The Peace of Nijmegen: De Witt’s Revenge

      • Craig E. Harline

      Pages 139-147

5. Absolutism Between Theory and Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Arnauld De Pomponne: Louis XIV’s Moderate Minister

      • Craig E. Harline

      Pages 151-170

   3. Louis XIV and Absolutism

      • Craig E. Harline

      Pages 171-183

   4. “L’état C’Est à Moi”: Louis XIV and the State

      • Craig E. Harline

      Pages 185-198

   5. A Second Thought on Locke’s First Treatise

      • Craig E. Harline

      Pages 199-202

6. The Dutch Republic in Comparative Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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Herbert Rowen has always insisted that historians don't need biographers. Outside "a small circle of family, friends and students," what matters most is not the individual but his or her work.' Thus the main purpose of the present volume is to highlight Professor Rowen's contributions to the political history of early modem Europe. Part I includes assessment of his work by others, while Parts ll-V contain examples of his best articles, papers, and reviews, some published here for the first time, most previously hard-to-get. These essays not only add substantively to our understanding of early modem politics, but treat both implicitly and explicitly the historian's task per se. Hence, this is not biography, much less "innocuous laudation" or hagiography, which Herb would not forgive. Yet it is only fitting that someone who lays so much stress on the human side of History should by way of introduction have something said about his person as well as his work.

• Europe
• Evolution
• Political Thought
• Revolution
• politics

• University of Idaho, Moscow, USA

  Craig E. Harline

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