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Historische Politikforschung

Die neue Politikgeschichte hat die enge Definition von "Politik" hinter sich gelassen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes verstehen das Politische als einen dynamischen Kommunikationsraum, dessen Grenzen und Inhalte beständig ausgehandelt werden - durch verbale, symbolische und teils auch gewalthafte Kommunikation. Diese Grenzziehungen und Kommunikationsformen werden an ausgewählten Beispielen dargestellt, um schließlich die Frage zu beantworten, was auf der Agenda einer künftigen historischen Politikforschung stehen sollte.

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Contents

I. Introduction

The Political as Communicative Space in History: The Bielefeld Approach - Willibald Steinmetz and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

II. Contested Concepts: "Politics" and "the Political"

Introduction - Willibald Steinmetz

From "Interest" to the "Political": Speaking of Ruling and Reigning in Early Modern Europe - Martin Papenheim

From a Despised French Word to a Dominant Concept: The Evolution of "Politics" in Swedish and Finnish Parliamentary Debates - Pasi Ihalainen

What Did They Mean by Política? Debating over the Concept, Value, and Place of Politics in Modern Spain - Javier Fernández Sebastián

Navigating Around Politics: British Progressive Thought and the "Political" in an Expanding Transnational Perspective - Michael Freeden

III. Boundary Disputes: The Political and Other Spheres
Introduction - Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

Drawing Boundaries between Politics and Religion: Early Modern Politics Revisited - Matthias Pohlig

Political Economy and Statistics in the Late Ancien Régime - Lars Behrisch

Laws as the Basis and Object of Political Communication - Christoph Gusy

Depoliticalisation of the Private Life? Reflections on Private Practices and the Political in the Late Soviet Union - Kirsten Bönker

Moving across Boundaries: Rudolf Virchow between Medicine and Politics - Tobias Weidner

IV. Violence: Means, Object or End of Political Communication?

Introduction - Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey

"Catholic and Breton Forever": Violence and the Visual in Early Twentieth-Century France - Eveline G. Bouwers

The Limits of the Legitimate: The Quarrel over "Violence" between Autonomist Groups and the German Authorities - Freia Anders and Alexander Sedlmaier

Vie chère, Violent Protest, and Visions of Protection: The Vie chère Controversy on the Eve of WWI in France (1905-1914) - Marcel Streng

V. Epilogue: Moving beyond the "New" Political History

Writing Political History after the "Iconic Turn" - Bettina Brandt

The Political, the State, and Governance: Reflections on Essentially Contested Concepts - Thomas Risse

Historical Politics Research - Luise Schorn-Schütte

The Opening Up of Political History - Henk te Velde

Political History Matters: Everyday Life, Things, and Practices - Frank Trentmann

Notes on Contributors

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Historische Politikforschung

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