The Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe: Collected Essays of Herbert H. Rowen

✍ Scribed by Craig E. Harline (auth.), Craig E. Harline (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées 132
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Herbert H. Rowen and the Tradition of Early Modern History in the U.S.....Pages 13-21
Herbert H. Rowen and the Dutch Republic....Pages 23-26
Selected Reviews of Rowen’s Major Books....Pages 27-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
The Dutch Revolt: What Kind of Revolution?....Pages 45-62
The Revolution That Wasn’t: The Coup D’État of 1650 in Holland....Pages 63-81
Lieuwe Van Aitzema: A Soured but Knowing Eye....Pages 83-97
John De Witt: The Makeshift Executive in a “Ständestaat”....Pages 99-107
Management of Estates in the Seventeenth Century: John De Witt, The States of Holland and the States General....Pages 109-119
John De Witt and the Triple Alliance....Pages 121-138
The Peace of Nijmegen: De Witt’s Revenge....Pages 139-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Arnauld De Pomponne: Louis XIV’s Moderate Minister....Pages 151-170
Louis XIV and Absolutism....Pages 171-183
“L’état C’Est à Moi”: Louis XIV and the State....Pages 185-198
A Second Thought on Locke’s First Treatise ....Pages 199-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Proto-Jacobinism in the Dutch Republic....Pages 205-213
The Union of Utrecht and the Articles of Confederation, the Batavian Constitution and the American Constitution: A Double Parallel....Pages 215-227
John Adams’ Vision of the Dutch Republic....Pages 229-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
A Sketch of Pieter Geyl....Pages 245-251
The Historical Work of Pieter Geyl....Pages 253-271
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
William F. Church: A Historian’s Historian....Pages 273-279
Selected Reviews by Herbert H. Rowen....Pages 281-306
Back Matter....Pages 307-325

✦ Subjects

History; Social Sciences, general; Political Science, general