Table of Contents

Preface, James C. Scott; Introduction, Beat Kümin; Part I Political Sites; Chapter 1 Representing Political Space at a Political Site, Henry J. Cohn; Chapter 2 The Princely Court and Political Space in Early Modern Europe, Ronald G. Asch; Chapter 3 Drinking Houses and the Politics of Surveillance in Pre-industrial Southampton, James R. Brown; Chapter 4 Politics, Clubs and Social Space in Pre-industrial Europe, Peter Clark; Chapter 5 Political Spaces and Parliamentary Enclosure in an Upland Context, Ian D. Whyte; Part II Spatial Politics; Chapter 6 Political and Geographical Space, Christine Carpenter; Chapter 7 Social Space and Urban Conflict, Alexander Schlaak; Chapter 8 The Spatial Dynamics of Parish Politics, Steve Hindle, Beat Kümin; Chapter 9 Petitioning Places and the Credibility of Opinion in the Public Sphere in Seventeenth-Century England, David Zaret; Chapter 10 Which Switzerland? Contrasting Conceptions of the Early Modern Swiss Confederation in European Minds and Maps, Andreas Würgler; Chapter 11 Outwitting Power, Tobias B. Hug; Part III Outlook; Chapter 12 Comment from a Historical Perspective, Bernard Capp; Chapter 13 Spaces in Theory, Spaces in History and Spatial Historiographies, Mike Crang;

About the Author

Professor Beat Kumin is Director of Research, Department of History, University of Warwick, UK. James C. Scott, Beat Kumin, Henry J. Cohn, Ronald G. Asch, James R. Brown, Peter Clark, Ian D. Whyte, Christine Carpenter, Alexander Schlaak, Steve Hindle, David Zaret, Andreas Wurgler, Tobias B. Hug, Bernard Capp, Mike Crang.