New state, new citizens? Political change and civic continuities in the Low Countries, 1780-1830

Author(s)

  • Judith Pollmann Leiden University
  • Henk te Velde Leiden University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10585

Keywords:

citizenship

Abstract

For half a century, historians of the Low Countries have studied the decades around 1800 as a period of radical transition. By way of historiographical introduction to this special issue, this article surveys both the national and international origins of this approach, assesses its consequences for our understanding of citizenship in the period, and argues for the need to add another perspective, that of continuity.

This article is part of the special issue 'Political Change and Civic Continuities in the Age of Revolutions'.

 

In de afgelopen vijftig jaar hebben historici van de Lage Landen de decennia rond 1800 vooral bestudeerd als een periode van radicale transitie. Bij wijze van historiografische inleiding op dit themanummer, geeft dit artikel een overzicht van de nationale en internationale ontwikkeling van deze benadering, en bekijkt welke consequenties die heeft gehad voor ons begrip van burgerschap in deze periode. Het betoogt dat er behoefte is een nieuw perspectief toe te voegen, dat van continuïteit.

 

Dit artikel maakt deel uit van het themanummer 'Political Change and Civic Continuities in the Age of Revolutions'.

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Author Biographies

  • Judith Pollmann, Leiden University

    Judith Pollmann (1964) is Professor of Early Modern Dutch History at Leiden University. She has published widely on the experience and memory of war and religious and political change in the early modern Low Countries and Europe. Her most recent book is, Memory in Early Modern Europe was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. With Henk te Velde, she directs the nwo funded project The Persistence of Civic Identities in the Netherlands, 1748–1848. Email: j.pollmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

  • Henk te Velde, Leiden University

    Henk te Velde (1959) is Professor of Dutch History at Leiden University. He has published a number of books on the history of political culture, style, rhetoric and debate in the 19th and 20th century Netherlands and western Europe. His latest publication is Democracy in Modern EuropeA Conceptual History (Berghahn 2018; eds. with Jussi Kurunmäki and Jeppe Nevers). He is president of the Association for Political History and co-editor of Palgrave Studies in Political History. Email: h.te.velde@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

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Published

2018-09-20

How to Cite

New state, new citizens? Political change and civic continuities in the Low Countries, 1780-1830. (2018). BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 133(3), 4-23. https://doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10585