His Majesty's Rebels : : Communities, Factions, and Rural Revolt in the Black Forest, 1725-1745 / / David M. Luebke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Luebke, David M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 4 maps, 1 graph, 6 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Currency Equivalents --; INTRODUCTION: Faction and Community in the "Salpeter Wars" --; CHAPTER I. Power in the County: Lords and Subjects in Hauenstein --; CHAPTER 2. Uncivil War: A Chronicle of the Revolt --; CHAPTER 3. A House Divided: Dissension and the Geography of Fear --; CHAPTER 4. Big Shots versus Little People?: Social Dimensions of Factional Conflict --; CHAPTER 5 "Into the Devil's Jaws'': Patrolling the Boundaries of Community --; CHAPTER 6. The Practice of Rebellion --; CONCLUSION: Peasant Factions in the Holy Roman Empire --; Appendixes --; Select Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501744600; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501744600
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David M. Luebke.

A series of rebellions in the small, impoverished Black Forest lordship of Hauenstein between 1725 and 1745 provide David Martin Luebke with evidence for a new and more nuanced view of peasant action and discourse on power and community. In the rebellions called the Salpeter Wars, the peasants of Hauenstein sought to curtail the expansion of centralizing bureaucratic powers that were eroding traditional local autonomies. They could not agree how best to resist and two factions emerged, the quarrels between them escalating finally into civil war. After twenty years of bloody feuding, several lawsuits, three Austrian military invasions, and half a dozen rebel attempts to engineer the personal involvement of the Emperor, the Salpeter Wars ended with the destruction of precisely those autonomies that Hauenstein's peasant elites had set out to defend.Luebke challenges the dominant paradigm on peasant rebellion which holds that social integration and political solidarity characterize the peasant village and structure its rebel activity. He argues for a concept of the peasant community flexible enough to accommodate the divisions characteristic of early modern peasant society. State building, combined with a long-term trend toward social stratification among peasants, rearranged patterns of mutual dependency between rulers and subjects in ways that often created factional rifts among the subjects. In His Majesty's Rebels Luebke elucidates the dynamics of peasant rebellions.