Combating the Hydra : : violence and resistance in the Habsburg Empire, 1500-1900 / / Stephan Steiner.
"Combating the Hydra explores structural as well as occasion-specific state violence committed by the early modern Habsburg Empire. The book depicts and analyzes attacks on marginalized people "maladjusted" of all sorts, women "of ill repute," "heretic" Protestants...
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| Superior document: | Central European studies |
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| Place / Publishing House: | West Lafayette, Indiana : : Purdue University Press,, [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Central European studies.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 252 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- The conundrum of deportation and coerced labor
- Forgotten chapters in the history of violence : deportation in the early modern Habsburg Empire and its European surroundings
- “An Austrian Cayenne” : forced labor in the early modern Habsburg Empire
- Austria's penal colonies : deportation, resettlement, and detention in the Habsburg Empire
- Protestantism goes underground
- “Acting as if in a republic already” : Carinthian underground Protestants rehearse the uprising
- Writing against suffocation : migrant letters as documents and strategies of survival
- A tale of two cities : Protestant preachers and private tutors in Vienna under the rule of Emperor Charles VI
- The teachings of Gypsy history
- “Giving short shrift by flogging, hanging, and beheading” : a Gypsy trial and its pitfalls
- The enemy within : Gypsies as external and internal threat in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Holy Roman Empire
- From poisoned pens to procedural justice
- Remarks on Gypsy agency
- Out of the past : the end of Gypsy slavery in Bukovina
- In conversation with Carlo Ginzburg
- There is no meaning with a capital “M” : in conversation Carlo Ginzburg.