InhaltsangabeContents I. Introduction The Political as Communicative Space in History: The Bielefeld Approach - Willibald Steinmetz and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt II. Contested Concepts: "Politics" and "the Political" Introduction - Willibald Steinmetz From "Interest" to the "Political": Speaking of Ruling and Reigning in Early Modern Europe - Martin Papenheim From a Despised French Word to a Dominant Concept: The Evolution of "Politics" in Swedish and Finnish Parliamentary Debates - Pasi Ihalainen What Did They Mean by Política? Debating over the Concept, Value, and Place of Politics in Modern Spain - Javier Fernández Sebastián Navigating Around Politics: British Progressive Thought and the "Political" in an Expanding Transnational Perspective - Michael Freeden III. Boundary Disputes: The Political and Other Spheres Introduction - Heinz-Gerhard Haupt Drawing Boundaries between Politics and Religion: Early Modern Politics Revisited - Matthias Pohlig Political Economy and Statistics in the Late Ancien Régime - Lars Behrisch Laws as the Basis and Object of Political Communication - Christoph Gusy Depoliticalisation of the Private Life? Reflections on Private Practices and the Political in the Late Soviet Union - Kirsten Bönker Moving across Boundaries: Rudolf Virchow between Medicine and Politics - Tobias Weidner IV. Violence: Means, Object or End of Political Communication? Introduction - Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey "Catholic and Breton Forever": Violence and the Visual in Early Twentieth-Century France - Eveline G. Bouwers The Limits of the Legitimate: The Quarrel over "Violence" between Autonomist Groups and the German Authorities - Freia Anders and Alexander Sedlmaier Vie chère, Violent Protest, and Visions of Protection: The Vie chère Controversy on the Eve of WWI in France (1905-1914) - Marcel Streng V. Epilogue: Moving beyond the "New" Political History Writing Political History after the "Iconic Turn" - Bettina Brandt The Political, the State, and Governance: Reflections on Essentially Contested Concepts - Thomas Risse Historical Politics Research - Luise Schorn-Schütte The Opening Up of Political History - Henk te Velde Political History Matters: Everyday Life, Things, and Practices - Frank Trentmann Notes on Contributors

InhaltsangabeContents I. Introduction The Political as Communicative Space in History: The Bielefeld Approach - Willibald Steinmetz and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt II. Contested Concepts: "Politics" and "the Political" Introduction - Willibald Steinmetz From "Interest" to the "Political": Speaking of Ruling and Reigning in Early Modern Europe - Martin Papenheim From a Despised French Word to a Dominant Concept: The Evolution of "Politics" in Swedish and Finnish Parliamentary Debates - Pasi Ihalainen What Did They Mean by Política? Debating over the Concept, Value, and Place of Politics in Modern Spain - Javier Fernández Sebastián Navigating Around Politics: British Progressive Thought and the "Political" in an Expanding Transnational Perspective - Michael Freeden III. Boundary Disputes: The Political and Other Spheres Introduction - Heinz-Gerhard Haupt Drawing Boundaries between Politics and Religion: Early Modern Politics Revisited - Matthias Pohlig Political Economy and Statistics in the Late Ancien Régime - Lars Behrisch Laws as the Basis and Object of Political Communication - Christoph Gusy Depoliticalisation of the Private Life? Reflections on Private Practices and the Political in the Late Soviet Union - Kirsten Bönker Moving across Boundaries: Rudolf Virchow between Medicine and Politics - Tobias Weidner IV. Violence: Means, Object or End of Political Communication? Introduction - Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey "Catholic and Breton Forever": Violence and the Visual in Early Twentieth-Century France - Eveline G. Bouwers The Limits of the Legitimate: The Quarrel over "Violence" between Autonomist Groups and the German Authorities - Freia Anders and Alexander Sedlmaier Vie chère, Violent Protest, and Visions of Protection: The Vie chère Controversy on the Eve of WWI in France (1905-1914) - Marcel Streng V. Epilogue: Moving beyond the "New" Political History Writing Political History after the "Iconic Turn" - Bettina Brandt The Political, the State, and Governance: Reflections on Essentially Contested Concepts - Thomas Risse Historical Politics Research - Luise Schorn-Schütte The Opening Up of Political History - Henk te Velde Political History Matters: Everyday Life, Things, and Practices - Frank Trentmann Notes on Contributors