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Author_Stephan Steiner
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Carlo Ginzburg
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Central Europe
coerced labor
Counter-Reformation
counter-violence
deportation
early modern period
embassy chapels
Enlightenment
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Gypsies
Habsburg Empire
microhistory
minority persecution
penal colonies
Protestantism
Reformation
Roma history
transportation
uprisings
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9781612498041
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Purdue University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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, and "Gypsies." Previously uncharted archival records reveal the use of arbitrary imprisonment, coerced labor, and deportation. The case studies presented provide insights into the origins of modern state power from varied techniques of population control, but are also an investigation of resistance against oppression, persecution, and life-threatening assaults. The spectrum of fights against debasement is a touching attestation of the humanity of the outcasts; they range from mental and emotional perseverance to counterviolence. A conversation with the eminent historian Carlo Ginzburg concludes the collection by asking about the importance of memorizing horrors of the past.
Stephan Steiner is a professor at Sigmund Freud University Vienna and head of its Institute for Transcultural and Historical Research. His research interests include migration, minority, and Enlightenment studies; Reformation history; and the history of mentalities. Steiner has written numerous publications on extreme violence in early and late modernity, including the monograph No Longer Wanted: Deportation in the Early Modern Habsburg Empire and its European Context (2014) and the edited volume Gypsies in Early Modern Europe (2019).
