Combating the Hydra

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 uncharte...

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description 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.
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Reformation
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Combating the Hydra
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topic early modern period
Central Europe
Habsburg Empire
violence
counter-violence
deportation
transportation
coerced labor
penal colonies
Protestantism
Reformation
Counter-Reformation
uprisings
embassy chapels
Gypsies
Roma history
minority persecution
Bukovina
Enlightenment
microhistory
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Habsburg Empire
violence
counter-violence
deportation
transportation
coerced labor
penal colonies
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Reformation
Counter-Reformation
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embassy chapels
Gypsies
Roma history
minority persecution
Bukovina
Enlightenment
microhistory
Carlo Ginzburg
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