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Tracy, James Donald was born on February 14, 1938 in St. Louis. Son of Leo W. and Marguerite M. (Meehan) Tracy.
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Format Hardcover Subject German History Political Aspects Political Science History Germany Politics Government Publisher Kirksville Mo Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers c1986
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( Under what conditions were limited forms of self-govern...)
Under what conditions were limited forms of self-government possible in medieval and early modern Europe? While many historians have sought an answer by focusing on the development of parliamentary institutions in emerging national monarchies, or investigating the wider autonomy enjoyed by various city-states within their own borders, James Tracy looks instead at an intermediate level of political organization, the self-governing province. Readers of medieval and early modern European history will learn here how the province of Holland, during the reigns of Charles V and Philip II (1506-1566), effectively underwent an apprenticeship in self-government.
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In the 16th century, the population of the Low Countries (modern Belgium and The Netherlands), the most urbanized and best educated in Transalpine Europe, provided not just a ready audience for ideas of religious reform, but a sophisticated political framework for the airing of the great debates of the age - not to mention ground-breaking innovations in trade and finance. The present volume reproduces fourteen essays in which James Tracy studies each of these different aspects of Low Countries culture. Part I focuses on the educational and religious reform proposals of a native son, Erasmus of Rotterdam; Part II looks at the conflicts of the Reformation era, mainly from the perspective of the province of Holland; and Part III examines economic and fiscal development in light of the ongoing tug-of-war between government centralization and the defense of local privilege.
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In 1572, towns in the province of Holland, led by William of Orange, rebelled against the government of the Habsburg Netherlands. The story of the Dutch Revolt is usually told in terms of fractious provinces that frustrated Orange's efforts to formulate a coherent programme. In this book James D. Tracy argues that there was a coherent strategy for the war, but that it was set by the towns of Holland. Although the States of Holland were in theory subject to the States General, Holland provided over 60 per cent of the taxes and an even larger share of war loans. Accordingly, funds were directed to securing Holland's borders, and subsequently to extending this protected frontier to neighbouring provinces. Shielded from the war by its cordon sanitaire, Holland experienced an extraordinary economic boom, allowing taxes and loans to keep flowing. The goal - in sight if not achieved by 1588 - was a United Provinces of the north, free and separate from provinces in the southern Netherlands that remained under Spanish rule. With Europe increasingly under the sway of strong hereditary princes, the new Dutch Republic was a beacon of promise for those who still believed that citizens ought to rule themselves.
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Few historical figures have been more important in modeling the ideal of impartial critical scholarship than Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469-1536). Yet his critical scholarship, though beholden to no one, was not dispassionate. James Tracy shows how Erasmus the scholar sought through his writings to promote the moral and religious renewal of Christian society. Tracy finds the genesis of the humanist's notion of a "Christian republic" of pious and learned individuals in his "Burgundian," or Low Countries, roots. Erasmus's vision of reform, Tracy argues, sprung from a humanist tradition focusing on the importance of teaching (doctrina), a tradition from which Erasmus departed in his optimism about human nature and his deep suspicion of the powers that be. Amid the storms of Reformation controversy, he pruned back the "dissimulation" by which he had thought to convey different meanings to different readers, yet in the end he could not control the way his words were read. If Erasmus's scholarly ideal carries an enduring fascination, so too does his dilemma as a man of circumspection who would also be a reformer.
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This book examines the three dimensions of European warfare, based on the campaigns of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558). Charles's role as commander-in-chief is evaluated by measuring his strategic aims. The process by which bankers took control of the finances of the Habsburg lands becomes clear from an examination of the source of the money to pay for Charles's campaigns. Finally, a comparison of the realms that provided most of Charles's revenues shows how some parliamentary bodies successfully pursued long-term local interests by exploiting the dynasty's need for money.
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Tracy, James Donald was born on February 14, 1938 in St. Louis. Son of Leo W. and Marguerite M. (Meehan) Tracy.
Bachelor, St. Louis University, 1959. Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1960. Master of Arts, Notre Dame University, 1961.
Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1967.
Instructor University Michigan, 1964-1966. Instructor to professor history University Minnesota, Minneapolis, since 1966, department chairman, 1988-1991, Union Pacific professor early modern history, 2001—2004, emeritus professor, 2010. Visiting professor University Leiden, Netherlands, 1987, University Paris IV, 2001, University Amsterdam, 2004.
( Under what conditions were limited forms of self-govern...)
(In the 16th century, the population of the Low Countries ...)
(Format Hardcover Subject German History Political Aspects...)
( Few historical figures have been more important in mode...)
(In 1572, towns in the province of Holland, led by William...)
(This book examines the three dimensions of European warfa...)
Member American Catholic History Society (president since 1999), Society Reformation Research (president 1995-1997), 16th Century Studies Conference (president 1985-1986).
Married Nancy Ann McBride, September 6, 1968 (divorced 1993). Children: Patrick, Samuel, Mary Ann. Married Suzanne K. Swan, May 2, 1997.