Burghers into citizens: Urban and national citizenship in the Netherlands during the revolutionary era (c. 1800)

Theory and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 403-420

  Prak, Maarten ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 26444448073     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006886401627     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Charles Tilly, "Citizenship, Identity, and Social History," International Review of Social History 40 (1995, supplement 3): 8;
2. also published by Cambridge University Press as Charles Tilly, editor, Citizenship, Identity, and Social History.
3. Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992), 21-23.
4. Some villages in the province of Holland had inhabitants that were known as "citizens." It is not entirely clear if there were special rights attached to this status. A. Th. van Deursen, Een dorp in de polder. Graft in de zeventiende eeuw (Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1994), 192.
5. See the papers collected in Simona Cerutti, Robert Descimon, Maarten Prak, editors, "Cittadinanze," Quaderni Storici 30 (1995, no. 89): 281-513;
6. and in Marc Boone, Maarten Prak, editors, Statuts individuels, statuts corporatifs et statuts judiciaires dans les villes européennes (moyen âge et temps modernes) - Individual, corporate and judicial status in European cities (late middle ages and early modern period) (Leuven/Apeldoorn: Garant, 1996).
7. Derek Heater, Citizenship: The civic ideal in world history, politics and education (London: Longman, 1990), 37-52.
8. See the selection of primary texts in the reader by Paul Barry Clarke, editor, Citizenship (London: Pluto Press, 1994).
9. T. H. Marshall, in his classic essay, acknowledged urban citizenship as "genuine," but considered it irrelevant for the development of national citizenship: Citizenship and social class and other essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950), 12.
10. Brubaker, Citizenship and nationhood, 42.
11. Teegenwoordige Staat der Nederlanden, vol. 12: Generaliteitslanden (Amsterdam: Isaac Tirion, 1740), 47.
12. Hubert Nusteling, Welvaart en werkgelegenheid in Amsterdam, 1540-1860. Een relaas over demografie, economie en sociale politiek van een wereldstad (Amsterdam: Bataafsche Leeuw, 1985), 146;
13. Maarten Prak, "Cittadini, abitanti e forestiere. Una classiflcazione della popolazione di Amsterdam nella prima età moderna," Quaderni Storici, 30 (1995, no. 89): 335;
14. G. Dumbar, Het kerkelyk en wereltlyk Deventer, vol. 1 (Deventer: Lucas Leemhorst, 1788), 22.
15. These data have been reconstructed on the basis of Municipal archive Bois-le-Duc (Stadsarchief 's-Hertogenbosch), Old archive (Oud archief), C 106, "Blokboeken" 1775. The exact number was 2,315 heads of households born in Bois-le-Duc, on a total of 4,817 households.
16. Municipal archive BLD, Old archive, A 560, Register Van Heurn.
17. Prak, "Cittadini": 336;
18. J. A. Schimmel, Burgerrecht te Nijmegen 1592-1810. Geschiedenis van de verlening en burgerlijst (Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis van het Zuiden van Nederland, vol. vii) (Tilburg: Stichting Zuidelijk Historisch Contact, 1966), 38-39.
19. F. M. H. C. Adriaens, De magistraat van Nijmegen en de armenzorg (1825-1846) (Bijdragen tot de sociale en economische geschiedenis van het Zuiden van Nederland, vol. ii) (Tilburg: Stichting tot bevordering van de Studie der sociale en economische geschiedenis, 1956), 32-35;
20. Wayne Ph. te Brake, Regents and Rebels. The Revolutionary World of an Eighteenth-Century Dutch City (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), 93.
21. National archives in North-Brabant (Rijksarchief Noord-Brabant), Collection Martini 63, Collectanea Van Heurn, fol. 426r.
22. Printed in 's-Hertogenbossche Comptoir en Schryfalmanach, 1784, 112.
23. Municipal archive BLD, Old archive, A 314, Letters and reports, May 16, 1787.
24. National archives in North-Brabant, Collection Martini, 62, Collectanea Van Heurn, fol. 122 (ii).