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Communities within the community: aspects of neighbourhood in seventeenth-century Haarlem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2009

Gabrielle Dorren
Gabrielle Dorren
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Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Univ. of Amsterdam, 1012 VB Amsterdam
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Abstract

This paper analyses the notion of neighbourhood in Haarlem, a Dutch town in the province of Holland, in the seventeenth century. During the first decades of the century the city magistrates were challenged by huge immigration, religious and cultural pluralism, and, due to the Dutch Revolt, a lack of a strong central power. In spite of these ingredients for social unrest, peace was preserved without too many difficulties. One of the mechanisms that kept society from falling apart was neighbourhood. Several levels of neighbourhood will be studied here and an answer is given for the growing interference of city magistrates with neighbourhood life.

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Research Article
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Urban History , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , August 1998 , pp. 173 - 188
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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