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I. Introduction



The Political as Communicative Space in History: The Bielefeld Approach - Willibald Steinmetz and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt



II. Contested Concepts: "Politics" and "the Political"



Introduction - Willibald Steinmetz



From "Interest" to the "Political": Speaking of Ruling and Reigning in Early Modern Europe - Martin Papenheim



From a Despised French Word to a Dominant Concept: The Evolution of "Politics" in Swedish and Finnish Parliamentary Debates - Pasi Ihalainen



What Did They Mean by Política? Debating over the Concept, Value, and Place of Politics in Modern Spain - Javier Fernández Sebastián



Navigating Around Politics: British Progressive Thought and the "Political" in an Expanding Transnational Perspective - Michael Freeden



III. Boundary Disputes: The Political and Other Spheres



Introduction - Heinz-Gerhard Haupt



Drawing Boundaries between Politics and Religion: Early Modern Politics Revisited - Matthias Pohlig



Political Economy and Statistics in the Late Ancien Régime - Lars Behrisch



Laws as the Basis and Object of Political Communication - Christoph Gusy



Depoliticalisation of the Private Life? Reflections on Private Practices and the Political in the Late Soviet Union - Kirsten Bönker



Moving across Boundaries: Rudolf Virchow between Medicine and Politics - Tobias Weidner



IV. Violence: Means, Object or End of Political Communication?



Introduction - Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey



"Catholic and Breton Forever": Violence and the Visual in Early Twentieth-Century France - Eveline G. Bouwers



The Limits of the Legitimate: The Quarrel over "Violence" between Autonomist Groups and the German Authorities - Freia Anders and Alexander Sedlmaier



Vie chère, Violent Protest, and Visions of Protection: The Vie chère Controversy on the Eve of WWI in France (1905-1914) - Marcel Streng



V. Epilogue: Moving beyond the "New" Political History



Writing Political History after the "Iconic Turn" - Bettina Brandt



The Political, the State, and Governance: Reflections on Essentially Contested Concepts - Thomas Risse



Historical Politics Research - Luise Schorn-Schütte



The Opening Up of Political History - Henk te Velde



Political History Matters: Everyday Life, Things, and Practices - Frank Trentmann



Notes on Contributors