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Regions and State Formation in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands
| The process of clustering together of the regions (many of them in an institutionalized, territorial form) of the low Countries into the pseudo-state of the Habsburg rulers, and the problem of desintegration and border-construction duyring the early fase of the Dutch revolt present the notion of region, and the possible choises to be made by the 'stakeholders' as an interesting theoretical and practical problem. Especially the borderregions in the east and south, and the possible alternative developments allow a methodological reflection. This paper will cioncentrate on the period between ca. 1460 and 1600.
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