State Buildung by War: The Thirty Years' War in the Upper Palatinate

传统上，关于战争及其对国家建设过程的意义的历史研究主要集中在资源开采和行政结构的宏观历史层面。然而，该领域最近的学术研究越来越多地将自下而上的国家建设概念添加到这一宏观历史视角中（andr<s:1> Holenstein），从而关注权力如何在地方层面进行谈判，并询问这些互动对国家建设可能产生的影响。这里展示的项目希望从下面使用这种方法，以便更好地了解战争对国家建设过程的影响。以上普法尔茨为例，分析地方行政实践，重构应对战争的策略，以及这些策略对权力结构的影响。行政程序是否产生或强制接受战争的负担？或者，从长远来看，它们是否导致了主体与权威互动方式的改变？这些问题将从侧重于实践、惯例和隐性知识的角度来讨论。因此，公职人员和主体都被概念化为行动者，他们的做法引发并记录了由战争经验形成的行政文化的变化。此次调查结果将有助于回答“三十年战争是否为17、18世纪后期国家建设的加速进程铺平了道路”的问题。

Traditionally, historical research on war and its significance to processes of state buildung focused on the macro-historical level of resource extraction and administrative structures. Recent scholarship in the field, however, increasingly adds to this macro-historical perspective the notion of statebuilding from below (André Holenstein), thus focusing on how power is negotiated at the local level and asking what effects these interactions could have had on state building. The project presented here wants to use this approach from below in order to understand better the impact of war on processes of state building. Taking the Upper Palatinate as an example, local administrative practices shall be analysed in order to reconstruct strategies for coping with war and the effects those strategies had on power structures. Did administrative routines generate or enforce acceptance for the burdens of war? Or did they lead, on the long run, to a change in the ways subjects and authorities interacted? These questions are to be discussed from a perspective that focuses on practices, routines, and implicit knowlegde. Thus, office bearers as well as subjects are conceptualized as actors, whose practices provoke and document a change in the administrative culture shaped by the experience of war. The project s findings should make a contribution to answering the question whether the Thirty Years War helped pave the way for the accelerated processes of state buildung in the later 17th and 18th centuries.