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

传统上，对战争及其对国家建设进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从宏观-历史的角度增加了自下而上的国家建设的概念(安德烈·霍伦斯坦)，从而侧重于权力是如何在地方一级谈判的，并询问这些互动可能对国家建设产生了什么影响。这里介绍的项目想要从下面使用这种方法，以便更好地了解战争对国家建设进程的影响。以上帕拉蒂纳为例，应分析地方行政做法，以重建应对战争的战略以及这些战略对权力结构的影响。行政例行公事是否产生或强制接受战争负担？或者，从长远来看，它们是否导致了主体和当局互动方式的改变？这些问题将从集中于实践、例行公事和隐性知识的角度来讨论。因此，官员和臣民被概念化为行为者，他们的做法引起并记录了因战争经历而形成的行政文化的变化。S的研究成果应该有助于回答这样一个问题：三十年战争是否有助于为17世纪和18世纪后期加速的国家建设进程铺平道路。

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.