Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Political sites -- Representing political space at a political site : the imperial diets of the sixteenth century / Henry J. Cohn -- The princely court and political space in early modern Europe / Ronald G. Asch -- Drinking houses and the politics of surveillance in pre-industrial Southampton / James R. Brown -- Politics, clubs and social space in pre-industrial Europe / Peter Clark -- Political spaces and parliamentary enclosure in an upland context : Cumbria c. 1760-1840 / Ian D. Whyte -- Part II. Spatial politics -- Political and geographical space : the geopolitics of medieval England / Christine Carpenter -- Social space and urban conflict : unrest in the German imperial city of Esslingen am Neckar / Alexander Schlaak -- The spatial dynamics of parish politics : topographies of tension in English communities, c. 1350-1640 / Steve Hindle and Beat Kümin -- Petitioning places and the credibility of opinion in the public sphere in seventeenth-century England / David Zaret -- Which Switzerland? : contrasting conceptions of the early modern Swiss confederation in European minds and maps / Andreas Würgler -- Outwitting power : bogus kings and officials in early modern England / Tobias B. Hug -- Part III. Outlook -- Comment from a historical perspective / Bernard Capp -- Spaces in theory, spaces in history and spatial historiographies / Mike Crang.