'Gardez-vous-en bien … de la brochure' : pamfletgebruik en politieke cultuur in de historiografie over de Brabantse Omwenteling, 1787-1789

At the end of the eighteenth century, the Austrian Netherlands were plagued by political turmoil and social upheaval, brought forth by a reaction against the reformatory movement set up by the Habsburg government. The contestation of Joseph II’s reformist policy was performed in public, as the region was flooded with polemical pamphlets, ideological treatises and many other types of popular writings during (but also before and after) the period of the Brabant Revolution (1787-1789). Pamphlets have stood at the centre of attention for the historiography of Belgian political culture at the end o... Mehr ...