The First Modern Society: Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone

by Edited by A. L. Beier , David Cannadine , James M. Rosenheim

• ISBN13: 9780521021616
• ISBN10: 0521021618
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-03
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Intended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence. There are also four appreciations by friends and colleagues from Oxford and Princeton and a little-known autobiographical piece by Lawrence Stone himself.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	xii
List of tables	xiv
Notes on contributors	xvi
Preface	xxi
Prologue: Lawrence Stone - As Seen By Others	1	(2)
The myth and the man	3	(6)
Julian Mitchell
The enfant terrible?	9	(6)
C. S. L. Davies
`Il Magnifico'	15	(6)
Miriam Slater
The eminence rouge?	21	(10)
John M. Murrin
I THE CROWN, THE ARISTOCRACY AND THE GENTRY	31	(168)
Lineage and kin in the sixteenth-century aristocracy: some comparative evidence on England and Germany	33	(32)
Judith J. Hurwich
Public ceremony and royal charisma: the English royal entry in London, 1485-1642	65	(30)
R. M. Smuts
County governance and elite withdrawal in Norfolk, 1660-1720	95	(32)
James M. Rosenheim
The last Hanoverian sovereign?: the Victorian monarchy in historical perspective, 1688-1988	127	(40)
David Cannadine
The gentrification of Victorian and Edwardian industrialists	167	(32)
Richard Trainor
II POWER AND SOCIAL RELATIONS	199	(232)
Poverty and progress in early modern England	201	(40)
A. L. Beier
Ambiguity and contradiction in `the rise of professionalism': the English clergy, 1570-1730	241	(30)
Michael Hawkins
Bourgeois revolution and transition to capitalism	271	(34)
Robert Brenner
Crowds, carnival and the state in English executions, 1604-1868	305	(52)
Thomas W. Laqueur
Interpersonal conflict and social tension: civil litigation in England, 1640-1830	357	(44)
C. W. Brooks
Church and state allied: the failure of parliamentary reform of the universities, 1688-1800	401	(30)
John Gascoigne
III URBAN SOCIETY AND SOCIAL CHANGE	431	(144)
Resistance to change: the political elites of provincial towns during the English Revolution	433	(24)
Roger Howell, Jr
The London Whigs and the Exclusion Crisis reconsidered	457	(26)
Gary S. De Krey
Cultural life in the provinces: Leeds and York, 1720-1820	483	(28)
J. Jefferson Looney
The dynamics of class formation in nineteenth-century Bradford	511	(38)
Theodore Koditschek
The community perspective in family history: the Potteries during the nineteenth century	549	(26)
Marguerite Dupree
Epilogue: Lawrence Stone - as seen by himself	575	(38)
Appendix: Lawrence Stone: a bibliography, 1944-87
Index	613