Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History

by Bucholz, Robert

Beier, A. L. Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England, 1560–1640. London, 1985.

  Clark, P. The English Alehouse: A Social History. London, 1983.

  Clark, P., ed. Migration and Society in Early Modern England. Totowa, N. J., 1988.

  Clay, C. Economic Expansion and Social Change: England, 1500–1700. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1984.

  Coleman, D. C. Industry in Tudor and Stuart England. London, 1985.

  Coster, W. Family and Kinship in England, 1450–1800. London, 2001.

  Coward, B. Social Change and Continuity: England, 1550–1750, rev. ed. London, 1997.

  Cressy, D. Bonfires and Bells: National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England. London, 1989.

  Cressy, D. Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford, 1997.

  Eales, J. Women in Early Modern England, 1500–1700. London, 1998.

  Fideler, P. A. Social Welfare in Pre-Industrial England: The Old Poor Law Tradition. Basingstoke, 2006.

  Fletcher, A. Gender, Sex and Subordination in England, 1500–1800. New Haven, 1995.

  Froide, A. Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England. Oxford, 2007.

  Houlbrooke, R. A. The English Family, 1450–1700. London, 1984.

  Houlbrooke, R. A. Death, Religion and the Family in England 1480–1750. Oxford, 1998.

  Houston, R. A. The Population History of Britain and Ireland, 1500–1750. London, 1992.

  Hutton, R. The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year, 1400–1700. Oxford, 1994.

  Ingram, M. Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570–1640. Cambridge, 1987.

  Kermode, J. and Walker, G., eds. Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England. Chapel Hill, N. C., 1994.

  Levine, D. and Wrightson, K. The Making of an Industrial Society: Whickham, 1560–1765. Oxford, 1991.

  Manning, R. B. Village Revolts: Social Protest and Popular Disturbances in England, 1509–1640. Oxford, 1988.

  Palliser, D. M. The Age of Elizabeth: England Under the Later Tudors, 1547–1603, 2nd ed. London, 1992.

  Pollock, L. Forgotten Children: Parent–Child Relations from 1500 to 1900. Cambridge, 1983.

  Prest, W., ed. The Professions in Early Modern England. London, 1987.

  Sacks, D. H. The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450–1700. Berkeley, 1991.

  Sharpe, J. A. Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England. University Park, Pa., 1997.

  Sharpe, J. A. Crime in Early Modern England, 1550–1750, 2nd ed. London, 1999.

  Shepard, A. and Withington, P., eds. Communities in Early Modern England. Manchester, 2000.

  Slack, P. From Reformation to Improvement: Public Welfare in Early Modern England. New York, 1999.

  Smuts, R. M. Culture and Power in England, 1585–1685. New York, 1999.

  Stone, L. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500–1800. London, 1977. (See also a contrasting perspective in A. Macfarlane, Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction, 1300–1840. Oxford, 1986.)

  Thurley, S. The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 1460–1547. New Haven, 1993.

  Wrightson, K. English Society, 1580–1680. New Brunswick, N. J., 1982.

  Wrightson, K. Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain. New Haven, 2000.

  Wrightson, K. and Levine, D. Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525–1700, rev. ed. Oxford, 1995.

  See also Collinson (2002), Fletcher and MacCulloch (1997), Guy (1988), Heal and Holmes (1994), Hindle (2000), Laurence (1994), Sharpe (Early Modern England, 1997), Tittler (1991), Wall (2000), and Williams (1995).

  Stuart (1603–1714)

  Biography

  Carlton, C. Charles I: The Personal Monarch, 2nd ed. London, 1995.

  Claydon, T. William III. London, 2002.

  Coward, B. Oliver Cromwell. London, 1991.

  Cust, R. Charles I: A Political Life. Harlow, 2005.

  Gregg, E. Queen Anne, 2nd ed. New Haven, 2001.

  Harris, F. A Passion for Government: The Life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. Oxford, 1991.

  Hutton, R. Charles II: King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Oxford, 1989.

  Jones, J. R. Marlborough. 1993.

  Lockyer, R. Buckingham, the Life and Political Career of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, 1592–1628. London, 1981.

  Lockyer, R. James VI and I. New York, 1998.

  Miller, J. Charles II: A Biography. London, 1991.

  Miller, J. James II: A Study in Kingship, 2nd ed. New Haven, 2001.

  Speck, W.A. James II. London, 2002.

  Troost, W. William III, the Stadholder-King: A Political Biography, trans. J. C. Grayson. Aldershot, 2005.

  Political and Governmental

  Adamson, J. S. A. The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I. London, 2007.

  Aylmer, G. E. Rebellion or Revolution? England, 1640–1660. Oxford, 1986.

  Barnard, T. The English Republic, 1649–1660, 2nd ed. London, 1997.

  Bellany, A. The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603–1660. Cambridge, 2002.

  Bennett, M. The English Civil War, 1640–1649. London, 1995.

  Bucholz, R. O. The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture. Stanford, 1993.

  Coward, B. The Cromwellian Protectorate. Manchester, 2002.

  Coward, B. The Stuart Age: England, 1603–1714, 3rd ed. London, 2003.

  Cressy, D. England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution 1640–1642. Oxford, 2006.

  De Krey, G. Restoration and Revolution in Britain. New York, 2007.

  Dillon, P. The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World. London, 2006.

  Dickson, P. G. M. The Financial Revolution in England. London, 1967.

  Gentles, I. J. The New Model Army in England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1645–1653. Oxford, 1992.

  Glassey, L. K. J., ed. The Reigns of Charles II and James VII & II. New York, 1997.

  Harris, T. Politics under the Later Stuarts: Party Conflict in a Divided Society, 1660–1715. London, 1993.

  Harris, T. Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660–1685. London, 2005.

  Harris, T. Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685–1720. London, 2006.

  Hibbard, C. Charles I and the Popish Plot. Chapel Hill, N. C., 1983.

  Hirst, D. England in Conflict, 1603–1660: Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth. London, 1999.

  Holmes, C. Why Was Charles I Executed? London, 2006.

  Holmes, G. S. British Politics in the Age of Anne, rev. ed. London, 1987.

  Holmes, G. S. The Making of a Great Power: Late Stuart and Early Georgian Britain, 1660–1722. London, 1993.

  Hoppit, J. A Land of Liberty? England, 1689–1727. Oxford, 2000.

  Hughes, A. The Causes of the English Civil War, 2nd ed. Basingstoke, 1998.

  Hutton, R. The Restoration: A Political and Religious History of England and Wales, 1658–1667. Oxford, 1985.

  Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., eds. The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1638–1660. Oxford, 1998.

  Kishlansky, M. A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603–1714. Harmondsworth, 1996.

  Lockyer, R. The Early Stuarts: A Political History of England, 1603–1642, 2nd ed. London, 1999.

  Macinnes, A. I. The British Revolution, 1629–1660. Basingstoke, 2004.

  Marshall, A. The Age of Faction: Court Politics, 1660–1702. Manchester, 1999.

  Morrill, J. Revolt in the Provinces: The People of England and the Tragedies of War, 1630–1648, 2nd ed. London, 1999.

  Peck, L. L. Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England. London, 1993.

  Prest, W. Albion Ascendant: English History, 1660–1815. Oxford, 1998.

  Russell, C. The Causes of the English Civil War. Oxford, 1990.

  Russell, C. The Fall of the British Monarchies, 1637–164
2. Oxford, 1991.

  Schama, S. A History of Britain, vol. 2, The Wars of the British, 1603–1776. London, 2001.

  Schwoerer, L. G., ed. The Revolution of 1688–1689: Changing Perspectives. Cambridge, 1992.

  Scott, J. England’s Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context. Cambridge, 2000.

  Seaward, P. The Restoration, 1660–1688. Basingstoke, 1991.

  Sharpe, K. The Personal Rule of Charles I. New Haven, 1992.

  Smith, D. L. The Stuart Parliaments, 1603–1689. London, 1999.

  Smuts, R. M., ed. The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture. Cambridge, 1996.

  Sommerville, J. P. Royalists and Patriots: Politics and Ideology in England, 1603–1640, 2nd ed. London, 1999.

  Speck, W. A. Reluctant Revolutionaries: Englishmen and the Revolution of 1688. Oxford, 1988.

  Underdown, D. Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England, 1603–1660. Oxford, 1985.

  Williams, G. and Ramsden, J. Ruling Britannia: A Political History of Britain, 1688–1988. London, 1990.

  Woolrych, A. Britain in Revolution 1625–1660. Oxford, 2002.

  Young, M. B. King James and the History of Homosexuality. New York, 2000.

  See also Braddick (1996), Kishlansky (1986), Loades (Politics and Nation, 1999), Starkey (1987), and Wall (2000); and Black (1993), Brewer (1983), and O’Gorman (1997).

  Religious and Intellectual

  Burgess, G. The Politics of the Ancient Constitution: An Introduction to English Political Thought, 1603–1642. University Park, Pa., 1992.

  Clark, J. C. D. English Society, 1660–1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics During the Ancien Régime, 2nd ed. Cambridge, 2000.

  Fincham, K., ed. The Early Stuart Church, 1603–1642. Stanford, 1993.

  Harris, T., Seaward, P., and Goldie, M., eds. The Politics of Religion in Restoration England. Oxford, 1990.

  Keeble, N. H. The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in the Later Seventeenth Century. Leicester, 1987.

  Marshall, J. John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture. Cambridge, 2006.

  Pocock, J. G. A. The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century (A Reissue with a Retrospect). Cambridge, 1987.

  Smith, N. Literature and Revolution in England, 1640–1660. New Haven, 1994.

  Spurr, J. English Puritanism, 1603–1689. New York, 1998.

  Spurr, J. The Post-Reformation: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 1603–1714. Harlow, 2006.

  Tyacke, N. Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism, ca. 1590–1640. Oxford, 1989.

  Underdown, D. Fire From Heaven: The Life of an English Town in the Seventeenth Century. New Haven, 1992.

  See also Coffey (2000), Coward (The Stuart Age, 2003), Dillon (2006), Doran and Durston (2003), Glassey (1997), Hibbard (1983), Hirst (1999), Hoppit (2000), Hughes (1998), Hutton (1985), Kishlansky (1996), Morrill (1999), Prall (1993), Smuts (1996), Sommerville (1999), and Speck (1988); and Porter (2000).

  Social and Cultural

  Borsay, P. The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town, 1660–1770. London, 1989.

  Bostridge, I. Witchcraft and its Transformations, c.1650–c.1750. Oxford, 1997.

  Cowan, B. The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse. New Haven, 2005.

  Earle, P. The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London, 1660–1730. Berkeley, 1989.

  Ford, B., ed. Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Cambridge Cultural History. Cambridge, 1989.

  Fumerton, P. Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England. Chicago, 2006.

  Harris, T., ed. Popular Culture in England, c.1500–1850. New York, 1995.

  Holmes, G. S. Augustan England: Professions, State and Society, 1680–1730. London, 1982.

  Hunt, M. R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680–1780. Berkeley, 1996.

  Peck, L. L. Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England. Cambridge, 2005.

  Reay, B. Popular Cultures in England, 1550–1750. London, 1998.

  Rosenheim, J. M. The Emergence of a Ruling Order: English Landed Society, 1650–1750. London, 1998.

  Seaver, P. Wallington’s World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London. Stanford, 1985.

  Sharpe, J. The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, and the King of England. New York, 2001.

  Shoemaker, R. B. Gender in English Society, 1650–1850: The Emergence of Separate Spheres? London, 1998.

  Thompson, E. P. Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture. New York, 1991.

  Whyman, S.E. Sociability and Power in Late-Stuart England: The Cultural Worlds of the Verneys 1660–1720. Oxford, 1999.

  See also Amussen (1988), Barry (1990), Beier (1985), Bucholz (1993), Clark (2000), Clay (1984), Coleman (1985), Coster (2001), Coward (1997, The Stuart Age, 2003), Cressy (1989, 1997), Dillon (2006), Eales (1998), Fidler (2006), Fletcher (1995), Froide (2007), Glassey (1997), Heal and Holmes (1994), Hindle (2000), Hirst (1999), Hoppit (2000), Houlbrooke (1984, 1998), Houston (1992), Hutton (1994), Ingram (1987), Keeble (1987), Kermode and Walker (1994), Laurence (1994), Levine and Wrightson (1991), Manning (1988), Marshall (1999), O’Day (1982), Peck (1993), Pollock (1983), Prest (1987), Sacks (1991), Sharpe (Early Modern England, 1997; 1999), Slack (1999), Smuts (1996, 1999), Stone (1977), Thomas (1971), Underdown (1985, 1992), Wall (2000), Wrightson (1982, 2000), Wrightson and Levine (1995), Young (2000); and Brewer (1983).

  Hanoverian (1714 to 1730s)

  Black, J. The Politics of Britain, 1688–1800. Manchester, 1993.

  Brewer, J. The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688–1783. London, 1983.

  Colley, L. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837. New Haven, 1994.

  Langford, P. Public Life and the Propertied Englishman, 1689–1798. Oxford, 1991.

  O’Gorman, F. The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History, 1688–1832. London, 1997.

  Porter, R. The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment. New York, 2000.

  See also Clark (2000), Earle (1989), Hoppit (2000), Hunt (1996), Prest (1998), Reay (1998), Rosenheim (1998), Schama (2001), Shoemaker (1998), and Williams and Ramsden (1990).

  Ireland, Scotland, and Wales

  Bradshaw, B. and Morrill, J., eds. The British Problem, c.1534–1707: State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago. New York, 1996.

  Brown, K. M. Kingdom or Province? Scotland and the Regal Union, 1603–1715. London, 1992.

  Canny, N. Kingdom and Colony: Ireland in the Atlantic World, 1560–1800. London, 1988.

  Canny, N. Making Ireland British, 1580–1650. Oxford, 2000.

  Devine, T. M. The Scottish Nation: A History, 1700–2000. Harmondsworth, 1999.

  Dickson, D. New Foundations: Ireland, 1660–1800, 2nd ed. Dublin, 2000.

  Ellis, S. G. Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447–1603: English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule. London, 1998.

  Ellis, S. G. and Barber, S., eds. Conquest and Union: Fashioning a British State, 1485–1725. London, 1995.

  Jackson, C. Restoration Scotland, 1660–1690: Royalist Politics, Religion and Ideas. Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2003.

  Jenkins, G. H. The Foundations of Modern Wales, 1642–1780. Oxford, 1993.

  Jenkins, P. A History of Modern Wales, 1536–1990. London, 1992.

  Lenihan, P. 1690: Battle of the Boyne. Stroud, Gloucestersh., 2003.

  Levack, B. P. The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union, 1603–1707. Oxford, 1987.

  Lydon, J. The Making of Ireland: From Ancient Times to the Present. London, 1998.

  Macinnes, A. I. Charles I and the Making of the Covenanting Movement, 1625–1641. Edinburgh, 1991.

  Macinne
s, A. I. and Ohlmeyer, J., eds. The Stuart Kingdoms in the Seventeenth Century: Awkward Neighbours. Dublin, 2002.

  Mullan, D. G. Scottish Puritanism, 1590–1638. Oxford, 2001.

  Williams, G. Recovery, Reorientation and Reformation: Wales, c.1470–1642. Oxford, 1987.

  Wormald, J. Court, Kirk, and Community: Scotland, 1470–1625. Edinburgh, 1981.

  See also Harris (2005, 2006), Kenyon and Ohlmeyer (1998) and Russell (1990, 1991).

  Europe and Empire

  Black, J. A System of Ambition? British Foreign Policy, 1660–1793. London, 1991.

  Bonney, R. The European Dynastic States, 1494–1660. Oxford, 1991.

  Cameron, E., ed. Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History. Oxford, 1999.

  Canny, N., ed. The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Oxford, 1998.

  Doran, S. England and Europe, 1485–1603, 2nd ed. London, 1996.

  Henshall, N. The Myth of Absolutism: Change and Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy. 1992.

  Jones, J. R. The Anglo-Dutch Wars of the Seventeenth Century. London, 1996.

  Lenman, B. England’s Colonial Wars, 1550–1688: Conflicts, Empire and National Identity. London, 2001.

  Loades, D. M. England’s Maritime Empire: Seapower, Commerce and Policy, 1490–1690. London, 2000.

  Macfarlane, A. The British in the Americas, 1480–1815. London, 1994.

  Monod, P. K. The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589–1715. New Haven, 1999.

  Munck, T. Seventeenth-Century Europe, 1598–1700. New York, 1990.

  Pennington, D. H. Europe in the Seventeenth Century, 2nd ed. London, 1989.

  Reitan, E. A. Politics, War, and Empire: The Rise of Britain to a World Power, 1688–1792. Arlington Heights, I11., 1994.

  Spencer, C. Blenheim: Battle for Europe. London, 2004.

  Documents and Other Primary Sources

  Aughterson, K. The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Documents. London, 1998.

  Bowle, J., ed. The Diary of John Evelyn. Oxford, 1983. (Selections)

  Byrne, M. St. Clare, ed. The Lisle Letters: An Abridgement. Chicago, 1983.

  Carrier, I. James VI and I: King of Great Britain. Cambridge, 1998.

  Crawford, P. and Gowing, L., eds. Women’s Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. London, 2000.