The First Modern Society: Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone,9780521021616

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

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ISBN13: 9780521021616
ISBN10: 0521021618
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-11-03
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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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

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