The First Modern Society

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• List of tables
• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• Prologue: Lawrence Stone - as seen by others
• 1. The myth and the man Julian Mitchell
• 2. The enfant terrible? C. S. L. Davies
• 3. 'Il Magnifico' Miriam Slater
• 4. The eminence rouge? John M. Murrin
• Part I. The Crown, The Aristocracy and The Gentry:
• 5. Lineage and kin in the sixteenth-century aristocracy: some comparative evidence on England and Germany Judith J. Hurwich
• 6. Public ceremony and royal charisma: the English royal gentry in London, 1485–1642 R. M. Smuts
• 7. County governance and elite withdrawal in Norfolk, 1660–1720 James M. Rosenheim
• 8. The last Hanoverian sovereign?: the Victorian monarchy in historical perspective, 1688–1988 David Cannadine
• 9. The gentrification of Victorian and Edwardian industrialists Richard Trainor
• Part II. Power and Social Relations:
• 10. Poverty and progress in early modern England A. L. Beier
• 11. Ambiguity and contradiction in 'the rise of professionalism': the English clergy, 1570–1730 Michael Hawkins
• 12. Bourgeois revolution and transition to capitalism Robert Brenner
• 13. Crowds, carnival and the state in English executions, 1604–1868 Thomas W. Laqueur
• 14. Interpersonal conflict and social tension: civil litigation in England, 1640–1830 C. W. Brooks
• 15. Church and state allied: the failure of parliamentary reform of the universities, 1688–1800 John Gascoigne
• Part III. Urban Society and Social Change:
• 16. Resistance to change: the political elites of provincial towns during the English Revolution Roger Howell, Jr
• 17. The London Wings and the Exclusion Crisis reconsidered Gary S. De Krey
• 18. Cultural life in the provinces: Leeds and York, 1720–1820 J. Jefferson Looney
• 19. The dynamics of class formation in nineteenth-century Bradford Theodore Koditschek
• 20. The community perspective in family history: the Potteries during the nineteenth century Marguerite Dupree
• Epilogue
• Appendix
• Index.
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