Early Modern Europe, 1450-1750:

State, Society and Economy in the Ancien Rgime

DMaris Coffman
Field Exam List, 2005
(180 titles)

Part One: The Master Narrative (=112 titles)

I. Periodization: General Surveys of the Early Modern World (=20 titles)
1. Bonney, Richard. The European Dynastic States 1494-1660
2. Bossy, John. Christianity in the West 1400-1700
3. Braudel, Fernand. Capitalism and Material Life 1400-1800
4. Briggs, Robin. Early Modern France, 1560-1715
5. Burke, Peter. Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe.
6. Cipolla, Carlo. Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700.
7. Dunn, Richard. The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1715.
8. Elliott, John. A Europe of Composite Monarchies in Past and Present, 137 (1992), 48-51.
9. Goldstone, Jack. Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World.
10. Hohenberg, Paul and Lynn Lees. The Making of Urban Europe 1000-1950.
11. Kamen, Henry. Early Modern European Society.
12. Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of Great Powers.
13. Koenigsberger, Paul. Early Modern Europe, 1500-1789.
14. Parker, Geoffrey. The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West,
1500-1800.
15. Rabb, Theodore. The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe
16. Rice, Eugene F. and Anthony Grafton. The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559.
17. Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World.
18. Tilly, Charles. Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons
19. Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Modern World System (vols 1-2)
20. Wolf, Eric R. Europe and the People Without History.
II. The Medieval Inheritance (=16 titles)
1. Bois, Guy. The Crisis of Feudalism, Economy and Society in Eastern Normandy, 1300-1500.
2. Boswell, John. The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe
from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance.
3. Colisch, Marcia L. Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition.
4. Duby, Georges. Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West.
5. Fossier, Robert. Peasant Life in the Medieval West.
6. Housley, Norman. The Later Crusades 1274-1580
7. Jordan, William Chester. Europe in the High Middle Ages.
8. Jordan, William Chester. The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Fourteenth Century.
9. Kaeuper, Richard W. War, Justice and Public Order: England and France in the Later
Middle Ages.
10. Lambert, Malcolm David. Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Bogomils to Hus.
11. Lopez, Robert S. The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1300.
12. Mollat, Michel. The Poor in the Middle Ages.
13. Mollat, Michel and Philippe Wolfe. Popular Revolution in the Late Middle Ages.
14. Runciman, Steven. The Sicilian Vespers: a History of the Mediterranean World in the Later
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15. Sawyer, Birgit and Peter. Medieval Scandinavia: From Conversion to Reform, circa 800-1500
16. Sedlar, J.W. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500.
III. The Renaissance (=11 titles)
1. Baron, Hans. Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance
2. Burke, Peter. The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy.
3. Ehrenberg, Richard. Capital & Finance in the Age of the Renaissance: A study of the Fuggers
and their Connections.
4. Goldthwaite, Richard. The Building of Renaissance Florence.
5. Grafton, Anthony and Lisa Jardine. From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the
Liberal Arts in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Europe.
6. Hale, J.R. War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450-1620.
7. Martines, Lauro. Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy.
8. Mattingly, Garrett. Renaissance Diplomacy.
9. Miskimin, Harry A. The Economy of Later Renaissance Europe, 1460-1600.
10. Skinner, Quentin. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (2 vols).
11. Stephens, John. The Italian Renaissance: The Origins of Intellectual and Artistic Change
before the Reformation.
IV. European Exploration & Expansion (=17 titles)
1. Andrews, Kenneth R. Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of
the British Empire, 1480-1630.
2. Armitage, David. Theories of Empire, 1450-1800
3. Armitage, David. Ideological Origins of the British Empire.
4. Armitage, David and Michael Braddick. (eds.) The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800.
5. Bowen, H. V. Elites, enterprise, and the making of the British overseas empire, 1688-1775
6. Boxer, Charles The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800.
7. Elliott, J.H. Old World and the New
8. Elliott, J.H. The Revolt of the Catalans
9. Elliot, J.H. Imperial Spain, 1469-1716.
10. Gauci, Perry. Politics of trade: the overseas merchant in state and society, 1660-1720
11. Grafton, Anthony. New Worlds, Ancient Texts. The Power of Tradition and the Shock of
Discovery.
12. Israel, Jonathan. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477-1806.
13. Lupher, David. Romans in the New World. Classical Models in Sixteenth-century Spanish
America.
14. Muldoon, James. Empire and order: the concept of empire, 800-1800
15. Padgen, Anthony. European Encounters with the New World from Renaissance to
Romanticism.
16. Padgen, Anthony. Lords of all the world: ideologies of empire in Spain, Britain and France
c. 1500-c. 1850
17. Ringrose, David. Expansion and Global Interaction.
V. Reformation and Counter-Reformation: Confessionalization & Wars of Religion (=18 titles)
1. Abray, Lorna Jane. The Peoples Reformation: Magistrates, Clergy and Commons at
Strasbourg.
2. Bouwsma, William J. John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait.
3. Blicke, Peter. Communal Reformation: The Quest for Salvation in Sixteenth-century Germany.
4. Blicke, Peter. The Revolution of 1525: The German Peasants War from a New Perspective.
5. Brady, Thomas A. Jr. Protestant Politics: Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) and the German
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6. Brady, Thomas A. Jr. Ruling Class, Regime and Reformation at Strasbourg, 1520-1555.
7. Cameron, Euan. The European Reformation.
8. Dickens, A.G. The Reformation in Historical Thought.
9. Diefendorf, Barbara. Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-century Paris.
10. Holt, Mack. The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629
11. MacCulloch, Diarmaid. The Reformation: A History.
12. Murdock, Graeme. Calvinism on the frontier, 1600-1660: International Calvinism and the
Reformed Church in Hungary and Transylvania
13. Ozment, Steven. When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe.
14. Ozment, Steven. The Age of Reform, 1250-1550.
15. Parker, Geoffrey. The Thirty Years War.
16. Rheinhardt, Wolfgang. Reformation, Counter-Reformation and the Early Modern State: A
Reassessment in Catholic Historical Review, 75 (1989): 383-405.
17. Rublack, Ulinka. Reformation Europe.
18. Safley, Thomas Max. Let No Man Put Asunder: the Control of Marriage in the German
Southwest a Comparative Study, 1550-1600.
VI. Absolutism and State-building (=30 titles)
1. Beik, William. Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France: state power and
provincial aristocracy in Languedoc
2. Bergin, Joseph. The Rise of Richelieu.
3. Braddick, Michael. State Formation in Early Modern England, 1550-1700.
4. Braddick, M. J. Nerves of state: taxation & the financing of the English state, 1558-1714
5. Brewer, John. The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783..
6. Church, William F. The impact of absolutism in France, national experience under Richelieu,
Mazarin, and Louis XIV
7. Church, William F. Richelieu and reason of state.
8. Colley, Linda. Britons, Forging the Nation 1707-1815
9. Collins, James B. The State in Early Modern France.
10. Doyle, William. The Old European Order (1992)
11. Elliott. J.H. Richelieu and Olivares.
12. Elliott, J.H. The Count-Duke of Olivares.
13. Ertman, Thomas. Birth of the Leviathan: building states and regimes in medieval and early
modern Europe
14. Evans, Robert. The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550-1700: An interpretation.
15. Gorski, Philip S. The disciplinary revolution: Calvinism and the rise of the state in early
modern Europe
16. Goubert, Pierre. Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen.
17. Kirshner, Julius (ed). The Origins of the Sate in Italy, 1300-1600
18. Levack, Brian. The formation of the British state: England, Scotland, and the union, 16031707
19. Lublinskaya, A.D. French Absolutism: the crucial phase, 1620-1629.
20. Lossky, Andrew. Louis XIV and the French Monarchy.
21. Mettam, Roger. Power and Faction in Louis XIVs France.
22. Miller, John. Absolutism in seventeenth century Europe
23. Mousnier, Roland. Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789
24. Plumb, J.H. The Growth of Political Stability in England, 1675-1725
25. Porchnev, B.F. Les soulvements populaires en France de 1623 1648.
26. Raeff, Marc. The Well-Ordered Police State: social and institutional change through law in
the Germanies and Russia, 1600-1800
27. Rosenberg, Hans. Bureaucracy, Aristocracy, Autocracy, The Prussian Experience 1660-1815.

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28. Symcox, Geoffrey. Victor Amadeus II: Absolutism in the Savoyard State, 1675-1730
29. Thompson, I.A.A. War and Government in Hapsburg Spain.
30. Tilly, Charles. Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1990
Part Two: Political Culture, Economy, Society (=68 titles)
VII. Political Culture & Political Thought (=19 titles)
1. Beik, William. Urban protest in seventeenth-century France: the culture of retribution.
2. Caeque, Alejandro. The king's living image: the culture and politics of viceregal power in
colonial Mexico
3. Dewald, Jonathan. The European Nobility, 1400-1800.
4. Downing, Brian. The Military Revolution and Political Change. Origins of Democracy and
Autocracy in Early Modern Europe
5. Feros, Antonio. Kingship and favoritism in the Spain of Philip III, 1598-1621
6. Goodman, Anthony and Angus McKay (eds): The Impact of Humanism on Western Europe
7. Kelley, Donald R. The Beginning of Ideology: Consciousness and Society in the French
Reformation
8. Kelley, Donald R. Foundations of Modern Scholarship: Language, Law and History in the
French Renaissance
9. Kwass, Michael. Privilege and the politics of taxation in eighteenth-century France: libert,
galit, fiscalit
10. Monod, Paul K. The power of kings: monarchy and religion in Europe, 1589-1715
11. Mousnier, Roland. The assassination of Henry IV: the tyrannicide problem and the
consolidation of the French absolute monarchy in the early seventeenth century
12. Oestreich, Gerhard. Neo-stoicism and the Early Modern State
13. Pocock, J.G.A. The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic
Republican Tradition.
14. Pagden, Anthony. The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe
15. Philips, Henry. Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France.
16. Schilling, Heinz. Religion, Political Culture and the Emergence of Early Modern Society
17. Skinner, Quentin. Visions of Politics (3 vols).
18. Strauss, Gerald. Law, Resistance, and the State: the opposition to Roman law in Reformation
Germany
19. Walker, Mack. The Salzburg Transaction. Expulsion and Redemption in Eighteenth-Century
Germany.
VIII. Economy and Economic Change (=25 titles)
1. Allen, Robert C. Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South
Midlands, 1450-1850
2. Aston, Trevor H. (ed). Crisis in Europe, 1560-1660.
3. Aston, Trevor H. and C. H. E. Philpin, eds. The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and
Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
4. Davis, Robert C. Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal: Works and Workplace in the
Preindustrial City.
5. de Vries, Jan. and Ad. van der Woude. The First Modern Economy. Success, Failure, and
Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815
6. de Vries, J. European Urbanization, 1500-1800
7. DuPlessis, Robert. Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe.
8. Jones, E. L. The Agricultural Origins of Industry, in Past & Present, no.40 (July 1968)
9. Hirschman, Albert O. The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for capitalism
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10. Kamen, Henry. The Iron Century: Social Change in Europe, 1550-1660.
11. Kriedte, Peter. Peasants, Landlords and Merchant Capitalists: Europe and the World
Economy, 1500-1800
12. Kriedte, Peter, Hans Medick, and Jrgen Schlumbohm, Industrialization Before
Industrialization: Rural Industry in the Genesis of Capitalism
13. Landes, David R. Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and Some so Poor.
14. Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. The French Peasantry 1450-1660
15. Lis, Catherina and Hugo Soly. Poverty and Capitalism in pre-industrial Europe
16. Ogilvie, Sheilagh. State corporatism and proto-industry: the Wrttemberg Black Forest,
1580-1797
17. Ogilvie, Sheilagh and Markus Cerman, eds., European Proto-Industrialization
18. Overton, Mark Agricultural Revolution in England 1500-1850
19. Parker, Geoffrey and Lesley Smith (eds). The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century.
20. Pollard, Sidney, The Industrial Revolution in Britain in Peaceful Conquest
21. Prados de la Escosura, Leandro. Exceptionalism and industrialisation: Britain and its
European rivals, 1688-1815 (2004)
22. Safley, Thomas Max and Leonard N. Rosenband. The Workplace before the factory: artisans
and proletarians, 1500-1800
23. Stone, Lawrence. The Crisis of the Aristocracy
24. Wrigley, E. A. The Growth of Population in Eighteenth Century England: A Conundrum
Resolved, Past & Present, 98 (January 1983)
25. Wrigley, E. A. Urban Growth and Agricultural Change: England and the Continent in the
Early Modern Period, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XV (Spring 1985)
IX. Society, Social Classes and Social Discipline (=10 titles)
1. Davis, Natalie Zemon. Society and Culture in Early Modern France.
2. Davis, Natalie Zemon. Protestantism and the printing workers of Lyons: a study in the
problem of religion and social class during the Reformation.
3. Hsia, Roland Po-Chia. The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany.
4. Linebaugh, Peter. The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century
5. Jtte, Robert. Poverty and Deviance in Early Modern Europe
6. Moch, Leslie Page. Moving Europeans: migration in Western Europe since 1650
7. Ogilvie, Sheilagh. A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern
Germany (Oxford University Press, 2003)
8. Safley, Thomas Max. The reformation of charity: the secular and the religious in early modern
poor relief
9. Safley, Thomas Max. Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Ausburg.
10. Sabean, David. Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern
Germany.
X. Cultural and Scientific Revolution(s)* (=13 titles)
(*excludes the Enlightenment stuff which is on the Modern Europe list)
1. Aris, Philippe. Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life
2. Biagioli, Mario. Galileo Courtier. The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism,
The University of Chicago Press, 1993.
3. Chartier, Roger (ed.) A History of Private Life: The Passions of the Renaissance
4. Clark, Stuart. Thinking with Demons
5. Daston, Lorraine. Classical Probability in the Enlightenment. Princeton, 1988.
6. Grafton, Anthony. Cardanos Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance
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7. Jacob, Margaret C. Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West. 1997.
8. Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. (Chicago, 1970).
9. Schofield, Robert E. The Lunar Society of Birmingham: A Social History of Provincial
Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century England. Oxford: 1963.
10. Shapin, Steven and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump. Hobbes, Boyle, and the
Experimental Life. Princeton University Press, 1985.
11. Shapin, Steven. A Social History of Truth. Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century
England, The University of Chicago Press, 1994,
12. Smith, Pamela H. The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman
Empire. Princeton: 1994.
13. Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic.

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