{"product_id":"the-first-modern-society-essays-in-english-history-in-honour-of-lawrence-stone-paperback-9780521021616","title":"The First Modern Society; Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521021616","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe First Modern Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eA. L. Beier (Edited by), David Cannadine (Edited by), James M. Rosenheim (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521021616, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 November 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e680 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.7 x 13.9 x 3.9 cm, 0.903 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntended 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of tables\u003cbr\u003e Notes on contributors\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: Lawrence Stone - as seen by others\u003cbr\u003e 1. The myth and the man Julian Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e 2. The enfant terrible? C. S. L. Davies\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Il Magnifico' Miriam Slater\u003cbr\u003e 4. The eminence rouge? John M. Murrin\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e 6. Public ceremony and royal charisma: the English royal gentry in London, 1485–1642 R. M. Smuts\u003cbr\u003e 7. County governance and elite withdrawal in Norfolk, 1660–1720 James M. Rosenheim\u003cbr\u003e 8. The last Hanoverian sovereign?: the Victorian monarchy in historical perspective, 1688–1988 David Cannadine\u003cbr\u003e 9. The gentrification of Victorian and Edwardian industrialists Richard Trainor\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Power and Social Relations: 10. Poverty and progress in early modern England A. L. Beier\u003cbr\u003e 11. Ambiguity and contradiction in 'the rise of professionalism': the English clergy, 1570–1730 Michael Hawkins\u003cbr\u003e 12. Bourgeois revolution and transition to capitalism Robert Brenner\u003cbr\u003e 13. Crowds, carnival and the state in English executions, 1604–1868 Thomas W. Laqueur\u003cbr\u003e 14. Interpersonal conflict and social tension: civil litigation in England, 1640–1830 C. W. Brooks\u003cbr\u003e 15. Church and state allied: the failure of parliamentary reform of the universities, 1688–1800 John Gascoigne\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Urban Society and Social Change: 16. Resistance to change: the political elites of provincial towns during the English Revolution Roger Howell, Jr\u003cbr\u003e 17. The London Wings and the Exclusion Crisis reconsidered Gary S. De Krey\u003cbr\u003e 18. Cultural life in the provinces: Leeds and York, 1720–1820 J. Jefferson Looney\u003cbr\u003e 19. The dynamics of class formation in nineteenth-century Bradford Theodore Koditschek\u003cbr\u003e 20. The community perspective in family history: the Potteries during the nineteenth century Marguerite Dupree\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913305776408,"sku":"9780521021616","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521021616i.jpg?v=1694963525","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-first-modern-society-essays-in-english-history-in-honour-of-lawrence-stone-paperback-9780521021616","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}