Bibliography: Early Modern English Towns, Part 1
Written for H-Urban by Joseph P. Ward, University of Mississippi,
<jward@olemiss.edu>
1. INTRODUCTORY SURVEYS:
1.1 Barry, Jonathan, ed.,The Tudor and Stuart Town: A Reader in English
Urban History 1530-1688(London: Longman, 1990).
1.2 Borsay, Peter,The Eighteenth-Century Town: A Reader in English Urban
History, 1688-1820(London: Longman, 1990).
1.3 Clark, Peter, ed.,The Early Modern Town: A Reader(New York:
Longman, 1972).
1.4 -----, ed.,The Transformation of English Provincial Towns, 1600-1800
(Dover, New Hampshire: Hutchinson, 1984)
1.5 Clark, Peter and Paul Slack, eds.,Crisis and Order in English Towns,
1500-1700(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972).
1.6 -----,English Towns in Transition, 1500-1700(Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1976).
1.7 Corfield, Penelope J., The Impact of English Towns, 1700-1800
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982).
1.8 Harding, Vanessa, "Early Modern London 1550-1700,"London Journal20
(1995): 34-45.
1.9 Jack, Sybil M.,Towns in Tudor and Stuart Britain(New York: St.
Martin's, 1996).
1.10 Richardson, R.C. and T.B. James, eds.,The Urban Experience: A
Sourcebook(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983).
1.11 Schwarz, Leonard, "London, 1700-1850,"London Journal20 (1995): 46-55.
2. DEMOGRAPHY:
2.1 Borsay, Peter, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in
the Provincial Town, 1660-1770(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
2.2 Boulton, Jeremy, Neighbourhood and Society: A London Suburb in the
Seventeenth Century(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
2.3 Carlin, Martha,Medieval Southwark(London: Hambledon, 1996).
2.4 Clark, Peter and Jean Hosking,Population Estimates of English Small
Towns, 1550-1851rev. ed. (Leicester, 1993).
2.5 Dyer, Alan,Decline and Growth in English Towns 1400-1640(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995).
2.6 Finlay, Roger,Population and Metropolis: The Demography of London
1580-1650(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
2.7 Harding, Vanessa, "'And one more may be laid there': The Location of
Burials in Early Modern London,"London Journal14 (1989): 112-29.
2.8 -----, "The Population of London 1550-1700: A Review of the Published
Evidence,"London Journal15 (1990): 11-28.
2.9 -----, "Burial Choice and Burial Location in Later Medieval London," in
Steven Bassett, ed.,Death in Towns: Urban Responses to the Dying and the
Dead, 1000-1600(Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1992), pp. 119-35.
2.10 -----, "New Types of Urbanism: Early Modern London 1550-1750,"Franco
British Studies17 (1994): 85-93.
2.11 Jenner, Mark, "The Politics of London Air: John Evelyn's Fumifugium
and the Restoration,"Historical Journal38, 3 (1995): 535-51.
2.12 Landers, John,Death and the Metropolis: Studies in the Demographic
History of London 1670-1830(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
2.13 Power, M. J., "The Social Topography of Restoration London," in A.L.
Beier and Roger Finlay, eds.,London 1500-1700: The Making of the
Metropolis(London: Longman, 1986), pp. 199-223.
2.14 Robertson, J. C., "Reckoning with London: Interpreting the Bills of
Mortality before John Graunt,"Urban History23 (1996): 325-50.
2.15 Smuts, R. Malcolm, "The Court and Its Neighborhood: Royal Policy and
Urban Growth in the Early Stuart West End,"Journal of British Studies30
(1991): 117-49.
2.16 Stobart, Jon, "An Eighteenth-Century Revolution? Urban Growth in
North-West England, 1664-1801,"Urban History23 (1996): 23-47.
2.17 Ward, Joseph P.,Metropolitan Communities: Trade Guilds, Identity,
and Change in Early Modern London(Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1997).
3. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL LIFE:
3.1 Archer, Ian W.,The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in
Elizabethan London(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
3.2 Berger, Ronald M.,The Most Necessary Luxuries: The Mercers' Company
of Coventry, 1550-1680(University Park: Pennsylvania State University
Press, 1993).
3.3 Berlin, Michael, " 'Broken all in pieces': Artisans and the Regulation
of Workmanship in Early Modern London," in Geoffrey Crossick, ed.,The
Artisan and the European Town, 1500-1900(Aldershot, Hants.: Scolar Press,
1997), pp. 75-91.
3.4 Clark, Geoffrey, "Life insurance in the society and culture of London,
1700-75,"Urban History24, 1 (1997):17-36.
3.5 Corfield, Penelope J., "Defining urban work," in Penelope J. Corfield
and Derek Keene, eds.,Work in Towns 850-1850(Leicester: Leicester
University Press, 1990), pp. 207-230.
3.6 Cottret, Bernard,The Huguenots in England: Immigration and Settlement
c.1550-1700(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
3.7 Dyer, Alan, "Crisis and Resolution: Government and Society in
Stratford, 1540-1640," in Robert Bearman, ed.,The History of an English
Borough: Stratford-upon-Avon 1196-1996(Stroud: Sutton, 1997), pp. 97-109,
195-198.
3.8 Earle, Peter, "The Female Labour Market in London in the Late
Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries,"Economic History Review, 2nd
ser., 42 (1989), pp. 328-53.
3.9 -----,The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and
Family in London, 1660-1730(Berkeley: University of California Press,
1989)
3.10 -----,A City Full of People: Men and Women of London, 1650-1750
(London: Methuen, 1993).
3.11 French, Christopher J., " 'Crowded with traders and a great commerce':
London's Domination of English Overseas Trade, 1700-1775,"London Journal
17, 1, 1992: 27-35.
3.12 Grassby, Richard,The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century
England(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
3.13 Hancock, David,Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the
Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995).
3.14 Levine, David, and Keith Wrightson,The Making of an Industrial
Society: Whickham, 1560-1765(Oxford: Clarendon, 1991).
3.15 Martin, Luc, "The Rise of the New Draperies in Norwich, 1550-1622," in
N. B. Harte, ed.,The New Draperies in the Low Countries and England,
1300-1800(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 245-74.
3.16 Mui, Hoh-cheung and Lorna H.,Shops and Shopkeeping in
Eighteenth-Century England(London: Routledge, 1989).
3.17 Priestley, Ursula, "The Norwich Textile Industry: The London
Connection,"London Journal19, 2 (1995): 108-118.
3.18 -----, "Norwich Stuffs, 1600-1700," in N.B. Harte, ed.,The New
Draperies in the Low Countries and England, 1300-1800(Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1997), pp. 275-88
3.19 Rappaport, Steve,Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in
Sixteenth-Century London(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
3.20 Sacks, David Harris,The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic
Economy, 1450-1700(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).
3.21 Schwarz, L. D.,London in the Age of Industrialization:
Entrepreneurs, Labour Force and Living Conditions, 1700-1850(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1992).
3.22 Smail, John,The Origins of Middle-Class Culture(Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1994).
3.23 Weatherill, Lorna,Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain
1660-1760(London: Routledge, 1988).
3.24 Willen, Diane, "Women in the Public Sphere in Early Modern England:
The Case of the Urban Working Poor,"Sixteenth Century Journal19 (1988):
559-75.
3.25 Woodward, Donald,Men at Work: Labourers and Building Craftsmen in
the Towns of Northern England, 1450-1750(Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1995).
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