Early Modern Europe Reading List
Part Two (1600-1800)
Compiled by Prof. Helena Rosenblatt
last revised October 2009
1. English Revolutions
2. Intellectual History:methods and themes
3. Population, demography, urbanization
4. Absolutism and the state
5. History of science and medicine
6. Economy and society, 17th and 18th centuries
7. War, violence, and the state
8. Women, sex, gender
9. Spain, the Netherlands, Northern and Eastern Europe
10. The Enlightenment
11. Political culture of the Old Regime
12. The French Revolution
1. English Revolutions
Braddick, Michael, State Formation in Early Modern England, c. 1550-1700.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Brewer, John. The Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State 1688-
1783. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Clark, J.C.D. English Society: 1688-1832: Ideology, Social Structure and
Political Practice during the Ancien Régime. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1985.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1992.
Croft, Paula. King James. New York: Palgrave, 2003.
Goldstone, Jack A. Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World.
Berkeley-Los Angeles: the University of California Press, 1991.
Hill, Christopher. God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English
Revolution New York: Dial Press, 1970.
Hill, Christopher. The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the
English Revolution. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1978.
Holmes, Geoffrey. The Making of a Great Power: Late Stuart and Early Georgian
Britain, 1660-1722. London: Longman, 1993
Jacob, Margaret. The Newtonians and the English Revolution. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1988.
Jones. J.R. ed, Liberty Secured? Britain before and after 1668. Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 1992.
Kishlansky, Mark. A Monarchy Transformed: England 1603-1714. Penguin,
1996
Plumb, J.H. The Growth of Political Stability in England, 1675-1720. London:
Macmillan, 1967.
Prest., Wilfred. Albion Ascendant: English History, 1660-1815. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1998.
Richardson, R.C. The Debate on the English Revolution. New York: St. Martin’s
Press, 1999
Russell, Conrad. The Causes of the English Civil War. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1990.
Stone, L. The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642. New York:
Routledge, 1986.
Schwoerer, Lois. G., ed. The Revolution of 1688-89: Changing Perspectives.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Speck, W.A. Reluctant Revolutionaries: Englishmen and the Revolution of 1688-
89. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
2. Intellectual History: methods and themes
Lovejoy, Arthur. The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966.
Macpherson, C.B. The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke Oxford: Clarenden Press, 1969.
Marshall, John. John Locke: Resistance, Religion, and Responsibility Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Tuck, Richard. Natural Rights Theories. Their Origin and Development Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Tierney, Brian. The Idea of Natural Rights Scholars Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2001.
Skinner, Quentin. Hobbes and Republicanism Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Skinner, Quentin. Liberty before Liberalism Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Skinner, Quentin. “Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas,” History and Theory 8, 1 (1969)
3.Population, urbanization, cultural exchange
Clark, Peter, ed. Small Towns in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995.
Clark, Peter and Paul Slack. English Towns in Transition, 1500-1700. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1976.
Cowan, Alexander. Urban Europe, 1500-1700. London: Arnold, 1998.
De Vries, Jan. European Urbanization, 1500-1800. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1984.
Flandrin, J.L. Families in Former Times: Kinship, Household and Sexuality.
Trnas. R. Southern. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Friedrichs, Christopher. The Early Modern City, 1450-1750. New York:
Longman, 1995
Gottlieb, Beatrice. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the
Industrial Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Kertzer, David and Marzio Barbagli, eds. The History of the European Family,
vol I: Family Life in Early Modern Times. New Haven CT: Yale University
Press, 2001.
Kumin, Beat. Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Maczak, Antoni. Travel in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995.
Spufford, Margaret. Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. New
York: Harper and Row, 1979
Tittler, Robert. Townspeople and Nation: English Urban Experiences, c. 1540-
1640. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001
Walter, John, and Roger Shofield, eds. Famine, Disease and the Social Order in
Early Modern Society. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
4.Absolutism and the state
Behrens. Catherine B.A. Society, Government, and the Enlightenment: The
Experience of Eighteenth-Century France and Prussia. London: Thames and
Hudson, 1985.
Beik, William. Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France: State Power and Aristocracy in Languedoc. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Bercé, Yves-Marie. The Birth of Absolutism: A History of France, 1598-1661.
London: Macmillian, 1995.
Bergin, Joseph. The Rise of Richelieu. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
1991.
Black, Jeremy. The Rise of the European Powers, 1679-1793. London: Edward
Arnold, 1990.
Blanning, T.C.W. Joseph II. London: Longman, 1994.
Burke, Peter. The Fabrication of Louis XIV. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1992.
Downing, Brian. The Military Revolution and Political Change: Origins of
Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1992.
Duffy, Christopher. The Army of Frederick the Great. Newton Abbey, England:
David & Charles, 1974.
Fay, S.B. The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia to 1786. New York: Holt, Rinehart &
Winston, 1965
Goubert, Pierre. Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen. New York: Random,
1972.
Henshall, Nicholas. The Myth of Absolutism: Change and Continuity in Early
Modern European Monarchy. London: Longman, 1992.
Keohane, Nannerl. Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the
Enlightenment. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980.
Lynn, John. The Wars of Louis XIV. London: Longman, 1999.
Major, J. Russell. From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French
Kings, Nobles and Estates. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Mettam, Roger. Power and Faction in Louis XIV’s France. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1988.
Monod, Paul K. The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-
1715. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of
the West, 1500-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Ruff, Julius. Violence in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001.
Scott, H. M., ed. Enlightened Absolutism: Reforms and Reformers in Later
Eighteenth-Century Europe. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan
Press, 1990.
Upton, A.F. Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1998.
Vierhaus, Rudolf. Germany in the Age of Absolutism. Trans. Jonathan Knudsen.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
5. History of science and medicine
Biagioli, Mario. Galileo, Courtier: The Practise of Science in the Culture of
Absolutism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Burke, Peter. A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot.
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000.
Butterfield, Herbert. The Origins of Modern Science. London: Bell & Hyman,
1985.
Eamon, William. Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Findlen, Paula. Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting and Scientific Culture in
Early Modern Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Jacob, James. The Scientific Revolution: Aspirations and Achievements, 1500-
1700. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1998.
Jacob, Margaret. The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution. New York:
Scribner, 1971.
Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Harrison, Peter. The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Henry, J. The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science. New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1996.
Lindberg, David and R.S.Westman, eds. Reappraisals of the Scientific
Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Osler, Margaret. Rethinking the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000.
Principe, Lawrence. The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic. New York: Scribner, 1971.
Webster, Charles. From Paracelsus to Newton: Magic and the Making of Modern
Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Westfall, R.S. Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Zagorin, Perez. Francis Bacon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
6.Economy and society, 17th and 18th centuries
Adamson, John. ed. The Princely Courts of Europe: Ritual, Politics and Culture
under the Ancien Régime, 1500-1750. London: Wedenfeld and Nicolson, 1999.
Berg, Maxine. The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820: Industry, Innovation and
Work in Britain. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Billacois, Francois. The Duel: Its Rise and Fall in Early Modern France. Trans.
Trista Selous. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.
Burke, Peter. Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate,
1994.
Chartier, Roger, ed. A History of Private Life: Passions of the Renaissance.
Trans. by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 1989.
Crouzet. Francois. Britain Ascendant: Comparative Studies in Franco-British
Economic History. Trans. By Martin Thom. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1990.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Davis, Natalie Z. Society and Culture in Early Modern France. Stanford Ca.:
Stanford University Press, 1975.
Dewald, Jonathan. The European Nobility. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1996.
Duplessis, Robert Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Elias, Norbert. The Civilizing Process. Trans. by Edmund Jephcott. Oxford:
Blackwell, 2000.
Forster, Robert. The House of Saulx Tavanes: Versailles and Burgundy, 1700-
1830. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971.
Gutmann, Myron. Toward the Modern Economy: Early Industry in Europe 1500-
1800. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.
Hirschman, Albert. The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for
Capitalism Before Its Triumph. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.
Houston, R.A. Literacy in Early Modern Europe: Culture and Education 1500-
1800. London: Longman, 1989.
Jutte, Robert. Poverty and Deviance in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Mckendrick, Neil, John Brewer and J. H. Plumb. Birth of a Consumer Society:
The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1985.
Wrigley, Edward. Population and History. New York: McGraw Hill, 1969
7.War, violence and the state
Asch, Ronald. The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe,
1618-1648. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Bireley, Robert. The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and
Confessors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Carsten, F. L. The Origins of Prussia. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954.
Evans, R.J.W. The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550-1700. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1985.
Fay, S.B. The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia to 1786. New York: Holt, Rinehart &
Winston, 1965.
Hagen, William. Ordinary Prussians: Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-
1840. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Haliczer, Stephen. Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia, 1478-1834. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990.
Holborn, Hajo. History of Modern Germany, vol. 2: The Age of Absolutism.
Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press, 1964.
Hughes, Michael. Early Modern Germany, 1477-1806. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
Kann, Robert A. A History of the Habsburg Empire 1526-1918. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1975.
Koenigsberger, H.G. The Habsburgs and Europe, 1516-1660. Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 1971
Lynn, John. Women, Armies and Warfare in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Thirty Years War. London: Routledge, 1984.
Thompson, I.A., War and Society in Hapsburg Spain. Brookfield, Vt: Ashgate, 1992.
Walker, Mack. German Home Towns. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971.
Wiesner, Merry. Gender, Church and State in Early Modern Germany. London
and New York: Longman, 1998.
8.Women, sex, gender
Crawford, Katherine. European Sexualities, 1400-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
Davis, Natalie Z. and Arlette Farge, eds. A History of Women in the West, vol
III: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes. Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press, 1993.
Gowing, Laura. Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth Century England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Harth, Erica. Cartesian Women. Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse
in the Old Regime. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Hitchcock, Timothy. English Sexualities, 1700-1800. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Hufton, Olwen. The Prospect Before Her: A History of Woman in Western
Europe: 1500-1800. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1996.
Hunt, Lynn, ed. The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of
Modernity, 1500-1800, New York: Zone, 1993.
Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Laqueur, Thomas. Solitary Sex. A Cultural History of Masturbation. New York:
Zone Books, 2004.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century
England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Pateman, Carole. The Sexual Contract. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University
Press, 1988.
Rublack, Ursula, ed. Gender in Early Modern German History. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Schiebinger, Londa. The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern
Science. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Steinbrugge, Lieselotte. The Moral Sex. Woman’s Nature in the French
Enlightenment. Trans. Pamela Selwyn, New York: Oxford University Press,
1995.
Valenze, Deborah. The First Industrial Woman. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1995.
Weil, Rachel. Political Passion: Gender, the Family and Political Argument in England, 1680-1714. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000.
Wilson, Adrian. The Making of Man Midwifery. London: University College
Press, 1995.
Wunder, Heide. He is the Sun, She is the Moon: Women in Early Modern
Germany. Trans. Thomas Dunlap. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1998.
9.Spain, the Netherlands, Northern and Eastern Europe
Davids, Karel, and Jan Lucassen, eds. A Miracle Mirrored: the Dutch Republic in
European Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
Dukes, P. The Making of Russian Absolutism, 1613-1801. London: Longman,
1990.
Elliot, J. H. Imperial Spian, 1469-1716. New York: Penguin, 1964.
Geyl, Pieter. The Revolt of the Netherlands, 1555-1609. New York: Barnes and
Noble, 1958.
Haliczer, Stephen. Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia, 1478-
1834. Berkeley: University Press, 1990.
Hatton, R. Charles XII of Sweden. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968
Hughes, Lindsey. Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1998.
Hughes, Lindsey. Peter the Great: A Biography. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2002.
Israel, Jonathan. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Kamen, Henry. The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision. New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 1998.
Kirby, David. Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period: The Baltic World
1492-1772. London: Longman, 1990.
Klyuchevsky, Vasili. Peter the Great. London: Macmillan, 1958.
Lynch, John. The Hispanic World in Crisis and Change, 1598-1700. Cambridge,
MA: Blackwell, 1992
Lynch, John. Spain under the Hapsburgs, 1516-1700. New York: New York
University Press, 1981.
Porshnev, Boris. Muscovy and Sweden in the Thirty Years War 1630-1655.
Trans Brian Pearce. Cmabridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Roberts, Michael. Gustavus Adolphus and the Rise of Sweden. London: English
Universities Press, 1973
Schama, Simon. The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch
Culture in the Golden Age. New York: Knopf, 1987
.
Stradlin, R.A. Europe and the Decline of Spain; A Study of the Spanish System,
1580-1720. London: Allen Unwin, 1981.
Sumner, B. H. Peter the Great and the Emergence of Russia. London: English
Universities Press, 1970.
Thompson, I.A.A. War and Society in Habsburg Spain. Brookfield, VT:
Variorum, 1992
Van Gelderen, Martin, ed. The Dutch Revolt. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1993.
10. The Enlightenment
Bruford, William. Germany in the Eighteenth Century: the Social Background of
the Liberal Revival. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952.
Cassirer, Ernst. The Philosophy of the Enlightenment. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1979.
Darnton, Robert. The Literary Underground of the Old Regime. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982.
Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: an Interpretation. 2 vols., New York: W.W.
Norton, 1969.
Goodman, Dena. The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French
Enlightenment. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An
Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Trans. Thomas Burger and
Frederick Lawrence. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989.
Hesse, Carla. The Other Enlightenment. How French Women Became Modern.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Herr, Richard. The Eighteenth Century Revolution in Spain. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1958.
Hont, Istvan and Michael Ignatieff, eds. Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of
Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1983.
Hulliung, Mark. Rousseau and the Auto-Critique of Enlightenment. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994.
Israel, Jonathan. Radical Enlightenment. Philosophy and the Making of
Modernity, 1650-1750. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 20001.
Jacob, Margaret. Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in
Eighteenth-Century Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Jacob, Margaret. The Origins of Freemasonry. Facts & Fictions. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
McMahon, Darrin. Enemies of the Enlightenment. The French Counter-
Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. Oxford, Oxford University Press,
2001.
Muthu, Sankar. Enlightenment Against Empire, Princeton N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 2003.
Porter, Roy. The Creation of the Modern World. The Untold Story of the British
Enlightenment. New York: W.W.Norton & Company, 2000.
Porter, Roy, and Mikulas Tech, eds. The Enlightenment in National Context.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Sorkin, David. The Berlin Haskalah and German Religious Thought. Orphans of
Knowledge. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2000.
Venturi, Franco. Italy and the Enlightenment: Studies in a Cosmopolitan
Century. London: Longman, 1972.
Wangermann, Ernst. The Austrian Achievement, 1700-1800. New York:
Harcourt, 1973.
11. Political culture of the Old Regime
Baker, Keith M., ed. The Political Culture of the Old Regime, vol I of The
French Revolution and the Transformation of Modern Political Culture. New
York: Pergamon Press, 1987-1994.
Bell, Daniel. The Cult of the Nation in France. Inventing Nationalism, 1680-
1800. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Bell, Daniel Lawyers and Citizens. The Making of a Poltiical Elite in Old
Regime France. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Crow, Thomas. Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
Darnton, Robert. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France. New
York: W.W. Norton, 1995.
Kaplan, Steven. Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV.
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976.
Roche, Daniel. France in the Enlightenment. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer,
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Maza, Sarah. Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of
Prerevolutionary France. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California
Press, 1993.
Smith, Jay. Nobility Reimagined. The Patriotic Nation in 18 Century France.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.
Spang, Rebecca. The Invention of the Restaurant. Paris and Modern Gastronomic
Culture Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Van Kley, Dale. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution. From Calvin to
the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
12. French Revolution
Baker, Keith M. Inventing the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1990.
Bertraud, Jean-Paul. The Army of the French Revolution: From Citizen-Soldiers
to Instrument of Power. Trans. by R.R. Palmer, Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1988.
Blanning, T.C.W. The French Revolutionary Wars, 1787-1802. New York:
Arnold, 1996
Chartier, Roger. The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution. Trans. Lydia G.
Cochrane. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991.
Doyle, William. Origins of the French Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1999.
Fitzsimmons, Michael. The Remaking of France: the National Assembly and the
Constitution of 1791. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Furet, Francois. Interpreting the French Revolution. Trans. Elborg Forster.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution.
Transl. Katherine Streip, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California
Press, 1998.
Hufton, Olwen. Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992
Hunt, Lynn. Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution. Berkeley and
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.
Jones, Peter. The Peasantry in the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1988.
Landes, Joan. Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French
Revolution. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Lefebvre, Georges. The Coming of the French Revolution. Trans. R.R. Palmer.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Livesey, James. Making Democracy in the French Revolution. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Ozouf, Mona. Festivals and the French Revolution. Trans. Alan Sheridan,
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Palmer, R.R. Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French
Revolution. New York: Atheneum, 1969.
Tackett, Timothy. Becoming a Revolutionary: The Deputies of the French
National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture (1789-1790).
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Woloch, Isser. The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order,
1789-1820s. New York: W.W.Norton, 1994.
*see also the collections of essays listed below
Important collections of essays on the origins, course and nature of the
French Revolution:
Blanning, T.C.W. ed., The Rise and Fall of the French Revolution. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 1996; Kates, Gary, ed. The French Revolution.
Recent Debates & New Controversies. London: Routledge, 1998; Schechter,
Ronald, ed. The French Revolution: The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell,
2001.
Appendix
1. General, reference, and historiography
Brady, Thomas A, Heiko A. Oberman & James D. Tracy, eds. Handbook of
European History, 1400-1600. 2 vols. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994_1995.
Burckhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. Trans. S.G.C.
Middlemore. 2 vols. 1929. Rpt. New York: Harper & Row, 1954. Reissued
Penguin 1990.
Doyle, William. The Ancien Regime. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press
International, 1986.
Ferguson, Wallace K. The Renaissance in Historical Thought. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1948.
Furet, Francois and Mona Ozouf, eds. A Critical Dictionary of the French
Revolution. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 1980. Should be read with Isser Woloch “On the
Latent Illiberalism of the French Revolution,” American Historical Review, 95
(December 1990), 1452-70 (a review article on the Critical Dictionary)
Hale, John R. The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. New York:
Athenaeum, 1994.
Jardine, Lisa. Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance. London:
Macmillan 1996.
Koenigsberger, H.G. Early Modern Europe 1500-1789. White Plains: Longman,
1987.
Panofsky, Erwin. Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art. Gottesman
Lectures, Uppsala University, 7. Stockhom: Olmquist & Wiksell, 1960 rpt. NY,
1969.
Rice, Eugene F. Foundations of Early Modern Europe. Rev. ed. Anthony
Grafton. New York: Norton, 1992.
Sutherland, Donald. France, 1789-1815: Revolution and Counterrevolution.
London: Fontana, 1985.
Witt, Ronald G., et al. Collection of articles on the Baron thesis after 40 years, in
American Historical Review 101 (1996).
2. Journals
These journals are among the most consulted in the field, and are particularly
useful for book reviews.
American Historical Review
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte
Bibliothèque de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance
French Historical Studies
History of Political Thought
Isis
Italia Medioevalia et Umanistica
Journal of the History of Ideas
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Journal of Modern History
Journal of Social History
Journal of the History of Ideas
Nuova Rivista Storica
Past and Present
Renaissance Quarterly
Renaissance Studies
Revue Historique
Signs: Journal of Women in History and Society
Sixteenth Century Journal
Social History of Medicine
Speculum
3. Primary sources
A. 15 and 16 centuries: see the list compiled by grad students Tori Locascio and Doug
Godley --
Go to:
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/king/Bibliographies.htm
Look under Primary
B. 17 and 18 centuries:
Important individual thinkers and texts:
Bossuet, Politics Drawn From Holy Scripture
Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society
Hobbes, Leviathan, On the Citizen
Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of Government
Montesquieu, Persian Letters, Spirit of the Laws
Pufendorf, On the Duty of Man and Citizen
Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations
Rousseau, The Discourses, Social Contract
Voltaire, Candide
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Useful anthologies of primary texts:
On the Enlightenment:
Berlin, Isaiah, ed. The Age of Enlightenment. New York: Meridian, 1984.
Gay, Peter, ed. The Enlightenment. A Comprehensive Anthology. New York:
Touchstone, 1973.
Gay, Peter, ed. Deism: An Anthology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1968.
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