Early Modern European Reading List

  • Benedict, Philip. Christ’s Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism
  • Bercé, Yves-Marie. Revolt and Revolution in Early Modern Europe: An Essay on the History of Political Violence
  • Black, Jeremy. Natural and Necessary Enemies: Anglo-French Relation in the Eighteenth Century
  • Brewer, John and Roy Porter, eds., Consumption and the World of Goods
  • Briggs, Robin. Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft
  • Brown, Howard. Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon
  • Burke, Peter. Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
  • Clark, Anna. The Struggle for the Breeches and her “Gender, Class, and the Constitution: Franchise Reform in England, 1832-1928, I James Vernon, ed., Re-reading the Constitution: New Narratives in the Political History of England’s Long Nineteenth Century
  • Colley, Linda, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837
  • De Vries, Jan. The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis
  • Dewald, Jonathan. The European Nobility, 1400-1800
  • Dickens, A.G. The English Reformation
  • Dickinson, H. T. The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain ___, ed., Britain and the French Revolution
  • Doyle, William. The European Old Order, 1660-1800 (second ed.)
  • Doyle, William. The Origins of the French Revolution (third ed.)
  • Earle, P. The Making of the English Middle Class
  • Flinn, M.W. The European Demographic System, 1500-1820
  • Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: An Interpretation
  • Goubert, Pierre. Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen
  • Jacob, Margaret C. The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution
  • Kertzer, David I. and Marzio Barbagli (eds.), Family Life in Early Modern Times, 1500-1789
  • McKendrick, Neil, and John Brewer, J. H. Plumb, The Birth of a Consumer Society
  • Meissner, W.W., S.J. Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint
  • Melton, James Van Horn. The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe
  • Najemy, John. Italy in the Age of the Age of the Renaissance
  • Oberman, Heiko, et al. Handbook of European History, 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation
  • Oberman, Heiko. Luther: Man Between God and the Devil
  • Overton, Mark. Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of an Agrarian Economy, 1500-1850
  • Palmer, Robert R. An Age of Democratic Revolution
  • Parker, Geoffrey. The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500- 1800
  • Perkin, H. J. The Origins of Modern English Society, 1780-1880
  • Po-chia Hsia, Ronnie. Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe, 1550-1750 
  • Rudé, George. The Crowd in the French Revolution
  • Thompson, E. P. Customs in Common. See essay on “Moral Economy” and “Moral Economy Reconsidered.”
  • Tracy, Kames D. Erasmus of the Low Countries
  • Wahrman, Dror. The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
  • Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (third. ed.)
  • Woolf, Stuart. Napoleon’s Integration of Europe
  • Woloch, Isser. Napoleon and his Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship