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Epidemics & Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence
Epidemic diseases have always been a test of the ability of human societies to withstand sudden shocks. How are such large mortalities and the illness of large proportions of the …
Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England
The tension between public duty and private conscience is a central theme of English history in the seventeenth century, when established authorities were questioned and violently …
The Peopling of Britain
This volume reviews the way in which, over the centuries, the evolving human presence in Britain has shaped the British landscape and how, in turn, the British landscape has …
Plague: A Very Short Introduction
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the 'Plague of Justinian' in …
Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700
This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light. The …
Environments and Historical Change
Present anxieties about global warming and threats to biodiversity leave no doubts that environmental changes impact upon humans. Perceptions of the environment change as people …
Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England
Rebellion, riot and popular unrest have been the theme of a succession of stimulating and influential articles in Past and Present.
From Reformation to Improvement
Between the early sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries, the character of English social policy and social welfare changed fundamentally. Aspirations for wholesale …
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland
An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the …
The English Poor Law, 1531-1782
One in a series of works commissioned by the Economic History Society which are intended to provide current interpretations of key themes of economic and social history. This …
Invention of Improvement
Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not …
Civil Histories
Sir Keith Thomas is one of the most innovative and influential of English historians, and a scholar of unusual range. These essays, presented to him on his retirement as President …