The following is a class schedule for the semester. The journal articles may be accessed by clicking on the week heading. The books you will need to purchase. I have not ordered them through the book store since they may all be obtained either new or used online more cheaply that they can be offered through the bookstore. Book titles are available HERE. A review of the assigned literature is due each week beginning with week 2.
Week 1: Course Introduction: Reform, Rebellion, Revolution
A Summary of Early Modern England
Excerpt from Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic
Marjorie K. McIntosh, “Local Change and Community Control in England, 1465-1500,” Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 3, Tudor History Issue (Summer, 1986), pp. 219-242
Week 2: The English Reformation Under Henry VIII
Shagan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation, pp. 1-88
Anthony Fletcher, Diarmaid Macculloch, Tudor Rebellions, pp. 3-27
Susan Brigden, “Disturbance and the Fall of Thomas Cromwell and the Reformers, 1539-1540,” The Historical Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Jun., 1981), pp. 257-278
G. R. Elton, “The Law of Treason in the Early Reformation,” The Historical Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2 (1968), pp. 211-236
Diane Watt, Reconstructing the Word: the Political Prophecies of Elizabeth Barton (1506-1534)
Week 3: Rebellions and Popular Reaction To Henrician Reformation
Shagan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation, pp. 89-234
Anthony Fletcher, Diarmaid Macculloch, Tudor Rebellions, 28-53
Week 4: Reformation Under Edward, Mary and Elizabeth
Shagan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation, pp 235-305
Anthony Fletcher, Diarmaid Macculloch, Tudor Rebellions, pp. 54-116
John Craig, “Reformers, Conflict, and Revisionism: The Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Hadleigh,” The Historical Journal, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Mar., 1999), pp. 1-23
William B. Robison, “The National and Local Significance of Wyatt's Rebellion in Surrey,” The Historical Journal, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Dec., 1987), pp. 769-790
K. J. Kesselring, “‘A Cold Pye for the Papistes:’ Constructing and Containing the Northern Rising of 1569,” Journal of British Studies, Vol. 43, No. 4 (October 2004), pp. 417-443
Week 5: The English Civil War: Causes
Conrad Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War
Week 6: The English Civil War: Further Considerations
Christopher Hill, “God and the English Revolution,” History Workshop, No. 17 (Spring, 1984), pp. 19-31
Glenn Burgess, "Was the English Civil War a War of Religion? The Evidence of Political Propaganda,” Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 2 (1998), pp. 173-201
Leonard Hochberg, “The English Civil War in Geographical Perspective,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Spring, 1984), pp. 729-750
Steven R. Smith, "Almost Revolutionaries: The London Apprentices during the Civil Wars,” Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Autumn, 1979), pp. 313-328
Week 7: Cromwell and Commonwealth; Ranters and Risings
George Drake, “The Ideology of Oliver Cromwell,” Church History, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Sep., 1966), pp. 259-272
Mark Stoyle, “‘The Gear Rout’: The Cornish Rising of 1648 and the Second Civil War,” Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 2000), pp. 37-58
Mark A. Kishlansky, “The Army and the Levellers: The Roads to Putney,” The Historical Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Dec., 1979), pp. 795-824
Phyllis Mack, “Women as Prophets during the English Civil War,” Feminist Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring, 1982), pp. 18-45
Week 8: The Glorious Revolution: Causes and Coup
Eveline Cruickshanks, The Glorious Revolution, Ch. 1-8
John Miller, The Glorious Revolution (2nd Edition) Ch. 1- 6
Benjamin Lewis Price, “Kings, Bad and Good:
Images of English Kingship and the Glorious Revolution” (MS copy provided)
Lois G. Schwoerer, “Propaganda in the Revolution of 1688-89,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 82, No. 4 (Oct., 1977), pp. 843-874
Week 9: The Consequences of The Glorious Revolution
John Miller, The Glorious Revolution (2nd Edition) Ch. 7-11
Eveline Cruickshanks, The Glorious Revolution, Ch. 9-12
Week 10: The Glorious Revolution in America
Benjamin Lewis Price, “Revolution In The Vineyard of The Lord: The Glorious Revolution In Massachusetts,” (MS copy provided)
Benjamin Lewis Price, “The Duke’s Province and the Glorious Revolution,” (MS copy provided)
Michael Graham, “Protestant Fears in Early Colonial Maryland, 1676-1689,” The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 79, No. 2 (Apr., 1993), pp. 197-216
Owen Stanwood, “The Protestant Moment: Antipopery, the Revolution of 1688–1689, and the Making of an Anglo‐American Empire,” Journal of British Studies, Vol. 46, No. 3 (July 2007), pp. 481-508
William of Orange Taking council at Torbay
Week 11: Popular Unrest and the Hanover Succession
Benjamin Lewis Price, "Whig Politics and Ideology and the Hanover Ascendancy"(MS copy provided)
Geoffrey Holmes, “The Sacheverell Riots: The Crowd and the Church in Early Eighteenth-Century London,” Past & Present, No. 72 (Aug., 1976), pp. 55-85
George Rudé, “The London 'Mob' of the Eighteenth Century,” The Historical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1959), pp. 1-18
Nicholas Rogers, “Popular Protest in Early Hanoverian London,” Past & Present, No. 79 (May, 1978), pp. 70-100
Herbert M. Atherton, “The ‘Mob’ in Eighteenth-Century English Caricature,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Autumn, 1978), pp. 47-58
Benjamin Lewis Price, “Really O’er The Water: American Colonists’ Reaction To the Forty-Five,” (MS copy provided)
Week 12: The American Revolution: Preconditions
Benjamin Lewis Price, “A Nursing Father: The Whig Image of Kingship in America,” (MS copy provided)
Benjamin Lewis Price, "King And Colony: The Colonial Politics of Whig Kingship" (MS copy provided)
G. Kammen, “The Colonial Agents, English Politics and the American Revolution,” The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Apr., 1965), pp. 244-263
Richard R. Johnson, "'Parliamentary Egotisms': The Clash of Legislatures in the Making of the Revolution," The Journal of American History, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Sep., 1987), pp. 338-362
Week 13: The American Revolution: Causes
Edmund Morgan & Helen Morgan, The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution
John Phillip Reid, "'In Our Contracted Sphere': The Constitutional Contract, the Stamp Act Crisis, and the Coming of the American Revolution," Columbia Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 1976), pp. 21-47 Benjamin Lewis Price, “Petition No More Save The King of Kings,” ((MS copy provided))
Week 14: The American Revolution: Course
Stanley Weintraub, Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783
