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Lawrence Stone

Lawrence Stone (1919–1999) was an English historian. He taught British history at Oxford and Princeton.

The Road to Polygamy

Putting Asunder: A History of Divorce in Western Society

by Roderick Phillips

March 2, 1989 issue

The Century of Revolution

Rebellion or Revolution? England 1640–1660

by Gerald E. Aylmer

Authority and Conflict: England, 1603–1658

by Derek Hirst

Faction and Parliament: Essays on Early Stuart History

edited by Kevin Sharpe

Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603–1660

by David Underdown

Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London

by Paul S. Seaver

Order and Disorder in Early Modern England

edited by A. Fletcher, edited by J. Stevenson

Parliamentary Selection: Social and Political Choice in Early Modern England

by Mark Kishlansky

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February 26, 1987 issue

The New Eighteenth Century

In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714–60

by Linda Colley

The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England

by Neil McKendrick and John Brewer and J.H. Plumb

Industrialization before Industrialization: Rural Industry in the Genesis of Capitalism

by Peter Kriedte and Hans Medick and Jürgen Schlumbohm

Augustan England: Professions, State and Society, 1680–1730

by Geoffrey Holmes

Bath 1680–1850: A Social History, or, a Valley of Pleasure, yet a Sink of Iniquity

by R. S. Neale

The Impact of English Towns, 1700–1800

by Penelope J. Corfield

The Georgian Triumph, 1700–1830

by Michael Reed

The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century English Industry

by John Rule

Marriage Settlements, 1601–1740: The Adoption of the Strict Settlement

by Lloyd Bonfield

Electoral Behavior in Unreformed England: Plumpers, Splitters, and Straights

by John A. Phillips

Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain

edited by Paul-Gabriel Boucé

Hogarth's Marriage À-la-mode

by Robert L.S. Cowley

Strict Settlement: A Guide for Historians

by Barbara English and John Saville

English Society in the Eighteenth Century

by Roy Porter

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March 29, 1984 issue

Madness

Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

by D.P. Walker

Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England

by Michael MacDonald

Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century

edited by Charles Webster

Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era

edited by Andrew Scull

December 16, 1982 issue

Original Sins

Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America

by T.H. Breen

"Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676

by T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes

In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transferral of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century

by David Grayson Allen

Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society

by Daniel Blake Smith

February 5, 1981 issue

Goodbye to Nearly All That

The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property and Social Transition

by Alan Macfarlane

April 19, 1979 issue

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