Suffering and Happiness in England 1550-1850 pays tribute to one of the leading historians working on early modern England, Paul Slack, and his work as a historian, and enters into discussion with the rapidly growing body of work on the 'history of emotions'. The themes of suffering and happiness run through Paul Slack's publications; the first being more prominent in his early work on plague and poverty, the second in his more recent work on conceptual frameworks for social thought and action. Though he has not himself engaged directly with the history of emotions, assembling essays on these themes provides an opportunity to do that. The chapters explore in turn shifting discourses of happiness and suffering over time; the deployment of these discourses for particular purposes at specific moments; and their relationship to subjective experience. In their introduction, the editors note the very diverse approaches that can be taken to the topic; they suggest that it is best treated not as a discrete field of enquiry but as terrain in which many paths may fruitfully cross. The history of emotions has much to offer as a site of encounter between historians with diverse knowledge, interests, and skills.

Suffering and Happiness in England 1550-1850: Narratives and Representations: A collection to honour Paul Slack (The Past and Present Book Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Braddick, Michael J.

Innes, Joanna

Mental Health

Oxford University Press

The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800

This core textbook gathers an international team of historians to present a comprehensive account of the central themes in the histories of Britain, British America, and the British Caribbean seen in Atlantic perspective. This collection of individual essays provides an accessible overview of essential themes, such as the state, empire, migration, the economy, religion, race, class, gender, politics, and slavery. This new and revised edition brings this text up to date with recent work in the field of Atlantic history and extends its scope to cover themes not treated in the first edition, notably the history of science and global history. Placing the British Atlantic world in imperial and global contexts, this book offers an indispensable survey of one of the liveliest fields of current historical enquiry. This text is a primary resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of History, particularly those taking modules on Early Modern British History, Colonial American History, Early American History, Caribbean History, Atlantic History and World History. Together, the essays also provide a useful starting point for researchers in British, American, imperial and Atlantic history.

History

Armitage, David

Americas

Red Globe Press

This text was the first edited collection on the burgeoning history of the early modern Atlantic world and has had a huge impact on the many fields of Atlantic Studies. This second edition features two new essays on science and global history respectively, as well as a revised Introduction and updated guides to further reading.

The seventeenth century has always been seen as important for the development of the modern English state. Over the past twenty years, however, this view has been criticized heavily and no general account of the development of the state in this period has yet emerged. On the basis of a wide-ranging synthesis of specialist work in diverse fields of English, British and colonial history, this book makes a novel argument about the modernization of the seventeenth-century English state, and of the role of class and gender interests in its development.

State Formation in Early Modern England, c.1550–1700

Europe

Cambridge University Press

The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558-1714 (New Frontiers in History)

The period from 1558 to 1714 saw a marked change in the scale of taxation and its significance to the structure of public finances. Although the central significance of taxation and finances has been widely acknowledged in accounts of the political history of the early modern period, this study deals with the issue thematically over a broad period. The chronological span of the study allows a full outline of an important transformation of the financial structure of the English state, providing a new context in which to understand familiar and important issues.

Business & Money

Economics

Manchester Univ Pr

Taxation has long been seen as an issue of fundamental importance in the politics of seventeenth-century England, debates about taxation being central to the political conflict between crown and parliament. Tax Collection and Tax Resistanceis the first major attempt to study local responses across the country to the demand for national taxation. The analysis covers the period of the civil wars and revolution, during which there was a major change inthe tax regime; it explores the ways in which the total tax burden, and its proportional contribution to the total revenue, increased dramatically, and shows how the growing extractive capacity of the state had a considerable effect on the relationship between centre and locality. Systematic use of the exchequer records is made, providing the most detailed account currently available of the local financial impact, administration and yield of the major parliamentary taxes and of the people who administered them. MICHAEL J. BRADDICKlectures in history at the University of Sheffield.

Parliamentary Taxation in Seventeenth-Century England: Local Administration and Response (ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY STUDIES IN HISTORY NEW SERIES)

Boydell & Brewer Inc

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Suffering and Happiness in England 1550-1850: Narratives and Representations: A collection to honour Paul Slack (The Past and Present Book Series)

The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800

The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800

State Formation in Early Modern England, c.1550–1700

State Formation in Early Modern England, c.1550–1700

The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558-1714 (New Frontiers in History)

The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558-1714 (New Frontiers in History)

Parliamentary Taxation in Seventeenth-Century England: Local Administration and Response (ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY STUDIES IN HISTORY NEW SERIES)