Craig Gallagher
craig.gallagher@bc.edu
Early Modern Europe, c. 1500-1800
w/ Prof. Sarah Ross
The Renaissance in Italy and Abroad
Burkhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. New York: Harper Books,
1958.
Celenza, Christopher S. The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians and Latin’s
Legacy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Earle, T. F., and K. J. P. Lowe, eds. Black Africans in Renaissance Europe. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Jardine, Lisa. Worldy Goods: a New History of the Renaissance. New York: W. W. Norton,
1996.
Martin, John. “Inventing Sincerity, Refashioning Prudence: the Discovery of the Individual in
Renaissance Europe.” The American Historical Review, vol. 102, no. 5 (1997), pp.
1309-1342.
-------. Venice’s Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1993.
Ross, Sarah Gwyneth. The Birth of Feminism: Women as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and
England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Rummel, Erika. The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and Reformation.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Print, Books and Language
Blair, Ann. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Burke, Peter. Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2004.
Chartier, Roger. The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1987.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1993.
———. “An Unacknowledged Revolution Revisited.” The American Historical Review, vol. 107,
no. 1 (February 2002), pp. 87-105; reply by Adrian Johns, “How to Acknowledge a
Revolution, AHR vol. 107, no. 1 (2002), pp. 106-125; and rejoinder by Eisenstein,
“[How to Acknowledge a Revolution]: Reply,” AHR vol. 107, no. 1 (2002), pp. 126-128
Grafton, Anthony. Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern
West. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Reinburg, Virginia. French Books of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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craig.gallagher@bc.edu
Early Modern Europe, c. 1500-1800
w/ Prof. Sarah Ross
From Reformation to Toleration
Benedict, Philip. Christ’s Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Davis, Natalie Zemon. Society and Culture in Early Modern France. 4th ed. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1975.
Diefendorf, Barbara D. Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century
Paris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Haigh, Christopher. English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society Under the Tudors.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Kaplan, Benjamin J. Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in
Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2007.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Dutch Revolt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977.
Questier, Michael. Conversion, Politics, and Religion in England, 1580-1625. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Scribner, R. W. For the Sake of the Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German
Reformation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Shagan, Ethan, ed. Catholics and the “Protestant Nation”: Religious Politics and Identity in
Early Modern England. New York: Manchester University Press, 2005.
———. Popular Politics and the English Reformation. New York: Cambridge University Press,
2003.
Zagorin, Perez. How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2003.
States and Empires
Anderson, Perry. Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: N. L. B., 1974.
Canny, Nicholas, ed. The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the
Seventeenth Century. Vol. I. 5 vols. The Oxford History of the British Empire. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Collinson, Patrick. The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society, 1559-1625.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Ertman, Thomas. Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early
Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Israel, Jonathan. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1995.
Kidd, Colin. British Identities Before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic
World, 1600-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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craig.gallagher@bc.edu
Early Modern Europe, c. 1500-1800
w/ Prof. Sarah Ross
Muldoon, James. Empire and Order: The Concept of Empire, 800-1800. New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1999.
Pagden, Anthony. European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to
Romanticism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
———. Lords Of All The World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France, c. 1500 - c.
1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Seed, Patricia. "'Are These Also Not Men?': the Indians' Humanity and Capacity for Spanish
Civilisation," Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 25, no. 3 (1993), pp. 629-652
Schmidt, Benjamin. Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 15701670. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Crisis and Opportunity in Seventeenth-Century Europe
French, R. K., and A. Wear, eds. The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century. New
York: Cambridge University Press.
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1970.
Parker, Geoffrey, and Lesley M. Smith, eds. The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century.
Boston: Routledge, 1978.
Russell, Conrad. The Causes of the English Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press,
1990.
Schama, Simon. The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the
Golden Age. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
Shapin, Steven. A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century
England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Shapiro, Barbara J. A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2000.
Stone, Lawrence. The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642. New York: Harper &
Row, 1972.
Wilson, Peter H. The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 2009.
Capitalism and Economy
Adams, Julia. The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern
Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.
Bateman, Victoria N. Markets and Growth in Early Modern Europe. London: Pickering &
Chatto, 2012.
Braudel, Fernand. The Structures of Everyday Life: the Limits of the Possible. New York:
Harper and Row, 1981.
Brenner, Robert. Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and
London’s Overseas Traders, 1550-1653. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
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Early Modern Europe, c. 1500-1800
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DuPlessis, Robert S. Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Häberlein, Mark. The Fuggers of Augsburg: Pursuing Wealth and Honor in Renaissance
Germany. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Lachmann, Richard. Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic
Transitions in Early Modern Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Popular Politics and the Public Sphere
Bowie, Karin. Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699-1707.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2007.
Corteguera, Luis R. For the Common Good: Popular Politics in Barcelona, 1580-1640. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2002.
Gray, Catharine. Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th Century Britain. New York:
Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.
Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a
Category of Bourgeois Society. Translated by Thomas Burger and Frederick Lawrence.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991.
Halasz, Alexandra. The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early
Modern England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Harris, Tim. London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II: Propaganda and Politics from the
Restoration Until the Exclusion Crisis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Te Brake, Wayne. Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Thompson, E. P. “The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century.” In
Customs in Common, 185–258. New York: The New Press, 1991.
Underdown, David. Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England, 16031660. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Enlightenment and Revolution
Broadie, Alexander, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Chartier, Roger. The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution. Durham: Duke University
Press, 1991.
Darnton, Robert. The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History.
New York: Basic Books, 1984.
Desan, Suzanne. Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary
France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Furet, François. Interpreting the French Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1981.
Goodman, Dena. The Republic of Letters: a Cultural History of the French Enlightenment.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
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Craig Gallagher
craig.gallagher@bc.edu
Early Modern Europe, c. 1500-1800
w/ Prof. Sarah Ross
Kates, Gary. The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies. New York:
Routledge, 1998.
Landes, Joan B. Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1998.
McMahon, Darrin M. Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and
the Making of Modernity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Pal, Carol. Republic of Women: Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth
Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Sorkin, David Jan. The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from
London to Vienna. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
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