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Lawrence Stone (1919–1999) was an English historian. He taught British history at Oxford and Princeton.
The Revolution Over the Revolution
The Causes of the English Civil War
by Conrad Russell
Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World
by Jack A. Goldstone
June 11, 1992 issue
England’s Financial Revolution
The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688–1783
by John Brewer
March 15, 1990 issue
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
February 26, 1987 issue
Only Women
The Weaker Vessel
by Antonia Fraser
Women in English Society, 1500–1800
edited by Mary Prior
April 11, 1985 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
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
Plebes and Patricians
An Ungovernable People: The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
edited by John Brewer, edited by John Styles
May 29, 1980 issue
In the Alleys of Mentalité
Le territoire de l'historien
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
The Territory of the Historian
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Ben Reynolds and Siân Reynolds
Carnival in Romans
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Mary Feeney
November 8, 1979 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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