Survival: Institutions and Strategies in the Early Modern World
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5HA804
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Beier, A.L., 'A new Serfdom': Labour Laws, Vagrancy Statutes, and Labour Discipline in England, 1350-1800, Part of: Cast out: vagrancy and homelessness in global and historical perspective, Athens, Ohio University Press, c2008Compulsory (http:/
/ site.ebrary.com/ lib/ uppsala/ reader.action?docID=10276644& ppg=46) - Crowston, Clare, "Women, Gender, and Guilds in Early Modern Europe: An Overview of Recent Research" in International Review of Social History, Vol 53 (Supplement), Cambridge University Press, 2008Compulsory
- Donoghue, John, Indentured Servitude in the 17th Century English Atlantic: A Brief Survey of the Literature, Part of: History compass., vol. 11, no. 10, 2013, p. pp. 893–902Compulsory (http:/
/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ doi/ 10.1111/ hic3.12088/ pdf) - Ehmer, Josef, Discourses on Work and Labour in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Germany, Part of: Work in a modern society: the German historical experience in comparative perspective, New York, Berghahn Books, 2010, p. 17–53Compulsory
- Gaunt, David, The property and kin relationships of retired farmers in northern and central Europe, Part of: Family Forms in Historic Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983, p. 249–280Compulsory
- Gestricht, Andreas, Trajectories of German settlement regulations: The Prussian Rhine province, 1815-1914, Part of: Migration, settlement and belonging in Europe, 1500-1930s: comparative perspectives, New York, Berghahn Books, [2013], p. 250–268Compulsory
- Hay, Douglas.; Craven, Paul, Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, c2004Compulsory
- Hindle, Steve, On the Parish?: The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England c.1550-1750, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004Compulsory
- Humphries, Jane; Weisdorf, Jacob, The wages of women in England, 1260-1850, Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers, 2014, http:/
/ Compulsorywww.economics.ox.ac.uk/ materials/ papers/ 13260/ jhreplacement.pdf - Mantel, Elisabeth, Legal restrictions on marriage: Marriage and inequality in the Austrian Tyrol during the nineteenth century, Part of: The History of the family : an international quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, 1999, p. 185–207Compulsory
- Meerkerk, Elise van Nederveen; Teeuwen, Daniëll, The stability of voluntarism: Financing social care in early modern Dutch towns compared with the English Poor Law, c. 1600-1800, Part of: European review of economic history., vol. 18, 2014, p. 82–105Compulsory (http:/
/ ereh.oxfordjournals.org/ content/ 18/ 1/ 82) - Montenach, Anne; Simonton, Deborah, Introduction: Gender, agency and economy: shaping the eighteenth century European town, Part of: Female agency in the urban economy: gender in European towns, 1640-1830, New York, Routledge, 2013, p. 1–16Compulsory
- Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van, Couples Cooperating?: Dutch textile workers, family labour and the 'industrious revolution', 1600-1800, Part of: Continuity and change, vol. 23, 2008, p. 237–266Compulsory
- Ogilvie, Sheilagh, Consumption, Social Capital, and the "Industrious Revolution" in Early Modern Germany, Part of: The journal of economic history., vol. 70, no. 2, 2010, p. 287–325Compulsory
- Ogilvie, Sheilagh, Serfdom and the Institutional System in Early Modern Germany, Firenze University Press, 2014, http:/
/ Compulsorywww.econ.cam.ac.uk/ people/ faculty/ sco2/ full-texts/ Ogilvie-2014-Serfdom%20in%20Germany.pdf - Snell, K.D.M., Belonging and community: Understandings of 'home' and 'friends' among the English poor, 1750-1850, Part of: The economic history review, vol. 65, no. 1, 2012, p. 1–25Compulsory
- Sokoll, Thomas, Negotiating a Living: Essex Pauper Letters from London, 1800-1834, Part of: International review of social history, no. 45, 2000, p. 19–46Compulsory
- Steedman, Carolyn, The servant's labour: The business of life, England, 1760-1820, Part of: Social history., vol. 29, no. 1, 2004, p. 1–29Compulsory (http:/
/ www.tandfonline.com/ doi/ pdf/ 10.1080/ 0307102032000163723) - Steinfeld, Robert J., 'Unfree' Wage Labor in Nineteenth-century England: An Anti-essential View of Labor Types II, Part of: Coercion, contract, and free labor in the nineteenth century, Cambridge [England], Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. pp. 39–84Compulsory
- Thomas, Keith, Fulfilment in an age of limited possibilities, Part of: The ends of life: roads to fulfilment in early modern England, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 8–43Compulsory
- Van Leueuwen, Marco H.D., Logic of Charity: Poor Relief in Preindustrial Europe, Part of: The journal of interdisciplinary history, vol. 24, no. 4, 1994, p. 589–613Compulsory
- Winter, Anne, Vagrancy as an Adaptive Strategy: The Duchy of Brabant, 1767-1776, Part of: International review of social history, vol. 49, no. 2, 2004, p. 249–277Compulsory
- Wood, Andy, Subordination, Solidarity and the Limits of Popular Agency in a Yorkshire Valley c. 1596-1615, Part of: Past & present, vol. 193, 2006, p. 41–72Compulsory (http:/
/ past.oxfordjournals.org/ content/ 193/ 1/ 41.full.pdf+html)
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