Society in Early Modern EnglandISBN: 978-0-7456-4129-4
Hardcover
248 pages
September 2010, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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List of Figures and Illustrations.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Early Modernity and its Malcontents.
Section One: The History of an Historical Category.
Chapter Two: The Victorian Struggle for Modern History.
Chapter Three: The Concept of Early Modernity.
Section Two: Keywords.
Chapter Four: What did 'Society' Mean in Early Modern England?
Chapter Five: The Rise and Fall of 'Commonwealth'.
Chapter Six: 'Modern' and the English Vernacular.
Section Three: Practice.
Chapter Seven: The Sociable Self.
Chapter Eight: Colony and State.
Conclusion: We Really Are Modern.
Bibliography.