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Past and Present Publications comprise books similar in character to the articles in the journal Past and Present. Whether the volumes in the series are collections of essays — some previously published, others new studies — or monographs, they encompass a wide variety of scholarly and original works primarily concerned with social, economic and cultural changes, their causes and consequences. They will appeal to both specialists and non-specialists and will endeavour to communicate the results of historical and allied research in readable and lively form.

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For further details relating to the series as a whole, or to individual titles (including thumbnail sketches and tables of contents of more recent volumes in the series), search the Cambridge University Press site. Titles in print may be ordered from the site.

Recent titles in the series:

  • The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487–1726: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe, by Govind P. Sreenivasan
  • Studies in Ancient Greek and Roman Society, edited by Robin Osborne
  • Crime and Law in England, 1750–1840: Remaking Justice from the Margins, by Peter King
  • Deviance and Power in Late Medieval London, by Frank Rexroth
  • The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500–1648, by Bridget Heal
  • Deviance and Power in Late Medieval London, Frank Rexroth

Other titles:

  • Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200–1800, edited by Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk and E. P. Thompson*
  • French Society and the Revolution, edited by Douglas Johnson
  • Peasants, Knights and Heretics: Studies in Medieval English Social History, edited by R. H. Hilton*
  • Towns in Societies: Essays in Economic History and Historical Sociology, edited by Philip Abrams and E. A. Wrigley*
  • Desolation of a City: Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages, Charles Phythian-Adams
  • Puritanism and Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama under the Early Stuarts, Margot Heinemann*
  • Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society: The Estates of the Bishopric of Worcester, 680–1450, Christopher Dyer
  • Life, Marriage and Death in a Medieval Parish: Economy, Society and Demography in Halesowen, 1270–1400, Zvi Razi
  • Biology, Medicine and Society, 1840–1940, edited by Charles Webster
  • The Invention of Tradition, edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger*
  • Industrialization before Industrialization: Rural Industry and the Genesis of Capitalism, Peter Kriedte, Hans Medick and Jurgen Schlumbohm*
  • The Republic in the Village: The People of the Var from the French Revolution to the Second Republic, Maurice Agulhon†
  • Social Relations and Ideas: Essays in Honour of R. H. Hilton, edited by T. H. Aston, P. R. Coss, Christopher Dyer and Joan Thirsk
  • A Medieval Society: The West Midlands at the End of the Thirteenth Century, R. H. Hilton
  • Winstanley: 'The Law of Freedom' and Other Writings, edited by Christopher Hill
  • Crime in Seventeenth-Century England: A County Study, J. A. Sharpe†
  • The Crisis of Feudalism: Economy and Society in Eastern Normandy, c.1300–1500, Guy Bois†
  • The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe, Jack Goody*
  • Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West, edited by John Bossy
  • Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England, edited by Paul Slack
  • Studies on Byzantine Literature of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Alexander Kazhdan in collaboration with Simon Franklin†
  • The English Rising of 1381, edited by R. H. Hilton and T. H. Aston*
  • Praise and Paradox: Merchants and Craftsmen in Elizabethan Popular Literature, Laura Caroline Stevenson
  • The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe, edited by T. H. Aston and C. H. E. Philpin*
  • Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Early Medieval West, Michael McCormick†*
  • East-Central Europe in Transition: From the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century, edited by Antoni Maçzak, Henryk Samsonowicz and Peter Burke*
  • Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England, Margaret Spufford*
  • Society, Politics and Culture: Studies in Early Modern England, Mervyn James
  • Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming, 1066–1500, John Langdon
  • Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland, edited by C. H. E. Philpin
  • Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies, edited by David Cannadine and Simon Price*
  • The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris, Bronislaw Geremek†
  • Landlords, Peasants and Politics in Medieval England, edited by T. H. Aston
  • Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649–1571, John H. Pryor*
  • Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570–1640, Martin Ingram*
  • Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John, L. N. Gumilev
  • Crowds and History: Mass Phenomena in English Towns, 1790–1835, Mark Harrison
  • Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France since the Middle Ages, Georges Vigarello†
  • The First Modern Society: Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone, edited by A. L. Beier, David Cannadine and James M. Rosenheim
  • The Europe of the Devout: The Catholic Reformation and the Formation of a New Society, Louis Châtellier†
  • English Rural Society, 1500–1800: Essays in Honour of Joan Thirsk, edited by John Chartres and David Hey
  • From Slavery to Feudalism in South-Western Europe, Pierre Bonnassie†
  • Lordship, Knighthood and Locality: A Study in English Society, c.1180–c.1280, P. R. Coss
  • English and French Towns in Feudal Society: A Comparative Study, R. H. Hilton*
  • An Island for Itself: Economic Development and Social Change in Late Medieval Sicily, Stephan R. Epstein
  • Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence, edited by Terence Ranger and Paul Slack*
  • The Political Economy of Shopkeeping in Milan, 1886–1922, Jonathan Morris
  • After Chartism: Class and Nation in English Radical Politics, 1848–1874, Margot C. Finn
  • Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700–1820, J. M. Neeson*
  • Land and Popular Politics in Ireland: County Mayo from the Plantation to the Land War, Donald E. Jordan Jr*
  • The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: New Perspectives on the Economic and Social History of Seventeenth-Century Spain, edited by I. A. A. Thompson and Bartolomé Yun Casalilla
  • God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500–1660, Andrew McRae
  • The Culture of Clothing: Dress and Fashion in the Ancien Regime, Daniel Roche†*
  • The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715–1785, Kathleen Wilson*
  • Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief, edited by Jonathan Barry, Marianne Hester and Gareth Roberts*
  • Fair Shares for All: Jacobin Egalitarianism in Practice, Jean-Pierre Gross
  • The Wild and the Sown: Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350–1850, Mauro Ambrosoli
  • Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria: Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe, Wolfgang Behringer
  • Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution: The Colchester Plunderers, John Walter
  • The Moral World of the Law, edited by Peter Coss
  • Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250–1625, Joan-Pau Rubies
  • Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe, Gabor Klaniczay
  • Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660–1740, David M. Turner
  • Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany, Norbert Schindler
  • Gender in Early Modern German History, edited by Ulinka Rublack
  • The Origins of the English Gentry, Peter Coss
  • A Contested Nation: History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1761–1891, Oliver Zimmer
  • Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain, 1780–1850, edited by Arthur Burns and Joanna Innes
  • Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium, Gilbert Dagron

* Also published in paperback

† Co-published with the Maison des Sciences de I'Homme, Paris

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