Reappraisals in History: New Views on History and Society in Early Modern Europe

CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Foreword by Peter Laslett; Preface; I IN GENERAL; 1. The Historian and His Day; 2. A New Framework for Social History; 3. 'Factors in Modern History'; II IN PARTICULAR; 4. The Education of the Aristocracy in the Renaissance; 5. The Myth of the Middle Class in Tudor England; 6. Storm Over the Gentry; Appendix A: Bibliographical Note; Appendix B: The 'Contemporary Wittnesses'; Appendix C: An Individual Case: Sir Thomas Tresham; Appendix D: Professor Tawney's Statistics; 7. The Problem of the Presbyterian Independents; III PERSONAL; 8. Personal Retrospect and Postscript