Suffering and Happiness in England 1550-1850: Narratives and Representations A collection to honour Paul Slack
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Biographical note
After taking his BA and PhD at Cambridge, Michael J. Braddick worked in Alabama for two years, before coming to Sheffield in 1990. He has written extensively on the social and political history of seventeenth century England, Britain, and the Atlantic world. More recently he has been working on the English revolution and has written a monograph, several journal articles, and edited a number of edited collections in this field. An element of his abiding interest in popular politics has been research on print culture, particularly cheap print and newsbooks. Joanna Innes was educated in Britain and the United States. She was an undergraduate, graduate student, and research fellow at Cambridge, and has been employed at Somerville College, Oxford since 1982. She is broadly interested in political culture in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Much of her research has focussed on English social policy, in British and European comparative context; she also co-organizes an international collaborative project on the re-imagining of democracy as a modern form in Europe and the Americas between the mid eighteenth and mid nineteenth centuries.The volume is marked by a consideration of the lives of 'ordinary' people and particularly the poor, providing a novel and useful contribution to a set of emotions often located as the domain of art and philosophy... The essays are richly researched, offering novel insights and rewarding reading.
Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide, Journal of Ecclesiastical History
a fine scholarly collection that represents the rich and vibrant discussions taking place within early modern history. The volume will appeal to a range of specialists in early modern history, including historians of religion, poverty, material culture, linguistics, political discourse and domestic economy ... with such eclectic and wide-ranging contributions from some of the most eminent scholars of this period, Suffering and Happiness offers something for everyone and is undoubtedly a book that readers will find themselves delving into over and over again.
Naomi Pullin, Reviews in History