1st Edition
Social Thought in England, 1480-1730 From Body Social to Worldly Wealth
Part I: The Body Social, 1480–1550 1. The Body Imagined 2. Contexts and Conflicts 3. The Body Examined: Ancient, Medieval, Modern 4. Different Metaphor, Similar Message: Edmund Dudley’s "Tree of Commonwealth," 1509-1510 5. The Body Historicized: Clement Armstrong, 1529-1536 6. Defending the Body: "Commonwealth-Men," c. 1520–c. 1553 Part II: Social Humanist Challenges to the Body Social, 1516-1549 7. Moving Away from the Body: An Overview 8. Poverty, Wealth, and Labor: New Theory, New Practices 9. A Radical Re-Ordering: Thomas More’s Utopia, 1516 10. Social Humanist Thought Re-Defines the Social, c. 1523/5-1536. 11. Rethinking the Three Estates: Thomas Starkey’s "Dialogue Between Lupset and Pole," 1529-1532 12. Virtue Meets Profit: The Brave New World of Sir Thomas Smith, 1549 Part III: Society as Property, 1550-1697 13. Re-Drawing the Social Picture, 1550-1600 14. Property, Patriarchy, and the Agrarian Problem, 1593-1656 15. The Power of Property Perceived, 1576-1730 16. Property Assailed and Defended: Grandees, Levellers, and Diggers: 1647-1649 17. Conclusions: The Past Makes the Future
Biography
A.L. Beier is Professor Emeritus at Illinois State University.
"Summing Up: Recommended."
--M. E. Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, in CHOICE
"Beier’s volume offers a detailed and wide-ranging analysis of social thought, broadly conceived and liberally cited, over nearly three centuries, to convey how over time English people defined and redefined their social and political order and, more ambitiously perhaps, their evolving culture."
--Rich Connors, Review Essay
