http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucm_ssha_hist_oapdeposits/rss Recent eScholarship items from Department of History - Open Access Policy Deposits Sat, 1 Aug 2026 19:17:45 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mh6x613 Female Servants in Early Modern England https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mh6x613 Wed, 3 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0g90n3m0 This atlas presents a comprehensive cartographic reconstruction of the historical geography of Kham (Eastern Tibet) around 1950, immediately prior to the major political, social, and institutional transformations that followed the incorporation of Tibet into the People's Republic of China. Drawing upon a geospatial database of more than 1,500 Buddhist monasteries, temples, hermitages, and Bonpo religious establishments, the atlas maps the distribution of religious institutions, sectarian affiliations, language regions, trade routes, monastic urban systems, and regional interaction networks across eastern Tibet. The atlas accompanies a broader research project examining the role of monasteries as the principal urban, economic, and organizational institutions of Tibetan society. Using historical GIS methods, terrain-adjusted spatial modeling, and reconstructed monastic population estimates, it visualizes the regional systems and sub-systems that structured social, economic, and... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0g90n3m0 Mon, 1 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ryavec, Karl https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33d715gh Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII's Queens. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33d715gh Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5550g32d Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5550g32d Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3002h8qr On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3002h8qr Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87d8v7gj Maps only from "A Historical Atlas of Tibet". I retained the publishing rights to the maps I made for my historical atlas of Tibet, and here I am making them freely available to all. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87d8v7gj Sun, 3 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Ryavec, Karl https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7021d1qx 1668: The Year of the Animal in France https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7021d1qx Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/92s7f6z7 The Irrelevance of Revisionism: Gender, Politics, and Society in Early Modern England https://escholarship.org/uc/item/92s7f6z7 Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7gw3v2f6 Eleanor Hubbard. City Women: Money, Sex, and the Social Order in Early Modern London. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7gw3v2f6 Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/617746wj Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland: Essays in Honor of John Walter https://escholarship.org/uc/item/617746wj Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jb1p512 A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic by Simon P. Newman (review) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jb1p512 Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3k28d5xm A Day at Home in Early Modern England: Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500–1700, by Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3k28d5xm Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kr5n6g6 Earls Colne's Early Modern Landscapes. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kr5n6g6 Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gx35625 Introduction https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gx35625 Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Solingen, Etel https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pf0r3cq Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain Catherine Molineux. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. xvi341 pp. US49.95 (hardback). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pf0r3cq Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7pr758hj The witchcraft plot in The Witch of Edmonton is decidedly secondary. The historical context helps us understand it: while belief in witchcraft was near universal, uncertainty always hovered over individual cases. The social criticism articulated by the witch in the play, with its attack on the abuse of the poor (especially poor women) by their neighbours is central to the impact of the play. If those in power are held accountable, the responsibilities of the patriarchs who failed Frank Thorney — his father and master — are also in question. The witch calls into question all those given authority in society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7pr758hj Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4z266324 Shifting the Frame: Trans-imperial Approaches to Gender in the Atlantic World https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4z266324 Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 Poska, Allyson M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3pr2g4s1 J. Sears McGee. An Industrious Mind: The Worlds of Sir Simonds D'Ewes. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. Pp. 536. $70.00 (cloth). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3pr2g4s1 Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3b83c656 Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3b83c656 Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ps7b2vk Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World. By Michael Guasco (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) 315 pp. $45.00 cloth and e-book https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ps7b2vk Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g35m7z0 Restoring Miranda: gender and the limits of European patriarchy in the early modern Atlantic world https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g35m7z0 Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 Poska, Allyson M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1r73p62w Steve Hindle, Alexandra Shepard, and John Walter, eds. Remaking English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History 14. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. xviii + 374 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84383-796-1. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1r73p62w Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1hr6g897 Don Herzog. Household Politics: Conflict in Early Modern England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. 224. $38.00 (cloth). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1hr6g897 Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bk0r2wk Abigail L. Swingen. Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. Pp. 288. $85.00 (cloth). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bk0r2wk Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01m3j610 L. H. Roper. Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1613–1688. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01m3j610 Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zf8707t This essay argues that in order to develop an understanding of patriarchy as a dynamic historical force, we need to think about it as a social formation which, like capitalism, both shapes and is shaped by other aspects of society. Also like capitalism, patriarchy embodies numerous contradictions. Those contradictions provide space for female agency, as well as possibilities of change. The ability of patriarchy to change and adapt, by moving through various contradictions, helps us understand the process by which patriarchal equilibrium is maintained. The contradictions are illustrated by an examination of two sets of failures of patriarchy in early modern England, unruly wives and failed patriarchs. Both men and women failed in the performance of patriarchy, but the ways they did so shed light on the specific ways patriarchy functions at any particular time. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zf8707t Thu, 2 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gk7q0t1 “A Hero To Most”: The Postwar Pathologies of America’s Atomic Army https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gk7q0t1 Tue, 3 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Malloy, Sean L https://escholarship.org/uc/item/98k0w8mg A Primer of Regional Systems Theory and Methods for the Study of Historical Economies, Societies and Polities, and their Integration into the Modern World System. Example of Urban Systems in 19th Century China. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/98k0w8mg Mon, 25 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Ryavec, KE Henderson, M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/78h641r7 A Primer of Regional Systems Theory and Methods for the Study of Historical Economies, Societies and Polities, and their Integration into the Modern World System. Example of Cities in relation to Navigable Waterways in 19th Century France. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/78h641r7 Mon, 25 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Ryavec, KE Henderson, M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5q24s27q A Primer of Regional Systems Theory and Methods for the Study of Historical Economies, Societies and Polities, and their Integration into the Modern World System. Presents a methodology for mapping and comparing 19th Century Urban Population Densities between China and France. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5q24s27q Mon, 25 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Ryavec, KE Henderson, M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gh6f7fb A Primer of Regional Systems Theory and Methods for the Study of Historical Economies, Societies and Polities, and their Integration into the Modern World System. Example of France in the 19th century. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gh6f7fb Mon, 25 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Ryavec, KE Henderson, M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5w81n1vd ‘Could It Just Possibly Be?’ https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5w81n1vd Thu, 6 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6z31051v Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6z31051v Tue, 5 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/51b8f4cd Revisionism’s rise to prominence in the 1970s coincided with the emergence of feminist history. Yet the two shared little, and Revisionism’s insistence on the autonomy of politics was at odds with the feminist analysis of power and politics in household and community relations; as feminist historians sought to expand the conception of the political, Revisionists sought to narrow it. Yet Revisionism had much in common with a strain of social history that focused on the particular and local as against broad narratives of change, and emphasized stability and consensus rather than conflict. However, both the social and political history of early modern England have to be able to account for the conflict that emerged in the mid-seventeenth century. This essay shows how gender—and, in particular, gendered inversion—provides a way to pull together social, political, and gender history. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/51b8f4cd Tue, 5 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Amussen, Susan D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-5830