_Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-
century England_. London: Allen Lane, 1975.
Callincos, Alex. _Theories & Narratives_. Polity
Press, 1995. [Not a historian's perspective but a
thorough review of the 'end of history' &
poststructuralism debate.]
_The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950_.
Ed. F.M.L. Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1990.
Conley, Caroline. [Couldn't find a citation. Described
as a monograph on the dispensation of justice in
Kent.]
Davidoff, Leonore, and Catherine Hall. _Family
Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle
Class, 1780-1850_. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1987. [Mostly on 19th C., but with an
interesting argument about the 18th C.]
Himmelfarb, Gertrude. [The suggestion here seemed to
be to read widely in Himmelfarb, particularly the
most recent work.]
_History and Class: Essential Readings in Theory and
Interpretation_. Ed. R.S. Neale. Oxford: B.
Blackwell, 1983. [See particularly the chapter
entitled "Class in English History 1680-1850."]
Jones, Gareth Stedman. _Languages of Class: Studies
in English Working Class History, 1832-1982_.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. [The
suggestion here was to read recent work (this
doesn't seem that recent) that questions the idea
that class was constructed at all in the 18th C.]
Joyce, Patrick. Democratic _Subjects: The Self and the
Social in Nineteenth-century England_. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994. [This work and
the next apparently have some useful introductory
material on the 18th century.]
-----. _Visions of the People: Industrial England and
the Question of Class, 1848-1914_. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1991.
_Landowners, Capitalists, and Entrepreneurs: Essays
for Sir John Habakkuk_. Ed. F.M.L. Thompson.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
Langbein, John. "_Albion's_ Fatal Flaws." _Past and
Present_ (1984). [A critique of the approach
taken in _Albion's Fatal Tree_.]
_Language, History and Class_. Ed. Penny Corfield.
Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1991.
Laslett, Peter. _The World We Have Lost_. 3rd ed. New
York: Scribners, 1984. [Suggested as useful
background.]
"Making of the Middle Class." _Journal of British
Studies_ 32.4 (October 1993): 396. [A forum.]
McKeon, Michael. "Historicizing Patriarchy: The
Emergence of Gender Difference in England, 1660-
1760." _Eighteenth Century Studies_ 28.3 (Spring
1995): 295-322. [Although primarily about
constructions of gender, also addresses class.]
-----. _The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740_.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Randall, Adrian J. _Before the Luddites: Custom,
Community, and Machinery in the English Woollen
Industry, 1776-1809_. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1991. [Deals with constructions
of class in the period 1777-1809 in relation to
work and machinery. The last chapter contains an
interesting discussion of whether we can speak
about class or class consciousness in the period
Randall is discussing (his own view is that we
can't: he prefers to talk about a community
"mentalit ").]
Scott, Joan. "On Women in the Making of the English
Working Class." In _Gender and the Politics of
History_. New York: Columbia University Press,
1988. [A critique of Thompson.]
Smail, John. _The Origins of Middle-Class Culture:
Halifax, Yorkshire, 1660-1780_. Cornell UP, 1994.
Stone, Lawrence. _The Family, Sex and Marriage in
England, 1500-1800_. London: Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, 1977.
Thompson, E.P. "Eighteenth-century English Society:
Class Struggle with Class?" _Social History_ 3.2
(1978): 133-65.
-----. _Customs in Common_. New York: New Press, 1991.
[An updated compilation of his various essays on
18C society.]
-----. _Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black
Act_. New York: Pantheon Books, 1975.
[Construction of class in the earlier part of the
C18.]
Valenze, Deborah. _The First Industrial Woman_. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1994.