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FOOD AND DRINK IN BRITAIN AND THE WIDER WORLD, c.1550–1800
(Updated Nov. 1, 2015)
Dr Craig Muldrew
Jan Steen, In the Tavern, c. 1665
THE PAPER
Food and drink are the stuff of life. This is obviously true biologically, in that they provide the
nutrients and energy which form and drive the human body. It is also true socially, culturally,
economically, politically. We are not only what we consume but also how, where, why, how much and
with whom we consume it. Just as food and drink define who we are in all sorts of ways, so our
diet, tastes, and habits are the product of the societies in which we live.
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If the perennial importance of food and drink is obvious enough, then the early modern era is of
especial historical significance for the British diet. This was the era when famine disappeared
from English (if not Scottish and Irish) society, when brewers and wine merchants became some
of the richest men in the country, when food riots ripped through market towns, when taxes on
alcohol funded the growth of the modern state, when drunkenness became a political issue,
when the populace tasted for the first time many of the commodities which we now take for
granted – potatoes, beer, tobacco, tomatoes, sugar, tea.
This course introduces students to this exciting and formative history of comestibles,
encouraging them to think about how food and drink was produced, trafficked, consumed,
politicised and aestheticized in the context of broader social processes. We will find that while
food and drink are interesting and important subjects in their own right, they were also integral
to some of the perennial concerns of early modern historians: commerce and colonialism, stateformation, Renaissance and Reformation, party politics, the growth of the market, relations
between rich and poor. Although our focus is Britain we cannot help but make European
comparisons and global connections throughout.
The course starts in the period when new colonial imports such as tobacco and plantation sugar
were beginning to be adopted in European markets and closes in the late eighteenth century
when these markets were disrupted by war, revolution and anti-tax and anti-slavery boycotts. It
focuses on the diversification of British diet and tastes but within a comparative context where
relevant. Cultures from which foods and consumption practices were adopted will be examined
to see how this adoption took place. It will study the links between consumables and labour,
medicine, ritual, sociability, political culture; the centrality of food and drink to global trade,
colonialism, and national markets; the importance of literary, visual and material culture.
TEACHING
There will be 16 two hour weekly seminar sessions divided over the first two terms, with 4
additional revision sessions in Easter. Each session will examine issues and themes relating to the
history of food and drink in this period. The first seminar will consist of a general lecture
introduction, and thereafter, each seminar, will examine a selection of different kind of evidence
relating to food and drink in the early modern period. Students will discuss the interpretative
opportunities and problems associated with different archives and genres.
Two very useful electronic resources are Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth
Century Collections Online (ECCO), which can be used to access pamphlet literature assigned,
and can be accessed via the UL electronic resources. There will be a guided tour of the V&A
and/or Museum of London Archaeology in Lent term.
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COURSE OUTLINE
Seminar Topics:
Section One: Diet, Production and Trade
1: Introduction: Early Modern Diet: Change and Continuity
2: Production and Traffic
3: The Cost of Living
4: Famine
5: Biometric History
Section Two: Intoxication, Drugs and Health
6: Global Trade and Food
7: Medicinal Discourses
8: Tobacco, coffee and chocolat
9: Alcohol and Intoxication
Section Three: Sites, Rituals and Meanings of Consumption
10: Alehouses and other Sites of Consumption
11: Civility, Ritual and Concepts of Consumption
12: Food and Status
13: Representations of Food and Drink
Section Four: Society, Politics and Governance
14: Tea and the East India Company
15: Political Economy of Food and Drink: Market Regulation and Taxation
16: Food, Drink and Political Culture
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SECTION ONE: PRODUCE, PRODUCTION, AND TRADE
Introduction
The introductory session provides a historiographical survey of food and drink and explains how
the course works.
Some General Reading
Two general reference works are Kenneth Kiple & Conee Ornelas Kriemhild eds., I-II, The
Cambridge World History of Food (2000) and Dara Goldstein and Katherine Merkle, eds., Culinary
Cultures of Europe (2005).
Useful volumes of essays are Jean-Louis Flandrin and Massimo Montanari, ed., Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the
Present. (1999)
Paul Freedman, ed., Food: the History of Taste (2009)
Jordan Goodman, Andrew Sherratt et al, Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology (1995)
Mack P. Holt, Alcohol: a Social and Cultural History (2006)
For different approaches see Ken Albala, Food in Early Modern Europe (2003)
David T. Courtwright, Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (2001)
Mary Douglas, ed., Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology (1987), Introduction
Jack Goody, Cooking, Cuisine and Class: A Study in Comparative Sociology (1982), Introduction
Massimo Montanari, Food is Culture (2004)
Andrew Sherratt, ‘Alcohol and its Alternatives: Symbol and Substance in Pre-Industrial Cultures’
in Goodman et, Consuming Habits (1995)
Stephen Mennell, All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to
the Present (1996), Introduction
Craig Muldrew, Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian
England, 1550–1780 (2011), Introduction
Sara Pennell, ‘Consumption and Consumerism in Early Modern England’, HJ (1999) and
‘Mundane Materiality: or, Should Small Things be Forgotten’ in Karen Harvey, ed., History and
Material Culture (2009)
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Tastes of Paradise: a Social History of Spices, Stimulants and Intoxicants (1992)
Ann Tlusty, Bacchus and Civic Order: the Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany (2001)
Wendy Wall, Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (2002)
Phil Withington, ‘Intoxicants and Society in Early Modern England’, Historical Journal (2011)
Introductory Questions • Is there any justification, other than that we digest them, for treating different foodstuffs and
beverages as a single historical subject?
• Explain the inverse correlation between the historical importance of food and drink and the
attention they have attracted from historians.
• Assess the influence of anthropological and sociological approaches on the writing of food
history.
• Is it possible to write the history of perishable commodities?
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1: Early Modern Diet
This seminar will deal with the medieval inheritance in terms of diet, the dietary changes which
occurred between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, and some of the processes implicated
in those changes.
Some Reading –
Gregory Austin, Alcohol in Western Society from Antiquity to 1800 (1985)
Piero Camporesi, Bread of Dreams (2005)
Bryan Cowan, The Social Life of Coffee (2005)
Mark Dawson, Plenti and Grase : Food and Drink in a Sixteenth-Century Household, (Totnes, 2008)
J. C. Drummond and Anne Wilbraham, The Englishman’s Food: Five Centuries of English Diet (2001)
Christopher Dyer, ‘English Diet in the Later Middle Ages’ in T. H. Aston, ed., Social Relations and
Ideas (1983)
Christopher Dyer, Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c.1200-1520,
(Cambridge, 1989), chs.3, 6.
Paul Freedman, ed., Food: The History of Taste (2007), chapters 5 and 6
David Gentilcore, Pomodoro! A History of the Tomato in Italy (2010)
Denys Mostyn Forrest, Tea for the British: the Social and Economic History of a Famous Trade (1973)
Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (2008)
Jordan Goodman, Tobacco in History: the Cultures of Dependence (1993)
Jordan Goodman, ‘Excitantia: or, How Enlightenment Europe took to Soft Drugs’ in Jordan
Goodman et al, eds., Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology (1995)
Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power: the Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985)
Mary Norton, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World
(2008)
Craig Muldrew, The Economy of Obligation (1998), ch.1.
Rod Phillips, A Short History of Wine (2000), especially chapters 4, 5, 6
John Reader, The Untold History of the Potato (2009)
Redcliffe N. Salaman (and J. G. Hawkes), The History and Social Influence of the Potato (1949;
reprinted 1985)
Pamela Sambrook, Country House Brewing in England, 1500-1900, (London, 1996)
Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: an Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Woodruff Smith, ‘Complications of the Commonplace: Tea, Sugar, and Imperialism’, Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, 23 (1992) pp.259-278
Cathy Shrank, Writing the Nation in Reformation England, 1530-1580 (2003), chapter 1
Joan Thirsk, Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions 1500-1760 (2007)
Richard W. Unger, Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2007)
Deborah Valenze, Milk: a Local and Global History (2011)
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2: Production and Traffic
This seminar will examine at the changing way in which comestibles were produced and
trafficked in Britain and Europe
SourcesHarrison, The Description of England, (1587), edited by Georges Edelen (1994), pp. pp.123-145.
Thiomas Coogan, The Haven of Health, London, 1588), pp.21-61.
William Ellis, The Country Housewife’s Family Companion, (London, 1750), pp.1-24, 80-100
Mercer’s probate Inventory.
Lionel M. Munby (ed.), Early Stuart Household Accounts, Hertfordshire Record Society, 2 (1986),
pp.3-62
Key Secondary Reading W. B. Stephens, ‘English Wine Imports c. 1603–40, with Special Reference to the Devon Ports’
in Todd Gray et al, Tudor and Stuart Devon (Exeter, 1992)
Nuala Zahedieh, The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660-1700 (2010),
especially Intro.
David Hussey, Coastal and River Trade in Pre-Industrial England (2000), especially Intro.
Some Reading –
Judith M. Bennett, Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women’s Work in a Changing World 1300–1600
(1996)
John Chartres, ‘No English Calvados? English Distillers and the Cider Industry in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries’ in John Chartres and David Hey, eds., English Rural
Society, 1500–1800 (1990)
N.S.B. Gras, The Evolution of the English Corn Market, (Harvard, 1915)
Stephen Hipkin, ‘The Structure, Development, and Politics of the Kent Grain Trade, 15521647,’ EcHR, 61: suppl. 1 (2008), pp.99-139
David Hussey, Coastal and River Trade in Pre-Industrial England (2000)
David Ormrod, English Grain Exports and the Structure of Agrarian Capitalism 1700-1760, (Hull,
1985)
Martin Rorke, ‘English and Scottish Overseas Trade, 1300-1600’, The Economic History Review
(2006)
Ann Tlusty, Bacchus and Civic Order, chapters 1 and 2
Deborah Valenze, ‘The Art of Women and the Business of Men: Women’s Work and the Dairy
Industry c. 1740–1840’, Past & Present 130 (1991)
Richard W. Unger, Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2004)
T. S. Willan, The Inland Trade (1976)
N. J. Williams, The Maritime Trade of the East Anglian Ports, 1550-1590 (1988)
D. M. Woodward, ‘The Port Books of England and Wales’, Maritime History, III (1973)
D.M. Woodward, The Trade of Elizabethan Chester (1970)
Nuala Zahedieh, The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660-1700 (2010)
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3: The Cost of Living
This seminar will examine the trade, cost and consumption of perishables in relation to more
general economic trends between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
SourcesDefoe, Plan of English Commerce (1728), pp.35-51, 100-103
Frederick Eden, The State of the Poor (1797) Vol.1, pp.491-589,
(117 pages)
Reading –
John Brewer and Roy Porter, eds., Consumption and the World of Goods (1993)
Jeremy Boulton, ‘Wage Labour in Seventeenth Century London’, Economic History Review, 49
(1996), pp.268-90
Jeremy Boulton, ‘Food Prices and the Standard of Living in London in the "Century of
Revolution"’, 1580-1700’, Economic History Review, 53 (2000), pp.455-92.
John Burnett, Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain (1999)
L. A. Clarkson and Margaret Crawford, Feast and Famine: Food and Nutrition in Ireland 1500-1920
(2001), chapters 1 to 4
Carolyn Steedman, Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England, (2009)
Robert C. Davis, ‘Venetian shipbuilders and the fountain of wine’, Past & Present (1997)
Christopher Dyer, Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages (1989), chs. 5-6
Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power: the Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985), chapters 3 and 4
Hoh-Cheng Miu and Lorna H Miu, Shops and Shopkeeping in Eighteenth Century England (1989)
Craig Muldrew, The Economy of Obligation (1998)
Craig Muldrew, Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian
England, 1550–1780 (2011)
J. S. Gibson and T. C. Smout, Prices, Food and Wages in Scotland 1550-1780 (1995), chs. 7-8
Sara Pennell, ‘Consumption and Consumerism in Early Modern England’, HJ (1999)
Philipp Robinson Roessner, Scottish Trade on the Wake of Union: the Rise of a Warehouse Economy
(2008)
Carol Shammas, The Pre-Industrial Consumer in England and America (1990)
Jan de Vries, The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behaviour and the Household Economy, 1650 to the
Present (2008)
Phil Withington, ‘Intoxicants and the early modern city’ in Steve Hindle, Alexandra Shepard and
John Walter, eds., Remaking English Society: Social Change and Social Relations in Early Modern England
(forthcoming, 2013)
Keith Wrightson, Earthly Necessities (2000)
4: Famine
This seminar will deal with attempts to cope with scarcity, death and famine on the part of both
governors and local communities in England and Scotland.
SourcesHugh Platt, Sundrie New and Artificiall Remedies Against Famine, (1596), 18pp.
Joseph Lee, Considerations Concerning Common Fields and Enclosures (1653), 40 pp.
JohnMoore. The crying sin of England of not caring for the poor wheren inclosure, viz. such as
doth unpeople townes, and uncorn fields, is arraigned, convicted, and condemned by the word
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of God. (1653) 18pp.
William Harrison, The Description of England, taken from Raphael Holinshed, The First and Second
Volumes of Chronicles, Book II (1587); edited by Georges Edelen (1994), pp.246-53.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, (Oxford, 1976) ‘A
digression concerning the corm law’ Book IV ch.5, pp.524-43.
Reading –
Cormac O’Grada, Famine: A short history, (Princeton, 2010).
Andrew Appleby, Famine in Tudor and Stuart England (1978)
R.S. Schofield, ‘The impact of scarcity and plenty’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1983)
Broidie Wadell, God, Duty and Community in English Economic Life, 1660-1720: 13 (Studies in Early
Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, (2012).
Stephen Hipkin, ‘The conduct of the coastal metropolitan corn trade during the later
seventeenth century : an analysis of the evidence of the Exchequer port books’, Agricultural
History Review, 61:2 (2013) pp.206-243.
John Bohstedt, The Politics of Provision: Food Riots, Moral Economy and Market Transition in England
1550-1850 (2010)
Piero Camporesi, Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe (1994)
J.A Chartres, `The Marketing of Agricultural Produce', in Joan Thirsk (ed.), Agrarian History of
England and Wales, V,II (1984), pp.406-502.
David Dickson, Famine and Economic Change in eighteenth-Century Ireland,’ in The Oxford
handbook of modern Irish history; edited by Alvin Jackson. (Oxford, 2014), pp.422-438.
L. A. Clarkson and Margaret Crawford, Feast and Famine: Food and Nutrition in Ireland 1500-1920
(2001)
Karen J. Cullen, Famine in Scotland: the ‘Ill Years’ of the 1690s (2010)
Craig Muldrew, Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian
England, 1550–1780 (2011), chs.3-4.
Brian Outhwaite, `Dearth and Government Intervention in English Grain Markets, 1510-1700',
Economic History Review, 34 (1981)
Steve Rappaport, Worlds within worlds: structures of life within sixteenth-century London (Cambridge,
1989), ch.5
John Reader, The Untold History of the Potato (2009), chapters 6 to 11
E.P Thompson, Customs in Common (1991)
Bruce Campbell and Cormac O’Grada, ‘Harvest Shortfalls, Grain Prices, and Famines in
Preindustrial England,’ Journal of Economic History, 71:4 (2011) pp.859-886
,John Walter and Keith Wrightson, `Dearth and the social order' in early modern England', Past
and Present, 71 (1976), pp.22-42
J. Walter and Roger Schofield (eds.), Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern England,
(1989)
Andy Wood, Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England (2002)
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5: Biometric History
Sources-An Account of several work-houses for employing and maintaining the poor; setting forth the rules by which they
are governed, their great usefulness to the publick (1725), pp.1-70
- Davies, David, The Case of the Labourers in Husbandry Stated and Considered, (1795), pp.1-40
- Frederick Eden, The State of the Poor (1797), vol.3 appendix XII, pp.cccxxxix-cccl.
ReadingRoderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris, and Sok Chul Hong The Changing Body: Health,
Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700 (Cambridge, 2011).
Craig Muldrew, Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian
England, 1550–1780 (2011), ch.3.
Deborah Oxley and David Meredeth, ‘Food and Fodder : Feeding England, 1700–1900’, Past and
Present, 222:1 (2014) 163-214.
Sarah Horrell and Deborah Oxley, ‘Bringing home the bacon? Regional nutrition, stature, and
gender in the industrial revolution’, Economic History Review, 65:4 (2012), pp.1354-1379.
Morgan Kelly and Cormac O’Grada, ‘Numerare Est Errare : Agricultural Output and Food
Supply in England Before and During the Industrial Revolution’, Journal of Economic History, 73:4
(2013), pp.132-1163.
SECTION TWO: INTOXICATION, DRUGS AND HEALTH
6: Global Trade and Food
This seminar will examine foods imported into England, and how the range of such foods
increased with the expansion of global overseas trade.
Sources- Richard Hakluyt,, Discourse of Western Planting, (London, 1684) in E.G.R. Taylor, (ed.), The
Original Writings and Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts, The Hakluyt Society, 2nd Ser., 77
(1935), pp.212-13, chs 4-7.
- Fynes Morrison, Ten Years Travel (1617), Part I, pp.12-13, 36, 70, 90, 163, 208, 246, 256, 258:
Part III, pp.21, 23.
-Richard Ligon, A true & exact history of the island of Barbados (1657) pp.22-40, 46-59.
-Edward Littleton, The Groans of the Plantations, (1689), pp.1-19.
-John Poyntz, The present prospect of the famous and fertile island of Tobago (1695), pp.1-29.
-Basil Lubbock, (ed.), Barlow’s Journal of his Life at Sea in King’s Ships, East and West Indiamen and
Other Merchantmen From 1659-1703, I-II, (London, 1934). pp.17-18, 54, 83, 85, 161-64, 180, 199202, 210, 361, 377, 383, 402, 482
(110 pages)
Reading –
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Patricia Fumerton Unsettled : the culture of mobility and the working poor in early modern England,
(Chicago, 2006).
Thomas Brennan, Burgundy to Champagne: the Wine Trade in Early Modern France (1997)
L. M. Cullen, The Brandy Trade Under the Ancien Régime: Regional Specialisation in the Charente (1998)
R. Davis, The Rise of the Atlantic Economies (1973)
T. M. Devine, Tobacco Lords: a Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and their Trading Activities,
1740-1790 (1995)
Paul Freedman, Out of the East (2008), chapters 4, 5, 7, 8
April Lee Hatfield, Atlantic Virginia: Inter-colonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century (2004)
David Hancock, Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste (2009),
chapters 4 to 8
Philip Lawson, A Taste for Empire and Glory, Studies in British Overseas Expansion, 1660-1800 (1997),
ch.15
Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power, chapter 2
Mary Norton, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World
(2008), especially chapter 7
Matthew Parker, The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire and War (2011)
S. D. Smith, ‘Accounting for Taste: British Coffee Consumption in Historical Perspective’,
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XXVII: 2 (1996)
James Walvin, Fruits of Empire: Exotic Produce and British Taste 1660–1800 (1997)
Jon Stobart, Sugar and Spice: Grocers and Groceries in Provincial England 1650-1830, (2013).
Matthew P. Romaniello, ‘Through the Filter of Tobacco: the Limits of Global Trade in the Early
Modern World’, Comparative Studies in Society and History 49, 4, (2007)
Stuart B. Schwartz (ed.), Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680
(2004)
Anthony Pagden, The fall of natural man : the American Indian and the origins of comparative ethnology,
Cambridge, 1982).
Joan-Pau Rubies, Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance (2000)
Joan-Pau Rubies, ‘Travel Writing and Humanistic Culture: a Blunted Impact’, Journal of the History
of Ideas (2006)
7: Medicinal Discourses and Cookbooks
This Seminar will examine the treatment of food and especially drink in early-modern medical
discourse, and the relationship of health to taste. It will deal with how important Galenic
(humoral) was medicine to early modern diet and taste, and how the relationship between
attitudes to foodstuffs and medical advice changed over the course of the 17th century? It will
also examine the rise of the cookbook as a genre and their relationship with medicine.
SourcesThomas Moffet, Health’s Improvement: or Rules Comprizing and Discovering the Nature, and Manner of
Preparing all sorts of Food, (1655). pp. 119-133, 215-245.
John Archer, Everyman his own Doctor (1671) pp.48-100
Hannah Wooley, The Queen-Like Closet, (1681), pp.159-200.
(137 pages)
Other Cook books
Gervase Markham, The English Housewife (1631), edited by Michael Best (1986), pp.49-75
John Partridge, The Treasure of Commodious Conceits and Hidden Secrets (1584)
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Hannah Woolley, The Queen-Like Closet (1675)
Hugh Plat, Delightes for Ladies (1602)
Key Secondary Reading
Ken Albala, Eating Right in the Renaissance (2002) chs.2-3, 8.
Jennifer Richards, ‘Health and Intoxication in Renaissance England’, forthcoming (2014)
(supplied on request)
Craig Muldrew, Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian
England, 1550–1780 (2011), 31-45.
Sara Pennell, ‘Perfecting Practice? Women, Manuscript Recipes and Knowledge in Early Modern
England’ in Victoria E. Burke and Jonathan Gibson, eds., Early Modern Women’s Manuscript
Writing (2004)
Wendy Wall, Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (2002),
chapter 1
Natasha Glaisyer and Sara Pennell, Didactic Literature in England, 1500-1800: Expertise Constructed
(2003)
Reading –
Ken Albala, Eating Right in the Renaissance (2002)
Ken Albala, ‘To Your Health: Wine as Food and Medicine in mid-sixteenth century Italy’ in
Mack Holt, ed., Alcohol (2006)
Louise Hill Curth and Tanya M. Cassidy, ‘Health, Strength and Happiness’: Medical
Constructions of Wine and Beer in Early Modern England’ in Smyth, ed., A Pleasinge Sinne (2004)
Paul Freedman, Out of the East (2008), chapter 2
Natasha Glaisyer and Sara Pennell, Didactic Literature in England, 1500-1800: Expertise Constructed
(2003)
Margaret Healey, Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics (2001)
Susan James, Passion and Action: the Emotions in Seventeenth Century Philosophy (1997)
Lauren Kassell, Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London (2005)
Rob Maslen, ‘The Healing Dialogues of Dr Bullein’, Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 38, nos. 1
and 2 (2008), ed. Andrew Hiscock
Sara Pennell, ‘Perfecting Practice? Women, Manuscript Recipes and Knowledge in Early Modern
England’ in Victoria E. Burke and Jonathan Gibson, eds., Early Modern Women’s Manuscript
Writing (2004)
Tanya Pollard, Drugs and Theatre in Early Modern England (2005)
Roy Porter, ‘The drinking man’s disease: the pre-history of alcoholism in Georgian Britain’,
British Journal of Addiction, 80 (1985)
Jennifer Richards, ‘Health and Intoxication in Renaissance England’, forthcoming (2014)
Cathy Shrank, Writing the Nation in Reformation England, 1530-1580 (2003), chapter 3
Paul Slack, ‘Mirrors of health and treasures of poor men: the uses of vernacular medical literature
in Tudor England’, in ed. Charles Webster, Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century
(1979)
Ann Tlusty, Bacchus and Civic Order, chapters 3 and 4
Wendy Wall, Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (2002)
Andrew Wear, Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680 (2000),
Charles Webster, The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine and Reform 1626-1660 (1975; 2002)
Harold Cook, Decline of the Old Medical Regime in Stuart London, (1986).
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8: Tobacco, coffee and chocolat
This seminar will examine how the consumption of these substances were taken up in Europe
and England. We will discuss how tobacco was marketed to Europeans from the 1570s, and its
opposition, what kind of factors determined whether a new comestible is adopted by a populace,
and the role of health? Did Europeans ‘drink’ tobacco on their own terms, or did it represent a
new and exotic culture?
SourcesNicolas Monardes, Joyfull Newes Out of the Newe Founde Worlde, trans John Frampton, (1580), folios
34-45.
James I, A counterblaste to tobacco (1604), 26pp.
J[oseph] H[all], Work for chimney-sweepers, or, A warning for tobaccanists (1601) pp.1-20
Tobias Venner, A briefe and accurate treatise, concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco (1621)
William Vaughn, Directions for Health, pp.139-150
The Virtue of the Coffee Drink, (1652), p.1
Bollicosgo, Armuthaz, The Coffee-man’s Granado, (1663), p.8
The Ale-Wives Complainant against the Coffee-Houses, (1675), p.6.
Philippe Sylvestre Dufour, The Manner of Making Coffee, Tea and Chocolate, (1685), pp.53-115.
(144 pages)
ReadingJordan Goodman, ‘Excitantia: or, How Enlightenment Europe took to Soft Drugs’ in Jordan
Goodman et al, eds., Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology (1995)
Jason Hughes, Learning to smoke: Tobacco use in the West (Chicago, 2003), chapter 2
Mary Norton, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World
(2008)
Bryan Cowan, The Social Life of Coffee (2005)
Jordan Goodman, ‘Excitantia: or, How Enlightenment Europe took to Soft Drugs’ in Jordan
Goodman et al, eds., Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology (1995), chs 3,4, 6.
James Grehan, ‘Smoking and Early Modern Sociability: The Great Tobacco Debate in the
Ottoman Middle East’, American Historical Review, 111, 5 (2007)
Jordan Goodman, Tobacco in History: the Cultures of Dependence (1993), chapters 3 and 4
Jason Hughes, Learning to Smoke (2003), Ch. 2
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Tastes of Paradise: a Social History of Spices, Stimulants and Intoxicants (1992)
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9: Alcohol and Intoxication
This Seminar will deal with early moderns’ relationship with intoxicating substances, especially
alcohol. We will explore the reasons behind the growing levels of consumption of intoxicants in
the period, in particular focusing on contemporaries’ attitudes towards and understandings of
drunkenness.
SourcesJames Hart, The Diet of the diseased (1633), 103-137.
A Vindication of strong beere and ale (1647), pp.5.
A Treatise of warm beer (Cambridge, 1641), 45pp.
The Trial of the Spirits, or Considerations on ..the Gin Trade (1736), pp.35.
(119 pages)
William Ellis, The London and Country Brewer, (London, 1736), chs.8, 9, 17-19.
Some reading –
Phil Withington and Angela McShane eds., Cultures of intoxication Past & Present, Supplement, 9
(Oxford, 2014).
Phil Withington, ‘Food and drink,’ in Andrew Hadfield, Matthew Dimmock and Abigail Shinn,
eds., The Ashgate research companion to popular culture in early modern England (Farnham, 2014).
David T. Courtwright, Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (2001)
Mary Douglas (ed.), Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology (1987).
Mark Hailwood, ‘“It Puts Good Reason into Brains”: Popular Understandings of the Effects of
Alcohol in Seventeenth-Century England’, (forthcoming 2013) [available on request]
A. Lynn Martin, Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2001)
A. Lynn Martin, Alcohol, Violence and Disorder in Traditional Europe (2009)
Angela McShane Jones, ‘Roaring Royalists and Ranting Brewers: The Politicisation of Drink and
Drunkenness in Political Broadside Ballads from 1640 to 1689’, in Smyth (ed.), A Pleasing Sinne
(2004)
James Nicholls, The Politics of Alcohol: A History of the Drink Question in England (2009), esp. Ch.1
Dana Rabin, ‘Drunkenness and Responsibility for Crime in the Eighteenth Century’, Journal of
British Studies, 44 (2005)
Joshua Scodel, Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature (2002)
Alexandra Shepard, ‘“Swil-bols and Tos-pots”: Drink Culture and Male Bonding in England,
c.1560-1640’, in Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter and Miri Rubin (eds.), Love, Friendship and Faith in
Europe, 1300-1800 (2005)
Adam Smyth, ‘“It were far better to be a Toad, or a Serpant, than a Drunkard”: Writing About
Drunkenness’, in Adam Smyth (ed.), A Pleasing Sinne: Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-century
England (Cambridge, 2004)
B. Ann Tlusty, Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany (2001), esp.
Intro and Chs. 3-5
Phil Withington, ‘Intoxicants and Society in Early Modern England’, The Historical Journal, 54
(2011)
Johathan White, ‘The "slow but sure poyson" : the representation of gin and its drinkers, 17361751,’ Journal of British Studies, 42:1 (2003), pp.35-64.
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SECTION THREE: SITES, RITUALS AND MEANINGS OF CONSUMPTION
10: Alehouses and other Sites of Consumption
This seminar will deal with the key institutions of early modern food and drink consumption –
the places where people ate and drank, and examines early-modern attempts to reform morals
and manners and the conflation of those attempts with attacks on ‘popular’ drinks like ale and
gin.
Sources –
The Old Bailey Online - http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/ c.30pp.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, edited by R. C. Latham and W. Matthews (1995), especially ‘1661’ (use
the very good ‘Index’ to find references to food and drink), c.30pp.
Daniel Dent, A Sermon Against Drunkenness (1628) 22pp.
William Prynne, Healthes: Sickness (1628) pp.1-24.
Anon., A Whip for a Drunkard (1644) 2pp.
Matthew Scrivener, A Treatise Against Drunkenness (1685) pp.1-76.
(124 pages)
Other SourcesAnon., The Dutch Boare Dissected (1665)
Hammond, Samuel, Gods judgements upon drunkards, swearers, and Sabbath-breakers, (1659)
Josiah Woodward, An Account of the Societies for Reformation of Manners in London and Westminster, and
Other Parts of the Kingdom (1699)
Key Secondary Reading Keith Wrightson, ‘Alehouses, Order and Reformation in Rural England, 1590–1660’ in Eileen
Yeo and Stephen Yeo, eds., Popular Culture and Class Conflict 1590–1914: Explorations in the History
of Labour and Leisure (1981)
Peter Clark, ‘The alehouse and alternative society’ in Donald Pennington and Keith Thomas,
eds., Puritans and revolutionaries: essays in seventeenth-century history presented to Christopher Hill (1978)
Phil Withington, ‘Intoxicants and the early modern city’ (see above)
Craig Muldrew, The Economy of Obligation (1998), pp.61-85.
Craig Muldrew, Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian
England, 1550–1780 (2011), pp.45-57.
Jane Whittle and Elizabeth Griffiths, Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century
Household: The World of Alice Le Strange, (2012)
Macfarlane, Alan, The family life of Ralph Josselin, a seventeenth century clergyman: an essay in historical
anthropology, (Cambridge, 1970), ch.1
Lynn Martin, ‘Drinking and alehouses in the diary of an English mercer's apprentice, 1663-1674’
in Mack P. Holt, (ed.), Alcohol : a social and cultural history. English edn. (2006)
Reading –
a) Moral Regulation
Peter Clark, ‘The ‘Mother Gin’ Controversy in the Early Eighteenth Century’, Transactions of the
Royal Historical Society 5th Series 38 (1988)
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Peter Clark, ‘The alehouse and alternative society’ in Donald Pennington and Keith Thomas,
eds., Puritans and revolutionaries: essays in seventeenth-century history presented to Christopher Hill (1978)
Alan Hunt, Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation (1999)
Martin Ingram, ‘Reformation of Manners in Early Modern England’ in Adam Fox, Paul Griffiths
and Steve Hindle, eds., The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England (1996)
A. Lynn Martin, Alcohol, Violence and Disorder in Traditional Europe (2009)
Rudi Matthee, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500 – 1900 (2005)
James Nicholls, ‘Vinum Britannicum: the ‘Drink Question’ in Early Modern England’, The Social
History of Alcohol and Drugs 22: 2 (2008)
James Nicholls, The Politics of Alcohol: A History of the Drink Question in England (2009)
S. K. Roberts, ‘Alehouses, Brewing, and Government under the Early Stuarts’, Southern History 2
(1980)
Jessica Warner, Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason (2004)
Ann Tlusty, Bacchus and Civic Order, chapters 5 and 10
Demmy Verbeke, ‘A call for sobriety: sixteenth-century educationalists and humanist
conviviality’, Paedagogica Historica (2012)
Jonathan White, The “slow but sure _oison”: the Representation of Gin and its Drinkers, 17361751,’ Journal of British Studies, 42 (2003)
Keith Wrightson, ‘Alehouses, Order and Reformation in Rural England, 1590–1660’ in Eileen
Yeo and Stephen Yeo, eds., Popular Culture and Class Conflict 1590–1914: Explorations in the History
of Labour and Leisure (1981)
Keith Wrightson, English Society 1580–1680 (1982)
b) Space and Place
Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance (1989)
Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: a Social History 1300–1830 (1983)Mark Hailwood, Alehouses and
good fellowship in early modern England, (Woodbridge, 2014).
James Brown, ‘Drinking Houses and the Politics of Surveillance in Pre-Industrial Southampton’,
in Beat Kümin (ed.), Political Space in Pre-Industrial Europe (Farnham, 2009).
Everitt, A., ‘The English Urban Inn, 1560-1760’, in Alan Everitt (ed.), Perspectives in English Urban
History (London, 1973)
Amanda Flather, Gender and space in early modern England, (2007), ch.4
David Hancock, Oceans of Wine (2009), chapter 9
Felicity Heal, Hospitality in Early Modern England (1990)
Beat Kumin and B. Ann Tlusty, eds., The World of the Tavern (2002)
Beat Kumin, Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe
(2007)
Sara Pennell, ‘The Material Culture of Food in Early Modern England’ in Sara Tarlow and Susie
West, eds., Familiar Pasts? Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain 1550–1860 (1999)
Sara Pennell, ‘‘Great Quantities of Gooseberry Pye and Baked Clod of Beef’: Victiualling and
Eating Out in Early Modern London’ in Paul Griffiths and Mark Jenner, eds., Londonopolis (2000)
Adam Smyth, ed., A Pleasinge Sinne (2004), chapters 1, 2, 3
Peter Thompson, Rum, Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in 18th C Philadelphia (1999),
chapters 1and 2
Ann Tlusty, Bacchus and Civic Order, chapter 9
Wendy Wall, Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (2002),
especially chapters 1 and 6
Woodruff D. Smith, ‘From Coffeehouse to Parlour’ in Jordan Goodman et al, eds., Consuming
Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology (1995)
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c) Archaeology
Jacqueline Pearce, ‘A late 18th-century inn clearance assemblage from Uxbridge, Middlesex,’
Post-Medieval Archaeology 34 (2000), 144-186
Nigel Jeffries, Rupert Featherby and Robin Wroe-Brown ‘Would I were in an alehouse in
London!’: a finds assemblage sealed by the Great Fire from Rood Lane, City of London’, PostMedieval Archaeology 48/2 (2014), 261–284
11: Civility, Taste and Concepts of Consumption
This seminar will deal with an overview of some of the key conceptual categories that frame the
way historians make sense of patterns of food and drink consumption in the past. This will
include discussion of concepts such as ‘taste’, ‘civility’, ‘class’, and ‘carnival’.
Sources –
Erasmus Desiderius, The ciuilitie of childehode (1560) folios 1-14, 22-36, 40-45.
Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair (1614; published 1631), 127pp.
(160 pages)
Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, 92pp.
(152pp.)
Reading –
Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and his World, tr. Helene Iswolsky (1968)
Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1984)
Pierre Bourdieu, Language and Symbolic Power (1991), editors introduction
Barbara C. Bowen, Enter Rabelais, Laughing (1998)
Robert Appelbaum, Aguecheek’s Beef, Belch’s Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature,
Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns (2006)
Anna Bryson, From Courtesy to Civility: Changing Codes of Conduct in Early Modern England (Oxford,
1998)
Piero Camporesi, Exotic Brew: the Art of Living in the Age of Enlightenment (1994)
Michel de Certeau, Practice of Everyday Life (1984) and Volume 2: Living and Cooking (1998)
Mary Douglas, ed., Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology (1987)
Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process, vol. 1 and vol. 2, (1939; reprinted 1978)
Steven Earnshaw, The Pub in Literature: England’s Altered State (2000)
Paul Freedman, Food: the History of Taste (2009), introduction, chapters 5 and 6
Alison Findlay, ‘Theatres of Truth: Drinking and Drama in Early Modern England’ in James
Nicholls and Sue Owen, eds., A Babel of Bottles: Drink, Drinkers and Drinking Places in Literature
(2000)
Irving Goffman, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life (1971)
Michelle O’Callaghan, The English Wits. Literature and Sociability in Early Modern England (2007),
chapter 3
Keith Thomas, ‘The Place of Laughter in Tudor and Stuart England’, TLS, (January 2 1977), 77–
81
Andrew Hadfield, ‘Spenser and Jokes’ in Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, Volume
XXV (2010)
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Jenifer Richards, ‘Health, Intoxication, and Civil Conversation in Renaissance England’, in Phil
Withington and Angela McShane eds., Cultures of intoxication Past & Present, Supplement, 9
(Oxford, 2014)
Phil Withington, ‘Tumbled into the Dirt’: Wit and Incivility in Early Modern England’, Journal of
Historical Pragmatics (2011)
Ann Barton, Essays, Mainly Shakespearean (1994), chapters 4, 13, 14, 15
Harry Berger, ‘Acts of Silence, Acts of Speech’, Renaissance Drama (2004)
Philip Collington, ‘‘I would thy Husband were Dead: the Merry Wives of Windsor as Mock
Domestic Tragedy’, English Literary Renaissance (2000)
Wendy Wall, Staging Domesticity (2002), chapter 3
Phil Withington, ‘Putting the City into Shakespeare’s City Comedy’ in David Armitage et al,
Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought (2009)
12: Food and status
This seminar examines early modern dining and drinking practices and the meanings attached to
them. It will consider the question of class and social difference and c some of the values and
collective identities that were expressed through the consumption of food and or drink.
SourcesJames Woodforde: The Diary of a Country Parson, 1758-1802, edited by R. Blythe (2000), c. 30pp.
John Taylor, Wit and mirth (1629) c.20pp.
David Vaisey, (ed.), The Diary of Thomas Turner, (1985) c.20pp.
Anon., Wine, beere, ale, and tobacco: Contending for superiority: A dialogue (1630) 28pp.
William May, The Accomplisht cook, or, The art and mystery of cookery (1678), folios 1-16
(91pages)
Reading –
Ken Albala, The Banquet
Thomas Brennan, Public Drinking and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Princeton, 1988),
chapter 5
Bernard Capp, ‘Gender and the Culture of the Alehouse in Late Stuart England’, COLLeGIUM
(2007). [online:http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/eseries/volumes/volume_2/002_07_capp.pdf]
Mark Hailwood, ‘Sociability, Work and Labouring Identity in Seventeenth-Century England’,
Cultural and Social History 8:1 (2011)
David Hancock, Oceans of Wine (2009), chapters 10 and 11
Mack P. Holt, ‘Europe Divided: Wine, Beer and the Reformation in Sixteenth Century Europe’
in Holt, ed., Alcohol (2006)
Charles Cameron Ludington, ‘‘To the King O’er the Water’: Scotland and Claret, c. 1660 – 1763’
in Mack P. Holt, Alcohol (2006)
Angela McShane, ‘The Extraordinary Case of the Flesh Eating and Blood Drinking Cavaliers’ in
McShane and Garthine Walker, eds., The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England
(2010)
Tim Reinke-Williams, ‘Women, Ale and Company in Early Modern London’, Brewery History, 135
(2010). [available on request]
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Alexandra Shepard, ‘Swil-bolls and tos-pots’: Drink Culture and Male Bonding in England,
1560–1640’ in Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter and Miri Rubin, eds., Love, Friendship and Faith in
Europe, 1300–1800 (2005)
Alexandra Shepard, Meanings of Manhood in early Modern England (2003)
Gervase Rosser, ‘Going to the Fraternity Feast: Commensality and Social Relations in Late
Medieval England’, Journal of British Studies 33 (1994)
Peter Thompson, Rum Punch and Revolution (1999), chapters 3 and 4
Ann Tlusty, Bacchus and Civic Order, chapters 6, 7, 8
Phil Withington, ‘Company and Sociability in Early Modern England’, Social History, 32, 3 (2007)
Phil Withington, Society in Early Modern England: The Vernacular Origins of Some Powerful Ideas (2010),
chapter 6
Phil Withington, ‘Intoxicants and Society in Early Modern England’, Historical Journal (2011)
Jack Goody, Cooking, Cuisine and Class (1982), chapter 4
Allen Grieco, ‘Food and Social Classes in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy’ in Jean Louis
Flandrin and Massimo Montanari, eds., Food: a Culinary History (1996)
Allen Grieco, The Meal (1992)
Andrew Hadfield, ‘Spenser and Jokes’ in Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, Volume
XXV (2010)
Karen Harvey, ‘Barbarity in a Teacup? Punch, Domesticity and Gender in the Eighteenth
Century’, Journal of Design History, 21, 3, (2008)
Stephen Mennell, All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to
the Present (1985), chapters 1 to 5
Massimo Montanari, Food is Culture (2006), pp. 59-91
13: Representations of Food and Drink
This seminar will deal with representations of food and eating and drinking in visual sources and
sung ballads. It will be associated with a field trip to the either or both the Museum of London
Archaeology and the Victoria and Albert museum to examine eating and drinking objects and
place settings.
SourcesGenre paintings from the Low Countries
William Hogarth Tate Gallery Exhibition Catalogue
The V&A Collections
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/egbert-van-heemskerck-the-elder
Images to be supplied on Camtools
Hugh Alley's Caveat : the markets of London in 1598, edited by Ian Archer, Caroline Barron, Vanessa
Harding, London Topographical Society, 137, (1988).
Anon., Roaring Dick of Dover (1632)
English Broadside Ballad Archive (http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/) – a keyword search for
'alehouse' brings up a number of drinking and 'good fellowship' ballads. c.20 pp.
Reading –
Silvia Malaguzzi ,Food and Feasting in Art (2008)
Kenneth Bendiner, Food in Painting: From the Renaissance to the Present (2004)
H. Perry Chapman, Wouter Th. Kloek, Arthur K. Wheelock, Jan Steen: painter and Storyteller, (Yale,
1996)
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Mark Hallettt, Hogarth, (Tate Catalogue, 2000).
Michael North and David Omrod (eds.), Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1600 (1998)
Evelyn Welch, Shopping in the Renaissance (2005)
Tom Nichols, ‘Exclusion/Inclusion: the Ambivalent Imagery of Drunkenness in Early Modern
Europe’ (forthcoming, 2014)
Mark Hailwood, ‘Sociability, Work and Labouring Identity in Seventeenth-Century England’,
Cultural and Social History 8:1 (2011)
Rob Maslen, 'The Afterlife of Andrew Borde', Studies in Philology, vol. 100 no. 4 (Fall 2003)
Adam Smyth, Profit and Delight: Print Miscellanies in England, 1640–1682 (2004)
Karen Harvey, ‘Barbarity in a tea-cup? Punch, Domesticity and Gender in the Eighteenth
Century’, Journal of Design History, 21, 3 (2008), pp. 205-221
Angela McShane, ‘Politics, Drinking and Material Culture in Seventeenth-Century England’ in
Phil Withington and Angela McShane eds., Cultures of intoxication Past & Present, Supplement, 9
(Oxford, 2014)
Pamela Allen Brown, Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early
Modern England (Ithaca, N.Y., 2003), Chapter 2, ‘Ale and Female’.
James Holly Hanford, ‘Wine, beere, ale and tobacco: A seventeenth-century interlude’, Studies in
Philology, 12, 1, 1915, 7.
Michelle O’Callaghan, The English Wits. Literature and Sociability in Early Modern England (2007)
Sue Owen, ‘The Politics of Drink in Restoration Drama’ in Nicholls and Owen, eds., A Babel of
Bottles (2000)
Tanya Pollard, Drugs and Theatre in Early Modern England (2005)
Timothy Raylor, Cavaliers, Clubs and Literary Culture: Sir John Mennes, James Smith and the Order of the
Fancy (1994)
Joshua Scodel, Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature (2002)
Adam Smyth, ed. The Pleasinge Sinne (2004), chapters 5,6, 7, 8, 12
Jenny Uglow, William Hogarth: A Life and a World, (2002)
SECTION FOUR: SOCIETY, POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE
14: Tea and the East India Company
SourcesJ. B. , In praise of tea. A poem. Dedicated to the ladies of Great Britain. (1736). 10pp
An essay on the nature, Use, and Abuse, of tea, in a letter to a lady; With an Account of its Mechanical
Operation. (1752), pp.62.
Simon Mason, The good and bad effects of tea consider'd. Wherein are exhibited, the physical virtues of tea; its
general and particular Use; to what ... (1745), c.25pp.
Robert Fortune, A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a
Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the ... Collection (2012), pp.67-96, 240-272
(158 pages)
Tea advertisements in the Burney Collection Newspapers, 17th-18th century (UL e-resources)
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ReadingDenys Mostyn Forrest, Tea for the British: the Social and Economic History of a Famous Trade (1973)
Woodruff Smith, ‘Complications of the Commonplace: Tea, Sugar, and Imperialism’, Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, 23 (1992) pp.259-278
Benjamin Carp, Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America, (2010)
Bryan Cowan, The Social Life of Coffee (2005)
Alan and Iris Macfarlane, Green Gold; The Empire of tea, (2003)
Laura Martin, Tea: The Drink That Changed the World (2007)
John C. Evans, Tea in China: The History of China's National Drink
K. N. Chaudhuri, The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company: 1660-1760 (2006)
Philip Lawson, A Taste for Empire and Glory, Studies in British Overseas Expansion, 1660-1800 (1997),
ch.15
Maxine Berg, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain, (Oxford, 2005), chs.2, 4-6
H.C. and L.H. Mui, Shops and Shopkeeping in 18th-Century England (1989), chs, 2-3,13
Jon Stobart, Sugar and Spice: Grocers and Groceries in Provincial England 1650-1830, (2013), ch.1-3, 79.
15: Political Economy of Food and Drink: Market Regulation and Taxation
This seminar examines the close relationship between comestibles and political economy during
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
SourcesAdam Smith, An Inquiry into The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, (Oxford, 1976) Book IV
ch.5, ch.7 pp.564-90, 613-22.
Considerations on the duties upon tea, and the hardships suffer'd by the dealers in that commodity. Together with
A Proposal for their Relief , 31pp.
Stephen Theodore Janssen, Smuggling laid open, in all its extensive and destructive branches. With proposals
for the effectual remedy of that most iniquitous practice. ...(1767) pp.1-60
(133 pages)
Charles Leadbetter, The Royal Gauger, (1750), pp.231-252
Reading –
Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff, `Needs and Justice in the Wealth of Nations', in Istvan Hont
and Michael Ignatieff (eds.), Wealth and Virtue, The Shaping Of Political Economy in the Scottish
Enlightenment, (Cambridge, 1983), pp.1-44
H.V. Bowen, The Business of Empire: the East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833, (2006),
chs. 3, 9.
William Ashworth, Customs and Excise : Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640-1845,
(2003)
Brodie Waddell, God, Duty and Community in English Economic Life, 1660-1720, (2012)
Robert Brenner, Merchants and Revolution (1994)
John Brewer, The Sinews of Power, (London, 1989).
K.N. Chaudhuri, The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company 1660-1760 (1978)
John V. C. Nye, War, Wine and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689–1900 (2007)
Thomas Cogswell, ‘In the Power of the State’: Mr Anys Project and the Tobacco Colonies, 1626
– 1628’, English Historical Reviw CXXIII, 500 (2008)
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Judith Hunter, ‘English Inns, Taverns, Alehouses and Brandy Shops: the Legislative Framework,
1495-1797’ in Kumin and Tlusty, eds., The World of the Tavern (2002)
Ronald Findley and Kevin O’Rourke, Power and Plenty: Trade War and the World Economy in the
Second Millennium (2007)
Paul Langford, The Excise Crisis: Society and Politics in the Age of Walpole (1975)
Mary Norton, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World
(2008), chapter 9
John V. C. Nye, War, Wine and Taxes: the Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900 (2007)
Miles Ogborn, Indian Ink: Script and Print in Making the East India Company (2007)
D. Ormrod, The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in an Age of Mercantilism,
1650-1770 (2003)
Jacob M. Price, ‘Tobacco Use and Tobacco Taxation: A Battle of Interests in Early Modern
Europe’ in Jordan Goodman et al, eds., Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology (1995)
Paul Slack, The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England,
(2014)
Joan Thirsk, ‘New Crops and Their Diffusion: Tobacco Growing in Seventeenth-Century
England’ in C. W. Chalkin and M. A. Havindon, eds., Rural Change and Urban Growth (1974)
Kathleen Wilson, The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785
(Cambridge, 1995)
Donald Winch, Riches and Poverty: an Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain, 1750-1834,
(Cambridge, 1996)
Nuala Zahedieh, The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660-1700 (2010)
Hew Bowen
P.J. Marshall, The Making of Empires: Britain, India and America, c.1750-1783, (2003)
Benjamin Carp, Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America, (2010)
T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence , (2004)
Philip Lawson, The Imperial Challenge: Quebec and Britain in the Age of the American Revolution, (1989)
Mathias, Peter, The Brewing Industry in England 1700-1830, (Cambridge, 1959), ch.10
16: Food, Drink, and Political Culture
The final seminar examines the importance of drinking places to the formation of public
discourse and opinion, and looks at the example of political opposition to the role of slavery in
producing sugar
Sources‘Thomas Hardy’s Account of the founding of the London Corresponding Society’ (1799) in
Mary Thale (ed.), Selections from the Papers of the London Corresponding Society 1792-1799, (2009),
pp.5-9
Cobbett, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and
Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1820. (Etc.) - London, Longman 1816-1828 (searchable
in Google Books –search for examples of the word ‘tavern’)
William Fox, An address to the people of Great-Britain (respectfully offered to the People of Ireland) on the
propriety of abstaining from West-India sugar ... (1792) 8pp.
A letter to the Members of Parliament who have presented petitions to the Honourable House of Commons for the
abolition of the slave trade. By a West-India Merchant. (1792) pp.1-60
(98 pages)
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Other SourcesJohn Campbell, Candid and impartial considerations on the nature of the sugar trade; the comparative
importance of the British and French islands (1763)
(98 pages)
Reading –
T. H. Breen, Marketplace of Revolution (2004)
Thomas Brennan, Public Drinking and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century France (1988)
Bryan Cowan, The Social Life of Coffee (2005)
Mark Hailwood, ‘Alehouses, Popular Politics and Plebeian Agency in Early Modern England’, in
Fiona Williamson (ed.), Locating Agency: Space, Power and Popular Politics (Newcastle, 2010).
Ralph S. Hattox, Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East
(1991)
Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1991)
Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power: the Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985)
Steve Pincus, ‘“Coffee Politicians Does Create”: Coffeehouses and Restoration Political Culture’,
Journal of Modern History, 67, 4, (1995)
David Sheilds, Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America, (1997)
Christopher Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism, (2006)
Adam Smyth, ed. The Pleasinge Sinne (2004), chapters 4, 5
Peter Thompson, Rum, Punch and Revolution (1999), chapters 4 and 5
Abigail Swigden, Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic
Empire, (2015)
J. R. Oldfield, Popular Politics and British Anti-slavery: The Mobilisation of Public Opinion Against the
Slave Trade, 1787-1807, (1995)
James Walvin, Black Ivory Second Edition: Slavery in the British Empire, (2001)