Since Savina is doing her part for the Gardeners I though I would add some basic reading lists for the Cabbages *grins*

So, here follows a general list of books on peasant revolts, class animosities, rebellions and all that fun stuff, covering Europe in the periods 1500-1800.

P. Zagorin, Rebels and Rulers 1500-1660 (Cambridge University Press, two vols, 1982)

J.A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (University of Chicago Press 1991)

T. Munck, Seventeenth-Century Europe: State, Conflict and the Social Order 1598-1700 (Palgrave Macmillan 2nd edn 2005),

T. Scott (ed.), The Peasantries of Europe from the 14th to the 18th Centuries (Longman, 1998)

R. Jütte, Poverty and Deviance in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

P. Camporesi, Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe (Polity Press 1989)

T. Harris (ed.), The Politics of the Excluded 1500-1850 (Palgrave Macmillan 2001)

J.R. Ruff, Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800 (Cambridge University Press 2001)

R. Mousnier, Peasant Uprisings in 17th-century France, Russia and China (Allen & Unwin 1971)

Y-M. Bercé, Revolt and Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan 1987)

Y-M. Bercé, History of Peasant Revolts (Cornell University Press 1990)

R.B. Manning, Village Revolts: Social Protest and Popular Disturbances in England, 1509-1640 (Clarendon Press 1987)

R. Briggs, Communities of Belief: Cultural and Social Tensions in Early Modern France (Clarendon Press 1995)

P. Slack, Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England (Longman 1988)