John Brewer's Publications
A. Books
1. Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III,
(Cambridge University Press, 1976), pp. 382.
2. with John Styles (eds), An Ungovernable People: the English and their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, (Hutchinson's, London, 1980), pp. 400.
3. with Neil McKendrick and J.H. Plumb, The Birth of a Consumer Society, (Europa Press, London, 1982), pp. 345.
4. The Common People and Politics, 1750-1800: popular political participation depicted in cartoon and caricature (Chadwyck-Healey, Cambridge, 1986), pp. 291.
5. The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783, (Knopf and Unwin Hyman, New York and London, 1989), pp. 289.
5a. The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688‑1783, Japanese translation, 2003.
6. (ed.), Consumption and Culture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Bibliography, (UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies/Clark Library, 1991), pp. 479.
7. with Roy Porter (eds), Consumption and the World of Goods in the17th and 18th Centuries, (Routledge, London and New York), 1993, pp. 564.
8. with Susan Staves (eds), Early Modern Conceptions of Property, (Routledge,
London and New York, 1995), pp.599.
9. with Ann Bermingham (eds), The Consumption of Culture: Word, Image, and Object in the 17th and 18th Centuries, (Routledge, London and New York, 1995), pp. 548.
10. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century
(Harper Collins, London, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, May 1997; University of Chicago Press, 2000), pp. 700.
10a. I Piaceri dell’Immaginazione. La cultura inglese nel settecento (Italian Translation, Carocci, 1999).
11. with Eckhart Hellmuth (eds), Rethinking Leviathan. The British and German states in Comparative Perspective (German Historical Institute Publications, London, 1999).
12 A Sentimental Murder. Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century(Harper Collins, London; Farrar Straus, New York: March 2004)
12a. Un Crimen sentimental. Amor y locura en lo siglo XVIII (Siglo XXI, Madrid, 2006)
14. Translated with an Introduction by K. Kondo, The Public, private and intimate in Eighteenth-century Britain (Tokyo, 2006). [In Japanese].
15, Ed with Frank Trentmann, Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges, (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006).
16. The American Leonardo: a 20th century tale of obsession, art and money (Constable Robinson, London, March, 2009; Oxford University Press, New York, September 2009).
B. Articles
1. “Party and the Double Cabinet: Two Facets of Burke's Thoughts,” Historical Journal, XIV, 3 (1971), pp. 479-501.
2. “The Faces of Lord Bute: A Visual Contribution to Anglo-American Political Ideology,” Perspectives in American History, VI (1972), pp. 95-116.
3. “The Misfortunes of Lord Bute: A Case Study in Eighteenth-Century
Political Argument and Public Opinion,” Historical Journal, XVI, 1 (1973), pp. 3-43.
4. “Lord Bute,” in H. Van Thal (ed.), The British Prime Ministers, vol. 1 (London, 1974), pp. 103-113.
5. “Rockingham, Burke and Whig Political Argument,” Historical Journal, XVIII, 1 (1975), pp. 188-201.
6. “The Look of London” and “Ideas of Revolution,” in 1776. The British Story of the American Revolution, (London, 1976).
7. “The Cottage of Content,” in The Cottage of Content: or, Toys, Games and Amusements of Nineteenth-century England, (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977).
8. “Childhood Revisited: The Genesis of the Modern Toy,” Educational Toys in America: 1800 to the Present, ed. K. Hewitt & L. Roomet (Burlington, Vermont, 1979).
9. “An Ungovernable People; Law and Disorder in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England,” History Today, January 1980, pp. 18-27.
10. “Radicalism and Reform in the Age of George III,” Three British Revolutions, ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Folger Library and Princeton University Press, 1980), pp. 323-367.
11. “Theatre and Counter-Theatre in Hanoverian Politics: the Mock Elections at Garrett,” Radical History Review, 22 (1979-80).
11a. “Teatro e contro-teatro nella politica hanoveriana: la recita delle elezioni a Garrat”
Quaderni Storici 42 (1979), 980-1014.
12. “Progressive Agenda: Thomas Bewick,” London Review of Books 2, (Junction Books, London, 1982), pp. 172-177.
13. “The No. 45: A Wilkite Political Symbol,” England's Rise to Greatness, (ed.) Stephen Baxter (California University Press, 1983), pp. 349-380.
14. “Two Trends in British Marxist history,” World History, 6 (December 1983). [In Chinese]
15. with Stella Tillyard, “History and Telling Stories; Graham's Swift's Waterland,” History Today, 35 (January 1985), pp. 49-51.
16. “The English State and Fiscal Appropriation, 1688-1789,” Politics and Society, 16, no. 2-3, (Sept. 1988).
17. “This monstrous tragi-comic scene”: British Reactions to the French Revolution,” in David Bindman (ed.), In the Shadow of the Guillotine: British Reactions to the French Revolution, (British Museum, 1989), pp. 9-25.
18. with Stella Tillyard, “The Moral Vision of Thomas Bewick,” in Eckhart Hellmuth (ed.), Transformations in Political Culture in late 18th Century England and Germany (Oxford University Press, German Historical Institute, London, 1990), pp. 375-408.
19. “Cultural Production in 18th Century England: the View of the Reader,” in Rudolf Vierhaus und Mitarbeitern des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte, Frühe Neuzeit - Frühe Moderne?, (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1992), pp. 366-391.
20. “The Eighteenth-Century State: Contexts and Issues,” in Lawrence Stone (ed.), An Imperial State at War (Routledge, 1994), pp.52-71.
21. “Cultural production, consumption and the place of the artist in 18th century England,” in Brian Allen (ed.), Towards a Modern Art World (Yale University Press, 1995), pp. 7-25.
22. “The most polite age and the most vicious: Attitudes towards Culture as a Commodity, 1660-1800,” in Ann Bermingham and John Brewer (eds), The Consumption of Culture: Word, Image, and Object in the 17th and 18th Centuries, (Routledge, 1995), pp. 341-61.
23. “This, That and the other: Public, Social and Private in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” in Dario Castiglione & Lesley Sharpe (eds.), Shifting the Boundaries. Transformation of the Languages of Public and Private in the Eighteenth Century (University of Exeter Press, 1995), pp. 1-21.
24. “Reconstructing the Reader: Anna Larpent in late 18th Century London,” in James Raven, Naomi Tadmore and Helen Small (eds), The Practice and Representation of Reading in Britain 1500-1900, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 226-245.
25. “John Marsh's History of my Private Life, 1752-1828,” in Tim Blanning and David Cannadine (eds.), History and Biography. Essays in Honour of Derek Beales (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 72-87.
26. “Readers and Reading in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” Cultura. revista de história e teoria das ideias (vol.IX), 1997, pp. 159-185.
27. “Was können wir der Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit für die moderne Konsumgeschichte lernen?,” in Hannes Siegrist , Hartmut Kaelble, Jürgen Kocka, (eds.), Europaische Konsumgeschichte. Zur Gesellschaftsgeschichte und Kulturgeschichte des Konsums (18. Bis 20 Jahrhundert (Campus, Frankfurt, 1997), pp. 51-74
28. With Laurence Fontaine, “Homo creditus et construction de la confiance au XVIIIe siècle,” in Philippe Bernoux et Jean-Michel Servet (eds.), La Construction Sociale de la Confiance, Paris, Association d'Economie Financière, collection Finance- Ethique-Confiance, 1997.
29. “Abhandlungen,” Aufklärung 10, 2 (1998), pp. 11-22.
30. “Servants of the Public, Servants of the Crown? The Officialdom of Central Government in 18th Century England,” in John Brewer and Eckhart Hellmuth (eds), Rethinking Leviathan. The State in the Eighteenth Century. Britain Germany in Comparative Perspective (German Historical Institute Publications, London, Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 127-148.
31. with Eckhart Hellmuth, “Introduction,” in John Brewer and Eckhart Hellmuth (eds), Rethinking Leviathan. The State in the Eighteenth Century. Britain Germany in Comparative Perspective (German Historical Institute Publications, London, Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 1-21.
32. with Iain McCalman, “Publishing,” in An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age. British Culture 1776-1832, ed. Iain McCalman (OUP, 1999), pp. 197-206
33. “Political regimes, war and the fiscal-military state: despotic and infrastructure power and the construction of interests,” in Poteri economici e poteri politicia, ed. Simonetta Caraciocchi (Florence, 1999).
34. “Liebe und Wahnsinn: Die Narrativik der Empfindsamkeit und die Inszenierung des Leids in Roman des spaten achtzehnten Jahrhunderts,” Historische Anthropologie. Kultur.gesellschaft.alltag 8 Jahrgang 2000 Heft 3, pp. 321-43.
35. “Introduction,” Part III. Visual Images in Luisa Passerini (ed.), Across the Atlantic. Cultural Exchanges between Europe and the United States (P.I.E. Lang, 2000), pp.155-158.
36. “New Ways in History or, Talking About my Generation,” Luisa Passarini and Alex Geppert (eds.): European Ego-Histoires: Historiography and the Self, 1970-2000. Athens 2001 (= Historein: A Review of the Past and Other Stories, vol. 3): Nefeli/Cosmos Publishers, pp. 24-46..
37. “Shop value,” Art and Money in Unsettling “Sensation”: Arts-Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy. Edited by Lawrence Rothfield. Rutgers University Press, 2001, pp. 155-161.
38. “Introduction,” Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642, Lawrence Stone (Routledge, London and New York, 2002), pp. xi-xvi
39. “Positioning the Market: Art, goods and commodities in early modern Europe,” in Economia ed Arte Secoli XIII-XVIII, ed. Simonetta Caraciocchi, Florence, 2002), 139-148.
40. “Breaking with the Past,” New York Review of Books vol LI no. 5, March 2004 pp. 14-16.
41. “Il tempo Minimo: microstoria”, Studi Culturali 1 (2004), pp. 7-29.
42. “’Love and Madness’: Sentimental Narratives and the Spectacle of Suffering in late-Eighteenth-Century Romance,” in Peter de Bolla, Nigel Leask and David Simpson (eds.), Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840. Thinking the Republic of Taste (Palgrave, 2005), pp. 131-147.
43. ‘Microhistory and the Histories of Everyday Life’, Journal of History for the Public 2 (2005), 19-37 [In Japanese]
44. “Personal Scandal and Politics in 18th Century England: Secrecy, Intimacy and Interior Self in the Public Sphere”, in M. Skuncke (ed.), Media and Political Culture in the Eighteenth-Century (Stockholm, Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities 2005) pp. 85-106..
46. “The Error of our Ways: Historians and the Consumer Society Debate” “The Error of our Ways: the Consumer Society Debate “The Error of our Ways: the Consumer Society Debate, Working Paper no. 12 (ESRCC & HEC, 2005)
47.”Art and Science: A Da Vinci Detective Story”, Engineering and Science 1/1 (2005), pp. 32-41.
48. with Frank Trentmann, “Space, Time and Value in Consuming Cultures”, in Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges, ed. Brewer and Trentmann (Berg, Oxford and New York, 2006), pp. 1-17.
49. “The Lure of Leonardo”, in Stephen Melville (ed.), The Lure of the Object (Yale University Press, 2006), 4-14.
50. “Sensibility and the Urban Panorama”, in Technologies of Illusion: The Art of Special Effects in Eighteenth-Century Britain, ed. Ann Bermingham, special edition of The Huntington Library Quarterly vol. 70, no. 2 (2007) pp. 229-249.
51.”Sentiment and Sensibility”, in James Chandler (ed.), The Cambridge History of Romantic Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 21-44.
52.“Microhistories and the Histories of Everyday Life”, Cultural and Social History, vol 7, no 1 (2010) pp. 87-110.
53. “Neo-realism and re-enactment”, in Iain McCalman and Paul A Pickering (eds), Historical Re-Enactment: from Realism to the Affective Turn. (Palgrave Press, 2010), pp. 79-89.
Forthcoming:
1. “The Grand Tour Revisited” in The Westmorland and the Grand Tour, ed. Scott Wilcox (Yale Center for British Art, 2011).
2. “From Cyber Punk to Historical Enlightenment: the Baroque Cycle of Neal Stevenson”, in Michael Schiach (ed.), History-Making, Public History, Historiography: a Festschrift for Eckhart Hellmuth (Munich. 2011).
Web Publications:
“Patronage :beyond the panegyric and the jeremiad”,
http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf1999/brewer.html
Television:
“Sense and Sensation: English Culture in the Eighteenth-Century”,
script writer and presenter (Illuminations and BBC3). 58 mins.
Not included: reviews for Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Lingua Franca, New York Review of Books, the Smithsonian, Sunday Times, The Spectator, Social History, Historical Journal, American Historical Review, etc.
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