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Monographs

The Peasants of the Montes - The Roots of Rural Rebellion in Spain. Published by University of Chicago Press, 1977. A study of how pre-industrial rural communities were rife with the same class divisions and tensions which were assumed by scholars (e.g., Eric Hobsbawm) to only exist in the Industrial Age.

Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe. Published by Harvester press, 1980. How criminal codes and penal systems developed their modern forms in Western society prior to the modern age.

A Brotherhood of Memory - Jewish Landsmanshaftn in the New World. Published by Basic Books, 1984. The transition from immigrant to citizen by Jews who arrived from Eastern Europe prior to 1923.
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