Newton E. Key (brief cv)

Publications

• "'High feeding and Smart drinking': Feasting and Associating in Exclusion Crisis London." in Exclusion and Revolution: the worlds of Roger Morrice, 1675-1700, ed. Jason McElligott. Ashgate, forthcoming.
• "Metropolitan Puritans, and the Varieties of Godly Reform in Monmouth" (co-written with Joe Ward). forthcoming Welsh History Review (2005). (Winner of Nichols Prize for Local History of England and Wales, 2005)
• "Samuel Annesley," "William Assheton," "John Birch," "Sir Job Charlton," "Paul Foley," "Richard Gardiner," "Francis Gregory," "Sir William Gregory," "John Lightfoot," "Adam Littleton." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Newton Key and Robert Bucholz, eds. Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
• Robert Bucholz and Newton Key. Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
• Newton E. Key and Joseph L. Ward, "`Divided into Parties': Exclusion Crisis Origins in Monmouth." English Historical Review, vol. 115, no. 464 (Nov. 2000): 1159-83.
• "Localités/Localities," a special issue of Research and Review (editor, author of "Localités and Early Modern Britain," co-writter with Mark Voss-Hubbard, "A Chronicle of the Coles County Region"), 7 (2000).
• "The Localism of the County Feast in Late-Stuart Political Culture." Huntington Library Quarterly, 58, 2 (1996): 211-37.
• "The Political Culture and Political Rhetoric of County Feasts and Feast Sermons, 1654-1714." Journal of British Studies, 33, 3 (July 1994): 223-56.
• "Comprehension and the breakdown of consensus in Restoration Herefordshire." in The Politics of Religion in Restoration England. ed. Tim Harris, Paul Seaward, and Mark Goldie. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990, 191-215.

Current Position

August 1989 to Present: Eastern Illinois University, Charleston (Associate Professor from August 1993; PROFESSOR from July 2001). Early Modern Revolutions, Early Modern Social, Anglo-American Political Culture, Historical Publishing, Historical Writing, Britain, Ireland, Europe, World.

Education

Cornell University: Sept. 1982 to Aug. 1989. Ph.D. in History, Aug. 1989. Doctoral dissertation, "Politics beyond Parliament: Unity and Party in the Herefordshire Region during the Restoration Period." (M.A., Jan. 1985.)

last updated on September 5, 2005