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Buchanan Sharp

Buchanan Sharp   
Buchanan Sharp
    Title:  Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Concentration:  Europe
    Email:  bsharp@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-4060 Office
(831) 459-2555 Message
    Office:  214 Stevenson
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:00 - 11:00am

Courses Taught 
HIS-168-01 - Rise of the Dutch Republic
HIS-180A-01 - English History: 1485-1689
HIS-180B-01 - English History: 1689-1990
HIS-196A-01 - Is British History Possible?
HIS-196B-01 - Social Protests in Late Medieval & Early Modern England
HIS-250A-01 - Rdgs in European Social/Cultural History
HIS-70A-01 - Modern European History, 1500-1789

Research Focus 
English history

Education History 
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Selected Publications 
Law

Law and Authority in Early Modern England: Essays Presented to Thomas Garden Barnes,Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

"The Food Riots of 1347 and the Medieval Moral Economy." Moral Economy and Popular Protest: Crowds, Conflict, and Authority, A. Charlesworth and A. Randall, eds. London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 2000.

"The Place of the People in the English Revolution." Theory and Society, 13 (1984), 93-110.

In Contempt of All Authority: Rural Artisans and Riot in the West of England, 1586-1660. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.