Review of periodical literature published in 2017: (iii) 1500–1700

The year 2017 saw an outpouring of early modern social and economic historical scholarship, perhaps related to both the pending Research Exercise Framework in the UK, and to the fruits of several recent grant projects seeing print. The year's slate of articles was characterized by encouraging methodological and subject diversity, an impressive array of new datasets in early modern urban and economic history, powerful contributions (including a special issue of Atlantic Studies) on the history of slavery and plantation economics, and important pieces on both welfare history and the social and economic history of the environment. Early modern social and economic historians continue to push at the edges of the field, while publishing engaging, accessible, and informative scholarship.