The end of the beginning of African history

Jack A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (1991), xxix + 608 (University of California Press, Berkeley, $34.95).

Paul Langford, Public Life and Propertied Englishmen 1689–1798 (1991), xiii + 608 (Oxford University Press, New York, $89.00).

Harriet B. Applewhite and Darline G. Levy (eds), Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution (1990), vi + 289 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £25.00).

Gail Bossenga, The Politics of Privilege: Old Regime and Revolution in Lille (1991), xi + 263 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £30.00).

Adrian Randall, Before the Luddites. Custom, Community, and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776–1809 (1991), xvii + 318 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £32.50).

James A. Jaffe, The Struggle for Market Power. Industrial Relations in theBritish Coal Industry, 1800–1840 (1991), xi + 228 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £30.00).

Patrick Joyce, Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, 1840–1914 (1991), xiv + 449 (Cambridge University Press, UK £3o.oo/US $49.50).

David Blackbourn and Richard J. Evans (eds), The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century (1991), xix + 348 (Routledge, £35.00).

Stephen Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds), Power to Manage? (1991), ix + 352 (Routledge, £45.00).

Herrick Chapman, State Capitalism and Working‐class Radicalism in theFrench Aircraft Industry (1991), xvii + 412 (University of California Press, Berkeley, $49.95, paperback $16.95).

Teresa L. Amott and Julie A. Matthaei, Race, Gender and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States (1991), xiii + 433 (South End Press, Boston, paperback $16.00).     

Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800–1850

Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley and Sherry B. Ortner (eds), Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory (1994), xiv + 621 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, $55.00).

Adrian Wilson (ed.), Rethinking Social History: English Society 1570–1920 and Its Interpretation (1993), ix + 342 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £14.99, $24.95).

Andrew D. Brown, Popular Piety in Late Medieval England: The Diocese of Salisbury 1250–1550 (1995), x + 297 (Clarendon Press, Oxford and New York, £35.00, $58.00).

Jenny Kermode and Garthine Walker (eds), Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England (1994), viii + 216 (UCL Press, London, £35.00, paperback £11.95).

Drohr Wahrman, Imagining the Middle Class: The Political Representation of Class in Britain, c. 1780–1840 (1995), xiv + 428 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, $69.95, paperback $22.95).

Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath and Marian Quartly, Creating a Nation (1994), 360 (McPhee Gribble, Ringwood, Victoria), $A19.95).

Tony Bennett, The Birth of the Museum : History, Theory, Politics (1995), x + 278 (Routledge, London, £40.00, paperback £14.99).

Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather. Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Context (1995), xi + 449 (Routledge, London and New York, £13.99).

Mrinalini Sinha, Colonial Masculinity. The ‘Manly Englishman’ and the ‘Effeminate Bengali’ in the Late Nineteenth Century (1995), xi + 191 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £40.00).

Mary J. Hickman, Religion, Class and Identity. The State, the Catholic Church and the Education of the Irish in Britain (1995), viii + 287 (Avebury, Aldershot, £37.50).

David Blackbourn, Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth Century Germany (1994), xxxiv + 510 (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, $35.00).     

Working‐class movement and working‐class life : Frankfurt am Main during the Weimar Republic∗

Lynn Lees, Solidarities of Strangers :The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700–1948 (1998), xii + 373 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £45.00/$64.95).

Tim Hitchcock, Peter King and Pamela Sharpe (eds), Chronicling Poverty: The Voices and Strategies of the English Poor, 1640–1840 (1997), xii + 248 (St Martin's Press, New York, $69.95).

Anne Cova, Maternité et droits des femmes en France (XlXe‐XXe siècles) (1997), vii + 435 (Anthropos Historiques, Paris, 250FF). [Motherhood and Women's Rights in France in the 19th and 20th Centuries.]

Kathie Friedman Kasaba, Memories of Migration: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives of Jewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870–1924 (1996), xii + 242 (State University of New York, Albany, $59.50, paperback $19.95).

Mary Buckley (ed.), Post‐Soviet Women: From the Baltic to Central Asia (1997), xvii + 316 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £50.00/$59.95, paperback £16.95/$22.95).

Sudhir Hazareesingh, From Subject to Citizen: The Second Empire and the Emergence of Modern French Democracy (1998), xiii + 393 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, £40.00/$55.00, paperback £14.95/$19.95).

David E. Barclay and Eric Weitz (eds), Between Reform and Revolution: German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to 1990 (1998), xi + 580 (Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, $79.00/£55.00).

Manuel Frey, Der reinliche Biirger. Entstehung und Verbreitung bürgerticher Tugenden in Deutschland, 1760–1860 (1997), 406 (Vandenhoeck &; Ruprecht, Göttingen, DM98). [The Clean Bourgeois. The Creation and Dissemination of Middle Class Virtues in Germany, 1760–1860.]

Alon Confino, The Nation as Local Metaphor. Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871–1918 (1997), xiii + 280 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, $19.95).

Wolfgang Behringer, Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria. Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe, trans. J. C. Grayson and David Lederer (I997), xxi + 476 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £50.00/$75.00).

Olaf Blaschke, Katholizismus mid Antisemitismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich (1997), 443 (Vandenhoeck &; Ruprecht, Göttingen, DM78).

Faith Wigzell, Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender, and Divination in Russia from 1765 (1998), xi + 250 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £45.00/$64.95).

Sarah Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia:Terror, Propaganda, and Dissent, 1934–1941 (1997), xix + 236 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £45.00/$59.95, paperback , £11.95/$19.95).

Judith Pallot (ed.), Transforming Peasants: Society, State and the Peasantry, 1861–1930 (1998), xix + 264 (St Martin's Press, New York, $69.95).

Sheldon Garon, Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (1997), xvii + 313 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, $39.50/£30.50, paperback $15.95/£13.95).

Theodore Huters, R. Bin Wong and Pauline Yu (eds), Culture and State in Chinese Society: Conventions, Accommodations and Critiques, Irvine Studies in the Humanities (1997), x + 500 (Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, $65.00, paperback $24.95).

Cheryl Anne Cox, Household Interests: Property, Marriage Strategies, and Family Dynamics in Ancient Athens (1998), xx + 253 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, $45.00/$33.95).     

Social stability and agrarian change in the eastern lowlands of Scotland, 1810–1840

John J. McCusker, Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World, Routledge Studies in International Economic and Social History, I (1997), xxiii + 426 (Routledge, London and New York, £65.00/$65.00).

Francesca Bray, Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China (1997), xvi + 419 (University of California Press, London and Berkeley, £40.00/$50.00, paperback £15–95/$19–95).

Helen Bradley Foster, ’New Raiments of Self’: African American Clothing in the Antebellum South (1997), ix + 359 (Berg Publishers, New York, £39.95/$46.00, paperback

Howard B. Rock, Paul A. Gilje and Robert Asher (eds), American Artisans: Crafting Social Identity, 1750–1850 (1995), xx + 251 (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, £37.00/$45.00, paperback £14.00/$16.95).

David R. Green, From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London 1790–1870 (1995), xvii + 298 (Scolar Press, Aldershot £45.00/$76.95).

Gary B. Cohen, Education and Middle‐Class Society in Imperial Austria 1848‐igi8 (1996), xxi + 386 (Purdue University Press, £34.95/$40.95).

Pieter M. Judson, Exclusive Revolutionaries. Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848–1914 (1996), xi + 304 (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, £42.50/$49.50).

Geoff Eley (ed.), Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870–1930 (1996), viii + 522 (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, £47.50/$59.50, paperback $26.95).

Neil MacMaster, Colonial Migrants and Racism:Algerians in France, 1900–62 (1997), vii + 307 (St Martin's Press, New York, £45.00/$65.00).

Gerd‐Rainer Horn, European Socialists Respond to Fascism. Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s (1996), xii + 211 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, £42.50/845.00).

Eric D. Weitz, Creating German Communism, 1890–1990: From Popular Protest to Socialist State (1997), xviii + 445 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, £52.50/$65.00, paperback £19–95/$24.95).

Ryan Bishop and Lillian S. Robinson, Night Market. Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic Miracle (1998), x + 278 (Routledge, London and New York, £45.00/$65.00, paperback £12.99/$17.95).

Katharine H. S. Moon, Among Allies. Military Prostitution in U.S.‐Korea Relations (1997), xiii + 240 (Columbia University Press, New York, $47.50, paperback $16.95).     

Travelling from New Spain to Mexico: Mapping Practices of Nineteenth-Century Mexico

James Horn, Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth‐Century Chesapeake (1994), xv + 461 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, $60.50).

Marguerite W. Dupree, Family Structure in the Staffordshire Potteries, 1840–1880 (1995), xx + 405 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £48.00).

David B. Copian, In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants (1994), xxi + 300 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, $55.00, paperback $18.95).

Ellen Meiksins Wood, Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism (1995), 300 (Cambridge University Press, London, £35.00).     

Diamonds and War. State,Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine

Susan Mosher Stuard (ed.), Women in Medieval History and Historiography (1987), xvi+203 (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, £25.60).

Judith M. Bennett, Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock Before the Plague (1987), xv+322 (Oxford University Press, New York, £30.00).

Peter Burke, The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy: Essays on Perception and Communication (1987), x+281 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00).

Ann Hughes, Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire 1620–1660 (1987), xvi+392 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £30.00).

Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo‐American Maritime World 1700–1750 (1987), xv+322 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £22.50).

Robert Colls, The Pitmen of the Northern Coalfield. Work, Culture and Protest, 1790–1850 (1987), xvii+386 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £35.00).

Clive Anderson, Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England (1987), xiv+475 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £40.00).

Christophe Charle, Les Elites de la République, 1880–1900 (1987), 556 (Editions Fayard, Paris, no price).

Linda Lewin, Politics and Parentela in Paraiba: A Case Study of Family‐based Oligarchy in Brazil (1987), xxiii+497 (Princeton University, Princeton, £32.90).?

Alexander Keyssar, Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (1986), xviii+469 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, £45.00, paperback £13.50.

Ronald W. Edsforth, Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan (1987), xvi+294 (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick $40.00, paperback $20.00).

Margaret Randolph Higonnet, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel and Margaret Collins Weitz (eds), Behind the Lines. Gender and the Two World Wars (1987), viii+310 (Yale University Press, £19.95).

Patrick Joyce (ed.), The Historical Meanings of Work (1987), vi+320 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £27.50).     

Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône

Jeremy Goldberg, Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy. Women in Work and Yorkshire c. 1300–1520 (1992), xiii + 406 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £45.00).

David Shaw, The Creation of a Community. The City of Wells in the Middle Ages (1993), xiii + 334 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £40.00).

Joan Larsen Klein (ed.), Daughters, Wives and Widows. Writings by Men about Women and Marriage in England, 1500–1640 (1992), xviii + 329 (University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, $37.50, paperback $14.95).

Linda Pollock, With Faith and Physic. The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman, Lady Grace Mildmay, 1552–1620 (1993), viii + 179 (Collins &; Brown, £25.00).

Lawrence Stone, Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England, 1660–1857 (1993), xviii + 355 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, £16.95).

G. J. Barker‐Benfield, The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth‐Century Britain (1992), xxxiv + 520 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, £39.95).

Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution (1992), xvi + 213 (Routledge, £19.99).

Anne Hardy, The Epidemic Streets. Infectious Diseases and the Rise of Preventative Medicine, 1856–1900 (1993), xiii + 325 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £40.00).

Robert Fox and Anna Guagnini (eds), Education, Technology and Industrial Performance in Europe, 1850–1939 (1993), xi + 302 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00).

Thomas Childers and Jane Caplan (eds), Re‐evaluating the Third Reich (1993), xvi + 270 (Holmes &; Meier, New York and London, £35.00, paperback £13.95).

J. Arch Getty and Roberta T. Manning (eds), Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives (1993), viii + 294 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00, paperback     

Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution

Valerie A. Kivelson, Autocracy in the Provinces. The Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century (1997), xx + 372 (Stanford University Press, Stanford, $55.00).

Theda Perdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700–1835 (1998), xi + 252 (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska and London, $40.00).

William Reddy, The Invisible Code: Honor and Sentiment in Postrevolutionary France, 1814–1848 (1997), xv + 258 (University of California Press, Berkeley, $40.00).

Peter Mandler, The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home (1997), 544 (Yale University Press, New Haven, $45.00).

Pamela Scully, Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823—1853 (1997), xiii + 210 (Heinemann, James Currey and David Philip, New Hampshire, Oxford and South Africa, $60.00, paperback $23.95).

Rick Halpern and Jonathan Morris (eds), American Exceptionalism? US Working‐Class Formation in an International Context (1997), x + 325 (St Martin's Press, New York, $69.95).

Padraic Kenney, Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945–1950 (1997), xv + 360 (Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, $39.95).

Frederick Cooper, Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (1996), xvii + 677 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, $69.95/ paperback $27.95).

David Horn, Social Bodies. Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity (1994), 189 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, $45.00, paperback $15.95).     

Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World

Carlo Cipolla, Public Health and the Medical Profession in the Renaissance (1976), viii+136 (Cambridge University Press, £5.50).

Norman Davis (ed.), Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century: Part II (Oxford, 1977), xxxiü+664 (Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, £25.00).

Felicity Heal and Rosemary O'Day (eds), Church and Society in England: Henry VIII to James I (1977), vi+200 (Macmillan, £5.95, paperback £2.95).

Theodore K. Rabb, The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe (1976), xii+171+25 illustrations (Oxford University Press, £3.50, paperback £1.50).

Stephanie Grauman Wolf, Urban Village: Population, Community, and Family Structure in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1683–1800 (1976), xi+361 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, £15.80).

Alan J. Lee, The Origins of the Popular Press 1855–1914 (1976), 310 (Croom Helm, £9.50).

David Kynaston, King Labour: The British Working Class 1850–1914 (1976), 184 (George Allen &; Unwin, £6.50, paperback £2.95).

Peter N. Stearns, Old Age in European Society: The Case of France (1976), 163 (Croom Helm, £6.95).

Rudolf Schenda, Die Lesestoffe der Kleinen Leute (1976), 208 (C. H. Beck, München, Paperback. DM 16.80). (The Reading Matter of the Common Man)     

The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860–1914

David Gaunt, Familjeliv i Norden (1983), 327 (Gidlunds, Malmo, n.p.). (Family Life in the Nordic Countries.)

Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: A Social History 1200–1830 (1983), xiv+353 (Longman, paperback, £9.95).

Mary Fulbrook, Piety and Politics: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in England, Württemberg and Prussia (1983), viii+215 (Cambridge University Press, £20.00, paperback £7.95.)

Ira Berlin and Ronald Hoffman (eds), Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution (1983), xxviii+314 (University Press of Virginia, Char‐lottesville, $15.95).

John Bohstedt, Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales 1790–1810 (1983), x+310 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., £25.50).

Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middleclass Culture in America, 1830–1870 (1983), xviii + 262 (Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, £15.50).

David Englander, Landlord and Tenant in Urban Britain, 1838–1918 (1983), xviii+342 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, £22.50).

Konrad H. Jarausch, Students, Society and Politics in Imperial Germany: The Rise of Academic Illiberalism (1982), viii+448 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, $40.00, paperback $16.50).

Joseph Buckman, Immigrants and the Class Struggle: The Jewish Immigrant in Leeds 1880–1914 (1983), xii + 183 (Manchester University Press, £17.50). Harold Pollins, Economic History of the Jews in England (1983), 339 (Associated University Presses, £20.00).

S. A. Smith, Red Petrograd : Revolution in the Factories, 1917—1918 (1983), (Cambridge University Press, £25.00).

Robert J. Waller, The Dukeries Transformed: The Social and Political Development of a Twentieth‐Century Coalfield (1983), ix+319 (Oxford University Press, £22.50).

Ian Kershaw, Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933–1945 (1983), xv+425 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £22.50).

P. Abrams, Historical Sociology (1982), xviii+353 (Open Books, Shepton Mallet, £12.00, paperback £6.00).

D. Smith, Barrington Moore: Violence, Morality and Political Change (1983), viii+195 (Macmillan, £12.95, paperback £4.95).     

SSRC research group on Modern German Social History: First Meeting: History of the Family,U.E.A., Norwich, 7–8 July 1978

R.J. Holton, The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism (1985), xii+234 (Macmillan, Basingstoke, £20, paperback £6.95).

Antoni Maczak, Henryk Samsonowicz and Peter Burke, East‐Central Europe in Transition: from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century (1985), vii+207 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £22.50).

Paul Slack, The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England (1985), xvi+443 (Routledge &; Kegan Paul, London, £25.00).

A. L. Beier, Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England (1985), xv+233 (Methuen, London, £19.95).

John L. McMullan, The Canting Crew: London's Criminal Underworld, 1550–1700 (1984) ix+226 (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., n.p.).

Maxine Berg, The Age of Manufactures 1700–1820 (1985), 378 (Fontana, London, paperback, £4.95).

Alan Greer, Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740–1840 (1985), 304 (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo and London, n.p.).

Barbara Jeanne Fields, Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (1985), xv+268 (Yale University Press, New Haven, £27.50).

A. J. Kidd and K. W. Roberts (eds), City, Class and Culture: Studies of Cultural Production and Social Policy in Victorian Manchester (1985), vii + 280 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £25.00).

Gary S. Messinger, Manchester in the Victorian Age: The Half‐Known City xii+211 (Manchester University Press, Manchester £11.95, paperback £4.95).

Donald Reid, The Miners of Decazeville: A Genealogy of Deindustrialization (1985), ix+333 (Harvard University Press, Boston, $25.00).

Moshe Lewin, The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia (1985), viii+354 (Methuen, London, paperback £8.95).

Derek J. Oddy and Derek S. Miller (eds), Diet and Health in Modern Britain (1985), 326 (Croom Helm, London, £22.50).

Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb (eds), Hunger and History (1985), 336 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00).     

Turning to Nature in Germany. Hiking,Nudism, and Conservation, 1900–1940

David Rollison, The Local Origins of Modern Society. Gloucestershire 1500–1800 (1992), xvi + 319 (Routledge, £35.00).

Charles Carlton, Going to the Wars. The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638–1651 (1992), xii + 428 (Routledge, £25.00).

Ian Gentles, The New Model Army in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1645–1653 (1992), xii + 584 (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, £40.00).

Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century (1991), xxvii + 484 (Allen Lane Penguin, Harmondsworth, £25.00; paperback (1993), £8.99).

L. D. Schwarz, London in the Age of Industrialization: Entrepreneurs, Labour Force, and Living Conditions, 1700–1850 (1992), xv + 285 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00).

Ted W. Margadant, Urban Rivalries in the French Revolution (1992), xvi + 511 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., £47.50, paperback £14.95).

Ann F. La Berge, Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth‐Century French Public Health Movement (1992), xviii + 376 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £45.00).

Joseph P. Reidy, From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800–1880 (1992), xiv + 360 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London, $45.00).

Allan Greer and Ian Radforth (eds), Colonial Leviathan: State Formation in Mid‐Nineteenth‐Century Canada (1992), xii + 328 (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, US $62.00, paperback $25.95).

David Mitch, The Rise of Popular Literacy in Victorian England (1992), xxiii + 340 (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia n.p.).Patricia Anderson, The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture 1790–1860 (1991), xi + 211 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £30.00).

Henrika Kuklick, The Savage Within: The Social History of British Anthropology, 1885–1945 (1991), 325 (Cambridge University Press, £30.00).

Maguelonne Toussaint‐Samat, History of Food (1992), xix + 801 (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, £25.00).

James Fentress and Chris Wickham, Social Memory (1992), xii + 229 (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, £35.00, paperback £11.95).     

Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars

John Walter and Roger Schofield (eds), Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society (1989), xiv + 335(Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00).

Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660–1770 (1989), xxii + 416 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £37.50).

William Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution (1989), xi + 466, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £17.50).

E. A. Wrigley, Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England (1988), vii + 146 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £17.50).

Pat Hudson, Regions and Industries: A Perspective on the Industrial Revolution in Britain (1989), xiii + 277 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £30.00).

Mary Poovey, Uneven Developments. The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid‐Victorian England (1989), xi + 282 (Virago Press, £12.99).

Gerald D. Surh, 1905 in St Petersburg: Labor, Society and Revolution (1989), xvii + 456 (Stanford University Press, Stanford, $45.00).

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Avner Offer, The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation (1989), xx + 449 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £25.00).

Arthur Marwick (ed.), Total War and Social Change (1988), 160 (Macmillan, £29.50, paperback £8.95).

Vladimir Andrle, Workers in Stalin's Russia: Industrialization and Social Change in a Planned Economy (1988), xii + 243 (Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead, £40.00).

Hiroaki Kuromiya, Stalin's Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928–1932 (1988), xviii + 364 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £27.50).

Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935–1941 (1988), xv + 325 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00).

Peter Duus (ed.), The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 6: The Twentieth Century (1988) xviii + 866 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £60.00).

Morag Shiach, Discourse on Popular Culture (1989), viii + 238 (Polity Press, Cambridge, £25.00).     

Hunger: A Modern History

Anthony Fletcher, Reform in the Provinces. The Government of Stuart England (1986), 386 (Yale University Press, London, £22.00).

Joan R. Kent, The English Village Constable, 1580–1642. A Social and Administrative Study (1986), 325 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £27.50).

David W. Howell, Patriarchs and Parasites: The Gentry of South‐West Wales in the Eighteenth Century (1986), xii + 310 (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, £27.00).

Gary B. Nash, Race, Class, and Politics: Essays on American Colonial and Revolutionary Society, with a Foreword by Richard S. Dunn (1986), xxii + 370 (University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, $37.50, paperback $15.95).

Joan M. Jensen, Loosening the Bonds: Mid‐Atlantic Farm Women, 1750–1850 (1986), xv + 271 (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, £25.00).

Toby L. Ditz, Property and Kinship: Inheritance in Early Connecticut, 1750–1820 (1986), xvi + 213 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, £21.80).

Steven Laurence Kaplan and Cynthia J. Koepp (eds), Work in France. Representations, Meaning, Organization, and Practice (1986), 576 (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, $47.50).

Catharina Lis, Social Change and the Labouring Poor: Antwerp, 1770–1860, trans. by James Coonan (1986), 1 + 237 (Yale University Press, £16.50).

Roger Davidson, Whitehall and the Labour Problem in Late‐Victorian and Edwardian Britain (1985), ix + 293 (Groom Helm, £18.95).

Rodney Lowe, Adjusting to Democracy. The Role of the Ministry of Labour in British Politics 1916–1939 (1986), viii + 284 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £27.50).

Alan Knight, The Mexican Revolution (1986), vol. 1, xxiv + 619; vol. 2, xxiv + 679 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £37.50 per volume).

Emily Honig, Sisters and Strangers, Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919–1949 (1986), ix + 299 (Stanford University Press, Stanford, $37.50).

John F. Sweets, Choices in Vichy France: the French under Nazi Occupation (1986), x + 240 (Oxford University Press, New York, £22.50).

Robert A. Slayton, Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy (1986), xiv + 278 (University of Chicago Press, £18.75).

Paul Kleppner, Chicago Divided: The Making of a Black Mayor (1985), xviii + 313 (Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, 111., $26.00, paperback $9.50).

Bernard Elbaum and William Lazonick (eds), The Decline of the British Economy (1986), vii + 310 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, £25.00).

Tony Judt, Marxism and the French Left: Studies on Labour and Politics in France 1830–1981 (1986), ix + 338 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, £25.00).     

Modern Playhouses: an architectural history of Britain’s new theatres, 1945–1985

Susan Reynolds, Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900–1300 (1984), viii + 387 (Clarendon Press, £28.00).

David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch‐Zuber, Tuscans and their Families. A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427 (1985), xxiv+404 (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, £32.00).

Guido Ruggiero, The Boundaries of Eros. Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice (1985), viii+223 (Oxford University Press, New York and London, £25.00).

Mary Prior (ed.), Women in English Society 1500–1800 (1985), xvi + 294 (Methuen, £14.95, paperback £7#lb95).

Olivia Smith, The Politics of Language 1791–1819 (1984), xiii+269 (Clarendon Press, £25.00).

K. C. Phillips, Language and Class in Victorian England (1984), 190 (Basil Blackwell in association ‘with Andre Deutsch, £19.50).

Dorothy Thompson, The Chartists (1984), v+399 (Temple Smith, £19.50).

David J. V. Jones, The Last Rising. The Newport Insurrection of 1839 (1985), 273 (Clarendon Press, £12.50).

Ivor Wilks, South Wales and the Rising of 1839 (1984), 270 (Croom Helm, £18.95).

Rosalind O'Hanlon, Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and low caste protest in nineteenth‐century western India (1985), xiv+326 (Cambridge University Press, £30.00).

Hal S. Barron, Those Who Stayed Behind: Rural Society in Nineteenth‐Century New England (1984), xiv+184 (Cambridge University Press, £20.00).

Clair Goldberg Moses, French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century (1984), xiii+311 (Albany, State University of New York Press, $39.50).

Jane Rendall, The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France and the United States, 1780–1860 (1985), x+382 (Macmillan, £20.00, paperback £7.95).

Roger Penn, Skilled Workers in the Class Structure (1984), x+259 (Cambridge University Press, £25).

Royden Harrison and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds.), Divisions of Labour. Skilled Workers and Technological Change in Nineteenth‐Century Britain (1985), ix+254 (The Harvester Press, Brighton, £22.50).

Jane Lewis, Women in England 1870–1950: Sexual Divisions and Social Change (1984), xv+240 (Wheatsheaf, £16.95, paperback £5#lb95). Elizabeth Roberts, A Woman's Place. An Oral History of Working‐Class Women 1890–1940 (1984), vii + 246 (Basil Blackwell, £14#lb95).

John Scott and Catherine Griff, Directors of Industry: The British Corporate Network 1904–1976 (1984), 226 (Polity Press, £19#lb50).

R. P. T. Davenport‐Hines, Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior (1984), xii+295 (Cambridge University Press, £25.00).     

Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World

I. M. W. Harvey, Jack Cade's Rebellion of 1450 (1991), xiv + 220 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £30.00).

Philippa C. Maddern, Violence and Social Order in East Anglia 1422–1442 (1992), 270 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £35.00).

David Harris Sacks, The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450–1700 (1991), xxvii + 464 (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, $45.00).

Carla Hesse, Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789–1810 (1991), xvi + 540 (University of California Press, Berkeley, $29.95).

Marc Baer, Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London (1992), xv + 291 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £37.50).

John Russell Stephens, The Profession of the Playwright: British Theatre 1800–1990 (1992), xix + 254 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £32.50).

Jonathan Sperber, Rhineland Radicals: The Democratic Movement and the Revolution of 1848–1849 (1991), xvi + 528 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, £27.50).

Donald Reid, Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations (1991), 235 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, £31.95).

Lenard Berlanstein, Big Business and Industrial Conflict in Nineteenth‐Century France: A Social History of the Parisian Gas Company (1991), xiv + 348 (University of California Press, Berkeley, $42.50).

Angela V. John, Our Mother's Land: Chapters in Welsh Women's History, 1830–1939 (1991), xiv + 216 (University of Wales Press, Cardiff £25.00, paperback £10.95).

Philip Jenkins, A History of Modern Wales, 1536–1990 (1992), x + 451 (Longman, £28.00, paperback £13.99).

David Ward, Poverty, Ethnicity, and the American City, 1840–1925. Changing Conceptions of the Slum and the Ghetto (1989), xiv + 263 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, paperback £9.95).

Temma Kaplan, Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona (1992), xiv + 266 (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, $30.00).

Elizabeth Faue, Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915–1945 (1991), xviii + 295 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, $42.95, paperback $16.45).

Kathryn Bernhardt, Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840–1950 (1992), 326 (Stanford University Press, Stanford, $37.50).

Susan Archer Mann, Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice (1990), xiv + 211 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, $32.95).     

Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle

Theodore Evergates, Feudal Society in the Bailliage of Troyes under the Counts of Champagne, 1152–1284 (1976), xii+274 (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, £11.20).

Pierre Guichard, Structures sociales ‘orientales’ et ‘occidentales’ dans l'Espagne musulmane (1977), 426 (Editions Mouton et cie, Paris and La Haye, 176F).

J. S. Cockburn (ed.), Crime in England 1550–1800 (1977), xiv+334 (Methuen, £10.00, paperback £6.95).

Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk and E. P. Thompson (eds), Family and Inheritance. Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200–1800 (1976), vi+421 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £8.80); Peter Laslett, Family Life and Illicit Lore in Earlier Generations. Essays in Historical Sociology (1977), vii+270 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £15.00, paperback £4.95).

David C. Itzkowitz, Peculiar Privilege: A Social History of English Foxhunting, 1753–1885 (1977), 248 (The Harvester Press, Hassocks, £10.50).

Alfred F. Young (ed.), The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism (1976), xv+481 (Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, Illinois, paperback, n.p.).

Clive Bush, The Dream of Reason: American Consciousness and Cultural Achievement from Independence to the Civil War (1977), xi+397 (Edward Arnold, £14.95).

Albert Soboul, Problèmes paysans de la Révolution, 1789–1848 (1976), 446 (François Maspéro, Paris, 50F.).

James H. Bater, St Petersburg. Industrialization and Change (1976), xxiii+474 (Edward Arnold, £14.95).

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, A Parting of the Ways: Government and the Educated Public in Russia 1801–1851 (1977), viii+323 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £12.00).

J. Michael Phayer, Sexual Liberation and Religion in Nineteenth‐Century Europe (1977), 176 (Croom Helm, £7.50).

John Woodward and David Richards (eds.), Health Care and Popular Medicine in Nineteenth‐Century England (1977), 195 (Croom Helm, £7.95).

Jörg Calliess, Militär in der Krise. Die bayerische Armee in der Revolution 184849 (1976), vi+224 (Harald Boldt, Boppard am Rhein, DM 40).

Trygve Tholfsen, Working Class Radicalism in Mid‐Victorian England (1976), 332 (Croom Helm, £9.95).

Daniel Field, The End of Serfdom: Nobility and Bureaucracy in Russia, 1855–1861 (1976), xiii+472 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, and London, £11.90).     

Love in the Time of Communism: Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR

Edith Ennen, The Medieval Town (1979), 287 (North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Dfl. 85.00). Translation by Natalie Fryde of Die europäische Stadt des Mittelalters (Gottingen, 1972).

J. Michael Hittle, The Service City: State and Townsmen in Russia, 1600–1800 (1979), xii+297 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, £10.50).

John T. Evans, Seventeenth‐Century Norwich. Politics, Religion and Government, 1620–1690 (1980), xii+346 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £12.50).

David Thomas Konig, Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts, 1629–1692 (1979), xix+215 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, $21.00).

Jonathan C. Brown, A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, 1776–1860 (1979), xiv+302, Cambridge Latin American Studies, volume XXXV (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £15.00).

Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, Education and Popular Literacy in Ch'ing China (1979), 294 (Michigan Studies on China, Ann Arbor, £11.55).

Sandra Burman (ed.), Fit Work For Women (1979), 201 (Croom Helm, £8.50, paperback, £4.50).

David M. Katzman, Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America (1979), xi+374 (Oxford University Press, New York, £7.75).     

Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt

Trevor Dean, Land and Power in Late Medieval Ferrara. The Rule of the Este, 1350–1450 (1988), xiv + 212 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00).

C.J. Wickham, The Mountains and the City. The Tuscan Appennines in the Early Middle Ages (1988), xxxiii + 427, 10 maps (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £40.00).

Peter Clark and David Souden (eds), Migration and Society in Early Modern England (1987), 355 (Hutchinson, £35.00).

Sharon V. Salinger, ’To Serve Well and Faithfully’: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682–1800 (1987), xiv + 192 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00.)

Keith Michael Baker (ed.), The Political Culture of the Old Regime (1987), xxiv + 559 (Pergamon Press, £60.00).

Jean‐Claude Bonnet (ed.), La Carmagnole des Muses. L'Homme de lettres et l'artiste dans la Revolution (1988), 426 (Armand Colin, Paris, 180ff).

Hugh Gough, The Newspaper Press in the French Revolution (1988), 264 (Routledge, £30.00).

Edna Hindie Lemay, La Vie quotidienne des députés aux Etats Généraux: 1789 (1987), 273 (Hachette, 100FF).

Detlef K. Muller, Fritz Ringer and Brian Simon (eds), The Rise of the Modern Educational System. Structural Change and Social Reproduction, 1870–1920 (1987), xiv + 264 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £27.50).

Paul Bew, Conflict and Conciliation in Ireland, 1890–1910: Parnellites and Radical Agrarians (1987), 241 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £25.00).

Gerard Noiriel, Le Creuset français. Histoire de l'immigration XIXe‐XXe siècles (1988), (Le Seuil, Paris, 160ff).

David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor (1987), 494 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £30.00, paperback £12.95).

John Holford, Reshaping Labour: Organization, Work and Politics in Edinburgh in the Great War and After (1988), xii + 276 (Croom Helm, £30.00).

Bill Lancaster, Radicalism, Co‐operation and Socialism: Leicester Working‐Class Politics 1860–1906 (1987), xxii + 232 (Leicester University Press, Leicester, £27.50).

Michael Savage, The Dynamics of Working‐Class Politics: The Labour Movement in Preston 188o‐1940 (1987), xii + 280 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00).

Lynne Viola, The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization (1987), x + 285 (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, £30.00).

Susan Bridger, Women in the Soviet Countryside: Women's Roles in Rural Development in the Soviet Union (1987), xvii + 259 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00).

Tony Novak, Poverty and the State: An Historical Sociology (1988), xi + 212 (Open University Press, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia, £22.50, paperback

John Clarke, Allan Cochrane and Carol Smart, Ideologies of Welfare: From Dreams to Disillusion (1987), 206 (Hutchinson Education, paperback £7.95).

E.P. Hennock, British Social Reform and German Precedents: The Case of Social Insurance 1880–1914 (1987), vi + 243 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £25.00).     

Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France: The Crown,Urban Elites,and the Poor

R. W. Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk ‐ Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation (1981), xi+299 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, £25.00).?

Margaret Spufford, Small Books and Pleasant Histories : Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth‐Century England (1981), xxi+275 (Methuen, £14.95).

W. Th. M. Frijhoff, La Société néerlandaise et ses gradués, 1575–1814 (1981), xvii+422 (APA‐Holland University Press, Amsterdam, Hf 80). (Dutch Society and its Graduates, 1575–1814)

Iain A. Cameron, Crime and Repression in the Auvergne and the Guyenne, 1720–1790 (1981), xvi+283 (Cambridge University Press, £18.50).?

Geoffrey Best, War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770–1870 (1982), 336 (Fontana History of War and European Society; Leicester University Press, £12.00; Fontana Paperbacks, £2.95).

V. G. Kiernan, European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815–1960 (1982), 285 (Fontana History of War and European Society: Leicester University Press, £12.00, Fontana Paperbacks, £2.95).

Craig Calhoun, The Question of Class Struggle, Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism During the Industrial Revolution (1982), xvi+321 (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, £12.50).

James Epstein, The Lion of Freedom: Feargus O'Connor and the Chartist Movement, 1832–1842 (1982), 327 (Croom Helm, £14.95).

David Goodway, London Chartism, 1838–1848 (1982), xviii+333 (Cambridge University Press, £22.50).

H. L. Dutton and J. E. King, ‘Ten Per Cent and No Surrender’. The Preston Strike 1853–1854 (1981) 198 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £18.50).

Roger Smith, Trial By Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials (1981), ix+238 (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, £15.00)

Mark Finnane, Insanity and the Insane in Post‐Famine Ireland (1981), 241 (Croom Helm, £13.95).

R. J. Evans and W. R. Lee (eds), The German Family. Essays on the Social History of the Family in Nineteenth‐ and Twentieth‐century Germany (1981), 302 (Croom Helm, £13.95).

P.K. Edwards, Strikes in the United States, 1881–1974 (1981), xvi+336 (Basil Blackwell, £19.50).

Richard Bessel and E. J. Feuchtwanger (eds), Social Change and Political Development in Weimar Germany (1981), 297 (Croom Helm, £13.95).

David Abraham, The Collapse of the Weimar Republic : Political Economy and Crisis (1981), xvi+366 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, £16.70, paperback £7.00).

Martin Broszat, The Hitler State. The foundation and development of the internal structure of the Third Reich (1981), xvii+378 (Longman, paperback £6.50).

Olive Banks, Faces of Feminism (1981), 285 (Martin Robertson, £5.50).

Diane Koenker, Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution (1981), xvi+ 420 (Princeton University Press, Princeton N.J., £21.30).

Criminal Justice History: An International Annual, 1 (1981) vi+288 (The Crime and Justice History Group, Inc. in association with the John Jay Press, New York, $24.00).

R. B. Outhwaite (ed.), Marriage and Society. Studies in the Social History of Marriage (1981), viii+284 (Europa, £19.50).

T. W. Moody, Davitt and Irish Revolution 1846–82 (1981), xxiv+674 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £22.50).