Custom,class and change: The trade societies of Birmingham∗

E. P. Thompson, The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays (1978), v+406 (The Merlin Press, paperback £3.95).

W. Bick, P. J. Müller and H. Reinke (eds), Quantum Dokumentation. Quantitative historische Forschung. Historisch‐Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung‐en Bd. I (1977), 236 (Klett‐Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart, DM. 39). (Quantum Documentation. Quantitative Historical Research)

P. J. Müller (ed.), Die Analyse prozess‐produzierter Daten. Historisch‐Sozialzvissenschaftliche Forschungen Bd. II (1977), 226 (Klett‐Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart, DM. 29). (The Analysis of Institutionally produced Data)

H. Best and R. Mann (eds), Quantitative Methoden in der historisch‐sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung. Historisch‐Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungen Bd. Ill (1977), 253 (Klett‐Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart, DM. 39). (Quantitative Methods in Historical and Social Science Research)

F. Irsigler (ed.), Quantitative Methoden in der Wirtschafts‐und Sozial‐geschichte der Vorneuzeit. Historisch‐Sozialvnssenschaftliche Forschungen Bd. IV (1978), 171 (Klett‐Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart, n.p.). (Quantitative Methods in the Economic and Social History of the Early Modern Period)

P. D. A. Garnsey and C. R. Whittaker (eds), Imperialism in the Ancient World (1978), 392 (Cambridge University Press, £12.50).

Guy Cabourdin, Terres et Hommes en Lorraine (1550–1635). Toulois et Comté de Vaudémont (1977), 2 vols., 763 (Université de Nancy, n.p.).

Sharon Kettering, Judicial Politics and Urban Revolt in Seventeenth‐century France: The Parlement of Aix 1629–1659 (1978) xi+370 (Princeton University Press, £15.00).

R. J. Morris, Class and Class Consciousness in the Industrial Revolution 1780–1850 (1979), 79 (Macmillan, £1.75).

Clyde Binfield, So Down to Prayers: Studies in English Nonconformity, 1780–1920 (1977), xiv+296 (Dent, £8.50).

Ian Sellers, Nineteenth‐century Nonconformity (1977), ix+102 (Arnold, £5.95, paperback £2.95).

Lynn Hunt, Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France: Troyes and Reims, 1786–1790 (1978), viii+187 (Stanford University Press, $11.50).

Gwynne Lewis, The Second Vendée (1978) x+250 (Oxford University Press, £10.00).

Joseph F. Kett, Rites of Passage: Adolescence in America, 1790 to the Present (1977), 327 (Basic Books, New York, $16.50).

Alain Corbin, Les filles de noce. Misere sexuelle et prostitution aux 19e et zoe siècles (1978), 576 (Editions Aubier Montaigne, Paris, 96 f).

(The Good‐time Girls. Sexual Poverty and Prostitution in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries)

A. J. Youngson, The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine (1979), 237 (Croom Helm, £9.95).

F. B. Smith, The People's Health 1830–1910 (1979), 436 (Croom Helm, £14.95).

Ian Carter, Farm Life in Northeast Scotland, 1840–1914: The Poor Man's Country (1979) xiv+258 (John Donald, Edinburgh, £12.50).

Shulamit Volkov, The Rise of Popular Antimodernism in Germany. The Urban Master Artisans 1873–1896 (1978), ix+399 (Princeton University Press, £16.80).

Stefan Collini, Liberalism and Sociology. L. T. Hobhouse and Political Argument in England 1880–1914 (1979), vii+281 (Cambridge University Press, £12.00).     

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).

Geoffrey Swain

Bristol Polytechnic

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).     

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).     

Reviews

Robert Brentano, Rome Before Avignon. A Social History of Thirteenth‐Century Rome (1974), xiv+340 (Longman, £5.95).

Margaret Spufford, Contrasting Communities. English Villagers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1974), xxiii+374 (Cambridge University Press, £7.70).

Peter Burke, Venice and Amsterdam. A Study of Seventeenth‐Century Elites (1974), 154+8 illustrations (Temple Smith, £2.75).

Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed. The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1974), xxi+231 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, £5).

Duncan J. MacLeod, Slavery, Race and the American Revolution (1975), vi+249 (Cambridge University Press, £5.50, paperback £2.25).

David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution: 1770–1823 (1975), 576 (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, £9.60).

Edward Shorter and Charles Tilly, Strikes in France 1830–1968 (1974), xxiii+428 (Cambridge University Press, £9.50).

Tom G. Kessinger, Vilyatpur 1848–1968: Social and Economic Change in a North Indian Village (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1974), xiii+227 (University of California Press, $12.00).

Leonore Davidoff, The Best Circles: Society, Etiquette and the Season (1973), 127+44 illustrations (Croom Helm, £3.50).

Joan Wallach Scott, The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth‐Century City (1974), xiv+239 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, £5.00).

E. D. Steele, Irish Land and British Politics: Tenant Right and Nationality, 1865–1870 (1974), x+367 (Cambridge University Press, £6.40).

Stefano Merli, Proletariato di Fabbrica e Capitalismo Industriale. Il Caso Italiano: 1880–1900(1973). Vol. I, vi+858; Vol. II, xxxviii+870 (Florence: La Nuova Italia; Vol. I, lire 8000; Vol. II, lire 8000).

Roger Pethybridge, The Social Prelude to Stalinism (1974), 343 (Macmillan, £7.00).     

The heirs of the American revolution

Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788–1850 (1984), xiv+496 (Oxford University Press, New York, £31.50).

Jan Lewis, The Pursuit of Happiness : Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia (1983), xix+290 (Cambridge University Press, £20.00).

Jay Fliegelman, Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution against Patriarchal Authority, 1750–1800 (1982), viii+328 (Cambridge University Press, £20.00).     

Short Notices

Michael R. Watts, The Dissenters, vol. I (From the Reformation to the French Revolution) (1978), xvii+543 (Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, £15.00).

Jean Séguy, Les Assemblées Anabaptistes‐Meanonltes de France (Ecole des Hautes‐Etudes en sciences sociales [Société, Mouvements sociaux, et idéologies, le sine, Etudes XVII]) (Paris, 1977), 904 (Mouton, n.p.). (The Anabaptist‐Mennonite Communities in France.)

Joyce Oldham Appleby, Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth‐Century England (1978), x+287 (Princeton U.P., Princeton, £11).

Carlo Capra, L'Età Rivoluzionaria e Napoleonica in Italia 1796–1815 (1978), 321 (Loescher, Turin, LIt. 4,900). (The Revolutionary and Napoleonic State in Italy 1796–1815.)

Kenneth Duncan, Ian Rutledge and Colin Harding (eds), Land and Labour in Latin America. Essays on the Development of Agrarian Capitalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries(1977), x+535 (Cambridge University Press, £17.50).

O. Nigel Boland, The Formation of a Colonial Society. Belize, from Conquest to Crown Colony (1977), xiv+240 (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, £11.25).

Christoph Kleßmann, Polnische Bergarbeiter im Ruhrgebiet 1870–1945 (1978)) 306 (Vandenhoeck &; Ruprecht, Göttingen, DM 52) (Polish Miners in the Ruhr 1870–1945).

Georg P. Meyer, Bibliographie zur deutschen Revolution 1981/1919 (1977), 186 (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Gottingen, DM 13). (Bibliography of the German Revolution 1918/1919.)

Dirk Blastus, Kriminalität und Alltag. Zur Konffiktgeschichte des Alltagslebens im 19. Jahrhundert (1978), 95 (Kleine Vandenhoeck‐Reihe. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Gottingen, DM 9.80). (Criminality and Everyday Life. On the History of Conflict in Everyday Life in the Nineteenth Century.)

Margaret Pelting, Cholera, Fever and English Medicine 1825–1865 (1978) x+342 (Oxford University Press, £7.50).     

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).     

Short Notices

Michael Freeden, The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform (1978), xi+291 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £10.00).

D. W. Howell, Land and People in Nineteenth‐Century Wales (1977), xv+207 (Routledge &; Kegan Paul, £6.95).

Murray Tolmie, The Triumph of the Saints: The Separate Churches of London 1616–1649 (1977), xii+251 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £9.00).

George Huppert, Les Bourgeois Gentilshommes. An Essay on the Definition of Élites in Renaissance France (1977), xii+237 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, £12.95).

Robert Currie, Alan Gilbert and Lee Horsley, Churches and Churchgoers ‐ Patterns of Church Growth in the British Isles since 1700 (1977), 244 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £12.50).

D. Philips, Crime and Authority in Victorian England: The Black Country 1835–1860 (1977), 321 (Croom Helm, £8.50).

Brenda Swann and Maureen Turnbull, Records of Interest to Social Scientists 1919–1919: Employment and Unemployment (1978), v+590 (HMSO, paperback, £13.50).     

Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire

Gerd Wunder, Die Burger von Hall: Sozialgeschichte einer Reichsstadt, 1216–1802 (1980), 335 (Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen, DM 39.50). (The Citizens of Hall: The Social History of an Imperial City, 1216–1802.)

Christopher Dyer, Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society. The Estates of the Bishopric of Worcester, 680–1540 (1980), xiv+427 (Past and Present Publications: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £22.50).

Zvi Razi, Life, Marriage and Death in a Medieval Parish. Economy, Society and Demography in Halesowen, 1270–1400 (1980), xiv+162 (Past and Present Publications: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £12).

David Cressy, Literacy and the Social Order. Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England (1980), x+246 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £12.50).

Michael Anderson, Approaches to the History of the Western Family 1500–1914 (1980), (Macmillan, Studies in Economic and Social History, paperback £2.25).

V. A. C. Gatrell, Bruce Lenman and Geoffrey Parker (eds), Crime and the Law. The Social History of Crime in Western Europe since 1500 (1980), xii+381 (Europa Publications, £20).

M. H. Froeschlé‐Chopard, La Religion Populaire en Provence Orientale au XVIII^e siècle (1980), 418 (Beauchesne, Paris, n.p.); M. Ménard, Une Histoire des Mentalites Religieuses aux XVII^e et XVIII’ siècles: Mille Rétables de l'Ancien Diocese du Mans (1980), 467 (Beauchesne, Paris, n.p.); Philippe Boutry and Michel Cinquain, Deux Pélérinages au XIX^e siècle. Ars et Paray‐le‐Morial (1980), 309 (Beauchesne, Paris, n.p.).

Gert Zang (ed.), Provinzialisierung einer Region. Zur Entstehung der bürger‐lichen Gesellschaft in der Provinz (1978), 538 (Syndikat, Frankfurt/M., n.p.). (Provincialization of a Region. On the Formation of Bourgeois Society in the Provinces.)

Alan B. Campbell, The Lanarkshire Miners: a Social History of their Trade Unions 1775–1874 (1980), xii+354 (John Donald, Edinburgh, £18.00).?

Morris J. Vogel and Charles E. Rosenberg (eds), The Therapeutic Revolution. Essays in the Social History of American Medicine (1979), xiv+270 (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. $18.50).

F. K. Prochaska, Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth‐century England (1980), xiii+301 (Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, £15.95, paperback £6.95).

Judith R. Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society. Women, Class, and the State (1980), ix+347 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £15.00).

Charles More, Skill and the English Working Class, 1870–1914 (1980), 252 (Croom Helm, £12.95).

M. Strobel, Muslim Women in Mombasa, 1890–1975 (1979), xiii+258. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, £12.30).     

A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880–1952

Brian Easlea, Witch‐hunting, Magic and the New Philosophy. An Introduction to Debates of the Scientific Revolution 1450–1750 (1980), xii+283 (Harvester Press, Brighton, £25, paperback £8.50).

Peter Laslett, Karla Oosterveen and Richard M. Smith (eds), Bastardy and its Comparative History: Studies in the history of illegitimacy and marital nonconformism in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, North America, Jamaica and Japan (1980), xv+431 (Edward Arnold, £24.00).

Jonathan Dewald, The Formation of a Provincial Nobility: the Magistrates of the Parlement of Rouen 1499–1610 (1980), xv+402 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, £14.40); James B. Wood, The Nobility of the Election of Bayeux, 1463–1666 (1980), xiv+220 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, £8.80).

Christopher R. Friedrichs, Urban Society in an Age of War: Nördlingen, 1580–1720 (1980), xvii+350 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, £13.60).

Tony Dickson (ed.), Scottish Capitalism: Class, State and Nation from before the Union to the Present (1980), 335 (Lawrence &; Wishart, £9.50).

John Brewer and John Styles (eds), An Ungovernable People: The English and their law in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1980), 400+4 plates (Hutchinson, £12.50).

Harvey J. Graff, The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth‐Century City (1979), xxii + 352 (Academic Press, New York, n.p.). Carl F. Kaestle and Maris A. Vinovskis, Education and Social Change in Nineteenth‐Century Massachusetts (1980), xxi + 349 (Cambridge University Press, £17–50).

Toni Offermann, Arbeiterbewegung und liberales Bürgertum in Deutschland 1850–1863 (1979), 623 (Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn, DM 108) (The Labour Movement and the Liberal Bourgeoisie in Germany 1850–1863)

Joseph Melling (ed.), Housing, Social Policy and the State (1980), 233 (Croom Helm, £10.95).

Stuart Macintyre, A Proletarian Science: Marxism in Britain 1917–1933 (1980), xii + 286 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £12.00).

Stuart Macintyre, Little Moscows: Communism and Working‐class Militancy in Interwar Britain (1980), 213 (Croom Helm, £11.95).     

Death and the social historians: Some recent books in French and English

Philippe Ariés, L'Homme devant la mort (1977), 642 (Editions du Seuil, Paris, 69 fr.)

Pierre Chaunu, La Mort à Paris, XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (1978), 543 (Fayard, Paris)

Robert Favre, La Mort dans la littirature et la pensee françaises au siècle des lumières (1978), 640 (Presses Universitaires de Lyon, Lyon)

Richard Cobb, Death in Paris 1795–1801 (1978), 134 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, £4–95)

David E. Stannard, The Puritan Way of Death, A Study in Religion, Culture and Social Change (1979), x+236 (Oxford University Press, Galaxy Book, Oxford, £2.25 paperback)

Richard Huntington and Peter Metcalf, Celebrations of Death, The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual (1979), XV+230 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £12.50, paperback £4.95)     

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).     

A History of Prejudice: Race,Caste, and Difference in India and the United States

Robert S. Gottfried, Epidemic Disease in Fifteenth‐Century England. The Medical Response and the Demographic Consequences (1978), xiii+262 (Leicester University Press, £10.00).

Phyllis Mack Crew, Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands 1544–1569 (1978), 221 (Cambridge University Press, £9.50).

F. Furet and J. Ozouf, Lire et Ecrire: l'alphabétisation des français de Calvin à Jules Ferry, (1977), 2 vols. 370+379 (Editions de Minuit, Paris, 45 F and 55 F). [Reading and Writing. The development of literacy amongst the French from Calvin to Jules Ferry]

S. Åkerman, H. Chr. Johansen and D. Gaunt (eds) with J. Pedersen (co. ed.), Chance and Change: Social and Economic Studies in Historical Demography in the Baltic Area (1978), 296 (Odense University Press, D.kr. 100.00).

Angus McLaren, Birth Control in Nineteenth‐century England (1978), 263 (Croom Helm, £8.95).

Edward J. Bristow, Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700 (1977), xii+274 (Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, £12).

Timothy Tackett, Priest and Parish in Eighteenth‐century France: a social and political study of the curés in a diocese of the Dauphine, 1750–1791 (Princeton, 1977). xiii+350 (Princeton University Press, £14.60).

Jerome Blum, The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe (1978), xiii+505 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, £18.40).

David Spring (ed.), European Landed Elites in the Nineteenth Century (1977), vii+147 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, £8.75).

Peter R. Decker, Fortunes and Failures: White‐collar Mobility in Nineteenth‐century San Francisco (1978), xvi+336 (Harvard University Press, £14.00).

Geoffrey Crossick, An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society, Kentish London 1840–1880 (1978), 306 (Croom Helm, £9.95).

John Bodnar, Immigrants and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870–1940 (1977), xix+213 (University of Pittsburgh Press, $11.95).

John W. Briggs, An Italian Passage: Immigrants to Three American Cities, 1890–1930 (1978), xxii+348 (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, £14.40).

Pat Thane (ed.), The Origins of British Social Policy (1978), 209 (Croom Helm, £7.95).

J. R. Hay, The Development of the British Welfare State 1880–1975 (1978), 116 (Edward Arnold, £7.00, paperback £2.25).     

Odd Couples: A History of Gay Marriage in Scandinavia

Richard Bauman, Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and Silence among Seventeenth‐Century Quakers (1983), viii + 168 (Cambridge University Press, £19.50, paperback £6.50).

Richard B. Sheridan, Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies, 1680–1834 (1985), xxii+420 (Cambridge University Press, £25.00).

Alice Goldstein, Determinants of Change and Response among Jews and Catholics in a Nineteenth‐Century German Village (1984), iv+48 (Jewish Social Studies Monograph Series 3, New York, distributed by Columbia University Press: New York and London, n.p.).

Rita Aldenhoff, Schulze‐Delitzsch. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Liberalismus zwischen Revolution und Reichsgrundung (1984), 245+notes and index (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden‐Baden, n.p.).

Louis Perouas, Refus d'une religion, religion d'un refus en Limousin rural, 1880–1940 (1985), 245 (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, paperback 120F). (Refusal of a Religion, Religion of Refusal in the Rural Limousin, 1880–1940.)

Gordon Phillips and Noel Whiteside, Casual Labour: The Unemployment Question in the Port Transport Industry 1880–1970 (1985), x+324 (Clarendon Press, £25.00).

American Family History: A Historical Bibliography (1984), xii+282 (ABC‐Clio Research Guide 12, Clio Press, Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford, £30.50).     

Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic

David L. Smith, Richard Strier and David Bevington (eds), The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576–1649 (1995), xvi + 288 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00/$49.95).

John Smail, The Origins of Middle Class Culture. Halifax, Yorkshire, 1660–1780 (1994), xvi + 241 (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y., $39.95).

Anna Clark, The Struggle for the Breeches. Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (1995), xv + 416 (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, $35.00).

Deborah Valenze, The First Industrial Woman (1995), ix + 251 (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, hardback $39.95/£25.00).

Leonore Davidoff, Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class (1995), x + 276 (Polity Press, Cambridge, £45.00, paperback £12.95).

Mary Poovey, Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation 1830–1864 (1995), x + 255 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, $34.00/£27.25, paperback $12.95/£10.25).

Christopher Parker (ed.), Gender Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Literature (1995), xiii + 194 (Scolar Press, Aldershot and Vermont, £39.95).

David Northrup, Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834–1922 (1995), xii + 186 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, $49.95/£30.00, paperback $14.95).

Hermann Beck, The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia. Conservatives, Bureaucracy and the Social Question 1815–70 (1995), 285 (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, $47.50).

Vivian Bickford‐Smith, Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town: Group Identity and Social Practice 1875–1902 (1995), xxiii + 281 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £40.00).

Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake (eds), Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century (1995), viii + 351 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York and Melbourne, $59.95).

Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent (eds), Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico (1994), xix + 377 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, $18.95).     

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).     

Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton

John T. Swain, Industry before the Industrial Revolution. North‐East Lancashire c. 1500–1640 (1986), xii + 235 (Manchester University Press for the Chetham Society, third series, vol. XXXII, Manchester, £27.50).

James Sutherland, The Restoration Newspaper and its Development (1986), ix + 262 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00).

Cyril Ehrlich, The Music Profession in Britain since the Eighteenth Century. A Social History (1985), viii + 269 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, £22.50).

Brian Young, In its Corporate Capacity: The Seminary of Montreal as a Business Institution, 1816–1878 (1986), xix + 295 (McGill‐Queen's University Press, Kingston and Montreal, $30.00).

J. A. Yelling, Slums and Slum Clearance in Victorian London (1986), xiii + 160 (George Allen &; Unwin, £25.00).

Zuzanna Shonfield, The Precariously Privileged: A Professional Family in Victorian London (1987), xix + 266 (Oxford University Press, £17.50).

John Springhall, Coming of Age. Adolescence in Britain 1860–1060 (1986), 270 (Gill &; Macmillan, Dublin, £30.00).     

Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives,Labor Markets,and Politics

R. H. Britnell, Growth and Decline in Colchester, 1300–1325 (1985), xvi+304 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £27.50).

Alison Hanham, The Celys and their World. An English Merchant Family of the Fifteenth Century (1985), xv+472 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00).

Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth Century London (1985), ix+258 (Methuen, London, £28).

Kathryn Norberg, Rich and Poor in Grenoble, 1600–1814 (1985), xii+366 (University of California Press, £31.95).

Allen Horstman, Victorian Divorce (1985), 196 (Croom Helm, London, £17.95).

Jill Harsin, Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth‐Century Paris (1985), xxv+417 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, $42.50).

Peter Schüttler, Naissance des Bourses du travail: Un Appareil idéologique d'état à la fin du XIXe siècle (1985), 294 (Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 165 FF), trans. Jean‐Pierre Lefebvre and the author.

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895–1904 (1985), xii+208 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £20).

Raphael Samuel, Ewan MacColl and Stuart Cosgrave, Theatres of the Left, 1880–1935: Workers’ Theatre Movements in Britain and America (1985), xx+364 (Routledge &; Kegan Paul, London, paperback £8.95).

Julian Jackson, The Politics of Depression in France, 1932–1936 (1985), ix+303 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £39.50).     

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).     

Statistics and the Public Sphere. Numbers and the People in Modern Britain,c. 1800–2000

Susan Elizabeth Ramírez, The World Upside Down. Cross‐Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth‐Century Peru (1996), vii + 234 (Stanford University Press, Stanford, £45.00).

Biography Database, 1680–1830: Personal Edition (1997; a rerelease of the 1995 institutional edition with updated software) (Romulus Press Ltd with the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 91.83/$125).

Martin Hewitt, The Emergence of Stability in the Industrial City: Manchester, 1832–67 (1996), ix + 335 (Scolar Press, Aldershot, £45.00/$74.95).

Louise Young, Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (1998), xiii + 487 (University of California Press, Berkeley, £35.00/$45.00).

Kevin Passmore, From Liberalism to Fascism: The Right in a French Province, 1928–1939 (1997), xvii + 333 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £40.00/$59.95).