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)     

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).     

Demography and Nation. Social Legislation and Population Policy in Bulgaria, 1918–1944

Hermann Rebel, Peasant Classes. The Bureaucratization of Property and Family Relations under Early Habsburg Absolutism, 1511–1636 (1983), xviii+354 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, £24.30).

Philip Jenkins, The Making of a Ruling Class. The Glamorgan Gentry 1640–1790 (1983), xxvi+353 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25).

M. Elliott, Partners in Revolution; The United Irishmen and France (1982), xx+411 (Yale, £15.00).

R. Wells, Insurrection: The British Experience 1795–1803 (1983), xiv+304 (Alan Sutton, Gloucester, £16).

Barbara Taylor, Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century (1983), xviii+402 (Virago, £9.95, paperback £5.95).

Derek Fraser (ed.), Municipal Reform and the Industrial City (1982), x+165 (Leicester, £12.00).

John Garrard, Leadership and Power in Victorian Industrial Towns 1830–1880 (1983), ix+228 (Manchester, £21.00).

Pierre Aycoberry, Cologne entre Napoleon et Bismarck. La croissance d'une ville rhenane, (1981) (Aubier Montaigne, n.p., Paris).

Avner Offer, Property and Politics, 1870–1914: Land Ownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England (1981), xvii+445 (Cambridge University Press £27.50).

Jeffrey Cox, The English Churches in a Secular Society: Lambeth, 1870–1930 (Oxford, 1982), xiii+322 (Oxford University Press, £22.50).

Richard J. Evans (ed.), The German Working Class, 1888–1933: The Politics of Everyday Life (1982), 259 (Croom Helm, £14.95).

Jay Winter (ed.), The Working Class in Modern British History (1983), xii+315 (Cambridge University Press, £25.00).

Derek Fraser and Anthony Sutcliffe (eds), The Pursuit of Urban History (1983), xxx+482 (Edward Arnold, £35.00).

John Breuilly, Nationalism and the State (1982), x+421 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £25.00).

Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Making Histories: Studies in History‐Writing and Politics (1982), 379 (Hutchinson, £6.95).     

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).     

Short notices

Howard M. Gitelman, Workingmen of Waltham: Mobility in American Urban Industrial Development, 1850–1890 (1975), xvi+192 (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London, £5.50).

Michael J. Cullen, The Statistical Movement in Early Victorian Britain. The Foundations of Empirical Social Research (1975), xii+205 (Harvester Press, Hassocks, £7.50).

Raymond Wolters, The New negro on Campus: Black College Rebellions of the 1920s (1975), viii+370 (Princeton University Press, £7.90).

Marie B. Rowlands, Masters and Men in the West Midland Metalware Trades before the Industrial Revolution (1975) x+198 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £8.00).

Dwight L. Smith (ed.), Afro‐American History: A Bibliography (1974), xvi+856 (ABC Clio Inc., Santa Barbara and Oxford, £22.50).

Hugh Cunningham, The Volunteer Force: a Social and Political History 1859–1908 (1975) 168 (Croom Helm, £6.50).

Leslie Clarkson, Death, Disease and Famine in Pre‐Industrial England (Dublin, 1975), iii+188 (Gill and Macmillan, £8.75).

Arnold J. Bauer, Chilean Rural Society front the Spanish Conquest to 1930 (1975), xviii+265 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £7.90).

R. Kieckhefer, European Witch Trials: Their Foundation in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300–1500 (1976), x+181 (Routledge and Kegan Paul, £5.25).

David Elliston Allen, The Naturalist in Britain: a Social History (1976), xii+292 (Allen Lane, £9.00).

Paul Smith (ed.), The Historian and Film (1976), viii+208 (Cambridge University Press, £4.95).

Katherine S. Naughton, The Geentry of Bedfordshire in the 13th and 14th ceaturies (1976), 90 (Leicester University Press, Leicester, Local History Occ. Papers. 3rd series, No. 2. £3.75).

Thomas J. Archdeacon, New York City, 1664–1710: Conquest and Change (1976), 197 (Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, £6.35).     

A reply to Donna Andrew

David M. Gordon, Richard Edwards and Michael Reich, Segmented Work, Divided Workers: The Historical Transformation of Labor in the United States (1982), xii + 288 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £20.00, Paperback £6.95).

Craig R. Littler, The Development of the Labour Process in Capitalist Societies (1982), x + 226 (Heinemann Educational Books £14.50, paperback £6.50).

Charles F. Sabel, Work and Politics: The Division of Labor in Industry (1982), xiii + 304 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £17.50).     

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).     

Reviews

M. I. Finley, The Use and Abuse of History (1975), 254 (Chatto &; Windus, £4.50).

John H. Langbein, Prosecuting Crime in the Renaissance. England, Germany, France (1974), ix+321 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, £7.50).

Hans‐Ulrich Wehler (ed.), Der Deutsche Bauernkrieg, 1524–1526 (1975), 356 (Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Sonderheft 1, Vandenhoek und Ruprecht, Göttingen, DM 39).

Mervyn James, Family, Lineage and Civil Society. A Study of Society, Politics and Mentality in the Durham Region 1500–1640 (1974), x+233 (Oxford University Press, £5.00).

C. W. Chalklin and M. A. Havinden (eds.), Rural Change and Urban Growth 1500–1800. Essays in English Regional History in Honour of W. G. Hoskins (1974), xxvi+360 (Longman, £8.50).

Peggy K. Liss, Mexico under Spain, 1521–1556. Society and the Origins of Nationality (1975), xvi+229 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, £7.50).

J. I. Israel, Race, Class and Politics in Colonial Mexico, 1610–1670 (1975), xiii+305 (Oxford University Press, £8.00).

Olwen H. Hufton, The Poor of Eighteenth‐Century France, 1750–1789 (1974), xiii+414 (Oxford University Press, £9.00).

B. R. Mitchell, European Historical Statistics 1750–1970 (1975), xx+827 (Macmillan, £24).

Edward Royle, Victorian Infidels (1974), viii+357 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £6.00).

Verena Martinez‐Alier, Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth‐Century Cuba. A Study of Racial Attitudes and Sexual Values in a Slave Society (1974), x+202 (Cambridge University Press, £4.40).

John Burnett (ed.), Useful Toil. Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s (1974), 364 (Allen Lane, £5, paperback £2.50).

A. Allan MacLaren, Religion and Social Class: The Disruption Years in Aberdeen (1974), xii+268 (Routledge, £4.95).

David Jones, Chartism and the Chartists (1975), 229 (Allen Lane, £6.00, paperback £3.00).

Robert Gellately, The Politics of Economic Despair: Shopkeepers and German Politics 1890–1914 (1974), xvi+317 (Sage Publications, £6.00).

Alan A. Jackson, Semi‐Detached London: Suburban Development, Life and Transport 1900–39 (1973), 381 (George Allen and Unwin, £6.50).     

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).     

Response

Edmund King, England 1175–1425 (1979), xiii+208 (Routledge &; Kegan Paul, £6.50).

G. R. Quaife, Wanton Wenches and Wayward Wives. Peasants and Illicit Sex in Early Seventeenth Century England (1979), 282 (Croom Helm, £11.50).

Louis Bergeron, Banquiers, négociants et manufacturiers parisiens du Directoire à l'Empire (1978), 436 (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, collection ‘Civilisations et Sociétés’ no. 51, Mouton, Paris, 130 fr.). (Bankers, Merchants and Manufacturers in Paris from the Directory to the Empire)

Clive Emsley, British Society and the French Wars, 1793–1815 (1979), viii+216 (Macmillan, £8.95, paperback £3.95).

Dennis Hardy, Alternative Communities in Nineteenth Century England (1979) xii+268 (Longman, £9.95; paperback £5.95).

Richard Lawton (ed.) The Census and Social Structure (1978), xii+330 (Frank Cass, £12.50).

M. Jeanne Peterson, The Medical Profession in Mid‐Victorian London (1978) x+406 (University of California Press, £12.25).

Michael D. Biddiss (ed.) Images of Race (1979), 259 (Leicester University Press, £9.50, paperback £5.00).

Hans Pohl (ed.), Forschungen zur Lage der Arbeiter im Industrialisierungtprozeß (1978), 132 (Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart, DM 32). (Studies of Working‐class Conditions in the Process of Industrialization)

Jack Common (ed.), Seven Shifts (1978), xi+271 (E.P. Pubulishing, £5.95).

Robert Currie, Industrial Politics (1979), xiii+294 (Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, £10.00).

Pogge von Strandmann, Unternehmens‐Politik und Unternehmens‐Fuehrung: Der Dialog zwischen Aufsichtsrat und Vorstand bei Mannetmann, 1900 bis 1919 (1978), 204 (ECON Verlag, Diisseldorf, DM 28). (The Politics and Leadership of Enterprise: The Dialogue between Directors and Management of Mannesmann)     

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).     

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).     

Reviews

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village, 1294–1324, translated by Barbara Bray (1978), xvii+383 (The Scolar Press, £12.50).

Alan Macfarlane, The Origins of English Individualism. The Family, Property and Social Transition (Oxford, 1978), xvi+216 (Basil Blackwell. £8.50).

Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Ruling Class, Régime and Reformation at Strasbourg 1520–1555 (1978), xxi+458 (Brill, Leiden, 124 guilders).

Andrew B. Appleby, Famine in Tudor and Stuart England (1978) x+250 (Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, £10.75). Victor Skipp, Crisis and Development. An ecological case study of the Forest of Arden, 1570–1674 (1978) xii+132 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £6.50).

Patricia Branca, Women in Europe since 1750 (1978), 233 (Croom Helm, £8.95, paperback £3.95).

John W. Blassingame (ed.), Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies (1977), lxv+777 (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, paperback £7.50).

Jonas Frykman, Horaa i bondesamhället (1977), 230 (Liber Läromedel, Lund, 24 Sw. cr.). (The Whore in Peasant Society)

Helmut Bleiber (ed.), Bourgeoisie uad bürgerliche Umwälzuagin Deutschland 1789–1871 (Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR: Schriften des Institute für Geschichte, 50, 1977) xii+525 (Akademie‐Verlag, East Berlin, 48M). (Bourgeoisie and Bourgeois Upheaval in Germany 1789–1871)

A. P. Donajgrodzki (ed.), Social Control in Nineteenth‐Century Britain (1977)! 258 (Croom Helm, £8.50).

Anthony S. Wohl (ed.), The Victorian Family (1978), 224 (Croom Helm, £7.95).

M. J. Daunton, Coal Metropolis Cardiff 1870–1914 (1977), 260 (Leicester University Press, Leicester, £12.00).

W. A. Speck, Stability and Strife: England 1714–1760 (1977), viii+311 (Edward Arnold, £9.95, paperback £3.50).

Howard Newby, The Deferential Worker: a study of farm workers in East Anglia (1977), 462 (Allen Lane, £9.00).

John Stevenson and Chris Cook, The Slump: Society and Politics during the Depression (1977), 348 (Jonathan Cape, £8.95).     

Dignifying Argentina: Peronism,Citizenship, and Mass Consumption

Le Mouvement Social. Numéro ioo (Paris, 1977), 155 (Les Editions Ouvrières, 18F, 20F abroad).

Jon Bloomfield (ed.), Class, Hegemony and Party (1977), 125 (Lawrence and Wishart, paperback £1.50).

Peter Clark, English Provincial Society from the Reformation to the Revolution. Religion, Politics and Society in Kent 1500–1640 (1977), xiii+504 (Harvester Press, £17.95).

Werner Conze (ed.), Sozialgeschichte der Familie in der Neuzeit Europas: neue Forschungen (1976), 401 (Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart, DM 69). (Social History of the Modern European Family: New Research.)

Alan Macfarlane, in collaboration with Sarah Harrison and Charles Jardine, Recon‐structing Historical Communities (1977), xii+222 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £3.95).

Michael Flinn et al., Scottish Population History from the Seventeenth Century to the 1930s (1978), xxv+547 (Cambridge University Press, £19.50).

John Money, Experience and Identity: Birmingham and the West Midlands, 1760–1800 (1977), VÜ+31Z (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £9.95).

Phillip McCann (ed.), Popular Education and Socialization in the Nineteenth Century (1977), xii+276 (Methuen, £5.25).

Howard Zehr, Crime and the Development of Modern Society (1976), 188 (Croom Helm, £7.50).

John D. Post, The Last Great Subsistence Crisis in the Western World (1977), xv+240 (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, £9.70).

Derek Fraser, Urban Politics in Victorian England (1976), 324 (Leicester University Press, £12.00).

Louis Galambos, The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880–1940. A Quantitative Study In Social Change (1976), xii+324 (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, £12.00).

José Harris, William Beveridge, A Biography (1977), viii+488 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £9.50).

Raymond Challinor, The Origins of British Bolshevism (1977), 291 (Croom Helm, £8.50).

Hermann Glaser, The Cultural Roots of National Socialism, translated by Ernest A. Menze (1978), 289 (Croom Helm, £8.50).     

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).     

After The History of Sexuality: German Genealogies With and Beyond Foucault

Thomas N. Tentler, Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation (1977), xxiv+395 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, £18.80).

Jack Richard Censer, Prelude to power: the Parisian radical press, 1789–1791 (1976), xiv+186 (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, £10.00).

Jürgen Hein, Dorfgeschichte (1976), ix+151 (J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart, DM 10.80). (The Rural Story) Peter Zimmerman, Der Bauernroman (1975), vii+277 (J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart, DM 45.00). (The Peasant Novel)

Royden Harrison, Gillian Woolven and Robert Duncan, The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals 1790–1970 (1977), xxiii+685 (Harvester Press, Hassocks, £26.50).

James J. Sheehan (ed. ), Imperial Germany ( 1976), 282 (Croom Helm and New Viewpoints, New York and London, £7.50).

Maurice Spiers, Victoria Park, Manchester: A Nineteenth‐Century Suburb in its Social and Administrative Context (1976), xiv+104 (Manchester University Press, for the Chetham Society, Manchester, £7.60).

Asa Briggs and John Saville (eds.), Essays in Labour History, 1918–1939 (1977), 292 (Croom Helm, London and Archon Books, Hamden, Conn., £7.50).

Alex Hall, Scandal, Sensation and Social Democracy: the SPD Press and Germany, 1890–1914 (1977), ix+267 (Cambridge University Press, £9.00).

D. E. R. Watt, A Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Graduates to A.D. 1410 (1977), xlii+607 (Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, £30.00).

Daniel Guérin, Class Struggle in the First French Republic: bourgeois and bras nus, 1793–1795 (1977), zv+295 (Pluto Press, £6.60, paper £3.60).

Jennifer M. Brown (ed.), Scottish Society in the Fifteenth Century (1977), xxii+274 (Edward Arnold, £11.00).

H.‐U. Wehler, Bibliographie zur modernen deutschen Sozialgeschichte and Bibliographie zur modernen deutschen Wirschaftsgeschichte (1976) 269 and 242 (UTB Vandenhoeck, Göttingen, paperback DM 14.80 each). (Bibliography of Modern German Social History; Bibliography of Modern German Economic History.)

Susan Reynolds, An Introduction to the History of English Medieval Towns (1977), xiii+234 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £7.95).

Roger Moore, The Emergence of the Labour Party 1880–1924 (1978), viii+216 (Hodder and Stoughton, £7.50, paperback £3.50).     

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).     

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).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this Article: THE LONG DEBATE ON POVERTY by R. M. Hartwell et al, IEA, 1973, xvi + 243 pp., £2.50. FAMILY POVERTY David Bull (ed.), Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1971, 216pp., £1.25. POVERTY by Dudley Jackson, Macmillan, 1972, 93 pp., 75 p. DRUG MISUSE AND THE LAW by S. Bradshaw, MacMillan 1972, 87 pp., 95p. RACE AND LAW by Anthony Lester and Geoffrey Bindman, Penguin Education: Law and Society, 1972, 491 pp., £1.00 (UK). THE ENGLISH PRISON OFFICER SINCE 1850: A STUDY IN CONFLICT by J. E. Thomas, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972, 242 pp., £3.00. WORKERS' ATTITUDES AND TECHNOLOGY by Dorothy Wedderburn and Rosemary Crompton: Cambridge Papers in Sociology, Cambridge University Press, 1972, 176 pp., £3.50 cloth, £1.40 paper. INTERACTION RITUAL by Erving Goffman, Penguin University Books, 1972, 270 pp., £1.00. SIX APPROACHES TO THE PERSON, Edited by Ralph Ruddock, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972, xii + 212 pp., £3.50. MOTHERLESS FAMILIES by Victor George and Paul Wilding, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972, 232 pp., £3.50. UNEMPLOYMENT AND POLITICS, A Study in English Social Policy 1886–1914 by José Harris, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972, 411 pp., £7.50. LAISSEZ-FAIRE AND STATE INTERVENTION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN (Studies in economic history) by Arthur J. Taylor, Macmillan, 1972, 80 pp., 50 p. PLANNING AND EDUCATION by Derek Birley, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972, viii + 152 pp., £2.25. THE ADMINISTRATION OF EDUCATION IN BRITAIN by Bernard Lawrence, Batsford, 1972, 213 pp., £2.00. THE MACHINERY OF JUSTICE IN ENGLAND by R. M. Jackson, Cambridge at the University Press, 1972, xv + 590 pp., £5.90. THE DIALECTICS OF SOCIAL LIFE: ALARMS AND EXCURSIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY by Robert F. Murphy, Allen & Unwin, 1972, x + 261 pp., £3.50. VARIATIONS IN CHILDREN'S SERVICES AMONG BRITISH URBAN AUTHORITIES by Bleddyn Davies, Andrew Barton and Ian McMillan, Bell, London 1972, 159 pp., £2.00. GUIDANCE SELECTION AND TRAINING: IDEAS AND APPLICATION by Peter C. Morea, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972, xviii + 362 pp., £5.00. THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF MODERN BRITAIN by E. A. Johns, Pergamon, 1972, 203 pp., Hard Cover £1.80, Flexi Cover £1.25. IMAGINATION AND PRECISION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF PETER NETTL by T. J. Nossiter, A. H. Hanson and Stein Rokkan (eds.), Faber & Faber, 1972, 464 pp., £6.00. STATUS PASSAGE by Barney G. Glaser and Anselm L. Strauss, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971, 205 pp., £3.25. BEYOND THE AUTOMOBILE by Tarbor R. Stone, Prentice-Hall Inc., 1972, x + 148 pp., £3.00. DISCOVERING SOCIOLOGY— Studies in Sociological Theory and Method by John Rex, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, 278 pp., £3.75. RACE, COLONIALISM AND THE CITY by John Rex, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, 310 pp., £3.95.     

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).