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).     

The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition,the Public Sphere,and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements

R. E. F. Smith and David Christian, Bread and Salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia (1984), xvi+391 (Cambridge, £32#lb50).

Doreen M. Rosman, Evangelicals and Culture (1984), 262 (Croom Helm, £14.95).

Roger Morriss, The Royal Dockyards during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1983), ix+262 (Leicester University Press, Leicester, £28#lb50).

Robert Bud and Gerrylynn Roberts, Science versus Practice: Chemistry in Victorian Britain (1984), 236 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £25#lb00).

Roger Fletcher, Revisionism and Empire: Socialist Imperialism in Germany 1807–1914 (1984), vii‐f 223 (George Allen and Unwin, £18#lb00).

Gigliola Dinucci, Una Federazione tra riformismo e sindicalismo : La Federazione Nazionale Lavoratori del Mare 1901–1908 (1983), 201 with statistical tables (Centro Editoriale Toscano, Florence, Lit. 15,000).

(A Trade Union Federation between Reformism and Syndicalism: The National Federation of the Workers of the Sea 1901–1908)

W. H. Greenleaf, The British Political Tradition, vol. I: The Rise of Collectivism (1983), xiii+336 (Methuen, £22#lb00); vol. II: The Ideological Heritage (1983), xii+579 (Methuen, £26#lb00).

Henry Phelps Brown, The Origins of Trade Union Power (1983), 266 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £15#lb00).     

The Plantation

David Herlihy, Medieval Households (1985), vii + 227 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., £23#lb50, paperback £8#lb95).

Peter Blickle, Gemeindereformation. Die Menschen des 16. Jahrhunderts auf dem Weg zum Heil (1985), 234 (Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, DM 88).

[Communal Reformation. People of the Sixteenth Century on the Road to Salvation.]

Giovanni Levi, L'eredità immateriale: camera di un esorcista nel Piemonte del seicento (1985), 202 (Einaudi, lire 18,000).

Richard B. Sher, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment. The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh (1985), xix + 390 (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, £30#lb00).

The English Satirical Print, 1600–1832: John Brewer (ed.), The Common People and Politics, 1750–1790S (1986), 304 + 120 plates (Chadwyck‐Healey, £40#lb00.).

Roger Miller and Torvald Gerger, Social Change in Nineteenth‐century Swedish Agrarian Society (1985), 130 (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Stockholm Studies in Human Geography, 5, Almqvist and Wicksell International, Stockholm, n.p.).

Peter Scholliers, De Gentse metaalbewerkers in de 19e eeuw: de enquete van L. Varlez (1985), 1 + 185 + appendix (Centrum voor Hedendaagse Sociale Geschiedenis, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, n.p.).

Annarita Buttafuoco, Le Mariuccine: storia di un istituzione laica, l'Asilo Mariuccia (1985) 491 (Franco Angeli, Milan, lire 28,000).

L. Margaret Barnett, British Food Policy during the First World War (1985), xix + 241 (George Allen &; Unwin, £25#lb00).

Mary Langan and Bill Schwarz (eds), Crises in the British State 1880–1930 (1985), 288 (Hutchinson University Library, paperback £8#lb95).     

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 marriage and ancient evidence

Harvey J. Graff, The Legacies of Literacy. Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society (1987), x + 493 (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, $57.50).

Miri Rubin, Charity and Community in Medieval Cambridge (1987), xiv + 365 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £30.00).

Herbert P. Bix, Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590–1884 (1986), xxxviii + 296 (Yale University Press, £30.00).

Stephen Vlastos, Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan (1986), xii + 184 (University of California Press, £16.95).

Howard Newby, Country Life: A Social History of Rural England (1987), 250 (Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, £14.95).

Pat Hudson, The Genesis of Industrial Capital: A Study of the West Riding Wool Textile Industry c. 1750–1850 (1986), xiii + 345 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00).

R. J. Morris (ed.), Class, Power and Social Structure in British Nineteenth‐century Towns (1986), xiii + 222 (Leicester University Press, Leicester, £27.50).

Barbara Caine, Destined to be Wives. The Sisters of Beatrice Webb (1986), xvi + 276 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, £15.00).

Pat Jalland, Women, Marriage and Politics 1860–1914 (1986), xii + 366 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £19.50).

Frederick Cooper, On the African Waterfront. Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa (1987), xvi + 290 (Yale University Press, New Haven, £25.00).

Donald Howard Bell, Sesto San Giovanni. Workers, Culture, and Politics in an Italian Town, 1880–1922 (1986), 295 (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick and London, $38.00).

Alice A. Kelikian, Town and Country under Fascism. The Transformation of Brescia 1915–1926 (1986), 228 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £25.00).

David Gartman, Auto Slavery: The Labour Process in the American Automobile Industry, 1897–1950 (1986), xv + 348 (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, $19.95).

Arthur J. Kuhn, GM Passes Ford, 1918–38: Designing the General Motors Performance‐Control System (1986), xii + 380 (Pennsylvania University Press, $29.75).

Steve Jefferys, Management and Managed: Fifty Years of Crisis at Chrysler (1986), xiv + 290 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00).

Paul Buhle, Marxism in the USA: From 1870 to the Present (1987), 299 (Verso, paperback £8.95).

D.C. Coleman, History and the Economic Past: An Account of the Rise and Decline of Economic History in Britain (1987), 150 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £17.50).     

Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America

R. Po‐chia Hsia, Society and Religion in Münster, 1535–1618? (1984), xiv+306 (Yale University Press, £22.50).

David Sabean, Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany (1984), x+250 (Cambridge University Press, £22.50).

William Beik, Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth‐Century France. State Power and Provincial Aristocracy in Languedoc (1985), xvii+375 (Cambridge University Press, £30.00).

K. D. M. Snell, Annals of the Labouring Poor. Social Change and Agrarian England 1660–1900 (1985), x+464 (Cambridge University Press, £30.00). Alun Howkins, Poor Labouring Men. Rural Radicalism in Norfolk 1870–1923 (1985), xiv+225 (Routledge &; Kegan Paul for History Workshop Series, paperback £7.95).

William Reddy, The Rise of Market Culture. The French Textile Trade, 1750–1900 (1984), viii+406 (Cambridge University Press, £25.00).

Neville Kirk, The Growth of Working‐Class Reformism in Mid‐Victorian England (1985), xiii+369 (Croom Helm, £22.50).

Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz‐Gerhard Haupt (eds), Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Nineteenth‐Century Europe (1984), xii+283 (Methuen, £17.50).

Marzio Barbagli, Sotto lo Stesso Tetto: Mutamenti della famiglia in Italia dal XV al XX secolo (1984), 5+557 (I1 Mulino, Bologna, n.p.)‐ (Under the Same Roof: Changes in the Family in Italy from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century.)

David I. Kertzer, Family Life in Central Italy, 1880–1910: S hare cropping, Wage Labor and Coresidence (1984), vii+250 (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, n.p.).

Rose L. Glickman, Russian Factory Women: Workplace and Society, 1880–1914 (1984), xiii+325 (University of California Press, £26.20).

David J. Jeremy (ed.), Dictionary of Business Biography (1984), I and II, 878 and 690 (Butterworths, £65.00 per volume).

John Turner (ed.), Businessmen and Politics: Studies of Business Activity in British Politics, 1900–1945 (1984), 200 (Heinemann, £18.50).     

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).     

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).     

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).     

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).     

Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe

Michael Zell, Industry in the Countryside: Wealden Society in the Sixteenth Century (1994), xiv + 257 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00).

Phyllis Mack, Visionary Women. Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth‐Century England (1993), xv + 465 (University of California Press, Berkeley, $40.00).

Amy Louise Erickson, Women and Property in Early Modern England (1993), xiv + 306 (Routledge, £40.00).

Christopher L. Tomlins, Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic (1993), xviii + 406 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £42.50, paperback £14.95).

F. Murray Greenwood, Legacies of Fear: Lawand Politics in Quebec in the Era of the French Revolution (1993), xvi + 359 (Osgoode Society/University of Toronto Press, Toronto, n.p.).

Roger Scola, Feeding the Victorian City. The Food Supply of Manchester, 1770–1870 (1992), xx+ 347 (Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, £35.00).

J. Frankel and S. Zipperstein (eds), Assimilation and Community. The Jews in Nineteenth'Century Europe (1992), xii + 384 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00).

Roger Magraw, A History of the French Working Class, vol. 1, The Age of the Artisan Republic 1815–71, vol. 2, Workers and the Bourgeois Republic 1871–1939 (1992), xi + 301 and vi + 330 (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, £40.00 each).

Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay 1900–1940 (1994), xvii + 468 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £40.00).

Chris Wrigley (ed.), Challenges of Labour: Central and Western Europe igiy‐igzo (1993), x + 300 (Routledge, £40.00).     

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)     

Anarchism,Revolution and Reaction: Catalan Labour and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898–1923

The British Journal of Sociology, XXVII, no. 3, September 1976 (special issue ‘Sociology and history'), 117 (Routledge and Kegan Paul, £2.50).

Michael W. Dols, The Black Death in the Middle East (1977), xviii+390 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, £15.80).

T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin and F. J. Byrne (eds), A Sew History of Ireland, Vol. III, Early Modern Ireland 1534–1691 (1976), lxiii+736 (Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, £17).

Edward Shorter, The Making of the Modern Family (1976), xiv+369 (Collins, £4.50).

Dirk Blasius, Bürgerliche Gesellschaft und Kriminalität: zur Sozialgeschichte Preussens im Vormärz (1976), 203 (Vandenhoeck &; Ruprecht, Göttingen, DM 38).

Carsten Rüther, Räuber und Gauner in Deutschland: das Organisierte Bandenwesen im 18. und Frühen 19. Jahrhundert (1976), 197 (Vandenhoeck &; Ruprecht, Göttingen, no price given).

James S. Donnelly Jr, The Land and People of Nineteenth‐Century Cork: The Rural Economy and the Land Question (1975), xiv+440 (Routledge and Kegan Paul, £9.95).

Herbert G. Gutman, Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America. Essays in American Working‐Class and Social History (1976), xiv+343 (Alfred Knopf, New York, $12.50, paperback $7).

James Obelkevich, Religion and Rural Society: South Lindsey 1825–1875 (1976), xiv+353 (Oxford University Press, £12.00).

R. J. Morris, Cholera 1832 (1976), 228+vii (Croom Helm, £7.50).

Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernisation of Rural France 1870–1914 (1977), xv+615 (Chatto &; Windus, £12.00).

Stuart D. Brandes, American Welfare Capitalism 1880–1940 (1976), ix+210 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, £10.55).

Charles van Onselen, Chibaro ‐ African Mine Labour in Southern Rhodesia, 1900–1933 (1976) 326 (Pluto Press, £7.50).     

Kenya Between Hope and Despair, 1963–2012

Euan Cameron, The Reformation of the Heretics: The Waldenses of the Alps, 1480–1580 (1984), xviii+291 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £22.50).

Ruth McClure, Coram's Children: The London Foundling Hospitalin the Eighteenth Century (1981), xiii+321 (Yale University Press, New Haven, £15.00).

Anthony S. Wohl, Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain (1983), 440 (J. M. Dent &; Sons, £17.50).

Melanie Tebbutt, Making Ends Meet: Pawnbroking and Working‐Class Credit (1983), ix+235 (Leicester University Press, £14.00).

Lewis Pyenson, Neohumanism and the Persistence of Pure Mathematics in Wilhelmian Germany (1983), xi+136 (American Philosophical Society Memoirs 150, Philadelphia, n.p.).

Ken Plummer, Documents of Life (1983), xiv+175 (George Allen &; Unwin, £12.95, paperback £5#lb95).     

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).     

Edward Thompson's contribution to eighteenth‐century studies. The patrician‐plebeian model re‐examined

Mark Colvin, Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs: Social Theory and the History of Punishment in Nineteenth‐Century America (1997), x + 294 (St Martin's Press, New York, £35.00/$45.00).

Alex Lichtenstein, Twice the Work of Free Labor:The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (1996), xix + 264 (Verso, London and New York, £39–95/$65–00, paperback £13.95/$19–00).

Adele Lindenmeyr, Poverty is Not a Vice: Charity, Society and the State in Imperial Russia (1996), xiv + 335 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, £35.00/$49.50).

Hew Strachan, The Politics of the British Army (1997), 328 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, £30.00/$55.00).

Philippe Minard, La fortune du colbertisme: Etat et industrie dans la France des Lumières (1998), 505 (Fayard, Paris, 160 FF). [Colbert's Legacy: State and Industry in Enlightenment France.]

William Doyle, Venality: The Sale of Offices in Eighteenth‐Century France (1996), xvii + 343 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £45.00/$85.00).

Alan Forrest, The Revolution in Provincial France: Aquitaine 1789–1799 (1996), vi + 377 (Clarendon Press, Oxford and New York, £45.00/$85.00).

Vanessa R. Schwartz, Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin‐de‐Siècle Paris (1998), xiii + 230 (University of California Press, Berkeley, $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).     

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).     

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).     

Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile

Emily Taitz, The Jews of Medieval France. The Community of Champagne (1994), viii + 341 (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., $59.95).

Katherine Ott, Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870 (1996), viii + 242 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, $27.95).

Richard Vinen, Bourgeois Politics in France, 1945–1951 (1995), xiv + 300 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35–00/$59.95).