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).     

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)     

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).     

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).     

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).     

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).     

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

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).     

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).     

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).     

Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City

Barry Reay (ed.), Popular Culture in Seventeenth Century England (1985), 319 (Croom Helm, £19#lb95).

David Underdown, Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603–1660 (1985), xii + 324 (Oxford University Press, £17#lb50).

Gary Stuart De Krey, A Fractured Society: The Politics of London in the First Age of Party, 1688–1715 (1985), xvi + 304 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £25#lb00).

Gary Kates, The Cercle Social, the Girondins and the French Revolution (1985), xiv + 325 (Princeton University Press, £35#lb00).

John Belchem, Orator Hunt, Henry Hunt and English Working‐Class Radicalism (1985), xii + 304 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £25#lb00).

William H. Sewell, jun., Structure and Mobility: The men and women of Marseille, 1820–1870 (1985), xvi + 377 (Cambridge University Press, £32#lb50).

Angela V. John, Unequal Opportunities: Women's Employment in England 1800–1918 (1986), 289 + index (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, £25#lb00 hardback, £6#lb95 paperback).

Patricia Hilden, Working Women and Socialist Politics in France, 1880–1914: A Regional Study (1986), x + 307 (Oxford University Press, £25#lb00).

Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn‐of‐the‐Century New York (1986), xi + 244 (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, $24#lb95).

Richard J. Evans and W. R. Lee (eds), The German Peasantry: Conflict and Community from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries (1986), xiii + 305 (Croom Helm, £22#lb50).

W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter and Michael Shepherd (eds), The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry, 2 vols (1985), xiv + 316; xiv + 283 (Tavistock Publications, £19#lb95 each volume.).     

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).     

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).     

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).     

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).     

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).     

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).     

The Rise of Middle-Class Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain

Alan Macfarlane et al. (ed.), Records of an English Village. Earls Colne 1400–1750 (1980), Computer Output Microfiche with printed guides (Chadwyck‐Healey, Cambridge, £125).

Felicity Heal, Of Prelates and Princes: A Study of the Economic and Social Position of the Tudor Episcopate (1980), xvi+363 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £17.50).

V. G. Kiernan, State and Society in Europe 1550–1650 (1980), x+309 (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, £12.00).

Martin Scharfe, Die Religion des Volkes. Kleine Kultur‐ und Sozialgeschichte des Pietismus [The Religion of the People. A Brief Cultural and Social History of Pietism.] (1980), 180 (Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, Gütersloh, DM 24).

James C. McClelland, Autocrats and Academics: Education, Culture and Society in Tsarist Russia (1979), xiv+150 (Chicago University Press, Chicago &; London, £8.40).

A. E. Dingle, The Campaign for Prohibition in Victorian England: The United Kingdom Alliance, 1872–1895 (1980), 233 (Croom Helm, £12.50).

G. R. Hawke, Economics for Historians (1980), xii+237 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £10.50, paperback £3.95).     

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Geoffrey Swain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).