Book Notes

Books reviewed International Labour Office, Social security: A new consensus. European Commission. Eurostat, The social situation in the European Union, 2001. Laroque, Michel, Guide de la protection sociale. Matt, Jean‐Luc, La securité sociale: organization et financement. Mills, Catherine; Caudron, Jos, Protection sociale: économie et politique, débats actuels et réformes. Fink, Janet; Lewis, Gail; Clarke, John (eds.), Rethinking European welfare. Taylor, Lance (ed.), External liberalization, economic performance, and social policy. Yeates, Nicola, Globalization and social policy. Schuster, Thomas.Europäische oder dezentrale Sozialpolitik?: der Einfluß internationaler Nachfrage‐ und Präferenzunterschiede. Gill, Indermit S. (et al.), Brazil: Critical issues in social security. Schokkaert, Erik (ed.), Ethics and social security reform. Schaffhauser, René Schlauri, Franz, (eds.) Aktuelle Rechtsfragen der Sozialversicherungspraxis. White, Joseph, False alarm: Why the greatest threat to Social Security and Medicare is the campaign to “save” them. Gütersloh, Internationaler Reform‐Report 2001. Pfenning, Astrid; Bahle, Thomas (eds), Families and family policies in Europe: Comparative perspectives. Ginn, Jay; Street, Debra; Arber, Sara (eds.), Women, work and pensions: International issues and prospects. Millar, Jane; Rowlingson, Karen, Lone parents, employment and social policy: Crossnational comparisons. France. Ministère de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité Union nationale interfédérale des oelig;uvres et organismes privés sanitaires et sociaux, Exclusion sociale et pauvreté en Europe. Mayes, David G.; Berghman, Jos; Salais, Robert, (eds.) Social exclusion and European policy. Wong, Ging; Picot, Garnett (eds.), Working time in comparative perspective. Vol. I: Patterns, trends and the policy implications of earnings inequality and unemployment. Houseman, Susan; Nakamura, Alice (eds.) Working time in comparative perspectives. Vol. II: Life‐cycle working time and nonstandard work Robins, Philip K.; Spiegelman, Robert G. (eds.) Reemployment bonuses in the employment insurance system: Evidence from three experiments. Holzmann, Robert; Palacios, Robert (eds.) Key issues in introducing pre‐funded pension schemes: Symposium. William M. Mercer European pension fund managers’ guide 2001/2002. Vol. 1: The marketplace, 2001. Vol. 2: Profiles, 2001–2002. Buttler, Andreas, Einführung in die betriebliche Altersversorgung: mit allem Änderungen durch das Altersvermögensgesetz Taverne, Dick (et al.) Pension reform in Europe. Disney, Richard; Johnson, Paul (eds.) Pension systems and retirement incomes across OECD countries. Rechmann, Susanne, Alterssicherung in der Europäischen Union. VI: Alterssicherung in Grossbritannien und Irland: eine institutionnelle und empirische Analyse. Clemens, Wolfgang, Ältere Arbeitnehmer im sozialen Wandel: von der verschmühten zur gefragten Humanressource? Glover, Ian; Branine, Mohamed (eds.), Ageism in work and employment. Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development, Ageing and income: Financial resources and retirement in nine OECD countries. France. Conseil d’orientation des retraites, Age et travail: un axe de réflexion essentiel pour l’avenir des retraites. Karl, Fred; Krasnova, Olga V. (eds.) Alter und Altern in Russland. Henke, Klaus‐Dirk; Dräger, Christian (eds.) Gesundheitssysteme am Scheideweg: zwischen Wettbewerb und Solidarität. Schaub, Vanessa Elisabeth, Grenzüberschreitende Gesundheitsversorgung in der Europäischen Union: die gesetzlichen Gesundheitssysteme im Wettbewerb. Dahlgaard, Knut; Jung, Kalle; Schelter, Wolfgang, Profit‐Center‐Strukturen im Krankenhaus: Potentiale, Risiken und (Neben‐) Wirkungen     

Language and social history

Harvey J. Kaye and Keith McClelland (eds), E. P. Thompson: Critical Perspectives (1990), x + 283 (Oxford, Polity Press).

Bryan D. Palmer, Descent into Discourse: The Reißcation of Language and the Writing of Social History (1900), xvii + 289 (Philadelphia, Temple University Press).     

Reviews

Books Reviewed: Janet Batsleer and Beth Humpries (eds.), Welfare, Exclusion and Political Agency Robert Walker with Marilyn Howard, The Making of a Welfare Class? Benefit Receipt in Britain D. Cowan and A. Marsh (eds.), Two Steps Forward: Housing Policy into the New Millennium     

The end of the beginning of African history

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).     

Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Book Notes

Books reviewed: Delas, Jean‐Jacques; Jacquet, MaïtéLe guide de la retraite 2001 Viossat, Louis‐Charles. Les retraites: enjeux, crise, solutions Börsch‐Supan, Axel; Miegel, Meinhard (eds.). Pension reform in six countries: What can we learn from each other? Minns, Richard. The cold war in welfare: Stock markets versus pensions Charlton, Roger; McKinnon, Roddy (eds.) Pensions in development Hange, Ulrich. Umlagefinanzierte Alterssicherung, Land und Migration Herfeld, Anna‐Maria. Reformansätze zur Alterssicherung in Deutschland und intergenerationelle Gerechtigkeit Belin, Bernard (ed.) Les personnes handicapées vieillissantes Robison, Janice (ed.) Towards a new social compact for care in old age Chiva, Anthony; Stears, David (eds.) Promoting the health of older people: The next step in health generation Kocher, Gerhard; Oggier, Willy (eds.) Système de santé suisse 2001/2002: survol de la situation actuelle Zhou, Huizhong (ed.) The political economy of health care reforms Scott, Claudia. Public and private roles in health care systems: Reform experience in seven OECD countries Harrison, Anthony. Making the right connections: The design and management of health care delivery Barr, Nicholas (ed.).Economic theory and the welfare state: Vol. 1: Theory. Vol. 2: Income transfers. Vol. 3: Benefits in kind Schmähl, Winfried (ed.).Soziale Sicherung zwischen Markt und Staat Baumol, William; Wilson, Charles A. (eds.). Welfare economics Widmer, Dieter. Die Sozialversicherung in der Schweiz Simon, Silvia. Umverteilung in der Sozialversicherung Fragnière, Jean‐Pierre.Politiques socials pour le XXI^e siècle Kennett, Patricia. Comparative social policy: Theory and research France. Cour des Comptes. La sécurité sociale Watson Wyatt Worldwide (Brussels).Benefits report: Western Europe, USA and Canada, 2001 Chow, Nelson W. S. Socialist welfare with Chinese characteristics: The reform of the social security system in China Vielle, Pascale. La sécurité sociale et le coût indirect des responsabilités familiales France. Ministère de l’emploi et de la solidarityé.Plan national d’action français contre la pauvreté et l’exclusion sociale Ballet, Jérôme.L’exclusion: définitions et mécanismes Boissonnat, Jean. La fin du chômage? Hill, Michael (ed.). Income maintenance policy Turner, John A. (ed.). Pay at risk: Compensation and employment risk in the United States and Canada De Koning, Jaap; Mosley, Hugh (eds.).Labour market policy and unemployment: Impact and process evaluations in elected European countries     

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Review article

Simonetta Soldani and Gabriele Turi (eds), Making Italians. School and Culture in Modern Italy. Vol. I, The Birth of the Nation‐State, Vol. II, A Mass Society (1993), 521 + 509 (Il Mulino, Bologna).     

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.).     

The Culture of Giving: Informal Support and Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England

Alain Boureau, The Lord's First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage (1998), ix + 300 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, $55.00/£43.95, paperback $19.00/£15.25).

Rosemary Sweet, The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth Century England (1997), ix + 356 (Oxford University Press, New York, £45.00/$90.00).

Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. LeGrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore (eds), Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of US‐Latin American Relations (1998), xv + 575 (Duke University Press, Durham, $19.95).     

English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553–1829

Blanche Wiesen Cook (ed.), Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution (1979), xiv + 388 (Oxford University Press, £8.50, paperback £2.95); Patricia Hollis (ed.), Women in Public 1850–1900: Documents of the Victorian Women's Movement (1979), xxii + 336 (George Allen and Unwin, £8.50); Marylin J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert (eds), Socialist Women: European Socialist Feminism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1978), x + 260 (Elsevier, New York, $17.55, paperback $10.95); Gail Malm‐green, Neither Bread nor Roses: Utopian Feminists and the English Working Class, 1800–1850 (1978), 44 (Studies in Labour History pamphlet, John Noyce, Brighton, £1.20 libraries, 75P individuals)     

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).     

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Book Review

Dominelli, Lorenz and Soydan, (eds.) Beyond Racial Divides: Ethnicities in Social Work Practice     

Family forms in historic Europe

Richard Wall in collaboration with Jean Robin and Peter Laslett (eds), Family Forms in Historic Europe (1983) (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £39.50).     

Gwyn Campbell,Suzanne Miers and Joseph C. Miller (eds), Women and Slavery. Vol.I: Africa,the Indian Ocean World and the Medieval North Atlantic

Paul Veyne (ed.), A History of Private Life from Pagan Rome to Byzantium, vol. 1 of Philippe Aries and Georges Duby (eds), A History of Private Life (1987), ix + 670 (Cambridge, Mass, and London, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, £24.95).     

Book Reviews

Sex in Georgian England. A. D. Harvey. Remembering Main Street: An American Album. Pat Ross. Cultures in Flux: Lower-Class Values, Practices and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia. Stephen P. Frank and Mark D. Steinberg, eds. Computers, Ethics, and Society. David Ermann, Mary Williams, and Michele Shauf. A Prisoner's Duty: Great Escapes in U.S. Military History. Robert C. Doyle. Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood. Shirley R. Steinberg, Joe L. Kincheloe, eds. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. Saidiya V. Hartman. An Emotional History of the United States. Peter N. Stearns, Jan Lewis, eds. Encyclopedia of Underwater adn Maritime Archaeology. James P. Delgado, ed. Heart versus Head: Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth Century America. Peter Karsten. True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor. David Mamet. Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers. Richard W. Slatta. Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League Baseball. Hank Davis. Earning Their Stripes: The Mobilization of American Children in the Second World War. Robert William Kirk. From Headline Hunter to Superman: A Journalism Filmography. Richard R. Ness. Inconspicuous Consumption: An Obsessive Look at the Stuff We Take for granted, from the Everyday to the Obscure. Paul Lukas. Ken Follett: A Critical Companion. Richard Charles Turner     

Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal

Richard Wall and Jay Winter (eds), The Upheaval of War. Family, Work and Welfare in Europe 1914–1918 ( 1988), vii + 497 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, £40.00).     

Book Reviews

I'll Take You There: An Oral and Photographic History of the Hines Farm Blues Club. Matthew A. Donahue. Forward through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan. Paul Benedetti and Nancy DeHart John Jakes: A Critical Companion. Mary Ellen Jones. The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet. Shawn James Rosenheim. The Archaeology of Ancient Arizona. Jefferson Reid and Stephanie Whittlesey. Entertaining Tsarist Russia. James von Geldern and Louise McReynolds, eds. The Language of Landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn. Hunting the Wren: Transformation of Bird to Symbol. Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence. The Lost Works of William Carlos Williams: The Volumes of Collected Poetry as Lyrical Sequences. Robert J. Cirasa. For the Time Being: Ethnography of Everyday Life. Richard Quinney. Britannia's Children: Reading Colonialism through Children's Books and Magazines. Kathryn Castle. A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture. Cecile Whiting. The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life. Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen. Who Is Andy Warhol? Colin MacCabe, ed. Coming of Age in Cyberspace. David S. Bennahum. Masculinities, Spectatorship, and Contemporary Consumption. Sean Nixon. Ministry and Theology in Global Perspective. Don Pittman, Ruben Habito, Herry Much, eds. Fearless Girls, Wise Women and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World. Kathleen Ragan, ed. Planet Diana: Cultural Studies and Global Mourning. Ien Agn, Ruth Barcan, Helen Grace, Elaine Laly, Justine Lloyd, and Zoe Sofoulis, eds.