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).     

French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945–1975

Philip Benedict, Rouen during the Wars of Religion (1981), xx+297 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £22.00).

Claus Peter Clasen, Die Augsburger Weber. Leistungen und Krisen des Textilgewerbes um 1600 (1981), 460 (Hieronymus Mülberger, Augsburg, DM82). (The Weavers of Augsburg. Achievements and Crises of the Textile Industry around 1600.)

Michael S. Hindus, Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767–1878 (1980), xxviii+285 (University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill, $20.00).

James F. McMillan, Housewife or Harlot. The Place of Women in French Society 1870–1940 (1981), viii‐t‐229 (Harvester Press, Brighton, £18.95).

Margaret Barrow, Women 1870–1928. A Select Guide to Printed and Archival Sources in the United Kingdom (1981), xv+249 (Mansell, £25).

Revue du Nord, numéro special, ‘Histoire des femmes du Nord’, LXIII, 250, (juillet‐décembre, 1981).

R. S. Neale, Bath. A Social History 1650–1850; or, a Valley of Pleasure, yet a Sink of Iniquity (1981), xiv+466, 31 maps and illustrations (Routledge &; Kegan Paul, £18.00).