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).     

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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THE JEKYLL AND HYDE YEARS: POLITICS AND ECONOMIC POLICY SINCE 1964 . by Michael Stewart
SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AT WORK by Adam Westoby, David Webster and Gareth Williams.
REFORMING THE WELFARE by Phoebe Hall. Heinemann
AN OPEN CASE: THE ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT OF SOCIAL WORK , by Joyee Warham.
UNDERSTANDING LOCAL GOVERNMENT by Jeffrey Stanyer.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION . by D. E. Regan.
THINKING ABOUT CHILDREN: SOCIOLOGY AND FERTILITY IN POST–WAR ENGLAND by Joan Busfield and Michael Paddon.
CHILD CARE SERVICES AND THE TEACHER by Katrin Fitzherbert.
ADOLESCENCE AND COMMUNITY: THE YOUTH SERVICE IN BRITAIN . by John Eggleston.
THE MEANING OF DISABILITY by Mildred Blaxter.
PUBLIC POLICY TOWARD DISABILITY by Monroe Berkowitz, William G. Johnson, Edward H. Murphy.
EQUALITIES AND INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH . by C. O. Carter and John Peel (eds.)
IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL POLICY IN BRITAIN by Catherine Jones.
PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF COMMUNITY WORK IN A BRITISH TOWN by Marilyn Taylor, Alan Kestenbaum and Bryan Symons.
RURAL PLANNING PROBLEMS by Gordon E. Cherry, (ed).
RETIRING TO THE SEASIDE by Valerie Karn. Routledge and Kegan Paul     

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R. Goodman, G. White and Huck-Ju Kwon (eds.), The East Asian Welfare Model: Welfare Orientalism and the State
Kwong-Leung Tang, Social Welfare Development in East Asia
M. Ramesh (with M. G. Asher), Welfare Capitalism in Southeast Asia: Social Security, Health and Education Policies
Fen-Ling Chen, Working Women and State Policies in Taiwan: A Study in Political Economy
M. Lavalette and G. Mooney (eds.), Class Struggle and Social Welfare
D. Porter, Health, Civilization and the State     

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Books reviewed:
Bob Deacon with (Michelle Hulse and Paul Stubbs) Global Social Policy: International Organizations and the Future of Welfare
James Midgley Social Welfare in Global Context
John Carter Postmodernity and the Fragmentation of Welfare
Peter Leonard Postmodern Welfare: Reconstructing an Emancipatory Project
Robert E. Goodin The Theory of Institutional Design
A. Rogers and D. Pilgrim Mental Health Policy in Britain: A Critical Introduction
S. Goodwin Comparative Mental Health Policy: From Institutional to Community Care
D. Tomlinson and J. Carrier Asylum in the Community     

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Books reviewed:
Martin Bulmer and John Solomos, (eds.) Racism: Oxford Readers
Les Back and John Solomos, Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader
Max Travers, The British Immigration Courts: A Study of Law and Politics
K. Nelson and Joan Smith, Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America     

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Books reviewed:
P. Dwyer, Welfare Rights and Responsibilities: Contesting Social Citizenship
C. Pierson and F. G. Castles (eds), The Welfare State Reader
P. Spicker, The Welfare State: A General Theory
Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Young Homeless People     

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Books reviewed:
C. Barnes, G. Mercer and T. Shakespeare, Exploring Disability: A Sociological Introduction
Richard Freeman, The Politics of Health in Europe
John J. Rodger, From a Welfare State to a Welfare Society: The Changing Context of Social Policy in a Postmodern Era