The role of the social worker in family care of mental patients

The Therapeutic Powers of Play. Charles Shaefer (Ed.). (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., 1993.)

A Silent Sorrow—Pregnancy Loss: Guidance and Support for You and Your Family. Ingrid Kohn, M.S.W. &; Perry‐Lynn Moffitt (with Isabelle A. Wilkins, M.D.). (New York: Dell Publishing, 1992.)

In the Midst of Winter: Systemic Therapy with Families, Couples, and Individuals with AIDS Infection. Gillian Walker. (New York: W. W. Norton &; Company, 1991.)     

The influence of childhood personality and environment and onset of the psychosis on recovery from dementia praecox 1

Beyond Ego Psychology: Developmental Object Relations Theory. Rubin and Gertrude Blanck. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.)

The Perilous Bridge: Helping Clients Through Mid‐Life Transitions. Naomi Golan. (New York: The Free Press, 1986.)

Progress in Self Psychology (Vol. I). Arnold Goldberg (Ed.). (New York: Guilford Press, 1985.)     

The juvenile court: An uneasy partnership of law and social work

The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View From Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology. Daniel N. Stern. (New York: Basic Books, 1985.)

The Changing Family Life Cycle: A Framework for Family Therapy. Elizabeth A. Carter and Monica McGoldrick (Eds.). (New York and London: Gardner Press, 1988.)

Self Psychology in Clinical Social Work. Miriam Elson. (New York: W.W. Norton &; Co., 1986.), and The Kohut Seminars on Self Psychology and Psychotherapy with Adolescents and Young Adults. Miriam Elson (Ed.). (New York: W.W. Norton &; Co., 1987.)

Feminist Family Therapy: A Casebook. Thelma Jean Goodrich, Cheryl Rampage, Barbara Ellman, and Kris Halstead. (New York: W.W. Norton &; Co., 1988.)

The Alcoholic Family. Peter Steinglass, M.D. with Linda Bennett, Ph.D., Steven Wolin, M.D. and David Riess, M.D. (New York: Basic Books, 1987.)     

The concept of sublimation

Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice and Mind. M. F. Belenky, B. M. Clinchy, N. R. Goldberger and J. M. Tarule. (New York: Basic Books, 1986.)

The Therapist's Own Family: Toward the Differentiation of Self. Peter Titelman (Ed.). (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1987.)

Clinical Work With Adolescents. Judith Marks Mishne. (New York: The Free Press, 1986.)     

My Story: Blogs by Four Military Teens,by Sherman,M. D., & Sherman,D. M.

Abstract

GROUP WORK WITH POPULATIONS AT RISK. SECOND EDITION. Reviewed by Geoffrey L. Greif and Paul H. Ephross (Eds.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, 480 pp. reviewed by Barbara Muskat

TRANSFORMING THE LEGACY: COUPLE THERAPY WITH SURVIVORS OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA. Reviewed by Kathryn Basham and Dennis Miehls. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, 368 pp. reviewed by Rachel Birnbaum     

The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860–1914

David Gaunt, Familjeliv i Norden (1983), 327 (Gidlunds, Malmo, n.p.). (Family Life in the Nordic Countries.)

Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: A Social History 1200–1830 (1983), xiv+353 (Longman, paperback, £9.95).

Mary Fulbrook, Piety and Politics: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in England, Württemberg and Prussia (1983), viii+215 (Cambridge University Press, £20.00, paperback £7.95.)

Ira Berlin and Ronald Hoffman (eds), Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution (1983), xxviii+314 (University Press of Virginia, Char‐lottesville, $15.95).

John Bohstedt, Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales 1790–1810 (1983), x+310 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., £25.50).

Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middleclass Culture in America, 1830–1870 (1983), xviii + 262 (Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, £15.50).

David Englander, Landlord and Tenant in Urban Britain, 1838–1918 (1983), xviii+342 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, £22.50).

Konrad H. Jarausch, Students, Society and Politics in Imperial Germany: The Rise of Academic Illiberalism (1982), viii+448 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, $40.00, paperback $16.50).

Joseph Buckman, Immigrants and the Class Struggle: The Jewish Immigrant in Leeds 1880–1914 (1983), xii + 183 (Manchester University Press, £17.50). Harold Pollins, Economic History of the Jews in England (1983), 339 (Associated University Presses, £20.00).

S. A. Smith, Red Petrograd : Revolution in the Factories, 1917—1918 (1983), (Cambridge University Press, £25.00).

Robert J. Waller, The Dukeries Transformed: The Social and Political Development of a Twentieth‐Century Coalfield (1983), ix+319 (Oxford University Press, £22.50).

Ian Kershaw, Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933–1945 (1983), xv+425 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £22.50).

P. Abrams, Historical Sociology (1982), xviii+353 (Open Books, Shepton Mallet, £12.00, paperback £6.00).

D. Smith, Barrington Moore: Violence, Morality and Political Change (1983), viii+195 (Macmillan, £12.95, paperback £4.95).     

Essay review

Sexuality, Poverty, and the Inner City. Elijah Anderson, Ph.D. (Monograph #2 from “Sexuality and American Social Policy: A Seminar Series,” Jayne Garrison, Mark D. Smith, & Douglas J. Besharov [Eds.].) (Menlo Park, CA: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2400 Sand Hill Road, 1994.)     

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).     

V. Some factors in the etiology of maternal rejection

A Handbook of Child Welfare: Context, Knowledge and Practice. Joan Laird and Ann Hartman. (New York: Free Press, 1985.)

The Altruistic Imagination: A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United States. John H. Ehrenreich. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1985)

Child Psychosis in the First Four Years of Life. Henry N. Massie and Judith Rosenthal. (New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1984.)

The Aggressive Adolescent. Charles Keith (Ed.). (New York: The Free Press, 1984.)

Piagetian Dimensions of Clinical Relevance. Hugh Rosen. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.)     

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).     

Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas,Peoples, and Cultures

Heinrich Fichtenau, Living in the Tenth Century: Mentalities and Social Orders, translated by Patrick Geary (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, n.p.).

Craig Clunas, Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China (1991), x + 219 (Polity Press, Cambridge, £35.00).

Philip Rawlings (ed.), Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century (1992), xi + 224 (Routledge, £40.00).

RuthPaley (ed.), Justice in Eighteenth‐Century Hackney: The Justicing Notebook of Henry Norris and the Hackney Petty Sessions Book (1991), xxxiii + 253 (London Record Society, £20.00).

Lee Davison, Tim Hitchcock, Tim Keirn and Robert Shoemaker (eds), Stilling the Grumbling Hive: The Response to Social and Economic Problems in England, 1689–1750 (1992), liv + 170 (Alan Sutton, Stroud, £25.00).

James A. Leith, Space and Revolution: Projects for Monuments, Squares and Public Buildings in France, 1789–1799 (1991), xiv + 362 (McGill‐Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, £50.00).

R. J. Morris, Class, Sect and Party. The Making of the British Middle Class: Leeds, 1820–1850 (1990), xi + 356 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £35.00).

Anaclet Pons and Justo Serna, La ciudad extensa: la burguesia comercial‐finan‐ciera enla Valencia de mediados del siglo xix (1992), 389 (Diputació de València, Valencia, n.p.).

David J. V. Jones, Crime in Nineteenth‐Century Wales (1992), xiv + 295 (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, £25.00).

Martin J. Wiener, Reconstructing the Criminal. Culture, Law and Policy in England, 1830–1914 (1990), ix + 390 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £30.00).

Lucia Zedner, Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England (1991), 364 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £40.00).

Nancy Grey Osterud, Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth‐Century New York (1991), ix + 303 (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, $42.50, paperback $14.95).

Eleanor Gordon, Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850–1914 (1991), 312 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £35.00).

Sonya Rose, Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth‐Century England (1992), ix + 292 (Routledge, £30.00).

M. L. Bush (ed. ), Social Orders and Social Classes in Europe since 1500: Studies in Social Stratification (1992), vii + 267 (Longman, £24.00, paperback £10.99).     

Book reviews

Clinical Social Work. Helen Northen. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.)

The Fifty‐Minute Hour: A Collection of True Psychoanalytic Tales. Robert Lindner. (New York and London: Jason Aronson, 1982.)

Clinical Work With Children. Judith M. Mishne. (New York: The Free Press, 1983.)

The Father Figure. Lorna McKee and Margaret O'Brien, Editors. (London: Tavistock Publications, 1982.)     

Odd Couples: A History of Gay Marriage in Scandinavia

Richard Bauman, Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and Silence among Seventeenth‐Century Quakers (1983), viii + 168 (Cambridge University Press, £19.50, paperback £6.50).

Richard B. Sheridan, Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies, 1680–1834 (1985), xxii+420 (Cambridge University Press, £25.00).

Alice Goldstein, Determinants of Change and Response among Jews and Catholics in a Nineteenth‐Century German Village (1984), iv+48 (Jewish Social Studies Monograph Series 3, New York, distributed by Columbia University Press: New York and London, n.p.).

Rita Aldenhoff, Schulze‐Delitzsch. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Liberalismus zwischen Revolution und Reichsgrundung (1984), 245+notes and index (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden‐Baden, n.p.).

Louis Perouas, Refus d'une religion, religion d'un refus en Limousin rural, 1880–1940 (1985), 245 (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, paperback 120F). (Refusal of a Religion, Religion of Refusal in the Rural Limousin, 1880–1940.)

Gordon Phillips and Noel Whiteside, Casual Labour: The Unemployment Question in the Port Transport Industry 1880–1970 (1985), x+324 (Clarendon Press, £25.00).

American Family History: A Historical Bibliography (1984), xii+282 (ABC‐Clio Research Guide 12, Clio Press, Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford, £30.50).     

Turning to Nature in Germany. Hiking,Nudism, and Conservation, 1900–1940

David Rollison, The Local Origins of Modern Society. Gloucestershire 1500–1800 (1992), xvi + 319 (Routledge, £35.00).

Charles Carlton, Going to the Wars. The Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638–1651 (1992), xii + 428 (Routledge, £25.00).

Ian Gentles, The New Model Army in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1645–1653 (1992), xii + 584 (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, £40.00).

Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century (1991), xxvii + 484 (Allen Lane Penguin, Harmondsworth, £25.00; paperback (1993), £8.99).

L. D. Schwarz, London in the Age of Industrialization: Entrepreneurs, Labour Force, and Living Conditions, 1700–1850 (1992), xv + 285 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00).

Ted W. Margadant, Urban Rivalries in the French Revolution (1992), xvi + 511 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., £47.50, paperback £14.95).

Ann F. La Berge, Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth‐Century French Public Health Movement (1992), xviii + 376 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £45.00).

Joseph P. Reidy, From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800–1880 (1992), xiv + 360 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London, $45.00).

Allan Greer and Ian Radforth (eds), Colonial Leviathan: State Formation in Mid‐Nineteenth‐Century Canada (1992), xii + 328 (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, US $62.00, paperback $25.95).

David Mitch, The Rise of Popular Literacy in Victorian England (1992), xxiii + 340 (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia n.p.).Patricia Anderson, The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture 1790–1860 (1991), xi + 211 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £30.00).

Henrika Kuklick, The Savage Within: The Social History of British Anthropology, 1885–1945 (1991), 325 (Cambridge University Press, £30.00).

Maguelonne Toussaint‐Samat, History of Food (1992), xix + 801 (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, £25.00).

James Fentress and Chris Wickham, Social Memory (1992), xii + 229 (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, £35.00, paperback £11.95).     

Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: the story of a secret brotherhood in rural China, 1939–1949

T. G. Cook (ed.), The History of Education in Europe (1974), x+99 (Methuen, £2.20).

Guy Chaussinand‐Nogaret (ed.), Une Histoire des Elites, 1700–1848; recueil de textes présentés et commentés (1975), 376 (Mouton, Paris and The Hague, 38.50 guilders, 64 francs). (A History of Elites, 1700–1848; a collection of texts with introduction and commentary.)

Hans H. Gerth, Bürgerliche Intelligenz um 1800. Zur Soziologie des deutschen Früh‐liberalismus. Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft 19 (edited by Ulrich Herrmann) (1976), 155 (Vandenhoeck &; Ruprecht, Göttingen, n.p.). (The Professional Middle Class in Germany about the year 1800. A contribution to the sociology of early German liberalism.)

Peter N. Stearns, The Revolutions of 1848 (1974), 278 (Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, £3.95).

Hugh McLeod, Class and Religion in the Late Victorian City (1974), xii+360 (Croom Helm, £6.95).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Abstract

MINDFULNESS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY. Christopher K. Germer, Ronald D. Siegel, and Paul R. Fulton, (Eds.) New York: Guilford Press, 2005,333 pp. Reviewed by Brian Beech.

SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: CONCEPTS, PROCESSES, & INTERVIEWING. Marion Bogo. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, 310 pp. Reviewed by Arlene Montgomery.

EVIDENCE-BASED MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE: A TEXTBOOK. Robert E. Drake, Matthew R. Merrens, and David W. Lynde, (Eds.) New York: Norton, 2005, 494 pp. Reviewed by Jane Paterson.     

Short Notices

Michael R. Watts, The Dissenters, vol. I (From the Reformation to the French Revolution) (1978), xvii+543 (Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, £15.00).

Jean Séguy, Les Assemblées Anabaptistes‐Meanonltes de France (Ecole des Hautes‐Etudes en sciences sociales [Société, Mouvements sociaux, et idéologies, le sine, Etudes XVII]) (Paris, 1977), 904 (Mouton, n.p.). (The Anabaptist‐Mennonite Communities in France.)

Joyce Oldham Appleby, Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth‐Century England (1978), x+287 (Princeton U.P., Princeton, £11).

Carlo Capra, L'Età Rivoluzionaria e Napoleonica in Italia 1796–1815 (1978), 321 (Loescher, Turin, LIt. 4,900). (The Revolutionary and Napoleonic State in Italy 1796–1815.)

Kenneth Duncan, Ian Rutledge and Colin Harding (eds), Land and Labour in Latin America. Essays on the Development of Agrarian Capitalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries(1977), x+535 (Cambridge University Press, £17.50).

O. Nigel Boland, The Formation of a Colonial Society. Belize, from Conquest to Crown Colony (1977), xiv+240 (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, £11.25).

Christoph Kleßmann, Polnische Bergarbeiter im Ruhrgebiet 1870–1945 (1978)) 306 (Vandenhoeck &; Ruprecht, Göttingen, DM 52) (Polish Miners in the Ruhr 1870–1945).

Georg P. Meyer, Bibliographie zur deutschen Revolution 1981/1919 (1977), 186 (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Gottingen, DM 13). (Bibliography of the German Revolution 1918/1919.)

Dirk Blastus, Kriminalität und Alltag. Zur Konffiktgeschichte des Alltagslebens im 19. Jahrhundert (1978), 95 (Kleine Vandenhoeck‐Reihe. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Gottingen, DM 9.80). (Criminality and Everyday Life. On the History of Conflict in Everyday Life in the Nineteenth Century.)

Margaret Pelting, Cholera, Fever and English Medicine 1825–1865 (1978) x+342 (Oxford University Press, £7.50).     

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).     

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).     

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).