Reviews

Barry Hindess and Paul Q. Hirst, Pre‐capitalist Modes of Production (1975), 354 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, £7.50).

Sarah B. Pomeroy, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity (1975), xiii+265 (Schocken Books, New York, $8.95).

Alan Macfarlane (ed.), The Diary of Ralph Josselin 1616–1683 (Records of Social and Economic History, New Series, III, 1976), xxvi+728 (Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, £20).

Cissie C. Fairchilds, Poverty and Charity in Aix‐en‐Proveace, 1640–1789 (1976), xii+197 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, £9.70).

Ansley J. Coale (ed.), Economic Factors in Population Growth (1976), xviii+600 (Macmillan, £20.00).

Ira Berlin, Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South (1974, paperback ed. 1976), xxi+423 (Pantheon Books, New York, $15.00; Vintage Books, New York, $4.95).

K. S. Inglis, The Australian Colonists: an Exploration of Social History 1788–1870 (1974), xxii+316 (Melbourne University Press and Prentice Hall, Melbourne, £10.40).

Christer Winberg, Folkökning och proletarisering. Kring den sociala stnikturomvandling på Sveriges landsbygd under den agrara revolutionen (1975), 344 (Meddelanden från Historiska Institutionen i Göteborg 10, Gothenburg). (Population growth and proletarianization. The transformation of social structures in the Swedish countryside during the agricultural revolution)

Uno Gustafson, Industrialismens storstad. Studier rörande Stockholms sociala, ekonomiska och demografiska struktur 1860–1910 (1976), 290 (Monografier utgivna av Stockholms kommunalförvaltning, 37, Stockholm). (Industrialism's Metropolis. Studies in the social, economic and demographic structure of Stockholm 1860–1910)

John M. Merriman (ed.), 1830 in France (1976), 232 (Croom Helm and New Viewpoints, London and New York, £5.00).

Derek Fraser (ed.), The New Poor Law in the Nineteenth Century (1976), 218 (Macmillan, £5.95, paperback £2.95).

C. A. Bayly, The Local Roots of Indian Politics: Allahabad 1880–1920 (1975), xviii+314 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £10.00).

Roger Chickering, Imperial Germany and a World Without War. The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892–1914 (1976), xiv+487 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, £16, paperback £6.20).

Sean Glynn and John Oxborrow, Interwar Britain: A Social and Economic History (1976), 276 (George Allen and Unwin, £5.95, paperback £2.95).     

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Books reviewed:
John Ferris, Environmental Pressure Groups in Transition
John Ferris, Social Policy and the Environment
George Giacinto Giarchi, Equity and Efficiency Policy in Community Care: Needs, Service Productivities, Efficiencies and their Implications
George Giacinto Giarchi, Caring for Older People: An Assessment of Community Care in the 1990s
Robert Leaper, Comparing Social Welfare Systems in Nordic Europe and France     

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Books reviewed:
Ari Antikainen, Jarmo Houtsonen, Hannu Huotelin and Juha Kauppila, Living in a Learning Society
Juanita Ross Epp and Ailsa M. Watkinson, Systemic Violence–How Schools Hurt Children
Richard Valencia, The Evolution of Deficit Thinking     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
George Giacinto Giarchi, Caring for Older Europeans: Comparative Studies in 29 Countries
Alan Walker and Tony Maltby, Ageing Europe
Alan Walker and Lorna Warren, Changing Services for Older People: the Neighbourhood Support Unit Innovation
Paul Daniel and John Ivatts, Children and Social Policy
Malcolm Hill and Kay Tisdall, Children and Society     

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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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Theory and Decision -     

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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:
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     

Reviews

Ramsay MacMullen, Roman Social Relations 50 B.C. to A.D. 284 (1974), ix+212 (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, $8.95).

Georges Duby, The Early Growth of the European Economy: Warriors and Peasants from the Seventh to the Twelfth Centuries (1974), x+292 (Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, £4.00).

M. K. Ashby, The Changing English Village: A History of Bledington, Gloucestershire in Its Setting 1066–1914 (1974), xxiii+425 (The Roundwood Press, Kineton, £5.50).

Jan de Vries, The Dutch Rural Economy in the Golden Age 1500–1700 (1974)) xv+316 (Yale University Press, New Haven, £7.50).

Lawrence Stone, Family and Fortune: Studies in Aristocratic Finance in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1973), xviii+315 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £4.50).

Roger Thompson, Women in Stuart England and America. A comparative study (1974), x+276 (Routledge &; Kegan Paul, £4.25).

Elizabeth Isichei, The Ibo People and the Europeans: The Genesis of a Relationship ‐to 1906 (1973), 207 (Faber &; Faber, £4.50).

Conjoacture Economique, structures sociales. Hommage &; Ernest Labrousse (1974), 547 (Mouton, Paris, 140 fr.).

Colin Lucas, The Structure of the Terror: the Example of Javogues and the Loire (1973), xvi+411 (Oxford University Press, £9.00).

Martha Vicinus, The Industrial Muse. A Study of Nineteenth Century British Working‐Class Literature (1975), x+357 (Croom Helm, £6.95).

David J. Pivar, Purity Crusade: Sexual Morality and Social Control, 1868–1900 (1973), x+308 (Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, £5.50).