Book Reviews

The Guide to United States Popular Culture. Edited by Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne. The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction. Edited by Ray B. Browne and Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. Preface by Robin W. Winks. Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives. Rosemary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham, eds. Popular Culture: Cavespace to Cyberspace. Marshall W. Fishwick. Great Cars of the Great Plains. Curt McConnell. Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. Ed. James L. Watson. The History of Jazz. Ted Gioia. Puppets and “Popular” Culture. Scott Cutler Shershow. Theater and Society: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama. Haiping Yan, ed. Armonk Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post‐Elvis Age. David Walley. The Ignorance Explosion: Understanding Industrial Civilization. Julius Lukasiewicz. The Unofficial Encyclopedia of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Nick Talevski. Graphic Novels: A Bibliographic Guide to Book‐Length Comics. D. Aviva Rothschild. Elvis, Hank, and Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride. Horace Logan with Bill Sloan. Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present. Eugenia DeLamotte, Natania Meeker, and Jean O'Barr, eds. We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Elizabeth R. Varon. Gender and American Culture series. Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited. Deirdre Boyle. What Evil Means to Us. C. Fred Alford. A Sense of Place: Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Essays in Honor of William and Margery Vandament. Edited by Russell M. Magnaghi and Michael T. Marsden.     

Book Reviews

The Ultimate Fantasy Football League: 1992 Guide and Handbook. Bob Chon, Greg Colao, Randy Morrison, and Andrew Schilling. Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture and Victorian Sensationalism. Ann Cvetkovich. Of Media and People. Everette E. Dennis. Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America. Ronald Edsforth and Larry Bennett, eds. Popular Culture and Acquisitions. Allen Ellis, ed. My Life in the Negro Leagues: An Autobiography. Wilmer Fields. Starstruck: Celebrity Performers and the American Public. Jib Fowles. Hecho en Tejas: Texas-American Folk Arts and Crafts. Joe S. Graham, ed. Cursing in America. Timothy Jay. Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America. John King. Sports in North America: A Documentary History. Bloodsuckers: Vampires at the Movies. Scott Nance. Stephen King and Clive Barker: Masters of the Macabre II. James Van Hise. Monsterland Fearbook. James Van Hise, ed. The Well-Traveled Casket: A Collection of Oregon Folklife. Tom Nash and Twilo Scofield, eds. Panati's Parade of Fads, Follies and Manias: The Origins of our Most Cherished Obsessions. Charles Panati.     

Book Reviews

Rock On Almanac: The First Four Decades Of Rock ‘N’ Roll—A Chronology. Complied by Norm N. Nite. The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Rock (sixth edition). Pete Frame, John Tobler, Ed Hanel, Roger St. Pierre, Chris Trengove, John Beecher, Clive Richardson, Gary Cooper, Marsha Hanlon, and Linda Sandahl. The Old Time Rock And Roll: A Chronicle Of An Era, 1954–1963. Richard Aquila. Ayres' The Rock Music Source Book (Doubleday, 1980), Jeff Green's The 1987 Green Book: Songs Classified By Subject (Professional Desk References, 1986), and B. Lee Cooper's A Resource Guide To Themes In Contemporary American Song Lyrics, 1950–1985 (Greenwood Press, 1986). Inside The Music Business: Music In Contemporary Life. Michael Fink. Review of Simply Cinema. Perry F. Mills. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650–1850. Dianne Dugaw. Handbook Of American Popular Culture—Three Volumes (second edition, revised and enlarged). M. Thomas Inge, editor. Dictionnaire de la bande dessinée. Henri Filippini. Politics in Familiar Places: Projecting Politics through Popular Media. Robert L. Savage and Dan Nimmo, editors. Conversations with Tom Wolfe. Dorothy M. Scura, editor. Television And The Quality Of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience. Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema. Gene D. Phillips. Constructing a Sociology of the Arts Vera L. Zolberg.     

Book Reviews

Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man. Gordon F. Sander. Discovering Men. David H. J. Morgan. The Hysterical Male: New Feminist Theory. Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, eds. Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture. James R. Kincaid. Centuries of Solace: Expressions of Maternal Grief in Popular Literature. Wendy Simonds and Barbara Katz Rothman. Women and Self-help Culture: Reading between the Lines. Wendy Simonds. The Best Man-Selections from the First Three Years of MAN! Magazine. Sharon Adams, ed. Men in the Public Eye—The Construction and Deconstruction of Public Men and Public Patriarchies. Jeff Heam. To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance. Harbert Blau. Hollywood East. James Ponti. Classics and Trash: Traditions and Taboos in High Literature and Popular Modern Genres. Harriett Hawkins. Cradle And All: A Cultural and Psychoanalytic Reading of Nursery Rhymes. Lucy Rollin. Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History. George F. Custen. Mae West: She Who Laughs, Lasts. June Sochen. Friends, Brothers, and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras. Nita Kumar. Women Under the Knife: A History of Surgery. Ann Dally. Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation. Robert E. Kapsis. Feminism and the Women's Movement: Dynamics of Change in Social Movement, Ideology and Activism. Barbara Ryan. Creativity and Tradition in Folklore: New Directions. Simon J. Bronner, ed. Performance, Culture, and Identity. Elizabeth C. Fine and Jean Haskell Speer, eds. The History of Vanity. John Woodforde. Gender Relations in Australia: Donation and Negotiation. Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans, eds. Between the Wars, 1919–1939: The Cartoonists' Vision. Roy Douglas. Cajun Music and Zydeco. Philip Gould, photo. Barry Jean Ancelet Bundling: Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America. Henry Reed Stiles The Story of the Carol. Edmondstoune Duncan The History of the Christmas Card. George Buday. Christmas Traditions. William Muir Auld Heraldry and Floral Forms as Used in Decoration. Herbert Cole Jewish Ceremonial Institutions. William Rosenau. A Dictionary of Miracles. E. Cobham Brewer. Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them. Marie D. Webster Rest Days: The Christian Sunday, The Jewish Sabbath, and Their Historical and Anthropological Prototypes. Hutton Webster Folklore of Women: As Illustrated by Legendary and Traditional Tales, Folk-Rhymes, Proverbial Sayings, Superstitions, Etc. T.F. Thistelton-Dyer Not Just for Children: The Mexican Comic Book in the Late 1960s and 1970s. Harold E. Hinds, Jr. and Charles M. Tatum. American Popular Culture. John Dean. Death in the Dining Room & Other Tales of Victorian Culture. Kenneth L. Ames. Popular Entertainment Research: How to Do it and How to Use It. Barbara J. Pruett. White on Black: Images of Africa and Black in Western Popular Culture. Jan Nederveen Pieterse. Media Performance: Mass Communication and the Public Interest. Denis McQuail. Jack the Ripper A to Z. Paul Begg, Martin Fido and Keith Skinner. Roadside Delights; Roadside Architecture of Yesterday and Today in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Will Anderson. Hidden in Plain Sight: An Examination of the American Arts. Martin Williams. Melville's Complaint: Doctors and Medicine in the Art of Herman Melville. Kichard Dean Smith. William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture. Ian Dyck. Images of American Life: A History of Ideological Management in Schools, Movies, Rdio and Television. Joel Spring.     

REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in This Articles How Organisations Measure Success By Neil Carter, Rudolf Klein and Patricia Day Book Reviewed in This Articles Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions: the Uses of Microsimulation Modelling. Vol. I Review and Recommendations. Vol.II Technical Papers. By Constance F. Citro and Eric A. Hanusherek (eds) Book Reviewed in This Articles Not for Profit, Not for Sale: the Challenge of Public Sector Management by Michael Starks Newbury Book Reviewed in This ArticlesOrganizations for Policy Analysis: Helping Government Think By Carol H. Weiss (ed) Book Reviewed in This Articles Working for Change: the Movement Against Domestic Violence By Heather McGregor and Andrew Hopkins Allen & Unwin, Sydney Book Reviewed in This Articles The Costs of Informal Care: Looking Inside the Household By Caroline Glendinning HMSO Book Reviewed in This Articles Negotiating Nothing: Police Decision Making in Disputes By Charles Kemp, Clive Norris and Nigel Fielding Avebury, Aldershot Book Reviewed in This Articles Children And Other Strangers By Ruth Szold Ginzberg Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick Book Reviewed in This Articles Gender, Power and Sexuality By Pamela Abbott and Claire Wallace (eds) Book Reviewed in This Articles Social Welfare in Third World Development By Howard Jones Book Reviewed in This Articles Social Welfare in Latin America By John Dixon and Robert P. Scheurell (eds) Book Reviewed in This Articles Local Government in Europe By Richard Batley and Gerry Stoker (eds)     

Book Reviews

EthniCity: Geographic Perspectives on Ethnic Change in Modern Cities. Curtis Roseman, Hans Dieter Laux, Gunther Thieme, eds. Disaster and Memory: Celebrity Culture and the Crisis of Hollywood Cinema. Wheeler Winston Dixon. Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness. Carole G. Silver The Victorian Underworld. Donald Thomas. Jazz‐Age Boomtown. Jerry L. Rodnitzky and Shirley R. Rodnitzky. Media Communication: An Introduction to Theory and Process. James Watson. The McDonaldization Thesis. George Ritzer. Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth‐Century America. Joe Austin and Michael Willard, eds. Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline. Lucy Maddox, ed. Music and the Silent Film: Contexts & Case Studies 1895–1924. Martin Miller Marks. American Laughter: Immigration, Ethnicity, and 1930s Hollywood Film Comedy. Mark Winokur. Robert Graves and the White Goddess. Richard Perceval Graves. Conversations with Chaim Potok. Daniel Walden. Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and Realities. Batya Weinbaum. Mexican Style Source Book. Susan Tomlinson.     

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.     

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     

Book Reviews

Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China. Bret Hinsch. The History of the Comic Strip: The Nineteenth Century. David Kunzle. Readings in Popular Culture: Trivial Pursuits? Gary Day, ed. Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Naneteenth-Century English Canada. Peter Ward. Journal of the History of Sexuality. John C. Fout, ed. Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual. By Thomas P. Hughes and Agatha C. Hughes. Le Savant et le Populaire. Mistrabilisme et Populisme en Sociologie et en Litthature. By Claude Grignon and Jean-Claude Passeron. Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society. David Crowley and Paul Heyer, eds. When Radio Was Boss. Bill Earl. Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture. Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart. The Export of Meaning: Cross-Cultural Readings of Dallas. Tamar Liebes and Elihu Katz. Religious Resurgence and Politics in the Contemporary World. Emile Sahliyeh, ed. The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation. Gregory Stephenson. Politics of Atrocity and Lust: The Vampire Tale as Nightmare History of England in the Nineteenth Century. Alok Bhalla. Nowhere in America: The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Other Comic Utopias. Hal Rammel. Suspense in the Formula Story. George N. Dove. Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin. Elizabeth Cummins. Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction: The Formatiue Period, 1926-1970. Thomas D. Clareson.     

Book Reviews

Denisoff, R. Serge, and William D. Romanowski. Risky Business: Rock In Film. Gilman, Sander. The Jew's Body. Hall, Hal W. The Work of Louis L'Amour: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide. Porter, Susan L. With an Air Debonair: Musical Theatre in America 1785-1815. Donald G. Godfrey. comp. Reruns on File: A Guide to Electronic Media Archives. Fowler, Karin J. Anne Baxter: a Bio-Bibliography. Robbins, Jhan. Inka Dinka Doo: The Life of Jimmy Durante. Garber, Marjorie. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxiety. Sweeney, Kevin. Henry Fonda: a Bio-Bibliography. Riggin, Judith M. John Wayne: A Bio-Bibliography. Baughman, James L. The Republic of Mass Culture: Jouralism, Filmmaking and Broadcasting in America Since 1941. Bird, S. Elizabeth. For Enquiring Minds: a Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids. Science, Culture and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe. Edited by Stephen Pumfrey, Paolo L. Rossi & Maurice Slawinski. Women and Religion: A Bibliographic Guide to Christian Feminist Liberation Theology. Compiled by Shelly Davis Finson. The Ted Williams Reader. Edited by Lawrence Baldassaro. Josh and Satch: The Life and Times of Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige. John B. Holway. A Genius by Moonlight. W.J.M. Brady. The Varieties of Sensory Experience: A Sourcebook in the Anthropology of the Senses. Edited by David Howes. Women's Comic Visions. Edited and Introduced by June Sochen. Semzons and Battle Hymns. Edited by Graham Walker and Tom Gallagher. The Whole Pop Catalog. The Berkeley Pop Culture Project. Ticket To Paradise: American Movie Theaters and How We Had Fun. John Margolies and Emily Gwathmey.     

Book Reviews

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From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning: Child Welfare Services Pathways and Placements. Richard P Barth, Mark Courtney, Jill Duerr Berrick & Vicky Albert
Making Positive Moves Developing Short-Term Fostering Services. Judith Stone
Participation and Empowerment in Child Protection. Edited by Christopher Cloke & Murray Davies
Chairing Child Protection Conferences: An Exploration of Attitudes and Roles. Ann Lewis
On Behalf of the Child: Child Welfare, Child Protection and the Child Care Act 1991. Edited by Harry Ferguson and Pat Kenny
The Abuse of Women Within ChiJdcare Work. Kieran O'Hagan & Karola Dillenburger
Foster Care: Theory and Practice. John Triseliotis, Clive Sellick & Robin Short     

REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in This Articles How Organisations Measure Success By Neil Carter, Rudolf Klein and Patricia Day
Book Reviewed in This Articles Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions: the Uses of Microsimulation Modelling. Vol. I Review and Recommendations. Vol.II Technical Papers. By Constance F. Citro and Eric A. Hanusherek (eds)
Book Reviewed in This Articles Not for Profit, Not for Sale: the Challenge of Public Sector Management by Michael Starks Newbury
Book Reviewed in This ArticlesOrganizations for Policy Analysis: Helping Government Think By Carol H. Weiss (ed)
Book Reviewed in This Articles Working for Change: the Movement Against Domestic Violence By Heather McGregor and Andrew Hopkins Allen & Unwin, Sydney
Book Reviewed in This Articles The Costs of Informal Care: Looking Inside the Household By Caroline Glendinning HMSO
Book Reviewed in This Articles Negotiating Nothing: Police Decision Making in Disputes By Charles Kemp, Clive Norris and Nigel Fielding Avebury, Aldershot
Book Reviewed in This Articles Children And Other Strangers By Ruth Szold Ginzberg Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick
Book Reviewed in This Articles Gender, Power and Sexuality By Pamela Abbott and Claire Wallace (eds)
Book Reviewed in This Articles Social Welfare in Third World Development By Howard Jones
Book Reviewed in This Articles Social Welfare in Latin America By John Dixon and Robert P. Scheurell (eds)
Book Reviewed in This Articles Local Government in Europe By Richard Batley and Gerry Stoker (eds)     

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)     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this aticle: Understanding Social Policy By MICHAEL HILL. A Comparative Approach to Policy Analysis: Health Care Policy in Four Nations By HOWARD M. LEICHTER Poverty and Inequality in Common Market Countries By VIC GEORGE AND ROGER LAWSON Work Creation: International Experiences By MICHAEL P. JACKSON & VICTOR J.B. HANBY (eds.) Social Goals and Economic Perspectives By G.P. MARSHALL. The Economics of Women and Work By Alice H. Amsden (ed.) Public Spending Decisions: Growth and Restraint in the 1970s By MAURICE WRIGHT (ed.) Labour and Equality: A Fabian Study of Labour in Power 1974–79 By NICK BOSANQUET AND PETER TOWNSEND (eds.) Pricing the Social Services By KEN JUDGE (ed.) Education, Health and Housing: an Empirical Investigation of Resource Accessibility By ANDREW KIRBY. The Good City: A study of urban development and policy in Britain By D. DONNISON WITH P. SOTO. Housing and Residential Structure By KEITH BASSETT AND JOHN SHORT. Secondary Schools and the Welfare Network By DAPHNE JOHNSON et al Higher Education for All? By GORDON RODERICK AND MICHAEL STEPHENS (eds.) The Division in British Medicine By FRANK HONIGSBAUM. The Building Societies By MARTIN BODDY. Teamwork in the Personal Social Services and Health Care: British and American Perspectives By SUSAN LONSDALE, ADRIAN WEBB & T.L. BRIGGS (ed.)     

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).     

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).     

Diamonds and War. State,Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine

Susan Mosher Stuard (ed.), Women in Medieval History and Historiography (1987), xvi+203 (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, £25.60).

Judith M. Bennett, Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock Before the Plague (1987), xv+322 (Oxford University Press, New York, £30.00).

Peter Burke, The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy: Essays on Perception and Communication (1987), x+281 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00).

Ann Hughes, Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire 1620–1660 (1987), xvi+392 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £30.00).

Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo‐American Maritime World 1700–1750 (1987), xv+322 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £22.50).

Robert Colls, The Pitmen of the Northern Coalfield. Work, Culture and Protest, 1790–1850 (1987), xvii+386 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £35.00).

Clive Anderson, Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England (1987), xiv+475 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £40.00).

Christophe Charle, Les Elites de la République, 1880–1900 (1987), 556 (Editions Fayard, Paris, no price).

Linda Lewin, Politics and Parentela in Paraiba: A Case Study of Family‐based Oligarchy in Brazil (1987), xxiii+497 (Princeton University, Princeton, £32.90).?

Alexander Keyssar, Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (1986), xviii+469 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, £45.00, paperback £13.50.

Ronald W. Edsforth, Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan (1987), xvi+294 (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick $40.00, paperback $20.00).

Margaret Randolph Higonnet, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel and Margaret Collins Weitz (eds), Behind the Lines. Gender and the Two World Wars (1987), viii+310 (Yale University Press, £19.95).

Patrick Joyce (ed.), The Historical Meanings of Work (1987), vi+320 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £27.50).     

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     

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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).     

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