Reviews Gaskill, Malcolm; Shoemaker, Robert; Smail, John ...
Social History,
19/5/1/, Volume:
23, Issue:
2
Book Review
Peer reviewed
Robin Briggs, Witches and Neighbours:The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft (1996), xviii + 457 (HarperCollins and Viking, London and New York, £2.00/$32.95).
James Sharpe, ...Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in England 1550-1750 (1996), xiv + 365 (Hamish Hamilton, London, £25.00).
Laura Gowing, Domestic Dangers: Women, Words and Sex in Early Modern London (1996), ix + 301 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £35.00).
Margaret R. Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780 (1996), xiii + 343 (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, $48.00/£38.00).
Sue Peabody, 'There are No Slaves in France': the Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime in France (1996), x + 210 (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, £30.00/$39.50).
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995), xix + 191 (Beacon Press, Boston, $22.00).
Tessie Liu, The Weaver's Knot:The Contradictions of Class Struggle and Family Solidarity in Western France, 1750-1914 (1994), xi + 279 (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, £35.50/$45.00).
Christopher Johnson, The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920 (1995), xii + 307 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, $65.00).
Barry Reay, Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930 (1996), xxv + 288 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, £40.00/$59.95).
John J. Kulczycki, The Foreign Worker and the German Labor Movement: Xenophobia and Solidarity in the Coal Fields of the Ruhr, 1871-1914 (1994), xiv + 297 (Berg, Oxford, £44.oo/$52.95).
Roger Fagge, Power, Culture and Conflict in the Coalfields: West Virginia and South Wales, 1900-1922 (1996), x + 290 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £45.00).
Laszlo Kontler (ed.), Pride and Prejudice. National Stereotypes in 19th and 20th Century Europe East to West (1995), 212 (Central European University Press, Budapest).
Nancy K. Bristow, Making Men Moral: Social Engineering During the Great War (1996), 298 + 30 illus (New York University Press, New York and London, $29.95/£24.00, paperback $18.95/£15.25).
Joanna Bourke, Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain, and the Great War (1996), 336 + 66 illus (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, $32.50).
Aijaz Ahmad, Lineages of the Present: Political Essays (1996/1997), xviii + 440 (Tulika and Verso, New Delhi, London and New York, $48.00, paperback £15.00/$20.00).
