Short notices

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).