Short notices

R. H. Britnell, Growth and Decline in Colchester, 1300-1325 (1985), xvi+304 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £27.50). Alison Hanham, The Celys and their World. An English Merchant Family of the Fifteenth Century (1985), xv+472 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00). Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth Century London (1985), ix+258 (Methuen, London, £28). Kathryn Norberg, Rich and Poor in Grenoble, 1600-1814 (1985), xii+366 (University of California Press, £31.95). Allen Horstman, Victorian Divorce (1985), 196 (Croom Helm, London, £17.95). Jill Harsin, Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris (1985), xxv+417 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, $42.50). Peter Schüttler, Naissance des Bourses du travail: Un Appareil idéologique d'état à la fin du XIXe siècle (1985), 294 (Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 165 FF), trans. Jean-Pierre Lefebvre and the author. Naomi R. Lamoreaux, The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 (1985), xii+208 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £20). Raphael Samuel, Ewan MacColl and Stuart Cosgrave, Theatres of the Left, 1880-1935: Workers' Theatre Movements in Britain and America (1985), xx+364 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, paperback £8.95). Julian Jackson, The Politics of Depression in France, 1932-1936 (1985), ix+303 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £39.50).