Reviews

Martin Ingrain, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England 1570-1640 (1988), 412 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00). Christopher Durston, The Family in the English Revolution (1989), 192 (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, £22.50). Robin Briggs, Communities of Belief: Cultural and Social Tensions in Early Modern France (1989), vii + 423 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £40.00). Philip Benedict (ed.), Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France (1989), xiii + 251 (Unwin Hyman, £30.00). James R. Farr, Hands of Honor: Artisans and their World in Dijon, 1550-1650 (1988), xiii + 298 (Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, $39.95). John Brewer, The Sinews of Power. War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783 (1989), xxii + 289 (Unwin Hyman, £28.00, paperback £9.95). Barbara L. Solow and Stanley L. Engerman (eds), British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams (1987), x + 345 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00). Robin Blackburn, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848 (1988), 560 (Verso, £35.00). John Rule (ed.), British Trade Unionism, 1750-1850: The Formative Years (1988), viii + 275 (Longman, paperback £8.95). Mary H. Blewett, Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-igio (1988), xxii + 444 (University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, $29.95). Les Noblesses Européennes au XIXe Siècle (1988), 684 (Ecole française de Rome et Università di Milano, 107). (The European Nobilities in the Nineteenth Century) R. V. Turrell, Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890 (1987), xviii + 297 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00). W. H. Worger, South Africa's City of Diamonds. Mine Workers and Monopoly Capitalism in Kimberley, 1867-1895 (1987), xvi + 330 (Yale University Press, £25.00). Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease (1989), 366 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., £19.95). Marilyn Lake, The Limits of Hope: Soldier Settlement in Victoria (1987), 317 (Oxford University Press, Melbourne and London, £30.00).