Short notices

Edmund King, England 1175–1425 (1979), xiii+208 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, £6.50). G. R. Quaife, Wanton Wenches and Wayward Wives. Peasants and Illicit Sex in Early Seventeenth Century England (1979), 282 (Croom Helm, £11.50). Louis Bergeron, Banquiers, négociants et manufacturiers parisiens du Directoire à l'Empire (1978), 436 (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, collection ‘Civilisations et Sociétés’ no. 51, Mouton, Paris, 130 fr.). (Bankers, Merchants and Manufacturers in Paris from the Directory to the Empire) Clive Emsley, British Society and the French Wars, 1793–1815 (1979), viii+216 (Macmillan, £8.95, paperback £3.95). Dennis Hardy, Alternative Communities in Nineteenth Century England (1979) xii+268 (Longman, £9.95; paperback £5.95). Richard Lawton (ed.) The Census and Social Structure (1978), xii+330 (Frank Cass, £12.50). M. Jeanne Peterson, The Medical Profession in Mid‐Victorian London (1978) x+406 (University of California Press, £12.25). Michael D. Biddiss (ed.) Images of Race (1979), 259 (Leicester University Press, £9.50, paperback £5.00). Hans Pohl (ed.), Forschungen zur Lage der Arbeiter im Industrialisierungtprozeß (1978), 132 (Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart, DM 32). (Studies of Working‐class Conditions in the Process of Industrialization) Jack Common (ed.), Seven Shifts (1978), xi+271 (E.P. Pubulishing, £5.95). Robert Currie, Industrial Politics (1979), xiii+294 (Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, £10.00). Pogge von Strandmann, Unternehmens‐Politik und Unternehmens‐Fuehrung: Der Dialog zwischen Aufsichtsrat und Vorstand bei Mannetmann, 1900 bis 1919 (1978), 204 (ECON Verlag, Diisseldorf, DM 28). (The Politics and Leadership of Enterprise: The Dialogue between Directors and Management of Mannesmann)