Reviews

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David L. Smith, Richard Strier and David Bevington (eds), The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576–1649 (1995), xvi + 288 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00/$49.95). John Smail, The Origins of Middle Class Culture. Halifax, Yorkshire, 1660–1780 (1994), xvi + 241 (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y., $39.95). Anna Clark, The Struggle for the Breeches. Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (1995), xv + 416 (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, $35.00). Deborah Valenze, The First Industrial Woman (1995), ix + 251 (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, hardback $39.95/£25.00). Leonore Davidoff, Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class (1995), x + 276 (Polity Press, Cambridge, £45.00, paperback £12.95). Mary Poovey, Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation 1830–1864 (1995), x + 255 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, $34.00/£27.25, paperback $12.95/£10.25). Christopher Parker (ed.), Gender Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Literature (1995), xiii + 194 (Scolar Press, Aldershot and Vermont, £39.95). David Northrup, Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834–1922 (1995), xii + 186 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, $49.95/£30.00, paperback $14.95). Hermann Beck, The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia. Conservatives, Bureaucracy and the Social Question 1815–70 (1995), 285 (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, $47.50). Vivian Bickford‐Smith, Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town: Group Identity and Social Practice 1875–1902 (1995), xxiii + 281 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £40.00). Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake (eds), Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century (1995), viii + 351 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York and Melbourne, $59.95). Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent (eds), Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico (1994), xix + 377 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, $18.95).