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Contents CONTINUITY AND CHANGE 9:1 Abstracts English, French, German ARTICLES ROBERT McCAA Marriageways in Mexico and Spain, 1500-1900 KARL KASER The Balkan joint family household: seeking its origins ISABEL DOS GUIMARAES SA_ Child abandonment in Portugal: legislation and institutional care BARRY REAY Before the transition: fertility in English villages, 1800-1880 JEROEN J.H.DEKKER Rituals and reeducation in the nineteenth century: ritual and moral education in a Dutch children’s home ANITA NYBERG The social construction of married women’s labour-force participation: the case of Sweden in the twentieth century BOOK REVIEWS GORDON MARTEL, ed., Modern Germany reconsidered, 1870-1945. Reviewed by Eric D. Weitz CORNELIE USBORNE, The politics of the body in Weimar Germany: women’s reproductive rights and duties. Reviewed by Ann Taylor Allen ROBERT DARNTON, Berlin journal 1989-1990. Reviewed by Patrick Salmon CONTINUITY AND CHANGE 9:2 SPECIAL NUMBER ON INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY GUEST EDITORS: EILIDH GARRETT AND ANDREW WEAR Abstracts English, French, German ARTICLES EILIDH GARRETT and ANDREW WEAR Suffer the little children: mortality, mothers and the State NAOMI WILLIAMS and GRAHAM MOONEY Infant mortality in an ‘Age of Great Cities’: London and the English provincial cities compared, c. 1840-1910 MARIE C. NELSON Diphtheria in late-nineteenth-century Sweden: policy and practice PIER PAOLO VIAZZO, MARIA BORTOLOTTO and ANDREA ZANOTTO Child care, infant mortality and the impact of legislation: the case of Florence’s foundling hospital, 1840-1940 MARGARET L. ARNOT Infant death, child care and the state: the baby-farming scandal and the first infant life protection legislation of 1872 DAVID GRAHAM Female employment and infant mortality: some evidence from British towns, 1911, 1931 and 1951 BOOK REVIEWS CAROLE SHAMMAS, The pre-industrial consumer in England and America. Reviewed by Patricia Crawford P. J. P.G OLDBERG, Women, work, and life-cycle in a medieval economy: women in York and Yorkshire c. 1300-1520. Reviewed by Frederik Pedersen EAMON DUFFY, The stripping of the altars: traditional religion in England 1400-1580. Reviewed by Paul Griffiths H. L. SMITH, War and social change: British society in the Second World War. Reviewed by Martin Pugh CONTINUITY AND CHANGE 9:3 Abstracts English, French, German ARTICLES DAVID B.RHEUBOTTOM Genealogical skewing and political support: patrician politics in fifteenth-century Ragusa (Dubrovnik) STEVE HINDLE The shaming of Margaret Knowsley: gossip, gender and the experience of authority in early modern England BARBARA J. TODD Demographic determinism and female agency: the remarrying widow reconsidered. ..again DAVID I. KERTZER AND MICHAEL J. WHITE Cheating the angel-makers: surviving infant abandonment in nineteenth- century Italy