Book Reviews : SOCIALISM,RADICALISM,AND NOSTALGIA. SOCIAL CRITICISM IN BRITAIN,1775-1830. William Stafford. Cambridge,Cambridge University Press,1987. 304 pp. £10.95 (paper)

William Cobbett Rural Rides (1830)

S.T. Coleridge A Lay Sermon Addressed to the Higher and Middle Classes on the Existing Distresses and Discontents (1817)

William Godwin Enquiry concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1798)

Charles Hall The Effects of Civilization on the People in European States ( 1805)

Thomas Hodgskin Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital or the Unproductiveness of Capital Proved with Reference to the Present Combinations amongst Journeymen (1825)

William Ogilvie An Essay on the Right of Property of Land (1782)

Robert Owen Report to the County of Lanark (1821)

John Poynter Society and Pauperism (1969)

'Piercy Ravenstone' A Few Doubts as to the Correctness of Some Opinions Generally Entertained on the Subjects of Population and Political Economy (1821)

David Roberts Paternalism in Early Victorian England (1979)

Thomas Spence The Real Rights of Man (1775)

William Thompson An Inquiry into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth Most Conducive to Human Happiness; Applied to the Newly Proposed System of Voluntary Equality of Wealth (1824)

E.P. Thompson The Making of the English Working Class (1968)

Noel Thompson The People's Science. The Popular Political Economy of Exploitation and Crisis 1816-34 (1984)