Erin Sullivan, Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. ix-227, $100, hardback, ISBN: 9780198739654.

the regional, national and international aspects of prostitution, Stauter-Halsted shows how the international trade in women, then as now, intersected concerns with health, family and personal safety, alongside poverty, unemployment as well as a hostile social environment and deplorable economic conditions at home. In this context, Stauter-Halsted also provides a much needed correction to the popular imagination that identified those who procured women for paid sex as exclusively Jewish. While many of those involved in human trafficking and prostitution were indeed Jews, as were many of the victims, the magnitude of prostitution in partitioned Poland could not be blamed entirely on this group; it was, as convincingly discussed here, the outcome of a multitude of factors, both internal and external. This is a useful approach to take considering the resilience of popular antiSemitism in East-Central Europe. Finally, the book is exemplary in terms of its clear structure and use of historical sources. It deepens not only our knowledge of a number of topics connected to prostitution, but also our appreciation of the many ways of understanding its meaning, from moral and religious judgement to social and medical reform. Historians of Poland, and of East-Central Europe more generally, will certainly welcome it, as will historians of medicine and students interested in social protection, gender, welfare and nationalism.