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Books reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Alan Crossley, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: Oxford, XII: Wootton Hundred (south) including Woodstock Edward Miller, ed., The agrarian history of England and Wales, III: 1348-1500 L. R. Poos, A rural society after the Black Death: Essex, 1350-1525 Sari R. Hornstein, The Restoration navy and English foreign trade, 1674-1688: a study in the peacetime use of sea power James Foreman-Peck, ed., New perspectives on the late Victorian economy: essays in quantitative economic history, 1860-1914 James E. Cronin, The politics of state expansion: war, state and society in twentieth-century Britain David Vincent, Poor citizens: the state and the poor in twentieth-century Britain N. F. R. Crafts and Nicholas Woodward, eds., The British economy since 1945 John Singleton, Lancashire on the scrapheap: the cotton industry, 1945-1970 GENERAL Maria Teresa Maiullari, ed., Storiografia francese ed italiana a confronto sul fenomeno associativo durante xviii e xix secolo: atti delle giornate di studio promosse dalla Fondazione Luigi Einaudi Mikulas Teich and Roy Porter, eds., Fin de siecle and its legacy Thomas C. Owen, The corporation under Russian law, 1800-1917 Mary McAuley, Bread and justice: state and society in Petrograd, 1917-1922 Hiroaki Kuromiya, Stalin's industrial revolution: politics and workers, 1928-1932 Louis C. Hunter and Lynwood Bryant, A history of industrial power in the United States, 1780-1930, 3: The transmisison of power Margaret B. W. Graham and Bettye H. Pruitt, R & D for industry: a century of technical innovation at Alcoa Joe William Trotter, Jr., Coal, class, and color: blacks in southern West Virginia, 1915-32 Sanford M. Jacoby, ed., Masters to managers: historical and comparative perspectives on American employers Jeffrey G. Williamson, Inequality, poverty and history: the Kuznets Memorial Lectures of the Economic Growth Center, Yale University     

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Books reviewed: John Hatcher and Mark Bailey, Modelling the middle ages: the history and theory of England’s economic development Christine M. Newman, Late medieval Northallerton: a small market town and its hinterland, c. 1470–1540 Adam Fox, Oral and literate culture in England, 1500–1700 Frederick Valletta, Witchcraft, magic and superstition in England, 1640–70 David W. Howell, The rural poor in eighteenth‐century Wales Peter Borsay, The image of Georgian Bath, 1700–2000 Torsten Berg and Peter Berg, eds., R. R. Angerstein’s illustrated travel diary, 1753–1755: industry in England and Wales from a Swedish perspective Anne Orde, Religion, business and society in north‐east England: the Pease family of Darlington in the nineteenth century Arthur J. McIvor, A history of work in Britain, 1880–1950 Roger Davidson, Dangerous liaisons: a social history of venereal disease in twentieth‐century Scotland Neil Forbes, Doing business with the Nazis: Britain’s economic and financial relations with Germany, 1931–1939 Ronald Hyam and Wm. Roger Louis, (eds.), The Conservative government and the end of empire, 1957–1964, 2 parts. Part I: High policy, political and constitutional change. Part II: Economics, international relations, and the Commonwealth C. Edmund Clingan, Finance from Kaiser to Führer: budget politics in Germany, 1912–1934 Girolamo Imbruglia, (ed.), Naples in the eighteenth century: the birth and death of a nation state Alice Teichova, Herbert Matis, and Jaroslav Pátek, (eds.), Economic change and the national question in twentieth‐century Europe Ton Notermans, Money, markets, and the state: social democratic economic policies since 1918 David Abulafia, (ed.), The new Cambridge medieval history, V: c. 1198‐c. 1300 Elise S. Brezis and Peter Temin, (eds.), Elites, minorities and economic growth Kenneth Morgan, Slavery and servitude in North America, 1607–1800 Kenneth Morgan, Slavery, Atlantic trade and the British economy, 1660–1800 John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan, The early modern Atlantic economy Allan Kulikoff, From British peasants to colonial American farmers David Blanke, Sowing the American dream: how consumer culture took root in the rural Midwest Bruce Curtis, The politics of population: state formation, statistics and the census of Canada, 1840–1875 Jeremy Baskes, Indians, merchants, and markets: a reinterpretation of the repartimiento and Spanish‐Indian economic relations in colonial Oaxaca, 1750–1821 Birgit Sonesson, Puerto Rico’s commerce, 1765–1865: from regional to worldwide market relations Claude Marcovits, The global world of Indian merchants, 1750–1947: traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama Nasir Tyabji, Industrialisation and innovation: the Indian experience Tirthankar Roy, The economic history of India, 1857–1947 Simon Ville, The rural entrepreneurs: a history of the stock and station agent industry in Australia and New Zealand David B. Abernethy, The dynamics of global dominance: European overseas empire, 1415–1980 Neil De Marchi and Craufurd D. W. Goodwin, (eds.), Economic engagements with art, annual supplement to vol. 31, History of Political Economy Pat Hudson, History by numbers: an introduction to quantitative approaches     

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Book reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Emilie Amt, The accession of Henry II in England: royal government restored, 1149-1159 William Hassall and Jacques Beauroy, eds., Lordship and landscape in Norfolk, 1250-1350: the early records of Holkham Barbara A. Hanawalt, Growing up in medieval London: the experience of childhood in history Eileen Spring, Law, land, and family: aristocratic inheritance in England, 1300-1800 Michael Zell, Industry in the countryside: Wealden society in the sixteenth century Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos, Adolescence and youth in early modern England Helen M. Dingwall, Late seventeenth-century Edinburgh: a demographic study T. M. Devine, The transformation of rural Scotland: social change and the agrarian economy, 1660-1815 John Landers, Death and the metropolis: studies in the demographic history of London, 1670-1870 T. R. Gourvish and R. G. Wilson, The British brewing industry, 1830-1980 Donald E. Jordan, Jr., Land and popular politics in Ireland: County Mayo from the plantation to the land war Andrew Davies and Steven Fielding, eds., Workers’worlds: cultures and communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880-1939 Peter Razzell, Essays in English population history Paul Johnson, ed., Twentieth-century Britain: economic, social and cultural change Michael Sanderson, The missing stratum: technical school education in England, 1900-1990s J. H. Bamberg, The history of the British Petroleum Company, 2 GENERAL Susan Pedersen, Family, dependence, and the origins of the welfare state R. J. Overy, War and economy in the Third Reich Olivia Remie Constable, Trade and traders in Muslim Spain: the commercial realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1500 John Henderson, Piety and charity in late medieval Florence Philip T. Hoffman and Kathryn Norberg, eds., Fiscal crises, liberty, and representative government, 1450-1789 Jonathan Barry and Colin Jones, eds., Medicine and charity before the welfare state Paul R. Gregory, An economic history of Russia from emancipation to the first five-year plan Clive J. Dewey, The settlement literature of the greater Punjab: a handbook R. Chandavarkar, The origins of industrial capitalism in India: business strategies and the working classes in Bombay, 1900-1940 David Pong, Shen Pao-chen and China's modernisation in the nineteenth century Thomas Weiss and Donald Schaefer, eds., American economic development in historical perspective Richard H. K. Vietor, Contrived competition: regulation and deregulation in America Rondo Cameron, Financing industrialization Cliff Pratten, The stock market Catherine Geissler and Derek Oddy, eds., Food, diet and economic change past and present Graeme D. Snooks, Economics without time: a science blind to the forces of historical change Graeme D. Snooks, ed., Historical analysis in economics Bernard Semmel, The liberal ideal and the demons of empire: theories of imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin Nathan Rosenberg, Exploring the black box: technology, economics, and history     

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Book reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND John Blair and Nigel Ramsay, eds., English medieval industries: craftsmen, techniques, products Scott L. Waugh, England in the reign of Edward III Bruce Campbell, ed., Before the Black Death: studies in the‘crisis’of the early fourteenth century Alan Dyer, Decline and growth in English towns, 1400-1640 Hugh Cunningham, The children of the poor: representations of childhood since the seventeenth century David Crossley and Richard Saville, eds., The Fuller letters: guns, slaves and finance, 1728-1755 Jim Holderness and Michael Turner, eds., Land, labour and agriculture, 1700-1920: essays for Gordon Mingay Adrian Randall, Before the Luddites: custom, community and machinery in the English woollen industry, 1776-1809 Richard Brown, Society and economy in modern Britain, 1700-1850 Keith D. M. Snell, Church and chapel in the north midlands: religious observance in the nineteenth century James A. Jaffe, The struggle for market power: industrial relations in the British coal industry, 1800-1840 David Neave, Mutual aid in the Victorian countryside: friendly societies in the rural East Riding, 1830-1914 Clive Dewey, The passing of Barchester Alun Howkins, Reshaping rural England: a social history, 1850-1925 Stephen Coleman and Paddy O'Sullivan, eds., William Morris and‘News from nowhere’: a vision for our time Steven Morewood, Pioneers and inheritors: top management in the Coventry motor industry, 1896-1972 Alec Cairncross, ed., The Robert Hall diaries, 1954-61 Dennis Brailsford, Sport, time and society: the British at play Geoffrey Jones and M. W. Kirby, eds. Competitiveness and the state: government and business in twentieth-century Britain Alice Russell, The growth of occupational welfare in Britain Philip Brook Manville, The origins of citizenship in ancient Athens Alan Harvey, The economic expansion of the Byzantine empire, 900-1200 Daniel Goffman, Izmir and the Levantine world, 1550-1650 Stuart Woolf, ed., Domestic strategies: work and family in France and Italy, 1600-1800 David Sven Reher, Town and country in pre-industrial Spain: Cuenca, 1550-1870 Bruce M. S. Campbell and Mark Overton, eds., Land, labour and livestock: historical studies in European agricultural productivity David Christian, Living water: vodka and Russian society on the eve of emancipation E. Kingston-Mann and T. Mixter, eds., Peasant economy, culture, and politics of European Russia, 1800-1921 Stephen Constantine, ed., Emigrants and empire: British settlement in the dominions between the wars Christopher Clark, The roots of rural capitalism: western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 W. B. Stephens, Sources for U.S. history: nineteenth-century communities J. P. Ronda, Astoria and empire Arthur F. McEvoy, The fisherman's problem: ecology and law in the California fisheries, 1850-1980 Roger L. Ransom, Conflict and compromise: the political economy of slavery, emancipation, and the American Civil War Robert A. Margo, Race and schooling in the South, 1880-1950: an economic history Michael J. French, The U.S. tire industry: a history James Harvey Young, Pure food: securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: industrial workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 Henry R. Nau, The myth of America's decline: leading the world economy into the 1990s Carole Shammas, The pre-industrial consumer in England and America William Lazonick, Competitive advantage on the shop floor Michael Veseth, Mountains of debt: crisis and change in Renaissance Florence, Victorian Britain, and postwar America Mary O'Furner and Barry Supple, eds., The state and economic knowledge F. Bostock and G. Jones, Planning and power in Iran: Ebtehaj and economic development under the Shah Peter Duus, Raymon Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese informal empire in China, 1895-1937 W. Dean Kinzley, Industrial harmony in modern japan: the invention of a tradition John G. Clark, The political economy of world energy: a twentieth-century perspective William J. Barber, ed., Perspectives on the history of economic thought. Vol. 5 Themes in pre-classical and marxian economics. Vol. 6 Themes in Keynesian criticism and supplementary modern topics Robert Higgs, ed., Arms, politics, and the economy: historical and contemporary perspectives O. F. Hamouda and B. B. Price, Verification in economics and history: a sequel to 'scientifization Charles Harvey and Jon Press, eds., International competition and industrial change: essays in the history of mining and metallurgy, 1800-1950 Mary B. Rose, ed., International competition and strategic response in the textile industries since 1870 Bo Gustafsson, ed., Power and economic institutions: reinterpretations in economic history Angus Maddison, Dynamic forces in capitalist development: a long-run comparative view Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin, eds., The power to manage: employers and industrial relations in comparative-historical perspective Maxine Berg, ed., Political economy in the twentieth century Mats Lundahl and Thommy Svensson, eds., Agrarian society in history: essays in honour of Magnus Mörner Lars Jonung, ed., The Stockholm school of economics revisited     

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Books reviewed: S.H. Rigby, Towns in decline, AD 100‐1600 R.H Britnell, The Great Roll of the Pipe for the sixth year of the reign of King Henry III, Michaelmas 1222 Nuala Zahedieh, Socialbility and power in late‐Stuart England: the cultural worlds of the Verneys, 1660‐1720 John C. Appleby, St Peter Port, 1680‐1830: the history of an international entrepôt Jordan Goodman, Liquid pleasures: a social history of drinks in modern Britain Kristine Bruland, Industrial espionage and technology transfer: Britain and France in the eighteenth century J.R. Wordie, Roots of change: farming and the landscape in East Anglia, c 1700‐1870 James A. Jaffe, Early trade unionism: fraternity, skill and the politics of labour Pat Hudson, The British industrial revolution: an economic perspective Callum G. Brown, Congregational missions and the making of an imperial culture in nineteenth‐century England Felix Driver, The Oxford history of the British empire, III: the nineteenth century Colin G. Pooley, The Irish in Victorian Britain: the local dimension M.W Kirby, Raleigh and the British bicycle industry: an economic and business history, 1870‐1960 G.C. Peden, The management of the national debt of the United Kingdom, 1900‐1932 Alan Booth, The Treasury and British public policy, 1906‐1959 Richard C. Thurlow, Whitehall and the Jews, 1933‐1948: British immigration policy and the Holocaust Jim Tomlinson, Rethinking British decline Richard Perren, Region and strategy in Britain and Japan: business in Lancashire and Kansai, 1890‐1900 B.W.E. Alford, In the public interest: competition policy and the Monopolies and Mergers Commission David Armitage, The Oxford history of the British empire, V: historiography Paul Warde, Defiled trades and social outcasts: honour and ritual pollution in early modern Germany Martin Chick, Histoire de l’électricité en Suisse: la dynamique d’un petit pays européen, 1875‐1939 Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice: the fragile craftFrancesca Trivellato Joseph Harrison, Empresa, mercados, mina y mineros: Rio Tinto, 1873‐1936 Joseph Harrison, The Mediterranean response to globalization before 1950 Roger Middleton, The development of economics in western Europe since 1945 Roger Bartlett, The Russian peasantry, 1600‐1930: the world the peasants made Christopher Clay, The Ottoman city between east and west: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul Virginia H. Aksan, Consumption studies and the history of the Ottoman empire, 1550‐1922: an introduction H.A. Gemery, Migration and the origins of the English Atlantic world S.D Smith, The British Isles and the War of American Independence Robert G. Greenhill, Business history in Latin America: the experience of seven countries Penelope Francks, The pursuit of power in modern Japan, 1825‐1995 Katrina Honeyman, Working out gender: perspectives from labour history Ranald Michie, The global debt bomb Roger Middleton, Reconstructing poliltical economy: the great divide in economic thought     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Eric Gordon, Eynsham Abbey, 1005-1228 M. W. Greenslade, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: a history of the county of Stafford, xiv: the city of Lichfield Richard Holt and Gervase Rosser, The English medieval town: a reader in English urban history, 1200-1540 Frank Musgrove, The north of England Richard S. Smith, Early coal-mining around Nottingham, 1500-1650 Barbara English, The great landowners of east Yorkshire, 1530-1910 David Levine and Keith Wrightson, The making of an industrial society: Whickham, 1560-1765 Phyllis Hembry, The English spa, 1560-1815: a social history Theodore Koditschek, Class formation and industrial society: Bradford, 1750-1850 Jane Fiske, ed., The Oakes diaries: business, politics and the family in Bury St Edmunds, 1778-1827. I. Introduction: lames Oakes’diaries, 1778-1800 James E. Bradley, Religion, revolution and English radicalism: non-conformity in eighteenth-century politics and society John Belchem, Industrialization and the working class: the English experience, 1750-1900 Jeffrey G. Williamson, Coping with city growth during the British industrial revolution Clark Nardinelli, Child labour and the industrial revolution Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, and Annabel Gregory, Height, health and history: nutritional status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980 Alex Mercer, Disease, mortality and population in transition: epidemiological-demographic change in England since the eighteenth century as part of a global phenomenon John E. Archer, By a flash and a scare: arson, animal maiming, and poaching in East Anglia. 1815-1870 Michael Hunter and Robert Thorne, eds., Change at King's Cross R. J. Morris, Class, sect and party: the making of the British middle class. Leeds, 1820-1850 Cynthia Brown, Northampton, 1835-1985: shoe town, new town Dieter Ziegler, trans. Eileen Martin, Central bank, peripheral industry: the Bank of England in the provinces, 1826-1913 David McCrone, Stephen Kendrick, and Pat Straw, ed., The making of Scotland: nation, culture and social change Edgar Jones, A history of GKN, 2: the growth of the business, 1918-1945 G. H. Martin and Peter Spufford, eds., The records of the nation: the Public Record Office, 1838-1988: the British Record Society, 1888-1988 Harvey J. Kaye and Keith McClelland, eds., E. P. Thompson: critical perspectives GENERAL Richard Duncan-Jones, Structure and scale in the Roman economy Marc Boone, Geld en macht: de Gentse stadsfinancien en de Bourgondische staatsvorming, 1384-1453 Larry Neal, The rise of financial capitalism: international capital markets in the age of reason Lars T. Lih, Bread and authority in Russia, 1914-1921 Roger Pethybridge, One step backwards, two steps forward: Soviet society and politics under the new economic policy William Moskoff, The bread of affliction: the food supply in the USSR during World War II Georges Sabagh, ed., The modern economic and social history of the Middle East in its world context M. W. Daly, Imperial Sudan: the Anglo-Egyptian condominium, 1934-1956 Zbigniew A. Konczacki, Jane L. Parpart, and Timothy M. Shaw, eds., Studies in the economic history of southern Africa, I: the Front-Line States David J. Jeremy, Technology and power in the early American cotton industry: James Montgomery, the second edition of his‘Cotton manufacture’(1840), and the Justitia’controversy about relative power costs Tom Kemp, The climax of capitalism: the U.S. economy in the twentienth century Frank Griffith Dawson, The first Latin American debt crisis: The City of London and the 1822-25 loan bubble Mauricio Font, Coffee, contention, and change in the making of modern Brazil Dennis L. McNamara, The colonial origins of Korean enterprise, 1910-1945 Harold Blakemore, From the Pacific to La Paz: the Antofagasta Lawrence I. Conrad, ed., The formation and perception of the modern Arab world: studies by Marwan R. Buheiry M. Mann, ed., The rise and decline of the nation state Geoffrey Jones, ed., Banks as multinationals Bruna Ingrao & Giorgio Israel     

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Books reviewed: Colonisation and conquest in medieval Ireland: the English in Louth, 1170‐1330, Marie Therese Flanagan The household knights of King John, Peter Coss Thirteenth‐century England, VII: proceedings of the Durham conference 1997, Brendan Smith Hertfordshire lay subsidy rolls: 1307 and 1334, Phillipp R. Schofield The great household in late medieval England, Anne Curry The lay subsidy for Shropshire, 1524‐7, John S. Moore Theatre, finance and society in early modern England, Craig Muldrew British identities before nationalism: ethnicity and nationhood in the Atlantic world, 1600‐1800, D. W. Hayton History of work and labour relations in the royal dockyards, Chris Wrigley Gentlemanly capitalism and British imperialism: the new debate on empire, Simon C. Smith Irish migrants in modern Britain, 1750‐1922, Graham Davis Land reform and working‐class experience in Britain and the United States, 1800‐1862, Rohan McWilliam Black ’47 and beyond: the Great Irish Famine in history, economy and memory, Philip Ollerensha The hungry stream: essays on emigration and famine, Patrick O’Sullivan Crimes of outrage: sex, violence and Victorian working women, Megan Doolittle The problem of mental deficiency: eugenics, democracy, and social policy in Britain, c. 1870‐1959, Joseph Melling Phoenix Assurance and the development of British insurance, II: the era of the insurance giants, 1870‐1984, Edwin Green Capitalism, community and conflict: the south Wales coalfield, 1898‐ 1947, Sian Rhiannon williams ‘Millions like us’?: British culture in the Second World War, Dave Russell Anticipating total war: the German and American experiences, 1871‐1914, Robin Clifton Fifty years of the Deutsche Mark: central bank and the currency in Germany since 1948, Catherine R. Schenk The Venetian money market: banks, panics, and the public debt, 1200‐1500, David Abulafia Guilds, markets and work regulations in Italy, 16th‐19th centuries, Iorwerth Prothero The economy and material culture of Russia, 1600‐1725, Jeremy Black Food and eating in medieval Europe, Jane Whittle Art markets in Europe, 1400‐1800, Malcolm Falkus Shaping history: ordinary people in European politics, 1500‐1700, Dagmar Freist Cathedrals of consumption: the Euro‐pean department store, 1850‐1939, Michael Miller Technological revolutions in Europe: historical perspectives, Gillian Cookson Contagion and the state in Europe, 1830‐1930, Roger Davidson Merchants, companies and trade: Europe and Asia in the early modern era, H. V. Bowen Consumers against capitalism? Consumer cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840‐1990, Sean O’Connell Getting and spending: European and American consumer societies in the twentieth century, Gareth Shaw Eastside landmark: a history of the East Los Angeles Community Union, 1968‐1993, Marci R. Green The Atlantic slave trade, Madge Dresser Montpelier, Jamaica: a plantation community in slavery and freedom, 1739‐1912, J. R. Oldfield Searching for a better society: the Peruvian economy from 1950, Paulo Drinot An agrarian history of south Asia (The new Cambridge history of India, IV: 4), David Arnold Development planning in India: exploring an alternative approach, Terence J. Byres The premodern Chinese economy: structural equilibrium and capitalist sterility, David W. Clayton Tigers, rice, silk, and silt: environment and economy in late imperial south China, Philip Richardson Technology and gender: fabrics of power in late imperial China, David W. Clayton Mercantilism in a Japanese domain: the merchant origins of economic nationalism in eighteenth‐century Tosa, John F. Wilson Japan and Singapore in the world economy: Japan’s economic advance into Singapore, 1870‐1965, Nicholas J. White Africa works: disorder as political instrumentdouglas rimmer The wealth of nations, John Glassford Adam Smith’s daughters: eight prominent women economists from the eighteenth century to the present, Jane Howells The foundations of laissez‐faire: the economics of Pierre de Boisguilbert, A. W. Bob Coats Secret origins of modern micro‐economics: Dupuit and the engineers, Richard Whatmore The state, the financial system and economic modernization, Duncan M. Ross Fabricating the Keynesian revolution: studies of the inter‐war literature on money, the cycle and unemployment, Roger Middleton The city in time and space, Helen Meller The theory of innovation: entrepreneurs, technology and strategy, G. N. von Tunzelman     

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John Langdon . Horses, oxen and technological innovation: the use of draught animals in English farming from 1066 to 1500. Peter Spufford . Handbook of medieval exchange. Wilfred R. Prest . The rise of the barristers: a social history of the English bar, 1590-1640. J. V. Beckett . The aristocracy in England, 1660-1914. Neil Mc Kendrick and R. B. Outhwaite (Eds.). Business life and public policy: essays in honour of D. C. Coleman. Pat Hudson . The genesis of industrial capital: a study of the West Riding wool textile industry, c. 1750-1850. Barbara Smith (Ed.). Truth, liberty, religion; essays celebrating two hundred years of Manchester College. Martin Doughty (Ed.). Building the industrial city. R. P. T. Davenport -Hines (Ed.). Markets and bagmen: studies in the history of marketing and British industrial performance, 1830-1939. Negley Harte . The University of London, 1836-1986: an illustrated history. C. J. Wrigley (Ed.). A history of British industrial relations: volume II Harold L. Smith (Ed.). War and social change: British society in the Second World War. D. C. Coleman . History and the economic past: an account of the rise and decline of economic history in Britain. B. Elbaum and W. Lazonick (Eds.). The decline of the British economy. T. W. Moody and W. E. Vaughan (Eds.). A new history of Ireland: IV eighteenth-century Ireland, 1691-1800. Martha C. Howell . Women, production and patriarchy in late medieval cities. Pierre Goubert . The French peasantry in the seventeenth century. K. Honeyman and J. Goodman . Technology and enterprise: Isaac Holden and the mechanization of woolcombing in France, 1848-1914. Manfred Pohl . Entstehung und Entwicklung des Universalbankensystems: Konzentration und Krise ah wichtige Faktoren. Andreas Kunz . Civil servants and the politics of inflation in Germany, 1914-1924. Beiträge zu Inflation und Wideraufbau in Deutschland und Europa William C. Mc Neil . American money and the Weimar Republic: economics and politics on the eve of the great depression. Volker R. Berghahn . The Americanization of West German industry, 1945-1973. A. F. Freris . The Greek economy in the twentieth century. Thomas M. Doerflinger . A vigorous spirit of enterprise: merchants and economic development in revolutionary Philadelphia. Stephanie Jones . Two centuries of overseas trading: the origins and growth of the Inchcape Group. Francesca Bray . The rice economies: technology and development in Asian societies. Kang Chao . Man and land in Chinese history: an economic analysis. David Harvey . Consciousness and the urban experience: studies in the history and theory of capitalist urbanization. Charles Hadfield . World canals: inland navigation past and present. Priyatosh Maitra . Population, technology and development. Lloyd Bonfield , Richard M. Smith and Keith Wrightson (Eds.). The world we have gained: histories of population and social structure. Essays presented to Peter Laslett on his seventieth birthday. Raymond W. Goldsmith . Comparative national balance sheets: a study of twenty countries, 1688-1978.     

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GREAT BRITAIN Ellen Wedemeyer Moore . The fairs of medieval England: an introductory survey. Graham Platts . History of Lincolnshire IV: land and people in medieval Lincolnshire. Colum Giles . Rural houses of west Yorkshire, 1400-1830. Lucy Caffyn . Workers’housing in west Yorkshire, 1750-1920. Paul S. Seaver . Wallington's world: a puritan artisan in seventeenth-century London. J. M. Beattie . Crime and the courts in England, 1660-1800 John V. Pickstone . Medicine and industrial society: a history of hospital development in Manchester and its region 1752-1946. Biancamaria Fontana . Rethinking the politics of commercial society: the Edinburgh Review, 1802-1832. John Belchem . Orator Hunt’: Henry Hunt and English working-class radicalism. Roy Church (with the assistance of Alan Hall and John Kanefsky ). The history of the British coal industry. Volume 2: 1830-1913. Victorian pre-eminence. T. C. Smout . A century of the Scottish people, 1830-1950. D. C. M. Platt . Britain's investment overseas on the eve of the First World War: the use and abuse of numbers. Eric Taplin . The Dockers’union: a study of the National Union of Dock Labourers, 1889-1922. Anthony Sutcliffe (Ed.). Metropolis, 1890-1940. S. N. Broadberry . The British economy between the wars; a macroeconomic survey. J. M. Winter . The Great War and the British people. Alec Cairncross . The price of war: British policy on German reparations, 1941-1949. Stephen Wagg . The football world: a contemporary social history. George Gordon (Ed.). Regional cities in the United Kingdom, 1890-1980. GENERAL Donald Reid . The miners of Decazeville: a genealogy of de-industrialization. Steven Laurence Kaplan and Cynthia J. Koepp (Eds.). Work in France: representations, meaning, organization and practice. Richard J. Evans and W. R. Lee (Eds.). The German peasantry: conflict and community in rural society from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. A. Heerding . (Translated by Derek S. Jordan .) The history of N. V. Philips’gloeilampenfabrieken. Volume 1. The origin of the Dutch incandescent lamp industry. Juan Hernaandez Andreu . España y la crisis de 1929. Witold Kula . (Trans, by Richard Szreter .) Measures and men. S. G. Wheatcroft and R. W. Davies (Eds.). Materials for a balance of the Soviet national economy, 1928-1930. John M. Hemphill II. Virginia and the English commercial system, 1689-1733: studies in the development and fluctuations of a colonial economy under imperial control. Leonard S. Reich . The making of American industrial research: science and business at GE and Bell, 1876-1926. Naomi R. Lamoreaux . The great merger movement in American business, 1895-1904. D’ann Campbell . Women at war with America: private lives in a patriotic era. Lewis R. Fischer and Gerald E. Panting (Eds.). Change and adaptation in maritime history: the north Atlantic fleets in the nineteenth century. Dianne Newell . Technology on the frontier: mining in old Ontario. Andrew Gordon . The evolution of labor relations in Japan: heavy industry, 1853-1955. Jane Rendall . The origins of modern feminism. Michael Turner (Ed.). Malthus and his time. Nathan Rosenburg and L. E. Birdzell . How the west grew rich: the economic transformation of the industrial world. Charles P. Kindleberger . Keynesianism vs. monetarism and other essays in financial history. Publications of The Economic History Society     

Book Reviews

Great Britain and Ireland Lesley Abrams, Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury church and endowment Alan Crossley, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: Oxford, XIII: Bampton hundred (part one) including the market town of Bampton Zvi Razi and Richard Smith, eds., Medieval society and the manor court J. M. Fletcher and C. A. Upton, eds., The domestic accounts of Merton College, Oxford, 1 August 1482-1 August 1494 Michael J. Braddick, The nerves of the state: taxation and the financing of the English state, 1558-1714 Bruce G. Carruthers, City of capital: politics and markets in the English financial revolution R. B. Outhwaite, Clandestine marriage in England, 1500-1850 Sybil M. Jack, Towns in Tudor and Stuart Britain H. V. Bowen, Elites, enterprise and the making of the British overseas empire, 1688-1775 M. Dresser and P. Ollerenshaw, eds., The making of modern Bristol Negley Harte and Roland Quinault, eds., Land and society in Britain, 1700-1914: essays in honour of F. M. L. Thompson Herbert H. Kaplan, Russian overseas commerce with Great Britain during the reign of Catherine II Mark Jackson, New-born child murder: women, illegitimacy and the courts in eighteenth-century England M. R. Watts, The dissenters, Roger J. P. Kain and Richard R. Oliver, The tithe maps of England and Wales: a cartographic analysis and county-by-county catalogue Michael Huberman, Escape from the market: negotiating work in Lancashire Anna Davin, Growing up poor: home, school and street in London, 1870-1914 David Edgerton, Science, technology and the British industrial `decline', 1870-1970 Lara Marks, Metropolitan maternity: maternal and infant welfare services in early twentieth century London Jim Tomlinson, Democratic socialism and economic policy: the Attlee years, 1945-1951 Alan S. Milward and George Brennan, Britain's place in the world: a historical enquiry into import controls, 1945-1960 David W. Gutzke, Alcohol in the British Isles from Roman times to 1996: an annotated bibliography General Joel F. Harrington, Reordering marriage and society in Reformation Germany R. Po-chia Hsia and Hartmut Lehmann, eds., In and out of the ghetto: Jewish-Gentile relations in late medieval and early modern Germany N. Morley, Metropolis and hinterland: the city of Rome and the Italian economy, 200 B.C.-A.D. 200 Maria Malatesta, ed., Society and the professions in Italy, 1860-1914 J.-M. Duvosquel and E. Thoen, eds., Peasants and townsmen in medieval Europe: studies in honorem Adriaan Verhulst William Chester Gordon, The great famine: northern Europe in the early fourteenth century James Hughes, Stalinism in a Russian province: a study of collectivization and dekulakization in Siberia Mark Harrison, Accounting for war: Soviet production, employment and the defence burden, 1940-1945 Mauro Ambrosoli, trans. Mary McCann Salvatorelli, The wild and the sown: botany and agriculture in western Europe, 1350-1850 Andreas Kunz and John Armstrong, eds., Inland navigation and economic development in nineteenth-century Europe Lee A. Craig and Douglas Fisher, The integration of the European economy, 1850-1913 Joseph Melling and Alan McKinlay, eds., Management, labour and industrial politics in modern Europe: the quest for productivity growth during the twentieth century Jon Lunn, Capital and labour on the Rhodesian railway system, 1888-1947 Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, eds., The Cambridge economic history of the United States Paul A. C. Koistinen, Beating plowshares into swords: the political economy of American warfare, 1606-1865 Christopher J. Casteneda and Clarence M. Smith, Gas pipelines and the emergence of America's regulatory state William J. Barber, Designs within disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the economists and the shaping of American economic policy, 1933-1945 Mikulas Teich and Roy Porter, eds., The industrial revolution in national context: Europe and the USA Roderick A. McDonald, ed., West Indies accounts: essays on the history of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic economy in honour of Richard Sheridan Kenneth J. Andrien, The kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830: the state and regional economic development Thomas F. O'Brien, The revolutionary mission: American enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945 T. Roy, ed., Cloth and commerce: textiles in colonial India Pierre van der Eng, Agricultural growth in Indonesia: productivity change and policy impact since 1880 J. Th. Lindblad, ed., Historical foundations of a national economy in Indonesia, 1890s-1990s Peter Duus, R. H. Myers, and M. R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese wartime empire, 1931-1945 Peter Liberman, Does conquest pay? The exploitation of occupied industrial societies Dennis O. Flynn, World silver and monetary history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries T. Bayoumi, B. Eichengreen, and M. P. Taylor, eds., Modern perspectives on the gold standard Harold James, International monetary cooperation since Bretton Woods Martin Fase, Gerald Feldman, and Manfred Pohl, eds., How to write the history of a bank Brenda J. Buchanan, ed., Gunpowder: the history of an international technology René Leboutte, ed., Proto-industrialisation: recherches récentes et nouvelles perspectives. Mélanges en souvenir de Franklin Mendels / Proto-industrialization: recent research and new perspectives. In memory of Franklin Mendels Ralph Shlomowitz with Lance Brennan and John McDonald. Mortality and migration in the western world Andrew Godley and Oliver M. Westall, eds., Business history and business culture Johan Goudsblom, Eric Jones, and Stephen Mennell, The course of human history: economic growth, social process and civilization Daniel Miller, ed., Acknowledging consumption Terry Brotherstone and Geoff Pilling, eds., History, economic history and the future of marxism: essays in memory of Tom Kemp (1921-1993)     

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Books reviewed: Great Britian and Ireland Mary H.M. Hulton, ed. Coventry and its people in the 1520s S.H. Rigby Patricia Crawford & Laura Gowing, eds. Women’s worlds in seventeenth‐century England Robert B. Shoemaker Richard Price. British society, 1680‐1880 Julian Hoppit Adrian Randall & Andrew Charlesworth, eds. Moral economy and popular protest John Walter John Atkins, Bob Hammond & Peter Roper. A village transformed: Keyworth, 1750‐1850 Philip Riden Christine Hallas. Rural responses to industrialization S.A. Caunce W.M. Mathew. Keiller’s of Dundee D.J. Oddy Ranald C. Michie. The London Stock Exchange W.A. Thomas John K. Walton. Blackpool Trevor Griffiths Christopher Breward. The hidden consumer Sean O’Connell David J. Starkey, ed. Shipping movements in the ports of the United Kingdom, 1871‐1913 Adrian Jarvis Desmond King. In the name of liberalism Michael E. Rose Diana Gittins. Madness in its place Susan Burt A.E. Holmans. Demand management in Britain, 1953‐1958 Jim Tomlinson R.F. Bretherton. Demand management, 1958‐1964 Jim Tomlinson Alec Cairncross. Diaries: the Radcliffe Committee and the Treasury, 1961‐1964 Jim Tomlinson Judith M. Brown & Wm. Roger Louis, eds. The Oxford history of the British empire, IV Nicholas J. White General General David Nicholas. The transformation of Europe, 1300‐1600 Penelope Galloway Karl Gunnar Persson. Grain markets in Europe, 1500‐1900 Richard Sheldon Kostas P. Kostis, ed. Modern banking in the Balkans and west‐European capital M.R. Palairet Peter Gatrell. A whole empire walking Barbara Alpern Engel Lena Andersson‐Skog & Ollie Kranze, eds. Institutions in the transport and communications industries Robert Millward William E. Van Vugt. Britain to America R.A. Burchell Edwin J. Perkins. Wall Street to Main Street Geofrey T. Mills Margaret Chowning. Wealth and power in provincial Mexico Brian Hamnett Rudi Colloredo‐Mansfeld. The native leisure class Paulo Drinot 845 T.N. Harper. The end of empire and the making of Malaya Ian Brown Hanchao Lu. Beyond the neon lights Henrietta Harrison 847 Paul L. Robertson, ed. Authority and control in modern industry Joseph Melling Miles Kahler, ed. Capital flows and financial crises Geofrey T. Mills Deepak Lal. Unintended consequences Roger Middleton     

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Great Britain And Ireland S. H. Rigby, A medieval mercantile community: the Grocers’ Company and the politics and trade of London, 1000-1485 Peter Clark, The history of an English borough: Stratford-upon-Avon, 1196-1996 Donald Woodward, The new draperies in the Low Countries and England, 1300-1800 J. R. Wordie, Alternative agriculture: a history from the Black Death to the present day Robert Tittler, English counties and public building, 1650-1830 Michael Turner, Parliamentary enclosure in England: an introduction to its causes, incidence and impact, 1750-1850 Jeremy Gregory, Aspects of the Georgian church: visitation studies of the diocese of York, 1761-1776 Richard Whatmore, Progress, poverty and population: re-reading Condorcet, Godwin and Malthus R. G. Wilson, The diary of Robert Sharp of South Cave: life in a Yorkshire village, 1812-1837 Peter Cain, Free trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 John Sheail, A history of water in modern England and Wales Kenneth D. Brown, Religion, business and wealth in modern Britain Penny Starns, Labour, social policy and the welfare state John F. Wilson, Finance in the age of the corporate economy Peter Howlett, Governance, industry and labour markets in Britain and France: the modernising state in the mid-twentieth century General Sitta Von Reden, Warriors into traders: the power of the market in early Greece Christopher Dyer, The growth of the medieval city: from late antiquity to the early fourteenth century; idem, The later medieval city, 1300-1500 Colin Heywood, Burgundy to Champagne: the wine trade in early modern France Hugh Clout, The brandy trade under the ancien regime: regional specialisation in the Charente David Ormrod, The first modern economy: success, failure, and perseverance of the Dutch economy, 1500-1815 Ted Wilson, Merchants, bankers, middlemen: the Amsterdam money market during the first half of the 19th century Michael Wintle, The economic history of the Netherlands, 1914-1995: a small open economy in the ‘long’ twentieth century Henry Roseveare, From the North Sea to the Baltic: essays in commercial, monetary and agrarian history, 1500-1800 J. K. J. Thomson, State corporatism and proto-industry: the Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797 Alan Dyer, Urban decline in early modern Germany: Schwäbisch Hall and its region, 1650-1750 Michael Palairet, Rebuilding the financial system in central and eastern Europe, 1918-1994 Catherine R. Schenk, Monetary standards and exchange rates A. Slaven , European enterprise: strategies of adaptation and renewal in the twentieth century John J. Mccusker, Tobacco in the Atlantic trade: the Chesapeake, London and Glasgow, 1675-1775 John Killick, Trading beyond the mountains: the British fur trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843 Timothy J. Lockley, From Calabar to Carter’s Grove: the history of a Virginia slave community S. J. Kleinberg, Civic wars: democracy and public life in the American city during the nineteenth century Arni Sverrisson, Endless novelty: specialty production and American industrialization, 1865-1925 Gary Herrigel, Steel phoenix: the fall and rise of the US steel industry Peter Coates, Wetlands of the American Midwest: a historical geography of changing attitudes Robert G. Greenhill, Studies in the history of Latin American economic thought Christopher J. Napier, The development of accounting in an inter-national context: a festschrift in honour of R. H. Parker     

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D. A. E. Pelteret, Slavery in early mediaeval England from the reign of Alfred until the twelfth century Edward Miller and John Hatcher, Medieval England: towns, commerce and crafts, 1086-1348 Maryanne Kowaleski, Local markets and regional trade in medieval Exeter Rosemary Horrox, ed., Fifteenth-century attitudes: perceptions of society in late medieval England Anthony Fletcher, Gender, sex and subordination in England, 1500-1800 Tim Harris, ed., Popular culture in England, c. 1500-1850 Margaret Spufford, ed., The world of rural dissenters, 1520-1725 John Guy, ed., The reign of Elizabeth I: court and culture in the last decade David L. Smith, Richard Strier, and David Bevington, eds., The theatrical city: culture, theatre and politics in London, 1576-1649 Richard Grassby, The business community of seventeenth-century England M.J. Braddick, Parliamentary taxation in seventeenth-century England: local administration and response Adrian Wilson, The making of man-midwifery: childbirth in England, 1660-1770 Kathleen Wilson, The sense of the people: politics, culture and imperialism in England, 1715-1785 David Hancock, Citizens of the world: London merchants and the integration of the British Atlantic community, 1735-1785 David R. Green, From artisans to paupers: economic change and poverty in London, 1790-1870 Cyril Ehrlich, First Philharmonic: a history of the Royal Philharmonic Society Patrick Joyce, Democratic subjects: the self and the social in nineteenth-century England Keith Laybourn, The evolution of British social policy and the Welfare State, c. 1800-1993 Bill Lancaster, The department store: a social history W.W. Knox, Hanging by a thread: the Scottish cotton industry, c. 1850-1914 C.H. Lee, Scotland and the United Kingdom: the economy and the Union in the twentieth century Eric M. Sigsworth, A respectable life: Leeds in the 1930s Timothy R. Whisler, At the end of the road: the rise and fall of Austin-Healey, MG and Triumph Sports Cars John D. Fudge, Cargoes, embargoes and emissaries: the commercial and political interaction of England and the German Hanse, 1450-1510 Pamela H. Smith, The business of alchemy: science and culture in the Holy Roman Empire Daniel Roche, The culture of clothing: dress and fashion in the‘ancien regime’ Göran Hoppe and John Langton, Peasantry to capitalism: western Östergötland in the nineteenth century Charles Feinstein, ed., Banking, currency and finance in Europe between the wars David Conroy, In public houses: drink and the revolution of authority in colonial Massachusetts Peter Temin, ed., Inside the business enterprise: historical perspectives on the use of information Historical atlas of Canada: R. Cole Harris, ed., Vol. i: From the beginning to 1800; R. Louis Gentilcore, ed., Vol. 2: The land transformed, 1800-1891; D. Kerr, ed., Vol. 3: Addressing the twentieth century, 1891-1961 Laird W. Bergad, Fe Iglesias García, and María del Carmen Barcia, The Cuban slave market, 1790-1880 Linda Cooke Johnson, Shanghai from market town to treaty port, 1074-1858 Olive Checkland, Shizuya Nishimura, and Norio Tamaki, eds., Pacific banking, 1859-1959: East meets West Tessa Morris-Suzuki, The technological transformation of Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century J. Komlos, ed., The biological standard of living on three continents: further explorations in anthropometric history Forrest Capie, Tariffs and growth: some insights from the world economy, 1850-1940 John A. James and Mark Thomas, eds., Capitalism in context: essays in economic development and cultural change in honor of R.M. Hartwell Theodore M. Porter, Trust in numbers: the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life     

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Bruce M. S. Campbell, James A. Galloway, Derek Keene, and Margaret Murphy, A medieval capital and its grain supply: agrarian production and distribution in the London region Jonathan Barry and Christopher Brooks, The middling sort of people: culture, society and politics in England, 1550-1800 James Horn, Adapting to a New World: English society in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake Adrian Wilson, ed., Rethinking social history: English society, 1570-1920, and its interpretation Richard Grassby, The English gentleman in trade: the life and works of Sir Dudley North, 1641-1691 Forrest H. Capie, ed., History of banking F. M. L. Thompson, ed., Landowners, capitalists, and entrepreneurs: essays for Sir John Habakkuk Nancy F. Koehn, The power of commerce: economy and governance in the first British empire Robert Fitzgerald, Rowntree and the marketing revolution, 1862-1969 Humphrey Southall, David Gilbert, and Carol Bryce, Nineteenth-century trade union records: an introduction and select guide John K. Walton, Fish and chips and the British working class, 1870-1940 John Benson, The rise of consumer society in Britain, 1880-1980 Jim Tomlinson, Government and the enterprise since 1900 Edwin S. Hunt, The medieval super-companies: a study of the Peruzzi company of Florence Liana Vardi, The land and the loom: peasants and profit in northern France, 1680-1800 J. Henderson and R. Walls, eds., Poor women and children in the European past D. Aldcroft and S. Ville, eds., The European economy, 1750-1914: a thematic approach Rosemary O'Day, The family and family relationships, 1500-1900: England, France and the United States of America Stephen A. Frank and Mark D. Steinberg, eds., Cultures in flux: lower-class values, practices, and resistance in late imperial Russia Daniel Vickers, Farmers and fishermen: two centuries of work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 Colin Gordon, New Deals: business, labor and politics in America, 1920-1935 Sally Clarke, Regulation and the revolution in United States farm productivity Neville A. T. Hall, Slave society in the Danish West Indies Eugene Ridings, Business interest groups in nineteenth-century Brazil Seiichiro Yonekura, The Japanese iron and steel industry, 1850-1990: continuity and discontinuity R. H. Parker and B. S. Yamey, Accounting history: some British contributions John Komlos, ed., Stature, living standards, and economic development: essays in anthropometric history Eric Helleiner, States and the re-emergence of global finance: from Bretton Woods to the 1990s G. Grantham and M. MacKinnon, eds., Labour market evolution: the economic history of market integration, wage flexibility and the employment relation     

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Book reviewed in this article: Ann Hagen, A second handbook of Anglo-Saxon food and drink: production and distribution Richard H. Britnell and Bruce M. S. Campbell, eds., A commercialising economy: England, 1086 to c. 1300 T. M. Devine and G. Jackson, eds., Glasgow, I: beginnings to 1830 Amy Louise Erickson, Women and property in early modern England S. Roberts, ed., Evesham borough records of the seventeenth century, 1605–1687 John Smail, The origins of middle-class culture: Halifax, Yorkshire, 1660–1780 Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey, eds., The economic history of Britain since 1700 C. Nicholson, Writing and the rise of finance: capital satires of the early eighteenth century Anne Digby, Making a medical living: doctors and patients in the English market for medicine, 1720–1911 Cormac Ó Gráda, Ireland: a new economic history, 1780–1939 Linda Croft, John Fielden's Todmorden Ruth-Ann M. Harris, The nearest place that wasn't Ireland: early nineteenth-century Irish labor migration E. H. H. Green, The crisis of Conservatism: the politics, economics and ideology of the British Conservative Party, 1880–1914 Kent Fedorowich, Unfit for heroes: reconstruction and soldier settlement in the empire between the wars Robert Millward and John Singleton, eds., The political economy of nationalisation in Britain, 1920–1950 James Hinton, Shop floor citizens: engineering democracy in 1940s Britain James Obelkevitch and Peter Catterall, eds., Understanding post-war British society Caroline Barron and Nigel Saul, eds., England and the Low Countries in the late middle ages B. Lepetit, The pre-industrial urban system: France, 1740–1840 Patricia Skinner, Family power in southern Italy: the duchy of Gaeta and its neighbours, 850-1139 A. Teichova, T. Gourvish, and A. Pogany, eds., Universal banking in the twentieth century: finance, industry and the state in north and central Europe Roderick A. McDonald, The economy and material culture of slaves: goods and chattels on the sugar plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana Robert Tracy McKenzie, One South or many?: plantation belt and upcountry in Civil War-era Tennessee Dean L. May, Three frontiers: family, land and society in the American West, 1850–1900 Lance E. Davis and Robert J. Cull, International capital markets and American economic growth Desmond King, Actively seeking work? The politics of unemployment and welfare policy in the United States and Great Britain Jeremy Adelman, Frontier development: land, labour and capital on the wheat lands of Argentina and Canada, 1890–1914 W. G. Huff, The economic growth of Singapore: trade and development in the twentieth century Kären Wigen, The making of a Japanese periphery, 1750–1920 Graeme D. Snooks, Portrait of the family within the total economy: a study in longrun dynamics, Australia 1788–1990 Bronislaw Geremek, Poverty: a history John Brewer and Susan Staves, eds., Early modern conceptions of property Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson, eds., Migration and the international labour market, 1850–1939 Graeme Donald Snooks, ed., Was the industrial revolution necessary? Geoffrey Jones and Nicholas J. Morgan, eds., Adding value: brands and marketing in food and drink     

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Book reviewed in this article: Nigel Yates and James M. Gibson, eds., Traffic and politics: the construction and management of Rochester Bridge, A.D. 43-1993 Maryanne Kowaleski, ed., The local customs accounts of the port of Exeter, 1266-1321 Caroline M. Barron and Anne F. Sutton, eds., Medieval London widows, 1300-1500 Christopher Dyer, Everyday life in medieval England Robert C. Allen, Enclosure and the yeoman: the agricultural development of the south midlands, 1450-1850 A. J. S. Gibson and T. C. Smout, Prices, food and wages in Scotland, 1550-1780 John Habakkuk, Marriage, debt and the estates system: English landownership, 1650-1950 R. A. Houston, Social change in the age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh, 1660-1760 Lawrence Stone, ed., An imperial state at war: Britain from 1689 to 1815 John Beckett, The rise and fall of the Grenvilles, Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, 1710 to 1921 Pamela Horn, Children's work and welfare, 1780-1880 Maurice W. Kirby and Mary B. Rose, eds., Business enterprise in modern Britain: from the eighteenth to the twentieth century Eric Hopkins, Childhood transformed: working-class children in nineteenth-century England John Rule and Robert Malcolmson, eds., Protest and survival: the historical experience. Essays for E. P. Thompson David Feldman, Englishmen and Jews: social relations and political culture, 1840-1914 Roy Church, The rise and decline of the British motor industry B. W. E. Alford, Rodney Lowe, and Neil Rollings, Economic planning, 1943-1951: a guide to documents in the Public Record Office James Foreman-Peck and Robert Millward, Public and private ownership of British industry Catherine R. Schenk, Britain and the sterling area: from devaluation to convertibility in the 1950s Nicholas Canny, ed., Europeans on the move: studies on European migration, 1500-1800 Jeffrey M. Diefendorf, Axel Frohn, and Hermann-Josef Rupieper, eds., American policy and the reconstruction of West Germany, 1945-1955 David Abulafia, A Mediterranean emporium: the Catalan kingdom of Majorca I. A. A. Thompson and B. Yun Casalilla, eds., The Castilian crisis of the seventeenth century Thomas Dublin, Transforming women's work: New England lives in the industrial revolution Naomi Lamoreaux, Insider lending Stanley Lebergott, Pursuing happiness: American consumers in the twentieth century Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630-1641: the other puritan colony Kenneth J. Andrien and Lyman L. Johnson, eds., The political economy of Spanish America in the age of revolution, 1750-1850 Helen Shapiro, Engines of growth: the state and transnational auto companies in Brazil Eric Jones, Lionel Frost, and Colin White, Coming full circle: an economic history of the Pacific Rim Frank Dobbin, Forging industrial policy: the United States, Britain and France in the railway age Gregory P. Nowell, Mercantile states and the world oil cartel, 1900-1939 Beth A. Simmons, Who adjusts? Domestic sources of foreign economic policy during the interwar years A. W. Coats, The sociology and professionalization of economics, 2: British and American essays     

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Great Britain and Ireland T. C. Smout, ed., Scotland since prehistory: natural change and human impact N. M. Herbert, ed., A history of the county of Gloucester, V: the Forest of Dean Colin Platt, King Death: the Black Death and its aftermath in late medieval England Del Sweeney, ed., Agriculture in the middle ages: technology, practice, and representation Mark Overton, Agricultural revolution in England: the transformation of the agrarian economy, 1500-1850 Roy Porter and Marie Mulvey Roberts, eds., Pleasure in the eighteenth century Adrian Randall and Andrew Charlesworth, eds., Markets, market culture and popular protest in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland Barry Reay, Microhistories: demography, society and culture in rural England, 1800-1930 Edgar Jones, True and fair: a history of Price Waterhouse Michael Turner, After the Famine: Irish agriculture, 1850-1914 Roger Middleton, Government versus the market: the growth of the public sector, economic management and British economic performance, c. 1890-1979 Andrew Marrison, British business and protection, 1903-1932 James Foreman-Peck, Sue Bowden, and Alan McKinlay, The British motor industry Peter Scott, The property masters: a history of the British commercial property sector General Gary Herrigel, Industrial constructions: the sources of German industrial power Volker R. Berghahn, ed., Quest for economic empire: European strategies of German big business in the twentieth century Paul Bairoch and Martin Körner, eds., La Suisse dans l'économie mondiale/Die Schweiz in der Weltwirtschaft Ivan T. Berend, Central and eastern Europe, 1944-1993: detour from the periphery to the periphery Wendy Davies and Paul Fouracre, eds., Property and power in the early middle ages Jonathan Dewald, The European nobility, 1400-1800: new approaches to European history Ann Goldgar, Impolite learning: conduct and community in the republic of letters, 1680-1750 Iain R. Smith, The origins of the South African war, 1899-1902 Augustus J. Veenendaal, Slow train to paradise: how Dutch investors helped build American railroads Elmus Wicker, The banking panics of the great depression Deborah Oxley, Convict maids: the forced migration of women to Australia Stanley Lebergott, Consumer expenditures: new measures and old motives Jack Goody, The East in the West G. D. Snooks, The dynamic society: exploring the sources of global change Elliott A. Krause, The death of the guilds: professions, states, and the advance of capitalism, 1930 to the present Maxine Berg, A woman in history: Eileen Power, 1889-1940     

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Books reviewed: England’s Jewish solution: experiment and expulsion, Jenny Kermode The Reformation in English towns, 1500-1640, Felicity Heal Women waging law in Elizabethan England, Cynthia Herrup Prayer book and people in Elizabethan and early Stuart England, Jacqueline Eales The French-speaking Reformed community and their church in Southampton, 1567-c. 1620, Ole Peter Grell Failed legislation, 1660-1800, David Eastwood The account book of Clement Taylor of Finsthwaite, 1712-1753, K. D. M. Snell The solidarities of strangers: the English poor laws and the people, 1700-1948, Felix Driver Science in the service of empire: Joseph Banks, the British state and the uses of science in the age of revolution, David Armitage Made in Lancashire: a history of regional industrialisation, S. D Chapman Scotland in the nineteenth century, W. Hamish Fraser The British malting industry since 1830, D. J. Oddy Population, economy and family structure in Hertfordshire in 1851: vol. 1, the Berkhamsted region, Marguerite W. Dupree Deutsche Direktinvestitionen in Gro bbritannien, 1871-1918, Richard Tilly Strikes and solidarity: coalfield conflict in Britain, 1889-1966, Rodney Hills History in our hands: a critical anthology of writings on literature, culture and politics from the 1930,s, John Newsinger A Breton landscape, Brian Roberts Luxury trades and consumerism in Ancien Régime Paris: studies in the history of the skilled workforce, Laurence Fontaine Seductive journey: American tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age, Alastair J. Durie Civic charity in a golden age: orphan care in early modern Amsterdam, Alexander Cowan The Dutch in the Atlantic economy, 1580-1880: trade, slavery and emancipation, Johannes Postma Bergbaureviere als Verbrauchszentren im vorindustriellen Europa: Fallstudien zu Beschaffung und Verbrauch von Lebensmitteln sowie Roh- und Hilfsstoffen, Thomas Sokoll Central Europe in the twentieth century: an economic history perspective, Max-Stephan Schulze The Balkan economies c.1800-1914: evolution without development, Marvin Jackson Gold and spices: the rise of commerce in the middle ages, Penelope Galloway The legacy of scholasticism in economic thought: antecedents of choice and power, Diana Wood The role of precious metals in European development: from Roman times to the eve of the industrial revolution, C. E. Challis Essays in the economic history of the Atlantic world, R. C. Nash Strong wine: the life and legend of Agoston Haraszthy, John Wills Defining the national interest: conflict and change in American foreign policy, Fiona Venn The fall of the Packard Motor Company, Mark s. Foster The Americanisation of European business: the Marshall Plan and the transfer of US management models, Carlo Morelli The evolution of retirement: an American economic history, 1880- 1990, Neil A. Wynn The Keynesian arithmetic in war-time Canada: development of the national accounts, 1939-1945, Hugh Rockoff The rise of capitalism on the pampas: the estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870, Colin M. Lewis World of possibilities: flexibility and mass production in western industrialization, Kristine Bruland Decolonization and African society: the labour question in French and British Africa, Gareth Austin Reorient: global economy in the Asian age, N F R Crafts Representing convicts: new perspectives on convict forced labour migration, Bill Jones The World Bank: its first half century, Paul Seabright International banking in an age of transition: globalisation, automation, banks and their archives, Judith Wale Political parties, growth and equality: conservative and social democratic economic strategies in the world economy, Alan Booth Max Weber and the idea of economic sociology, Keith Tribe The works of Nikolai D. Kondratiev. Vol. 1: Economic statics, dynamics and conjunctures, Roger Middleton     

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Books reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND A. R. Bridbury, The English economy from Bede to the Reformation Eric Kerridge, The common fields of England R. H. Britnell, The commercialisation of English society, 1000-1500 P. J. P. Goldberg, Women, work, and life cycle in a medieval economy: women in York and Yorkshire, c. 1300-1520 Margaret MacCurtain and Mary O'Dowd, eds., Women in early modern Ireland Lawrence Stone, Uncertain unions: marriage in England, 1660-1753 D. Kynaston, Cazenove and Co.: a history Alastair J. Reid, Social classes and social relations in Britain, 1850-1914 Edward H. Lorenz, Economic decline in Britain: the shipbuilding industry, 1890-1970 Eric Hopkins, The rise and decline of the English working classes, 1918-1990: a social history Philip Williamson, National crisis and National Government: British politics, the economy and the empire, 1926-1932 Kathleen Burk and Alec Cairncross, 'Goodbye, Great Britain': the 1976 IMF crisis GENERAL A. Forrest and P. Jones, eds., Reshaping France: town, country and region during the French Revolution Richard Vinen, The politics of French business, 1936-1945 Clara Eugenia Núñez, La fuente de la riqueza: educación y desarrollo económico en las España contemporánea Aurel Schubert, The Credit Anstalt crisis of 1931 Bo Sandelin, ed., The history of Swedish economic thought Youssef Cassis, ed., Finance and financiers in European history, 1880-1960 Peter Mathias and John A. Davis, eds., Innovation and technology in Europe: from the eighteenth century to the present day Teresa L. Amott and Julie A. Matthaei, Race, gender and work: a multicultural economic history of women in the United States David E. Nye, Electrifying America: social meanings of a new technology, 1880-1940 James Schwoch, The American radio industry and its Latin American activities, 1900-1939 Chan Wai Kuan, The making of Hong Kong society: three studies of class formation in early Hong Kong Penelope Francks, Japanese economic development: theory and practice Y. S. Brenner, Hartmut Kaelble, and Mark Thomas, eds., Income distribution in historical perspective H. F. Gospel, ed., Industrial training and technological innovation: a comparative and historical study     

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Book reviewed in this article REVIEW OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE, 1985 GREAT BRITAIN Alan Macfarlane . Marriage and love in England: modes of reproduction, 1300-1840. A. L. Beier & Roger Finlay (Eds.) The making of the metropolis: London, 1500-1700. Gary Stuart De Krey . A fractured society: the politics of London in the first age of party, 1688-1715. Celia Miller . The account books of Thomas Smith, Ireley Farm, Hailes, Gloucestershire, 1865-1871 Joel Mokyr . The economics of the industrial revolution. Gail Malmgreen . Silk town: industry and culture in Macclesfield, 1750-7835. C. Emsley and J. Walvin (Eds.). Artisans, peasants and proletarians, 1760-1860. Jane Lewis Angela V. John John Knott . Popular opposition to the 1834 Poor Law. Pat Thane and Anthony Sutcliffe (Eds.). Essays in social history, volume 2. Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley (Eds.). The Irish in the Victorian city. M. J. Daunton . Royal Mail: the Post Office since 1840. Gordon Phillips and Noel Whiteside . The unemployment question in the port transport industry. Roger Davidson . Whitehall and the labour problem in late-Victorian and Edwardian England. Paul Johnson Saving and spending: the working-class economy in Britain, 1870-1939. G. C. Peden . British economic and social policy: Lloyd George to Margaret Thatcher. Richard Saville Charles Wilson . First with the news: the history of W. H. Smith, 1792-1972. Derek H. Aldcroft . The British economy. Volume I. The years of turmoil, 1920-1951. GENERAL John M. Merriman . The red city: Limoges and the French nineteenth century. Malou Haine . Les facteurs d'instruments de musique à paris au 19e siècle: les artisans face à l'industrialisation. Maurice Leavy -Leboyer and Franclois Bourgignon . L'économie française au XIX^e siècle. Robert G. Moeller Thomas N. Bisson . Fiscal accounts of Catalonia under the early count-kings, 1151-1213. T. H. Aston and C. H. E. Philpin (Eds.). The Brenner debate: agrarian class structure and economic development in pre-industrial Europe. Paul M. Hohenberg and Lynn Hollen Lees . The making of urban Europe, 1000-1950. Jonathan I. Israel . European Jewry in the age of mercantilism, 1550-1750. Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Hans -Gerhard Husung (Eds.). The development of trade unionism in Great Britain and Germany, 1880-1914. John Gillingham . Industry and politics in the Third Reich: Ruhr coal, Hitler and Europe. John R. Lampe . The Bulgarian economy in the twentieth century. Om Prakash . The Dutch East Indian Company and the economy of Bengal, 1630-1720 Jackson Turner Main . Society and economy in colonial Connecticut. Francis G. Couvares . The remaking of Pittsburgh: class and culture in an industrializing city, 1877-1918. Chris Mcguffie . Working in metal: management and labour in the metal industries of Europe and the USA, 1890-1914. Sanford M. Jacoby . Employing bureaucracy: managers, unions and the transformation of work in American industry, 1900-1945. Jon Gjerde . From peasants to farmers: the migration from Balestrand Norway, to the upper Middle West. Bernd Martin and Alan S. Milward (Eds.). Agriculture and food supply in the second world war. Michael F. Hendy . Studies in the Byzantine monetary economy, c. 300-1450. B. L. Anderson and A. J. H. Latham (Eds.). The market in history. Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Jurgen Osterhammel (Eds.). Imperialism and after: continuities and discontinuities Robert Higgs Forrest Capie and Geoffrey E. Wood (Eds.). Financial crises and the world banking system.