Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: C. M. Woolgar, ed., Household accounts from medieval England David Gary Shaw, The creation of a community: the city of Wells in the middle ages Mark Bailey, ed., The bailiffs'minute book of Dunwich, 1404-1430 Robert Brenner, Merchants and revolution: commercial change, political conflict, and London's overseas traders, 1550-1653 John Hatcher, The history of the British coal industry, 1: Before 1700: towards the age of coal Kenneth Morgan, Bristol and the Atlantic trade in the eighteenth century Maurice W. Kirby, The origins of railway enterprise: the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1821-1863 D. C. M. Platt, with A. J. H. Latham and Ranald Michie, Decline and recovery in Britain's overseas trade, 1873-1913 Nick Tiratsoo and Jim Tomlinson, Industrial efficiency and state intervention: Labour, 1939-1951 Rodney Lowe, The welfare state in Britain since 1945 Ben Fine, Women's employment and the capitalist family Roger Magraw, A history of the French working class, is‘The age of artisan revolution, 1815-1871′ (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Pp. Xi + 301. £40); II: Workers and the bourgeois republic, 1871-1939 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Pp. Vi + 330. £40) Ulrich Wengenroth, Enterprise and technology; the German and British steel industries, 1865-1895 Joseph Harrison, The Spanish economy: from the Civil War to the European Community Lenard R. Berlanstein, ed., The industrial revolution and work in nineteenth-century Europe P. C. Emmer and M. Morner, eds., European expansion and migration: essays on the inter-continental migration from Africa, Asia and Europe David W. Ellwood, Rebuilding Europe: Western Europe, America and postwar reconstruction Robert E. Gallman and John Joseph Wallis, eds., American economic growth and standards of living before the Civil War Christopher J. Schmitz, The growth of big business in the United States and Western Europe, 1850-1939 Michael D. Bordo and Barry J. Eichengreen, eds., A retrospective on the Bretton Woods system: lessons for international monetary reform S. A. M. Adshead, Salt and civilization David Grigg, The transformation of agriculture in the west     

Book reviews

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Book reviews

Books reviewed in this article: D. M. Palliser (ed.), The Cambridge urban history of Britain, I: 600–1540 Christopher Dyer, Making a living in the middle ages: the people of Britain, 850–1520 P. Wardley (ed.), Bristol historical resource Harold Fox, The evolution of the fishing village: landscape and society along the south Devon coast, 1086–1550 L. R. Poos, Lower ecclesiastical jurisdiction in late–medieval England: the courts of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, 1336–1349 and the deanery of Wisbech, 1458–1484 R. H. Darwall–Smith (ed.), Account rolls of University College, Oxford. Volume I: 1381/2–1470/1; Volume II: 1471/2–1596/7 Tim Harris (ed.), The politics of the excluded, c. 1500–1850 Martin S. Daunton, Trusting Leviathan: the politics of taxation in Britain, 1799–1914 Robert Colls and Bill Lancaster (eds.), Newcastle upon Tyne: a modern history Michael Ball and David Sunderland, An economic history of London, 1800–1914 Geoffrey Channon, Railways in Britain and the United States, 1830–1940 P.W. Jackson (ed.), The letter–books of W. Gilbertson & Co. Ltd., Pontardawe, 1890–1929 Edgar Jones, The business of medicine: the extraordinary history of Glaxo Chrisafis H. Iordanoglou, Public enterprise revisited: a closer look at the 1954–79 UK labour productivity record Harold James, The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi economic war against the Jews Vassilis Kardasis, Diaspora merchants in the Black Sea: the Greeks in southern Russia, 1775–1861 W. Bruce Lincoln, Sunlight at midnight: St Petersburg and the rise of modern Russia John Barber and Mark Harrison (eds.), The Soviet defence–industry complex from Stalin to Khrushchev Catherine Panter–Brick and Malcolm T. Smith (eds.), Abandoned children Colin Heywood, A history of childhood: children and childhood in the West from medieval to modern times Helen Meller, European cities, 1890–1930s: history, culture and the built environment Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton (eds.), The politics of consumption: material culture and citizenship in Europe and America Denis O’Hearn, The Atlantic economy: Britain, the US and Ireland Robert J. Steinfeld, Coercion, contract and free labour in the nineteenth century Roger Chickering and Stig Förster (eds.), Great War, total war: combat and mobilization on the Western Front, 1914–1918 Joel Beinin, Workers and peasants in the modern Middle East Gloria L. Main, Peoples of a spacious land: families and cultures in colonial New England Miriam Wright, A fishery for modern times: the state and the industrialization of the Newfoundland fishery, 1934–1968 Prasannan Parthasarathi, The transition to a colonial economy: weavers, merchants and kings in south India, 1720–1800 Ian Inkster, Japanese industrialisation: historical and cultural perspectives Ian Inkster, The Japanese industrial economy: late development and cultural causation