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Books reviewed in this article: A. D. M. Phillips and C. B. Phillips, eds., A new historical atlas of Cheshire Philip Riden, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: a history of the county of Northampton G. J. Benson and L. Ugolini, eds., A nation of shopkeepers: five centuries of British retailing Stanley Chapman, Hosiery and knitwear: four centuries of small‐scale industry in Britain. c.1589–2000 Peter Borsay and Lindsay Proudfoot, eds., Provincial towns in early modern England and Ireland: change, convergence and divergence John Cramsie, Kingship and Crown finance under James VI and I, 1603–1625 Matthew and George Culley, Travel journals and letters, 1765–1798 John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson, eds., Henry Maudslay and the pioneers of the machine age Desmond Greer and James W. Nicolson, The factory acts in Ireland, 1802–1914 Charles K. Rawding, The Lincolnshire wolds in the nineteenth century Derek J. Oddy, From plain fare to fusion food: British diet from the 1890s to the 1990s Alan Fowler, Lancashire cotton operatives and work, 1900–1950: a social history of Lancashire cotton operatives in the twentieth century Martin Daunton, Just taxes: the politics of taxation in Britain, 1914–1979 Becky E. Conekin, ‘The autobiography of a nation’: the 1951 Festival of Britain Andrea Rusnock, Vital accounts: quantifying health and population in eighteenth‐century England and France Martin Horn, Britain, France, and the financing of the First World War Mark Cioc, The Rhine: an eco‐biography, 1815–2000 Helena Hamerow, Early medieval settlements: the archaeology of rural communities in north‐west Europe, 400–900 Martina De Moor, Leigh Shaw‐Taylor, and Paul Warde, eds., The management of common land in north west Europe, c. 1500–1850 Johan Söderberg and Janken Myrdal, The agrarian economy of sixteenth‐century Sweden John Armstrong and Andreas Kunz, eds., Coastal shipping and the European economy, 1750–1980 Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Class theory and history: capitalism and communism in the USSR Virginia G. Drackman, Enterprising women: 250 years of American business W. Carl Bliven, Jimmy Carter's political economy: policy in an age of limits Colin M. Lewis, Argentina: a short history Maurice Wright, Japan's fiscal crisis: the Ministry of Finance and the politics of public spending, 1975–2000 Zhaojin Ji, A history of modern Shanghai banking: the rise and decline of China's finance capitalism Linsun Cheng, Banking in modern China: entrepreneurs, professional managers, and the development of Chinese banks, 1897–1937 Ts'ui‐jung Liu, James Lee, David Sven Reher, Osamu Saito, and Wang Feng, eds., Asian population history Andrea Colli, The history of family business, 1850–2000 Eric Helleiner, The making of national money: territorial currencies in historical perspective     

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Books reviewed: Mark Bailey, The English manor, c. 1200‐c. 1500 Ian Anders Gadd and Patrick Wallis, eds., Guilds, society and economy in London, 1450–1800 Perry Gauci, The politics of trade: the overseas merchant in state and society, 1660–1720 Bridget Hill, Women alone: spinsters in England, 1660–1850 Margaret Ackrill and Leslie Hannah, Barclays, the business of banking, 1690–1996 Susanna Wade Martins, The English model farm: building the agricultural ideal, 1700–1914 Peter King, Crime, justice and discretion in England, 1740–1820 John Belchem, Merseypride: essays in Liverpool exceptionalism Trevor Griffiths, The Lancashire working classes, c. 1880–1930 Peter Clarke, The Cripps version: the life of Sir Stafford Cripps, 1889–1952 Terry Gourvish British Rail, 1974–97: from integration to privatisation Noel Thompson, Left in the wilderness: the political economy of British democratic socialism since 1979 Linda L. Clark, The rise of professional women in France: gender and public administration since 1830 Robert J. Smith, The Bouchayers of Grenoble and French industrial enterprise, 1850–1970 Jacob Meunier, On the fast track: French railway modernization and the origins of the TGV, 1944–1983 Paul Hendrix, Sir Henri Deterding and Royal Dutch‐Shell: changing control of world oil, 1900–1940 J. Adam Tooze, Statistics and the German state, 1900–1945: the making of modern economic knowledge Catherine Kovesi Killerby, Sumptuary law in Italy, 1200–1500 Donald Filtzer, Soviet workers and late Stalinism: labour and the restoration of the Stalinist system after World War II Malcolm Gee and Tim Kirk, eds., Printed matters: printing, publishing and urban culture in Europe in the modern period Rudy Koshar, ed.,Histories of leisure Charles Perrow, Organising America: wealth, power, and the origins of corporate capitalism Ian Jackson, The economic Cold War: America, Britain and East‐West trade, 1948–63 John Mason Hart, Empire and revolution: the Americans in Mexico since the Civil War Jan Rath, ed., Unravelling the rag trade: immigrant entrepreneurship in seven world cities Wolfgang Streeck and Kozo Yamamura, eds., The origins of nonliberal capitalism: Germany and Japan in comparison Lance E. Davis and Robert E. Gallman, Evolving financial markets and international capital flows: Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865–1914 Francine McKenzie, Redefining the bonds of Commonwealth, 1939–1948: the politics of preference Catherine R. Schenk, Hong Kong as an international financial centre: emergence and development, 1945–1965 Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas, and Andrew Miles, HISCO: historical international standard classification of occupations Witold Kula, trans. Richard Szreter, The problems and methods of economic history Jack Birner, Pierre Garrouste, and Thierry Aimar, eds., F. A. Hayek as a political economist: economic analysis and values     

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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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Michael T. Skully, Merchant Banking in ASEAN: A Regional Examination of its Development and Operations. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. x + 200.

Anwar Nasution, Financial Institutions and Policies in Indonesia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1983, pp. xvi + 182.

R. M. Bautista and S. Naya (eds), Energy and Structural Change in the Asia-Pacific Region. Manila: Philippine Institute for Development Studies and Asian Development Bank, 1984, pp. xxii + 532.

Charles A. Coppel, Indonesian Chinese in Crisis, Asian Studies of Australia, Southeast Asian Publications Series No. 8, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1983. pp. xvii + 236. $24.95 (cloth). $13.95 (paper).

Avé, J., V. King and J. de Wit, West Kalimantan: a bibliography, Leiden: Koninklijke Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1983. Dfl. 30.     

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G. Hanafi Sofyan (ed.), Indonesia dalam Transisi [Indonesia in Transition], Halmahera Foundation, 1995, pp. vii + 308.

David Lim, Expinining Economic Growth: A New Annlyticnl Framework, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1996, pp. xiv + 248. £35.95.     

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Miyohei Shinohara and Fu-Chen Lo (eds), Global Adjustment and the Future of Asian-Pacific Economy, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo: Asian and Pacific Development Centre and Institute of Developing Economies, 1989, pp. 585 + xxi, npg.

Frank J. Costa, Ashok K. Dutt, Laurence J.C. Ma and Allen G. Noble, Urbanization in Asia: Spatial Dimensions and Policy Issues, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. US$44.

W. de Jong and F. van Steenbergen, Town and Hinterland in Central Java, Jogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1987, pp. 250 + iv. Paper: Rp 7,000.

Bruce Mckern and Praipol Koomsup (eds), The Minerals Industries of Asean and Australia: Problems and Prospects, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1987, pp. 378 + xviii. Paper: $29.95.

Bruce Mckern and Praipol Koomsup (eds), Minerals Processing in the Industrialisation of Asean and Australia, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1988, pp. 388 + xvii. Paper: $29.95.

Mohamed Ariff and Tan Loong-Hoe (eds), The Uruguay Round: Asean Trade Policy Options, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1988, pp. 211 + xvi.

William R. Cline, The Future of World Trade in Textiles and Apparel, Institute for International Economics, Washington, 1987, pp. 325 + xiv. US$20.

Peter Drysdale, International Economic Pluralism: Economic Policy in East Asia and the Pacific, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1988, pp. 294. Paper $20; Cloth: $30.

Helen Hughes (ed.), Achieving Industrialization in East Asia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 377 + xviii. $59.50.

BRIEFLY NOTED: J. C. Conroy, Shelter for the Homeless: Asian-Pacific Needs and Australian Responses, Canberra: Australian Council for Overseas Aid Development Dossier No 22,1987, pp. 141 + vi.     

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Richard Higgott and Richard Robison (eds), Southeast Asia: Essays in the Political Economy of Structural Change, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. £18.00 (cloth)

John Wong, The Political Economy of China's Changing Relations with Southeast Asia, London: Macmillan Press, 1984, pp. xvi + 246.

Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, Perdagangan dan Industri dalam Pembangunan [Trade and Industry in Development], Jakarta: LP3ES, 1985, pp. 133.Thee Kian Wie

Masyarakat Indonesia, 12(3), Jakarta: LIPI, December, 1985. Special issue edited by Thee Kian Wie, entitled 'Kaitan-Kaitan Vertikal Antar-perusahaan dan Pengembangan Sistem Subkontraktor di Indonesia: Beberapa Studi Kasus' [Vertical Linkages between Firms and the Development of the Subcontracting System in Indonesia: Several Case Studies].

D. B. G. Denoon, Devaluation under Pressure: India, Indonesia and Ghana, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1986, pp. xi + 260. US$28.75

John W. Mellor and Gunvant M. Desai (eds). Agricultural Change and Rural Poverty, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp. xix + 233. US$27.45.

'Indonesia's Transmigration Programme: A Special Report', The Ecologist, Vol. 16, No. 2/3, 1986. £4.00     

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Moh Arsyad Anwar (ed.), Prospek dan Permasalahan Ekonomi Indonesia 1985/86 [The Indonesian Economy in 1985/86: Prospects and Problems], Jakarta: Sinar Harapan (for the Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Indonesia), 1985, pp. 383.

Michael T. Skully (ed.), Financial Institutions and Markets in South-East Asia: A Study of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, London: Macmillan, 1984, pp. xviii + 411. $72.00 (cloth).

Philip M. Hauser, Daniel B. Suits and Naohiro Ogawa (eds), Urbanization and Migration in ASEAN Development, Tokyo: National Institute for Research Advancement, 1985. $25.00 (paper).

John P. Lea and John M. Courtney (eds), Cities in Conflict: Studies in the Planning and Management of Asian Cities, Washington D.C.: The World Bank, 1985.

Gavin W. Jones (ed.), Women in the Urban and Industrial Workforce: Southeast and East Asia, Development Studies Centre Monograph No. 33. Canberra: The Australian National University, 1984, pp. xi + 435.

G. Chandler, Market Trade in Rural Java, Monash Papers on Southeast Asia No. 11, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1984, pp. xii + 198.

Jan Breman, Control of Land and Labour in Colonial Java, Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde No. 101, Dordrecht: Foris, 1983, pp. xi = 159. Dfl 40 (paper).     

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Mohamed Ariff and Hal Hill, Export-Oriented Industrialisation: The ASEAN Experience, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1985, pp. 270. Aus$ 19.95

David Lim (ea.), ASEAN-Australian Trade in Manufactures, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1985, pp. xii + 263

Kathryn May Robinson, Stepchildren of Progress: The Political Economy of Development in an Indonesian Mining Town, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986, pp. xvi + 315.

Gillian Hart, Power, Labor and Livelihood: Processes of Change in Rural Java, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986, pp. xvi + 228. US$ 30.00

Walter P. Falcon, William O. Jones, Scott R. Pearson and others, The Cassava Economy of Java, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984, pp.xvii + 212. $US 38.50.

Randolph Barker, Robert W. Herdt with Beth Rose, TheRice Economy of Asia, Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 1985, pp. xx + 324 $US 30 (hardcover), $US 12 (paper).

C.W. Watson, Kerinci: Two Historical Studies, Canterbury: University of Kent, Centre of South-cast Asian Studies Occasional Paper No.3, 1984, pp.63.

Asia Pacific Report: Trends, Issues, Challenges, Honolulu: East-West Center, University of Hawaii, 1986, pp. x + 104.

B.L. Greenshields and M.A. Bellamy (eds), Rural Development, Growth and Inequity, International Association of Agricultural Economists Occasional Paper No. 3, Aldershot: Gower, 1983, pp.viii + 312.

Masami Mizuno, Population Pressure and Peasant Occupations in Rural Central Java, Canterbury: University of Kent, Centre of South-east Asian Studies Occasional Paper No. 4, 1985, pp.71.     

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Howard Dick, The Indonesian Interisland Shipping Industry: An Analysis of Competition and Regulation, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1987, pp. 217. Paper: US$15.00; Cloth: US$23.00.

Anne Booth, Agricultural Development in Indonesia, Sydney, Wellington and London: Allen and Unwin, 1988, pp. 295 + iv.

Arthur van Schaik, Colonial Control and Peasant Resources in Java, Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam, Institute For Social Geography, 1986, pp. 210.

Joan Hardjono, Land, Labour and Livelihood in a West Java Village, Jogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1987.

W. Röll and A. Leemann, Agrarprobleme auf Lombok: Untersuchungen zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialstruktur in Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesien (Agricultural Problems on Lombok: Studies of Economic and Social Structure in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia), Hamburg: Institut Für Asienkunde, 1987, pp. 300.

Hal Hill (ed.), Unity and Diversity: Regional Economic Development in Indonesia Since 1970, Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 610 + xxx. Cloth: A$65.00.

C. P. Timmer (ed.). The Corn Economy of Indonesia, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987, pp. 302. Cloth: US$32.95.

Thee Kian Wie, Industrialisasi Indonesia: Analisa dan Catalan Kritis (Indonesian Industrialisation: Analysis and Critical Notes), Jakarta: Pustaka Sinar Harapan, 1988, pp. 276.

David Joel Steinberg (ed.), In Search of Southeast Asia: A Modern History, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2nd Ed., 1987, pp. 590 + xi.

Geoffrey B. Hainsworth, Innocents Abroad or Partners in Development? An Evaluation of Canada-Indonesia Aid, Trade and Investment Relations, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Field Report Series No. 15, 1986, pp. 100

BRIEFLY NOTED: Ronald G. Petocz (Compiler), The Ecology of Irian Jaya: A Preliminary Bibliography, Halifax N.S., Canada: School For Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University, 1988.     

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Books reviewed: Ravi Kanbur and Todd Sandler with Kevin M. Morrison, The Future of Development Assistance: Common Pools and International Public Goods ILO Publication, Credit Unions and the Poverty Challenge     

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Susan Toft (ed.), Compensation for Resource Development in Papua New Guinea Shinichi Ichimura, Political Economy of Japanese and Asian Development Myo Thant, Min Tang and Hiroshi Kakazu (eds), Growth Triangles in Asia Mario Rutten and Carol Upadhya (eds), Small Business Entrepreneurs in Asia and Europe Peter Van Diermen, Small Business in Indonesia Sung Gul Hong, The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in East Asia Anand Chandavarkar, Central Banking in Developing Countries Gavin W. Jones and Terence H. Hull (eds), Indonesia Assessment: population and human resources Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison and Richard Robison (eds), The Political Economy of South-East Asia Maysing H. Yang (ed.), Taiwan's Expanding Role in the International Arena M. Adil Khan, Economic Development, Poverty Alleviation and Governance East Asia Analytical Unit (EAAU), The New ASEANS: Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia & Laos Chris Rowley (ed.), Human Resource Management in the Asia Pacific Region Gavin W. Jones and Pravin Visaria (eds), Urbanization in Large Developing Countries Chris Manning, Indonesian Labour in Transition Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Outlook 1997 and 1998 Jomo K. S. et al., Southeast Asia's Misunderstood Miracle Chris Dixon and David Drakakis-Smith (eds), Uneven Development in South East Asia Tony Fu-Lai Yu, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Hong Kong Anne Booth, The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Harry J. Waters, China's Economic Development Strategies for the 21st Century Chan Heng Chee (ed.), The New Asia–Pacific Order Chia Siow Yue and Marcello Pacini (eds), ASEAN in the New Asia: issues & trends Chia Siow Yue and Joseph L. H. Tan (eds), ASEAN & EU: forging new linkages and strategic alliances Seiichi Masuyama, Donna Vandenbrink and Chia Siow Yue (eds), Industrial Policies in East Asia Pierre van der Eng, Agricultural Growth in Indonesia     

Book Reviews

Alan S. Milward and George Brennan Britain's Place in the World. A Historical Enquiry into Import Controls
Jens Laage-Hellman Business Networks in Japan: Supplier–Customer Interaction in Product Development
Frank-Jurgen Richter, ed. The Dynamics of Japanese Organisations
Roger Middleton Government versus the Market. The Growth of the Public Sector, Economic Management and the British Economic Performance, c. 1890–1979
Graham Dunkley The Free Trade Adventure: The Uruguay Round and Globalism – A Critique
Pierre van der Eng Agricultural Growth in Indonesia: Productivity Change and Policy Inpact since 1880
John Sinleton The World Textile Industry     

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Book reviews in this article:
BEENHAKKER, H. L. Capital Investment Planning for Management and Engineering . J. C. du Plessis
GHOSH, Santikumar. Development Performance and Stagflation A. L. Müller
KELLEY, Allen C. and WILLIAMSON, Jeffrey G. Lessons from Japanese Development - An Analytical Economic History. R. Lubinsky
LEFTWICH, Adrian (Ed.) South Africa: Economic Growth and Political Change Gavin Maasdorp
MCQUEEN, Matthew. The Economics of Development: Problems and Policies H. Zarenda
BEENHAKKER, H. L. Capital Investment Planning for Management and Engineering .