BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed Lewis Johnman and Hugh Murphy, Scott Lithgow: Déjà Vu All Over Again! The Rise and Fall of a Shipbuilding Company. St. John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2005. xi + 364 pp. ISBN: 0 9738934 0 0. Softback US$15.00.
Reviewed by Tony Arnold
University of Leicester Gordon Jackson, The British Whaling Trade. St. John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2005. xvi + 293 pp. ISBN: 0 9730073 9 7. Paperback US$15.
Reviewed by Tony Barrow
The Open University Adrian Jarvis, In Troubled Times: the Port of Liverpool, 1905–1938. St John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2003. viii + 232 pp. ISBN: 0 9730073 6 2. Paperback US$15.00.
Reviewed by Gordon Boyce
Queensland University of Technology Gwenda Tavan, The Long, Slow Death of White Australia. Melbourne: Scribe, 2005. 298 pp. ISBN: 1 920769 46 3. Paperback A$32.95.
Reviewed by Stephen Constantine
Lancaster University Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, International Trade in East Asia (NBER East Asia Seminar on Economics, Volume 14). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 392 pp. ISBN: 0 226 37896 9. Cloth US$80.
Reviewed by Gary Hawke
Victoria University of Wellington Graeme Hunt, Centenary: One Hundred Years of State Insurance. Auckland: IAG New Zealand Ltd, 2005. 238 pp. ISBN: O 473 10097 5. Paperback $NZ29.95.
Reviewed by Frank Holmes
Victoria University of Wellington L. Sharon Davidson and Stephen Salisbury, Australia’s First Bank: 50 Years from the Wales to Westpac. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005. 407 pp. ISBN: 0 86840 791 7. Paperback $49.95.
Reviewed by Frank Holmes
Victoria University of Wellington Bruce Pennay, Making a City in the Country – The Albury‐Wodonga National Growth Centre Project 1973–2003. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005. xi + 387 pp. ISBN 0 86840 944 8. Paperback $49.95.
Reviewed by Twan Huybers
University of New South Wales at Australian Defence Force Academy Patricia Jalland, Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. viii + 409pp. ISBN: 0 86840 905 7. Paperback. $39.95.
Reviewed by Fergus King
Anglican Diocese of Newcastle Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi (eds), Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age (1848–1920). Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005. xviii + 315 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 3965 7. Hardback £55.
Reviewed by Warren J. Samuels
Michigan State University     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed Simon Guttmann, The Rise and Fall of Monetary Targeting in Australia. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. xvi + 332 pp. ISBN: 1 74097 073 X. Paperback $39.95.
Reviewed by Peter Stemp
Australian National University John Singleton, Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke and Frank Holmes, Innovation and Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand 1973–2002. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006. xii + 340 pp. ISBN: 1 86940 364 9. Hardback NZ $49.99.
Reviewed by Paul D. Mizen
University of Nottingham Ann M. Woodall, What Price the Poor? William Booth, Karl Marx and the London Residuum. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. xii + 233 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 4203 8. Hardback £50.
Reviewed by John Singleton
Victoria University of Wellington Madeleine Zelin, The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xxiv + 404 pp. ISBN: 0 231 13596 3. Hardback US $45.00.
Reviewed by Tim Wright
University of Sheffield     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed Alistair Greig, Frank Lewins and Kevin White, Inequality in Australia. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi + 261, bibliography, index. ISBN: 0 521 81891 5. Hardback $99.00. ISBN: 0 521 52442 3. Paperback $44.95. Gavin McLean, Rocking the Boat – A History of Scales Corporation Limited. Christchurch: Hazard Press, 2002. Pp. 324, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 1 877270 40 7. Hardback NZ$59.95. Chris Nixon and John Yeabsley, New Zealand's Trade Policy Odyssey: Ottawa, via Marrakech, and On. Wellington: NZ Institute of Economic Research, 2002. Pp. xi + 239, tables, index. ISBN: 0 908969 11 2. NZ$18.00. Robin Haines, Life and Death in the Age of Sail: The Passage to Australia. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2003. Pp. 368. ISBN: 0868405493. Hardback A$49.95. Sir Frank Holmes, The Thoroughbred Among Banks in New Zealand: Banking in New Territory, 1984–2000. Wellington: The National Bank of New Zealand, 2003. Pp. xiv + 266. ISBN: 0 473 09946 2. Price not available. James Reveley, Registering Interest: Waterfront Labour Relations in New Zealand. 1953 to 2000. Research in Maritime History No. 25. St. John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2003. Pp. viii + 170. ISBN: 0 9730073 5 4. Paperback US$15. Dennis O. Flynn, Arturo Giráldez and Richard van Glahn, (eds.), Global Connections and Monetary History, 1470–1800. Aldershot UK and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xiii + 209. ISBN: 0 7546 3213 X. Hardback £47.50. John Chown, A History of Monetary Unions. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 321, notes, index. ISBN: 0 415 27737 X. Hardcover NZ$262.95. Warren J. Samuels, Jeff E. Biddle and John B. Davis, A Companion to the History of Economic Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. Pp. xvii + 712. ISBN: 0 631 22573 0. Hardback £99.99. Dan Usher, Political Economy. Malden USA, Oxford UK and Carlton Australia: Blackwell, 2003. Pp. xx + 427. ISBN: 0 631 23333 4. Hardback US$74.95. ISBN: 0 631 23334 2. Paperback US$39.95. Gordon Boyce and Richard Gorski, (eds.), Resources and Infrastructures in the Maritime Economy, 1500–2000. St John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2002. Pp. ix + 161. ISBN: 0 9730073 2 X. Softcover US$15. Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore, The Size of Nations. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2003. Pp. x + 261. ISBN: 0 262 01204 9. Hardback US$35.00.     

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Book reviewed
George Megalogenis, The Longest Decade . Melbourne: Scribe, 2006. 346 pp. ISBN: 1 920769 79 X. Paperback A$32.95. Reviewed by James Bennett University of Newcastle
Leonie V. Still, Corporate Elders –'Organisation Men' Look Back . Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2006. 235 pp. ISBN: 1 920694 61 7. Paperback A$39.95. Reviewed by Peter Carroll University of Tasmania
William Coleman, Selwyn Cornish and Alf Hagger, Giblin's Platoon: The Trials and Triumphs of the Economist in Australian Public Life . Canberra: ANU E-Press, 2006. xv + 263 pp. ISBN (print): 1 920942 49 1. ISBN: 1 920942 50 5. A$24.95, free access online. Reviewed by Gary Hawke Victoria University of Wellington
Helen B. Laurenson, Going Up, Going Down: The Rise and Fall of the Department Store . Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006 reprint (2005). 165 pp. ISBN: 86940 341 X. Paperback NZ$34.99. Reviewed by S.R.H. Jones University of Dundee
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, World Investment Report 2005: Transnational Corporations and the Internationalization of R&D . New York and Geneva: United Nations, 2005. xxxii + 332 pp. ISBN: 92 1 112667 3. US$75. Reviewed by Paul L. Robertson University of Tasmania/University of Queensland
Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy, The 'Vanity of the Philosopher': From Equality to Hierarchy in post-Classical Economics . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xviii + 323 pp. ISBN: 0 472 11496 4. Hardback US$40. Reviewed by John Singleton Victoria University of Wellington
Derek H. Aldcroft, Europe's Third World: The European Periphery in the Interwar Years . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 217 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 0599 X. Hardback £50. Reviewed by Kirsten Wandschneider Middlebury College     

The European Miracle

Book reviewed
Eric Jones, The European Miracle . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 3rd edition, 2003. Pp. 301, index. ISBN: 052152783X. Paperback A$49.95. Reviewed by Geoff Bertram Victoria University of Wellington     

The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia

Book reviewed
Grant Fleming, David Merrett and Simon Ville, The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. viii + 310. ISBN: 0 521 83311 6. Hardback $59.99. Reviewed by Leslie Hannah University of Tokyo     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed
David Blackbourn, The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany . London: Jonathan Cape, 2006. xxi + 466 pp. ISBN: 0 224 06071 6. Hardback £30.
Reviewed by Paul L. Robertson
University of Tasmania/University of Queensland
Beverley Kingston, A History of New South Wales . Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ix + 299 pp. ISBN: 0521541689. Paperback $A36.75.
Reviewed by Seamus O'Hanlon
Monash University
Graeme Morton, Boudien de Vries and R.J. Morris (eds), Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places: Class, Nation and Culture in Nineteenth Century Europe . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 220 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 5247 5. Hardback £55/US$ 99.95.
Reviewed by Ian Morley
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paweł Bożyk, Globalization and the Transformation of Foreign Economic Policy . Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. x + 262 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 4638 6. Hardback £55.00.
Reviewed by Jerry Mushin
Victoria University of Wellington
John Benson and Laura Ugolini (eds), Cultures of Selling: Perspectives on Consumption and Society Since 1700 . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xiv + 297 pp. ISBN: 10: 0 7546 5046 4. Hardback pound;45.00.
Reviewed by Helen Laurenson
University of Auckland     

Corporate Collapse. Accounting, Regulatory, and Ethical Failure

Book reviewed
Frank Clarke, Graeme Dean and Kyle Oliver, Corporate Collapse. Accounting, Regulatory, and Ethical Failure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, revised edition, 2003. Pp. xxviii + 383. ISBN: 0 521 53426 7. Paperback $49.95. Reviewed by Gordon Boyce Queensland University of Technology     

The Economic Effects of Constitutions

Book reviewed
Torsten Perrson and Guido Tabellini, The Economic Effects of Constitutions. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003. Pp. 320. ISBN: 0 262 16219 9. Hardback US$35.00. Reviewed by Lewis Evans Victoria University of Wellington     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed
Richard Perren, Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840 . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xi + 285 pp. ISBN: 0754636488. Hardback £55.
Reviewed by Bernard Attard
University of Leicester
Brenda J. Buchanan (ed.), Gunpowder, Explosives, and the State. A Technological History . Ashgate: Aldershot, 2006. 425 pp. Illustrations, maps, and photographs. ISBN: 9780754652595. Hardback £55.
Reviewed by Gordon Boyce
The University of Newcastle, NSW
Man-Houng Lin, China Upside Down, Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808–1856 . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. xxi + 362 pp. ISBN: 0 674 02268 8. Hardback US$49.95.
Reviewed by Kent G. Deng
London School of Economics
Jari Ojala, Jari Eloranta, and Jukka Jalava (eds), The Road to Prosperity. An Economic History of Finland . Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006. 434 pp. ISBN: 951 746 818 0. €40.
Reviewed by Svante Larsson
Göteborg University
Hazel Petrie, Chiefs of Industry: Maori Tribal Enterprise in Early Colonial New Zealand . Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006. viii + 336 pp. ISBN: 9781869403768. Paperback NZ$50.
Reviewed by Jim McAloon
Lincoln University
David Edgerton, The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 . London: Profile Books, 2007. 270 + xviii pp., illustrations. ISBN-13: 978 1861972965. Hardcover £18.99.
Reviewed by Paul L. Robertson
University of Tasmania
Paola Lanaro (ed.), At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400–1800 . Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2006. 412 pp. ISBN: 0 7727 2031 2. Paperback C$32.00.
Reviewed by Carolyn Sissoko
Occidental College     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article GREAT BRITAIN Henry Cleere and David Crossley (Eds.). The Iron Industry of the Weald. (Leicester: Leicester University Press. 1985. Pp. xvi + 395. 74 figs. £47-50.) C. G. A. Clay . Economic Expansion and Social Change: England 1500-1700. (Cambridge, 1984. Vol. I, Pp. xiv + 268. 6 tables, 4 figs. 6 maps; Vol II, Pp. xii + 324. 15 tables, 4 figs. 5 maps. £20 each vol.; paperbacks £6-95 each vol.) Bernard Rudden . The New River: A Legal History. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1985. Pp. xiv + 335. 2 plates. 18 figs. 9 appendices. £20-00.) Norma Landau . The Justices of the Peace, 1679-1760. (Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, and London: University of California Press. 1984. Pp. xv + 422. £35-40.) Robin D. Gwynn . Huguenot Heritage: The History and Contribution of the Huguenots in Britain. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1985. Pp. xii + 220. 8 Plates. 4 Tables. 10 Maps. £15-95.) David Ormrod . English Grain Exports and the Structure of Agrarian Capitalism, 1700-1760. (Hull: Hull University Press. 1985. Pp. xii + 145. £8.95.) N. F. R. Crafts . British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1985. Pp. 193. £19.50.) Maxine Berg . The Age of Manufactures: Industry, Innovation, and Work in Britain, M. E. Rose (Ed.)- The Poor and the City: The English Poor Law in its Urban Context, 1834-1914. (Leicester: Leicester University Press. 1985. Pp. xi + 175. 1 fig. 5 tables £22-00.) Neville Kirk . The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England. (Beckenham: Croom Helm. 1985. Pp. xiii + 369. £22.50.) Derek J. Oddy and Derek S. Miller (Eds.). Diet and Health in Modem Britain. (London: Croom Helm. 1985. Pp. vi + 326. £22.00.) Roger Middleton . Towards the Managed Economy: Keynes, the Treasury and the Fiscal Policy Debate of the 1930s. (London: Methuen 1985. Pp. xii + 244. £25-00.) GENERAL Peter Clark (Ed.). The European Crisis of the 1590s. (London: George Allen & Unwin. 1985. Pp. xiv + 324. £25-00.) L. A. Clarkson . Proto-Industrialization: The First Phase of Industrialization? (London: MacMillan. Studies in Economic and Social History. 1985. Pp. 71. £395.) Tommy Bengtsson , Gunnar Fridlizius and Rolf Ohlsson (Eds.). Pre-Industrial Population Change: The Mortality Decline and Short-Term Population Movements. (Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell. 1984. Pp. 419. S.Kr.280.) Richard Smith (Ed.)- Land, Kinship, and Life-cycle. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. xiii + 547. £40-00.) David Levine (Ed.). Proletarianization and Family History. (London: Academic Press. 1984. Pp. xii + 315. £38-50.) Robert R. Locke . The End of Practical Man: Entrepreneurship and Higher Education in Germany, France, and Great Britain, 1880-1940. (Greenwich, Connecticut and London: JAI Press. 1984. Pp. xii + 363. 31 tables. £46.50.) Harold James . The Reichsbank and Public Finance in Germany, 1924-1933: A Study of the Politics of Economics during the Great Depression. (Frankfurt am Main: Fritz Knapp Verlag. 1985. Pp. 426. n.p.) Joseph Harrison . The Spanish Economy in the Twentieth Century. (London: Croom Helm. 1985. Pp. 207. 27 tables. £1995.) Ivan T. Berend and Gyorgy Ranki . The Hungarian Economy in the Twentieth Century. (London: Croom-Helm. 1985. Pp. 316. £25.) HUGH BROGAN. Longman History of the United States of America. (London: Longman. 1985. Pp. viii + 470. £19-95.) C. Cochran . Challenge of American Values: Society, Business, and Religion. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1985. Pp. 147. $13.95.) Hasia R. Diner . Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1983. Pp. xvi + 192. $2000; paperback $9-95.) Humbert S. Nelli . From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Italian Americans. (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983. Pp. viii + 225. £19-50.) Martin V. Melosi . Coping with Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1985. Pp. xii + 355. $1095.) Carole Haber . Beyond Sixty-Five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America's Past. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. ix + 181. Paperback, £6-95.) Ruth Schwartz Cowan . More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. (New York and London: Harper & Row. 1983. Pp. xiv + 257. 46 plates. £19-75; paperback £8-75.) Christopher L. Tomlins . The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880-1960. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. xvi 4- 348. £30; paperback £1095.) Gary A. Puckrein . Little England: Plantation Society and Anglo-Barbadian Politics, 1627-1700. (New York and London: New York University Press. 1984. xxiv + 235. $51.50.) Kenneth F. Kiple . The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. xiii + 274. £27.50.) Linda Alexander Rodriguez . The Search for Public Policy: Regional Politics and Government Finances in Ecuador, 1830-1940. (Berkeley & London: Univ. of California Press. 1985. Pp. xv + 281. $32.50.) K. N. Chaudhuri . Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. xiv 4- 269. 18 maps. 23 plates. £25; paperback £895.) Christopher John Baker . An Indian Rural Economy, 1880-1955: The Tamilnad Countryside. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1984. Pp. xvii + 616. 9 maps. 30 tables. 16 graphs. £28-00.) David K. Wyatt . Thailand: A Short History (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1984. Pp. xviii + 351. £27-50.) Joseph Needham (Ed.)- Science and Civilisation in China, Volume VI, Biology and Biological Technology: Part II: Agriculture by Francesca Bray. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. xxvii + 724. £50.) William D. Wray . Mitsubishi and the N.Y.K., 1870-1914: Business Strategy in the Japanese Shipping Industry. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (Harvard East Asian Monographs No. 108). 1984. Pp. xx + 672. £21-95.) Raymond W. Goldsmith . The Financial Development of Japan, 1868-1977. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1983, Pp. xv + 231. £27.00.) Raymond W. Goldsmith . The Financial Development of India, Japan, and the United States: A Trilateral Institutional, Statistical, and Analytic Comparison. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1983. Pp. xiv + 120. £1095.) Tsunehiko Yui and Keiichiro Nakagawa (Eds.). Business History of Shipping: The International Conference on Business History 11: Proceedings of the Fuji Conference. (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. 1985. Pp. xxix + 330.£ 6000.) David Mackay . In the Wake of Cook: Exploration, Science & Empire, 1880-1801. (London: Croom Helm. 1985. Pp. vi + 216. £18.95.) D. C. M. Platt and Guido Di Tella (Eds.). Argentina, Australia, and Canada: Studies in Comparative Development, 1870-1965. (London: Macmillan. 1985. Pp. xi + 237. 25-00.) Charles Lipson . Standing Guard: Protecting Foreign Capital in the Ninteteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press. 1985. Pp. xvii + 332. 13 tables, 3 figs. £3325; paperback £11-25.) Bill Albert and Adrian Graves (Eds.). Crisis and Change in the International Sugar Economy, 1860-1914. (Norwich and Edinburgh: ISC Press. 1984. Pp. xii + 381. £12-00.) Michael D. Bordo and Anna J. Schwartz (Eds.). A Retrospective on the Classical Gold Standard, 1821-1931. (London: University of Chicago Press. 1984. Pp. xi + 681. £59-80.) E. J. Hobsbawm . Worlds of Labour: Further Studies in the History of Labour. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1984. Pp. x + 369. £15.95; paperback £7-95.)     

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E. B. Fryde, William de la Pole, merchant and king's banker, (1366) (Hambledon Press, 1988. Pp Grenville Astill and Annie Grant, eds., The countryside of medieval England (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988. Pp London Susan Dwyer Amussen, An ordered society: gender and class in early modern England (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988. Pp The Open University Eric Kerridge, Trade and banking in early modern England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Roger B. Manning, Village revolts: social protest and popular disturbances in England, 1509-1640 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pp Lucinda McCray Beier, Sufferers and healers: the experience of illness in seventeenth-century England (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987. Pp Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford J. S. Hurt, Outside the mainstream: a history of special education (Batsford, 1988. Pp D.G. Wright, Popular radicalism: the working-class experience, 1780-1880 (London and New York: Lonsman. 1988. Po. x + 211. Paperback 5.95) Boyd Hilton, The age of atonement: the influence of evangelicalism on social and economic thought, 1795-1865 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pp Wadham College, Oxford Lilian Lewis Shiman, Crusade against drink in Victorian England (Macmillan, 1988. Pp Stewart Angas Weaver, John Fielden and the politics of popular radicalism, 1832-1847 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp Alan Armstrong, Farmworkers: a social and economic history, 1770-1980 (Batsford, 1988. Pp Frank Neal, Sectarian violence: the Liverpool experience, 1819-1914: an aspect of Anglo-Irish history (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. Pp Judy Slinn, Linklaters & Paines: the first one hundred and fifty years (Longman, 1988. Pp City of London Polytechnic W. J. Reader, The history of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1871-1971 (Peter Peregrinus Ltd. on behalf of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1987. Pp William P. Kennedy, Industrial structure: capital markets and the origins of British economic decline (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp David Hey, Family history and local history in England (Longman, 1987. Pp Geoffrey Jones (ed.), British multinationals: origins, management and performance (Aldershot: Gower, 1986. Pp Bernard Wakes, A class society at war: England, 1914-1918 (Berg, 1987. Pp The Open University Anne Crowther, British social policy, 1914-1939 (Macmillan, 1988. Pp London School of Economics & Political Science G. S. Peden, Keynes, the Treasury and British economic policy (Macmillan, 1988. Pp Brunei University Roger Price, A social history of nineteenth-century France (Hutchinson, 1987. Pp Peter D. Slachura (ed.), Unemployment and the great depression in Weimar Germany (Macmillan, 1986. Pp King's College, London Peter Hayes, Industry and ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Princeton University John H. Pryor, Geography, technology and war: studies in the maritime history of the Mediterranean, 649-1571 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp David Cressy, Coming over: migration and communication between England and New England in the seventeenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp Polytechnic of North London Marcus Rediker, Between the devil and the deep blue sea: merchant seamen, pirates, and the Anglo-American maritime world, 1700-1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Dalhousie University W. Ross Yates, Joseph Wharton, Quaker industrial pioneer (London: Golden Cockerell Press/Associated University Presses, 1988. Pp London School of Economics & Political Science David Eltis, Economic growth and the ending of the transatlantic slave trade (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp Rider College, New Jersey David C. Klingaman and Richard K. Vedder, (eds.,) Essays on the economy of the old northwest (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1987. Pp Harold van B. Cleveland and Thomas F. Huertas, Citibank, 1812-197O (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986. Pp Burton W. Folsom, Jr., Entrepreneurs vs the state: a new look at the rise of big business in America, 1840-1920 (Young America's Foundation, 1987. Pp John Opie, The law of the land: two hundred years of American farmland policy (Lincoln, Nebraska and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. Pp M. J. Heale Wayne Lewchuk, American technology and the British vehicle industry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Michael A. Bernstein, The Great Depression: delayed recovey and economic change in America, 1929-1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp Himanshu Prabha Ray, Monastery and guild: commerce under the Satavahanas (Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1987. Pn. vr + 13.50) Ashin Das Gupta and M. N. Pearson, India and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 (Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp Pembroke College, Cambridge Amiya Kumar Bagchi, The evolution of the State Bank of India. Vol. I: The roots, 1806-1876. Part I. The early years, 1806-1860; Part II. Diversity and regrouping, 1860-1876 (Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1987. Part I: Pp Keijiro Otsuka, Gustave Ranis, Gary Saxonhouse, Comparative technology choice in development: the Indian and Japanese cotton textile industries (Macmillan, 1988. Pp London School of Economics and Political Science Frank H. H. King, The history of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Volume I, The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in late imperial China, 1864-1902: on an even keel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Pp Victor Bulmer-Thomas, The political economy of Central America since 1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Bill Albert and Adrian Graves, (eds.), The world sugar economy in war and depression, 1914-40 (London and New York: Routledge, 1988. Pp     

Governance, Regulation and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region

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Taktoshi Ito and Anne. O. Kreuger, (eds), Governance, Regulation and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region. Chicago and London: National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 480. ISBN: 0 226 38679 1. Hardback US$95.00. Reviewed by Robert Millward University of Manchester     

Rats and Revolutionaries: The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890–1940

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James Bennett, Rats and Revolutionaries: The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890–1940. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004. Pp. 214, illustrations. ISBN: 1877276499. Paperback NZ$39.95. Reviewed by Jim McAloon Lincoln University     

The Transformation of Australia's Population, 1970–2030

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Siew-Ean Khoo and Peter McDonald, (eds), The Transformation of Australia's Population, 1970–2030. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 302, index. ISBN: 0868405027. Paperback $49.95. Reviewed by Glenn Withers Australian National University     

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Peter R. Coss and Trevor John, eds., The early records of medieval Coventry, with the Hundred Rolls of 1280 (Records of social and economic history. New ser. xi: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1986. Pp N. J. Williams, The maritime trade of the East Anglian ports, 1550-1590 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pp Southampton Peter Clark and David Souden, eds., Migration and society in early modern England (Hutchinson, 1988. Pp The Queen's University of Belfast Peter Edwards, The horse trade of Tudor and Stuart England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp University of Heading Paul Slack, Poverty and policy in Tudor and Stuart England (Longman, 1988. Pp University of Hull Sydney Check!and, The Elgins, 1766-1917: a tale of aristocrats, proconsuls, and their wives (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988. Pp Deakin University, Geelong Stanley H. Palmer, Police and protest in England and Ireland, 1780-1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp University of Kansas Roger Lloyd-Jones and M. J. Lewis, Manchester and the age of the factory (Croom Helm, 1988. Pp University of Leeds Robert Fitzgerald, British labour management and industrial welfare, 1846-1939 (Croom Helm, 1988. Pp College of St Paul and St May, Cheltenham David Jones, The origins of civic universities: Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool (Routledge, 1938. Pp University of East Anglia J. A. Jowitt and A. J. Mclvor, eds., Employers and labour in the English textile industries, 1850-1939 (Routledge, 1988. Pp The Queens University of Belfast T. R. Gourvish and Alan O'Day, eds., Later Victorian Britain, 1867-igoo (Macmillan, 1988. Pp The Queen's University of Belfast Kathleen E. McCrone, Sport and the physical emancipation of English women, 1870-1914 (Routledge, 1988. Pp The Flinders University of South Australia William J. Fishman, East End, 1888 (Duckworth, 1988. Pp University of Lancaster David Kynaston, The Financial Times: a centenary history (Viking, 1988. Pp University of Bristol Barbara Brookes, Abortion in England, 1900-1967 (Croom Helm, 1988. Pp University of Lancaster Linda Bryder, Below the Magic Mountain: a social history of tuberculosis in twentieth-century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp University of Glasgow Robert W. D. Boyce, British capitalism at the crossroads, 7979-7932: a study in politics, economics and international relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp University of Bristol Herbert Loebl, Government factories and the origins of British regional policy, 1934-1948 (Avebury: Gower Publishing, 1988. Pp Thames Polytechnic L. S. Pressnell, External economic policy since the war. Vol. i: The post-war financial settlement (H.M.S.O., 1087. PD. v + SOI. 7 tables. 27 appendices. W) Imperial College, London H.J. Graff, The legacies of literacy (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987, Pp Worcester College, Oxford R. M. Schwartz, Policing the poor in eighteenth-century France (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Pp University of Warwick Sergio Aiolfi, Calicos und gedrucktes Zeug: die Entwicklung der englischen Textiherede-lung und der Tuchhandel der East India Company, 1650-1750 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1987. Pp Bielefeld University J. A. Marino, Pastoral economics in the kingdom of Naples (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Pp University of Essex Myron P. Gutmann, Toward the modern economy: early industry in Europe, 1500-1800 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. Pp University of Durham V. P. Danilov, Rural Russia under the new regime, translated and introduced by Orlando Figes (London: Hutchinson; Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988. Pp School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the politics of productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp University of Warwick Ronald Hoffman, John J. McCusker, Russell R. Menard, and Peter J. Albert, eds., The economy of early America: the revolutionary period, 1763-1790 (Charlottesville, Virginia: United States Capital Historical Society; published by the University Press of Virginia, 1988. 30) Deakin University, Geelong Steven Ruggles, Prolonged connections: the rise of the extended family in nineteenth-century England and America (Madison, Wisconsin and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. Pp University of Glasgow Vincent P. Carosso, The Morgans: private international bankers, 1854-1913 (London and Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp Edinburgh Howard M. Gitelman, Legacy of the Ludlow massacre: a chapter in American industrial relations (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Pp University of Birmingham Paul A. Tiffany, The decline of American steel: how management, labor and government went wrong (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp Birkbeck College, University of London Dietmar Rothermund, An economic history of India from pre-colonial times to 1986 (Croom Helm, 1988. Pp University of Birmingham Ryoushin Minami, The economic development of Japan: a quantitative study (Macmillan, 1986. Pp London School of Economics & Political Science Richard Hodges, Primitive and peasant markets (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988. Pp University of Wales, Swansea Hubert H. Lamb, Weather, climate and human affairs: a book of essays and other papers (Routledge, 1988. Pp John Kington, The weather of the 1780s over Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp La Trobe University, Melbourne Solomos Solomou, Phases of economic growth, /S50-/973: Kondratieff waves and Kuznets swings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp University of Warwick E. J. Hobsbawm, The age of empire, 1875-1914 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. PD. xii + AOA. 54 elates, n tables. 6 maps. 16.95) University of Bristol E. L. Jones, Growth recurring: economic change in world history (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pp     

Australia in Focus: Photographs in the National Archives A Nation's Imagination: Australia's Copyright Records, 1854–1968

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Peter Nagle, Australia in Focus: Photographs in the National Archives. Canberra: National Archives of Australia, 2003. Pp. 251. ISBN: 0642344957. Paperback $10.00. Merilyn Minell, A Nation's Imagination: Australia's Copyright Records, 1854–1968. Canberra: National Archives of Australia, 2003. Pp. 147. ISBN: 0642344930. Paperback $10.00. Reviewed by Jane Ellen University of Melbourne Archives     

The City and the Railway in Europe

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Ralf Roth and Marie-Noëlle Polino, (eds), The City and the Railway in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. 324. ISBN: 0 7546 0766 6. Hardback £45.00. Reviewed by Gerald Crompton University of Kent     

The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump

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Theo Balderston, (ed.), The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump. Palgrave: Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xii + 226. ISBN: 0 333 73864 0. Hardback £55.00. Reviewed by W. R. Garside University of Otago