Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
PERKINS, J. O. N.: The Sterling Area, The Commonwealth and World Economic Growth, University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Economics, Occasional Papers 11, University Press
FINDLAY, RONALD: Trade and Specialization (Penguin Education, 1970), pp. 140 (R0.85). SWANN, D.: The Economics of the Common Market (Penguin Education
SOLOW, R. M.: Growth Theory: An Exposition. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970
FOX, K. and JOHNSON, D. (Eds.): Readings in the Economics of Agriculture. George Allen and Unwin Ltd. (1969)
GOLD, Joseph: The stand-by arrangements of the International Monetary Fund
NARKIEWICZ, Olga A.: The Making of the Soviet State Apparatus. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1970
WILCZYNSKI, J.: The Economics of Socialism. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1970. pp
MINCHINTON, W. E. (editor): The Growth of English Overseas Trade. (Methuen, London
PERKINS, J. O. N.: International Policy for the World Economy. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., London
GERSCHENKRON, Alexander: Europe in the Russian Mirror: Four Lectures in Economic History. Cambridge University Press
ANDREANO, R. L. (ed.): The New Economic History. Wiley & Sons     

Book reviews

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     

Book reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
John Nieuwenhuysen, Peter Lloyd Margaret Mead (eds), Reshaping Australia's Economy: Growth With Equity and Sustainability
Paul Dalziel and Ralph Lattimore, The New Zealand Macroeconomy: A Briefing on the Reforms and Their Legacy
Ian Gray, Geoffrey Lawrence, A Future for Regional Australia – Escaping Global Misfortune
Gary Bryan Magee, Knowledge Generation: Technical Change and Economic Growth in Colonial Australia
D. Anthony Low , Keith Hancock: The Legacies of an Historian
Iain McCalman , Alexander Cook, Andrew Reeves (eds), Gold: Forgotten Objects and Lost Histories of Australia
Kosmas Tsokhas, Making a Nation State: Cultural Identity, Economic Nationalism and Sexuality in Australian History
Andrew Markus (ed), Building a New Community: Immigration and the Victorian Economy
Geoffrey M. Hodgson, How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science
Alice H. Amsden, The Rise of 'The Rest': Challenges to the West From Late-Industrializing Economies
Catherine R. Schenk, Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre: Emergence and Development 1945-1965
Derek Aldcroft and Michael Oliver, Exchange-Rate Regimes in the Twentieth Century
Gordon Fletcher, Understanding Dennis Robertson: The Man and His Work     

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N. M. Herbert, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England, Gloucestershire G.C. Baugh, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England K. J. Allison, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England H. E. Hallam, ed., The agrarian history of England and Wales Heather Swanson, Medieval artisans: an urban class in late medieval England Valerie Fildes, ed., Women as mothers in pre-industrial England Pat Hudson, ed., Regions and industries: a perspective on the industrial revolution in Britain David J. V. Jones, Rebecca's children G. E. Mingay, ed., The vanishing countryman Edward Higgs, Making sense of the census: W. Hamish Fraser and R. J. Morris, eds., People and society in Scotland Caroline Steedman, Childhood, culture and class in Britain: Margaret Macmillan Kathleen Burk, Morgan Grenfell, 1838-1988: the biography of a merchant bank Ross McKibbin, The ideologies of class: social relations in Britain Ben Fine, The coal question: political economy and industrial change from the nineteenth century Jim Tomlinson, Public policy and the economy since igoo Kenneth Warren, Armstrongs of Elswick Keith Lay bourn, Britain on the dole: Keith Hayward, The British aircraft industry Alan Booth, British economic policy, 1931-49 A. Cairncross and Nita Watts, The Economic Section, 1939-61 Charles Harvey, ed., Business history: concepts and measurement Anne Digby and Charles Feinstein, eds., New directions in economic and social history Phillip Bendict, ed., Cities and social change early modern France Colin Jones, The charitable imperative: hospitals and nursing in ancien regime and revolutionary France Adrian Nicola Carello, The northern question: Italy's participation in the European Economic Yehuda Don and Victor Karady, eds., A social and economic history of Central European Jewry Avner Offer, The First World War: an agrarian interpretation Richard Lawton and Robert Lee, eds., Urban population development in western Europe Andrew Cox and Noel O'Sullivan, eds., The corporate state: Jacob J. Kaplan and Gunther Schleiminger, The European Payments Union: M. A. Lutz, ed., Social economics: retrospect and prospect August C. Bolino, A century of human capital by education and training Wayne Parsons, The power of the financial press: Richard B. DuBoff, Accumulation and power: Priscilla Long, Where the sun never shines: Imran Ali, The Punjab under imperialism, 1885-1947 Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Knowledge and class: Terrell Carver, Friednch Engels: his life and thought Henry Phelps Brown, Egalitarianism and the generation     

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Kate Mertes, The English noble household, 1250-1600: good governance and politic rule (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988. Pp Rosalind Mitchison and Peter Roebuck, eds., Economy and society in Scotland and Ireland, 1500-1939 (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1988. Pp Jeremy Boulton, Neighbourhood and society: a London suburb in the seventeenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp James C. Riley, The eighteenth-century campaign to avoid disease (London: Macmillan, 1987. Pp J. R. Smith, The speckled monster: smallpox in England, 1670-1970, with particular reference to Essex (Chelmsford: Essex Record Office, 1987. Pp Macquarie University Julian Hoppit, Risk and failure in English business, 1700-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Edward Royle, Modem Britain: a social history, 1750-1985 (London: Edward Arnold, 1987. Pp Edgar Jones, A history of GKN, vol. i: innovation and enterprise, 1759-1918 (London: Macmillan, 1987. Pp Terry Gourvish, Norfolk beers from English barley: a history of Steward & Patteson, 1793-1963 (Norwich: Centre of East Anglian Studies, University of East Anglia, 1987. Pp J. W. R. Whitehand, The changing face of cities: a study of development cycles and urban form (Oxford: Blackwell, for the Institute of British Geographers, Special Publications Series no. 21, 1987. Pp John Saville, 1848, the British state and the Chartist movement (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Thames Polytechnic R. C. Michie, The London and New York Stock Exchanges, 1850-1914 (London: Allen & Unwin, 1987. Pp Imperial College, London Gerard M. Koot, English historical economics, 1870-1926 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp Jane Morgan, Conflict and order: the police and labour disputes in England and Wales, 1900-1939 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp P. W. J. Bartrip, Workmen's compensation in twentieth-century Britain: law, history and social policy (Aldershot: Gower, 1987. Pp Barry Supple, The history of the British coal industry, vol. 4, 1913-46: the political economy of decline. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp Gerry R. Rubin, War, law, and labour: the Munitions Acts, state regulation, and the unions, 1915-1921 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp Wolfson College, Oxford Steven Tolliday, Business, banking and politics: the case of British steel, 1918-1939 (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp Marguerite Dupree, ed., Lancashire and Whitehall: the diary of Sir Raymond Streat, 1931-57 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. 2 vols. Pp Patricia Herlihy, Odessa: a history, 1794-1914 (Cambridge: Mass.: Harvard University Press, Ukrainian Research Institute Monograph Series, 1986. Pp Jean Baechler, John A. Hall, and Michael Mann, eds., Europe and the rise of capitalism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988. Pp Michael Anderson, Population change in north-western Europe, 1750-1850 (London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp Frank B. Tipton and Robert Aldrich, An economic and social history of Europe, 1890-1939. An economic and social history of Europe from 1939 to the present (London: Macmillan, 1987. Pp London School of Economics and Political Science Carole Shammas, Marylynn Salmon, and Michael Dahlin, Inheritance in America from colonial times to the present (New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Rutgers University Press, 1987. Pp Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria Peter Kilby, ed., Quantity and quiddity: essays in U.S. economic history (Wesleyan University Press. 1987. Pp Robert F. Dalzell, Jr., Enterprising elite: the Boston Associates and the world they made (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp Cambridge University Robert Higgs, Crisis and Leviathan: critical episodes in the growth of American government (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp Rutgers University Jonathan Liebenau, Medical science and medical industry: the formation of the American pharmaceutical industry (London: Macmillan, in association with the Business History Unit, University of London, 1987. Pp The Queen's University of Belfast Peter Fearon, War, prosperity and depression: the U.S. economy, 1917-1945 (Oxford: Philip Allan, 1987. Pp Michael J. Hogan, The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Cynthia Taft Morris and Irma Adelman, Comparative patterns of economic development, 1850-1914 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Pp Bielefeld University Shireen Moosvi, The economy of the Mughal Empire c. 1595: a statistical study (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp Donald N. McCloskey, Econometric history (London: Macmillan, 1987. Pp Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario Margaret Garritscn de Vries, The International Monetary Fund, 1972-1978: cooperation on trial. Vols. 1, 11, and in (Washington D.C.: The International Monetary Fund, 1985. Vols. I and II, pp     

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David Levine Reproducing families: the political economy of English population history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Alan Macfarlane The culture of capitalism (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp Roy Porter Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550-1860 (Macmillan, 1987. Pp J.A. Sharpe Early modern England: a social history, 1550-1760 (Edward Arnold, 1987. Pp Christopher A. Whatley The Scottish salt industry, 1570-1850: an economic and social history (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987. Pp Margaret De Lacy Prison reform in Lancashire, 1700-1850: a study in local administration (Manchester: Manchester University Press for the Chetham Society, 1986. Pp Simon P. Ville English shipowning during the industrial revolution: Michael Henley & Son, London shipowners, 1770-1830 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. Pp Ruth Richardson Death, dissection and the destitute (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988. Pp Guy Routh,Occupations of the people of Great Britain, 1801-1981 with a compendium of a paper‘Occupations of the people of the United Kingdom, 1801-81’by Charles Booth (Macmillan, 1987. Pp W.B. Stephens Education, literacy and society, 1830-70: the geography of diversity in provincial England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. Pp Geoffrey Tweedale Sheffield steel and America: a century of commercial and technological interdependence, 1830-1930 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Jim Tomlinson Employment policy: the crucial years, 1939-1955 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp W. Ashworth The history of the British coal industry, vol. 5, 1946-1982: the nationalised industry. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp T.R. Gourvish British Railways, 1948-73: a business history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp John Armstrong and Stephanie Jones Business documents: their origins, sources and uses in historical research (London and New York: Mansell Publishing, 1987. Pp John Day The medieval market economy (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp Felipe Fernández-Armesto Before Columbus: exploration and colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492 (Macmillan, 1987. Pp Florin Aftalion ?économie de la Revolution française (Paris: Hachette, 1987. Pp Michael Sonenscher The hatters of eighteenth-century France (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1987. Pp John F. Godfrey Capitalism at war: industrial policy and bureaucracy in France, 1914-1918 (Leamington Spa: Berg, 1987. Pp Anne-Marie Piuz A Genève et autour de Genève aux xviie et xviiie siècles: Etudes ?histoire économique (Lausanne: Editions Payot, 1985. Pp Hans-Joachim Henning Dieter Lindenlaub and Eckhard Wandel, eds.,Wirtschafts-und sozialgeschichtliche Forschungen und Probleme: Karl Erich Born zur Vollendung des 6. Lebensjahres zugeeignet von Kollegen, Freunden und Schiilern (St Katharinen: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 1987. Pp Carlo M. Cipolla La moneta a Firenze nel Cinquecento (Bologna: II Mulino, 1987. Pp Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman To their own soil: agriculture in the antebellum north (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1987. Pp Joel Colton and Stuart Bruchey, eds., Technology, the economy and society: the American experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp Richard H.K. Vietor Energy policy in America since 1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp Carl E. Solberg The prairies and the pampas: agrarian policy in Canada and Argentina, 1880-1939 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1987. Pp James L. Dietz Economic history of Puerto Rico: institutional change and capitalist development (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp W. J. Macpherson The economic development of Japan, c. 1868-1941 (Macmillan Education for the Economic History Society, 1987. Pp Ryoshin Minami Power revolution in the industrialization of Japan, 1885-1940 (Tokyo: Kinokuniya, 1987. Pp Bertrand Gille The history of techniques: Vol. I, Techniques and civilizations; Vol. 2, Techniques and sciences (New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1986. Vol. 1: pp JOHN R. HUME Patrick Joyce, ed., The historical meaning of work (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Raymond W. Goldsmith Premodem financial systems: a historical comparative study (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Charles A. Jones International business in the nineteenth century: the rise and fall of a cosmopolitan bourgeoisie (Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1987. Pp Ian M. Drummond The gold standard and the international monetary system, 1900-1939 (Macmillan, 1987. Pp Charles P. Kindleberger Marshall Plan days (Allen and Unwin, 1987. Pp DAVID WIGHTMAN Alexander J. Field, ed., The future of economic history (Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing, 1987. Pp     

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N. J. Mayhew (Ed.). Edwardian Monetary Affairs (1279-1344). British Archaeological Reports, 36. (Oxford: 1977. Pp Martin Biddle (Ed.). Winchester in the Early Middle Ages: An Edition and Discussion of the Winton Domesday. Winchester Studies, I. (London: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1976. Pp J. M. Kaye (Ed.). The Cartulary of God's House, Southampton, Southampton Records Series, vols. XIX and XX. (Southampton: Southampton University Press. 1976. Pp D. C. Coleman . The Economy of England, 1450-1750. (London: Oxford University Press. 1977. Pp B. A. Holderness . Pre-industrial England: Economy and Society, 1500-1750. (London: Dent. 1976. Pp D. G. Coleman and A. H. John (Eds.). Trade, Government and Economy in Pre-Industrial England: Essays Presented to F. J. Fisher. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1976. Pp Peter Clark and Paul Slack . English Towns in Transition, 1500-1700. (London: Oxford University Press. 1976. Pp T. S. Willan . The Inland Trade: Studies in English Internal Trade in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. (Manchester: The University Press. 1976. Pp Eric Pawson . Transport and Economy: The Turnpike Roads of Eighteenth-Century Britain. (London: Academic Press. 1977. Pp Kenneth Rogers . Wiltshire and Somerset Woollen Mills. (Edington: Pasold Research Fund Ltd. 1976. Pp Malcolm I. Thomis. Responses to Industrialisation: The British Experience, 1780-1850. (Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 1976. Pp Barry Gordon . Political Economy in Parliament, 1819-23. (London: Macmillan. 1976. Pp S. G. Checkland . The Upas Tree: Glasgow, 1875-1975. A Study in Growth and Contraction. (Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press. 1976. Pp Frank Bealey . The Post Office Engineering Union: The History of the Post Office Engineers, 1870-1970. (London: Bachman & Turner. 1976. Pp John Lovell . British Trade Unions, 1875-1933. (London: Macmillan for The Economic History Society. 1977. Pp Bob Holton . British Syndicalism, 1900-14: Myths and Realities (London: Pluto Press. 1976. Pp Asa Briggs and John Saville (Eds.). Essays in Labour History, 1918-39. (London: Croom Helm. 1977. Pp P. H. J. H. Gosden . Education in the Second World War: A Study in Policy and Administration. (London: Methuen. 1976. Pp GENERAL G. E. Fussell . Farms, Farmers and Society: Systems of Food Production and Population Numbers. (Lawrence, Kansas: The Coronado Press. 1976. Pp GENERAL G. E. Fussell . Farms, Farmers and Society: Systems of Food Production and Population Numbers. (Lawrence, Kansas: The Coronado Press. 1976. Pp Benjamin Z. Kedar . Merchants in Crisis: Genoese and Venetian Men of Affairs and the Fourteenth-Century Depression. (New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 1976. Pp G. E. Mingay . The Agricultural Revolution: Changes in Agriculture, 1650-1880. Documents in Economic History, edited by Sidney Pollard. (London : A. & C. Black. 1977. Pp P. J. Marshall . East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century. (London: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1976. Pp Steven L. Kaplan . Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1976. 2 vols. Pp James H. Bater . St Petersburg: Industrialization and Change. (London: Edward Arnold. 1976. Pp J. Forbes Munro . Africa and the International Economy, 1800-1960. (London : Dent. 1976. Pp Carlos Manuel Pelaaez and Wilson Suzigan , História Monetária do Brasil: Análise da Política, Comportamento e Instituições Monetárias. (Rio de Janeiro: I.P.E.A./I.N.P.E.S. 1976. Pp Graeme M. Holmes . Britain and America: A Comparative Economic History, 1850-1939. (Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 1976. Pp Cyril Ehrlich . The Piano: A History. (London: Dent. 1976. Pp Fritz Stern . Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder and the Building of the German Empire. (London: Allen & Unwin. 1977. Pp Richard Rudolph . Banking and Industrialization in Austria-Hungary: The Role of Banks in the Industrialization of the Czech Crownlands, 1873-1914. (Cambridge: The University Press. 1976. Pp D. G. Paterson . British Direct Investment in Canada, 1890-1914. (Toronto & Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. 1976. Pp Benjamin M. Rowland (Ed.). Balance of Power or Hegemony: The Interwar Monetary System. (New York: New York University Press. 1976. Pp Philippe Wolff (Ed.) Guide Internationale d'Histoire Urbaine, I–Europe. International Commission for the History of Towns. (Paris. 1977. Pp UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Stanley Lebergott . The American Economy: Income, Wealth, and Want. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1976. Pp Lee Soltow . Men and Wealth in the United States, 1850-70. (New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 1975. Pp Alan L. Olmstead . New York City Mutual Savings Banks, 1819-61. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1976. Pp Paul A. David , Herbert G. Gutman , Richard Sutch , Peter Temin , and Gavin Wright . Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. Introduction by Kenneth M. Stampp Stephen J. De Ganio . Agriculture in the Post-bellum South: The Economics of Production and Supply (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 1974. Pp Michael Schwartz . Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers’Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1900. (New York: Academic Press. 1976. Pp     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Peter Brandon and Brian Short, The south east from AD 1000 Felicity Heal, Hospitality in early modern England F.J. Fisher, London and the English economy, 1500-1700, eds. P.J. Corfield and N.B. Harte John Chartres and David Hey, eds., English rural society, 1500-1800: essays in honour of Joan Thirsk Ian Archer, Caroline Barron, and Vanessa Harding, eds., Hugh Alley's Caveat: the markets of London in 1598, Folger Ms V.a.318 Lawrence Stone, Road to divorce: England, 1530-1987 Kenneth Fincham, Prelate as pastor: the episcopate of James I Maurice Beresford, East end, west end: the face of Leeds during urbanisation, 1684-1842 A.M. Urdank, Religion and society in a Cotswold vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865 David Spadafora, The idea of progress in eighteenth-century Britain Roger Swift and Sheriden Gilley, eds., The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939 Peter Bosley, Light railways in England and Wales Malcolm Falkus, The Blue Funnel legend: a history of the Ocean Steam Ship Company, 1865-1973 Rob Sindall, Street violence in the nineteenth century Anne Orde, British policy and European reconstruction after the First World War Bill Luckin, Questions of power: electricity and environment in inter-war Britain Charles Harvey and John Turner, eds., Labour and business in modern Britain Liam Kennedy, The modern industrialisation of Ireland, 1940-88 Joel Mokyr, Twenty-five centuries of technological change: an historical survey Léopold Génicot, Rural communities in the medieval west Kees Gispen, New profession, old order: engineers and German society, 1815-1914 Paul M. Johnson, Redesigning the communist economy: politics of economic reform in eastern Europe Diane P. Koenker and William G. Rosenberg, eds., Strikes and revolution in Russia, 1917 James D. Tracy, ed., The rise of merchant empires: long-distance trade in the early modern world, 1350-1750 Derek Massarella, A world elsewhere: Europe's encounter with Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Johannes Menne Postma, The Dutch in the Atlantic slave trade, 1600-1815 Patrick Manning, Slavery and African life: occidental, oriental and African slave trades Joseph W. Esherick and Mary Backus Rankin, eds., Chinese elites and patterns of dominance Philip C.C. Huang, The peasant family and rural development in the Yangzi delta, 1350-1988 Edward R. Beauchamp and Akira Iriye, eds., Foreign employees in nineteenth-century Japan Michael Cusumano, The Japanese automobile industry: technology and management at Nissan and Toyota Donald R. Hoke, Ingenious Yankees: the rise of the American system of manufactures in the private sector Joel Mokyr, The lever of riches: technological creativity and economic progress Claudia Goldin, Understanding the gender gap: an economic history of American women Stuart B. Kaufman and Peter J. Albert, eds., The Samuel Gompers papers, 3: unrest and depression, 1891-94 Sydney Checkland, Voices across the water: an Anglo-Canadian boyhood Barry Dyster and David Meredith, Australia in the international economy in the twentieth century G. Tortella, ed. Education and economic development since the industrial revolution James C. Riley, Sickness, recovery and death: a history and forecast of ill health T.R. Slater, ed. The built form of western cities Cyril Ehrlich, The piano: a history, revised edition Barry Eichengreen and Peter H. Lindert, eds., The international debt crisis in historical perspective David W. Galenson, ed., Markets in history: economic studies of the past     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article:
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
P. R. Coss, Lordship, knighthood and locality: a study in English society , c. 1180 -c. 1280
Ian W. Archer, The history of the Haberdashers'Company
David Harris Sacks, The widening gate: Bristol and the Atlantic economy, 1450-1700
Beverly Lemire, Fashion's favourite: the cotton trade and the consumer in Britain, 1660-1800 .
Stanley Chapman, Merchant enterprise in Britain from the industrial revolution to World War I
Gerry Kearns and Charles W. J. Withers, eds., Urbanising Britain: essays on class and community in the nineteenth century
S. W. F. Holloway, The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1841-1991: a political and social history
Eleanor Gordon, Women and the labour movement in Scotland, 1850-1914
Chris Wrigley and John Shepherd, eds., On the move: essays in labour and transport history presented to Philip Bagwell
Derek Fraser, ed., Cities, class and communication: essays in honour of Asa Briggs
GENERAL
Judith Eisenberg Vichniac, The management of labor: the British and French iron industries, 1860-1918
Kenneth Moulé, Managing the franc Poincaré: economic understanding and political constraint in French monetary policy, 1928-1936
Anthony H. Galt, Far from the church bells: settlement and society in an Apulian town
Sheila Fitzpatrick, Alexander Rabinowitch, and Richard Stites, eds., Russia in the era of NEP: explorations in Soviet society and culture
James D. Tracy, ed., The political economy of merchant empires: state power and world trade, 1350-1750
Jonathan Barry and Colin Jones, eds., Medicine and charity before the welfare state
Rudolph J. Vecoli and Suzanne M. Sinke, eds., A century of European migrations, 1830-1930
Barbara L. Solow, ed., Slavery and the rise of the Atlantic system
Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan, eds., The slaves'economy: independent production by slaves in the Americas     

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Reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN A. R. Bridbury .Medieval English Clothmaking: An Economic Survey. Michael Gervers (Ed.) The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England. Geoffrey Holmes Augustan England: Professions, State and Society, 1680-1730. Ross Wordie .Estate Management in Eighteenth Century England: The Building of the Leveson-Gower Fortune. Neil Mc Kendrick , John Brewer J. H. Plumb . The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-century England. Derek Gregory . Regional Transformation and Industrial Revolution: A Geography of the Yorkshire Woolen Industry. Barrie Trinder . The Making of the Industrial Landscape. Charles W. Munn .The Scottish Provincial Banking Companies, 1747-1864. Craig Calhoun . The Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism during the Industrial Revolution. James Epstein and Dorothy Thompson (Eds.). The Chartist Experience: Studies in Working-Class Radicalism and Culture, 1830-1860. Franclois Crouzet .The Victorian Economy. Translated by Anthony Forster. Jeffrey Cox . The English Churches in a Secular Society: Lambeth, 1870-1930. P. Thane . The Foundations of the Welfare State. T. R. Nicholson . The Birth of the British Motor Car. Theo Barker . THE TRANSPORT CONTRACTORS OF RYE. GENERAL Maurice Aymard (Ed.). Dutch Capitalism and World Capitalism. Gregor Dallas . The Imperfect Peasant Economy: The Loire Country, 1800-1914. Michel Lescure . Les banques, VEtat et le marche immobilier en France a I'efioque contemporaine, 1820-1940. Hugh D. Clout . The Land of France, 1815-1914. G. D. Feldman , C. L. Holtfrerich , G. A. Ritter , P-C. Witt , (Eds.)- The German Inflation Reconsidered: A Preliminary Balance. V. R. Berghahn . Modem Germany: Society, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century. John Edwards . Christian Cordoba: The City and its Region in the Late Middle Ages. Richard Hellie . Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725. George Yaney . The Urge to Mobilize: Agrarian Reform in Russia, 1861-1930. Ivaan T. Berend and Gyourgy Raanki . The European Periphery and Industrialisation, 1780-1914. Margaret Walsh . The Rise of the Midwestern Meat Packing Industry. David Rosner . A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York, 1885-191S. Neil Fligstein . Going North: Migration of Blacks from the South, 1900-1950. Thomas F. O'Brien . The Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition, 1870-1891. Anupam Sen . The State, Industrialization, and Class Formations in India: A Neo-Marxist Perspective on Colonialism, Underdevelopment and Development. Mikiso Hane . Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan. Michio Morishima . Why has Japan “Succeeded”?: Western Techonology and the Japanese Ethos. Gilbert Rozman . Population and Marketing Settlements in Ch'ing China. Charles Issawi . An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa. Peter Richardson . Chinese Mine Labour in the Transvaal.     

Book reviews

Jennifer Ward, ed., Women of the English nobility and gentry, 1066-1500
Nicholas Orme and Margaret Webster, The English hospital, 1070-1570
Vanessa Harding and Laura Wright, eds., London Bridge: selected accounts and rentals, 1381-1538
Peter Clark and Lyn Murfin, The history of Maidstone: the making of a modem county town
M. J. Daunton, Progress and poverty: an economic and social history of Britain, 1700-1850
John F. Wilson, British business history, 1720-1994
Geoffrey Tweedale, Steel city: entrepreneurship, strategy, and technology in Sheffield, 1743-1993
Brian R. Law, Fieldens of Todmorden: a nineteenth century business dynasty
Marguerite W. Dupree, Family structure in the Staffordshire Potteries, 1840-1880
David Englander and Rosemary O'Day, eds., Retrieved riches: social investigation in Britain, 1840-1914
Robert Humphreys, Sin, organized charity and the poor law in Victorian England
V. Markham Lester, Victorian insolvency: bankruptcy, imprisonment for debt and company winding-up in nineteenth-century England
Simon Szreter, Fertility, class and gender in Britain, 1860-1940
B. W. E. Alford, Britain in the world economy since 1880
John Brown, The British welfare state
James R. Lehning, Peasant and French: cultural contact in rural France during the nineteenth century
Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, The petite bourgeoisie in Europe, 1780-1914: enterprise, family and independence
Y. Cassis, F. Crouzet, and T. Gourvish, eds., Management and business in Britain and France: the age of the corporate economy
Dirk Hoerder and Jorg Nagler, eds., People in transit: German migrations in comparative perspective, 1820-1930
Geoffrey Jones, The evolution of international business: an introduction
Alec Cairncross, Economic ideas and government policy: contributions to contemporary economic history     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles:
Urban Poverty and the Environment in the South Pacific Jenny J. Bryant
Foreign Direct Investment edited by Kenneth A. Froot
Labour Market Monitoring and Employment Policy: a study of Indonesia Martin Godfrey
Studies on Economic Reforms and Development in the People's Republic of China Edited by Tien-tung Hseuh, Yun-wing Sung and Jingyuan Yu
Trade, Industrial Restructuring and Development in Hong Kong Yin-Ping Ho
The Korean Economies: a comparison of North and South Eui-Gak Hwang
The Mechanism of Economic Deve1opmt: growth in the Japanese and East Asian Economies Ken-Ichi Inada, Sueo Sekiguchi and Yasutoyo Shoda.
World Bank Financing of Education: lending, learning and development Phillip W. Jones
Education in Asia: a comparative study of cost and financing Jee-Peng Tan and Alain Mingat
The Future of Asia-Pacific Economies: emerging role of Asian NIEs and ASEAN Edited by Fu-chen Lo and Narongchai Akrasanee
The Asia-Pacific Economies: a challenge to South Asia Edited by S. P. Gupta and Somsak Tambunlertchai
The Dawn of the Pacific Century William McCord
Strategic Processes in Monsoon Asia's Economic Development Harry T. Oshima
Burning Questions: environmental limits to energy growth in Asian-Pacific countries during the 1990s Edited by K. V. Ramani, P. Hills and G. George
Economic Reform and Social Change in China Edited by Andrew Watson
The Revolution in Asian Fertility: dimensions, causes and implications Edited by Richard Leete and lqbal Alam
The Politics of Finance in Developing Countries Edited by Stephan Haggard, Lee Chung H. and Sylvia Maxfield
Sustaining Rapid Development in East Asia and the Pacific: development in practice     

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Kathleen Biddick, The other economy: pastoral husbandry on a medieval estate Steve Rappaport, Worlds within worlds: structures of life in sixteenth-century London Lindsay Granshaw and Roy Porter, eds., The hospital in history Eric Richards and Monica Clough, Cromartie: highland life, 1650-1914 Richard Holt, Sport and the British: a modem history Michael J. Freeman and Derek H. Aldcroft, eds., Transport in Victorian Britain Stephanie Jones, Trade and skipping: Lord Inchcape,1852-1932 Anita Rapone, The Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1860-1920 E. P. Hennock, British social reform and German precedents J.R. Edwards, A history of financial accounting Harold Perkin, The rise of professional society: England since 1880 Ian Levitt, Poverty and welfare in Scotland, 1890-1948 Valerie Burton, ed., Bruce Kent, The spoils of war: the politics, economics, and diplomacy of reparations, 1918-1932 Alan Booth, British economic policy, 1931-1949: was there a Keynesian revolution? Peter Denley, Stefan Fogelvik, and Charles Harvey, eds., History and computing, II P.W. Bamford, Privilege and profit: a business family in eighteenth-century France Michael Sonenscher, Work and wages: natural law, politics and the eighteenth-century French trades Elinor Accampo, Industrialization, family life, and class relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 William James Adams, Restructuring the French economy: government and the rise of market competition since World War II Kristine Bruland, British technology and European industrialization: the Norwegian textile industry in the mid-nineteenth century Thomas M. Truxes, Irish-American trade, 1660-1783 Ian M. Drummond and Norman Hillmer, Negotiating freer trade: the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and the trade agreements of 1938 S. J. Kleinberg, The shadoiv of the mills: ivorking-class families in Pittsburgh, 1870-1907 David A. Hounshell and John Kenly Smith, Science and corporate strategy: Du Pont R. & D., 1902-1980 Carlos Marichal, A century of debt crises in Latin America: from independence to the great depression, 1820-1930 Ian Brown, ed., The economies of Africa and Asia in the interwar depression Chhei Sugiyama and Hiroshi Mizuta, eds., Enlightenment and beyond: political economy comes to Japan Hugh Patrick, with the assistance of Larry Meissner, eds., Japan's high technology industries: lessons and limitations of industrial policy Clive Dewey, ed., The state and the market: studies in the economic and social history of the Third World Paul Bairoch, trans. Christopher Braider, Cities and economic development from the dawn of history to the present Paul Bairoch, trans. Christopher Braider, Cities and economic development from the dawn of history to the present     

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Book reviewed in this articles: Labour and employment planning Human Resource Planning: The Asian Experience Rashid Amjad. Asian and Pacific fishing Fishing Industry in Asia and the Pacific Rice and development The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Society Francesca Bray. Trade in services Pacific Trade in Services Edited by Leslie Castle and Christopher Findlay Alternative strategies CGE Industrialization and Growth: A Comparative Study Hollis Chenery, Sherman Robinson and Moshe Syrquin. Homelessness and shelter Shelter for the Homeless: Asian Pacific Needs and Australian Responses J.D. Conroy. Korean industrialization and politics Capitalist Industrialization in Korea Clive Hamilton. A village in West Java Land, Labour and Livelihood in a West Java Village , Joan Hardjono. Fiji after the coup Fiji: Opportunity from Adversity Wolfgang Kasper, Jeff Bennett and Richard Blandy. The Fiji Economy, May 1987: Problems and Prospects Rodney Cole and Helen Hughes. Ersatz capitalism The Rise of Ersatz Capitalism in South-East Asia Yoshihara Kunio. The mineral industries The Minerals Industries of ASEAN and Australia: Problems and Prospects Edited by Bruce McKern and Praipol Koomsup. Minerals Processing in the Industrialization of ASEAN and Australia. By Bruce McKern and Praipol Koomsup. Macro-economics of Hong Kong Hong Kong's Economy: An Introductory Macroeconomic Analysis Gavin Peebles. The politics of economic crisis Southeast Asia in the 1980s: The Politics of Economic Crisis Richard Robinson, Kevin Hewison and Richard Higgott. China's modernization and energy use Energy in China's Modernization: Advances and Limitations Vaclay Smil. Politics of co-operation Politics of ASEAN Economic Co-operation Marjorie L. Suritamongkol. Industrial reform in China China's Industrial Reform Edited by Gene Tidrick and Chen Jiyuan. Industrial Management and Economic Reform in China: 1949–1984 Peter N. S. Lee. Developing human resources Human Resources Development in the Pacific Edited by C. D. Throsby. General dilemmas of development Dilemmas of Development: Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in Development Theory and Policy John Toye. Green revolution in Malaya Peasants in the Making: Malaysia's Green Revolution Diana Wong.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles:
Technological Change in China Conroy, Richard
Agriculture and Trade in the Pacific: toward the twenty-first century William T. Coyle, Dermot Hayes and Hiroshi Yamauchi (eds)
Australia's Business Challenge: Southeast Asia in the 1990s
Agricultural Research in China: its institutional development and impact , Shenggen Fan and Philip G. Pardey
Labor and Economic Growth in Five Asian Countries: South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines , Walter Galenson
Informal Finance: some findings from Asia Prabhu Ghate et al.
The Agrarian Origins of Commerce and Industry: a study of peasant marketing in Indonesia Yujiro Hayami and Toshihiko Kawagoe
Chinese Enterprise Management: reforms in economic perspective Sukhan Jackson
The Challenge of Reform in Indochina Bøje Ljunggren (ed.)
Resources and Environment in Asia's Marine Sector James Barney Marsh (ed.)
The Population of Modern China Dudley L. Poston Jr and David Yaukey (eds)
Employment generation through private entrepreneurship in Vietnam Per Ronnås
Development Planning in Asia Somsak Tambunlertchai and S. P. Gupta (eds)
Race to the Swift: state and finance in Korean industrialization Jung-en Woo
Indonesia: health planning and budgeting     

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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     

Book reviews

Elizabeth Gemmill and Nicholas Mayhew, Changing values in medieval Scotland
S. H. Rigby, English society in the later middle ages
Andrew McRae, God speed the plough
S. H. Rigby, English society in the later middle ages: class, status and gender
Christopher Durston and Jacqueline Eales, eds., The culture of English Puritanism, 1560-1700
Richard Adair, Courtship, illegitimacy and marriage in early modern England
Pamela Sharpe, Adapting to capitalism: working women in the English economy, IJOO-1850
T. M. Devine, Clanship to crofters'war: the social transformation of the Scottish Highlands
Mclvin Humphreys, The crisis of community: Montgomeryshire, 1680-1818
Mary B. Rose, ed., The Lancashire cotton industry: a history since 1700
Penelope Corfield, Power and the professions in Britain, 1700-1850
Charles Tilly, Popular contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834
Sheilagh C. Ogilvie and Markus Cerman, eds.,European proto-industrialization: an introductory handbook
Scott R. Bowman, The modern corporation and American political thought: law, power and ideology
Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway, eds., The market revolution in America: social, political, and religious expressions, 1800-1880
Frederic L. Pryor, Economic evolution and structure: the impact of complexity on the US economic system
Norio Tamaki, Japanese banking: a history, 1859-1959
Ulla Wikander, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jane Lewis, eds., Protecting women: labour legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920
From airships to airbus: the history of civil and commercial aviation. Volume i: Infrastructure and environment, ed. William M. Leary; Volume 2: Pioneers and operations, ed. William F. Trimble
J. Reis, ed., International monetary systems in historical perspective     

Reviews

W. H. Chaloner and R. C. Richardson (Comps.). British Economic and Social History : A Bibliographical Guide. (Manchester: The University Press. 1976. Pp Pauline Gregg . Black Death to Industrial Revolution. A Social and Economic History of England. (London: Harrap. 1976. Pp R. G. Parker . Coke of Norfolk. A Financial and Agricultural Study, 1707-1842. (London: The Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1975. Pp T. M. Devine . The Tobacco Lords. A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and their Trading Activities, c. 1740-90. (Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd. 1975. Pp M. W. Flinn and T. C. Smout (Eds.). Essays in Social History. (London: The Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, for the Economic History Society. 1974. Pp Jean Lindsay . The Scottish Poor Law. Its Operation in the North-East from 1745 to 1845. (Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd. 1976. Pp A. Allan Maclaren (Ed.). Social Class in Scotland: Past and Present. (Edinburgh: John Donald. 1976. Pp A. Temple Patterson . A History of Southampton, 1790-1914. Vol. III: Setbacks and Recoveries, 1868-1914. Southampton Records Series, vol. XVIII. (Southampton: The University Press. 1975. Pp Eric J. Evans . The Contentious Tithe: The Tithe Problem and English Agriculture, 1750-1850. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1976. Pp Thomas Mc Keown . The Modern Rise of Population. (London: Edward Arnold. 1976. Pp Derek Oddy and Derek Miller (Eds.). The Making of the Modern British Diet. (London: Croom Helm. 1976. Pp Derek Fraser (Ed.). The New Poor Law in the Nineteenth Century (London: Macmillan. 1976. Pp William A. Green . British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830-65. (Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1976. Pp G. A. Phillips . The General Strike: The Politics of Industrial Conflict. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1976. Pp Sean Glynn and J ohn Oxborrow . Interwar Britain: A Social and Economic History. (London: George Allen & Unwin. 1976. Pp J. M. Winter (Ed.). War and Economic Development: Essays in Memory of David Joslin. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Pp M. I. Finley (Ed.). Studies in Roman Property. By the Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1976. Pp E. Ashtor . A Social and Economic History of the Near East in the Middle Ages. (London: Collins. 1976. Pp Robert S. Lopez . The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1976. Pp Carlo M. Cipolla . Before the Industrial Revolution. European Society and Economy, 1000-1700. (London: Methuen. 1976. Pp Hermann Kellenbenz . The Rise of the European Economy. An Economic History of Continental Europe, 1500-1750. (London: Weidenfeld. 1976. Pp T. Evergates . Feudal Society in the Bailliage of Troyes under the Counts of Champagne, 1152-1284. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1976. Pp N. J. G. Pounds . An Economic History of Medieval Europe. (London: Longman, 1974. Pp Richard Tilden Rapp . Industry and Economic Decline in Seventeenth-Century Venice. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press. 1976. Pp W. O. Henderson . The Rise of German Industrial Power, 1834-1914. (London: Temple Smith. 1975. Pp G. L. Barrow . The Emergence of the Irish Banking System, 1820-45. (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. 1975. Pp M. Moynihan . Currency and Central Banking in Ireland, 1922-60. (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan with the Central Bank of Ireland. 1975. Pp Thomas S. Fedor . Patterns of Urban Growth in the Russian Empire During the Nineteenth Century. (Chicago: The University of Chicago, Department of Geography, Research Paper No. 163. 1975. Pp Gilbert Rozman . Urban Networks in Russia, 1750-1800, and Premodern Periodization. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1976. Pp Peter Duignan and L. H. Gann (Eds.). Colonialism in Africa, 1870-1960. Vol. 4: The Economics of Colonialism. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Pp J. Forbes Munro . Colonial Rule and the Kamba: Social Change in the Kenya Highlands, 1889-1939. (London: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1975. Pp Peter Temin . Did Monetary Factors Cause the Great Depression? (New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 1976. Pp     

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Reviewed in this article: Michael Havinden . The Somerset Landscape. D. W. CROSSLEY (Ed.). Medieval Industry. ROBERT S. GOITFRIED. Buy St. Edmunds and the Urban Crisis R. H. CAMPBELL and A. S. SKINNER. Adam Smith. Virginia Berridge and Griffith Edwards. Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth Century England. David Goodway . London Chartism, 1838-1848. Gordon M. Wilson . Alexander McDonald: Leader of the Miners. JAMES H. JOHNSON AND COLIN POOLEY (Eds.). D. FRASER (Ed.). Municipal Reform and the Industrial City. AVNER OFFER. Property and Politics, 1870-1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England WILLIE ORR. Deer Forests, Landlords, and Crofters: The Western Highlands in Victorian and Edwardian Times. TONY DICKSON (Ed.). Capital and Class in Scotland. P. J. DRUDY (Ed.). Ireland: Land, Politics, and People. C. J. WRIGLEY (Ed.). A History of British Industrial Relations, 1875-1914. Anthony Slaven and Derek H. Aldcroft (Eds.). David French . British Economic and Strategic Planning, 1905-15- (London: Allen and Unwin. GENERAL RICHARD HODGES. Dark Age Economics: The Origins of Towns and Trade, A.D. 600-1000. JEAN GAUTIER-DALCHE. Économie el société dans les pays de la Couronne de Castile. Alberto Grohmann . Città e Territorio tra Medioevo ed Eta Moderna. J. K. J. Thomson . Clermont de Lodève, 1633-1789: Fluctuations in the Prosperity of a Languedocian Cloth-making Town. G. B. Nilsson . Banker i brytningstid: A. O. Wallenberg i svensk bankpolitik, 1850-1856. William H. Becker . The Dynamics of Business-Government Relations: Industry & Exports, 1893-1921 PATRICK MANNING. Slavery, Colonialism, and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960. J. E. Inikori (Ed.)- Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies. Richard M. Kesner . Economic Control and Colonial Development: Crown Colony Financial Management in the Age of Joseph Chamberlain. R. W. Ferrier. The History of the British Petroleum Company: Volume I. The Developing Years, 1901-1932. Gavin Kitching. Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective: Populism, Nationalism, and Industrialization. Hisao Otsuka . The Spirit of Capitalism: The Max Weber Thesis in an Economic Historical Perspective (translated by Masaomi Kondo). M. F. Bywater and B. S. Yamey . Historic Accounting Literature: A Companion Guide. Angus Maddison. Phases of Capitalist Development. Mancur Olson . The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities. Craig R. Littler. The Development of the Labour Process in Capitalist Societies. Roger L. Ransom , Richard Sutch and Garry M. Walton (EDS.). Explorations in the New Economic History: Essays in Honor of Douglass C. North. D. P. O'BRIEN and A. C. DARNELL. Authorship Puzzles in the History of Economics: A Statistical Approach (London: Macmillan. 1982. Pp. xii+230. £25.)