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Books reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND P. J. P. Goldberg, ed., Woman is a worthy wight: women in English society, c. 1200-1500 Robert Tinier, Architecture and power: the town hall and the English urban community, 1500-1640 R. A. Houston, The population history of Britain and Ireland, 1500-1750 R. B. Outhwaite, Dearth, public policy and social disturbance in England, 1550-1800 R. W. Hoyle, ed., The estates of the English crown, 1558-1640 Patrick Hyde Kelly, ed., Locke on money E. P. Thompson, Customs in common Peter Linebaugh, The London hanged: crime and civil society in the eighteenth century Adrian Hall, Fenland worker peasants: the economy of smallholders at Rippingale, Lincolnshire, 1791-1871 Elizabeth Hennessy, A domestic history of the Bank of England, 1930-1960 Howard F. Gospel, Markets, firms and the management of labour in modern Britain GENERAL R. H. Hilton, English and French towns in feudal society: a comparative study Serge Chassagne, Le coton et ses patrons: France, 1760-1840 David I. Kertzer and Richard P. Sailer, eds., The family in Italy from antiquity to the present Peter Musgrave, Land and economy in baroque Italy: Valpolicella, 1630-1797 Holland Hunter and Janusz M. Szyrmer, Faulty foundations: Soviet economic policies, 1928-1940 Colin Holmes and Alan Booth, eds., Economy and society: European industrialisation and its social consequences. Essays presented to Sidney Pollard Gregory Hooks, Forging the military-industrial complex: World War II's battle of the Potomac Dan Benjamin and Kent Matthews, US and UK unemployment between the wars: a doleful story Eric W. Sager with Gerald E. Panting, Maritime capital: the shipping industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff, eds., Strategic factors in nineteenth-century economic history: a volume to honor Robert W. Fogel David J. Jeremy, ed., International technology transfer: Europe, Japan and the USA, 1700-1914 Colin White, Mastering risk: environment, markets and politics in Australian economic history John H. Drabble, Malayan rubber: the interwar years Geoffrey Jones, ed., Banks and money: international and comparative financial history Martin Bulmer, Kevin Bales, and Kathryn Kish Sklar, eds., The social survey in historical perspective, 1880-1940 Roger Schofield, David Reher, and Alain Bideau, eds., The decline of mortality in Europe Ian Inkster, Science and technology in history: an approach to industrial development Keith Chapman, The international petrochemical industry N. F. R. Crafts, N. H. Dimsdale, and S. Engerman, eds., Quantitative economic history W. R. Garside, ed., Capitalism in crisis: international responses to the Great Depression Peter Burke, ed., New perspectives on historical writing J. L. Anderson, Explaining long-term economic change     

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Book reviewed in this article: David A. Hinton, Archaeology, economy and society: England from the fifth to the fifteenth century Peter Brimblecombe, The big smoke: a history of air pollution in London since medieval times David Pam, A history of Enfield. Vol. I: before 1837. A parish near London Peter J. Bowden, ed., Economic change: wages, profits and rents, 1500-1750. Chapters from ‘The agrarian history of England and Wales’, vol. I Ann Kussmaul, A general view of the rural economy of England, 1538-1840 David J. Starkey, British privateering enterprise in the eighteenth century Hoh-Cheung Mui and Lorna H. Mui, Shops and shopkeeping in eighteenth-century England F. M. L. Thompson, ed., The Cambridge social history of Britain, 1750-1950 Barry Reay, The last rising of the agricultural labourers: rural life and protest in nineteenth-century England Kenneth Warren, Consett iron, 1840 to 1980: a study in industrial location Peter N. Davies, Fyffes and the banana: Musa Sapientum. A centenary history, 1888-1988 Richard Whipp, Patterns of labour: work and social change in the pottery industry Eric M. Sigsworth, Montague Burton: the tailor of taste David J. Jeremy, Capitalists and Christians: business leaders and the churches in Britain, 1900-1960 Pádraig McGowan, Money and banking in Ireland: origins, development and future Jon Press, The footwear industry in Ireland, 1922-1973 Justin Davis Smith, The Attlee and Churchill administrations and industrial unrest, 1945-55: a study in consensus Richard Holt, ed., Sport and the working class in modern Britain Bruce Collins and Keith Robbins, eds., British culture and economic decline GENERALJohn Komlos, Nutrition and economic development in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy: an anthropometric history Heinrich Becker, Handlungsspielräume in der Agrarpolitik in der Weimarer Republik zwischen 1923 und 1929 Joel D. Benson, Cooperation to competition: English perspective and policy on Anglo-Dutch economic relations during the reign of James I R. T. Griffiths, ed., The Netherlands and the economic integration of Europe, 1945-1957 Timo Myllyntaus, The gatecrashing apprentice: industrialising Finland as an adopter of new technology Martin Blinkhorn, ed., Fascists and conservatives: the radical right and the establishment in twentieth-century Europe Charles Tilly, Coercion, capital, and European states: AD 990-1990 Clive Archer, Organizing western Europe Arthur Marwick et al., War, peace and social change: Europe, 1900-1955 William Molle, The economics of European integration Roy Porter, ed., The medical history of waters and spas Pat Hudson and W. R. Lee, eds., Women's work and the family economy in historical perspective R. Bartlett, ed., Land commune and peasant community in Russia Stuart Bruchey, Enterprise: the dynamic economy of a free people John Graham, ed., ‘Yours for the revolution’: The Appeal to Reason, 1895-1922 Gerald D. Nash, World War II and the west: reshaping the economy Randall Bennett Woods, A changing of the guard: Anglo-American relations, 1941-1946 Richard F. Hirsh, Technology and transformation in the American electric utility industy Paul J. Miranti, Accountancy comes of age Joy Parr, The gender of breadwinners: women, men and change in two industrial towns, 1880-1950 Guy P. C. Thomson, Puebla de los Angeles: industy and society in a Mexican city, 1700-1870 David Robinson, ed., Migration in colonial Spanish America Philip D. Curtin, The rise and fall of the plantation complex: essays in Atlantic history Jan Breman, Labour migration and rural transformation in colonial Asia S. D. Punekar and R. Varickayil, eds., Labour movement in India, documents 1850-1890, I: Mines and plantations Robin Jeffrey et al., eds., India: rebellion to republic—selected writings, 1857-1990 Angus Maddison and Gé Prince, eds., Economic growth in Indonesia, 1820-1940 Jean Batou, Cent ans de résistance au sous-développement: l'industrialisation de l'Amérique Latine et du Moyen-Orient face au défi européen, 1770-1870 Peter Mathias and John A. Davis, eds., The first industrial nations Christian Suter, Schuldenzyklen in der Dritten Welt: Kreditaufnalhme, Zahlungskrisen und Schuldenregelungen peripherer Länder im Welstystem von 1820 bis 1986 M. J. Daunton, ed., Housing the workers: a comparative history, 1850-1914 Carl H. A. Dassbach, Global enterprises and the world economy: Ford, General Motors, and IBM: the emergence of the transnational enterprise Martin Chick, ed., Governments, industries and markets: aspects of government-industry relations in the UK, Japan, West Germany and the USA since 1945 W. W. Rostow, Theorists of economic growth from David Hume to the present Gerald D. Feldman and Klaus Tenfelde, eds., Workers, Owners and politics in coal mining: an international comparison of industrial relations A. Teichova, M. Lévy-Leboyer, and H. Nussbaum, eds., Historical studies in international corporate business R. T. P. Davenport-Hines, ed., Business in the age of depression and war     

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Book review in this articles: Pierre Bonnassie, From slavery to feudalism in south-western Europe Stephen A. Epstein, Wage labor and guilds in medieval Europe Gérard Sivéry, Terroirs et communautés rurales dans l'Europe occidentale au moyen âge Maxine Berg, ed., Markets and manufacture in early industrial Europe Ad van der Woude, Jan de Vries, and Akira Hayami, eds., Urbanization in history: a process of dynamic interactions Peter Mandler, ed., The uses of charity: the poor on relief in the nineteenth-century metropolis Donald Reid, Paris sewers and sewermen: realities and representations Martine Segalen, Fifteen generations of Bretons: kinship and society in lower Brittany Olivier Marchand and Claude Thèlot, Deux siècles de travail en France Judith Wishnia, The proletarianizing of the fonctionnaires: civil service workers and the labor movement under the Third Republic Michel Margairaz, l'état, les finances et Péconomie: histoire d'une conversion, 1932-1952 Leo A. Loubère, The wine revolution in France: the twentieth century David Blackbourn and Richard J. Evans, eds., The German bourgeoisie: essays on the social history of the German middle class from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century Steven B. Webb, Hyperinflation and stabilization in Weimar Germany Knut Borchardt, Perspectives on modern German economic history and policy A. Barkai, Nazi economics: ideology, theory and policy L. M. E. Shaw, Trade, inquisition and the English nation in Portugal, 1650-1690 Antonio Calabria, The cost of empire: the finances of the kingdom of Naples in the time of Spanish rule Peter J. Boettke, The political economy of Soviet socialism: the formative years, 1918-1928 John Gillingham, Coal, steel and the rebirth of Europe, 1945-1955: the Germans and French from Ruhr conflict to Economic Community Roger Munting and B. A. Holderness, Crisis, recovery and war: an economic history of continental Europe, 1918-1945 Harold James, Haken Lindgren, and Alice Teichova, eds., The role of banks in the interwar economy Leonard M. Dudley. The word and the sword: how techniques of information and violence have shaped our world     

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

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

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Books reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND C. E. Challis, ed., A new history of the Royal Mint Barbara Harvey, Living and dying in England, 1140-1540: the monastic experience Roger Mason and Norman MacDougall, eds., People and power in Scotland: essays in honour of T.C. Smout Ian W. Archer, The pursuit of stability: social relations in Elizabethan London Jacob M. Price, Perry of London: a family and a firm on the seaborne frontier, 1615-1753 Rachel Lawrence, Southwold River: Georgian life in the Blyth Valley Joel Mokyr, ed., The British industrial revolution: an economic perspective P. Hudson, The industrial revolution D. C. Coleman, Myth, history and the industrial revolution Patrick K. O'Brien and Roland Quinault, eds., The industrial revolution and British society W. D. Rubinstein, Capitalism, culture and economic decline in Britain, 1750-1990 Roger Scola, Feeding the Victorian city: the food supply of Manchester, 1770-1870 Geoffrey Timmins, The last shift: the decline of handloom weaving in nineteenth-century Lancashire Felix Driver, Power and pauperism: the workhouse system, 1834-1884 Robert Woods, The population of Britain in the nineteenth century Geoffrey Jones, British multinational banking, 1830-1990 Panikos Panayi, ed., Racial violence in Britain, 1840-1950 Austin Bourke,‘The visitation of God? The potato and the great Irish Famine S. N. Broadberry and N. F. R. Crafts, eds., Britain in the international economy, 1870-7939 R. P. T. Davenport-Hines and Judy Slinn, Glaxo: a history to 1962 Oliver M. Westall, The Provincial Insurance Company, 1903-38: family markets and competitive growth Mary E. Daly, Industrial development and Irish national identity, 1922-1939 Tim Rooth, British protectionism and the international economy: overseas commercial policy in the 1930s Andrew Land, Rodney Lowe, and Noel Whiteside, Development of the welfare state, 7939-7957: a guide to documents in the Public Record Office Derek H. Aldcroft, Education, training and economic performance, 1944-1990 H. Mercer, N. Rollings, and J. D. Tomlinson, eds., Labour governments and private industry: the experience of 1945-1951 GENERAL Jean-Luc Pinol, Les mobilites de la grande ville: Lyon, fin XIXe - debut XXe siecle Theo Balderston, The origins and course of the German economic crisis: November 1923 to May 1932 Herbert Giersch, Karl-Heinz Paqué, and Holger Schmieding, The fading miracle: four decades of market economy in Germany Leslie Page Moch, Moving Europeans: migration in western Europe since 1650 John R. Gillis, Louise A. Tilly, and David Levine, eds., The European experience of declining fertility: the quiet revolution Colin G. Pooley, ed., Housing strategies in Europe, 1880-1930 Geoffrey Jones and Harm G. Schroter, eds., The rise of multinationals in continental Europe Elena Frangakis-Syrett, The commerce of Smyrna in the eighteenth century (1700-1820) Jonathan Brown and Mary B. Rose, eds., Entrepreneurship, networks and modern business Barry E. Supple, ed., The rise of big business     

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Books Reviewed: Great Britain And Ireland Nicholas Brooks, Anglo–Saxon myths: state and church, 400–1066 Nicholas Brooks, Communities and warfare, 700–1400 J. Bothwell, P. J. P. Goldberg, and W. M. Ormrod, ((eds.)), The problem of labour in fourteenth–century England Robert Tittler, Townspeople and nation: English urban experiences, 1540–1640 L. A. Botelho, (ed.), Churchwardens’ accounts of Cratfield, 1640–1660 Christopher Chalklin, The rise of the English town, 1650–1850 J. M. Beattie, Policing and punishment in London, 1660–1750 Richard Wilson and Alan Mackley, Creating paradise: the building of the English country house, 1660–1880 M. E. Turner, J. V. Beckett, and B. Afton, Farm production in England, 1700–1914 John E. Archer, Social unrest and popular protest in England, 1780–1840 Stanley Chapman, (ed.), The autobiography of David Whitehead of Rawtenstall, 1790–1865 Ian Inkster, Colin Griffin, Jeff Hill, and Judith Rowbotham, ((eds.)), The golden age: essays in British social and economic history, 1850–1870 K. D. M. Snell and Paul S. Ell, Rival Jerusalems: the geography of Victorian religion William Kenefick, ‘Rebellious and contrary’: the Glasgow dockers, c. 1853 to c. 1932 F. M. L. Thompson, Gentrification and the enterprise culture: Britain, 1780–1980 Alan Booth, The British economy in the twentieth century Richard Whiting, The Labour Party and taxation: party identity and political purpose in twentieth–century Britain Duncan Tanner, Pat Thane, and Nick Tiratsoo, (eds.), Labour’s first century Asa Briggs, Michael Young: social entrepreneur David Kynaston, The City of London, IV: A club no more, 1945–2000 Zofia Archibald, John Davies, Vincent Gabrielsen, and G. J. Oliver, (eds.), Hellenistic economies Michael Wintle, An economic and social history of the Netherlands, 1800–1920: demographic, economic and social transition Bernd Widdig, Culture and inflation in Weimar Germany S. R. Epstein, (ed.), Town and country in Europe, 1300–1800 Peter Scholliers, (ed.), Food, drink and identity: cooking, eating and drinking in Europe since the middle ages Robert Fox and Anna Guagnini, Laboratories, workshops, and sites: concepts and practices of research in industrial Europe, 1800–1914 E. Damsgaard Hansen, European economic history: from mercantilism to Maastricht and beyond Thabit A. J. Abdullah, Merchants, mamluks, and murder: the political economy of trade in eighteenth–century Basra Russell R. Menard, Migrants, servants and slaves: unfree labor in colonial British America Mary B. Rose, Firms, networks and business values: the British and American cotton industries since 1750 Andrew Godley, Jewish immigrant entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880–1914: enterprise and culture Donna J. Rilling, Making houses: crafting capitalism Brian Kelly, Race, class, and power in the Alabama coalfields, 1908–21 Margaret B.W. Graham and Alec T. Shuldiner, Corning and the craft of innovation Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross, The generations of Corning: the life and times of a global corporation Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, (eds.), The Cambridge economic history of the United States, III: the twentieth century Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis, Winners, losers and Microsoft: competition and antitrust in high technology Steven Tolliday, (ed.), The economic development of modern Japan, 1868–1945: from Meiji restoration to the Second World War Alice Bullard, Exile to paradise: savagery and civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790–1900 Peter Redfield, Space in the tropics: from convicts to rockets in French Guiana Robert Conlon and John Perkins, Wheels and deals: the automotive industry in twentieth–century Australia James C. Riley, Rising life expectancy: a global history Peter N. Stearns, Consumerism in world history: the global transformation of desire Angela Redish, Bimetallism: an economic and historical analysis Ted Wilson, Battles for the standard: bimetallism and the spread of the gold standard in the nineteenth century Howard Temperley, (ed.), After slavery: emancipation and its discontents Chris Wrigley, (ed.), The First World War and the international economy Andrew Britton, Monetary regimes of the twentieth century     

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

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Books reviewed: Great Britain and Ireland Joseph P. Huffman, Family, commerce and religion in London and Cologne Ray Lock, ed., The court rolls of Walsham le Willows Bryan Waites, Monasteries and landscape in north east England Jenny Kermode, Medieval merchants Christopher W. Brooks, Lawyers, litigation and English society since 1450 Craig Muldrew, The economy of obligation J.R. Dickinson, The lordship of Man under the Stanleys Charles W.J. Withers, Urban highlanders Jörg Vögele, Urban mortality change in England and Germany Hugh Driver, The birth of military aviation David J. Jeremy, A business history of Britain Jean-Pierre Dormois & Michael Dintenfass, eds., The British industrial decline Rex Pope, The British economy since 1914 General Alan R.H. Baker, Fraternity among the French peasantry Tom Scott, Regional identity and economic change Dieter Schott, ed., Energie und Stadt in Europa Michael Richards, A time of silence Paolo Squatriti, Water and society in early medieval Italy Philip Jones, The Italian city-state Anthony L. Cardoza, Aristocrats in bourgeois Italy J.K.J. Thomson, Decline in history Mikulá? Teich, ed., Bohemia in history Hiroaki Kuromiya, Freedom and terror in the Donbas R.W. Davies, Soviet economic development from Lenin to Khrushchev Michael Ellman & Vladimir Kontorovich, eds., The destruction of the Soviet economic system Tom Scott, ed., The peasantries of Europe Deborah Simonton, A history of European women’s work John Killick, The United States and European reconstruction Marilyn C. Baseler, ‘Asylum for mankind’ Cathy Matson, Merchants and empire Margaret Ellen Newell, From dependence to independence Richard Buel, Jr., In irons: Britain’s naval supremacy and the American revolutionary economy Mark M. Smith, Debating slavery Alan Derickson, Black lung: anatomy of a public health disaster Paul A.C. Koistinen, Planning war, pursuing peace Thomas Dublin, When the mines closed Jacob Metzer, The divided economy of Mandatory Palestine Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Imperial power and popular politics J.Y. Wong, Deadly dreams: opium and the ‘Arrow’ war (1856–1860) in China John Lie, Han unbound: the political economy of South Korea Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui, ed., Textiles: production, trade and demand David Thomas, Len Holden, & Tim Claydon, eds., The motor car and popular culture in the 20th century Lanthier & Hubert Watelet, eds., Private enterprise during economic crises/L’entreprise privée en période de crise économique Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, & Peter Temin, eds., Learning by doing in markets, firms and countries     

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

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

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Robert M. Townsend, The medieval village economy: a study of the Pareto mapping in general equilibrium models K. Schürer and T. Arkell, eds., Surveying the people P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins, British imperialism: innovation and expansion, 1688-1914 J. M. Neeson, Commoners: common right, enclosure and social change in England, 1700-1820 Theo Barker and Dorian Gerhold, The rise and rise of road transport, 1700-1990 Thomas Sokoll, Household and family among the poor: the case of two Essex communities in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Alon Kadish and Keith Tribe, eds., The market for political economy: the advent of economics in British university culture, 1850-1905 Michael Havinden and David Meredith, Colonialism and development: Britain and its tropical colonies, 1850-1960 Joanna Bourke, Husbandry to housewifery: women, economic change and housework in Ireland, 1890-1914 John Chartres and Katrina Honeyman, eds., Leeds city business, 1893-1993: essays marking the centenary of the incorporation Rosemary O'Day and David Englander, Mr Charles Booth's Inquiry: life and labour of the people in London reconsidered Gwynne Lewis, The advent of modern capitalism in France, 1770-1840: the contribution of Pierre-Francois Tubeuf Franois Crouzet, ed., The economic development of France since 1870 Charles E. Freedeman, The triumph of corporate capitalism in France, 1867-1914 J. L. van Zanden, The rise and decline of Holland's economy: merchant capitalism and the labour market Jonathan Osmond, Rural protest in the Weimar Republic: the Free Peasantry in the Rhineland and Bavaria Timothy W. Mason (edited by Jane Caplan, with a general introduction by Ursula Vogel), Social policy in the Third Reich: the working class and the‘national community’ Vera Zamagni, The economic history of Italy, 1860-1990: recovery after decline Leonardo Benevolo, The European city Andrew Miles and David Vincent, eds., Building European society: occupational change and social mobility in Europe, 1840-1940 Walter Nugent, Crossings: the great transatlantic migrations, 1870-1914 B. R. Tomlinson, The economy of modern India, 1860-1970 Shigeto Tsuru, Japan's capitalism: creative defeat and beyond Jordan Goodman, Tobacco in history: the cultures of dependence William Chester Jordan, Women and credit in pre-industrial and developing societies J.W.R. Whitehand and P.J. Larkham, eds., Urban landscapes: international perspectives Jean-Claude Chesnais, translated by Elizabeth Kreager and Philip Kreager, The demographic transition: stages, patterns and economic implications: a longitudinal study of 67 countries covering the period 1720-1984 James W. Cortada, Before the computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the industry they created, 1865-1956 Michael Bordo, ed., Financial crises J. Benson and G. Shaw, eds., The evolution of retail systems, c.1800-1914 A. W. Coats, On the history of economic thought, I: British and American essays Anne Digby, Charles Feinstein, and David Jenkins, eds., New directions in economic and social history John Brewer and Roy Porter, eds., Consumption and the world of goods Ben Fine and Ellen Leopold, The world of consumption Peter N. Stearns, The industrial revolution in world history M. D. Bordo and F. Capie, eds., Monetary regimes in transition     

BOOK REVIEWS

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

Book Reviews

Great Britain and Ireland Bruce M. S. Campbell, English seigniorial agriculture Angus J. L.Winchester, The harvest of the hills: rural life in northern England and the Scottish borders Keith Wrightson, Earthly necessities: economic lives in early modern Britain Michael Zell, ed., Early modern Kent, 1540–1640 Peter Clark, ed., The Cambridge urban history of Britain, II: 1540–1840 Tim Meldrum, Domestic service and gender, 1660–1750: life and work in the London household Julian Hoppit, A land of liberty? England, 1689–1727 Jon Stobart and Alastair Owens, eds., Urban fortunes: property and inheritance in the town, 1700–1900 Hilary Young, English porcelain, 1745–95: its makers, design, marketing and consumption Joan Lane, A social history of medicine: health, healing and disease in England, 1750–1950 Irene Maver, Glasgow David Brooke, ed., The diary of William Mackenzie: the first international railway contractor Matthew Hilton, Smoking in British popular culture, 1800–2000 Donald M. MacRaild and David E. Martin, Labour in British society, 1830–1914 Eric Hopkins, Industrialisation and society: a social history, 1830–1951 R. L. Greenhall, The making of Victorian Salford E. J. T. Collins, ed., The agrarian history of England and Wales, VII: 1850–1914 Royden J. Harrison, The life and times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858–1905: the formative years Anne Hardy, Health and medicine in Britain since 1860 Michael Moss, J. Forbes Munro, and Richard H. Trainor, University, city and state: the University of Glasgow since 1870 General David J. Mattingly and John Salmon, eds., Economies beyond agriculture in the classical world R. I. Moore, The first European revolution, c. 970–1215 Sandra Cavallo and Lyndan Warner, eds., Widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe Ross B. Emmett, ed., Great bubbles: reactions to the South Sea Bubble, the Mississippi scheme and the tulip mania affair B. W. De Vries, Of mettle and metal: from court Jews to world‐wide industrialists Thomas Thorburn, The economics of transport: the Swedish case, 1780–1980 Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel, eds., A population history of North America David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson, and Herbert S. Klein, eds., The trans‐Atlantic slave trade: a database on CD‐Rom Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, eds., The Cambridge economic history of the United States, II: the long nineteenth century Russell Johnston, Selling themselves: the emergence of Canadian advertising Amiya Kumar Bagchi, ed., Economy and organization: Indian institutions under the neoliberal regime Robert Bickers and Christian Henriot, eds., New frontiers: imperialism's new communities in east Asia, 1842–1953 Carl Mosk, Japanese industrial history: technology, urbanization, and economic growth Mikio Sumiya, ed., A history of Japanese trade and industry policy David R. Meyer, Hong Kong as a global metropolis Silvia Marzagalli and Hubert Bonin, eds., Négoce, ports et océans, XVIe–XXe siècles: mélanges offerts à Paul Butel Pier Angelo Toninelli, ed., The rise and fall of state‐owned enterprise in the western world Rosa‐Maria Gelpi and François Julien‐Labruyère, The history of consumer credit doctrines and practices David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee, Paying with plastic: the digital revolution in buying and borrowing Israel M. Kirzner, The driving force of the market: essays in Austrian economics     

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Judith A. Green, The aristocracy of Norman England Martha Carlin, ed., London and Southwark inventories Dagmar Freist, Governed by opinion Peter Searby, A history of the University of Cambridge, III Christopher W. Brooks and Michael Lobban, eds., Communities and courts in Britain Jack Simmons and Gordon Biddle, eds., The Oxford companion to British railway History Roger Lloyd-Jones and M. J. Lewis, British industrial capitalism since the industrial Revolution Frank Neal, Black ’47 J. N. Bartlett, Davidsons of Mugiemoss Iorwerth Prothero, Radical artisans in England and France John Newlands, Put not your trust in money Claudia Nelson and Ann Sumner Holmes, eds., Maternal instincts Richard Anthony, Herds and hinds Bernard Harris, The health of the schoolchild Tom Buchanan, Britain and the Spanish Civil War Sebastian Ritchie, Industry and air power Allan Ormerod, An industrial odyssey Martin Chick, Industrial policy in Britain Jean-Pierre Gross, Fair shares for all Frances M. B. Lynch, France and the international economy Marjolein ’t Hart, Joost Jonker, and Jan Luiten van Zanden, eds., A financial history of the Netherlands Michele Fratianni and Franco Spinelli, eds., A monetary history of Italy Carla Rahn Phillips and William D. Phillips Jr., Spain’s golden fleece Sidney Pollard, Marginal Europe John Horne, ed., State, society and mobilization in Europe during the First World War Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Galman, and Karin Gleiter, In pursuit of Leviathan Paul A. C. Koistinen, Mobilizing for modern war Hal S. Barron, Mixed harvest J. Gregory Sidak, Foreign investment in American telecommunications Sanford M. Jacoby, Modern manors Michael French, US economic history since 1945 Nicholas Spulber, The American economy Stephen Haber, ed., How Latin America fell behind L. J. Butler, Industrialisation and the British colonial state Holden Furber, Private fortunes and company profits in the India trade in the 18^th Century Vera Mackie, Creating socialist women in Japan Hugh Cunningham and Pier Paolo Viazzo, eds., Child labour in historical perspective Dietmar Rothermund, The global impact of the great depression Sidney Pollard, The international economy since 1945 D. Lal and H. Myint, The political economy of poverty, equity and growth James P. Henderson, ed., The state of the history of economics Johnston Birchall, The international co-operative movement     

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Book reviewed in this article: Margaret Bonney, Lordship and the urban community: Durham and its overlords, 1250-1540 Peter Borsay, The English urban renaissance: culture and society in the English provincial town, 1660-1770 Rosalind Mitchison and Leah Leneman, Sexuality and social control: Scotland, 1660-1780 J.E. Burnett and A.D. Morrison-Low, ‘Vulgar and Mechanick’: the scientific instrument trade in Ireland, 1650-1921 T. M. Devine, ed., Conflict and stability in Scottish society. Proceedings of the Scottish Historical Studies Seminar. University of Strathclyde, 1988-89 J. V. Beckett, The agricultural revolution Clive Behagg, Politics and production in the early nineteenth century Gregory Claeys, Citizens and saints: politics and anti-politics in early British socialism D. Gareth Evans, A history of Wales, 1815-1906 J.J. Van Helten and Y. Cassis, eds., Capitalism in a mature economy: financial institutions, capital exports and British industry, 1870-1939 W.R. Garside, British unemployment, 1919-1939: a study in public policy Richard Rodger, ed., Scottish housing in the twentieth century Peter Burnham, The political economy of postwar reconstruction Keith Middlemas, Power, competition and the state, 2: threats to the postwar settlement: Britain, 1961-1974 Max Munday, Japanese manufacturing investment in Wales David Herlihy, Opera muliebria: women and work in medieval Europe Herman Lebovics, The alliance of iron and wheat in the Third French Republic, 1860-1914: origins of the new conservatism Paul Weindling, Health, race and German politics between national unification and Nazism, 1870-1945 Hans-Joachim Braun, The German economy in the twentieth century: the German Reich and the Federal Republic Ian D. Turner, ed., Reconstruction in post-war Germany: British occupation policy and the western zones, 1945-1955 B.W. de Vries, From pedlars to textile barons: the economic development of a Jewish minority group in the Netherlands Richard C. Hoffmann, Land, liberties and lordship in a late medieval countryside: agrarian structures and change in the duchy of Wrocclaw David A. Dyker, Yugoslavia: socialism, development and debt Ben Eklof and Stephen P. Frank, eds., The world of the Russian peasant: post-emancipation culture and society Peter Scholliers, ed., Real wages in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe Wayne Thorpe, ‘The workers themselves’: revolutionary syndicalism and international labour, 1913-1923 Stephen A. Marglin and Juliet B. Schor, eds., The golden age of capitalism: reinterpreting the postwar experience Lee Soltow, Distribution of wealth and income in the United States in 1798 Michael Tadman, Speculators and slaves: masters, traders, and slaves in the Old South Don H. Doyle, New men, new cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910 Stephen Salter and John Stevenson, eds., The working class and politics in Europe and America, 1929-1945 Iwan W. Morgan, Eisenhower versus ‘the spenders’: the Eisenhower administration, the Democrats and the budget, 1953-60 Paul Gootenburg, Between silver and guano: Commercial policy and the state in post-independence Peru John Higginson, A working class in the making: Belgian colonial labor policy, private enterprise, and the African mineworker, 1907-1951 Frank Broeze, ed., Brides of the sea: port cities of Asia from the sixteenth-twentieth centuries Anand Chandavarkar, Keynes in India: a study in economics and biography Marie-Claire Bergère, The golden age of the Chinese bourgeoisie, 1911-1937 trans. Janet Lloyd David Faure, The rural economy of pre-liberation China: trade increase and peasant livelihood in Jiangsu and Guangdong, 1870 to 1937 Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, ed., Interactions in the world economy: perspectives from international economic history M. June Flanders, International monetary economics, 1870-1960 Evsey D. Domar, Capitalism, socialism and serfdom C.P. Kindleberger, Economic laws and economic history David C. Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg, Technology and the pursuit of economic growth     

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Book reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND David Parsons, ed., Stone: quarrying and building in England, AD 43-1525 Christopher Dyer, Hanbury: settlement and society in a woodland landscape Michael MacDonald and Terence R. Murphy, Sleepless souls: suicide in early modern England Paul Slack, The English poor law, 1531-1782 Mick Reed and Roger Wells, eds., Class, conflict and protest in the English countryside, 1700-1880 G. R. Boyer, An economic history of the English poor law, 1750-1850 G. E. Mingay, A social history of the English countryside A. F. J. Brown, Meagre harvest: the Essex farm workers' struggle against poverty, 1751-1914 Philippe Chalmin, The making of a sugar giant: Tate £ Lyle, 1859-1989 John D. Hey and Donald N. Winch, eds., A century of economics: 100 years of the Royal Economic Society and the‘Economic journal’ Michael Kitson and Solomos Solomou, Protectionism and economic revival: the British interwar economy John Hendry, Innovating for failure: government policy and the early British computer industry GENERAL Elizabeth Armstrong, Before copyright: the French book-privilege system, 1498-1526 Margaret H. Darrow, Revolution in the house: family, class, and inheritance in southern France, 1775-1825 John E. Knodel, Demographic behaviour in the past: a study of 14 German village populations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Peter J. Lyth, Inflation and the merchant economy: the Hamburg Mittelstand, 1914-1924 Herbert F. Ziegler, Nazi Germany's new aristocracy: the SS leadership, 1925-1939 Italia Judaica: gli Ebrei in Italia dalla segregazione alla prima emancipazione Alice Teichova, The Czechoslovak economy, 1918-1980 Penelope J. Corfield and Derek Keene, eds., Work in towns, 850-1850 Simon P. Ville, Transport and the development of the European economy, 1750-1918 Pamela M. Pilbeam, The middle classes in Europe, 1789-1914: France, Germany, Italy and Russia Peter Baldwin, The politics of social solidarity: class bases of the European welfare state, 1875-1975 J. Matthew Gallman, Mastering wartime: a social history of Philadelphia during the Civil War Lyman J. Johnson and Enrique Tandeter, eds, Essays on the price history of eighteenth-century Latin America     

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

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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