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J.C.K. Cornwall, Wealth and society in early sixteenth-century England (London: Routledge, 1988. Pp Richard Lachmann, From manor to market: structural change in England, 1536-1640 (Wisconsin: Wisconsin University Press, 1987. Pp St. Hilda's College, Oxford Lorna Weatherill, Consumer behaviour and material culture in Britain, 1660-1760 (London: Routledge, 1988. Pp E.A. Wrigley, Continuity, chance and change: the character of the industrial revolution in England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp Bielefeld University Malcolm Falkus, Britain transformed: an economic and social history, 1700-1914 (Ormskirk: Causeway Press, 1987. Pp John Rule, ed., British trade unionism, 1750-1850: the formative years (London: Longman, 1988. Pp Nottingham University Kenneth D. Brown, A social history of the nonconformist ministry in England and Wales, 1800-1930 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pp Gregory Claeys, Machinery, money and the millennium: front moral economy to socialism, 1815-60 (Oxford: Polity Press, 1987. Pp Michael Collins, Money and banking in the U.K.: a history (London: Croom Helm, 1988. Pp London School of Economics & Political Science T.M. Devine, The great highland famine (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1988. Pp Roy MacLeod, Government and expertise: specialists, administrators and professionals, 1860-1919 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp Peter Simkins, Kitchener's army: the raising of the new armies, 1914-1916 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp The Open University Rodney Lowe, Adjusting to democracy: the role of the Ministry of Labour in British politics, 1916-1939 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp Brunei University M.J. Daunton, A property-owning democracy?: housing in Britain (London: Faber & Faber, 1987. Pp Stephen V. Ward, The geography of interwar Britain: the state and uneven development (London: Routledee. 1888. PD. ii + 260.30) Brunei University Dietrich Denecke and Gareth Shaw, eds., Urban historical geography: recent progress in Britain and Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp B.W.E. Alford, British economic performance, 1945-1975 (London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp Malcolm Falkus, Always under pressure: a history of North Thames Gas (London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp     

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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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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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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     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
S. H. Rigby, Medieval Grimsby: growth and decline
Lee Davison, Tim Hitchcock, Tim Keirn, and Robert B. Shoemaker, eds.
L.D. Schwarz, London in the age of industrialization: entrepreneurs, labour force and living standards
Spencer J. Pack, Capitalism as a moral system: Adam Smith's critique of the free market economy (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991. Pp. 199. £35); Patricia H. Werhane
R. D. Anderson, Universities and elites in Britain since 1800
Jutta Schwartzkopf, Women in the Chartist movement
George Robb, White-collar crime in modern England: financial fraud and business morality
David Edgerton, England and the aeroplane: an essay on a militant and technological nation
John Fforde, The Bank of England and public policy, 1941-1958
Colin Heywood, The development of the French economy, 1750-1914
J. K. J. Thomson, A distinctive industrialization: cotton in Barcelona, 1728-1832
Herman Diederiks, Paul Hohenberg, and Michael Wagenaar, eds., Economic policy in Europe since the late middle ages: the visible hand and the fortune of cities
Dudley Baines, Emigration from Europe, 1815-1930
Udo Sautter, Three cheers for the unemployed: government and unemployment before the Nao Deal
Alan K. Smith, Creating a world economy: merchant capital, colonialism and world trade, 1400-1825
Rondo Cameron and V. I. Bovykin, eds., International banking, 1870-1914
Charles Harvey and Geoffrey Jones, eds., Organisational capability and competitive advantage
Barry Eichengreen, Golden fetters. The gold standard and the great depression, 1919-1939
William Lazonick, Business organization and the myth of the market economy
Andrew Tylecote, The long wave in the world economy: the present crisis in historical perspective
Donald A. Walker, ed., Perspectives on the history of economic thought, I: classical and neoclassical economic thought; II: Twentieth century economic thought     

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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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     

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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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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     

REVIEW

Book reviewed in this article:
ANNUAL REVIEW OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORIANS, 1990¹
The historical archive project
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
M.M. Rowe and J.M. Draisey, eds., The receivers'accounts of the city of Exeter, 1304-1353
Anthony Quiney, The traditional buildings of England
P. J. Atkins, The directories of London, 1677-1977
James Stephen Taylor, Poverty, migration, and settlement in the industrial revolution: sojourner's narratives
Douglas Hay and Francis Snyder, eds., Policing and prosecution in Britain, 1750-1850
W. H. Chaloner, Industry and innovation: selected essays , eds. D. A. Farnie and W. O. Henderson
Harry Hendrick, Images of youth: age, class and the male youth problem, 1880-1920
Michael Bonavia, London before I forget
Peter Mathias and Sidney Pollard, eds., The Cambridge economic history of Europe , VIII. The industrial economies: the development of economic and social policies
Florin Aftalion, The French Revolution: an economic interpretation
Ross Thomson, The path to mechanized shoe production in the United States
Thomas G. Fuechtmann, Steeples and stacks: religion and steel crisis in Youngstown
Dianne Newell, ed., The development of the Pacific salmon-canning industry: a grown man's game
Jill Crystal, Oil and politics in the Gulf: rulers and merchants in Kuwait and Qatar
Angus Maddison, The world economy in the twentieth century
Gilbert Ziebura, World economy and world politics, 1924-1931
J.R. Raeburn and J.O. Jones, The history of the International Association of Agricultural Economists: towards rural welfare worldwide
John F. Henry, The making of neoclassical economics
Mary S. Morgan, The history of econometric ideas
Moses Abramovitz, ' Thinking about growth'and other essays on growth and welfare     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Andrew Hinde, England's population
S. H. Rigby (ed.), A companion to Britain in the later middle ages
Michael Snodin and John Styles, Design and the decorative arts
Alexandra Shepard, Meanings of manhood in early modern England
Steven King and Alannah Tomkins (eds.), The poor in England, 1700-1850
Peter Kirby, Child labour in Britain, 1750-1870
John F. Wilson and Andrew Popp (eds.), Industrial clusters and regional business networks in England, 1750-1970
R. S. Craig, R. Protheroe Jones and M. V. Symons, The industrial and maritime history of Llanelli and Burry Port, 1750-2000
A. K. B. Evans and J. V. Gough (eds.), The impact of the railway on society in Britain
Lesley Richmond, Julie Stevenson and Alison Turner (eds.), The pharmaceutical industry
Ian Gazeley, Poverty in Britain, 1900-1965
Richard Toye, The Labour Party and the planned economy, 1931-51
Jonathan Hollowell (ed.), Britain since 1945
Vanessa Harding, The dead and the living in Paris and London, 1500-1670
R. W. Davies et al (eds.), The Stalin-Kaganovich correspondence, 1931-36
Michael G. Morony (ed.), Production and the exploitation of resources
Michael G. Morony (ed.), Manufacturing and labour
John Belshaw, Colonization and community
Lizabeth Cohen, A consumers' republic
Deborah Fitzgerald, Every farm a factory
Diane J. Macunovich, Birth quake
W. W. Rostow, Concept and controversy
Mario Baldassarri and Pierluigi Ciocca (eds.), Roots of the Italian school of economics and finance     

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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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Book reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Emilie Amt, The accession of Henry II in England: royal government restored, 1149-1159 William Hassall and Jacques Beauroy, eds., Lordship and landscape in Norfolk, 1250-1350: the early records of Holkham Barbara A. Hanawalt, Growing up in medieval London: the experience of childhood in history Eileen Spring, Law, land, and family: aristocratic inheritance in England, 1300-1800 Michael Zell, Industry in the countryside: Wealden society in the sixteenth century Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos, Adolescence and youth in early modern England Helen M. Dingwall, Late seventeenth-century Edinburgh: a demographic study T. M. Devine, The transformation of rural Scotland: social change and the agrarian economy, 1660-1815 John Landers, Death and the metropolis: studies in the demographic history of London, 1670-1870 T. R. Gourvish and R. G. Wilson, The British brewing industry, 1830-1980 Donald E. Jordan, Jr., Land and popular politics in Ireland: County Mayo from the plantation to the land war Andrew Davies and Steven Fielding, eds., Workers’worlds: cultures and communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880-1939 Peter Razzell, Essays in English population history Paul Johnson, ed., Twentieth-century Britain: economic, social and cultural change Michael Sanderson, The missing stratum: technical school education in England, 1900-1990s J. H. Bamberg, The history of the British Petroleum Company, 2 GENERAL Susan Pedersen, Family, dependence, and the origins of the welfare state R. J. Overy, War and economy in the Third Reich Olivia Remie Constable, Trade and traders in Muslim Spain: the commercial realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1500 John Henderson, Piety and charity in late medieval Florence Philip T. Hoffman and Kathryn Norberg, eds., Fiscal crises, liberty, and representative government, 1450-1789 Jonathan Barry and Colin Jones, eds., Medicine and charity before the welfare state Paul R. Gregory, An economic history of Russia from emancipation to the first five-year plan Clive J. Dewey, The settlement literature of the greater Punjab: a handbook R. Chandavarkar, The origins of industrial capitalism in India: business strategies and the working classes in Bombay, 1900-1940 David Pong, Shen Pao-chen and China's modernisation in the nineteenth century Thomas Weiss and Donald Schaefer, eds., American economic development in historical perspective Richard H. K. Vietor, Contrived competition: regulation and deregulation in America Rondo Cameron, Financing industrialization Cliff Pratten, The stock market Catherine Geissler and Derek Oddy, eds., Food, diet and economic change past and present Graeme D. Snooks, Economics without time: a science blind to the forces of historical change Graeme D. Snooks, ed., Historical analysis in economics Bernard Semmel, The liberal ideal and the demons of empire: theories of imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin Nathan Rosenberg, Exploring the black box: technology, economics, and history     

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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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REVIEW OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY, 1988
R.H. Britnell, Growth and decline in Colchester, 1300-1525
J.G. Bellamy, Bastard feudalism and the law
Christopher Dyer, Standards of living in the later middle ages: social change in England c.1200-1520
R.A. Houston and I.D. Whyte, eds., Scottish society, 1500-1800
D.W. Jones, War and economy in the age of William in and Marlborough
John Brewer, The sinews of power: war, money and the English state, 1688-1783
Rex Pope, ed., Atlas of British social and economic history since c.1700
R.S. Fitton, The Arkwrights, spinners of fortune
Charles W. Munn, Clydesdale Bank, the first 150 years
Daniel R. Headrick, The tentacles of progress: technology transfer in the age of imperialism, 1850-1940
Lucio Sponza, Italian immigrants in nineteenth-century Britain: realities and images
Nicholas Fishwick, English football and society, 1910-1950
P.E. Dewey, British agriculture in the First World War
Richard Wall and Jay Winter, eds., The upheaval of war: family, work and welfare, 1914-1918
Chris Nyland, Reduced worktime and the management of production
Andrew Fenton Cooper, British agricultural policy, 1912-36: a study in Conservative politics
Kathleen Burk, The first privatization: the politicians, the City and the denationalization of steel     

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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     

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

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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     

Book Reviews

Great Britain and Ireland Lesley Abrams, Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury church and endowment Alan Crossley, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: Oxford, XIII: Bampton hundred (part one) including the market town of Bampton Zvi Razi and Richard Smith, eds., Medieval society and the manor court J. M. Fletcher and C. A. Upton, eds., The domestic accounts of Merton College, Oxford, 1 August 1482-1 August 1494 Michael J. Braddick, The nerves of the state: taxation and the financing of the English state, 1558-1714 Bruce G. Carruthers, City of capital: politics and markets in the English financial revolution R. B. Outhwaite, Clandestine marriage in England, 1500-1850 Sybil M. Jack, Towns in Tudor and Stuart Britain H. V. Bowen, Elites, enterprise and the making of the British overseas empire, 1688-1775 M. Dresser and P. Ollerenshaw, eds., The making of modern Bristol Negley Harte and Roland Quinault, eds., Land and society in Britain, 1700-1914: essays in honour of F. M. L. Thompson Herbert H. Kaplan, Russian overseas commerce with Great Britain during the reign of Catherine II Mark Jackson, New-born child murder: women, illegitimacy and the courts in eighteenth-century England M. R. Watts, The dissenters, Roger J. P. Kain and Richard R. Oliver, The tithe maps of England and Wales: a cartographic analysis and county-by-county catalogue Michael Huberman, Escape from the market: negotiating work in Lancashire Anna Davin, Growing up poor: home, school and street in London, 1870-1914 David Edgerton, Science, technology and the British industrial `decline', 1870-1970 Lara Marks, Metropolitan maternity: maternal and infant welfare services in early twentieth century London Jim Tomlinson, Democratic socialism and economic policy: the Attlee years, 1945-1951 Alan S. Milward and George Brennan, Britain's place in the world: a historical enquiry into import controls, 1945-1960 David W. Gutzke, Alcohol in the British Isles from Roman times to 1996: an annotated bibliography General Joel F. Harrington, Reordering marriage and society in Reformation Germany R. Po-chia Hsia and Hartmut Lehmann, eds., In and out of the ghetto: Jewish-Gentile relations in late medieval and early modern Germany N. Morley, Metropolis and hinterland: the city of Rome and the Italian economy, 200 B.C.-A.D. 200 Maria Malatesta, ed., Society and the professions in Italy, 1860-1914 J.-M. Duvosquel and E. Thoen, eds., Peasants and townsmen in medieval Europe: studies in honorem Adriaan Verhulst William Chester Gordon, The great famine: northern Europe in the early fourteenth century James Hughes, Stalinism in a Russian province: a study of collectivization and dekulakization in Siberia Mark Harrison, Accounting for war: Soviet production, employment and the defence burden, 1940-1945 Mauro Ambrosoli, trans. Mary McCann Salvatorelli, The wild and the sown: botany and agriculture in western Europe, 1350-1850 Andreas Kunz and John Armstrong, eds., Inland navigation and economic development in nineteenth-century Europe Lee A. Craig and Douglas Fisher, The integration of the European economy, 1850-1913 Joseph Melling and Alan McKinlay, eds., Management, labour and industrial politics in modern Europe: the quest for productivity growth during the twentieth century Jon Lunn, Capital and labour on the Rhodesian railway system, 1888-1947 Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, eds., The Cambridge economic history of the United States Paul A. C. Koistinen, Beating plowshares into swords: the political economy of American warfare, 1606-1865 Christopher J. Casteneda and Clarence M. Smith, Gas pipelines and the emergence of America's regulatory state William J. Barber, Designs within disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the economists and the shaping of American economic policy, 1933-1945 Mikulas Teich and Roy Porter, eds., The industrial revolution in national context: Europe and the USA Roderick A. McDonald, ed., West Indies accounts: essays on the history of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic economy in honour of Richard Sheridan Kenneth J. Andrien, The kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830: the state and regional economic development Thomas F. O'Brien, The revolutionary mission: American enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945 T. Roy, ed., Cloth and commerce: textiles in colonial India Pierre van der Eng, Agricultural growth in Indonesia: productivity change and policy impact since 1880 J. Th. Lindblad, ed., Historical foundations of a national economy in Indonesia, 1890s-1990s Peter Duus, R. H. Myers, and M. R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese wartime empire, 1931-1945 Peter Liberman, Does conquest pay? The exploitation of occupied industrial societies Dennis O. Flynn, World silver and monetary history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries T. Bayoumi, B. Eichengreen, and M. P. Taylor, eds., Modern perspectives on the gold standard Harold James, International monetary cooperation since Bretton Woods Martin Fase, Gerald Feldman, and Manfred Pohl, eds., How to write the history of a bank Brenda J. Buchanan, ed., Gunpowder: the history of an international technology René Leboutte, ed., Proto-industrialisation: recherches récentes et nouvelles perspectives. Mélanges en souvenir de Franklin Mendels / Proto-industrialization: recent research and new perspectives. In memory of Franklin Mendels Ralph Shlomowitz with Lance Brennan and John McDonald. Mortality and migration in the western world Andrew Godley and Oliver M. Westall, eds., Business history and business culture Johan Goudsblom, Eric Jones, and Stephen Mennell, The course of human history: economic growth, social process and civilization Daniel Miller, ed., Acknowledging consumption Terry Brotherstone and Geoff Pilling, eds., History, economic history and the future of marxism: essays in memory of Tom Kemp (1921-1993)     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Nigel Yates and James M. Gibson, eds., Traffic and politics: the construction and management of Rochester Bridge, A.D. 43-1993 Maryanne Kowaleski, ed., The local customs accounts of the port of Exeter, 1266-1321 Caroline M. Barron and Anne F. Sutton, eds., Medieval London widows, 1300-1500 Christopher Dyer, Everyday life in medieval England Robert C. Allen, Enclosure and the yeoman: the agricultural development of the south midlands, 1450-1850 A. J. S. Gibson and T. C. Smout, Prices, food and wages in Scotland, 1550-1780 John Habakkuk, Marriage, debt and the estates system: English landownership, 1650-1950 R. A. Houston, Social change in the age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh, 1660-1760 Lawrence Stone, ed., An imperial state at war: Britain from 1689 to 1815 John Beckett, The rise and fall of the Grenvilles, Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, 1710 to 1921 Pamela Horn, Children's work and welfare, 1780-1880 Maurice W. Kirby and Mary B. Rose, eds., Business enterprise in modern Britain: from the eighteenth to the twentieth century Eric Hopkins, Childhood transformed: working-class children in nineteenth-century England John Rule and Robert Malcolmson, eds., Protest and survival: the historical experience. Essays for E. P. Thompson David Feldman, Englishmen and Jews: social relations and political culture, 1840-1914 Roy Church, The rise and decline of the British motor industry B. W. E. Alford, Rodney Lowe, and Neil Rollings, Economic planning, 1943-1951: a guide to documents in the Public Record Office James Foreman-Peck and Robert Millward, Public and private ownership of British industry Catherine R. Schenk, Britain and the sterling area: from devaluation to convertibility in the 1950s Nicholas Canny, ed., Europeans on the move: studies on European migration, 1500-1800 Jeffrey M. Diefendorf, Axel Frohn, and Hermann-Josef Rupieper, eds., American policy and the reconstruction of West Germany, 1945-1955 David Abulafia, A Mediterranean emporium: the Catalan kingdom of Majorca I. A. A. Thompson and B. Yun Casalilla, eds., The Castilian crisis of the seventeenth century Thomas Dublin, Transforming women's work: New England lives in the industrial revolution Naomi Lamoreaux, Insider lending Stanley Lebergott, Pursuing happiness: American consumers in the twentieth century Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630-1641: the other puritan colony Kenneth J. Andrien and Lyman L. Johnson, eds., The political economy of Spanish America in the age of revolution, 1750-1850 Helen Shapiro, Engines of growth: the state and transnational auto companies in Brazil Eric Jones, Lionel Frost, and Colin White, Coming full circle: an economic history of the Pacific Rim Frank Dobbin, Forging industrial policy: the United States, Britain and France in the railway age Gregory P. Nowell, Mercantile states and the world oil cartel, 1900-1939 Beth A. Simmons, Who adjusts? Domestic sources of foreign economic policy during the interwar years A. W. Coats, The sociology and professionalization of economics, 2: British and American essays