Book Reviews

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     

Book reviews

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

BOOK REVIEWS

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

Reviews

Gervase Rosser, Medieval Westminster, 1200-1540 Michael Aston, David Austin, and Christopher Dyer, eds., The rural settlements of medieval England Mark Bailey, A marginal economy? Peter Earle, The making of the English middle class Christine MacLeod, Inventing the industrial revolution C.W. Chalklin and J.R. Wordie, eds., Town and countryside G.E. Mingay, ed., The agrarian history of England and Wales, vi, 1750-1850 R.A. Buchanan, The engineers Charles More, The industrial age T.M. Devine and Rosalind Mitchison, eds., People and society in Scotland, I, 7760-1830 Anne Digby, British welfare policy Patrick Brantlinger, ed., Energy and entropy John Benson, The working class in Britain, 1850-1939 Patricia Hollis, Ladies elect A.M. McBriar, An Edwardian mixed doubles. The Bosanquets versus the Webbs A.D.M. Phillips, The underdrawing of farmland in England during the nineteenth century Charles F. Harvey and Jon Press, eds., Studies in the business history of Bristol S. Fisher, ed., Innovations in shipping and trade Laurie Dennett, Slaughter and May Penny Summerfield, Women workers in the Second World War David Thorns, War, industry and society Alec Cairncross, ed., The Robert Hall diaries, 1947-1953 Henry Pelling, Britain and the Marshall Plan John Walter and Roger Schofield Jonathan I. Israel, Dutch primacy in world trade, 1585-1740 Herbert Kisch, From domestic nwnufacture to industrial revolution Richard Lawton, ed., The rise and fall of great cities Ian Blanchard, Russia's age of silver Orlando Figes, Peasant Russia, civil war William M. Mathew, Edmund Ruffin and the crisis of slavery in the old south Harvey A. Levenstein, Revolution at the table Mira Wilkins, The history of foreign investment in the United States to 1914 Gary Gerstle, Working-class Americanism Erick D. Langer, Economic change and rural resistance in southern Bolivia, 1880-1930 Colin Newbury, The diamond ring T. Dyson, ed., India's historical demography     

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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:
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     

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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     

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)     

Reviews

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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book reviews in this articles Janet Cooper, ed., A history of the county of Essex, IX: the borough of Colchester John Walmsley, ed., Charters and custumals of the abbey of Holy Trinity Caen, 2 Donald Woodward, Men at work: labourers and building craftsmen in the towns of northern England, 1450-1750 J. Goodacre, The transformation of a peasant economy: townspeople and villagers in the Lutterworth area, 1500-1700 Richard Roberts and David Kynaston, eds., The Bunk of England: money, power and influence, 1694-1994 Dror Wahrman, Imagining the middle class: the political representation of class in Britain, c.1780-1840 John Burnett, Idle hands: the experience of unemployment, 1790-1990 Charlotte Erickson, Leaving England: essays on British emigration in the nineteenth century M. H. Port, Imperial London: civil government building in London, 1851-1915 Jane Lewis, The voluntary sector, the state and social work in Britain Helen Jones, Health and society in twentieth-century Britain (London and New York) Helen Mercer, Constructing a competitive order: the hidden history of British antitrust policies Anthony J. Nicholls, Freedom with responsibility: the social market economy in Germany, 1918-1963 Anthony J. Nicholls, Freedom with responsibility: the social market economy in Germany, 1918-1963 Anthony J. Nicholls, Freedom with responsibility: the social market economy in Germany, 1918-1963 Niek Koenig, The failure of agrarian capitalism: agrarian politics in the United Kingdom, Germany Halil Inalcik and Donald Quataert, eds., An economic and social history of the Ottoman empire, 1300-1914 D. K. Fieldhouse, Merchant capital and economic decolonization: the United Africa Company, 1929-1989 Gene Smiley, The American economy in the twentieth century A. J. H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu, eds., Japanese industrialization and the Asian economy Toshito Suzuki, Japanese government loan issues on the London capital market, 1870-1913 Richard H. Grove, Green imperialism: colonial expansion, tropical island Edens and the origins of environmentalism, 1600-1860 Forrest Capie, Charles Goodhart, Stanley Fischer, and Norbert Schnadt, The future of central banking: the tercentenary symposium of the Bank of England Roy Porter and Mikulá? Teich, eds., Drugs and narcotics in history     

BOOK REVIEWS

Bruce M. S. Campbell, James A. Galloway, Derek Keene, and Margaret Murphy, A medieval capital and its grain supply: agrarian production and distribution in the London region Jonathan Barry and Christopher Brooks, The middling sort of people: culture, society and politics in England, 1550-1800 James Horn, Adapting to a New World: English society in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake Adrian Wilson, ed., Rethinking social history: English society, 1570-1920, and its interpretation Richard Grassby, The English gentleman in trade: the life and works of Sir Dudley North, 1641-1691 Forrest H. Capie, ed., History of banking F. M. L. Thompson, ed., Landowners, capitalists, and entrepreneurs: essays for Sir John Habakkuk Nancy F. Koehn, The power of commerce: economy and governance in the first British empire Robert Fitzgerald, Rowntree and the marketing revolution, 1862-1969 Humphrey Southall, David Gilbert, and Carol Bryce, Nineteenth-century trade union records: an introduction and select guide John K. Walton, Fish and chips and the British working class, 1870-1940 John Benson, The rise of consumer society in Britain, 1880-1980 Jim Tomlinson, Government and the enterprise since 1900 Edwin S. Hunt, The medieval super-companies: a study of the Peruzzi company of Florence Liana Vardi, The land and the loom: peasants and profit in northern France, 1680-1800 J. Henderson and R. Walls, eds., Poor women and children in the European past D. Aldcroft and S. Ville, eds., The European economy, 1750-1914: a thematic approach Rosemary O'Day, The family and family relationships, 1500-1900: England, France and the United States of America Stephen A. Frank and Mark D. Steinberg, eds., Cultures in flux: lower-class values, practices, and resistance in late imperial Russia Daniel Vickers, Farmers and fishermen: two centuries of work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 Colin Gordon, New Deals: business, labor and politics in America, 1920-1935 Sally Clarke, Regulation and the revolution in United States farm productivity Neville A. T. Hall, Slave society in the Danish West Indies Eugene Ridings, Business interest groups in nineteenth-century Brazil Seiichiro Yonekura, The Japanese iron and steel industry, 1850-1990: continuity and discontinuity R. H. Parker and B. S. Yamey, Accounting history: some British contributions John Komlos, ed., Stature, living standards, and economic development: essays in anthropometric history Eric Helleiner, States and the re-emergence of global finance: from Bretton Woods to the 1990s G. Grantham and M. MacKinnon, eds., Labour market evolution: the economic history of market integration, wage flexibility and the employment relation     

Reviews

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: 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     

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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     

Book ReviewsGreat Britain and Ireland/ General

Webb, John, ed. The town finances of Elizabethan Ipswich: select treasurers’ and chamberlains’ accounts Whyte, Ian D. Scotland’s society and economy in transition, c. 1560–c. 1760 Gray, Todd, ed. Devon household accounts, 1627–59, part I Gray, Todd, ed. Devon household accounts, 1627–59, part II Lemire, Beverly Dress, culture and commerce: the English clothing trade before the factory, 1660–1800 Jacob, W.M. Lay people and religion in the early eighteenth century Cross, Anthony By the banks of the Neva: chapters from the lives and careers of the British in eighteenth-century Russia Turner, Michael, Beckett, J.V. and Afton, Bethanie Agricultural rent in England, 1690–1914 Cohen, Marilyn, ed. The warp of Ulster’s past: interdisciplinary perspectives on the Irish linen industry, 1700–1920 Charlesworth, Andrew, Gilbert, David, Randall, Adrian, Southall, Humphrey, Wrigley, Chris, et al. An atlas of industrial protest in Britain, 1750–1990 Mathias, Peter and Davis, John A. (Eds.) International trade and British economic growth from the eighteenth century to the present day (The nature of industrialization, vol. 5) Trainor, Richard H. Black Country elites: the exercise of authority in an industrialised area, 1830–1900 Fraser, W. Hamish and Maver, Irene, eds. Glasgow, volume II: 1830–1912 Magee, Gary Bryan Productivity and performance in the paper industry: labour, capital and technology in Britain and America, 1860–1914 Davies, Russell Secret sins: sex, violence and society in Carmarthenshire, 1870–1920 Beckett, John, ed. A centenary history of Nottingham Hill, Jeff and Williams, Jack, eds. Sport and identity in the north of England Cairncross, Alec The Wilson years: a Treasury Diary, 1964–1969 Crossley-Holland, Nicole Living and dining in medieval Paris: the household of a fourteenth-century knight Erker, Paul Competition and growth: a contemporary history of the Continental AG Vassberg, David E. The village and the outside world in golden age Castile Clark, Stuart Thinking with demons: the idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe Feinstein, Charles H., Temin, Peter and Toniolo, Gianni The European economy between the wars Crafts, Nicholas and Toniolo, Gianni, eds. Economic growth in Europe since 1945 Cassis, Youssef Big business: the European experience in the twentieth century Teichova, Alice, Kurgen-van Hentenryk, Ginette and Ziegler, Dieter, eds. Banking, trade, and industry: Europe, Asia, and America from the thirteenth to the twentieth century Novak, William The people’s welfare: law and regulation in nineteenth-century America Marchildon, Gregory P. Profits and politics: Beaverbrook and the gilded age of Canadian finance McC.Adams, Robert Paths of fire: an anthropologist’s inquiry into western technology Çizakça, Murat A comparative evolution of business partnerships: the Islamic world and Europe, with specific reference to the Ottoman archives Bayly, C.A. Empire and information: intelligence gathering and social communication in India 1780–1870 Bates, Robert H. Open-economy politics: the political economy of the world coffee trade     

Book Reviews

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

Reviews

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

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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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