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

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

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

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

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

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W. Prest (ed.). The professions in early modern England. (London, New York and Sydney: Croom Helm. 1987. Pp     

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The Victoria History of the Counties of England. A History of the County of York: East Riding, Vol. HI, ed. by K. J. Allison. (London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research. 1976. Pp The Victoria History of the Counties of England. A History of the County of Stafford, Vol. XVII, ed. by R. W. Greenslade. (London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research. 1976, Pp Nicholas Orme. English Schools in the Middle Ages. (London: Methuen, 1973. Pp Paul Slack (Ed.). Poverty in Early-Stuart Salisbury (Devizes: Wiltshire Record Society, vol. XXXI. 1975. Pp Clive Senior. A Nation of Pirates: English Piracy in its Heyday. (Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 1976. Pp Wray Vamplew. The Turf: A Social and Economic History of Horse Racing. (London: Allen Lane. 1976. Pp Anthony J. Little. Deceleration in the Eighteenth-Century British Economy. (London: Croom Helm. 1976. Pp Richard Gurnham. A History of the Trade Union Movement in the Hosiery and Knitwear Industry, 1776-1976. (Leicester: National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers. 1976. Pp Patricia Branca. Silent Sisterhood: Middle Class Women in the Victorian Home. (London: Croom Helm. 1975. Pp Pamela Horn. The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant. (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, and New York: St Martin's Press. 1975. Pp Robert Q. Gray. The Labour Aristocracy in Victorian Edinburgh. (London: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1976. Pp D. J. Lyon (Comp.). The Denny List. (London: National Maritime Museum. 1976. 4 vols. Ill. 8.) R. J. Overy. William Morris, Viscount Nuffield. (London: Europa Publications. 1976 Pp GENERAL Cosmo Rodewald . Money in the Age of Tiberius. (Manchester: The University Press. 1976. Pp Pierre Bonnassie . La Catalogue du milieu du Xe à la fin du XIe siécle. Croissance et mutations d'une société. (Toulouse: Publications de l'Université de Toulouse—Le Mirail. 1975-6. 2 vols. Fr. frs. 142,00 + 159,00.) Guy Devailly . Le Berry du Xe siècle au milieu du XIIIe. (Paris and The Hague: Mouton. 1973. Pp History of Technology, first annual volume, 1976. Ed. by A. R. Hall and N. Smith. (London: Mansell. 1976. Pp Otto Buusch , Wolfram Fischer , Hans Herzfeld , et al. (Eds.). Industrialisierung und “Europäische Wirtschaft” im 19. Jahrhundert. (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter for Historische Kommission zu Berlin. 1976. Pp W. N. Parker and E. L. Jones (Eds.). European Peasants and their Markets. Essays in Agrarian Economic History. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1975. Pp Sara S. Berry . Cocoa, Custom and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria. (London: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1975. Pp Jordi Nadal and Gabriel Tortella (Eds.). Agricultura, comercio colonial y crecimiento económico en la España contemporánea. Actas del Primer Coloquio de Historia Ecónömica de España. (Barcelona: Ariel. 1974. Pp Jordi Nadal . El Fracaso de la Revolución Industrial en España, 1814-1913. (Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona: Editorial Ariel. 1975. Pp Markos J. Mamalakis . The Growth and Structure of the Chilean Economy: From Independence to Allende. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1976. Pp Bernard Michel . Banques et banquiers en Autriche au début du XX^e siècle. (Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques. 1976. Pp J. D. Gribbin (Ed.). Board of Trade: Survey of International Cartels, 1944 and Survey of Internal Cartels, 1946. (London: Central Library, Dept. of Industry. 1976. 2 vols. Paperback 10 for set of 2.) SCANDINAVIA Arthur Erwin Imhof. Aspekte der Bevölkerungsentwicklung in den nordischen Ländern, 1720-50. Teil I-II. (Bern: Francke Verlag. 1976. Pp Hans Chr. Johansen. Befolkningsudvikling og familiestruktur i det 18. århundrede. (Odense: Odense University Press. 1975. Pp Hans Chr. Johansen (Ed.). Studier i dansk befolkningshistorie, 1750-1890. (Odense: Odense Universitetsforlag. 1976. Pp Lars Herlitz. Jordegedom och ränta. Omfördelningen av jordbrukets merprodukt i Skaraborgs län under frihetstiden. (Meddelanden från Ekonomisk-Historiska Institutionen vid Göteborgs Universitet 31. 1974. Pp Carl -Axel Nilsson and Olle Krantz. Swedish National Product. New Aspects on Methods and Measurement. (University of Lund. 1975. Pp Ragnhild Lundstroum. Alfred Nobel som internasjonell företagare. Den nobelske sprängämnes-industrin 1864-86. (Uppsala: Studies in Economic History 10. 1974. Pp UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Carville V. Earle . The Evolution of a Tidewater Settlement System: All Hallow's Parish, Maryland, 1650-1783. (Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Department of Geography, Research Paper no. 170. 1975. Pp Robert V. Wells . The Population of the British Colonies in America before 1776: A Survey of Census Data. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1975. Pp David C. Klingaman and Richard K. Vedder (Eds.). Essays in Nineteenth Century History: The Old Northwest. (Athens: Ohio University Press. 1975. Pp Howard M. Gitelman . Workingmen of Waltham: Mobility in American Urban Industrial Development, 1850-90. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1974. Pp W. Elliot Brownlee , jun. Progressivism and Economic Growth: The Wisconsin Income Tax, 1911-29. (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. 1975. Pp     

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”THE GEOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC CHANGE“ Martin and Rowthorn (eds), 1986: The Geography of De-industrialisation. London: Macmillan, £30 cloth, £8.95 paper.

Champion, A. G. et al, 1987: Changing Places. London: Edward Arnold, £7.95 paper.

“WHAT FUTURE FOR THE LOCAL STATE?” Simon Duncan and Mark Goodwin, 1988: The Local State and Uneven Development. Cambridge: Polity Press, £8.95 paperback.

“THE 'SEEDS' APPROACH”

(1) All Change: A study of Bus Transportation Planning, Deregulation and Privatisation in seven towns; Consultant Dr P. A. Stanley; March 1987.

(2) After Chernobyl: A safe energy policy for the South East; Consultant Adrian Atkinson; May 1987.

(3) Troubled Waters: Water services in the South East Region; Consultants Dr J. Rees and Dr M. Synott; May 1987.

(4) Jobs Plan Workshop [W.P.2]; Oxford City Council; May 1987.

(5) Opportunities for energy conservation in Brighton and Harlow council housing stock: G. Matthews, S. Hodgkinson and M. Fergusson.

(6) Defence Electronics Conference [W.P.1]; Stevenage DC; November 1987.

(7) British Rail Services in the Southampton Area (W.P.3]; Consultant Helen Dawson; February 1988.

(8) Right Lines?: A study of British Rail Services in the South East; Consultant Helen Dawson; September 1988.

(9) South-South Divide; SEEDS 1987.

All published by SEEDS, The South East Economic Development Strategy.

“INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING — PROCESSES AND POLITICS” Irene Hardill, 1987: The regional implications of the restructuring in the wool textile industry. Aldershot: Gower, £25.

Bo Strath, 1987: The politics of deindustrialisation. The contraction of the West European shipbuilding industry. London: Croom Helm.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed Jeremy Rifkin, The Hydrogen Economy. Cambridge: Polity, 2002. Pp. 294. ISBN: 0 7456 3042 1. Paperback A$57.95.
Reviewed by Dave Feickert
Victoria University of Wellington Charles H. Feinstein, An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii + 302. ISBN‐10: 0521616417/ISBN‐13: 9780521616416. Hardback £45.00. ISBN: 0521616417/ISBN‐13:9780521616416. Paperback £19.99.
Reviewed by Bernard Attard
University of Leicester David Black and Lesley Wallace, (eds), John Curtin: Guide to Archives of Australia’s Prime Ministers. Canberra: National Archives of Australia and John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, 2004. Pp. 241. ISBN: 1 920807 12 8. Paperback A$19.95.
Reviewed by David Day
La Trobe University Geoffrey Jones, Multinationals and Global Capitalism. From the Nineteenth to the Twenty‐first Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 340. ISBN 0 19 927210 7. Paperback £25.
Reviewed by John F. Wilson
University of Central Lancashire Douglas A. Farnie and David J. Jeremy (eds), The Fibre that Changed the World: The Cotton Industry in International Perspective, 1600–1990s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiv + 614. ISBN: 0 19 925566 0. Hardcover £75.00.
Reviewed by J. S. Toms
University of York Gordon Boyce, Over Half a Million Careful Owners: A 75‐Year History of PSIS, 1928–2003. Wellington: Dunmore Publishing, 2005. Pp. 326, illustrations. ISBN: 0 476 0129 29. Paperback NZ$29.95.
Reviewed by David Tripe
Massey University Kaoru Sugihara (ed.), Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850–1949. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xv + 295. ISBN: 0 19 829271 6. Hardback A$250.
Reviewed by John Singleton
Victoria University of Wellington Morris L. Bian, The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change. Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 331. ISBN: 0 674 01717 X. Hardback US$45.00
Reviewed by Luigi Tomba
Australian National University Mario Tiberi, The Accounts of the British Empire: Capital Flows from 1799 to 1914. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. x + 183. ISBN: 0754639169. Hardback £50.
Reviewed by Bernard Attard
University of Leicester Rögnvaldur Hanneson, The Privatization of the Oceans. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. 224. ISBN 0‐262‐08334‐5. Hardback US$35.
Reviewed by Peter Cozens
Victoria University of Wellington Brian Costar, Peter Love and Paul Strangio (eds), The Great Labor Schism. A Retrospective. Melbourne: Scribe, 2005. Pp. 374. ISBN: 1‐920769‐42‐0. Hardback A$35.
Reviewed by James Bennett
University of Auckland     

Book briefs

G Antonelli and A Quadrio‐Curzio (eds) The agro‐technological system towards 2000 North Holland.

W J Baumol Superfairness: Applications and theory The MIT Press, Massachusetts, 1986

E Boonzaier and J Sharp (eds) South African keywords: The uses and abuses of political concepts David Philip, Cape Town and Johannesburg, 1988

C Bryant (ed) Poverty, policy, and food security in Southern Africa Lynne Rienner Publishers. Boulder, Colorado, 1988

J Butler. R Elphick and D Welsh (eds) Democratic liberalism in South Africa: Its history and prospect David Philip, Cape Town and Johannesburg. 1987

D P Chaudhri and A J Dasgupta Agriculture and the development process: a study of Punjab Croom Helm, London, 1985

R Cohen (ed) Satisfying Africa's food needs: Food production and commercialization in African agriculture Lynne Rienner Publishers. Boulder/London, 1988

J M Conrad and C W Clark Natural resource economics: Notes and problems Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987

D E Janvry and K Subbarao Agricultural price policy and income distribution in India Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986     

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J. S. Moore (Ed.). The Goods and Chattels of Our Forefathers: Frampton Cotterell and District Probate Inventories, 1539-1804. (Chichester: Phillimore. 1976. Pp F. G. Emmison . Elizabethan Life: Home, Work and Land. (Chelmsford: Essex County Council. Plymouth, Massachusetts: Pilgrim Society and Plimoth Plantation. 1976. Pp R. W. Heinze . The Proclamations of the Tudor Kings. F. A. Youngs Jr. The Proclamations of the Tudor Queens. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1976. Pp A. Macfarlane (Ed.). The Diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616-83. (London: Oxford University Press for The British Academy. 1976. Pp Peter Earle . The World of Defoe. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1976. Pp D. Anderson . The Orrell Coalfield, Lancashire, 1740-1850. (Buxton: Moorland Publishing Co. 1975. Pp Arthur Raistrick . The Lead Industry of Wensleydale and Swaledale: Vol. 1 The Mines; Vol. 2 The Smelting Mills. (Buxton: Moorland Publishing Co. 1975. Pp R. A. Buchanan and S. G. Watkins . The Industrial Archaeology of the Stationary Steam Engine. (London: Allen Lane. 1976. Pp Richard J. Colyer . The Welsh Cattle Drovers: Agriculture and the Welsh Cattle Trade before and during the Nineteenth Century. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 1976. Pp Derek Fraser . Urban Politics in Victorian England: The Structure of Politics in Victorian Cities. (Leicester: The University Press. 1976. Pp J. Benson and R. G. Neville (Eds.). Studies in the Yorkshire Coal Industry. (Manchester: The University Press. 1976. Pp David Kynaston . King Labour: The British Working Class, 1850-1914. (London: George Allen and Unwin. 1976. Pp Roderick Floud . The British Machine-Tool Industry, 1850-1914. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1976. Pp H. E. Meller . Leisure and the Changing City, 1870-1914. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1976. Pp Joyce M. Bellamy and John Saville (Eds.). Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume 3. (London: Macmillan. 1976. Pp Leslie Hannah (Ed.). Management Strategy and Business Development: An Historical and Comparative Study. (London: Macmillan. 1976. Pp GENERAL Jack Goody , Joan Thirsk , and E. P. Thompson (Eds.). Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1976. Pp Jan de Vries . The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1976. Pp Susil Chaudhuri . Trade and Commercial Organization in Bengal, 1650-1720—With Special Reference to the English East India Company. (Calcutta: Mukhopadhyay. 1975. Pp Surrendra Gopal . Commerce and Crafts in Gujarat, 16th and 17th Centuries: A Study in the Impact of European Expansion on Precapitalist Economy. (New Delhi: People's Publishing House. 1975. Pp Jan Breman . Patronage and Exploitation: Changing Agrarian Relations in South Gujarat, India. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. 1974. Pp Olga Crisp . Studies in the Russian Economy before 1914. (London: Macmillan. 1976. Pp F. B. Tipton , Jr. Regional Variations in the Economic Development of Germany during the 19th Century. (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press. 1976. Pp Paul Bairoch . Commerce Extérieur et Développement Economique de l'Europe au XIX^e siècle. (Paris: Mouton. Pp James M. Laux . In First Gear: The French Automobile Industry to 1914 (Liverpool: The University Press. 1976. Pp John P. Mc Kay . Tramsways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1976. Pp George S. Bain and Farouk Elsheikh . Union Growth and the Business Cycle: An Econometric Analysis. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1976. Pp Werner Sombart . Why is there no Socialism in the United States? English translation by Patricia M. Hocking and C. T. Husbands. Edited and annotated by C. T. Husbands. (London: Macmillan. 1976. Pp GERMANY Arno Herzig . Judentum und Emanzipation in Westfalen. Veröffentlichungen des Provinzialinstituts für Westfälische Landes- und Volkskunde. Reihe 1. Heft 17. (Münister: Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung. 1973. Pp Hedwig Behrens . Mechanikus Franz Dinnendahl, 1775-1826: Erbauer der ersten Dampfmaschinen an der Ruhr. Leben und Wirken aus zeitgenössischen Quellen. Schriften zur Rheinisch-Westfälischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Vol. 22, Ed. Rheinisch-West-falisches Wirtschaftsarchiv. (Köln: Selbstverlag Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv. 1970. Pp Monika Richarz (Ed.). Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland: Selbstzeugnisse zur Sozialgeschichte, 1780-1871. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt. 1976. Pp Dokumentation zur Geschichte der jüdischen Bevölkerung in Rheinland-Pfalz und im Saarland von 1800-1945. Bd. 3: Die Juden in ihrem gemeindlichen und öffentlichen Leben. Bd. 4: Aufklärung, Gleichstellung, Reform und Selbstbesinnung: das Verhältnis der Juden zu den christlichen Religionsgemeinschaften. Bd. 6: Die nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Rheinland-Pfalz, 193345. Bd. 7: Dokumente des Gedenkens. Hrsg. von der Landes-archivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz in Verbindung mit dem Landesarchiv Saarbrucken. (Koblenz: Selbstverlag der Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz. 1972-4. Pp Hans Seeling . Die Eisenhütten in Heerdt und Mülheim am Rhein. Schriften zur Rheinisch-Westfälischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Vol. 24. Ed. Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv. (Köln: Selbstverlag Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv. 1972. Pp Juurgen Kocka . Unternehmer in der Deutschen Industrialisierung. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht. 1975. Pp Wilhelm Wortmann . Eisenbahnbauarbeiter im Vormärz: Sozialgeschichtliche Untersuchung der Bauarbeiter der Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn in Minden-Ravensberg, 1844-7. Neue Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Vol. 6. Ed. Ingomar Bog. (Köln Wien: Böhlau. 1972. Pp Hans Friedrich Gisevius . Zur Vorgeschichte des Preuβisch-Sächsischen Eisenbahnkrieges: Verkehrspolitische Differenzen zwischen Preuβen und Sachsen im Deutschen Bund. Verkehrswissenschaftliche Forschungen. Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Industrie- und Verkehrspolitik der Universität Bonn, Vol. 24. Ed. Fritz Voigt. (Berlin: Duncker u. Humblot. 1971. Pp Hermann Kellenbenz and Juurgen H. Schawacht . Schicksal eines Eisenlandes. (Siegen: Industrie- und Handelskammer Siegen. 1974. Pp Harald Winkel (Ed.). Finanz- und wirtschaftspolitische Fragen der Zwischenkriegszeit. Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik. Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. Neue Folge, Band 73. (Berlin: Duncker und Humblot. 1973. Pp Eckard Wandel . Die Bedeutung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika für das deutsche Reparationsproblem, 1924-9. Tübinger Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 6. (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck). 1971. Pp Michael Schneider : Das Arbeitsbeschaffungsprogramm des ADGB: Zur gewerkschaftlichen Politik in der Endphase der Weimarer Republik. Schriftenreihe des Forschungsinstituts der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Vol. 120. (Bonn-Bad Godesberg: Verlag Neue Gesellschaft GmbH. 1975. Pp Lotte Zumpe (Ed.). Wirtschaft und Staat im Imperialismus: Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des staatsmonopolistischen Kapitalismus in Deutschland. (Berlin. 1976. Pp     

BOOK REVIEWS

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

REVIEWS

ECONOMIC DOCTRINE AND METHOD . By JOSEPH SCHUMPETER. London: George Allen and Unwin. 1954. Pp. 207. Price 15s.
ENTERPRISE AND SECULAR CHANGE, READINGS in ECONOMIC HISTORY . Edited by F. C. LANE and J. C. RIEMERSMA. London: Allen and Unwin, 1953. Pp. xi + 556. Price 32s. 0d.
THE TREND OP GOVERNMENT ACTIVITY IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1900. By S. FABRICANT. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1952. Pp. xi + 267. Price $4.00.
THE STERLING AREA . By A. R. CONAN. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1952. Pp. ix + 192.
GREAT BRITAIN, THE STERLING AREA AND EUROPE . By F. V. MEYER. Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes, 1952. Pp. viii + 150. Price 21s.
PROGRESSIVE TAXATION . By F. SHEHAB. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1953. Pp. viii + 229. Price 27s. 6d.
EUROPE FROM 1914 TO THE PRESENT . By VICTOR J. ALBJERG and MARGUERITE HALL ALBJERG. New York: McCraw-Hill, 1951. Pp. 815 with maps. Price $5.50.
YEAR BOOK OF AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATION . Edited by THE HORACE PLUNKETT FOUNDATION. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953. Pp. iv. + 345. Price 21s.
POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND WELFARE . By ROBERT A. DAHL and CHARLES E. LINDBLOM. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1953. Pp. xxvi + 557. Price $5.00.
PROBLEMS OF CAPITAL FORMATION in UNDER-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES . By RAGNAR NURKSE. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1953. Pp. 163. Price 15s.
THE ECONOMIC IMPACT ON UNDER-DEVELOPED SOCIETIES . By S. HERBERT FRANKEL. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953. Pp. 179. Price 15s.
ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS IN NATAL (Being Volume Five of the Natal Regional Survey). By the DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NATAL. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1953. Pp. ix + 100. Price 25s.     

GREAT BRITAIN

The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Stafford
D. M. P alliser . Tudor York. (Oxford: Oxford University Press
T. S. W illan . Elizabethan Manchester
R osemary O'D ay . The English Clergy: the Emergence and Consolidation of a Profession, IKG:
P eter M athias . The Transformation of England. Essays in the Economic and Social History of England in the Eighteenth Century.
I an H. A dams (Ed.)
J anet R oebuck . Urban Development in Nineteenth-Century London: Lambeth, Battersea, and Wandsworth, 1838–88.
F rank W hitson F etter
B arry G ordon
T ony M ason
I. C. R. B yatt
J. M ellino (Ed.). Housing, Social Policy, and the State. (London: Croom Helm.
J ohn S cott and M ichael H ughes
C. D. H arbury and D. M. W. N. H itchens
D. C. C oleman
Y. S. B renner
A ndre G under F rank
E. R osenbaum and A. J. S herman
H ans P eter B leuel
F ernand B raudel and E rnest L abrousse (Eds.). Histoire Economique et Sociale de la France.
D avid M ontgomery
B jorn H ettne
J an S. H ogendorn
M aths I sacson
H akan L indgren
L ars H assbring
U lla W ikander
H ans M odig     

Reviews

“Urban unemployment”

Hasluck, C., 1987: Urban Unemployment: Local labour markets and employment initiatives. London, Longman, £6.95 paper.

“Property and industrial development”

Fothergill, S., Monk, S. and Perry, M. 1387: Property and Industrial Development London: Hutchinson, £12.95 paper.

“High-tech”

Breheny, M. J. and McQuaid, R. W. 1987: The Development of High Technology Industries: An International Survey. London: Croom Helm, £35.00.

Monde, C. (ed), 1986: Science Parks -- Their Contribution to Economic Growth. Birmingham: UK Science Parks Association, £15.00 paper.

“American perspectives”

Bergman, Edward M. Editor 1986: Local Economies in Transition: Policy Realities and Development Potentials. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, $40.00 cloth, $16.95, paper.

“Marginal regions”

O'Cearbhaill, D. and Cawley, M. (editors) 1986: New approaches to the development of Marginal Regions, 8th International Seminar on Marginal Regions in association with University College Galway, 3 Vote: no price stated.

“Training without jobs”

Finn, Dan 1987: Training Without Jobs:New Deals and Broken Promises:From Raising the School Leaving Age to the Youth Training Scheme. London: Macmillan £6.95.

“The coopera tive workplace”

Rothschild, J. and Whitt, A. J. 1986: The Cooperative Workplace: potentials and dilemmas of organizational democracy and participation. USA: American Sociological Association Rose Monograph Series, Cambridge University Press. No price stated.

“Opposition to plant closures”

Maunders, A. 1986: A Process of Struggle. Aldershot: Gower £20.00 cloth.

“Property data”

Investment Property Databank, 1987: The IPD Annual Review 1987 London, £45.

“Urban economic development”

Hausner.V. A. (editor) 1987: Critical Issues in Urban Economic Development. Volume II. Oxford: Clarendon Press, £22.50 hardback.     

”Uneven development“

John Allen and Doreen Massey (eds), 1988: The Economy in Question. London: Sage Publications, £8.95 paper.

Doreen Massey and John Allen (eds), 1988: Uneven Re-Development: Cities and Regions in Transition. A Reader. London: Hodder and Stoughton, £7.50 paper.

Kevin Morgan and Andrew Sayer, 1988: Microcircuits of Capital: “Sunrise” Industry and Uneven Development Oxford: Polity Press. £35.00 cloth.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 1945–1965. Twenty Years of International Monetary Co-operation. Three Volumes entitled: "Chronicle" (663 pages), "Analysis" (621 pages) and "Documents" (549 pages) published by the International Monetary Fund during 1969.
YOUNG, D. International Economics . Intertext Books, London,1969
PREST, A. R. (assisted by Norman Lee). Transport Economics in Developing Countries . London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969
RICHARDSON, HARRY W. Regional Economics . London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1969
MILLS, GORDON. Introduction to Linear Algebra (for Social Scientists). George Allen and Unwin Ltd., London, 1969
ARROW, KENNETH J. and SCITOVSKY, TIBOR (editors): Readings in Welfare Economics , American Economic Association-George Allen and Unwin, London
ROBSON, P. and LURY, D. A. (eds.): The Economies of Africa , George Allen & Unwin (1969)
WELLS, SIDNEY J. International Economics. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. , 1969
PONS, VALDO: Stanleyville: An African Urban Community under Belgian Administration pp. xxiv & 356. Published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press. 87.35
BURLEY, KEVIN: British Shipping and Australia 1920–1939. Cambridge University Press, 1968
DAGLI, VADILAL (Ed.). The Public Sector in India: A Survey.     

The Transformation of Australia's Population, 1970–2030

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