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Books reviewed in this article: A. D. M. Phillips and C. B. Phillips, eds., A new historical atlas of Cheshire Philip Riden, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: a history of the county of Northampton G. J. Benson and L. Ugolini, eds., A nation of shopkeepers: five centuries of British retailing Stanley Chapman, Hosiery and knitwear: four centuries of small‐scale industry in Britain. c.1589–2000 Peter Borsay and Lindsay Proudfoot, eds., Provincial towns in early modern England and Ireland: change, convergence and divergence John Cramsie, Kingship and Crown finance under James VI and I, 1603–1625 Matthew and George Culley, Travel journals and letters, 1765–1798 John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson, eds., Henry Maudslay and the pioneers of the machine age Desmond Greer and James W. Nicolson, The factory acts in Ireland, 1802–1914 Charles K. Rawding, The Lincolnshire wolds in the nineteenth century Derek J. Oddy, From plain fare to fusion food: British diet from the 1890s to the 1990s Alan Fowler, Lancashire cotton operatives and work, 1900–1950: a social history of Lancashire cotton operatives in the twentieth century Martin Daunton, Just taxes: the politics of taxation in Britain, 1914–1979 Becky E. Conekin, ‘The autobiography of a nation’: the 1951 Festival of Britain Andrea Rusnock, Vital accounts: quantifying health and population in eighteenth‐century England and France Martin Horn, Britain, France, and the financing of the First World War Mark Cioc, The Rhine: an eco‐biography, 1815–2000 Helena Hamerow, Early medieval settlements: the archaeology of rural communities in north‐west Europe, 400–900 Martina De Moor, Leigh Shaw‐Taylor, and Paul Warde, eds., The management of common land in north west Europe, c. 1500–1850 Johan Söderberg and Janken Myrdal, The agrarian economy of sixteenth‐century Sweden John Armstrong and Andreas Kunz, eds., Coastal shipping and the European economy, 1750–1980 Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Class theory and history: capitalism and communism in the USSR Virginia G. Drackman, Enterprising women: 250 years of American business W. Carl Bliven, Jimmy Carter's political economy: policy in an age of limits Colin M. Lewis, Argentina: a short history Maurice Wright, Japan's fiscal crisis: the Ministry of Finance and the politics of public spending, 1975–2000 Zhaojin Ji, A history of modern Shanghai banking: the rise and decline of China's finance capitalism Linsun Cheng, Banking in modern China: entrepreneurs, professional managers, and the development of Chinese banks, 1897–1937 Ts'ui‐jung Liu, James Lee, David Sven Reher, Osamu Saito, and Wang Feng, eds., Asian population history Andrea Colli, The history of family business, 1850–2000 Eric Helleiner, The making of national money: territorial currencies in historical perspective     

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Books reviewed: John Hatcher and Mark Bailey, Modelling the middle ages: the history and theory of England’s economic development Christine M. Newman, Late medieval Northallerton: a small market town and its hinterland, c. 1470–1540 Adam Fox, Oral and literate culture in England, 1500–1700 Frederick Valletta, Witchcraft, magic and superstition in England, 1640–70 David W. Howell, The rural poor in eighteenth‐century Wales Peter Borsay, The image of Georgian Bath, 1700–2000 Torsten Berg and Peter Berg, eds., R. R. Angerstein’s illustrated travel diary, 1753–1755: industry in England and Wales from a Swedish perspective Anne Orde, Religion, business and society in north‐east England: the Pease family of Darlington in the nineteenth century Arthur J. McIvor, A history of work in Britain, 1880–1950 Roger Davidson, Dangerous liaisons: a social history of venereal disease in twentieth‐century Scotland Neil Forbes, Doing business with the Nazis: Britain’s economic and financial relations with Germany, 1931–1939 Ronald Hyam and Wm. Roger Louis, (eds.), The Conservative government and the end of empire, 1957–1964, 2 parts. Part I: High policy, political and constitutional change. Part II: Economics, international relations, and the Commonwealth C. Edmund Clingan, Finance from Kaiser to Führer: budget politics in Germany, 1912–1934 Girolamo Imbruglia, (ed.), Naples in the eighteenth century: the birth and death of a nation state Alice Teichova, Herbert Matis, and Jaroslav Pátek, (eds.), Economic change and the national question in twentieth‐century Europe Ton Notermans, Money, markets, and the state: social democratic economic policies since 1918 David Abulafia, (ed.), The new Cambridge medieval history, V: c. 1198‐c. 1300 Elise S. Brezis and Peter Temin, (eds.), Elites, minorities and economic growth Kenneth Morgan, Slavery and servitude in North America, 1607–1800 Kenneth Morgan, Slavery, Atlantic trade and the British economy, 1660–1800 John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan, The early modern Atlantic economy Allan Kulikoff, From British peasants to colonial American farmers David Blanke, Sowing the American dream: how consumer culture took root in the rural Midwest Bruce Curtis, The politics of population: state formation, statistics and the census of Canada, 1840–1875 Jeremy Baskes, Indians, merchants, and markets: a reinterpretation of the repartimiento and Spanish‐Indian economic relations in colonial Oaxaca, 1750–1821 Birgit Sonesson, Puerto Rico’s commerce, 1765–1865: from regional to worldwide market relations Claude Marcovits, The global world of Indian merchants, 1750–1947: traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama Nasir Tyabji, Industrialisation and innovation: the Indian experience Tirthankar Roy, The economic history of India, 1857–1947 Simon Ville, The rural entrepreneurs: a history of the stock and station agent industry in Australia and New Zealand David B. Abernethy, The dynamics of global dominance: European overseas empire, 1415–1980 Neil De Marchi and Craufurd D. W. Goodwin, (eds.), Economic engagements with art, annual supplement to vol. 31, History of Political Economy Pat Hudson, History by numbers: an introduction to quantitative approaches     

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Books reviewed: The monastic order in Yorkshire, Sandra Raban The demography of early modern towns: York in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, John S. Moore Inventories of Worcestershire landed gentry, 1537‐1786, Vivienne Larminie Tenant right and agrarian society in Ulster, 1600‐1870, S. J. ConnollyRogues, Thieves and the rule of law: the problem of law enforcement in north‐east England, 1718‐1800, Garthine Walker Newspapers, politics and public opinion in late eighteenth‐century England, Owen Jackson Insanity, institutions and society, 1800‐1914: a social history of madness in comparative perspective, Bill Luckin Free trade and its reception, 1815‐1960: freedom and trade: vol. 1, Mark Wickham‐Jones Policing provincial England, 1829‐1856: the politics of reform, Roger Swift Writing the Irish Famine, David Fitzpatrick The end of hidden Ireland: rebellion, famine, and emigration, David Fitzpatrick The municipal government of Bristol, 1851‐1901, Barry Doyle The history and practice of Britain’s railways: a new research agenda, John Armstrong Education and economic decline in Britain, 1870 to the 1990s, John Maloney ‘The battle for health’: a political history of the Socialist Medical Association, 1930‐1951, Virginia Berridge Gresford: the anatomy of a disaster, Joseph Melling Health and society in Britain since 1939, Bernard Harris Mastering the market: the state and the grain trade in northern France, 1700‐1860, Colin Heywood Revolution and environment in southern France: peasants, lords, and murder in the Corbières, 1780‐1830, Hugh Clout The role of banks in monitoring firms: the case of Crédit Mobilier, Geoffrey E. Wood Repertorium Columbianum, IV, Christopher Columbus and his family: the Genoese and Ligurian documents, Trevor Dean Spain’s men of the sea: daily life on the Indies fleets in the sixteenth century, Marcus Rediker Christianity under the ancien régime, 1648‐1789, Linda Kirk Identity and intolerance: nationalism, racism and xenophobia in Germany and the United States, Eve Rosenhaft European culture and the Great War: the arts, entertainment and propaganda, Adrian Gregory Western Europe: economic and social change since 1945, J. Adam Tooze Gotham: a history of New York City to 1898, Karen Wills Copper for America: the United States copper industry from colonial times to the 1990s, Peter Mcleay Manufacturing the future: a history of Western Electric, John Cantwell US trade policy: history, theory and the WTO, Ranald Michie La economiá argentina en el largo plazo: ensayos de historia económica de los siglos XIX y XX , Rory Miller Progress, poverty and exclusion: an economic history of Latin America in the twentieth century, Paul Henderson The Chinese business elite in Indonesia and the transition to independence, 1940‐1950, Anne Booth Japan’s war economy, Kenneth D. Brown Economic crises and restructuring in history: experiences of small countries, Alan S. Milward The gold standard and related regimes: collected essays, Derek H. Aldcroft     

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Books reviewed: S.H. Rigby, Towns in decline, AD 100‐1600 R.H Britnell, The Great Roll of the Pipe for the sixth year of the reign of King Henry III, Michaelmas 1222 Nuala Zahedieh, Socialbility and power in late‐Stuart England: the cultural worlds of the Verneys, 1660‐1720 John C. Appleby, St Peter Port, 1680‐1830: the history of an international entrepôt Jordan Goodman, Liquid pleasures: a social history of drinks in modern Britain Kristine Bruland, Industrial espionage and technology transfer: Britain and France in the eighteenth century J.R. Wordie, Roots of change: farming and the landscape in East Anglia, c 1700‐1870 James A. Jaffe, Early trade unionism: fraternity, skill and the politics of labour Pat Hudson, The British industrial revolution: an economic perspective Callum G. Brown, Congregational missions and the making of an imperial culture in nineteenth‐century England Felix Driver, The Oxford history of the British empire, III: the nineteenth century Colin G. Pooley, The Irish in Victorian Britain: the local dimension M.W Kirby, Raleigh and the British bicycle industry: an economic and business history, 1870‐1960 G.C. Peden, The management of the national debt of the United Kingdom, 1900‐1932 Alan Booth, The Treasury and British public policy, 1906‐1959 Richard C. Thurlow, Whitehall and the Jews, 1933‐1948: British immigration policy and the Holocaust Jim Tomlinson, Rethinking British decline Richard Perren, Region and strategy in Britain and Japan: business in Lancashire and Kansai, 1890‐1900 B.W.E. Alford, In the public interest: competition policy and the Monopolies and Mergers Commission David Armitage, The Oxford history of the British empire, V: historiography Paul Warde, Defiled trades and social outcasts: honour and ritual pollution in early modern Germany Martin Chick, Histoire de l’électricité en Suisse: la dynamique d’un petit pays européen, 1875‐1939 Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice: the fragile craftFrancesca Trivellato Joseph Harrison, Empresa, mercados, mina y mineros: Rio Tinto, 1873‐1936 Joseph Harrison, The Mediterranean response to globalization before 1950 Roger Middleton, The development of economics in western Europe since 1945 Roger Bartlett, The Russian peasantry, 1600‐1930: the world the peasants made Christopher Clay, The Ottoman city between east and west: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul Virginia H. Aksan, Consumption studies and the history of the Ottoman empire, 1550‐1922: an introduction H.A. Gemery, Migration and the origins of the English Atlantic world S.D Smith, The British Isles and the War of American Independence Robert G. Greenhill, Business history in Latin America: the experience of seven countries Penelope Francks, The pursuit of power in modern Japan, 1825‐1995 Katrina Honeyman, Working out gender: perspectives from labour history Ranald Michie, The global debt bomb Roger Middleton, Reconstructing poliltical economy: the great divide in economic thought     

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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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Books reviewed: Colonisation and conquest in medieval Ireland: the English in Louth, 1170‐1330, Marie Therese Flanagan The household knights of King John, Peter Coss Thirteenth‐century England, VII: proceedings of the Durham conference 1997, Brendan Smith Hertfordshire lay subsidy rolls: 1307 and 1334, Phillipp R. Schofield The great household in late medieval England, Anne Curry The lay subsidy for Shropshire, 1524‐7, John S. Moore Theatre, finance and society in early modern England, Craig Muldrew British identities before nationalism: ethnicity and nationhood in the Atlantic world, 1600‐1800, D. W. Hayton History of work and labour relations in the royal dockyards, Chris Wrigley Gentlemanly capitalism and British imperialism: the new debate on empire, Simon C. Smith Irish migrants in modern Britain, 1750‐1922, Graham Davis Land reform and working‐class experience in Britain and the United States, 1800‐1862, Rohan McWilliam Black ’47 and beyond: the Great Irish Famine in history, economy and memory, Philip Ollerensha The hungry stream: essays on emigration and famine, Patrick O’Sullivan Crimes of outrage: sex, violence and Victorian working women, Megan Doolittle The problem of mental deficiency: eugenics, democracy, and social policy in Britain, c. 1870‐1959, Joseph Melling Phoenix Assurance and the development of British insurance, II: the era of the insurance giants, 1870‐1984, Edwin Green Capitalism, community and conflict: the south Wales coalfield, 1898‐ 1947, Sian Rhiannon williams ‘Millions like us’?: British culture in the Second World War, Dave Russell Anticipating total war: the German and American experiences, 1871‐1914, Robin Clifton Fifty years of the Deutsche Mark: central bank and the currency in Germany since 1948, Catherine R. Schenk The Venetian money market: banks, panics, and the public debt, 1200‐1500, David Abulafia Guilds, markets and work regulations in Italy, 16th‐19th centuries, Iorwerth Prothero The economy and material culture of Russia, 1600‐1725, Jeremy Black Food and eating in medieval Europe, Jane Whittle Art markets in Europe, 1400‐1800, Malcolm Falkus Shaping history: ordinary people in European politics, 1500‐1700, Dagmar Freist Cathedrals of consumption: the Euro‐pean department store, 1850‐1939, Michael Miller Technological revolutions in Europe: historical perspectives, Gillian Cookson Contagion and the state in Europe, 1830‐1930, Roger Davidson Merchants, companies and trade: Europe and Asia in the early modern era, H. V. Bowen Consumers against capitalism? Consumer cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840‐1990, Sean O’Connell Getting and spending: European and American consumer societies in the twentieth century, Gareth Shaw Eastside landmark: a history of the East Los Angeles Community Union, 1968‐1993, Marci R. Green The Atlantic slave trade, Madge Dresser Montpelier, Jamaica: a plantation community in slavery and freedom, 1739‐1912, J. R. Oldfield Searching for a better society: the Peruvian economy from 1950, Paulo Drinot An agrarian history of south Asia (The new Cambridge history of India, IV: 4), David Arnold Development planning in India: exploring an alternative approach, Terence J. Byres The premodern Chinese economy: structural equilibrium and capitalist sterility, David W. Clayton Tigers, rice, silk, and silt: environment and economy in late imperial south China, Philip Richardson Technology and gender: fabrics of power in late imperial China, David W. Clayton Mercantilism in a Japanese domain: the merchant origins of economic nationalism in eighteenth‐century Tosa, John F. Wilson Japan and Singapore in the world economy: Japan’s economic advance into Singapore, 1870‐1965, Nicholas J. White Africa works: disorder as political instrumentdouglas rimmer The wealth of nations, John Glassford Adam Smith’s daughters: eight prominent women economists from the eighteenth century to the present, Jane Howells The foundations of laissez‐faire: the economics of Pierre de Boisguilbert, A. W. Bob Coats Secret origins of modern micro‐economics: Dupuit and the engineers, Richard Whatmore The state, the financial system and economic modernization, Duncan M. Ross Fabricating the Keynesian revolution: studies of the inter‐war literature on money, the cycle and unemployment, Roger Middleton The city in time and space, Helen Meller The theory of innovation: entrepreneurs, technology and strategy, G. N. von Tunzelman     

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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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Great Britain And Ireland S. H. Rigby, A medieval mercantile community: the Grocers’ Company and the politics and trade of London, 1000-1485 Peter Clark, The history of an English borough: Stratford-upon-Avon, 1196-1996 Donald Woodward, The new draperies in the Low Countries and England, 1300-1800 J. R. Wordie, Alternative agriculture: a history from the Black Death to the present day Robert Tittler, English counties and public building, 1650-1830 Michael Turner, Parliamentary enclosure in England: an introduction to its causes, incidence and impact, 1750-1850 Jeremy Gregory, Aspects of the Georgian church: visitation studies of the diocese of York, 1761-1776 Richard Whatmore, Progress, poverty and population: re-reading Condorcet, Godwin and Malthus R. G. Wilson, The diary of Robert Sharp of South Cave: life in a Yorkshire village, 1812-1837 Peter Cain, Free trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 John Sheail, A history of water in modern England and Wales Kenneth D. Brown, Religion, business and wealth in modern Britain Penny Starns, Labour, social policy and the welfare state John F. Wilson, Finance in the age of the corporate economy Peter Howlett, Governance, industry and labour markets in Britain and France: the modernising state in the mid-twentieth century General Sitta Von Reden, Warriors into traders: the power of the market in early Greece Christopher Dyer, The growth of the medieval city: from late antiquity to the early fourteenth century; idem, The later medieval city, 1300-1500 Colin Heywood, Burgundy to Champagne: the wine trade in early modern France Hugh Clout, The brandy trade under the ancien regime: regional specialisation in the Charente David Ormrod, The first modern economy: success, failure, and perseverance of the Dutch economy, 1500-1815 Ted Wilson, Merchants, bankers, middlemen: the Amsterdam money market during the first half of the 19th century Michael Wintle, The economic history of the Netherlands, 1914-1995: a small open economy in the ‘long’ twentieth century Henry Roseveare, From the North Sea to the Baltic: essays in commercial, monetary and agrarian history, 1500-1800 J. K. J. Thomson, State corporatism and proto-industry: the Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797 Alan Dyer, Urban decline in early modern Germany: Schwäbisch Hall and its region, 1650-1750 Michael Palairet, Rebuilding the financial system in central and eastern Europe, 1918-1994 Catherine R. Schenk, Monetary standards and exchange rates A. Slaven , European enterprise: strategies of adaptation and renewal in the twentieth century John J. Mccusker, Tobacco in the Atlantic trade: the Chesapeake, London and Glasgow, 1675-1775 John Killick, Trading beyond the mountains: the British fur trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843 Timothy J. Lockley, From Calabar to Carter’s Grove: the history of a Virginia slave community S. J. Kleinberg, Civic wars: democracy and public life in the American city during the nineteenth century Arni Sverrisson, Endless novelty: specialty production and American industrialization, 1865-1925 Gary Herrigel, Steel phoenix: the fall and rise of the US steel industry Peter Coates, Wetlands of the American Midwest: a historical geography of changing attitudes Robert G. Greenhill, Studies in the history of Latin American economic thought Christopher J. Napier, The development of accounting in an inter-national context: a festschrift in honour of R. H. Parker     

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Books reviewed: England’s Jewish solution: experiment and expulsion, Jenny Kermode The Reformation in English towns, 1500-1640, Felicity Heal Women waging law in Elizabethan England, Cynthia Herrup Prayer book and people in Elizabethan and early Stuart England, Jacqueline Eales The French-speaking Reformed community and their church in Southampton, 1567-c. 1620, Ole Peter Grell Failed legislation, 1660-1800, David Eastwood The account book of Clement Taylor of Finsthwaite, 1712-1753, K. D. M. Snell The solidarities of strangers: the English poor laws and the people, 1700-1948, Felix Driver Science in the service of empire: Joseph Banks, the British state and the uses of science in the age of revolution, David Armitage Made in Lancashire: a history of regional industrialisation, S. D Chapman Scotland in the nineteenth century, W. Hamish Fraser The British malting industry since 1830, D. J. Oddy Population, economy and family structure in Hertfordshire in 1851: vol. 1, the Berkhamsted region, Marguerite W. Dupree Deutsche Direktinvestitionen in Gro bbritannien, 1871-1918, Richard Tilly Strikes and solidarity: coalfield conflict in Britain, 1889-1966, Rodney Hills History in our hands: a critical anthology of writings on literature, culture and politics from the 1930,s, John Newsinger A Breton landscape, Brian Roberts Luxury trades and consumerism in Ancien Régime Paris: studies in the history of the skilled workforce, Laurence Fontaine Seductive journey: American tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age, Alastair J. Durie Civic charity in a golden age: orphan care in early modern Amsterdam, Alexander Cowan The Dutch in the Atlantic economy, 1580-1880: trade, slavery and emancipation, Johannes Postma Bergbaureviere als Verbrauchszentren im vorindustriellen Europa: Fallstudien zu Beschaffung und Verbrauch von Lebensmitteln sowie Roh- und Hilfsstoffen, Thomas Sokoll Central Europe in the twentieth century: an economic history perspective, Max-Stephan Schulze The Balkan economies c.1800-1914: evolution without development, Marvin Jackson Gold and spices: the rise of commerce in the middle ages, Penelope Galloway The legacy of scholasticism in economic thought: antecedents of choice and power, Diana Wood The role of precious metals in European development: from Roman times to the eve of the industrial revolution, C. E. Challis Essays in the economic history of the Atlantic world, R. C. Nash Strong wine: the life and legend of Agoston Haraszthy, John Wills Defining the national interest: conflict and change in American foreign policy, Fiona Venn The fall of the Packard Motor Company, Mark s. Foster The Americanisation of European business: the Marshall Plan and the transfer of US management models, Carlo Morelli The evolution of retirement: an American economic history, 1880- 1990, Neil A. Wynn The Keynesian arithmetic in war-time Canada: development of the national accounts, 1939-1945, Hugh Rockoff The rise of capitalism on the pampas: the estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870, Colin M. Lewis World of possibilities: flexibility and mass production in western industrialization, Kristine Bruland Decolonization and African society: the labour question in French and British Africa, Gareth Austin Reorient: global economy in the Asian age, N F R Crafts Representing convicts: new perspectives on convict forced labour migration, Bill Jones The World Bank: its first half century, Paul Seabright International banking in an age of transition: globalisation, automation, banks and their archives, Judith Wale Political parties, growth and equality: conservative and social democratic economic strategies in the world economy, Alan Booth Max Weber and the idea of economic sociology, Keith Tribe The works of Nikolai D. Kondratiev. Vol. 1: Economic statics, dynamics and conjunctures, Roger Middleton     

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

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John Langdon . Horses, oxen and technological innovation: the use of draught animals in English farming from 1066 to 1500. Peter Spufford . Handbook of medieval exchange. Wilfred R. Prest . The rise of the barristers: a social history of the English bar, 1590-1640. J. V. Beckett . The aristocracy in England, 1660-1914. Neil Mc Kendrick and R. B. Outhwaite (Eds.). Business life and public policy: essays in honour of D. C. Coleman. Pat Hudson . The genesis of industrial capital: a study of the West Riding wool textile industry, c. 1750-1850. Barbara Smith (Ed.). Truth, liberty, religion; essays celebrating two hundred years of Manchester College. Martin Doughty (Ed.). Building the industrial city. R. P. T. Davenport -Hines (Ed.). Markets and bagmen: studies in the history of marketing and British industrial performance, 1830-1939. Negley Harte . The University of London, 1836-1986: an illustrated history. C. J. Wrigley (Ed.). A history of British industrial relations: volume II Harold L. Smith (Ed.). War and social change: British society in the Second World War. D. C. Coleman . History and the economic past: an account of the rise and decline of economic history in Britain. B. Elbaum and W. Lazonick (Eds.). The decline of the British economy. T. W. Moody and W. E. Vaughan (Eds.). A new history of Ireland: IV eighteenth-century Ireland, 1691-1800. Martha C. Howell . Women, production and patriarchy in late medieval cities. Pierre Goubert . The French peasantry in the seventeenth century. K. Honeyman and J. Goodman . Technology and enterprise: Isaac Holden and the mechanization of woolcombing in France, 1848-1914. Manfred Pohl . Entstehung und Entwicklung des Universalbankensystems: Konzentration und Krise ah wichtige Faktoren. Andreas Kunz . Civil servants and the politics of inflation in Germany, 1914-1924. Beiträge zu Inflation und Wideraufbau in Deutschland und Europa William C. Mc Neil . American money and the Weimar Republic: economics and politics on the eve of the great depression. Volker R. Berghahn . The Americanization of West German industry, 1945-1973. A. F. Freris . The Greek economy in the twentieth century. Thomas M. Doerflinger . A vigorous spirit of enterprise: merchants and economic development in revolutionary Philadelphia. Stephanie Jones . Two centuries of overseas trading: the origins and growth of the Inchcape Group. Francesca Bray . The rice economies: technology and development in Asian societies. Kang Chao . Man and land in Chinese history: an economic analysis. David Harvey . Consciousness and the urban experience: studies in the history and theory of capitalist urbanization. Charles Hadfield . World canals: inland navigation past and present. Priyatosh Maitra . Population, technology and development. Lloyd Bonfield , Richard M. Smith and Keith Wrightson (Eds.). The world we have gained: histories of population and social structure. Essays presented to Peter Laslett on his seventieth birthday. Raymond W. Goldsmith . Comparative national balance sheets: a study of twenty countries, 1688-1978.     

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Books reviewed: Peasants, merchants, and markets: inland trade in medieval England, R. H. Britnell Controlling misbehaviour in England, 1370-1600,John Walter The new Cambridge medieval history, VII: c. 1415- c.1500, David Nicholas Metropolitan communities: trade guilds, identity and change in early modern London, Paul Griffiths Albion ascendant: English history, 1660-1815, Trevor Griffiths Cheshire cheese and farming in the north west in the 17th and 18th centuries, Steve Caunce Some British empiricists in the social sciences, 1650-1900, A. W. Coats From family firms to corporate cap-talism: essays in business and industrial history in honour of Peter Mathias, Julian Hoppit Charity, philanthropy and reform: from the 1690s to 1850, Pamela Sharpe The mid-Victorian generation, 1846-1886, Duncan Bbythell Morality and the market in Victorian Britain, Paul Johnson Change, continuity and class: labour in British society, 1850-1920, Joseph Melling Speaking for the people: party, language and popular politics in England, 1867-1914, Tony Adams Reconstructing women’s wartime lives: discourse and subjectivity in oral histories of the Second World War, Penny Starns Capitalism in contention: business leaders and political economy in modern Britain, W. R. Garside Selected cliometric studies on German economic history, Catherine R. Schenk The economic aspects of Spanish imperialism in America, 1492-1810, Kenneth Morgan Corsairing to commerce: Maltese merchants in XVIII century Spain, Peter Earle Trade, traders and the ancient city, Philip De Souza Urban Europe, 1500-1700, Catherine Smith European economies since the Second World War, Derek H. Aldcroft The bondsman’s burden: an economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, W. M. Mathew Politics and property rights: the closing of the open range in the postbellum South, Gavin Wright Bold relief: institutional politics and the origins of modern American social policy, Julian Zelizer The money interest and the public interest: American monetary thought, 1920-1970, Anne Mayhew Missionaries and managers: American influences on European management education, 1945-60, Robert R. Locke Big money crime: fraud and politics in the saving and loan crisis, Geofrey T. Mills Transatlantic images and perceptions: Germany and America since 1776, R. A. Burchell Desegregating the dollar: African-American consumerism in the twentieth century, Rick Halpern The American finances of the Spanish empire: royal income and expenditure in colonial Mexico, Peru and Bolivia, 1680-1809, Luis Jauregui Slavery and colonial rule in French West Africa, A. J. H. Latham Commodity and exchange in the Mongol empire: a cultural history of Islamic textiles, P. A. Andrews The trading crowd: an ethnography of the Shanghai stock market, W. A. Thomas Environmental politics in Japan: networks of power and protest, Kenneth D. Brown Rice: the primary commodity, Pierre Van Der Eng People, land and time: an historical introduction to the relations between landscape, culture and environment, Grenville Astill Industrialization and development: a comparative analysis, J. R. Ward Durable inequality, Rodney Lowe Tracking the agricultural revolution in England, Robert C. Allen English servants and their employers during the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries, Leonard Schwarz British incomes circa 1800, T.V. Jackson Principals and agents: the activities of the Crown Agents for the colonies, 1880-1914, David Sunderland The rise of interlocking directorates in imperial Germany, Caroline Fohlin Agricultural support policies in a small open economy: New Zealand in the 1920s, G.A. Fleming     

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

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

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

Book Reviews

Lewis, Carenza, Mitchell-Fox, Patrick and Dyer, Christopher Village, hamlet and field: Changing medieval settlements in central England Dobson, R.B. Church and society in the medieval north of England Gervers, Michael (ed.) The cartulary of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in England, 2: Prima Camera Goldberg, P.J.P. (trans. and ed.) Women in England, c. 1275–1525: documentary sources Griffiths, Paul, Fox, Adam and Hindle, Steve (eds.) The experience of authority in early modern England Gowing, Laura Domestic dangers: women, words and sex in early modern London Hunt, Margaret R. The middling sort: commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680–1780 Whatley, Christopher A. The industrial revolution in Scotland Knowles, Anne Kelly Calvinists incorporated: Welsh immigrants on Ohio’s industrial frontier Gurney, Peter Co-operative culture and the politics of consumption in England 1870–1930 Riley, James C. Sick, not dead: the health of British workingmen during the mortality decline Beik, William Urban protest in seventeenth-century France: the culture of retribution Grouzet, François Britain, France and international commerce: from Louis XIV to Victoria Green, Nancy L. Ready-to-wear and ready-to-work: a century of industry and immigrants in Paris and New York Biggs, Lindy The rational factory: architecture, technology, and work in America’s age of mass production Roy, William G. Socializing capital: the rise of the large industrial corporation in America Clarence-Smith, William Gervase (ed.) Cocoa pioneer fronts since 1800: the role of smallholders, planters and merchants Firmin-Sellers, Kathryn The Transformation of property rights in the Gold Coast Lee, James and Campbell, Cameron Fate and fortune in rural China: social organisation and population behaviour in Liaoning, 1774–1873 Hanley, Susan B. Everyday things in premodern Japan: the hidden legacy of material culture ? Eichengreen, Barry Globalizing capital: a history of the international monetary system     

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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

Book reviewed in this article: Ann Hagen, A second handbook of Anglo-Saxon food and drink: production and distribution Richard H. Britnell and Bruce M. S. Campbell, eds., A commercialising economy: England, 1086 to c. 1300 T. M. Devine and G. Jackson, eds., Glasgow, I: beginnings to 1830 Amy Louise Erickson, Women and property in early modern England S. Roberts, ed., Evesham borough records of the seventeenth century, 1605–1687 John Smail, The origins of middle-class culture: Halifax, Yorkshire, 1660–1780 Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey, eds., The economic history of Britain since 1700 C. Nicholson, Writing and the rise of finance: capital satires of the early eighteenth century Anne Digby, Making a medical living: doctors and patients in the English market for medicine, 1720–1911 Cormac Ó Gráda, Ireland: a new economic history, 1780–1939 Linda Croft, John Fielden's Todmorden Ruth-Ann M. Harris, The nearest place that wasn't Ireland: early nineteenth-century Irish labor migration E. H. H. Green, The crisis of Conservatism: the politics, economics and ideology of the British Conservative Party, 1880–1914 Kent Fedorowich, Unfit for heroes: reconstruction and soldier settlement in the empire between the wars Robert Millward and John Singleton, eds., The political economy of nationalisation in Britain, 1920–1950 James Hinton, Shop floor citizens: engineering democracy in 1940s Britain James Obelkevitch and Peter Catterall, eds., Understanding post-war British society Caroline Barron and Nigel Saul, eds., England and the Low Countries in the late middle ages B. Lepetit, The pre-industrial urban system: France, 1740–1840 Patricia Skinner, Family power in southern Italy: the duchy of Gaeta and its neighbours, 850-1139 A. Teichova, T. Gourvish, and A. Pogany, eds., Universal banking in the twentieth century: finance, industry and the state in north and central Europe Roderick A. McDonald, The economy and material culture of slaves: goods and chattels on the sugar plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana Robert Tracy McKenzie, One South or many?: plantation belt and upcountry in Civil War-era Tennessee Dean L. May, Three frontiers: family, land and society in the American West, 1850–1900 Lance E. Davis and Robert J. Cull, International capital markets and American economic growth Desmond King, Actively seeking work? The politics of unemployment and welfare policy in the United States and Great Britain Jeremy Adelman, Frontier development: land, labour and capital on the wheat lands of Argentina and Canada, 1890–1914 W. G. Huff, The economic growth of Singapore: trade and development in the twentieth century Kären Wigen, The making of a Japanese periphery, 1750–1920 Graeme D. Snooks, Portrait of the family within the total economy: a study in longrun dynamics, Australia 1788–1990 Bronislaw Geremek, Poverty: a history John Brewer and Susan Staves, eds., Early modern conceptions of property Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson, eds., Migration and the international labour market, 1850–1939 Graeme Donald Snooks, ed., Was the industrial revolution necessary? Geoffrey Jones and Nicholas J. Morgan, eds., Adding value: brands and marketing in food and drink     

Book Reviews

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

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