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

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

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