Book reviews

D. A. E. Pelteret, Slavery in early mediaeval England from the reign of Alfred until the twelfth century Edward Miller and John Hatcher, Medieval England: towns, commerce and crafts, 1086-1348 Maryanne Kowaleski, Local markets and regional trade in medieval Exeter Rosemary Horrox, ed., Fifteenth-century attitudes: perceptions of society in late medieval England Anthony Fletcher, Gender, sex and subordination in England, 1500-1800 Tim Harris, ed., Popular culture in England, c. 1500-1850 Margaret Spufford, ed., The world of rural dissenters, 1520-1725 John Guy, ed., The reign of Elizabeth I: court and culture in the last decade David L. Smith, Richard Strier, and David Bevington, eds., The theatrical city: culture, theatre and politics in London, 1576-1649 Richard Grassby, The business community of seventeenth-century England M.J. Braddick, Parliamentary taxation in seventeenth-century England: local administration and response Adrian Wilson, The making of man-midwifery: childbirth in England, 1660-1770 Kathleen Wilson, The sense of the people: politics, culture and imperialism in England, 1715-1785 David Hancock, Citizens of the world: London merchants and the integration of the British Atlantic community, 1735-1785 David R. Green, From artisans to paupers: economic change and poverty in London, 1790-1870 Cyril Ehrlich, First Philharmonic: a history of the Royal Philharmonic Society Patrick Joyce, Democratic subjects: the self and the social in nineteenth-century England Keith Laybourn, The evolution of British social policy and the Welfare State, c. 1800-1993 Bill Lancaster, The department store: a social history W.W. Knox, Hanging by a thread: the Scottish cotton industry, c. 1850-1914 C.H. Lee, Scotland and the United Kingdom: the economy and the Union in the twentieth century Eric M. Sigsworth, A respectable life: Leeds in the 1930s Timothy R. Whisler, At the end of the road: the rise and fall of Austin-Healey, MG and Triumph Sports Cars John D. Fudge, Cargoes, embargoes and emissaries: the commercial and political interaction of England and the German Hanse, 1450-1510 Pamela H. Smith, The business of alchemy: science and culture in the Holy Roman Empire Daniel Roche, The culture of clothing: dress and fashion in the‘ancien regime’ Göran Hoppe and John Langton, Peasantry to capitalism: western Östergötland in the nineteenth century Charles Feinstein, ed., Banking, currency and finance in Europe between the wars David Conroy, In public houses: drink and the revolution of authority in colonial Massachusetts Peter Temin, ed., Inside the business enterprise: historical perspectives on the use of information Historical atlas of Canada: R. Cole Harris, ed., Vol. i: From the beginning to 1800; R. Louis Gentilcore, ed., Vol. 2: The land transformed, 1800-1891; D. Kerr, ed., Vol. 3: Addressing the twentieth century, 1891-1961 Laird W. Bergad, Fe Iglesias García, and María del Carmen Barcia, The Cuban slave market, 1790-1880 Linda Cooke Johnson, Shanghai from market town to treaty port, 1074-1858 Olive Checkland, Shizuya Nishimura, and Norio Tamaki, eds., Pacific banking, 1859-1959: East meets West Tessa Morris-Suzuki, The technological transformation of Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century J. Komlos, ed., The biological standard of living on three continents: further explorations in anthropometric history Forrest Capie, Tariffs and growth: some insights from the world economy, 1850-1940 John A. James and Mark Thomas, eds., Capitalism in context: essays in economic development and cultural change in honor of R.M. Hartwell Theodore M. Porter, Trust in numbers: the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life     

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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: 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     

Book ReviewsGreat Britain and Ireland/ General

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

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Book reviewed in this article: Robert M. Townsend, The medieval village economy: a study of the Pareto mapping in general equilibrium models K. Schürer and T. Arkell, eds., Surveying the people P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins, British imperialism: innovation and expansion, 1688-1914 J. M. Neeson, Commoners: common right, enclosure and social change in England, 1700-1820 Theo Barker and Dorian Gerhold, The rise and rise of road transport, 1700-1990 Thomas Sokoll, Household and family among the poor: the case of two Essex communities in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Alon Kadish and Keith Tribe, eds., The market for political economy: the advent of economics in British university culture, 1850-1905 Michael Havinden and David Meredith, Colonialism and development: Britain and its tropical colonies, 1850-1960 Joanna Bourke, Husbandry to housewifery: women, economic change and housework in Ireland, 1890-1914 John Chartres and Katrina Honeyman, eds., Leeds city business, 1893-1993: essays marking the centenary of the incorporation Rosemary O'Day and David Englander, Mr Charles Booth's Inquiry: life and labour of the people in London reconsidered Gwynne Lewis, The advent of modern capitalism in France, 1770-1840: the contribution of Pierre-Francois Tubeuf Franois Crouzet, ed., The economic development of France since 1870 Charles E. Freedeman, The triumph of corporate capitalism in France, 1867-1914 J. L. van Zanden, The rise and decline of Holland's economy: merchant capitalism and the labour market Jonathan Osmond, Rural protest in the Weimar Republic: the Free Peasantry in the Rhineland and Bavaria Timothy W. Mason (edited by Jane Caplan, with a general introduction by Ursula Vogel), Social policy in the Third Reich: the working class and the‘national community’ Vera Zamagni, The economic history of Italy, 1860-1990: recovery after decline Leonardo Benevolo, The European city Andrew Miles and David Vincent, eds., Building European society: occupational change and social mobility in Europe, 1840-1940 Walter Nugent, Crossings: the great transatlantic migrations, 1870-1914 B. R. Tomlinson, The economy of modern India, 1860-1970 Shigeto Tsuru, Japan's capitalism: creative defeat and beyond Jordan Goodman, Tobacco in history: the cultures of dependence William Chester Jordan, Women and credit in pre-industrial and developing societies J.W.R. Whitehand and P.J. Larkham, eds., Urban landscapes: international perspectives Jean-Claude Chesnais, translated by Elizabeth Kreager and Philip Kreager, The demographic transition: stages, patterns and economic implications: a longitudinal study of 67 countries covering the period 1720-1984 James W. Cortada, Before the computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the industry they created, 1865-1956 Michael Bordo, ed., Financial crises J. Benson and G. Shaw, eds., The evolution of retail systems, c.1800-1914 A. W. Coats, On the history of economic thought, I: British and American essays Anne Digby, Charles Feinstein, and David Jenkins, eds., New directions in economic and social history John Brewer and Roy Porter, eds., Consumption and the world of goods Ben Fine and Ellen Leopold, The world of consumption Peter N. Stearns, The industrial revolution in world history M. D. Bordo and F. Capie, eds., Monetary regimes in transition     

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Book reviewed in this article: Margaret Bonney, Lordship and the urban community: Durham and its overlords, 1250-1540 Peter Borsay, The English urban renaissance: culture and society in the English provincial town, 1660-1770 Rosalind Mitchison and Leah Leneman, Sexuality and social control: Scotland, 1660-1780 J.E. Burnett and A.D. Morrison-Low, ‘Vulgar and Mechanick’: the scientific instrument trade in Ireland, 1650-1921 T. M. Devine, ed., Conflict and stability in Scottish society. Proceedings of the Scottish Historical Studies Seminar. University of Strathclyde, 1988-89 J. V. Beckett, The agricultural revolution Clive Behagg, Politics and production in the early nineteenth century Gregory Claeys, Citizens and saints: politics and anti-politics in early British socialism D. Gareth Evans, A history of Wales, 1815-1906 J.J. Van Helten and Y. Cassis, eds., Capitalism in a mature economy: financial institutions, capital exports and British industry, 1870-1939 W.R. Garside, British unemployment, 1919-1939: a study in public policy Richard Rodger, ed., Scottish housing in the twentieth century Peter Burnham, The political economy of postwar reconstruction Keith Middlemas, Power, competition and the state, 2: threats to the postwar settlement: Britain, 1961-1974 Max Munday, Japanese manufacturing investment in Wales David Herlihy, Opera muliebria: women and work in medieval Europe Herman Lebovics, The alliance of iron and wheat in the Third French Republic, 1860-1914: origins of the new conservatism Paul Weindling, Health, race and German politics between national unification and Nazism, 1870-1945 Hans-Joachim Braun, The German economy in the twentieth century: the German Reich and the Federal Republic Ian D. Turner, ed., Reconstruction in post-war Germany: British occupation policy and the western zones, 1945-1955 B.W. de Vries, From pedlars to textile barons: the economic development of a Jewish minority group in the Netherlands Richard C. Hoffmann, Land, liberties and lordship in a late medieval countryside: agrarian structures and change in the duchy of Wrocclaw David A. Dyker, Yugoslavia: socialism, development and debt Ben Eklof and Stephen P. Frank, eds., The world of the Russian peasant: post-emancipation culture and society Peter Scholliers, ed., Real wages in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe Wayne Thorpe, ‘The workers themselves’: revolutionary syndicalism and international labour, 1913-1923 Stephen A. Marglin and Juliet B. Schor, eds., The golden age of capitalism: reinterpreting the postwar experience Lee Soltow, Distribution of wealth and income in the United States in 1798 Michael Tadman, Speculators and slaves: masters, traders, and slaves in the Old South Don H. Doyle, New men, new cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910 Stephen Salter and John Stevenson, eds., The working class and politics in Europe and America, 1929-1945 Iwan W. Morgan, Eisenhower versus ‘the spenders’: the Eisenhower administration, the Democrats and the budget, 1953-60 Paul Gootenburg, Between silver and guano: Commercial policy and the state in post-independence Peru John Higginson, A working class in the making: Belgian colonial labor policy, private enterprise, and the African mineworker, 1907-1951 Frank Broeze, ed., Brides of the sea: port cities of Asia from the sixteenth-twentieth centuries Anand Chandavarkar, Keynes in India: a study in economics and biography Marie-Claire Bergère, The golden age of the Chinese bourgeoisie, 1911-1937 trans. Janet Lloyd David Faure, The rural economy of pre-liberation China: trade increase and peasant livelihood in Jiangsu and Guangdong, 1870 to 1937 Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, ed., Interactions in the world economy: perspectives from international economic history M. June Flanders, International monetary economics, 1870-1960 Evsey D. Domar, Capitalism, socialism and serfdom C.P. Kindleberger, Economic laws and economic history David C. Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg, Technology and the pursuit of economic growth     

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Book reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND John Blair and Nigel Ramsay, eds., English medieval industries: craftsmen, techniques, products Scott L. Waugh, England in the reign of Edward III Bruce Campbell, ed., Before the Black Death: studies in the‘crisis’of the early fourteenth century Alan Dyer, Decline and growth in English towns, 1400-1640 Hugh Cunningham, The children of the poor: representations of childhood since the seventeenth century David Crossley and Richard Saville, eds., The Fuller letters: guns, slaves and finance, 1728-1755 Jim Holderness and Michael Turner, eds., Land, labour and agriculture, 1700-1920: essays for Gordon Mingay Adrian Randall, Before the Luddites: custom, community and machinery in the English woollen industry, 1776-1809 Richard Brown, Society and economy in modern Britain, 1700-1850 Keith D. M. Snell, Church and chapel in the north midlands: religious observance in the nineteenth century James A. Jaffe, The struggle for market power: industrial relations in the British coal industry, 1800-1840 David Neave, Mutual aid in the Victorian countryside: friendly societies in the rural East Riding, 1830-1914 Clive Dewey, The passing of Barchester Alun Howkins, Reshaping rural England: a social history, 1850-1925 Stephen Coleman and Paddy O'Sullivan, eds., William Morris and‘News from nowhere’: a vision for our time Steven Morewood, Pioneers and inheritors: top management in the Coventry motor industry, 1896-1972 Alec Cairncross, ed., The Robert Hall diaries, 1954-61 Dennis Brailsford, Sport, time and society: the British at play Geoffrey Jones and M. W. Kirby, eds. Competitiveness and the state: government and business in twentieth-century Britain Alice Russell, The growth of occupational welfare in Britain Philip Brook Manville, The origins of citizenship in ancient Athens Alan Harvey, The economic expansion of the Byzantine empire, 900-1200 Daniel Goffman, Izmir and the Levantine world, 1550-1650 Stuart Woolf, ed., Domestic strategies: work and family in France and Italy, 1600-1800 David Sven Reher, Town and country in pre-industrial Spain: Cuenca, 1550-1870 Bruce M. S. Campbell and Mark Overton, eds., Land, labour and livestock: historical studies in European agricultural productivity David Christian, Living water: vodka and Russian society on the eve of emancipation E. Kingston-Mann and T. Mixter, eds., Peasant economy, culture, and politics of European Russia, 1800-1921 Stephen Constantine, ed., Emigrants and empire: British settlement in the dominions between the wars Christopher Clark, The roots of rural capitalism: western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 W. B. Stephens, Sources for U.S. history: nineteenth-century communities J. P. Ronda, Astoria and empire Arthur F. McEvoy, The fisherman's problem: ecology and law in the California fisheries, 1850-1980 Roger L. Ransom, Conflict and compromise: the political economy of slavery, emancipation, and the American Civil War Robert A. Margo, Race and schooling in the South, 1880-1950: an economic history Michael J. French, The U.S. tire industry: a history James Harvey Young, Pure food: securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: industrial workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 Henry R. Nau, The myth of America's decline: leading the world economy into the 1990s Carole Shammas, The pre-industrial consumer in England and America William Lazonick, Competitive advantage on the shop floor Michael Veseth, Mountains of debt: crisis and change in Renaissance Florence, Victorian Britain, and postwar America Mary O'Furner and Barry Supple, eds., The state and economic knowledge F. Bostock and G. Jones, Planning and power in Iran: Ebtehaj and economic development under the Shah Peter Duus, Raymon Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese informal empire in China, 1895-1937 W. Dean Kinzley, Industrial harmony in modern japan: the invention of a tradition John G. Clark, The political economy of world energy: a twentieth-century perspective William J. Barber, ed., Perspectives on the history of economic thought. Vol. 5 Themes in pre-classical and marxian economics. Vol. 6 Themes in Keynesian criticism and supplementary modern topics Robert Higgs, ed., Arms, politics, and the economy: historical and contemporary perspectives O. F. Hamouda and B. B. Price, Verification in economics and history: a sequel to 'scientifization Charles Harvey and Jon Press, eds., International competition and industrial change: essays in the history of mining and metallurgy, 1800-1950 Mary B. Rose, ed., International competition and strategic response in the textile industries since 1870 Bo Gustafsson, ed., Power and economic institutions: reinterpretations in economic history Angus Maddison, Dynamic forces in capitalist development: a long-run comparative view Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin, eds., The power to manage: employers and industrial relations in comparative-historical perspective Maxine Berg, ed., Political economy in the twentieth century Mats Lundahl and Thommy Svensson, eds., Agrarian society in history: essays in honour of Magnus Mörner Lars Jonung, ed., The Stockholm school of economics revisited     

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Books reviewed: Great Britain and Ireland Old age in English history: past experiences, present times, Virginia Berridge Women in medieval English society, P.J.P Goldberg Trade, urban hinterlands and market integration, Phillipp Schofield Historical accounting records: a guide for archivists and researchers, Marianne Pitts The development of agrarian capitalism: land and labour in Norfolk, 1440‐1580, Christorpher Dyer Figures in the landscape: rural society in England, 1500‐1700, Adam Fox Migration and society in Britain, 1550‐1830, Peter Clark British clubs and societies, 1580‐1800: the origins of an associational world, Craig Muldrew Nature contested: environmental history in Scotland and northern England since 1600, Ian Whyte The development of London as a financial centre, Forrest Capie The country housewife’s family companion (1750), Joan Thirsk Nature’s governement: science imperial Britain, and the ’improvement’ of the world, John Gascoigne Gales: a study in brewing, business and family history, Terry Gourvish Fighting words: working‐class formation, collective action, and discourse in early nineteenth‐century England, Owen Jackson Striking a bargain: work and industrial relations in England, 1815‐1865, Julian Davies Patterns of philanthropy, charity and society in nineteenth‐century Bristol, Alan Kidd Merchants to multinationals: British trading companies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Peter Cain The global cigarette, origins and evolution of British American Tabacco, 1880‐1945, B.W.E. Alford Poor women’s lives: gender, work, and poverty in late‐Victorian London, Sheila Blackburn More than munitions: women, work and the engineering industries, 1900‐1950:, Gail Braybon Austerity in Britain: rationing, controls, and consumption, 1939‐1955, Peter Howlett March of the matrons: military influence on the British civilian nursing profession, 1939‐1969, Peter Mohr The British economy since 1945: engaging with the debate, Scott Newton Crises revolutions: and self‐sustained growth: essays in European fiscal history, 1130‐1830, Henry Roseveare The rise of cites in north‐west Europe, Gervase Rosser Privilege and the politics of taxation in eighteenth‐century France; liberté, fiscalité, Morag Martin Histoire agraire de la France au XVIIIe siècle: inerties et changments dans les capagnes françaises entre 1715 et 1815, Hugh Clout French anti‐slavery: the movement for the abolition of slavery in France, 1802‐1848, Pamela Pilbeam The modernist enterprise: French elites and the threat of modernity, 1900‐1940, Jackie Clarke Industrial culture and bourgeois sociey: business, labour, and bureaucracy in modern Germay, Joseph Melling The chameleon state: hlobal culture and policy shifts in Britain and Germany, 1914‐1933, Theo Balderston An economic history of Sweden, Ollie Krantz Silver, trade and war: Spain and America in the making of early modern Europe, Henry Kamen Imagining consumers: design and innovation from Wedgewood to Corning, Cheryl Buckley Reinventing free labor: padrones and immigrant workers in the Norh American West, 1880‐1930,Karen Jones Boodless victories: the rise and fall of the open shop in the Philadelphia metal trades, 1890‐1940, Neil A. Wynn Essays on the great depression, Peter Fearon Airline excutives and federal regulation: case studies in American enterprise from the airmail era to the dawn of the jet age, Michael French Modern forests: statemaking and environmental change in colonial eastern India, John M. Mackenzie The Japanese economy, John F. Wilson Australia in the global economy: coninunity and change, Bernard Attard The great divergence: Europe, China and the making of modern world economy, Philip Richardson Terms of labor: slavery, serdom, and free labor,Kenneth Morgan The legacy of Frederich von Hayek, vols I: Politics; II: Philosophy; III, Economics, Roger Middleton The challenge of global captalism: the world economy int 21st century, Clive H. Lee General Mark Ormrod, Margaret Bonney, & Richard Bonney, eds. Crises, revolutions and self‐sustained growth Adriaan Verhulst. The rise of cities in north‐west Europe Michael Kwass. Privilege and the politics of taxation in eighteenth‐century France Gérard Béaur. Histoire agraire de la France au XVIIIe siècle Lawrence C. Jennings. French anti‐slavery Marjorie A. Beale. The modernist enterprise Jürgen Kocka. Industrial culture and bourgeois society Tien‐lung Liu. The chameleon state Lars Magnusson. An economic history of Sweden Stanley J. Stein & Barbara H. Stein. Silver, trade and war Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Imagining consumers Gunther Peck. Reinventing free labor Howell John Harris. Bloodless victories Ben S. Bernanke. Essays on the great depression W. David Lewis, ed. Airline executives and federal regulation K. Sivaramakrishnan. Modern forests David Flath. The Japanese economy David Meredith & Barrie Dyster. Australia in the global economy Kenneth Pomeranz. The great divergence Stanley L. Engerman, ed. Terms of labor Peter J. Boettke, ed. The legacy of Frederich von Hayek Robert Gilpin with Jean Millis Gilpin. The challenge of global capitalism     

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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     

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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 in this article: D. M. Palliser (ed.), The Cambridge urban history of Britain, I: 600–1540 Christopher Dyer, Making a living in the middle ages: the people of Britain, 850–1520 P. Wardley (ed.), Bristol historical resource Harold Fox, The evolution of the fishing village: landscape and society along the south Devon coast, 1086–1550 L. R. Poos, Lower ecclesiastical jurisdiction in late–medieval England: the courts of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, 1336–1349 and the deanery of Wisbech, 1458–1484 R. H. Darwall–Smith (ed.), Account rolls of University College, Oxford. Volume I: 1381/2–1470/1; Volume II: 1471/2–1596/7 Tim Harris (ed.), The politics of the excluded, c. 1500–1850 Martin S. Daunton, Trusting Leviathan: the politics of taxation in Britain, 1799–1914 Robert Colls and Bill Lancaster (eds.), Newcastle upon Tyne: a modern history Michael Ball and David Sunderland, An economic history of London, 1800–1914 Geoffrey Channon, Railways in Britain and the United States, 1830–1940 P.W. Jackson (ed.), The letter–books of W. Gilbertson & Co. Ltd., Pontardawe, 1890–1929 Edgar Jones, The business of medicine: the extraordinary history of Glaxo Chrisafis H. Iordanoglou, Public enterprise revisited: a closer look at the 1954–79 UK labour productivity record Harold James, The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi economic war against the Jews Vassilis Kardasis, Diaspora merchants in the Black Sea: the Greeks in southern Russia, 1775–1861 W. Bruce Lincoln, Sunlight at midnight: St Petersburg and the rise of modern Russia John Barber and Mark Harrison (eds.), The Soviet defence–industry complex from Stalin to Khrushchev Catherine Panter–Brick and Malcolm T. Smith (eds.), Abandoned children Colin Heywood, A history of childhood: children and childhood in the West from medieval to modern times Helen Meller, European cities, 1890–1930s: history, culture and the built environment Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton (eds.), The politics of consumption: material culture and citizenship in Europe and America Denis O’Hearn, The Atlantic economy: Britain, the US and Ireland Robert J. Steinfeld, Coercion, contract and free labour in the nineteenth century Roger Chickering and Stig Förster (eds.), Great War, total war: combat and mobilization on the Western Front, 1914–1918 Joel Beinin, Workers and peasants in the modern Middle East Gloria L. Main, Peoples of a spacious land: families and cultures in colonial New England Miriam Wright, A fishery for modern times: the state and the industrialization of the Newfoundland fishery, 1934–1968 Prasannan Parthasarathi, The transition to a colonial economy: weavers, merchants and kings in south India, 1720–1800 Ian Inkster, Japanese industrialisation: historical and cultural perspectives Ian Inkster, The Japanese industrial economy: late development and cultural causation     

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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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Book reviewed in this article: David A. Hinton, Archaeology, economy and society: England from the fifth to the fifteenth century Peter Brimblecombe, The big smoke: a history of air pollution in London since medieval times David Pam, A history of Enfield. Vol. I: before 1837. A parish near London Peter J. Bowden, ed., Economic change: wages, profits and rents, 1500-1750. Chapters from ‘The agrarian history of England and Wales’, vol. I Ann Kussmaul, A general view of the rural economy of England, 1538-1840 David J. Starkey, British privateering enterprise in the eighteenth century Hoh-Cheung Mui and Lorna H. Mui, Shops and shopkeeping in eighteenth-century England F. M. L. Thompson, ed., The Cambridge social history of Britain, 1750-1950 Barry Reay, The last rising of the agricultural labourers: rural life and protest in nineteenth-century England Kenneth Warren, Consett iron, 1840 to 1980: a study in industrial location Peter N. Davies, Fyffes and the banana: Musa Sapientum. A centenary history, 1888-1988 Richard Whipp, Patterns of labour: work and social change in the pottery industry Eric M. Sigsworth, Montague Burton: the tailor of taste David J. Jeremy, Capitalists and Christians: business leaders and the churches in Britain, 1900-1960 Pádraig McGowan, Money and banking in Ireland: origins, development and future Jon Press, The footwear industry in Ireland, 1922-1973 Justin Davis Smith, The Attlee and Churchill administrations and industrial unrest, 1945-55: a study in consensus Richard Holt, ed., Sport and the working class in modern Britain Bruce Collins and Keith Robbins, eds., British culture and economic decline GENERALJohn Komlos, Nutrition and economic development in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy: an anthropometric history Heinrich Becker, Handlungsspielräume in der Agrarpolitik in der Weimarer Republik zwischen 1923 und 1929 Joel D. Benson, Cooperation to competition: English perspective and policy on Anglo-Dutch economic relations during the reign of James I R. T. Griffiths, ed., The Netherlands and the economic integration of Europe, 1945-1957 Timo Myllyntaus, The gatecrashing apprentice: industrialising Finland as an adopter of new technology Martin Blinkhorn, ed., Fascists and conservatives: the radical right and the establishment in twentieth-century Europe Charles Tilly, Coercion, capital, and European states: AD 990-1990 Clive Archer, Organizing western Europe Arthur Marwick et al., War, peace and social change: Europe, 1900-1955 William Molle, The economics of European integration Roy Porter, ed., The medical history of waters and spas Pat Hudson and W. R. Lee, eds., Women's work and the family economy in historical perspective R. Bartlett, ed., Land commune and peasant community in Russia Stuart Bruchey, Enterprise: the dynamic economy of a free people John Graham, ed., ‘Yours for the revolution’: The Appeal to Reason, 1895-1922 Gerald D. Nash, World War II and the west: reshaping the economy Randall Bennett Woods, A changing of the guard: Anglo-American relations, 1941-1946 Richard F. Hirsh, Technology and transformation in the American electric utility industy Paul J. Miranti, Accountancy comes of age Joy Parr, The gender of breadwinners: women, men and change in two industrial towns, 1880-1950 Guy P. C. Thomson, Puebla de los Angeles: industy and society in a Mexican city, 1700-1870 David Robinson, ed., Migration in colonial Spanish America Philip D. Curtin, The rise and fall of the plantation complex: essays in Atlantic history Jan Breman, Labour migration and rural transformation in colonial Asia S. D. Punekar and R. Varickayil, eds., Labour movement in India, documents 1850-1890, I: Mines and plantations Robin Jeffrey et al., eds., India: rebellion to republic—selected writings, 1857-1990 Angus Maddison and Gé Prince, eds., Economic growth in Indonesia, 1820-1940 Jean Batou, Cent ans de résistance au sous-développement: l'industrialisation de l'Amérique Latine et du Moyen-Orient face au défi européen, 1770-1870 Peter Mathias and John A. Davis, eds., The first industrial nations Christian Suter, Schuldenzyklen in der Dritten Welt: Kreditaufnalhme, Zahlungskrisen und Schuldenregelungen peripherer Länder im Welstystem von 1820 bis 1986 M. J. Daunton, ed., Housing the workers: a comparative history, 1850-1914 Carl H. A. Dassbach, Global enterprises and the world economy: Ford, General Motors, and IBM: the emergence of the transnational enterprise Martin Chick, ed., Governments, industries and markets: aspects of government-industry relations in the UK, Japan, West Germany and the USA since 1945 W. W. Rostow, Theorists of economic growth from David Hume to the present Gerald D. Feldman and Klaus Tenfelde, eds., Workers, Owners and politics in coal mining: an international comparison of industrial relations A. Teichova, M. Lévy-Leboyer, and H. Nussbaum, eds., Historical studies in international corporate business R. T. P. Davenport-Hines, ed., Business in the age of depression and war     

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Book reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Eric Gordon, Eynsham Abbey, 1005-1228 M. W. Greenslade, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: a history of the county of Stafford, xiv: the city of Lichfield Richard Holt and Gervase Rosser, The English medieval town: a reader in English urban history, 1200-1540 Frank Musgrove, The north of England Richard S. Smith, Early coal-mining around Nottingham, 1500-1650 Barbara English, The great landowners of east Yorkshire, 1530-1910 David Levine and Keith Wrightson, The making of an industrial society: Whickham, 1560-1765 Phyllis Hembry, The English spa, 1560-1815: a social history Theodore Koditschek, Class formation and industrial society: Bradford, 1750-1850 Jane Fiske, ed., The Oakes diaries: business, politics and the family in Bury St Edmunds, 1778-1827. I. Introduction: lames Oakes’diaries, 1778-1800 James E. Bradley, Religion, revolution and English radicalism: non-conformity in eighteenth-century politics and society John Belchem, Industrialization and the working class: the English experience, 1750-1900 Jeffrey G. Williamson, Coping with city growth during the British industrial revolution Clark Nardinelli, Child labour and the industrial revolution Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, and Annabel Gregory, Height, health and history: nutritional status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980 Alex Mercer, Disease, mortality and population in transition: epidemiological-demographic change in England since the eighteenth century as part of a global phenomenon John E. Archer, By a flash and a scare: arson, animal maiming, and poaching in East Anglia. 1815-1870 Michael Hunter and Robert Thorne, eds., Change at King's Cross R. J. Morris, Class, sect and party: the making of the British middle class. Leeds, 1820-1850 Cynthia Brown, Northampton, 1835-1985: shoe town, new town Dieter Ziegler, trans. Eileen Martin, Central bank, peripheral industry: the Bank of England in the provinces, 1826-1913 David McCrone, Stephen Kendrick, and Pat Straw, ed., The making of Scotland: nation, culture and social change Edgar Jones, A history of GKN, 2: the growth of the business, 1918-1945 G. H. Martin and Peter Spufford, eds., The records of the nation: the Public Record Office, 1838-1988: the British Record Society, 1888-1988 Harvey J. Kaye and Keith McClelland, eds., E. P. Thompson: critical perspectives GENERAL Richard Duncan-Jones, Structure and scale in the Roman economy Marc Boone, Geld en macht: de Gentse stadsfinancien en de Bourgondische staatsvorming, 1384-1453 Larry Neal, The rise of financial capitalism: international capital markets in the age of reason Lars T. Lih, Bread and authority in Russia, 1914-1921 Roger Pethybridge, One step backwards, two steps forward: Soviet society and politics under the new economic policy William Moskoff, The bread of affliction: the food supply in the USSR during World War II Georges Sabagh, ed., The modern economic and social history of the Middle East in its world context M. W. Daly, Imperial Sudan: the Anglo-Egyptian condominium, 1934-1956 Zbigniew A. Konczacki, Jane L. Parpart, and Timothy M. Shaw, eds., Studies in the economic history of southern Africa, I: the Front-Line States David J. Jeremy, Technology and power in the early American cotton industry: James Montgomery, the second edition of his‘Cotton manufacture’(1840), and the Justitia’controversy about relative power costs Tom Kemp, The climax of capitalism: the U.S. economy in the twentienth century Frank Griffith Dawson, The first Latin American debt crisis: The City of London and the 1822-25 loan bubble Mauricio Font, Coffee, contention, and change in the making of modern Brazil Dennis L. McNamara, The colonial origins of Korean enterprise, 1910-1945 Harold Blakemore, From the Pacific to La Paz: the Antofagasta Lawrence I. Conrad, ed., The formation and perception of the modern Arab world: studies by Marwan R. Buheiry M. Mann, ed., The rise and decline of the nation state Geoffrey Jones, ed., Banks as multinationals Bruna Ingrao & Giorgio Israel     

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

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

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Books reviewed in this article: 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: 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     

Book Reviews

Great Britain and Ireland Bruce M. S. Campbell, English seigniorial agriculture Angus J. L.Winchester, The harvest of the hills: rural life in northern England and the Scottish borders Keith Wrightson, Earthly necessities: economic lives in early modern Britain Michael Zell, ed., Early modern Kent, 1540–1640 Peter Clark, ed., The Cambridge urban history of Britain, II: 1540–1840 Tim Meldrum, Domestic service and gender, 1660–1750: life and work in the London household Julian Hoppit, A land of liberty? England, 1689–1727 Jon Stobart and Alastair Owens, eds., Urban fortunes: property and inheritance in the town, 1700–1900 Hilary Young, English porcelain, 1745–95: its makers, design, marketing and consumption Joan Lane, A social history of medicine: health, healing and disease in England, 1750–1950 Irene Maver, Glasgow David Brooke, ed., The diary of William Mackenzie: the first international railway contractor Matthew Hilton, Smoking in British popular culture, 1800–2000 Donald M. MacRaild and David E. Martin, Labour in British society, 1830–1914 Eric Hopkins, Industrialisation and society: a social history, 1830–1951 R. L. Greenhall, The making of Victorian Salford E. J. T. Collins, ed., The agrarian history of England and Wales, VII: 1850–1914 Royden J. Harrison, The life and times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858–1905: the formative years Anne Hardy, Health and medicine in Britain since 1860 Michael Moss, J. Forbes Munro, and Richard H. Trainor, University, city and state: the University of Glasgow since 1870 General David J. Mattingly and John Salmon, eds., Economies beyond agriculture in the classical world R. I. Moore, The first European revolution, c. 970–1215 Sandra Cavallo and Lyndan Warner, eds., Widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe Ross B. Emmett, ed., Great bubbles: reactions to the South Sea Bubble, the Mississippi scheme and the tulip mania affair B. W. De Vries, Of mettle and metal: from court Jews to world‐wide industrialists Thomas Thorburn, The economics of transport: the Swedish case, 1780–1980 Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel, eds., A population history of North America David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson, and Herbert S. Klein, eds., The trans‐Atlantic slave trade: a database on CD‐Rom Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, eds., The Cambridge economic history of the United States, II: the long nineteenth century Russell Johnston, Selling themselves: the emergence of Canadian advertising Amiya Kumar Bagchi, ed., Economy and organization: Indian institutions under the neoliberal regime Robert Bickers and Christian Henriot, eds., New frontiers: imperialism's new communities in east Asia, 1842–1953 Carl Mosk, Japanese industrial history: technology, urbanization, and economic growth Mikio Sumiya, ed., A history of Japanese trade and industry policy David R. Meyer, Hong Kong as a global metropolis Silvia Marzagalli and Hubert Bonin, eds., Négoce, ports et océans, XVIe–XXe siècles: mélanges offerts à Paul Butel Pier Angelo Toninelli, ed., The rise and fall of state‐owned enterprise in the western world Rosa‐Maria Gelpi and François Julien‐Labruyère, The history of consumer credit doctrines and practices David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee, Paying with plastic: the digital revolution in buying and borrowing Israel M. Kirzner, The driving force of the market: essays in Austrian economics