Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles: Optirnisation of Agricultural Resource Use in Asia and the Pacific The World Rubber Industry Colin Barlow, Sisira Jayasuriya and C. Suan Tan Routledge The Newly Industrialising Economies of East Asia Anis Chowdhury and Iyanatul Islam Debating Singapore: reflective essays Edited by Derek Da Cunha Subsistence to Supermarket: food and agricultural transformation in Southeast Asia Five Small Open Economies Edited by R. Findlay and S. Wellisz Quand la riziEère rencontre I'ásphalte:…Semis urbain et processus d'urbanisation à Java-est (Indonesie) [When the paddy field meets the asphalt: The urban seed-bed and the process of urbanisation in East Java] Asia Pacific Regionalism: madings in international economic relations Ross Garnaut and Peter Drysdale Grain in China: a report Ross Garnaut and Guonan Ma Health Care In Asia: a comparative study of cost and financing Charles C Griffin Indonesia's New Order: the dynamics of socio-economic transformation Edited by Hal Hill Trade and Growth: a Korean perspective Wontack Hong Coming Full Circle: an economic history of the Pacific rim Eric Jones, Lionel Frost and Colin White Taxation and Economic Development Among Pacific Asian Countries Edited by R. A. Musgrave Foreign Direct Investment Relations Between the OECD and the Dynamic Asian Economies: the Bangkok Workshop Emerging Bond Markets in the Dynamic Asian Economies Technological Transformation in the Third World: Volume I: Asia Edited by S. J. Patel Avebury Contrasting Styles of Industrial Reform: China and India in the 1980s George Rosen Energy, Environment and the Oil Market: an Asia-Pacific perspective Edited by Shankar Sharma Sustainable Development of Small Island Economies Hiroshi Kakazu Hard Emes on Kairiru Island: poverty, development and morality in a Papua New Guinea village Michael French Smith Industry on the Move: causes and consequences of international relocation in the manufacturing industry Edited by Gijsbert van Liemt The Thai Economy in Transition Edited by Peter G. Warr China: foreign trade reform     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed Lewis Johnman and Hugh Murphy, Scott Lithgow: Déjà Vu All Over Again! The Rise and Fall of a Shipbuilding Company. St. John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2005. xi + 364 pp. ISBN: 0 9738934 0 0. Softback US$15.00.
Reviewed by Tony Arnold
University of Leicester Gordon Jackson, The British Whaling Trade. St. John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2005. xvi + 293 pp. ISBN: 0 9730073 9 7. Paperback US$15.
Reviewed by Tony Barrow
The Open University Adrian Jarvis, In Troubled Times: the Port of Liverpool, 1905–1938. St John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2003. viii + 232 pp. ISBN: 0 9730073 6 2. Paperback US$15.00.
Reviewed by Gordon Boyce
Queensland University of Technology Gwenda Tavan, The Long, Slow Death of White Australia. Melbourne: Scribe, 2005. 298 pp. ISBN: 1 920769 46 3. Paperback A$32.95.
Reviewed by Stephen Constantine
Lancaster University Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, International Trade in East Asia (NBER East Asia Seminar on Economics, Volume 14). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 392 pp. ISBN: 0 226 37896 9. Cloth US$80.
Reviewed by Gary Hawke
Victoria University of Wellington Graeme Hunt, Centenary: One Hundred Years of State Insurance. Auckland: IAG New Zealand Ltd, 2005. 238 pp. ISBN: O 473 10097 5. Paperback $NZ29.95.
Reviewed by Frank Holmes
Victoria University of Wellington L. Sharon Davidson and Stephen Salisbury, Australia’s First Bank: 50 Years from the Wales to Westpac. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005. 407 pp. ISBN: 0 86840 791 7. Paperback $49.95.
Reviewed by Frank Holmes
Victoria University of Wellington Bruce Pennay, Making a City in the Country – The Albury‐Wodonga National Growth Centre Project 1973–2003. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005. xi + 387 pp. ISBN 0 86840 944 8. Paperback $49.95.
Reviewed by Twan Huybers
University of New South Wales at Australian Defence Force Academy Patricia Jalland, Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. viii + 409pp. ISBN: 0 86840 905 7. Paperback. $39.95.
Reviewed by Fergus King
Anglican Diocese of Newcastle Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi (eds), Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age (1848–1920). Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005. xviii + 315 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 3965 7. Hardback £55.
Reviewed by Warren J. Samuels
Michigan State University     

BOOK REVIEWS

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

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed Simon Guttmann, The Rise and Fall of Monetary Targeting in Australia. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. xvi + 332 pp. ISBN: 1 74097 073 X. Paperback $39.95.
Reviewed by Peter Stemp
Australian National University John Singleton, Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke and Frank Holmes, Innovation and Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand 1973–2002. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006. xii + 340 pp. ISBN: 1 86940 364 9. Hardback NZ $49.99.
Reviewed by Paul D. Mizen
University of Nottingham Ann M. Woodall, What Price the Poor? William Booth, Karl Marx and the London Residuum. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. xii + 233 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 4203 8. Hardback £50.
Reviewed by John Singleton
Victoria University of Wellington Madeleine Zelin, The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xxiv + 404 pp. ISBN: 0 231 13596 3. Hardback US $45.00.
Reviewed by Tim Wright
University of Sheffield     

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Book reviewed in this articles: Small Industry in Malaysia. By Chee Peng Lim . The Indonesian Interisland Shipping Industry: An Analysis of Competition and Regulation. By H.W. Dick . The Political Economy of Manufacturing Protection: Experiences of ASEAN and Australia. Edited by Christopher Findlay and Ross Garnaut . The Demographic Dimension in Indonesian Development. By Graeme J. Hugo , Terence H. Hull , Valerie J. Hull and Gavin W. Jones . Southeast Asian Affairs 1986. The Forest Resources of Malaysia: Their Economics and Development. By Raj Kumar . Rural China Today. By Frank Leeming . Organizations and Growth in Rural China. By Marsh Marshall . China's Agricultural Modernization: The Socialist Mechanization Scheme. By Tam On Kit . ASEAN-Australia Trade in Manufactures. By David Lim . Trade, Employment and Industrialization in Singapore. By Linda Lim and Pang Eng Fong . Central Government and Local Development in Indonesia. Edited by Colin Mac Acandrews . Industrial Policies for Pacific Economic Growth. Edited by Hiromichi Mutoh , Sueo Sekiguchi , Kotaro Suzumura and Ippei Yamazawa . The Lion and the Mouse? Japan, Asia and Thailand. Edited by Pasuk Phongpaichit , Busaba Kunasirin , and Buddhagarn Rutchatorn . Hong Kong's Financial Institutions and Markets. Edited by Robert Hanley Scott K.A. Wong and Yan Ki Ho . Off-Farm Employment in the Development of Rural Asia. Edited by R.T. Shand . Fertility in Asia: Assessing the Impact of Development Projects. Edited by John Stoeckel and Anrudh K. Jain. A Question of Class: Capital, the State, and Uneven Development in Malaya. By Jomo Kwame Sundaram. The Economics of Integrated Pest Control in Rice: A Case Study from the Philippines. By Hermann Waibel. China: Long-term Development Issues and Options. A World Bank Country Report.     

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Book reviewed in this articles: Rural Transformation in Asia Edited by Jan Breman, and Sudipto Mundle Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia Edited by John Connell and Richard Howitt Southeast Asia in the World-Economy Chris Dixon The Creation of Technological Capability in Developing Countries J. L. Enos The Agrarian Question in North Vietnam, 1974–1979: A Study of Co-operator Resistance to State Policy Adam Fforde Labor Standards and Development in the Global Economy Edited by Stephen Herzenberg and Jorge F. Perez-Lopez Growth Triangle: The Johor-Singapore-Riau Experience. Edited by Lee Tsao Yuan Conflict over Natural Resources in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Edited by Lim Teck Ghee and Mark J. Valencia Singapore: City-State in South-East Asia Philippe Régnier (in translation) Thailand and the United States, Development, Security, and Foreign Aid Robert R. Muscat Pacific Basin Developing Countries: Prospects for the Future. Marcus Noland Money in the People's Republic of China: A Comparative Perspective Gavin Peebles Socio-Econontic Development in Vietnam: The Agenda for the 1990s. Edited by Per Ronnas and Orjan Sjoberg Pacific-Basin Capital Markets Research, Volumes I and II Edited by S. G. Rhee and R. P. Chang The China-Hong Kong Connection: The Key to China's Open Door Policy Yun-Wing Sung     

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Book reviewed in this articles: Thailand: natural resources profile Anat Arbhabhirama, Dhira Phantumvanit, John Elkington and Phaitoon Ingkasuwan Export Finance: some Asian examples The Money Markets of Developing East Asia Robert F. Emery Research and Productivity in Asian Agriculture Robert E. Evenson and Carl E. Pray China's Participation in the IMF, the World Bank, and GATT: towards a global economic order Harold K. Jacobson and Michel Oksenberg China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the World Trading System Penelopé Hartland-Thunberg Taxation of Foreign Investment in the People's Republic of China A. J. Easson and Li, Jinyan Southeast Asian Capitalists Edited by Ruth McVey Reforming Economic Systems in Developing Countries Edited by Dwight H. Perkins and Michael Roemer. Myanmar's External Trade: an overview in the Southeast Asian context Than, Mya China's Strategic Demographic Initiative H. Yuan Tien Disarray in World Food Markets: a quantitative assessment Rod Tyers and Kym Anderson     

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Books reviewed in this article: Rural Development Planning: Design and Method by S. N. Mishra Rural Development: Putting the Last First by Robert Chambers African Regional Organizations, edited by Domenico Mazzeo     

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Grahame Thompson (ed.), Economic Dynamism in the Asia-Pacific: the growth of integration and competitiveness Danny Unger, Building Social Capital in Thailand: fibers, finance and infrastructure Susan Horton (ed.), Women and Industrialization in Asia J. Thomas Lindblad, Foreign Investment in Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century Wendy Dobson and Chia Siow Yue (eds), Multinationals and East Asian Integration Hal Hill and Thee Kian Wie (eds), Indonesia’s Technological Challenge Erhard Berner, Defending a Place in the City: localities and the struggle for urban land in Metro Manila H. W. Arndt, Essays in International Economics 1944-1994 Ramon Moreno and Gloria Pasadilla (eds), Asia: responding to crisis Wolfgang Pape (ed.), East Asia by the Year 2000 and Beyond: shaping factors Wang Gungwu and John Wong (eds), China’s Political Economy Haishun Sun, Foreign Investment and Economic Development in China: 1979-1996 Ian Chalmers and Vedi R. Hadiz (eds), The Politics of Economic Development in Indonesia: contending perspectives Ross H. McLeod and Ross Garnaut (eds), East Asia in Crisis: from being a miracle to needing one? Masahiko Aoki, Hyung-Ki Kim and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara (eds), The Role of Government in East Asian Economic Development: comparative institutional analysis Linsu Kim, Imitation to Innovation: the dynamics of Korea’s technological learning Toh Mun Heng and Tan Kong Yam (eds), Competitiveness of the Singapore Economy: a strategic perspective     

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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     

Book Reviews

Britnell, Richard and Hatcher, John (eds) Progress and problems in medieval England Carpenter, Christine (ed) Kingsford’s Stonor letters and papers, 1290-1483 Carlin, Martha Medieval Southwark Greenslade, M.W. (ed) The Victoria history of the county of Stafford. VII: Leek and the moorlands Sambrook, Pamela Country house brewing in England, 1500–1900 Griffiths, Paul Youth and authority: formative experience in England, 1560–1640 Daunton, Martin (ed) Charity, self interest and welfare in the English past Armstrong, Alan (ed) The economy of Kent, 1640–1914 Saville, Richard Bank of Scotland: a history, 1695–1995 Sanderson, Elizabeth C. Women and work in eighteenth-century Edinburgh Brown, Kenneth D. The British toy industry: a history since 1700 Panayi, Panikos German immigrants in Britain during the nineteenth century, 1815–1914 Gray, Robert The factory question and industrial England, 1830–1860 Kadish, Alon (ed) The corn laws: the formation of popular economics in Britain Kirk, Neville (ed) Social class and Marxism: defences and challenges Cherry, Steven Medical services and the hospitals in Britain, 1860–1939 Perren, Richard Agriculture in depression, 1870–1940 Glynn, Sean and Booth, Alan Modern Britain: an economic and social history Roberts, Elizabeth Women and families: an oral history, 1940–1970 Tranter, N.L. British population in the twentieth century Coopey, Richard and Woodward, Nicholas (eds) Britain in the 1970s: the troubled economy Hoffman, Philip T. Growth in a traditional society: the French countryside, 1450–1815 Heller, Henry Labour, science and technology in France, 1500–1620 Johnson, Christopher H. The life and death of industrial Languedoc, 1700–1920 Ferguson, Niall Paper and iron: Hamburg business and German politics in the era of inflation, 1897–1927 Fontaine, Laurence History of pedlars in Europe Kagan, Richard L. and Parker, Geoffrey (eds) Spain, Europe and the Atlantic world: essays in honour of John H. Elliott Morawska, Ewa Insecure prosperity: small-town Jews in industrial America, 1890–1940 Galambos, L. and Sewell, J.E. Networks of innovation: vaccine development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme and Mulford, 1895–1995 Clotfelter, Charles T. Buying the best: cost escalation in elite higher education Fagge, Roger Power, culture and conflict in the coalfields: West Virginia and south Wales, 1900–22 Hart, Vivien Bound by our constitution Winters, Jeffrey A. Power in motion: capital mobility and the Indonesian state Beasley, W.G. Japan encounters the barbarian: Japanese travellers in America and Europe Schwartz, Stuart B. (ed) Implicit understandings: observing, reporting, and reflecting on the encounters between Europeans and other peoples in the early modern era Perkin, Harold, The third revolution: professional elites in the modern world Braga de Macedo, J., Eichengreen, B. and Reis, J. Currency convertibility: the gold standard and beyond Officer, Lawrence Between the dollar-sterling gold points: rates, parity, and market behaviour Irwin, Douglas A. Against the tide: an intellectual history of free trade     

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Book reviewed in this articles: In the Shadow of Agriculture Paul Alexander, Peter Boomgaard and Ben White (eds) New Silk Roads: East Asia and the world textile markets Kym Anderson (ed.) Balanced Development: East Java in the New Order Edited by Howard Dick, James J. Fox and Jamie Mackie Korea in the World Economy II Sakong Korean Economic Dynamism Dilip K. Das The Regulatory Impediments to the Private Industrial Sector Development in Asia: a comparative study Deena R. Khatkhate Informal Financial Markets in Developing Countries: a macroeconomic analysis Peter Montiel, Pierre-Richard Agénor and Nadeem Ul Haque Labour Markets and Human Resource Planning in Asia: perspectives and evidence M. Muqtada and A. Hildeman (eds) Human Resources in Development Along the Asia-Pacific Rim Naohiro Ogawa, Gavin W. Jones and Jeffrey G. Williamson Growth Mechanism of Developing Economies: investment, productivity and employment Kazushi Ohkawa, with Katsuo Otsuka and Bernard Key Business Cycles in Asia Hiroshi Osada and Daisuke Hiratsuka (eds) A Captive Land: the politics of agrarian reform in the Philippines James Putzel Indonesia: industrial growth and diversification The Poverty of Plenty Wang Xiaoqiang and Bai Nanfeng (trans. Angela Knox) Rural Reform and Peasant Income in China: the impact of China's post-Mao reforms in selected regions Zhu Ling Discrimination Against Agriculture in Developing Countries? Manfred Wiebelt, Roland Herrmann, Patricia Schenck and Rainer Thiele The Political Economy of Policy Reform John Williamson (ed.) Evolution of Asia-Pacific Economies: international trade and direct investment Ippei Yamazawa and Fu-Chen Lo (eds)     

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

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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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GREAT BRITAIN G. Whittington and I. D. Whyte (Eds.). An Historical Geography of Scotland. Mark Buck . Politics, Finance, and the Church in the Reign of Edward II: Walter Stapledon, Treasurer of England. Cicely Howell . Land, Family, and Inheritance in Transition: Kibworth Harcourt, 1280-1700. G. D. Ramsay . The English Woollen Industry, 1500-1750. Lloyd Bonfield . Marriage Settlements, 1601-1740: The Adoption of the Strict Settlement. Barbara English and John Saville . Strict Settlement: A Guide for Historians. Harold Pollins . Economic History of the Jews in England. D. T. Jenkins and K. G. Ponting . The British Wool Textile Industry, 1770-1914. Richard G. Wilson . Greene King: A Business and Family History. Roger Morris . The Royal Dockyards during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. D. J. Rowe . Lead Manufacturing in Britain: A History. Brian Harrison . Peaceable Kingdom: Stability and Change in Modern Britain. Anthony S. Wohl . Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Michael J. Winstanley . The Shopkeeper's World, 1830-1914. Henry Weisser . April 10: Challenge and Response in England in 1848. P. J. Waller . Town, City, and Nation: England 1850-1914. Joseph Buckman . Immigrants and the Class Struggle: The Jewish Immigrant in Leeds, 1880-1914. Joseph Melling . Rent Strikes: Peoples’Struggle for Housing in West Scotland, 1890-1916. Jonathan S. Boswell . Business Policies in the Making: Three Steel Companies Compared. J. R. Winton . Lloyds Bank, 1918-1969. E. H. Phelps Brown . The Origins of Trade Union Power. Paul Thompson , Tony Wailey and Trevor Lummis . Living the Fishing. GENERAL N. B. Harte and K. G. Ponting (Eds.). Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe: Essays in Memory of Professor E. M. Carus-Wilson. F. M. L. Thompson (Ed.). Horses in European Economic History: A Preliminary Canter. Pino Arlacchi . Mafia, Peasants, and Great Estates: Society in Traditional Calabria. James C. Boyajian . Portuguese Bankers at the Court of Spain, 1626-1650. Hermann Rebel . Peasant Classes: The Bureaucratization of Property and Family Relations under Early Habsburg Absolutism, 1511-1636. John Komlos . The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union: Economic Development in Austria-Hungary in the Nineteenth Century. Leslie Page Moch . Paths to the City: Regional Migration in Nineteenth-Century France. Roger Price . The Modernization of Rural France: Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century France. Eddy van Cauwenberghe . Het Vorstelijk Domein en de Overheidsfinanciën in de Nederlanden (15de en 16de eeuw): Een Kwantitatieve Analyse van Vlaamse en Brabantse Domeinrekeningen. Frank C. Spooner . Risks at Sea: Amsterdam Insurance and Maritime Europe, 1766-1780. Daniel Degreve . Le Commerce extérieur de la Belgique, 1830-1913-1939: Présentation critique des données statistiques. S. A. Smith . Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917-1918. David G. Alexander . Atlantic Canada and Confederation: Essays in Canadian Political Economy, compiled by Eric W. Sager, Lewis R. Fischer, and Stuart O. Pierson. Jonathan Prude . The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860. Eugene Nelson White . The Regulation and Reform of the American Banking System, 1900-1929. Valerie Jean Conner . The National War Labor Board: Stability, Social Justice, and the Voluntary State in World War I. Nelson Lichtenstein . Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II. Howell J. Harris . The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s. B. S. Mc Beth . Juan Vincente Goméz and the Oil Companies in Venezuela, 1908-1935. Robert Grant Irving . Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker, and Imperial Delhi. Richard Newman . Workers and Unions in Bombay, 1918-1929: A Study of Organization in the Cotton Mills. Howard F. Gospel and Craig R. Littler (Eds.). Managerial Strategies and Industrial Relations: An Historical and Comparative Study. John Cunningham Wood . British Economists and the Empire. K. E. Born . International Banking in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. A. W. Coats (Ed.). Economists in Government: An International Comparative Study. Studies in Economic and Social History     

BOOK REVIEWS

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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Books Reviewed in this article: Great Britain And Ireland A. Curry and E. Matthew, eds., Concepts and patterns of service in the later middle ages, I: the fifteenth century Peter Clark and Raymond Gillespie, eds., Two capitals: London and Dublin, 1500–1840 David Hickman, ed., Lincoln wills, 1532–1534 Jill Barlow, ed., A calendar of the registers of apprentices of the city of Gloucester, 1595–1700 Todd M. Endelman, The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000 Madge Dresser, Slavery obscured: the social history of the slave trade in an English provincial port Thomas Sokoll, ed., Essex pauper letters, 1731–1837 Richard Rodger, The transformation of Edinburgh: land, property and trust in the nineteenth century Bernard Cronin, Technology, industrial conflict and the development of technical education in nineteenth–century England Glyn Jones, The millers: a story of technological endeavour and industrial success, 1870–2001 Jeffrey Hill, Sport. leisure and culture in twentieth–century Britain Thomas Gibson, Road haulage by motor in Britain: the first forty years Alan F. Wilt, Food for war: agriculture and rearmament in Britain before the Second World War A. Hinds, Britain's sterling colonial policy and decolonization, 1939–1958 George Symeonidis, The effects of competition: cartel policy and the evolution of British industrial policy General Paul Cartledge, Edward E. Cohen, and Lin Foxhall, eds., Money, labour and land: approaches to the economies of ancient Greece Thomas J. Sargent and François R. Velde, The big problem of small change Patrick O’Brien, Marjolein ’t Hart, Derek Keene, and Hermann Van der Wee, eds., Urban achievement in early modern Europe: golden ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London Stephen L. Harp, Marketing Michelin: advertising and cultural identity in twentieth–century France Tom Scott, Society and economy in Germany, 1300–1600 Jon Cohen and Giovanni Federico, The growth of the Italian economy, 1820–1960 Ken Albala, Eating right in the Renaissance Patrick Griffin, The people with no name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the creation of a British Atlantic world, 1689–1764 Laura Rigal, The American manufactory: art, labor, and the world of things in the early republic Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Looking for work, searching for workers: American labor markets during industrialization Wyatt Wells, Antitrust and the formation of the postwar world Charles Levenstein and Gregory F. DeLaurier, with Mary Lee Dunn, The cotton dust papers: science, politics, and power in the ‘discovery’ of byssinosis in the US Timothy Curtis Jacobson and George David Smith, Cotton's renaissance: a study in market innovation Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor, Straining at the anchor: the Argentine Currency Board and the search for macroeconomic stability, 1880–1935 Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook, and Andrew Reeves, eds., Gold: forgotten histories and lost objects of Australia Lou Taylor, The study of dress history Luis Suarez–Villa, Invention and the rise of technocapitalism Gordon Boyce, Co–operative structures in global business: communicating, transferring knowledge and learning across the corporate frontier     

Book Reviews

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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GREAT BRITAIN Ellen Wedemeyer Moore . The fairs of medieval England: an introductory survey. Graham Platts . History of Lincolnshire IV: land and people in medieval Lincolnshire. Colum Giles . Rural houses of west Yorkshire, 1400-1830. Lucy Caffyn . Workers’housing in west Yorkshire, 1750-1920. Paul S. Seaver . Wallington's world: a puritan artisan in seventeenth-century London. J. M. Beattie . Crime and the courts in England, 1660-1800 John V. Pickstone . Medicine and industrial society: a history of hospital development in Manchester and its region 1752-1946. Biancamaria Fontana . Rethinking the politics of commercial society: the Edinburgh Review, 1802-1832. John Belchem . Orator Hunt’: Henry Hunt and English working-class radicalism. Roy Church (with the assistance of Alan Hall and John Kanefsky ). The history of the British coal industry. Volume 2: 1830-1913. Victorian pre-eminence. T. C. Smout . A century of the Scottish people, 1830-1950. D. C. M. Platt . Britain's investment overseas on the eve of the First World War: the use and abuse of numbers. Eric Taplin . The Dockers’union: a study of the National Union of Dock Labourers, 1889-1922. Anthony Sutcliffe (Ed.). Metropolis, 1890-1940. S. N. Broadberry . The British economy between the wars; a macroeconomic survey. J. M. Winter . The Great War and the British people. Alec Cairncross . The price of war: British policy on German reparations, 1941-1949. Stephen Wagg . The football world: a contemporary social history. George Gordon (Ed.). Regional cities in the United Kingdom, 1890-1980. GENERAL Donald Reid . The miners of Decazeville: a genealogy of de-industrialization. Steven Laurence Kaplan and Cynthia J. Koepp (Eds.). Work in France: representations, meaning, organization and practice. Richard J. Evans and W. R. Lee (Eds.). The German peasantry: conflict and community in rural society from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. A. Heerding . (Translated by Derek S. Jordan .) The history of N. V. Philips’gloeilampenfabrieken. Volume 1. The origin of the Dutch incandescent lamp industry. Juan Hernaandez Andreu . España y la crisis de 1929. Witold Kula . (Trans, by Richard Szreter .) Measures and men. S. G. Wheatcroft and R. W. Davies (Eds.). Materials for a balance of the Soviet national economy, 1928-1930. John M. Hemphill II. Virginia and the English commercial system, 1689-1733: studies in the development and fluctuations of a colonial economy under imperial control. Leonard S. Reich . The making of American industrial research: science and business at GE and Bell, 1876-1926. Naomi R. Lamoreaux . The great merger movement in American business, 1895-1904. D’ann Campbell . Women at war with America: private lives in a patriotic era. Lewis R. Fischer and Gerald E. Panting (Eds.). Change and adaptation in maritime history: the north Atlantic fleets in the nineteenth century. Dianne Newell . Technology on the frontier: mining in old Ontario. Andrew Gordon . The evolution of labor relations in Japan: heavy industry, 1853-1955. Jane Rendall . The origins of modern feminism. Michael Turner (Ed.). Malthus and his time. Nathan Rosenburg and L. E. Birdzell . How the west grew rich: the economic transformation of the industrial world. Charles P. Kindleberger . Keynesianism vs. monetarism and other essays in financial history. Publications of The Economic History Society