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Book Reviews in this article Paul Bairoch , Révolution Industrielle et Sous-développement FAO, Agricultural Development in Nigeria, 1965–1980     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Baljit Singh & Shridhar Misra, A Study of Land Reforms in Uttar Pradesh Rao, S. K. Basu, Dool Singh, and Others, the Farm Management Surveys covering a series of Provinces. Tara Shukla , Capital Formation in Indian Agriculture.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Japanese Economic Growth: Trend Acceleration in the Twentieth Century by Kazushi Ohkawa and Henry Rosovsky. The Myth of Population Control: Family, Caste, and Class in an Indian Village by Mahmood Mamdani.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Agriculture in the Australian Economy. Edited by D. B. W illiams .     

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George Megalogenis, The Longest Decade . Melbourne: Scribe, 2006. 346 pp. ISBN: 1 920769 79 X. Paperback A$32.95. Reviewed by James Bennett University of Newcastle
Leonie V. Still, Corporate Elders –'Organisation Men' Look Back . Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2006. 235 pp. ISBN: 1 920694 61 7. Paperback A$39.95. Reviewed by Peter Carroll University of Tasmania
William Coleman, Selwyn Cornish and Alf Hagger, Giblin's Platoon: The Trials and Triumphs of the Economist in Australian Public Life . Canberra: ANU E-Press, 2006. xv + 263 pp. ISBN (print): 1 920942 49 1. ISBN: 1 920942 50 5. A$24.95, free access online. Reviewed by Gary Hawke Victoria University of Wellington
Helen B. Laurenson, Going Up, Going Down: The Rise and Fall of the Department Store . Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006 reprint (2005). 165 pp. ISBN: 86940 341 X. Paperback NZ$34.99. Reviewed by S.R.H. Jones University of Dundee
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, World Investment Report 2005: Transnational Corporations and the Internationalization of R&D . New York and Geneva: United Nations, 2005. xxxii + 332 pp. ISBN: 92 1 112667 3. US$75. Reviewed by Paul L. Robertson University of Tasmania/University of Queensland
Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy, The 'Vanity of the Philosopher': From Equality to Hierarchy in post-Classical Economics . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xviii + 323 pp. ISBN: 0 472 11496 4. Hardback US$40. Reviewed by John Singleton Victoria University of Wellington
Derek H. Aldcroft, Europe's Third World: The European Periphery in the Interwar Years . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 217 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 0599 X. Hardback £50. Reviewed by Kirsten Wandschneider Middlebury College     

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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 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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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 article:
The Economics of Development in Small Countries, With Special Reference to the Carribbean. By W illiam G. D emas .
Land and Caste in South India. By D harma K umar .
Human Capital in Southern Development, 1939–1963. By M arshall R. C olberg .
The 1961 Education Panel: Second Report — E ducation and the S outh A frican E conomy .
The Future of the World Bank. (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Pp.71.) E scott R eid .
Exploring 1970, some numerical results. No. 6 in A Programme for Growth. By the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge.
Economic Growth in the West: Comparative Experience in Europe and North America. By A ngus M addison .
The Accountability and Audit of Government. By E. L. N ormanton .
The United Nations at Work Developing Land, Forests, Oceans… and People. By J oseph M. J ones .
Industrialisation in Malaysia. By E. L. W heelwright .
Money in the International Order. Edited by J. C arter M urphy
Cowen on The Law of Negotiable Instruments in South Africa. (Fourth Edition) by D ennis C owen and L eonard G ering
Problems of Agricultural Development. By P. G. H. B arter .     

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Books Reviewed in this article: Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists: Methodological Issues in Measuring Economic Change in Rural India edited by Pranab Bardhan, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1989, ix+288 pp. South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security, 1945–1988 by James Barber and John Barratt, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, x+398 pp.     

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Books Reviewed in this article: The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire by Michael G. Schatzberg, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1988, xiv+193 pp. Lectures on Developing Economies: Japan's Experience and Its Relevance by Kazushi Ohkawa and Hirohisa Kohama, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1989, xv+324 pp.     

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Book review in this article: The Interpretation of Caste by Declan Quigley Contemporary Issues in Philippine Rice Farming edited by Akimi Fujimoto, Corazon B. Lamung, and Toshiro Matsuda     

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Book Review in this article: David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor Lee Kam King and Tan Chee‐Beng, eds., The Chinese in Malaysia     

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The Motor Vehicle Industry in Asia: A Study of Ancillary Firm Development edited by Konosuke Odaka Palanpur: The Economy of an Indian Village by C. J. Bliss and N. H. Stern     

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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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Book Review in this article: Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan: Land Tenure, Development, and Dependency, 1895–1945 by Chih-ming Ka Farmers and Traders in a Changing Maize Market in East Java by Hitoshi Yonekura     

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Book Review in this article: Transforming Agrarian Economies: Opportunities Seized, Opportunities Missed by Thomas P. Tomich, Peter Kilby, and Bruce F. Johnston Vietnam's Rural Transformation edited by Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet and Doug J. Porter The Indonesian Economy since 1966: Southeast Asia's Emerging Giant by Hal Hill     

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Richard Perren, Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840 . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xi + 285 pp. ISBN: 0754636488. Hardback £55.
Reviewed by Bernard Attard
University of Leicester
Brenda J. Buchanan (ed.), Gunpowder, Explosives, and the State. A Technological History . Ashgate: Aldershot, 2006. 425 pp. Illustrations, maps, and photographs. ISBN: 9780754652595. Hardback £55.
Reviewed by Gordon Boyce
The University of Newcastle, NSW
Man-Houng Lin, China Upside Down, Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808–1856 . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. xxi + 362 pp. ISBN: 0 674 02268 8. Hardback US$49.95.
Reviewed by Kent G. Deng
London School of Economics
Jari Ojala, Jari Eloranta, and Jukka Jalava (eds), The Road to Prosperity. An Economic History of Finland . Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006. 434 pp. ISBN: 951 746 818 0. €40.
Reviewed by Svante Larsson
Göteborg University
Hazel Petrie, Chiefs of Industry: Maori Tribal Enterprise in Early Colonial New Zealand . Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006. viii + 336 pp. ISBN: 9781869403768. Paperback NZ$50.
Reviewed by Jim McAloon
Lincoln University
David Edgerton, The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 . London: Profile Books, 2007. 270 + xviii pp., illustrations. ISBN-13: 978 1861972965. Hardcover £18.99.
Reviewed by Paul L. Robertson
University of Tasmania
Paola Lanaro (ed.), At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400–1800 . Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2006. 412 pp. ISBN: 0 7727 2031 2. Paperback C$32.00.
Reviewed by Carolyn Sissoko
Occidental College