Book Reviews

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     

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     

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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

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

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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     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Nigel Yates and James M. Gibson, eds., Traffic and politics: the construction and management of Rochester Bridge, A.D. 43-1993 Maryanne Kowaleski, ed., The local customs accounts of the port of Exeter, 1266-1321 Caroline M. Barron and Anne F. Sutton, eds., Medieval London widows, 1300-1500 Christopher Dyer, Everyday life in medieval England Robert C. Allen, Enclosure and the yeoman: the agricultural development of the south midlands, 1450-1850 A. J. S. Gibson and T. C. Smout, Prices, food and wages in Scotland, 1550-1780 John Habakkuk, Marriage, debt and the estates system: English landownership, 1650-1950 R. A. Houston, Social change in the age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh, 1660-1760 Lawrence Stone, ed., An imperial state at war: Britain from 1689 to 1815 John Beckett, The rise and fall of the Grenvilles, Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, 1710 to 1921 Pamela Horn, Children's work and welfare, 1780-1880 Maurice W. Kirby and Mary B. Rose, eds., Business enterprise in modern Britain: from the eighteenth to the twentieth century Eric Hopkins, Childhood transformed: working-class children in nineteenth-century England John Rule and Robert Malcolmson, eds., Protest and survival: the historical experience. Essays for E. P. Thompson David Feldman, Englishmen and Jews: social relations and political culture, 1840-1914 Roy Church, The rise and decline of the British motor industry B. W. E. Alford, Rodney Lowe, and Neil Rollings, Economic planning, 1943-1951: a guide to documents in the Public Record Office James Foreman-Peck and Robert Millward, Public and private ownership of British industry Catherine R. Schenk, Britain and the sterling area: from devaluation to convertibility in the 1950s Nicholas Canny, ed., Europeans on the move: studies on European migration, 1500-1800 Jeffrey M. Diefendorf, Axel Frohn, and Hermann-Josef Rupieper, eds., American policy and the reconstruction of West Germany, 1945-1955 David Abulafia, A Mediterranean emporium: the Catalan kingdom of Majorca I. A. A. Thompson and B. Yun Casalilla, eds., The Castilian crisis of the seventeenth century Thomas Dublin, Transforming women's work: New England lives in the industrial revolution Naomi Lamoreaux, Insider lending Stanley Lebergott, Pursuing happiness: American consumers in the twentieth century Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630-1641: the other puritan colony Kenneth J. Andrien and Lyman L. Johnson, eds., The political economy of Spanish America in the age of revolution, 1750-1850 Helen Shapiro, Engines of growth: the state and transnational auto companies in Brazil Eric Jones, Lionel Frost, and Colin White, Coming full circle: an economic history of the Pacific Rim Frank Dobbin, Forging industrial policy: the United States, Britain and France in the railway age Gregory P. Nowell, Mercantile states and the world oil cartel, 1900-1939 Beth A. Simmons, Who adjusts? Domestic sources of foreign economic policy during the interwar years A. W. Coats, The sociology and professionalization of economics, 2: British and American essays     

Book reviews

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

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Books reviewed: Great Britain and Ireland Joseph P. Huffman, Family, commerce and religion in London and Cologne Ray Lock, ed., The court rolls of Walsham le Willows Bryan Waites, Monasteries and landscape in north east England Jenny Kermode, Medieval merchants Christopher W. Brooks, Lawyers, litigation and English society since 1450 Craig Muldrew, The economy of obligation J.R. Dickinson, The lordship of Man under the Stanleys Charles W.J. Withers, Urban highlanders Jörg Vögele, Urban mortality change in England and Germany Hugh Driver, The birth of military aviation David J. Jeremy, A business history of Britain Jean-Pierre Dormois & Michael Dintenfass, eds., The British industrial decline Rex Pope, The British economy since 1914 General Alan R.H. Baker, Fraternity among the French peasantry Tom Scott, Regional identity and economic change Dieter Schott, ed., Energie und Stadt in Europa Michael Richards, A time of silence Paolo Squatriti, Water and society in early medieval Italy Philip Jones, The Italian city-state Anthony L. Cardoza, Aristocrats in bourgeois Italy J.K.J. Thomson, Decline in history Mikulá? Teich, ed., Bohemia in history Hiroaki Kuromiya, Freedom and terror in the Donbas R.W. Davies, Soviet economic development from Lenin to Khrushchev Michael Ellman & Vladimir Kontorovich, eds., The destruction of the Soviet economic system Tom Scott, ed., The peasantries of Europe Deborah Simonton, A history of European women’s work John Killick, The United States and European reconstruction Marilyn C. Baseler, ‘Asylum for mankind’ Cathy Matson, Merchants and empire Margaret Ellen Newell, From dependence to independence Richard Buel, Jr., In irons: Britain’s naval supremacy and the American revolutionary economy Mark M. Smith, Debating slavery Alan Derickson, Black lung: anatomy of a public health disaster Paul A.C. Koistinen, Planning war, pursuing peace Thomas Dublin, When the mines closed Jacob Metzer, The divided economy of Mandatory Palestine Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Imperial power and popular politics J.Y. Wong, Deadly dreams: opium and the ‘Arrow’ war (1856–1860) in China John Lie, Han unbound: the political economy of South Korea Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui, ed., Textiles: production, trade and demand David Thomas, Len Holden, & Tim Claydon, eds., The motor car and popular culture in the 20th century Lanthier & Hubert Watelet, eds., Private enterprise during economic crises/L’entreprise privée en période de crise économique Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, & Peter Temin, eds., Learning by doing in markets, firms and countries     

Book Reviews: Great Britain and Ireland

Books reviewed: Malcolm Gaskill, Crime and mentalities in early modern England Nancy Cox, The complete tradesman: a study of retailing, 1550–1820 Rosalind Mitchison, The old poor law in Scotland: the experience of poverty, 1574–1845 Sarah Bendall, Christopher Brooke, and Patrick Collinson, A history of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Michael Roberts and Simone Clarke, eds., Women and gender in early modern Wales Lena Cowen Orlin, ed., Material London, ca. 1600 Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern, eds., Empire and others: British encounters with indigenous peoples, 1600–1850 Andrea Finkelstein, Harmony and the balance: an intellectual history of seventeenth‐century English economic thought Jeremy Gregory, Restoration, reformation and reform, 1660–1828: archbishops of Canterbury and their diocese Ron Harris, Industrializing English law: entrepreneurship and business organization, 1720–1844 Charles More, Understanding the industrial revolution Andy Bielenberg, ed., The Irish diaspora Simon Gunn, The public culture of the Victorian middle class: ritual and authority in the English industrial city, 1840–1914 J. Matthew Gallman, Receiving Erin's children: Philadelphia, Liverpool and the Irish Famine migration, 1845–1855 Keir Waddington, Charity and the London hospitals, 1850–1898 Katrina Honeyman, Well suited: a history of the Leeds clothing industry, 1850–1990 Gillian Cookson and George Ingle, eds., John Hodgson's ‘Textile manufacture and other industries in Keighley’ David W. Howell and Kenneth O. Morgan, eds., Crime, protest and police in modern British society: essays in memory of David J. V. Jones Michael French and Jim Phillips, Cheated not poisoned? Food regulation in the United Kingdom, 1875–1938 Brian Callanan, Ireland's Shannon story: leaders, visions and networks—a case study of local and regional development Graham Ingham, Managing change: a guide to British economic policy Philip de Souza, Piracy in the Graeco‐Roman world Edwin S. Hunt and James M. Murray, A history of business in medieval Europe, 1200–1550 Liliane Hilaire‐Pérez, L'invention technique au siècle des Lumières William Doyle, La vénalité Marco H. D. van Leeuwen, trans. A. J. Pomerans, The logic of charity: Amsterdam, 1800–1850 Herman Van der Wee, ed., The Generale Bank, 1822–1997 Thomas Max Safley, Matheus Miller's memoir: a merchant's life in the seventeenth century Gabriel Tortella, trans. Valerie Herr, The development of modern Spain: an economic history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Panikos Panayi, Outsiders: a history of European minorities Lennart Samuelson, Plans for Stalin's war machine: Tukhachevskii and military‐economic planning, 1925–1941 Christopher Fyfe, ed., Anna Maria Falconbridge, ‘Narrative of two voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the years 1791–1792–1793’, and the journal of Isaac Dubois, with Alexander Falconbridge, ‘An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa’ Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy, An empire divided: the American Revolution and the British Caribbean Steven N. Kaplan, ed., Mergers and productivity Shawn W. Miller, Fruitless trees: Portuguese conservation and Brazil's colonial timber Maria Misra, Business, race and politics in British India, c. 1850–1960 Sherman Cochran, Encountering Chinese networks: western, Japanese, and Chinese corporations in China, 1880–1937 Xin Zhang, Social transformation in modern China: the state and local elites in Henan 1900–1937 Ian Inkster and Fumihiko Satofuka, eds., Culture and technology in modern Japan David Turley, Slavery M. L. Bush, Servitude in modern times Mary A. Yeager, ed., Women in business Jonathan Zeitlin and Gary Herrigel, eds., Americanization and its limits: reworking US technology and management in post‐war Europe and Japan Sebastian Edwards, ed., Capital flows and the emerging economies: theory, evidence and controversies Phillip D. Curtin, The world and the West: the European challenge and the overseas response in the age of empire Christine Rider and Michéal Thompson, eds., The industrial revolution in comparative perspective Michalis Psalidopoulos, ed., The canon in the history of economics: critical essays     

Book Reviews

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)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Phillipp R. Schofield, Peasant and Community in Medieval England Ian Kershaw & David M. Smith (eds.), The Bolton Priory Compotus Michael Jones (ed.), Revolution and Consumption in Late Medieval England Peter Northeast (ed.), Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury Pamela Sharpe, Population and Society in an East Devon Parish Donald Winch & Patrick K. O'Brien (eds.), The Political Economy of British Historical Experience S.D. Smith, ‘An Exact and Industrious Tradesman’ Nicola Verdon, Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England J.R. Wordie (ed.), Agriculture and Politics in England Lewis Johnman & Hugh Murphy, British Shipbuilding and the State Jairus Banaji, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity Angeliki E. Laiou, The Economic History of Byzantium Adriaan Verhulst, The Carolingian Economy Adam Steinhouse, Workers' Participation in Post-Liberation France Patrick Major & Jonathan Osmond (eds.), The Workers' and Peasants' State Rainer Karlsch & Raymond Stokes, The Chemistry must be Right Monica Chojnacka, Working Women of Early Modern Venice Harold James & Jacob Tanner (eds.), Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe Wendy Z. Goldman, Women at the Gates David Armitage & Michael J. Braddick (eds.), The British Atlantic world Steven W. Usselman, Regulating Railroad Innovation Nikki Mandell, The Corporation as Family Bruce L. Gardner, American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century Stefano Battilossi & Youssef Cassis (eds.), European Banks and the American Challenge Geoffrey Jones & Lina Galvez-Munoz (eds.), Foreign Multinationals in the United States Mauro F. Guillén, The Limits of Convergence Dennis O. Flynn, Arturo Giráldez & James Sobredo (eds.), Studies in Pacific History Nick Tiratsoo, Junichi Hasegawa, Tony Mason & Takao Matsumara, Urban Reconstruction in Britain and Japan David Zweig, Internationalizing China Charles H. Feinstein & Mark Thomas, Making History Count Phillip Mirowski, Machine Dreams     

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Great Britain and Ireland T. C. Smout, ed., Scotland since prehistory: natural change and human impact N. M. Herbert, ed., A history of the county of Gloucester, V: the Forest of Dean Colin Platt, King Death: the Black Death and its aftermath in late medieval England Del Sweeney, ed., Agriculture in the middle ages: technology, practice, and representation Mark Overton, Agricultural revolution in England: the transformation of the agrarian economy, 1500-1850 Roy Porter and Marie Mulvey Roberts, eds., Pleasure in the eighteenth century Adrian Randall and Andrew Charlesworth, eds., Markets, market culture and popular protest in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland Barry Reay, Microhistories: demography, society and culture in rural England, 1800-1930 Edgar Jones, True and fair: a history of Price Waterhouse Michael Turner, After the Famine: Irish agriculture, 1850-1914 Roger Middleton, Government versus the market: the growth of the public sector, economic management and British economic performance, c. 1890-1979 Andrew Marrison, British business and protection, 1903-1932 James Foreman-Peck, Sue Bowden, and Alan McKinlay, The British motor industry Peter Scott, The property masters: a history of the British commercial property sector General Gary Herrigel, Industrial constructions: the sources of German industrial power Volker R. Berghahn, ed., Quest for economic empire: European strategies of German big business in the twentieth century Paul Bairoch and Martin Körner, eds., La Suisse dans l'économie mondiale/Die Schweiz in der Weltwirtschaft Ivan T. Berend, Central and eastern Europe, 1944-1993: detour from the periphery to the periphery Wendy Davies and Paul Fouracre, eds., Property and power in the early middle ages Jonathan Dewald, The European nobility, 1400-1800: new approaches to European history Ann Goldgar, Impolite learning: conduct and community in the republic of letters, 1680-1750 Iain R. Smith, The origins of the South African war, 1899-1902 Augustus J. Veenendaal, Slow train to paradise: how Dutch investors helped build American railroads Elmus Wicker, The banking panics of the great depression Deborah Oxley, Convict maids: the forced migration of women to Australia Stanley Lebergott, Consumer expenditures: new measures and old motives Jack Goody, The East in the West G. D. Snooks, The dynamic society: exploring the sources of global change Elliott A. Krause, The death of the guilds: professions, states, and the advance of capitalism, 1930 to the present Maxine Berg, A woman in history: Eileen Power, 1889-1940     

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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     

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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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 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 in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND P. J. P. Goldberg, ed., Woman is a worthy wight: women in English society, c. 1200-1500 Robert Tinier, Architecture and power: the town hall and the English urban community, 1500-1640 R. A. Houston, The population history of Britain and Ireland, 1500-1750 R. B. Outhwaite, Dearth, public policy and social disturbance in England, 1550-1800 R. W. Hoyle, ed., The estates of the English crown, 1558-1640 Patrick Hyde Kelly, ed., Locke on money E. P. Thompson, Customs in common Peter Linebaugh, The London hanged: crime and civil society in the eighteenth century Adrian Hall, Fenland worker peasants: the economy of smallholders at Rippingale, Lincolnshire, 1791-1871 Elizabeth Hennessy, A domestic history of the Bank of England, 1930-1960 Howard F. Gospel, Markets, firms and the management of labour in modern Britain GENERAL R. H. Hilton, English and French towns in feudal society: a comparative study Serge Chassagne, Le coton et ses patrons: France, 1760-1840 David I. Kertzer and Richard P. Sailer, eds., The family in Italy from antiquity to the present Peter Musgrave, Land and economy in baroque Italy: Valpolicella, 1630-1797 Holland Hunter and Janusz M. Szyrmer, Faulty foundations: Soviet economic policies, 1928-1940 Colin Holmes and Alan Booth, eds., Economy and society: European industrialisation and its social consequences. Essays presented to Sidney Pollard Gregory Hooks, Forging the military-industrial complex: World War II's battle of the Potomac Dan Benjamin and Kent Matthews, US and UK unemployment between the wars: a doleful story Eric W. Sager with Gerald E. Panting, Maritime capital: the shipping industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff, eds., Strategic factors in nineteenth-century economic history: a volume to honor Robert W. Fogel David J. Jeremy, ed., International technology transfer: Europe, Japan and the USA, 1700-1914 Colin White, Mastering risk: environment, markets and politics in Australian economic history John H. Drabble, Malayan rubber: the interwar years Geoffrey Jones, ed., Banks and money: international and comparative financial history Martin Bulmer, Kevin Bales, and Kathryn Kish Sklar, eds., The social survey in historical perspective, 1880-1940 Roger Schofield, David Reher, and Alain Bideau, eds., The decline of mortality in Europe Ian Inkster, Science and technology in history: an approach to industrial development Keith Chapman, The international petrochemical industry N. F. R. Crafts, N. H. Dimsdale, and S. Engerman, eds., Quantitative economic history W. R. Garside, ed., Capitalism in crisis: international responses to the Great Depression Peter Burke, ed., New perspectives on historical writing J. L. Anderson, Explaining long-term economic change     

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