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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     

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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     

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

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

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Books reviewed in this article: A. D. M. Phillips and C. B. Phillips, eds., A new historical atlas of Cheshire Philip Riden, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: a history of the county of Northampton G. J. Benson and L. Ugolini, eds., A nation of shopkeepers: five centuries of British retailing Stanley Chapman, Hosiery and knitwear: four centuries of small‐scale industry in Britain. c.1589–2000 Peter Borsay and Lindsay Proudfoot, eds., Provincial towns in early modern England and Ireland: change, convergence and divergence John Cramsie, Kingship and Crown finance under James VI and I, 1603–1625 Matthew and George Culley, Travel journals and letters, 1765–1798 John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson, eds., Henry Maudslay and the pioneers of the machine age Desmond Greer and James W. Nicolson, The factory acts in Ireland, 1802–1914 Charles K. Rawding, The Lincolnshire wolds in the nineteenth century Derek J. Oddy, From plain fare to fusion food: British diet from the 1890s to the 1990s Alan Fowler, Lancashire cotton operatives and work, 1900–1950: a social history of Lancashire cotton operatives in the twentieth century Martin Daunton, Just taxes: the politics of taxation in Britain, 1914–1979 Becky E. Conekin, ‘The autobiography of a nation’: the 1951 Festival of Britain Andrea Rusnock, Vital accounts: quantifying health and population in eighteenth‐century England and France Martin Horn, Britain, France, and the financing of the First World War Mark Cioc, The Rhine: an eco‐biography, 1815–2000 Helena Hamerow, Early medieval settlements: the archaeology of rural communities in north‐west Europe, 400–900 Martina De Moor, Leigh Shaw‐Taylor, and Paul Warde, eds., The management of common land in north west Europe, c. 1500–1850 Johan Söderberg and Janken Myrdal, The agrarian economy of sixteenth‐century Sweden John Armstrong and Andreas Kunz, eds., Coastal shipping and the European economy, 1750–1980 Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Class theory and history: capitalism and communism in the USSR Virginia G. Drackman, Enterprising women: 250 years of American business W. Carl Bliven, Jimmy Carter's political economy: policy in an age of limits Colin M. Lewis, Argentina: a short history Maurice Wright, Japan's fiscal crisis: the Ministry of Finance and the politics of public spending, 1975–2000 Zhaojin Ji, A history of modern Shanghai banking: the rise and decline of China's finance capitalism Linsun Cheng, Banking in modern China: entrepreneurs, professional managers, and the development of Chinese banks, 1897–1937 Ts'ui‐jung Liu, James Lee, David Sven Reher, Osamu Saito, and Wang Feng, eds., Asian population history Andrea Colli, The history of family business, 1850–2000 Eric Helleiner, The making of national money: territorial currencies in historical perspective     

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

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Book reviewed in this article: 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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Books reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND A. R. Bridbury, The English economy from Bede to the Reformation Eric Kerridge, The common fields of England R. H. Britnell, The commercialisation of English society, 1000-1500 P. J. P. Goldberg, Women, work, and life cycle in a medieval economy: women in York and Yorkshire, c. 1300-1520 Margaret MacCurtain and Mary O'Dowd, eds., Women in early modern Ireland Lawrence Stone, Uncertain unions: marriage in England, 1660-1753 D. Kynaston, Cazenove and Co.: a history Alastair J. Reid, Social classes and social relations in Britain, 1850-1914 Edward H. Lorenz, Economic decline in Britain: the shipbuilding industry, 1890-1970 Eric Hopkins, The rise and decline of the English working classes, 1918-1990: a social history Philip Williamson, National crisis and National Government: British politics, the economy and the empire, 1926-1932 Kathleen Burk and Alec Cairncross, 'Goodbye, Great Britain': the 1976 IMF crisis GENERAL A. Forrest and P. Jones, eds., Reshaping France: town, country and region during the French Revolution Richard Vinen, The politics of French business, 1936-1945 Clara Eugenia Núñez, La fuente de la riqueza: educación y desarrollo económico en las España contemporánea Aurel Schubert, The Credit Anstalt crisis of 1931 Bo Sandelin, ed., The history of Swedish economic thought Youssef Cassis, ed., Finance and financiers in European history, 1880-1960 Peter Mathias and John A. Davis, eds., Innovation and technology in Europe: from the eighteenth century to the present day Teresa L. Amott and Julie A. Matthaei, Race, gender and work: a multicultural economic history of women in the United States David E. Nye, Electrifying America: social meanings of a new technology, 1880-1940 James Schwoch, The American radio industry and its Latin American activities, 1900-1939 Chan Wai Kuan, The making of Hong Kong society: three studies of class formation in early Hong Kong Penelope Francks, Japanese economic development: theory and practice Y. S. Brenner, Hartmut Kaelble, and Mark Thomas, eds., Income distribution in historical perspective H. F. Gospel, ed., Industrial training and technological innovation: a comparative and historical study     

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

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

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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 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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Kathleen Biddick, The other economy: pastoral husbandry on a medieval estate Steve Rappaport, Worlds within worlds: structures of life in sixteenth-century London Lindsay Granshaw and Roy Porter, eds., The hospital in history Eric Richards and Monica Clough, Cromartie: highland life, 1650-1914 Richard Holt, Sport and the British: a modem history Michael J. Freeman and Derek H. Aldcroft, eds., Transport in Victorian Britain Stephanie Jones, Trade and skipping: Lord Inchcape,1852-1932 Anita Rapone, The Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1860-1920 E. P. Hennock, British social reform and German precedents J.R. Edwards, A history of financial accounting Harold Perkin, The rise of professional society: England since 1880 Ian Levitt, Poverty and welfare in Scotland, 1890-1948 Valerie Burton, ed., Bruce Kent, The spoils of war: the politics, economics, and diplomacy of reparations, 1918-1932 Alan Booth, British economic policy, 1931-1949: was there a Keynesian revolution? Peter Denley, Stefan Fogelvik, and Charles Harvey, eds., History and computing, II P.W. Bamford, Privilege and profit: a business family in eighteenth-century France Michael Sonenscher, Work and wages: natural law, politics and the eighteenth-century French trades Elinor Accampo, Industrialization, family life, and class relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 William James Adams, Restructuring the French economy: government and the rise of market competition since World War II Kristine Bruland, British technology and European industrialization: the Norwegian textile industry in the mid-nineteenth century Thomas M. Truxes, Irish-American trade, 1660-1783 Ian M. Drummond and Norman Hillmer, Negotiating freer trade: the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and the trade agreements of 1938 S. J. Kleinberg, The shadoiv of the mills: ivorking-class families in Pittsburgh, 1870-1907 David A. Hounshell and John Kenly Smith, Science and corporate strategy: Du Pont R. & D., 1902-1980 Carlos Marichal, A century of debt crises in Latin America: from independence to the great depression, 1820-1930 Ian Brown, ed., The economies of Africa and Asia in the interwar depression Chhei Sugiyama and Hiroshi Mizuta, eds., Enlightenment and beyond: political economy comes to Japan Hugh Patrick, with the assistance of Larry Meissner, eds., Japan's high technology industries: lessons and limitations of industrial policy Clive Dewey, ed., The state and the market: studies in the economic and social history of the Third World Paul Bairoch, trans. Christopher Braider, Cities and economic development from the dawn of history to the present Paul Bairoch, trans. Christopher Braider, Cities and economic development from the dawn of history to the present     

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

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 in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Alan Crossley, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: Oxford, XII: Wootton Hundred (south) including Woodstock Edward Miller, ed., The agrarian history of England and Wales, III: 1348-1500 L. R. Poos, A rural society after the Black Death: Essex, 1350-1525 Sari R. Hornstein, The Restoration navy and English foreign trade, 1674-1688: a study in the peacetime use of sea power James Foreman-Peck, ed., New perspectives on the late Victorian economy: essays in quantitative economic history, 1860-1914 James E. Cronin, The politics of state expansion: war, state and society in twentieth-century Britain David Vincent, Poor citizens: the state and the poor in twentieth-century Britain N. F. R. Crafts and Nicholas Woodward, eds., The British economy since 1945 John Singleton, Lancashire on the scrapheap: the cotton industry, 1945-1970 GENERAL Maria Teresa Maiullari, ed., Storiografia francese ed italiana a confronto sul fenomeno associativo durante xviii e xix secolo: atti delle giornate di studio promosse dalla Fondazione Luigi Einaudi Mikulas Teich and Roy Porter, eds., Fin de siecle and its legacy Thomas C. Owen, The corporation under Russian law, 1800-1917 Mary McAuley, Bread and justice: state and society in Petrograd, 1917-1922 Hiroaki Kuromiya, Stalin's industrial revolution: politics and workers, 1928-1932 Louis C. Hunter and Lynwood Bryant, A history of industrial power in the United States, 1780-1930, 3: The transmisison of power Margaret B. W. Graham and Bettye H. Pruitt, R & D for industry: a century of technical innovation at Alcoa Joe William Trotter, Jr., Coal, class, and color: blacks in southern West Virginia, 1915-32 Sanford M. Jacoby, ed., Masters to managers: historical and comparative perspectives on American employers Jeffrey G. Williamson, Inequality, poverty and history: the Kuznets Memorial Lectures of the Economic Growth Center, Yale University     

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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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Book reviewed in this article: Peter Brandon and Brian Short, The south east from AD 1000 Felicity Heal, Hospitality in early modern England F.J. Fisher, London and the English economy, 1500-1700, eds. P.J. Corfield and N.B. Harte John Chartres and David Hey, eds., English rural society, 1500-1800: essays in honour of Joan Thirsk Ian Archer, Caroline Barron, and Vanessa Harding, eds., Hugh Alley's Caveat: the markets of London in 1598, Folger Ms V.a.318 Lawrence Stone, Road to divorce: England, 1530-1987 Kenneth Fincham, Prelate as pastor: the episcopate of James I Maurice Beresford, East end, west end: the face of Leeds during urbanisation, 1684-1842 A.M. Urdank, Religion and society in a Cotswold vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865 David Spadafora, The idea of progress in eighteenth-century Britain Roger Swift and Sheriden Gilley, eds., The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939 Peter Bosley, Light railways in England and Wales Malcolm Falkus, The Blue Funnel legend: a history of the Ocean Steam Ship Company, 1865-1973 Rob Sindall, Street violence in the nineteenth century Anne Orde, British policy and European reconstruction after the First World War Bill Luckin, Questions of power: electricity and environment in inter-war Britain Charles Harvey and John Turner, eds., Labour and business in modern Britain Liam Kennedy, The modern industrialisation of Ireland, 1940-88 Joel Mokyr, Twenty-five centuries of technological change: an historical survey Léopold Génicot, Rural communities in the medieval west Kees Gispen, New profession, old order: engineers and German society, 1815-1914 Paul M. Johnson, Redesigning the communist economy: politics of economic reform in eastern Europe Diane P. Koenker and William G. Rosenberg, eds., Strikes and revolution in Russia, 1917 James D. Tracy, ed., The rise of merchant empires: long-distance trade in the early modern world, 1350-1750 Derek Massarella, A world elsewhere: Europe's encounter with Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Johannes Menne Postma, The Dutch in the Atlantic slave trade, 1600-1815 Patrick Manning, Slavery and African life: occidental, oriental and African slave trades Joseph W. Esherick and Mary Backus Rankin, eds., Chinese elites and patterns of dominance Philip C.C. Huang, The peasant family and rural development in the Yangzi delta, 1350-1988 Edward R. Beauchamp and Akira Iriye, eds., Foreign employees in nineteenth-century Japan Michael Cusumano, The Japanese automobile industry: technology and management at Nissan and Toyota Donald R. Hoke, Ingenious Yankees: the rise of the American system of manufactures in the private sector Joel Mokyr, The lever of riches: technological creativity and economic progress Claudia Goldin, Understanding the gender gap: an economic history of American women Stuart B. Kaufman and Peter J. Albert, eds., The Samuel Gompers papers, 3: unrest and depression, 1891-94 Sydney Checkland, Voices across the water: an Anglo-Canadian boyhood Barry Dyster and David Meredith, Australia in the international economy in the twentieth century G. Tortella, ed. Education and economic development since the industrial revolution James C. Riley, Sickness, recovery and death: a history and forecast of ill health T.R. Slater, ed. The built form of western cities Cyril Ehrlich, The piano: a history, revised edition Barry Eichengreen and Peter H. Lindert, eds., The international debt crisis in historical perspective David W. Galenson, ed., Markets in history: economic studies of the past     

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Book reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND David Parsons, ed., Stone: quarrying and building in England, AD 43-1525 Christopher Dyer, Hanbury: settlement and society in a woodland landscape Michael MacDonald and Terence R. Murphy, Sleepless souls: suicide in early modern England Paul Slack, The English poor law, 1531-1782 Mick Reed and Roger Wells, eds., Class, conflict and protest in the English countryside, 1700-1880 G. R. Boyer, An economic history of the English poor law, 1750-1850 G. E. Mingay, A social history of the English countryside A. F. J. Brown, Meagre harvest: the Essex farm workers' struggle against poverty, 1751-1914 Philippe Chalmin, The making of a sugar giant: Tate £ Lyle, 1859-1989 John D. Hey and Donald N. Winch, eds., A century of economics: 100 years of the Royal Economic Society and the‘Economic journal’ Michael Kitson and Solomos Solomou, Protectionism and economic revival: the British interwar economy John Hendry, Innovating for failure: government policy and the early British computer industry GENERAL Elizabeth Armstrong, Before copyright: the French book-privilege system, 1498-1526 Margaret H. Darrow, Revolution in the house: family, class, and inheritance in southern France, 1775-1825 John E. Knodel, Demographic behaviour in the past: a study of 14 German village populations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Peter J. Lyth, Inflation and the merchant economy: the Hamburg Mittelstand, 1914-1924 Herbert F. Ziegler, Nazi Germany's new aristocracy: the SS leadership, 1925-1939 Italia Judaica: gli Ebrei in Italia dalla segregazione alla prima emancipazione Alice Teichova, The Czechoslovak economy, 1918-1980 Penelope J. Corfield and Derek Keene, eds., Work in towns, 850-1850 Simon P. Ville, Transport and the development of the European economy, 1750-1918 Pamela M. Pilbeam, The middle classes in Europe, 1789-1914: France, Germany, Italy and Russia Peter Baldwin, The politics of social solidarity: class bases of the European welfare state, 1875-1975 J. Matthew Gallman, Mastering wartime: a social history of Philadelphia during the Civil War Lyman J. Johnson and Enrique Tandeter, eds, Essays on the price history of eighteenth-century Latin America     

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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