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Book Reviewed in this article: The Victoria Histories of the Counties of England: A History of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, Vol. VI, ed. A. P. M. Wright. B. W. Clapp (Ed.). Documents in English Economic History: England since 1760. H. E. S. Fisher and A. R. J. Jurica (Eds.). Documents in English Economic History: Englandfrom 1000 to 1760. Edward Miller and John Hatcher . Medieval England: Rural Society and Economic Change, 1086–1348 (London: Longman, 1978. Pp. xviii + 302. £8.95; paperback £4.95.) Kevin Mc Donnell . Medieval London Suburbs. E. W. Ives , R. J. Knecht , and J. J. Sgarisbrick (Eds.). Wealth and Power in Tudor England: Essays presented to S. T. Bindoff. Joan Thirsk . Economic Policy and Projects. The Development of a Consumer Society in Early Modern England. Victor Skipp . Crisis and Development: An Ecological Case Study of the Forest o/Arden, 1570–1674. Michael R. Watts . The Dissenters: From the Reformation to the French Revolution. W. H. Chaloner and Barrie M. Ratcliffe (Eds.). Trade and Transport: Essays in Economic History in Honour of T. S. Willan. Colin Holmes (Ed.) Immigrants and Minorities in British Society. A. E. Musson . The Growth of British Industry. J. Simmons . The Railway in England and Wales, 1830–1914. Vol. 1: The System and its Working. Richard Perren . The Meat Trade in Britain, 1840–1914. Angus Mc Laren . Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England. P. N. Davies . Sir Alfred Jones: Shipping Entrepreneur Par Excellence. Pat Thane (Ed.). The Origins of British Social Policy. R. J. Q. Adams. Arms and the Ministry of Munitions, 1915–16. Paul Uselding (Ed.). Research in Economic History: An Annual Compilation of Research. Vol. 1, 1976. John A. Garraty . Unemployment in History: Economic Thought and Public Policy. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie . Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village, 1294–1324. Translated by Barbara Bray. Leon Poliakov . Jewish Bankers and the Holy See from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Century. Translated from the French by Miriam Kochan. Hermann Freudenberger . The Industrialization of a Central European City. Brno and the Fine Woollen Industry in the Eighteenth Century. Gedalia Yogev . Diamonds and Coral: Anglo-Dutch Jews and Eighteenth-Century Trade. R. W. Unger . Dutch Shipbuilding before 1800. Charles P. Kindleberger . Economic Response: Comparative Studies in Trade, Finance and Growth. Clive Dewey and A. G. Hopkins (Eds.). The Imperial Impact: Studies in the Economic History of Africa and India. Tom Kemp . Historical Patterns of Industrialization. W. Arthur Lewis . Growth and Fluctuations, 1870–1913. Robert E. Gallman (Ed.). Research in Economic History, Supplement 1, 1977: Recent Developments in the Study of Business and Economic History: Essays in Memory of Herman E. Krooss. Eda Sagarra . A Social History of Germany, 1648–1914.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Roger Finlay . Population and Metropolis: The Demography of London, 1580–1450. John Bowle . John Evelyn and his World: A Biography. L. M. Cullen . The Emergence of Modern Ireland, 1600–1900. Bruce Lenman . Integration, Enlightenment, and Industrialization: Scotland, 1746–1832, The New History of Scotland, 6. Christopher Harvie . No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland, 1914–1980. R. A. Cage . TheScottish Poor Law, 1745–1845. Sean Mcconville . A History of English Prism Administration: Volume I, 1750–1877. Victor Bailey (Ed.). Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Anne Digby and Peter SEARBY (Eds.). Children, School, and Society in Nineteenth Century England. I. G. Jones . Explorations and Explanations: Essays in the Social History of Victorian Wales. G. E. Mingay (Ed.). The Victorian Countryside. H. I. Dutton and J. E. King . Ten Per Cent and No Surrender: The Preston Strike, 1853–4. Robert Gray . The Aristocracy of Labour in Nineteenth-centuty Britain, 1850–1914. Anthony Sutcliffe (Ed.). British Town Planning: The Formative Years. Jim Tomlinson . Problems of British Economic Policy, 1870–1945. Alan Forrest . The French Revolution and the Porn. Richard F. Kuisel . Capitalism and the State in Modern France: Renoeation and Economic Management in the Twentieth Century. W. H. Schroeder and R. Spree (Eds.). Histotische Konjunklurforschung. David Abraham . The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political Economy and Crisis. La Banque en Belgique . Financiewezen in Belgie, 1830–1980. Revue de la Banque. Bank- Financimezen. Cahier 8/9. September 1980. Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui . The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100–1600. Francesco Facchini , Alle origini di Brescia Industriale: Insediamenti produttivi e composizione de classe dall' Unita al 1911. Lutgardo Garcia Fuentes . El Comercio Espanol con America, 1650–1700 Fritz Hodne . Norges flkonomiske hisrorie, 1815–1970. Thomas C. Owen . Capitalism and Politics in Russia: A Social History of the Moscow Merchants, 1855–1905. Jon V. Kofas . Financial Relations of Greece and the Great Powers, 1832–1862. Sidney Pollard . Peaceful Conquest: The Industrialization of Europe, 1760–1970. E. L. Jones . The European Miracle: Environments, Economies, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. Michael R. Godley . The Mandarin-Capitalists from Nanyang: Overseas Chinese Enterprise in the Modernization of China, 1893–1911. Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss . A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Indusnialization in the Slave Economy. Margaret Walsh . The American Frontier Revisited A. J. H. Latham . The Depression and the Developing World, 1914–1939. E. J. Hobsbawm , Witold Kula , Ashok Mitra , K. N. Raj and Ignacv Sachs (Eds.) Peasants in Histmy: Essays in Honour of Daniel Thorner. Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb (Eds.). Marriage and Fertility: Studies in Interdisciplinary History. Rudolf Hilferding . Finance Capital: A Study of the Latest Phase of Capitalist Development. Lawrence Stone . The Past and the Present.     

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Book review in this Article Trevor Rowley (ED.). The Origins of Open-Field Agriculture. Michael Hunter .Science and Society in Restoration England. J. V. Beckett . Coal and Tobacco: The Lowthers and the Economic Development of West Cumberland, 1660–1760. C. B. Phillips (Ed.). Lowther Family Estate Books, 1617–1675. Surtees Society, cxci, 1976–7. John Davies . Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute. Karel Williams . From Pauperism to Poverty. Iorwerth Prothero . Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century London: John Gastandhis Times. David Vincent . Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiography. J. D. Marshall and John K. Walton . The Lake Counties from 1830 to the Mid-twentieth Century: A study in Regional Change. C. H. Feinstein (Ed.). York 1831–1981: 150 Years of Scientific Endeavour and Social Change. M. W. Kirby . The Decline of British Economic Power since 1870. Raphael Samuel . East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding. Michael R. Bonavia . Railway Policy Between the Wars. F. Braudel . Civilisation matérielle, Économic et capitalisme, XV-XVIII's iècle. H. SCHMAL (Ed.). Patterns of European Urbanization Since 1500. José Ignacio Fortea Pérez . Córdoba en el Siglo XVI: Las bases demográficas y económicas de una expansión urbana. J. M. Sosin . English America and the Restoration Monarchy of Charles II: Transatlantic Politics, Commerce, and Kinship. Jacob M. Price . Capital and Credit in British Overseas Trade: The View from the Chesapeake, 1700–1776. T. J. A. Le Goff . Vannes and its Region: A Study of Town and Country in Eighteenth-Century France. Henry A. Gemery and Jan S. Hogendorn (Eds.). The Uncommon Market: Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Anthony Sutcliffe . Towards the Planned City: Germany, Britain, the United States and France, 1780–1914. Roger Owen . The Middle East in the World Economy, 1800–1914. Charles Issawi (Ed.).The Economic History of Turkey, 1800–1914. Sidney Pollard . The Integration of the European Economy since 1815. P. Bairoch and M. Levy -Leboyer . Disparities in Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution. Akio Okochi and Hoshimi Uchida (Eds.). Development and Diffusion of Technology. Akio Okochi and Koichi Shimokawa (Eds.). Development of Mass Marketing. Aloysius Balawyder (Ed.). Cooperative Movements in Eastern Europe. Hartmut Kaelble . Historical Research on Social Mobility: Western Europe and the U.S.A. in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. P. K. Edwards . Strikes in the United States, 1881–1974. David Blackbourn . Class, Religion and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany: The Centre Party in Wurttemberg before 1914. Frederick Cooper . From Slave to Squatters: Plantation Labour and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890–1925. Roberta Allbert Dayer . Bankers and Diplomats in China, 1917–1925: The Anglo-American Relationship. Peter Temin . Taking Your Medicine: Drug Regulation in the United States. Karl Brunner (Ed.). The Great Depression Revisited. Rochester Studies in Economics and Policy Issues, Vol. 2. Ianm . Drummond . The Floating Pound and the Sterling Area, 1931–1939.     

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D. M. Owen (Ed.). The Making of King's Lynn: A Documentary Survey. Roger J. P. Kain and Hugh C. Prince . The Tithe Surveys of England and Wales. Alexander Grant . Independence and Nationhood: Scotland, 1306–1469. Ralph A. Houlbrooke . The English Family, 1450–1700. Kenneth R. Andrews , Trade, Plunder, and Settlement. J. A. Sharpe . Crime in Early Modern England, 1550–1750. C. A. F. Meekings , S. Porter , and I. Roy (Eds.). The Hearth Tax Collectors’Book for Worcester, 1678–1680. Robert Newton . Eighteenth-Century Exeter. Aubrey Newman (Ed.). Politics and Finance in the Eighteenth Century: Dame Lucy Sutherland. Susan A. Knox . The Making of the Shetland Landscape. Ivan Waddington . The Medical Profession and the Industrial Revolution. Francois Crouzet . The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins. N. L. Tranter . Population and Society, 1750–1940: Contrasts in Population Growth. T. M. Devine (Ed.). Farm Servants and Labour in Lowland Scotland, 1770–1914. Alan Fox . History and Heritage: The Social Origins of the British Industrial Relations System. Noel W. Thompson . The People's Science: The Popular Political Economy of Exploitation and Crisis, 1816–34. Carolyn Steedman . Policing the Victorian Community. Jane Lewis . Women in England, 1870–1950: Sexual Divisions and Social Change. Youssef Cassis . Les Banquiers de la City à I′époque Edouardienne. Kenneth D. Brown (Ed.). The First Labour Party, 1906–1914. M. J. Daunton (Ed.). Councillors and Tenants: Local Authority Housing in English Cities, 1919–1939. Elizabeth Durbin New Jerusalem: The Labour Party and the Economics of Democratic Socialism. GENERAL Liam Kennedy and Philip Ollerenshaw (Eds.). An Economic History of Ulster, 1820–1939. (Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1985. Pp. 248. £25.) Harry A. Miskimin . Money and Power in Fifteenth-Century France. David R. Ringrose . Madrid and the Spanish Economy, 1560–1850. Ole Hyldtoft . Københavns Industrialisering, 1840–1914. Jan de Vries . European Urbanization, 1500–1800. Barbara M. Tucker . Samuel Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790–1860. B. W. Higman . Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807–1834. Christopher Abel and Colin M. Lewis (Eds.). Latin America, Economic Imperialism, and the State: The Political Economy of the External Connection from Independence to the Present. Eliyahu Ashtor . Levant Trade in the Later Middle Ages. William T. Rowe . Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796–1889. Tim Wright. Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society, 1895–1937. Penelope Francks. Technology and Agricultural Development in Pre-War Japan. N. G. Owen. Prosperity without Progress: Manila Hemp and Material Life in the Colonial Philippines. J. Forbes Munro. Britain in Tropical Africa, 1880-1960: Economic Relationships and Impact. Philip Mc Michael. Settlers and the Agrarian Question: Capitalism in Colonial Australia. Katrina Alford. Production or Reproduction?: An Economic History of Women in Australia, 1788-1850. C. C. Eldridge (Ed.). British Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. William N. Parker. Europe, America, and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism, Vol. 1, Europe and the World Economy. Studies in Economic and Social History     

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Review in this Article The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. H. P. R. Finberg (Ed.). The Agrarian History of England and Wales, A.D. 43–1042 M. M. Postan, The Medieval Economy and Society. Michael Prestwich . War, Politics and Finance under Edward I. E. B. De Windt. Land and People in Holywell-cum-Needingworth. I. S. W. Blanchard (Ed.). The Duchy of Lancaster's Estates in Derbyshire 1485–1540. Henryk Zins. England and the Baltic in the Elizabethan Era. J. D. Chambers. Population, Economy, and Society in Pre-Industrial England E. Halévy (Trs. and Ed. Bernard Semmel). The Birth of Methodism in England. G. E. Fussell. Jethro Tull: His Influence on Mechanized Agriculture. David Hey . The Rural Metalworkers of the Sheffield Region. Judith Blow Williams. British Commercial Policy and Trade Expansion 1750–1850. Norman Mc Cord. Free Trade: Theory and Practice from Adam Smith to Keynes. Alice Mary Hadfield. The Chartist Land Company. R. G. Garnett. Co-operation and the Owenite Socialist Communities in Britain, 1825–45. Raymond Challinor. The Lancashire and Cheshire Miners. Arthur J. Taylor. Laissez-faire and State Intervention in Nineteenth-century Britain. T. R. Gourvish. Mark Huish and the London & North Western Railway. A Study of Management. Bentley B. Gilbert. British Social Policy, 1914–1939. R. G. Albion. Naval and Maritime History: An Annotated Bibliography. A.J. YOUNGSON (Ed.). Economic Development in the Long Run. G. E. Fussell. The Classical Tradition in West European Farming. David Maland. Culture and Society in Seventeenth-Century France. Alan Mayhew. Rural Settlement and Farming in Germany G. J. Abbott. The Pastoral Age: A Re-examination. Charles Issawi (Ed.). The Economic History of Iran 1800–1914. James T. Lemon. The Best Poor Man's Country: A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania. Raymond A. Mohl. Poverty in New York 178–1825. Bray Hammond. Sovereignty and An Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War. Howard B. Schonberger . Transportation to the Seaboard: The “Communication Revolution” and American Foreign Policy, 1860–1900. Lee Soltow. Patterns of Wealthholding in Wisconsin Since 1850. Charles Gilbert. American Financing of World War One. Robert Sobel. The Great Bull Market: Wall Street in the 1920S. Norton Essays in American History, Harold M. Hyman, general editor. Raymond Wolters . Negroes and the Great Depression: The Problem of Economic Recovery. George E. Hopkins. The Airline Pilots. A Study in Elite Unionization.     

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W. H. Chaloner and R. C. Richardson (Comps.). British Economic and Social History : A Bibliographical Guide. (Manchester: The University Press. 1976. Pp Pauline Gregg . Black Death to Industrial Revolution. A Social and Economic History of England. (London: Harrap. 1976. Pp R. G. Parker . Coke of Norfolk. A Financial and Agricultural Study, 1707-1842. (London: The Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1975. Pp T. M. Devine . The Tobacco Lords. A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and their Trading Activities, c. 1740-90. (Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd. 1975. Pp M. W. Flinn and T. C. Smout (Eds.). Essays in Social History. (London: The Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, for the Economic History Society. 1974. Pp Jean Lindsay . The Scottish Poor Law. Its Operation in the North-East from 1745 to 1845. (Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd. 1976. Pp A. Allan Maclaren (Ed.). Social Class in Scotland: Past and Present. (Edinburgh: John Donald. 1976. Pp A. Temple Patterson . A History of Southampton, 1790-1914. Vol. III: Setbacks and Recoveries, 1868-1914. Southampton Records Series, vol. XVIII. (Southampton: The University Press. 1975. Pp Eric J. Evans . The Contentious Tithe: The Tithe Problem and English Agriculture, 1750-1850. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1976. Pp Thomas Mc Keown . The Modern Rise of Population. (London: Edward Arnold. 1976. Pp Derek Oddy and Derek Miller (Eds.). The Making of the Modern British Diet. (London: Croom Helm. 1976. Pp Derek Fraser (Ed.). The New Poor Law in the Nineteenth Century (London: Macmillan. 1976. Pp William A. Green . British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830-65. (Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1976. Pp G. A. Phillips . The General Strike: The Politics of Industrial Conflict. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1976. Pp Sean Glynn and J ohn Oxborrow . Interwar Britain: A Social and Economic History. (London: George Allen & Unwin. 1976. Pp J. M. Winter (Ed.). War and Economic Development: Essays in Memory of David Joslin. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Pp M. I. Finley (Ed.). Studies in Roman Property. By the Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1976. Pp E. Ashtor . A Social and Economic History of the Near East in the Middle Ages. (London: Collins. 1976. Pp Robert S. Lopez . The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1976. Pp Carlo M. Cipolla . Before the Industrial Revolution. European Society and Economy, 1000-1700. (London: Methuen. 1976. Pp Hermann Kellenbenz . The Rise of the European Economy. An Economic History of Continental Europe, 1500-1750. (London: Weidenfeld. 1976. Pp T. Evergates . Feudal Society in the Bailliage of Troyes under the Counts of Champagne, 1152-1284. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1976. Pp N. J. G. Pounds . An Economic History of Medieval Europe. (London: Longman, 1974. Pp Richard Tilden Rapp . Industry and Economic Decline in Seventeenth-Century Venice. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press. 1976. Pp W. O. Henderson . The Rise of German Industrial Power, 1834-1914. (London: Temple Smith. 1975. Pp G. L. Barrow . The Emergence of the Irish Banking System, 1820-45. (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. 1975. Pp M. Moynihan . Currency and Central Banking in Ireland, 1922-60. (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan with the Central Bank of Ireland. 1975. Pp Thomas S. Fedor . Patterns of Urban Growth in the Russian Empire During the Nineteenth Century. (Chicago: The University of Chicago, Department of Geography, Research Paper No. 163. 1975. Pp Gilbert Rozman . Urban Networks in Russia, 1750-1800, and Premodern Periodization. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1976. Pp Peter Duignan and L. H. Gann (Eds.). Colonialism in Africa, 1870-1960. Vol. 4: The Economics of Colonialism. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Pp J. Forbes Munro . Colonial Rule and the Kamba: Social Change in the Kenya Highlands, 1889-1939. (London: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1975. Pp Peter Temin . Did Monetary Factors Cause the Great Depression? (New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 1976. Pp     

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M. W. GREENSLADE (Ed.)- The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Staffordshire. K. J. Allison (Ed.). The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of York, East Riding. Joan Thirsk . The Rural Economy of England: Collected Essays. Peter Clark (Ed.). The Transformation of English Provincial Towns, 1600–1800. T. M. Devine and David Dickson (Eds.). Ireland and Scotland, 1600–1850: Parallels and Contrasts in Economic and Social Development. E. F. Cato Carter . Order out of Chaos: A History of the Loss Adjusting Profession. Part 1. Evolution and Early Development. S. Chapman . The Rise of Merchant Banking. M. W. Kirby . Men of Business and Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Quaker Pease Dynasty of North-East England, 1700–1943. H. I. Dutton . The Patent System and Inventive Activity during the Industrial Revolution, 1750–1852. Eric J. Evans . The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783–1870. Lawrence H. White . Free Banking in Britain: Theory, Experience, and Debate, 1800–1845. Hugh Mc Leod . Religion and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Britain. James A. Schmiechen . Sweated Industries and Sweated Labour: The London Clothing Trades, 1860–1914. Pamela Horn . The Changing Countryside in Victorian and Edwardian England and Wales. Elizabeth Roberts . A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working-Class Women, 1890–1940. Penny Summerfield . Women Workers in The Second World War. GENERAL William M. Reddy . The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society, 1750–1900. J. P. de Korte . De Jaarlijkse financiele verantwoording in de VOC Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie. Michael Burleigh . Prussian Society and the German Order: An Aristocratic Corporation in Crisis, c. 1410–1466. Wilhelm Treue . Wirtschafts-und Technikgeschichte Preussens. Wolfram Engels and Hans Pohl (Eds.) German Yearbook on Business History, 1983. Joan M. Frayn . Sheep-Rearing and the Wool Trade in Italy During the Roman Period. John Rosselli . The Opera Industry in Italy from Cimarosa to Verdi: The Role of the Impresario. Paul R. Gregory . Russian National Income, 1885–1913. Alice Teichova and P. L. Cottrell (Eds.). International Business and Central Europe, 1918–1939. David A. Hounshell . From the American System to Mass Production, 1800–1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. David H. Breen . The Canadian Prairie West and the Ranching Frontier, 1874–1924. Clifton B. Kroeber . Man, Land, and Water: Mexico's Farmlands Irrigation Policies, 1885–1911. Suraiya Faroqhi . Towns and Townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia: Trade, Crafts, and Food Production in an Urban Setting, 1520–1650. Asok Sen , Partha Chatterjee , and Saugata Mukherji . Perspectives in Social Sciences 2. Three Studies on the Agrarian Structure in Bengal, 1850–1947. John Iliffe . The Emergence of African Capitalism. D. C. Coleman and Peter Mathias (Eds.). Enterprise and History: Essays in Honour of Charles Wilson. Pat Thane , Geoffrey Crossick , and Roderick Floud (Eds.). The Power of the Past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Margaret Spufford . Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England. Anne Kussmaul . Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England. P. B. Munsche . Gentlemen and Poachers: The English Game Laws, 1671–1831. S. D. Chapman and S. Chassagne . European Textile Printers in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of Peel and Oberkampf. Enid Gauldie . The Scottish County Miller, 1700-I900: A History of Water-powered Meal Milling in Scotland. Chris Fisher . Custom, Work, and Market Capitalism: The Forest of Dean Colliers, 1788–1888. S. D. Chapman . Stanton and Staveley: A Business History. W. M. Mathew . The House of Gibbs and the Peruvian Guano Monopoly. J. E. King . Richard Marsden and the Preston Charrisrs, 1837–1848. J. A. Banks . Victorian Values: Secularism and the Size of Families. W. D. Rubinstein . Men of Property: The Very Wealthy in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. R. C. Michie . Money, Mania, and Markets: Investment, Company Formation and the Stock Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Scotland. Edgar Jones . Accountancy and the British Economy, 1840–1980: The Evolution of Ernst & Whinney. P. J. Waller . Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool, 1868–1939. W. J. Reader . Bowater: A History. Anthony Carew . The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy, 1900–39: The Invergordon Mutiny in Perspective. Philip S. Bagwell . The Railwaymen: The Histoy of the National Union of Raiwaymen. Vol. 2. The Beeching Era and After. Edgars Dunsdorfs . The Livonian Estates of Axel Oxenstjerna. C. Koninckx . The First and Second Charters of the Swedish East India Company (1731-1766): A Contribution to the Maritime, Economic and Social Histmy of North-Western Europe in its Relationship with the Far East (with a preface by K. GLAMANN). L. M. Cullen and F. Furet (Eds.). Ireland and France, 1600–1900: Towards a Comparative Study of Rural History. Hubert Watelet . Une Industrialisation sans developpement: Le bassin de M m et le Charbonnage du Grand-Homu du milieu du XVIII siicle au milieu du XIX siicle. G. H. Kocks and J. M. G. van der Poel (Eds.). Landbouwkundige Beschrijvingen uit de Negenrien-eeux. Jurgen Kocka . Die Angesrellren in der deutschen Geschichte, 1850–1980. Eduard Marz . Osterreichische Bankpoltik in der Zeit der groben Wende, z9z3-z923: Am Beispiel der Creditanstalt fur Handel and Gewerbe. Angelo Massafra (Ed.). Problemi di sroria delle campagne meridionali nelleta moderna econrempmanea. Manuel Tunon de Lara (Ed.). Historiu de Espuiia, Vol. VIII, Revolucibn burguesa, oligurquiay constitutionism, 1834–1923. Martin Mccauley . The Soviet Union since 1917. Bruce R. Davidson . European Farming in Australia: An Economic History of Australian Farming. David J. Jeremy . Transatlantic Itulustrial Revolution: The Diffusion of Textile Technologies between Britain ond Anwrica, 1790–1830s. Peter J. Buckley and Brian R. Roberts . European Direct Investment in the USA before World War I. Charles E. Harvey . The Rio Tinto Company: An Economic History of a Leading International Mining Concern, 1873–1954. Ester Boserup . Population and Technology.     

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Books reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN C. Phythian -Adams . Desolation of a City: Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages. Felicity Heal . Of Prelates and Princes. A Study of the Economic and Social Position of the Tudor Episcopate. David Cressy . Literacy and the Social Order. Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England. Frances J. Shaw . The Northern and Western Islands of Scotland: Their Economy and Society in the Seventeenth Century. Arthur H. John and Glanmor Williams (Eds.). Glamorgan County History. Vol. V. Industrial Glamorgan from 1700 to 1970. David Cannadine . Lords and Landlords: The Aristocracy and the Towns, 1774–1967. Susanna Wade Martins . A Great Estate at Work: The Holkham Estate and its Inhabitants in the Nineteenth Century. George J. Barnsby . Social Conditions in the Black Country, 1800–1900. Norman Mc Cord . Strikes. C. G. Powell . An Economic History of the British Building Industry, 1815–1979. T. R. Gourvish . Railways and the British Economy, 1830–1914. F. C. Mather (Ed.). Chartism and Society. An Anthology of Documents. P. L. Cottrell . Industrial Finance, 1830–1914. The Finance and Organization of English Manufacturing Industry. Ian Levitt and Christopher Smout . The State of the Scottish Working Class in 1843: A Statistical and Spatial Enquiry Based on the Data from the Poor Law Commission Report of 1844. Angela V. John . By the Sweat of their Brow: Women Workers at Victorian Coal Mines. Charles More . Skill and the English Working Class, 1870–1914. A. E. Dingle . The Campaign for Prohibition in Victorian England: The United Kingdom Alliance, 1872–1895. G. R. Hawke . Economics for Historians. Raphael Samuel (Ed.). People's History and Socialist Theory. Bari ?A Kreki ?. Dubrovnik, Italy and the Balkans in the late Middle Ages. Myron P. Gutmann . War and Rural Life in the Early Modern Low Countries Juan Sanz Sampelayo . Granada en el Siglo XVIII. Pierre Caspard . La Fabrique-Neuve de Cortaillod: entreprise et profit pendant la Revolution industrielle, 1752–1854. J. M. Diefendorf . Businessmen and Politics in the Rhineland, 1789–1834. Christof Dipper . Die Bauernbefreiung in Deutschland, 1790–1850. David Alexander and Rosemary Ommer (Eds.). Volumes Not Values: Canadian Sailing Ships and World Trade. Marco Palacios . Coffee in Colombia, 1850–1970: An Economic, Social and Political History. Sherman Cochran . Big Business in China: Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry, 1890–1930. Michael Stephen Smith . Tariff Reform in France, 1860–1900. The Politics of Economic Interest. A. D. Chandler , Jr . and H. Daems (Eds.). Managerial Hierarchies: Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Modern Industrial Enterprise. Carl -Ludwig Holtfrerich . Die deutsche Inflation, 1914–1923: Ursachen und Folgen in internationaler Perspektive. Rajat K. Ray . Industrialization in India: Growth and Conflict in the Private Corporate Sector, 1914–47.     

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Book Reviews in this Article: J. B. Whitwell . Roman Lincolnshire. History of Lincolnshire. Vol. 11. (Lincoln: History of Lincolnshire Committee; Lincolnshire Local History Society R. Welldon Finn . Domesday Studies: The Norman Conquest and its Effects on the Economy, 1066–86 G. W. S. Barrow . Regesta Regum Scottorum. Vol. 11. The Acts of William I. Kenneth G. Ponting . The Woollen Industry of South-west England. Margery Kirkbride James (Ed. Elspeth M. Veale). Studies in the Medieval Wine Trade. John Hatcher . Rural Economy and Society in the Duchy of Cornwall, 1300–1500. Geoffrey C. Cowling . The History of Easingwold and the Forest of Galtres. (Huddersfield: R. B. Smith . Land and Politics in the England of Henry VIII W. J. Jones . The Elizabethan Court of Chancery. (Oxford) Cyril Hart . The Industrial History of Dean: with an introduction to its industrial archaeology. Frank Tyrer (Ed.). W. M. Stern . Britain Yesterday and Today: A. W. Coats (Ed.). The Classical Economists and Economic Policy. S. Pollard and J. Salt (Eds.) S. D. Chapman (Ed.). The History of Working Class Housing: a symposium Austin Mitchell . The Whigs in Otposition, 1815–1830 A. G. Kenwood and A. L. Lougheed . The Growth of the International Economy , 1820–1960: An Introductory Text . Harold Perkin . Dorothy Thompson . K. T. Rowland . The Great Britain. Monica Wilson and Leonard Thompson (Eds.) George Sayers Bain . The Growth of White-Collar Unionism. G. R. Searle . The Quest for National Efficiency. A Study in British Politics and Political Thought, Kenneth D. Brown . Robert Roberts . J. A. Allen . Studies in Innovation in the Steel and Chemical Industries Herbert Jankuhn . Ernst Klein . Ferdinand Tremel . Kölner Vorträge zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Elisabeth Johann . Greifswald-Stralsunder Jahrbuch, vol. 8, 1968–9. Georg Gruull . Werner Lippert . Friedrich -Wilhelm Henning . Friedrich -Wilhelm Henning . Werner Weidmann . Werner Hofmann . Gerd H. Hardach . Willy Fraunken . Hermann Schindler . Eduard Maurz . Heinz Hermanns . Klara van Eyll . Jacques Bernard . Navires et Gens de mer a Bordeaux Jean Meyer . Maurice Agulhon . Maurice Agulhon . Bertrand Gille . Rolande Trempea . Pierre Dupont -Gonin . G. Morlat and F. Bessiegre . Pierre Waline . Michel Vilain . Rural History, Modern and Contemporary     

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D. E. Greenway (Ed.). Charters of the Honour of Mowbray, 1107–1191. Ian Kershaw . Bolton Priory: The Economy of a Northern Monastery 1286–1325. Colin Platt . Medieval Southampton. The Port and Trading Community, A.D. 1000–1600. David G. Hey . An English Rural Community: Myddle under the Tudors and Stuarts. N. B. Harte and K. G. Ponting (Eds.). Textile History and Economic History Geoffrey W. Oxley . Poor Relief in England and Wales, 1601–1834. Blair Worden . The Rump Parliament, 1648–1653. G. E. Aylmer . The State's Servants. The Civil Service of the English Republic, 1649–1660. B. L. Anderson (Ed.). Capital Accumulation in the Industrial Revolution. Everyman's University Library Readings in Economic History and Theory. John Booker . Essex and the Industrial Revolution. Jean Lindsay . A History of the North Wales Slate Industry. Ray A. Kelch . Newcastle. A Duke without Money: Thomas Pelham-Holles 1693–1768. R. J. Adam (Ed.). Papers on Sutherland Estate Management, 1802–1816. Eric Richards . The Leviathan of Wealth: The Sutherland Fortune in the Industrial Revolution. A. Allan Maclaren . Religion and Social Class: The Disruption Tears in Aberdeen Bruce Lenman University of St Andrews Phillip S. Bagwell . The Transport Revolution from 1770. P. L. Payne . British Entrepreneur ship in the Nineteenth Century. F. R. Jervis . Bosses in British Business. Managers and Management from the Industrial Revolution to the Present Day Eugene C. Black (Ed.). Victorian Culture and Society Graeme Duncan . Marx and Mill. Two Views of Social Harmony and Social Conflict. A. Sutcliffe (Ed.). Multi-Storey Living, The British Working-Class Experience. A. E. Musson . Trade Union and Social History. Kenneth D. Brown (Ed.). Essays in Anti-Labour History: Responses to the Rise of Labour in Britain. E. L. Taplin . Liverpool Dockers and Seamen, 1870–1890 Pamela and Harold Silver . The Education of the Poor; the History of a National School, 1824–1974 T. G. Cook (Ed.). Education and the Professions. Alan A. Jackson . Semi-Detached London. Suburban Development, Life and Transport, 1900–1939. GENERAL A. H. M. Jones . The Roman Economy: Studies in Ancient Economic and Administrative History. Richard Duncan -Jones . The Economy of the Roman Empire: Quantitative Studies. Louis P. Cain and Paul J. Uselding (Eds.). Business Enterprise and Economic Change. Essays in Honor of Harold F. Williamson. Elisha P. Douglass . The Coming of Age of American Business, Three Centuries of Enterprise, 1600–1900. Ian M. Drummond . Imperial Economic Policy, 1917–1939: Studies in Expansion and Protection. Craufurd D. W. Goodwin . The Image of Australia: British Perception of the Australian Economy from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century. R. S. Gilbert . The Australian Loan Council in Federal Fiscal Adjustments, 1890–1965. Michael Adas . The Burma Delta: Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1832–1941. Richard D. Wolff . The Economics of Colonialism: Britain and Kenya, 1870–1930. SCANDINAVIA S. A. Hansen . Økonomisk vækst i Danmark, 1720–1970, I-II. (Copenhagen: The Institute of Economic History, University of Copenhagen. 1972 and 1974. Pp. 315 and 320. No price.) Francis Sejersted . Ideal, teori og virkelighet. Nicolai Rygg og pengepolitikken i 1920-årene. Claudio Rotelli . Una campagna medievale. Storia agraria del Piemonte fra il 1250 e il 1450. M. Luzzatti . Giovanni Villani e la compagnia dei Buonaccorsi. Mario Romani (Ed.). Contributi dell' Istituto di Storia economica e sociale. Vol. 1: Aspetti di vita agricola lombarda (secoli XVI-XIX). (Milan: Vita e Pensiero. 1973. Pp. 307. L. 11,000.) Mario Abrate . Popolazione e peste del 1630 a Carmagnola. Giuseppe Felloni . Gli investimenti finanziari genovesi in Europa tra il Seicento e la Restaurazione. A. Placanica . La Cassa Sacra e i beni della Chiesa nella Calabria settecentesca. Alberto Cova . Il Banco di S. Ambrogio nell' economia milanese dei secoli XVII e XVIII. Bruno Caizzi . L'Economia lombarda durante la Restaurazione (1814–1859). Giovanni Vigo . Istruzione e sviluppo economico in Italia nel secolo XIX. Giorgio Doria . Investimenti e sviluppo economico a Geneva alla vigilia della prima Guerra mondiale. Vol. II: 1883–1914.     

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P. D. A. Harvey . Manorial Records. P. D. A. Harvey (Ed.). The Peasant Land Market in Medieval England. Peter Clark . The English Alehouse: A Social History, 1200–1800. Angus Mc Laren . Reproductive Rituals: The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century. L. Stone and J. C. Fawtier Stone . An Open Elite?: England, 1540–1880. Stephen Fisher (Ed.). British Shipping and Seamen, 1630–1960: Some Studies. Donald Woodward (Ed.). The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642. Clifford Gulvin . The Scottish Hosiery and Knitwear Industry, 1680–1980. James Walvin . English Urban Life, 1776–1851. Ian R. Christie . Stress and Stability in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: Reflections on the British Avoidance of Revolution. Oliver M. Westall (Ed.). The Historian and the Business of Insurance. Gertrude Himmelfarb. The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age. B. R. Mitchell. Economic Development of the British Coal Industry, 1800–1914. Dorothy Thompson. The Chartists. R. F. Bud and G. K. Roberts. Science versus Practice: Chemistry in Victorian Britain. Asa Briggs and Anne Macartney. Toynbee Hall: The First Hundred Years. Alan Clinton. Post Office Workers: A Trade Union and Social History. Harvey J. Kaye. The British Marxist Historians: An Introductory Analysis. GENERAL Steven Laurence Kaplan . Provisioning Paris: Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade during the Eighteenth Century. Bernard Lepetit . Chemins de Terre et Voies D'Eau: Réseaux de Transports et Organisation de l'Espace en France, 1740–1840. Jean -Claude Perrot and Stuart J. Woolf . State and Statistics in France, 1789–1815. William J. Callahan . Church, Society, and Politics in Spain, 1750–1874. Miriam Halpern Pereira . Política y economía: Portugal en los siglos XIX y XX. A. de Maddalena and H. Kellenbenz (Eds.). Finanze e ragion di Stato in Italia e in Germania nella prima Età moderna. David F. Good . The Economic Rise of the Habsburg Empire, 1750–1914. Michael Mesch . Arbeiterexistenz in der Spätgründerzeit: Gewekschaften und Lohnen-twicklung in Österreich, 1890–1914. Henry Kamen . European Society, 1500–1700. G. D. Feldman , C. L. Holtfrerich , G. A. Ritter and P.-C. Witt (Eds.). The Experience of Inflation. Glenn Yago . The Decline of Transit: Urban Transportation in German and US. Cities, 1900–1970. Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole (Eds.). Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modem Era. Stanley Lebergott . The Americans: An Economic Record. William R. Brock . Investigation and Responsibility: Public Responsibility in the United States, 1865–1900. Thomas K. Mc Craw . Prophets of Regulation. Hugh Rockoff . Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States. D. H. Akenson . The Irish in Ontario: A Study in Rural History. Robert L. Tignor . State, Private Enterprise, and Economic Change in Egypt, 1918–1952. H. Medick and D. W. Sabean (Eds.). Interest and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship. R. A. Cage (Ed.). The Scots Abroad: Labour, Capital, Enterprise, 1730–1914. Akio Okochi and Shigeaki Yasuoka (Eds.). Family Business in the Era of Industrial Growth: Its Ownership and Management. D. C. M. Platt . Foreign Finance in Continental Europe and the USA, 1815–1870: Quantities, Origins, Functions, and Distribution. Thomas P. Hughes . Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930. Philip D. Curtin . Cross-cultural Trade in World Industry.     

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Review in this Article J. L. Bolton . The Medieval English Economy, 1150–1500. William E. Kapelle . The Norman Conquest of the North: The Region and Its Transformation, 1100–1135. John Langton . Geographical Change and industrial Revolution: Coalmining in South West Lancashire, 1590–1799. John T. Evans . Seventeenth Century Norwich: Politics, Religion and Government, 1620–1690. C. R. Dobson . Masters and Journeymen: A Prehistory of Industrial Relations, 1717–1800. J. T. Ward and W. H. Fraser (Eds.). Workers and Employers: Documents on Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Britain since the Eighteenth Century. Richard Price . Masters, Unions and Men: Work Control in Building and the Rise of Labour, 1830–1914. Samuel Hollander . The Economics of David Ricardo. Sheila Fletcher . Feminists and Bureaucrats: a Study in the Development of Girls’ Education in the Nineteenth Century Roy Church (Ed.). The Dynamics of Victorian Business. Problems and Perspectives to the 1870s. Samuel Clark . Social Origins of the Irish Land War. Neil K. Buxton and Derek H. Aldcroft (Eds.). British Industry between the Wars: Instability and Industrial Development, 1919–1939. P. A. Uselding (Ed.)- Research in Economic History Wilhelm Abel . Agricultural Fluctuations in Europe from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. Peter Kriedte . Spätfeudalismus und Handelskapital. Philip Jones . Economia e società nell’ Italia medievale. James C. Riley . International Government Finance and the Amsterdam Capital Market, 1740–1815. F. Gschwind . Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Wirtschaftsstruktur der Landschaft Basel im 18. Jahrhundert. Ein historisch-demographischer Beitrag zur Sozial-und Wirtschaftsgeschichte mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der langfristigen Bevölkerungsentwicklung von Stadt (seit 1100) und Landschaft (seit 1500) Basel. A. Perrenoud . La population de Geneve du seizième au debut du dix-neuvième siècle. Christopher R. Friedrichs . Urban Society in an Age of War:Nördlingen, 1580–1720. Peter Laslett , Karla Oosterveen and Richard M. Smith (Eds.). Bastardy and its Comparative History. Ingrid Hammarström and Thomas Hall (Eds.). Growth and Transformation of the Modern City. Louis C. Hunter . A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Vol. 1, Waterpower in the Century of the Steam Engine. W. D. Rubinstein (Ed.). Wealth and the Wealthy in the Modern World. Luigi De Rosa . Emigranti, Capitalie Banche (1896–1906). A. Vintas , J. Vintuela , F. Eguidazu , C. Fernandez Pulgar and S. Florensa . Politica Comercial Exterior en España (1931–1975).     

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Reviewed in this article: Michael Havinden . The Somerset Landscape. D. W. CROSSLEY (Ed.). Medieval Industry. ROBERT S. GOITFRIED. Buy St. Edmunds and the Urban Crisis R. H. CAMPBELL and A. S. SKINNER. Adam Smith. Virginia Berridge and Griffith Edwards. Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth Century England. David Goodway . London Chartism, 1838-1848. Gordon M. Wilson . Alexander McDonald: Leader of the Miners. JAMES H. JOHNSON AND COLIN POOLEY (Eds.). D. FRASER (Ed.). Municipal Reform and the Industrial City. AVNER OFFER. Property and Politics, 1870-1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England WILLIE ORR. Deer Forests, Landlords, and Crofters: The Western Highlands in Victorian and Edwardian Times. TONY DICKSON (Ed.). Capital and Class in Scotland. P. J. DRUDY (Ed.). Ireland: Land, Politics, and People. C. J. WRIGLEY (Ed.). A History of British Industrial Relations, 1875-1914. Anthony Slaven and Derek H. Aldcroft (Eds.). David French . British Economic and Strategic Planning, 1905-15- (London: Allen and Unwin. GENERAL RICHARD HODGES. Dark Age Economics: The Origins of Towns and Trade, A.D. 600-1000. JEAN GAUTIER-DALCHE. Économie el société dans les pays de la Couronne de Castile. Alberto Grohmann . Città e Territorio tra Medioevo ed Eta Moderna. J. K. J. Thomson . Clermont de Lodève, 1633-1789: Fluctuations in the Prosperity of a Languedocian Cloth-making Town. G. B. Nilsson . Banker i brytningstid: A. O. Wallenberg i svensk bankpolitik, 1850-1856. William H. Becker . The Dynamics of Business-Government Relations: Industry & Exports, 1893-1921 PATRICK MANNING. Slavery, Colonialism, and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960. J. E. Inikori (Ed.)- Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies. Richard M. Kesner . Economic Control and Colonial Development: Crown Colony Financial Management in the Age of Joseph Chamberlain. R. W. Ferrier. The History of the British Petroleum Company: Volume I. The Developing Years, 1901-1932. Gavin Kitching. Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective: Populism, Nationalism, and Industrialization. Hisao Otsuka . The Spirit of Capitalism: The Max Weber Thesis in an Economic Historical Perspective (translated by Masaomi Kondo). M. F. Bywater and B. S. Yamey . Historic Accounting Literature: A Companion Guide. Angus Maddison. Phases of Capitalist Development. Mancur Olson . The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities. Craig R. Littler. The Development of the Labour Process in Capitalist Societies. Roger L. Ransom , Richard Sutch and Garry M. Walton (EDS.). Explorations in the New Economic History: Essays in Honor of Douglass C. North. D. P. O'BRIEN and A. C. DARNELL. Authorship Puzzles in the History of Economics: A Statistical Approach (London: Macmillan. 1982. Pp. xii+230. £25.)     

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Book reviewed in this article GREAT BRITAIN D. A. Crowley (Ed.). The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Wiltshire. Vol. XII. T. H. Aston , P. R. Coss , Christopher Dyer and Joan Thirsk (Eds.). Social Relations and Ideas: Essays in Honour of R. H. Hilton. Susan M. Wright . The Derbyshire Gentry in the Fifteenth Century. John Bohstedt . Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales, 1790-1810. S. R. Cope . Walter Boyd: A Merchant Banker in the Age of Napoleon. Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Freeman (Eds.). Transport in the Industrial Revolution. John K. Walton and James Walvin (Eds.). Leisure in Britain, 1780-1939. Katrina Honeyman . Origins of Enterprise: Business Leadership in the Industrial Revolution. John Garrard . Leadership and Power in Victorian Industrial Towns, 1830-80. Frances Finnegan . Poverty and Prejudice: A Study of Irish Immigrants in York, 1840-1875. David Brooke . The Railway Navvy. Frances Widdowson . Going Up into the Next Class: Women and Elementary Teacher Training, 1840-1914. Sydney and Olive Checkland . Industry and Ethos: Scotland, 1832-1914. David J. Jeremy (Ed.). Dictionary of Business Biography: A Biographical Dictionary of Business Leaders Active in Britain in the Period 1860-1980. Vol. 1: A-C. Forrest Capie and Michael Collins . The Inter-War British Economy: A Statistical Abstract. William Knox (Ed.). Scottish Labour Leaders, 1918-1939: A Biographical Dictionary. John Stevenson . British Society, 1914-1945. Peter Pagnamenta and Richard Overy . All Our Working Lives. J. H. van Stuijvenberg (Ed.). The Interactions of Amsterdam and Antwerp with the Baltic Region, 1400-1800. Artur Attman . Dutch Enterprise in the World Bullion Trade, 1550-1800. Sarah C. Maza . Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century France: The Uses of Loyalty. Franclois Jequier Nikolai Todorov . The Balkan City, 1400-1900. Maldwyn A. Jones . The Limits of Liberty: American History, 1607-1980. Philip Scranton . Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800-1885. Walter Licht . Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century. Gary M. Walton and James F. Shepherd (Eds.). Market Institutions and Economic Progress in the New South, 1865-1900. Colin M. Lewis . British Railways in Argentina, 1857-1914: A Case Study of Foreign Investment. London: Athlone Press for the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. 1983. Pp. xii+259. 41 tables. 2 graphs. 5 maps. £20.) Michelle Burge Mc Alpin . Subject to Famine: Food Crises and Economic Change in Western India, 1860-1920. Frank H. H. King (Ed.). Eastern Banking: Essays in the History of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Robert H. Bates . Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa. Norman Etherington . Theories of Imperialism: War, Conquest, and Capital.     

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H. C. Darby (Ed.). A New Historical Geography of England. R. Welldon Finn . Domesday Book: A Guide. Edmund King . Peterborough Abbey, 1086–1310: A Study in the Land Market. R. M. Timson (Ed.). The Cartulary of Blyth Priory. Angela Conyers (Ed.). Wiltshire Extents for Debts, Edward I-Elizabeth I. G. R. Elton . Reform and Renewal. Thomas Cromwell and the Common Weal. W. R. D. Jones . The Mid-Tudor Crisis, 1539–1563. Joan Day . Bristol Brass: The History of the Industry. Michael Havinden (Ed.). Husbandry and Marketing in the South-West, 1500–1800. Exeter Papers in Economic History, no. 8. (Exeter: University of Exeter. 1973. Pp. 74. 75p.) M. Perceval -Maxwell . The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Region of James I. J. S. Morrill . Cheshire, 1630–1660: County Government and Society during the English Revolution. Louise B. Taylor (Ed.). Aberdeen Shore Work Accounts, 1596–1670. F. M. L. Thompson . Hampstead: Building a Borough, 1650–1964. Melvin H. Jackson and Charles De Beer . Eighteenth-Century Gunfounding: The Verbruggens at the Royal Brass Foundry. J. R. Ward . The Finance of Canal Building in Eighteenth-Century England. John G. Gazley . The Life of Arthur Young, 1741–1820. John Nelson Tarn . Five Per Cent Philanthropy: An Account of Housing in Urban Areas between 1840 and 1914. Enid Gauldie . Cruel Habitations: A History of Working-Class Housing, 1780–1918. Frank W. Fetter and Derek Gregory . Monetary and Financial Policy: Government and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Commentaries on British Parliamentary Papers. Peter Harnetty . Imperialism and Free Trade: Lancashire and India in the mid-Nineteenth Century. P. H. J. H. Gosden . Self-Help: Voluntary Associations in Nineteenth-Century Britain. W. Hamish Fraser . Trade Unions and Society: The Struggle for Acceptance, 1850–1880. W. A. Thomas . The Provincial Stock Exchanges. H. E. S. Fisher and W. E. Minghinton (Eds.). Transport and Shipowning in the West-country. Exeter Papers in Economic History, no. 7. (Exeter: University of Exeter. 1973. Pp. 71. 6 plates. 75p.) D. H. Aldcroft . Studies in British Transport History, 1870–1970. James Hinton , The First Shop Stewards' Movement. REVIEW OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE 1973 (i) Medieval (ii) 1500–1700 (iii) 1700–1800 Since 1800 GENERAL Roderick Floud (Ed.). Essays in Quantitative History. Richard G. Wilkinson . Poverty and Progress: An Ecological Model of Economic Development. M. I. Finley (Ed.). Studies in Ancient Society. Past and Present Series. Wilhelm Abel . Massenarmut und Hungerkrisen im vorindustriellen Europa. Frederic G. Lane . Venice: A Maritime Republic. Ralph Davis . The Rise of the Atlantic Economies. G. L'E. Turner and T. H. Levere . Martinus van Marum, Life and Work (Ed. by E. Lefebvre and J. G. De Bruijn). Vol. IV, Van Marum's Scientific Instruments in Teyler's Museum. W. L. Blackwell (Ed.). Russian Economic Development from Peter the Great to Stalin. Marcus Arkin . Storm in a Teacup: The Later Tears of John Company at the Cape. Hoh Cheung and Lorna H. Mui (Eds.). William Melrose in China, 1845–1885: The Letters of a Scottish Tea Merchant. R. C. J. Stone . Makers of Fortune: A Colonial Business Community and its Fall. Alice Teichovaa . An Economic Background to Munich: International Business and Czechoslovakia, 1918–1938. M. Keating . The Australian Workforce, 1910–11 to 1960–1. Kazushi Ohkawa and Henry Rosovsky . Japanese Economic Growth: Trend Acceleration in the Twentieth Century. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Clarence H. Danhof . Change in Agriculture: The Northern United States, 1820–1870. John W. Blassingame . Black New Orleans. Michael P. Conzen . Frontier Farming in an Urban Shadow. Margaret Walsh . The Manufacturing Frontier: Pioneer Industry in Antebellum Wisconsin, 1830–1860. Ira Rosenwaike . Population History of New York City. Howard P. Chudagoff . Mobile Americans: Residential and Social Mobility in Omaha, 1880–1920. Urban Life in America Series. Robert Sobel . The Age of Giant Corporations: A Microeconomic History of American Business, 1914–1970. Robert K. Murray . The Politics of Normalcy: Governmental Theory and Practice in the Harding-Coolidge Era. Michael Hudson . Super Imperialism. Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman (Eds.). The Reinterpretation of American Economic History.     

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Books reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN Alan Macfarlane . The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property and Social Transition. Norbert Elias . The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners. H. S. A. Fox and R. A. Butlin (Eds.). Change in the Countryside: Essays on Rural England, 1500–1900. R. Fieldhouse and B. Jennings . A History of Richmond and Swaledale. B. G. Blackwood . The Lancashire Gentry and the Great Rebellion, 1640–60. Ghetham Society, Third Series. Vol. xxv. Richard Tompson . The Charity Commission and the Age of Reform. Ian Mac Dougall (Ed.). A Catalogue of Some Labour Records in Scotland and Some Scots Records outside Scotland. David E. Martin and David Rubinstein (Eds.). Ideology and the Labour Movement: Essays Presented to John Saville. Carlos Flick . The Birmingham Political Union and the Movements for Reform in Britain, 1830–9. Norman Mackenzie (Ed.). The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Jose Harris . William Beveridge. A Biography. Leslie Hannah . Electricity before Nationalization: A Study of the Development of the Electricity Supply Industry in Britain to 1948. G. C. Peden , British Rearmament and the Treasury: 1932–9. GENERAL E. Le Roy Ladurie . The Territory of the Historian. Translated by Ben and Sian Reynolds. Archibald Lewis . The Sea and Medieval Civilizations. Collected Studies. Jerome Blum . The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe. Richard H. Timberlake , Jr . The Origins of Central Banking in the United States. David Herlihy . The Social and Economic History of Italy and Western Europe, 700–1500. Hartmut Kaelble (Ed.). Geschichte der sozialen Mobilität seit der industriallen Revolution. Hermann Aubin and Wolfgang Zorn (Eds.). Handbuch der deutschen Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte. Vol. I: Von der Frühzeit bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts. Pierre Léaon (Ed.). Histoire économique et sociale du monde. Vol. 2: Les hésitations de la croissance, 1580–1740; vol. 3: Inerties et révolutions, 1730–1840; vol. 4: La domination du capitalisme, 1840–1914. Louis Bergeron . Banquiers, négotiants et manufacturiers parisiens du Directoire à l'Empire. John M. Merriman . The Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848–51. Susan M. Socolow . The Merchants of Buenos Aires, 1778–1810: Family and Commerce. Johan de Vries . The Netherlands Economy in the Twentieth Century. Joseph Harrison . An Economic History of Modern Spain.