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David Levine Reproducing families: the political economy of English population history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Alan Macfarlane The culture of capitalism (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp Roy Porter Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550-1860 (Macmillan, 1987. Pp J.A. Sharpe Early modern England: a social history, 1550-1760 (Edward Arnold, 1987. Pp Christopher A. Whatley The Scottish salt industry, 1570-1850: an economic and social history (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987. Pp Margaret De Lacy Prison reform in Lancashire, 1700-1850: a study in local administration (Manchester: Manchester University Press for the Chetham Society, 1986. Pp Simon P. Ville English shipowning during the industrial revolution: Michael Henley & Son, London shipowners, 1770-1830 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. Pp Ruth Richardson Death, dissection and the destitute (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988. Pp Guy Routh,Occupations of the people of Great Britain, 1801-1981 with a compendium of a paper‘Occupations of the people of the United Kingdom, 1801-81’by Charles Booth (Macmillan, 1987. Pp W.B. Stephens Education, literacy and society, 1830-70: the geography of diversity in provincial England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. Pp Geoffrey Tweedale Sheffield steel and America: a century of commercial and technological interdependence, 1830-1930 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Jim Tomlinson Employment policy: the crucial years, 1939-1955 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp W. Ashworth The history of the British coal industry, vol. 5, 1946-1982: the nationalised industry. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp T.R. Gourvish British Railways, 1948-73: a business history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp John Armstrong and Stephanie Jones Business documents: their origins, sources and uses in historical research (London and New York: Mansell Publishing, 1987. Pp John Day The medieval market economy (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp Felipe Fernández-Armesto Before Columbus: exploration and colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492 (Macmillan, 1987. Pp Florin Aftalion ?économie de la Revolution française (Paris: Hachette, 1987. Pp Michael Sonenscher The hatters of eighteenth-century France (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1987. Pp John F. Godfrey Capitalism at war: industrial policy and bureaucracy in France, 1914-1918 (Leamington Spa: Berg, 1987. Pp Anne-Marie Piuz A Genève et autour de Genève aux xviie et xviiie siècles: Etudes ?histoire économique (Lausanne: Editions Payot, 1985. Pp Hans-Joachim Henning Dieter Lindenlaub and Eckhard Wandel, eds.,Wirtschafts-und sozialgeschichtliche Forschungen und Probleme: Karl Erich Born zur Vollendung des 6. Lebensjahres zugeeignet von Kollegen, Freunden und Schiilern (St Katharinen: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 1987. Pp Carlo M. Cipolla La moneta a Firenze nel Cinquecento (Bologna: II Mulino, 1987. Pp Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman To their own soil: agriculture in the antebellum north (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1987. Pp Joel Colton and Stuart Bruchey, eds., Technology, the economy and society: the American experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp Richard H.K. Vietor Energy policy in America since 1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp Carl E. Solberg The prairies and the pampas: agrarian policy in Canada and Argentina, 1880-1939 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1987. Pp James L. Dietz Economic history of Puerto Rico: institutional change and capitalist development (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp W. J. Macpherson The economic development of Japan, c. 1868-1941 (Macmillan Education for the Economic History Society, 1987. Pp Ryoshin Minami Power revolution in the industrialization of Japan, 1885-1940 (Tokyo: Kinokuniya, 1987. Pp Bertrand Gille The history of techniques: Vol. I, Techniques and civilizations; Vol. 2, Techniques and sciences (New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1986. Vol. 1: pp JOHN R. HUME Patrick Joyce, ed., The historical meaning of work (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Raymond W. Goldsmith Premodem financial systems: a historical comparative study (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Charles A. Jones International business in the nineteenth century: the rise and fall of a cosmopolitan bourgeoisie (Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1987. Pp Ian M. Drummond The gold standard and the international monetary system, 1900-1939 (Macmillan, 1987. Pp Charles P. Kindleberger Marshall Plan days (Allen and Unwin, 1987. Pp DAVID WIGHTMAN Alexander J. Field, ed., The future of economic history (Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing, 1987. Pp     

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“URBAN ECONOMIC CHANGE” Victor A. Hausner and members of the ESRC Inner Cities Research Programme, 1987: Urban Economic Change: Five City Studies. Clarendon Press, Oxford, £25.00.

“ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY” Robinson, F., Wren, C. and Goddard, J., 1987: Economic Development Policies-An Evaluative Study of the Newcastle Metropolitan Region. Oxford: Clarendon Press, £8.95 paper.

'URBAN REGENERATION ISSUES” London Strategic Policy Unit, 1987: Land for Industry: The need for industrial land in London until 1990. London: LSPU, no price stated.

Department of the Environment, 1987: Re-using Redundant Buildings: Case Studies of Good Practice in Urban Regeneration. HMSO £11.95.

Department of the Environment, 1987: Managing Workspaces: Case Studies of Good Practice in Urban Regeneration. HMSO £11.95.

Department of the Environment, 1987: Greening Crty Sites: Case Studies in Good Practice in Urban Re-generation. HMSO £11.95.

“VIEWS FROM THE DISTRICTS” Association of District Councils, 1987: A Blueprint for Urban Areas, Volumes 1 and 2. London: £12.00.

Association of District Councils, 1987: Economic Development Initiatives and Innovations: Best Practice Paper No. 6 (Revised). London: £4.00.     

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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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Kate Mertes, The English noble household, 1250-1600: good governance and politic rule (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988. Pp Rosalind Mitchison and Peter Roebuck, eds., Economy and society in Scotland and Ireland, 1500-1939 (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1988. Pp Jeremy Boulton, Neighbourhood and society: a London suburb in the seventeenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp James C. Riley, The eighteenth-century campaign to avoid disease (London: Macmillan, 1987. Pp J. R. Smith, The speckled monster: smallpox in England, 1670-1970, with particular reference to Essex (Chelmsford: Essex Record Office, 1987. Pp Macquarie University Julian Hoppit, Risk and failure in English business, 1700-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Edward Royle, Modem Britain: a social history, 1750-1985 (London: Edward Arnold, 1987. Pp Edgar Jones, A history of GKN, vol. i: innovation and enterprise, 1759-1918 (London: Macmillan, 1987. Pp Terry Gourvish, Norfolk beers from English barley: a history of Steward & Patteson, 1793-1963 (Norwich: Centre of East Anglian Studies, University of East Anglia, 1987. Pp J. W. R. Whitehand, The changing face of cities: a study of development cycles and urban form (Oxford: Blackwell, for the Institute of British Geographers, Special Publications Series no. 21, 1987. Pp John Saville, 1848, the British state and the Chartist movement (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Thames Polytechnic R. C. Michie, The London and New York Stock Exchanges, 1850-1914 (London: Allen & Unwin, 1987. Pp Imperial College, London Gerard M. Koot, English historical economics, 1870-1926 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp Jane Morgan, Conflict and order: the police and labour disputes in England and Wales, 1900-1939 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp P. W. J. Bartrip, Workmen's compensation in twentieth-century Britain: law, history and social policy (Aldershot: Gower, 1987. Pp Barry Supple, The history of the British coal industry, vol. 4, 1913-46: the political economy of decline. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp Gerry R. Rubin, War, law, and labour: the Munitions Acts, state regulation, and the unions, 1915-1921 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp Wolfson College, Oxford Steven Tolliday, Business, banking and politics: the case of British steel, 1918-1939 (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp Marguerite Dupree, ed., Lancashire and Whitehall: the diary of Sir Raymond Streat, 1931-57 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. 2 vols. Pp Patricia Herlihy, Odessa: a history, 1794-1914 (Cambridge: Mass.: Harvard University Press, Ukrainian Research Institute Monograph Series, 1986. Pp Jean Baechler, John A. Hall, and Michael Mann, eds., Europe and the rise of capitalism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988. Pp Michael Anderson, Population change in north-western Europe, 1750-1850 (London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp Frank B. Tipton and Robert Aldrich, An economic and social history of Europe, 1890-1939. An economic and social history of Europe from 1939 to the present (London: Macmillan, 1987. Pp London School of Economics and Political Science Carole Shammas, Marylynn Salmon, and Michael Dahlin, Inheritance in America from colonial times to the present (New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Rutgers University Press, 1987. Pp Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria Peter Kilby, ed., Quantity and quiddity: essays in U.S. economic history (Wesleyan University Press. 1987. Pp Robert F. Dalzell, Jr., Enterprising elite: the Boston Associates and the world they made (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp Cambridge University Robert Higgs, Crisis and Leviathan: critical episodes in the growth of American government (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp Rutgers University Jonathan Liebenau, Medical science and medical industry: the formation of the American pharmaceutical industry (London: Macmillan, in association with the Business History Unit, University of London, 1987. Pp The Queen's University of Belfast Peter Fearon, War, prosperity and depression: the U.S. economy, 1917-1945 (Oxford: Philip Allan, 1987. Pp Michael J. Hogan, The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Cynthia Taft Morris and Irma Adelman, Comparative patterns of economic development, 1850-1914 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Pp Bielefeld University Shireen Moosvi, The economy of the Mughal Empire c. 1595: a statistical study (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp Donald N. McCloskey, Econometric history (London: Macmillan, 1987. Pp Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario Margaret Garritscn de Vries, The International Monetary Fund, 1972-1978: cooperation on trial. Vols. 1, 11, and in (Washington D.C.: The International Monetary Fund, 1985. Vols. I and II, pp     

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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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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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“REDUNDANCY AND RECESSION” Danson, M. (editor) 1986: Redundancy and Recession: Restructuring the Regions? Norwich: Geobooks £25.00.

“BUSINESS FINANCE” International Management Centre, Buckingham for the Local Government Training Board 1986: Business Finance for Economic Development Officers. LGTB/Coventry Open Tech Unit. £48.50.

“NEW FIRMS” Johnson, P. 1987: New Firms, An Economic Perspective, London: Allen and Unwin £20.00.     

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Professor Hugo E. Pipping's work on the vicissitudes of the Bank of Finland (the central bank of the country) is one of the weightiest contributions that has yet been made to Finnish economic history. With the completion of volume lIt he has brought the story up to the beginning of World War I.     

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Review in this Article A. R. H. Baker and R. A. Butlin (Eds.). Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles. C.R. Elrington and N. M. Herbert (Eds.). A Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, Vol. X. John Hatcher. English Tin Production and Trade before 1550. J. P. Cooper (Ed.). Wentworth Papers, 1597–1628. Henry Roseveare. The Treasury 1660–1870. The Foundations of Control. T. J. Raybould. The Economic Emergence of the Black Country. C. M. Fraser and K. Emsley. Tyneside. A. R. B. Haldane. The Drove Roads of Scotland. David V. Glass. Numbering the People; the Eighteenth Century Population Controversy and the Development of Census and Vital Statistics in Britain. N. L. Tranter. Population since the Industrial Revolution: The Case of England and Wales. Walter J. Shelton. English Hunger and Industrial Disorders: A study of social conflict during the first decade of George III's reign. Allan Thompson. The Dynamics of the Industrial Revolution. I. E. A. Readings. 9. The Long Debate on Poverty. Eight essays on industrialisation and ‘the condition of England’. D. R. Mills (Ed.). English Rural Communities: The Impact of a Specialised Economy. Collins'Illustrated Atlas of London. B. T. Robson. Urban Growth: An Approach. B. I. Coleman. (Ed.). The Idea of the City in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Wilfred B. Whitaker. Victorian and Edwardian Shopworkers. Donald N. McCloskey. Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline: British Iron and Steel, 1870–1913. José Harris. Unemployment and Politics: A Study in English Social Policy. G. A. Phillips and R. T. Maddock. The Growth of the British Economy 1918–68. Thomas Sowell. Say's Law: An Historical Analysis. E. A. Wrigley (Ed.). Identifying People in the Past. Marian Malowist. Croissance et régression en Europe, XIVe-XVIIE siècles. H. S. Ferns. The Argentine Republic, 1516–1971. Hans Landberg, Lars Ekholm, Roland Nordlund, and Sven A. Nilsson. Det kontinentala krigets ekonomi. Studier i krigsfinansiering under svensk stormaktstid. Rene Girault. Emprunts russes et investissements français en Russie 1887–1914. John H. Drabble. Rubber in Malaya, 1876–1922: The Genesis of the Industry. Richard S. Dunn. Sugar and Slaves: the Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713. Georges Lefebvre. The Great Fear of 1789; Rural Panic in Revolutionary France. Jacob M. Price. France and the Chesapeake. A History of the French Tobacco Monopoly, 1674–1791, and Its Relationship to the British and American Tobacco Trades. James F. Shepherd and Gary M. Walton. Shipping, Maritime Trade and the Economic Development of Colonial North America. Arthur R. M. Lower. Great Britain's Woodyard: British America and the Timber Trade, 1763–1867. Glyndwr Williams (Ed.). Simpson's Letters to London, 1841–42. Charlotte Erickson. Invisible Immigrants: The Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in 19th Century America. D. K. Fieldhouse. Economics and Empire 1880–1914. P. N. Davies. The Trade Makers. Elder Dempster in West Africa 1852–1972. Peter Coffey. The Social Economy of France. A. G. Hopkins. An Economic History of West Africa.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: H. C. Darby and R. Welldon Finn (Eds.). The Domesday Geography of South-West England. C. S. and C. S. Orwin . The Open Fields. B. E. Howells (Ed.). A Calendar of Letters relating to North Wales, 1533-c.1700. B. G. Charles (Ed.). Calendar of the Records of the Borough of Haverfordwest, 1539–1660. A. D. Dyer , R. D. Hunt , and Brian S. Smith (Eds.). Miscellany II. John Webb (Ed.). Poor Relief in Elizabethan Ipswich. Phyllis M. Hembry . The Bishops of Bath and Wells, 1540–1640. Social and Economic Problem. Edwin Welch (Ed.). Plymouth Building Accounts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Lindsay Boynton . The Elizabethan Militia, 1558–1638. G. H. Kenyon . The Glass Industry of the Weald. K. R. Andrews . Drake's Voyages. A Reassessment of their Place in Elizabethan Maritime Expansion. Henry Stevens . The Dawn of British Trade to the East Indies: As Recorded in the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1599–1603. Menna Prestwich . Politics and Profits under the Early Stuarts. The Career of Lionel Cranfield Earl of Middlesex. Privy Council Registers Preserved in the Public Record Office. Reproduced in Facsimile. John M. Beattie . The English Court in the Reign of George I. E. E. Hoon . The Organisation of the English Custom System. A. Temple Patterson . A History of Southampton, 1700–1914. M. W. Greenslade and J. G. Jenkins (Eds.). The Victoria History of the County of Stafford. M. W. Beresford and G. R. J. Jones (Eds.). Leeds and its Region. Klaus Boehm in collaboration with Aubrey Silberston . The British Patent System R. M. Hartwell (Ed.). The Causes of the Industrial Revolution in England. E. L. Jones (Ed.). Agriculture and Economic Growth in England, 1650–1815. John Butt . The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland. Alan Birch . The Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, 1784–1879. Thomas Ellison . The Cotton Trade of Great Britain. F. A. Wells . Hollins and Viyella: A Study in Business History. Marian Bowley . Nassau Senior and Classical Economics. G. Kitson Clark . An Expanding Society. Britain, 1830–1900. James Caird . The Landed Interest and the Supply of Food. Trevor Lloyd . The General Election of 1880. F. E. Gillespie . Labour and Politics in England, 1850–67. A. M. Mc Briar . Fabian Socialism and English Politics, 1884–1918. R. Page Arnot . South Wales Miners. Glowyr de Cymru. A History of the South Wales Miners' Federation William Craik . Sydney Hill and the National Union of Public Employees. A. J. Youngson . Britain's Economic Growth, 1920–1966. Kevin Burley . British Shipping and Australia, 1920–1939. Periodical Literature , 1967 B. Diestelkamp , M. Martens , C. van de Kieft , B. Fritz (Eds.). Elenchus Fontium Historiae Urbanae. Paul Einzig . The History of Foreign Exchange. Michael Roberts . Essays in Swedish History. Olwen H. Hufton . Bayeux in the Late Eighteenth Century: A Social Study. Basil Greenhill and Ann Giffard . Westcountrymen in Prince Edward's Isle. A Fragment of the Great Migration. Frank Wesley Pitman . The Development of the British West Indies, 1700–1763. William Woodruff . Impact of Western Man: A Study of Europe's Role in the World Economy, 1750–1960. Peter Burroughs . Britain and Australia, 1831–1855. A Study in Imperial Relations and Crown Lands Administration. MODERN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY, PUBLISHED 1963 TO 1966 S. Bronsztein . Ludno???ydowska w Polsce w okresie midzywojennym. Studium statystyczne. T. Kowalak . Spóldzielczo?? niemiecka nu Pomorzu, 1920–1938. H. Janowska . Polska emigracja zarobkowa we Francji, 1919–1939. J. ?arnowska . Struktura spoleczna inteligencji w Polsce w latach, 1918–1939. Cz. Luczaka (Ed.). Polo?enie ekonomiczne rzemioslo Wielkopolskiego w latach, 1918–1939. A. Karpiński , K. Secomski , and Z. ?ekoński . Problemy rozwoju gospodarczego Polski Ludowej, 1944–1964. Z. Landau . Polityka finansowa PKWN, lipiec-grudzien 1944. Plawonanie gospodarki narodowej w Polsce Ludowej. Materialy do bibliografii. M. Pohoski . Migracje ze wsi do miast. Studium wychodzstwa w latach 1945–1957 oparte na winikach ankiety Instytutu Ekonomiki Rolnej. F. Skalniak . Bank Emisyjny w Polsce 1939–1945. Svend Aage Hansen . Adelstandens grundlag. Björn Lárusson . The Old Icelandic Land Registers. Johan Jørgensen . Rentemester Henrik Müller. En studie i env?ldens etablering i Denmark. Jørgen H. Barfod . Danmark-Norges handelsflåde, 1650–1700. Thorkild Hansen . Slavernes Kyst. Kristof Glamann . Otto Thott's Uforgribelige tanker om kommerciens tilstand. Birgit Nüchel Thomsen and Brinley Thomas in collaboration with John W. Oldam . Dansk-Engelsk Samhandel. Et historisk rids, 1661–1963. Preben Dollerup . Brugsforeningerne, 1866–1896. Sociale, økonomiske og politiske under-segelser i de danske brugsforeningers historie fra 1866 til 1896. Fridlev Skrubbeltrang . Det indvundne Danmark. Folketal, areal og klima, 1901–60. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO DANISH ECONOMIC HISTORY IN PERIODICALS AND YEARBOOKS PUBLISHED SINCE 1965     

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Book Reviews in This Article: M. I. Finley . A History of Sicily: Ancient Sicily to the Arab Conquest. K. D. White . Agricultural Implements of the Roman World. A. Ya Gurevich . Svobodnoye Krestyanstvo Feodal'noi Norvegii [The Free Peasantry of Feudal Norway]. STADTARGHIV NÜRNBERG. Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte Nürnbergs. Hedwig Pavelka . Englisch-österreichische Wirtschaftsbeziehungen in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Richard F. Kuisel . Ernest Mercier, French Technocrat. J. Lestocquoy . Etudes ? histoire urbaine. Villes et abbayes: Arras au moyen dge. R. E. F. Smith . The Enserfment of the Russian Peasantry. M. Lewin . Russian Peasants and Soviet Power: A Study of Collectivisation. Rondo Cameron and others. Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History. R. N. GHOSH. Classical Macroeconomics and the Case for Colonies. Ross Duncan . The Northern Territory Pastoral Industry, 1863-1910. Leslie Clement Duly . British Land Policy at the Cape, 1795-1844: A Study of Administrative Procedure in the Empire. J. S. Furnivall . Netherlands India: A Study in Plural Economy. With an introduction by Jonkheer mr A. C. D. de Graeff, Governor of Netherlands India, 1926-31. N. M. Farriss . Crown and Clergy in Colonial Mexico, 1759-1821: The Crisis of Ecclesiastical Privilege. David Chaplin . The Peruvian Industrial Labor Force. Richard Graham . Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil, 1850-1914. P. M. Holt (Ed.). Political and Social Change in Modern Egypt: Historical Studies from the Ottoman Conquest to the United Arab Republic. Joe G. Ashby . Organized Labor and the Mexican Revolution under Ldzaro Cardenas. Harold Perkin . The Origins of Modern English Society, 1780-1880. W. H. B. COURT. Scarcity andChoice in History. M. M. Oppenheim . The Maritime History of Devon. Doris Mary Stenton (Ed.). Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England: Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton. Mary Dewar (Ed.). A Discourse of the Commonweal of This Realm of England Attributed to Sir Thomas Smith. Richard C. Barnett . Place, Profit, and Power: A Study of the Servants of William Cecil, Elizabethan Statesman. F. G. Emmison . Tudor Secretary: Sir William Petre at Court and Home. Perez Zagorin . The Court and the Country: The Beginning of the English Revolution. Francis W. Steer . Farm and Cottage Inventories of Mid-Essex, 1635 to. Rhodes Boyson . The Ashworth Cotton Enterprise: The Rise and Fall of a Family Firm, 1818-1880. Alan Rogers (Ed.). Stability and Change. Some Aspects of North and South Rauceby in the Nineteenth Century. L. K. Young . British Policy in China, 1895-1902. Philippe Huet . Politique économique de la Grande Bretagne depuis 1945. Robert Fossier . La terre et les hommes en Picardie jusqu'à la fin du XIII e siècle. Bronislaw Geremek . Le salariat dans ? artisanatparisien aux XIIIe-XVe siècles: étude sur la main ? auvre au moyen âge. Jacques Payen . Capital et machine à vapeur au XVIII sièle: les Frires Périer et ? introduction de la machine à vapeur en France. Fernand Leleux . A ? aube du capitalisme et de la révolution industrielle: Liévin Bauwens, indvstrielgantois. Marthe Barbance . Vie commerciale de la route du cap Horn au XIXe siècle: ?‘armement A. D. Bordesetfds. Jean Vidaleng . La Société Française de 1815 à 184.8: le peuple des campagnes. Pierre Sorlin .LaSociété Française. 1:1840-1914. Raymond Poidevin . Les relations internationales et financières entre la France el ? Allemagne de 1898 à 1914. J. P. Mockers . Croissances konomiques comparees: Allemagne, France, Royaume Uni, 1950-1967, essai d'analyse structurale. Collogue franco-suisse d’histoire économique et sociale. L. A. Boiteux . La fortune de mer, le besoin de sécurité et les débuts de ? assurance maritime. Walter Endrei . L'évolution des techniques du filage et du tissage du moyen âge à la Révoultion française. Etienne Fournial . Les villes et ?économie ?échange en Forez aux XIIIe et XIVe siécles. André Bocquet . Recherches sur la population rurale de ? Artois et du Boulonnais pendant la periode bourguignonne (1384-1477). BARTOLOMÉ Bennassar . Recherches sur les grandes épidémies dans le nord de ? Espagne à la fin du XVIe siècle. Davis Bitton . The French Nobility in Crisis, 1560-1640. Jean Weiller . Echanges extérieurs etpolitique commerciale de la France depuis 1870. Sylviane Guillaumont -Jeanneney . Politique monétaire et croissance économique de la France. Mileta Obradovitch . Les effets de la devaluationfrangaise de 1958. Bernard Dezert . Lacroissance industrielle et urbaine de laporte.     

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Regions. ERA 1998: 21st CENTURY REGIONS. London: Economic & regional analysis, 23. Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6LB, £30 + £1 p&p paper.

Environmental management standards. Krut, R. and Gleckman, H. 1998: ISO 14001: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. London: Earthscan Publications Ltd, £14.95 paper.

Environmental jobs. Hale, M. and Lachowicz, M. 1998: THE ENVIRONMENT, EMPLOYMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. London: Routledge, £17.99 paper.

Sustainability and regeneration. Carley, M. and Kirk, K. 1998: SUSTAINABLE BY 2020? A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO URBAN REGENERATION FOR BRITAIN'S CITIES. Bristol: The Policy Press, £11.95 paper.

Gambling. Frey, J.H. (ed) 1998: GAMBLING: SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS AND PUBLIC POLICY. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. London: Sage Publications, £14.99 paper.

Informal employment. Williams, C. C. and Windebank, J. 1998: INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN THE ADVANCED ECONOMIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR WORK AND WELFARE. London: Routledge, £15.99 paper.

TECS. Jones, M. 1999: NEW INSTITUTIONAL SPACES: TECS AND THE REMAKING OF ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE. London: Regional Studies Association, £27.50 paper.

The New Regional Agenda. Dungey, J. and Newman, I. 1999: THE NEW REGIONAL AGENDA. London: Local Government Information Unit, £15.00 paper.

Mutual aid and self-help. Burne, Danny and Taylor, Marilyn, 1998: MUTUAL AID AND SELF-HELP: COPING STRATEGIES FOR EXCLUDED COMMUNITIES. Bristol: The Policy Press, £10.95.     

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TRENDS IN THE SERVICE SECTOR.

Howells, J. and Green, A. 1988: Technological Innovation, Structural Change and Location in U.K. Services. Avebury/Gower Publishing, £25.00.

Howells, J., 1988: Economic Technological and Locational Trends in European Services. Avebury/Gower Publishing, £22.50.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BASED ON THE COMMUNITY'S RESOURCEFULNESS.

Dauncey, G. 1988: After The Crash: The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy. Basingstoke: Greenprint, £6.99 paper.

Ball, C. 1988: If You Think the System is Working. Ask Someone Who Isn't! Bradford: Bradford Metropolitan Council for Voluntary Service, £235 paper.

Marsh, N. 1988: Jobs In Our Cities: Voluntary Employment and Training Projects Under the Urban Programme. London: National Council for Voluntary Organisations. £2.50 paper.

USING TECHNOLOGY POLICY FOR LOCAL ECONOMIC REGENERATION.

Dyson, K. (ed), 1988: Local Authorities and New Technologies: The European Dimension. Beckenham: Croom Helm, £25.00 cloth.

FOSTERING LOCAL BUSINESS IN EUROPE.

Sutton, A. S. (ed). 1967: Local Initiatives: Alternative Paths for Development. Maastrict: Presses Universitaires Europeennes (no price stated). Available from European Centre, PO Box 3073, 6202 NB Maastrict. The Netherlands.     

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Regenerating town centres. Evans, R. 1997: REGENERATING TOWN CENTRES. Manchester: Manchester University Press, £30.00 cased.

Privatised utilities. Marvin, S., Graham, S. and Guy, S. 1996: PRIVATISED UTILITIES AND REGIONAL MANAGEMENT. Harlow: SEEDS (South East Economic Development Strategy), £25.00 plus £3.50 postage and packing.

Women returners. Chisholm, L. (ed) 1997: GETTING IN, CLIMBING UP AND BREAKING THROUGH. London: The Policy Press, £15.25 paper.

Regionalism. John, P. and Whitehead, A. (eds) 1997: POLICY AND POLITICS VOL 25 NO. 1 SPECIAL ISSUE. REGIONALISM IN ENGLAND: CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS. Policy Press.

Socially regulated labour markets. Peck, J. 1996: WORK-PLACE. THE SOCIAL REGULATION OF LABOUR MARKETS. New York and London: The Guilford Press, £16.99 paper £35.00 cased.

Private delivery — public goods. Arnold-Forster, J., Lee, M. and McLeod, J. 1997: HAND IN GLOVE: PRIVATE SECTOR DELIVERING PUBLIC GOODS. London: Fabian Society, supported by Generale des Eaux, £15.00 paper.

Bio-tech. Milhell, D., Kingham, D. and Stott, M. 1997: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BIOTECHNOLOGY SECTOR IN OXFORDSHIRE: IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC POLICY. Oxford: Oxford Innovation Limited, £5.00 paper.     

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Books reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN Zvi Razi . Life, Marriage and Death in a Medieval Parish. Economy, Society and Demography in Halesowen, 1270–1400. Carl J. Dahlman . The Open Field System and Beyond. A. Hassell Smith , Gillian M. Baker , and R. W. Kenny (Eds.). The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, Vol. I, 1556–1577. Gordon Marshall . Presbyteries and Profits. Calvinism and the Development of Capitalism in Scotland, 1560–1707. R. H. Campbell . The Rise and Fall of Scottish Industry, 1707–1939. Peter Roebuck . Yorkshire Baronets, 1640–1760. Families, Estates and Fortunes. Michael Turner . English Parliamentary Enclosure. Dennis R. Mills . Lord and Peasant in Nineteenth Century Britain. William Petersen . Malthus. Hugh Cunningham . Leisure in the Industrial Revolution c. 1780-c. 1880. Maxine Berg . The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815–1848. Paul Mc Hu GH. Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform. P. J. Cain . Economic Foundations of British Overseas Expansion, 1815–1914. Francois Béadarida . A Social History of England, 1851–1975. Malcolm Elliott . Victorian Leicester. Jean Robin . Elmdon: Continuity and change in a North- West Essex Village, 1861–1964. Patrick Joyce . Work, Society and Politics: The Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England. Jerry White . Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block, 1887–1920. Douglas Antony Farnie . The Manchester Ship Canal and the Rise of the Port of Manchester, 1894–1975. Donald Moggridge (Ed.). The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. Vol. XXV: Activities 1940–1944. Shaping the Post-War World: the Clearing Union. Donald Moggridge (Ed.). The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXVI. Activities, 1941–1946. Shaping the Post-War World. Bretton Woods and Reparations. Evan Ira Farber (Ed.). Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886–1974. Cinzio Violante . Economia, società, istituzioni a Pisa net Medioevo. Michel Balard . La Romanie Génoise (XII^e-debut du XV^c siécle). David Herlihy . Cities and Society in Medieval Italy. Samuel H. Baron . Muscovite Russia. Paul Bushkovitch . The Merchants of Moscow, 1580–1650. Vicente Péarez Moreda . Las crisis de mortalidad en la España interior (siglos XVI-XIX). N. J. G. Pounds. An Historical Geography of Europe, 1500–1840. Immanuel Wallerstein . The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750. A. Verhulst and C. Vandenbroeke (Eds.). Landbouwproduktiviteit in Vlaanderen en Brabant, 14de-18de Eeuw. Productivité agricole en Flandre et en Brabant 14e-18e siècle. Economisch- en Sociaal-Historisch. Jaarboek, Vol. XLII. Robert Louis Stein . The French Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century. An Old Regime Business. Sidney Ratner , James H. Soltow and Richard Sylla . The Evolution of the American Economy. William L. Marr and Donald G. Paterson . Canada: An Economic History. John Graham Smith . The Origins and Early Development of the Heavy Chemical Industry in France. K. N. Chaudhuri and Clive J. Dewey (Eds.). Economy and Society: Essays in Indian Economic and Social History. Malcolm Lyall Darling . The Punjab Peasant in Prosperity and Debt. Leon Swartzberg . The North Indian Peasant Goes to Market. Alois Mosser . Die Industrieaktiengesellschaft in Österreich, 1880–1913. James P. Johnson . The Politics of Soft Coal: The Bituminous Indus try from World War I Through TheNew Deal. Gianni Toniolo . L'economia dell’Italia fascista. Eugene Zaleski . Stalinist Planning for Economic Growth, 1933–1952. Thomas G. Rawski . China's Transition to Industrialism: Producer Goods and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century. R. H. Sabot . Economic Development and Urban Migration: Tanzania, 1900–1971.     

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Basic economics. Mackintosh, M., Brown, V., Costello, N., Dawson, G., Thompson, G. and Trigg, A. 1996: ECONOMICS AND CHANGING ECONOMIES. Open University and International Thomson Business Press, £19.99 paper.

Tinkering with equality. Rees, T. 1995: WOMEN AND THE EC TRAINING PROGRAMMES: TINKERING, TAILORING AND TRANSFORMATION. Bristol: SAUS publications, £11.50 paper.

Construction and employment. McGregor, A., Fitzpatrick, I., McConachie, M. and Thorn, G. 1995: BUILDING FUTURES: CAN LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BE CREATED FROM HOUSING EXPENDITURE? Bristol: SAUS Publications, £9.95 paper.

Harrison, M. and Davies, J. 1995: CONSTRUCTING EQUALITY: HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS AND MINORITY ETHNIC CONTRACTORS. Bristol: SAUS Publications, £9.95 paper.

Globalisation and Local Economic Development. Killick, T. (ed) 1995: THE FLEXIBLE ECONOMY: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE ADAPTABILITY OF NATIONAL ECONOMIES. London: Routledge/ODI, £16.99 paper.

Michie, J. and Grieve Smith, J. (eds) 1995: MANAGING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. Oxford: Oxford University Press, £14.95 paper.

City marketing. Neill, W. V., Fitzsimons, D. S. and Murtagh, B. 1995: REIMAGING THE PARIAH CITY: URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN BELFAST AND DETROIT. Aldershot: Avebury, £35.00 cased.

Flexible working. New Ways to Work, 1995: BALANCED LIVES: CHANGING WORK PATTERNS FOR MEN. London: New Ways to Work, £9.95 paper.

Cyberspace utopia? Graham, S. and Marvin, S. 1996: TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE CITY: ELECTRONIC SPACES, URBAN PLACES. London: Routledge, £15.99 paper.