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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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Book reviewed in this article GREAT BRITAIN Henry Cleere and David Crossley (Eds.). The Iron Industry of the Weald. (Leicester: Leicester University Press. 1985. Pp. xvi + 395. 74 figs. £47-50.) C. G. A. Clay . Economic Expansion and Social Change: England 1500-1700. (Cambridge, 1984. Vol. I, Pp. xiv + 268. 6 tables, 4 figs. 6 maps; Vol II, Pp. xii + 324. 15 tables, 4 figs. 5 maps. £20 each vol.; paperbacks £6-95 each vol.) Bernard Rudden . The New River: A Legal History. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1985. Pp. xiv + 335. 2 plates. 18 figs. 9 appendices. £20-00.) Norma Landau . The Justices of the Peace, 1679-1760. (Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, and London: University of California Press. 1984. Pp. xv + 422. £35-40.) Robin D. Gwynn . Huguenot Heritage: The History and Contribution of the Huguenots in Britain. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1985. Pp. xii + 220. 8 Plates. 4 Tables. 10 Maps. £15-95.) David Ormrod . English Grain Exports and the Structure of Agrarian Capitalism, 1700-1760. (Hull: Hull University Press. 1985. Pp. xii + 145. £8.95.) N. F. R. Crafts . British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1985. Pp. 193. £19.50.) Maxine Berg . The Age of Manufactures: Industry, Innovation, and Work in Britain, M. E. Rose (Ed.)- The Poor and the City: The English Poor Law in its Urban Context, 1834-1914. (Leicester: Leicester University Press. 1985. Pp. xi + 175. 1 fig. 5 tables £22-00.) Neville Kirk . The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England. (Beckenham: Croom Helm. 1985. Pp. xiii + 369. £22.50.) Derek J. Oddy and Derek S. Miller (Eds.). Diet and Health in Modem Britain. (London: Croom Helm. 1985. Pp. vi + 326. £22.00.) Roger Middleton . Towards the Managed Economy: Keynes, the Treasury and the Fiscal Policy Debate of the 1930s. (London: Methuen 1985. Pp. xii + 244. £25-00.) GENERAL Peter Clark (Ed.). The European Crisis of the 1590s. (London: George Allen & Unwin. 1985. Pp. xiv + 324. £25-00.) L. A. Clarkson . Proto-Industrialization: The First Phase of Industrialization? (London: MacMillan. Studies in Economic and Social History. 1985. Pp. 71. £395.) Tommy Bengtsson , Gunnar Fridlizius and Rolf Ohlsson (Eds.). Pre-Industrial Population Change: The Mortality Decline and Short-Term Population Movements. (Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell. 1984. Pp. 419. S.Kr.280.) Richard Smith (Ed.)- Land, Kinship, and Life-cycle. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. xiii + 547. £40-00.) David Levine (Ed.). Proletarianization and Family History. (London: Academic Press. 1984. Pp. xii + 315. £38-50.) Robert R. Locke . The End of Practical Man: Entrepreneurship and Higher Education in Germany, France, and Great Britain, 1880-1940. (Greenwich, Connecticut and London: JAI Press. 1984. Pp. xii + 363. 31 tables. £46.50.) Harold James . The Reichsbank and Public Finance in Germany, 1924-1933: A Study of the Politics of Economics during the Great Depression. (Frankfurt am Main: Fritz Knapp Verlag. 1985. Pp. 426. n.p.) Joseph Harrison . The Spanish Economy in the Twentieth Century. (London: Croom Helm. 1985. Pp. 207. 27 tables. £1995.) Ivan T. Berend and Gyorgy Ranki . The Hungarian Economy in the Twentieth Century. (London: Croom-Helm. 1985. Pp. 316. £25.) HUGH BROGAN. Longman History of the United States of America. (London: Longman. 1985. Pp. viii + 470. £19-95.) C. Cochran . Challenge of American Values: Society, Business, and Religion. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1985. Pp. 147. $13.95.) Hasia R. Diner . Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1983. Pp. xvi + 192. $2000; paperback $9-95.) Humbert S. Nelli . From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Italian Americans. (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983. Pp. viii + 225. £19-50.) Martin V. Melosi . Coping with Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1985. Pp. xii + 355. $1095.) Carole Haber . Beyond Sixty-Five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America's Past. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. ix + 181. Paperback, £6-95.) Ruth Schwartz Cowan . More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. (New York and London: Harper & Row. 1983. Pp. xiv + 257. 46 plates. £19-75; paperback £8-75.) Christopher L. Tomlins . The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880-1960. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. xvi 4- 348. £30; paperback £1095.) Gary A. Puckrein . Little England: Plantation Society and Anglo-Barbadian Politics, 1627-1700. (New York and London: New York University Press. 1984. xxiv + 235. $51.50.) Kenneth F. Kiple . The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. xiii + 274. £27.50.) Linda Alexander Rodriguez . The Search for Public Policy: Regional Politics and Government Finances in Ecuador, 1830-1940. (Berkeley & London: Univ. of California Press. 1985. Pp. xv + 281. $32.50.) K. N. Chaudhuri . Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. xiv 4- 269. 18 maps. 23 plates. £25; paperback £895.) Christopher John Baker . An Indian Rural Economy, 1880-1955: The Tamilnad Countryside. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1984. Pp. xvii + 616. 9 maps. 30 tables. 16 graphs. £28-00.) David K. Wyatt . Thailand: A Short History (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1984. Pp. xviii + 351. £27-50.) Joseph Needham (Ed.)- Science and Civilisation in China, Volume VI, Biology and Biological Technology: Part II: Agriculture by Francesca Bray. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. xxvii + 724. £50.) William D. Wray . Mitsubishi and the N.Y.K., 1870-1914: Business Strategy in the Japanese Shipping Industry. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (Harvard East Asian Monographs No. 108). 1984. Pp. xx + 672. £21-95.) Raymond W. Goldsmith . The Financial Development of Japan, 1868-1977. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1983, Pp. xv + 231. £27.00.) Raymond W. Goldsmith . The Financial Development of India, Japan, and the United States: A Trilateral Institutional, Statistical, and Analytic Comparison. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1983. Pp. xiv + 120. £1095.) Tsunehiko Yui and Keiichiro Nakagawa (Eds.). Business History of Shipping: The International Conference on Business History 11: Proceedings of the Fuji Conference. (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. 1985. Pp. xxix + 330.£ 6000.) David Mackay . In the Wake of Cook: Exploration, Science & Empire, 1880-1801. (London: Croom Helm. 1985. Pp. vi + 216. £18.95.) D. C. M. Platt and Guido Di Tella (Eds.). Argentina, Australia, and Canada: Studies in Comparative Development, 1870-1965. (London: Macmillan. 1985. Pp. xi + 237. 25-00.) Charles Lipson . Standing Guard: Protecting Foreign Capital in the Ninteteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press. 1985. Pp. xvii + 332. 13 tables, 3 figs. £3325; paperback £11-25.) Bill Albert and Adrian Graves (Eds.). Crisis and Change in the International Sugar Economy, 1860-1914. (Norwich and Edinburgh: ISC Press. 1984. Pp. xii + 381. £12-00.) Michael D. Bordo and Anna J. Schwartz (Eds.). A Retrospective on the Classical Gold Standard, 1821-1931. (London: University of Chicago Press. 1984. Pp. xi + 681. £59-80.) E. J. Hobsbawm . Worlds of Labour: Further Studies in the History of Labour. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1984. Pp. x + 369. £15.95; paperback £7-95.)     

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Reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN A. R. Bridbury .Medieval English Clothmaking: An Economic Survey. Michael Gervers (Ed.) The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England. Geoffrey Holmes Augustan England: Professions, State and Society, 1680-1730. Ross Wordie .Estate Management in Eighteenth Century England: The Building of the Leveson-Gower Fortune. Neil Mc Kendrick , John Brewer J. H. Plumb . The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-century England. Derek Gregory . Regional Transformation and Industrial Revolution: A Geography of the Yorkshire Woolen Industry. Barrie Trinder . The Making of the Industrial Landscape. Charles W. Munn .The Scottish Provincial Banking Companies, 1747-1864. Craig Calhoun . The Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism during the Industrial Revolution. James Epstein and Dorothy Thompson (Eds.). The Chartist Experience: Studies in Working-Class Radicalism and Culture, 1830-1860. Franclois Crouzet .The Victorian Economy. Translated by Anthony Forster. Jeffrey Cox . The English Churches in a Secular Society: Lambeth, 1870-1930. P. Thane . The Foundations of the Welfare State. T. R. Nicholson . The Birth of the British Motor Car. Theo Barker . THE TRANSPORT CONTRACTORS OF RYE. GENERAL Maurice Aymard (Ed.). Dutch Capitalism and World Capitalism. Gregor Dallas . The Imperfect Peasant Economy: The Loire Country, 1800-1914. Michel Lescure . Les banques, VEtat et le marche immobilier en France a I'efioque contemporaine, 1820-1940. Hugh D. Clout . The Land of France, 1815-1914. G. D. Feldman , C. L. Holtfrerich , G. A. Ritter , P-C. Witt , (Eds.)- The German Inflation Reconsidered: A Preliminary Balance. V. R. Berghahn . Modem Germany: Society, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century. John Edwards . Christian Cordoba: The City and its Region in the Late Middle Ages. Richard Hellie . Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725. George Yaney . The Urge to Mobilize: Agrarian Reform in Russia, 1861-1930. Ivaan T. Berend and Gyourgy Raanki . The European Periphery and Industrialisation, 1780-1914. Margaret Walsh . The Rise of the Midwestern Meat Packing Industry. David Rosner . A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York, 1885-191S. Neil Fligstein . Going North: Migration of Blacks from the South, 1900-1950. Thomas F. O'Brien . The Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition, 1870-1891. Anupam Sen . The State, Industrialization, and Class Formations in India: A Neo-Marxist Perspective on Colonialism, Underdevelopment and Development. Mikiso Hane . Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan. Michio Morishima . Why has Japan “Succeeded”?: Western Techonology and the Japanese Ethos. Gilbert Rozman . Population and Marketing Settlements in Ch'ing China. Charles Issawi . An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa. Peter Richardson . Chinese Mine Labour in the Transvaal.     

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ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND GENDER.

Wheelock, J. 1990: Husbands at Home. London: Routledge, £10.99.

Stubbs, C. and Wheelock, J. 1990: A Woman's Work in the Changing Local Economy. Aldershot: AveburyfGower, £27.50 cloth.

INDUSTRIAL REGENERATION POLICY.

Totterdill, P., Farrands, C., Gawaith, M. and Gillingwater, D. 1989: Industrial Policy and Regeneration of British Manufacturing Industry: The Case of Clothing. Local Economic Policy Review 1. Loughborough: University of Technology, £5.00 paper.

Totterdill, P., with Durucan, C., Farrands, C., Gawaith, M. and Gillingwater, D. 1990: Sunset Industries: Industrial Policy and the Regeneration of British Manufacturing. Local Economic Policy Review 2. Loughborough: University of Technology, £5.00 paper.

WHO BENEFITED IN THE LATE 1980S BOOM?

Robinson, P. 1990: Racial Disadvantage and the Economic Cycle. Research Report No 2. London: Campaign for Work, £4.00 pamphlet.     

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Concepts and measurement of social exclusion. Room, G. (ed) 1995: BEYOND THE THRESHOLD: THE MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION. Bristol, the Policy Press, £13.95.

Local job creation. European Commission 1995: LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVES: AN INVESTIGATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Ecu 11.00, paper.

Local economic development. Blair, J. P. 1995: LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: ANALYSIS AND PRACTICE. California: Sage, £44.95 cased.

The British economy in transition. Turner, R. (ed) 1995: THE BRITISH ECONOMY IN TRANSITION: FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW? London: Routledge, £14.95, paper.

Defence R and D. Hartley, K. and Newman, I. (eds) 1996: DEFENCE, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT AND DIVERSIFICATION. Harlow, Essex: South East Economic Development Strategy, £20.00 + £3.50 pp, paper.     

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PRIVATISM AND URBAN POLICY.

Barnekov, I, Boyle, R. and Rich, D. 1989:Privatism and Urban Policy in Britain and the United States.Oxford University Press.

THE SWEDISH EXPERIENCE.

Robinson, P. 1989: What Can Britain Learn from Sweden's Commitment to Full Employment?Campaign for Work, Research Report 1, March 1989, £4.00 inc p&p, paper.

NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE.

Lewis. J. and Townsend, A. 1989: The North-South Divide. Regional Change in Britain in the 1980s. London: Paul Chapman Publishing Limited, £12.95.     

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Books reviewed in this article:
GREAT BRITAIN
A lison H anham . The Celys and their World .
G eorge F. S teckley (Ed.). The Letters of John Paige, London Merchant, 1648-1658 .
R. A. HOUSTON. Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity .
G eorge R udé . Criminal and Victim: Crime and Society in Early Nineteenth-Century England .
L. R ichmond and B. S tockford (Eds.). Company Archives: The Survey of the Records of woo of the First Registered Companies in England and Wales .
L ucy B rown . Victorian News and Newspapers .
I an I nkster (Ed.)- The Steam Intellect Societies-Essays on Culture, Education and Industry, circa 1820-1914 .
H. G. A. V issink . Economic and Financial Reporting in England and the Netherlands: A Comparative Study over the Period 1850 to 1914 .
H. A. C legg . A History of Trade Unions since 1889 . Vol. II: 1911-1933.
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R aymond G illespie . Colonial Ulster: The Settlement of East Ulster, 1600-1641 .
J ames D. T racy . A Financial Revolution in the Habsburg Netherlands: Renten and Renteniers in the County of Holland, 1515-1565 .
J ohn D. P ost . Food Shortage, Climatic Variability, and Epidemic Disease in Pre-industrial Europe: The Mortality Peak in the Early 1740s .
K athryn N orberg . Rich and Poor in Grenoble, 1600-1814 .
J udith E. T ucker . Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt .
P eter G atrell . The Tsarist Economy, 1850-1917 .
M oshe L ewin . The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History oflnterwar Russia .
H arold G. V atter . The U.S. Economy in World War II .
A llan G reer . Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes, 1740-1840 .
M. S. T eitelbaum and JAY M. W inter . The Fear of Population Decline .
A. J. B rown . World Inflation Since 1950: An International Comparative Study .     

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Planning in diverse societies. Healey, P. 1997: COLLABORATIVE PLANNING: SHAPING PLACES IN FRAGMENTED SOCIETIES. Basingstoke: Macmillan, £14.99 paper.

Transforming “problem” housing estates. Power, A. 1997: ESTATES ON THE EDGE. London: Macmillan, £57.50 cased.

Contested communities. Hoggett, P. (ed) 1997: CONTESTED COMMUNITIES: EXPERIENCES, STRUGGLES, POLICIES. Bristol, The Policy Press, £15.95 paper.

A planner's view of regeneration in Manchester. Kitchen, T., 1997: PEOPLE, POLITICS, POLICIES AND PLANS: THE CITY PLANNING PROCESS IN BRITAIN. London: Paul Chapman Publishing, £16.95 paper.

Urban design. Parfect, M. and Power, G. 1997: PLANNING FOR URBAN QUALITY: URBAN DESIGN IN TOWNS AND CITIES. London: Routledge, £65.00 cased, £22.50 paper.

Regional impact of the EU Structural Funds. Bachtler, J. and Turok, I. (eds) 1997: THE COHERENCE OF EU REGIONAL POLICY: CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES ON THE STRUCTURAL FUNDS. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, £25.00 paper.

Development trusts. Ward M. and Watson, S. 1997: HERE TO STAY: A PUBLIC POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR COMMUNITY-BASED REGENERATION. London: Development Trusts Association, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, £10.95 paper.

Hart, L. 1997: ASSET BASE DEVELOPMENT FOR COMMUNITY-BASED REGENERATION ORGANISATIONS. London: Development Trusts Association, £6,50 paper.

Community visioning. Burton, B. 1997: COMMUNITY VISIONING: AN EVALUATION OF THE “CHOICES FOR BRISTOL” PROJECT. Bristol: Policy Press, £11.95 paper.     

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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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RESTRUCTURING.

Stewart, P., Garrahan, P. and Crowther, S. (eds) 1990: Restructuring for Economic Flexibility. Aldershot: Avebury/Gower, £29.50 cloth.

THE GREEN ECONOMY.

Jacobs, M. 1991: The Green Economy: Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future. London: Pluto Press, £9.95 paper.     

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Book reviewed in this article GREAT BRITAIN The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Somerset, Vol. IV, ed. by R. W. Dunning. Robert Ashton . The English Civil War: Conservatism and Revolution, 1603–49. Alastair J. Durie . The Scottish Linen Industry in the Eighteenth Century. J. J. Tobias . Crime and Police in England, ijoo-igoo. Ralph Davis . The Industrial Revolution and British Overseas Trade. T. W. Beastall . The Agricultural Revolution in Lincolnshire. Patricia James . Population Malthus. His Life and Times. Olive Emsley . British Society and the French Wars, 1793–1815. Royden Harrison Derek Fraser . Power and Authority in the Victorian City. J. S. HURT. Elementary Schooling and the Working Classes, i86a-igi8. IAN LLOYD. Rolls-Royce: The Growth of a Firm ROY CHURCH. Herbert Austin: The British Motor Car Industry to 1941. Leslie Hannah . The Rise of the Corporate Economy. GENERAL Nederlandsch Economisch -Historisch Arghief . Economisch- en Sociaal-Historisch Jaarboek, Vol. XLI, 1978. Thomas N. Bisson . Conservation of Coinage. Monetary Exploitation and its Restraint in France, Catalonia, and Aragon, c. 1000–1225 AD. H. Van der Wee and E. Van Cauwenberghe MICHAEL R. WEISSER. Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe. Hilary Beattie . Land and Lineage in China. A Study of T'ung-Ch'eng County, Anhwei, in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties. CATHARINA LIS AND HUGO SOLY. Poverty and Capitalism in Pre-Industrial Europe. Trans. from the Dutch by J. Coonan. ARTHUR ATTMAN. The Struggle for Baltic Markets: Powers in Conflict, 1558–1618. Vol. 14 in the Humaniora series of Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum et Litterarum Gothoburgensis. J. C. BROWN. A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, IJJ6-I86O. Francois Garon . An Economic History of Modern France. Translated from the French by Barbara Bray. Theda Skocpol . States and Social Revolutions. A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. Robert V. Kubigek . Economic Imperialism in Theory and Practice. The Case of South African Gold Mining Finance, 1886–1914. D. K. Fieldhouse . Unilever Overseas. The Anatomy of a Multinational Charles Perrings . Black Mineworkers in Central Africa. Industrial Strategies and the Evolution of an African Proletariat in the Copperbelt, ign-41. Ronan Fanning . The Irish Department of Finance, IQ22–58. Peter Fearon . The Origins and Nature of the Great Slump, 1929–32.     

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John Langdon . Horses, oxen and technological innovation: the use of draught animals in English farming from 1066 to 1500. Peter Spufford . Handbook of medieval exchange. Wilfred R. Prest . The rise of the barristers: a social history of the English bar, 1590-1640. J. V. Beckett . The aristocracy in England, 1660-1914. Neil Mc Kendrick and R. B. Outhwaite (Eds.). Business life and public policy: essays in honour of D. C. Coleman. Pat Hudson . The genesis of industrial capital: a study of the West Riding wool textile industry, c. 1750-1850. Barbara Smith (Ed.). Truth, liberty, religion; essays celebrating two hundred years of Manchester College. Martin Doughty (Ed.). Building the industrial city. R. P. T. Davenport -Hines (Ed.). Markets and bagmen: studies in the history of marketing and British industrial performance, 1830-1939. Negley Harte . The University of London, 1836-1986: an illustrated history. C. J. Wrigley (Ed.). A history of British industrial relations: volume II Harold L. Smith (Ed.). War and social change: British society in the Second World War. D. C. Coleman . History and the economic past: an account of the rise and decline of economic history in Britain. B. Elbaum and W. Lazonick (Eds.). The decline of the British economy. T. W. Moody and W. E. Vaughan (Eds.). A new history of Ireland: IV eighteenth-century Ireland, 1691-1800. Martha C. Howell . Women, production and patriarchy in late medieval cities. Pierre Goubert . The French peasantry in the seventeenth century. K. Honeyman and J. Goodman . Technology and enterprise: Isaac Holden and the mechanization of woolcombing in France, 1848-1914. Manfred Pohl . Entstehung und Entwicklung des Universalbankensystems: Konzentration und Krise ah wichtige Faktoren. Andreas Kunz . Civil servants and the politics of inflation in Germany, 1914-1924. Beiträge zu Inflation und Wideraufbau in Deutschland und Europa William C. Mc Neil . American money and the Weimar Republic: economics and politics on the eve of the great depression. Volker R. Berghahn . The Americanization of West German industry, 1945-1973. A. F. Freris . The Greek economy in the twentieth century. Thomas M. Doerflinger . A vigorous spirit of enterprise: merchants and economic development in revolutionary Philadelphia. Stephanie Jones . Two centuries of overseas trading: the origins and growth of the Inchcape Group. Francesca Bray . The rice economies: technology and development in Asian societies. Kang Chao . Man and land in Chinese history: an economic analysis. David Harvey . Consciousness and the urban experience: studies in the history and theory of capitalist urbanization. Charles Hadfield . World canals: inland navigation past and present. Priyatosh Maitra . Population, technology and development. Lloyd Bonfield , Richard M. Smith and Keith Wrightson (Eds.). The world we have gained: histories of population and social structure. Essays presented to Peter Laslett on his seventieth birthday. Raymond W. Goldsmith . Comparative national balance sheets: a study of twenty countries, 1688-1978.     

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