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Books Reviewed in this article: Great Britain And Ireland A. Curry and E. Matthew, eds., Concepts and patterns of service in the later middle ages, I: the fifteenth century Peter Clark and Raymond Gillespie, eds., Two capitals: London and Dublin, 1500–1840 David Hickman, ed., Lincoln wills, 1532–1534 Jill Barlow, ed., A calendar of the registers of apprentices of the city of Gloucester, 1595–1700 Todd M. Endelman, The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000 Madge Dresser, Slavery obscured: the social history of the slave trade in an English provincial port Thomas Sokoll, ed., Essex pauper letters, 1731–1837 Richard Rodger, The transformation of Edinburgh: land, property and trust in the nineteenth century Bernard Cronin, Technology, industrial conflict and the development of technical education in nineteenth–century England Glyn Jones, The millers: a story of technological endeavour and industrial success, 1870–2001 Jeffrey Hill, Sport. leisure and culture in twentieth–century Britain Thomas Gibson, Road haulage by motor in Britain: the first forty years Alan F. Wilt, Food for war: agriculture and rearmament in Britain before the Second World War A. Hinds, Britain's sterling colonial policy and decolonization, 1939–1958 George Symeonidis, The effects of competition: cartel policy and the evolution of British industrial policy General Paul Cartledge, Edward E. Cohen, and Lin Foxhall, eds., Money, labour and land: approaches to the economies of ancient Greece Thomas J. Sargent and François R. Velde, The big problem of small change Patrick O’Brien, Marjolein ’t Hart, Derek Keene, and Hermann Van der Wee, eds., Urban achievement in early modern Europe: golden ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London Stephen L. Harp, Marketing Michelin: advertising and cultural identity in twentieth–century France Tom Scott, Society and economy in Germany, 1300–1600 Jon Cohen and Giovanni Federico, The growth of the Italian economy, 1820–1960 Ken Albala, Eating right in the Renaissance Patrick Griffin, The people with no name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the creation of a British Atlantic world, 1689–1764 Laura Rigal, The American manufactory: art, labor, and the world of things in the early republic Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Looking for work, searching for workers: American labor markets during industrialization Wyatt Wells, Antitrust and the formation of the postwar world Charles Levenstein and Gregory F. DeLaurier, with Mary Lee Dunn, The cotton dust papers: science, politics, and power in the ‘discovery’ of byssinosis in the US Timothy Curtis Jacobson and George David Smith, Cotton's renaissance: a study in market innovation Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor, Straining at the anchor: the Argentine Currency Board and the search for macroeconomic stability, 1880–1935 Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook, and Andrew Reeves, eds., Gold: forgotten histories and lost objects of Australia Lou Taylor, The study of dress history Luis Suarez–Villa, Invention and the rise of technocapitalism Gordon Boyce, Co–operative structures in global business: communicating, transferring knowledge and learning across the corporate frontier     

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book reviews in this articles Janet Cooper, ed., A history of the county of Essex, IX: the borough of Colchester John Walmsley, ed., Charters and custumals of the abbey of Holy Trinity Caen, 2 Donald Woodward, Men at work: labourers and building craftsmen in the towns of northern England, 1450-1750 J. Goodacre, The transformation of a peasant economy: townspeople and villagers in the Lutterworth area, 1500-1700 Richard Roberts and David Kynaston, eds., The Bunk of England: money, power and influence, 1694-1994 Dror Wahrman, Imagining the middle class: the political representation of class in Britain, c.1780-1840 John Burnett, Idle hands: the experience of unemployment, 1790-1990 Charlotte Erickson, Leaving England: essays on British emigration in the nineteenth century M. H. Port, Imperial London: civil government building in London, 1851-1915 Jane Lewis, The voluntary sector, the state and social work in Britain Helen Jones, Health and society in twentieth-century Britain (London and New York) Helen Mercer, Constructing a competitive order: the hidden history of British antitrust policies Anthony J. Nicholls, Freedom with responsibility: the social market economy in Germany, 1918-1963 Anthony J. Nicholls, Freedom with responsibility: the social market economy in Germany, 1918-1963 Anthony J. Nicholls, Freedom with responsibility: the social market economy in Germany, 1918-1963 Niek Koenig, The failure of agrarian capitalism: agrarian politics in the United Kingdom, Germany Halil Inalcik and Donald Quataert, eds., An economic and social history of the Ottoman empire, 1300-1914 D. K. Fieldhouse, Merchant capital and economic decolonization: the United Africa Company, 1929-1989 Gene Smiley, The American economy in the twentieth century A. J. H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu, eds., Japanese industrialization and the Asian economy Toshito Suzuki, Japanese government loan issues on the London capital market, 1870-1913 Richard H. Grove, Green imperialism: colonial expansion, tropical island Edens and the origins of environmentalism, 1600-1860 Forrest Capie, Charles Goodhart, Stanley Fischer, and Norbert Schnadt, The future of central banking: the tercentenary symposium of the Bank of England Roy Porter and Mikulá? Teich, eds., Drugs and narcotics in history     

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

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Great Britain And Ireland S. H. Rigby, A medieval mercantile community: the Grocers’ Company and the politics and trade of London, 1000-1485 Peter Clark, The history of an English borough: Stratford-upon-Avon, 1196-1996 Donald Woodward, The new draperies in the Low Countries and England, 1300-1800 J. R. Wordie, Alternative agriculture: a history from the Black Death to the present day Robert Tittler, English counties and public building, 1650-1830 Michael Turner, Parliamentary enclosure in England: an introduction to its causes, incidence and impact, 1750-1850 Jeremy Gregory, Aspects of the Georgian church: visitation studies of the diocese of York, 1761-1776 Richard Whatmore, Progress, poverty and population: re-reading Condorcet, Godwin and Malthus R. G. Wilson, The diary of Robert Sharp of South Cave: life in a Yorkshire village, 1812-1837 Peter Cain, Free trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 John Sheail, A history of water in modern England and Wales Kenneth D. Brown, Religion, business and wealth in modern Britain Penny Starns, Labour, social policy and the welfare state John F. Wilson, Finance in the age of the corporate economy Peter Howlett, Governance, industry and labour markets in Britain and France: the modernising state in the mid-twentieth century General Sitta Von Reden, Warriors into traders: the power of the market in early Greece Christopher Dyer, The growth of the medieval city: from late antiquity to the early fourteenth century; idem, The later medieval city, 1300-1500 Colin Heywood, Burgundy to Champagne: the wine trade in early modern France Hugh Clout, The brandy trade under the ancien regime: regional specialisation in the Charente David Ormrod, The first modern economy: success, failure, and perseverance of the Dutch economy, 1500-1815 Ted Wilson, Merchants, bankers, middlemen: the Amsterdam money market during the first half of the 19th century Michael Wintle, The economic history of the Netherlands, 1914-1995: a small open economy in the ‘long’ twentieth century Henry Roseveare, From the North Sea to the Baltic: essays in commercial, monetary and agrarian history, 1500-1800 J. K. J. Thomson, State corporatism and proto-industry: the Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797 Alan Dyer, Urban decline in early modern Germany: Schwäbisch Hall and its region, 1650-1750 Michael Palairet, Rebuilding the financial system in central and eastern Europe, 1918-1994 Catherine R. Schenk, Monetary standards and exchange rates A. Slaven , European enterprise: strategies of adaptation and renewal in the twentieth century John J. Mccusker, Tobacco in the Atlantic trade: the Chesapeake, London and Glasgow, 1675-1775 John Killick, Trading beyond the mountains: the British fur trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843 Timothy J. Lockley, From Calabar to Carter’s Grove: the history of a Virginia slave community S. J. Kleinberg, Civic wars: democracy and public life in the American city during the nineteenth century Arni Sverrisson, Endless novelty: specialty production and American industrialization, 1865-1925 Gary Herrigel, Steel phoenix: the fall and rise of the US steel industry Peter Coates, Wetlands of the American Midwest: a historical geography of changing attitudes Robert G. Greenhill, Studies in the history of Latin American economic thought Christopher J. Napier, The development of accounting in an inter-national context: a festschrift in honour of R. H. Parker     

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Book reviewed in this article: David A. Hinton, Archaeology, economy and society: England from the fifth to the fifteenth century Peter Brimblecombe, The big smoke: a history of air pollution in London since medieval times David Pam, A history of Enfield. Vol. I: before 1837. A parish near London Peter J. Bowden, ed., Economic change: wages, profits and rents, 1500-1750. Chapters from ‘The agrarian history of England and Wales’, vol. I Ann Kussmaul, A general view of the rural economy of England, 1538-1840 David J. Starkey, British privateering enterprise in the eighteenth century Hoh-Cheung Mui and Lorna H. Mui, Shops and shopkeeping in eighteenth-century England F. M. L. Thompson, ed., The Cambridge social history of Britain, 1750-1950 Barry Reay, The last rising of the agricultural labourers: rural life and protest in nineteenth-century England Kenneth Warren, Consett iron, 1840 to 1980: a study in industrial location Peter N. Davies, Fyffes and the banana: Musa Sapientum. A centenary history, 1888-1988 Richard Whipp, Patterns of labour: work and social change in the pottery industry Eric M. Sigsworth, Montague Burton: the tailor of taste David J. Jeremy, Capitalists and Christians: business leaders and the churches in Britain, 1900-1960 Pádraig McGowan, Money and banking in Ireland: origins, development and future Jon Press, The footwear industry in Ireland, 1922-1973 Justin Davis Smith, The Attlee and Churchill administrations and industrial unrest, 1945-55: a study in consensus Richard Holt, ed., Sport and the working class in modern Britain Bruce Collins and Keith Robbins, eds., British culture and economic decline GENERALJohn Komlos, Nutrition and economic development in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy: an anthropometric history Heinrich Becker, Handlungsspielräume in der Agrarpolitik in der Weimarer Republik zwischen 1923 und 1929 Joel D. Benson, Cooperation to competition: English perspective and policy on Anglo-Dutch economic relations during the reign of James I R. T. Griffiths, ed., The Netherlands and the economic integration of Europe, 1945-1957 Timo Myllyntaus, The gatecrashing apprentice: industrialising Finland as an adopter of new technology Martin Blinkhorn, ed., Fascists and conservatives: the radical right and the establishment in twentieth-century Europe Charles Tilly, Coercion, capital, and European states: AD 990-1990 Clive Archer, Organizing western Europe Arthur Marwick et al., War, peace and social change: Europe, 1900-1955 William Molle, The economics of European integration Roy Porter, ed., The medical history of waters and spas Pat Hudson and W. R. Lee, eds., Women's work and the family economy in historical perspective R. Bartlett, ed., Land commune and peasant community in Russia Stuart Bruchey, Enterprise: the dynamic economy of a free people John Graham, ed., ‘Yours for the revolution’: The Appeal to Reason, 1895-1922 Gerald D. Nash, World War II and the west: reshaping the economy Randall Bennett Woods, A changing of the guard: Anglo-American relations, 1941-1946 Richard F. Hirsh, Technology and transformation in the American electric utility industy Paul J. Miranti, Accountancy comes of age Joy Parr, The gender of breadwinners: women, men and change in two industrial towns, 1880-1950 Guy P. C. Thomson, Puebla de los Angeles: industy and society in a Mexican city, 1700-1870 David Robinson, ed., Migration in colonial Spanish America Philip D. Curtin, The rise and fall of the plantation complex: essays in Atlantic history Jan Breman, Labour migration and rural transformation in colonial Asia S. D. Punekar and R. Varickayil, eds., Labour movement in India, documents 1850-1890, I: Mines and plantations Robin Jeffrey et al., eds., India: rebellion to republic—selected writings, 1857-1990 Angus Maddison and Gé Prince, eds., Economic growth in Indonesia, 1820-1940 Jean Batou, Cent ans de résistance au sous-développement: l'industrialisation de l'Amérique Latine et du Moyen-Orient face au défi européen, 1770-1870 Peter Mathias and John A. Davis, eds., The first industrial nations Christian Suter, Schuldenzyklen in der Dritten Welt: Kreditaufnalhme, Zahlungskrisen und Schuldenregelungen peripherer Länder im Welstystem von 1820 bis 1986 M. J. Daunton, ed., Housing the workers: a comparative history, 1850-1914 Carl H. A. Dassbach, Global enterprises and the world economy: Ford, General Motors, and IBM: the emergence of the transnational enterprise Martin Chick, ed., Governments, industries and markets: aspects of government-industry relations in the UK, Japan, West Germany and the USA since 1945 W. W. Rostow, Theorists of economic growth from David Hume to the present Gerald D. Feldman and Klaus Tenfelde, eds., Workers, Owners and politics in coal mining: an international comparison of industrial relations A. Teichova, M. Lévy-Leboyer, and H. Nussbaum, eds., Historical studies in international corporate business R. T. P. Davenport-Hines, ed., Business in the age of depression and war