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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.