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Volume 52, Issue 2

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Books reviewed:

Peasants, merchants, and markets: inland trade in medieval England, R. H. Britnell

Controlling misbehaviour in England, 1370-1600,John Walter

The new Cambridge medieval history, VII: c. 1415- c.1500, David Nicholas

Metropolitan communities: trade guilds, identity and change in early modern London, Paul Griffiths

Albion ascendant: English history, 1660-1815, Trevor Griffiths

Cheshire cheese and farming in the north west in the 17th and 18th centuries, Steve Caunce

Some British empiricists in the social sciences, 1650-1900, A. W. Coats

From family firms to corporate cap-talism: essays in business and industrial history in honour of Peter Mathias, Julian Hoppit

Charity, philanthropy and reform: from the 1690s to 1850, Pamela Sharpe

The mid-Victorian generation, 1846-1886, Duncan Bbythell

Morality and the market in Victorian Britain, Paul Johnson

Change, continuity and class: labour in British society, 1850-1920, Joseph Melling

Speaking for the people: party, language and popular politics in England, 1867-1914, Tony Adams

Reconstructing women’’s wartime lives: discourse and subjectivity in oral histories of the Second World War, Penny Starns

Capitalism in contention: business leaders and political economy in modern Britain, W. R. Garside

Selected cliometric studies on German economic history, Catherine R. Schenk

The economic aspects of Spanish imperialism in America, 1492-1810, Kenneth Morgan

Corsairing to commerce: Maltese merchants in XVIII century Spain, Peter Earle

Trade, traders and the ancient city, Philip De Souza

Urban Europe, 1500-1700, Catherine Smith

European economies since the Second World War, Derek H. Aldcroft

The bondsman’’s burden: an economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, W. M. Mathew

Politics and property rights: the closing of the open range in the postbellum South, Gavin Wright

Bold relief: institutional politics and the origins of modern American social policy, Julian Zelizer

The money interest and the public interest: American monetary thought, 1920-1970, Anne Mayhew

Missionaries and managers: American influences on European management education, 1945-60, Robert R. Locke

Big money crime: fraud and politics in the saving and loan crisis, Geofrey T. Mills

Transatlantic images and perceptions: Germany and America since 1776, R. A. Burchell

Desegregating the dollar: African-American consumerism in the twentieth century, Rick Halpern

The American finances of the Spanish empire: royal income and expenditure in colonial Mexico, Peru and Bolivia, 1680-1809, Luis Jauregui

Slavery and colonial rule in French West Africa, A. J. H. Latham

Commodity and exchange in the Mongol empire: a cultural history of Islamic textiles, P. A. Andrews

The trading crowd: an ethnography of the Shanghai stock market, W. A. Thomas

Environmental politics in Japan: networks of power and protest, Kenneth D. Brown

Rice: the primary commodity, Pierre Van Der Eng

People, land and time: an historical

introduction to the relations between landscape, culture and environment, Grenville Astill

Industrialization and development: a comparative analysis, J. R. Ward

Durable inequality, Rodney Lowe

Tracking the agricultural revolution in England, Robert C. Allen

English servants and their employers during the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries, Leonard Schwarz

British incomes circa 1800, T.V. Jackson

Principals and agents: the activities of the Crown Agents for the colonies, 1880-1914, David Sunderland

The rise of interlocking directorates in imperial Germany, Caroline Fohlin

Agricultural support policies in a small open economy: New Zealand in the 1920s, G.A. Fleming


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