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Book Reviews


Volume 54, Issue 2

Abstract

Books reviewed:

Great Britain and Ireland

Old age in English history: past experiences, present times, Virginia Berridge

Women in medieval English society, P.J.P Goldberg

Trade, urban hinterlands and market integration, Phillipp Schofield

Historical accounting records: a guide for archivists and researchers, Marianne Pitts

The development of agrarian capitalism: land and labour in Norfolk, 1440-1580, Christorpher Dyer

Figures in the landscape: rural society in England, 1500-1700, Adam Fox

Migration and society in Britain, 1550-1830, Peter Clark

British clubs and societies, 1580-1800: the origins of an associational world, Craig Muldrew

Nature contested: environmental history in Scotland and northern England since 1600, Ian Whyte

The development of London as a financial centre, Forrest Capie

The country housewife's family companion (1750), Joan Thirsk

Nature's governement: science imperial Britain, and the 'improvement' of the world, John Gascoigne

Gales: a study in brewing, business and family history, Terry Gourvish

Fighting words: working-class formation, collective action, and discourse in early nineteenth-century England, Owen Jackson

Striking a bargain: work and industrial relations in England, 1815-1865, Julian Davies

Patterns of philanthropy, charity and society in nineteenth-century Bristol, Alan Kidd

Merchants to multinationals: British trading companies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Peter Cain

The global cigarette, origins and evolution of British American Tabacco, 1880-1945, B.W.E. Alford

Poor women's lives: gender, work, and poverty in late-Victorian London, Sheila Blackburn

More than munitions: women, work and the engineering industries, 1900-1950:, Gail Braybon

Austerity in Britain: rationing, controls, and consumption, 1939-1955, Peter Howlett

March of the matrons: military influence on the British civilian nursing profession, 1939-1969, Peter Mohr

The British economy since 1945: engaging with the debate, Scott Newton

Crises revolutions: and self-sustained growth: essays in European fiscal history, 1130-1830, Henry Roseveare

The rise of cites in north-west Europe, Gervase Rosser

Privilege and the politics of taxation in eighteenth-century France; liberté, fiscalité, Morag Martin

Histoire agraire de la France au XVIIIe siècle: inerties et changments dans les capagnes françaises entre 1715 et 1815, Hugh Clout

French anti-slavery: the movement for the abolition of slavery in France, 1802-1848, Pamela Pilbeam

The modernist enterprise: French elites and the threat of modernity, 1900-1940, Jackie Clarke

Industrial culture and bourgeois sociey: business, labour, and bureaucracy in modern Germay, Joseph Melling

The chameleon state: hlobal culture and policy shifts in Britain and Germany, 1914-1933, Theo Balderston

An economic history of Sweden, Ollie Krantz

Silver, trade and war: Spain and America in the making of early modern Europe, Henry Kamen

Imagining consumers: design and innovation from Wedgewood to Corning, Cheryl Buckley

Reinventing free labor: padrones and immigrant workers in the Norh American West, 1880-1930,Karen Jones

Boodless victories: the rise and fall of the open shop in the Philadelphia metal trades, 1890-1940, Neil A. Wynn

Essays on the great depression, Peter Fearon

Airline excutives and federal regulation: case studies in American enterprise from the airmail era to the dawn of the jet age, Michael French

Modern forests: statemaking and environmental change in colonial eastern India, John M. Mackenzie

The Japanese economy, John F. Wilson

Australia in the global economy: coninunity and change, Bernard Attard

The great divergence: Europe, China and the making of modern world economy, Philip Richardson

Terms of labor: slavery, serdom, and free labor,Kenneth Morgan

The legacy of Frederich von Hayek, vols I: Politics; II: Philosophy; III, Economics, Roger Middleton

The challenge of global captalism: the world economy int 21st century, Clive H. Lee

General

Mark Ormrod, Margaret Bonney, & Richard Bonney, eds. Crises, revolutions and self-sustained growth

Adriaan Verhulst. The rise of cities in north-west Europe

Michael Kwass. Privilege and the politics of taxation in eighteenth-century France

Gérard Béaur. Histoire agraire de la France au XVIIIe siècle

Lawrence C. Jennings. French anti-slavery

Marjorie A. Beale. The modernist enterprise

Jürgen Kocka. Industrial culture and bourgeois society

Tien-lung Liu. The chameleon state

Lars Magnusson. An economic history of Sweden

Stanley J. Stein & Barbara H. Stein. Silver, trade and war

Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Imagining consumers

Gunther Peck. Reinventing free labor

Howell John Harris. Bloodless victories

Ben S. Bernanke. Essays on the great depression

W. David Lewis, ed. Airline executives and federal regulation

K. Sivaramakrishnan. Modern forests

David Flath. The Japanese economy

David Meredith & Barrie Dyster. Australia in the global economy

Kenneth Pomeranz. The great divergence

Stanley L. Engerman, ed. Terms of labor

Peter J. Boettke, ed. The legacy of Frederich von Hayek

Robert Gilpin with Jean Millis Gilpin. The challenge of global capitalism


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