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Book Reviews: Great Britain and Ireland


Volume 54, Issue 3

Abstract

Books reviewed:

Malcolm Gaskill, Crime and mentalities in early modern England

Nancy Cox, The complete tradesman: a study of retailing, 1550–1820

Rosalind Mitchison, The old poor law in Scotland: the experience of poverty, 1574–1845

Sarah Bendall, Christopher Brooke, and Patrick Collinson, A history of Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Michael Roberts and Simone Clarke, eds., Women and gender in early modern Wales

Lena Cowen Orlin, ed., Material London, ca. 1600

Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern, eds., Empire and others: British encounters with indigenous peoples, 1600–1850

Andrea Finkelstein, Harmony and the balance: an intellectual history of seventeenth-century English economic thought

Jeremy Gregory, Restoration, reformation and reform, 1660–1828: archbishops of Canterbury and their diocese

Ron Harris, Industrializing English law: entrepreneurship and business organization, 1720–1844

Charles More, Understanding the industrial revolution

Andy Bielenberg, ed., The Irish diaspora

Simon Gunn, The public culture of the Victorian middle class: ritual and authority in the English industrial city, 1840–1914

J. Matthew Gallman, Receiving Erin’s children: Philadelphia, Liverpool and the Irish Famine migration, 1845–1855

Keir Waddington, Charity and the London hospitals, 1850–1898

Katrina Honeyman, Well suited: a history of the Leeds clothing industry, 1850–1990

Gillian Cookson and George Ingle, eds., John Hodgson’s ‘Textile manufacture and other industries in Keighley’

David W. Howell and Kenneth O. Morgan, eds., Crime, protest and police in modern British society: essays in memory of David J. V. Jones

Michael French and Jim Phillips, Cheated not poisoned? Food regulation in the United Kingdom, 1875–1938

Brian Callanan, Ireland’s Shannon story: leaders, visions and networks—a case study of local and regional development

Graham Ingham, Managing change: a guide to British economic policy

Philip de Souza, Piracy in the Graeco-Roman world

Edwin S. Hunt and James M. Murray, A history of business in medieval Europe, 1200–1550

Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, L’invention technique au siècle des Lumières

William Doyle, La vénalité

Marco H. D. van Leeuwen, trans. A. J. Pomerans, The logic of charity: Amsterdam, 1800–1850

Herman Van der Wee, ed., The Generale Bank, 1822–1997

Thomas Max Safley, Matheus Miller’s memoir: a merchant’s life in the seventeenth century

Gabriel Tortella, trans. Valerie Herr, The development of modern Spain: an economic history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Panikos Panayi, Outsiders: a history of European minorities

Lennart Samuelson, Plans for Stalin’s war machine: Tukhachevskii and military-economic planning, 1925–1941

Christopher Fyfe, ed., Anna Maria Falconbridge, ‘Narrative of two voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the years 1791–1792–1793’, and the journal of Isaac Dubois, with Alexander Falconbridge, ‘An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa’

Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, An empire divided: the American Revolution and the British Caribbean

Steven N. Kaplan, ed., Mergers and productivity

Shawn W. Miller, Fruitless trees: Portuguese conservation and Brazil’s colonial timber

Maria Misra, Business, race and politics in British India, c. 1850–1960

Sherman Cochran, Encountering Chinese networks: western, Japanese, and Chinese corporations in China, 1880–1937

Xin Zhang, Social transformation in modern China: the state and local elites in Henan 1900–1937

Ian Inkster and Fumihiko Satofuka, eds., Culture and technology in modern Japan

David Turley, Slavery

M. L. Bush, Servitude in modern times

Mary A. Yeager, ed., Women in business

Jonathan Zeitlin and Gary Herrigel, eds., Americanization and its limits: reworking US technology and management in post-war Europe and Japan

Sebastian Edwards, ed., Capital flows and the emerging economies: theory, evidence and controversies

Phillip D. Curtin, The world and the West: the European challenge and the overseas response in the age of empire

Christine Rider and Michéal Thompson, eds., The industrial revolution in comparative perspective

Michalis Psalidopoulos, ed., The canon in the history of economics: critical essays


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