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Volume 55, Issue 4

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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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