Book Reviews

Source: The Economic History Review, Volume 54, Number 2, May 2001 , pp. 367-412(46)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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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.

Document Type: Book review

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0289.t01-1-00196

Publication date: 2001-05-01

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