IngentaConnect Book reviews

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Books Reviewed:

Great Britain And Ireland

Nicholas Brooks, Anglo–Saxon myths: state and church, 400–1066

Nicholas Brooks, Communities and warfare, 700–1400

J. Bothwell, P. J. P. Goldberg, and W. M. Ormrod, ((eds.)), The problem of labour in fourteenth–century England

Robert Tittler, Townspeople and nation: English urban experiences, 1540–1640

L. A. Botelho, (ed.), Churchwardens’ accounts of Cratfield, 1640–1660

Christopher Chalklin, The rise of the English town, 1650–1850

J. M. Beattie, Policing and punishment in London, 1660–1750

Richard Wilson and Alan Mackley, Creating paradise: the building of the English country house, 1660–1880

M. E. Turner, J. V. Beckett, and B. Afton, Farm production in England, 1700–1914

John E. Archer, Social unrest and popular protest in England, 1780–1840

Stanley Chapman, (ed.), The autobiography of David Whitehead of Rawtenstall, 1790–1865

Ian Inkster, Colin Griffin, Jeff Hill, and Judith Rowbotham, ((eds.)), The golden age: essays in British social and economic history, 1850–1870

K. D. M. Snell and Paul S. Ell, Rival Jerusalems: the geography of Victorian religion

William Kenefick, ‘Rebellious and contrary’: the Glasgow dockers, c. 1853 to c. 1932

F. M. L. Thompson, Gentrification and the enterprise culture: Britain, 1780–1980

Alan Booth, The British economy in the twentieth century

Richard Whiting, The Labour Party and taxation: party identity and political purpose in twentieth–century Britain

Duncan Tanner, Pat Thane, and Nick Tiratsoo, (eds.), Labour’s first century

Asa Briggs, Michael Young: social entrepreneur

David Kynaston, The City of London, IV: A club no more, 1945–2000

Zofia Archibald, John Davies, Vincent Gabrielsen, and G. J. Oliver, (eds.), Hellenistic economies

Michael Wintle, An economic and social history of the Netherlands, 1800–1920: demographic, economic and social transition

Bernd Widdig, Culture and inflation in Weimar Germany

S. R. Epstein, (ed.), Town and country in Europe, 1300–1800

Peter Scholliers, (ed.), Food, drink and identity: cooking, eating and drinking in Europe since the middle ages

Robert Fox and Anna Guagnini, Laboratories, workshops, and sites: concepts and practices of research in industrial Europe, 1800–1914

E. Damsgaard Hansen, European economic history: from mercantilism to Maastricht and beyond

Thabit A. J. Abdullah, Merchants, mamluks, and murder: the political economy of trade in eighteenth–century Basra

Russell R. Menard, Migrants, servants and slaves: unfree labor in colonial British America

Mary B. Rose, Firms, networks and business values: the British and American cotton industries since 1750

Andrew Godley, Jewish immigrant entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880–1914: enterprise and culture

Donna J. Rilling, Making houses: crafting capitalism

Brian Kelly, Race, class, and power in the Alabama coalfields, 1908–21

Margaret B.W. Graham and Alec T. Shuldiner, Corning and the craft of innovation

Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross, The generations of Corning: the life and times of a global corporation

Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, (eds.), The Cambridge economic history of the United States, III: the twentieth century

Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis, Winners, losers and Microsoft: competition and antitrust in high technology

Steven Tolliday, (ed.), The economic development of modern Japan, 1868–1945: from Meiji restoration to the Second World War

Alice Bullard, Exile to paradise: savagery and civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790–1900

Peter Redfield, Space in the tropics: from convicts to rockets in French Guiana

Robert Conlon and John Perkins, Wheels and deals: the automotive industry in twentieth–century Australia

James C. Riley, Rising life expectancy: a global history

Peter N. Stearns, Consumerism in world history: the global transformation of desire

Angela Redish, Bimetallism: an economic and historical analysis

Ted Wilson, Battles for the standard: bimetallism and the spread of the gold standard in the nineteenth century

Howard Temperley, (ed.), After slavery: emancipation and its discontents

Chris Wrigley, (ed.), The First World War and the international economy

Andrew Britton, Monetary regimes of the twentieth century