Book Reviews

Source: The Economic History Review, Volume 56, Number 1, February 2003 , pp. 181-213(33)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Abstract:

Books reviewed:

Mark Bailey, The English manor, c. 1200-c. 1500

Ian Anders Gadd and Patrick Wallis, eds., Guilds, society and economy in London, 1450–1800

Perry Gauci, The politics of trade: the overseas merchant in state and society, 1660–1720

Bridget Hill, Women alone: spinsters in England, 1660–1850

Margaret Ackrill and Leslie Hannah, Barclays, the business of banking, 1690–1996

Susanna Wade Martins, The English model farm: building the agricultural ideal, 1700–1914

Peter King, Crime, justice and discretion in England, 1740–1820

John Belchem, Merseypride: essays in Liverpool exceptionalism

Trevor Griffiths, The Lancashire working classes, c. 1880–1930

Peter Clarke, The Cripps version: the life of Sir Stafford Cripps, 1889–1952

Terry Gourvish British Rail, 1974–97: from integration to privatisation

Noel Thompson, Left in the wilderness: the political economy of British democratic socialism since 1979

Linda L. Clark, The rise of professional women in France: gender and public administration since 1830

Robert J. Smith, The Bouchayers of Grenoble and French industrial enterprise, 1850–1970

Jacob Meunier, On the fast track: French railway modernization and the origins of the TGV, 1944–1983

Paul Hendrix, Sir Henri Deterding and Royal Dutch-Shell: changing control of world oil, 1900–1940

J. Adam Tooze, Statistics and the German state, 1900–1945: the making of modern economic knowledge

Catherine Kovesi Killerby, Sumptuary law in Italy, 1200–1500

Donald Filtzer, Soviet workers and late Stalinism: labour and the restoration of the Stalinist system after World War II

Malcolm Gee and Tim Kirk, eds., Printed matters: printing, publishing and urban culture in Europe in the modern period

Rudy Koshar, ed.,Histories of leisure

Charles Perrow, Organising America: wealth, power, and the origins of corporate capitalism

Ian Jackson, The economic Cold War: America, Britain and East-West trade, 1948–63

John Mason Hart, Empire and revolution: the Americans in Mexico since the Civil War

Jan Rath, ed., Unravelling the rag trade: immigrant entrepreneurship in seven world cities

Wolfgang Streeck and Kozo Yamamura, eds., The origins of nonliberal capitalism: Germany and Japan in comparison

Lance E. Davis and Robert E. Gallman, Evolving financial markets and international capital flows: Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865–1914

Francine McKenzie, Redefining the bonds of Commonwealth, 1939–1948: the politics of preference

Catherine R. Schenk, Hong Kong as an international financial centre: emergence and development, 1945–1965

Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas, and Andrew Miles, HISCO: historical international standard classification of occupations

Witold Kula, trans. Richard Szreter, The problems and methods of economic history

Jack Birner, Pierre Garrouste, and Thierry Aimar, eds., F. A. Hayek as a political economist: economic analysis and values

Document Type: Book review

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0289.00247

Publication date: 2003-02-01