Book Reviews

Source: The Economic History Review, Volume 56, Number 3, August 2003 , pp. 563-594(32)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Abstract:

Books reviewed in this article:

A. D. M. Phillips and C. B. Phillips, eds., A new historical atlas of Cheshire

Philip Riden, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: a history of the county of Northampton

G. J. Benson and L. Ugolini, eds., A nation of shopkeepers: five centuries of British retailing

Stanley Chapman, Hosiery and knitwear: four centuries of small-scale industry in Britain. c.1589–2000

Peter Borsay and Lindsay Proudfoot, eds., Provincial towns in early modern England and Ireland: change, convergence and divergence

John Cramsie, Kingship and Crown finance under James VI and I, 1603–1625

Matthew and George Culley, Travel journals and letters, 1765–1798

John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson, eds., Henry Maudslay and the pioneers of the machine age

Desmond Greer and James W. Nicolson, The factory acts in Ireland, 1802–1914

Charles K. Rawding, The Lincolnshire wolds in the nineteenth century

Derek J. Oddy, From plain fare to fusion food: British diet from the 1890s to the 1990s

Alan Fowler, Lancashire cotton operatives and work, 1900–1950: a social history of Lancashire cotton operatives in the twentieth century

Martin Daunton, Just taxes: the politics of taxation in Britain, 1914–1979

Becky E. Conekin, ‘The autobiography of a nation’: the 1951 Festival of Britain

Andrea Rusnock, Vital accounts: quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France

Martin Horn, Britain, France, and the financing of the First World War

Mark Cioc, The Rhine: an eco-biography, 1815–2000

Helena Hamerow, Early medieval settlements: the archaeology of rural communities in north-west Europe, 400–900

Martina De Moor, Leigh Shaw-Taylor, and Paul Warde, eds., The management of common land in north west Europe, c. 1500–1850

Johan Söderberg and Janken Myrdal, The agrarian economy of sixteenth-century Sweden

John Armstrong and Andreas Kunz, eds., Coastal shipping and the European economy, 1750–1980

Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Class theory and history: capitalism and communism in the USSR

Virginia G. Drackman, Enterprising women: 250 years of American business

W. Carl Bliven, Jimmy Carter's political economy: policy in an age of limits

Colin M. Lewis, Argentina: a short history

Maurice Wright, Japan's fiscal crisis: the Ministry of Finance and the politics of public spending, 1975–2000

Zhaojin Ji, A history of modern Shanghai banking: the rise and decline of China's finance capitalism

Linsun Cheng, Banking in modern China: entrepreneurs, professional managers, and the development of Chinese banks, 1897–1937

Ts'ui-jung Liu, James Lee, David Sven Reher, Osamu Saito, and Wang Feng, eds., Asian population history

Andrea Colli, The history of family business, 1850–2000

Eric Helleiner, The making of national money: territorial currencies in historical perspective

Document Type: Book review

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2003.00262.x

Publication date: 2003-08-01