Book reviews

Books reviewed: The monastic order in Yorkshire, Sandra Raban The demography of early modern towns: York in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, John S. Moore Inventories of Worcestershire landed gentry, 1537‐1786, Vivienne Larminie Tenant right and agrarian society in Ulster, 1600‐1870, S. J. Connolly Rogues, Thieves and the rule of law: the problem of law enforcement in north‐east England, 1718‐1800, Garthine Walker Newspapers, politics and public opinion in late eighteenth‐century England, Owen Jackson Insanity, institutions and society, 1800‐1914: a social history of madness in comparative perspective, Bill Luckin Free trade and its reception, 1815‐1960: freedom and trade: vol. 1, Mark Wickham‐Jones Policing provincial England, 1829‐1856: the politics of reform, Roger Swift Writing the Irish Famine, David Fitzpatrick The end of hidden Ireland: rebellion, famine, and emigration, David Fitzpatrick The municipal government of Bristol, 1851‐1901, Barry Doyle The history and practice of Britain’s railways: a new research agenda, John Armstrong Education and economic decline in Britain, 1870 to the 1990s, John Maloney ‘The battle for health’: a political history of the Socialist Medical Association, 1930‐1951, Virginia Berridge Gresford: the anatomy of a disaster, Joseph Melling Health and society in Britain since 1939, Bernard Harris Mastering the market: the state and the grain trade in northern France, 1700‐1860, Colin Heywood Revolution and environment in southern France: peasants, lords, and murder in the Corbières, 1780‐1830, Hugh Clout The role of banks in monitoring firms: the case of Crédit Mobilier, Geoffrey E. Wood Repertorium Columbianum, IV, Christopher Columbus and his family: the Genoese and Ligurian documents, Trevor Dean Spain’s men of the sea: daily life on the Indies fleets in the sixteenth century, Marcus Rediker Christianity under the ancien régime, 1648‐1789, Linda Kirk Identity and intolerance: nationalism, racism and xenophobia in Germany and the United States, Eve Rosenhaft European culture and the Great War: the arts, entertainment and propaganda, Adrian Gregory Western Europe: economic and social change since 1945, J. Adam Tooze Gotham: a history of New York City to 1898, Karen Wills Copper for America: the United States copper industry from colonial times to the 1990s, Peter Mcleay Manufacturing the future: a history of Western Electric, John Cantwell US trade policy: history, theory and the WTO, Ranald Michie La economiá argentina en el largo plazo: ensayos de historia económica de los siglos XIX y XX , Rory Miller Progress, poverty and exclusion: an economic history of Latin America in the twentieth century, Paul Henderson The Chinese business elite in Indonesia and the transition to independence, 1940‐1950, Anne Booth Japan’s war economy, Kenneth D. Brown Economic crises and restructuring in history: experiences of small countries, Alan S. Milward The gold standard and related regimes: collected essays, Derek H. Aldcroft