Book reviews

Books reviewed: Colonisation and conquest in medieval Ireland: the English in Louth, 1170‐1330, Marie Therese Flanagan The household knights of King John , Peter Coss Thirteenth‐century England, VII: proceedings of the Durham conference 1997 , Brendan Smith Hertfordshire lay subsidy rolls: 1307 and 1334 , Phillipp R. Schofield The great household in late medieval England , Anne Curry The lay subsidy for Shropshire, 1524‐7 , John S. Moore Theatre, finance and society in early modern England , Craig Muldrew British identities before nationalism: ethnicity and nationhood in the Atlantic world, 1600‐1800 , D. W. Hayton History of work and labour relations in the royal dockyards , Chris Wrigley Gentlemanly capitalism and British imperialism: the new debate on empire , Simon C. Smith Irish migrants in modern Britain, 1750‐1922 , Graham Davis Land reform and working‐class experience in Britain and the United States, 1800‐1862 , Rohan McWilliam Black ’47 and beyond: the Great Irish Famine in history, economy and memory , Philip Ollerensha The hungry stream: essays on emigration and famine , Patrick O’Sullivan Crimes of outrage: sex, violence and Victorian working women , Megan Doolittle The problem of mental deficiency: eugenics, democracy, and social policy in Britain, c. 1870‐1959 , Joseph Melling Phoenix Assurance and the development of British insurance, II: the era of the insurance giants, 1870‐1984 , Edwin Green Capitalism, community and conflict: the south Wales coalfield, 1898‐ 1947 , Sian Rhiannon williams ‘Millions like us’?: British culture in the Second World War , Dave Russell Anticipating total war: the German and American experiences, 1871‐1914 , Robin Clifton Fifty years of the Deutsche Mark: central bank and the currency in Germany since 1948 , Catherine R. Schenk The Venetian money market: banks, panics, and the public debt, 1200‐1500 , David Abulafia Guilds, markets and work regulations in Italy, 16th‐19th centuries , Iorwerth Prothero The economy and material culture of Russia, 1600‐1725 , Jeremy Black Food and eating in medieval Europe , Jane Whittle Art markets in Europe, 1400‐1800 , Malcolm Falkus Shaping history: ordinary people in European politics, 1500‐1700 , Dagmar Freist Cathedrals of consumption: the Euro‐pean department store, 1850‐1939 , Michael Miller Technological revolutions in Europe: historical perspectives , Gillian Cookson Contagion and the state in Europe, 1830‐1930 , Roger Davidson Merchants, companies and trade: Europe and Asia in the early modern era , H. V. Bowen Consumers against capitalism? Consumer cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840‐1990 , Sean O’Connell Getting and spending: European and American consumer societies in the twentieth century , Gareth Shaw Eastside landmark: a history of the East Los Angeles Community Union, 1968‐1993 , Marci R. Green The Atlantic slave trade , Madge Dresser Montpelier, Jamaica: a plantation community in slavery and freedom, 1739‐1912 , J. R. Oldfield Searching for a better society: the Peruvian economy from 1950 , Paulo Drinot An agrarian history of south Asia (The new Cambridge history of India, IV: 4) , David Arnold Development planning in India: exploring an alternative approach , Terence J. Byres The premodern Chinese economy: structural equilibrium and capitalist sterility , David W. Clayton Tigers, rice, silk, and silt: environment and economy in late imperial south China , Philip Richardson Technology and gender: fabrics of power in late imperial China , David W. Clayton Mercantilism in a Japanese domain: the merchant origins of economic nationalism in eighteenth‐century Tosa , John F. Wilson Japan and Singapore in the world economy: Japan’s economic advance into Singapore, 1870‐1965 , Nicholas J. White Africa works: disorder as political instrument douglas rimmer The wealth of nations , John Glassford Adam Smith’s daughters: eight prominent women economists from the eighteenth century to the present , Jane Howells The foundations of laissez‐faire: the economics of Pierre de Boisguilbert , A. W. Bob Coats Secret origins of modern micro‐economics: Dupuit and the engineers , Richard Whatmore The state, the financial system and economic modernization , Duncan M. Ross Fabricating the Keynesian revolution: studies of the inter‐war literature on money, the cycle and unemployment , Roger Middleton The city in time and space , Helen Meller The theory of innovation: entrepreneurs, technology and strategy , G. N. von Tunzelman