Book Reviews

John Hunter, The Essex landscape: a study of its form and history Robert Humphreys, No fixed abode: a history of responses to the roofless and the rootless in Britain Robert Malcolmson & Stephanos Mastoris, The English pig: a history Brendan Smith, Britain and Ireland, 900‐1300: insular responses to medieval European change Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Guides to sources for British history II: principal family and estate collections: family names L‐W Andy Wood, The politics of social conflict: the Peak Country, 1520‐1770 Paul Slack, From Reformation to improvement: public welfare in early modern England John Walter, Understanding popular violence in the English Revolution: the Colchester plunders John Smail, Merchants, markets and manufacture: the English wool textile industry in the eighteenth centuary Randolph Trumbach, Sex and the gender revolution: volume 1, heterosexuality and the third gender in Enlightenment London T.M Devine & J.R Young, Eighteenth centuary Scotland: new perspectives Owen Ashton & Stephen Roberts, The Victorian working‐class writer Peter T. Marsh, Bargaining in Europe: Britain and the first Common Market, 1860‐1892 Michael Lavalette, A thing of the past? Child labour in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Diane Frost, Work and community among West African migrant workers since the nineteenth century Richard Brown & Barry Anthony, A Victorian film enterprise: the history of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1897‐1915 Jonathan Schneer, London 1900: the imperial metropolis Catriona M.M. McDonald & E.W McFarland, Scotland and the Great War David Kynaston, The City of London, III: illusions of gold, 1914‐1945 Matt Perry, Bread and work: the experience of unemployment, 1918‐39 B.J.C McKercher, Transition of power: Britain’s loss of global pre‐eminence to the United States, 1930‐1945 Sidney Pollard, Labour history and the labour movement in Britain Jean Andreau, Banking and business in the Roman world Karl Moore & David Lewis, Birth of the multinational: 2,000 years of ancient business history‐from Ashur to Augustus Daniel Roche, A history of everyday things: the birth of consumption in France, 1600‐1800 Szonja Szelényi, Equality by design: the grand experiment in destratification in socialist Hungary Kate Fleet, European and Islamic trade in the early Ottoman state: the merchants of Genoa and Turkey Esther Kingston‐Mann, In search of the true West: culture economics, and problems of Russian development James R. Harris, The Great Urals: regionalism and the evolution of the Soviet system Melanie Ilič, Women workers in the Soviet interwar economy: from ’protection’ to ’equality Richard Bonney, The rise of the fiscal state in Europe, c. 1200‐1815 Rosemary L. Hopcroft, Regions, institutions, and agrarian change in European history Mary Lindemann, Medicine and society in early modern Europe Andrew Martin & George Ross, The brave new world of European labor: European trade unions at the millennium Nicholas Reeves, The power of film propaganda: myth and reality? Kevin H. O’Rourke & Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and history: the evolution of a nineteenth‐century Atlantic economy Timothy R. Mahoney, Provincial lives: middle‐class experience in the antebellum Middle West Lee J. Alston & Joseph P. Ferrie, Southern paternalism and the American welfare state: economics, politics and institutions in the south, 1865‐1965S Margaret Levenstein, Accounting for growth: information systems and the creation of the large corporation David C. Mowery &Nathan Rosenberg, Paths of innovation: technological change in 20th century America Robert A. Garson & Stuart S. Kidd, The Roosevelt years: new perspectives on American history, 1933‐1945 Thomas Mayer, Monetary policy and the great inflation in the United States: the Federal Reserve and the failure of macroeconomic policy, 1965‐1979 Edwin Green & Sara Kinsey, The paradise bank: the Mercantile Bank of India, 1893‐1984 Timothy Brook & Gregory Blue, China and historical capitalism: genealogies of sinological knowledge Philip Richardson, Economic change in China, c. 1800‐1950 Lynda S. Bell, One industry, two Chinas: silk filatures and peasant‐family production in Wuxi county, 1865‐1937 William Tsutsui, Manufacturing ideology: scientific management in twentieth‐century Japan Atsuko Abe, Japan and the European Union: domestic politics and transnational relations Ralph A. Austen & Mikko Saikku, Middlemen of the Cameroons rivers: the Duala and their hinterland c. 1600‐1960 Thomas R. Dunlap, Encountering the past in nature: essays in environmental history Paul Gootenberg, Cocaine: global histories Thomas W. Zeiler, Free trade, free world: the advent of GATT Eric Toussaint, Your money or your life! the tyanny of global finance Richard Swedberg, Max Weber essays in economic sociology Jacques Beauroy, Histoire & Sociétés Rurales