Reviews

W. H. C haloner and R. C. R ichardson (Comps.). British Economic and Social History : A Bibliographical Guide. (Manchester: The University Press. 1976. Pp P auline G regg . Black Death to Industrial Revolution. A Social and Economic History of England. (London: Harrap. 1976. Pp R. G. P arker . Coke of Norfolk. A Financial and Agricultural Study, 1707‐1842. (London: The Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1975. Pp T. M. D evine . The Tobacco Lords. A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and their Trading Activities, c. 1740‐90. (Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd. 1975. Pp M. W. F linn and T. C. S mout (Eds.). Essays in Social History. (London: The Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, for the Economic History Society. 1974. Pp J ean L indsay . The Scottish Poor Law. Its Operation in the North‐East from 1745 to 1845. (Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd. 1976. Pp A. A llan M aclaren (Ed.). Social Class in Scotland: Past and Present. (Edinburgh: John Donald. 1976. Pp A. T emple P atterson . A History of Southampton, 1790‐1914. Vol. III: Setbacks and Recoveries, 1868‐1914. Southampton Records Series, vol. XVIII. (Southampton: The University Press. 1975. Pp E ric J. E vans . The Contentious Tithe: The Tithe Problem and English Agriculture, 1750‐1850. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1976. Pp T homas M c K eown . The Modern Rise of Population. (London: Edward Arnold. 1976. Pp D erek O ddy and D erek M iller (Eds.). The Making of the Modern British Diet. (London: Croom Helm. 1976. Pp D erek F raser (Ed.). The New Poor Law in the Nineteenth Century (London: Macmillan. 1976. Pp W illiam A. G reen . British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830‐65. (Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1976. Pp G. A. P hillips . The General Strike: The Politics of Industrial Conflict. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1976. Pp S ean G lynn and J ohn O xborrow . Interwar Britain: A Social and Economic History. (London: George Allen & Unwin. 1976. Pp J. M. W inter (Ed.). War and Economic Development: Essays in Memory of David Joslin. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Pp M. I. F inley (Ed.). Studies in Roman Property. By the Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1976. Pp E. A shtor . A Social and Economic History of the Near East in the Middle Ages. (London: Collins. 1976. Pp R obert S. L opez . The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950‐1350. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1976. Pp C arlo M. C ipolla . Before the Industrial Revolution. European Society and Economy, 1000‐1700. (London: Methuen. 1976. Pp H ermann K ellenbenz . The Rise of the European Economy. An Economic History of Continental Europe, 1500‐1750. (London: Weidenfeld. 1976. Pp T. E vergates . Feudal Society in the Bailliage of Troyes under the Counts of Champagne, 1152‐1284. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1976. Pp N. J. G. P ounds . An Economic History of Medieval Europe. (London: Longman, 1974. Pp R ichard T ilden R app . Industry and Economic Decline in Seventeenth‐Century Venice. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press. 1976. Pp W. O. H enderson . The Rise of German Industrial Power, 1834‐1914. (London: Temple Smith. 1975. Pp G. L. B arrow . The Emergence of the Irish Banking System, 1820‐45. (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. 1975. Pp M. M oynihan . Currency and Central Banking in Ireland, 1922‐60. (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan with the Central Bank of Ireland. 1975. Pp T homas S. F edor . Patterns of Urban Growth in the Russian Empire During the Nineteenth Century. (Chicago: The University of Chicago, Department of Geography, Research Paper No. 163. 1975. Pp G ilbert R ozman . Urban Networks in Russia, 1750‐1800, and Premodern Periodization. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1976. Pp P eter D uignan and L. H. G ann (Eds.). Colonialism in Africa, 1870‐1960. Vol. 4: The Economics of Colonialism. (London: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Pp J. F orbes M unro . Colonial Rule and the Kamba: Social Change in the Kenya Highlands, 1889‐1939. (London: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1975. Pp P eter T emin . Did Monetary Factors Cause the Great Depression? (New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 1976. Pp