Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN C. P hythian ‐A dams . Desolation of a City: Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages. F elicity H eal . Of Prelates and Princes. A Study of the Economic and Social Position of the Tudor Episcopate. D avid C ressy . Literacy and the Social Order. Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England. F rances J. S haw . The Northern and Western Islands of Scotland: Their Economy and Society in the Seventeenth Century. A rthur H. J ohn and G lanmor W illiams (Eds.). Glamorgan County History. Vol. V. Industrial Glamorgan from 1700 to 1970. D avid C annadine . Lords and Landlords: The Aristocracy and the Towns, 1774–1967. S usanna W ade M artins . A Great Estate at Work: The Holkham Estate and its Inhabitants in the Nineteenth Century. G eorge J. B arnsby . Social Conditions in the Black Country, 1800–1900. N orman M c C ord . Strikes. C. G. P owell . An Economic History of the British Building Industry, 1815–1979. T. R. G ourvish . Railways and the British Economy, 1830–1914. F. C. M ather (Ed.). Chartism and Society. An Anthology of Documents. P. L. C ottrell . Industrial Finance, 1830–1914. The Finance and Organization of English Manufacturing Industry. I an L evitt and C hristopher S mout . The State of the Scottish Working Class in 1843: A Statistical and Spatial Enquiry Based on the Data from the Poor Law Commission Report of 1844. A ngela V. J ohn . By the Sweat of their Brow: Women Workers at Victorian Coal Mines. C harles M ore . Skill and the English Working Class, 1870–1914. A. E. D ingle . The Campaign for Prohibition in Victorian England: The United Kingdom Alliance, 1872–1895. G. R. H awke . Economics for Historians. R aphael S amuel (Ed.). People's History and Socialist Theory. B ari ŠA K reki ć. Dubrovnik, Italy and the Balkans in the late Middle Ages. M yron P. G utmann . War and Rural Life in the Early Modern Low Countries J uan S anz S ampelayo . Granada en el Siglo XVIII. P ierre C aspard . La Fabrique‐Neuve de Cortaillod: entreprise et profit pendant la Revolution industrielle, 1752–1854. J. M. D iefendorf . Businessmen and Politics in the Rhineland, 1789–1834. C hristof D ipper . Die Bauernbefreiung in Deutschland, 1790–1850. D avid A lexander and R osemary O mmer (Eds.). Volumes Not Values: Canadian Sailing Ships and World Trade. M arco P alacios . Coffee in Colombia, 1850–1970: An Economic, Social and Political History. S herman C ochran . Big Business in China: Sino‐Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry, 1890–1930. M ichael S tephen S mith . Tariff Reform in France, 1860–1900. The Politics of Economic Interest. A. D. C handler , J r . and H. D aems (Eds.). Managerial Hierarchies: Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Modern Industrial Enterprise. C arl ‐L udwig H oltfrerich . Die deutsche Inflation, 1914–1923: Ursachen und Folgen in internationaler Perspektive. R ajat K. R ay . Industrialization in India: Growth and Conflict in the Private Corporate Sector, 1914–47.