Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: R oger F inlay . Population and Metropolis: The Demography of London, 1580–1450 . J ohn B owle . John Evelyn and his World: A Biography . L. M. C ullen . The Emergence of Modern Ireland, 1600–1900 . B ruce L enman . Integration, Enlightenment, and Industrialization: Scotland , 1746–1832, The New History of Scotland, 6. C hristopher H arvie . No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland , 1914–1980. R. A. C age . TheScottish Poor Law, 1745–1845 . S ean M cconville . A History of English Prism Administration: Volume I, 1750–1877 . V ictor B ailey (Ed.). Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth‐Century Britain . A nne D igby and P eter SEARBY (Eds.). Children, School, and Society in Nineteenth Century England . I. G. J ones . Explorations and Explanations: Essays in the Social History of Victorian Wales . G. E. M ingay (Ed.). The Victorian Countryside . H. I. D utton and J. E. K ing . Ten Per Cent and No Surrender: The Preston Strike , 1853–4. R obert G ray . The Aristocracy of Labour in Nineteenth‐centuty Britain, 1850–1914 . A nthony S utcliffe (Ed.). British Town Planning: The Formative Years . J im T omlinson . Problems of British Economic Policy, 1870–1945 . A lan F orrest . The French Revolution and the Porn . R ichard F. K uisel . Capitalism and the State in Modern France: Renoeation and Economic Management in the Twentieth Century . W. H. S chroeder and R. S pree (Eds.). Histotische Konjunklurforschung . D avid A braham . The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political Economy and Crisis . L a B anque en B elgique . Financiewezen in Belgie, 1830–1980. Revue de la Banque. Bank‐ Financimezen. Cahier 8/9. September 1980 . M aureen F ennell M azzaoui . The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100–1600 . F rancesco F acchini , Alle origini di Brescia Industriale: Insediamenti produttivi e composizione de classe dall' Unita al 1911 . L utgardo G arcia F uentes . El Comercio Espanol con America, 1650–1700 F ritz H odne . Norges flkonomiske hisrorie , 1815–1970. T homas C. O wen . Capitalism and Politics in Russia: A Social History of the Moscow Merchants, 1855–1905 . J on V. K ofas . Financial Relations of Greece and the Great Powers, 1832–1862 . S idney P ollard . Peaceful Conquest: The Industrialization of Europe, 1760–1970 . E. L. J ones . The European Miracle: Environments, Economies, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia . M ichael R. G odley . The Mandarin‐Capitalists from Nanyang: Overseas Chinese Enterprise in the Modernization of China, 1893–1911 . F red B ateman and T homas W eiss . A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Indusnialization in the Slave Economy . M argaret W alsh . The American Frontier Revisited A. J. H. L atham . The Depression and the Developing World, 1914–1939 . E. J. H obsbawm , W itold K ula , A shok M itra , K. N. R aj and I gnacv S achs (Eds.) Peasants in Histmy: Essays in Honour of Daniel Thorner . R obert I. R otberg and T heodore K. R abb (Eds.). Marriage and Fertility: Studies in Interdisciplinary History . R udolf H ilferding . Finance Capital: A Study of the Latest Phase of Capitalist Development . L awrence S tone . The Past and the Present .