Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: M argaret S pufford . Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth‐Century England . A nne K ussmaul . Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England . P. B. M unsche . Gentlemen and Poachers: The English Game Laws, 1671–1831 . S. D. C hapman and S. C hassagne . European Textile Printers in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of Peel and Oberkampf . E nid G auldie . The Scottish County Miller, 1700‐I900: A History of Water‐powered Meal Milling in Scotland . C hris F isher . Custom, Work, and Market Capitalism: The Forest of Dean Colliers, 1788–1888 . S. D. C hapman . Stanton and Staveley: A Business History . W. M. M athew . The House of Gibbs and the Peruvian Guano Monopoly . J. E. K ing . Richard Marsden and the Preston Charrisrs, 1837–1848 . J. A. B anks . Victorian Values: Secularism and the Size of Families . W. D. R ubinstein . Men of Property: The Very Wealthy in Britain since the Industrial Revolution . R. C. M ichie . Money, Mania, and Markets: Investment, Company Formation and the Stock Exchange in Nineteenth‐Century Scotland . E dgar J ones . Accountancy and the British Economy, 1840–1980: The Evolution of Ernst & Whinney . P. J. W aller . Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool, 1868–1939 . W. J. R eader . Bowater: A History . A nthony C arew . The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy, 1900–39: The Invergordon Mutiny in Perspective . P hilip S. B agwell . The Railwaymen: The Histoy of the National Union of Raiwaymen. Vol. 2. The Beeching Era and After . E dgars D unsdorfs . The Livonian Estates of Axel Oxenstjerna . C. K oninckx . The First and Second Charters of the Swedish East India Company (1731‐1766): A Contribution to the Maritime, Economic and Social Histmy of North‐Western Europe in its Relationship with the Far East (with a preface by K. GLAMANN) . L. M. C ullen and F. F uret (Eds.). Ireland and France, 1600–1900: Towards a Comparative Study of Rural History . H ubert W atelet . Une Industrialisation sans developpement: Le bassin de M m et le Charbonnage du Grand‐Homu du milieu du XVIII siicle au milieu du XIX siicle . G. H. K ocks and J. M. G. van der P oel (Eds.). Landbouwkundige Beschrijvingen uit de Negenrien‐eeux . J urgen K ocka . Die Angesrellren in der deutschen Geschichte, 1850–1980 . E duard M arz . Osterreichische Bankpoltik in der Zeit der groben Wende, z9z3‐z923: Am Beispiel der Creditanstalt fur Handel and Gewerbe . A ngelo M assafra (Ed.). Problemi di sroria delle campagne meridionali nelleta moderna econrempmanea . M anuel T unon de L ara (Ed.). Historiu de Espuiia, Vol. VIII, Revolucibn burguesa, oligurquiay constitutionism, 1834–1923 . M artin M ccauley . The Soviet Union since 1917 . B ruce R. D avidson . European Farming in Australia: An Economic History of Australian Farming . D avid J. J eremy . Transatlantic Itulustrial Revolution: The Diffusion of Textile Technologies between Britain ond Anwrica, 1790–1830s . P eter J. B uckley and B rian R. R oberts . European Direct Investment in the USA before World War I . C harles E. H arvey . The Rio Tinto Company: An Economic History of a Leading International Mining Concern, 1873–1954 . E ster B oserup . Population and Technology .