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Book reviewed in this article: REVIEW OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE, 1981 H enry P helps B rown and S heila V. H opkins. A Perspective of Wages and Prices. T. H. L loyd. Alien Merchants in England in the High Middle Ages. J. A. R aftis. A Small Town in Late Medieval England: Godmanchester, 1278‐1400. M ary P rior. Fisher Row: Fishermen, Bargemen, and Canal Boatmen in Oxford, 1500‐1900. K enneth D. B rown. The English Labour Movement , 1700‐1951. J ennifer T ann J ames W alvin M alcolm I. T homis and J ennifer G rimmett. Women in Protest, 1800‐1850. D ennis S mith. Conflict and Compromise: Class Formation in English Society, 1830‐1914. M. A. C rowther. The Workhouse System, 1834‐1929: The History of an English Social Institution. O live C heckland and M argaret L amb K en Y oung and P atricia L. G arside. Metropolitan London: Politics and Urban Change, 1837‐1981. Studies in Urban History Series, 6. D avid H oseason M organ. Harvesters and Harvesting, 1840‐1900: A Study of the Rural Proletariat. T heo B arker and M ichael D rake D ermot K eogh. The Rise of the Irish Working Class: The Dublin Trade Union Movement and Labour Leadership, 1890‐1914. D iana G ittens. Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure, 1900‐39. K athleen B urk J. M. L ee and M artin P etter. The Colonial Office, War, and Development Policy: Organisation and the Planning of a Metropolitan Initiative, 1939‐1945. A ngus M ac K ay . Money, Prices, and politics in Fifteenth‐Century Castile. La economía española al final del Antiguo Régimen. J udith C. B rown. In the Shadow of Florence: Provincial Society in Renaissance Pescia. J ohn M. M erriman R ichard J. E vans F red S ingleton and B ernard C arter. The Economy of Yugoslavia. R oger M unting. The Economic Development of the USSR. M ichael M itterauer and R einhard S ieder. The European Family: Patriarchy to Partnership from the Middle Ages to the Present. D an P. S ilverman. Reconstructing Europe after the Great War. F elipe F ernaandez ‐A rmesto. The Canary Islands after the Conquest: The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early Sixteenth Century. P. L. W ickens. An Economic History of Africa from the Earliest Times to Partition. R oss F itzgerald. From the Dreaming to 1915: A History of Queensland. D avid W. G alenson. White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis. E dward K. S pann. The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840‐1857. J ohn H. C oatsworth. Growth Against Development: The Economic Impact of Railroads in Porfirian Mexico. M. H. J. F inch. A Political Economy of Uruguay since 1870. N. C harlesworth. British Rule and the Indian Economy, 1800‐1914. E arl H. K inmonth. The Self‐Made Man in Meiji Japanese Thought: From Samurai to Salary Man. T ony S mith. The Pattern of Imperialism: The United States, Great Britain, and the Late‐Industrializing World since 1815. W infried B aumgart. Imperialism: The Idea and Reality of British and French Colonial Expansion, 1880‐1914. J orma A hvenainen A. G. K enwood and A. L. L ougheed. Technological Diffusion and Industrialisation before 1914. M ichael C hisholm. Modern World Development: A Geographical Perspective.