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Book reviewed in this article GREAT BRITAIN D. A. C rowley (Ed.). The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Wiltshire. Vol. XII. T. H. A ston , P. R. C oss , C hristopher D yer and J oan T hirsk (Eds.). Social Relations and Ideas: Essays in Honour of R. H. Hilton. S usan M. W right . The Derbyshire Gentry in the Fifteenth Century. J ohn B ohstedt . Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales, 1790‐1810. S. R. C ope . Walter Boyd: A Merchant Banker in the Age of Napoleon. D erek H. A ldcroft and M ichael J. F reeman (Eds.). Transport in the Industrial Revolution. J ohn K. W alton and J ames W alvin (Eds.). Leisure in Britain, 1780‐1939. K atrina H oneyman . Origins of Enterprise: Business Leadership in the Industrial Revolution. J ohn G arrard . Leadership and Power in Victorian Industrial Towns, 1830‐80. F rances F innegan . Poverty and Prejudice: A Study of Irish Immigrants in York, 1840‐1875. D avid B rooke . The Railway Navvy. F rances W iddowson . Going Up into the Next Class: Women and Elementary Teacher Training, 1840‐1914. S ydney and O live C heckland . Industry and Ethos: Scotland, 1832‐1914. D avid J. J eremy (Ed.). Dictionary of Business Biography: A Biographical Dictionary of Business Leaders Active in Britain in the Period 1860‐1980. Vol. 1: A‐C. F orrest C apie and M ichael C ollins . The Inter‐War British Economy: A Statistical Abstract. W illiam K nox (Ed.). Scottish Labour Leaders, 1918‐1939: A Biographical Dictionary. J ohn S tevenson . British Society, 1914‐1945. P eter P agnamenta and R ichard O very . All Our Working Lives. J. H. van S tuijvenberg (Ed.). The Interactions of Amsterdam and Antwerp with the Baltic Region, 1400‐1800. A rtur A ttman . Dutch Enterprise in the World Bullion Trade, 1550‐1800. S arah C. M aza . Servants and Masters in Eighteenth‐Century France: The Uses of Loyalty. F ranclois J equier N ikolai T odorov . The Balkan City, 1400‐1900. M aldwyn A. J ones . The Limits of Liberty: American History, 1607‐1980. P hilip S cranton . Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800‐1885. W alter L icht . Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century. G ary M. W alton and J ames F. S hepherd (Eds.). Market Institutions and Economic Progress in the New South, 1865‐1900. C olin M. L ewis . British Railways in Argentina, 1857‐1914: A Case Study of Foreign Investment. London: Athlone Press for the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. 1983. Pp. xii+259. 41 tables. 2 graphs. 5 maps. £20.) M ichelle B urge M c A lpin . Subject to Famine: Food Crises and Economic Change in Western India, 1860‐1920. F rank H. H. K ing (Ed.). Eastern Banking: Essays in the History of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. R obert H. B ates . Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa. N orman E therington . Theories of Imperialism: War, Conquest, and Capital.