Reviews

M. W. GREENSLADE (Ed.)‐ The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Staffordshire. K. J. A llison (Ed.). The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of York, East Riding. J oan T hirsk . The Rural Economy of England: Collected Essays. P eter C lark (Ed.). The Transformation of English Provincial Towns, 1600–1800. T. M. D evine and D avid D ickson (Eds.). Ireland and Scotland, 1600–1850: Parallels and Contrasts in Economic and Social Development. E. F. C ato C arter . Order out of Chaos: A History of the Loss Adjusting Profession. Part 1. Evolution and Early Development. S. C hapman . The Rise of Merchant Banking. M. W. K irby . Men of Business and Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Quaker Pease Dynasty of North‐East England, 1700–1943. H. I. D utton . The Patent System and Inventive Activity during the Industrial Revolution, 1750–1852. E ric J. E vans . The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783–1870. L awrence H. W hite . Free Banking in Britain: Theory, Experience, and Debate, 1800–1845. H ugh M c L eod . Religion and the Working Class in Nineteenth‐Century Britain. J ames A. S chmiechen . Sweated Industries and Sweated Labour: The London Clothing Trades, 1860–1914. P amela H orn . The Changing Countryside in Victorian and Edwardian England and Wales. E lizabeth R oberts . A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working‐Class Women, 1890–1940. P enny S ummerfield . Women Workers in The Second World War. GENERAL W illiam M. R eddy . The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society, 1750–1900. J. P. de K orte . De Jaarlijkse financiele verantwoording in de VOC Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie. M ichael B urleigh . Prussian Society and the German Order: An Aristocratic Corporation in Crisis, c. 1410–1466. W ilhelm T reue . Wirtschafts‐und Technikgeschichte Preussens. W olfram E ngels and H ans P ohl (Eds.) German Yearbook on Business History, 1983. J oan M. F rayn . Sheep‐Rearing and the Wool Trade in Italy During the Roman Period. J ohn R osselli . The Opera Industry in Italy from Cimarosa to Verdi: The Role of the Impresario. P aul R. G regory . Russian National Income, 1885–1913. A lice T eichova and P. L. C ottrell (Eds.). International Business and Central Europe, 1918–1939. D avid A. H ounshell . From the American System to Mass Production, 1800–1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. D avid H. B reen . The Canadian Prairie West and the Ranching Frontier, 1874–1924. C lifton B. K roeber . Man, Land, and Water: Mexico's Farmlands Irrigation Policies, 1885–1911. S uraiya F aroqhi . Towns and Townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia: Trade, Crafts, and Food Production in an Urban Setting, 1520–1650. A sok S en , P artha C hatterjee , and S augata M ukherji . Perspectives in Social Sciences 2. Three Studies on the Agrarian Structure in Bengal, 1850–1947. J ohn I liffe . The Emergence of African Capitalism. D. C. C oleman and P eter M athias (Eds.). Enterprise and History: Essays in Honour of Charles Wilson. P at T hane , G eoffrey C rossick , and R oderick F loud (Eds.). The Power of the Past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm.