Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN A lison H anham . The Celys and their World . G eorge F. S teckley (Ed.). The Letters of John Paige, London Merchant, 1648‐1658 . R. A. HOUSTON. Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity . G eorge R udé . Criminal and Victim: Crime and Society in Early Nineteenth‐Century England . L. R ichmond and B. S tockford (Eds.). Company Archives: The Survey of the Records of woo of the First Registered Companies in England and Wales . L ucy B rown . Victorian News and Newspapers . I an I nkster (Ed.)‐ The Steam Intellect Societies‐Essays on Culture, Education and Industry, circa 1820‐1914 . H. G. A. V issink . Economic and Financial Reporting in England and the Netherlands: A Comparative Study over the Period 1850 to 1914 . H. A. C legg . A History of Trade Unions since 1889 . Vol. II: 1911‐1933. GENERAL R aymond G illespie . Colonial Ulster: The Settlement of East Ulster, 1600‐1641 . J ames D. T racy . A Financial Revolution in the Habsburg Netherlands: Renten and Renteniers in the County of Holland, 1515‐1565 . J ohn D. P ost . Food Shortage, Climatic Variability, and Epidemic Disease in Pre‐industrial Europe: The Mortality Peak in the Early 1740s . K athryn N orberg . Rich and Poor in Grenoble, 1600‐1814 . J udith E. T ucker . Women in Nineteenth‐Century Egypt . P eter G atrell . The Tsarist Economy, 1850‐1917 . M oshe L ewin . The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History oflnterwar Russia . H arold G. V atter . The U.S. Economy in World War II . A llan G reer . Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes, 1740‐1840 . M. S. T eitelbaum and JAY M. W inter . The Fear of Population Decline . A. J. B rown . World Inflation Since 1950: An International Comparative Study .