Reviews

M. W. B arley . Houses and history. F rank T. M elton . Sir Robert Clayton and the origins of English deposit banking, 1658‐1685. J ohn R ule . The labouring classes in early industrial England, 1750‐1850. C live T rebilcock . Phoenix Assurance and the development of British assurance, Vol. I, 1782‐1870. J. A. C antrell . James Nasmyth and the Bridgewater Foundry: a study of entrepreneurship in the early engineering industry A ndrew P orter . Victorian shipping and imperial policy: Donald Currie, the Castle Line and South Africa. R oger J. P. K ain . An atlas and index of the tithe files of mid‐nineteenth‐century England and Wales. A nne D igby . Madness, morality and medicine: a study of the York Retreat, 1796‐1914. D udley B aines . Migration in a mature economy: emigration and internal migration in England and Wales, 1861‐1901. M ark B laug . Economic history and the history of economics. L eslie H annah . Inventing retirement: the development of occupational pensions in Britain. P eter M athias and S tuart B ruchey (Eds.). British economic history. An eighteen‐volume series of theses. A lfred W. C rosby . Ecological imperialism: the biological expansion of Europe, 900‐1900. B arbara A. H anawalt (Ed.). Women and work in preindustrial Europe. A. J. C oale and S. C. W atkins (Eds.). The decline of fertility in Europe. A nne L ombard ‐J ourdan . Aux origines de Paris: la genèse de la rive droite jusqu'en 1223. C atharina L is . Social change and the labouring poor: Antwerp, 1770‐1860. G érard D elille . Famille et propriété dans la Royaume de Naples, XV e ‐XIX c Siècle. C arl G. G ustavson . The small giant: Sweden enters the industrial era. K arl ‐G ustav H ildebrand . Expansion, crisis, reconstruction: the Swedish Match Company, 1917‐1939 S ilvana M alle . The economic organization of war communism, 1918‐21. A rcadius K ahan . The plow, the hammer and the knout: an economic history of eighteenth‐century Russia. D avid W. G alenson . Traders, planters and slaves, market behaviour in early English America. O liver A. R ink . Holland on the Hudson: an economic and social history of Dutch New York. C harles B ergquist . Labor in Latin America: comparative essays on Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, and Colombia. Y en ‐P' ing H ao . The commercial revolution in nineteenth‐century China: the rise of Sino‐western mercantile capitalism. K esaji K obayashi and H idemasa M orikawa (Eds.). Development of managerial enterprise. D avid C oleman and R oger S chofield (Eds.). The state of population theory: forward from Malthus. R. I. R otberg and T. K. R abb (Eds.). Population and economy: population and history from the traditional to the modern world. H erman V an D er W ee . Prosperity and upheaval: the world economy, 1945‐1980.