Reviews

David Levine Reproducing families: the political economy of English population history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Alan Macfarlane The culture of capitalism (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp Roy Porter Disease, medicine and society in England, 1550‐1860 (Macmillan, 1987. Pp J.A. Sharpe Early modern England: a social history, 1550‐1760 (Edward Arnold, 1987. Pp Christopher A. Whatley The Scottish salt industry, 1570‐1850: an economic and social history (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987. Pp Margaret De Lacy Prison reform in Lancashire, 1700‐1850: a study in local administration (Manchester: Manchester University Press for the Chetham Society, 1986. Pp Simon P. Ville English shipowning during the industrial revolution: Michael Henley & Son, London shipowners, 1770‐1830 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. Pp Ruth Richardson Death, dissection and the destitute (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988. Pp Guy Routh,Occupations of the people of Great Britain, 1801‐1981 with a compendium of a paper‘Occupations of the people of the United Kingdom, 1801‐81’by Charles Booth (Macmillan, 1987. Pp W.B. Stephens Education, literacy and society, 1830‐70: the geography of diversity in provincial England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. Pp Geoffrey Tweedale Sheffield steel and America: a century of commercial and technological interdependence, 1830‐1930 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Jim Tomlinson Employment policy: the crucial years, 1939‐1955 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp W. Ashworth The history of the British coal industry, vol. 5, 1946‐1982: the nationalised industry. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp T.R. Gourvish British Railways, 1948‐73: a business history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp John Armstrong and Stephanie Jones Business documents: their origins, sources and uses in historical research (London and New York: Mansell Publishing, 1987. Pp John Day The medieval market economy (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp Felipe Fernández‐Armesto Before Columbus: exploration and colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229‐1492 (Macmillan, 1987. Pp Florin Aftalion Ľéconomie de la Revolution française (Paris: Hachette, 1987. Pp Michael Sonenscher The hatters of eighteenth‐century France (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1987. Pp John F. Godfrey Capitalism at war: industrial policy and bureaucracy in France, 1914‐1918 (Leamington Spa: Berg, 1987. Pp Anne‐Marie Piuz A Genève et autour de Genève aux xviie et xviiie siècles: Etudes ?histoire économique (Lausanne: Editions Payot, 1985. Pp Hans‐Joachim Henning Dieter Lindenlaub and Eckhard Wandel, eds.,Wirtschafts‐und sozialgeschichtliche Forschungen und Probleme: Karl Erich Born zur Vollendung des 6. Lebensjahres zugeeignet von Kollegen, Freunden und Schiilern (St Katharinen: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 1987. Pp Carlo M. Cipolla La moneta a Firenze nel Cinquecento (Bologna: II Mulino, 1987. Pp Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman To their own soil: agriculture in the antebellum north (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1987. Pp Joel Colton and Stuart Bruchey, eds., Technology, the economy and society: the American experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp Richard H.K. Vietor Energy policy in America since 1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp Carl E. Solberg The prairies and the pampas: agrarian policy in Canada and Argentina, 1880‐1939 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1987. Pp James L. Dietz Economic history of Puerto Rico: institutional change and capitalist development (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp W. J. Macpherson The economic development of Japan, c. 1868‐1941 (Macmillan Education for the Economic History Society, 1987. Pp Ryoshin Minami Power revolution in the industrialization of Japan, 1885‐1940 (Tokyo: Kinokuniya, 1987. Pp Bertrand Gille The history of techniques: Vol. I, Techniques and civilizations; Vol. 2, Techniques and sciences (New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1986. Vol. 1: pp JOHN R. HUME Patrick Joyce, ed., The historical meaning of work (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Raymond W. Goldsmith Premodem financial systems: a historical comparative study (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp Charles A. Jones International business in the nineteenth century: the rise and fall of a cosmopolitan bourgeoisie (Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1987. Pp Ian M. Drummond The gold standard and the international monetary system, 1900‐1939 (Macmillan, 1987. Pp Charles P. Kindleberger Marshall Plan days (Allen and Unwin, 1987. Pp DAVID WIGHTMAN Alexander J. Field, ed., The future of economic history (Boston: Kluwer‐Nijhoff Publishing, 1987. Pp