Book reviews

Books reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Alan Crossley, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: Oxford , XII: Wootton Hundred (south) including Woodstock Edward Miller, ed., The agrarian history of England and Wales , III: 1348‐1500 L. R. Poos, A rural society after the Black Death: Essex , 1350‐1525 Sari R. Hornstein, The Restoration navy and English foreign trade , 1674‐1688: a study in the peacetime use of sea power James Foreman‐Peck, ed., New perspectives on the late Victorian economy: essays in quantitative economic history , 1860‐1914 James E. Cronin, The politics of state expansion: war, state and society in twentieth‐century Britain David Vincent, Poor citizens: the state and the poor in twentieth‐century Britain N. F. R. Crafts and Nicholas Woodward, eds., The British economy since 1945 John Singleton, Lancashire on the scrapheap: the cotton industry , 1945‐1970 GENERAL Maria Teresa Maiullari, ed., Storiografia francese ed italiana a confronto sul fenomeno associativo durante xviii e xix secolo: atti delle giornate di studio promosse dalla Fondazione Luigi Einaudi Mikulas Teich and Roy Porter, eds., Fin de siecle and its legacy Thomas C. Owen, The corporation under Russian law , 1800‐1917 Mary McAuley, Bread and justice: state and society in Petrograd , 1917‐1922 Hiroaki Kuromiya, Stalin's industrial revolution: politics and workers , 1928‐1932 Louis C. Hunter and Lynwood Bryant, A history of industrial power in the United States , 1780‐1930, 3: The transmisison of power Margaret B. W. Graham and Bettye H. Pruitt, R & D for industry: a century of technical innovation at Alcoa Joe William Trotter, Jr., Coal, class, and color: blacks in southern West Virginia, 1915‐32 Sanford M. Jacoby, ed., Masters to managers: historical and comparative perspectives on American employers Jeffrey G. Williamson, Inequality, poverty and history: the Kuznets Memorial Lectures of the Economic Growth Center, Yale University