Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Nigel Yates and James M. Gibson, eds., Traffic and politics: the construction and management of Rochester Bridge, A.D. 43‐1993 Maryanne Kowaleski, ed., The local customs accounts of the port of Exeter, 1266‐1321 Caroline M. Barron and Anne F. Sutton, eds., Medieval London widows, 1300‐1500 Christopher Dyer, Everyday life in medieval England Robert C. Allen, Enclosure and the yeoman: the agricultural development of the south midlands, 1450‐1850 A. J. S. Gibson and T. C. Smout, Prices, food and wages in Scotland, 1550‐1780 John Habakkuk, Marriage, debt and the estates system: English landownership, 1650‐1950 R. A. Houston, Social change in the age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh, 1660‐1760 Lawrence Stone, ed., An imperial state at war: Britain from 1689 to 1815 John Beckett, The rise and fall of the Grenvilles, Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, 1710 to 1921 Pamela Horn, Children's work and welfare, 1780‐1880 Maurice W. Kirby and Mary B. Rose, eds., Business enterprise in modern Britain: from the eighteenth to the twentieth century Eric Hopkins, Childhood transformed: working‐class children in nineteenth‐century England John Rule and Robert Malcolmson, eds., Protest and survival: the historical experience. Essays for E. P. Thompson David Feldman, Englishmen and Jews: social relations and political culture, 1840‐1914 Roy Church, The rise and decline of the British motor industry B. W. E. Alford, Rodney Lowe, and Neil Rollings, Economic planning, 1943‐1951: a guide to documents in the Public Record Office James Foreman‐Peck and Robert Millward, Public and private ownership of British industry Catherine R. Schenk, Britain and the sterling area: from devaluation to convertibility in the 1950s Nicholas Canny, ed., Europeans on the move: studies on European migration, 1500‐1800 Jeffrey M. Diefendorf, Axel Frohn, and Hermann‐Josef Rupieper, eds., American policy and the reconstruction of West Germany, 1945‐1955 David Abulafia, A Mediterranean emporium: the Catalan kingdom of Majorca I. A. A. Thompson and B. Yun Casalilla, eds., The Castilian crisis of the seventeenth century Thomas Dublin, Transforming women's work: New England lives in the industrial revolution Naomi Lamoreaux, Insider lending Stanley Lebergott, Pursuing happiness: American consumers in the twentieth century Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630‐1641: the other puritan colony Kenneth J. Andrien and Lyman L. Johnson, eds., The political economy of Spanish America in the age of revolution, 1750‐1850 Helen Shapiro, Engines of growth: the state and transnational auto companies in Brazil Eric Jones, Lionel Frost, and Colin White, Coming full circle: an economic history of the Pacific Rim Frank Dobbin, Forging industrial policy: the United States, Britain and France in the railway age Gregory P. Nowell, Mercantile states and the world oil cartel, 1900‐1939 Beth A. Simmons, Who adjusts? Domestic sources of foreign economic policy during the interwar years A. W. Coats, The sociology and professionalization of economics, 2: British and American essays