Book reviews

book reviews in this articles Janet Cooper, ed., A history of the county of Essex, IX: the borough of Colchester John Walmsley, ed., Charters and custumals of the abbey of Holy Trinity Caen, 2 Donald Woodward, Men at work: labourers and building craftsmen in the towns of northern England, 1450‐1750 J. Goodacre, The transformation of a peasant economy: townspeople and villagers in the Lutterworth area, 1500‐1700 Richard Roberts and David Kynaston, eds., The Bunk of England: money, power and influence, 1694‐1994 Dror Wahrman, Imagining the middle class: the political representation of class in Britain, c.1780‐1840 John Burnett, Idle hands: the experience of unemployment, 1790‐1990 Charlotte Erickson, Leaving England: essays on British emigration in the nineteenth century M. H. Port, Imperial London: civil government building in London, 1851‐1915 Jane Lewis, The voluntary sector, the state and social work in Britain Helen Jones, Health and society in twentieth‐century Britain (London and New York) Helen Mercer, Constructing a competitive order: the hidden history of British antitrust policies Anthony J. Nicholls, Freedom with responsibility: the social market economy in Germany, 1918‐1963 Anthony J. Nicholls, Freedom with responsibility: the social market economy in Germany, 1918‐1963 Anthony J. Nicholls, Freedom with responsibility: the social market economy in Germany, 1918‐1963 Niek Koenig, The failure of agrarian capitalism: agrarian politics in the United Kingdom, Germany Halil Inalcik and Donald Quataert, eds., An economic and social history of the Ottoman empire, 1300‐1914 D. K. Fieldhouse, Merchant capital and economic decolonization: the United Africa Company, 1929‐1989 Gene Smiley, The American economy in the twentieth century A. J. H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu, eds., Japanese industrialization and the Asian economy Toshito Suzuki, Japanese government loan issues on the London capital market, 1870‐1913 Richard H. Grove, Green imperialism: colonial expansion, tropical island Edens and the origins of environmentalism, 1600‐1860 Forrest Capie, Charles Goodhart, Stanley Fischer, and Norbert Schnadt, The future of central banking: the tercentenary symposium of the Bank of England Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich, eds., Drugs and narcotics in history