Reviews

M. W. GREENSLADE (Ed.)- The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Staffordshire. K. J. Allison (Ed.). The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of York, East Riding. Joan Thirsk. The Rural Economy of England: Collected Essays. Peter Clark (Ed.). The Transformation of English Provincial Towns, 1600-1800. T. M. Devine and David Dickson (Eds.). Ireland and Scotland, 1600-1850: Parallels and Contrasts in Economic and Social Development. E. F. Cato Carter. Order out of Chaos: A History of the Loss Adjusting Profession. Part 1. Evolution and Early Development. S. Chapman. The Rise of Merchant Banking. M. W. Kirby. Men of Business and Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Quaker Pease Dynasty of North-East England, 1700-1943. H. I. Dutton. The Patent System and Inventive Activity during the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1852. Eric J. Evans. The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870. Lawrence H. White. Free Banking in Britain: Theory, Experience, and Debate, 1800-1845. Hugh McLeod. Religion and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Britain. James A. Schmiechen. Sweated Industries and Sweated Labour: The London Clothing Trades, 1860-1914. Pamela Horn. The Changing Countryside in Victorian and Edwardian England and Wales. Elizabeth Roberts. A Woman’s Place: An Oral History of Working-Class Women, 1890-1940. Penny Summerfield. Women Workers in The Second World War. GENERAL William M. Reddy. The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society, 1750-1900. J. P. de Korte. De Jaarlijkse financiele verantwoording in de VOC Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie. Michael Burleigh. Prussian Society and the German Order: An Aristocratic Corporation in Crisis, c. 1410-1466. Wilhelm Treue. Wirtschafts-und Technikgeschichte Preussens. Wolfram Engels and Hans Pohl (Eds.) German Yearbook on Business History, 1983. Joan M. Frayn. Sheep-Rearing and the Wool Trade in Italy During the Roman Period. John Rosselli. The Opera Industry in Italy from Cimarosa to Verdi: The Role of the Impresario. Paul R. Gregory. Russian National Income, 1885-1913. Alice Teichova and P. L. Cottrell (Eds.). International Business and Central Europe, 1918-1939. David A. Hounshell. From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. David H. Breen. The Canadian Prairie West and the Ranching Frontier, 1874-1924. Clifton B. Kroeber. Man, Land, and Water: Mexico’s Farmlands Irrigation Policies, 1885-1911. Suraiya Faroqhi. Towns and Townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia: Trade, Crafts, and Food Production in an Urban Setting, 1520-1650. Asok Sen, Partha Chatterjee, and Saugata Mukherji. Perspectives in Social Sciences 2. Three Studies on the Agrarian Structure in Bengal, 1850-1947. John Iliffe. The Emergence of African Capitalism. D. C. Coleman and Peter Mathias (Eds.). Enterprise and History: Essays in Honour of Charles Wilson. Pat Thane, Geoffrey Crossick, and Roderick Floud (Eds.). The Power of the Past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm.