Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Margaret Spufford. Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England. Anne Kussmaul. Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England. P. B. Munsche. Gentlemen and Poachers: The English Game Laws, 1671-1831. S. D. Chapman and S. Chassagne. European Textile Printers in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of Peel and Oberkampf. Enid Gauldie. The Scottish County Miller, 1700-I900: A History of Water-powered Meal Milling in Scotland. Chris Fisher. Custom, Work, and Market Capitalism: The Forest of Dean Colliers, 1788-1888. S. D. Chapman. Stanton and Staveley: A Business History. W. M. Mathew. The House of Gibbs and the Peruvian Guano Monopoly. J. E. King. Richard Marsden and the Preston Charrisrs, 1837-1848. J. A. Banks. Victorian Values: Secularism and the Size of Families. W. D. Rubinstein. Men of Property: The Very Wealthy in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. R. C. Michie. Money, Mania, and Markets: Investment, Company Formation and the Stock Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Scotland. Edgar Jones. Accountancy and the British Economy, 1840-1980: The Evolution of Ernst & Whinney. P. J. Waller. Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool, 1868-1939. W. J. Reader. Bowater: A History. Anthony Carew. The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy, 1900-39: The Invergordon Mutiny in Perspective. Philip S. Bagwell. The Railwaymen: The Histoy of the National Union of Raiwaymen. Vol. 2. The Beeching Era and After. Edgars Dunsdorfs. The Livonian Estates of Axel Oxenstjerna. C. Koninckx. The First and Second Charters of the Swedish East India Company (1731-1766): A Contribution to the Maritime, Economic and Social Histmy of North-Western Europe in its Relationship with the Far East (with a preface by K. GLAMANN). L. M. Cullen and F. Furet (Eds.). Ireland and France, 1600-1900: Towards a Comparative Study of Rural History. Hubert Watelet. Une Industrialisation sans developpement: Le bassin de M m et le Charbonnage du Grand-Homu du milieu du XVIII siicle au milieu du XIX siicle. G. H. Kocks and J. M. G. van der Poel (Eds.). Landbouwkundige Beschrijvingen uit de Negenrien-eeux. Jurgen Kocka. Die Angesrellren in der deutschen Geschichte, 1850-1980. Eduard Marz. Osterreichische Bankpoltik in der Zeit der groben Wende, z9z3-z923: Am Beispiel der Creditanstalt fur Handel and Gewerbe. Angelo Massafra (Ed.). Problemi di sroria delle campagne meridionali nelleta moderna econrempmanea. Manuel Tunon de Lara (Ed.). Historiu de Espuiia, Vol. VIII, Revolucibn burguesa, oligurquiay constitutionism, 1834-1923. Martin Mccauley. The Soviet Union since 1917. Bruce R. Davidson. European Farming in Australia: An Economic History of Australian Farming. David J. Jeremy. Transatlantic Itulustrial Revolution: The Diffusion of Textile Technologies between Britain ond Anwrica, 1790-1830s. Peter J. Buckley and Brian R. Roberts. European Direct Investment in the USA before World War I. Charles E. Harvey. The Rio Tinto Company: An Economic History of a Leading International Mining Concern, 1873-1954. Ester Boserup. Population and Technology.