Book reviews

In: The economic history review, Band 49, Heft 2, S. 382-426

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D. A. E. Pelteret, Slavery in early mediaeval England from the reign of Alfred until the twelfth centuryEdward Miller and John Hatcher, Medieval England: towns, commerce and crafts, 1086‐1348Maryanne Kowaleski, Local markets and regional trade in medieval ExeterRosemary Horrox, ed., Fifteenth‐century attitudes: perceptions of society in late medieval EnglandAnthony Fletcher, Gender, sex and subordination in England, 1500‐1800Tim Harris, ed., Popular culture in England, c. 1500‐1850Margaret Spufford, ed., The world of rural dissenters, 1520‐1725John Guy, ed., The reign of Elizabeth I: court and culture in the last decadeDavid L. Smith, Richard Strier, and David Bevington, eds., The theatrical city: culture, theatre and politics in London, 1576‐1649Richard Grassby, The business community of seventeenth‐century EnglandM.J. Braddick, Parliamentary taxation in seventeenth‐century England: local administration and responseAdrian Wilson, The making of man‐midwifery: childbirth in England, 1660‐1770Kathleen Wilson, The sense of the people: politics, culture and imperialism in England, 1715‐1785David Hancock, Citizens of the world: London merchants and the integration of the British Atlantic community, 1735‐1785David R. Green, From artisans to paupers: economic change and poverty in London, 1790‐1870Cyril Ehrlich, First Philharmonic: a history of the Royal Philharmonic SocietyPatrick Joyce, Democratic subjects: the self and the social in nineteenth‐century EnglandKeith Laybourn, The evolution of British social policy and the Welfare State, c. 1800‐1993Bill Lancaster, The department store: a social historyW.W. Knox, Hanging by a thread: the Scottish cotton industry, c. 1850‐1914C.H. Lee, Scotland and the United Kingdom: the economy and the Union in the twentieth centuryEric M. Sigsworth, A respectable life: Leeds in the 1930sTimothy R. Whisler, At the end of the road: the rise and fall of Austin‐Healey, MG and Triumph Sports CarsJohn D. Fudge, Cargoes, embargoes and emissaries: the commercial and political interaction of England and the German Hanse, 1450‐1510Pamela H. Smith, The business of alchemy: science and culture in the Holy Roman EmpireDaniel Roche, The culture of clothing: dress and fashion in the'ancien regime'Göran Hoppe and John Langton, Peasantry to capitalism: western Östergötland in the nineteenth centuryCharles Feinstein, ed., Banking, currency and finance in Europe between the warsDavid Conroy, In public houses: drink and the revolution of authority in colonial MassachusettsPeter Temin, ed., Inside the business enterprise: historical perspectives on the use of informationHistorical atlas of Canada: R. Cole Harris, ed., Vol. i: From the beginning to 1800; R. Louis Gentilcore, ed., Vol. 2: The land transformed, 1800‐1891; D. Kerr, ed., Vol. 3: Addressing the twentieth century, 1891‐1961Laird W. Bergad, Fe Iglesias García, and María del Carmen Barcia, The Cuban slave market, 1790‐1880Linda Cooke Johnson, Shanghai from market town to treaty port, 1074‐1858Olive Checkland, Shizuya Nishimura, and Norio Tamaki, eds., Pacific banking, 1859‐1959: East meets WestTessa Morris‐Suzuki, The technological transformation of Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty‐first centuryJ. Komlos, ed., The biological standard of living on three continents: further explorations in anthropometric historyForrest Capie, Tariffs and growth: some insights from the world economy, 1850‐1940John A. James and Mark Thomas, eds., Capitalism in context: essays in economic development and cultural change in honor of R.M. HartwellTheodore M. Porter, Trust in numbers: the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life