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Books Reviewed:Great Britain And IrelandNicholas Brooks, Anglo–Saxon myths: state and church, 400–1066Nicholas Brooks, Communities and warfare, 700–1400J. Bothwell, P. J. P. Goldberg, and W. M. Ormrod, ((eds.)), The problem of labour in fourteenth–century EnglandRobert Tittler, Townspeople and nation: English urban experiences, 1540–1640L. A. Botelho, (ed.), Churchwardens’ accounts of Cratfield, 1640–1660Christopher Chalklin, The rise of the English town, 1650–1850J. M. Beattie, Policing and punishment in London, 1660–1750Richard Wilson and Alan Mackley, Creating paradise: the building of the English country house, 1660–1880M. E. Turner, J. V. Beckett, and B. Afton, Farm production in England, 1700–1914John E. Archer, Social unrest and popular protest in England, 1780–1840Stanley Chapman, (ed.), The autobiography of David Whitehead of Rawtenstall, 1790–1865Ian Inkster, Colin Griffin, Jeff Hill, and Judith Rowbotham, ((eds.)), The golden age: essays in British social and economic history, 1850–1870K. D. M. Snell and Paul S. Ell, Rival Jerusalems: the geography of Victorian religionWilliam Kenefick, ‘Rebellious and contrary’: the Glasgow dockers, c. 1853 to c. 1932F. M. L. Thompson, Gentrification and the enterprise culture: Britain, 1780–1980Alan Booth, The British economy in the twentieth centuryRichard Whiting, The Labour Party and taxation: party identity and political purpose in twentieth–century BritainDuncan Tanner, Pat Thane, and Nick Tiratsoo, (eds.), Labour’s first centuryAsa Briggs, Michael Young: social entrepreneurDavid Kynaston, The City of London, IV: A club no more, 1945–2000Zofia Archibald, John Davies, Vincent Gabrielsen, and G. J. Oliver, (eds.), Hellenistic economiesMichael Wintle, An economic and social history of the Netherlands, 1800–1920: demographic, economic and social transitionBernd Widdig, Culture and inflation in Weimar GermanyS. R. Epstein, (ed.), Town and country in Europe, 1300–1800Peter Scholliers, (ed.), Food, drink and identity: cooking, eating and drinking in Europe since the middle agesRobert Fox and Anna Guagnini, Laboratories, workshops, and sites: concepts and practices of research in industrial Europe, 1800–1914E. Damsgaard Hansen, European economic history: from mercantilism to Maastricht and beyondThabit A. J. Abdullah, Merchants, mamluks, and murder: the political economy of trade in eighteenth–century BasraRussell R. Menard, Migrants, servants and slaves: unfree labor in colonial British AmericaMary B. Rose, Firms, networks and business values: the British and American cotton industries since 1750Andrew Godley, Jewish immigrant entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880–1914: enterprise and cultureDonna J. Rilling, Making houses: crafting capitalismBrian Kelly, Race, class, and power in the Alabama coalfields, 1908–21Margaret B.W. Graham and Alec T. Shuldiner, Corning and the craft of innovationDavis Dyer and Daniel Gross, The generations of Corning: the life and times of a global corporationStanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, (eds.), The Cambridge economic history of the United States, III: the twentieth centuryStan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis, Winners, losers and Microsoft: competition and antitrust in high technologySteven Tolliday, (ed.), The economic development of modern Japan, 1868–1945: from Meiji restoration to the Second World WarAlice Bullard, Exile to paradise: savagery and civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790–1900Peter Redfield, Space in the tropics: from convicts to rockets in French GuianaRobert Conlon and John Perkins, Wheels and deals: the automotive industry in twentieth–century AustraliaJames C. Riley, Rising life expectancy: a global historyPeter N. Stearns, Consumerism in world history: the global transformation of desireAngela Redish, Bimetallism: an economic and historical analysisTed Wilson, Battles for the standard: bimetallism and the spread of the gold standard in the nineteenth centuryHoward Temperley, (ed.), After slavery: emancipation and its discontentsChris Wrigley, (ed.), The First World War and the international economyAndrew Britton, Monetary regimes of the twentieth century