BOOK REVIEWS

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Book reviewed in this article:Ann Hagen, A second handbook of Anglo‐Saxon food and drink: production and distributionRichard H. Britnell and Bruce M. S. Campbell, eds., A commercialising economy: England, 1086 to c. 1300T. M. Devine and G. Jackson, eds., Glasgow, I: beginnings to 1830Amy Louise Erickson, Women and property in early modern EnglandS. Roberts, ed., Evesham borough records of the seventeenth century, 1605–1687John Smail, The origins of middle‐class culture: Halifax, Yorkshire, 1660–1780Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey, eds., The economic history of Britain since 1700C. Nicholson, Writing and the rise of finance: capital satires of the early eighteenth centuryAnne Digby, Making a medical living: doctors and patients in the English market for medicine, 1720–1911Cormac Ó Gráda, Ireland: a new economic history, 1780–1939Linda Croft, John Fielden's TodmordenRuth‐Ann M. Harris, The nearest place that wasn't Ireland: early nineteenth‐century Irish labor migrationE. H. H. Green, The crisis of Conservatism: the politics, economics and ideology of the British Conservative Party, 1880–1914Kent Fedorowich, Unfit for heroes: reconstruction and soldier settlement in the empire between the warsRobert Millward and John Singleton, eds., The political economy of nationalisation in Britain, 1920–1950James Hinton, Shop floor citizens: engineering democracy in 1940s BritainJames Obelkevitch and Peter Catterall, eds., Understanding post‐war British societyCaroline Barron and Nigel Saul, eds., England and the Low Countries in the late middle agesB. Lepetit, The pre‐industrial urban system: France, 1740–1840Patricia Skinner, Family power in southern Italy: the duchy of Gaeta and its neighbours, 850‐1139A. Teichova, T. Gourvish, and A. Pogany, eds., Universal banking in the twentieth century: finance, industry and the state in north and central EuropeRoderick A. McDonald, The economy and material culture of slaves: goods and chattels on the sugar plantations of Jamaica and LouisianaRobert Tracy McKenzie, One South or many?: plantation belt and upcountry in Civil War‐era TennesseeDean L. May, Three frontiers: family, land and society in the American West, 1850–1900Lance E. Davis and Robert J. Cull, International capital markets and American economic growthDesmond King, Actively seeking work? The politics of unemployment and welfare policy in the United States and Great BritainJeremy Adelman, Frontier development: land, labour and capital on the wheat lands of Argentina and Canada, 1890–1914W. G. Huff, The economic growth of Singapore: trade and development in the twentieth centuryKären Wigen, The making of a Japanese periphery, 1750–1920Graeme D. Snooks, Portrait of the family within the total economy: a study in longrun dynamics, Australia 1788–1990Bronislaw Geremek, Poverty: a historyJohn Brewer and Susan Staves, eds., Early modern conceptions of propertyTimothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson, eds., Migration and the international labour market, 1850–1939Graeme Donald Snooks, ed., Was the industrial revolution necessary?Geoffrey Jones and Nicholas J. Morgan, eds., Adding value: brands and marketing in food and drink