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Books reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Alan Crossley, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: Oxford, XII: Wootton Hundred (south) including WoodstockEdward Miller, ed., The agrarian history of England and Wales, III: 1348‐1500L. R. Poos, A rural society after the Black Death: Essex, 1350‐1525Sari R. Hornstein, The Restoration navy and English foreign trade, 1674‐1688: a study in the peacetime use of sea powerJames Foreman‐Peck, ed., New perspectives on the late Victorian economy: essays in quantitative economic history, 1860‐1914James E. Cronin, The politics of state expansion: war, state and society in twentieth‐century BritainDavid Vincent, Poor citizens: the state and the poor in twentieth‐century BritainN. F. R. Crafts and Nicholas Woodward, eds., The British economy since 1945John Singleton, Lancashire on the scrapheap: the cotton industry, 1945‐1970 GENERAL Maria Teresa Maiullari, ed., Storiografia francese ed italiana a confronto sul fenomeno associativo durante xviii e xix secolo: atti delle giornate di studio promosse dalla Fondazione Luigi EinaudiMikulas Teich and Roy Porter, eds., Fin de siecle and its legacyThomas C. Owen, The corporation under Russian law, 1800‐1917Mary McAuley, Bread and justice: state and society in Petrograd, 1917‐1922Hiroaki Kuromiya, Stalin's industrial revolution: politics and workers, 1928‐1932Louis C. Hunter and Lynwood Bryant, A history of industrial power in the United States, 1780‐1930, 3: The transmisison of powerMargaret B. W. Graham and Bettye H. Pruitt, R & D for industry: a century of technical innovation at AlcoaJoe William Trotter, Jr., Coal, class, and color: blacks in southern West Virginia, 1915‐32Sanford M. Jacoby, ed., Masters to managers: historical and comparative perspectives on American employersJeffrey G. Williamson, Inequality, poverty and history: the Kuznets Memorial Lectures of the Economic Growth Center, Yale University