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book reviews in this articlesJanet Cooper, ed., A history of the county of Essex, IX: the borough of ColchesterJohn Walmsley, ed., Charters and custumals of the abbey of Holy Trinity Caen, 2Donald Woodward, Men at work: labourers and building craftsmen in the towns of northern England, 1450‐1750J. Goodacre, The transformation of a peasant economy: townspeople and villagers in the Lutterworth area, 1500‐1700Richard Roberts and David Kynaston, eds., The Bunk of England: money, power and influence, 1694‐1994Dror Wahrman, Imagining the middle class: the political representation of class in Britain, c.1780‐1840John Burnett, Idle hands: the experience of unemployment, 1790‐1990Charlotte Erickson, Leaving England: essays on British emigration in the nineteenth centuryM. H. Port, Imperial London: civil government building in London, 1851‐1915Jane Lewis, The voluntary sector, the state and social work in BritainHelen Jones, Health and society in twentieth‐century Britain (London and New York)Helen Mercer, Constructing a competitive order: the hidden history of British antitrust policiesAnthony J. Nicholls, Freedom with responsibility: the social market economy in Germany, 1918‐1963Anthony J. Nicholls, Freedom with responsibility: the social market economy in Germany, 1918‐1963Anthony J. Nicholls, Freedom with responsibility: the social market economy in Germany, 1918‐1963Niek Koenig, The failure of agrarian capitalism: agrarian politics in the United Kingdom, GermanyHalil Inalcik and Donald Quataert, eds., An economic and social history of the Ottoman empire, 1300‐1914D. K. Fieldhouse, Merchant capital and economic decolonization: the United Africa Company, 1929‐1989Gene Smiley, The American economy in the twentieth centuryA. J. H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu, eds., Japanese industrialization and the Asian economyToshito Suzuki, Japanese government loan issues on the London capital market, 1870‐1913Richard H. Grove, Green imperialism: colonial expansion, tropical island Edens and the origins of environmentalism, 1600‐1860Forrest Capie, Charles Goodhart, Stanley Fischer, and Norbert Schnadt, The future of central banking: the tercentenary symposium of the Bank of EnglandRoy Porter and Mikuláš Teich, eds., Drugs and narcotics in history