Books reviewed: Great Britain and Ireland Joseph P. Huffman, Family, commerce and religion in London and CologneRay Lock, ed., The court rolls of Walsham le WillowsBryan Waites, Monasteries and landscape in north east EnglandJenny Kermode, Medieval merchantsChristopher W. Brooks, Lawyers, litigation and English society since 1450Craig Muldrew, The economy of obligationJ.R. Dickinson, The lordship of Man under the StanleysCharles W.J. Withers, Urban highlandersJörg Vögele, Urban mortality change in England and GermanyHugh Driver, The birth of military aviationDavid J. Jeremy, A business history of BritainJean‐Pierre Dormois & Michael Dintenfass, eds., The British industrial declineRex Pope, The British economy since 1914 General Alan R.H. Baker, Fraternity among the French peasantryTom Scott, Regional identity and economic changeDieter Schott, ed., Energie und Stadt in EuropaMichael Richards, A time of silencePaolo Squatriti, Water and society in early medieval ItalyPhilip Jones, The Italian city‐stateAnthony L. Cardoza, Aristocrats in bourgeois ItalyJ.K.J. Thomson, Decline in historyMikuláš Teich, ed., Bohemia in historyHiroaki Kuromiya, Freedom and terror in the DonbasR.W. Davies, Soviet economic development from Lenin to KhrushchevMichael Ellman & Vladimir Kontorovich, eds., The destruction of the Soviet economic systemTom Scott, ed., The peasantries of EuropeDeborah Simonton, A history of European women’s workJohn Killick, The United States and European reconstructionMarilyn C. Baseler, ‘Asylum for mankind’Cathy Matson, Merchants and empireMargaret Ellen Newell, From dependence to independenceRichard Buel, Jr., In irons: Britain’s naval supremacy and the American revolutionary economyMark M. Smith, Debating slaveryAlan Derickson, Black lung: anatomy of a public health disasterPaul A.C. Koistinen, Planning war, pursuing peaceThomas Dublin, When the mines closedJacob Metzer, The divided economy of Mandatory PalestineRajnarayan Chandavarkar, Imperial power and popular politicsJ.Y. Wong, Deadly dreams: opium and the ‘Arrow’ war (1856–1860) in ChinaJohn Lie, Han unbound: the political economy of South KoreaMaureen Fennell Mazzaoui, ed., Textiles: production, trade and demandDavid Thomas, Len Holden, & Tim Claydon, eds., The motor car and popular culture in the 20th centuryLanthier & Hubert Watelet, eds., Private enterprise during economic crises/L’entreprise privée en période de crise économiqueNaomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, & Peter Temin, eds., Learning by doing in markets, firms and countries