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Book reviewed in this article: Margaret Bonney, Lordship and the urban community: Durham and its overlords, 1250‐1540 Peter Borsay, The English urban renaissance: culture and society in the English provincial town, 1660‐1770 Rosalind Mitchison and Leah Leneman, Sexuality and social control: Scotland, 1660‐1780 J.E. Burnett and A.D. Morrison‐Low, ‘Vulgar and Mechanick’: the scientific instrument trade in Ireland, 1650‐1921 T. M. Devine, ed., Conflict and stability in Scottish society. Proceedings of the Scottish Historical Studies Seminar. University of Strathclyde, 1988‐89 J. V. Beckett, The agricultural revolution Clive Behagg, Politics and production in the early nineteenth century Gregory Claeys, Citizens and saints: politics and anti‐politics in early British socialism D. Gareth Evans, A history of Wales, 1815‐1906 J.J. Van Helten and Y. Cassis, eds., Capitalism in a mature economy: financial institutions, capital exports and British industry, 1870‐1939 W.R. Garside, British unemployment, 1919‐1939: a study in public policy Richard Rodger, ed., Scottish housing in the twentieth century Peter Burnham, The political economy of postwar reconstruction Keith Middlemas, Power, competition and the state, 2: threats to the postwar settlement: Britain, 1961‐1974 Max Munday, Japanese manufacturing investment in Wales David Herlihy, Opera muliebria: women and work in medieval Europe Herman Lebovics, The alliance of iron and wheat in the Third French Republic, 1860‐1914: origins of the new conservatism Paul Weindling, Health, race and German politics between national unification and Nazism, 1870‐1945 Hans‐Joachim Braun, The German economy in the twentieth century: the German Reich and the Federal Republic Ian D. Turner, ed., Reconstruction in post‐war Germany: British occupation policy and the western zones, 1945‐1955 B.W. de Vries, From pedlars to textile barons: the economic development of a Jewish minority group in the Netherlands Richard C. Hoffmann, Land, liberties and lordship in a late medieval countryside: agrarian structures and change in the duchy of Wrocclaw David A. Dyker, Yugoslavia: socialism, development and debt Ben Eklof and Stephen P. Frank, eds., The world of the Russian peasant: post‐emancipation culture and society Peter Scholliers, ed., Real wages in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe Wayne Thorpe, ‘The workers themselves’: revolutionary syndicalism and international labour, 1913‐1923 Stephen A. Marglin and Juliet B. Schor, eds., The golden age of capitalism: reinterpreting the postwar experience Lee Soltow, Distribution of wealth and income in the United States in 1798 Michael Tadman, Speculators and slaves: masters, traders, and slaves in the Old South Don H. Doyle, New men, new cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860‐1910 Stephen Salter and John Stevenson, eds., The working class and politics in Europe and America, 1929‐1945 Iwan W. Morgan, Eisenhower versus ‘the spenders’: the Eisenhower administration, the Democrats and the budget, 1953‐60 Paul Gootenburg, Between s...