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Reviews several books on business. "Industrial Clusters and Regional Business Networks in England, 1750-1970," edited by John F. Wilson and Andrew Popp; "Victorian Publishing: The Economics of Book Production for a Mass Market, 1836-1916," by Alexis Weedon; "Robert Stephenson: The Eminent Engineer," edited by Michael R. Bailey; "Steam and the Road to Glory: The Paxman Story," by Andrew Phillips.

Books reviewed in this article: A. D. M. Phillips and C. B. Phillips, eds., 'A new historical atlas of Cheshire Philip Riden,' 'The Victoria history of the counties of England: a history of the county of Northampton,' G. J. Benson and L. Ugolini, eds., 'A nation of shopkeepers: five centuries of British retailing' Stanley Chapman, 'Hosiery and knitwear: four centuries of small-scale industry in Britain c.1589–2000' Peter Borsay and Lindsay Proudfoot, eds., 'Provincial towns in early modern England and Ireland: change, convergence and divergence' John Cramsie, 'Kingship and Crown finance under James VI and I, 1603–1625' Matthew and George Culley, 'Travel journals and letters, 1765–1798' John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson, eds., 'Henry Maudslay and the pioneers of the machine age' Desmond Greer and James W. Nicolson, 'The factory acts in Ireland, 1802–1914' Charles K. Rawding, 'The Lincolnshire wolds in the nineteenth century' Derek J. Oddy, 'From plain fare to fusion food: British diet from the 1890s to the 1990s' Alan Fowler, 'Lancashire cotton operatives and work, 1900–1950: a social history of Lancashire cotton operatives in the twentieth century' Martin Daunton, 'Just taxes: the politics of taxation in Britain, 1914–1979' Becky E. Conekin, '‘The autobiography of a nation’: the 1951 Festival of Britain'Andrea Rusnock, 'Vital accounts: quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France' Martin Horn, 'Britain, France, and the financing of the First World War' Mark Cioc, 'The Rhine: an eco-biography, 1815–2000' Helena Hamerow, 'Early medieval settlements: the archaeology of rural communities in north-west Europe, 400–900' Martina De Moor, Leigh Shaw-Taylor, and Paul Warde, eds., 'The management of common land in north west Europe, c. 1500–1850' Johan Söderberg and Janken Myrdal, 'The agrarian economy of sixteenth-century Sweden' John Armstrong and Andreas Kunz, eds., 'Coastal shipping and the European economy, 1750–1980' Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, 'Class theory and history: capitalism and communism in the USSR' Virginia G. Drackman, 'Enterprising women: 250 years of American business' W. Carl Bliven, 'Jimmy Carter's political economy: policy in an age of limits' Colin M. Lewis, 'Argentina: a short history' Maurice Wright, 'Japan's fiscal crisis: the Ministry of Finance and the politics of public spending, 1975–2000' Zhaojin Ji, 'A history of modern Shanghai banking: the rise and decline of China's finance capitalism' Linsun Cheng, 'Banking in modern China: entrepreneurs, professional managers, and the development of Chinese banks, 1897–1937' Ts'ui-jung Liu, James Lee, David Sven Reher, Osamu Saito, and Wang Feng, eds., 'Asian population history' Andrea Colli, 'The history of family business, 1850–2000' Eric Helleiner, 'The making of national money: territorial currencies in historical perspective.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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