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Volume 77 - Winter 2003

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The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in New-market. By Rebecca Cassidy. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. x + 186 pp. Index, notes, references. Cloth, $58.00; paper, $21.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-80877-4; paper 0-521-00487-X.

Capitalizing Knowledge: Essays on the History of Business Education in Canada. Edited byBarbara Austin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. xiii + 371 pp. Index, figures, tables. Cloth, $60. ISBN 0-8020-4234-1.

The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century. By Richard Rodger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xix + 540 pp. Index, notes, photographs, maps, figures, tables. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 0-521-78024-1.

A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing. Edited by John Benson and Laura Ugolini. London: I. B. Tauris, 2003. x + 270 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.50. ISBN: cloth 1-860-64709-X; paper 1-860-64708-1.

Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought. ByAndrea Finkelstein. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. xix + 381 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-472-11143-4.

Credit and Debt in Medieval England c. 1180–c. 1350. Edited by P. R. Schofield and N. J. Mayhew. Oxford, U.K.: Oxbow Books, 2002. x + 164 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Paper, $39.95. ISBN 1-842-17073-2.

Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England. ByTimothy Alborn. New York: Routledge, 1998. ix + 297 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $90. ISBN 0-415-18079-1.

The Rise of Management Consulting in Britain. By Michael Ferguson. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2002. x + 289. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $84.95. ISBN 0-754-60561-2.

The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and The Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650–1770. By David Ormrod. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvii + 400 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 0-521-81926-1.

La dactylographe et l'expéditionnaire. Histoire des employés de bureau, 1890–1930 [The Typist and the Dispatcher: A History of Office Workers, 1890–1930]. By Delphine Gardey. Paris: Editions Belin, 2001. 336 pp. Notes, appendix, figures, maps, photos, tables. Paper, €19. ISBN 2-701-13045-X.

International Financial History in the Twentieth Century: System and Anarchy. Edited by Marc Flandreau, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, and Harold James. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. x + 278 pp. Index, notes, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81995-4.

The Lancashire Working Classes, c.1880–1930. ByTrevor Griffiths. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2001. xi + 390 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 0-199-24738-2.

The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation. By Seymour Drescher. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ix + 307 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-195-09346-1.

Chronicles of British Business in Asia, 1850–1960: A Bibliography of Printed Company Histories with Short Accounts of the Concerns. By Lionel Carter. New Delhi: Manohar, 2002. 227 pp. Index, appendix. Cloth, 500 Rs./25 BPS. ISBN 8-173-04470-8.

Sir Henri Deterding and Royal Dutch–Shell: Changing Control of World Oil, 1900–1940. By Paul Hendrix. Bristol, U.K.: Bristol Academic Press, 2002. xviii + 275. Notes, index. Cloth, £45.00. ISBN 0-951-37628-4.

Deutsche Investitionen in Spanien 1870–1920 [German Investment in Spain, 1870–1920]. By Javier Loscertales. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. 344 pp. Notes, appendix, figures, maps, and tables. Cloth, €69. ISBN 3-515-07900-9.

An Economic History of London, 1800–1914. ByMichael Ball andDavid Sutherland. New York: Routledge, 2001. x + 470 pp. Index, figures, tables. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN 0-415-24691-1.

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