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Alan Fowler. Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900-1950: A Social History of Lancashire Cotton Operatives in the Twentieth Century. Ashgate. 2003. Pp. xv, 236. $84.95. ISBN 0-7546-0116-1. Regional history, we [...]

The study of consumption could scarcely be more fashionable. Indeed, Daniel Miller argues in the introduction to this collection that consumption 'is not merely one more topic to be added […]

It is a tribute to the vitality of marketing history -- and no doubt the persuasive powers of the editors and the optimism of the publishers -- that Edward Elgar [...]

ALAN KIDD and DAVID NICHOLLS (eds.), Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class identity in Britain, 1800-1940 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. Pp.xi + 223. H/back ISBN 0 7190 5267 X, [...]

In their introduction to Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store, 1850-1939 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999; pp. xvi + 326. 55 £), Geoffrey Crossick and Serge Jaumain suggest that `the department [...]

Movies About the Movies: Hollywood reflected CHRISTOPHER AMES, 1997 Lexington, Kentucky, University of Kentucky Press 256 pp., hb US$27.95 This book is the first of a two-book study by Christopher [...]

Ellen Furlough and Carl Strikwerda's edited collection, Consumers against Capitalism? Consumer Co-operation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840-1990 (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999; pp. ix+377. 46 £; pb. [...]

The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951-64: Old Labour, New Britain? By LAWRENCE BLACK (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003; pp. 263. 45 £). 'CONSUMPTION has always occupied an awkward [...]

ed. Nigel Yates (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., for Kent County Council, 2001; pp. xxiv + 418. 50 £). Kent in the Twentieth Century has a curiously dated feel to it. [...]

James A. Jaffe. Striking a Bargain: Work and Industrial Relations in England 1815-1865. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. by Paigrave, New York, N.Y 2000. Pp. ix, 273. $74.95. ISBN 0-71904952-0. [...]

EDD APPLEGATE, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988. Pp.xii + 178. H/back ISBN 0 31330364 9, £46.50). It is not easy to see a market for this book. Its author, Edd [...]

JAMES LIVINGSTON, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp.xxxi + 392. H/back ISBN 0 8078 2157 8, $39.95; p/back ISBN 0 8078 4664 3, $18.95). The opening pages [...]

The Co-operative movement has never lacked historians. Indeed, Peter Gurney has harsh words for most of them because he believes that they have tended to misunderstand, misrepresent and marginalize the [...]

This really is a model study. For although the toy industry was never very large and an interest in it can seem rather childish, Kenneth D. Brown has shown already [...]

This is an exceptional book. Bold in its scope, meticulous in its research, imaginative in its use of evidence and subtle in its arguments, it transforms our understanding of late [...]

This book will be of more interest to business historians than they probably imagine. For although it is explicitly and consistently concerned with work and workers, the editor and his [...]

The Consumption of Culture is the third of three volumes produced since 1992 by the Clark Library and the Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of [...]

This is a fascinating but frustrating book. Its aim, Carrier explains, is to develop the ideas that the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss put forward 70 years ago in his classic [...]

It is not unusual, of course, for edited books to promise more than they deliver. However, in this case the imbalance between ambition and achievement is less striking than is [...]

Planting the Province is the first of three chronological volumes on the economic history of Ontario in the Ontario Historical Studies Series, a project which is intended to run, when [...]

Business historians should welcome the recent surge of interest in the history of consumption. For they, more than most, have grappled with -- or at least recognised the importance of [...]

Good dissertations do not necessarily make good books. In this case, the book from the dissertation promises to be worthy and informative, rather than compelling and invigorating. Its aim, Cruikshank [...]

It is not easy to say anything new about industrial relations in the nineteenth-century British coal industry. No industry has been studied more intensively than coalmining, and no aspect of [...]

The history of drink and drinking has obvious attractions - even if examining it through a local case-study brings with it a number of almost equally obvious dangers. Fortunately, Paul [...]

With his `introductory student readership' constantly in mind, Eric Hopkins provides with Working-Class Self-Help in Nineteenth-century England. Responses to Industrialization (London: UCL P., 1995; pp. x + 246. 35 £; [...]