Longer Periods Q i

some hair-raising scampers.103 while Mathias, though less
readable, provides a very solid foundation of fact and analysis.10S
In economic history, things are so much on the move that the
serious results of enquiry are often to be found only in articles,
a fact which makes the several collections of such pieces most
welcome: three volumes of assorted goods from the EcHR>™~
two of specialist stuff about agriculture,103 and one more
specialized still on the vital problem of population (containing
in Part II ten pieces on Great Britain, 1700 - 1850).109

A few books in which topics of various kinds are treated at
greater temporal length may be listed together. Allen reviews,
lucidly and sovereignly, the relations between Britain and the
United States.110 Williams's history of Wales since 1484 fills a
very noticeable gap.111 Aveling for once takes the history7 of
persecuted Roman Catholics beyond the reign of James I.112
At last one of the many remarkable landed families of England
has found a serious historian to chronicle its fortunes and pos-

103 Eric J. Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire: an economic history of
Britain since 1750. L: Weidenfeld: 1968. Pp. xiv, 336. Rev: EcHR*
22, i4of.; Hist 54, 293^

loe peter Mathias, The First Industrial Nation. L: Methuen: 1969. Pp.
xiv, 522. Rev: EcHR* 22, 563.

107 E. M. Carus-Wilson, ed., Essays in Economic History^ 3 vols. L:
Arnold: 1954, 1962. Pp. viii, 438; viii, 373; viii, 373.

108 Walter E. Minchinton, ed., Essays in Agricultural History, 2 vols.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles: 1968. Pp. 263; 315.

109 David V. Glass and D. E. C. Eversley, eds., Population in History:
essays in historical demography. L: Arnold: 1965. Pp. ix, 692. Rev:
EHR 82, 2i7f.

110 Harry C. Allen, Great Britain and the United States: a history of
Anglo-American relations 1783-1952. L: Odham's: 1954. Pp. 1024.
Rev: EHR 70, 467*?.

111 David Williams, A History of Modern Wales. L: Murray: 1950, Pp.
308. Rev: AHR 56, gSff.

112 Hugh Aveling, 'The Catholic recusants of the West Riding of
Yorkshire', Proceedings of the Leeds Literary and Philosophical Society,
10 (1963), 191-306. - Idem, Northern Catholics: the Catholic recusants
of the North Riding of Yorkshire 1558 -1790. L: Chapman: 1966. Pp.
477. Rev: EHR 83, 60if.-Idem, Post-Reformation. Catholicism in
East Torkshire 1558-1790. East Yorkshire Local History Society:
1960. Pp. 70.