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Living standards in the past: new perspectives on well-being in Asia and Europe By Robert C. Allen, Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii + 472. ISBN 0-19-928068-1
Anne Booth
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21 July 2006, pp. 289-292
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We live in an age of increasingly abundant statistical information. The advent of more large data sets obtained from household surveys, as well as from population censuses, labour force surveys, economic censuses and so on, has facilitated reasonably accurate estimates of income and expenditures for households in many parts of the world. These estimates can in turn be used to estimate a number of distributional indicators, as well as estimates of relative and absolute poverty. In addition better census coverage has permitted estimates of infant and child mortality rates, life expectancies, literacy rates and indicators of educational attainment. Such data have in turn been used to estimate composite indicators of wellbeing such as the Human Development Index, not just for entire countries but often for regions within countries as well.

REVIEWS The Global History Reader By Bruce Mazlish and Akira Iriye, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. x + 302
A.G. Hopkins
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01 March 2006, pp. 151-152
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The global Cold War: third world interventions and the making of our times By Odd Arne Westad, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 498. ISBN 1-3 9780521853644
Emily S. Rosenberg
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10 November 2006, pp. 410-412
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Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867–1914 and their Lasting Impact By Vaclav Smil. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. vi + 350. ISBN 0 19 516874 7
Daniel Headrick
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21 July 2006, pp. 293-294
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Britannia’s Empire: Making a British World By Bill Nasson, Stroud, UK: Tempus, 2004. ISBN: 0 7524 2958 2. £20 (hardback).
Nicholas J. White
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13 March 2006, p. 152
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Needles, herbs, gods and ghosts: China, healing and the West to 1848 By Linda L. Barnes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 458 + xiii. ISBN 0-674-01872-9; $49.95/£31.95/E46.10
Fa-ti Fan
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10 November 2006, pp. 412-413
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Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalising World System By Berthold Unfried and Marcel van der Linden, eds., with the help of Christine Schindler. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 2004. Pp. 253. (ITH-Tagungsberichte 38). ISBN 3-931982-36-X
Eckhardt Fuchs
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21 July 2006, pp. 294-295
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The company of strangers: a natural history of economic life By Paul Seabright. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. 320. $18.95/£12.50. ISBN 0-691-12452-3
Geerat J. Vermeij
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10 November 2006, pp. 413-414
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The Birth of the Modern World, 1780–1914: Global Connections and Comparisons By C. A. Bayly. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 540. ISBN 978 0 631 18799 8
Mamie Hughes-Warrington
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21 July 2006, pp. 295-297
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The Global History Reader By Bruce Mazlish and Akira Iriye, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. x + 302
A.G. Hopkins
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Nicholas J. White
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Globalization: A Short History By Jürgen Osterhammel and Neils P. Petersson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 182. £14.95. ISBN 0 691 12165 6
David Christian
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21 July 2006, pp. 297-298
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Palgrave Advances in World Histories By Marnie Hughes-Warrington, ed. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 286. ISBN 1-4039-1278-5
Arturo Giráldez
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Arturo Giráldez
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Living standards in the past: new perspectives on well-being in Asia and Europe By Robert C. Allen, Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii + 472. ISBN 0-19-928068-1

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REVIEWS The Global History Reader By Bruce Mazlish and Akira Iriye, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. x + 302

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The global Cold War: third world interventions and the making of our times By Odd Arne Westad, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 498. ISBN 1-3 9780521853644

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Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867–1914 and their Lasting Impact By Vaclav Smil. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. vi + 350. ISBN 0 19 516874 7

Britannia’s Empire: Making a British World By Bill Nasson, Stroud, UK: Tempus, 2004. ISBN: 0 7524 2958 2. £20 (hardback).

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Needles, herbs, gods and ghosts: China, healing and the West to 1848 By Linda L. Barnes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 458 + xiii. ISBN 0-674-01872-9; $49.95/£31.95/E46.10

Book Review

Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalising World System By Berthold Unfried and Marcel van der Linden, eds., with the help of Christine Schindler. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 2004. Pp. 253. (ITH-Tagungsberichte 38). ISBN 3-931982-36-X

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The company of strangers: a natural history of economic life By Paul Seabright. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. 320. $18.95/£12.50. ISBN 0-691-12452-3

Book Review

The Birth of the Modern World, 1780–1914: Global Connections and Comparisons By C. A. Bayly. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 540. ISBN 978 0 631 18799 8

The Global History Reader By Bruce Mazlish and Akira Iriye, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. x + 302

REVIEWS Britannia’s Empire: Making a British World By Bill Nasson, Stroud, UK: Tempus, 2004. ISBN: 0 7524 2958 2. £20 (hardback).

Globalization: A Short History By Jürgen Osterhammel and Neils P. Petersson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 182. £14.95. ISBN 0 691 12165 6

Palgrave Advances in World Histories By Marnie Hughes-Warrington, ed. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 286. ISBN 1-4039-1278-5

REVIEWS Palgrave Advances in World Histories By Marnie Hughes-Warrington, ed. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 286. ISBN 1-4039-1278-5

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