Review essay: reform and social change
Journal of Social History,  Summer, 2005  by Albert J. Schmidt

".... The editors of The Cambridge Economic History have advertised readability as well as scholarship in presenting this work as a "lucid textbook for undergraduates and postgraduate students." Of the fifty international scholars participating in the three volume venture, nineteen have contributed either in the editing or writing essays for this first volume. Among these Joel Mokyr (industrial revolution), Pat Hudson (industrial organization and structure), Wrigley (population), Robert C. Allen (agriculture), Patrick K. O'Brien (industrial revolution in global perspective), Berg (consumption), Voth (standard of living), Ron Harris (government and the economy), and T.M. Divine (Scotland) stand out..."