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Reinterpreting the Consumer Revolution - Inventing the Industrial Revolution: The English Patent System, 1660–1800. By Christine MacLeod. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xii + 302. $44.50. - Shops and Shopkeeping in Eighteenth-Century England. By Hohcheung Mui and Lorna H. Mui. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. Pp. xv + 381. $40.00. - Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain, 1660–1760. By Lorna Weatherill. London: Routledge, 1988. Pp. xii + 252. $47.50. - The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town, 1660–1770. By Peter Borsay. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. xxii + 416. $65.00.
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