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Review Article : An Age of Iron? Recent Works on Early Modern European Social and Economic HistoryJohn Walter and Roger Schofield,eds,Famine,Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society,Cambridge,Cambridge University Press,1989;xiv + 335 pp.;£35.00. John Komlos,Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy. An Anthropometric History,Princeton NJ,Princeton University Press,1989;xvii + 325 pp.;US$45.00. Thomas Robisheaux,Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany,Cambridge,Cambridge University Press,1989;xvi + 297 pp.;£27.50. James R. Farr,Hands of Honor. Artisans and Their World in Drjon,1550-1650,Ithaca NY and London,Cornell University Press,1988;xiii + 298 pp.;US$39.95. Philip Benedict,ed.,Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France,London,Unwin Hyman,1989;xiv + 251 pp.;£30.00. Kristen B. Neuschel,Word of Honor. Interpreting Noble Culture in Sixteenth-Century France,Ithaca NY and London,Cornell University Press,1989;xiv + 223 pp.;US$30.75. R. A. Houston,Literacy in Early Modern Europe. Culture and Education 1500-1800,London,Longman,1988;ix + 266 pp.;£15.95 hardback,£7.95 paperback

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