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The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England . By Neil McKendrick, John Brewer, and J. H. Plumb. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. Pp. viii, 345. $29.95.

The book also fails to cross reference existing work in English. Given the absence of analysis, it is perhaps not surprising to find no references to western writers like Robert Brenner, Maurice Dobb, and Frank Carsten, and only fleeting references to Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein, all of whom have discussed Eastern Europe within the context of the debates on the transition from feudalism to capitalism. But it would have been very useful to link some of these essays to the detailed findings of East European scholars now available in English (and sometimes French) in Studia Historiae Oeconomica, Ada Poloniae Historiae, and the Annales, not to mention the Journal of European Economic History, the Journal of Central European Affairs, and Slavic Review. Treatment of rural industry suffers particularly in this collection. Its growth in Eastern Europe paralleled that in Western Europe in many respects, and an earlier volume in this series, Industrialisation Before Industrialisation by Peter Kriedte and others, brought this out clearly, as have several articles in English. Yet the subject barely receives a mention here even though Jerzy Topolski (p. 135), like many Western writers, sees domestic industry as an important precursor of large-scale capitalist factories, and Maria Bogucka (p. 103) characterizes it as a sign of weakness of early capitalism.