Region and Strategy in Britain and Japan: Business in Lancashire and Kansai, 1890–1990. Edited by Douglas A. Farnie, Tetsuro Nakaoka, David J. Jeremy, John F. Wilson, and Takeshi Abe. (Routledge International Studies in Business History, no. 7). London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xviii, 322. $65.00.

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I had not realized that “the subject of economic history is in a condition of self-induced crisis” (p. 7) until I read the Farnie–Abe introduction to this book. If economic historians are still capable of producing good quality work as interesting as the essays in this book, then the crisis can hardly be of serious proportions.