Gunnar Karlsson,Iceland's 1100 Years: The History of a Marginal Society, (London: Hurst, 2001). 418 pp. ISBN 1-85065-420-4.

This paper explores the role of personal networks and social capital in the assimilation of individuals into the elite of 18th‐century England. In it, I draw on the letterbooks of two merchants from north‐west England to assess the ways in which individuals accessed established networks and thus augmented their social status and business opportunities. In particular, I examine how networks were articulated, and consider their impact on both the social standing of the individual merchant and the construction of a shared culture amongst merchants. It is therefore possible to see business networking as an important counterpart to polite sociability in the construction of an expanded elite.     

Printed Maps of the District and State of Maine, 1793–1860: An Illustrated and Comparative Study. By Edward V. Thompson

Mapamundi. The Catalan Atlas of the year 1375. Edited with commentary by Georges Grosjean. Dietikon‐Zurich : Urs Graf Verlag, 1978. Colour facsimile on 6 panels. Pp. 93.

Vesconte Maggiolo: Atlante nautico del 1512 (Der Seeatlas vom Jahre 1512). Edited with commentary by Georges Grosjean. Dietikon‐Zurich : Urs Graf Verlag, 1979. Colour facsimile. Pp. 88.

La géographie de la renaissance (1420–1620). By Numa Broc. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1980. (Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques: Mémoires de la Section de Géographie, no. 9). Pp. 252.

Wall‐maps of the 16th and 17th centuries. A series of full‐size facsimiles of wall‐maps published in the Low Countries. Edited by Günther Schilder. Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1977‐. 1: The world map of 1624 by Willem Jansz. Blaeu and Jodocus Hondius (1977). Pp. 17, pl. A‐U. 2: The world map of 1669 by Jodocus Hondius the elder and Nicolaas Visscher (1978). Pp. 35, pl. 20.

The compleat plattmaker. Essays on chart, map, and globe making in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Edited by Norman]. W. Thrower. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. 241.

County atlases of the British Isles 1579–1810. A bibliography compiled by ?R. A. Skelton. Folkestone: Dawson, 1978. Pp. viii+262.

Christopher Saxton and Tudor map‐making. By Sarah Tyacke and John Huddy. London: The British Library, 1980. Pp.64.

The A to Z of Elizabethan London. Compiled by Adrian Prockter and Robert Taylor. Introductory notes by John Fisher. Lympne: Harry Margary, in association with the Guildhall Library, London, 1979. Pp. 62.

Plan of the parish of St. Marylebone in the county of Middlesex, by Peter Potter, c. 1832. London: Westminster City Libraries in association with the St. Marylebone Society, 1979. Pp. 2, 6 sheets.

Yorkshire maps and map‐makers. By Arthur Raistrick. Clapham, North Yorkshire: Dalesman Books, 1979. Pp. 72.

Ireland from maps. Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 1980. Pp. 20, 16 sheets.

Abriss der Kartographie des Fürstentums Kalmbach‐Bayreuth. By Hans Vollet. Kulmbach: Stadtarchiv, 1977. Pp. 175. (Die Plassenburg. Schriften für Heimatforschung und Kulturpflege in Ostfranken, vol. 38).

Die Pläne von Berlin von den Anfängen bis 1950. By Paul Clauswitz and Lothar Zögner in collaboration with Elke Günther and Gudrun K. Zögner. Berlin: Verlag Richard Seitz, 1977. Pp. 241.

Romancero del topónimo fueguino. By Juan E. Belza. Buenos Aires: Instituto de Investigaciones historicas Tierra del Fuego, 1978. Pp. 239.

[Agrave] la découvert de la terre. Dix siécles de cartographie. Trèsors du Départment des Cartes et Plans (mai‐juillet 1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1979. Pp. xvi + 122. Ill.