The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920

touches of autobiography, the fluid writing style, and the consistently argued political line to give a rare quality and ... it would be equally suitable as holiday or library reading * Pat Hudson, University of Liverpool, The Economic History Review, Volume L, No. 1, February 1997 *
Professor Johnson gives us a fine example of a historical monograph that surely benefited from his painstaking approach. * Colin Heywood, University of Nottingham, Labour History Review, Vol. 61, No. 2, Summer 1996 *
impressive ... This is not a narrow, dry 'economic history' ... this is essentially a very good book ... a well-researched, powerfully argued and deeply-felt book, and one with obvious relevance to analysis of the strategies of global capitalism in our own grim era. * Roger Magraw, University of Warwick, EHR Sept. 97 *