Book Review: The Political Economy of Nation – Alisation in Britain, 1920–50, Shipping, Technology and Imperialism, Le Fonds d'archives Séguin: Aux Origines de la révolution Industrielle en France, 1790–1860, Supersonic Flight: Breaking the Sound Barrier and Beyond, Revised Edition, the Development of Jet and Turbine Aero-Engines, Supersonic Flight: Breaking the Sound Barrier and Beyond, Controlling from Afar: The Daoguang Emperor's Management of the Grand Canal Crisis, 1824–26, the National Road, the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway: The Story of a Regional Line, Giants of Timber and Transport, Two Centuries of Railway Signalling, Sure as the Sunrise: A History of Albion Motors, the Grand Crimean Cen – Tral Railway: The Railway That Won a War, Maritime History I, the Age of Discovery, the Eighteenth Century and the Classic Age of Sail, Samuel Smiles and the Construction of Victorian Values, Island Nation: A History of Australians and the Sea, Studies in the History of Civil Engineering VI, Port and Harbour Engineering, Trenes, Estaciones y Puertos: El Tráfico de Mercancías de la Cía del Norte, 1876–1930MillwardRobert and SingletonJohn (eds), The Political Economy of Nation – alisation in Britain, 1920–50 , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1995), 338 pp., £35.00.JacksonGordon and WilliamsDavid M. (eds), Shipping, Technology and Imperialism , Scolar Press, Aldershot (1996), 299 pp., £45.00.CotteMichel, Le Fonds d'archives Séguin: aux origines de la révolution industrielle en France, 1790–1860 , Archives départmentales de l'Ardèche, Privas (1997), 192 pp., 159.00 francs (postage 21 francs extra).HallionRichard P., Supersonic Flight: breaking the sound barrier and beyond , revised edition, Putnam Aeronautical, London and Washington DC (1997), 268 pp., £25.00.GunstonBill, The Development of Jet and Turbine Aero-e