Introduction / A.J.H. Latham -- An interview with Peter Mathias / A.J.H. Latham -- Barges and bargemasters on the thames in the eighteenth century / H.I.H. Crown Prince Naruhito -- Edo and water / H.I.H. Crown Prince Naruhito -- Consuming plants : botany and consumer society / Toshio Kusamitsu...

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Papers presented at the National Conference in Honour of K.N. Raj, economic planning advisor, and economics professor from India; conference held in 2004 at St. Thomas College, Trichur, in the state of Kerala, India; honorary volume