Contents:Structure of Anglo-American political discourse / J. C. D. Clark -- Anticipating America / Mary K. Geiter and W. A. Speck -- Britain and America : the economic effects of labour scarcity / H. J. Habakkuk -- American impact on British industry / S. B. Saul -- English and American industrial city of the nineteenth century / Leon S. Marshall -- Police and industrial disputes in Britain and the United States / Clive Emsley -- Suburbanization and social change in England and North America, 1880-1970 / Mark Clapson -- Comparative historical geography of streetcar suburbs in Boston, Massachusetts and Leeds, England, 1850-1920 / David Ward -- Working class formation and the state / Ira Katznelson -- Factory politics in Britain and the United States / Jeffrey Haydu -- Woman suffrage in Britain and America in the early twentieth century / David Morgan -- Why not equal protection? / Ann Shola Orloff and Theda Skocpol -- Gender and the origins of modern social policies in Britain and the United States / Theda Skocpol and Gretchen Ritter -- State capacity in Britain and America in the 1930s / Anthony Badger