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It is difficult to know how to review a bibliography, but presumably it must be relevant (and useful) and complete. In the Introduction, it is stated that

The objective of this bibliography is to provide the accounting history research community with a comprehensive reference tool that will ultimately enhance their (sic) understanding of methodological issues and enable them to employ research methods appropriate to their subject of study [xiii].

It is tempting to ask whether this is an aim which is as noble and romantic as the setting for the origins of the project ("a curbside cafe on a balmy summer's night in Pisa" [ix]). It is difficult to believe that merely …