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Volume 16, issue 04 , 1956
American Development Policy: The Case of Internal Improvements pp. 449-460
Carter Goodrich
National Policy and Western Development in North America pp. 461-479
Vernon C. Fowke
Discussion pp. 479-481
Forest G. Hill
When the Pound Sterling Went West: British Investments and the American Mineral Frontier pp. 482-492
Clark C. Spence
International Capital Flows and the Development of the American West pp. 493-505
Douglass C. North
Promoting the American West in England, 1865–1890 pp. 506-513
Oscar O. Winther
Three Generations of Business Enterprise in a Midwestern City: The McGees of Kansas City pp. 514-528
R. Richard Wohl
Northern Pine Lumbermen: A Study in Origins and Migrations pp. 529-538
Frederick W. Kohlmeyer
The Role of the Merchant on the Oregon Frontier: The Early Business Career of Henry W. Corbett, 1851–1869 pp. 539-550
Arthur L. Throckmorton
The Genesis of the Great Northern's Mesabi Ore Traffic pp. 551-557
Joseph W. Thompson
A Comparative Analysis of Economic Development in the American West and South pp. 558-574
Douglas F. Dowd
The Changing Pattern of American Economic Development pp. 575-589
Donald L. Kemmerer
Volume 16, issue 03 , 1956
Some French Contributions to the Industrial Development of Germany, 1840–1870 pp. 281-321
Rondo E. Cameron
The Locofocos: Urban “Agrarians” pp. 322-333
Carl N. Degler
Economic Growth in Italy: An Analysis of the Uneven Development of North and South pp. 334-349
Shepard B. Clough and Carlo Livi
Aubrey on Industrial Investment Decisions pp. 350-354
Benjamin Higgins
Rejoinder pp. 354-355
Henry G. Aubrey
An Index of the Output of British Industry Since 1700 pp. 356-364
J. F. Wright
Agriculture Food and Agriculture in Britain 1939–1945. Aspects of Wartime Control. By R. J. Hammond. (Publication of the Food Research Institute of Stanford University.) Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1954. Pp. xii, 246. $5.00 pp. 369-370
William C. Mallalieu
Can We Solve the Farm Problem? An Analysis of Federal Aid to Agriculture. By Murray R. Benedict. With the Report and Recommendations of the Committee on Agricultural Policy. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1955. Pp. xix, 601. $5.00 pp. 370-373
Vernon Carstensen
Business and Industrial History Standard Oil Company (Indiana): Oil Pioneer of the Middle West. By Paul H. Giddens. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1956. Pp. xviii, 741. $7.50 pp. 373-375
Ralph W. Hidy
History of American Merchant Seamen. By Elmo Paul Hohman. Hamden, Conn.: The Shoe String Press, 1956. Pp. viii, 125. $3.50 pp. 375-376
Vernon H. Jensen
Small Business in Brass Fabricating: The Smith & Griggs Manufacturing Co. of Waterbury. By Theodore F. Marburg. New York: New York University Press, 1956. Pp. xii, 116. $5.00 pp. 376-377
W. Woodruff
The Railroads of the South 1865–1900, A Study in Finance and Control. By John F. Stover. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1955. Pp. xviii, 310. $5.00 pp. 377-379
Robert M. Sutton
The Mexican Petroleum Industry, 1938–1950. By J. Richard Powell. (Publication of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of California.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956. Pp. xiv, 269. $4.00 pp. 377-377
Henrietta M. Larson
The Power to Go: The Story of the Automotive Industry. By Merrill Denison. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company, Inc. Pp. 324. $5.00 pp. 379-380
Frank Ernest Hill
Great Enterprise: Growth and Behavior of the Big Corporation. By Herrymon Maurer. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955. Pp. x, 303. $5.00 pp. 380-381
Anne E. Hulse
Commerce and Trade American Imports. By Don D. Humphrey. (A study jointly sponsored by the Twentieth Century Fund and the National Planning Association, with a policy statement by the Association's Committee on International Policy.) New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1955. Pp. xviii, 546. $6.00 pp. 382-385
Wolfgang F. Stolper
Early Colonial Trade and Navigation Between Mexico and Peru. By Woodrow Borah. (Publications in Ibero-Americana, No. 38.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954. Pp. 170. $2.50 pp. 385-386
John E. Fagg
Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World: Illustrative Documents. Translated with introductions and notes by Robert S. Lopez and Irving W. Raymond. (Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies, Austin P. Evans, editor, Vol. LII.) New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. xi, 458. $6.75 pp. 386-387
Frederic C. Lane
The British Co-operative Movement. By Jack Bailey. (Hutchinson's University Library: Politics.) London: Hutchinson and Company, 1955; New York: Longmans, Green and Company. Pp. 180. Text edition, $1.80; trade edition, $2.40 pp. 387-387
R. K. Webb
The Muscovy Merchants of 1555. By T. S. Willan. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1953. Pp. viii, 141. $3.25 pp. 388-389
Andrew P. Lassen
Naissance et croissance d'un port: Sète de 1666 à 1880. By Louis Dermigny. (Actes de l'Institut d'Etudes économiques, maritimes et commerciales de la Ville de Sète, Cahier V.) Montpellier: Causse, Graille, Castelnau, 1955. Pp. 136. 900 francs pp. 388-388
David S. Landes
Economic Growth Economic Growth: Brazil, India, Japan. Edited by Simon Kuznets, Wilbert E. Moore, and Joseph J. Spengler. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1955. Pp. xiv, 613. $12.50 pp. 389-391
Ragnar Nurkse
Aspects of Economic Development in South Asia. By Robert I. Crane. With a Supplement on “Development Problems in Ceylon” by Burton Stein. (Publication of International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations.) New York, 1954. Pp. 138. $2.00 pp. 391-392
Helen B. Lamb
History of Economic Growth The Economic Thought of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Origins of the New Deal. By Daniel R. Fusfeld. (No. 586, Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences.) New York: Columbia University Press, 1956. Pp. 337. $5.00 pp. 393-394
Robert E. Burke
The Psychology of Economics. By Walter A. Weisskopf. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 266. $4.00 pp. 394-396
Walter S. Measday
Policies to Combat Depression: A Conference of the Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research. (A Report of the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.) Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1956. Pp. x, 417. $8.50 pp. 396-397
Harvey H. Segal
Histoire des faits économiques des origines au XXe siècle. By J. Maillet. Paris: Editions Payot, 1952. Pp. 362. 800 francs pp. 397-398
Rondo E. Cameron
Money and Prices British Public Finances. Their Structure and Development, 1880–1952. By Ursula K. Hicks. (Home University Library of Modern Knowledge.) London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. Pp. viii, 225. $1.00 pp. 398-399
E. Gordon Keith
Wesen und Ziele des Ordo-Liberalismus. By Dr. Ernst-Wolfram Dürr. Winterthur: P. G. Keller, 1954. Pp. 166 pp. 398-398
T. W. Hutchison
The London Capital Market: Its Structures, Strains and Management. By Norman Macrae. London: Staples Press, Ltd.; New York: John de Graff, Inc., 1955. Pp. 285. $6.00 pp. 399-400
J. R. T. Hughes
Prix et monnaies au Portugal, 1750–1850. By Vitorino Magalhães Godinho. (Publication of the Centre de Recherches historiques of the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section, Paris.) Paris: Armand Colin, 1955. Pp. xvi, 371, folding map and graphs. 1,400 francs pp. 400-401
F. C. Spooner
Country Banking in the Industrial Revolution. By L. S. Pressnell. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. Pp. xvi, 591. $11.20 pp. 401-403
T. C. Barker
Problems Historical and Numismatic in the Reign of Augustus. By H. R. W. Smith. (University of California Publications in Classical Archaeology, Vol. II, No. 4.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1951. Pp. x, 133–230. $1.00 pp. 403-404
M. . Finley
Population and Labor The Industrial Worker in Pennsylvania, 1800–1840. By William A. Sullivan. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1955. Pp. vii, 253. $3.25 pp. 404-405
John Philip Hall
Industrial Relations in Australia. By Kenneth F. Walker. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. xviii, 389. $7.50 pp. 405-407
Herbert Heaton
Human Relations in the Industrial Southeast: A Study of the Textile Industry. By Glenn Gilman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956. Pp. xii, 327. $5.00 pp. 407-408
Lloyd Saville
Jobs and Workers in India. By Oscar A. Ornati. (Publication of the Institute of International Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.) Ithaca: Cornell University, 1955. Pp. xix, 215. Paper $3.00; cloth $4.00 pp. 408-409
Willis D. Weatherford
Planned Migration: The Social Determinants of the Dutch-Canadian Movement. By William Petersen. (University of California Publications in Sociology and Social Institutions, Vol. II.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 261. $3.50 pp. 409-410
Penelope Hartland
Personal Income During Business Cycles. By Daniel Creamer, with the assistance of Martin Bernstein. (Publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.) Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Pp. xlii, 166. $4.00 pp. 410-412
R. S. Weckstein
The United States Patent System: Legal and Economic Conflicts in American Patent History. By Floyd L. Vaughan. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. Pp. xvi, 355. $8.50 pp. 412-414
Abbott Payson Usher
Monopoly in America: The Government as Promoter. By Walter Adams and Horace M. Gray, with an introduction by Senator Paul H. Douglas. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955. Pp. xv, 221. $2.75 pp. 414-415
H. F. R. Shaw
Two Postwar Recoveries of the German Economy. By Horst Mendershausen. (Contributions to Economic Analysis, VIII. Edited by J. Tinbergen, P. J. Verdoorn and H. J. Witteveen.) Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1955. Pp. x, 130. $4.00 pp. 416-418
Ralph H. Bowen
The British West Indies. By W. L. Burn. London: Hutchinson's University Library, 1951. Pp. 196 pp. 416-416
P. D. Curtin
L'Espagne éclairée de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle. By Jean Sarrailh. Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1954. Pp. vi, 779. 2,900 francs pp. 418-419
Charles E. Nowell
Water for the Cities: A History of the Urban Water Supply Problem in the United States. By Nelson Manfred Blake. (Maxwell School Series—III.) Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1956. Pp. viii, 341. $4.00 pp. 419-420
Richard C. Wade
The Struggle for the Indian Stream Territory. By Roger Hamilton Brown. Cleveland: Western Reserve University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 104. $3.00 pp. 419-419
Brooke Hindle
Every House a Frontier: Detroit's Economic Progress, 1815–1825. By Floyd Russell Dain. Detroit: Wayne University Press, 1956. Pp. vi, 168. $3.50 pp. 421-421
Lucile M. Kane
New Spain's Century of Depression. By Woodrow Borah. (Publications in Ibero-Americana, No. 35.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1951. Pp. vii, 58. $.75 pp. 421-423
Pierre Chaunu
A Mersey side Town in the Industrial Revolution: St. Helens, 1750–1900. By T. C. Barker and J. R. Harris. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 1954. Pp. xviii, 508. 30s pp. 423-424
W. H Chaloner
A History of South-East Asia. By D. G. E. Hall. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1955. Pp. xvi, 807. $10.00 pp. 424-425
Lucian W. Pye
Virginia at Mid-Century. By Jean Gottmann. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955. Pp. vii, 584. $7.50 pp. 425-427
Patrick W. Riddleberger
The Whoop-Up Country: The Canadian-American West, 1865–1885. By Paul F. Sharp. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1955. Pp. xiii, 347. $5.00 pp. 427-428
Thomas Leduc
La ville et la campagne au XVIIe siècle: etude sur les populations du pays dijonnais. By Gaston Roupnel. (Publication of the VIe Section, Bibliothèque gènèrale de l'Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes.) Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1955. Pp. xxxi, 357. 1,200 francs pp. 428-431
Traian Stoianovich
Miscellaneous The Power Elite. By C. Wright Mills. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. Pp. 423. $6.00 pp. 431-433
Mabel Newcomer
Middle-Class Democracy and the Revolution in Massachusetts, 1691-1780. By Robert E. Brown. (Published for the American Historical Association by Cornell University Press.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1955. Pp. 458. $6.00 pp. 433-435
Carl Bridenbaugh
L'esclavage dans l'Europe mèdièvale, Tome I: Péninsule Ibérique-France. By Charles Verlinden. (Rijksuniversiteit te Gent, Werken uitgegeven door de Faculteit van de Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, 119 Afleverung.) Bruges: De Tempel, 1955. Pp. 930 pp. 435-436
Joseph R. Strayer
Il Comasco sotto il dominio spagnolo; saggio di storia economica e sociale. By Bruno Caizzi. (Raccolta di saggi e ricerche diretta da Gianfranco Miglio, I.) Como: Centro Lariano per gli Studi Economici, 1955. Pp. 227. L. 2,000 pp. 436-439
A. William Salomone
Knowledge Is Power. The Life Story of Percy Hampton Johnston, Banker. By Frank Wilson Nye. New York: Random House, 1956. Pp. xxxvi, 347. $5.00 pp. 439-440
A. E. Haase
The Expansion of Elizabethan England. By A. L. Rowse. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1955. Pp. xiii, 450. 27 plates. $5.75.Elizabethan Copper: The History of the Company of Mines Royal, 1568–1605. By M. B. Donald. London: Pergamon Press, 1955. Pp. 405. 9 plates. £3.The Third Book of Remembrance of Southampton, 1514–1602: Vol. II, 1540–73. Edited by A. L. Merson. Southampton: at the University, 1955. Pp. xvi, 200. 2 plates. 25s pp. 440-441
Syliva Thrupp
Volume 16, issue 02 , 1956
The Depression of the Nineties pp. 137-164
Charles Hoffmann
Landlords and Rural Capitalists in the Modernization of Japan pp. 165-181
Thomas C. Smith
Prices in Russia in the Sixteenth Century pp. 182-199
Jerome Blum
The Textile Industry of the Old South as Described in a Letter by J. M. Wesson in 1858 pp. 200-205
John Hebron Moore
Agenda For A History Of Management Policies Towards Labor In The United States pp. 206-211
Douglass C. North
Five Decades of United States Saving pp. 211-218
Edwin Kuh
Agriculture The Agricultural Regions of the United States. By Ladd Haystead and Gilbert C. Fite. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955. Pp. xx, 288. $4.00 pp. 219-219
James H. Shideler
Money at Interest: The Farm Mortgage on the Middle Border. By Allan G. Bogue. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 293. $4.00 pp. 219-221
Thomas LeDuc
Wartime Agriculture in Australia and New Zealand, 1939–50. J. G. Crawford, C. M. Donald, C. P. Dowsett, and D. B. Williams; and A. A. Ross. (Food Research Institute.) Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1954. 392 Pp. $7.50 pp. 221-222
Colston E. Warne
Business and Industrial History Pioneering in Big Business 1882–1911. History of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). By Ralph W. Hidy and Muriel E. Hidy. (Prepared under the auspices of the Business History Foundation, Inc.) New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. Pp. xxx, 839. $7.50 pp. 222-224
Allan Nevins
Merchants, Farmers, and Railroads: Railroad Regulation and New York Politics, 1850–1887. By Lee Benson. (Harvard Studies in Economic History, published in co-operation with The Committee on Research in Economic History.) Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 310. $5.50 pp. 225-225
Robert C. Black
The Empire of Oil. By Harvey O'Connor. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 372. $5.00 pp. 225-226
John Ise
Nathan Trotter, Philadelphia Merchant, 1787–1853. By Elva Tooker. (Harvard Studies in Business History XVIII.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. xvii, 276. $6.00 pp. 227-228
Thomas S. Berry
Occupational Mobility in American Business and Industry 1928–1952. By W. Lloyd Warner and James C. Abegglen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955. Pp. xxi, 315. $5.50 pp. 228-229
Henrietta M. Larson
The Canadian Nickel Industry, A Study in Market Control and Public Policy. By O. W. Main. (Canadian Studies in Economics, Number 4.) Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1955. Pp. ix, 168. $3.25 pp. 229-231
W. R. McClelland
The Business Enterprise as a Subject for Research. By Howard R. Bowen. Prepared for the Committee on Business Enterprise Research. New York: Social Science Research Council, Pamphlet No. II, 1955. Pp. viii, 103. $1.25 pp. 231-232
Muriel E. Hidy
A History of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company. By Gerald T. White. (Harvard Studies in Business History.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. xvii, 229. $5.00 pp. 232-233
Orange A. Smalley
A History of the Cutlery Industry in the Connecticut Valley. By Martha Van Hoesen Taber. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLI.) Northampton, Mass.: Dept. of History, Smith College, 1955. Pp. vi, 136. $2.00 pp. 233-234
Theodore F. Marburg
La naissance de la grande Industrie en Dauphiné (fin du XVIIe siècle-1869). By Pierre Léon. (Université de Grenoble, Publications de la Faculté des Lettres, no. 9.) Paris: Presses universitaires, 1954. 2 vols. Pp. xvii, 965 (pag. continuous) pp. 234-236
David S. Landes
Commerce and Trade Distribution's Place in the American Economy since 1869. By Harold Barger. (Publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955. Pp. xviii, 222. $4.50 pp. 236-240
Arnold Corbin
Industry in the Pacific Northwest and the Location Theory. By Edwin J. Cohn Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. Pp. x, 214. $3.50 pp. 240-241
Charles M. Gates
The First Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1795–1805. By Bradford Perkins. (Publication of the American Historical Association, from the Income of the Albert J. Beveridge Memorial Fund.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 257. $5.00 pp. 241-242
Margaret Marion Spector
Esquisse d'une histoire monetaire de l'Europe. By Marc Bloch. (Cahiers des Annales, no. 9.) Paris: Armand Colin, 1954. Pp. 93. Frs. 325 pp. 243-244
Martin Wolfe
Money and Finance Bank of Canada Operations, 1935-54. By E. P. Neufeld. (Canadian Studies in Economics, Number 5.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1955. Pp. ix, 221. $3.75 pp. 243-243
Hugh G. J. Aitken
The Irish Pound 1797–1826: A Reprint of the Report of the Committee of 1804 of the British House of Commons on the Condition of the Irish Currency, With Selections From the Minutes of Evidence Presented to the Committee, and an introduction by Frank Whitson Fetter. Northwestern University Press, 1955. Pp. 136 pp. 244-247
J. R. T. Hughes
La Monnaie et l'opinion publique en France et en Angleterre, 1924–1936. By Marguerite Perrot. Paris: Armand Colin, 1955. Pp. 252. Frs. 800 pp. 247-248
Martin Wolfe
Le Recouvrement des Impôts Directs sous l'Ancien Régime. By Jean Villain. (Publication of the Bibliothèque d'Histoire Economique et Sociale in co-operation with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.) Paris: Librairie Marcel Rivière et Cie., 1952. Pp. ix, 321 pp. 248-249
George T. Matthews
National Economic Histories American Economic Development. By Herman E. Krooss. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1955. Pp. vii, 529. $6.00 pp. 249-250
Clarence H. Danhof
The Economic Development of Van Diemen's Land: 1820–1850. By R. M. Hartwell. Melbourne University Press; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1954. Pp. 273. $6.00.The Peaks of Lyell. By Geoffrey Blainey. Melbourne University Press; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 290. $5.00 pp. 250-251
Colston E. Warne
The Great Experiment: An Introduction to the History of the American People. By Frank Thistlethwaite. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1955. Pp. xiv, 335. $5.00 pp. 252-253
William B. Whiteside
Peasants, Politics, and Economic Change in Yugoslavia. By Jozo Tomasevich. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 743. $7.50.The Agricultural Economy of the Danubian Countries, 1935–45. By S. D. Zagoroff, Jenö Végh, and Alexander D. Bilimovich. (Publication of the Food Research Institute, Stanford University.) Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1955. Pp. xiv, 478. $7.50 pp. 253-257
Traian Stoianovich
Political Change and Industrial Development in Japan: Government Enterprise, 1868–1880. By Thomas C. Smith. (Stanford University Series, History, Economics, and Political Science, Volume X) Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 126, Paper $2.50 pp. 257-258
Roger F. Hackett
Population and Labor Earnings of Cotton Mill Operatives, 1825–1914. By Robert G. Layer. (Publication of the Committee on Research in Economic History, Inc.) Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. ix, 71. $2.75 pp. 258-260
Nancy P. Norton
The Rise of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles. By Grace Heilman Stimson. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955. Pp. xvi, 529. $6.00 pp. 260-261
Harold U. Faulkner
Scientific Management and the Unions, 1900–1932: A Historical Analysis. By Milton J. Nadworny. (Publication of the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, Harvard University.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. vii, 187. $3.75 pp. 261-262
Lois MacDonald
Prices Minimum Price Fixing in the Bituminous Coal Industry. By Waldo E. Fisher and Charles M. James. (Report of the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York in co-operation with the Industrial Research Department, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Philadelphia.) Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1955. Pp. xxxi, 523. $10.00 pp. 262-266
C. L. Christenson
Les prix à Lwow (XVIe–XVIIe siècles). By St. Hoszowski. Translated from the Polish, (École Pratique des Hautes Études-VIe Section. Centre de Recherches Historiques.) Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1954. Pp. 232 pp. 266-267
Jerome Blum
Social History A History of the Freedmen's Bureau. By George R. Bentley. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955. Pp. 298. $5.00 pp. 267-268
David Donald
Billy Sunday Was His Real Name. By William G. McLoughlin Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955. Pp. xxx, 325. $5.50 pp. 268-269
Bayrd Still
The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning: A Study in Economic and Social History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By William Ashworth. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954. Pp. 259, 21s pp. 269-271
Eric E. Lampard
Volume 16, issue 01 , 1956
Capitalism and the Historians: A Contribution to the Discussion on the Industrial Revolution in England pp. 1-17
W. Woodruff
American Technique and Steam Navigation on the Saône and the Rhône, 1827–1850 pp. 18-33
Félix Rivet
Investment Uncertainty During The Civil War—A Note On The McCormick Brothers pp. 34-40
Eugene M. Lerner
Joseph Schumpeter As An Analyst Of Sociology And Economic History pp. 41-56
Karl W. Deutsch
Wilson's History of Unilever: a Significant Contribution to Business History pp. 56-62
Fritz Redlich
Agriculture Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League, 1915–1922. By Robert L. Morlan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c.1955. Pp. 408. $5.75 pp. 63-63
Fred A. Shannon
Broadlooms and Businessmen, A History of the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company. By John S. Ewing and Nancy P. Norton. (Harvard Studies in Business History, Vol. XVII.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. xx, 417. $9.00 pp. 64-65
Constance McL Green
The Big Business Executive, The Factors that Made Him, 1900–1950. By Mabel Newcomer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 164. $4.00 pp. 65-67
John G. B. Hutchins
Regularization of Business Investment. A conference of the Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research. (Publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954. Pp. xxvi, 513. $8.00.Business Concentration and Price Policy. A conference of the Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research. (Publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 514. $9.00 pp. 67-69
Edward Marcus
The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It. By Richard N. Current. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1954. Pp. 149. $3.50 pp. 69-70
Frederick W. Kohlmeyer
Trucks, Trouble, and Triumph—The Norwalk Truck Line Company. By Wayne G. Broehl Jr. (An Indiana University School of Business Report.) New York: Prentice-Hall, 1954. Pp. xiii, 228. $5.50 pp. 70-72
John G. B. Hutchins
The History of the National Association of Insurance Agents: Fifty-Eight Years of a Stabilizing Force in Insurance. By Walter H. Bennett, Cincinnati: The National Underwriter Company, 1954. Pp. 275 pp. 72-74
Harris Proschansky
The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century. By Bernard Bailyn. (Studies in Entrepreneurial History, published in co-operation with the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, Harvard University.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 249. $4.75 pp. 74-76
Robert A. East
History of Economic Thought Economics and Liberalism—Collected Papers. By O. H. Taylor. (Harvard Economic Studies, Vol. XCVI). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. 321. $5.00 pp. 76-77
William N. Loucks
The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo: Biographical Miscellany, Volume X. Edited by Piero Sraffa with the collaboration of M. H. Dobb. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 424. $4.75 pp. 77-78
Dudley Dillard
Marginal—Cost Price—Output Control. By Burnham P. Beckwith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. 283. $5.75 pp. 78-79
Jerome Rothenberg
Henry George. By Charles Albro Barker. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 696. $9.50 pp. 79-82
Constance McL Green
Labor and Population Labor Mobility and Economic Opportunity. By E. Wight Bakke, Philip M. Hauser, Gladys L. Palmer, Charles A. Myers, Dale Yoder, Clark Kerr. Preface by Paul Webbink. New York: Technology Press and John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1954. Pp. vi, 118. $3.50 pp. 82-84
N. Arnold Tolles
The Mine Workers' District 50: The Story of the Gas, Coke and Chemical Unions of Massachusetts and Their Growth into a National Union. By James Nelson. New York: Exposition Press, 1955. Pp. 158. $3.50. Special union edition $2.75 pp. 84-84
Amy Hewes
Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. By John Higham. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1955. Pp. xiv, 431. Illustrated. $6.00 pp. 85-86
David A. Shannon
Hungry Generations. By Harold A. Boner. New York: King's Crown Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 234. $3.75 pp. 86-88
G. Kitson Clark
Employment Expansion and Population Growth. The California Experience: 1900–1950. By Margaret S. Gordon. (Publication of the Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954. Pp. xiii, 192. $3.50 pp. 88-91
George J. Stolnitz
Money and Finance Robert Morris, Revolutionary Financier. By Clarence L. Ver Steeg. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press for The American Historical Association, 1954. Pp. xiii, 276. $5.00 pp. 91-92
Charles Gilbert
National Economics Economic History of the United States. By Howard R. Smith. New York: The Ronald Press, 1955. Pp. vii, 763. $6.00 pp. 92-93
Theodore Saloutos
The Secret of American Prosperity. By William E. Rappard (translated from the original French by Kenneth A. J. Dickson) with a foreword by Henry Hazlitt. New York: Greenberg, 1955. Pp. 124. $3.50 pp. 93-94
Harold F. Williamson
Australia in the War of 1939–1945 Series 4 (Civil): I. The Government and the People, 1939–1941. By Paul Hasluck. 1952. Pp. xvii, 644. II. War Economy, 1939–1942. By S. J. Butlin. 1955. Pp. xvii, 475. (Publications of The Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia.) Obtained from Anglobooks, 475 Fifth Avenue, New York. 25/- each pp. 94-97
Marion R. Daugherty
The Federal Antitrust Policy: Origination of an American Tradition. By Hans B. Thorelli. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1955. Pp. vi, 658. $8.00 pp. 97-100
Joel B. Dirlam
China's Response to the West: A Documentary Survey, 1839–1923. By Ssu-yü Teng and John K. Fairbank. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. Pp. vi, 296. $6.75.Research Guide for “China's Response to the West: A Documentary Survey, 1839–1123).” By Ssu-yü Teng and John K. Fairbank. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. Pp. 84. $4.00 pp. 100-102
Han-Sheng Chuan
The Southern Claims Commission. By Frank W. Klingberg. (University of California Publications in History, Vol. L., J. S. Galbraith, R. N. Burr, and Brainerd Dyer, eds.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955. Pp. ix, 261. $3.50 pp. 102-103
David Donald
The Road to Spindletop: Economic Change in Texas, 1875–1901. By John S. Spratt. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1955. Pp. xxix, 337. $5.00 pp. 103-104
Joe B. Frantz
The Chinese Gentry: Studies on their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society. By Chung-li Chang. Introduction by Franz Michael. (University of Washington Publications on Asia, sponsored by the Far Eastern and Russian Institute.) Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955. Pp. xxi, 250. $5.75 pp. 105-106
Charles Macsherry
Great Britain and the United States. By H. C. Allen. New York: St Martin's Press Inc., 1955. Pp. 1024. $10.00 pp. 106-107
J. B. Brebner
Standard of Living in India and Pakistan 1931–32 to 1940–41. By R. C. Desai. Bombay: Popular Book Depot, 1953. Pp. xvii, 286. Rs. 20 pp. 107-107
Willard L. Thorp