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Volume 69, issue 4, 1995

J. & P. Coats in Tsarist Russia, 1889–1917 pp. 465-493

Dong-Woon Kim

From Exit to Voice in Shopfloor Governance: The Case of Company Unions pp. 494-529

David Fairris

Competitive Boosterism: How Milwaukee Lost the Braves pp. 530-566

Glen Gendzel

Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. ByJackson Lears · New York: Basic Books, 1994. xiv + 492 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, and index. $30.00. ISBN 0-465-09076-1 pp. 569-571

Daniel Pope

Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: Blacks in Advertising, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. ByMarilyn Kern-Foxworth · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. xxi + 205 pp. Tables, charts, figures, illustrations, index, and bibliography. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-313-26798-7; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-275-95184-7 pp. 571-573

Kenneth W. Goings

For Each the Strength of All: A History of Banking in the State of New York. ByJ. T. W. Hubbard · New York and London: New York University Press, 1995. xxiii + 309 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, appendix, figures, index, and bibliography. $40.00. ISBN 0-8147-3514-2 pp. 573-574

Larry Schweikart

Wal-Mart: A History of Sam Walton's Retail Phenomenon. BySandra S. Vance and Roy V. Scott · New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994. xv + 220 pp. Photos, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.00. ISBN 0-8057-9832-3 pp. 574-576

William B. Friedricks

Co-op: The People's Business. ByJohnston Birchall · New York: Manchester University Press, 1994. viii + 217 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-7190-4421-9; paper, $24.95, ISBN 7190-3861-8 pp. 576-577

H. Vincent Moses

Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875–1925. ByPerry K. Blatz · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. xv + 368 pp. Tables, figures, notes, epilogue, and select bibliography. Cloth, $64.50, ISBN 0-7914-1819-7; paper, $21.95, 0-7914-1820-0 pp. 578-580

Mary Ann Landis

Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929-1987. ByD. K Fieldhouse · Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. xxviii + 832 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-822625-X pp. 580-585

Mira Wilkins

The Most Necessary Luxuries: The Mercers' Company of Coventry, 1550–1680. ByRonald M. Berger · University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. xvi + 317 pp. Tables, figures, notes, appendices, sources, and index. $55.00, ISBN 0-271-008679 pp. 585-587

Ronald H. Fritze

The Bank of England: Money, Power and Influence, 1694–1994. Edited byRichard Roberts and David Kynaston · Oxford: Clarendon Press. X + 315 pp. Index and bibliography. $35.00. ISBN 0-19-828952-9 pp. 587-588

Geoffrey Jones

Uneasy Partners: Big Business in American Politics, 1945–1990. ByKim McQuaid · Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xvi + 224 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth, $38.95, ISBN 0-8018-4651-x; paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8108-4652-8 pp. 589-590

David Hart

Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884–1984. ByDouglas Flamming · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xxxi + 433 pp. Illustrations, maps, references, and index. $42.50. ISBN 0-807820563 pp. 590-592

Annette C. Wright

Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada's Pacific Coast Fisheries. ByDianne Newell · Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. xiii + 306 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 cloth; ISBN 0-8020-0547-0; $18.95 paper, ISBN 0-8020-7746-3 pp. 592-593

Richard. W. Judd

The French Rothschilds: The Great Banking Dynasty Through Two Turbulent Centuries. ByHerbert A. Lottman · New York: Crown Publishers, 1995. v + 416 pp. Photographs, figures, notes, and index. $30.00. ISBN 0-517-59229-0. - The Rothschilds: Essays on the History of a European Family. ByGeorge Heuberger · Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, Inc., 1994. 420 pp. Photos, charts, figures, and bibliography. $63.00. ISBN 0-85115-5952 pp. 594-596

John McKay

One Hundred Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture. ByTimothy B. Spears · New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995. xx + 300 pp. Photos, maps, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-05908-6 pp. 596-598

John A. Agnew

The Making of Harcourt General: A History of Growth Through Diversification, 1922–1992. ByBettye H. Pruitt · Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1994. xiv + 310 pp. Notes and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-87-584-5096 pp. 598-600

Victoria Buenger and Robert E. Hoskisson

The South and the New Deal. ByRoger Biles · Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993. x + 205 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $23.00. ISBN 0-8131-1836-0 pp. 600-602

Thomas E. Terrill

Government, Industry, and Rearmament in Russia, 1900–1914: The Last Argument of Tsarism. ByPeter Gatrell · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xvii + 399 pp. Tables, charts, notes, index, and bibliography. Cloth, $74.95. ISBN 0-521-45263-5; paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-521-46619-9 pp. 602-604

Susan P. McCaffray

From Airships to Airbus: The History of Civil and Commercial Aviation, 2 vols. Edited byWilliam M. Leary and William F. Trimble · Washington, D.C.,: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. Photos, drawings, tables, charts, figures, and maps. - Volume I: Infrastructure and Environment. Edited byWilliam M. Leary, xix + 203 pp. $33.00, ISBN 1-56098-467-8. - Volume II: Pioneers and Operations. Edited byWilliam F. Trimble, vii + 296 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-56098-468-6 pp. 604-605

Glenn E. Bugos

International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820–1914. ByLance E. Davis and Robert J. Cull · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. vii + 166 pp. Charts, tables, maps, endnotes, bibliography, and index. $38.95, ISBN 0-521-460549 pp. 606-607

Larry Neal

Constructing a Competitive Order: The Hidden History of British Anti-Trust Policies. ByHelen Mercer · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x + 274 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-41292-7 pp. 607-610

Tony Freyer

World Trade since 1431: Geography, Technology, and Capitalism. ByPeter J. Hugill · Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xxiii + 376 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, maps, bibliographical index, and references. $59.95. ISBN 0-8018-4241-7 pp. 611-612

Ron Johnston

Regulation and the Revolution in United States Farm Productivity. BySally H. Clarke · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiv + 310 pp. Tables, charts, maps, figures, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-4411-7X pp. 613-614

Louis Ferleger

The Fountain of Privilege: Political Foundations of Markets in Old Regime France and England. ByHilton L. Root · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xv + 280 pp. Notes and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-520-08415-2 pp. 614-616

Kathleen Kete

Volume 69, issue 3, 1995

Enterprise and State in the West German Wirtschaftswunder: Volkswagen and the Automobile Industry, 1939–1962 pp. 273-350

Steven Tolliday

Businessmen Against Pollution in Late Nineteenth Century Chicago pp. 351-397

Christine Meisner Rosen

Financing the Micro-Scale Enterprise: Rural Craft Producers in Scotland, 1840–1914 pp. 398-421

Craig Young

The Cooperative Edge: The International Politics of International Cartels. By Debora L. Spar · Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. xii + 273 pp. Appendix and index. $29.95 ISBN 0-8014-26588 pp. 425-426

Daniel Barbezat

Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It. By Louis D. Brandeis; edited with an introduction by Melvin I. Urofsky · Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995. vii + 168 pp. Charts, notes, and index. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-312-12257-8; paper, $6.50, ISBN 0-312-10314-X pp. 426-428

Richard P. Adelstein

The CIO: 1935–1955. By Robert H. Zieger · Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. x + 491 pp. Notes, figures, photos, illustrations, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8078-2182-9 pp. 428-429

Steven Fraser

International Business History: A Contextual and Case Approach. By Dennis M. P. McCarthy · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994. xii + 290 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-275-94413-1; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-275-94414-X pp. 430-431

Geoffrey Jones

The Sports Franchise Game: Cities in Pursuit of Sports Franchises, Events, Stadiums, and Arenas. By Kenneth L. Shropshire · Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. xii + 102 pp. Index and notes. $24.95. ISBN 0-8122-3121-X pp. 431-433

Glen Gendzel

The Federal Civil Service System and the Problem of Bureaucracy: The Economics and Politics of Institutional Change. By Ronald N. Johnson and Gary D. Libecap · Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. viii + 229 pp. Charts, tables, maps, figures, and index. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-226-40170-7; paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-226-40171-5 pp. 433-435

Margaret C. Rung

New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920–1935. By Colin Gordon · Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xii + 329 pp. Bibliographical essay, manuscript sources, and index. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-45122-1; paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-521-45755-6 pp. 435-437

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy. Edited by Claudia Goldin and Gary Libecap · Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. viii + 312 pp. Tables, charts, and index. $56.00. ISBN 0-226-30110-9 pp. 438-439

Richard Vietor

American Technological Sublime. By David E. Nye · Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, xx + 362 pp. Photos, notes, index, and bibliography. $35.00, ISBN 0-262-14056-X pp. 439-441

Robert W. Rydell

The Origins of Japanese Industrial Power: Strategy, Institutions and the Development of Organisational Capability. Edited by Etsuo Abe and Robert Fitzgerald · London: Frank Cass, 1995. 140 pp. Tables and notes. $30.00. ISBN 0-7146-4623-7 pp. 441-443

Jeffrey Bernstein

Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and its Technology. By Emerson W. Pugh · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995. xvi + 403 pp. Illustrations, tables, charts, notes, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-262-16147-8 pp. 443-445

Steven W. Usselman

International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since 1850. By Craig N. Murphy · New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiii + 337 pp. Photos, tables, figures, notes, and index. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-19-521070-0; paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-19-521071-9 pp. 445-447

George C. Lodge

To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization. By William P. Alford · Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995. ix + 222 pp. Figures, Notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-8047-2270-6 pp. 448-449

Mark Rose

The Battle for Homestead, 1880–1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel. By Paul Krause · Pittsburgh, Penn.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. xiv + 548 pp. Notes, maps, appendices, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8229-3702-6; paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8229-5466-4 pp. 449-451

Judith E. Vichniac

The Business of Newspapers on the Western Frontier. By Barbara Cloud · Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 1992. xvii + 255 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.95. ISBN 0-87417-184-9 pp. 451-453

Elizabeth M. Neiva

World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions. By Robert W. Rydell · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. x + 269 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, and index. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-226-73236-3; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-226-73237-1 pp. 454-456

Roland Marchand

The Economics of Power: The Private Finances of the House of Foix-Navarre-Albret during the Religious Wars. By S. Amanda Eurich · Kirksville, Mo.: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1994. xviii + 245 pp. Notes, tables, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-940474-25-5 pp. 456-458

Gerard F. Denault

Trade, Industrial, and Professional Periodicals of the United States. By Kathleen L. Endres · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. xi + 467 pp. Illustrations, notes, index and bibliography. $99.50. ISBN 0-313-28042-8 pp. 458-460

David O. Whitten

Public and Private Ownership of British Industry, 1820–1990. By James Foreman-Peck and Robert Millward · New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1994. xvii + 386 pp. Figures, tables, index and bibliography. $59.00. ISBN 0-19-820359-4 pp. 460-461

Terence R. Gourvish

Entrepreneurial Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain. By G. R. Searle · New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. viii + 346 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $59.00. ISBN 0-19-820357-8 pp. 461-463

Peter Botticelli

Volume 69, issue 2, 1995

G. Harold Powell and the Corporate Consolidation of the Modern Citrus Enterprise, 1904–1922 pp. 119-155

H. Vincent Moses

Organizing and Reorganizing the World Bank, 1946–1972: A Comparative Perspective pp. 156-190

Louis Galambos and David Milobsky

Corporate Culture and Marketing in the American Railway Locomotive Industry: American Locomotive and Electro-Motive Despond to Dieselization pp. 191-229

Albert Churella

Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1865–1917. By Gerald Berk · Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xi + 243 pp. Index, bibliography and tables. ISBN 0-8018-4656-0 pp. 234-238

Paul Miranti

Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955. By Joel Wolfe · Durham: Duke University Press, 1993. xii + 312 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8223-1330-8; paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8223-1347-2 pp. 238-241

John D. French

Technological Innovation and the Development of Transportation in Japan. Edited by Hirofumi Yamamoto · Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1993. xiii + 296 pp. Notes, tables, charts, appendix, bibliography, and index. $50.00. ISBN 92-808-0551-7 pp. 241-244

Seiichiro Yonekura

Technology and Industrial Development in Pre-War Japan: Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard, 1884–1934. By Yukiko Fukasaku · London and New York: Routledge, 1993. xviii + 189 pp. Tables, charts, appendix, notes, index, and bibliography. $59.95. ISBN 0-415-06552-6 pp. 244-245

Peter N. Davies

Japanese Government Loan Issues on the London Capital Market, 1870–1913. By Toshio Suzuki · London and Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Athlone Press, 1994. xv + 307 pp. Tables, charts, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $90.00. ISBN 0-485-11446-1 pp. 246-248

Ranald Michie

The Japanese Iron and Steel Industry, 1850–1990: Continuity and Discontinuity. By Seiichiro Yonekura · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. xix + 327 pp. Tables, figures, photographs, notes and references, bibliography, and index. $65.00. ISBN 0-312-10673-4 pp. 248-250

Patricia O'Brien

Models of Management: Work, Authority, and Organization in a Comparative Perspective. By Mauro F. Guillén · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xiii + 424 pp. Tables, charts, appendix, index, and bibliography. Cloth, $57.50, ISBN 0-226-31035-3; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-226-31036-1 pp. 250-254

Bruce Kogut

Logs for Capital: The Timber Industry and Capitalist Enterprise in the Nineteenth Century. By Sing C. Chew · Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. xi + 191 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-313-28497-0 pp. 254-256

Forest Reinhardt

Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England. By Naomi R. Lamoreaux · New York: NBER, Cambridge University Press, 1994. xii + 170 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-521-46096-4 pp. 256-258

Richard H. Keehn

The English Gentleman in Trade: The Life and Works of Sir Dudley North, 1641–1691. By Richard Grassby · Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. xvi + 390 pp. Illustrations, notes, and bibliography. $69.00. ISBN 0-19-820439-6 pp. 258-260

David Hancock

Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–60. By Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf · Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995. xii + 307 pp. Photos, drawings, figures, and index. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02118-5; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-252-06439-9 pp. 260-262

Nelson Lichtenstein

Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia. By Betty Wood · Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1995. x + 247 pp. Notes and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8203-1667-9 pp. 262-264

Loren Schweninger

City Bankers, 1890–1914. By Youssef Cassis · Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xv + 350 pp. Charts, graphs, tables, figures, and index. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-44188-9 pp. 264-266

Geoffrey Jones

Erie Lackawanna: Death of an American Railroad, 1938–1992. By H. Roger Grant · Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. ix + 284 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8047-2357-5 pp. 266-267

Craig Miner

The Medieval Super-Companies: A Study of the Peruzzi Company of Florence. By Edwin S. Hunt · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. x + 291 pp. Tables, charts, notes, maps, index, and bibliography. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-46156-1 pp. 267-269

Thomas W. Blomquist

Enterprise and Technology. The German and British Steel Industries, 1865–1895. By Ulrich Wengenroth (translated by Sarah Hanbury Tenison) · Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiv + 293 pp. Tables, charts, illustrations, and notes. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-38425-7 pp. 269-271

Steven W. Tolliday

Volume 69, issue 1, 1995

Crossed Wires and Missing Connections: Valdemar Poulsen, The American Telegraphone Company, and the Failure to Commercialize Magnetic Recording pp. 1-41

Mark Clark and Henry Nielsen

Strategy and Structure in the Textile Industry: Spencer Love and Burlington Mills, 1923-1962 pp. 42-79

Annette C. Wright

Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America. ByRichard H. K. Vietor · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994. 439 pp. Tables, notes, bibliographical references, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-674-16962-X pp. 83-87

Viv Nelles

American Public Finance and Financial Services. ByEdwin J. Perkins · Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993. xii + 433 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, index, and bibliography. $49.50. ISBN 0-8142-0619-0 pp. 87-89

Mary M. Schweitzer

Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870–1930. ByAngel Kwolek-Folland · Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xiv + 256 pp. Photos, appendix, notes, index, and bibliography. $39.00. ISBN 0-8018-4860-1 pp. 89-91

Cindy S. Aron

Producers, Proletarians, and Politicians: Workers and Party Politics in Evansville and New Albany, Indiana, 1850–87. ByLawrence M. Lipin · Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994. xii+ 313 pp. Notes and index. $42.50. ISBN 0-252-02019-7 pp. 91-92

Paul G. Faler

Magazines for the Millions: Gender and Commerce in the Ladies Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, 1880–1910. ByHelen Damon-Moore · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. x + 263 pp. Illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. Cloth, $59.50, ISBN 0-7914-2057-4; paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7914-2058-2 pp. 93-95

Mary Ellen Zuckerman

Making Arms in the Machine Age: Philadelphia's Frankford Arsenal, 1816–1870. ByJames J. Farley · University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. xv + 142 pp. Illust., appendix, notes, index, and bibliography. $32.50. ISBN 0-271-01000-2 pp. 95-97

David R. Meyer

Dimensions of Law in the Service of Order: Origins of the Federal Income Tax, 1861–1913. ByRobert Stanley · New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xiv + 331 pp. Illust, appendix, notes, and index. $48.00. ISBN 0-19-505848-8 pp. 97-99

Randolph Bergstrom

Science on the Run: Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940. ByGeoffrey C. Bowker · Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994. viii + 191 pp. Illust, charts, notes, index, and bibliography. $27.50. ISBN 0-262-02367-9 pp. 99-101

James H. Bamberg

The Origins of Railway Enterprise: The Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1821–1863. ByMaurice W. Kirby · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xv + 223 pp. Illust, maps, plans, appendices, and bibliography. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-38445-1 pp. 101-102

Cecil O. Smith

Business, Politics and International Relations: Steel, Cotton and International Cartels in British Politics, 1924–1993. ByClemens Wurm · Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 389 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $84.95. ISBN 0-5214-0520-3 pp. 102-104

Alice Teichova

Telecommunications and Politics: The Decentralized Alternative. ByAndrew Davies · New York and London: Pinter Publishers, 1994. xi + 265 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, and index. $49.00 ISBN 1-85567-144-1 pp. 105-106

Kenneth Lipartito

Planning the French Canals: Bureaucracy, Politics, and Enterprise Under the Restoration. ByReed G. Geiger · Cranbury: University of Delaware Press, 1995. 338 pp. Tables, charts, notes, index, and bibliography. $43.50. ISBN 0-87413-527-3 pp. 106-108

Rick Szostak

Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of The Iberian Peninsula, 900–1500. ByOlivia Remie Constable · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxiv + 320 pp. Illustrations, maps, index, and bibliography. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-43075-5 pp. 108-110

David S. H. Abulafia

A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca. ByDavid Abulafia · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiii + 292 pp. Maps, illust., appendixes, index and bibliography. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-32244-8 pp. 110-111

Paul Freedman

Pacific Banking, 1859-1959: East Meets West. Edited byOlive Checkland, Shizuya Nishimura, and Norio Tamaki · Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1994. xix + 213 pp. Tables, charts, figures, and index. $65.00. ISBN 0-312-12386-8 pp. 112-114

Mira Wilkins

“Rich Nation, Strong Army”: National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan. ByRichard J. Samuels · Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. xiii + 455 pp. Abbreviations, notes, references, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-8014-2705-3 pp. 114-115

Michael A. Barnhart

The Japanese Enterprise System: Competitive Strategies and Cooperative Structures. ByW. Mark Fruin · New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford, 1992. viii + 397 pp. Tables, charts, notes, appendix, index, and bibliography. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-828318-0 pp. 116-117

Hiroaki Yamazaki