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Volume 67, issue 4, 1993

The Rigid Disk Drive Industry: A History of Commercial and Technological Turbulence pp. 531-588

Clayton M. Christensen

“The Rusty Ribbon”: John Herbert Orr and the Making of the Magnetic Recording Industry, 1945–1960 pp. 589-622

David L. Morton

A “New” Business History? A Commentary on the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics pp. 623-636

William N. Parker

The Republic of Labor: Philadelphia Artisans and the Politics of Class, 1720–1830. By Ronald Schultz · New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xv + 298 pp. Notes and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-507585-4 pp. 641-642

Paul A. Gilje

Agriculture, Geology, and Society in Antebellum South Carolina: The Private Diary of Edmund Ruffin, 1843. Edited by William M. Mathew · Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. xvi + 368 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00. ISBN 0-8203-1324-6 pp. 643-645

Lacy K. Ford

The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828–1853. By James D. Dilts · Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993. xix + 472 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00. ISBN 0-8047-2235-8 pp. 645-647

John F. Stover

Fair to Middlin': The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley. By Lynn Willoughby · Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993. xiii + 198 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95. ISBN 0-8173-0680-3 pp. 647-649

John Killick

A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public. By Ronald J. Zboray · New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xxii + 326 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-507582-X pp. 649-650

Timothy H. Scherman

The Black Press in Mississippi, 1865-1985. By Julius E. Thompson Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993. xiii + 228 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-8130-1174-4 pp. 651-653

Henry L. Suggs

Commercial Bank Liquidity Management, Discretionary Reserve Behavior, and the Allocation of Credit, 1863–1913. By J. M. Carter · New York: Garland Publishing, 1992. xvi + 179 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $52.00. ISBN 0-8153-0962-7 pp. 653-654

Richard H. Keehn

A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management since Taylor. Edited by Daniel Nelson · Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992. vii + 249 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $49.50. ISBN 0-8142-0567-4 pp. 655-656

Hindy Lauer Schachter

Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise. Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein and Howell John Harris · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ix + 293 pp. Notes and index. $44.95. ISBN 0-521-43121-2 pp. 656-660

Christopher L. Tomlins

America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. By Claude S. Fischer · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xv + 424 pp. Tables, charts, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00. ISBN 0-520-07933-7 pp. 660-662

David F. Weiman

Mill & Mine: The CF & I in the Twentieth Century. By H. Lee Scamehorn · Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. 247 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $37.50. ISBN 0-8032-4214-X pp. 662-664

Price Fishback

Foley & Lardner, Attorneys at Law, 1842–1992. By Ellen D. Langill · Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1992. xvii + 245 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-87029-267-7 pp. 664-666

Tony Freyer

Vertical Challenge: The Hiller Aircraft Story. By Jay P. Spenser · Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992. xv + 224 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $30.00. ISBN 0-295-97203-3 pp. 666-668

William F. Trimble

Strategy, Structure, and Antitrust in the Carbonated Soft-Drink Industry. Timothy J. Muris, David T. Scheffman, and Pablo T. Spiller · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993. 227 pp. Tables, charts, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0-89930-788-4 pp. 668-669

Robert D. Tollison

Was There a Pepsi Generation before Pepsi Discovered It? Youth-Based Segmentation in Marketing. By Stanley C. Hollander and Richard Germain · Lincolnwood, Ill.: NTC Business Books, 1993. ix + 144 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-8442-3546-7 pp. 670-671

Thomas E. Frank

Containing the Atom: Nuclear Regulation in a Changing Environment, 1963–1971. By J. Samuel Walker · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xiii + 533 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $50.00. ISBN 0-520-07913-2 pp. 671-672

Brian Balogh

Shifting the Burden: The Struggle over Growth and Corporate Taxation. By Cathie J. Martin · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1991. vii + 251 pp. Charts, tables illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $43.00, ISBN 0-226-50832-3; paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-226-50833-1 pp. 673-676

Paul J. Miranti

The Future of American Banking: Managing for Change. By David Rogers · New York: McGraw Hill, 1993. xx + 346 pp. Notes and index. $24. 95. ISBN 0-07-053538-8 pp. 676-678

Samuel L. Hayes

Lost Prophets: An Insider's History of the Modern Economists. By Alfred L. MalabreJr., · Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1993. ix + 256 pp. Illustrations, tables, charts, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $27.95. ISBN 0-87584-441-3 pp. 678-680

Robert Sobel

Farm, Factory and Fortune: New Studies in the Economic History of the Maritime Provinces. Edited by Kris Inwood · Fredericton, New Brunswick: Acadiensis Press, 1993. viii + 274 pp. Maps, tables, and notes. $19.95. ISBN 0-919107-38-9 pp. 680-681

Christopher Armstrong

Oil and Revolution in Mexico. By Jonathan C. Brown · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xiii + 435 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations, notes, and index. $40.00. ISBN 0-521-07934-5 pp. 681-683

Richard H. K. Vietor

The Political Economy of Brazilian Oil. By Laura Randall · Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1993. xii + 315 pp. Maps, tables, notes, charts, selected bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0-275-94091-8 pp. 683-685

John D. Wirth

The Company Town: Architecture and Society in the Early Industrial Age. Edited by John S. Garner · New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. 245 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-507027-5 pp. 685-687

Joseph Melling

Building Capitalism: Historical Change and the Labor Process in the Production of the Built Environment. By Linda Clarke · New York: Routledge, 1992. xv + 316 pp. Tables, plans, charts, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $99.95, ISBN 0-415-01552-9; paper, $32.50, ISBN 0-415-01553-7 pp. 687-689

Carol E. Heim

Capitalism in Crisis: International Responses to the Great Depression. Edited by W. R. Garside · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. xi + 200 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-312-04178-0 pp. 689-691

Kenneth Mouré

Entrepreneurship, Networks and Modern Business. Edited by Jonathan Brown and Mary B. Rose · New York: Manchester University Press, 1993. x + 262 pp. Tables, charts, notes, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0-7190-3685-2 pp. 691-693

W. D. Rubinstein

White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845–1929. By George Robb · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 250pp. Tables, notes, and index. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-41234-X pp. 693-694

Geoffrey Channon

An Administrative Bureau during the Old Regime: The Bureau of Commerce and Its Relations to French Industry from May 1781 to November 1783. By Harold T. Parker · Cranbury, N.J.: University of Delaware Press, 1993. 158 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.50. ISBN 0-87413-467-6 pp. 694-697

J. R. Harris

The Triumph of Corporate Capitalism in France, 1867–1914. By Charles E. Freedeman · Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1993. xv + 147 pp. Tables, graphs, bibliography, and index. $59.00. ISBN 1-878822-22-5 pp. 697-698

Lenard R. Berlanstein

Paribas, 1872–1992: Europe and the World. By Eric Bussière · Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1992. 320 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, and index. No price listed. ISBN 90-6153-284-1 pp. 698-700

Youssef Cassis

Das Reichskommissariat für die Behandlung feindlichen Vermögens im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Eine Studie zur Verwaltungs-, Rechts- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte des nationalsozialistischen Deutschlands. By Stephan H. Lindner · Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. 178 pp. Tables, notes, and bibliography. DM 58. ISBN 3-515-051971-1 pp. 701-701

John Gillingham

Labor and Economic Growth in Five Asian Countries: South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines. By Walter Galenson · New York: Praeger, 1992. xi + 126 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-275-94200-7 pp. 702-703

Hagen Koo

Volume 67, issue 3, 1993

The German Question, the Unification of Europe, and the European Market Strategies of Germany's Chemical and Electrical Industries, 1900–1992 pp. 369-405

Harm G. Schröter

The German National Railway Company, 1924–1932: Between Private and Public Enterprise pp. 406-438

Alfred C. Mierzejewski

The Unique Industrial Development of Württemberg: A Review Essay pp. 439-447

Hans Medick

Knut Borchardt: A Critical Appreciation pp. 448-458

Rolf H. Dumke

How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States. By John J. McCusker · Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1992. 78 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and bibliography. $10.95. ISBN 0-994026-33-8 pp. 462-465

Winifred B. Rothenberg

Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780–1835. By William J. Gilmore · Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989. xxxvii + 528 pp. Maps, charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0-87049-586-0 pp. 465-467

Richard R. John

Cargill: Trading the World's Grain. By Wayne G. BroehlJr., · Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1992. xx + 1007 pp. Tables, charts, illustrations, appendix, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-87451-572-6 pp. 467-468

Deborah Fitzgerald

Breweries of Wisconsin. By Jerry Apps · Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. xx + 252 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-299-13370-2; paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-299-13374-5 pp. 469-470

Terence R. Gourvish

Labor Law in America: Historical and Critical Essays. Edited by Christopher L. Tomlins and Andrew J. King · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. vi + 355 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00. ISBN 0-8018-4362-6 pp. 470-472

R. Alton Lee

The Economic Structure of Corporate Law. By Frank H. Easter-brook and Daniel R. Fischel · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. viii + 370 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-674-23538-X pp. 472-475

Lawrence S. Zacharias

Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890–1930. By Price V. Fishback · New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xi + 279 pp. Tables, charts, appendixes, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-506-725-8 pp. 475-476

John H. M. Laslett

Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900–1930. By Sharon Hartman Strom · Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xvii + 427 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $42.50. ISBN 0-252-01806-0 pp. 476-479

Lisa M. Fine

A New Deal for the American People. By Roger Biles · DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1991. ix + 274 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $28.50. ISBN 0-87580-161-7 pp. 479-481

Harvard Sitkoff

Automobile Workers and the American Dream, 2d ed. By Ely Chinoy · Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xviii + 157 pp. Notes, tables, and index. Paper, $12.95. ISBN 0-252-06263-9 pp. 481-483

Daniel Nelson

Administering the Taylor Law: Public Employee Relations in New York. By Ronald Donovan · Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1990. vii + 251 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $32,00. ISBN 0-87546-163-8; Paper $14.95. ISBN 0-87546-164-6 pp. 483-484

Peter Rachleff

The Rise and Decline of U.S. Merchant Shipping in the Twentieth Century. By René De La Pedraja · New York: Twayne, 1992. x + 345 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95. ISBN 0-8057-9826-9 pp. 484-486

Kosmas Tsokhas

Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: The Airline Industry. Edited by William M. Leary · New York: Facts On File, 1992. xxv + 529 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $85.00. ISBN 0-8160-2675-0 pp. 486-488

Dale G. Anderson

The Boeing 247: The First Modern Airliner. By F. Robert van der Linden · Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992. xiii + 254 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-295-97094-4 pp. 488-489

William F. Trimble

The Politics of Aircraft: Building an American Military Industry. Jacob A. Vander Meulen · Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. xii + 292 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-7006-0505-3 pp. 490-491

Ronald Schaffer

The Engineer in America: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture. Edited by Terry S. Reynolds · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1991. vi + 437 pp. Tables, figures, notes, and index. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-226-71031-9; paper $19.95, ISBN 0-226-71032-7 pp. 492-493

R. Angus Buchanan

Managing the Medical Arms Race: Innovation and Public Policy in the Medical Device Industry. By Susan Bartlett Foote · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xiv + 285 pp. Tables, charts, diagrams, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-520-07591-9 pp. 493-495

Ellen Koch

Electrifying Eden. Portland General Electric, 1889–1965. By Craig Wollner · Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990. xvii + 325 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-87595-226-7 pp. 495-496

Gregory Field

Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation in the United States. By Douglas Gomery · Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. xxii + 381 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-299-13210-2; paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-299-13214-5 pp. 497-499

Gregory D. Black

Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime. By Andrew Zimbalist · New York: Basic Books, 1992. xviii + 270 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00. ISBN 0-465-00614-0 pp. 499-500

Richard C. Crepeau

Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy. By William Lazonick · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiv + 372 pp. Notes and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-521-39419-8 pp. 500-503

Warren Samuels

Losing Time: The Industrial Policy Debate. By Otis L. GrahamJr., · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992. xiii + 370 pp. Notes and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-53919-2 pp. 503-505

Donald T. Critchlow

Dismantling the Cold War Economy. By Ann Markusen and Joel Yudken · New York: Basic Books, 1992. xx + 314 pp. Tables, charts, notes, and index. $25.00. ISBN 0-465-00662-0 pp. 505-507

Philip J. Funigiello

Industrial Efficiency in Six Nations. Edited by Richard E. Caves · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992. vi + 492 pp. Tables, charts, notes, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0-262-03193-0 pp. 507-509

Stephen Broadberry

Entrepôt Capitalism: Foreign Investment and the American Dream in the Twentieth Century. By Charles R. Geisst · Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1992. xxi + 154 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-275-93894-8 pp. 509-511

Mira Wilkins

Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century England. By Sonya O. Rose · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xi + 292 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-520-07478-5 pp. 511-513

Deborah Thom

Les Deux Rêves du Commerce: Enterprise et Institution dans la Région Lilloise (1780–1860). By Jean-Pierre Hirsch · Paris: Editions EHESS, 1991. 534 pp. Tables, figures, notes, appendixes, bibliography, and index. 380 FF. ISBN 2-7132-0969-2 pp. 513-514

Donald Reid

Les Patrons du Second Empire: Anjou, Normandie, Maine. Edited by Dominique Barjot · Le Mans: Picard/Editions Cenomane, 1991. xxii + 260 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. 220 FF. ISBN 2-905596-14-7. - Les Patrons du Second Empire: Bourgogne. Edited by Philippe Jobert · Le Mans: Picard/Editions Cenomane, 1991. viii + 267 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. 220 FF. ISBN 2-905596-41-4. - Les Patrons du Second Empire: Franche-Comté. Edited by Jean-Luc Mayaud · Le Mans: Picard/Editions Cenomane, 1991. vii + 192 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. 220 FF. ISBN 2-905596-42-2 pp. 515-516

Katrina Honeyman

Tussen Reich en Empire: De Economische Betrekkingen van Nederland met Zijn Belangrijkste Handelspartners: Duitsland, Groot-Brittannië en België en de Nederlandse Handelspolitiek, 1929–1936. By Hein Klemann · Amsterdam: Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief, 1990. xi + 387 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Fl 49.50, ISBN 90-71617-28-9 pp. 517-518

J. Thomas Lindblad

The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century. Edited by David Blackbourn and Richard J. Evans · New York: Routledge, 1991. xix + 348 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $74.50. ISBN 0-415-03597-X pp. 519-520

Toni Pierenkemper

Vom Stadtwerk zum Elektrizitätsgroßunternehmen: Gründung, Aufbau und Ausbau der “Rheinisch-Westfälischen Elektrizitätswerk AG” (RWE), 1898–1918. By Hans Pohl · Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1992. 60 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, and bibliography. DM 38. ISBN 3-515-05727-7 pp. 521-522

Edmund N. Todd

Wege und Wegmarken: 100 Jahre Thyssen. By Helmut Uebbing · Berlin: Siedler, 1991. v + 348 pp. Illustrations, tables, and charts. DM 68, ISBN 3-88680-417-8 pp. 522-524

Daniel Barbezat

The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System. Edited by Michael Ellman and Vladimir Kontorovich · New York: Routledge, 1992. 281 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $87.50, ISBN 0-415-06349-3; paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-415-07314-6 pp. 524-526

William B. Husband

Restructuring the Soviet Economy. By David A. Dyker · New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1992. viii + 231 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $67.95. ISBN 0-415-05679-9 pp. 527-528

Christine White

Kigyo Kokusaika no Shiteki Bunseki [Japanese Business Abroad in Historical Perspective: Foreign Direct Investment of Japanese Cotton-Spinning Firms in China before World War I]. By Tetsuo Kuwahara · Tokyo: Moriyama Book Company, 1990. 313 pp. Tables, notes, and index. 3,900 ¥. ISBN 4-8394-1719-9 pp. 528-530

Kenichi Yasumuro

Volume 67, issue 2, 1993

Business Diplomacy: Walter Teagle, Jersey Standard, and the Anglo-French Pipeline Conflict in the Middle East, 1930–1931 pp. 207-245

Edward Peter Fitzgerald

Structure, Personality, and Business Strategy in the U.S. Tire Industry: The Seiberling Rubber Company, 1922–1964 pp. 246-278

Michael French

The Prairies and the Pampas: A Review Colloquium - The Prairies and the Pampas: Agrarian Policy in Canada and Argentina, 1880–1930. By Carl E. Solberg · Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987. xii + 297 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.50. ISBN 0-8047-1346-4 pp. 279-299

H. S. Ferns, Ezequiel Gallo and Melville Watkins

From Market-Places to a Market Economy: The Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750–1850. ByWinifred Barr Rothenberg · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1992. xvi + 275 pp. Tables, charts, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50. ISBN 0-226-72953-2 pp. 302-303

Michael Merrill

The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism. ByAllan Kulikoff · Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1992. xiv + 341 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8139-1388-8; paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-8139-1420-5 pp. 304-305

Christopher Clark

American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War. Edited byRobert E. Gallman and John Joseph Wallis · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1992. viii + 396 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00. ISBN 0226-27945-6 pp. 306-307

Gavin Wright

“The king of the Alley”: William Duer—Politician, Entrepreneur, and Speculator, 1768–1799. ByRobert F. Jones · Philadelphia, Pa.: American Philosophical Society, 1992. x + 236 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $25.00. ISBN 0-87169-202-3 pp. 308-309

Paul A. Gilje

Industry and Technology in Antebellum Tennessee: The Archaeology of Bluff Furnace. ByR. Bruce Council, Nicholas Honerkamp, andM. Elizabeth Will · Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. xiv + 227 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-87049-743-X; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-87049-744-8 pp. 309-311

David B. Landon

The Men and the Vision of the Southern Commercial Conventions, 1845–1871. ByVicki Vaughn Johnson · Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992. x + 328 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8262-0855 pp. 311-313

David L. Carlton

Capitalism on the Frontier: Billings and the Yellowstone Valley in the Nineteenth Century. ByCaroll Van West · Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. xiii + 281 pp. Tables, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50. ISBN 0-8032-4755-9 pp. 313-314

Richard S. Kirkendall

The Wheeling Bridge Case: Its Significance in American Law and Technology. ByElizabeth Brand Monroe · Boston, Mass.: North-eastern University Press, 1992. xvi + 268 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 1-5555-130-X pp. 315-316

Rick Szostak

The Commercialization of News in the Nineteenth Century. ByGerald J. Baldasty · Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. xii + 227 pp. Tables, charts, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-299-13400-8; paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-299-13404-0 pp. 317-319

Jon Bekken

Capital Mobilization and Regional Financial Markets: The Pacific Coast States, 1850–1920. ByKerry A. Odell. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992. xiii + 222 pp. Tables, charts, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00. ISBN 0-8153-0959-7 pp. 319-320

Lynne Pierson Doti

Most Favored Nation: The Republican Revisionists and U.S. Tariff Policy, 1897–1912. ByPaul Wolman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xxv + 328 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-8078-2022-9 pp. 320-322

Thomas E. Terrill

The Strategy and Consistency of Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1924–1933. ByDavid C. Wheelock · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiv + 126 pp. Tables, charts, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-521-39155-5 pp. 323-324

Lee Alston

Prophesying upon the Bones: J. Reuben Clark and the Foreign Debt Crisis, 1933–39. ByGene A. Sessions · Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xiv + 149 pp. Notes and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-252-0197-X pp. 325-326

Edward John Ray

Alexanderson: Pioneer in American Electrical Engineering. ByJames E. Brittain · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University, 1992. xv + 381 pp. Photographs, diagrams, appendix, notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8018-4228-X pp. 326-329

Margaret B. W. Graham

Harold F. Silver: Western Inventor, Businessman, and Civic Leader. ByLeonard J. Arrington and John R. AlleyJr., · Logan: Utah State University Press, 1992. x + 250 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-87421-159-X pp. 329-331

Henry C. Klassen

Black Women and White Women in the Professions: Occupational Segregation by Race and Gender, 1960–1980. ByNatalie J. Sokoloff. New York: Routledge, 1992. xv + 175 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-415-90608-3; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-415-90609-1 pp. 331-333

Alexa Benson Henderson

The Manchester Experiment: A History of Manchester Business School, 1965–1990. ByJohn F. Wilson · London: Paul Chapmam Publishing, 1992. xi + 153 pp. Photographs, tables, charts, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 1-85396-158-2. - Lehigh University: A History of Education in Engineering, Business, and the Human Condition. ByW. Ross Yates · Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 1992. 334 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $48.50. ISBN 0-934223-17-3 pp. 333-335

Susan Aaronson

The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford. ByStuart W. Leslie · New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xiii + 332 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $42.00. ISBN 0-231-07958-3 pp. 335-337

Larry Owens

Power at Cost: Ontario Hydro and Rural Electrification, 1911–1958. ByKeith R. Fleming · Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. xi + 326 pp. Maps, photographs, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.95. ISBN 0-7735-0868-6 pp. 337-339

Gregory Field

Argentine Workers: Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness. ByPeter Ranis · Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. xi + 313 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0-8229-3703-4 pp. 339-341

Jeremy Adelman

Domestic and Foreign Finance in Modern Peru, 1850–1950: Financing Visions of Development. ByAlfonso W. Quiroz · Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. xiv + 297 pp. Figures, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8229-1174-1 pp. 341-343

William M. Mathew

The Social Construction of an Industry: A World of Chemical Fibres. ByPatrick Kenis · Boulder, Colo.: Campus/Westview, 1992. xix + 201 pp. Tables, charts, appendixes, notes, and bibliography. $45.00. ISBN 0-8133-1588-3 pp. 343-345

Wyn Grant

The Oil Market in the 1980s: A Decade of Decline. Edited bySiamack Shojai and Bernard S. Katz · New York: Praeger, 1992. xvii + 260 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00. ISBN 0-275-93380-6 pp. 345-347

Stephen J. Randall

The Emergence of Technopolis: Knowledge-Intensive Technologies and Regional Development. ByRobert W. Preer. New York: Praeger, 1992. 187 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.95. ISBN 0-275-94090-X pp. 347-349

Michael J. Enright

Political Economy, Growth, and Business Cycles. Edited byAlex Cukierman, Zvi Hercowitz, and Leonardo Leiderman · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992. xvi + 405 pp. Tables, charts, notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-262-03194-9 pp. 349-351

Victor Zarnowitz

Beyond Free Trade: Firms, Governments, and Global Competition. Edited byDavid B. Yoffie · Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1993. xix + 466 pp. Charts, tables,notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-87584-344-1 pp. 352-354

Mira Wilkins

The New World Merchants of Rouen, 1559–1630. ByGayle K. Brunelle · Kirksville, Mo.: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1991. x + 190 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-940474-17-4 pp. 354-356

Constance Jones Mathers

A Distinctive Industrialization: Cotton in Barcelona, 1728–1832. By J. K. J. Thomson · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xix + 347 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $89.95. ISBN 0-521-39482-1 pp. 356-357

Stanley D. Chapman

The Political Economy of Shopkeeping in Milan, 1886–1922. ByJonathan Morris · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xv + 312 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-39119-9 pp. 358-359

Louise A. Tilly

European Industry and Banking Between the Wars: A Review of Bank-Industry Relations. Edited byP. L. Cottrell, Håkan Lindgren, andAlice Teichova · Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1992. xv + 240 pp. Tables, charts, notes, and index. $65.00. ISBN 0-7185-1368-1 pp. 360-361

Michael Collins

The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926. ByJonathan Coopersmith · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992. xii + 274 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-2723-1 pp. 361-363

Clifford M. Foust

Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan. Edited byChie Nakane andShinzaburō Ōishi · Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1990. 240 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, charts, and index. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-86008-447-7; paper, $19.50, ISBN 0-86008-490-6 pp. 363-365

Mansel G. Blackford and Philip C. Brown

American Multinationals and Japan: The Political Economy of Japanese Capital Controls, 1899–1980. ByMark Mason. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992. xix + 373 pp. Tables, charts, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-674-02630-6 pp. 365-367

Takeshi Yuzawa

Volume 67, issue 1, 1993

Co-evolution of Information-Processing Technology and Use: Interaction between the Life Insurance and Tabulating Industries pp. 1-51

JoAnne Yates

Co-evolution of Information-Processing Technology and Use: Interaction between the Life Insurance and Tabulating Industries pp. 1-51

JoAnne Yates

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and the Restructuring of American Capitalism pp. 52-97

Allen Kaufman and Ernest J. Englander

Market Structure, Industrial Research, and Consumers of Innovation: Forging Backward Linkages to Research in the Turn-of-the-Century U.S. Steel Industry pp. 98-139

Janet T. Knoedler

The Beginnings of Commercial and Financial Journalism: The Commodity Price Currents, Exchange Rate Currents, and Money Currents of Early Modern Europe. By John J. McCusker and Cora Gravesteijn · Amsterdam: Netherlands Economic History Archives, 1991. 515 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $89.00, ISBN 90-71617-27-0 pp. 142-143

Jacob M. Price

Keepers of the Revolution: New Yorkers at Work in the Early Republic. Edited by Paul A. Gilje and Howard B. Rock · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992. xx + 288 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-2665-0; paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8014-9959-3 pp. 144-145

Graham Hodges

Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Louis. By Jeffrey S. Adler · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. vii + 274 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.50, ISBN 0-521-41284-6 pp. 146-149

David R. Meyer

Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840–1950. By Walter Licht · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992. xiii + 317 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-35428-1 pp. 149-151

John Borsos

Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel. Edited by Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1992. ix + 491 pp. Tables, charts, notes, and index. $60.00, ISBN 0-226-30112-5 pp. 151-153

William A. Sundstrom

The Rise of the American Business Corporation. By Richard S. Tedlow · New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1991. x + 71 pp. Tables, exhibits, notes, and index. $15.00, ISBN 3-7186-5088-6 pp. 153-155

Tony Freyer

Regulating Big Business: Antitrust in Great Britain and America, 1880–1920. By Tony Freyer · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiii + 399 pp. Notes and index. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-35207-X pp. 156-157

K. Austin Kerr

Franchising in America: The Development of a Business Method, 1840–1980. By Thomas S. Dicke · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. 204 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $32.50, ISBN 0-8078-2041-5; paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8078-4378-4 pp. 157-159

Martha Olney

Visions of a New Industrial Order: Social Science and Labor Theory in America's Progressive Era. By Clarence E. WunderlinJr., · New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. xiii + 230 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00, ISBN 0-231-07698-3 pp. 159-160

Howell J. Harris

Textiles and Politics: The Life of B. Everett Jordan from Saxapahaw to the United States Senate. By Ben F. Bulla · Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1991. xvii + 395 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95, ISBN 0-89089-486-8 pp. 161-162

Annette C. Wright

Gordon McLendon: The Maverick of Radio. By Ronald Garay · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992. xiv + 248 pp. References and index. $45.00, ISBN 0-313-26676-X pp. 162-164

James Schwoch

The Silicon Forest: High Tech in the Portland Area, 1945–1986. By Gordon B. Dodds and Craig E. Wollner · Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1991. xi + 226 pp. Notes and index. Paper $19.95, ISBN 0-87595-230-5 pp. 164-166

David R. Lampe

Route 128: Lessons from Boston's High-Tech Community. By Susan Rosegrant and David R. Lampe · New York: Basic Books, 1992. xvi + 240 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00, ISBN 0-465-04639-8 pp. 166-168

Craig Wollner

Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business. By George Anders · New York: Basic Books, 1992. xx + 328 pp. Notes, appendix, and index. $23.00, ISBN 0-465-04522-7 pp. 168-170

Theodore P. Kovaleff

The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason. By Larry Neal · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ix + 278 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50, ISBN 0-521-38205-X pp. 170-172

Philip Mirowski

Patterns of European Industrialization: The Nineteenth Century. Edited by Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo · New York: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, 1991. xii + 276 pp. Figures, tables, references, and index. $65.00, ISBN 0-415-06214-4 pp. 172-175

David S. Landes

International Banking, 1870–1914. Edited by Rondo Cameron and V. I. Bouykin · New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xiv + 655 pp. Tables, charts, appendixes, notes, and index. $80.00, ISBN 0-19-506271-X pp. 175-176

Edwin J. Perkins

The Nature of the Transnational Firm. Edited by Christos N. Pitelis and Roger Sugden · New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1991. xiii + 220 pp. Charts, tables, notes, references, and index. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 0-415-57271-8; paper, $23.50, ISBN 0-415-05748-5 pp. 176-178

Steven Tolliday

The Primary Textile Industry in Canada: History and Heritage. By A. B. McCullough · Ottawa, Ontario: National Historic Sites Publications, Environment Canada, 1992. 314 pp. Illustrations, tables, charts, maps, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $19.80, ISBN 0-660-14398-4 pp. 178-180

Barbara Austin

Merchant Enterprise in Britain: From the Industrial Revolution to World War I. By Stanley Chapman · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xvi + 339 pp. Tables, charts, appendixes, manuscript sources, and index. $69.95, ISBN 0-521-35178-2 pp. 180-183

Mira Wilkins

The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750–1950: Volume 1: Regions and Communities. Edited by F. M. L. Thompson · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xv + 588 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 0-521-25788-3; paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-521-43816-0. - The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750–1950: Volume 2: People and Their Environment. Edited by F. M. L. Thompson · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xv + 373 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $69.95, ISBN 0-521-25789-1; paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-521-43815-2. - The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750–1950: Volume 3: Social Agencies and Institutions. Edited by F. M. L. Thompson · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xiii + 492 pp. Charts, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $69.95, ISBN 0-521-25790-5; paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-521-43814-4 pp. 183-186

Joseph Melling

Professions and Patriarchy. By Anne Witz · New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1992. ix + 233 pp. Tables, charts, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $69.50, ISBN 0-415-05008-1; paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-415-07044-9 pp. 186-188

Daniel J. Walkowitz

Maynard Keynes: An Economist's Biography. By D. E. Moggridge · New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1992. xxxi + 941 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50, ISBN 0-415-0541-X pp. 188-191

Richard P. Adelstein

Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the Popular Fronts. By Michael Seidman · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xiv + 300 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $42.50, ISBN 0-520-06915-3 pp. 191-193

Benjamin Hunnicutt

Democracy at Work: Changing World Markets and the Future of Labor Unions. By Lowell Turner · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991. xvi + 279 pp. Notes, references, and index. $24.95, ISBN 0-8014-2627-8 pp. 193-195

Wolfgang Streeck

Uberlebenschancen von Unternehmensgründungen. Edited by Hans Pohl · Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1991. ix + 112 pp. Figures, tables, and notes. DM 46, ISBN 3-515-05868-0 pp. 196-197

Michael L. Hughes

The Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money, and U.S. Policy in the Congo Crisis. By David N. Gibbs · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1991. x + 322 pp. Tables, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95, ISBN 0-225-29071-9 pp. 198-199

Simon Katzenellenbogen

“A Policy Calculated to Benefit China”: The United States and the China Arms Embargo, 1919–1929. By Stephen J. Valone · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991. 176 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95, ISBN 0-313-27621-8 pp. 200-201

Arthur Waldron

The Japanese Economy. By Takatoshi Ito · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992. xvi + 455 pp. Tables, charts, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95, ISBN 0-262-09029-5 pp. 201-203

Edward J. Lincoln

Japanese Economic Development: Theory and Practice. By Penelope Francks · New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1992. x + 288 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $62.50. ISBN 0-415-04100-7 pp. 203-205

Mansel G. Blackford