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Volume 65, issue 4, 1991

The Automobile Industry pp. ix-x

Anonymous

Making Cars and Making Money in the Interwar Automobile Industry: Economies of Scale and Scope and the Manufacturing behind the Marketing pp. 721-753

Daniel M. G. Raff

The Modernization of Production in the French Automobile Industry between the Wars: A Photographic Essay pp. 754-780

Yves Cohen

Strategy and Irreversibility in Supplier Relations: The Case of the U.S. Automobile Industry pp. 781-824

Susan Helper

The Corporation Nobody Knew: Bruce Barton, Alfred Sloan, and the Founding of the General Motors “Family” pp. 825-875

Roland Marchand

Determinants of Firm Entry into the Brazilian Automobile Manufacturing Industry, 1956–1968 pp. 876-947

Helen Shapiro

Habits of Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina Piedmont. ByAllen Tullos · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. xvi + 419 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, guide to sources, and index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $12.95 pp. 951-953

David L. Carlton

A Maritime History of the Pacific Coast, 1540–1980. ByJames H. Hitchman · Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1990. xii + 213 pp. Maps, appendix, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $29.75; paper, $17.50 pp. 953-954

Rosemary E. Ommer

The North Carolina Railroad, 1849–1871, and the Modernization of North Carolina. ByAllen W. Trelease · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xxii + 486 pp. Maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50 pp. 955-956

John F. Stover

The Power That Governs: The Evolution of Judicial Activism in a Midwestern State, 1840–1890. ByKeith R. Schlesinger · New York: Garland Publishing., 1990. xxiii + 323 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $69.00 pp. 956-958

Tony Freyer

Labor in Massachusetts: Selected Essays. Edited byKenneth Fones-Wolf and Martin Kaufman · Westfield, Mass.: Institute for Massachusetts Studies, 1990. viii + 293 pp. Notes, suggestions for further reading, and index. $10.00 pp. 958-960

Jens Christiansen

Cleveland: The Making of a City. ByWilliam Ganson Rose · Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1990 (1950; 2d. ed.). xvi + 1272 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendixes, and index. $75.00 pp. 960-962

Patricia Burgess

Damming the Colorado: The Rise of the Lower Colorado River Authority, 1933–1939. ByJohn A. AdamsJr · College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1990. xvii + 161 pp. Charts, maps, illustration, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.50 pp. 962-963

Gregory Field

Boeing: In Peace and War. ByEugene E. Bauer · Enumclaw, Wash.: TABA Publishing, 1991. xviii + 364 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $21.95; paper, $14.95 pp. 964-965

Glenn E. Bugos

Forty Years of Firsts: The Recollections of a Dow Corning Pioneer. ByEarl L. Warrick · New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990. xiv + 330 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $29.95 pp. 966-967

Peter J. T. Morris

Out of Thin Air: A History of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., 1940–1990. ByAndrew J. Butrica · New York: Praeger, 1990. xix + 319 pp. Charts, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 967-968

David B. Sicilia

IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems. ByEmerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, and John H. Palmer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991. xx + 810 pp. Charts, illustrations, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $37.50 pp. 968-970

Richard Langlois

The Baseball Business: Pursuing Pennants and Profits in Baltimore. ByJames Edward Miller. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. x + 383 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 pp. 970-971

Brian Balogh

From New Day to New Deal: American Farm Policy from Hoover to Roosevelt, 1928–1933. ByDavid E. Hamilton · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xi + 333 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $39.95 pp. 971-973

Sally Clarke

The Federal Role in Urban Mass Transportation. ByGeorge M. Smerk · Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. viii + 391 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $32.50 pp. 974-975

Mark Foster

Wall Street. ByWalter Werner and Steven T. Smith · New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. xiii + 306 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 976-978

Stephen Salsbury

Regulating a New Economy: Public Policy and Economic Change in America, 1900–1933. ByMorton Keller · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. Tables, abbreviations, notes, and index. $27.50 pp. 978-980

Ellis W. Hawley

The Consumer Movement: Guardians of the Marketplace. ByRobert N. Mayer · Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1989. x + 297 pp. Tables, references, selected bibliography, and index. $25.95 pp. 980-982

David Thelen

Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America. ByDavid Vogel · New York: Basic Books, 1989. xi + 337 pp. Notes and index. $20.95 pp. 982-984

James T. Patterson

The Politics of Regulatory Change: A Tale of Two Agencies. ByRichard A. Harris and Sidney M. Milkis · New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xiii + 331 pp. References and index. Cloth, $34.50; paper, $13.95 pp. 984-986

William H. Becker

The Political Economy of World Energy: A Twentieth-Century Perspective. ByJohn G. Clark · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xx + 397 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $14.95 pp. 986-987

William R. Childs

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. ByDaniel Yergin · New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. xxxii + 877 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $16.00 pp. 988-989

Richard H. K. Vietor

The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution, and Development. Edited byOliver E. Williamson and Sidney G. Winter · New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. vi + 235 pp. Index, notes, and bibliography. $29.95 pp. 990-992

Gregory Dow

The Power to Manage? Employers and Industrial Relations in Comparative-Historical Perspective. Edited bySteven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin · New York: Routledge, 1991. 352 pp. Notes and index. $49.95 pp. 993-996

David Brody

Governments, Industries and Markets: Aspects of Government-Industry Relations in the UK, Japan, West Germany and the USA since 1945. Edited byMartin Chick · Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1990. viii + 225 pp. Charts, tables, notes, references, and index. $54.95 pp. 996-998

Steven W. Tolliday

Nationalism, Capitalism, and Colonization in Nineteenth-Century Quebec: The Upper St. Francis District. ByJ. I. Little · Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. xxx + 306 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 pp. 998-1001

Peter Way

Timothy Eaton and the Rise of His Department Store. ByJoy L. Santink · Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. xii + 319 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, notes on the sources, and index. $35.00 pp. 1001-1002

Carl Ryant

The Development of Large Technical Systems. Edited byRenate Mayntz and Thomas P. Hughes · Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1989. 300 pp. Maps, charts, tables, and notes. $32.50 pp. 1002-1004

Larry Owens

British Privateering Enterprise in the Eighteenth Century. ByDavid J. Starkey · Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 1990. 344 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. £25 pp. 1004-1006

Valerie Burton

Coping with City Growth during the British Industrial Revolution. ByJeffrey G. Williamson · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xxi + 344 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $54.50 pp. 1006-1008

David R. Meyer

Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution. ByClark Nardinelli · Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. x + 194 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $25.00 pp. 1009-1010

George R. Boyer

Women Assemble: Women Workers and the New Industries in Inter-War Britain. ByMiriam Glucksmann · New York: Routledge, 1990. x + 325 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, references, and index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $15.95 pp. 1011-1013

Joseph Melling

State Capital and Private Enterprise: The Case of the UK National Enterprise Board. ByDaniel C. Kramer · New York: Routledge, 1989. vi + 256 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $57.50 pp. 1013-1014

Till Geiger

Britain Ascendant: Comparative Studies in Franco-British Economic History. ByFrançois Crouzet · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ii + 514 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $75.00 pp. 1015-1017

George Grantham

Charles Morel: Un constructeur dauphinois sous la IIIe République. ByJean-Pierre Borgis · Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1990. 351 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and bibliography. 120 F pp. 1017-1018

Donald M. Reid

Industrielle Interessenpolitik und Staat: Internationale Kartelle in der britischen Außen- und Wirtschaftspolitik während der Zwischenkriegszeit. ByClemens A. Wurm · New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1988. xv + 597 pp. Tables, notes, and index. DM 232 pp. 1019-1020

Wilfried Feldenkirchen

Die I. G. Farbenindustrie AG: Wirtschaft, Technik und Politik, 1904–1945. ByGottfried Plumpe · Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1991. 784 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and bibliography. 68 DM pp. 1020-1023

Peter Hayes

Nazi Economics: Ideology, Theory, and Policy. ByAvraham Barkai · New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990. xii + 291 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50 pp. 1023-1024

Peter Temin

The Imported Pioneers: Westerners Who Helped Build Modern Japan. ByNeil Pedlar · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. 248 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 pp. 1025-1026

Kevin McCormick

The Colonial Origins of Korean Enterprise, 1910–1945. ByDennis L. McNamara · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xiv + 208 pp. Tables, appendixes, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $47.50 pp. 1026-1029

Alice H. Amsden

Australia in the International Economy in the Twentieth Century. ByBarrie Dyster and David Meredith · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xvi + 362 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 pp. 1029-1031

Neil C. Quigley

Volume 65, issue 3, 1991

Financial Services pp. ix-xii

Anonymous

Money and Credit in the Fifteenth Century: Some Lessons from Yorkshire pp. 475-501

Jennifer I. Kermode

Vehicles of Privilege or Mobility? Banks in Providence, Rhode Island, during the Age of Jackson pp. 502-527

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Christopher Glaisek

Going National: The Life Insurance Industry's Campaign for Federal Regulation after the Civil War pp. 528-553

Philip L. Merkel

German Banking between the Wars: The Crisis of the Credit Banks pp. 554-605

Theo Balderston

U.S. Commercial Banking: A Historiographical Survey pp. 606-661

Larry Schweikart

Manhattan for Rent, 1785–1850. ByElizabeth Blackmar · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990. xiii + 348 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $29.95 pp. 665-667

James Lemon

Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in the United States, 1790–1860. ByRonald E. Shaw · Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991. x + 284 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $28.00 pp. 667-668

Gary M. Walton

Distribution of Wealth and Income in the United States in 1798. ByLee Soltow · Pittsburgh, Pa.: Pittsburgh University Press, 1990. xix + 328 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $49.95 pp. 668-670

Joseph P. Ferrie

Black Towns and Profit: Promotion and Development in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1877–1915. ByKenneth Marvin Hamilton · Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. xii + 185 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 670-671

Loren Schweninger

The Union League Movement in the Deep South: Politics and Agricultural Change during Reconstruction. ByMichael W. Fitzgerald · Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. x + 283 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 pp. 672-673

James L. Roark

Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia. Edited byRonald L. Filippelli · New York: Garland Publishing, 1990. xlviii + 609 pp. Selected bibliography, further reading, and index. $95.00 pp. 673-675

Danney Goble

Oleander Odyssey: The Kempners of Galveston, Texas, 1854–1980s. ByHarold M. Hyman · College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1990. xxii + 486 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 pp. 675-677

Leonard Dinnerstein

The Spirit of Enterprise: The History of Pacific Enterprises from 1886 to 1989. ByDouglas R. Littlefield and Tanis C. Thorne · Los Angeles, Calif.: Pacific Enterprises, 1990. ix + 198 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $20.00 pp. 677-678

Thomas S. Dicke

The Gibraltar: Socialism and Labor in Butte, Montana, 1895–1920. ByJerry W. Calvert · Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 1988. viii + 189 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $21.95 pp. 679-681

Mildred A. Beik

For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption. Edited byRichard Butsch · Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1990. viii + 239 pp. Tables and index. Cloth $39.95; paper, $16.95 pp. 681-683

Cindy S. Aron

Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers. Edited bySanford M. Jacoby · New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. ix + 249 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $35.00 pp. 683-685

Philip Scranton

The Wealth Creators: An Entrepreneurial History of the United States. ByGerald Gunderson · New York: Truman Talley Books, E. P. Dutton, 1989. vii + 278 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $18.95 pp. 685-686

Burton W. Folsom

Innovation and Small Firms. ByZoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. x + 212 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $29.95 pp. 686-688

Mansel G. Blackford

The Myth of America's Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990s. ByHenry R. Nau · New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xvi + 424 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 688-689

Ethan B. Kapstein

Understanding Quantitative History. ByLoren Haskins and Kirk Jeffrey. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. xxv + 366 pp. Maps, charts, tables, and index. $27.50 pp. 689-690

James Bradford DeLong

Changing Patterns of International Rivalry: Some Lessons from the Steel Industry. Edited byEtsuo Abe and Yoshitaka Suzuki. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1991. v + 315 pp. Tables, index, and notes. $57.50 pp. 691-692

Peter L. Payne

Brazil's National Alcohol Program: Technology and Development in an Authoritarian Regime. ByF. Joseph Demetrius · New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. ix + 181 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.95 pp. 692-694

Tamás Szmrecsányi

From Outpost to Outport: A Structural Analysis of the Jersey-Gaspé Cod Fishery, 1767–1886. ByRosemary E. Ommer · Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. xvii + 245 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 pp. 694-695

Richard W. Judd

The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London, 1660–1730. ByPeter Earle · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. xiii + 446 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 pp. 696-697

C. John Sommerville

Public Policy and the Economy since 1900. ByJim Tomlinson · New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press, 1990. xii + 380 pp. Tables, further reading, notes, references, and index. $55.00 pp. 697-699

Peter A. Hall

Questions of Power: Electricity and Environment in Inter-war Britain. ByBill Luckin · New York: Manchester University Press, 1990. viii + 200 pp. Charts, maps, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. $49.95 pp. 699-701

Gregory Field

A New Economic Policy for Britain: Essays on the Development of Industry. Edited byKeith Cowling and Roger Sugden. New York: Manchester University Press, 1990. vi + 217 pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $17.95 pp. 701-703

Jim Tomlinson

An Awkward Partner: Britain in the European Community. ByStephen George · New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. x + 224 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 pp. 703-705

Imanuel Wexler

Forges et forêts: Recherches sur la consommation protoindustrielle de bois. Edited byDenis Woronoff · Paris: EHESS, 1990. 263 pp. Maps, illustrations, and notes. No price listed pp. 705-706

George Grantham

Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History. ByJohn Komlos · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. xvii + 325 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 pp. 707-710

Michael T. Horvath

German Professions, 1800–1950. Edited byGeoffrey Cocks and Konrad H. Jarausch · New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. ix + 340 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $45.00 pp. 711-713

Paul J. Miranti

The German Economy in the Twentieth Century: The German Reich and the Federal Republic. ByHans-Joachim Braun · New York: Routledge, 1990. xi + 279 pp. Charts, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. $36.00 pp. 713-715

Edmund N. Todd

Revolution in the Factory: The Birth of the Soviet Textile Industry, 1917–1920. ByWilliam B. Husband · New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. x + 227 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $32.50 pp. 715-716

Chris Ward

Bahrain Oil and Development, 1929–1989. ByAngela Clarke · Boulder, Colo.: International Research Center for Energy and Economic Development, 1990. 432 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $38.00 pp. 717-718

Rodney Wilson

Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan. ByAndrew Gordon · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xvi + 364 pp. Maps, charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $34.95 pp. 718-720

Earl H. Kinmonth

Volume 65, issue 2, 1991

The Emergence of the National Brewing Oligopoly: Competition in the American Market, 1933–1958 pp. 229-284

A. M. McGahan

The Transformation of the Railroad Commission of Texas, 1917–1940: Business-Government Relations and the Importance of Personality, Agency Culture, and Regional Differences pp. 285-344

William R. Childs

Industrial Relations and the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from M'Connel and Kennedy, 1810–1840 pp. 345-378

Michael Huberman

Collective Diversification: Manchester Cotton Merchants and the Insurance Business in the Early Nineteenth Century pp. 379-414

Robin Pearson

The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History. ByPhilip D. Curtin · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xi + 222 pp. Charts, maps, tables, appendix, notes, and index. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $10.95 pp. 417-418

Swithin Wilmot

Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Century. Edited byLou Ferleger · Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990. xxiii + 363 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, references and further reading, and index. $39.95 pp. 418-420

Michael W. Schuyler

Enterprise: The Dynamic Economy of a Free People. ByStuart Bruchey · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. xiv + 645 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Cloth $49.50; paper, $24.95 pp. 420-422

Hugh Rockoff

Poor Richard's Legacy: American Business Values from Benjamin Franklin to Donald Trump. ByPeter Baida · New York: William Morrow & Company, 1990. 360 pp. Sources and index. $22.95 pp. 422-424

Joseph F. Rishel

When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store. ByElaine S. Abelson · New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. x + 292 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $29.95 pp. 424-426

Mark C. Carnes

The Quanah Route: A History of the Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railway. ByDon L. Hofsommer · College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1991. xiv + 215 pp. Charts, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.50 pp. 426-428

H. Roger Grant

Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist: Elizur Wright and the Reform Impulse. ByLawrence B. Goodheart · Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1990. xiv + 282 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50 pp. 428-430

Alexa Benson Henderson

A Celebration of Work. ByNorman E. Best. Edited byWilliam G. Robbins · Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. xviii + 244 pp. Maps, illustrations, and notes. $19.95 pp. 430-432

Bruce E. Seely

Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor. ByWilliam Lazonick · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. vii + 419 pp. Charts, appendix, notes, and index. $37.50 pp. 432-434

Philip Scranton

Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh. ByIleen A. DeVault · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990. xii + 194 pp. Charts, maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $21.50 pp. 434-436

Samuel Cohn

Rights v. Conspiracy: A Sociological Essay on the History of Labour Law in the United States. ByAnthony Woodiwiss · New York: Berg Publishers, 1990. ix + 332 pp. Appendix, bibliography, and index. $49.95 pp. 436-438

Howard Dickman

Making American Corporate, 1970–1920. ByOlivier Zunz · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1990. x + 267 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $24.95 pp. 438-440

K. Austin Kerr

Beatrice: From Buildup through Breakup. ByNeil R. Gazel · Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. xxii + 235 pp. Illustrations, tables, and index. $27.95 pp. 440-442

Henry C. Dethloff

The Separation of Commercial and Investment Banking: The Glass-Steagall Act Revisited and Reconsidered. ByGeorge J. Benston · New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. x + 263 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 442-443

Edwin J. Perkins

Phoenix: The History of a Southwestern Metropolis. ByBradford Luckingham · Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989. xi + 316 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $29.95 pp. 443-445

William B. Friedricks

The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program. ByPeter J. T. Morris · Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. xii + 191 pp. Charts, appendix, notes, select bibliography, and index. $34.95 pp. 445-446

Kenneth S. Mernitz

The American Radio Industry and Its Latin American Activities, 1900–1939. ByJames Schwoch · Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. xiii + 184 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 447-449

Robert Buckman

Resisting Protectionism: Global Industries and the Politics of International Trade. ByHelen V. Milner · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988. xiii + 329 pp. Tables, select bibliography, notes, and index. $29.50 pp. 449-450

Alain Verbeke

Markets and Manufacture in Early Industrial Europe. Edited byMaxine Berg · New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1991. xiv + 332 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and index. $75.00 pp. 450-452

R. A. Houston

Transport and the Development of the European Economy, 1750–1918. BySimon P. Ville · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. xiii + 252 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 pp. 453-454

John P. McKay

Married Women's Separate Property in England, 1660–1833. BySusan Staves · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. 304pp. Tables, glossary, notes, select bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 454-456

Lisa Wilson

A Biography of Sir Charles Hartley, Civil Engineer (1825–1915). ByC. W. S. Hartley · Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989. xiv + 840 pp. Maps, charts, illustrations, notes, and index. $79.95 pp. 457-458

R. Angus Buchanan

Fyffes and the Banana: Musa Sapientum. A Centenary History, 1888–1988. ByPeter N. Davies · Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Athlone Press, 1990. xviii + 301 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 pp. 458-460

Gordon Boyce

Montague Burton: The Tailor of Taste. ByEric M. Sigsworth · New York: Manchester University Press, 1990. x + 171 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $59.95 pp. 460-461

Carl Ryant

Protectionism and Economic Revival: The British Interwar Economy. ByMichael Kitson and Solomos Solomou · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xi + 123 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $44.50 pp. 462-463

Stephen Broadberry

Swiss Banking in an International Context. ByWarren Blackman · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. xi + 280 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 pp. 463-464

Rondo Cameron

New Profession, Old Order: Engineers and German Society, 1815–1914. ByKees Gispen · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. x + 357 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $44.50 pp. 464-466

Robert R. Locke

The Soviet Economy in Turmoil, 1929–1930. ByR. W. Davies · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. xx + 601 pp. Tables, glossary and abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.50 pp. 466-468

Ronald Grigor Suny

Emigrant Entrepreneurs: Shanghai Industrialists in Hong Kong. BySiu-Lun Wong · New York: Oxford University Press: 1989. xii + 244 pp. Maps, tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 468-470

Dorothy J. Solinger

Monetary Problems of an Entrepot: The Hong Kong Experience. ByC. F. Joseph Tom · New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1989. xvi + 132 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, and index. $27.50 pp. 470-472

Frank H. H. King

The Birth of the Japanese Labor Movement: Takano Fusatarō and the Rōdō Kumiai Kiseikai. ByStephen E. Marsland · Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. ix + 271 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.00 pp. 472-473

Mansel G. Blackford

Volume 65, issue 1, 1991

Small Business and Its Rivals pp. vii-ix

S. T.,

Small Business in America: A Historiographic Survey pp. 1-26

Mansel G. Blackford

Diversity in Diversity: Flexible Production and American Industrialization, 1880–1930 pp. 27-90

Philip Scranton

Diversity in Diversity: Flexible Production and American Industrialization, 1880–1930 pp. 27-90

Philip Scranton

Market Development, Industrial Development: The Case of the American Corset Trade, 1860–1920 pp. 91-129

Bernard Smith

Dime Store Chains: The Making of Organization Men, 1880–1940 pp. 130-163

Alan R. Raucher

“To Serve Well and Faithfully”: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800. By Sharon V. Salinger · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 192 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $32.50 pp. 166-169

Henry A. Gemery

Liberty, Property, and the Future of Constitutional Development. Edited by Ellen Frankel Paul and Howard Dickman · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. vii + 341 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50 pp. 169-171

William W. Fisher

Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792–1854. By Ronald E. Shaw · Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1990. xii + 449 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $15.00 pp. 171-173

Donald J. Pisani

The Path to Mechanized Shoe Production in the United States. By Ross Thomson · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. xiii + 296 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 pp. 173-175

Kenneth Sokoloff

Edison and the Business of Innovation. By Andre Millard · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xiv + 387 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $38.50 pp. 175-177

David B. Sicilia

Accountancy Comes of Age: The Development of an American Profession, 1886-1940. By Paul J. MirantiJr., Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xi + 275 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 178-179

Thomas R. Robinson

Union Pacific: The Rebirth, 1894-1969. By Maury Klein · New York: Doubleday, 1989. xviii + 654 pp. Maps, illustrations, selected bibliography, notes, and index. $29.95 pp. 179-181

Keith L. Bryant

The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn in Illinois, 1890–1940. By Deborah Fitzgerald · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990. xi + 247 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 181-183

Glenn E. Bugos

What's a Coal Miner to Do? The Mechanization of Coal Mining. By Keith Dix · Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. xi + 258 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $29.95 pp. 183-185

James R. Green

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. By Ron Chernow · New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. xvii + 812 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 185-187

Edwin J. Perkins

Easy Money: Oil Promoters and Investors in the Jazz Age. By Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xi + 216 pp. Illustrations, glossary, notes, and index. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $11.95 pp. 187-188

William R. Childs

The U.S. Tire Industry: A History. By Michael J. French · Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1990. xvii + 156 pp. Tables, chronology, bibliographic essay, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $22.95; paper, $11.95 pp. 189-190

Daniel Nelson

The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980. Edited by Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. xxv + 311 pp. Notes and index. $25.00 pp. 190-194

Stephen Amberg

Eli Lilly: A Life, 1885–1977. By James H. Madison · Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1989. xiii + 342 pp. Illustrations, notes, notes on sources, and index. $29.95 pp. 194-196

David L. Cowen

A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. By Michael Frisch · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. xxiv + 273 pp. Illustrations, tables, and notes. Cloth, $54.50; paper, $17.95 pp. 196-198

Joel R. Gardner

The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry: A Grown Man's Game. Edited by Dianne Newell · Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. xix + 303 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 pp. 198-200

Arthur F. McEvoy

The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age. By Arthur J. Ray · Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1990. xviii + 283 pp. Charts, maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $18.95 pp. 200-201

Ann Carlos

The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World. Edited by James D. Tracy · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xviii + 442 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $47.50 pp. 201-203

Constance Jones Mathers

World Economy and World Politics, 1924–1931: From Reconstruction to Collapse. By Gilbert Ziebura · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. xiv + 190 pp. Tables, select bibliography, and index. $44.00 pp. 203-205

Diane B. Kunz

Inventing the Industrial Revolution: The English Patent System, 1660–1800. By Christine MacLeod · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xii + 302 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.50 pp. 205-207

Jennifer Tann

International Competition and Industrial Change: Essays in the History of Mining and Metallurgy, 1800–1950. Edited by Charles Harvey and Jon Press · London: Frank Cass, 1990. 167 pp. Charts, maps, tables, notes, and index. $35.00 pp. 207-209

Thomas F. O'Brien

Sir Eric Geddes: Business and Government in War and Peace. By Keith Grieves · New York: Manchester University Press, 1990. xiv + 188 pp. Bibliographical note, selected reading, and index. $59.95 pp. 209-211

Derek Matthews

The British Aircraft Industry. By Keith Hayward · New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. xvi + 221 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and selected bibliography. $59.95 pp. 211-213

David Edgerton

A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840–1940. By Gary Cross · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. x + 330 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $35.00. - Reduced Worktime and the Management of Production. By Chris Nyland · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xi + 217 pp. Tables, references, and index. $37.50 pp. 213-217

Wayne Lewchuk

Before Copyright: The French Book-Privilege System, 1498–1526. By Elizabeth Armstrong · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xvii + 317 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $59.50 pp. 217-219

Steven A. Epstein

Workers in French Society in the 19th and 20th Centuries. By Gérard Noiriel · New York: Berg, 1990. xvii + 278 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $58.00 pp. 219-221

Gerald Friedman

Die Bedeutung der Kommunikation für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Edited by Hans Pohl · Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1989. 485 pp. Charts, maps, tables, and notes. DM 128 pp. 221-223

Michael L. Hughes

The Diamond Ring: Business, Politics, and Precious Stones in South Africa, 1867–1947. By Colin Newbury · New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press, 1989. xvi + 431 pp. Maps, charts, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.00 pp. 223-224

Stanley D. Chapman

International Trade in Services. By Ken Tucker and Mark Sundberg. London: Routledge, 1989. 216 pp. Charts, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50 pp. 224-226

Louis T. Wells