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Volume 66, issue 4, 1992

Plush Endeavors: An Analysis of the Modern American Soft-Toy Industry pp. 637-670

Margaret Walsh

T. C. Power & Bro.: The Rise of a Small Western Department Store, 1870–1902 pp. 671-722

Henry C. Klassen

The Decline of Child Labor in the U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Canning Industry: Law or Economics? pp. 723-770

Martin Brown, Jens Christiansen and Peter Philips

Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System. Edited byBarbara L. Solow · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. v + 355 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $39.50. ISBN 0-521-40090-2 pp. 774-776

Alan L. Karras

Cotton & Capital: Boston Businessmen and Antislavery Reform, 1854–1868. ByRichard H. Abbott · Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991. x + 294 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $32.50. ISBN 0-87023-749-7 pp. 776-778

Stephen E. Maizlish

The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South. Edited byIra Berlin · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxxvii + 937 pp. Tables and index. $54.50. ISBN 0-521-39493 pp. 778-779

Michael P. Johnson

James Bowron: The Autobiography of a New South Industrialist. ByRobert J. Norrell · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xxxii + 285 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8078-1987-5 pp. 780-781

Walter B. Weare

Palace Car Prince: A Biography of George Mortimer Pullman. ByListon Edgington Leyendecker · Niwott: University Press of Colorado, 1992. xiii + 323 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-87081-223-8 pp. 782-784

Colin J. Davis

Hecla: A Century of Western Mining. ByJohn Fahey · Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991. x + 254 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-295-97014-6 pp. 784-785

James E. Fell

Hanging by a Thread: Social Change in Southern Textiles. Edited byJeffrey Leiter, Michael D. Schulman, and Rhonda Zingraff · Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1991. viii + 248 pp. Tables, figures, references, and index. Cloth, $32.00, ISBN 0-87546-173-5; paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-87546-174-3 pp. 785-787

Melton McLaurin

The Depression and the Urban West Coast, 1929–1933: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland. ByWilliam H. Mullins · Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. xi + 176 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-253-33935-9 pp. 787-789

Craig E. Wollner

Partners in Science: Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1900–1945. ByRobert E. Kohler · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xv + 415 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-226-45060-0 pp. 789-790

Carroll W. Pursell

Chicago's North Michigan Avenue: Planning and Development, 1900–1930. ByJohn W. Stamper · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xxv + 318 pp. Illustrations, maps, plans, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-226-77085-0 pp. 791-792

Patricia Burgess

The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930. ByHarold L. Platt · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xviii + 381 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-226-67075-9 pp. 793-794

William Hausman

A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Volume 3: The Transmission of Power. ByLouis C. Hunter and Lynwood Bryant · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991. vi + 596 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, and index. $50.00. ISBN 0-262-08198-9 pp. 794-796

G. N. von Tunzelmann

The Portable Radio in American Life. ByMichael Brian Schiffer · Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991. xvii + 259 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8165-1259-0 pp. 796-798

Henry Petroski

Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, 1945–1975. ByBrian Balogh · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xi + 340 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $34.50, ISBN 0-521-37296-8; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-521-45736-X pp. 798-800

Sheila Jasanoff

More Profile than Courage: The New York City Transit Strike of 1966. ByMichael Marmo · Albany: SUNY Press, 1990. ix + 333 pp. Charts, notes, and index. Cloth, $57.50, ISBN 0-7914-0261-4; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-7914-0262-2 pp. 800-803

Eric Arnesen

A History of Small Business in America. ByMansel G. Blackford · New York: Twayne Publishers, 1991. xx + 176 pp. Charts, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-8057-9824-2; paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-8057-9825-0 pp. 803-805

John N. Ingham

The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. ByJuliet B. Schor · New York: Basic Books, 1992. xiii + 247 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $21.00. ISBN 0-465-05433-1 pp. 805-806

Gary Cross

The Revolution in U.S. Finance. ByRobert E. Litan · Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1991. viii + 55 pp. Tables, charts, and notes. Paper, $6.95. ISBN 0-8157-5279-2 pp. 806-809

George J. Benston

The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. ByJoel Mokyr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. ix + 349 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-19-506113-6 pp. 809-811

William M. McBride

Before the Luddites: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776–1809. ByAdrian Randall · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xvii + 318 pp. Maps, charts, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.50. ISBN 0-521-39042-7 pp. 812-814

Craig Calhoun

International Competition and Strategic Response in the Textile Industries since 1870. Edited byMary B. Rose · London: Frank Cass, 1991. 194 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $32.00. ISBN 0-7146-3412-3 pp. 814-816

Gavin Wright

A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941–1946. ByRandall Bennett Woods · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xi + 473 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $42.50. ISBN 0-8078-1877-1 pp. 816-818

Leslie S. Pressnell

Banks and Money: International and Comparative Finance in History. Edited byGeoffrey Jones · London: Frank Cass, 1991. ix + 198 pp. Tables, charts, notes, and index. $29.50. ISBN 0-7146-3444-1 pp. 818-820

Charles Goodhart

Organising Business for War: Corporatist Economic Organisation during the Second World War. Edited byWyn Grant, Jan Nekkers, and Frans van Waarden · New York: Berg Publishers, 1992. xviii + 310 pp. Tables, notes, and bibliography. $68.00. ISBN 0-85496-655-2 pp. 820-822

Mark Harrison

Mergers and Acquisitions. Edited byGregory P. Marchildon · Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1991. xviii + 585 pp. Tables, charts, figures, notes, and index. $142.95. ISBN 1-85278-430-X. - Government and Business. Edited bySteven W. Tolliday · Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1991. xix + 576 pp. Tables, illustrations, maps, charts, appendixes, notes, and index. $142.95. ISBN 1-85278-371-0. - The Growth of Multinationals. Edited byMira Wilkins · Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1991. xvi + 608 pp. Charts, figures, appendixes, notes, and index. $135.95. ISBN 1-85278-370-2 pp. 823-824

Mansel G. Blackford

Economic Stabilization and Debt in Developing Countries. ByRichard N. Cooper · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992. xi + 195 pp. Tables, charts, notes, references, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-262-03187-6 pp. 825-827

David Felix

The World Bank Group: A Guide to Information Sources. ByCarol R. Wilson · New York: Garland Publishing, 1991. xviii + 322 pp. Appendixes and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8240-4429-0 pp. 827-828

Craig N. Murphy

Union of Parts: Labor Politics in Postwar Germany. ByKathleen A. Thelen · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992. xii + 262 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.50. ISBN 0-8014-2586-7 pp. 828-830

Peter Swenson

Bulls in the China Shop and Other Sino-American Business Encounters. ByRandall E. Stross · New York: Pantheon Books, 1991. xx + 330 pp. Notes and index. $25.00. ISBN 0-394-58292-6 pp. 831-832

Jürgen Osterhammel

Division of Labour: Industrial Relations in the Chifley Years, 1945–49. ByTom Sheridan · New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. x + 404 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-554961-9 pp. 832-833

Shawn Kantor

Volume 66, issue 3, 1992

The Origins And Evolution of Japanese Direct Investment in Europe pp. 435-474

Mark Mason

Kellogg's Six-Hour Day: A Capitalist Vision of Liberation through Managed Work Reduction pp. 475-522

Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt

From Trust to Contract: The Legal Language of Managerial Ideology, 1920–1980 pp. 523-572

Allen Kaufman and Lawrence Zacharias

John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic. ByJohn Denis Haeger · Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1991. 367 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8143-1876-2 pp. 576-578

Nancy F. Koehn

Revenuers and Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal Liquor Law in the Mountain South, 1865–1900. ByWilbur R. Miller · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. x + 251 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-1959-X; paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8078-4330-X pp. 579-580

James S. Roberts

Frederick Billings: A Life. ByRobin W. Winks · New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. x + 398 pp. Illustrations, notes, note on sources, and index. $27.95. ISBN 0-19-506814-9 pp. 581-582

William B. Friedricks

Enterprise and American Law, 1836–1937. ByHerbert Hovenkamp · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. x + 443 pp. Notes and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-674-25748-0 pp. 582-584

Kenneth Lipartito

The Political Economy of the Sherman Act: The First One Hundred Years. Edited byE. Thomas Sullivan · New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. viii + 328 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-19-506642-1 pp. 584-586

Peter C. Carstensen

The Quest for Authority and Honor in the American Professions,1750-1900. By Samuel Haber · Chicago·, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 478 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index.$39.95. ISBN 0-226-31173-2 pp. 586-588

Tony Freyer

Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863–1923. ByEric Arnesen · New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xiii + 353 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-505380 pp. 589-590

Louise R. Edwards

Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments. ByRichard Gillespie · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. x + 282 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $39.50. ISBN 0-521-40358-8 pp. 590-592

H. M. Gitelman

Taylorism Transformed: Scientific Management Theory since 1945. ByStephen P. Waring · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. ix + 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-8078-1972-7 pp. 592-594

John M. Jordan

Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor. Edited byAva Baron · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991. vii + 385 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-8014-2256-6; paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-8014-9543-1 pp. 594-596

Colette A. Hyman

Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company. ByCharles Musser · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xii + 591 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, index, and film title index. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-520-06080-6; paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-520-06986-2 pp. 596-598

Catherine Kerr

Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America. ByNeil Harris · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1990. vii + 453 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-226-31757-9; paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-226-31758-7 pp. 598-600

David Glassberg

Saving the Savings and Loan: The U.S. Thrift Industry and the Texas Experience, 1950–1988. ByM. Manfred Fabritius and William Borges · Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1989. xiii + 162 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.95. ISBN 0-275-93161-7 pp. 600-602

Richard Grossman

High Rollers: Inside the Savings and Loan Debacle. ByMartin Lowy · Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1991. v + 321 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-275-93988-X pp. 602-603

Richard H. Keehn

The Costing Heritage: Studies in Honor of S. Paul Garner. Edited byO. Finley Graves · Harrisonburg, Va.: The Academy of Accounting Historians, 1991. vii + 171 pp. Notes, tables, bibliography, and index. $20.00. ISBN 1-879750-04-X pp. 603-605

Paul Miranti

Power and Economic Institutions: Reinterpretations in Economic History. Edited byBo Gustafsson · Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1991. vii + 344 pp. Notes, tables, bibliography, and index. $69.95. ISBN 1-85278-397-4 pp. 606-607

Gregory Clark

Close Ties: Railways, Government, and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1851–1933. ByKen Cruikshank · Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. xvi + 287 pp. Maps, graphs, tables, appendixes, notes, and bibliography. $44.95. ISBN 0-7735-0854-6 pp. 608-610

William R. Childs

Latin America's Economy: Diversity, Trends, and Conflicts. ByEliana Cardoso and Ann Helwege · Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992. xxiii + 326 pp. Tables, charts, appendixes, notes, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-262-03186-8 pp. 610-612

Laura Randall

Geopolitics and Geoculture: Essays on the Changing World-System. ByImmanuel Wallerstein · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. vii + 242 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $39.50, ISBN 0-521-40454-1; paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-521-40604-8 pp. 612-614

Rondo Cameron

Europe, America, and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism. ByWilliam N. Parker · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. vii + 372 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.50. ISBN 0-521-25466-3 pp. 614-616

Lee Craig

Commitment: The Dynamic of Strategy. ByPankaj Ghemawat · New York: The Free Press, 1991. vii + 178 pp. Notes, tables, graphs, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-02-911575-2 pp. 616-618

F. M. Scherer

Technology Transfer in International Business. Edited byTamir Agmon and Mary Ann Von Glinow · New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xii + 285 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-19-506235-3 pp. 618-620

David J. Jeremy

The Struggle for Market Power: Industrial Relations in the British Coal Industry, 1800–1840. ByJames A. Jaffe · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ix + 228 pp. Notes, tables, bibliography, and index. $49.50. ISBN 0-521-39146-6 pp. 620-621

Michael Dintenfass

England and the Aeroplane: An Essay on a Militant and Technological Nation. ByDavid Edgerton · Basingstoke, England: Macmillan, 1991. xx + 139 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, £35.00, ISBN 0-333-55022-6; paper, £14.99, ISBN 0-333-56921-0 pp. 622-623

Maurice Kirby

Coal, Steel, and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945–1955: The Germans and French from Ruhr Conflict to Economic Community. ByJohn Gillingham · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. vii + 397 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $44.50. ISBN 0-521-40059-7 pp. 624-626

W. Peter Howlett

Bureaucratisation in Northwestern Europe, 1880–1985: Domination and Governance. ByRolf Torstendahl · New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1991. x + 339 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $74.50. ISBN 0-415-00026-2 pp. 626-628

Bo Stråth

Protectionism and International Banking. Edited byGerhard Fels and George Sutija · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. v + 235 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0-312-04893-9 pp. 628-630

Frank H. H. King

The Role of Banks in the Interwar Economy. Edited byHarold James, Håkan Lindgren, andAlice Teichova · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. vii + 277 pp. Notes, tables, and index. $44.50. ISBN 0-521-39437-6 pp. 630-632

Theo Balderston

An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932–1934. Edited byMichael Gelb · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. ix + 363 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-520-07134-4 pp. 632-634

Christine A. White

The Hongkong Bank in the Period of Development and Nationalism, 1941–1984: From Regional Bank to Multinational Group. ByFrank H. H. King · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xlviii + 991 pp. Illustrations, tables, charts, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $100.00. ISBN 0-521-32709-1 pp. 634-635

Rodney Wilson

Volume 66, issue 2, 1992

From Novelty to Utility: George Westinghouse and the Business of Innovation during the Age of Edison pp. 251-304

Steven W. Usselman

Lighting the Path to Profit: GE's Control of the Electric Lamp Industry, 1892–1941 pp. 305-334

Leonard S. Reich

Business Enterprise and the Great Depression in Brazil: A Study of Profits and Losses in Textile Manufacturing pp. 335-363

Stephen H. Haber

Black Property Owners in the South, 1790–1915. ByLoren Schweninger · Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1990. xvii + 426 pp. Charts, maps, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $50.00. ISBN 0-252-01678-5 pp. 367-368

Peter Rachleff

Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. ByTheodore Steinberg · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. v + 284 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $34.50. ISBN 0-521-39215-2 pp. 369-371

Donald J. Pisani

Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833–1872. ByRobin L. Einhorn · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xvii + 295 pp. Figures, maps, notes, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-226-19484-1 pp. 371-373

Louis Cain

Shaping Invention: Thomas Blanchard's Machinery and Patent Management in Nineteenth-Century America. ByCarolyn C. Cooper · New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. vii + 326 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-231-06868-9 pp. 374-376

Ross Thomson

Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870–1900. ByW. Bernard Carlson · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xxii + 377 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, and index. $44.50. ISBN 0-521-39317-5 pp. 376-377

Keith A. Nier

Making Iron and Steel: Independent Mills in Pittsburgh, 1820–1920. ByJohn N. Ingham · Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 1991. xi + 297 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8142-0542-9 pp. 378-379

Patricia O'Brien

The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills. ByJudith A. Adams · New York: Twayne Publishers, 1991. xvi + 225 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $27.95, ISBN 0-8057-9821-8; paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-8057-9821-8 pp. 380-381

Cindy S. Aron

Buy Now Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durables in the 1920s. ByMartha L. Olney · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. viii + 424 pp. Tables, graphs, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8078-1958-1 pp. 382-384

Sue M. Bowden

Labors of a Modern Hercules: The Evolution of a Chemical Company. ByDavis Dyer and David B. Sicilia · Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1990. xxiii + 528 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. ISBN 0-87584-227-5 pp. 384-386

Donald Stabile

Eberstadt and Forrestal: A National Security Partnership, 1909–1949. ByJeffery M. Dorwart · College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991. ix + 237pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-89096-469-6 pp. 386-388

Robert D. Cuff

Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: Roosevelt versus Recovery, 1933–1938. ByGary Dean Best · New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. xvii + 267 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-275-93524-8 pp. 388-389

Louis Ferleger

Baker & Botts in the Development of Modern Houston. ByKenneth Lipartito and Joseph Pratt · Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. vii + 253 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-292-70782-7 pp. 389-391

Thomas Palay

Public Service Liberalism: Telecommunications and Transitions in Public Policy. ByAlan Stone · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. xi + 296 pp. Notes and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-691-02841-9 pp. 391-393

Kenneth Lipartito

Regulation: Economic Theory and History. Edited byJack High · Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991. 191 pp. Tables, figures, notes, and index. $34.50. ISBN 0-472-10272-9 pp. 393-396

Gary D. Libecap

Hoffa. ByArthur A. Sloane · Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. ix + 430 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-262-19309-4 pp. 396-397

Joe McCartin

Mexico's Merchant Elite, 1590–1660: Silver, State, and Society. ByLouisa Schell Hoberman · Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991. xiv + 352 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8223-1134-8 pp. 398-399

John E. Kicza

Predators and Prizes: American Privateering and Imperial Warfare, 1739–1748. ByCarl E. Swanson · Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. xviii + 299 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-87249-720-8 pp. 400-402

Nancy F. Koehn

Piero Sraffa—Unorthodox Economist (1898–1983): A Biographical Essay. ByJean-Pierre Potier · New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1991. x + 109 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $32.50. ISBN 0-415-05959-3 pp. 402-405

Michael A. Bernstein

International Technology Transfer: Europe, Japan and the USA, 1700–1914. Edited byDavid J. Jeremy · Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1991. v + 253 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $68.95. ISBN 1-85278-317-6 pp. 405-407

Steven W. Usselman

Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939. ByBarry Eichengreen · New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xix + 448 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.00. ISBN 0-19-5064313-3 pp. 407-409

Lawrence H. Officer

American Management and British Labor: A Comparative Study of the Cotton Spinning Industry. ByIsaac Cohen · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990. 250 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-313-26780-4 pp. 409-411

D. A. Farnie

Competitiveness and the State: Government and Business in Twentieth-Century Britain. Edited byGeoffrey Jones and Maurice W. Kirby · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. vi + 203 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0-7190-3276-8 pp. 411-413

Roger Middleton

The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis. ByDiane B. Kunz · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xii + 295 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8078-1967-0 pp. 413-415

Robert L. Tignor

Le coton et ses patrons: France, 1760–1840. BySerge Chassagne · Paris: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1991. 733 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. 430 F. ISBN 2-7132-0968-4 pp. 416-417

Katrina Honeyman

Alternating Currents: Nationalized Power in France, 1946–1970. ByRobert L. Frost · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991. vii + 285 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $37.95. ISBN 0-8014-2351-1 pp. 418-420

Herrick Chapman

Replacement Costs and Accounting Reform in Post-World War I Germany. Edited byGraeme W. Dean, Frank L. Clarke, and O. Finley Graves · New York: Garland Publishing, 1990. viii + 188 pp. Tables and bibliography. $45.00. ISBN 0-8153-0006-9 pp. 420-421

R. H. Parker

Die Mannesmannröhren-Werke 1888 bis 1920: Organisation und Unternehmensführung unter der Gründerfamilie, Bankiers und Managern. ByYorck Dietrich · Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1991. vii + 203 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. DM 58. ISBN 3-515-05695-5 pp. 421-423

Harm G. Schröter

Politik, Wirtschaft und Internationale Beziehungen: Studien zu Ihrem Verhältnis in der Zeit zwischen den Weltkriegen. Edited byHarm G. Schröter and Clemens A. Wurm · Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1991. Figures, tables, and notes. DM 48. ISBN 3-8053-1255-5 pp. 423-424

Raymond G. Stokes

America's Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany. ByThomas Alan Schwartz · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. xiii + 404 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-03115-6 pp. 424-426

Hubert P. H. Nusteling

The Corporation under Russian Law, 1800–1917: A Study in Tsarist Economic Policy. ByThomas C. Owen · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. vii + 234 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50. ISBN 0-521-39126-1 pp. 426-428

John P. McKay

Industrial Training and Technological Innovation: A Comparative and Historical Study. Edited byHoward F. Gospel · New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1991. x + 246 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $77.00. ISBN 0-415-04340-9 pp. 428-430

David Lindenfeld

Technology and Investment: The Prewar Japanese Chemical Industry. ByBarbara Molony · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. xv + 396 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $28.00. ISBN 0-674-87260-6 pp. 430-432

Janet Hunter

Japan's Software Factories: A Challenge to U.S. Management. ByMichael A. Cusumano · New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. ix + 513 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-19-506216-7 pp. 432-434

Martin Fransman

Volume 66, issue 1, 1992

The Business History of New Technologies pp. ix-xiv

Anonymous

External Economies and Economic Progress: The Case of the Microcomputer Industry pp. 1-50

Richard Langlois

Strategic Maneuvering and Mass-Market Dynamics: The Triumph of VHS over Beta pp. 51-94

Michael A. Cusumano, Yiorgos Mylonadis and Richard S. Rosenbloom

Theodore N. Vail and the Role of Innovation in the Modern Bell System pp. 95-126

Louis Galambos

Intellectual Property Protection in the American Chicken–Breeding Industry pp. 127-168

Glenn E. Bugos

Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808. ByRachel N. Klein · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xii + 331 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-8078-1899-2 pp. 171-173

Mary Stovall Richards

The New York City Artisan, 1789–1825: A Documentary History. Edited byHoward B. Rock · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. xxvi + 273 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $73.50, ISBN 0-7914-0096-4; paper, $24.50, ISBN 0-7914-0097-2 pp. 173-174

Thomas R. Winpenny

Tournament of Lawyers: The Transformation of the Big Law Firm. ByMarc Galanter and Thomas Palay · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xii + 197 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50. ISBN 0-226-27877-8 pp. 174-176

Tony Freyer

A Tale of Three Cities: Labor Organization and Protest in Paterson, Passaic, and Lawrence, 1916–1921. ByDavid J. Goldberg · New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1989. xiv + 276 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $38.00, ISBN 0-8135-1371-5; paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8135-1372-3 pp. 176-178

Laurence F. Gross

The City Builders: One Hundred Years of Union Carpentry in Portland, Oregon, 1883–1983. ByCraig Wollner · Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990. xvi + 165 pp. Appendixes, notes, sources, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-87595-198-8 pp. 178-180

Mark Erlich

Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor. BySteven Fraser · New York: Free Press, 1991. xvi + 688 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-02-910630-3 pp. 180-182

Robert Asher

Southern Timberman: The Legacy of William Buchanan. ByArcher H. Mayor · Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. xviii + 263 pp. Illustrations, charts, bibliography, notes, and index. $30.00. ISBN 0-8203-0999-0 pp. 183-185

James E. Fickle

Fig Leaves and Fortunes: A Fashion Company Named Warnaco. ByJohn W. Field · West Kennebunk, Me.: Phoenix Publishing, 1990. x + 160 pp. Illustrations and index. $25.00. ISBN 0-914659-46-4 pp. 185-187

Bernard Smith

Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940. ByDavid E. Nye · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991. xi + 479 pp. Illustrations, notes, research collections, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-262-14048-9 pp. 188-189

Jeffrey L. Meikle

Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. ByVirginia Scharff · New York: Free Press, 1991. xi + 219 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $22.95. ISBN 0-02-928135-0 pp. 190-191

Lois W. Banner

The Struggle for Auto Safety. ByJerry L. Mashaw and David L. Harfst · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. xi + 285pp. Notes and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-84530-7 pp. 191-193

Peter C. Carstensen

Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance during the Great Depression. ByDavid T. Beito · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. xv + 216 pp. Charts, maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-8078-1836-4 pp. 193-197

Barry D. Riccio

The Governmental Habit Redux: Economic Controls from Colonial Times to the Present. ByJonathan R. T. Hughes · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. 271 pp. Notes and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-04272-1 pp. 197-199

Louis Cain

After the Breakup: Assessing the New Post–AT&T Divestiture Era. Edited byBarry G. Cole · New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. xxvi + 480 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $55.00. ISBN 0-231-07322-4 pp. 199-201

Kenneth Lipartito

Antitrust and the Triumph of Economics: Institutions, Expertise and Policy Change. ByMarc Allen Eisner · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xii + 302 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-8078-1955-7 pp. 201-203

Theodore P. Kovaleff

Visionary Capitalism: Financial Markets and the American Dream in the Twentieth Century. ByCharles R. Geisst · New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. x + 191 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $42.95. ISBN 0-275-93283-4 pp. 203-205

George D. Green

What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History. ByWalter G. Vincenti · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, viii + 326 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8018-3974-2 pp. 205-206

Trevor J. Pinch

Space Commerce. ByJohn L. McLucas · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. x + 241 pp. Maps, illustrations, source notes, abbreviations, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-674-83020-2 pp. 207-208

Alice Hill

The Breakthrough Illusion: Corporate America's Failure to Move from Innovation to Mass Production. ByRichard Florida and Martin Kenney. New York: Basic Books, 1990. x + 262 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $19.95. ISBN 0-465-00749-X pp. 208-210

Craig Wollner

The New Competition: Institutions of Industrial Restructuring. ByMichael H. Best · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. x + 296 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50. ISBN 0-674-60925-5 pp. 210-212

Jim Tomlinson

Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820–1914. ByEric W. Sager · Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. xxvi + 321 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-7735-0670-5. - Maritime Capital: The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820–1914. ByEric W. Sager, with Gerald E. Panting · Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990. xxvii + 289 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-7735-0764-7 pp. 212-214

Gordon Boyce

Agrarian Capitalism and the World Market: Buenos Aires in the Pastoral Age, 1840–1890. ByHilda Sabato · Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. xiv + 316 pp. Charts, maps, tables, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00. ISBN 0-8263-1218-7 pp. 214-216

Donna J. Guy

Wage Labor & Guilds in Medieval Europe. BySteven A. Epstein · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. vii + 307 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8078-1939-5 pp. 216-218

Thomas W. Blomquist

Ricardo and the Gold Standard: The Foundations of the International Monetary Order. ByMaria Cristina Marcuzzo and Annalisa Rosselli · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. x + 183 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index of names. $59.95. ISBN 0-312-05327-4 pp. 219-220

Leonard Gomes

Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand–Year History. ByArnold Pacey · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991. vii + 238 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $10.95. ISBN 0-262-66072-5 pp. 221-223

Joel Mokyr

The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851–1945. ByDaniel R. Headrick · New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 289 pp. Tables, graphs, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $32.50. ISBN 0-19-506273-6 pp. 223-225

James Schwoch

Reversing Industrial Decline? Industrial Structure and Policy in Britain and Her Competitors. Edited byPaul Hirst and Jonathan Zeitlin · New York: Berg, 1989. viii + 295 pp. Charts, tables, notes, references, and index. $52.00. ISBN 0-85496-029-5 pp. 225-227

Alan Cawson

Railway Imperialism. Edited byClarence B. Davis and Kenneth E. WilburnJr, with Ronald E. Robinson · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991. xix + 225 pp. Maps, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $42.95. ISBN 0-313-25966-6 pp. 227-229

Peter J. Cain

Banks as Multinationals. Edited byGeoffrey Jones · New York: Routledge, 1990. xii + 301 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $74.00. ISBN 0-415-04245-3 pp. 229-231

Richard Sylla

The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975. ByPeter Baldwin · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xiii + 353 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $44.50. ISBN 0-521-37512-6 pp. 231-234

Pat Thane

The Agony of Modernization: Labor and Industrialization in Spain. ByBenjamin Martin · Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1990. xvii + 570 pp. Charts, tables, bibliographic essay, notes, and index. $42.00. ISBN 0-87546-165-4 pp. 234-236

Pamela B. Radcliff

Big Business and Industrial Conflict in Nineteenth-Century France: A Social History of the Parisian Gas Company. ByLenard R. Berlanstein · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. v + 348 pp. Illustrations, tables, graphs, and index. $42.50. ISBN 0-520-07234-0 pp. 236-237

Gary Cross

State Capitalism and Working–Class Radicalism in the French Aircraft Industry. ByHerrick Chapman · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xvii + 412 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-520-07125-5; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-520-07125-5 pp. 238-240

Edward H. Lorenz

La questione meridionale prima dell'intervento straordinario. By Amedeo Lepore · Rome: Piero Lacaita Editore, 1991. 171 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. Lira 20,000 pp. 240-242

David G. LoRomer

Politics and the African Development Bank. ByKaren A. Mingst · Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. xii + 204 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $26.00. ISBN 0-8131-1754-2 pp. 242-243

Dennis M. P. McCarthy

Oil, State and Industrialization in Iran. ByMassoud Karshenas · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xviii + 308 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, bibliography, notes, and index. $49.50. ISBN 0-521-38521-X pp. 244-245

Frances Bostock

Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: The Invention of a Tradition. ByW. Dean Kinzley · New York: Routledge, 1991. xvii + 190 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0-415-05167-3 pp. 246-248

Yuzuru Suzuki

Japanese Takeovers: The Global Contest for Corporate Control. ByW. Carl Kester · Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1990. xxii + 298 pp. Tables, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-87584-235-6 pp. 248-249

James A. Fairburn