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Volume 64, issue 4, 1990

Japanese Multinationals in the United States: Continuity and Change, 1879–1990 pp. 585-629

Mira Wilkins

“A Triumph in Modern Philanthropy”: Age Criteria in Labor Management at the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1875–1930 pp. 630-656

Brian Gratton

Bad Work Practices and Good Management Practices: The Consequences of the Extension of Managerial Control in British and Japanese Manufacturing since 1950 pp. 657-688

John Williams, Colin Haslam and Karel Williams

Scale and Scope: A Review Colloquium - Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. By Alfred D. ChandlerJr., with Takashi Hikino · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. xix + 860 pp. Charts, figures, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $35.00 pp. 690-735

Alfred Chandler

Response to the Contributors to the Review Colloquium on Scale and Scope pp. 736-758

Alfred Chandler

The Law in America, 1607–1861. Edited byWilliam Pencak and Wythe W. HoltJr · New York: New-York Historical Society, 1990. xiii + 317 pp. Notes and index. $19.95 pp. 763-764

Charles W. McCurdy

Rum and the American Revolution: The Rum Trade and the Balance of Payments of the Thirteen Continental Colonies. ByJohn J. McCusker · New York: Garland Publishing Company, Inc., 1989. viii + 1367 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, bibliographic materials, and notes. 2 vols. $210 pp. 765-766

David Richardson

The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860. ByChristopher Clark · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990. xii + 339 pp. Tables, appendix, and index. $32.50 pp. 766-768

Gregory H. Nobles

Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780–1910. ByMary H. Blewett · Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xxii + 444 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 768-770

Joe McCartin

Ruffin: Family and Reform in the Old South. ByDavid F. AllmendingerJr. · New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xiv + 274 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $34.50 pp. 770-772

Mary Stovall Richards

Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South: The Failure of Agricultural Reform. ByWilliam M. Mathew · Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. xiv + 286 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 772-774

Elizabeth D. Leonard

Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. ByRobert William Fogel · New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. 539 pp. Charts, maps, illustrations, tables, notes, references, and index. $22.50 pp. 774-776

Ralph A. Austen

Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry. ByPriscilla Long · New York: Paragon House, 1989. xxv + 420 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 pp. 776-778

Joe W. Trotter

The Conrey Placer Mining Company: A Pioneer Gold-Dredging Enterprise in Montana, 1897–1922. ByClark C. Spence · Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 1990. x + 161 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $19.95 pp. 779-780

Paula Petrik

New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America. ByRichard S. Tedlow · New York: Basic Books, 1990. xi + 481 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 pp. 780-782

Daniel Pope

American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years. ByRussell Sanjek · New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xvi + 469 pp.; vi + 482 pp.; vi + 734 pp. Bibliography and index. Vols. 1 and 2, $45.00 each; vol. 3, $59.00 pp. 782-784

Kenneth J. Bindas

Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West. ByMark S. Foster · Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. xiv + 558 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic note, and index. $29.95 pp. 784-785

William B. Friedricks

Up Another Notch: Institution Building at Mead. ByWilliam H. A. Carr · New York: McGraw Hill Publishing Company, 1989. ix + 228 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, and index. $24.95 pp. 785-787

George Harmon

Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation. ByHindy Lauer Schachter · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. x + 175 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $12.95 pp. 787-789

Patrick Reagan

The Dread of Plenty: Agricultural Relief Activities of the Federal Government in the Middle West, 1933–1939. ByMichael W. Schuyler · Manhattan, Kans.: Sunflower University Press, 1989. xiii + 237 pp. Illustrations, note on sources, and index. $26.95 pp. 789-791

Sally Clarke

Regulation and the Reagan Era: Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest. Edited byRoger E. Meiners and Bruce Yandle · New York: Holmes & Meier, 1989. xv + 304 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $19.95 pp. 791-793

Dale G. Anderson

The Insecure Alliance: Energy Crises and Western Politics since 1944. ByEthan B. Kapstein · New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xv + 257 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 793-795

Bennett H. Wall

Oil in the World Economy. Edited byR. W. Ferrier and A. Fursenko · New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1990. 224 pp. Figures, tables, and index. $69.50 pp. 795-796

John G. Clark

The Emergence of Biotechnology: Institutions and Markets in Industrial Innovation. ByLuigi Orsenigo · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. xi + 230 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 pp. 796-798

Allan G. Bogue

The Internationalisation of Research and Development by Multinational Enterprises. ByRobert D. Pearce · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. xiii + 209 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 pp. 798-800

Benjamin Gomes-Casseres

Multinationals and Canada–United States Free Trade. ByAlan M. Rugman · Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990. xii + 193 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, references, and index. $29.95 pp. 800-801

Graham D. Taylor

A Family Business? The Making of an International Business Élite. ByJane Marceau · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xii + 247 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $42.50 pp. 802-803

Robert R. Locke

Regions and Industries: A Perspective on the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Edited byPat Hudson · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiii + 277 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, and index. $49.50 pp. 803-805

David S. Landes

Planned to Death: The Annihilation of a Place called Howdendyke. ByJ. Douglas Porteous · Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1989. xiii + 254. Maps, charts, illustrations, tables, references, and index. $45.00 pp. 805-807

Christopher Clark

External Economic Policy since the War: volume 1: The Post-War Financial Settlement. ByL. S. Pressnell · London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1986. xiv + 501 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index pp. 807-808

Bernard W. E. Alford

Women, Work, and the French State: Labour Protection and Social Patriarchy, 1879–1919. ByMary Lynn Stewart · Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. ix + 277 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography and index. $34.95 pp. 808-810

Lee Shai Weissbach

Work and Wages: Natural Law, Politics and the Eighteenth Century French Tirades. ByMichael Sonenscher · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xi + 427 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes bibliography, and index. $65.00 pp. 810-812

Patrice Higonnet

Finnish Industry in Transition, 1885–1920: Responding to Technological Changes. ByTimo Myllyntaus · Helsinki: The Museum of Technology, 1989. 86 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, and notes. FIM 45 pp. 812-814

Riitta Hjerppe

Vom Zollverein zum Industriestaat: Die wirtschaftlich-soziale Entwicklung Deutschlands 1834 bis 1914. ByRichard H. Tilly · Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1990. 237 pp. Charts, tables, references, appendixes, and notes. DM 12.80 pp. 814-816

Joerg P. Voegele

Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy: Shop-floor Culture and State Policy, 1921–1929. ByChris Ward · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xvii + 304 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, ana index. $49.50 pp. 816-817

Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Aftermath of War: Americans and the Remaking of Japan, 1945–1952. ByHoward B. Schonberger · Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1989. xi + 347 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $26.00; paper, $16.50 pp. 818-819

William M. Tsutsui

Volume 64, issue 3, 1990

The Service Industries pp. ix-x

S. T.,

Incorporating the Star: The Intersection of Business and Aesthetic Strategies in Early American Film pp. 383-410

Catherine E. Kerr

The Rise and Fall of Ace Records: A Case Study in the Independent Record Business pp. 411-450

Donald J. Mabry

Postal Subsidies for the Press and the Business of Mass Culture, 1880–1920 pp. 451-488

Richard B. Kielbowicz

What Have Lawyers Done For American Business? The Case of Baker & Botts of Houston pp. 489-526

Kenneth Lipartito

The Barrow Family and the Barataria and Lafourche Canal: The Transportation Revolution in Louisiana, 1829–1925. By Thomas A. Becnel · Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. xii + 202 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $27 00 pp. 530-531

David O. Whitten

Defending a Way of Life: An American Community in the Nineteenth Century. ByMichael Cassity · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. xv + 259 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $44.50; paper, $14.95 pp. 531-533

Paul G. Faler

Minnesota in a Century of Change: The State and Its People since 1900. Edited ByClifford E. ClarkJr., · St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1989. xiv + 607 pp. Maps, charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $35.95; paper, $19.95 pp. 533-534

George D. Green

Stanny: The Gilded Life of Stanford White. ByPaul R. Baker · New York: The Free Press, 1989. xi + 483 pp. Illustrations, notes, note on sources, and index. $24.95 pp. 535-536

Mark I. Gelfand

The Politics of Philanthropy: Abraham Flexner and Medical Education. BySteven C. Wheatley · Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. xx + 249 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $37.50; paper, $14.95 pp. 536-537

James H. Madison

Efficiency, Scientific Management, and Hospital Standardization: An Anthology of Sources. Edited ByEdward T. Morman · New York: Garland Publishing, 1989. xxx + 74 pp. Maps, charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and select bibliography. $45.00 pp. 538-539

Joel D. Howell

Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present. ByDavid K Goldfield · Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. xviii + 321 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical essay, and index. $24.95 pp. 539-540

Numan V. Bartley

United States Railroad Policy: Uncle Sam at the Throttle. ByJeffrey Orenstein · Chicago, III.: Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1990. ix + 186 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $23.95 pp. 540-541

Stephen Salsbury

Dillard's: The First Fifty Years. ByLeon Joseph Rosenberg · Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. xx + 141 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.95 pp. 542-543

Michael Miller

Wrong Number: The Breakup of AT&T. ByAlan Stone · New York: Basic Books, 1989. xi + 381 pp. Notes and index. $21.95 pp. 543-544

Theodore P. Kovaleff

Reinventing the Wheels: Ford's Spectacular Comeback. ByAlton F. Doody and Ron Bingaman · New York: Perennial Library of HarperCollins, 1990. xv + 136 pp. Paper, $8.95 pp. 545-546

Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva

The Generous Corporation: A Political Analysis of Economic Power. ByNeil J. Mitchell · New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989. x + 163 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $18.50 pp. 546-548

Larry Zacharias

Productivity and U.S. Economic Growth. ByDale W. Jorgenson, Frank M. Gollop, and Barbara M. Fraumeni · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988. 567 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $32.00 pp. 549-550

Adam B. Jaffe

The New Money Masters: Winning Investment Strategies of Soros, Lynch, Steinhardt, Rogers, Neff, Wanger, Michaelis, Carret. ByJohn Train · New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1989. xi + 385 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, and index. $22.50 pp. 550-552

Robert Sobel

Negotiating Freer Trade: The United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and the Trade Agreements of 1938. ByIan M. Drummond and Norman Hillmer · Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1989. x + 197 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $35.00 pp. 552-553

Barbara Austin

Between Profit and State: Intermediate Organizations in Britain and the United States. ByAlan Ware · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. xii + 308 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $42.00 pp. 554-555

Brian Gratton

The Promise of Privatization: A Challenge for U.S. Policy. Edited ByRaymond Vernon · New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1988. vii + 295 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, notes, and index. Cloth, $22.95; paper, $12.95 pp. 555-556

Martin Chick

France and Panama: The Unknown Years, 1894–1908. ByJames M. Skinner · New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1989. viii + 310 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, and bibliography. $40.90 pp. 557-558

Michael L. Conniff

Energy Politics in Columbia. ByRené De La Pedraja · Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1989. xi + 244 pp. Maps, notes, and index. $27.50 pp. 558-559

Stephen J. Randall

Comparative Economic Systems: Preindustrial and Modern Case Studies. ByManuel Gottlieb · Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988. xv + 382 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 pp. 560-561

Rondo Cameron

Capitalism, Culture and Economic Regulation. Edited ByLeigh Hancher and Michael Moran. New York: Clarendon Press or Oxford University Press, 1990. x + 314 pp. Notes and index. $55.00 pp. 561-562

Jim Tomlinson

A Social and Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe. ByGerold Ambrosius and William H. Hubbard · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. xv + 368 pp. Maps, charts, tables, suggestions for further reading, and index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19:95 pp. 563-564

Anthony L. Cardoza

George Jacob Holyoake (1817–1906) and the Development of the British Cooperative Movement. ByBarbara J. Blaszak · Dyfed, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988. 116 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 pp. 564-566

Clive Behagg

The Coal Question: Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. ByBen Fine · New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1990. Charts, tables, notes, references, and index. $55.00 pp. 566-568

Michael Dintenfass

Debating Coal Closures: Economic Calculation in the Coal Dispute, 1984–5. Edited by David Cooper and Trevor Hopper · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. vi + 288 pp. Charts, tables, notes, references, and index. $59.50 pp. 569-570

Kathy O'Donnell

Alvey: Britain's Strategic Computing Initiative. ByBrian Oakley and Kenneth Owen · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. xv + 337 pp. Tables, appendixes, references, bibliography, and index. $40.00 pp. 570-572

Martin Campbell-Kelly

Capital, Entrepreneurs and Profits. Edited ByR. P. T. Davenport-Hines · London: Frank Cass, 1990. ii + 361 pp. Charts, tables, and notes. £27.00. - Business in the Age of Depression and War. Edited ByR. P. T. Davenport-Hines · London: Frank Cass, 1990. xiii + 326 pp. Tables and notes. £27.00 pp. 572-574

Steven W. Tolliday

Le Négoce International XIIIe-XXe Siècle. Edited ByFrançois M. Crouzet · Paris: Economica, 1989. 249 pp. Maps, tables, and notes. 200F pp. 574-576

Ian Blanchard

Von der Dampfbarkasse zum Containerschiff: Werften und Schiffbau in Bremen und der Unterweserregion. Edited ByPeter Kuckuk and Hartmut Roder · Bremen: Steintor, 1988. 323 pp. Maps, charts, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. No price listed pp. 576-577

Sidney Pollard

Banche Locali e Sviluppo Dell'Economia: Parma e la Cassa di Risparmio. ByGian Luigi Basini and Giancarlo Forestieri · Milan, Italy: Cassa di Risparmio di Parma, 1989. iv + 655 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, and index. Lire 72,000 pp. 577-579

Francesco L. Galassi

Russian Economic History: The Nineteenth Century. ByArcadius Kahan. Edited ByRoger Weiss Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1989. xii + 244 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $18.95 pp. 579-580

John P. McKay

Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization. ByAlice H. Amsden New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xvi + 379 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 580-583

Helen Shapiro

Volume 64, issue 2, 1990

American Business Abroad pp. vi-ix

Anonymous

American Investment in Tropical Mexico: Rubber Plantations, Fraud, and Dollar Diplomacy, 1897–1913 pp. 217-254

William Schell

Pipeline Politics: America, TAPLINE, and the Arabs pp. 255-285

Douglas Little

Kennedy, Oil Imports, and the Fair Trade Doctrine pp. 286-310

Thomas W. Zeiler

Competition and Regulation: The Railroad Model pp. 311-325

Maury Klein

The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910–1960. Edited byMary H. Blewett · Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990. xxii + 330 pp. Charts, illustrations, glossary, and index. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $9.95 pp. 329-330

Ann Schofield

J. C. Nichols and the Shaping of Kansas City: Innovation in Planned Residential Communities. ByWilliam S. Worley · Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990. xxv + 324 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, chronology, bibliography, notes, and index. $29.50 pp. 330-332

Patricia Burgess Stach

The Grain Traders: The Story of the Chicago Board of Trade. ByWilliam G. Ferris · East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1988. xi + 223 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 pp. 332-333

Louis Cain

Field Man: The Chronicle of a Bank Farm Manager in the 1940s. ByHarold Bennett Clingerman · Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1989. xii + 183 pp. Selected bibliography. $19.95 pp. 333-334

Larry Schweikart

The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance. ByHenry Petroski · New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. xi + 434 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 pp. 334-336

Jeffrey L. Meikle

Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management. ByJoAnne Yates · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. xx + 339 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $29.50 pp. 336-338

John F. Stover

William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader. ByCraig Phelan · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. x + 223 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $12.95 pp. 338-340

Julia Greene

In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933–1966. ByJoshua B. Freeman · New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xiii + 434 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes and index. $34.50 pp. 340-343

Bruce Nelson

Eisenhower & Landrum-Griffin: A Study in Labor-Management Politics. ByR. Alton Lee · Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. xi + 202 pp. Index and notes. $21.00 pp. 343-345

Robert H. Zieger

From Monopoly to Competition: The Transformations of Alcoa, 1888–1986. ByGeorge David Smith · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xxxiv + 554 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $29.95 pp. 345-347

Mary Yeager

Growth in a Changing Environment: A History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) 1950-1972 and Exxon Corporation 1972–1975. ByBennett H. Wall · New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988. xlv + 1020 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. $39.50 pp. 347-349

David F. C. Myers

When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America. ByMax Holland · Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1989. xiii + 335 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography & sources, and index. $22.95 pp. 349-350

Craig Miner

The Political Economy of Regulation: The Case of Insurance. ByKenneth J. Meier · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. xviii + 230 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, and index. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $14.95 pp. 351-352

Anita Rapone

The Transformation of Corporate Control. ByNeil Fligstein · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. viii + 391 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 352-355

Richard E. Caves

The Measurement of Durable Goods Prices. ByRobert J. Gordon · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1990. xviii + 723 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, references, and index. $85.00 pp. 355-357

Timothy Bresnahan

The Commercial Fishery of the Canadian Great Lakes. ByA. B. McCullough · Ottawa, Ont.: Environment Canada, 1989. 153 pp. Charts, maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, and bibliography. Paper, $11.40 pp. 357-358

Douglas McCalla

The Political Economy of Mexican Oil. ByLaura Randall · New York: Praeger Publishers, 1989. x + 228 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 pp. 358-360

René De La Pedraja

British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830–1960. ByMarshall C. Eakin · Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1990. xxv + 334 pp. Charts, maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $47.50 pp. 360-362

Dauril Alden

Before European Hegemony: The World System, A.D. 1250–1350. ByJanet L. Abu-Lughod · New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xvii + 443 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 362-364

Thomas W. Blomquist

The Merchants Adventurers and the Continental Cloth-trade (1560s–1620s). ByWolf-Rüdiger Baumann · Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1990. xii + 425 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. DM 176 pp. 364-365

Jones Mathers

Pay Up and Play the Game: Professional Sport in Britain, 1875–1914. ByWray Vamplew · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xix + 394 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $54.50 pp. 366-367

Roger Munting

Innovating for Failure: Government Policy and the Early British Computer Industry. ByJohn Hendry · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. xvii + 240 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $35.00. - ICL: A Business and Technical History. ByMartin Campbell-Kelly · New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xii + 409 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $60.00 pp. 367-371

Steven W. Usselman

Prekäre Selbständigkeit: Zur Standortbestimmung von Handwerk, Hausindustrie und Kleingewerbe im Industriafisierungsprozess. Edited ByUlrich Wengenroth · Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1989. 220 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and bibliography pp. 371-374

Gary Herrigel

Internationale Kartelle und Außenpolitik. Edited ByClemens A. Wurm · Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1989. vii + 198 pp. Tables, abbreviations, notes, and bibliography. DM 58.00 pp. 374-376

Lon L. Peters

British Business in Asia since 1860. Edited ByR. P. T. Davenport-Hines and Geoffrey Jones · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xvi + 301 pp. Illustrations, tables, and notes. $54.50 pp. 376-377

Stanley D. Chapman

The Japanese Business Community and National Trade Policy, 1920–1942. ByWilliam Miles FletcherIII · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. xi + 226 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 pp. 377-379

Laura E. Hein

Fueling Growth: The Energy Revolution and Economic Policy in Postwar Japan. ByLaura E. Hein · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. xvi + 423 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $28.00 pp. 379-382

Richard J. Samuels

Volume 64, issue 1, 1990

Government and Business pp. vii-x

S. T.,

Corporate Liberalism and Electric Power System Planning in the 1920s pp. 1-31

Leonard DeGraaf

“Electricity for All”: The Electric Home and Farm Authority and the Politics of Mass Consumption, 1932–1935 pp. 32-60

Gregory B. Field

Contrived Competition: Airline Regulation and Deregulation, 1925–1988 pp. 61-108

Richard H. K. Vietor

British Rail's “Business-Led” Organization, 1977–1990: Government-Industry Relations in Britain's Public Sector pp. 109-149

Terence R. Gourvish

News in the Mail: The Press, Post Office, and Public Information, 1700–1860s. By Richard B. Kielbowicz · New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. xii + 209 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 pp. 153-154

Martin J. Daunton

Richard Peters: Champion of the New South. ByRoyce Shingleton · Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1985. xiv + 258 pp. Notes and index. $21.95 pp. 154-156

Thomas E. Terrill

No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, Helena, Montana, 1865–1900. By Paula Petrik · Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988. xix + 206 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 pp. 156-157

Julia Kirk Blackwelder

Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron. ByEdward N. Akin · Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1988. xiii + 305 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, select bibliography, and index. $24.00 pp. 157-159

William B. Friedricks

The Piano in America, 1890–1940. ByCraig H. Roell · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. xx + 396 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, select bibliography, and index. $35.95 pp. 159-161

Edwin M. Good

Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899–1922. BySusan J. Douglas · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xix + 363 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $29.50 pp. 161-163

Robert B. Horwitz

Mill Family: The Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880–1915. By Cathy L. McHugh · New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. x + 144 pp. Tables, charts, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 pp. 163-165

David L. Carlton

From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community. ByLouise Lamphere · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987. xviii + 390 pp. Maps, charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $14.95 pp. 165-166

Donna Gabaccia

Perspectives on American Labor History: The Problems of Synthesis. Edited byJ. Carroll Moody and Alice Kessler-Harris · DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1989. xix + 236 pp. Illustrations, tables, and notes. $28.50 pp. 166-168

Nick Salvatore

Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. ByClaudia Goldin · New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xi + 287 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $29.95 pp. 169-171

Ruth Milkman

The Corporate State and the Broker State: The Du Ponts and American National Politics, 1925–1940. ByRobert F. Burk · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. xi + 359 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $35.00 pp. 171-172

Robert Cuff

Liberty, Property, and Government: Constitutional Interpretation before the New Deal. Edited byEllen Frankel Paul and Howard Dickman · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. vii + 303 pp. Notes, contributors, and index. Cloth, $57.50; paper, $18.95 pp. 172-175

Richard P. Adelstein

Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939. ByDavid A. Lake · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988. xi + 242 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $29.95 pp. 175-176

Edward John Ray

The History of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States to 1914. ByMirn Wilkins · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. xxiii + 1055 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 pp. 177-180

Mark Casson

Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933–1940. ByJames S. Olson · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988. 246 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $30.00 pp. 180-181

Richard H. Keehn

And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry. ByJohn P. Hoerr · Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. xiv + 689 pp. Illustrations, notes, notes on sources, and index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $14.95 pp. 181-184

Patricia A. O'Brien

Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry. ByRichard F. Hirsh · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiv + 274 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $37.50 pp. 184-186

Willis Emmons

The Rise of the Entrepreneurial State: State and Local Economic Development Policy in the United States. ByPeter K. Eisinger · Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. xvii + 383 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95 pp. 186-187

Michael Best

Markets in History: Economic Studies of the Past. Edited byDavid W. Galenson · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xiv + 354 pp. Charts, tables, notes, references, and index. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $14.95 pp. 187-189

Robert Higgs

The Bank of Upper Canada: A Collection of Documents. Edited with an Introduction byPeter Baskerville · Ottawa, Ont.: Carleton University Press, 1987. cliii + 400 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $18.95 pp. 189-192

Neil C. Quigley

Southern Exposure: Canadian Promoters in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1896–1930. ByChristopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles · Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 1988. xv + 375 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $35.00 pp. 192-194

Mira Wilkins

Lessons from the Great Depression: The Lionel Robbins Lectures for 1989. ByPeter Temin · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. xv + 193 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $16.95 pp. 194-196

Harold James

The Management of Collective Bargaining: An International Comparison. ByKeith Sisson · Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1988. xviii + 230 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, references, and indexes. $49.95 pp. 196-198

Peter Swenson

The British Iron Industry, 1700–1850. ByJ. R. Harris · Basing-stoke, U.K.: Macmillan Education, 1988. 90 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. £4.25 pp. 198-199

Bruce E. Seely

Scientific Management in Nederland, 1900–1930. ByE. S. A. Bloemen · Amsterdam: Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief, 1988. 234 pp. Illustrations, notes, sources, and index pp. 199-201

Keetie E. Sluyterman

E. Paillard & Cie, SA: Une entreprise vaudoise de petite mécanique, 1920–1945: Entreprise familiale, diversification industrielle et innovation technologique. ByLaurent Tissot · Cousset, Switzerland: Editions Delval, 1987. 470 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, bibliography, and index pp. 201-203

Béatrice Veyrassat

Divide and Prosper: The Heirs of I.G. Farben under Allied Authority, 1945–1951. ByRaymond G. Stokes · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. xiv + 290 pp. Charts, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. $40.00 pp. 203-205

Werner Plumpe

Planning and Power in Iran: Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah. ByFrances Bostock and Geoffrey Jones · London: Frank Cass and Company Ltd., 1989. xi + 238 pp. Illustrations, references, bibliograpny, and index. £22.50 pp. 206-207

Rodney Wilson

The Hongkong Bank in the Period of Imperialism and War, 1895–1918: Wayfoong, the Focus of Wealth. ByFrank H. H. King · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xxxiv + 720 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $100.00 pp. 207-208

Jürgen Osterhammel

Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730–1830. ByJoseph C. Miller · Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. xxx + 770 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 209-213

Joseph E. Inikori

Japan's Industrialization in the World Economy, 1859–1899: Export Trade and Overseas Competition. By Sugiyama Shinya · Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: The Athlone Press, 1988. xyi + 304 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 pp. 213-215

Kanji Ishii