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Volume 62, issue 4, 1988

Resource-Based Industries pp. i-iii

Anonymous

The Decline of U.S. Whaling: Was the Stock of Whales Running Out? pp. 569-595

Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman and Teresa D. Hutchins

Saving the Fisherman as Well as the Fish: Conservation and Commercial Rivalry in Maine's Lobster Industry, 1872–1933 pp. 596-625

Richard W. Judd

The Rationality of Mechanization in the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry before the Second World War pp. 626-655

Dianne Newell

“On the Dump Heap”: Employee Medical Screening in the Tri-State Zinc-Lead Industry, 1924–1932 pp. 656-677

Alan Derickson

Voyagers to the West: A Review Colloquium pp. 678-696

Henry A. Gemery, James T. Lemon, John McCusker and E. A. Wrigley

Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1775. By A. Roger Ekirch. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xvii + 277 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 pp. 703-704

Russell R. Menard

The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War. By James L. Huston. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xviii + 315 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.50 pp. 704-705

Peter Temin

A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad. By John Hoyt Williams. New York: Times Books, 1988. 341 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50 pp. 705-706

Philip L. Merkel

The Forested Land: A History of Lumbering in Western Washington. By Robert E. Ficken. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. xv + 324 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 pp. 707-708

William G. Robbins

The Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840–1875. By Elliott Ashkenazi. University: University of Alabama Press, 1988. x + 219 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.95 pp. 708-709

Leonard Dinnerstein

New Orleans Dockworkers: Race, Labor, and Unionism, 1892–1923. By Daniel Rosenberg. Albany: SUNY Press, 1988. x + 233 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $44.50; paper, $14.95 pp. 710-711

Melton A. McLaurin

John L. Lewis: Labor Leader. By Robert H. Zieger. Boston: Twayne Publishers. 1988. xviii + 220 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $24.95 pp. 711-713

Steven Fraser

Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism: The Shoeworkers and Tanners of Endicott Johnson, 1890–1950. By Gerald Zahavi. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xiii + 261 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 pp. 713-714

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890–1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics. By Martin J. Sklar. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xiv + 484 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $15.95 pp. 714-716

Robert Cuff

The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears. By Donald R. Katz, New York: Viking Press, 1987. xiv + 604 pp. Illustrations and index. $22.95 pp. 716-717

Carl Ryant

The Woodlands: New Community Development, 1964–1983. By George T. MorganJr., and John O. King. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. xii + 162 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, bibliography, notes, and index. $27.50 pp. 717-718

Marc A. Weiss

The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War. By John Lewis Gaddis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xi + 332 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 pp. 719-720

Frederick C. Adams

The Automobile Industry and Its Workers: Between Fordism and Flexibility. Edited by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin. Oxford: Polity Press, 1987. viii + 335 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. £35 pp. 720-722

Wolfgang Streeck

Restructuring the Automobile Industry: A Study of Firms and States in Modern Capitalism. By Dennis Patrick QuinnJr., New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. xv + 395 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 pp. 722-723

Wayne Lewchuk

The Firm and the Market: Studies on Multinational Enterprise and the Scope of the Firm. By Mark Casson. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987. 240 pp. Charts, tables, bibliography, and index. $27.50 pp. 724-725

Jean-Francois Hennart

International Capital Movements. By Charles P. Kindleberger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. vii + 99 pp. Charts, references, and index. $24.95 pp. 725-727

Milivoje Panić

Phases of Economic Growth, 1850–1973: Kondratieff Waves and Kuznets Swings. By Solomos Solomou. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ix + 197 pp. Charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.50 pp. 727-728

Stefano Fenoaltea

Rivalry: In Business, Science, among Nations. By Reuven Brenner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xi + 244 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, references, and indexes. $27.95 pp. 728-730

Edward H. Lorenz

Research in Economic History. Vol. 10. Edited by Paul Uselding. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1986. x + 308 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and references. Institutions, $54.50; individuals, $27.25 pp. 730-731

Sally Clarke

Empire of Dust: Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt. By David C. Jones. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1987. xiv + 316 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, notes on sources, and index. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $14.95 pp. 732-733

A. A. den Otter

Women in the Administrative Revolution: The Feminization of Clerical Work. By Graham S. Lowe. Cheektowaga, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1987. xiii + 234 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, notes, and index. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $16.95 pp. 733-735

Cindy S. Aron

Textiles and Capitalism in Mexico: An Economic History of the Obrajes, 1539–1840. By Richard J. Salvucci. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988. xiv + 249 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 pp. 735-736

Thomas Benjamin

British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams. Edited by Barbara L. Solow and Stanley L. Engerman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. x + 345 pp. Tables and notes. $29.95 pp. 736-737

Ralph A. Austen

The Professions in Early Modern England. Edited by Wilfrid Prest. London: Croom Helm, 1987. 231 pp. Tables, notes, and index. £30 pp. 738-739

Julian Hoppit

Norfolk Beers from English Barley: A History of Steward & Patteson, 1793–1963. By Terry Gourvish. Research by Pam Barnes. Norwich: Centre of East Anglian Studies, 1987. 206 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index pp. 739-740

Jonathan Brown

The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850–1940. By Daniel R. Headrick. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. x + 405 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $11.95 pp. 740-741

Jonathan Liebenau

Richard Cantillon: Entrepreneur and Economist. By Antoin E. Murphy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xx + 336 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $48.00 pp. 742-743

Michael Sonenscher

Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen auf internationalen Märkten. Volume 46 of Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte. Edited by Hans Pohl. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1988. 297 pp. Tables and notes. 58DM pp. 743-745

David B. Audretsch

Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns to Meiji Japan. By D. Eleanor Westney. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. viii + 252 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $25.00 pp. 745-746

Gary D. Allinson

China's Continuous Revolution: The Post-Liberation Epoch, 1949–1981. By Lowell Dittmer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xv + 320 pp. Appendixes, glossary, bibliography, notes, and index. $35.00 pp. 746-747

Jean C. Oi

Volume 62, issue 3, 1988

Introduction pp. ii-iii

Anonymous

Family Partnerships and International Trade in Early Modern Europe: Merchants from Burgos in England and France, 1470–1570 pp. 367-397

Constance Jones Mathers

“Giants of an Earlier Capitalism”: The Chartered Trading Companies as Modern Multinationals pp. 398-419

Ann Carlos and Stephen Nicholas

Risk and Control in Multinational Enterprise: German Businesses in Scandinavia, 1918–1939 pp. 420-443

Harm Schröter

Not Politicians but Sound Businessmen: Norton Company and the Third Reich pp. 444-466

Charles Cheape

Multinational Competition in the British Advertising Agency Business, 1936–1987 pp. 467-501

Douglas West

Sources for Mining Company History in Africa: The History and Records of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation (Ghana), Ltd pp. 502-515

Raymond E. Dumett

The Quintessential Alfred Chandler pp. 516-521

Lévy–Leboyer, Maurice

Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction. By Larry Schweikart. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xiv + 367 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 525-526

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821–61. By Brian C. Mitchell. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xiii + 247 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 pp. 526-527

Hasia Diner

Soldiers, Sutlers, and Settlers: Garrison Life on the Texas Frontier. By Robert Wooster. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. xv + 240 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $22.95 pp. 527-528

Paula Petrik

The Great Northern Railway: A History. By Ralph W. Hidy, Muriel E. Hidy, and Roy V. Scott, with Don L. Hofsommer. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1988. xv + 360 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes on sources, and index. $49.95 pp. 529-530

H. Roger Grant

Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad, 1862–1893. By Maury Klein. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987. xiii + 685 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes on sources, bibliography, and index. $27.50 pp. 530-531

Keith L. Bryant

“Just a Housewife”: The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America. By Glenna Matthews. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xvii + 281 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $19.95 pp. 531-533

Carol Lasser

Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan. By Ronald Edsforth. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986. xvi + 294 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $12.00 pp. 533-534

David Brody

Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930–1950. By Vicki L. Ruiz. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. xviii + 194 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $22.50; paper, $10.95 pp. 534-536

Peter Philips

The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929–1939. By Michael A. Bernstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xvii + 269 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 536-537

Peter Temin

Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City. By Scott L. Bottles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xiii + 302 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, notes, and index. $27.50 pp. 538-539

William B. Friedricks

Medical Science and Medical Industry: The Formation of the American Pharmaceutical Industry. By Jonathan Liebenau. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkinns University Press, 1987. ix + 207 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 539-541

George David Smith

Strategic Uses of Public Policy: Business and Government in the Progressive Era. By Donna J. Wood. Marshfield, Mass.: Pitman Publishing, 1986. xiii + 258 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $24.95 pp. 541-542

Clayton A. Coppin

Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the Exercise of Power in the Age of Alfred E. Smith. By Elisabeth Israels Perry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xiv + 280 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 pp. 542-544

Susan Ware

Liberal: Adolf A. Berle and the Vision of an American Era. By Jordan A. Schwarz. New York: The Free Press, 1987. xi + 452 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography of unpublished sources, and index. $24.95 pp. 544-545

Larry G. Gerber

The Decline of American Steel: How Management, Labor, and Government Went Wrong. By Paul A. Tiffany. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xiii + 282 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.95 pp. 545-547

Patricia A. O'Brien

Leadership and Innovation: A Biographical Perspective on Entrepreneurs in Government. Edited by Jameson W. Doig and Erwin C. Hargrove. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xii + 459 pp. Charts, notes, and index. $39.50 pp. 547-549

Louis Galambos

Trustees, Trusteeship, and the Public Good: Issues of Accountability for Hospitals, Museums, Universities, and Libraries. By James C. Baughman. Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1987. xviii + 187 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $35.00 pp. 549-550

Page Putnam Miller

The Wealth of the Nation: An Economic History of the United States. By Stuart Bruchey. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. x + 259 pp. Tables and index. $18.95 pp. 550-551

Mansel Blackford

Géographie du capital marchand aux Amériques, 1760–1860. Edited by Jeanne Chase, Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, 1987. 231 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, and notes. 145F pp. 551-552

Jacob M. Price

International Business in the Nineteenth Century: The Rise and Fall of a Cosmopolitan Bourgeoisie. By Charles A. Jones. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. xi + 260 pp. Notes and index. $45.00 pp. 552-554

Youssef Cassis

Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780–1850. By Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. 576 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, select bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 554-556

William J. Reader

A History of GKN. Volume 1: Innovation and Enterprise, 1759–1918. By Edgar Jones. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, Ltd., 1987. xxxviii + 442 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index pp. 556-558

Charles K. Hyde

Sheffield Steel and America: A Century of Commercial and Technological Interdependence, 1830–1930. By Geoffrey Tweedale. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xvi + 296 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 pp. 558-559

Mira Wilkins

Business, Banking, and Politics: The Case of British Steel, 1918–1939. By Steven Tolliday. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. vii + 433 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $42.00 pp. 559-559

Derek H. Aldcroft

Industrial Structure, Capital Markets, and the Origins of British Economic Decline. By William P. Kennedy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xii + 230 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 pp. 560-561

Barry Eichengreen

The Bureaucrats of Buenos Aires, 1769–1810: Amor al Real Servicio. By Susan Migden Socolow. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1987. xxi + 356 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, glossary, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 pp. 561-563

Linda Arnold

Arbeitsmarkt und Angestellte im Deutschen Kaiserreich, 1880–1913: Interessen und Strategien als Elemente der Integration eines segmentierten Arbeitsmarktes. By Toni Pierenkemper. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1987. 391 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. DM 86 pp. 563-565

Elaine Glovka Spencer

Der Kampf um die Mark, 1923/24: Die deutsche Währungsstabilisierung unter dem Einfluß der nationalen Interessen Frankreichs, Großbritanniens und der USA. By Hans Otto Schötz. Hawthorne, N.Y.: Walter de Gruyter, 1987. ix + 206 pp. Charts, notes, select bibliography, and index. DM 88 pp. 565-566

Harold James

Slaves, Spices & Ivory in Zanzibar: Integration of an East African Commercial Empire into the World Economy, 1770–1873. By Abdul Sheriff. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1987. xx + 297 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, sources, and index. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $15.95 pp. 566-567

Clarence–Smith, William G.

Volume 62, issue 2, 1988

The Development of Corporate Financial Markets in Britain and the United States, 1600–1914: Overcoming Asymmetric Information pp. 199-237

Jonathan Barron Baskin

Business Cycles and the Sense of Time in Medieval Genoa pp. 238-260

Steven A. Epstein

R&D and Competition in England and the United States: The Case of the Aluminum Dirigible pp. 261-285

Margaret B. W. Graham

Wiley and the Whiskey Industry: Strategic Behavior in the Passage of the Pure Food Act pp. 286-309

Jack High and Clayton A. Coppin

Commerce in a Cold Climate: Bliss on Canadian Business History pp. 310-316

H. V. Nelles

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo–American Maritime World, 1700–1750. By Marcus Rediker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xv + 322 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $24.95 pp. 320-321

Valerie Burton

Liberty and Property: Political Economy and Policymaking in the New Nation, 1789–1812. By John R. NelsonJr., Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xv + 222 pp. Graphs, appendixes, and index. $25.00 pp. 321-322

John Lauritz Larson

To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. By Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987. xi + 322 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 322-324

Gregory H. Nobles

Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801–1885. By Judith A. McGaw. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987. xv + 439 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, bibliography, and notes. $40.00 pp. 324-325

Gary J. Kornblith

The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry, 1830–1910. By John Alfred Heitmann. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xii + 298 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 326-327

David O. Whitten

Why the South Lost the Civil War. By Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William N. StillJr., Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. xi + 582 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 327-328

David L. Carlton

Land Fever: Dispossession and the Frontier Myth. By James M. Marshall. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. viii + 238 pp. Appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $21.00 pp. 328-330

Patricia Nelson Limerick

A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth–Century America. By Shelton Stromquist. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xix + 353 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 330-331

Robert H. Zieger

The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925. By David Montgomery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xii + 494 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $27.95 pp. 332-333

Daniel Nelson

Middle–Class Providence, 1820–1940. By John H. GilkesonJr., Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. ix + 380 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $29.95 pp. 333-335

Richard Oestreicher

Leadership at the Fed. By Donald F. Kettl. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986. xiii + 218 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. $22.50 pp. 335-337

James Livingston

New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy. By Stanley Vittoz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. ix + 241 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 pp. 337-339

Christopher L. Tomlins

Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped. A Twentieth–Century Fund Report. By Edward D. Berkowitz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 280 pp. Notes and index. $24.95 pp. 339-340

Gerald N. Grob

The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987. 405 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 341-342

John Kenly Smith

Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media. By James L. Baughman. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1987. x + 264 pp. Illustrations, notes and references, and index. $24.95 pp. 342-343

Donald A. Ritchie

Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. By Robert Higgs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xx + 350 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, select bibliography, and index. $24.95 pp. 343-344

Robert D. Cuff

Made in the U.S.A.: The History of American Business. By Thomas V. DiBacco. New York: Harper & Row, 1987. xii + 290 pp. Bibliography and index. $19.95 pp. 345-345

K. Austin Kerr

The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning. By Marc A. Weiss. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. xii + 228 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $27.50 pp. 346-347

Mark I. Gelfand

Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550–1835. By Stuart B. Schwartz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xxiii + 616 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, glossary, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $23.95 pp. 347-348

Dauril Alden

Economic Development: The History of an Idea. By H. W. Arndt. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1987. viii + 217. Notes and partial index. $20.95 pp. 348-350

Alice H. Amsden

The London and New York Stock Exchanges, 1850–1914. By R. C. Michie. Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1987. xv + 312 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 pp. 350-351

Robert Sobel

Royal Mail: The Post Office since 1840. By M. J. Daunton. London: Athlone Press, 1985. xviii + 388 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $36.50 pp. 352-353

Richard R. John

The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill: The Rise and Decline of a Family Firm, 1750–1914. By Mary B. Rose. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xv + 169 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.50 pp. 353-354

David J. Jeremy

Werken aan Zekerheid: Een terugblik over de schouder van AEGON op twee eeuwen verzekeringsgeschiedenis. By B. P. A. Gales. The Hague: Uitgave Aegon Verzekeringen, 1986. 390 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. With English summary. Dfl 25 pp. 354-356

Augustus J. Veenendaal

The Hatters of Eighteenth–Century France. By Michael Sonenscher. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xiv + 187 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, notes on sources, and index. $28.00 pp. 356-357

Whitney Walton

Education for the Industrial World: The Ecole d'Arts et Métiers and the Rise of French Industrial Engineering. By Charles R. Day. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987. ix + 293 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 pp. 357-358

Peter N. Stearns

South Africa's City of Diamonds: Mine Workers and Monopoly Capitalism in Kimberley, 1867–1895. By William H. Worger. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1987. xiii + 330 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 pp. 358-360

Colin Newbury

Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921–29. By Alan M. Ball. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xvii + 226 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. $32.50 pp. 360-362

Diane P. Koenker

Business History of General Trading Companies. The International Conference on Business History 13: Proceedings of the Fuji Conference. Edited by Shin'ichi Yonekawa and Hideki Yoshihara. New York: University of Tokyo Press, 1987. xviii + 365 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, and index. $42.50 pp. 362-364

Mira Wilkins

Volume 62, issue 1, 1988

Entrepreneurial Failure Reconsidered: The Case of the Interwar British Coal Industry pp. 1-34

Michael Dintenfass

The Canadian Securities Market, 1850–1914 pp. 35-73

Ranald C. Michie

Railway Pooling in Britain before 1900: The Anglo-Scottish Traffic pp. 74-92

Geoffrey Channon

Corporatism in Comparative Perspective: The Impact of the First World War on American and British Labor Relations pp. 93-127

Larry G. Gerber

Big Business, Weimar Democracy, and Nazism: Henry Turner's German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler pp. 128-133

Thomas Childers

Toward a National Collecting Policy for Business History: The View from Baker Library pp. 134-143

Florence Bartoshesky Lathrop

Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800. By Allan Kulikoff. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1986. xviii + 449 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, and index. $30.00 pp. 147-148

Charles Wetherell

Coming Over: Migration and Communication between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century. By David Cressy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 324 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, bibliography, notes, and index. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $10.95 pp. 149-150

Virginia DeJohn Anderson

The English Atlantic, 1675–1740: An Exploration of Communication and Community. By Ian K. Steele. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. xi + 400 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $34.00 pp. 150-151

Peter A. Coclanis

The Cycles of American History. By Arthur M. SchlesingerJr., Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. xiv + 498 pp. Bibliography and index. $22.95 pp. 152-153

John A. Garraty

American Singularity: The 1787 Northwest Ordinance, the 1862 Homestead and Morrill Acts, and the 1944 G.I. Bill. By Harold M. Hyman. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. x + 95 pp. Notes and index. $15.00 pp. 153-154

Tony Freyer

The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America. Edited by Steven Hahn and Jonathan Prude. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. xii + 355 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $36.00; paper, $9.95 pp. 154-157

Chandos Brown

Trails South: The Wagon-Road Economy in the Dodge City-Panhandle Region. By C. Robert Haywood. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. xv + 312 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 pp. 157-158

Robert R. Dykstra

Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts. By Alexander Keyssar. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xviii + 469 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $14.95 pp. 158-159

Paul G. Faler

Southern Capitalists: The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832–1885. By Laurence Shore. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xii + 282 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 pp. 159-161

Lacy Ford

Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885–1985. By Robert C. McMathJr., Ronald H. Bayor, James E. Brittain, Lawrence Foster, August W. Giebelhaus, and Germaine M. Reed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. xii + 560 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $37.50 pp. 162-164

Bruce E. Seely

Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League. By K. Austin Kerr. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985. xvii + 293 pp. Illustrations, notes, note on sources, and index. $25.00 pp. 164-165

Ellis W. Hawley

The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster. By Martin Cherniak. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986. x + 193 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 pp. 165-167

Christine Meisner Rosen

White Collar Hobo: The Travels of Whiting Williams. By Daniel A. Wren. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987. xii + 165 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $16.95 pp. 167-168

Daniel Nelson

American Steel Makers and the Coming of the Second World War. By Richard A. Lauderbaugh. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1980. viii + 266 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. $34.95 pp. 168-170

Paul A. Tiffany

The U.S. Economy in World War II. By Harold G. Vatter. Irvington, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1985. x + 198 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $26.50 pp. 170-171

Robert Cuff

More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. By Ruth Schwartz Cowan. New York: Basic Books, 1983. xiv + 257 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth, $17.95; paper, $7.95 pp. 171-172

Guy Alchon

Management and Managed: Fifty Years of Crisis at Chrysler. By Steve Jefferys. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiv + 290 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 173-174

Alan M. Webber

IBM's Early Computers. By Charles J. Bashe, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, and Emerson W. Pugh. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986. xviii + 716 pp. Charts, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50 pp. 174-176

W. Bernard Carlson

Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting. By H. Thomas Johnson and Robert S. Kaplan. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987. xv + 269 pp. Notes and index. $24.95 pp. 176-178

David Grayson Allen

Corporate Crime under Attack: The Ford Pinto Case and Beyond. By Francis T. Cullen, William J. Maakestad, and Gray Cavender. Cincinnati, Ohio: Anderson Publishing Company, 1987. xii + 398 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $16.95 pp. 178-179

Jeffrey A. Barach

How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World. By Nathan Rosenberg and L. E. BirdzellJr., New York: Basic Books, 1986. xii + 353 pp. Notes and index. $19.95 pp. 180-181

Charles W. Cheape

Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective. Edited by Alice Teichova, Maurice Lévy-Leboyer, and Helga Nussbaum. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. x + 396 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, and index. $49.50 pp. 181-183

Mansel Blackford

Financial Crisis and the World Banking System. Edited by Forrest Capie and Geoffrey E. Wood. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. x + 270 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 183-184

Emily S. Rosenberg

Miners and Mining in the Americas. Edited by William W. Culver and Thomas C. Greaves. Dover, N.H.: Manchester University Press, 1985. vi + 358 pp. Charts, tables, notes, annotated bibliography, and index. $50.00 pp. 184-185

Donald Chaput

Grace: W. R. Grace and Company: The Formative Years, 1850–1930. By Lawrence A. Clayton. Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1985. xiii + 403 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and bibliography. $22.50 pp. 185-186

Thomas F. O'Brien

Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance. Volume 1: 1782–1870. By Clive Trebilcock. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xx + 792 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.50 pp. 186-188

David J. Jeremy

The Stock Exchanges of Ireland. By William Arthur Thomas. Liverpool: Francis Cairns Publications, 1986. xii + 273 pp. Charts, tables, illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. $42.00 pp. 188-189

Stephen Salsbury

Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860–1912. By Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. x + 394 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $47.50 pp. 189-191

Geoffrey Jones

The History of the British Bank of the Middle East. By Geoffrey Jones. New York: Cambridge University Press. Volume 1: Banking and Empire in Iran. 1986. xxiv + 418 pp. Volume 2: Banking and Oil. 1987. xxi + 359 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 each pp. 191-192

Thomas F. Huertas

Civil Servants and the Politics of Inflation in Germany, 1914–1924. By Andreas Kunz. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1986. xxii + 427 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $58.00 pp. 192-193

Raymond G. Stokes

Poland, the United States and the Stabilization of Europe, 1919–1933. By Neal Pease. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. vii + 238 pp. Notes, annotated bibliography, and index. $24.95 pp. 194-196

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