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Volume 63, issue 4, 1989

“Old Homes, in a City of Perpetual Change”: Women's Magazines, 1890–1916 pp. 715-756

Mary Ellen Waller-Zuckerman

Business Associationalism, the Legitimation of Enterprise, and the Emergence of a Business Elite in Nineteenth-Century Brazil pp. 757-796

Eugene W. Ridings

The Bank of Nova Scotia in the Caribbean, 1889–1940 pp. 797-838

Neil C. Quigley

The Development of the Cargo Fleet Iron Company, 1900–1914: Entrepreneurship, Costs, and Structural Rigidity in the Northeast Coast Steel Industry pp. 839-875

Gordon Boyce

Mechanical and Organizational Innovation: The Drapers and the Automatic Loom pp. 876-929

William Mass

Institutional Rigidities and Britain's Industrial Decline - The Decline of the British Economy. Edited by Bernard Elbaum and William Lazonick · New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press, 1987. vii + 310 pp. Tables, notes, bibliographies, and index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95. - Modernization Frustrated: The Politics of Industrial Decline in Britain since 1900. By Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter · Winchester, Mass.: Unwin Wyman Inc., 1988. xv + 224 pp. Tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $14.95. - Enterprise, Management and Innovation in British Business, 1914–80. Edited by R. P. T. Davenport-Hines and Geoffrey Jones · London: Frank Cass, 1988. x + 118 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $25.00 pp. 930-936

Maurice W. Kirby

A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution. By Marc Egnal · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988. xv + 381 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $36.95 pp. 942-943

Herbert Sloan

Authority and Resistance in Early New York. Edited by William Pencak and Conrad Edick Wright · New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1988. xvii + 252 pp. Notes and index. $19.95. - New York and the Rise of American Capitalism: Economic Development and the Social and Political History of an American State, 1780–1870. Edited by William Pencak and Conrad Edick Wright · New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1989. xx + 315 pp. Notes and index. $19.95 pp. 944-947

Milton M. Klein

The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670–1920. By Peter A. Coclanis · New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. ix + 370 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 pp. 947-948

Gregory H. Nobles

A History of the American Rice Industry, 1685–1985. By Henry C. Dethloff · College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1988. xii + 215 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, bibliography, and index. $29.50 pp. 949-950

A. J. H. Latham

Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914–1960. By Gary Gerstle · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xii + 356 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $39.50 pp. 950-953

James R. Grossman

Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home. Edited by Eileen Boris and Cynthia R. Daniels · Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989. x + 299 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $12.95 pp. 954-956

Ruth Milkman

Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in America. By Nicole Woolsey Biggart · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1989. xii + 223 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $24.95 pp. 956-958

Susan Porter Benson

The Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1860–1920: A History of a German-American Enterprise. By Anita Bapone · New York: New York University Press, 1987. xiv + 209 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 958-959

Philip L. Merkel

First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492–2000. By Jack Balph KloppenburgJr. · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xviii + 349 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, references, and index. $37.50 pp. 959-961

Diane B. Paul

The Bell System and Regional Business: The Telephone in the South, 1877–1920. By Kenneth Lipartito · Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. xvi + 283 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $29.50 pp. 961-963

Leonard S. Reich

Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth. By David C. Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. viii + 330 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 963-965

Richard F. Hirsh

Blue Magic: The People, Power and Politics behind the IBM Personal Computer. By James Chposky and Ted Leonsis · New York: Facts on File Publications, 1988. xi + 228 pp. Appendix and index. $19.95 pp. 965-967

Michael S. Mahoney

Corporate Takeovers: Causes and Consequences. Edited by Alan J. Auerbach · Chicago, Ill.: University or Chicago Press, 1988. ix + 343 pp. Charts, tables, notes, references, and indexes. $45.00 pp. 967-969

David B. Audretsch

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. By Bryan Burrough and John Helyar · New York: Harper & Row, 1990. xvi + 528 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $22.95 pp. 969-970

Anthony Patrick O'Brien

The Irony of Regulatory Reform: The Deregulation of American Telecommunications. By Robert Britt Horwitz · New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. viii + 414 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 pp. 971-972

Richard H. K. Vietor

The Thrift Debacle. By Ned Eichler · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. ix + 163 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $15.95 pp. 972-974

Kenneth A. Snowden

Accumulation & Power: An Economic History of the United States. By Richard B. DuBoff · Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1989. xii + 221 pp. Tables, notes, references, and index. $38.50 pp. 974-975

James Oliver Robertson

A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present. By Rondo Cameron · New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xiv + 436 pp. Charts, maps, illustrations, tables, annotated bibliography, and index. $39.95 pp. 975-977

James Foreman-Peck

Gainful Pursuits: The Making of Industrial Europe, 1600–1914. By Jordan Goodman and Katrina Honeyman · New York: Edward Arnold, 1988. ix + 262 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95 pp. 978-979

John P. McKay

Worktime and Industrialization: An International History. Edited by Gary Cross · Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1989. vii + 251 pp. Notes and index. $34.95 pp. 979-981

Donald M. Reid

Canadian Papers in Business History, Vol. 1. Edited by Peter Baskerville · Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria Public History Group, 1989. vi + 269 pp. Tables and notes. $19.95 pp. 981-983

Barbara Austin

Studies in the Business History of Bristol. Edited by Charles E. Harvey and Jon Press. Bristol: Bristol Academic Press, 1988. xvi + 278 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. £9.95 pp. 983-986

Martin J. Daunton

The First Privatisation: The Politicians, the City, and the Denationalisation of Steel. By Kathleen Burk · London: The Historians Press, 1988. ix + 158 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, £14.95; paper, £4.95 pp. 986-988

Martin Chick

The Process of Technological Change: New Technology and Social Choice in the Workplace. By Jon Clark, · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xiv + 250 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, bibliography, and index. Paper, $16.95 pp. 988-990

Milton Mueller

The Money Doctor in the Andes: The Kemmerer Missions, 1923–1933. By Paul W. Drake · Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1989. xiv + 335 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and index. $50.00 pp. 990-992

Elizabeth A. Cobbs

The Prados of São Paulo, Brazil: An Elite Family and Social Change, 1840–1930. By Darrell E. Levi · Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. xiii + 284 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.00 pp. 992-994

John E. Kicza

State, Private Enterprise, and Economic Change in Egypt, 1918–1952. By Robert L. Tignor · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. xvi + 371 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.50 pp. 994-996

Robert Vitalis

Managing Industrial Enterprise: Cases from Japan's Prewar Experience. Edited by William D. Wray · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. xiii + 442 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $25.00 pp. 996-998

Gary D. Allinson

Volume 63, issue 3, 1989

The Means of Management Control pp. i-iv

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The Mind's Eye of Reform: The ICC's Bureau of Statistics and Accounts and a Vision of Regulation, 1887–1940 pp. 469-509

Paul J. Miranti

Misused Product Costing in the American Railroad Industry: Southern Pacific Passenger Service between the Wars pp. 510-554

Gregory L. Thompson

The Development of Discounted Cash Flow Techniques in U. S. Industry pp. 555-587

Scott P. Dulman

Creating Control Systems: Edwin F. Gay and the Central Bureau of Planning and Statistics, 1917–1919 pp. 588-613

Robert D. Cuff

“Islands of Conscious Power”: Louis D. Brandeis and the Modern Corporation pp. 614-656

Richard P. Adelstein

The Economy of Early America: The Revolutionary Period, 1763–1790. Edited byRonald Hoffman, et al. · Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988. xvi + 334 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, and index. $30.00 pp. 660-662

Jackson T. Main

The Politics of Progress: The Origins and Development of the Commercial Republic, 1600–1835. ByHiram Caton · Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1988. xiii + 627 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.00 pp. 662-664

David E. Narrett

Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906. ByJames Harvey Young · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. xi + 312 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $29.95 pp. 664-666

Jack High

The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian, 1914–1917. ByGeorge H. Nash · New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1988. xii + 497 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic notes, and index. $25.00 pp. 666-668

D. Gary Carman

The Baltimore Sun, 1837–1987. ByHarold A. William · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. x + 418 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $29.50 pp. 669-670

Linda Lawson

Creating America: George Horace Lorimer and the Saturday Evening Post. ByJan Cohn · Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. x + 326 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $12.95 pp. 670-672

Mary Ellen Waller-Zuckerman

Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work. ByBenjamin Kline Hunnicutt · Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. x + 404 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $34.95 pp. 672-674

Gary Cross

Entrepreneurs vs. the State: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America, 1840–1920. ByBurton W. FolsomJr · Reston, Va.: Young America's Foundation, 1987. xii + 144 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $16.95 pp. 674-675

Mansel Blackford

The Making of an American Pluralism: Buffalo, New York, 1825–60. ByDavid A. Gerber · Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1989. xvii + 531 pp. Notes and index. $34.95 pp. 675-676

Richard Oestreicher

Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900–1980. Edited byKeith L. BryantJr · Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography, series ed. William H. Becker. New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Facts on File, 1988. xxix + 518 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, references, and index. $75.00 pp. 677-678

John Lauritz Larson

Regulation and Deregulation of the Motor Carrier Industry. Edited byJohn R. Felton and Dale G. Anderson · Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1989. x + 210 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 pp. 678-679

Bruce Yandle

The New Deal at the Grass Roots: Programs for the People in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. ByD. Jerome Tweton · St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1988. x + 205 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth $19.95; paper, $10.95 pp. 679-681

Peter Fearon

Harnessing the Genie: Science and Technology Forecasting for the Air Force, 1944–1986. ByMichael H. Gorn · Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1988. xiii + 209 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic note, and index. $9.00 pp. 681-682

Glenn E. Bugos

The Irony of Victory: World War II and Lowell, Massachusetts. ByMarc Scott Miller · Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xi + 233 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 pp. 682-683

Allan M. Winkler

The New American State: Bureaucracies and Policies since World War II. Edited byLouis Galambos · Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. 227 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $27.50; paper, $11.95 pp. 684-685

Ellis W. Hawley

American-Soviet Trade in the Cold War. ByPhilip J. Funigiello · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. xii + 289 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $32.50 pp. 685-687

Imanuel Wexler

Progress Without Planning: The Economic History of Ontario from Confederation to the Second World War. ByIan M. Drummond · Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 1987. xiii + 509 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, and index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95 pp. 687-689

Christopher Armstrong

The Management of Strategic Change. Edited byAndrew M. Petigrew · New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987. vii + 370 pp. Charts, tables, notes, references, and index. $34.95 pp. 689-691

Alain Verbeke

Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England. ByE. A. Wrigley · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. viii + 146 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 691-693

Rick Szostak

The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune. ByR. S. Fitton · New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. xiv + 322 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, bibliography, and index. $70.00 pp. 693-695

Michael Huberman

Risk and Failure in English Business, 1700–1800. ByJulian Hoppit, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. vii + 228 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.50 pp. 695-696

Katrina Honeyman

Trade and Shipping: Lord Inchcape, 1852–1932. ByStephanie Jones · New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. xiii + 222 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, note on sources, and index. $59.95 pp. 696-698

Gordon Boyce

Labour under the Marshall Plan: The Politics of Productivity and the Marketing of Management Science. ByAnthony Carew · Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1987. 293 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 698-700

Thomas A. Schwartz

Money in Sixteenth-Century Florence. ByCarlo M. Cipolla · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. xi + 169 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 700-702

Steven Epstein

Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century France: Assuring the Future Harvest. ByLee Shai Weissbach · Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. xvii + 268 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 702-703

Leonard N. Rosenband

South America and the First World War: The Impact of the War on Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile.ByBill Albert · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. x + 388 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.50 pp. 704-706

Tamás Szmrecsányi

The Sugarcane Industry: An Historical Geography from its Origins to 1914. ByJ. H. Galloway · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiii + 266 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, references, and index. $44.50 pp. 706-707

Michael J. Gonzales

Expansion, Crisis, Reconstruction, 1917–1939.ByKarl-Gustav Hildebrand · Stockholm: Liber Forlag, 1985. 496 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. No price listed pp. 708-708

Harm G. Schröter

Technologischer Wandel und internationaler Handel im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Die Eisenindustrien in Großbritannien, Belgien, Frankreich und Deutschland.ByRainer Fremdling · Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1986. Notes, tables, figures, bibliography, and index. 493 pp. DM190 pp. 708-710

John C. Brown

Railwaymen and Revolution: Russia, 1905. ByHenry Reichman · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xv + 336 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $38.00 pp. 710-712

Peter Gatrell

Volume 63, issue 2, 1989

Real Estate History: An Overview and Research Agenda pp. 241-282

Marc A. Weiss

Business, Democracy, and Progressive Reform in the Redevelopment of Baltimore after the Great Fire of 1904 pp. 283-328

Christine Meisner Rosen

A Metropolitan Entrepreneur Par Excellence: Henry E. Huntington and the Growth of Southern California, 1898–1927 pp. 329-355

William B. Friedricks

Real Estate Development and Urban Form: Roadblocks in the Path to Residential Exclusivity pp. 356-383

Patricia Burgess Stach

Terminating Building Societies in Quebec City, 1850–1864 pp. 384-415

Donald G. Paterson and Ronald A. Shearer

Essays on the Economy of the Old Northwest.Edited byDavid C. Klingaman and Richand K. Vedder · Athens: Ohio University Press, 1987. xii + 318 pp. Maps, charts, tables, and notes. $32.95 pp. 418-420

David R. Meyer

The Mills of Manayunk: Industrialization and Social Conflict in the Philadelphia Region, 1787–1837.ByCynthia J. Shelton · Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. xii + 227 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, tables, bibliography, essay. $26.95 pp. 420-422

Mary H. Blewett

The Decline of Authority: Public Economic Policy and Political Development in New York, 1800–1860.ByL. Ray Gunn · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988. xiii + 284 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 422-424

Paul A. Gilje

The American Telegrapher: A Social History, 1860–1900.ByEdwin Gabler · New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1988. viii + 264 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $20.00 pp. 424-425

Richard R. John

Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, & the United Steelworkers.Edited byPaul F. Clark, Peter Gottlieb, and Donald Kennedy · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987. 168 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $22.50; paper, $8.95 pp. 425-426

Dennis C. Dickerson

New Deal Labor Policy and the Southern Textile Industry, 1933–1941.ByJames A. Hodges · Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. xii + 252 pp. Notes and index. $24.95 pp. 427-428

Ellis W. Hawley

Intercity Bus Lines of the Southwest: A Photographic History.ByJack Rhodes · College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1988. xv + 158 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50 pp. 428-429

Margaret Walsh

Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers.ByBruce E. Seely · Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1988. xv + 315 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, notes on sources, and index. $32.95 pp. 430-432

William R. Childs

A Law Unto Itself: The Untold Story of the Law Firm Sullivan & Cromwell.ByNancy Lisagor and Frank Lipsius · New York: William Morrow and Company, 1988. 360 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. $19.95 pp. 432-434

Tony Freyer

The Airway to Everywhere: A History of All American Aviation, 1937–1953.ByW. David Lewis and William F. Trimble. · Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. ix + 230 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.95 pp. 434-436

Eric Schatzberg

American “Reparations” to Germany, 1919–33: Implications for the Third-Worid Debt Crisis.ByStephen A. Schuker · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Department of Economics, 1988. iv + 170 pp. Tables, notes, references, and index. $6.50 pp. 436-438

Emily S. Rosenberg

Entrepreneurial Historians and History: Leadership and Rationality in American Economic Historiography, 1940–1960.BySteven A. Sass · New York: Garland Publishing, 1986. vi + 301 pp. Notes and sources. $45.00 pp. 438-440

Barry Supple

Balanced Budgets and American Politics.ByJames D. Savage · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988. xiii + 350 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $27.95 pp. 440-441

Kim McQuaid

The United States in the World Economy.Edited byMartin Feldstein · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. x + 693 pp. Charts, tables, notes, list of contributors, and index. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $24.95 pp. 442-444

Robert B. Zevin

The Light: Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Company Limited, 1899–1945.ByDuncan McDowall · Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. xxxvi + 459 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, glossary and index. $39.95 pp. 444-445

Tamás Szmrecsányi

Oil and Mexican Foreign Policy.ByGeorge W. Grayson · Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. xiv + 207 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 pp. 446-448

Jonathan Brown

Foreign Trade and the National Economy: Mercantilist and Classical Perspectives.ByLeonard Gomes · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. viii + 323 pp. Notes, references, and index. $45.00 pp. 448-450

Robert V. Eagly

Trade Wars: The Theory and Practice of International Commercial Rivalry.ByJohn A. C. Conybeare · New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. xv + 319 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 450-451

Daniel Barbezat

The Sources of Innovation.ByEric von Hippel · New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xi + 218 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $27.00 pp. 452-453

Richard F. Hirsh

Trade Associations in Business History: The International Conference on Business History 14; Proceedings of the Fuji Conference.Edited byHiroaki Tamazaki and Matao Miyamoto · New York: University of Tokyo Press, 1988. xxiii + 326 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $47.50 pp. 453-455

Richard Rodger

Business in the Age of Reason.Edited byR.P.T. Davenport-Hines and Jonathan Liebenau · Totowa, N.J.: Frank Cass, 1987. 224 pp. Notes and index. $29.50 pp. 455-456

Ronald M. Berger

The Commerce in Rubber: The First 250 Years.ByAustin Coates · New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xv + 380 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.50 pp. 456-457

Michael French

A History of the Burmah Oil Company. Volume 2: 1924–1966.ByT.A.B. Corley · London: William Heinemann, 1988. xvi + 416 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. £20.00 pp. 458-459

R. P. T. Davenport-Hines

Making and Marketing Arms: The French Experience and Its Implications for the International System.ByEdward A. Kolodziej · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987. xxv + 518 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $55.00 pp. 460-461

Glenn E. Bugos

Banque et investissement industriel: Paribas, le pétrole roumain et la politique française, 1919–1939.ByPhilippe Margueat with L. Jilek · Neuchâtel: Université de Neuchâtel, 1987. 145 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and sources. No price listed pp. 461-462

Eric Bussiere

Banking and Business in South Africa.Edited byStuart Jones · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. xii + 190 pp. Tables, notes, references, and index. $39.95 pp. 462-464

Ranald C. Michie

The History of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Volume 1: The Hongkong Bank in Late Imperial China, 1864–1902: On an Even Keel.ByFrank H. H. King, with Catherine E. King and David J. S. King · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xl + 701 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, glossaries, bibliography, and index. $100.00 pp. 465-466

Marie-Claire Bergère

Volume 63, issue 1, 1989

Entrepreneurial Dominance in Businesses Large and Small, Past and Present pp. 1-21

Harold C. Livesay

Black-Owned Businesses in the South, 1790–1880 pp. 22-60

Loren Schweninger

The Black Businessman in the Postwar South: North Carolina, 1865–1880 pp. 61-87

Robert C. Kenzer

Entrepreneurship as Diplomacy: Nelson Rockefeller and the Development of the Brazilian Capital Market pp. 88-121

Elizabeth A. Cobbs

“Rich beyond the Dreams of Avarice”: The Guggenheims in Chile pp. 122-159

Thomas F. O'Brien

The Entrepreneurial Spirit in Colonial America: The Foundations of Modern Business History pp. 160-186

Edwin J. Perkins

Fifty Years of Fortitude, the Maritime Career of Captain Jotham Blaisdell of Kennebunk, Maine, 1810–1860. By Kendrick Price Daggett · Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1988. xiv + 173 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $20.00 pp. 189-190

Gordon Boyce

History of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. By John F. Stover · West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1987. xiv + 419 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography and index. $29.50 pp. 191-192

Richard Saunders

Growing Through History with Colorado: The Colorado National Banks, the First 125 Years, 1862–1987. By Thomas J. Noel · Denver: Colorado National Banks and the Colorado Studies Center, 1987. xxiv + 160 pp. Illustrations. No price available. - The Pioneer Western Bank—First of Denver: 1860–1980. By H. Adams, Lyle W. Dorsett, and Robert S. Pulcipher · Denver: First Interstate Bank of Denver and the State Historical Society of Colorado, 1984. xii + 219 pp. Illustrations and maps. $50.00 pp. 192-194

Larry Schweikart

But Also Good Business: Texas Commerce Banks and the Financing of Houston and Texas, 1886–1986. By Walter J. Buenger and Joseph A. Pratt · College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986. xvi + 450 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.50 pp. 194-196

Lynne Pierson Doti

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service: Middle-Class Workers in Victorian America. By Cindy Sondik Aron · New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. viii + 234 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $29.95 pp. 196-198

Richard R. John

Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R&D, 1902–1980. By David A. Hounshell and John Kenly SmithJr, · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xx + 756 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $39.95 pp. 198-200

Davis Dyer

Conspicuous Production: Automobiles and Elites in Detroit, 1899–1933. By Donald Finlay Davis · Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1988. xiii + 282 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $29.95 pp. 201-202

Olivier Zunz

Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875–1900. By Richard Jules Oestreicher · Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. xix + 263 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. $24.95 pp. 202-204

Thomas A. Klug

The Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre: A Chapter in American Industrial Relations. By Howard M. Gitelman · Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. xv + 355 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 204-206

Melvyn Dubofsky

American Rubber Workers and Organized Labor, 1900–1941. By Daniel Nelson · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988. xi + 339 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical notes, and index. $32.50 pp. 206-209

Stephen Amberg

The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth: U.S. Business and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. By Louis Galambos and Joseph Pratt · New York: Basic Books, 1988. xvi + 286 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 pp. 209-210

Burton W. Folsom

The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State. By Jill Quadagno · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. xiii + 253 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50 pp. 211-213

Edward D. Berkowitz

The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952. By Michael J. Hogan · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiv + 482 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.50 pp. 213-214

Ellis W. Hawley

Stock Market Anomalies. Edited by Elroy Dimson · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xiii + 295 pp. Charts, tables, notes, references, and index. $39.50 pp. 215-216

Malcolm R. Burns

The Rise of Modern Business in Great Britain, the United States, and Japan. By Mansel G. Blackford · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. xi + 176 pp. Illustrations, suggested readings, and index. Cloth, $19.95; paper, $8.95 pp. 216-218

Wayne G. Broehl

The Sixth Great Power: A History of One of the Greatest of All Banking Families—The House of Barings, 1762–1929. By Philip Ziegler · New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. x + 430 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 218-221

Mira Wilkins

Markets and Bagmen: Studies in the History of Marketing and British Industrial Performance, 1830–1939. Edited by R. P. T. Davenport-Hines · Brookfield, Vt.: Gower Publishers, 1986. xii + 193 pp. Illustrations, figures, and tables. $55.50 pp. 221-223

Ian Keil

English Historical Economics, 1870–1926: The Rise of Economic History and Neomercantilism. By Gerald M. Koot · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. viii + 277 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $39.50 pp. 223-225

Lawrence Goldman

The History of the British Coal Industry. Volume 4: 1913–1946: The Political Economy of Decline. By Barry Supple · New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xxv + 733 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $98.00 pp. 225-227

Gerald D. Feldman

Wages and Unemployment Policy, 1936–1985. By Russell Jones · Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1987. xviii + 175 pp. Tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $14.95 pp. 227-228

Derek H. Aldcroft

British Historical Statistics. By B. R. Mitchell. · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xi + 886 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, and index. $135.00 pp. 228-229

Forrest H. Capie

The History of N. V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken. Volume 1: The Origin of the Dutch Incandescent Lamp Industry. By A. Heerding, trans. Derek S. Jordan · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiii + 343 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $47.50 pp. 230-231

Edmund N. Todd

Arbeitszeitverkürzung und sozialer Wandel: Der Kampf um die Achtstundenschicht in der deutschen und amerikanischen Eisen-und Stahlindustrie, 1880–1929. By Irmgard Steinisch · Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1986. xiv + 640 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. DM 138 pp. 231-232

Wilfried Feldenkirchen

The Ottoman Empire and European Capitalism, 1820–1913: Trade, Investment and Production. By Şevket Pamuk · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xii + 278 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.00 pp. 232-234

C. Ernest Dawn

Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871–1890. By Robert Vicat Turrell · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xviii + 297 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.50 pp. 234-235

Colin Newbury

The Misunderstood Miracle: Industrial Development and Political Change in Japan. By David Friedman · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988. viii + 265 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $12.95 pp. 236-238

Michael Cusumano