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Volume 61, issue 4, 1987

Lost Opportunities for Compromise in the Bank War: A Reassessment of Jackson's Veto Message pp. 531-550

Edwin J. Perkins

Flotation Booms in the Cotton Spinning Industry, 1870–1890: A Comparative Study pp. 551-581

Shin'ichi Yonekawa

Administrative Politics and Labor Policy in the First World War: The U.S. Employment Service and the Seattle Labor Market Experiment pp. 582-605

William J. Breen

The China Business pp. 606-614

Michael R. Godley

The Lightning-Rod Man: Franklin of Philadelphia pp. 615-620

Peter A. Coclanis

Traders, Planters, and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America. By David W. Galenson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiv + 230 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.50 pp. 623-624

Russell R. Menard

The Morgans: Private International Bankers, 1854–1913. By Vincent P. Carosso, with the assistance of Rose C. Carosso. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. xvii + 888 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $65.00 pp. 625-627

Albro Martin

The Anthracite Aristocracy: Leadership and Social Change in the Hard Coal Regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1800–1930. By Edward J. Davies II. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1985. 277 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.00 pp. 628-629

Frederic Cople Jaher

Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875–1980. By Dennis C. Dickerson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. xiv + 323 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.50 pp. 629-631

Michael W. Santos

Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900–1919. By Patricia A. Cooper. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xvi + 350 pp. Illustrations, tables, note on sources, oral history bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 631-633

Susan Porter Benson

Union Busting in the Tri-State: The Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Metal Workers' Strike of 1935. By George G. SuggsJr., Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. xiv + 285 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $22.50 pp. 633-635

Mark S. Foster

West of Wichita: Settling the High Plains of Kansas, 1865–1890. By Craig Miner. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1986. vii + 303 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 pp. 635-636

Paula M. Nelson

Prime Cut: Livestock Raising and Meatpacking in the United States, 1607–1983. By Jimmy M. Skaggs. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1986. xiii + 263 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $28.50 pp. 637-638

Patricia Nelson Limerick

The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America. By Christine Meisner Rosen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xii + 395 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, notes, and index. $39.50 pp. 638-640

Michael H. Frisch

Fair Play in the Marketplace: The First Battle for Pure Food and Drugs. By Mitchell Okun. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986. xii + 345 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. $27.50 pp. 640-642

Donna J. Wood

The American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915–1940. By David O. Levine. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986. 282 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 642-643

Guy Alchon

Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920–1960. By Jack Temple Kirby. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xix + 390 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $16.95 pp. 643-645

Robert C. Kenzer

Unseen Danger: A Tragedy of People, Government, and the Centralia Mine Fire. By David Dekok. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. xiv + 299 pp. Maps, illustrations, and index. $17.95 pp. 645-646

Joseph A. Pratt

The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850–1980. By Arthur F. McEvoy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xvii + 368 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. $39.50 pp. 646-647

Christine M. Rosen

Energy and the Federal Government: Fossil Fuel Policies, 1900–1946. By John G. Clark. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xxiii + 511 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. $39.95 pp. 648-649

Stephen J. Randall

The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor, and Government in the American Economy. By Walter Adams and James W. Brock. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. xiii + 426 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $22.95 pp. 650-651

Theodore P. Kovaleff

Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism. By William K. Carroll. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986. xvii + 284 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 pp. 652-653

H. V. Nelles

African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. By Herbert S. Klein. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. 311 pp. Maps, tables, bibliographical notes, and index. $22.95 pp. 653-654

Francisco A. Scarano

Costa Rica before Coffee; Society and Economy on the Eve of the Export Boom. By Lowell Gudmundson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. xvi + 204 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 pp. 655-656

Mark Wasserman

Sir Robert Clayton and the Origins of English Deposit Banking, 1658–1685. By Frank T. Melton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xii + 259 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, and index. $49.50 pp. 656-657

Charles W. Munn

Speculators and Patriots: Essays in Business History. Edited by R. P. T. Davenport-Hines. Totowa, N.J.: Frank Cass, 1986. viii + 139 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $29.50 pp. 657-659

W. J. Reader

The Genesis of Industrial Capital: A Study of the West Riding Wool Textile Industry, c. 1750–1850. By Pat Hudson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xx + 345 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.50 pp. 659-661

David J. Jeremy

Victorian Shipping, Business and Imperial Policy: Donald Currie, the Castle Line and Southern Africa. By Andrew Porter. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. x + 332 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 661-663

Mira Wilkins

British Railways, 1948–1973: A Business History. By T. R. Gourvish. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xxvii + 781 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, select bibliography, and index. $89.50 pp. 663-664

R. P. T. Davenport-Hines

Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical Understanding. By William M. Reddy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xii + 264 pp. Maps, charts, notes, and index. Cloth, $34.50; paper, $10.95 pp. 664-666

Donald M. Reid

The Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945–1951. By Alan S. Milward. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xxi + 527 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $38.50; paper, $12.95 pp. 666-669

Thomas A. Schwartz

Wilhelm und Carl Friedrich von Siemens: Die zweite Unternehmergeneration. Edited by Herbert Goetzeler and Lothar Schoen. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1986. 131 pp. Illustrations. DM 40 pp. 669-670

Wilfried Feldenkirchen

Odessa: A History, 1794–1914. By Patricia Herlihy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986. xviii + 411 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 pp. 670-671

John P. McKay

The Big Strikes: Queensland, 1889–1965. Edited by D. J. Murphy. Manchester, N.H.: University of Queensland Press, 1983. xix + 303 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $19.95; paper, $12.95 pp. 672-673

Andrew Moore

Volume 61, issue 3, 1987

The Du Pont Experiments in Scientific Management: Efficiency and Safety, 1911–1919 pp. 365-386

Donald Stabile

Domestic Politics and Foreign Investment: British Development of Mexican Petroleum, 1889–1911 pp. 387-416

Jonathan C. Brown

Big Business in Interwar Germany: Organizational Innovation at Vereinigte Stahlwerke, IG Farben, and Siemens pp. 417-451

Wilfried Feldenkirchen

History in an Off Key: David Abraham's Second Collapse pp. 452-472

Peter Hayes

Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century. Volume 3: The Perspective of the World. By Fernand Braudel. Translated by Sîan Reynolds. New York: Harper & Row, 1984. 699 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. $35.00 pp. 478-480

William N. Parker

Holland on the Hudson: An Economic and Social History of Dutch New York. By Oliver A. Rink. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986. 285 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 480-483

John McCusker

Proprietors, Patronage, and Paper Money: Legislative Politics in New Jersey, 1703–1776. By Thomas L. Purvis. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986. xii + 348 pp. Maps, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $38.00 pp. 483-484

Edwin J. Perkins

The Inland Empire: Unfolding Years, 1879–1929. By John Fahey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. xii + 298 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 pp. 484-486

Patricia Nelson Limerick

The Anti-Monopoly Persuasion: Popular Resistance to the Rise of Big Business in the Midwest. By Steven L. Piott. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. x + 194 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $35.00 pp. 486-487

Louis Galambos

The Rise of the Urban South. By Lawrence H. Larsen. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1985. xi + 220 pp. Tables, notes, essay on sources, and index. $22.00 pp. 487-488

Michael H. Frisch

Business Enterprise in American History. By Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. xi + 456 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, select bibliography, and index. Paper, $23.95 pp. 489-490

Diane Lindstrom

The Entrepreneurs: An American Adventure. By Robert Sobel and David B. Sicilia. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. x + 278 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pp. 490-491

James Oliver Robertson

Worker and Community: Response to Industrialization in a Nineteenth-Century American City, Albany, New York, 1850–1884. By Brian Greenberg. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. ix + 227 pp. Maps, chart, table, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $34.50; paper, $12.95 pp. 491-492

Allen Steinberg

The Money Game in Old New York: Daniel Drew and His Times. By Clifford Browder. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1986. viii + 319 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $28.00 pp. 492-494

Steven Fraser

Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890–1940. By Susan Porter Benson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. xvii + 322 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $27.50 pp. 494-495

Daniel Nelson

The Southern Pacific, 1901–1985. By Don L. Hofsommer. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1986. xviii + 373 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.50 pp. 495-498

Stephen Salsbury

The Making of a Profession: A Century of Electrical Engineering in America. By A. Michal McMahon. New York: IEEE Press, 1984. xv + 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95 pp. 498-500

David B. Sicilia

A Search for Public Administration: The Ideas and Career of Dwight Waldo. By Brack Brown and Richard J. StillmanII. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1986. vii + 196 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50 pp. 500-501

Barry D. Karl

Ailing Steel: The Transoceanic Quarrel. By Walter H. Goldberg. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. xxiv + 535 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50 pp. 501-502

Paul Tiffany

Innovation and Market Structure: Lessons from the Computer and Semiconductor Industries. By Nancy S. Dorfman. Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1987. xiv + 263 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $32.00 pp. 503-504

Mansel Blackford

RCA and the VideoDisc: The Business of Research. By Margaret B. W. Graham. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiv + 258 pp. Illustrations, charts, appendix, notes, and index. $19.95 pp. 504-505

John Kenly Smith

National Styles of Regulation: Environmental Policy in Great Britain and the United States. By David Vogel. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986. 325 pp. Notes and index. Paper, $12.95 pp. 505-507

Samuel P. Hays

In Its Corporate Capacity: The Seminary of Montreal as a Business Institution, 1816–1876. By Brian Young. Buffalo, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. xix + 295 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 pp. 507-509

H. V. Nelles

Technology on the Frontier: Mining in Old Ontario. By Dianne Newell. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986. 220 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.50 pp. 509-509

Donald Chaput

Monopoly's Moment: The Organization and Regulation of Canadian Utilities, 1830–1930. By Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1986. xvii + 393 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $34.95 pp. 510-511

Bayla Singer

The End of the Antwerp Mart. Volume 2: The Queen's Merchants and the Revolt of the Netherlands. By G. D. Ramsay. Dover, N.H.: Manchester University Press, 1986. vii + 231 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $37.50 pp. 511-512

Hans-Peter Baum

Business Life and Public Policy: Essays in Honour of D. C. Coleman. Edited by Neil McKendrick and R. B. Outhwaite. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiv + 263 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.50 pp. 513-514

R. P. T. Davenport-Hines

The American Peril: Challenge to Britain on the North Atlantic, 1901–1904. By Vivian Vale. Dover, N.H.: Manchester University Press, 1984. viii + 256 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $40.00 pp. 514-515

Gordon Boyce

British Multinationals: Origins, Management and Performance. Edited by Geoffrey Jones. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower Publishing Company, 1986. xii + 212 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. $55.95 pp. 516-517

Mira Wilkins

The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing: The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain, 1870–1936. By Samuel Cohn. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1986. viii + 278 pp. Tables, appendixes, references, and index. $34.95 pp. 517-519

Cindy S. Aron

Diesel: Technology and Society in Industrial Germany. By Donald E. ThomasJr., Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987. xii + 279 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $26.95 pp. 519-520

Raymond G. Stokes

American Money and the Weimar Republic. By William C. McNeil. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. x + 352 pp. Charts, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 pp. 520-522

Thomas A. Schwartz

Peasants and Lords in Modern Germany: Recent Studies in Agricultural History. Edited by Robert G. Moeller. Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1986. iv + 267 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $29.95 pp. 522-524

Elaine Glovka Spencer

Towards a New Frontier: History of the Bank of Baroda, 1908–1983. By Dwijendra Tripathi and Priti Misra. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1985. xvi + 313 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Rupees 160 pp. 524-525

P. N. Agarwala

America versus Japan: A Comparative Study. Edited by Thomas K. McCraw. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1986. ix + 463 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $29.95 pp. 526-528

W. Mark Fruin

Volume 61, issue 2, 1987

The Business Ethic for Boys: The Saturday Evening Post and the Post Boys pp. 185-215

Jan Cohn

Heman E. Perry and Black Enterprise in Atlanta, 1908–1925 pp. 216-242

Alexa Benson Henderson

The New Wave, the Old Guard, and the Bank Committee: William J. Grede at J. I. Case Company, 1953–1961 pp. 243-290

Craig Miner

The Kansas City Southern Railway and the Dutch Connection pp. 291-316

Augustus J. Veenendaal

“Engines of Change”: An Exhibition on the American Industrial Revolution pp. 320-322

Glenn Porter

Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890–1913. By James Livingston. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986. ix + 250 pp. Notes, appendixes, and index. $27.50.) pp. 323-324

Emily S. Rosenberg

Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790–1860. By Brooke Hindle and Steven Lubar. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. 309 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical note, and index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95.) pp. 325-326

Gary J. Kornblith

Frances Willard: A Biography. By Ruth Bordin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xv + 294 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) pp. 327-328

K. Austin Kerr

The Great Yellow Fleet: A History of American Railroad Refrigerator Cars. By John H. White. (San Marino, Calif.: Golden West Books, 1986. 188 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95.) pp. 328-329

Margaret Walsh

Railroads and the Character of America, 1820–1887. By James A. Ward. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. xii + 200 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $14.95.) pp. 329-331

Daniel J. McInerney

Life in the Oil Fields. By Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien. (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1986. xi + 263 pp. Map, illustrations, and index. $19.95.) pp. 331-332

Donald Chaput

The Vital Few: The Entrepreneur and American Economic Progress. Expanded edition. By Jonathan Hughes. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. xiv + 610 pp. Bibliographical notes and index. Paper, $11.95.) pp. 332-334

James Oliver Robertson

GM Passes Ford, 1918–1938: Designing the General Motors Performance-Control System. By Arthur J. Kuhn. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986. xii + 380 pp. Charts, bibliography, and index. $29.75.) pp. 334-336

Thomas G. Marx

American Workers, American Unions, 1920–1985. By Robert H. Zieger. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. xii + 233 pp. Bibliographic essay and index. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $9.95.) pp. 336-337

Daniel Nelson

Harvard University Press: A History. By Max Hall. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986. 257 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $20.00.) pp. 337-339

Michael W. Anesko

Small Business U.S.A.: The Role of Small Companies in Sparking America's Economic Transformation. By Steven Solomon. (New York: Crown Publishers, 1986. 358 pp. Appendixes, notes, and index. $19.95.) pp. 340-341

Stuart Bruchey

TVA and the Tellico Dam, 1936–1979: A Bureaucratic Crisis in Post-Industrial America. By William Bruce Wheeler and Michael J. McDonald. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. xii + 290 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.50.) pp. 341-342

Robert W. Garnet

Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Oil Policy, 1941–1954. By David S. Painter. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. xii + 302 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.50.) pp. 342-344

Stephen J. Randall

American Choices: Social Dilemmas and Public Policy since 1960. Edited by Robert H. Bremner, Gary W. Reichard, and Richard J. Hopkins. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1986. xii + 272 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $30.00.) pp. 345-346

Edward D. Berkowitz

A Conjunction of Interests: Business, Politics, and Tariffs, 1825–1879. By Ben Forster. (Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1986. ix + 288 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $15.95.) pp. 346-348

Peter George

Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities. By Martha C. Howell. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1986. xv + 285 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) pp. 348-349

David Herlihy

The Age of Manufactures: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain, 1700–1820. By Maxine Berg. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. 378 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, £4.95.) pp. 349-351

Ann Kussmaul

Inventing Retirement: The Development of Occupational Pensions in Britain. By Leslie Hannah. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xi + 201 pp. Charts, tables, notes, note on sources, and index. $39.50.) pp. 351-353

Steven Sass

Britain's Investment Overseas on the Eve of the First World War: The Use and Abuse of Numbers. By D. C. M. Platt. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. xii + 179 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.) pp. 353-355

Mira Wilkins

L'Industrie sidérurgique en France pendant la Révolution et l'Empire. By Denis Woronoff. (Paris: Editions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1984. 592 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and indexes.) pp. 355-357

Donald M. Reid

Industry and Politics in the Third Reich: Ruhr Coal, Hitler, and Europe. By John Gillingham. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. xii + 183 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00.) pp. 357-358

Elaine Glovka Spencer

The German Inflation, 1914–1923: Causes and Effects in International Perspective. By Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich. Translated by Theo Balderston. Originally published in 1980 as Die Deutsche Inflation. (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1986. xi + 369 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and indexes. $49.95.) pp. 358-360

Raymond G. Stokes

The Commercial Revolution in Nineteenth-Century China: The Rise of Sino-Western Mercantile Capitalism. By Yen-p'ing Hao. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. xv + 394 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50.) pp. 360-362

Lillian M. Li

Regionale Wirtschaftspolitik in der Kriegswirtschaft: Staat, Industrie und Verbände während des Ersten Weltkrieges in Baden. By Hermann Schäfer. (Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 1983. xxxii + 416 pp. DM 42.) pp. 360-360

Franz Mathis

Volume 61, issue 1, 1987

Technology, Capital, and Consolidation: The Performance of De Beers Mining Company Limited, 1880–1889 pp. 1-42

Colin Newbury

The Associated Press Antitrust Suit: A Philosophical Clash over Ownership of First Amendment Rights pp. 43-85

Margaret A. Blanchard

How Britain Turned to Free Trade pp. 86-112

William D. Grampp

Laboring on the Periphery: Managers and Workers at the A. M. Byers Company, 1900–1956 pp. 113-133

Michael W. Santos

The End of the Practical Man: Entrepreneurship and Higher Education in Germany, France and Great Britain, 1880–1940. By Robert R. Locke, (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1984. xii + 363 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50.) pp. 136-138

H. Thomas Johnson

A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia. By Thomas M. Doerflinger. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xvi + 413 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.00.) pp. 138-140

John McCusker

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal: Pathway to the Nation's Capital. By Thomas F. Hahn. (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1984. viii + 269 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $21.00.) pp. 140-141

Douglas R. Littlefield

A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Volume 2: Steam Power. By Louis C. Hunter. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985. xxii + 732 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $50.00.) pp. 141-143

Steven Lubar

Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930. By Ronald D. Eller. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982. xxvi + 272 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $23.50; paper, $12.50.) pp. 143-144

Robert C. Kenzer

Labor's True Women: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization, and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age. By Susan Levine. (Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1984. xii + 191 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $24.95.) pp. 144-146

Steven Fraser

The Moxie Encyclopedia. Volume 1. The History. By Q. David Bowers. (Vestal, N.Y.: The Vestal Press, Ltd., 1985. 760 pp. Illustrations and index. $19.95.) pp. 146-147

Roland Marchand

The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880–1960. By Christopher L. Tomlins. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xvi + 348 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, and index. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $12.95.) pp. 148-149

Howell J. Harris

Business & Government: Essays in 20th-century Cooperation and Confrontation. Edited by Joseph R. Frese, S. J., and Jacob Judd. (Tarrytown, N.Y.: Sleepy Hollow Press, 1985. xii + 233 pp. Notes and index. $25.00.) pp. 149-150

Barry D. Karl

Herbert Hoover and the Republican Era: A Reconsideration. Edited by Carl E. Krog and William R. Tanner. (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1984. xii + 268 pp. Tables, notes, and bibliographical essay. Cloth, $26.50; paper, $14.50.) pp. 151-152

Patrick Reagan

American Forestry: A History of National, State and Private Cooperation. By William G. Robbins. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xv + 344pp. Tables, notes, and index. $26.95.) pp. 152-154

Ellis W. Hawley

Regulatory Policy and the Social Sciences. Edited by Roger Noll. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. xi + 400 pp. Charts, tables, bibliography, and appendix. $37.50.) pp. 154-155

Richard H. K. Vietor

Deregulating the Airlines. By Elizabeth E. Bailey, David R. Graham, and Daniel P. Kaplan. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. xviii + 243 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) pp. 156-157

William R. Childs

Coal Firms under the New Social Regulation. By Richard A. Harris. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1985. x + 188 pp. Tables, references, and index. $30.00.) pp. 157-159

Christine Meisner Rosen

Synthetic Rubber: A Project That Had To Succeed. By Vernon Herbert and Attilio Bisio. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. xi + 243 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $45.00.) pp. 159-160

John Kenly Smith

Performance of the U. S. Railroads since World War II: A Quarter Century of Private Operation. By Kent T. Healy. (New York: Vantage Press, 1985. vii + 295 pp. Maps, charts, tables, and notes. $17.95.) pp. 160-162

Albro Martin

Aurora: Gateway to the Rockies. By Steven F. Mehls, Carol J. Drake, and James E. FellJr., (Evergreen, Colo.: Cordillera Press, 1985. 243 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $17.95.) pp. 162-163

Mark S. Foster

Railways and the Economic Development of Western Europe, 1830–1914. Edited by Patrick O'Brien. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. xiv + 243 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $30.00.) pp. 164-166

Colleen A. Dunlavy

The Bad Yankee, El Peligro Yankee: American Entrepreneurs and Financiers in Mexico. By Gene Z. Hanrahan. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Documentary Publications, 1985. Vol. 1: 156 + 400 pp.; vol. 2: 281 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, sources, and index. $49.95 set.) pp. 166-167

Thomas Benjamin

The Pacific Alliance: United States Foreign Policy and Japanese Trade Recovery, 1947–1955. By William S. Borden. (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. xiii + 320 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) pp. 167-168

Peter Frost

Wings of Judgment: American Bombing in World War II. By Ronald Schaffer. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. xiv + 272 pp. Map, notes, essay on sources, and index. $19.95.) pp. 169-170

Richard Polenberg

The Economic History of the Maritime Provinces. By S. A. Saunders. Edited by T. W. Acheson. (Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press, 1984. Originally published 1939. 139 pp. Tables, appendix, and notes. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $11.95 Can.) pp. 170-172

Kris Inwood

Trade, Tribute, and Transportation: The Sixteenth-Century Political Economy of the Valley of Mexico. By Ross Hassig. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. xvi + 364 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, references, and index. $24.95.) pp. 172-173

Stephanie Wood

Transnational Corporations versus the State: The Political Economy of the Mexican Auto Industry. By Douglas C. Bennett and Kenneth E. Sharpe. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. xiii + 300 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $42.00; paper, $9.95.) pp. 173-174

James P. Womack

The Awakening Giant: Continuity and Change in Imperial Chemical Industries. By Andrew M. Pettigrew. (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985. xxi + 542 pp. Charts, tables, references, and index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $19.95.) pp. 175-176

Donald C. Coleman

Shop Floor Bargaining and the State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Edited by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. vii + 261 pp. Notes and index. $34.50.) pp. 176-178

John Lovell

The Moscow Business Elite: A Social and Cultural Portrait of Two Generations, 1840–1905. By Jo Ann Ruckman. (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1984. xii + 275 pp. Charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.00.) pp. 178-179

Fred Carstensen

The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota. By Michael A. Cusumano. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. xx + 487 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) - The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853–1955. By Andrew Gordon. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. xvi + 524 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) pp. 179-183

W. Mark Fruin