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Volume 60, issue 4, 1986

“To Triumph before Feminine Taste”: Bourgeois Women's Consumption and Hand Methods of Production in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Paris pp. 541-563

Whitney Walton

The Decline of the Piece-Rate System in California Canning: Technological Innovation, Labor Management, and Union Pressure, 1890–1947 pp. 564-601

Martin Brown and Peter Philips

Employee Attitude Testing at Sears, Roebuck and Company, 1938–1960 pp. 602-632

Sanford M. Jacoby

Perspectives on the Bell System: Strategy, Structure, Technology, and Unionism pp. 633-640

Richard H. K. Vietor

The Museum of American Textile History: Archival Sources for Business History pp. 641-650

Dorothy Truman

The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876–1926. By Leonard S. Reich. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xvi + 309 pp. $24.95.) pp. 653-655

Robert E. Kohler

The Economy of British America, 1607–1789. By John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. xxii + 485 pp. $35.00.) pp. 655-657

Gary M. Walton

The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America. By W. J. Rorabaugh. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. xii + 270 pp. $24.95.) pp. 657-658

Gary J. Kornblith

Robert Fulton: A Biography. By Cynthia Owen Philip. (New York; Franklin Watts, 1985. xii + 384 pp. $18.95.) pp. 658-659

Albro Martin

E. H. Harriman: Master Railroader. By Lloyd J. Mercer. (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985. xi + 188 pp. $19.95.) pp. 660-661

John Lauritz Larson

Aerial Pioneers: The U.S. Air Mail Service, 1918–1927. By William M. Leary. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. 309 pp. $22.50.) pp. 661-663

Nick A. Komons

From New Era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, the Economists, and American Economic Policy, 1921–1933. By William J. Barber. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xii + 237 pp. $39.50.) pp. 663-665

Donald T. Critchlow

The Crash and Its Aftermath: A History of Securities Markets in the United States, 1929–1933. By Barrie A. Wigmore. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. xiii + 731 pp. $49.95.) pp. 665-667

Hugh Rockoff

The Morality of Spending: Attitudes toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875–1940. By Daniel Horowitz. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. xxxi + 254 pp. $26.50.) pp. 667-668

Daniel Pope

The Quest for Economic Stability: Roosevelt to Reagan. By Hugh S. Norton. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1985. xvii + 329 pp. $19.95.) pp. 668-669

Kim McQuaid

Economic Security and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1950. By Robert A. Pollard. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. xi + 378 pp. $32.50.) pp. 670-671

Thomas A. Schwartz

Paul G. Hoffman: Architect of Foreign Aid. By Alan R. Raucher. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1985. xii + 208 pp. $22.00.) pp. 671-673

Robert Griffith

U.S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A History. By William D. Rowley. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985. xiv + 270 pp. $29.50.) pp. 673-674

Arthur F. McEvoy

Silk City: Studies on the Paterson Silk Industry, 1860–1940. Edited by Philip B. Scranton. (Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1985. vi + 176 pp. $19.95.) pp. 674-676

Gary Kulik

The Rise and Decline of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. By William I. Walsh. (Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1986. 254 pp. $17.95.) pp. 676-678

David B. Sicilia

A Capital Ship: New England Life, A History of America's First Chartered Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1835–1985. By Abram T. Collier. (Boston: New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1985. xiv + 336 pp. $30.00.) pp. 678-679

H. Roger Grant

Sometimes the Books Froze: Wyoming's Economy and Its Banks. By L. Milton Woods. (Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1985. 198 pp. $25.00.) pp. 679-680

Larry Schweikart

Technology's Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric. By S.J. John M. Staudenmaier (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. xxvii + 282 pp. $35.00.) pp. 680-681

Howard P. Segal

Technological Utopianism in American Culture. By Howard P. Segal. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. x + 301 pp. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $14.95.) pp. 682-683

Guy Alchon

Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience. Edited by Merritt Roe Smith. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. ix + 391 pp. $30.00.) pp. 683-685

Robert D. Cuff

The Economic Theory of the Multinational Enterprise. By Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xii + 235 pp. $27.50.) pp. 685-687

Mira Wilkins

Family Business in the Era of Industrial Growth: Its Ownership and Management. Edited by Akio Okochi and Shigeaki Yasuoka. (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1984. xiii + 318 pp. 5,000 Yen.) pp. 687-689

Steven J. Ericson

The IDB: A History of Canada's Industrial Development Bank. By E. Ritchie Clark. (Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1985. xix + 435 pp. $30.00.) pp. 689-690

H. V. Nelles

James Nasmyth and the Bridgewater Foundry: A Study of Entrepreneurship in the Early Engineering Industry. By J. A. Cantrell. (Dover, N.H.: Manchester University Press, 1985. vii + 279 pp. $33.00.) pp. 691-693

David J. Jeremy

The Motor Car Industry in Coventry since the 1890s. By David Thoms and Tom Donnelly. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. 243 pp. $27.50.) pp. 693-694

Charles G. Wilkinson

Wine for Sale: Victoria Wine and the Liquor Trade, 1860–1984. By Asa Briggs. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. ix + 192 pp. $22.00.) pp. 694-695

R.P.T. Davenport-Hines

Property Companies and the Construction Industry in Britain. By Hedley Smyth. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. ix + 265 pp. $44.50.) pp. 695-697

Richard Rodger

Sugar and Slavery in Puerto Rico: The Plantation Economy of Ponce, 1800–1850. By Francisco A. Scarano. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. xxv + 242 pp. $21.50.) pp. 697-699

David R. Murray

The Development of Capitalism in Northern Nigeria. By Robert Shenton. (Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1986. xx + 170 pp. Cloth, $27.50; paper, $12.50.) pp. 699-701

Dennis M. P. McCarthy

Volume 60, issue 3, 1986

Racism, Slavery, and Free Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship in the United States before the Civil War pp. 343-382

Juliet E. K. Walker

Bacchus in the East: The Chinese Grape Wine Industry, 1892-1938 pp. 383-409

Michael R. Godley

The House That Parcheesi Built: Selchow & Righter Company pp. 410-437

Paula Petrik

Associationalism, Statism, and Professional Regulation: Public Accountants and the Reform of the Financial Markets, 1896-1940 pp. 438-468

Paul J. Miranti

The Good That Men Do pp. 469-473

Albro Martin

Archival Sources for Business History at the National Museum of American History pp. 474-486

Spencer R. Crew and John A. Fleckner

America's Business. By James Oliver Robertson. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1985. x + 277 pp. $17.95.) pp. 492-493

Glenn Porter

Provisioning Paris: Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade during the Eighteenth Century. By Steven L. Kaplan. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984. 666 pp. $39.95.) pp. 493-495

Robert Forster

Mechanical Metamorphosis: Technological Change in Revolutionary America. By Neil Longley York. Foreword by Brooke Hindle. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. xvii + 240 pp. $35.00.) pp. 495-496

Chandos Brown

Coxey's Army: An American Odyssey. By Carlos A. Schwantes. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xii + 321 pp. $22.95.) pp. 497-498

K. Austin Kerr

The Southern Railway: Road of the Innovators. By Burke Davis. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. viii + 309 pp. $19.95.) pp. 498-499

August W. Giebelhaus

Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy. Edited by Thavolia Glymph and John J. Kushma. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1985. x + 119 pp. $17.50.) pp. 499-501

Gavin Wright

Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880. By Pete Daniel. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1985. xvi + 352 pp. $22.50.) pp. 501-502

David L. Carlton

Steel at the Sault: Francis H. Clergue, Sir James Dunn, and the Algoma Steel Corporation, 1901-1956. By Duncan McDowall. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984. xxii + 326 pp. $35.00.) pp. 502-504

Charles W. Cheape

Citibank, 1812-1970. By Harold van B. Cleveland and Thomas F. Huertas. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. xi + 456 pp. $25.00.) pp. 504-506

Joseph A. Pratt

Willis R. Whitney, General Electric, and the Origins of U.S. Industrial Research. By George Wise. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. xi + 375 pp. $29.00.) pp. 506-507

Larry Owens

The Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio, 1900-1932. By Hugh G. J. Aitken. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. xvii + 588 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $19.95.) pp. 508-509

Paul B. Israel

Trucking and the Public Interest: The Emergence of Federal Regulation, 1914-1940. By William R. Childs. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. xiv + 243 pp. $19.95.) pp. 509-511

Bruce E. Seely

Business Architectural Imagery in America, 1870-1930. By Kenneth Turney Gibbs. (Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1984. x + 200 pp. $39.95.) pp. 511-512

Jeffrey L. Meikle

Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940. By Roland Marchand. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. xxii + 448 pp. $35.00.) pp. 512-514

Daniel Pope

The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 1920s. By Guy Alchon. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. x + 252 pp. $25.00.) pp. 514-515

Otis L. Graham

The Brookings Institution, 1916-1952: Expertise and the Public Interest in a Democratic Society. By Donald T. Critchlow. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1985. xiv + 247 pp. $23.00.) pp. 515-517

Larry G. Gerber

Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900-1945. By Sanford M. Jacoby. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. ix + 377 pp. $35.00.) pp. 517-519

Daniel Nelson

The American Ethos: Public Attitudes toward Capitalism and Democracy. A Twentieth Century Fund Report. By Herbert McClosky and John Zaller. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984. xvii + 342 pp. $27.50.) pp. 519-521

Robert J. Brugger

New Deals: The Chrysler Revival and the American System. By Robert B. Reich and John D. Donahue. (New York: Random House, 1985. 359 pp. $17.95.) pp. 521-522

Robert Sobel

Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919-1933. By Frank Costigliola. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984. 381 pp. $27.50.) pp. 522-524

Stephen A. Schuker

Research in Economic History, Volume 9. Edited by Paul Uselding. (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1984. viii + 253 pp. $45.00.) pp. 525-527

Eugene N. White

Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice. Volume 1: Coins and Moneys of Account. By Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. xx + 684 pp. $45.00.) pp. 527-528

David Herlihy

Samuel Roberts, Clock Maker: An Eighteenth-Century Craftsman in a Welsh Rural Community. By W. T. R. Pryce and T. Alun Davies. (Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, Welsh Folk Museum, 1985. xvii + 450 pp. £19.50.) pp. 528-530

David S. Landes

The Historian and the Business of Insurance. Edited by Oliver M. Westall. (Dover, N.H.: Manchester University Press, 1984. x + 189 pp. £19.50.) pp. 530-531

R. P. T. Davenport-Hines

German Yearbook on Business History: 1984. Edited by Wolfram Engels and Hans Pohl. (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1985. 158 pp. $16.00.) pp. 532-533

Elaine Glovka Spencer

Food, Politics, and Society in Latin America. Edited by John C. Super and Thomas C. Wright. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xv + 261 pp. $22.95.) pp. 533-534

Donna J. Guy

Latin American Oil Companies and the Politics of Energy. Edited by John D. Wirth. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xxix + 282 pp. $29.95.) pp. 534-535

George D. E. Philip

Coal in Queensland: The Late Nineteenth Century, 1875-1900. By R. L. Whitmore. (New York: University of Queensland Press, 1985. xxi + 338 pp. $27.50.) pp. 536-537

William Hausman

Japanese Yearbook on Business History: 1984. Edited by Keiichiro Nakagawa and Hidemasa Morikawa. (Tokyo: Japan Business History Institute, 1984. x + 185 pp. 7,000 Yen.) pp. 536-536

Michael A. Cusumano

Volume 60, issue 2, 1986

The Naval Aircraft Factory, the American Aviation Industry, and Government Competition, 1919–1928 pp. 175-198

William F. Trimble

Japanese Multinational Enterprise before 1914 pp. 199-231

Mira Wilkins

Industrial Recreation, the Second World War, and the Revival of Welfare Capitalism, 1934–1960 pp. 232-257

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

The Courts and the Development of Trade in Upper Canada, 1830–1860 pp. 258-280

Peter George and Philip Sworden

The Kress Library of Business and Economics pp. 281-288

Ruth R. Rogers

Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West. By Donald Worster. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. xi + 402 pp. $24.95.) pp. 293-295

Patricia Nelson Limerick

Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690–1750. By Christine Leigh Heyrman. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1984. 431 pp. $25.00.) pp. 296-297

John McCusker

The Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Styles in Boston and Charleston, 1828–1843. By William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. xiv + 334 pp. $29.95.) pp. 298-299

Edward Pessen

Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South. By Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1984. xvi + 422 pp. $22.50.) pp. 300-301

Harold D. Woodman

Sharps Rifles and Spanish Mules: The San Antonio-El Paso Mail, 1851–1881. By Wayne R. Austerman. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1985. xiv + 367 pp. $29.50.) pp. 301-302

Richard B. Kielbowicz

Railroad Development Programs in the Twentieth Century. By Roy V. Scott. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1985. xi + 231 pp. $22.50.) pp. 303-304

Stephen Salsbury

A Guide to Thomas A. Edison Papers: A Selective Microfilm Edition. Part 1 (1850–1878). Edited by Thomas E. Jeffrey. (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1985. With microfilm, 28 reels, $1,650.00. Guide published separately, 125 pp., $25.00.) pp. 304-306

Thomas P. Hughes

The Civil Works Administration, 1933–1934: The Business of Emergency Employment in the New Deal. By Bonnie Fox Schwartz. (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. xviii + 300 pp. $27.50.) pp. 306-307

Susan Ware

Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890–1930. By David E. Nye. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. xiv + 188 pp. $20.00.) pp. 307-309

Susan Strasser

Shaping an American Institution: Robert E. Wood and Sears, Roebuck. By James C. Worthy. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1984. xx + 299 pp. $18.95.) pp. 309-310

Michael Miller

The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. By Nannie M. Tilley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. xxi + 706 pp. $35.00.) pp. 311-312

August W. Giebelhaus

The Bowery Savings Bank of New York: A Social and Financial History. By Oscar Schisgall. (New York: American Management Associations, 1984. xi + 402 pp. $19.95.) pp. 312-313

Thomas F. Huertas

Roadside Empires: How the Chains Franchised America. By Stan Luxenberg. (New York: Viking Penguin, 1985. viii + 313 pp. $17.95.) pp. 314-315

Thomas G. Marx

The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era. By Christopher P. Wilson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. xviii + 239 pp. $24.00.) pp. 316-317

Michael Anesko

Television's Guardians: The FCC and the Politics of Programming, 1958–1967. By James L. Baughman. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. xvi + 311 pp. $27.50.) pp. 318-319

C. Joseph Pusateri

Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impact on American Society. By Michael Schudson. (New York: Basic Books, 1984. vii + 288 pp. $17.95.) pp. 319-320

Daniel Pope

Foundations of Business Economics: The Contributions of Joel Dean. By Walter J. PrimeauxJr,(Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1984. xiii + 225 pp. Paper, $14.00.) pp. 320-321

H. Thomas Johnson

All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876–1916. By Robert W. Rydell. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. x + 328 pp. $27.50.) pp. 322-323

Emily S. Rosenberg

Essays from the Lowell Conference on Industrud History. 1982: The Arts and Industrialism; 1983: The Industrial City. Edited by Robert Weible. (North Andover, Mass: Museum of American Textile History, 1985. 329 pp. $16.50.) pp. 323-324

Helena E. Wright

Views on U.S. Economic and Business History: Molding the Mixed Enterprise Economy. Edited by Jack Blicksilver. (Atlanta: Georgia State University, Business Publishing Division, 1985. xii + 559 pp. $18.95.) pp. 325-325

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Working-Class Experience: The Rise and Reconstitution of Canadian Labour, 1800–1980. By Bryan D. Palmer. (Toronto: Butterworth & Co., 1983. 298 pp. $23.00.) pp. 326-328

James R. Green

Merchants and Jews: The Struggle for British West Indian Commerce, 1650–1750. Stephen Alexander Fortune. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1984. xiii + 244 pp. $18.00.) pp. 328-329

Jacob M. Price

Economic Expansion and Social Change: England, 1500–1700. By C. G. A. Clay. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Volume 1: People, Land, and Towns: xiv + 268 pp.; volume 2: Industry, Trade, and Government: xii + 324 pp. Cloth, $34.50; paper, $12.95.) pp. 329-331

William Hunt

The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins. By François Crouzet. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. ix + 229 pp. $37.50.) pp. 331-332

Peter N. Stearns

Economic Development of the British Coal Industry, 1800–1914. By B.R. Mitchell. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xv + 381 pp. $59.50.) pp. 332-334

Carol E. Heim

The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union: Economic Development in Austria-Hungary in the Nineteenth Century. By John Komlos. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983. xix + 347 pp. $35.00.) - Austrian Banking and Financial Policy: Creditanstalt at a Turning Point, 1913-1923. By Eduard März. Translated by Charles Kessler. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Originally published in German in 1981. xxvi + 627 pp. $32.50.) pp. 334-337

Elaine Glovka Spencer

Business History of Shipping: Strategy and Structure. Edited by Tsunehiko Yui and Keiichiro Nakagawa. (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1985. xxix + 330 pp. 6000 yen.) pp. 337-338

Derek Aldcroft

Mitsubishi and the N.Y.K., 1870–1914: Business Strategy in the Japanese Shipping Industry. By William D. Wray. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984. xx + 516 pp. $25.00.) pp. 338-340

Richard Rice

Volume 60, issue 1, 1986

Undercover and Underground: Labor Spies and Mine Management in the Early Twentieth Century pp. 1-27

Charles K. Hyde

Structural Change and Competition in the United States Tire Industry, 1920–1937 pp. 28-54

Michael French

News as a Public Good: Cooperative Ownership, Price Commitments, and the Success of the Associated Press pp. 55-80

Stephen Shmanske

Charles E. Mitchell: Scapegoat of the Crash? pp. 81-103

Thomas F. Huertas and Joan L. Silverman

Business History at the Hagley Museum and Library pp. 104-120

Michael Nash

America's Business. By James Oliver Robinson. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1985. x + 277 pp. $17.95.) pp. 125-126

Glenn Porter

Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America. By Thomas C. Cochran. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. 179 pp. Cloth, $17.50; paper, $7.95.) pp. 126-128

Kenneth Sokoloff

America at Middle Age: A New History of the United States in the Twentieth Century. By Louis Galambos. (New York: New Press, McGraw-Hill, 1982. 164 pp. $14.95.) pp. 128-129

Ellis W. Hawley

The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War. By Gerald D. Nash. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985. x + 304 pp. $35.00.) pp. 130-132

Mark S. Foster

A Prosperous People: The Growth of the American Economy. By Edwin J. Perkins and Gary M. Walton. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1985. xiii + 240 pp. Papar, $14.95.) pp. 130-130

Diane Lindstrom

The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895–1904. By Naomi R. Lamoreaux. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xii + 208 pp. $29.95.) pp. 132-134

Louis P. Cain

The Electrical Workers: A History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse, 1923–1960. By Ronald W. Schatz. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. xv + 279 pp. $22.95.) pp. 134-135

Walter Licht

The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s. By Howell John Harris. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. ix + 296 pp. $21.50.) pp. 136-137

William H. Becker

Family Firm to Modern Multinational: Norton Company, a New England Enterprise. By Charles W. Cheape. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. xv + 424 pp. $25.00.) pp. 137-139

Mira Wilkins

Off the Track: The Decline of the Intercity Passenger Train in the United States. By Donald M. Itzkoff. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. xii + 164 pp. $28.95.) pp. 139-141

Stephen Salsbury

The Decline of Transit: Urban Transportation in German and U.S. Cities, 1900–1970. By Glenn Yago. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. ix + 293 pp. $29.95.) pp. 141-142

Douglas D. Anderson

Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity: Aid under the Radical Republicans, 1865–1877. By Mark W. Summers. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xiii + 361 pp. $37.50.) pp. 142-143

John Lauritz Larson

The Limits of Symbolic Reform: The New Deal and Taxation, 1933–1939. By Mark H. Leff. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. x + 308 pp. $32.50.) pp. 143-144

Sidney Ratner

The Pragmatic Imagination: A History of the Wharton School, 1881–1981. By Steven A. Sass. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. xxiii + 351 pp. $25.00.) pp. 145-146

Robert R. Locke

The Mirror Makers. By Stephen Fox. (New York: William Morrow, 1984. 383 pp. $17.95.) pp. 146-147

Daniel Pope

From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1830–1980. By Lynn Y. Weiner. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. xii + 187 pp. $17.95.) pp. 147-148

Nancy F. Cott

Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier. By Juliet E. K. Walker. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1983. xii + 223 pp. $20.00.) pp. 149-150

Robert L. Clarke

Joseph Alois Schumpeter: A Bibliography, 1905–1984. Compiled by Michael I. Stevenson. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. xviii + 137 pp. $29.95.) pp. 150-151

Albro Martin

The Subarctic Fur Trade: Native Social and Economic Adaptations. Edited by Shepard KrechIII. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984. xix + 194 pp. $23.95.) pp. 151-153

Ann Carlos

Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior, By R. P. T. Davenport-Hines. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xii + 295 pp. $44.50.) pp. 153-154

Peter L. Payne

A Monetary History of the United Kingdom, 1870–1982. Volume 1: Data, Sources, Methods. By Forrest Capie and Alan Webber. (Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1985. xxiv + 596 pp. $50.00.) pp. 154-156

Barry Eichengreen

British Air Strategy between the Wars. By Malcolm Smith. (New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1984. 360 pp. $34.95.) pp. 156-157

John F. McLaughlin

The Scottish Hosiery and Knitwear Industry, 1680–1980. By Clifford Gulvin. (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1984. ix + 163 pp. $31.00.) pp. 157-159

Alun C. Davies

British Trade and Enterprise in the Baltic States, 1919–1925. By Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen-Lievonen. (Helsinki: Societas Historica Finlandiae, 1984. 312 pp. £14.50.) pp. 159-161

Walford Johnson

The North American Role in the Spanish Imperial Economy, 1760–1819. Edited by Jacques A. Barbier and Allan J. Kuethe. (Dover, N. H.: Longwood Publishing Group, 1984. viii + 232 pp. $35.00.) pp. 161-162

David R. Ringrose

Le Marché foncier à la veille de la Révolution: Les mouvements de propriété beaucerons dans les régions de Maintenon et de Janville de 1761 à 1790. By Gérard Béaur. (Paris: Editions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1984. 359 pp. Fr 170.) pp. 162-164

Thomas M. Adams

Le Résistible déclin des sociétés industrielles. By François Caron. (Paris: Librairie Academique Perrin, 1985. 330 pp. Fr 120.) pp. 164-166

Donald M. Reid

The Economic Rise of the Hapsburg Empire, 1750–1914. By David F. Good. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. xvi + 309 pp. $32.00.) pp. 166-167

Andrei S. Markovits

Private Enterprise in Eastern Europe: The Non-Agricultural Private Sector in Poland and the GDR, 1945–1983. By Anders Åslund. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xvi + 294 pp. $29.95.) pp. 168-169

John P. McKay

Kikkoman: Company, Clan and Community. By W. Mark Fruin. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. v + 356 pp. $30.00.) pp. 169-171

Masaru Udagawa