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Volume 59, issue 4, 1985

Latin American Business History since 1965: A View from North of the Border pp. 543-562

H. V. Nelles

Agriculture and the Upper Plata: The Tobacco Trade, 1780–1865 pp. 563-596

Thomas L. Whigham

Arms, Guano, and Shipping: The W. R. Grace Interests in Peru, 1865–1885 pp. 597-621

C. Alexander G. de Secada

British Company and Mexican Community: The English at Real del Monte, 1824–1849 pp. 622-644

Robert W. Randall

Enrique C. Creel: Business and Politics in Mexico, 1880–1930 pp. 645-662

Mark Wasserman

Dependency Revisited pp. 663-669

Thomas F. O'Brien

Archival Sources for Latin American Business History pp. 670-679

Vera Blinn Reber

A Retrospective on the Classical Gold Standard, 1821–1931. Edited by Michael D. Bordo and Anna J. Schwartz. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. xi + 681 pp. $65.00.) pp. 682-685

Bruce R. Dalgaard

The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History 1880–1920. Edited by Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson Lears. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1983. xvii + 236 pp. $9.95.) pp. 686-687

Daniel Pope

Test and Protest: The Influence of Consumers Union. By Norman Isaac Silber. (New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, Inc., 1983. x + 171 pp. Cloth, $27.50; paper, $12.50.) pp. 688-689

Charles McGovern

Worker Benefits: Industrial Welfare in America 1900–1935. An Annotated Bibliography. By Martha Jane Soltow and Susan Gravelle. (Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1983. iv + 230 pp. $16.50.) pp. 689-690

Steven Sass

Challenges to American Values: Society, Business and Religion. By Thomas C. Cochran. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. 147 pp. $13.95.) pp. 690-691

Edwin J. Perkins

Bank of Boston 200: A History of New England's Leading Bank, 1784–1984. By Ben Ames WilliamsJr, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. xv + 480 pp. $27.50.) pp. 691-692

Joseph A. Pratt

Bernard Baruch: The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend. By James Grant. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. 376 pp. $9.95.) pp. 692-693

Robert D. Cuff

Geneen. By Robert J. Schoenberg. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1985. 429 pp. $19.95.) pp. 693-695

Robert Sobel

Anthony: The Man, the Company, the Cameras. By William Marder and Estelle Marder. (Amesbury, Mass.: Pine Ridge Publishing Company, 1982. 384 pp. $75.00.) pp. 695-696

Reese V. Jenkins

The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Engineer, 1874–1914. By George H. Nash. (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1983. xii + 768 pp. $25.00.) pp. 696-697

Gary Dean Best

The Labor Movement in Wisconsin: A History. By Robert W. Ozanne. (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1984. vii + 277 pp. $20.00.) pp. 697-698

Darryl Holter

Oil Booms: Social Change in Five Texas Towns. By Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982. xiv + 220 pp. $17.95.) - Wildcatters: Texas Independent Oilmen. By Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien. (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1984. xi + 235 pp. $16.95.) pp. 699-700

Donald Chaput

American Rodeo: From Buffalo Bill to Big Business. By Kristine Fredriksson. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1985. xiii + 255 pp. $18.95.) pp. 700-701

Wray Vamplew

Britain, America and the Sinews of War, 1914–1918. By Kathleen Burk. (Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1985. vii + 286 pp. $29.95.) pp. 701-702

Robert D. Cuff

The English Rothschilds. By Richard Davis. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. 272 pp. $17.95.) pp. 702-703

Richard P. T. Davenport-Hines

The Cotton Masters, 1830–1860. By Anthony Howe. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. xii + 359 pp. $39.95.) pp. 703-704

Peter N. Stearns

Chinese Business under Socialism: The Politics of Domestic Commerce, 1949–1980. By Dorothy J. Solinger. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. xiv + 368 pp. $35.00.) pp. 705-706

Kenneth Lieberthal

Structure and Change: An Economic History of Quebec. By Robert Armstrong. (Agincourt, Ontario: Gage Publishing Co., 1984. xxi + 295 pp. $9.95.) pp. 706-708

Fernand Ouellet

Prosperity without Progress: Manila Hemp and Material Life in the Colonial Philippines. By Norman G. Owen. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. xxii + 311 pp. $30.00.) pp. 708-709

Edgar Wickberg

Miners, Peasants and Entrepreneurs: Regional Development in the Central Highlands of Peru. By Norman Long and Bryan Roberts. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. x + 288 pp. $49.50.) pp. 710-711

James L. Dietz

Latin America, Economic Imperialism and the State: The Political Economy of the External Connection from Independence to the Present. Edited by Christopher Abel and Colin M. Lewis. (Dover, N.H.: The Athlone Press, 1985. xiv + 540 pp. $52.00.) pp. 711-712

Donna J. Guy

British Railways in Argentina, 1857–1914: A Case Study of Foreign Investment. By Colin M. Lewis. (Dover, N.H.: The Athlone Press, 1983. xi + 259 pp. $42.50.) pp. 712-714

Vera Blinn Reber

The Banana Wars: An Inner History of American Empire, 1900–1934. By Lester D. Langley. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983. viii + 255 pp. $26.00.) pp. 714-715

Bruce J. Calder

Volume 59, issue 3, 1985

The Craftsman as Industrialist: Jonas Chickering and the Transformation of American Piano Making pp. 349-368

Gary J. Kornblith

Government Regulation and the Rise of the California Fruit Industry: The Entrepreneurial Attack on Fruit Pests, 1880–1920 pp. 369-402

Howard Seftel

The Strategic Use of Public Policy: Business Support for the 1906 Food and Drug Act pp. 403-432

Donna J. Wood

Thomas Alva Edison's “Treatise on National Economic Policy and Business” pp. 433-464

Israel Rubin

The Development of the Franchise Distribution System in the U.S. Automobile Industry pp. 465-474

Thomas G. Marx

Business Records at the Harvard Business School pp. 475-483

Florence Bartoshesky

The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society, 1750–1900. By William M. Reddy. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xii + 402 pp. $37.50.) pp. 486-490

Donald M. Reid

Europe, America, and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism. Volume 1: Europe and the World Economy. By William N. Parker. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiv + 270 pp. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $9.95.) pp. 490-491

Charles P. Kindleberger

A History of American Business. By C. Joseph Pusateri. (Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1984. xii + 347 pp. Cloth, $25.95; paper, $15.95.) pp. 491-492

H. V. Nelles

Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States. By Hugh Rockoff. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xi + 289 pp. $29.95.) pp. 492-493

Jonathan Hughes

Material Culture of the Wooden Age. Edited by Brooke Hindle. (Tarrytown, N.Y.: Sleepy Hollow Press, 1981. 394 pp. $22.50.) pp. 493-495

David A. Hounshell

Samuel Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790–1860. By Barbara M. Tucker. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984. 268 pp. $29.95.) pp. 495-496

Steven D. Lubar

Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800–1885. By Philip Scranton. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xiii + 431 pp. $34.50.) pp. 497-499

Jonathan Prude

The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870–1900. By Jon C. Teaford. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. xi + 365 pp. Cloth, $28.50; paper, $14.95.) pp. 499-501

Michael H. Frisch

Styling vs. Safety: The American Automobile Industry and the Development of Automotive Safety, 1900–1966. By Joel W. Eastman. (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1984. xvi + 280 pp. Cloth, $23.75; paper, $13.00.) pp. 501-503

Dennis A. Yao

The American Automobile Industry. By John B. Rae. (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984. xii + 212 pp. $18.95.) pp. 503-505

Joel W. Eastman

John Deere's Company: A History of Deere & Company and Its Times. By Wayne G. BroehlJr (New York: Doubleday and Company, 1984. xv + 880 pp. $24.95.) pp. 505-507

Charles W. Cheape

Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda during World War II. By Maureen Honey. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984. viii + 251 pp. $20.00.) pp. 507-508

Joanne B. Ciulla

Controlling the Atom: The Beginnings of Nuclear Regulation, 1946–1962. By George T. Mazuzan and J. Samuel Walker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. x + 530 pp. $28.95.) pp. 508-510

Richard F. Hirsh

Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation. By David F. Noble. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. xviii + 409 pp. $22.95.) pp. 510-511

Daniel Nelson

William Stewart Herron: Father of the Petroleum Industry in Alberta. Edited by David H. Breen. (Calgary: Historical Society of Alberta, 1984. xlv + 359 pp. $19.95 Canadian.) pp. 512-513

H. V. Nelles

Dictionary of Business Biography: A Biographical Dictionary of Business Leaders Active in Britain in the Period 1860–1980. Volume 1: A-C. Edited by David J. Jeremy. (London: Butterworth & Co., 1984. xxxi + 878 pp. £65.) pp. 513-514

Jonathan M. Liebenau

England's Sea Empire, 1550–1642. By David B. Quinn and A. N. Ryan. (Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1983. xiv + 257 pp. $25.00.) pp. 514-515

John McCusker

Men of Business and Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Quaker Pease Dynasty of North-East England, 1700–1943. By Maurice William Kirby. (Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1984. xv + 167 pp. $25.00.) pp. 515-516

Peter N. Stearns

The Management of Monopoly: A Study of the East India Company's Conduct of Its Tea Trade, 1784–1833. By Hoh-cheung Mui and Lorna H. Mui. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984. xiv + 192 pp. $18.95.) pp. 517-518

Geoffrey Gilbert

The Patent System and Inventive Activity during the Industrial Revolution, 1750–1852. By H. I. Dutton. (Dover, N. H.: Manchester University Press, 1984. vii + 232 pp. $32.50.) pp. 518-519

Jeremy Atack

Walter Boyd: A Merchant Banker in the Age of Napoleon. By Sydney R. Cope. (London: Alan Sutton, 1983. viii + 197 pp. £16.) pp. 519-520

Edwin J. Perkins

Sweated Industries and Sweated Labor: The London Clothing Trades, 1867–1914. By James A. Schmiechen. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1984. 209 pp. $23.95.) pp. 520-521

Steven Fraser

The Wounded Soldiers of Industry: Industrial Compensation Policy, 1833–1897. By P. W. J. Bartrip and S. B. Burman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. xi + 253 pp. $29.95.) pp. 521-522

Leslie Hannah

The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain. Volume 2: The Twentieth Century. By Stephen Koss. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. x + 718 pp. $34.00.) pp. 522-524

Eugene C. Black

Undermining Capitalism: State Ownership and the Dialectic of Control in the British Coal Industry. By Joel Krieger. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. xii + 321 pp. $27.50.) pp. 524-525

William Hausman

De la Croissance à la désindustrialisation: Un siècle dans le Valenciennois. By Odette Hardy-Hémery. (Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1984. 401 pp. Fr 135.) pp. 526-527

Donald M. Reid

Foreign Finance in Continental Europe and the USA 1815–1870: Quantities, Origins, Functions and Distribution. By D. C. M. Platt. (Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1984. viii + 216 pp. $27.50.) pp. 527-528

Lance E. Davis

International Banking in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Karl Erich Born. Translated by Volken R. Berghahn. (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1983. Originally published in German in 1977. 353 pp. $14.25.) pp. 528-530

Vincent P. Carosso

Peasants, Landlords and Merchant Capitalists: Europe and the World Economy, 1500–1800. By Peter Kriedte. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 191 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $9.95.) pp. 530-531

David Herlihy

Economy and Foreign Policy: The Struggle of the Great Powers for Hegemony in the Danube Valley, 1919–1939. By György Ránki. (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1983. Distributed by Columbia University Press, New York. 224 pp. $25.00.) pp. 532-533

Elaine Glovka Spencer

Between Dependency and Autonomy: India's Experience with the International Computer Industry. By Joseph M. Grieco. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. x + 224 pp. $37.50.) pp. 533-535

Alan Rugman

Patentsgesetzgebung und chemisch-pharmazeutische Industrie im deutschen Kaiserreich (1871–1918). By Arndt Fleischer. (Stuttgart: Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1984. xix + 440 pp. DM 46.) pp. 535-536

Jonathan M. Liebenau

Die chemische Industrie in den Rheinlanden während der industrieilen Revolution. Volume 1: Die Farhenindustrie. By Hans Pohl, Ralf Schaumann, and Frauke Schönert-Röhlk. (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1983. viii + 237 pp. DM 46.) pp. 536-537

Elaine Glovka Spencer

Russian Factory Women: Workplace and Society, 1880–1914. By Rose L. Glickman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. xiii + 325 pp. $28.50.) pp. 537-538

Joanne B. Ciulla

Volume 59, issue 2, 1985

Foundations of United States International Financial Power: Gold Standard Diplomacy, 1900–1905 pp. 169-202

Emily S. Rosenberg

Control by Coercion: Employers' Associations and the Establishment of Industrial Order in the Building Industry of England and Wales, 1860–1914 pp. 203-231

J. A. McKenna and Richard G. Rodger

Business Education in Germany: Past Systems and Current Practice pp. 232-253

Robert R. Locke

The Oil Industry in Nazi Germany, 1936–1945 pp. 254-277

Raymond G. Stokes

A Gallery of Distinguished Individuals: The Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders pp. 278-283

David J. Jeremy

Big Business and the State in Germany pp. 284-288

Christopher S. Allen

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World. By David S. Landes. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. xviii + 482 pp. $20.00.) pp. 291-293

Thomas P. Hughes

The Papers of Robert Morris. Edited by John Catanzariti and E. James Ferguson. Volume 6. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984. lvii + 747 pp. $45.00.) pp. 293-294

Jacob E. Cooke

The Railroaders. By Stuart Leuthner. (New York: Random House, 1983. vii + 152 pp. $19.95.) pp. 294-295

Walter Licht

The Corn Belt Route: A History of the Chicago Great Western Railroad. By H. Roger Grant. (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1984. vii + 231 pp. $29.00.) pp. 295-296

Robert P. Sutton

The Rebirth of the Missouri Pacific, 1956–1983. By H. Craig Miner. (College Station; Texas A & M University Press, 1983. xx + 236 pp. $19.50.) pp. 296-298

Stephen Salsbury

From the American System to Mass Production, 1800–1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. By David A. Hounshell. (Baltimore; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. xxi + 330 pp. $37.50.) pp. 299-301

Fred Carstensen

Gatekeepers of Black Culture: Black-Owned Book Publishing in the United States, 1817–1981. By Donald Franklin Joyce. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. xiv + 249 pp. $29.95.) pp. 301-302

Juliet E. K. Walker

The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880–1920. By Perry R. Duis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. 380 pp. $24.95.) pp. 302-304

Louis P. Cain

The Rise and Fall of the Conglomerate Kings. By Robert Sobel. (New York: Stein and Day, 1984. 240 pp. $19.95.) pp. 304-305

Malcolm R. Burns

JPL and The American Space Program: A History of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. By Clayton R. Koppes. (New Haven and London: Yale Planetary Exploration Series, Yale University Press, 1982. xiii + 299 pp. $19.95.) pp. 305-306

Edward W. Constant

Markets for Power: An Analysis of Electrical Utility Deregulation. By Paul L. Joskow and Richard Schmalensee. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983. xi + 269 pp. $19.95.) pp. 307-308

Bayla Singer

Multinational Excursions. By Charles P. Kindleberger. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984. ix + 275 pp. $22.50.) pp. 308-309

Mira Wilkins

IBM and the U.S. Data Processing Industry: An Economic History. By Franklin M. Fisher, James W. McKie and Richard B. Mancke. (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983. xii + 532 pp. $37.95.) - Memories That Shaped an Industry: Decisions Leading to IBM System/360. By Emerson W. Pugh. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984. x + 323 pp. $25.00.) pp. 310-311

C. Joseph Pusateri

The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: A Casebook on the History of American Economic Institutions. By Alfred D. ChandlerJr and Richard S. Tedlow. (Homewood, Ill.: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1985. ix + 877 pp. $31.95.) pp. 312-313

Richard S. Tedlow

Economics and World Power: An Assessment of American Diplomacy Since 1789. Edited by William H. Becker and Samuel F. WellsJr., (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. xvi + 465 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $10.00.) pp. 313-314

Stephen J. Randall

Guide to American Foreign Relations since 1700. Edited by Richard Dean Burns. (Santa Barbara, Calif. ABC-Clio, Inc., 1982. xxvi + 1311 pp. $135.00.) pp. 314-315

Charles Schilke

The Image of the Architect. By Andrew Saint. (New Haven and London; Yale University Press, 1983. ix + 180 pp. $19.95.) pp. 316-317

Michael C. Quinn

Financier: The Biography of André Meyer. A Story of Money, Power, and the Reshaping of American Business. By Cary Reich. (New York: William Morrow and Co., 1983, 396 pp. $15.95.) pp. 317-318

Vincent P. Carosso

Essays in Canadian Business History. Edited by Tom Traves. (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1984. 212 pp.) pp. 318-319

H. V. Nelles

Feudal Assessments and the Political Community Under Henry II and his Sons. By Thomas K. Keefe. (Los Angeles: Center on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, 1983. x + 271 pp. $29.50.) pp. 320-320

David Herlihy

The Penny Capitalists: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Entrepreneurs. By John Benson. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1983. x + 172 pp. $22.00.) pp. 321-322

Peter N. Stearns

The Rise of Merchant Banking. By Stanley Chapman. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1984. xi + 224 pp. $27.50.) pp. 322-323

Edwin J. Perkins

The Railway Navvy: “That Despicable Race of Men.” By David Brooke. (North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles, 1983. 216 pp. $21.00.) - The Railway Builders: Lives and Works of the Victorian Railway Contractors. By R. S. Joby. (North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles, 1983. 200 pp. $19.95.) - Stephensons' Britain. By Derrick Beckett. (North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles, 1984. 240 pp. $21.00.) - Nineteenth Century Railway History through the Illustrated London News. Edited by Anthony J. Lambert. (North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles, 1984. 128 pp. $27.00.) - A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Volume 14. The Lake Counties. By David Joy. (North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles, 1983. 270 pp. $23.50.) pp. 323-327

David Jenkinson

The Archaeology of the Consumer Society: The Second Industrial Revolution in Britain. By Kenneth Hudson. (Cranbury, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983. xi + 121 pp. $35.00.) pp. 327-329

Deborah S. Gardner

German Yearbook on Business History 1983. Edited by Wolfram Engels and Hans Pohl. (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1984. 153 pp. $17.70.) pp. 330-331

Elaine Glovka Spencer

Die Deutsche Inflation (The German Inflation). Edited by Gerald D. Feldman, Carl L. Holtfrerich, Gerhard A. Ritter and Peter-Christian Witt. (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1982, 431 pp. $41.00.) pp. 331-333

Nicholas W. Balabkins

Management and Labor in Imperial Germany: Ruhr Industrialists as Employers, 1896–1914. By Elaine Glovka Spencer. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1984 x + 208 pp., $28.00.) pp. 334-335

Toni Pierenkemper

The Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition: 1870–1891. By Thomas F. O'Brien. (New York and London: New York University Press, 1982. xv + 211 pp. $30.00.) pp. 335-336

Donna J. Guy

Brazil and Mexico: Patterns in Late Development. Edited by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Richard S. Weinert. (Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1982. 349 pp. $30.00.) pp. 336-337

John D. Wirth

Coffee and Conflict in Colombia, 1886–1910. By Charles W. Bergquist. (Durham, N.C.: 1978). x + 277 pp. $16.75.) pp. 338-338

Carl E. Solberg

Airlines of Latin America Since 1919. By R. E. G. Davies. (Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984. xiv + 698 pp. $47.50.) pp. 339-340

Wesley Phillips Newton

An Economic History of Africa from the Earliest Times to Partition. By Peter Wickins. (Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1981. vi + 323 pp. $29.95.) - Tanzania: A Political Economy. By Andrew Coulson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. xvi + 394 pp. $34.95.) pp. 340-343

Dennis M. P. McCarthy

Land Reform in China and North Vietnam: Consolidating the Revolution at the Village Level. By Edwin E. Moise. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. xiv + 305 pp. $18.95.) pp. 343-345

David G. Marr

Volume 59, issue 1, 1985

Giant of the West: Henry J. Kaiser and Regional Industrialization, 1930–1950 pp. 1-23

Mark S. Foster

Annuities in Late Medieval Hanse Towns pp. 24-48

Hans-Peter Baum

Rural Clockmaking in Eighteenth-Century Wales: Samuel Roberts of Llanfair Caereinion, 1755–1774 pp. 49-75

Alun C. Davies

The Gramophone Company: An Anglo-American Multinational, 1898–1931 pp. 76-100

Geoffrey Jones

African Economies in Historical Perspective - William Beinart. The Political Economy of Pondoland, 1860–1930. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. xii + 220 pp. $39.50.) - Philip Bonner. Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth Century Swazi State. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. x + 316 pp. $49.50.) - Simon Cunningham. The Copper Industry in Zambia: Foreign Mining Companies in a Developing Country. (New York: Praeger, 1981. xxii + 343 pp. No price listed.) - Patrick Manning. Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640–1960. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. xviii + 446 pp. $49.95.) - Guy C.Z. Mhone. The Political Economy of a Dual Labor Market in Africa: The Copper Industry and Dependency in Zambia, 1929–1969. (East Brunswick, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982. 254 pp. $25.00.) - Paul Mosley. The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1900–1963. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xiv + 289 pp. $49.50.) - Jill Natrass. The South African Economy: Its Growth and Change. (Capetown: Oxford University Press, 1981. xx + 328 pp. $24.95.) - David Yudelman. The Emergence of Modern South Africa: State, Capital, and the Incorporation of Organized Labor on the South African Gold Fields. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. xviii + 315 pp. $35.00.) pp. 101-113

Ralph A. Austen

Prophets of Regulation. By Thomas K. McCraw. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. ix + 387 pp. $20.00.) pp. 116-118

Barry D. Karl

Energy Policy in America Since 1945: A Study of Business-Government Relations. By Richard H.K. Vietor. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xvi + 363 pp. $29.95.) pp. 118-120

Gerald D. Nash

Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730–1870. By Hendrik Hartog. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. xiv + 264 pp. $27.50.) pp. 120-121

Edward K. Spann

Industrial Evolution: Organization, Structure, and Growth of the Pennsylvania Iron Industry, 1750–1860. By Paul F. Paskoff. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. xx + 182 pp. $22.00.) pp. 121-122

Thomas C. Cochran

Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell: Napoleon of the Southwest. By Lawrence R. Murphy. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. xi + 275 pp. $19.95.) pp. 122-124

Henry P. Walker

Lammot Du Pont and the American Explosives Industry, 1850–1884. By Norman B. Wilkinson. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press and the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, 1984. xii + 332 pp. $16.95.) pp. 124-125

Charles W. Cheape

American Enterprise in Foreign Markets: Singer and International Harvester in Imperial Russia. By Fred V. Carstensen. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. vii + 289 pp. $29.95.) pp. 125-127

Mira Wilkins

The Uneasy State, The United States from 1915 to 1945. By Barry D. Karl. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1983. vii + 257 pp. $22.50.) pp. 127-129

Robert D. Cuff

Patterns of Political Economy in America: The Failure to Develop a Democratic Left Synthesis, 1933–1950. By Theodore Rosenof. (New York: Garland Publishing, 1983. 283 pp. $36.00.) pp. 129-131

Alan Brinkley

Steel: Upheaval in a Basic Industry. By Donald F. Barnett and Louis Schorsch. (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1983. xv + 327 pp. $28.00.) pp. 131-132

Theodore P. Kovaleff

The Goodyear Story. By Maurice O'Reilly, as edited by James T. Keating. (Elmsford, N.Y.: Benjamin Company, 1983. 224 pp. $19.95.) pp. 132-133

Ernest B. Fricke

The Tule Breakers: The Story of the California Dredge. By John Thompson and Edward A. Dutra. (Stockton, Calif.: Stockton Corral of Westerners, University of the Pacific, 1983. xiv + 369 pp. $49.00.) pp. 134-134

Arthur F. McEvoy

Banking and Finance Collections. Edited by Jean Deuss. (New York: Haworth Press, 1984, 164 pp. $29.95.) pp. 135-136

Saline Harju Steinberg

Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics. By Nathan Rosenberg. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. xi + 304 pp. $29.95.) pp. 136-137

Peter Temin

Red Carpet. By Joseph Finder. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston1983. xii + 372 pp. $16.95) pp. 137-139

Kim McQuaid

The Invented Self: An Antibtography, from Documents of Thomas A. Edison. By David E. Nye. (Odense: Odense University Press, 1983. 229 pp. 87.50 DKr.) pp. 139-141

Paul B. Israel

The Canadian Prairie West and the Ranching Frontier 1874–1924. By David H. Breen. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. xviii + 302 pp. $28.95.) pp. 141-142

William W. Savage

The Political Economy of the Latin American Motor Vehicle Industry. Edited by Rich Kronish and Kenneth S. Mericle. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984. xvi + 314 pp. $30.00.) pp. 142-145

James Dietz

Man, Land, and Water: Mexico's Farmland Irrigation Policies, 1885–1911. By Clifton B. Kroeber. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. xiii + 288 pp. $24.50.) pp. 145-146

Mark Wasserman

Strikes in Post-War Britain: A Study of Stoppages of Work Due to Industrial Disputes, 1946–73. By J.W. Durcan, W.E.J. McCarthy, and G.P. Redman. (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1983. 448 pp. $37.50.) pp. 146-148

William Hausman

From Subservience to Strike: Industrial Relations in the Banking Industry. By John Hill. (St. Lucia, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1982. x + 296 pp. $32.50.) pp. 148-149

Kenneth Buckley

Business Policies in the Making: Three Steel Companies Compared. By Jonathan S. Boswell. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983. xi + 241 pp. £15.) pp. 149-150

Paul Tiffany

Money and Power in Fifteenth-Century France. By Harry A. Miskimin. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. x + 303 pp. $26.00.) pp. 151-152

Hans-Peter Baum

De la Forge à la Manufacture Horologère (XVIIIe–XXe siècles). By François Jequier, assisted by Chantal Schindler-Pittet. (Lausanne: Bibliothèque Historique Vaudoise, 1983. 713 pp.) pp. 152-153

James M. Laux

Entreprises et Entrepreneurs XIX–XXème Siècles: Congres de l'Association Française des Historiens Economistes. Mars 1980. (Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1983. 387 pp. Fr 150.00.) pp. 154-155

Donald M. Reid

Italian Entrepreneurs: Rearguard of Progress. By Edith Kurzweil. (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983. xxix + 221 pp. $28.95.) pp. 155-156

Frank M. Murtaugh

The North-South Dialogue: A Brief History. By Charles A. Jones. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. xii + 153 pp. $22.50.) pp. 156-157

Stephen J. Randall

Madrid and the Spanish Economy, 1560–1850. By David R. Ringrose. (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983. xviii + 405 pp. $36.50.) pp. 158-159

Stanley G. Payne

Industriekkultur: Peter Behrens and the AEG, 1907–1914. By Tilmann Buddensieg with Henning Rogge. Translated by Iain Boyd Whyte. (Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 1984. Originally published in German in 1979. xiv + 520 pp. $75.00.) pp. 159-161

Jeffrey L. Meikle

The Dragon and the Iron Horse: The Economics of Railroads in China, 1876–1937. By Ralph William Huenemann. (Cambridge: The Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1984. xii + 347 pp. $20.00.) pp. 161-163

Lillian M. Li

The Politics of Canadian-Japanese Economic Relations, 1952–1983. By Frank Langdon. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1983. xiii + 180 pp. $18.95.) pp. 163-165

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