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Volume 58, issue 4, 1984

The Emergence of Managerial Capitalism pp. 473-503

Alfred Chandler

Firm Structure, Government Policy, and the Organization of Industrial Research: Great Britain and the United States, 1900–1950 pp. 504-531

David C. Mowery

Dependency, the Credit Market, and Argentine Industrialization, 1860–1940 pp. 532-561

Donna J. Guy

The Potomac Company: A Misadventure in Financing an Early American Internal Improvement Project pp. 562-585

Douglas R. Littlefield

Which Road to the Past? Two Views of History. By Robert William Fogel and G. R. Elton. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. 136 pp. $14.95.) pp. 592-593

Richard T. Vann

The Merrimack Valley Textile Museum: A Guide to the Manuscript Collections. By Helena E. Wright. Inventories prepared by John B. Hopkins and Dorothy Truman. (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1983. xxvi + 378 pp. $39.00.) pp. 594-595

Steven D. Lubar

Manufacture in Town and Country Before the Factory. Edited by Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson, and Michael Sonenscher. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. ix + 213 pp. $39.00) pp. 595-597

Lee Shai Weissbach

After the Gold Rush: Society in Grass Valley and Nevada City, California, 1849–1870. By Ralph Mann. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1982. xvii + 302 pp. $25.00.) pp. 597-598

Elliott West

America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. By Sean Dennis Cashman. (New York: New York University Press, 1984. xiv + 370 pp. $35.00.) pp. 599-600

H. Wayne Morgan

The Russian Bureau: A Case Study in Wilsonian Diplomacy. By Linda Killen. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983. xiv + 202 pp. $22.00.) pp. 600-601

Fred Carstensen

The Limits of Liberalism: Josephus Daniels, Henry Stimson, Bernard Baruch, Donald Richberg, Felix Frankfurter and the Development of the Modern American Political Economy. By Larry G. Gerber. (New York: New York University Press, 1983. viii + 425 pp. $40.00.) pp. 602-603

William H. Becker

The Romance of Commerce and Culture: Capitalism, Modernism and the Chicago-Aspen Crusade for Cultural Reform. By James Sloan Allen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. xv + 336 pp. $27.50.) pp. 603-605

Daniel Pope

Big Business and Presidential Power: From FDR to Reagan. By Kim McQuaid. (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1982. 383 pp. $17.50.) pp. 605-606

Robert Griffith

The Emergence of Giant Enterprise, 1860–1914: American Commercial Enterprise and Extractive Industries. By David O. Whitten. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. $29.95) pp. 607-608

Richard R. John

The Making of Federal Coal Policy. By Robert H. Nelson. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1983. xi + 261 pp. $32.50.) pp. 608-609

Richard H. K. Vietor

The Rise and Decline of the American Cut Nail Industry: A Study of the Interrelationships of Technology, Business Organization, and Management Techniques. By Amos J. LovedayJr. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. xx + 160 pp. $29.95.) pp. 610-611

Eugene S. Ferguson

Ethyl: A History of the Corporation and the People Who Made it. By Joseph C. Robert. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983. xv + 448 pp. $20.00.) pp. 611-612

Joseph A. Pratt

Empire of Wood: The Macmillan Bloedel Story. By Donald MacKay. (Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1982. 361 pp. $24.95.) pp. 612-613

William G. Robbins

Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood. By Peter Carlson. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983. 352 pp. $17.50.) pp. 613-615

Stephen J. Whitfield

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters: The First Hundred Years. By Walter Galenson. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. xv + 440 pp. $25.00.) pp. 615-617

David Brody

Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933–1941. By Robert H. Zieger. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984. xi + 242 pp. $19.95.) pp. 617-618

Daniel Nelson

High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York. By Mark Goldman. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. viii + 324 pp. Cloth, $44.50; paper, $14.95.) pp. 618-620

Timothy J. Crimmins

Technologies of Freedom. By Ithiel de Sola Pool (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. 299 pp. $20.00 pp. 620-621

C. Joseph Pusateri

Public Works History in the United States—A Guide to the Literature. Compiled and edited bySuellen M. Hoy and Michael C. Robinson. (Nashville, Tennessee: American Association for State and Local History, 1982. x + 477 pp. $49.00.) pp. 621-623

Harold L. Platt

The Small Firm: An International Survey. Edited by David J. Storey. (New York: St. Martins Press, 1983. 274 pp. $32.50.) pp. 623-624

Mansel G. Blackford

The Gateway: U.S. Immigration Issues and Policies. Edited by Barry R. Chiswick. (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1982. 476 pp. Cloth $22.95; paper $12.95.) pp. 624-626

Stephen T. Wagner

Technological Diffusion and Industrialization Before 1914. By A. G. Kenwood and A. L. Lougheed. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.) - The Economics of Industrial Innovation. 2d ed. By Christopher Freeman. (Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 1983. $25.00.) pp. 626-627

David C. Mowery

Trade in the Ancient Economy. Edited by Peter Garnsey, Keith Hopkins, and C. R. Whittaker. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983. xxv + 230 pp. $24.00.) pp. 628-630

Rruce W. Frier

The Monetary Policy of Fourteenth-Century Florence. By Carlo M. Cipolla. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. xiv + 112 pp. $14.95.) pp. 630-631

Maureen F. Mazzaoui

Risks at Sea. Amsterdam Insurance and Maritime Europe, 1766–1780. By Frank C. Spooner. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xii + 306 pp. £27.50.) pp. 631-633

Simon Ville

From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism. By Chandra Mukerji. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. xiv + 329 pp. Cloth $30.00; paper $12.00.) pp. 633-635

Daniel Pope

The Birth of a New Europe: State and Society in the Nineteenth Century. By Theodore S. Hamerow. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. xii + 440 pp. $29.95.) pp. 635-637

John P. McKay

The History of the British Coal Industry. Volume 2. 1700–1830: The Industrial Revolution. By Michael W. Flinn with the assistance of David Stoker. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. xxii + 491 pp. $67.00.) pp. 637-638

Simon Ville

Greene King: A Business and Family History. By Richard G. Wilson. (London: Bodley Head and Jonathan Cape, 1983. xiii + 324 pp. £12.50.) pp. 639-640

R. P. T. Davenport-Hines

The Life Cycle of the Union Bank of Scotland, 1830–1954. By Norio Tamaki. (Aberdeen University Press, 1983. xxx + 242 pp. £19.50 pp. 640-643

Nicholas Belford

Tate and Lyle: Géant du Sucre. By Philippe Chalmin. (Paris: Economica, 1983. 704 pp. Fr 290.) pp. 643-644

Donald M. Reid

The Formation of the German Chemical Community (1720–1795). By Karl Hufbauer. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1982. viii + 312 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper $14.95.) pp. 645-646

Richard Tilly

International Business and Central Europe, 1918–1939. Edited by Alice Teichova and Philip L. Cottrell. (Leicester University Press; New York: St. Martins Press, 1983. xvii + 459 pp. $37.50 pp. 646-647

Elaine Glovka Spencer

Settler Capitalism: The Dynamics of Dependent Development in the Southern Hemisphere. By Donald Denoon. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. viii + 280 pp. $49.50.) pp. 647-649

Carl E. Solberg

Maya Salt Production and Trade. By Anthony P. Andrews. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1983. xiv + 173 pp. $16.95.) pp. 649-650

Robert W. Patch

Juan Vicente Gómez and the Oil Companies in Venezuela, 1908–1935. By B. S. McBeth. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xi + 275 pp. $49.50.) pp. 650-651

Stephen G. Rabe

A Merchant Family in Early Natal: Diaries and Letters of Joseph and Marianne Churchill, 1850 to 1880. Selected and edited by Daphne Child. (Cape Town, Balkema, 1979. 198 pp. $15.75.) pp. 652-652

John S. Galbraith

Multinationalism, Japanese Style. By Terutomo Ozawa. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xxiii + 290 pp. $8.95.) pp. 653-654

Mira Wilkins

Work and Lifecourse in Japan. Edited by David W. Plath. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. xii + 267 pp. Cloth, $30.50; paper $9.95.) pp. 654-655

Mark Fruin

Overseas Business Activities. Edited by Akio Okochi and Tadakatsu Inoue. (Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1984. xiii + 296 pp. 5000 yen.) pp. 655-657

Mira Wilkins

Volume 58, issue 3, 1984

The Business of Invention in the Paris Industrial Exposition of 1806 pp. 317-335

Daryl M. Hafter

The Origins of an Expanded Federal Court Jurisdiction: Railroad Development and the Ascendancy of the Federal Judiciary pp. 336-358

Philip L. Merkel

Oil and the Marshall Plan pp. 359-383

David S. Painter

Pre-1900 Industrial White Collar Employees at the Krupp Steel Casting Works: A New Occupational Category in Germany pp. 384-408

Toni Pierenkemper

Rethinking the Postbellum Southern Political Economy - Mill and Town in South Carolina 1880–1920. By David L. Carlton. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. xii + 313 pp. $32.50.) - Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930. By Ronald D. Eller. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982 xxvi + 272 pp. $23.50.) - Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South: Lousa County, Virginia, 1860–1900. By Crandall A. Shifflett. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982. xvii + 159 pp. $12.00.) - The Reshaping of Plantation Society: the Natchez District, 1860–1880. By Michael Wayne. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. xii + 226 pp. $22.50.) pp. 409-416

Gavin Wright

The Challenge of New Work Technologies - Clockwork. 16mm film or 3/4″ videocassette. 1982. Distributed by California Newsreel, San Francisco pp. 417-419

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Civilization and Capitalism, Fifteenth-Eighteenth Century, Volume 2: The Wheels of Commerce. By Fernand Braudel. Translated from the French by Sian Reynolds. (New York: Harper and Row, 1969. 670 pp. $35.00.) pp. 426-427

David Herlihy

Financial Crises: Theory, History, and Policy. Edited by Charles P. Kindleberger and Jean-Pierre Laffargue. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. ix + 301 pp. $37.50.) pp. 427-428

Thomas F. Huertas

The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810–1860. By Jonathan Prude. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xvii + 364 pp. $34.50.) pp. 428-430

Merritt Roe Smith

A Calculating People: the Spread of Numeracy in Early America. By Patricia Cline Cohen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. x + 271 pp. $22.50.) pp. 430-432

John McCusker

Fur Trade and Exploration: Opening of the Far Northwest, 1821–1852. By Theodore J. Karamanski. (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. xxii + 330 pp. $22.95.) pp. 432-433

Ann Carlos

Labor in A new Land: Economy and Society in Seventeenth-Century Springfield. By Stephen Innes. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. xxi + 465 pp. $35.00.) pp. 433-435

Edward M. Cook

Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age. By John Lauritz Larson. (Cambridge: Division of Research, Harvard Business School, 1984. xvii + 257 pp. $27.50.) pp. 435-436

Richard C. Overton

The Roots of American Bureaucracy, 1830–1900. By William E. Nelson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. vii + 208 pp. $22.50.) pp. 437-438

Ari Hoogenboom

Sawdust Empire: the Texas Lumber Industry, 1830–1940. By Robert S. Maxwell and Robert D. Baker. (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1983. xv + 228 pp. $24.95.) pp. 438-439

Carol J. Drake

White Collar Workers in Transition: the Boom Years, 1940–1970. By Mark McColloch. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. xii + 193 pp. $29.95.) pp. 439-441

William S. Sachs

American Working Class History: A Representative Bibliography. By Maurice F. Neufeld, Daniel J. Leab, and Dorothy Suxmson. (New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1983. xi + 356 pp. $29.95.) pp. 441-442

Gloria Garrett Samson

Reckoners: the Prehistory of the Digital Computer, From Relays to the Stored Program Concept, 1935–1945. By Paul E. Ceruzzi. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1983. xii + 182 pp. $29.95.) pp. 442-443

Thomas M. Smith

An Annotated Bibliography on the History of Data Processing. Compiled by James W. Cortada. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. xlii + 215 pp. $35.00.) pp. 443-444

A. Hunter Dupree

The Automobile and Urban Transit: the Formation of Public Policy in Chicago 1900–1930. By Paul Barrett. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983. xiii + 295 pp. $34.95.) pp. 445-446

Gail Farr Casterline

Tva and the Dispossessed: the Resettlement of Population in the Norris dam Area. By Michael J. McDonald and John Muldowney. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982. viii + 334 pp. $28.50.) pp. 446-447

D. Clayton Brown

The Evolution of Management Education: A History of the Northwestern University J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 1908–1983. By Michael W. Sedlak and Harold F. Williamson. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. 202 pp. $14.95.) pp. 447-449

Daniel A. Wren

The Oil Price Revolution. By Steven A. Schneider. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. xv + 630 pp. $35.00.) pp. 449-450

August W. Giebelhaus

Texas Shrimpers: Community, Capitalism, and the Sea. By Robert Lee Maril. (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1983. viii + 222 pp. $18.00.) pp. 451-453

Arthur F. McEvoy

Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607–1980. By David R. Goldfield. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. xiv + 232 pp. $20.00.) pp. 451-451

Diane Lindstrom

Research in Economic History, Volume 6. Edited by Paul Uselding. (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1981. x + 254 pp. $22.50.) pp. 453-454

Louis P. Cain

The Roots of Capitalism in Western Civilization: A Socio-Economic Assessment. By Irving S. Michelman. (New York: Frederick Fell Publisher, 1983. viii + 318 pp. $17.95.) pp. 455-456

Franz Mathis

The Soul of Modern Economic Man: Ideas of Self-Interest from Thomas Hobbes to Adam Smith. By Milton L. Myers. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. ix + 148 pp. $17.50.) pp. 456-457

Peter Minowitz

Precious Metals in the Later Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. Edited by J. F. Richards. (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1983. ix + 502 pp. $39.95.) pp. 457-458

Mavis E. Mate

An Economic History of the British Building Industry 1815–1979. By C. G. Powell. (London and New York Methuen, 1980. ix + 211 pp. $10.95 paper.) pp. 458-460

Deborah S. Gardner

The Inner Circle: Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and U.K. By Michael Useem. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. 246 pp. $22.95.) pp. 460-462

George C. Lodge

Guns for Sale: War and Capitalism in English Literature, 1851–1939. By Ivan Melada. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Publishers, 1983. vii + 143 pp. $15.95.) pp. 462-462

Robert D. Cuff

The King's Debts: Finance and Politics in France, 1589–1661. By Richard Bonney. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. xi + 344 pp. $54.00.) pp. 463-463

James B. Collins

Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption In Late Nineteenth-Century France. By Rosalind H. Williams. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. xii + 451 pp. $29.50.) pp. 464-465

Michael Miller

The Amazon Rubber Boom: 1850–1920. By Barbara Weinstein. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983. xi + 356 pp. $29.50.) pp. 465-466

Pedro Carvalho de Mello

Contemporary Industrial Relations in Japan. Edited by Taishiro Shirai. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. xxvi + 421 pp. $25.00.) pp. 467-468

Walter Galenson

Money, Banking, and Capital in Japanese Economic Development (Nihon no Keizai Hatten to Kin'yu; in Japanese). By Juro Teranishi (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1982. xxi + 652 pp. 8700 yen.) pp. 468-469

Kazuo Sato

Volume 58, issue 2, 1984

Management's Crisis of Confidence and the Origin of the National Industrial Conference Board, 1914–1916 pp. 153-177

H.M. Gitelman

A Curious Capital Flow: Canadian Investment in Mexico, 1902–1910 pp. 178-203

Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles

The History of Progress Functions as a Managerial Technology pp. 204-233

John M. Dutton, Annie Thomas and John E. Butler

The North American Shelter Business, 1860–1920: A Study of a Canadian Real Estate and Property Management Agency pp. 234-262

Michael Doucet and John Weaver

Urbanization in the American West pp. 263-267

Gunther Barth

Managerial Strategies and Industrial Relations: An Historical and Comparative Study. Edited by Howard F. Gospel and Craig R. Littler. (London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1983. 201 pp. $35.00.) pp. 271-272

Daniel Nelson

Monetary Trends in the United States and the United Kingdom: Their Relation to Income, Prices, and Interest Rates, 1867–1975. By Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. xxxi + 664 pp. $48.00.) pp. 273-275

Louis P. Cain

Keynesian Economics: The Search for First Principles. By Alan Coddington. (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1983. xiv + 129 pp. $18.50.) pp. 275-276

Robert F. Himmelberg

Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670–1870. By Sylvia Van Kirk. (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. 301 pp. $21.50.) pp. 277-278

Ann Carlos

City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830–1915. By Harold Platt. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983. 252 pp. $29.95 pp. 278-279

Timothy J. Crimmins

Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning. By M. Christine Boyer. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983. xii + 331 pp. $27.50.) pp. 280-281

Suellen M. Hoy

Song of the Hammer and Drill: The Colorado San Juans, 1860–1914. By Duane A. Smith. (Golden: Colorado School of Mines Press, 1982. xi + 181 pp. $28.95.) pp. 281-282

Watson Parker

Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930. By Thomas P. Hughes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. xi + 474 pp. $38.50.) - Engineers, Managers, and Politicians: The First Fifteen Years of Nationalised Electricity Supply in Britain. By Leslie Hannah. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. xiv + 336 pp. $30.00.) pp. 282-284

Richard B. Du Boff

Pioneer Plastic: The Making and Selling of Celluloid. By Robert Friedel. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. xix + 153 pp. $19.95.) pp. 284-285

Martha M. Trescott

The Challenge of Change: The Sun Oil Company, 1945–1977. By Arthur M. Johnson. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1983. xvii + 481 pp. $30.00.) pp. 286-287

Richard H.K. Vietor

Folded, Spindled, and Mutilated: Economic Analysis and U.S. V. IBM. By Franklin M. Fisher, John McGowan, and Joen E. Greenwood. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983. xvi + 443 pp. $25.00.) pp. 287-289

Robert Sobel

Cooper Industries, 1833–1983. By David Neal Keller. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1983. xii + 385 pp. $16.95) pp. 289-290

David Walker

The Making of Modern Advertising. By Daniel Pope. (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1983. ix + 340 pp. $18.95.) pp. 290-292

Nancy P. Norton

Foundation Dams of the American Quarter Horse. By Robert M. Denhardt. (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. viii + 232 pp. $22.95 pp. 292-292

Wray Vamplew

White Collar Crime: The Uncut Version. By Edwin H. Sutherland. With an introduction by Gilbert Geis and Colin Goff. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. xxxiii + 291 pp. $30.00.) pp. 293-294

Eric H. Monkkonen

OPEC, The Petroleum Industry and United States Energy Policy. By Arabinda Ghosh. (Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1983. xviii + 206 pp. $35.00.) pp. 294-295

Richard H.K. Vietor

Arab Oil Policies in the 1970's. By Yusif A. Sayigh (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. xiii + 271 pp. $22.50.) pp. 295-296

Irvine H. Anderson

Old Age in Preindustrial Society. Edited by Peter N. Stearns. (New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1982. 280 pp. $29.75.) pp. 296-297

Brian Gratton

The Shopkeeper's World, 1830–1914. By Michael J. Winstanley. (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1983. x + 224 pp. $24.50.) pp. 297-298

Rosalind Williams

Origins of Enterprise: Business Leadership in the Industrial Revolution. By Katrina Honeyman. (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. ix + 204 pp. $20.00.) pp. 299-299

Peter N. Stearns

Power of Speech: A History of Standard Telephones and Cables, 1883–1983. By Peter Young. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983. 221 pp. $18.95.) pp. 300-301

Carol E. Heim

Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800–1850. By Joel Mokyr. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983. x + 330 pp. £22.50.) pp. 301-302

Alun C. Davies

The Radical Bourgeoisie. The Ligue de L'Enseignement and the Origins of the Third Republic 1866–1885. By Katherine Auspitz. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. x + 237 pp. $29.50.) pp. 302-304

Donald M. Reid

Family and Farm: Agrarian Change and Household Organization in the Loire Valley, 1500–1900. By John W. Shaffer. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982. xii + 258 pp. Cloth $39.00; paper $12.95.) pp. 304-306

Anne C. Meyering

Bordeaux et le Sud-Ouest au XVIIIe Siècle: Croissance Économique et Attraction Urbaine. By Jean-Pierre Poussou. (Paris: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1983. 651 pp. Fr 390.) - Clermont-De-Lodève, 1633–1789: Fluctuations in the Prosperity of a Languedocian Cloth-Making Town. By J. K. J. Thomson. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. xii + 502 pp. $59.50.) pp. 306-309

Thomas M. Adams

Histoire de Villeneuve D'Ascq. Edited by Alain Lottin. (Lille, France: Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1982. vii + 355 pp.) pp. 309-310

Cynthia A. Bouton

Dalla Città al Borgo: Avvio di una Metamorfosi Economica e Sociale Nella Lombardia Spagnola. By Aldo De Maddalena. (Milan: Franco Angeli Editore, 1982. 379 pp.) pp. 310-311

Richard A. Goldthwaite

The Ottoman Slave Trade and its Suppression. By Ehud R. Toledano. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. xix + 307 pp. $25.00.) pp. 311-312

Donald Quataert

Almanac of China's Economy 1981, with Economic Statistics for 1949–1980. Compiled by the Economic Research Centre, the State Council of the People's Republic of China, and the State Statistical Bureau. Xue Muqiao, editor-in-chief. (Hong Kong: Modern Cultural Company Limited, 1982. Distributed by Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, Mass, xiv + 1144 pp. $155.) - Statistical Yearbook of China 1981. English edition. Compiled by the State Statistical Bureau, People's Republic of China. (Hong Kong: Economic Information and Agency, 1982. iv + 524 pp. $45.00.) pp. 313-315

Lillian M. Li

Black Sands: A History of the Mineral Sand Mining Industry in Eastern Australia. By I. W. Morley. (Lawrence, Mass.: Queensland University Press, 1981. xxiii + 278 pp. $36.50.) pp. 315-316

Donald Chaput

Volume 58, issue 1, 1984

Introductory Essay: Transportation and the Evolution of the American Economic Republic pp. 1-13

Albro Martin

Maritime Enterprise in the New Republic: Investment in Baltimore Shipping, 1789–1793 pp. 14-29

Geoffrey Gilbert

Air Brakes for Freight Trains: Technological Innovation in the American Railroad Industry, 1869–1900 pp. 30-50

Steven W. Usselman

Engineers and Government-Business Cooperation: Highway Standards and the Bureau of Public Roads, 1900–1940 pp. 51-77

Bruce E. Seely

Herbert Hoover and the Development of Commercial Aviation, 1921–1926 pp. 78-102

David D. Lee

Note: Size and Profitability of English Colliers in the Eighteenth Century—A Reappraisal pp. 103-120

Simon Ville

Profitability of English Colliers in the Eighteenth Century: Reply to a Reappraisal pp. 121-125

William Hausman

Business and Its Environment: Essays for Thomas C. Cochran. Edited by Harold Issadore Sharlin. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. vi + 228 pp. $35.00.) pp. 128-129

Irene D. Neu

Working for the Railroad: the Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century. By Walter Licht. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. xx + 328 pp. $27.50.) pp. 129-131

Steven F. Mehls

Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention. By Lloyd J. Mercer. (New York: Academic Press, 1982. xvi + 268 pp. $34.00.) pp. 131-132

Peter J. George

Pullman: the Pullman Car Company—Its Services, Cars and Traditions. By Julian Morel. (North Pomfret, Vermont: David and Charles, 1983. 224 pp. $19.95.) pp. 133-134

Liston E. Leyendecker

Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene. By John R. Stilgoe. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983. xiii + 397 pps. 179 illustrations, index. $29.95.) pp. 134-135

John F. Kasson

The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation, 1900–1950. By Joseph J. Corn. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. x + 177 pp. Bibliography within endnotes. Index. $17.95.) pp. 136-137

Wesley Phillips Newton

Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650–1720. By Gloria L. Main. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. xv + 326 pp. $30.00.) pp. 137-138

David Galenson

The National War Labor Board: Stability, Social Justice, and the Voluntary State in World War I. By Valerie Jean Conner. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. xi + 234 pp. $23.50.) pp. 138-139

Walter Licht

Early Louisiana and Arkansas Oil: A Photographic History, 1901–1946. By Kenny A. Franks and Paul F. Lambert. (College Station, Texas: A&M University Press, 1982. xiv + 243 pp. $27.95.) pp. 139-140

William K. Klingaman

The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936–1980. By James C. Cobb. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. xii + 293 pp. $16.95.) pp. 140-142

James E. Fickle

No Strength Without Union: An Illustrated History of Ohio Workers, 1803–1980. By Raymond Boryczka and Lorin Lee Cary. (Ohio Historical Society, 1982. ix + 328 pp. $19.95.) pp. 142-143

Thomas A. Klug

The First 25 Years in Space: A Symposium. Edited by Allan A. Needel. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. xii + 152 pp. Index. $12.50.) pp. 143-145

Richard R. John

British Aircraft Corporation: A History. By Charles Gardner. (London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1981. 320 pp. $29.95.) pp. 145-146

William F. Trimble

A Business of National Importance: The Royal Mail Shipping Group, 1902–1937. By Edwin Green and Michael Moss. (London and New York: Methuen, 1982. xii + 291 pp. $32.00.) pp. 146-148

Paul Robertson

Peasant Classes: The Bureaucratization of Property and Family Relations Under Early Hapsburg Absolutism 1511–1636. By Hermann Rebel. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. xviii + 354 pp. $42.50.) pp. 148-149

Reinhold A. Dorwart

Entrepreneurship in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. Edited by Gregory Guroff and Fred V. Carstensen. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. ix + 372 pp. $40.00.) pp. 149-151

John P. McKay