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Volume 56, issue 4, 1982

American-Japanese Direct Foreign Investment Relationships, 1930–1952* pp. 497-518

Mira Wilkins

Growth of the Multidivisional Corporation: The Genstar Case pp. 519-544

Julienne M. Laureyssens

The Pressure of Shortage: Platinum Policy and the Wilson Administration During World War I pp. 545-558

Richard L. Lael and Linda Killen

The New Deal and the Modernization of Small Business: The McCreary Tire & Rubber Company, 1930–1940* pp. 559-576

Ernest B. Fricke

American Socialism pp. 577-584

H. Wayne Morgan

White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis. By David W. Galenson. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp.xii + 291. $29.50 pp. 588-590

Alice Hanson Jones

The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790. By Rhys Isaac. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1982. Pp. xxxii + 451. $29.50 pp. 590-591

Donald R. Hickey

The Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1784–1855: Broadening the Concept of Public Service during Industrialization. By Ronald E. Seavoy. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. xii + 314. $29.95 pp. 591-593

Paul F. Paskoff

Yankee Enterprise: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures. Edited by Otto Mayr and Robert C. Post. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Pp. xx + 236 pp. 593-594

George H. Daniels

Boosters and Businessmen: Popular Economic Thought and Urban Growth in the Antebellum Middle West. By Carl Abbott. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xii + 266. $27.50 pp. 594-596

Zane L. Miller

American Industrialization, Economic Expansion, and The Law. Edited by Joseph R. Frese, S.J., and Jacob Judd. Tarrytown, New York, Sleepy Hollow Press, 1981. Pp. xv +238. $20.00 pp. 596-597

Tony Freyer

Urban Capitalists: Enterepreneurs and City Growth in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna and Lehigh Regions, 1800–1920. By Burton W. FolsomJr., Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Pp.xiv +191. $16.50 pp. 597-598

Diane Lindstrom

Indian Traders on the Middle Border: The House of Ewing, 1827–1854. By Robert A. TrennertJr., Lincoln, University of Nebraska Tress, 1981. Pp. vvi + 271. $17.95 pp. 598-600

Gerald Thompson

America's Match King: Ohio Columbus Barber, 1841–1920. By William Franklin Fleming. Barberton, Ohio, Barberton Historical Society, 1981. Pp. ix + 305. $15.95 pp. 600-601

Barbara M. Tucker

The Rise of Literacy and the Common School in the United States: A Socioeconomic Analysis to 1870. By Lee Soltow and Edward Stevens. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. xii + 247. $20.00 pp. 601-602

Maris A. Vinovskis

Boom Town Newspapers: Journalism on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, 1859–1881. By David F. Halaas. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 146. $14.95 pp. 602-603

Rodman W. Paul

The John Bull: 150 Years a Locomotive. By John H. WhiteJr., Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Pp. 137. $6.95. - Minnesota Logging Railroads: A Pictorial History of the Era When White Pine and the Logging Railroad Reigned Supreme. By Frank A. King. San Marino, CA., Golden West Books, 1981. Pp. 206. $34.95. - East Broad Top. By Lee Rainey and Frank Kyper. San Marino, CA., Golden West Books, 1982. Pp. 256. $36.95 pp. 603-605

Steven F. Mehls

Iron Frontier: The Discovery and Early Development of Minnesota's Three Ranges. By David A. Walker. St. Paul, MinnesotaHistorical Society Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 315. $16 pp. 606-607

Larry D. Lankton

The Eye that Never Sleeps: A History of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. By Frank Morn. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1982. Pp. viii + 244. $17.50 pp. 607-607

Athan G. Theoharis

Against the Grain: Southern Radicals and Prophets, 1929–1959. By Anthony P. Dunbar. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1981. Pp. ix + 306. $16.95 pp. 608-609

J. Morgan Kousser

Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy. By Abraham Hoffman. College Station, Texas, Texas A&M University Press, 1981. Pp. xix + 308. $18.50 pp. 609-611

Richard White

The Waters of the Brazos: A History of the Brazos River Authority, 1929–1979. By Kenneth E. HendricksonJr., Waco, Texas, Brazos River Authority, 1981. Pp. xv + 230. $12.00 pp. 611-612

Robert G. Dunbar

Old Bread, New Wine: A Portrait of the Italian Americans. By Patrick J. Gallo. Chicago, Nelson-Hall, 1981. Pp. xi + 356. $16.95 pp. 612-613

Andrew Rolle

The Miners' Fight For Democracy: Arnold Miller and the Reform of the United Mine Workers. By Paul F. Clark. Ithaca, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1981. Pp. vii + 190. $16.95 pp. 613-614

Jerry B. Thomas

Locking up the Range: Federal Land Controls and Grazing. By Gary D. Libecap. Cambridge, Mass., Ballinger Publishing Company for Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research, 1981. Pp. xvii + 107. $14.50 pp. 615-616

William D. Rowley

A Case History of Bank Failures: 1971–1975. Edited By Frank J. Fabozzi. Hempstead, New York, Hofstra University, 1981. Pp. xi + 714. $18.00 pp. 617-618

Lynne Pierson Doti

Clipped Wings: The American SST Conflict. By Mel Horwitch. Cambridge, Mass., The M.I.T. Press, 1982. Pp. x + 473. $25.00 pp. 618-619

David C. Mowery

The Economic History of Britain Since 1700. Volume 1: 1700–1860. Volume 2: 1860 to the 1970s. Edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xv + 323; xvii + 485. $45.00; $59.50 pp. 619-624

William Hausman

The Selected Papers of Boulton & Watt. Volume I. The Engine Partnership, 1775–1825. Edited by Jennifer Tann. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1981. Pp. xv + 425. $50.00 pp. 624-625

Brooke Hindle

Shipping, Trade and Commerce: Essays in Memory of Ralph Davis. Edited by P. L. Cottrell and D. H. Aldcroft. Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press, 1982. Pp. viii + 200. $31.50 pp. 625-626

Jacob M. Price

The Coming of the Mass Market 1850–1914. By W. Hamish Fraser. Hamden, Conn., The Shoe String Press, 1981. Pp. x + 268. $27.50 pp. 627-628

Nancy P. Norton

Stanton and Stavely: A Business History. By S.D. Chapman. Cambridge, England, Woodhead-Faulkner, 1981. Pp. 240. £9.75 pp. 628-629

Charles K. Hyde

History of the Scottish Co-Operative Wholesale Society Limited. By James Kinloch and John Butt. Manchester, Glasgow Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd., 1981. Pp. v + 416. £10 pp. 629-630

T. George Parsons

The Making of Technological Man: The Social Origins of French Engineering Education. By John Hubbel Weiss. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1982. Pp. xviii + 377. $30.00 pp. 630-631

Rondo Cameron

German Yearbook on Business History 1981. Edited by the German Society for Business History, Cologne. Berlin, Springer Verlag, 1981. Pp. iv + 127. $17.70 pp. 631-632

Klaus H. Wolff

Foreign Trade and Economic Controls in Development: The Case of United Pakistan. By Nurul Islam. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1981. Pp. xv + 271. $32.50 pp. 632-633

Briton Cooper Busch

China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842–1934. By Lillian M. Li. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1981. Pp. xv + 288. $15.00 pp. 634-635

Robert Gardella

The Role of Economic Advisers in Developing Countries. By Lauchlin Currie. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 270. $27.50 pp. 635-637

Louis T. Wells

Research in Economic History, Volume 7. Edited by Paul Uselding. Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1982. Pp. xi + 361. $47.50 pp. 637-638

Henry A. Gemery

Explorations in the New Economic History: Essays in Honor of Douglass C. North. Edited by Roger L. Ransom, Richard Sutch, and Gary M. Walton. New York, Academic Press, 1981. Pp. xvi + 308. $34.50 pp. 639-641

Louis P. Cain

Essays From the Lowell Conference on Industrial History 1980 and 1981. Edited by Robert Weible, Oliver Ford, and Paul Marion. Lowell, Mass., Lowell Conference on Industrial History, 1981. Pp. 172. $4.95 pp. 642-644

Martha M. Trescott

Volume 56, issue 3, 1982

The Company Union Movement, 1900–1937: A Reexamination pp. 335-357

Daniel Nelson

Voluntary Cooperation vs. Regulatory Paternalism: The Lumber Trade in the 1920s pp. 358-379

William G. Robbins

Entrepreneurship in Public Enterprise: General Enrique Mosconi and the Argentine Petroleum Industry pp. 380-399

Carl E. Solberg

Small Business in the Peruvian Oil Industry: Lobitos Oilfields Limited Before 1934* pp. 400-423

Rory Miller

Unemployment in History: Economic Thought and Public Policy. By John A. Garraty. New York, Harper & Row, 1978. Pp. xii + 273. $15.00 pp. 428-429

Geofrey T. Mills

Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas. Edited by Carroll W. PursellJr, Cambridge Mass, MIT Press, 1981. Pp. xi + 264. $9.95 pp. 429-429

Otto Mayr

“Poor Carolina”: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776. By A. Roger Ekirch. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1981, Pp. xv + 305. $23.50 pp. 430-431

David T. Morgan

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780–1860. By Paul G. Faler, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp xvii + 267. $34.00 cloth; $9.95, paper pp. 431-433

Helena Wright

Louisiana Commercial Law: the Antebellum Period. By Richard Holcombe KilbourneJr., Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University School of Law, 1980. Pp. xix + 233. $21.00 pp. 433-434

Tony Freyer

Correspondence of the Van Cortlandt Family of Cortlandt Manor, 1815–1848. Compiled and edited by Jacob Judd. Tarrytown, New York, Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1981. Pp. xxxiii + 652. $27.00 pp. 434-435

Irene D. Neu

The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. By Alan Trachtenberg. New York, Hill and Wang, 1982. Pp. viii + 261. $16.95 cloth; $6.95 paper pp. 435-436

H. Wayne Morgan

Market Institutions and Economic Progress in the New South, 1865–1900: Essays Stimulated by One Kind of Freedom: the Economic Consequences of Emancipation. Edited by Gary M. Walton and James F. Shepherd. New York, Academic Press, 1981. Pp. xiii + 162. $17.50 pp. 436-438

Stanley L. Engerman

From Home to Office: U. S. Women at Work, 1870–1900. By Elyce J. Rotella. Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.M.I. Research Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 233. $31.95 pp. 438-439

Susan Estabrook Kennedy

The Rise of the American Electrochemicals Industry, 1880–1910: Studies in the American Technological Environment. By Martha Moore Trescott. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xxxviii + 391. $45.00 pp. 439-440

David C. Mowery

Steelmasters and Labor Reform, 1886–1923. By Gerald G. Eggert. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 212. $17.95 pp. 440-441

H. Lee Scamehorn

European Direct Investment in the U.S.A. Before World War I. By Peter J. Buckley and Brian R. Roberts. New York, St. Martins Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 157. $25.00 pp. 441-442

Gerald D. Nash

Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment, 1880–1980. By Martin V. Melosi. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 268. $21.50 pp. 442-443

Lyle W. Dorsett

The Development of Public Utility Accounting in New York. By Barbara H. Brock. East Lansing, Michigan State University Graduate School of Business Administration, 1981. Pp. v + 313. $9.70 pp. 443-444

H. Thomas Johnson

Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945. By Emily S. Rosenberg. New York, Hill and Wang, 1982. Pp. xi + 258. $16.95, cloth; $6.95, paper pp. 444-445

Michael T. Isenberg

The Dynamics of Business-Government Relations: Industry and Exports, 1893–1921. By William H. Becker. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 240. $20.00 pp. 445-447

Thomas K. McCraw

The Office of Management and Budget and the Presidency, 1921–1979. By Larry Berman. Princeton, Princeton Unwersity Press, 1979. Pp. xiii + 180. $15.00, cloth; $4.95, paper pp. 447-448

Donald T. Critchlow

Custom Combining on the Great Plains: A History. By Thomas D. Isern. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. Pp. xv + 248. $14.95 pp. 449-450

Wayne D. Rasmussen

Feeding Multitudes: A History of How Farmers Made America Rich. By Wheeler McMillen. Danville, Illinois, Interstate Printers and Publishers, Inc., 1981. Pp. xviii + 491. $12.00 pp. 450-451

R. Douglas Hurt

Hooded Empire: the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado. By Robert Alan Goldberg. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1981. Pp. xv + 255. $13.50 pp. 451-452

Elliot West

Recovery and Redistribution Under the Nira. By Michael M. Weinstein. Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1980. Pp. xv + 171. $36.50 pp. 453-454

Gavin Wright

The Iroquois and the New Deal. By Laurence M. Hauptman. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1981. Pp. xvi + 256. $20.00 pp. 454-455

Peter Iverson

Baseball Economics and Public Policy. By Jesse W. Markham and Paul V. Teplitz. Lexington, Mass., D. C. Heath and Co., 1981. Pp. xiv + 179. $20.95 pp. 455-456

Steven A. Riess

The Regulation of Natural Gas: Policy and Politics, 1938–1978. By M. Elizabeth Sanders. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1981. Pp. xvi + 254. $18.95. - A History of the British Gas Industry. By Trevor I. Williams. New York, Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 304. $49.00 pp. 456-458

Richard H. K. Vietor

Herman Hollerith: Forgotten Giant of Information Processing. By Geoffrey D. Austrian. New York, Columbia University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 418. $19.95 pp. 458-459

Nancy Stern

From Eniac to Univac: an Appraisal of the Eckert-mauchly Computers. By Nancy Stern. Bedford, Mass., Digital Press, 1981. Pp. v + 286. $21.00 pp. 460-461

James E. Hewes

Project Whirlwind: The History of A Pioneer Computer. By Kent C. Redmond and Thomas M. Smith. Bedford, Mass., Digital Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 280. $21.00. - Early Rritish Computers. By Simon Lavington. Bedford, Mass., Digital Press, 1980. Pp. 139. $8.00 pp. 461-463

Almarin Phillips

Artifacts and the American Past. By Thomas J. Schlereth. Nashville, American Association for State and Local History, 1981. Pp. vii + 294. $12.50 pp. 463-464

Gail Farr Casterline

Fur Trade Letters of Francis Ermatinger, Written to his Brother Edward During His Service with the Hudson's Bay Company, 1818–1853. By Lois Halliday McDonald. Glendale, California, The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1980. Pp. 317. $29.00 pp. 464-465

Ann Carlos

George-Etienne Cartier: Montreal Bourgeois. By Brian Young. Buffalo, N.Y., McGill-Queen's University Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 181. $23.95, cloth; $11.95, paper pp. 466-467

Peter Baskerville

Peaceful Conquest: The Industrialization Of Europe 1670–1970. By Sidney Pollard. New York, Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. ix + 451. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 467-468

Franco Amatori

European Textile Printers in the Eighteenth Century. By Stanley D. Chapman and Serge Chassagne. London, Heinmann Educational Books, 1981. Pp. xiii + 257. £15.00 pp. 468-470

Robert Forster

Economic Diplomacy and the Origins of the Second World War. By David E. Kaiser. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1980. Pp. xiii + 346. $25.00, cloth; $12.50, paper pp. 470-471

Ethan B. Kapstein

U.S. Multinationals and Worker Participation in Management: The American Experience in the European Community. By Ton DeVos. Westport, Conn., Quorum Books, 1981. Pp. xv + 229. $29.95 pp. 471-472

Mira Wilkins

The Scottish Provincial Banking Companies, 1747–1864. By Charles W. Munn. Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press, 1981. Pp. xi + 306. $37.50 pp. 473-474

Pat Hudson

British Labour History, 1815–1914. By E. H. Hunt. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981. Pp. xii + 428. £18.50. - Masters, Unions and Men: Work Control in Building and the Rise of Labour, 1830–1914. By Richard Price. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. xi + 355. $34.50 pp. 474-476

Peter N. Stearns

Accountancy and the British Economy, 1840–1980: The Evolution of Ernst & Whinney. By Edgar Jones. London, B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1981. Pp. 288. £10.00 pp. 476-477

Richard P. Brief

Economic Control and Colonial Development: Crown Colony Financial Management in the Age Of Joseph Chamberlain. By Richard M. Kesner. Westport, Conn.Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 305. $35.00 pp. 478-479

Charles R. Middleton

Slow Growth in Britain: Causes and Consequences Edited by Wilfred Beckerman. New York, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. vi + 237. $23.50 pp. 479-480

Bruce R. Dalgaard

The British Business Elite: Its Attitudes To Class, Status and Power. By John Fidler. Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. xvi + 304. $40.00. - Julian Hodge: A Biography. By Timothy O'Sullivan. Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. xt + 210. $25.00 pp. 480-481

Wray Vamplew

La Rochelle and the Atlantic Economy During the Eighteenth Century. By John G. Clark. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 286. $24.00 pp. 482-482

Robert L. Stein

Une Industrialisation Sans Développement: Le Bassin De Mons Et Le Charbonnage Du Grand-Hornu Du Milieu Du XVIIIe Au Milieu Du XIXe Siècle. By Hubert Watelet. Ottawa, Editions de l'Université d'Ottawa, 1980. Pp. 538. $18.00 pp. 483-484

Michael S. Smith

Capitalism and the State in Modern France: Renovation and Economic Management in The Twentieth Century. By Richard F. Kuisel. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 344. $37.50 pp. 484-485

Joel Colton

Medieval Italy: Constraints And Creativity. By Marvin B. Becker. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. ix + 242. $17.50 pp. 485-487

John Martin

The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100–1600. By Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xv + 250. $49.50 pp. 487-488

John Munro

Soviet Historians in Crisis, 1928–1932. By John Barber. New York, Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1981. Pp. xiii + 194. $34.50 pp. 488-490

John P. McKay

Stalinist Planning for Economic Growth, 1933–1952. By Eugene Zaleski. Translated and edited by Marie-Christine MacAndrew and John H. Moore. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Pp. xxxiv + 788. $50.00 pp. 490-491

Edwin J. Perkins

Economic Life in Ottoman Europe: Taxation, Trade and the Struggle for Land, 1600–1800. By Bruce McGowan. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xii + 226. $39.50 pp. 491-492

Donald Quataert

The Definition of a Peripheral Economy: Turkey, 1923–1929. By Caglar Keyder. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1981, Pp. v + 158. $34.50 pp. 493-494

Kathleen M. Langley

The Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries: History, Policies and Prospects. By Mary Ann Tétreault. Westport, Conn.Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 215. $35.00 pp. 494-495

William Stivers

Volume 56, issue 2, 1982

Entrepreneurship and the West in East Asian Economic and Business History pp. 149-154

Yen-p'ing Hao

The Development of Chinese and Japanese Business in an International Perspective: A Bibliographical Introduction pp. 155-167

Shin'ichi Yonekawa

From Philanthropy to Paternalism in the Noda Soy Sauce Industry: Pre-Corporate and Corporate Charity in Japan* pp. 168-191

W. Mark Fruin

Silks by Sea: Trade, Technology, and Enterprise in China and Japan* pp. 192-217

Lillian M. Li

The Organizational Structure of the Traditional Chinese Firm and its Modern Reform* pp. 218-235

Wellington K. K. Chan

Financing Imperialism: British and American Bankers as Vectors of Imperial Expansion in China, 1908–1920 pp. 236-264

Clarence B. Davis

Keeping An Idea Alive: The Establishment of a Sino-American Bank, 1910–1920* pp. 265-293

Noel H. Pugach

Structure and Change in Economic History. By Douglass C. North. New York, W. W. Norton, 1981. Pp. xi + 228. $19.95 pp. 299-301

W. W. Rostow

A History of Metals in Colonial America. By James A. Mulholland. University, Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 215. $17.95 cloth; $8.95, paper pp. 301-303

James E. Fell

The Investment Frontier: New York Businessmen and The Economic Development of the Old Northwest. By John Denis Haeger. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp. xviii + 311. $39.00, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 303-305

Harry N. Scheiber

A Scientist in American Life: Essays and Lectures Of Joseph Henry. Edited by Arthur P. Molella, Nathan Reingold, Marc Rothenberg, Joan F. Steiner, and Kathleen Waldenfels. Foreword by Lewis Thomas. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980. Pp. vii + 136. $6.95 pp. 305-306

Maxine Benson

The Chisholm Trail: High Road to the Cattle Kingdom. By Don Worcester. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1981. Pp. xx + 207. $14.50. - Trails To Texas: Southern Roots of Western Cattle Ranching. By Terry G. Jordan. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1981. Pp. xv + 220. $15.95. - Clio's Cowhoys: Studies in the Historiography of the Cattle Trade. By Don D. Walker. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1981. Pp. xi + 210. $13.95 pp. 306-308

Carol J. Drake

J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1867–1943. By John Douglas Forbes. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1981. Pp. xiv + 262. $20.00 pp. 308-310

Barbara Benson Kohn

Texas Rich: The Hunt Dynasty from the Early Oil Days through the Silver Crash. By Harry HurtIII. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1981. Pp. 446. $16.95 pp. 310-312

Walter Rundell

American Farmers: The New Minority. By Gilbert C. Fite. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. ix + 265. $19.50 pp. 312-313

Allan G. Bogue

The Retail Revolution: Market Transformation, Investment, and Labor in the Modern Department Store. By Barry Bluestone, Patricia Hanna, Sarah Kuhn, and Laura Moore. Boston, Auburn House Publishing Company, 1981. Pp. xvi + 160. $19.95 pp. 313-315

James H. Madison

Twilight of Progressivism: The Western Republican Senators and the New Deal. By Ronald L. Feinman. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 262. $18.50 pp. 315-316

Lewis L. Gould

Regulation and its Reform. By Stephen Breyer. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 472. $25.00 pp. 316-317

Thomas V. DiBacco

Business and Government During the Eisenhower Administration: A Study of the Antitrust Policy of the Justice Department. By Theodore Philip Kovaleff. Athens, Ohio University Press, 1980. Pp. x + 311. $17.95 pp. 317-318

Jesse W. Markham

No Way to Run A Railroad: The Untold Story of the Penn Central Crisis. By Stephen Salsbury. Foreword by Thomas C. Cochran. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1982. Pp. xviii + 363. $19.95 pp. 319-320

Albro Martin

Taxation of American Railroads: A Policy Analysis. By Dennis L. Thompson. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xvi + 186. $29.95 pp. 320-321

W. Elliot Brownlee

Regional Diversity: Growth in the United States, 1960–1990. By Gregory Jackson, George Masnick, Roger Bolton, Susan Bartlett, and John Pitkin. Boston, Auburn House Publishing Co., 1981. Pp. xviii + 198. $19.95, cloth; $12.00, paper pp. 322-323

Carl Abbott

Development and Diffusion of Technology: Electrical and Chemical Industries. The International Conference on Business History, no. 6. Edited by Akio Okochi and Hoshimi Uchida. Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 236. $24.50. - Transnational Corporations, Technology Transfer and Development: A Bibliographic Sourcebook. By Tagi Sagafi-nejad and Robert Belfield. New York, Pergamon Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 145. $25.00 pp. 323-324

Darwin H. Stapleton

The Decline of the British Motor Industry: The Effects of Government Policy, 1945–1975. By Peter J. S. Dunnett. Totowa, N.J., Croom Helm, 1980. Pp. 201. $28.50 pp. 325-326

Roy A. Church

Region und Industrialisierung. Edited by Sidney Pollard. Göttingen, Vandenhock & Ruprecht, 1980. Pp. 297. DM 58.00. - The Political Economy Of Germany in the Twentieth Century. By Karl Hardach. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1980. Pp. ix + 235. $24.50. - Die Deutsche Inflation, 1914–1923: Ursachen Und Folgen in Internationaler Perspektive. By Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich. New York, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1980. Pp. x + 360. $58.00 pp. 326-330

Hannes Siegrist

The Art of Japanese Management: Applications for American Executives. By Richard Tanner Pascale and Anthony G. Athos. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1981. Pp. 221. $11.95 pp. 330-332

Hiro Matsusaki

Industry and Business in Japan. Edited by Kazuo Sato. White Plains, New York, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1980. Pp. xxvii + 465. $30.00 pp. 332-334

Takashi Hikino

Volume 56, issue 1, 1982

Thurman Arnold Goes to Washington: A Look at Antitrust Policy in the Later New Deal pp. 1-15

Wilson D. Miscamble

“An Honorable Place”: The Quest for Professional Advertising Education, 1900–1917 pp. 16-32

Quentin J. Schultze

Outside Intervention in Monopolistic Price Warfare: The Case of the “Plug War” and the Union Tobacco Company* pp. 33-53

Malcolm R. Burns

National Capital and National Development: Financing Chile's Central Valley Railroads* pp. 54-75

Robert Oppenheimer

Business and the City pp. 76-83

Edward P. Duggan

Regulation in Perspective: Historical Essays. Edited by Thomas K. McCraw. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1981. Pp. ix + 246. $14.95 pp. 87-89

Donald A. Ritchie

On History. By Fernand Braudel. Translated by Sarah Matthews. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1980. Pp. ix + 226. $15.00 pp. 89-92

Michael Ermarth

Research in Economic History, Volume 5. Edited by Paul Uselding. Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1980. Pp. x + 301. $32.00, institutions; $16.00, individuals pp. 92-94

Nicholas W. Balabkins

Accounting for Common Costs. By Murray C. Wells. Urbana, The University of Illinois, 1978. Pp. ii + 179. $8.00 pp. 95-96

Robert N. Anthony

Industrial Design. By John Heskett. New York, Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. 216. $17.95, cloth; $9.95, paper. - American Realism and the Industrial Age. By Marianne Doezema. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. 142. $9.95, paper pp. 96-99

Russell I. Fries

Sovereignty for Sale: the Origins and Evolution of the Panamanian and Liberian Flags of Convenience. By Rodney P. Carlisle. Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 278. $19.95 pp. 100-101

William F. Trimble

To Build A Canal: Sault Ste. Marie, 1853–1854 and After. By John N. Dickinson. Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1981. Pp. xviii + 192. $21.50 pp. 101-102

David A. Walker

The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840–1857. By Edward K. Spann. New York, Columbia University Press, 1981. Pp. xiii + 546. $19.95 pp. 102-104

Carl W. Condit

Work Hazards and Industrial Conflict. By Carl Gersuny. Hanover, New Hampshire, University Press of New England, 1981. Pp. xiii + 162. $14.00 pp. 104-105

Walter Licht

The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1906–1921. By Stephen MeyerIII. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp. x + 249. $34.00 pp. 105-106

John B. Rae

Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States. By Maurine Weiner Greenwald. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xxvii + 309. $27.50 pp. 106-108

W. Elliot Brownlee

The Speculator: Bernard M. Baruch in Washington, 1917–1965. By Jordan A. Schwarz. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 679. $27.50 pp. 108-109

Ellis W. Hawley

The New South and the “New Competition”: Trade Association Development in the Southern Pine Industry. By James E. Fickle. Champaign: Ill., University of Illinois Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 435. $17.50 pp. 110-111

William O. Wagnon

A History of Retirement: the Meaning and Function of An American Institution, 1885–1978. By William Graebner, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. x + 293. $22.50 pp. 111-113

Jack Blicksilver

New Deal Planning: the National Resources Planning Board. By Marion Clawson. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Pp. 356. $32.50 pp. 113-116

Patrick Reagan

Empire As A Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America's Present Predicament Along With A Few Thoughts About an Alternative. By William Appleman Williams. New York, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 226. $14.95 pp. 116-118

Joseph M. Siracusa

The Growth of a Refining Region: Industrial Development and the Social Fabric, Volume 4. By Joseph A. Pratt. Greenwich, CT, JAI Press, 1980. Pp. xvi + 297. $30.00. - The Politics of Mexican Oil. By George W. Grayson. Pittsburgh, The University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981. Pp. xviii + 283. $21.95, cloth; $6.95, paper. - An Oilman's Oilman: A Biographical Treatment of Walter W. Lechner as Told to James A. Clark. Edited by Judith King. Houston, Gulf Publishing Co., 1979. Pp. vii + 143. $8.95 pp. 118-121

Richard H. K. Vietor

Environmental Politics and the Coal Coalition. By Richard H.K. Vietor. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 1980. Pp. xv + 285. $18.50 pp. 121-123

Mark H. Rose

The Federal Trade Commission Since 1970: Economic Regulation and Bureaucratic Behavior. Edited by Kenneth W. Clarkson and Timothy J. Muris. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1981, Pp. ix + 379. $37.50 pp. 123-124

Richard S. Tedlow

The New Urban History: Growth and Politics In Sunbelt Cities. By Carl Abbott. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1981. Pp. viii + 317. $19.95, cloth; $9.95, paper pp. 125-126

Mark S. Foster

“Give us Good Measure”: An Economic Analysis of Relations Between The Indians and the Hudson's Bay Company Before 1763. By Arthur J. Ray and Donald Freeman. Buffalo, University of Toronto Press, 1979. Pp. xvi + 298. $4.95 pp. 126-128

Oliver A. Rink

The Medieval English Economy 1150–1500. By J. L. Bolton. Totowa, N.J., Rowman and Littlefield, 1980. Pp. 400. $25.00, cloth; $16.00, paper pp. 128-129

Stefano Fenoaltea

Capital and Credit in British Overseas Trade: The View from the Chesapeake, 1700–1776. By Jacob M. Price. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1980. Pp. viii + 233. $18.50 pp. 130-131

James C. Riley

Industrial Finance 1830–1914: The Finance and Organization of English Manufacturing Industry. By P.L. Cottrell. New York, Methuen, 1979. Pp. xii + 298. $40.00 pp. 131-132

Eric Robinson

By The Sweat of Their Brow: Women Workers at Victorian Coal Mines. By Angela V. John. Totowa, N.J., Croom Helm, 1980. Pp. 245. $29.00 pp. 132-133

Barbara Corrado Pope

The Great Northern Railway. Volume III: Twentieth Century to Grouping. By John Wrottesley. North Pomfret, Vermont, Batsford, 1981. Pp. x + 210. $32.00 pp. 133-134

Geoffrey Channon

Brunel's Britain. By Derrick Beckett. North Pomfret, VT, David & Charles, 1980. Pp. 222. $25.00. - A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Volume XII: South Wales. By D.S.M. Barrie. North Pomfret, VT, David & Charles, 1980. Pp. 296. $30.00 pp. 135-136

Terence R. Gourvish

Politics in Industrial Society: The Experience of the British System Since 1911. By Keith Middlemas. Totowa, N.J., Rowman and Littlefield, 1980. Pp. 502. $37.50 pp. 136-137

T.W. Heyck

The Finance of British Industry, 1918–1976. By W. A. Thomas. New York, Methuen, 1979. Pp. x + 351. $39.95 pp. 138-139

Larry Neal

Concentration In British Industry 1935–75: A Study of the Growth, Causes and Effects of Concentration in British Manufacturing Industries. By P.E. Hart and R. Clarke. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 164. $29.50 pp. 139-140

Bernard W.E. Alford

Crises Et Croissance De L'Industrie Lyonnaise, 1850–1900. By Pierre Cayez. Paris, Editions du CNRS, 1980. Pp. 353. F 120 pp. 140-141

Michael Miller

Die Angestellten in Der Deutschen Geschichte 1850–1980: Vom Privatbeamten Zum Angestellten Arbeitnehmer. By Jürgen Kocka. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1981. Pp. 235. DM 26 pp. 142-143

Elaine Glovka Spencer

An Economic History of Central Niger. By Stephen Baier. New York, The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1980, Pp. xii + 325. $45.00 pp. 143-144

David Northrup

Class and Economic Change in Kenya: The Making of an African Petite-Bourgeoisie. By Gavin Kitching. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. xx + 479. $35.00 pp. 144-146

Paul E. Lovejoy

Bankers and Diplomats in China, 1917–1925: The Anglo-American Relationship. By Roberta Allbert Dayer. London, Frank Cass and Co., 1981. Pp. xxvii + 295. $30.00 pp. 146-147

Michael H. Hunt