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Volume 55, issue 4, 1981

The Fabric of Control: Slavery in Antebellum Southern Textile Mills* pp. 471-490

Randall M. Miller

Image and Reality: The Railway Corporate-State Metaphor* pp. 491-516

James A. Ward

International Politics and Iraqi Oil, 1918–1928: A Study in Anglo-American Diplomacy pp. 517-540

William Stivers

From Old Regime to New: Business, Bureaucracy, and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century France pp. 541-561

Thomas M. Adams

The Determinants and Effects of Mergers: An International Comparison. Edited by Dennis C. Mueller. Cambridge, Mass., Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1980. Pp. xviii + 353. $27.50 pp. 568-569

Leslie Hannah

Crime and Modernization: The Impact of Industrialization and Urbanization on Crime. By Louise I. Shelley. Carbondale, South Illinois University Press, 1981. Pp. xxii + 186. $22.50 pp. 569-570

Thomas V. DiBacco

Objectivity and the News: The Public and the Rise of Commercial Journalism. By Dan Schiller. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. Pp. xiii + 222. $20.00 pp. 570-571

James Lewis Baughman

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie R.R. By Harold H. McLean. San Marino, California, Golden West Books, 1980. Pp. 236. $29.95 pp. 571-572

Keith L. Bryant

Andrew Carnegie. By George Swetnam. Boston, G.K. Hall, 1980. Pp. 186. $10.95 pp. 572-573

Murray N. Rothbard

150 Years of International Harvester. By C. H. Wendel. Sarasota, Florida, Crestline Publishing Co., 1981. Pp. 416. $24.95 pp. 574-575

R.Douglas Hurt

Edward Douglass White: Defender of the Conservative Faith. By Robert B. Highsaw, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 212. $20.00 pp. 575-577

Arthur F. McEvoy

“Man Over Money”: The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism. By Bruce Palmer. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Pp. xviii + 311. $19.50 pp. 577-578

Daniel Pope

Populism, Progressivism and the Transformation of Nebraska Politics, 1885–1915. By Robert W. Cherny. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1981. Pp. xviii + 227. $17.50 pp. 578-579

Karel D. Bicha

Denny's Knoll: A History of the Metropolitan Tract of the University of Washington. By Neal O. Hines. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 465. $14.95 pp. 580-580

Mansel G. Blackford

Organizing Dixie: Alabama Workers in the Industrial Age. By Philip Taft. Revised and edited by Gary M. Fink. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xxv + 228. $35.00. - Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870–1941. By Cletus E. Daniel. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1981. Pp. 348. $19.50 pp. 581-582

Athan G. Theoharis

Electricity for Rural America: The Fight for the Rea. By D.Clayton Brown. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xvi + 178. $22.50 pp. 582-583

Douglas D. Anderson

Electric Power in American Manufacturing, 1889–1958. By Richard B. Du Boff. New York, Arno Press, 1979. Pp. xxiv + 249. $20.00 pp. 584-585

Thomas P. Hughes

From Streetcar to Superhighway: American City Planners and Urban Transportation, 1900–1940. By Mark S. Foster. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 246. $19.95 pp. 585-586

William R. Childs

Self-Help in Urban America: Patterns of Minority Business Enterprise. Edited by Scott Cummings. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1980. Pp. 236. $18.50 pp. 587-588

John Bodnar

The Cola Wars: The Story of the Global Corporate Battle Between the Coca-Cola Company and Pepsico, Inc. By J. C. Louis and Harvey Z. Yazijian. New York, Everest House, 1980. Pp. 386. $15.95 pp. 588-590

Daniel Pope

Billions for Defense: Government Financing by the Defense Plant Corporation During World War II. By Gerald T. White. University, Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 1980. Pp. viii + 194. $16.50. - The Defense Industry. By Jacques S. Gansler. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1980. Pp. vii + 346. $19.95 pp. 590-592

Robert Cuff

Regulatory Politics and Electric Utilities: A Case Study in Political Economy. By Douglas D. Anderson. Boston, Auburn House Publishing Company, 1981. Pp. xi +191. $19.95 pp. 592-595

Philip J. Funigiello

Search for Security: Saudi Arabian Oil and American Foreign Policy, 1939–1949. By Aaron David Miller. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Pp. xviii + 320. $19.00 pp. 596-597

Michael B. Stoff

Dictionary of the History of the American Brewing and Distilling Industries. By William L. Downard. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xxv + 268. $35.00 pp. 597-598

K.Austin Kerr

Bibliographic Guide to Business and Economics: 1979. Boston, Mass., G.K. Hall & Company, 1979. Vol. 1, 834 Pp.; Vol. 2, 827 Pp.; Vol. 3, 844 Pp. $205.00 pp. 598-599

Lorna M. Daniells

The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. By Daniel R. Headrick. New York, Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. x + 221. $14.95, cloth; $6.95, paper pp. 599-601

G. N. von Tunzelmann

Arms and the Men: The Arms Trade and Governments. By Basil Collier. North Pomfret, Vermont, Hamish Hamilton, 1980. Pp. xii + 315. $34.00 pp. 601-602

Malcolm Smith

Coal and Tobacco: The Lowthers and the Economic Development of West Cumberland, 1660–1760. By J. V. Beckett. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xiii + 279. $47.50 pp. 602-603

Joyce Ellis

TUC: The Growth of a Pressure Group 1868–1976. By Ross M. Martin. New York, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. xiii + 394. $42.00 pp. 603-605

Standish Meacham

The Anatomy of Scottish Capital: Scottish Companies and Scottish Capital, 1900–1979. By John Scott and Michael Hughes. Montreal, McGill Queen's University Press, 1980. Pp. 291. $28.95 pp. 605-606

R. H. Campbell

Dutch Shipbuilding Before 1800. By Richard W. Unger. Assen/Amsterdam, Van Gorcum, 1978. Pp. xi + 216. Dfl. 33, 75 pp. 606-607

William Hausman

Vom Familienbetrieb Zum Managerunternehmen: Angestellte Und industrielle Organisation am Beispiel der Georg Fischer AG in Schaffhausen 1797–1930. By Hannes Siegrist. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, 1981. Pp. 293. DM 78 pp. 608-609

Toni Pierenkemper

The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political Economy and Crisis. By David Abraham. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1981. Pp. 366. $30.00, cloth; $12.50, paper pp. 609-611

Elaine Glovka Spencer

Multinationals in Latin America: The Politics of Nationalization. By Paul E. Sigmund. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1980. Pp. ii + 426. $22.50, cloth; $6.50, paper pp. 611-612

Ronald C. Newton

Volume 55, issue 3, 1981

The Merchant, the Manufacturer, and the Factory Manager: The Case of Samuel Slater* pp. 297-313

Barbara M. Tucker

Americans in Britain's Backyard: The Railway Era in Upper Canada, 1850–1880* pp. 314-336

Peter Baskerville

Management Relations in a Multinational Enterprise: The Case of Canadian Industries Limited, 1928–1948* pp. 337-358

Graham D. Taylor

The Consent Decree in the Meatpacking Industry, 1920–1956 pp. 359-378

Robert M. Aduddell and Louis P. Cain

The Role of Banks in the Finance of the West Yorkshire Wool Textile Industry, c. 1780–1850* pp. 379-402

Pat Hudson

Another New Look? The Encyclopedia of American Economic History pp. 403-418

Margaret Walsh

An Emerging Independent American Economy, 1815–1875. Edited by Joseph R. Frese, S.J. and Jacob Judd. Tarrytown, N.Y., Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1980. Pp. xiv + 207. $20.00 pp. 423-424

Daniel Hodas

Transatlantic Industrial Revolution: The Diffusion of Textile Technologies Between Britain and America, 1790–1830s. By David J. Jeremy. Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press, 1981. Pp. 544. $32.50 pp. 424-426

William H. Lazonick

The Economy of Colonial America. By Edwin J. Perkins, New York, Columbia University Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 177. $17.50, cloth; $6.00, paper pp. 426-427

Donald R. Hickey

The Army and Civil Disorder: Federal Military Intervention in Labor Disputes, 1877–1900. By Jerry M. Cooper. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xv + 284. $27.50 pp. 427-429

Robert V. Bruce

Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management. By Daniel Nelson. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 259. $19.50. - Management and Ideology: The Legacy of the International Scientific Management Movement. By Judith A. Merkle. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1980. Pp. viii + 325. $18.50 pp. 429-433

Mariann Jelinek

Urban Growth and City-Systems in the United States, 1840–1860. By Allan R. Pred. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1980. Pp. xv + 283. $28.00 pp. 433-435

Louis P. Cain

Baltimore in the Nation, 1789–1861. By Gary Lawson Browne. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Pp. xiii + 349. $20.00 pp. 435-436

Diane Lindstrom

The Military-Industrial Complex: A Historical Perspective. By Paul A.C. Koistinen. New York, Praeger, 1980. Pp. xiv + 168. $18.95 pp. 436-438

Robert D. Cuff

The Economics of Competition in the Telecommunications Industry. By John R. Meyer, Robert W. Wilson, M. Alan Baughcum, Ellen Burton, and Louis Caovette. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, Publishers, Inc., 1980. Pp. xviii + 341. $25.00 pp. 438-439

Nina W. Cornell

Enterprise in Radio: WWL and the Business of Broadcasting in America. By C. Joseph Pusateri. Lanham, MD, University Press of America, 1980. Pp. ix + 366. $20.25, hardcover; $12.00, paperback pp. 439-440

James L. Baughman

The Modern Stentors: Radio Broadcasters and the Federal Government, 1920–1934. By Philip T. Rosen. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xi + 267. $25.00 pp. 440-442

C.Joseph Pusateri

If All we Did was to Weep at Home: A History of White Working-Class Women in America. By Susan Estabrook Kennedy. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1979. Pp. xx + 331. $17.50. - Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States, 1900–1930. By Leslie Woodcock Tentler. New York, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. 266. $14.95 pp. 442-445

Susan Porter Benson

Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era. By Steven A. Riess. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 268. $22.50 pp. 445-446

Ronald Story

Class: Image and Reality in Britain, France and the USA Since 1930. By Arthur Marwick. New York, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 416. $19.95 pp. 446-448

Peter Stansky

Financiers and Railroads, 1869–1889: A Study of Morton, Bliss & Company. By Dolores Greenberg. East Brunswick, N.J., University of Delaware Press, 1980. Pp. 286. $22.50 pp. 448-449

James H. Ducker

The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750. By Immanuel Wallerstein, New York, Academic Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 370. $22.00 pp. 449-453

David R. Ringrose

A House in the City: A Study of the City and the Stock Exchange Based on the Records of Foster & Braithwaite, 1825–1975. By W.J. Reader. London, B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1979. Pp. ix + 198. £9.25. - Hazard Unlimited: The Story of Lloyd's of London. By Antony Brown. London, Peter Davies, Ltd., 1978. Pp. xi + 226. £5.50 pp. 453-455

Bruce R. Dalgaard

The Origins and Early Development of the Heavy Chemical Industry in France. By John Graham Smith. New York, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 369. $98.00 pp. 455-456

Klaus H. Wolff

The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869–1920. By Michael B. Miller. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1981. Pp. xii + 266. $13.50 pp. 456-458

Jean T. Joughin

The Story of the Steam Plough Works: Fowlers of Leeds. By Michael R. Lane. Warrendale, PA, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1980. Pp. xii + 410. $55.00 pp. 458-459

Robert E. Ankli

Die Industrieaktiengesellschaft in Österreich, 1880–1913. By Alois Mosser. Vienna, Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1980. Pp. 338. DM 85 pp. 459-461

Richard Tilly

The Crisis of Soviet Industrialization: Selected Essays. By E. A. Preobrazhensky; edited and with an introduction by Donald A. Filtzer. White Plains, New York, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1979. Pp. liii + 241. $25.00. - Mao Zedong and the Political Economy of the Border Region: A Translation of Mao's Economic and Financial Problems. By Andrew Watson. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 271. $29.95, hardcover; $11.95, paper pp. 461-462

Robert C. Stuart

Big Business in China: Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry, 1890–1930. By Sherman Cochran. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1980. Pp. x + 332. $20.00 pp. 463-464

Yen-p'ing Hao

Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt 1760–1840. By Peter Gran. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1979. Pp. xvii + 278. $19.95 pp. 464-465

Donald G. Quataert

Government and Business: Proceedings of the Fifth Fuji Conference. Edited by Keiichiro Nakagawa. ISBS, University of Tokyo Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 239. $25.50 pp. 465-468

Frank B. Tipton

A Plough in Field Arable: Western Agribusiness in Third World Agriculture. By Sarah Potts Voll. Hanover, New Hampshire, University Press of New England, 1980. Pp. x + 213. $12.00 pp. 468-469

James E. Austin

Volume 55, issue 2, 1981

The Transformation of Cotton Marketing in the Late Nineteenth Century: Alexander Sprunt and Son of Wilmington, N. C., 1884–1956* pp. 143-169

J. R. Killick

Herbert Hoover, the U.S. Food Administration, and the Dairy Industry, 1917–1918 pp. 170-187

James L. Guth

The Great Western Railway Under the British Railways Act of 1921* pp. 188-216

Geoffrey Channon

Public Policy Toward “The Greatest Trust in the World” pp. 217-242

Robert M. Aduddell and Louis P. Cain

The Evolution of the American Economy: Growth, Welfare and Decision Making. By Sidney Ratner, James H. Soltow, and Richard Sylla. New York, Basic Books, 1980. Pp. vii + 548. $18.50 pp. 247-248

H.Craig Miner

Revolution, Reform, and the Politics of American Taxation, 1763–1783. By Robert A. Becker. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Pp. xi + 323. $25.00. - The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America. By Drew R. McCoy. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Pp. ix + 268. $21.50 pp. 249-250

Forrest McDonald

Ores to Metals: The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry. By James E. FellJr., Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1980. Pp. xvi + 341. $21.50 pp. 250-252

Richard H. Peterson

J. Edgar Thomson, Master of the Pennsylvania. By James A. Ward. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xviii + 265. $25.00 pp. 252-253

Michael Bezilla

Alexander Holley and the Makers of Steel. By Jeanne McHugh. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 402. $27.50 pp. 253-255

Michael Massouh

The Port of New York: A History of the Rail and Terminal System from the Beginnings to Pennsylvania Station. By Carl W. Condit. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1980. Pp. xvii + 456. $29.95 pp. 255-256

David A. Hounshell

The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore: From Tobacco to Grain. By Paul G.E. Clemens. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1980. Pp. 249. $15.00 pp. 256-258

John McCusker

The Boston Region, 1810–1850: A Study of Urbanization. By Francis X. BlouinJr., Ann Arbor, Mich., UMI Research Press, 1980. Pp. xiii + 220. $26.95 pp. 258-259

William L. Taylor

The Kansas Beef Industry. By Charles L. Wood. Lawrence, The Regents Press of Kansas, 1980. Pp. xiii + 352. $22.50 pp. 259-261

Larry A. McFarlane

Samuel Peter Heintzelman and the Sonora Exploring and Mining Company. By Diane M. T. North. Tucson, The University of Arizona Press, 1980. Pp. xvii + 248. $12.50, cloth; $7.95, paper pp. 261-262

Listen E. Leyendecker

Dynamos and Virgins Revisited: Women and Technological Change in History. Edited by Martha Moore Trescott, Metuchen, N.J. The Scarecrow Press, 1979. Pp. iv + 280. $14.00 pp. 262-264

Helena Wright

The Dynamics of Victorian Business: Problems and Perspectives to the 1870's. Edited by Roy Church. London, George Allen and Unwin, 1980. Pp. xii + 274. $37.50 pp. 264-266

Geoffrey Jones

The Manchester Ship Canal and the Rise of the Port of Manchester, 1894–1975. By D.A. Farnie. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1980. Pp. xi + 187. $14.50 pp. 266-267

Wray Vamplew

The Dream That Kicks: The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain. By Michael Chanan. Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Pp. 353. $32.50 pp. 267-268

Tino Balio

Public Policy in a No-Party State: Spanish Planning and Budgeting in the Twilight of the Franquist Era. By Richard Gunther. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 361. $17.50 pp. 268-269

Douglas Little

Tariff Reform in France 1860–1900: The Politics of Economic Interest. By Michael Stephen Smith. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1980. Pp. 272. $18.50 pp. 269-270

Lewis L. Gould

Mandarins and Merchants: Jardine Matheson & Co., A China Agency of the Early Nineteenth Century. By W.E. Cheong. Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 298. $12.50 pp. 271-272

Jacques M. Downs

The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia: Vol. 1: The Socialist Offensive, The Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture, 1929–1930; Vol. 2: The Soviet Collective Farm, 1929–1930. By R. W. Davies, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1980. Vol. 1: pp. xxi + 491, $35.00. Vol. 2: pp. x + 216, $18.50 pp. 272-275

Daniel Mulholland

Small Business in American Life. Edited by Stuart W. Bruchey. New York, Columbia University Press, 1980. Pp. viii + 391. $25.00 pp. 275-276

Jim F. Heath

Lumber and Politics: The Career of Mark E. Reed. By Robert E. Ficken. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1980. Pp. xi + 264. $14.95 pp. 277-277

W. Edwin Derrick

Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina. By Anthony J. Badger. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Pp. xviii + 295. $20.00 pp. 278-279

Gavin Wright

History of Western Oil Shale. By Paul L. Russell. East Brunswick, N.J., The Center for Professional Advancement, 1980. Pp. xxii + 152. $49.50 pp. 279-280

Richard H. K. Vietor

Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1925–1939. By Jeffrey L. Meikle. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv + 249. $17.50. - In Good Shape: Style in Industrial Products, 1900–1960. By Stephen Bayley. New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1979. Pp. 255. $12.95, paper. - Industrial Design. By Raymond Loewy. Woodstock, N.Y., Overlook Press, 1979. Pp. 250. $45.00. - Designing for Industry: The Architecture of Albert Kahn. By Grant Hildebrand. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1980. Pp. xvii +232. $8.95 pp. 280-285

George H. Daniels

The Economist in Parliament, 1780–1868. By Frank Whitson Fetter. Durham, Duke University Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 306. $18.75. - The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815–1848. By Maxine Berg. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. x + 379. $35.00 pp. 285-287

Camille Castorina

Courtaulds: An Economic and Social History. Volume III: Crisis and Change, 1940–1965. By D.C. Coleman. New York, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 345. $44.00 pp. 287-289

Graham D. Taylor

Businessmen and Politics in the Rhineland, 1789–1834. By Jeffrey M. Diefendorf. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1980. Pp. xv + 401. $22.50 pp. 289-291

Heinrich Best

King of the Castle, The Making of a Dynasty: Seagram's and the Bronfman Empire. By Peter C. Newman. New York, Atheneum, 1979. Pp. vii + 304. $11.95. - An Industrial Heritage: Allis-Chalmers Corporation. By Walter F. Peterson. Milwaukee, Milwaukee County Historical Society, 1979. Pp. 448. $17.50 pp. 292-293

John L. Bernardi

A History of Commerce and Industry in Western Australia. Edited by Peter Firkins. Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1979. Pp. xii + 211. $17.95 pp. 293-294

Jonathan Pincus

The Development of Corporate Capitalism in Kenya 1918–1971. By Nicola Swainson. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 306. $20.00, cloth; $8.50, paper. - West African Traders in Ghana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Kwame Arhin. New York, Longman Group Inc., 1979. Pp. xii + 146. $30.00 pp. 294-296

Christopher L. Delgado

Volume 55, issue 1, 1981

The Cinderella of Occupations: Managing the Work of Department Store Saleswomen, 1900–1940* pp. 1-25

Susan Porter Benson

The Department Store, Its Past and Its Future - Merchant Princes: An Intimate History of Jewish Families Who Built Great Department Stores. By Leon Harris. New York, Harper and Row, 1979. Pp. xx + 411. $12.95. - The Grand Emporiums: The Illustrated History of America's Great Department Stores. By Robert Hendrickson. New York, Stein and Day, 1979. Pp. viii + 488. $14.95. - Sears, Roebuck, U.S.A.: The Great American Catalog Store and How it Grew. By Gordon L. Weil. New York, Stein and Day, 1977. Pp. xiv. + 277. $10.95. - Shopping in Style: London from the Restoration to Edwardian Elegance. By Alison Adburgham. London, Thames and Hudson, 1979. Pp. 192. $14.95 pp. 26-34

Peter Samson

From Competitor to Consumer: The Changing Focus of Federal Regulation of Advertising, 1914–1938 pp. 35-58

Richard S. Tedlow

The Anglo-American Oil Agreement and the Wartime Search for Foreign Oil Policy* pp. 59-74

Michael B. Stoff

The Expansion of the New York Securities Market at the Turn of the Century* pp. 75-85

Gene Smiley

Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory. By David E. Stannard. New York, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. xx + 187. $12.95 pp. 92-94

John A. Garraty

Utopian Thought in the Western World. By Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. vi + 896. $25.00 pp. 94-97

Elizabeth C. Altman

Public Entrepreneurship: Toward a Theory of Bureaucratic Political Power. By Eugene Lewis. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1980. Pp. x + 274. $22.50 pp. 97-99

Jonathan Hughes

Power and Morality: American Business Ethics 1840–1914. By Saul Engelbourg. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xvi + 181. $22.50 pp. 99-100

John B. Matthews

Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership. By E. Digby Baltzell. New York, Free Press, 1979. Pp. vi + 585. $19.95 pp. 100-101

Patrick E. McLear

Business Enterprise in Early New York. Edited by Joseph R. Frese, S.J. and Jacob Judd. Tarrytown, New York, The Sleepy Hollow Press, 1979. Pp. vii + 210. $17.50 pp. 102-103

David Maldwyn Ellis

Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826–1860. By Thomas Dublin. New York, Columbia University Press, 1979. Pp. xviii + 312. $17.50 pp. 103-104

Helena Wright

Oil, War, and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil, 1941–1947. By Michael B. Stoff. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 249. $15.00 pp. 104-105

Gerald D. Nash

Streetcar Man: Tom Lowry and the Twin City Rapid Transit Company. By Goodrich Lowry. Minneapolis, Lerner Publications Company, 1979. Pp. xiv + 178. $7.95 pp. 105-107

Robert B. Carson

Cutting a Fashionable Fit: Dressmakers' Drafting Systems in the United States. By Claudia B. Kidwell. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. Pp. viii + 163. $5.50 pp. 107-108

Rachel Maines

Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles. By David Montgomery. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. x + 189. $14.95 pp. 108-110

Daniel Nelson

A History of the National Resources Planning Board, 1933–1943. By Philip W. Warken. New York, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1979. Pp. 294. $24.00 pp. 110-112

Patrick Reagan

Creativity, Conflict & Controversy: A History of the St. Paul District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. By Raymond H. Merritt. Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979. Pp. 461. $15.00 pp. 112-113

Russell S. Kirby

International Diversification and the Multinational Enterprise. By Alan M. Rugman, Lexington, Mass., Heath, Lexington Books, 1979. Pp. xviii + 137. $17.00 pp. 114-115

Irving Gershenberg

Which Side Are You On? The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931–1939. By John W. Hevener. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1978. Pp. xiv + 216. $15.00 pp. 115-116

Daniel J. Leab

Electric Traction on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1895–1968. By Michael Bezilla. University Park, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980. Pp. 233. $16.75 pp. 116-118

Kent T. Healy

An American Saga: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am Empire. By Robert Daley. New York, Random House, 1980. Pp. 529. $15.95 pp. 118-119

Wesley Phillips Newton

The Business of Organized Crime: A Cosa Nostra Family. By Annelise Graebner Anderson. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1979. Pp. 179. $10.95 pp. 119-120

Andrew Rolle

Volumes Not Values: Canadian Sailing Ships and World Trades. Edited By David Alexander and Rosemary Ommer. St. John's, Newfoundland, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1979. Pp. viii + 373. $10.00, paperback. - Power on Land and Sea: 160 Years of Industrial Enterprise on Tyneside. A History of R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Ltd. Engineers and Shipbuilders. By Joe F. Clarke. Newcastle upon Tyne, Hawthorn Leslie Ltd., 1979. Pp. x + 118. £3.50, paper; £8.00, cloth pp. 120-122

Kenneth John Blume

The Public Eye: Television and the Politics of Canadian Broadcasting 1952–1968. By Frank W. Peers. Buffalo, University of Toronto Press, 1979. Pp. xvi + 459. $25.00 pp. 122-123

Michael Bliss

Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939–1945. By Leila J. Rupp. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. 243. $12.50 pp. 124-126

Maurine Weiner Greenwald

C. & J. Clark, 1833–1903. A History of Shoe Making in Street, Somerset. By George Barry Sutton. York, William Sessions, 1979. Pp. viii + 208. £4.95 pp. 124-124

Richard Roehl

Traffic and Transport: An Economic History of Pickfords. By Gerard L. Turnbull. Winchester, Mass., Allen & Unwin, 1980. Pp. xii + 196. $27.50 pp. 126-127

William R. Childs

Picking Up the Linen Threads: A Study in Industrial Folklore. By Betty Messenger. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1978. Pp. xiv + 265. $15.95 pp. 127-128

Alun C. Davies

Law and the Formation of the Big Enterprises in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries. Recht und Entwicklung der Grossunternehmen im 19. Und Frühen 20 Jahrhundert. Edited by Norbert Horn and Jürgen Kocka. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1979. Pp. 685. 132 DM pp. 129-130

Gerald D. Feldman

International Government Finance and the Amsterdam Capital Market, 1740–1815. By James C. Riley. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. xi + 365. $32.50 pp. 131-133

Daniel A. Baugh

The Merchants of Moscow, 1580–1650. By Paul Bushkovitch. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 212. $16.95 pp. 133-134

Walter Kirchner

Le Patronat de la Seconde Industrialisation. Edited by Maurice Lévy-Leboyer. Paris, Les Editions ouvrières, 1979. Pp. 324. 99 F pp. 134-137

Donald Reid

Founders, Heirs, and Managers: French Industrial Leadership in Transition. By Dean Savage. Beverly Hills, Ca., Sage Publications, Inc., 1979. Pp. 228. $18.00, cloth; $8.95, paper pp. 137-138

W. Mark Fruin

Readings on the Multinational Corporation in Kenya. Edited by Raphael Kaplinsky. New York, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. x + 315. $22.00 pp. 138-140

Irving Gershenberg

Labor and Management: Proceedings of the Fourth Fuji Conference. Edited by Keiichiro Nakagawa. ISBS, University of Tokyo Press, 1979. Pp. xv + 251. $25.50 pp. 140-141

Daniel J. Leab