Business History Review

1926 - 2024

From Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press, UPH, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 8BS UK.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Kirk Stebbing ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 54, issue 4, 1980

Business History and the History of Technology pp. 443-452

Paul Uselding

Business Demand and the Development of the Telegraph in the United States, 1844–1860* pp. 459-479

Richard B. Du Boff

Thomas Midgley and the Politics of Industrial Research pp. 480-503

Stuart W. Leslie

Industrial Research and the Pursuit of Corporate Security: The Early Years of Bell Labs pp. 504-529

Leonard S. Reich

America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century. By Frances FitzGerald. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1979. Pp. 240. $9.95. - The Factories: Nineteenth Century America. By Leonard Everett Fisher. New York, Holiday House, 1979. Pp. 60. $6.95. - The Railroads: Nineteenth Century America. By Leonard Everett Fisher. New York, Holiday House, 1979. Pp. 60. $6.95 pp. 533-535

William Stott

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History of the American People and their Institutions, 1917–1933. By Ellis W. Hawley. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1979. Pp. 264. $4.95. - The Great Depression and World War II: Organizing America, 1933–1945. By Gerald D. Nash. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1979. Pp. xvi + 180. $4.95 pp. 536-538

Kim McQuaid

George Peabody: Merchant and Financier, 1829–1854. By Muriel Emmie Hidy. New York, Arno Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 398. $27.00 pp. 538-539

Edwin J. Perkins

American Made: Men Who Shaped the American Economy. By Harold C. Livesay. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1979. Pp. 310. $11.95 pp. 540-541

H. Craig Miner

The Politics of Soft Coal: The Bituminous Industry from World War I Through the New Deal. By James P. Johnson. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1979. Pp. xii + 258. $13.50 pp. 541-543

Howard Dickman

Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Reform. By Edward Berkowitz and Kim McQuaid. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1980. Pp. xv + 185. $21.95. - Regulatory Change in an Atmosphere of Crisis: Current Implications of the Roosevelt Years. Edited by Gary M. Walton. New York, Academic Press, 1979. Pp. xiv + 164. $16.00 pp. 543-545

Saul Engelbourg

Business and Government in the Oil Industry: A Case Study of Sun Oil, 1876–1945. By August W. Giebelhaus. Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1980. Pp. xvi + 332. $29.50 pp. 545-546

Geoffrey Jones

Herbert Hoover: The Great War and its Aftermath. Edited by Lawrence E. Gelfand. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1979. Pp. xii + 242. $17.95 pp. 547-549

Donald T. Critchlow

Brandeis of Boston. By Allon Gal. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1980. Pp. xi + 271. $16.50 pp. 549-551

Thomas K. McCraw

Cotton Row to Beale Street: A Business History of Memphis. By Robert A. Sigafoos. Memphis, Memphis State University Press, 1979. Pp. xv + 384. $21.95 pp. 551-552

Walter Licht

Paul S. Reinsch: Open Door Diplomat in Action. By Noel H. Pugach. Millwood, N.Y., KTO Press, 1979. Pp. xii + 310. $19.95 pp. 552-553

Roger Dingman

Problem and Failed Institutions in the Commercial Banking Industry. By Joseph F. SinkeyJr., Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press Inc., 1979. Pp. xx + 287. $24.50 pp. 553-555

Hugh Rockoff

Coal, Iron, and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715–1865. By Ronald L. Lewis. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1979. Pp. 283. $22.95. - Less Than Slaves. By Benjamin B. Ferencz. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. xxii + 249. $15.00 pp. 555-557

Alan M. Kraut

Automobile Age Atlanta: The Making of a Southern Metropolis, 1900–1935. By Howard L. Preston. Athens, The University ot Georgia Press, 1979. Pp. xix + 203. $15.00 pp. 558-559

Mark H. Rose

Innovations in Energy: The Story of Kerr-Mcgee. By John Samuel Ezell. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. Pp. xiv + 542. $17.50 pp. 559-560

Robert E. Ankli

Encyclopedia of American Farm Tractors. By C. H. Wendel. Sarasota, Florida, Crestline Publishing Co., 1979. Pp. 352. $24.95 pp. 560-561

R. Douglas Hurt

Geographical Change and Industrial Revolution: Coalmining in South West Lancashire, 1590–1799. By John Langton. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. ix + 322. $44.50 pp. 561-563

Thomas F. McIlwraith

Juteopolis: Dundee and its Textile Workers 1885–1923. By William M. Walker, New York, Columbia University Press, 1979. Pp iii + 561. $20.00. - Beardmore: The History of a Scottish Industrial Giant. By John R. Hume and Michael S. Moss. Exeter, N.H., Heinemann, 1980. Pp. xiv + 364. $34.95 pp. 563-565

Alastair J. Durie

Transnationalism in World Politics and Business. Edited by Forest L. Grieves. New York, Pergamon Press, 1979. Pp. xiii + 217. $17.50 pp. 566-567

Mira Wilkins

African Businessmen and Development in Zambia. By Andrew A. Beveridge and Anthony R. Oberschall. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1979. Pp. xv + 382. $22.50 pp. 567-568

Paul E. Lovejoy

Volume 54, issue 3, 1980

Reforming the Regulatory Process: Why James Landis Changed His Mind pp. 283-302

Donald A. Ritchie

Radio Broadcasters and the Challenge of Television: A New Orleans Case pp. 303-329

C. Joseph Pusateri

Copperbelt Merger: The Formation of the Rhokana Corporation, 1930–1932* pp. 330-358

B.W.E. Alford and C.E. Harvey

Entrepreneurial Typologies in the History of Industrial Italy (1880–1960) pp. 359-386

Franco Amatori

Sources of Business History: The Archives of the Hudson's Bay Company pp. 387-393

John B. Davenport and Dan Rylance

James M. Landis: Dean of the Regulators. By Donald A. Ritchie. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1980. Pp. 270. $17.50 pp. 397-399

Thomas K. McCraw

William Henry Fox Talbot, Pioneer of Photography and Man of Science. By H.J.P. Arnold. Lawrence, Mass., Hutchinson, 1977. Pp. 383. $31.95 pp. 399-400

Reese V. Jenkins

Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly: The Standard Oil Cases, 1890–1911. By Bruce Bringhurst. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1979. Pp. x + 296. $22.95 pp. 401-404

Charles W. McCurdy

Truth in History. By Oscar Handlin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 437. $17.50 pp. 404-405

Walter Rundell

A History of Accounting in America. By Gary John Previts and Barbara Dubis Merino. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1979. Pp. xii + 378. $17.95 pp. 406-407

Richard A. Scott

A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Volume I: Waterpower in the Century of the Steam Engine. By Louis C. Hunter. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1979. Pp. xxv + 606. $24.95 pp. 407-409

Jeremy Atack

Gray Steel and Blue Water Navy: The Formative years of America's Military-Industrial Complex, 1881–1917. By Benjamin Franklin Cooling. Hamden, Conn., The Shoe String Press1979. Pp. 286. $19.50 pp. 409-410

James E. Hewes

Tropical Enterprise: Standard Fruit and Steamship Company in Latin America. By Thomas L. Karnes. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1978. Pp. xv + 332. $20.00 pp. 410-411

Randolph Bartlett

Keeping the Corporate Image: Public Relations and Business, 1900–1950. By Richard S. Tedlow. Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1979. Pp. xx + 233. $26.50 pp. 412-413

Morrell Heald

Moving the Masses: Urban Public Transit in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, 1880–1912. By Charles W. Cheape. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1980. Pp. x + 285. $18.50. - Under the Sidewalks of New York: The Story of the Greatest Subway System in the World. By Brian J. Cudahy. Brattleboro, Vermont, The Stephen Green Press, 1979. Pp. 179. $16.95 pp. 413-416

Carl W. Condit

The Development of Railway Land Subsidy Policy in the United States. By John Bell Rae. New York, Arno Press, 1979. Pp. 337. $24.00. - The History of the Northern Pacific Land Grant 1900–1952. By Ross Ralph Cotroneo. New York, Arno Press, 1979. Pp. vii + 468. $31.00 pp. 416-417

Lloyd J. Mercer

The Fruited Plain: The Story of American Agriculture. By Walter Ebeling. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1980. Pp. xiii + 433. $22.50 pp. 418-419

Theodore Saloutos

A Culture in Conflict: Skilled Workers and Industrial Capitalism in Hamilton, Ontario, 1860–1914. By Bryan D. Palmer. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1979. Pp. xviii + 331. $10.95 pp. 419-420

Robert D. Cuff

Unilever Overseas: The Anatomy of a Multinational 1895–1965. By D. K. Fieldhouse. Stanford, Calif., Hoover Institution Press, 1978. Pp. ix + 620. $22.00 pp. 420-422

Mira Wilkins

Britain's Oil. By Guy Arnold. North Pomfret, Vermont, Hamish Hamilton, 1978. Pp. xi + 388. $25.00 pp. 422-423

Geoffrey Jones

British Socialists: The Journey from Fantasy to Politics. By Stanley Pierson. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. x + 403. $17.50 pp. 423-425

Willard Wolfe

Town in the Ruhr: A Social History of Bochum, 1860–1914. By David F. Crew. New York, Columbia University Press, 1979. Pp. xiii + 289. $20.00. - Die Westfälischen Schwerindustriellen, 1852–1913: Soziale Struktur und Unternehmerischer Erfolg. By Toni Pierenkemper. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1979. Pp. xi + 268. DM 58 pp. 425-427

Elaine Glovka Spencer

M.M. Warburg and Co. 1798–1938: Merchant Bankers of Hamburg. By E. Rosenbaum and A. Sherman. New York, Holmes and Meier Publishers, Inc., 1979. Pp. xiii + 190. $24.50 pp. 427-428

Martin Kitchen

Von Bergford Über Bergford: Eine Firmengeschichte. By Ralph Johannes. Lüneburg, Selbstverlag Bergford, 1979. Pp. 157. DM 21.00 pp. 428-429

Heinrich Rubner

Corporate Growth. The Swedish Match Industry in its Global Setting. By Hakan Lindgren. Translated by Michael Callow. Stockholm, LiberFörlag, 1979. Pp. 447. 145 skr. - Kreuger's Match Monopolies, 1925–1930. Case Studies in Market Control Through Public Monopolies. By Ulla Wikander. Translated by Julie Sundquist. Stockholm, LiberFörlag, 1979. Pp. 326. 112 skr pp. 429-431

Lars G. Sandberg

Industrialization in India: Growth and Conflict in the Private Corporate Sector, 1914–47. By Rajat K. Ray. New York, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 384. $15.95 pp. 431-432

John Adams

Trade and Industry in Classical Greece. By R. J. Hopper. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1979. Pp. 240. $19.95 pp. 433-434

Joseph J. Spengler

Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States. By Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer. New York, Columbia University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv + 208. $12.50. - Insurance Reform: Consumer Action in the Progressive Era. By H. Roger Grant. Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 202. $14.95. - Policies and People: The First Hundred Years of the Bankers Life. By Joseph Frazier Wall. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1979. Pp. 192. $14.95 pp. 434-438

Ernest H. Schell

A Mechanical People: Perceptions of the Industrial Order in Massachusetts, 1815–1880. By Carl Siracusa. Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press, 1979. Pp. xiii + 313. $20.00 pp. 438-439

John F. Kasson

A New Economic view of American History. By Susan Previant Lee and Peter Passell. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1979. Pp. vi + 410. $18.95, cloth; $9.95, paper pp. 439-441

Thomas S. Ulen

Volume 54, issue 2, 1980

Profits, Paternalism, and Rebellion: A Case Study in Industrial Strife pp. 155-174

Julian C. Skaggs and Richard L. Ehrlich

The “American Century” Implemented: Stettinius and the Liberian Flag of Convenience* pp. 175-191

Rodney Carlisle

The Council of Economic Advisers and the Recession of 1953–1954* pp. 192-214

Saul Engelbourg

The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660–1760. By K. N. Chaudhuri. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xviii + 629. $84.50 pp. 218-219

Arnold A. Sherman

Metiers Jacquard et Hauts Fourneaux: Aux Origines de l'Industrie Lyonnaise. By Pierre Cayez. Lyon, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1978. Pp. 464. 120 F. - La Fabrique-Neuve de Cortaillod: Entreprise et Profit Pendant la Revolution Industrielle, 1752–1854. By Pierre Caspard. Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1979. Pp. 227. 95 F pp. 219-221

Richard J. Barker

Banquiers, Negociants et Manufacturers Parisiens du Directoire a l'Empire. By Louis Bergeron. Paris, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1978. Pp. 436. 130 F pp. 222-223

Charles E. Freedeman

Forums of Order: The Federal Courts and Business in American History. By Tony Allan Freyer. Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1979, Pp xxii + 187. $21.00 pp. 223-225

Robert W. Gordon

Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel. By Warren James Belasco. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1979. Pp. x + 212. $14.95. - White Towers. By Paul Hirshorn and Steven Izenour. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1979. Pp. viii + 190. $17.50 pp. 225-227

Mark H. Rose

The Upper Canada Trade 1834–1872: A Study of Buchanans' Business. By Douglas McCalla. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1979. Pp. viii + 231, $15.00. - The Great Scot: A Biography of Donald Gordon. By Joseph Schull. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1979. Pp. x + 291. $24.95 pp. 227-229

Michael Bliss

Pioneering a Modern Small Business: Wakefield Seafoods and the Alaskan Frontier. By Mansel G. Blackford. Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1979. Pp. xx + 210. $24.50 pp. 229-230

James L. Clayton

Research in Economic History, Volume 4. Edited by Paul Uselding. Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1979. Pp. ix + 356. $32.00 pp. 230-232

Murray N. Rothbard

Alexander Bryan Johnson: Philosophical Banker (1786–1867). By Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin. Sycracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1977. Pp. xix + 362. $16.00 pp. 232-233

Bernard Sarachek

Disappointing Marriage: A Study of the Gains from Merger. By G. Meeks. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xi + 109. $11.95 cloth; $6.50 paper pp. 233-235

Thomas S. Ulen

45 Years with Philips: An Industrialist's Life. By Frederik Philips. New York, Sterling Publishing, 1978. Pp. viii + 280. $14.95 pp. 235-236

Stephen D. Bodayla

Colvilles and the Scottish Steel Industry. By Peter L. Payne. New York, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. xxii + 458. $69.00 pp. 236-237

Paul Robertson

British Mercantile Houses in Buenos Aires, 1810–1880. By Vera Blinn Reber. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 206. $17.50. - A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, 1776–1860. By Jonathan C. Brown. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv + 307. $24.95 pp. 237-239

Laura Randall

More Than a Century of Investment Banking: The Kidder, Peabody & Co. Story. By Vincent P. Carosso. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1979. Pp. x + 212. $9.95 pp. 239-241

Edwin J. Perkins

The United States and the Global Struggle for Minerals. By Alfred E. EckesJr., Austin, University of Texas Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 353. $18.95 pp. 241-242

Mira Wilkins

The Dawn of Modern Banking. By the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1979. Pp. viii + 321. $22.50 pp. 242-243

Camille P. Castorina

The Scottish Linen Industry in the Eighteenth Century. By Alastair J. Durie. Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press, 1979. Pp. xv + 180. $27.75. - The English Cotton Industry and the World Market 1815–1896. By D. A. Farnie. New York, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. xiii + 399. $41.00 pp. 244-245

Leonard Gittins

Arch Bridges and Their Builders, 1735–1835. By Ted Ruddock. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiii + 254. $67.50 pp. 245-247

Bruce E. Seely

Information Sources in Advertising History. Edited and Compiled by Richard W. Pollay. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1979. Pp. xiv + 330. $22.50 pp. 247-247

Daniel A. Pope

World Industrial Archaeology. By Kenneth Hudson. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. vii + 247. $37.50, cloth; $9.95, paper pp. 248-249

Russell I. Fries

Herbert Austin: The British Motor Car Industry to 1941. By Roy Church. London, Europa Publications, Ltd., 1979. Pp. li + 233. £12.00 pp. 249-250

John B. Rae

Crisis and Continuity: The Economy of Spanish Lombardy in the Seventeenth Century. By Domenico Sella. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. ix + 255. $18.50 pp. 251-252

Ruth Pike

The Emergence of the Modern Capital Ship. By Stanley Sandler. Cranbury, N.J., University of Delaware Press, 1979. Pp. 335. $19.50. - Blohm and Voss: Ships and Machinery for the World. By Hans G. Prager. London, Brassey's Publishers Ltd., 1979. Pp. 271. £12.95. - The British Shipbuilding Industry, 1870–1914. By Sidney Pollard and Paul Robertson. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. xii + 312. $18.50 pp. 252-254

Lawrence C. Allin

The Elusive Quest. America's Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919–1933. By Melvyn P. Leffler. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1979. Pp. xvi + 409. $22.00 pp. 255-257

Walter A. McDougall

Inside ABC: American Broadcasting Company's Rise to Power. By Sterling Quinlan. New York, Hasting's House, 1979. Pp. ix + 290. $12.95 pp. 257-258

James L. Baughman

The City and The Court, 1603–1643. By Robert Ashton. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 247. $24.50 pp. 258-259

Joyce Appleby

Henry Villard: A Study of Transatlantic Investments and Interests, 1870–1895. By Dietrich G. Buss. New York, Arno Press, 1977. Pp. viii + 296. $21.00 pp. 259-260

William S. Greever

Selected Letters of R. C. Leffingwell. Edited by Edward Pulling. Oyster Bay, New York, Exposition Press, 1979. Pp. 185. Privately printed pp. 260-262

Stephen A. Schuker

Malthus. By William Petersen. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. v + 302. $17.50 pp. 262-263

William Baumol

Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America. By E. Richard Brown. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1979. Pp. xxii + 283. $12.95 pp. 263-264

Ralph Andreano

Joint-Stock Enterprise in France, 1807–1867: From Privileged Company to Modern Corporation. By Charles E. Freedeman. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1979. Pp. xv + 234. $17.50. - Les Fonderies et Forges d'Alais a l'Epoque des Premiers Chemins de Fer 1829–1874. By Robert R. Locke. Translated by Elisabeth-Anne Benoist d'Azy. Paris, Editions Marcel Rivière et Cie, 1978. Pp. 298. 80 F pp. 264-266

Donald Reid

Edwin G. Nourse—Economist for the People. By Joseph G. Knapp. Danville, Ill.Interstate Printers and Publishers, 1979. Pp. xvi + 544. $11.95 pp. 267-268

Hugh S. Norton

Economic Imperialism in Theory and Practice: The Case of South African Gold Mining Finance 1886–1914. By Robert V. Kubicek. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1979. Pp. xii + 239. $12.75 pp. 269-270

James A. Casada

The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben. By Joseph Borkin. New York, The Free Press, 1978. Pp. iv + 250. $10.95 pp. 270-271

Jesse W. Markham

Black Mineworkers in Central Africa: Industrial Strategies and the Evolution of an African Proletariat in the Copperbelt 1911–1941. By Charles Perrings. New York, Holmes and Meier, 1979. Pp. xvii + 302. $35.00 pp. 272-273

Gwyn Prins

A History of the Brewing Industry in Scotland. By Ian Donnachie. Atlantic Highland, N.J., Humanities Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 287. $34.50 pp. 273-274

T. George Parsons

The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution. By Gary B. Nash. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. xix + 547. $18.50 pp. 274-276

Douglas Greenberg

The Economic Development of the British Coal Industry: From the Industrial Revolution to the Present Day. By Neil K. Buxton. London, B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1979. Pp. 297. £15.00 pp. 276-278

G.N. von Tunzelmann

Oil and Nationalism in Argentina: A History. By Carl E. Solberg. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1979. Pp. vii + 245. $15.00 pp. 278-279

Winfield J. Burggraaff

Women and the American Labor Movement: From Colonial Times to the Eve of World War I. By Philip S. Foner. New York, The Free Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 621. $15.95. - Women in British Trade Unions, 1874–1976. By Norbert C. Soldon. Totowa, N.J., Rowman and Littlefield, 1978. Pp. xiii + 226. $23.50 pp. 279-281

Joseph M. Gowaskie

Volume 54, issue 1, 1980

The Synthetic Liquid Fuels Program: Energy Politics in the Truman Era pp. 1-34

Richard H. K. Vietor

Planning and Building the British Bomber Force, 1934–1939 pp. 35-62

Malcolm Smith

Toward Systematic Management: Alexander Hamilton Church pp. 63-79

Mariann Jelinek

Local Manufacturing in the Antebellum South and Midwest* pp. 80-91

Raymond L. Cohn

The Profitability of Antebellum Manufacturing: Some New Estimates* pp. 92-103

Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway

Production Factors in Economic Development - The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Volume VII. The Industrial Economies: Capital, Labour, and Enterprise. Edited by Peter Mathias and M. M. Postan. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1978. Part I: Britain, France, Germany, and Scandinavia. Pp. xx + 832. $46.50. Part 2: The United States, Japan, and Russia. Pp. xi + 619. $39.50. The set, $79.50 pp. 104-111

Gaston V. Rimlinger

Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Women's Medicine. By Sarah Stage. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1979. Pp. 304. $10.95 pp. 116-117

James Harvey Young

Herbert Hoover: A Public Life. By David Burner. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Pp. xii + 433. $15.95 pp. 117-118

H. Wayne Morgan

The Origins of Central Banking in the United States. By Richard H. TimberlakeJr., Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. ix + 272. $18.50 pp. 118-120

Alfred H. Bornemann

Interstate: Express Highway Politics, 1941–1956. By Mark H. Rose. Lawrence, The Regents Press of Kansas, 1979. Pp. xii + 169. $14.00 pp. 120-121

Louis P. Cain

Daniel Ladd: Merchant Prince of Frontier Florida. By Jeirell H. Shofner. Gainesville, University Presses of Florida, 1978. Pp. ix + 180. $8.50. - Sangers': Pioneer Texas Merchants. By Leon Joseph Rosenberg. Austin, Texas State Historical Association, 1978. Pp. xiii + 135. $12.95 pp. 121-122

James H. Madison

Roots of the American Working Class: The Industrialization of Crafts in Newark, 1800–1860. By Susan E. Hirsch. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978. Pp. xx + 170. $14.00 pp. 123-124

Carl Gersuny

Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV. Vol. I & II. By Steven L. Kaplan, Hingham, Mass., Kluwer Boston, Inc., 1976. Pp. xxx + 797. $30.00 each pp. 124-126

Thomas M. Adams

The Glassmakers: Pilkington 1826–1976. By T. C. Barker. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977. Pp. xxxi + 557. £10.00 pp. 126-127

Wray Vamplew

From Cape to Cape: The History of Lyle Shipping. By John Orbell. Edinburgh, Paul Harris Publishing, 1978. Pp. xiii + 239. £7.50. - From Derby Round to Burketown: The A.U.S.N. Story. By N. L. McKellar. University of Queensland Press (Distributed by Technical Impex, Lawrence, MA), 1977. Pp. x + 682. $42.50 pp. 128-130

Kevin Burley

Petroleum and the Economy of the United Arab Emirates. By Mana Saeed Al-Otaiba. London, Croom Helm Ltd., 1977. Pp. 276. £25.00 pp. 130-131

Kathleen M. Langley

The 100 Year History of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., 1876–1976. By Mitsui & Co. Translated by T. I. Elliott. Tokyo, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., 1977. Pp. 325. No charge pp. 131-133

William D. Wray

Immigrants — and Immigrants: Perspectives on Mexican Labor Migration to the United States. Edited by Arthur F. Corwin. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 378. $18.95 pp. 134-135

Joseph M. Gowaskie

The Cart that Changed the World: The Career of Sylvan N. Goldman. By Terry P. Wilson. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1978. Pp. ix + 255. $9.75 pp. 135-136

Richard S. Tedlow

Frauenarbeit im “Dritten Reich.” By Dörte Winkler. Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1977. Pp. 253. DM 36 pp. 136-137

Roger Chickering

Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas. Vols. I, II, III. Edited by Alexander DeConde. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978. Pp. xii + 1201. $120.00 pp. 137-139

Thomas G. Paterson

R. G. Dun & Co., 1841–1900: The Development of Credit Reporting in the Nineteenth Century. By James D. Norris. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. xx + 206. $17.50 pp. 139-141

J. Carroll Moody

The Jet Makers: The Aerospace Industry from 1945 to 1972. By Charles D. Bright. Lawrence, The Regents Press of Kansas, 1978. Pp. xvii + 228. $14.00 pp. 141-141

George E. Hopkins

Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820–1920. By Paul Boyer. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. xi + 387. $18.50 pp. 142-143

Maury Klein

Beyond the Fence Rows: A History of Farmland Industries, Inc. 1929–1978. By Gilbert C. Fite. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1978. Pp. ix + 404. $15.00 pp. 143-144

Theodore Saloutos

American Dollars — Canadian Prosperity: Canadian-American Economic Relations, 1945–1950. By R. D. Cuff and J. L. Granatstein. Sarasota, Samuel Stevens & Co., 1978. Pp. vi + 286. $15.95. - The State and Enterprise: Canadian Manufacturers and the Federal Government, 1917–1931. By Tom Traves. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1979. Pp. viii + 175. $15.00, cloth; $6.00, paper pp. 144-146

Stephen J. Scheinberg

Social Order and Entrepreneurship: The International Conference on Business History #2. Edited by Keiichiro Nakagawa. Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1977. (Distributed by International Scholarly Book Services, P.O. Box 555, Forest Grove, OR 97116.) Pp. xiv + 330. $24.50. - Marketing and Finance in the Course of Industrialization: The International Conference on Business History #3. Edited by Keiichiro Nakagawa. Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1978. (Distributed by ISBS.) Pp. xv + 227. $29.50 pp. 146-148

Thomas B. Lifson

Monon Route. By George W. Hilton. Berkeley, Howell-North Books, 1978. Pp. 323. $18.50 pp. 148-149

Richard W. Barsness

Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory City. By Tamara K. Hareven and Randolph Langenbach. New York, Pantheon Books, 1978. Pp. xiii + 395. $15.00 pp. 150-151

Daniel J. Leab

Artisans of the New Republic: The Tradesmen of New York City in the Age of Jefferson. By Howard B. Rock. New York, New York University Press, 1979. Pp. xviii + 340. $17.50. - Philadelphia Merchant: The Diary of Thomas P. Cope, 1800–1851. Edited by Eliza Cope Harrison. South Bend, Indiana, Gateway Editions, 1978. Pp. xii + 628. $19.95 pp. 151-153

Geoffrey Gilbert