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Volume 53, issue 4, 1979

Twenty Years of Turmoil: ITT, The State Department, and Spain, 1924–1944 pp. 449-472

Douglas J. Little

Debt Peonage Reconsidered: A Case Study in Nineteenth-Century Zacatecas, Mexico* pp. 473-495

Harry E. Cross

An Economy of Delight: Court Artisans of the Eighteenth Century pp. 496-528

Michael Stürmer

State-Chartered American Commercial Banks, 1781–1801 pp. 529-538

Benjamin J. Klebaner

Research in Economic History: An Annual Compilation of Research. Vol. 3. Edited by Paul Uselding. Greenwich, Connecticut, JAI Press, 1978. Pp. viii + 378. $28.50, institutions; $14.50, individuals pp. 544-546

Lee Alston

The Productivity Dilemma: Roadblock to Innovation in the Automobile Industry. By William J. Abernathy. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 267. $16.00 pp. 546-548

Lawrence J. White

Business and Businessmen: Studies in Business, Economic and Accounting History. Edited by Sheila Marriner. Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv + 300. £11.50 pp. 548-549

Sidney Pollard

The British Electrical Industry, 1875–1914. By I. C. R. Byatt. New York, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. viii + 228. $22.50. - Electricity Before Nationalisation. By Leslie Hannah. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. Pp. xv + 467. $28.50 pp. 549-551

George Wise

The Papers of Robert Morris. Vol. 3 (October 1, 1781-January 10, 1782). Edited by E. James Ferguson and John Catanzariti. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. Pp. xxxvi + 557. $22.50. - The Papers of Robert Morris. Vol. 4 (January 11-April 15, 1782). Edited by E. James Ferguson and John Catanzariti. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978. Pp. xxxvii + 671. $25.00 pp. 551-552

Edward C. Papenfuse and Phebe R. Jacobsen

The Merchant of Manchac: The Letterbooks of John Fitzpatrick, 1768–1790. Edited by Margaret Fisher Dalrymple. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 451. $30.00 pp. 553-554

Geoffrey Gilbert

The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century. By Gavin Wright. New York, W.W. Norton and Company, 1978. Pp. xv + 205. $10.95, cloth; $3.95, paper pp. 554-556

Robert C. McMath

Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis: The Case of Chicago. By Louis P. Cain. DeKalb, Northern Illinois Press, 1978. Pp. xv + 173. $15.00 pp. 556-557

Frederic Cople Jaher

Copper Mining & Management. By Thomas R. Navin. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1978. Pp. xxi + 426. $16.75, cloth; $9.75, paper. - The Guggenheims: An American Epic. By John H. Davis. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1978. Pp. 608. $14.95 pp. 557-559

James E. Fell

The Mellon Family: A Fortune in History. By Burton Hersh. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1978. Pp. 640. $14.95. - The Mellons: The Chronicle Of America's Richest Family. By David E. Koskoff. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1978. Pp. 602. $14.50 pp. 559-561

Susan Estabrook Kennedy

The Run of the Mill. By Steve Dunwell. Boston, David R. Godine, 1978. Pp. xi + 299. $30.00 pp. 561-561

Robert W. Lovett

Capital Expenditures in the Steel Industry, 1900–1953. By Eldon S. Hendriksen. New York, Arno Press, 1978. Pp. vi + 209. $16.00 pp. 562-563

Mary A. Yeager

The Railway in England and Wales 1830–1914. Vol. I: The System and its Working. By Jack Simmons. Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press, 1978. Pp. 295. $24.00 pp. 563-565

Stephen Salsbury

The Railroad Mergers and the Coming of Conrail. By Richard Saunders. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 389. $25.00 pp. 565-567

Hugh R. Gibb

From Horsecars to Streamliners: An Illustrated History of the St. Louis Car Company. By Alan R. Lind. Park Forest, Illinois, Transportation History Press, 1978. Pp. 400. $22.50 pp. 567-568

Robert B. Carson

A History of Railroad Accidents, Safety Precautions and Operating Practices. By Robert B. Shaw. Potsdam, N.Y., Northern Press, 1978. Pp. vii + 473. $14.50 pp. 568-570

Paul V. Black

Money and Capital Markets in Postbellum America. By John A. James. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xv + 283. $16.00. - Bank Control of Large Corporations in the United States. By David M. Kotz. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1978. Pp. 230. $11.50 pp. 571-574

Bruce R. Dalgaard

The Effect of Scientific Management on the Development of the Standard Cost System. By Marc Jay Epstein. N.Y., Arno Press, 1978. Pp. 198. $16.00 pp. 574-574

H. Thomas Johnson

Parallelism in Two Disciplines: A Comparison of Auditing and Historical Method. By Florence R. Sneed. New York, Arno Press, 1978. Pp. vii + 258. $18.00 pp. 574-575

Blan McBride

The Economics of Population Growth. By Julian L. Simon. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1977. Pp. xxx + 555. $30.00 pp. 575-577

George B. Simmons

The Industrialization of a Central European City: Brno and the Fine Woollen Industry in the 18th Century. By Herman Freudenberger. Edington, Wiltshire, Pasold Research Fund Ltd., 1977. Pp. xv + 220. $25.00 pp. 578-579

Claus-Peter Clasen

The Economy of Later Renaissance Europe, 1460–1600. By Harry A. Miskimin. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. x + 222. $15.95, cloth; $4.95, paper pp. 580-581

Reinhold C. Mueller

An Introduction to the Sources of European Economic History 1500–1800. Edited by Charles Wilson and Geoffrey Parker. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1977. Pp. xxx + 256. $17.50 pp. 581-582

Jacob M. Price

The “Cellophane” Story. Origins of a British Industrial Group. By C. H. Ward-Jackson. Bridgwater, William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. for British Cellophane Ltd., 1977. Pp. x + 144. No charge pp. 582-583

Martin Tillmanns

All That Glittered: Selected Correspondence of Lionel Phillips 1890–1924. Edited by Maryna Fraser and Alan Jeeves. New York, Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. 428. $31.00 pp. 583-584

Hugh Douglas

The Hungry Mills: The Story of the Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861–5. By Norman Longmate. London, Maurice Temple Smith, 1978. Pp. 309. £7.00 pp. 585-585

Willard Wolfe

Bridge Hall Mills: Three Centuries of Paper and Cellulose Film Manufacture. By Martin Tillmanns. Bury, Lancashire, England, Transparent Paper Limited, 1978. Pp. x + 219. £6.00 pp. 585-586

David C. Smith

The Meat Trade in Britain, 1840–1914. By Richard Perren. Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. Pp. x + 258. $19.50 pp. 587-587

Margaret Walsh

Vickers: Against The Odds, 1956–1977. By Harold Evans. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1978. Pp. 287. £7.95 pp. 588-589

Malcolm Smith

Technology and Society Under Lenin and Stalin: Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, 1917–41. By Kendall E. Bailes. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xiii + 472. $30.00, cloth; $12.50, paper pp. 589-592

Martin C. Spechler

Volume 53, issue 3, 1979

Business History and Legal History pp. 295-303

Morton Keller

The Knight Sugar Decision of 1895 and The Modernization of American Corporation Law, 1869–1903* pp. 304-342

Charles W. McCurdy

The Federal Courts, Localism, and the National Economy, 1865–1900* pp. 343-363

Tony A. Freyer

Government Support of Private Claims to Public Minerals: Western Mineral Rights pp. 364-385

Gary D. Libecap

In Defense of the Corporation. By Robert A. Hessen. Stanford, Cal., Hoover Institution Press, 1979. Pp. xviii + 127. $7.95 pp. 395-396

Donald L. Kemmerer

Public Policy Toward Corporate Growth: The ITT Merger Cases. By Robert M. Goolrick. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1978. Pp. xi + 212. $15.00. - The Antitrust Penalties: A Study in Law and Economics. By Kenneth G. Elzinga and William Breit. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 160. $10.50 pp. 396-398

Thomas A. Bowden

Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America 1776–1900. By John F. Kasson. New York, Grossman Publishers, 1976. Pp. xiv + 274. $15.00 pp. 399-400

Laurence F. Gross

A Canadian Millionaire: The Life and Business Times of Sir Joseph Flavelle, Bart., 1858–1939. By Michael Bliss. Toronto, Macmillan of Canada, 1978. Pp. xii + 562. $19.95 Canadian pp. 400-402

William M. Kilbourn

British Business and Ghanaian Independence. By Josephine F. Milburn. Hanover, N.H., University Press of New England, 1977. Pp. x + 156. $12.50 pp. 402-403

Edward Reynolds

The Development of the Economies of Continental Europe, 1850–1914. By Alan S. Milward and S. B. Saul. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. 555. $22.50 pp. 403-405

Judah Adelson

Iron and Steel in the German Inflation, 1916–1923. By Gerald D. Feldman. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1977. Pp. xix + 518. $26.50. - Industrie und Inflation: Studien und Dokumente zur Politik der Deutschen Unternehmer, 1916–1923. By Gerald D. Feldman and Heidrun Homburg. Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1977. Pp. 442. DM 58 pp. 405-407

Stephen A. Schuker

Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Maschinenfabrik Esslingen AG 1846–1918. By Volker Hentschel. Stuttgart, Ernst Klett, 1977. Pp. x + 143. DM 29. - Naturwissenschaft, Staat und Industrie in Baden (1848–1914). By Peter Borscheid. Stuttgart, Ernst Klett, 1976. Pp. viii + 204. DM 39 pp. 407-409

Klaus H. Wolff

Flaming Brands: Fifty Years of Iron Making in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, 1848–1898. By Kenneth D. LaFayette. Marquette, Northern Michigan University Press, 1977. Pp. x + 58. $4.75. - The Iron Barons: A Social Analysis of an American Urban Elite, 1874–1965. By John N. Ingham, Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. xix + 242. $19.95 pp. 409-411

Harold C. Livesay

Economic Growth in Ireland: The Experience Since 1947. By Kieran A. Kennedy and Brendan R. Dowling. New York, Barnes and Noble Books, 1975. Pp. xix + 345. $22.50 pp. 411-413

William P. Kennedy

Steam Whaling in the Western Arctic. By John R. Bockstoce. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1977. Pp. 127. $15.00. - The British Whaling Trade. By Gordon Jackson. Hamden, Ct., The Shoestring Press, 1978. Pp. xv + 310. $17.50 pp. 413-414

Robert Owen Decker

Austin Healey: The Story of the Big Healeys. By Geoffrey Healey. New York, Dodd Mead, 1978. Pp. 256. $14.95. - R. E. Olds, Auto Industry Pioneer. By George S. May. Grand Rapids, Mich., Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1977. Pp. viii + 458. $13.95. - The World Automotive Industry. By Gerald Bloomfield. North Pomfret, Vt., David and Charles, 1978. Pp. 368. $24.50 pp. 415-417

John B. Rae

La Banqueroute de Law: 17 Juillet 1720. By Edgar Faure. Paris, Gallimard, 1977. Pp. 742. 85 Fr pp. 417-419

Steven L. Kaplan

Preparing for the Next War: American Plans for Postwar Defense, 1941–1945. By Michael S. Sherry. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. x + 260. $12.50 pp. 420-421

J. Garry Clifford

Tombstones and Paving Blocks: The History of the Maine Granite Industry. By Roger L. Grindle. Rockland, Me., Courier of Maine Books, 1977. Pp. xii + 277. $11.95 pp. 421-422

Joel W. Eastman

John L. Lewis: A Biography. By Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine. New York, Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1977. Pp. xvii + 619. $20.00 pp. 422-425

Jack Blicksilver

Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power. By Maeva Marcus. New York, Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp. xiv + 390. $14.95 pp. 425-426

William O. Wagnon

Merchants in Crisis: Genoese and Venetian Men of Affairs and the Fourteenth Century Depression. By Benjamin Z. Kedar. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 260. $17.50. - Philadelphia and the China Trade, 1682–1846: Commercial, Cultural, and Attitudinal Effects. By Jonathan Goldstein. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 121. $9.50. - Sir Alfred Jones: Shipping Entrepreneur Par Excellence. By P. N. Davies. London, Europa Publications, 1978. Pp. lxi + 162. $12.95 pp. 426-430

William Hausman

The Cement Industry, 1796–1914: A History. By A. J. Francis. North Pomfret, Vt., David and Charles, 1977. Pp. 319. $17.50 pp. 430-431

Sheila Marriner

Return to Go: My Autobiography. By Jim Slater. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. Pp. 278. £5.95 pp. 431-433

Abraham Zaleznik

An Economic History of the Low Countries 800–1800. By J.A. van Houtte. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. Pp. ix + 342. £12.50 pp. 433-434

Jan de Vries

Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder and the Building of the German Empire. By Fritz Stern. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Pp. xxiv + 620. $17.95 pp. 434-435

Gerald D. Feldman

The Technological Level of Soviet Industry. Edited by Ronald Amann, Julian M. Cooper, and R.W. Davies. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. xxxii + 575. $30.00. - Alexander Gumberg and Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1933. By James K. Libbey. Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky, 1977. Pp. xiv + 229. $13.50 pp. 436-438

John P. McKay

The Brotherhood of Oil: Energy Policy and the Public Interest. By Robert Engler. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1977. Pp. xi + 337. $12.50. - The Control of Oil. By John M. Blair. New York, Pantheon Books, 1977. Pp. xvii + 441. $15.00 pp. 438-441

Richard H. K. Vietor

Philadelphia's First Fuel Crisis: Jacob Cist and the Developing Market for Pennsylvania Anthracite. By H. Benjamin Powell. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 167. $10.00 pp. 441-443

Ernest H. Schell

A History of Book Publishing in the United States. Volume III: The Golden Age Between Two Wars, 1920–1940. By John Tebbel. New York, R. R. Bowker Company, 1978. Pp. xiii + 774. $32.50 pp. 443-444

John Milton Cooper

Tench Coxe and the Early Republic. By Jacob E. Cooke. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1978. Pp. xiv + 573. $24.95 pp. 444-445

John McCusker

Barges and Capitalism: Passenger Transportation in the Dutch Economy: 1632–1839. By Jan de Vries. Published in “A.A.G. Bijdragen,”Wageningen, The Netherlands, Vol. 21, 1978. Pp. 398. By subscription pp. 445-447

Joel Mokyr

Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America. By Harold C. Livesay. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1978. Pp. viii + 195. $8.95, cloth; $3.95, paper pp. 447-448

Daniel J. Leab

Volume 53, issue 2, 1979

The Delta–C&S Merger: A Case Study in Airline Consolidation and Federal Regulation pp. 161-179

W. David Lewis and Wesley Phillips Newton

At the Dawn of Commercial Aviation: Inglis M. Uppercu and Aeromarine Airways pp. 180-193

William M. Leary

Innovations in Textile Bleaching in Britain in the Eighteenth Century* pp. 194-204

L. Gittins

British Marketing Enterprise: The Changing Roles of Merchants, Manufacturers, and Financiers, 1700–1860 pp. 205-234

Stanley D. Chapman

Small Business and the Rise of Hitler pp. 235-246

Frank B. Tipton

Hard Data on Hard Coal: Reflections on Chandler's Anthracite Thesis* pp. 247-255

Thomas R. Winpenny

A Reply pp. 255-258

Alfred Chandler

One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation. By Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xix + 409. $19.95 pp. 262-264

Lawrence Goodwyn

Delta: The History of an Airline. By W. David Lewis and Wesley Phillips Newton. Athens, The University of Georgia Press, 1979. Pp. viii + 520. $15.00 pp. 264-265

Robin Higham

The World Economy: History and Prospect. By W.W. Rostow. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1978. Pp. xliii + 833. $34.50 pp. 265-268

Harold G. Vatter

The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself. By Robert H. Bork. New York, Basic Books, 1978. Pp. xi + 461. $18.00 pp. 268-270

Thomas K. McCraw

Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution. By Anthony F. C. Wallace. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Pp. xx + 554. $17.50 pp. 270-271

Christopher T. Baer

Economic Development in the Philadelphia Region, 1810–1850. By Diane Lindstrom. New York, Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. ix + 255. $15.00 pp. 272-273

Jeremy Atack

The End of Indian Kansas: A Study of Cultural Revolution, 1854–1871. By H. Craig Miner and William E. Unrau. Lawrence, The Regents Press of Kansas, 1978. Pp. xiii + 179. $12.50 pp. 273-274

Wilcomb E. Washburn

Robert S. Kerr: The Senate Years. By Anne Hodges Morgan. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. Pp. x + 337. $14.50 pp. 274-275

Richard H. K. Vietor

Fortunes and Failures: White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. By Peter R. Decker. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. vii + 336. $20.00 pp. 276-277

Patrick E. McLear

Oneida Community Profiles. By Constance Noyes Robertson. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1977. Pp. ix + 146. $10.00 pp. 277-278

Andrew A. Beveridge

Natives and Newcomers: The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poughkeepsie. By Clyde and Sally Griffen. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. xvi + 291. $18.50. - Corporate Power and Urban Crisis in Detroit. By Lynda Ann Ewen. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 312. $17.50 pp. 278-279

David McComb

Revolution in Miniature: The History and Impact of Semiconductor Electronics. By Ernest Braun and Stuart Macdonald. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. 231. $16.95 pp. 280-283

Hugh G. J. Aitken

Iron Road to the West: American Railroads in the 1850s. By John F. Stover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 266. $14.95 pp. 280-280

John H. White

Promoters and Politicians: The North-Shore Railways in the History of Quebec 1854–85. By Brian J. Young. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1978. Pp. xviii + 193. $15.00 pp. 283-285

Peter George

Continental Corporate Power: Economic Linkages between Canada and the United States. By Wallace Clement. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1978. Pp. viii + 408. $6.95 pp. 285-287

Almos T. Tassonyi

Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England. By Joyce Oldham Appleby. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. ix + 287. $16.50 pp. 287-289

Laurence S. Moss

Steam Power and British Industrialization to 1860. By G. N. von Tunzelmann. New York, Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 344. $31.00 pp. 289-290

Roderick C. Floud

Essays in British Business History. Edited by Barry Supple. New York, Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. viii + 267. $17.25, cloth; $10.50, paper pp. 290-291

Harold F. Williamson

The British Philosophy of Administration: A Comparison of British and American Ideas 1900–1939. By Rosamund Thomas. New York, Longman, Inc., 1978. Pp. xix + 280. $19.50 pp. 291-292

Jonathan Hughes

The Great Western Railway: A New History. By Frank Booker. North Pomfret, Vt., David & Charles, 1977. Pp. 206. $12.95 pp. 292-293

Terence R. Gourvish

Volume 53, issue 1, 1979

Watchmaking: A Case Study in Enterprise and Change* pp. 1-39

David S. Landes

Rulers of the Ruhr: Leadership and Authority in German Big Business Before 1914 pp. 40-64

Elaine Glovka Spencer

Entrepreneurs in Heavy Industry: Upper Silesia and the Westphalian Ruhr Region, 1852 to 1913* pp. 65-78

Toni Pierenkemper

The Value of Company History - O Thank Heaven: The Story of the Southland Corporation. By Allen Liles. Dallas, The Southland Corporation, 1977. Pp. 263. No price given. - 50 Years: A History of the First Federal of Minnesota. By Doniver A. Lund, Minneapolis, First Federal Savings and Loan Association, 1976. Pp. xiii + 95. No price given. - The Wide World of Wickes. By George Bush. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1976. Pp. xvii + 486. $9.95. - Ladybird, Ladybird: A Story of Private Enterprise. By Eric W. Pasold. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1977. Pp. xvi + 668. £9.95. - John Fleming & Company Limited, 1877–1977. By Richard Perren. Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 1977. Pp. 96. No price given. - A History of Woodward, Baldwin & Company. By Mary Baldwin Baer and John Wilbur Baer. Annapolis, Mary Baldwin Baer and John Wilbur Baer, 1977. Pp. vii + 72. $8.00. - The Pinal Dome Oil Company: An Adventure in Business, 1901–1917. By Richard Charles Schwarzman. New York, Arno Press, 1977. Pp. ix + 328. $21.00. - North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. By Jesse Edward Gloster. New York, Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xv + 349. $25.00 pp. 79-84

Thomas C. Cochran

The Elusive Phenomena: An Autobiographical Account of My Work in the Field of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School. By F.J. Roethlisberger, Edited by George F.F. Lombard. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. xii + 500. $15.00 pp. 91-92

Daniel Nelson

Technocracy and the American Dream, The Technocrat Movement, 1900–1941. By William E. Akin. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xv + 227. $9.50 pp. 93-94

Edwin T. Layton

Progressive Cities: The Commission Government Movement in America, 1901–1920. By Bradley Robert Rice. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1977. Pp. xix + 160. $10.95 pp. 94-96

Zane L. Miller

Wilsonian Maritime Diplomacy 1913–1921. By Jeffrey J. Safford. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 282. $16.00 pp. 96-97

Ronald E. Coons

Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Brains Trust: From Depression to New Deal. By Elliot A. Rosen. New York, Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp. xiv + 446. $16.95 pp. 97-99

Alonzo L. Hamby

Roosevelt's Revolution: The First Year — A Personal Perspective. By Rexford G. Tugwell. New York, Macmillan, 1977. Pp. xix + 327. $14.95 pp. 99-100

Harvard Sitkoff

The Employment Act and the Council of Economic Advisers, 1946–1976. By Hugh S. Norton. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 1977. Pp. x + 348. $14.95 pp. 100-101

Saul Engelbourg

Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945–1948. By Robert J. Donovan. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1977. Pp. xx + 473. $12.95 pp. 101-102

Thomas G. Paterson

Welch's Grape Juice: From Corporation to Co-Operative. By William Chazanof. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1977. Pp. xiii + 407. $20.00 pp. 102-103

Daniel Pope

Sarnoff: An American Success. By Carl Dreher. New York, Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company, 1977. Pp. vi + 282. $12.50 pp. 104-104

Leonard S. Reich

Custodians of the Coast: History of the United States Army Engineers at Galveston. By Lynn M. Alperin. Galveston District, United States Army Corps or Engineers, 1977. Pp. xi + 318. $6.00 pp. 105-106

Joe Pratt

Blacks in Gold Rush California. By Rudolph M. Lapp. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. xiv + 321. $15.00 pp. 106-107

Ernest S. Sweeney

The First World War 1914–1918. By Gerd Hardach. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xvi + 328. $12.95 pp. 107-108

Ulrich Nocken

The Twentieth Century. Part One and Part Two. Edited byCarlo M. Cipolla. New York, Harper & Row, 1977. Pp. xi + 402; Pp. 416. $17.50 each pp. 108-110

Paul M. Hohenberg

Contemporary Economies. Part One and Part Two. Edited byCarlo M. Cipolla. New York, Harper & Row, 1977. Pp. vii + 375; Pp. 402. $17.50 each pp. 111-113

Mira Wilkins

Angestellte zwischen Faschismus und Demokratie. Zur politischen Sozialgeschichte der Angelstellten: USA 1890–1940 im internationalen Vergleich. By Jürgen Kocka. Göttingen, Vanderhoeck & Ruprecht, 1977. Pp. 556. DM 92 pp. 113-115

Hans Jaeger

The American Railroad Passenger Car. By John H. WhiteJr, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv + 701. $45.00 pp. 115-116

Keith L. Bryant

The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800. By Lawrence Stone. New York, Harper and Row, 1977. Pp. xxxi + 800. $30.00 pp. 117-119

Stanley L. Engerman

Railroad in the Clouds: The Alaska Railroad in the Age of Steam, 1914–1945. By William H. Wilson. Boulder, Colorado, Pruett Publishing Company, 1977. Pp. vi + 279. $25.00 pp. 117-117

Donovan L. Hofsommer

The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before its Triumph. By Albert O. Hirschman. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1977. Pp. x + 153. $10.00 pp. 119-120

D.T. Armentano

Corn, Cash, Commerce: The Economic Policies of the Tory Governments 1815–1830. By Boyd Hilton. New York, Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xii + 338. $19.50 pp. 121-122

Ronald K. Huch

The Vickers Brothers: Armaments and Enterprise, 1854–1914. By Clive Tiebilcock. London, Europe Publications, 1977. P. xl + 181. $12.95 pp. 122-123

Malcolm Smith

The British Coalmining Industry: Retrospect and Prospect. By A.R. Griffin. Buxton, Moorland Publishing Company, 1977. Pp. 224. £6.00. - The British Coalmining Industry, 1870–1946: A Political and Economic History. By M.W. Kirby. Hamden, Connecticut, Archon Books, 1977. Pp. vii + 278. $17.50 pp. 123-126

Charles K. Hyde

Business Imperialism 1840–1930: An Inquiry Based on British Experience in Latin America. Edited by D.C.M. Platt. New York, Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xv + 449. $28.50 pp. 126-128

Laura Randall

The Development of Cotton Textile Production in China. By Rang Chao (with the assistance of Jessica C.Y. Chao). Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1976. Pp. xvi + 402. $15.00 pp. 128-130

Bruce L. Reynolds

The Factory Girls: A Collection of Writings on Life and Struggles in the New England Factories of the 1840s by the Factory Girls Themselves, and the Story, in their Own Words, of the First Trade Unions of Women Workers in the United States. Edited by Philip S. Foner. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1977. Pp. xxvii + 360. $15.00 pp. 130-131

Susan Estabrook Kennedy

The Work Ethic in Industrial America: 1850–1920. By Daniel T. Rodgers. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1978. Pp. xv + 300. $15.00 pp. 131-132

William Graebner

Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870–1940. By John E. Bodnar. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. Pp. xix + 213. $11.95 pp. 132-134

Richard L. Ehrlich

The Rural Component of American Society. By Edward W. Hassinger. Danville, Ill., Interstate Printers and Publishers Inc., 1978. Pp. x + 397. $12.75 pp. 134-135

Allan G. Bogue

Finance and Enterprise in Early America: A Study of Stephen Girard's Bank, 1812–1831. By Donald R. AdamsJr., Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978. Pp. xi + 163. $12.50 pp. 135-136

John James

The United States and Cuba: Hegemony and Dependent Development, 1880–1934. By Jules Robert Benjamin. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. Pp. xii + 266. $14.95 pp. 136-137

Robert L. Beisner

The Sponsor: Notes on a Modern Potentate. By Erik Barnouw. New York, Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. 256. $10.00. - The Politics of Propaganda: The Office of War Information, 1942–1945. By Allan M. Winkler. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1978. Pp. ix + 230. $11.95 pp. 138-140

Richard S. Tedlow

Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000–1700. By Carlo M. Cipolla. New York, W. W. Norton, 1976. Pp. xiv + 326. $12.95 pp. 140-141

Edward P. Duggan

Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism. By David Levine. New York, Academic Press, Inc., 1977. Pp. xiv + 194. $14.50 pp. 142-143

William H. Mulligan

The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade. By Herbert S. Klein. Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xxiii + 282. $20.00, cloth; $9.75, paper pp. 143-144

B. W. Higman

An Economic History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century. By Laura Randall. New York, Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. 323. $21.90 pp. 144-145

Jonathan C. Brown

Belgian Business in the Nazi New Order. By John Gillingham. Gent, Belgium, Jan Dhondt Stichting, 1977. Pp. 237. 510 FB pp. 145-147

Jos Delbeke

Scientists under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich. By Alan D. Beyerchen. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. xii + 287. $18.50 pp. 147-148

Margaret B. W. Graham

The Worshipful Company of Brewers: A Short History. By Mia Ball. Salem, N.H., Hutchinson, 1977. Pp. 143. $11.95 pp. 149-150

William F. Kahl

Carpeting the Millions: The Growth of Britain's Carpet Industry. By J. Neville Bartlett. Edinburgh, John Donald Publishers Ltd., 1977. Pp. xiii + 296. £12.50 pp. 150-151

Nancy P. Norton

Economic History of Canada: A Guide to Information Sources. By Trevor J. O. Dick. Detroit, Gale Research Co., 1978. Pp. xii + 174. $18.00 pp. 152-153

Donald G. Paterson