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Volume 52, issue 4, 1978

Monopoly in Barbed Wire: The Formation of The American Steel And Wire Company pp. 465-489

Joseph M. McFadden

Management Accounting in an Early Multidivisional Organization: General Motors in the 1920s* pp. 490-517

H. Thomas Johnson

The Evolution of Municipal Accounting in the United States: 1900–1935 pp. 518-536

James H. Potts

Rockefeller's Right-hand Man: Frederick T. Gates and the Northwestern Mining Investments* pp. 537-561

James E. Fell

An Economic Spurt that Failed: Four Lectures in Austrian History. By Alexander Gerschenkron. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1977. Pp. x + 172. $12.50 pp. 570-571

Rolf H. Dumke

Recent Developments in the Study of Economic and Business History: Essays in Memory of Herman E. Krooss. Edited by Robert E. Gallman. Greenwich, Connecticut, JAI Press, 1977. Pp. ix + 305. $12.50 pp. 572-573

Jeremy Atack

The Industrialization of Egypt 1939–1973: Policy and Performance. By Robert Mabro and Samir Radwan. New York, Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 279. $14.75 pp. 574-576

Richard P. Mitchell

The Agricultural Development of Iran. By Oddvar Aresvik. New York, Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1976. Pp. xxiii + 271. $25.00 pp. 576-577

Edward L. Felton

Oil & Empire: British Policy & Mesopotamian Oil 1900–1920. By Marian Kent. New York, Harper & Row, 1976. Pp. xiii + 260. $24.50 pp. 577-578

R. W. Ferrier

Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese Trade, 1652–1853. By Sarasin Viraphol. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. xx + 419. $15.00 pp. 579-580

Albert Feuerwerker

Merchants, Mandarins and Modern Enterprise in Late Ch'ing China. By Wellington K. K. Chan. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. xiv + 323. $15.00. - China's Economic Revolution. By Alexander Eckstein. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xii + 340. $19.95, cloth; $6.95, paper. - China Policy: Old Problems and New Challenges. By A. Doak Barnett. Washington, D.C., The Brookings Institution, 1977. Pp. xi + 131. $8.95, cloth; $2.95, paper pp. 580-582

Clifton W. Pannell

The Innovation Decision in Soviet Industry. By Joseph S. Berliner. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 561. $35.00 pp. 582-584

Alexei V. Sobrovin

Japan's Public Policy Companies. By Chalmers Johnson. Washington, D.C., American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1978. Pp. 173. $3.75 pp. 584-586

Koichi Shimokawa

David Dubinsky: A Life with Labor. By David Dubinsky and A. H. Raskin. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1977. Pp. 351. $9.95 pp. 587-588

Melvyn Dubofsky

King Labour: The British Working Class, 1850–1914. By David Kynaston. London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd.1976. Pp. 184. $12.00 pp. 588-589

John Saville

Struggle and Lose, Struggle and Win: The United Mine Workers. By Elizabeth Levy and Tad Richards. New York, Four Winds Press, 1977. Pp. xvii + 122. $6.95. - Madison's Battery Workers, 1934–1952: A History of Federal Labor Union 19587. By Robert H. Zieger. Ithaca, New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations, 1977. Pp. xiv + 126. $6.25, cloth; $4.50, paper pp. 589-590

Athan G. Theoharis

Research in Economic History: An Annual Compilation of Research. Vol. II. Edited by Paul Uselding. Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, Inc., 1977. Pp. viii + 389. Institutions, $25.00; Individuals, $12.50 pp. 590-592

Donald L. Winters

Commercialism and Frontier: Perspectives on the Early Shenandoah Valley. By Robert D. Mitchell. Charllottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1977. Pp. xvi + 251. $13.95 pp. 592-593

Thad W. Tate

The Republic's Private Navy: The American Privateering Business as Practiced by Baltimore During the War of 1812. By Jerome R. Garitee. Middletown, Conn., Wesley an University Press, 1977. Pp. xx + 356. $17.50, regular edition; $35.00, limited edition pp. 594-595

Eleanor Bruchey

Technological Change and the British Iron Industry 1700–1870. By Charles K. Hyde. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1977. Pp. xvi + 283. $18.50. - The Lonaconing Journals: The Founding of a Coal and Iron Community 1837–1840. Edited by Katherine A. Harvey. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1977. Pp. 78. $7.50 pp. 595-598

Eugene S. Ferguson

The Economic Writings of Du Pont de Nemours. By James J. McLain. Cranbury, N.J., University of Delaware Press, 1977. Pp. 244. $13.00 pp. 598-599

Paul J. McNulty

Taxation and Political Change in the Young Nation, 1781-1833. By Dall W. Forsythe. New York, Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp xiii + 167. $15.00 pp. 599-600

Sidney Ratner

Pressure Groups and Politics in Antebellum Tariffs. By Jonathan J. Pincus. New York, Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp. xii + 237. $15.00 pp. 600-601

Robert E. Ankli

The Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel: An Engineering Appreciation. Edited by SirAlfred Pugsley. Forest Grove, Oregon, International Scholarly Book Services, 1976. Pp. 222. $19.50 pp. 601-603

Russell I. Fries

Early Texas Oil: A Photographic History, 1866–1936. By Walter RundellJr., College Station, Texas A & M University Press, 1977. Pp. 260. $19.50. - Mexico and the United States in the Oil Controversy, 1917–1942. By Lorenzo Meyer. Translated by Muriel Vasconcellos. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1977. Pp. xix + 367. $19.95 pp. 603-606

Francis J. Munch

The Life of Lord Mount Stephen. By Heather Gilbert. Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press. Vol. 1, “The Awakening Continent” (1965, reprinted 1976). Pp. xiii + 314. £5. Vol. 2, “The End of the Road” (1977). Pp. xii + 442. £10 pp. 607-608

T.W. Acheson

Immigrants in Industrial America, 1850–1920. Edited by Richard L. Ehrlich, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1977. Pp. xiv + 218. $12.50 pp. 608-610

John Bodnar

Volume 52, issue 3, 1978

The Discovery and Study of a “Corporate Liberalism” pp. 309-320

Ellis W. Hawley

Bureaucrats, Businessmen, and Foreign Trade: The Origins of the United States Chamber of Commerce* pp. 321-341

Richard Hume Werking

Corporate Liberalism in the American Business Community, 1920–1940 pp. 342-368

Kim McQuaid

Positive Business Responses to the New Deal: The Roots of the Committee for Economic Development, 1933–1942 pp. 369-391

Robert M. Collins

The Livelihood of Man. By Karl Polanyi. New York, Academic Press, Inc., 1977. Pp. lv + 280. $17.50 pp. 398-399

Douglass North

Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865–1914. By Robert Higgs. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. x + 208. $14.95 pp. 399-401

Robert Fogel

Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition. By Seymour Drescher. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. Pp. xiv + 279. $16.95 pp. 402-403

David Eltis

The Slave Trade of Eastern Africa. By R. W. Beachey. New York, Barnes & Noble Books, 1976. Pp. vii + 324, $11.00. - The Slave Trade of Eastern Africa: A Collection of Documents. By R. W. Beachey. New York, Barnes & Noble Books, 1976. Pp. xii + 140. $18.00 pp. 403-405

David Brion Davis

Business and the American Economy, 1776–2001. Edited by Jules Backman. New York, New York University Press, 1976. Pp. x + 196. $10.00, cloth; $4.95, paper. - Maturity and Stagnation in American Capitalism. By Josef Steindl. New York, Monthly Review Press, 1976. Pp. xvii + 248. $16.50 pp. 405-407

Stewart L. Long

Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600–1775: A Handbook. By John J. McCusker. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1978. Pp. xiii + 367. $25.95 pp. 407-408

Donald L. Kemmerer

American Colonial Wealth: Documents and Methods. Vols. I, II, and III. By Alice Hanson Jones. New York, Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 2252. $75.00 pp. 408-410

Gloria L. Main

American Farm Policy, 1948–1973. By Willard W. Cochrane and Mary E. Ryan. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1976. Pp. xiv + 431. $18.50 pp. 410-412

Tom G. Hall

Walter Hines Page: The Southerner as American, 1855–1918. By John Milton CooperJr. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1977. Pp. xxx + 457. $15.95 pp. 412-413

Wayne Knight

Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin: A Political Biography, 1900–1929. By Herbert F. Margulies. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1977. Pp. x + 432. $21.00. - “Young Bob” La Follette: A Biography of Robert M. La Follette, Jr., 1895–1953. By Patrick J. Maney. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1978. Pp. 338. $18.00 pp. 414-416

John Milton Cooper

Railroads in Oklahoma. Edited by Donovan L. Hofsommer. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Historical Society, 1977. Pp. vii +171. $11.00, cloth; $7.50, paper pp. 417-417

Thomas Burnell Colbert

Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: Railroads in the West. By Dee Brown. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. Pp. 311. $12.95 pp. 418-418

Thomas B. Brewer

Legacy of Flight: The Guggenheim Contribution to American Aviation. By Richard P. Hallion. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1977. Pp. xvi + 292. $15.00 pp. 419-420

Charles D. Bright

A Mine to Make a Mine: Financing the Colorado Mining Industry, 1859–1902. By Joseph E. King. College Station, Texas A & M University Press, 1977. Pp. xx + 209. $13.75 pp. 420-421

Lee Scamehorn

The Bonanza Kings: The Social Origins and Business Behavior of Western Mining Entrepreneurs, 1870–1900. By Richard H. Peterson. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1977. Pp. xvi + 191. $9.95 pp. 421-422

Clark C. Spence

The Social Impact of the Telephone. Edited by Ithiel de Sola Pool. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1977. Pp. viii + 502. $15.95 pp. 422-423

Maury Klein

War, Business, and American Society: Historical Perspectives on the Military-Industrial Complex. Edited by Benjamin Franklin Cooling. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1977. Pp. 205. $12.50 pp. 423-424

Robert D. Cuff

Farm Workers and Agri-Business in California, 1947–1960. By Ernesto Galarza. Notre Dame, Indiana, University of Notre Dame Press, 1977. Pp. xvii + 405. $11.95 pp. 424-426

Ronald M. Benson

European Peasants and their Markets: Essays in Agrarian Economic History. Edited by William N. Parker and Eric L. Jones. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 366. $16.50. - The Last Great Subsistence Crisis in the Western World. By John D. Post. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. Pp. xv + 240. $12.95. - The Famine Business. By Colin Tudge. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1977. Pp. ix + 141. $8.95 pp. 426-429

Theodore Saloutos

A Bibliography of Business Ethics, 1971–1975. By Donald G. Jones. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1977. Pp. xx + 207. $13.95 pp. 429-430

George C. Lodge

The Coal Industry in America: A Bibliography and Guide to Studies. By Robert F. Munn. Morgantown, West Virginia University Library, 1977, Second Edition. Pp. vi + 351. $16.00 pp. 430-431

Frederick Moore Binder

Selected Economic Writings of Oskar Morgenstern. Edited by Andrew Schotter, New York, New York University Press, 1976. Pp. xv + 539. $29.50 pp. 431-432

Mordecai Kurz

Management and Economics Journals: A Guide to Information Sources. Edited by Vasile G. Tega. Detroit, Gale Research Company, 1977. Pp. xxiv + 370. $18.00 pp. 432-433

Lorna M. Daniells

Economic Arithmetic: A Guide to the Statistical Sources of English Commerce, Industry, and Finance 1700–1850. By Stanley H. Palmer. New York, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1977. Pp. xiv + 207. $23.00 pp. 434-435

Jacob M. Price

Canada and the United States: Transnational and Transgovernmental Relations. Edited by Annette Baker Fox, Alfred O. HeroJr., and Joseph S. NyeJr., New York, Columbia University Press, 1976. Pp. xiii + 443. $22.50, cloth; $6.95, paper. - The Mercantile Bank Affair, A Case Study of Canadian Nationalism and a Multinational Firm. By John Fayerweather. New York, New York University Press, 1974. Pp. xvii + 444. $20.00 pp. 435-437

Robert D. Cuff

The Sugarmill: The Socioeconomic Complex of Sugar in CUBA. By Manuel Moreno Fraginals. New York, Monthly Review Press, 1976. Pp. 182. $23.50 pp. 437-438

Jules R. Benjamin

Government Policy and the Distribution of Income in Peru, 1963–1973. By Richard Charles Webb. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. xi + 239. $15.00 pp. 438-440

William Glade

From Versailles to Wall Street 1919–1929. By Derek H. Aldcroft. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xi + 372. $12.95 pp. 440-441

D. E. Moggridge

War, Economy and Society, 1939–1945. By Alan S. Milward. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xiv + 395. $12.95 pp. 441-443

Larry Neal

The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Vol. V: The Economic Organization of Early Modern Europe. Edited by E. E. Rich and C. H. Wilson. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xi + 749. $38.50 pp. 443-445

Joel Mokyr

Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England. By Trygve Tholfsen. New York, Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp. 332. $20.00 pp. 445-447

Richard W. Davis

A Life Apart: The English Working Class 1890–1914. By Standish Meacham. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. 272. $12.50 pp. 447-448

Sidney Pollard

Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution: Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns. By John Foster. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1975. Pp. xiv + 346. $16.95. - Political Economy in Parliament, 1819–1823. By Barry Gordon. New York, Barnes & Noble, 1977. Pp. x + 246. $21.50 pp. 448-449

David M. Fahey

Transport and Economy: The Turnpike Roads of Eighteenth Century Britain. By Eric Pawson. New York, Academic Press, 1977. Pp. xx + 407. $18.75. - Canal Ports: The Urban Achievement of the Canal Age. By J. Douglas Porteous. New York, Academic Press, 1977. Pp. xviii + 250. $14.65 pp. 450-451

Erik Haites

The Oxford Canal. By Hugh J. Compton. North Pomfret, Vt., David & Charles, 1976. Pp. 171. $8.95 pp. 451-452

Joel W. Eastman

William Morris, Viscount Nuffield. By R. J. Overy. London, Europa Publications Ltd., 1976. Pp. xlvi + 151. $13.50 pp. 453-454

James J. Flink

The English Wool Trade in the Middle Ages. By T. H. Lloyd. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xi + 351. $27.50 pp. 454-455

Raymond Van Uytven

The Economic Advisory Council 1930–1939: A Study in Economic Advice During Depression and Recovery. By Susan Howson and Donald Winch. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. viii + 424. $37.50 pp. 455-456

J. Keith Horsefield

Vin Et Societe a Bergerac, Du Moyen Age Aux Temps Modernes. By Jacques Beauroy. Saratoga, Calif., Anma Libri & Co., 1976. Pp. 293. $14.50 pp. 457-458

Michael B. Miller

In First Gear: The French Automobile Industry to 1914. By James M. Laux. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1976. Pp. x + 239. $22.50 pp. 457-457

Keith Aufhauser

Industrialization in the Low Countries, 1795–1850. By Joel Mokyr. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. xviii + 295. $20.00 pp. 458-460

René C. Alltmont

The Two Italies: Economic Relations Between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the Northern Communes. By David Abulafia. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xvii + 310. $32.50 pp. 460-462

Thomas W. Blomquist

Banca E Industria in Italia 1894–1906. Volume III. By Antonio Confalonieri. Milano, Banca Commerciale Italiana, 1976. Pp. xxx + 601. No price given pp. 462-463

Gustav Schachter

Volume 52, issue 2, 1978

In Search of Jay Gould pp. 166-199

Maury Klein

Bureaucracy and Bi-partisanship in Taxation: The Mellon Plan Revisited pp. 200-225

Lawrence L. Murray

Innovation, Monopoly, and the Supply of Vehicle Components in Britain, 1880–1930: The Growth of Joseph Lucas Ltd.* pp. 226-249

Roy A. Church

An Organizational Perspective on the Military-Industrial Complex pp. 250-267

Robert D. Cuff

Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State. By Daniel Yergin. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Pp. x + 526. $15.00 pp. 271-272

Henry F. Graff

The Origins of International Economic Disorder: A Study of United States International Monetary Policy from World War II to the Present. By Fred L. Block. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xii + 282. $14.00 pp. 273-276

Raymond Vernon

Ranke: The Meaning of History. By Leonard Krieger. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1977. Pp. xii + 402. $23.00. - Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism. By Fernand Braudel, translated by Patricia M. Ranum. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. Pp. xi + 120. $7.95 pp. 277-280

Albro Martin

Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portuguese in the Sixteenth Century. By M. N. Pearson. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1976. Pp. xi + 178. $12.00 pp. 280-281

Manoel Cardozo

The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages. By Jean Gimpel. New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1976. Pp. xiv + 274. $12.95. - Pre-Industrial England: Economy and Society, 1500–1750. By B. A. Holderness. Totowa, N.J., Rowman and Littlefield, 1976. Pp. x + 244. $12.50 pp. 281-283

Stefano Fenoaltea

Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica 1807–1834. By B. W. Higman. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. vii + 327. $32.50 pp. 283-286

Herbert S. Klein

Peacefully Working to Conquer the World: Singer Sewing Machines in Foreign Markets, 1854–1920. By Robert Bruce Davies. New York, Arno Press, 1976. Pp. xv + 390. $30.00 pp. 286-287

John P. McKay

Studies in the Russian Economy Before 1914. By Olga Crisp. New York, Barnes & Noble Books, 1976. Pp. xii + 278. $23.50 pp. 287-289

Elizabeth C. Pickering

Political Strategies for Industrial Order: State, Market, and Industry in France. By John Zysman. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977. Pp. ix + 230. $12.75 pp. 289-291

Yves L. Doz

Russian Economic History: A Guide to Information Sources. Compiled and edited by Daniel R. Kazmer and Vera Kazmer. Detroit, Gale Research Co., 1977. Pp. x + 520. $18.00 pp. 289-289

George Garvy

The River Barons: Montreal Businessmen and the Growth of Industry and Transportation, 1837–53. By Gerald J. J. Tulchinsky. Buffalo, University of Toronto Press, 1977. Pp. xiv + 310. $20.00 pp. 291-292

Michael Bliss

Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry. By David Schwartzman. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Pp. xvi + 399. $16.00 pp. 292-293

L. F. Haber

The American Economy, 1929–1970: Resources, Production, Income Distribution, and Use of Product, An Introduction. By Karl W. Roskamp. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1977. Pp. xi + 174. $12.95. - The Origin and Development of a Philosophy of Long-Range Planning in American Business. By David Ira Cleland. New York, Arno Press, 1976. Pp. 285. $21.00. - Grow or Die! By James A. Weber. New Rochelle, N.Y., Arlington House, 1977. Pp. 255. $11.95 pp. 293-296

Bruce R. Dalgaard

A History of Anheuser-Busch, 1852–1933. By Ronald Jan Plavchan. New York, Arno Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 250. $18.00 pp. 296-297

Thomas A Bowden

The Railroad and the City: A Technological and Urbanistic History of Cincinnati. By Carl W. Condit. Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1977. Pp. xii + 335. $15.00 pp. 297-298

James H. Madison

Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn. By Alan Dawley. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 301. $17.50 pp. 298-300

Carl Gersuny

Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur and Public Servant. By Sidney Hyman. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1976. Pp. xviii + 457. $15.00 pp. 300-301

Susan Estabrook Kennedy

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914. By David McCullough. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1977. Pp. 698. $14.95 pp. 301-302

Keith L. Bryant

Herbert Hoover and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1931–1933. By James Stuart Olson. Ames, Iowa, The Iowa State University Press, 1977. Pp. xi + 155. $8.50 pp. 303-304

Joan Hoff Wilson

Boston, The Great Depression and the New Deal. By Charles H. Trout. New York, Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xx + 401. $15.95 pp. 304-305

Thomas V. DiBacco

The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. Volume 1. The Formative Years, 1822–1852. Edited by Charles Capen McLaughlin. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. Pp. xx + 423. $20.00 pp. 305-307

Louis P. Cain

Labor on the Illinois Central Railroad, 1852–1900: The Evolution of an Industrial Environment. By David L. Lightner, New York, Arno Press, 1977. Pp. x + 437. $27.00 pp. 307-308

Paul V. Black

Volume 52, issue 1, 1978

Growth or a Clean Environment? Responses to Petroleum-related Pollution in the Gulf Coast Refining Region* pp. 1-29

Joseph A. Pratt

The Public Service Origins of the American Business Corporation pp. 30-60

Ronald E. Seavoy

Portfolio Management and Profitability in Early-Nineteenth-Century Banking* pp. 61-79

Donald R. Adams

The Purchasing Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature: Resources in the Economic, Social, Business and Political History of Modern Industrial Society. Segment I: Printed Books through 1800. New Haven, Connecticut, Research Publications, Inc., 1974–1977. 1672 35-mm. microfilm reels. $54,340.00 pp. 80-90

Joyce Appleby

The Visible Hand. The Managerial Revolution in American Business. By Alfred D. ChandlerJr., Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. xvi + 608. $18.50 pp. 98-101

Alfred S. Eichner

Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America. By Morton Keller. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. ix + 631. $17.50 pp. 101-103

John A. Garraty

Scottish Capital on the American Credit Frontier. By William G. Kerr. Austin, Texas State Historical Association, 1976. Pp. xiv + 246. $13.00 pp. 103-105

Paul M. Edwards

Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change. By Merritt Roe Smith. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1977. Pp. 363. $17.50 pp. 105-106

Anthony F. C. Wallace

Von der Provinzstadt zur Industrieregion (Brünn-Studie): Ein Beitrag zur Politökonomie der Sozialinnovation, Dargestellt am Innovationsschub der Industriellen Revolution im Raume Brünn. By Herman Freudenberger and Gerhard Mensch. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975. Pp. 134. DM 28.00 pp. 106-108

Thomas F. Huertas

Coming Clean: A Postscript After Retirement from Unilever. By Andrew M. Knox. London, William Heinemann, Ltd., 1976. Pp. xii + 252. £5.50 pp. 108-109

Abraham Zaleznik

The Newcomen Engine in the West of England. By K.H. Rogers. Bradford-on-Avon Wiltshire, Moonraker Press, 1976. Pp. 63. £2.50 ($5.35 sea mail; $7.25 air mail) pp. 109-111

Louis C. Hunter

The Origins of the French Labor Movement: The Socialism of Skilled Workers, 1830–1914. By Bernard H. Moss. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1976. Pp. xiii + 217. $12.95 pp. 111-113

Jean T. Joughin

Industry and Economic Decline in Seventeenth Century Venice. By Richard Tilden Rapp. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1976. Pp. ix + 195. $16.50 pp. 113-115

Reinhold C. Mueller

The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850–1914. By Roderick Floud. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. xiv + 217. $14.95 pp. 115-117

Merritt Roe Smith

The Rise and Decline of Small Firms. By Jonathan Boswell. Reading, Mass., Allen and Unwin Inc., 1972. Pp. 272. $18.50 pp. 117-118

Derek J. Oddy

The Evolution of Giant Firms in Britain: A Study of the Growth of Concentration in Manufacturing in Britain 1909–70. By S. J. Prais. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xvii + 321. $19.95 pp. 118-120

John Kay

British Direct Investment in Canada, 1890–1914. By Donald G. Paterson. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 147. $12.50 pp. 120-122

R. Craig McIvor

We at Porsche: The Autobiography of Dr. Ing. h.c. Ferry Porsche. By John Bentley. New York, Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1976. Pp. xix + 290. $10.00 pp. 122-123

John B. Rae

Public Health and the Medical Profession in the Renaissance. By Carlo M. Cipolla. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 136. $14.50 pp. 123-124

Richard Rapp

Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias in World Development. By Michael Lipton. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. 467. $15.00 pp. 124-126

Harry W. Strachan

The Governmental Habit: Economic Controls from Colonial Times to the Present. By Jonathan R. T. Hughes. New York, Basic Books, 1977. Pp. xii + 260. $11.95 pp. 127-128

Thomas K. McCraw

History of the Canadian Pacific Railway. By W. Kaye Lamb. New York, Macmillan, 1977. Pp. xvii + 491. $17.95 pp. 128-130

J. A. Rodger Letourneau

A Southern Odyssey. Travelers in the Antebellum North. By John Hope Franklin. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1976. Pp. xvii + 299. $12.50 pp. 130-131

Dorothy D. Gondos

Beyond the Furrow: Some Keys to Successful Farming in the Twentieth Century. By Hiram M. Drache. Danville, Illinois, The Interstate Printers and Publishers, Inc., 1976. Pp. xvi + 551. $9.95. - A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature, Vol. I: Traditional Fields of Agricultural Economics, 1940s to 1970s. Edited by Lee R. Martin. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1977. Pp. xviii + 540. $25.00 pp. 131-132

R. Douglas Hurt

Oil: The Making of a New Economic Order — Venezuelan Oil and OPEC. By Luis Vallenilla. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1975. Pp. xviii + 302. $16.95 pp. 133-134

Winfield J. Burggraaff

The Life of John E. Rovensky: Banker and Industrialist. By Donald L. Kemmerer. Champaign, Ill., Stipes Publishing Company, 1977. Pp. xxvi + 314. $12.00 pp. 134-135

Barbara Benson Kohn

Western Populism: Studies in an Ambivalent Conservatism. By Karel D. Bicha. Lawrence, Kansas, Coronado Press, 1976. Pp. 163. $8.50 pp. 136-136

Lewis L. Gould

American Women and the Labor Movement, 1825–1974: An Annotated Bibliography. By Martha Jane Soltow and Mary K. Wery. Metuchen, New Jersey, The Scarecrow Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 247. $8.00. - America's Working Women: A Documentary History – 1600 to the Present. Compiled and edited by Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon, and Susan Reverby. New York, Random House, 1976. Pp. xxii + 408. $15.00 pp. 137-138

Martha Moore Trescott

The Autobiography of John Fitch. Edited by Frank D. Prager. Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, 1976. Pp. 215. $7.00 pp. 139-140

Eugene S. Ferguson

Pioneer Steelmaker in the West: The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1872–1903. By H. Lee Scamehorn. Boulder, Colorado, Pruett Publishing Company, 1976. Pp. vii + 231. $19.95. - Iron and Steel in America. By W. David Lewis, Greenville, Delaware, Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, Inc., 1976. Pp. 64. $2.50 pp. 140-142

Robert Allen

Industrialization and the American Labor Movement 1850–1900. By Irwin Yellowitz. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1977. Pp. 183. $12.50 pp. 142-144

Daniel Nelson

A Business History of the Atlantic Steel Company, 1901–1968. By Harry Richard Kuniansky. New York, Arno Press, 1976. Pp. xviii + 395. $25.00 pp. 144-145

Patrick E. McLear

The City of London in International Politics at the Accession of Elizabeth Tudor. By G. D. Ramsay. Totowa, N.J., Rowman and Littlefield, 1975. Pp. x + 310. $21.50 pp. 145-146

Marjorie Chibnall

Twenty Centuries of British Industry. By Hugh Bodey. North Pomfret, Vermont, David & Charles, 1975. Pp. 208. $16.50 pp. 146-147

James E. Brittain

Lucas: The First 100 Years. Volume I: The King of the Road. By Harold Nockolds. North Pomfret, Vt., David and Charles, 1977. Pp. 349. $19.95 pp. 147-148

Barbara M. D. Smith

Commerce Extérieur et Développement Économique de l'Europe au XIXe Siècle. By Paul Bairoch. Paris, Mouton & Co., 1976. Pp. 335. 92 F pp. 149-150

Charles K. Warner

Law and Social Order in the United States. By James Willard Hurst. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1977. Pp. 320. $15.00. - The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860. By Morton J. Horwitz. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. xvii + 356. $16.50 pp. 150-153

Tony Freyer