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Volume 51, issue 4, 1977

Entrepreneurial Persistence Through the Bureaucratic Age* pp. 415-443

Harold C. Livesay

Experiment in Bureaucratic Centralization: Employee Blacklisting on the Burlington Railroad, 1877-1892* pp. 444-459

Paul V. Black

Size and Profitability of English Colliers in the Eighteenth Century* pp. 460-473

William Hausman

Mortgage Lending by National Banks* pp. 474-491

Richard H. Keehn and Gene Smiley

Storm over the Multinationals: The Real Issues. By Raymond Vernon. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. xii + 260. $12.50. - The Multinational Corporation: A Guide to Information Sources. By Helga Hernes. Detroit, Gale Research Company, 1977. Pp. xxv + 197. $18.00 pp. 495-497

Charles P. Kindleberger

200 Years of American Business. By Thomas C. Cochran. New York, Basic Books, Inc., 1977. Pp. xiv + 288. $13.95 pp. 497-497

Harold F. Williamson

Informal Entente: The Private Structure Of Co-Operation In Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy, 1918–1928. By Michael J. Hogan. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1977. Pp. viii + 254. $12.50 pp. 498-500

Stephen A. Schuker

The British Insurance Business 1547–1970. By H. A. L. Cockerell and Edwin Green. London, Heinemann Educational Books. Pp. xiii + 142. £5.00 pp. 500-502

Joseph G. Romans

Balance of Power or Hegemony: The Interwar Monetary System. Edited by Benjamin M. Rowland. New York, New York University Press, 1976. Pp. xviii + 266. $10.95 pp. 502-503

Larry Neal

Science and Ceremony. The Institutional Economics of C. E. Ayres. Edited by William Breit and William Patton CulbertsonJr., Austin, University of Texas Press, 1976. Pp. xviii + 210. $14.95 pp. 504-506

Alfred S. Eichner

The Rise of the Corporate Economy: The British Experience. By Leslie Hannah. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 243. $15.00 pp. 506-507

Peter L. Payne

Economy of Europe in An Age of Crisis, 1600–1750. By Jan de Vries. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. xi + 284. $13.95, cloth; $4.95, paper pp. 507-508

Christopher R. Friedrichs

Growth in America. Edited by Chester L. Cooper. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1976. Pp. ix + 262. $15.00 pp. 509-510

Stuart Bruchey

The International Monetary System: History, Institutions, Analyses. By Robert J. Carbaugh and Liang-Shing Fan. Lawrence, The University Press of Kansas, 1976. Pp. viii + 168. $12.00 pp. 510-511

Alfred E. Eckes

The Origins of British Industrial Relations: The Nineteenth Century Experience. By Keith Burgess. Totowa, N.J., Rowman & LittleBeld, 1975. Pp. xiii + 331. $19.50 pp. 511-513

Stanley H. Palmer

Business Ideologies in the Reform-Progressive Era, 1880–1914. By Alfred L. Thimm. University, Alabama, The University of Alabama Press, 1976. Pp. vii + 264. $9.75 pp. 513-515

Kim McQuaid

Suburbanization and the City. By Thomas M. StanbackJr., and Richard V. Knight. Montclair, New Jersey, Allanhold, Osmun and Company Publishers, 1976. Pp. xvii + 230. $19.50 pp. 515-516

Louis P. Cain

David Eccles: Pioneer Western Industrialist. By Leonard J. Arrington. Logan, Utah State University, 1975. Pp. xvi + 294. $7.95 pp. 516-517

James E. Fell

Reuben Fleet And The Story Of Consolidated Aircraft. By William Wagner. Fallbrook, California, Aero Publishers, Inc., 1976. Pp. xi + 324. $16.95 pp. 518-519

Otto H. Reichardt

The Coming Of The Book: The Impact Of Printing, 1450–1800. By Lucien Febvre and Jean Henri Martin. Translated by David Gerard. Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press, 1976. Pp. 378. $27.00 pp. 519-520

Robert M. Kingdon

Women's Work in Soviet Russia: Continuity in the Midst of Change. By Michael Paul Sacks. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1976. Pp. xvi + 221. $16.50 pp. 520-522

William J. Kelly

New York City Mutual Savings Banks, 1819–1861. By Alan L. Olmstead. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1976. Pp. xiv + 236. $15.95 pp. 522-523

H. Peers Brewer

Acres for Cents: Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa. By Robert P. Swierenga. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1976. Pp. xix + 263. $14.95 pp. 524-525

Sidney Ratner

The Philadelphia Quakers in the Industrial Age, 1865–1920. By Philip S. Benjamin. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1976. Pp. ix + 301. $12.50 pp. 525-526

A. Michal McMahon

The Fathers of the Towns: Leadership and Community Structure in Eighteenth-Century New England. By Edward M. CookJr., Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Pp. xviii + 273. $12.95 pp. 527-528

Alden T. Vaughan

Prisoners of Progress: American Industrial Cities, 1850–1920. By Maury Klein and Harvey A. Kantor, New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1976. Pp. xvii + 459. $13.95 pp. 528-529

Tom Ticknor

Remaking American Values: Challenge to a Business Society. By Neil W. Chamberlain. New York, Basic Books, Inc., 1977. Pp. ix + 193. $9.50 pp. 530-531

Derek F. Abell

The Wealth of the American People. By Oscar and Mary F. Handlin. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1975. Pp. vii + 266. $10.00 pp. 531-532

Richard Saunders

Supreme Life: The History of a Negro Insurance Company. By Robert C. Puth. New York, Arno Press, 1976. Pp. vi + 293. $20.00 pp. 533-534

Steven M. Gelber

An American Company: The Tragedy Of United Fruit. By Thomas McCann. New York, Crown Publishers, 1976. Pp. 244. $8.95 pp. 534-535

Mira Wilkins

Industrial Archaeology: A New Introduction. By Kenneth Hudson. Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press, 1977. Pp. 240. $12.50. - A Pocket Book for Industrial Archaeologists. By Kenneth Hudson. Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press, 1977. Pp. vii + 134. $4.50. - Industrial Archeology: A New Look at the American Heritage. By Theodore Anton Sande. Brattleboro, Vermont. The Stephen Greene Press, 1976. Pp. vii + 152. $18.95 pp. 536-538

Walter J. Heacock

The Russian Rockefellers: The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil Industry. By Robert W. Tolf. Stanford, California, Hoover Institution Press, 1976. Pp. xv + 269. $14.95 pp. 538-539

Muriel E. Hidy

China's Economy and the Maoist Strategy. By John G. Gurley. New York, Monthly Review Press, 1976. Pp. ix + 325. $15.00 pp. 540-541

John K. Fairbank

Shanghai Old-Style Banks (Ch'ien-Chuang) 1800–1935. By Andrea Lee McElderry. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1976. Pp. viii + 230. $3.00, paperback pp. 541-543

Wellington K.K. Chan

Woman-Work: Women and the Party in Revolutionary China. By Delia Davin. New York, Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 244. $15.00 pp. 543-544

Chu-yuan Cheng

Early Indian Economic History. By R.N. Saletore. Totowa, N.J., Rowman and Littlefield, 1975. Pp. xv + 859. $27.50 pp. 545-546

Thomas R. Trautmann

Partner in Empire: Dwarkanath Tagore and the Age of Enterprise in Eastern India. By Blair B. Kling. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1976. Pp. xi + 276. $12.50 pp. 546-548

Ralph B. Price

Private Foreign Investment And Economic Development: A Case Study Of Petroleum In India. By R. Vedavalli. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. xvi + 222. $27.50 pp. 548-549

Dwijendra Tripathi

Volume 51, issue 3, 1977

Americans in the China Market: Economic Opportunities and Economic Nationalism, 1890s-1931* pp. 277-307

Michael H. Hunt

Machines, Markets, and Labor: The Carriage and Wagon Industry in Late-Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati* pp. 308-325

Edward P. Duggan

Work Injuries and Adversary Processes in Two New England Textile Mills* pp. 326-340

Carl Gersuny

Rubber in Brazil: Dominance and Collapse, 1876-1945 pp. 341-366

Randolph R. Resor

Great Britain and her World 1750–1914. Essays in Honour of W. O. Henderson. Edited by Barrie M. Ratcliffe. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1915. Pp xiv + 358. £10.00 pp. 375-377

Michael Edelstein

Enterprise and Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century France. Edited by Edward C. CarterII, Robert Forster, and Joseph N. Moody. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Pp. xx + 211. $12.50 pp. 377-379

François Jequier

Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe. By John P. McKay. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1976. Pp. x + 246. $14.50 pp. 379-381

Paul Barrett

The Agricultural Development of Turkey. By Oddvar Aresvik. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1975. Pp. xxi + 220. $16.50 pp. 381-382

Donald Quataert

Colonialism in Africa, 1870–1960, Volume Four: The Economics of Colonialism. Edited by Peter Duignan and L. H. Gann. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. xvi + 719. $42.50 pp. 382-385

Andrew A. Beveridge

The Opium War, 1840–1842: Barbarians in The Celestial Empire in the Early Part of The Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates Ajar. By Peter Ward Fay. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1975. Pp. xxi + 406. $14.95. - The Opium War. By Brian Inglis. London, Hodder & Staughton, 1976. Pp. 223. $16.95. - The Chinese Opium Wars. By Jack Beeching. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1976. Pp. 352. $14.95 pp. 385-387

Jacques M. Downs

Lala Shri Ram: A Study in Entrepreneurship and Industrial Management. By Arun Joshi, New Delhi, Orient Longman Limited, 1975. Pp. 708. Rs. 84.00 ($10.00 approximately) pp. 387-388

Dwijendra Tripathi

The Japanese are Coming: A Multinational Interaction of Firms and Politics. By Yoshi Tsurumi. Cambridge, Mass., Ballinger Publishing Company, 1976. Pp. xxiii + 333. $16.50. - Japan's Multinational Enterprises. By M. Y. Yoshino. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1976. Pp. xv + 191. $12.50 pp. 388-391

Kozo Yamamura

Appointment at Armageddon: Muckraking and Progressivism in the American Tradition. By Louis Filler. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1976. Pp. xiii + 476. $15.95 pp. 391-393

John Waksmundski

Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket. By C. L. Sonnichsen. Tucson, The University of Arizona Press, 1976. Pp. x + 325. $4.95. - Black Powder and Hand Steel: Miners and Machines on the Old Western Frontier. By Otis E. Young Jr. Norman, The University of Oklahoma Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 196. $9.95 pp. 393-395

Ronald C. Brown

Freedmen, Philanthropy, and Fraud: A History of the Freedman's Savings Bank. By Carl R. Osthaus. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1976. Pp. 257. $10.95 pp. 395-397

Alan Olmstead

The Business Career of Moses Taylor: Merchant, Finance Capitalist, and Industrialist. By Daniel Hodas. New York, New York University Press, 1976. Pp. xvi + 356. $17.50 pp. 397-398

Arthur M. Johnson

The Megacorp and Oligopoly: Micro Foundations of Macro Dynamics. By Alfred S. Eichner. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. xiii + 365. $24.95 pp. 398-401

Jesse W. Markham

Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? By Peter Temin. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1976. Pp. xiii + 201. $8.95, cloth; $3.95, paper pp. 401-402

George D. Green

Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865–1905. By Mary O. Furner. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1975. Pp. xv + 357. $17.50 pp. 403-404

Frank Annunziata

The Farm Credit System: A History of Financial Self-Help. By W. Gifford Hoag. Danville, Illinois, The Interstate Printers & Publishers, Inc., 1976. Pp. xiv + 292. $6.95 pp. 404-405

Martin R. Blyn

Conoco: The First One Hundred Years. By Continental Oil Company. New York, Dell Publishing Co., 1975. Pp. 238. No price given. - Regulating Competition in Oil: Government Intervention in the U.S. Refining Industry, 1948–1975. By E. Anthony Copp. College Station, Texas A & M University Press, 1976. Pp. xxiv + 280. $14.50 pp. 406-408

Gerald D. Nash

The U.S. Forest Service: A History. By Harold K. Steen. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1976. Pp. xiv + 356. $15.00 pp. 408-410

David C. Smith

Perspectives and Irony in American Slavery. Edited by Harry P. Owens. Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 1976. Pp. xii + 188. $8.50, cloth; $3.50, paper pp. 410-412

Alan M. Kraut

Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820–1860: A Quantitative History. By Claudia Dale Goldin. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1976. Pp. xvi + 168. $12.95 pp. 412-413

David O. Whitten

Business Information Sources. By Lorna M. Daniells. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1976. Pp. xvi + 439. $14.95 pp. 413-414

Virgil F. Massman

Volume 51, issue 2, 1977

Limited Revolution: The Impact of the Anatolian Railway on Turkish Transportation and the Provisioning of Istanbul, 1890–1908* pp. 139-160

Donald Quataert

Herbert Hoover, the Wage-earner, and the “New Economic System,” 1919–1929* pp. 161-189

Robert H. Zieger

The Industrial Politics of the Kreditbanken, 1880–1914* pp. 190-207

Hugh Neuburger

Research, Patents, and the Struggle to Control Radio: A Study of Big Business and the Uses of Industrial Research* pp. 208-235

Leonard S. Reich

Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve, 1863–1923. By Robert Craig West. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1977. Pp. 243. $14.50 pp. 241-242

Benjamin J. Klebaner

Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America. By Lawrence Goodwyn. New York, Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xxvii + 718. $19.95. - Populist Vanguard: A History of the Southern Farmers' Alliance. By Robert C. McMath, Jr. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1975. Pp. xiii + 221. $13.95 pp. 242-245

H. Wayne Morgan

Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880–1890. By Michael Schwartz. New York, Academic Press, 1976. Pp. xii+ 302. $17.50 pp. 245-247

Harold D. Woodman

The Corporation and the Indian: Tribal Sovereignty and Industrial Civilization in Indian Territory, 1865–1907. By H. Craig Miner. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1976. Pp. xv + 236. $11.00 pp. 248-249

Mary Young

History of Technology. Edited by A. Rupert Hall and Norman Smith. London, Mansell, 1976. (Distributed by ISBS, Post Office Box 555, Forest Grove, OR 91116.) Pp. vii + 183. $22.50 pp. 249-251

James E. Brittain

Perspectives on Technology. By Nathan Rosenberg. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. x + 353. Cloth: $24.95; paper: $6.95 pp. 251-253

Reese V. Jenkins

The Politics of Business in California, 1890–1920. By Mansel G. Blackford. Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1977. Pp. xiii + 221. $12.50 pp. 253-255

Walton Bean

History of the Illinois Central Railroad. By John F. Stover. New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1975. Pp. xiv + 575. $15.00 pp. 255-256

H. Craig Miner

The Economic History of the United States Prior to 1860: An Annotated Bibliography. Edited by Thomas Orsagh, Santa Barbara, Calif., Clio Press, 1975. Pp. xiii + 100. $9.75. - British Economic and Social History: A Bibliographical Guide. Compiled by W. H. Chaloner and R. C. Richardson. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1976. Pp. xiv + 130. $17.50 pp. 257-258

Richmond D. Williams

The Canadian Northern Railway: Pioneer Road of the Northern Prairies 1895–1918. By T. D. Regehr. Toronto, The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1976. Pp. xiv + 543. $27.50 pp. 258-259

James J. Talman

The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century City. By Michael B. Katz. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1976. Pp. xiii + 381. $17.50 pp. 260-261

James H. Madison

The Bank of England 1891–1944. By R. S. Sayers. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1976. 3 vols. Pp. xxxviii + 1083. $95.00 pp. 261-263

Elmus R. Wicker

The Emergence of the Irish Banking System, 1820–1845. By G. L. Barrow. Toronto, Macmillan of Canada, 1975. Pp. xvi + 244. $34.00 pp. 264-266

Bruce R. Dalgaard

Banques et Banquiers en Autriche au Debut du 20e Siecle. By Bernard Michel. Paris, Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1976. Pp. 405. Cloth, 198F; Paper, 164F. - Banking and Industrialization in Austria-Hungary: The Role of Banks in the Industrialization of the Czech Crownlands, 1873–1914. By Richard L. Rudolph. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 291. $28.00 pp. 266-268

Rondo Cameron

La Banque Nationale De Belgique Et L'Histoire Monétaire Entre Les Deux Guerres Mondiales. By H. Van Der Wee and K. Tavernier. Brussels, Banque Nationale de Belgique, 1975. Pp. 542. No price given pp. 268-269

Thomas F. Sheppard

A History of Gold and Money 1450–1920. By Pierre Vilar. Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press, 1976. Pp. 360. $18.50 pp. 269-270

J. Keith Horsefield

The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan. By Stephen A. Schuker. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1976. Pp. xv + 444. $18.95 pp. 271-272

Shepard B. Clough

Accounting in Scotland: A Historical Bibliography. By Janet E. Pryce-Jones, Compiler and R. H. Parker, Annotator. Edinburgh, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, 2nd edition, 1976. Pp. x + 112. $10.00 pp. 272-273

Thomas H. Williams

Die Vorgeschichte der Deutschen Eisenverbande: Ein Beitrag Zur Geschichte Des Wirtschaftspolitischen Verbandswesens Im 19. Jahrhundert. By Wilhelm Salewski. Schriftenreihe der Wirtschaftsvereinigung Eisen- und Stahlindustrie zur Wirtschafts- und Industriepolitik, vol. 13. Düsseldorf, Verlag Stahleisen, 1974. Pp. 98. 15 DM. - Personalien und Dokumente Zur Vorgeschichte Der Deutschen Eisenverbande. By Wilhelm Salewski. Vol. 14. Pp. 124. 15 DM. - Die Stahlwirtschaftlichen Organisationen im Jubilaumsjahr 1974. By Herbert W. Köhler; Stahl Und Politik. By Hans Dichgans. Vol. 15, Pp. 81. 15 DM. - Manner der Fruheren Deutschen Stahlwirtschaftlichen Verbande. By Fritz Pudor. Vol. 16. Pp. 104. 15 DM. - Eisen- und Stahlunternehmen Aus Alter Zeit. By Fritz Pudor. Vol. 17. Pp. 123. 15 DM pp. 273-275

Ulrich Nocken

Volume 51, issue 1, 1977

Damming the Flood: British Government Efforts to Check the Outflow of Technicians and Machinery, 1780–1843* pp. 1-34

David J. Jeremy

Oil and Antitrust: The Oil Cartel Case and the Cold War* pp. 35-56

Burton I. Kaufman

The New Deal, Cuba, and the Rise of a Global Foreign Economic Policy pp. 57-78

Jules R. Benjamin

Reflections on George Rogers Taylor's The Transportation Revolution, 1815–1860: A Twenty-five Year Retrospect pp. 79-89

Harry N. Scheiber and Stephen Salsbury

The Role of Private Banks in the Early Economy of the United States pp. 90-93

Fritz Redlich

The Canal Boatmen, 1760–1914. By Harry Hanson. Totowa, N.J., Rowman and Littlefield, 1976. Pp. xii + 244. $24.50 pp. 98-100

Ralph D. Gray

Investment in Railways in Britain 1820–1844: A Study in the Development of the Capital Market. By M. C. Reed. New York, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. xiv + 315. $20.75 pp. 100-101

Stephen Salsbury

British Working-Class Movements and Europe, 1815–1848. By Henry Weisser. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1975. Pp. viii + 226. $17.50 pp. 101-103

Peter N. Stearns

The Age of Capital, 1848–1875. By E. J. Hobsbawm. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Pp. xv + 354. $17.50 pp. 103-104

Lawrence L. Murray

The General Strike. By G. A. Phillips. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. Pp. xi + 388. £7.95 pp. 104-106

Standish Meacham

Prezzi e Mercedi a Milano dal 1701 al 1860. By Aldo De Maddalena. Milano, Banca Commerciale Italiana, 1974. Pp. 455 + supplementary graphs (99). 16,000 Lire pp. 106-108

Frank M. Murtaugh

Industrial Imperialism in Italy, 1908–1915. By Richard A. Webster. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1975. Pp. vii + 392. $22.75 pp. 108-109

Judith C. Brown

Studies in Roman Property. By the Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History. Edited by M. I. Finley. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. vi + 212. $9.95 pp. 109-110

K. F. Drew

Francois-Etienne Cugnet, 1719–1751: Entrepreneur et Entreprises en Nouvelle-France. By Cameron Nish. Montreal, Fides, 1975. Pp. xiv + 185. $10.00 Canadian pp. 111-112

André E. LeBlanc

Research in Economic History: An Annual Compilation of Research, Volume I, 1976. Edited by Paul Uselding. Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1976. Pp. ix + 371. $22.50, institutions; $17.50, individuals pp. 112-115

Lance E. Davis

The School upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England. By James Axtell. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1974. Pp. xxi + 298. $17.50. - Education and the Industrial Revolution. By E. G. West. London, Batsford, 1975. Pp. 275. £6.50 pp. 115-118

Alexander Field

Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience: Society in Rhode Island, 1636–1690. By Carl Bridenbaugh. Providence, R.I., Brown University Press, 1974. Pp. xxiv + 157. $8.00 pp. 118-119

Edward M. Cook

Telephone: The First Hundred Years. By John Brooks. New York, Harper & Row, 1976. Pp. xii + 369. $12.50 pp. 119-121

Rosario J. Tosiello

Syntony and Spark: The Origins of Radio. By Hugh G. J. Aitken. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1976. Pp. xvi + 347. $15.95 pp. 121-122

James E. Brittain

The Dukes of Durham, 1865–1929. By Robert F. Durden. Durham, N.C. Duke University Press, 1975. Pp. xiv + 295. $9.75 pp. 122-124

Bennett H. Wall

West Virginia and the Captains of Industry. By John Alexander Williams. Morgantown, West Virginia, West Virginia University Foundation, 1976. Pp. vii + 352. $11.00 pp. 124-125

Julian C. Skaggs

Western River Transportation: The Era of Early Internal Development, 1810–1860. By Erik F. Haites, James Mak, and Gary M. Walton. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Pp. xi + 209. $12.50 pp. 126-127

Fred Carstensen

Oil and Politics in Modern Brazil. By Peter Seaborn Smith. Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., 1976. Pp. xii + 289. $19.95 pp. 127-128

Mira Wilkins

Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa. By Edward A. Alpers. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1975. Pp xvii + 296. $13.50 pp. 129-130

B. Marie Perinbam

Bibliography of Industrial Relations in the Railroad Industry. By James O. Morris. Ithaca, New York, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1975. Pp. xvi + 153. $5.00 pp. 130-131

Donovan L. Hofsommer

The Origins of the National Recovery Administration: Business, Government, and the Trade Association Issue, 1921–1933. By Robert F. Himmelberg. New York, Fordham University Press, 1976. Pp. vii + 232. $20.00, cloth; $7.50, paper pp. 131-132

Robert M. Collins

Ethics and Profits: The Crisis of Confidence in American Business. By Leonard Silk and David Vogel. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1976. Pp. 251. $8.95 pp. 133-134

George C. Lodge

The European Multinationals: A Renewed Challenge to American and British Big Business. By Lawrence G. Franko. Stamford, Conn., Greylock Publishers, 1976. Pp. xii + 276. $14.95 pp. 134-137

Mira Wilkins