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Volume 47, issue 4, 1973

The Wall Street Money Trust from Pujo through Medina pp. 421-437

Vincent P. Carosso

The Development of Za in Medieval Japan pp. 438-465

Kozo Yamamura

American Manufacturers and Foreign Markets, 1870–1900: Business Historians and the “New Economic Determinists” pp. 466-481

William H. Becker

Banking and Bank Legislation in California, 1890–1915* pp. 482-507

Mansel G. Blackford

Banks or No Banks: The Money Issue in Western Politics, 1832-1865. By William G. Shade. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1972. Pp. 328. $15.95 pp. 512-514

George D. Green

The Tariff in American History. By Sidney Ratner. New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, Anvil edition, 1972. Pp. viii + 214. $15.00 pp. 514-516

Paul J. Uselding

Designing the Industrial State: The Intellectual Pursuit Of Collectivism In America, 1880-1960. By James Gilbert. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1972. Pp. vii + 335. $10.00 pp. 516-518

Edward C. Kirkland

The War Industries Board: Business-Government Relations During World War I. By Robert D. Cuff. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1973. Pp. x + 304. $13.50 pp. 518-520

John W. Chambers

The Americans: The Democratic Experience. By Daniel J. Boorstin. New York, Random House, 1973. Pp. xiv + 717. $10.00 pp. 520-522

Mary Yeager Kujovich

A History of Book Publishing in the United States. Volume I. The Creation Of An Industry, 1630-1865. By John Tebbel. New York, R. R. Bowker, 1972. Pp. xvi + 646. $29.95 pp. 522-523

Madeleine B. Stern

Private Interest & Public Gain: The Dartmouth College Case, 1819. By Francis N. Stites. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1971. Pp. v + 176. $9.50 pp. 524-525

G. Heberton Evans

Das Gewicht Monopolistischer Elemente in Der Amerikanischen Textilindustrie, 1840–1880. By Hansjörg Siegenthaler. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 1972. Pp. 127. DM 36.60 pp. 525-526

Hans Jaeger

Delaware Canal Journal: A Definitive History of the Canal and the River Valley Through Which it Flows. By C. P. Yoder. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Canal Press Incorporated, 1972. Pp. iv + 287. $7.95 pp. 527-528

Lucius F. Ellsworth

The Cliff: America's First Great Copper Mine. By Donald Chaput. Kalamazoo, Michigan, Sequoia Press Publishers, 1971. Pp. 116. $12.00 pp. 528-529

Maxwell Whiteman

Quarry and Kiln: The Story of Maine's Lime Industry. By Roger L. Grindle. Rockland, Maine, the Courier-Gazette, Inc., 1971. Pp. xiv + 331. $12.50 pp. 529-530

Joel W. Eastman

History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. By Maury Klein. New York, the MacMillan Co., 1972. Pp. xviii + 572. $10.95 pp. 530-532

Charles J. Kennedy

Iron Wheels and Broken Men: The Railroad Barons and the Plunder of the West. By Richard O'Connor. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. Pp. 380. $8.95 pp. 532-533

H. Craig Miner

The Rise of Big Business, 1860–1910. By Glenn Porter. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973. Pp. vi + 119. $2.95 pp. 533-535

Glenn Porter

Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. By Walter B. Weare. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1973. Pp. xii + 312. $10.95 pp. 535-537

Robert C. Puth

Competition and Collective Bargaining in the Needle Trades, 1910-1967. By Jesse Thomas Carpenter. New York, State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 1972. Pp. xx + 910. $17.50 pp. 537-539

Robert Ozanne

The Making of a Conglomerate. Edited by Charles Gilbert. Hempstead, N.Y., Hofstra University Yearbook of Business, Series 8, Volume 3, 1972. Pp. 385. $10.00 pp. 539-540

Norman Berg

The Medieval Economy and Society: An Economic History of Britain, 1100–1500. By M. M. Postan. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1972. Pp. viii + 261. $8.75 pp. 540-541

David Herlihy

Merchants of the 16th Century. By Pierre Jeannin. Translated from French by Paul Fittingoff. New York, Harper & Row Paperback, 1972. Pp. vi + 146. $3.95 pp. 541-542

Benjamin Braude

British Commercial Policy and Trade Expansion, 1750–1850. By Judith Blow Williams. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972. Pp. x + 514. £7 pp. 542-544

J. H. Parry

Sugar Without Slaves: The Political Economy of British Guiana, 1838–1904. By Alan H. Adamson. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1972. Pp. 315. $12.50 pp. 544-546

William A. Green

Berliner Unternehmer Waehrend Der Fruhen Industrialisierung. By Hartmut Kaelble. Veroeffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission zu Berlin, Band 40. Berlin, DeGruyter, 1972. Pp. 302. DM68 pp. 546-548

Klaus H. Wolff

The Destruction of Brazilian Slavery, 1850–1888. By Robert Conrad. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1972. Pp. xviii + 344. Hardback $14.50. Paperback $4.50 pp. 548-549

Robert H. Mattoon

Histoire Des Usines Renault: Naissance De La Grande Enterprise, 1898–1939. By Patrick Fridenson. Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1972. Pp. 359. - Le Monde De L'automobile. Special Issue of Le Mouvement Social, Number 81, October–December, 1972. Paris, Les Editions Ouvrières. Pp. 160. 36F pp. 549-552

Richard F. Kuisel

Capitalism in Crisis. By Andrew Glyn and Bob Sutcliffe. New York, Pantheon Books, 1972. Pp. xxxix + 286. $8.95 pp. 552-554

Derek F. Channon

An Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Historians. By Roderick Floud. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. ix + 220. $7.50 pp. 554-555

Alan D. Anderson

Volume 47, issue 3, 1973

A British Business Elite: The Chief Executive Managers of the Railway Industry, 1850-1922* pp. 289-316

Terence R. Gourvish

Stalled Professionalism: The Recruitment of Railway Officials in the United States, 1885–1940* pp. 317-334

Stuart Morris

Bankers and Diplomats: The Diplomacy of the Dollar in Mexico, 1921-1924* pp. 335-352

N. Stephen Kane

Historical Origins of the Adoption of the EXXON Name and Trademark pp. 353-366

Paul H. Giddens

Business in American Life: A History. By Thomas C. Cochran. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. Pp. x + 402. $12.50 pp. 372-373

Harold D. Woodman

Economic History and the Social Sciences: Problems of Methodology. By Elias H. Tuma. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971. Pp. x + 316. $11.00 pp. 374-375

Louis Galambos

The Dimensions of Quantitative Research in History. Edited by William O. Aydelotte, Allan G. Bogue, and Robert W. Fogel. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1972. Pp. xii + 435. $13.50 pp. 375-376

Robert Higgs

Technology and American Economic Growth. By Nathan Rosenberg. New York, Harper and Row, 1972. Pp. xi + 211. $2.95 pp. 376-378

Alan D. Anderson

The History of American Business and Industry. By Alex Groner and the Editors of American Heritage and Business Week. New York, American Heritage Publishing Co., 1972. Pp. 384. $20.00 pp. 378-380

Russell I. Fries

The Letterbook of Robert Pringle. Volume I: April 2, 1737 — September 25, 1742. Volume II: October 9, 1742 — April 29, 1745. Edited by Walter B. Edgar. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, published for the South Carolina Historical Society and the South Carolina Tricentennial Commission, 1972. Pp. xxx + x + 905. $35.00 the set pp. 380-381

Paul G. E. Clemens

The Manufacturing Frontier: Pioneer Industry in Antebellum Wisconsin, 1830–1860. By Margaret Walsh. Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1972. Pp. xvi + 263. $8.95 pp. 381-383

Fred Bateman

Democracy's Railroads: Public Enterprise in Jacksonian Michigan. By Robert J. Parks. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, Inc., 1972. Pp. 261. $12.50 pp. 383-385

Lloyd J. Mercer

Hogmeat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840–1860. By Sam Bowers Hilliard. Carbondale, Ill., Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. Pp. 296. $10.00 pp. 385-386

Diane Lindstrom

The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Ante-Bellum South. By John W. Blassingame. New York, Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. xv + 262. $7.95 pp. 386-388

Gavin Wright

Invisible Immigrants: The Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth Century America. By Charlotte Erickson. Coral Gables, Florida, University of Miami Press, 1972. Pp. vii + 531. $17.50 pp. 388-389

Margaret Walsh

Le Capitalisme “Sauvage” aux Etats-Unis (1860–1900). By Marianne Debouzy. Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1972. Pp. 237 pp. 389-390

Hubert Sales

Wilderness Bonanza: The Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. By Arrell M. Gibson. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1972. Pp. xiv + 362. $9.95 pp. 390-391

James D. Norris

The Ballyhoo, Bonanza. By John Fahey. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1971. Pp. xiii + 288. $10.00 pp. 391-393

Gene M. Gressley

The Evolution of Management Thought. By Daniel A. Wren. New York, The Ronald Press Company, 1972. Pp. xiii + 556. $10.00 pp. 393-395

Alfred Chandler

Building the Organizational Society: Essays on Associational Activities in Modern America. Edited by Jerry Israel. New York, The Free Press, 1972. Pp. ix + 341. $9.95 pp. 395-397

Robert H. Wiebe

Change at Park Street Under: The Story of Boston's Subways. By Brian J. Cudahy. Brattleboro, Vermont, Stephen Greene Press, 1972. Pp. 64. $4.95 pp. 397-398

C. W. Cheape

Wall Street and The Stock Markets. By Peter Wyckoff. New York, Chilton Book Co., 1972. Pp. xiv + 304. $10.00 pp. 398-400

Robert Sobel

American Business in The Twentieth Century. By Thomas C. Cochran. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1972. Pp. vi + 259. $11.95 pp. 400-401

Gerald T. White

A History of The Marconi Company. By W. J. Baker. New York, St. Martin's Press. Pp. 414. $12.95 pp. 401-404

Hugh G. J. Aitken

National Income, Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom, 1855–1965. By C. H. Feinstein. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. ix + 244 and 141 pages of Tables. £10.00 pp. 404-405

Derek H. Aldcroft

They Came for Sandalwood: A Study of the Sandalwood Trade in the Southwest Pacific, 1830–1865. By Dorothy Shineberg. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1967. Pp. xiv + 299. $7.50 pp. 405-407

Jacques M. Downs

The Turnpike Road System in England: 1663–1840. By William Albert, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. viii + 300. $17.50 pp. 407-408

David Spring

British Labour Struggles: Contemporary Pamphlets, 1727–1850. Edited by Kenneth E. Carpenter. New York, Arno Press, 1972. 32 vols. $400.00 the set pp. 409-411

John F. C. Harrison

The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1850. By Robin M. Reeve. London, University of London Press, 1971. Pp. 271. $3.25 pp. 411-412

Peter N. Stearns

The Pre-Industrial Economy in England, 1500–1750. By Leslie A. Clarkson. New York, Schocken Books, 1972. Pp. 268. $10.00 pp. 412-414

Walter E. Minchinton

Grand Commerce et Vie Urbaine au XVIe Siècle: Lyon et ses Marchands. By Richard Gascon. Paris, École Pratique des Hautes Études, 1971. Two vols. Pp. 999. 130 Francs pp. 414-416

Cissie Fairchilds

Transport and Communication in Early Medieval Europe: A.D. 500–1100. By Albert C. Leighton. New York, Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1972. Pp. 257 pp. 416-417

Reinhold Schumann

Publicans and Sinners: Private Enterprise in the Service of The Roman Republic. By E. Badian. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1972. Pp. 170. $6.00 pp. 418-419

Floyd Seyward Lear

Volume 47, issue 2, 1973

Recent Trends in Canadian Business and Economic History* pp. 141-157

Glenn Porter

Private Property in Peril: Ontario Businessmen and the Federal System, 1898–1911* pp. 158-176

Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles

Another Anti-Trust Tradition: Canadian Anti-Combines Policy, 1889–1910 pp. 177-188

Michael Bliss

Changing Social Origins of the Canadian Industrial Elite, 1880–1910 pp. 189-217

T. W. Acheson

Invitation to Empire: Tariffs and American Economic Expansion in Canada pp. 218-238

Stephen Scheinberg

Direct Management from Abroad: The Formative Years of the British Columbia Electric Railway pp. 239-259

Patricia E. Roy

Maritime Business History: A Reconnaissance of Records, Sources, and Prospects pp. 260-276

Alan Wilson

Canadian Business History: Selected Studies, 1497–1971. Edited by David S. Macmillan. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1972. Pp. 315. $12.50 pp. 279-281

Hugh G. J. Aitken

The Financial System of Canada: Its Growth and Development. By E. P. Neufeld. Toronto, Ontario, Macmillan Company of Canada, 1972. Pp. xxiv + 645. $20.00 pp. 281-283

R. Craig McIvor

The Impossible Railway: The Building of the Canadian Pacific. By Pierre Berton. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Pp. xx + 574 + xvi pp. 284-285

Ralph W. Hidy

The Bunkhouse Man: Life and Labour in the Northern Work Camps. By Edmund Bradwin, with an introduction by Jean Burnet. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1972. Pp. xv + 249. $3.50 pp. 285-286

Glenn Porter

Minetown, Milltown, Railtown: Life in Canadian Communities of Single Industry. By Rex A. Lucas. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1972. Pp. xiii + 433. $5.00 paper pp. 286-287

Robert Cuff

Volume 47, issue 1, 1973

Perspectives on American Industrial Violence* pp. 1-23

H. M. Gitelman

British Textile Technology Transmission to the United States: The Philadelphia Region Experience, 1770–1820* pp. 24-52

David J. Jeremy

Origins of Federal Oil Regulation in the 1920's* pp. 53-71

Norman Nordhauser

Brandeis and Lamont on Finance Capitalism pp. 72-94

Paul P. Abrahams

Shipping, Maritime Trade, and the Economic Development of Colonial North America. By James F. Shepherd and Gary M. Walton. New York and London, Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. ix + 255. $14.50 pp. 101-103

Simeon J. Crowther

The Mallorys of Mystic: Six Generations in American Maritime Enterprise. By James P. Baughman. Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press, 1972. Pp. xvii + 496. $17.50 pp. 103-104

Edward C. Kirkland

Of Mother Country and Plantations: Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Conference in Early American History. Edited by Virginia Bever Platt and David Curtis Skaggs. Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green University Press, 1971. Pp. 127. $5.00 pp. 104-105

Edward M. Cook

Documents Relative to the Manufactures in the United States. U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Executive Document No. 308, collected and transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury (Washington, 1833). New York, reprinted by Burt Franklin, 1969. Three vols. $67.50 pp. 106-108

Nathan Rosenberg

Banking in Frontier Iowa, 1836-1865. By Erling A. Erickson. Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1971. Pp. x + 183. $7.50 pp. 108-109

Thomas P. Govan

The Hall Carbine Affair: An Essay in Historiography. By R. Gordon Wasson. 3rd edition. Danbury, Conn., privately printed, 1971. Pp. xv + 209. $75.00 pp. 109-111

Irving Katz

Edward Porter Alexander. By Maury Klein. Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1971. Pp. xii + 279. $11.00 pp. 111-112

Harold D. Woodman

From the Molly Maguires to the United Mine Workers: The Social Ecology of An Industrial Union, 1869-1897. By Harold W. Aurand. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1971. Pp. x + 221. $10.00 pp. 112-113

William Graebner

Timber Roots: The Laird, Norton Story, 1855-1905. By Fred W. Kohlmeyer. Winona, Minn., Winona County Historical Society, 1972. Pp. xviii + 382. $6.50 pp. 114-115

David C. Smith

A History of Lumbering in Maine, 1861-1960. By David C. Smith. Orono, Maine, University of Maine Press, 1972. Pp. xvi + 469. $9.00 pp. 115-117

Fred W. Kohlmeyer

History of Papermaking in the United States (1691-1969). By David C. Smith. New York, Lockwood Publishing Co., 1970. Pp. 693. $29.95 pp. 117-118

Ralph W. Hidy

Patterns of Wealthholding in Wisconsin Since 1850. By Lee Soltow. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. Pp. xiii + 167. $6.50 pp. 118-120

James L. Barr

Pithole, the Vanished City: A Story of the Early Days of the Petroleum Industry. By William Culp Darrah. Gettysburg, Pa., privately printed, 1972. Pp. viii + 252 pp. 120-121

James H. Madison

From the Rio Grande to the Arctic: The Story of the Richfield Oil Corporation. By Charles S. Jones. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1972. Pp. xxvii + 364. $8.95 pp. 121-122

Henrietta M. Larson

Henry Ford and Grass-Roots America. By Reynold M. Wik. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1972. Pp. x + 266. $10.00 pp. 122-123

Joel W. Eastman

The Myths of Antitrust: Economic Theory and Legal Cases. By D. T. Armentano. New Rochelle, N.Y., Arlington House, 1972. Pp. 287. $11.95 pp. 123-125

Donald Dewey

The Managerial Revolution Reassessed: Family Control in America's Large Corporations. By Philip H. BurchJr., Lexington, Mass., D. C. Heath and Co., 1972. Pp. xi + 195. $12.50 pp. 125-126

Arthur M. Johnson

Merchants and Moneymen: The Commercial Revolution, 1000-1500. By Joseph and Frances Gies. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1972. Pp. xiv + 336. $6.95 pp. 127-128

Josiah C. Russell

Joseph Addison's Sociable Animal: In the Market Place; On the Hustings; In the Pulpit. By A. Edward and Lillian D. Bloom. Providence, R.I., Brown University Press, 1971. Pp. iv + 276. $10.00. - Daniel Defoe: A Critical Study. By James Sutherland. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. vii + 259. $8.75 pp. 128-129

T. K. Meier

The Captain of Industry in English Fiction, 1821-1871. By Ivan Melada. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1970. Pp. xii + 224. $10.00 pp. 130-131

F. M. L. Thompson

Family Structure in Nineteenth Century Lancashire. By Michael Anderson. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp. ix + 230. $16.00 pp. 131-132

Robert Shorthouse

Workers and Protest: The European Labor Movement, the Working Classes and the Origins of Social Democracy 1890-1914. By Harvey Mitchell and Peter N. Stearns. Itasca, Ill., F. E. Peacock Publishers, Inc., 1971. Pp. 250. $6.00 (cloth); $3.95 (paper) pp. 133-134

Vernon L. Lidtke

The Growth and Role of UK Financial Institutions, 1880-1962. By David K. Sheppard. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1971. x + 207 pp. £9.50 pp. 134-136

J. Keith Horsefield

A Financial History of the New Japan. By T. F. M. Adams and Iwao Hoshii. Tokyo, Kodansha Publishing Company, 1972. 547 pp. $19.50 pp. 136-137

Kozo Yamamura

The Political Economy of Colonialism in Ghana: A Collection of Documents and Statistics, 1900-1960. Edited by G. B. Kay. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Pp. xix + 431. $25.00 pp. 137-139

Peter Kilby

Forging Accounting Principles in Five Countries: A History and an Analysis of Trends. By Stephen A. Zeff. Champaign, Ill., Stipes Publishing Company, 1972. Pp. xvii + 332. $3.00 pp. 139-140

H. Thomas Johnson