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Volume 46, issue 4, 1972

The New Deal and the “Broker State:” A Review of the Recent Scholarly Literature pp. 409-429

John Braeman

The Slave Trade and British Capital Formation in the Eighteenth Century: A Comment on the Williams Thesis* pp. 430-443

Stanley L. Engerman

Organization for Foreign Trade Expansion in the Mississippi Valley, 1900–1920* pp. 444-465

Burton I. Kaufman

Early Cost Accounting for Internal Management Control: Lyman Mills in the 1850's* pp. 466-474

H. Thomas Johnson

The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950–1350. By Robert S. Lopez. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall Inc., 1971. Pp xi + 177. $5.95 pp. 480-481

Herman van der Wee

Les Metaux Precieux et la Balance des Payements du Proche-Orient a la Basse Epoque. By Eliyahu Ashtor. Paris, S.E.V.P.E.N., 1971. Pp. 127 pp. 482-482

Frank Spooner

The Origins of Capitalism in Russia: Industry and Progress in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By Joseph T. Fuhrmann. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1972. Pp. xiii + 376. $12.50 pp. 483-484

John P. McKay

Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713. By Richard S. Dunn. Chapel Hill, N.C., University of North Carolina Press (for the Institute of Early American History and Culture), 1972. Pp. xx + 359. $11.95 pp. 484-486

Stanley Engerman

The Gladstones: A Family Biography, 1764–1851. By S. G. Checkland. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp. xvi + 448. $16.00 pp. 486-487

Asa Briggs

The Wool Textile Industry in Great Britain. Edited by J. Geraint Jenkins. London and Boston, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972. Pp. xvi + 309. $33.25 pp. 487-489

David J. Jeremy

The Sydney Traders: Simeon Lord and His Contemporaries, 1788–1821. By D. R. Hainsworth. Sydney, Cassell, 1971. Pp. xiii + 264. $15.50 pp. 489-490

W. A. Sinclair

La Modernisation des Charbonnages Liegeois Pendant la Premiere Moitie du XIXe Siecle: Techniques D'Exploitation. By N. Caulier-Mathy. Paris, Société d'Edition “Les Belles Lettres,”1971. Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, Fascicule CXCII. Pp. 308 pp. 490-491

Charles E. Freedeman

The French Economy, 1913–39: The History of a Decline. By Tom Kemp. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1972. Pp. vii + 183. $8.95 pp. 492-493

Hubert Sales

Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case. By Stanley I. Kutler. Philadelphia and New York, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1971, Pp. 191. $5.95 pp. 493-494

G. Heberton Evans

Mills of Yesteryear. By A. T. Jackson. El Paso, Texas, Texas Western Press, 1971. Pp. xi + 103. $5.00 pp. 494-495

Joe B. Frantz

Wea Creek to El Dorado: Oil in Kansas, 1860–1920. By Francis W. Schruben. Columbia, Mo., University of Missouri Press, 1972. Pp. x + 176. $8.00 pp. 495-497

Paul H. Giddens

Colonel Morgan Jones: Grand Old Man of Texas Railroading. By Vernon Gladden Spence. Norman, Ok., University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. Pp. xix + 240. $7.95 pp. 497-498

Keith L. Bryant

Tidewater Ice of the Kennebec River. By Jennie G. Everson. Freeport, Maine, published for the Maine State Museum by the Bond Wheelwright Co., 1970. Pp. xiv + 241. $9.95 pp. 498-499

Richard O. Cummings

The National Bank of Commerce of Seattle, 1889–1969. By Elliot Marple and Bruce H. Olson. Palo Alto, Calif., Pacific Books, 1972. Pp. x + 277. $10.00 pp. 499-501

Herman E. Krooss

The United States and Revolutionary Nationalism in Mexico, 1916–1932. By Robert Freeman Smith. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1972. Pp. xv + 288. $12.00 pp. 501-502

C. Dennis Ignasias

The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865–1914: An Essay in Interpretation. By Robert Higgs. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1971. Pp. xv + 143. $5.95 pp. 503-504

Harold C. Livesay

Volume 46, issue 3, 1972

Taxpayers or Investors: Who Paid for the Land-Grant Railroads?* pp. 279-294

Lloyd J. Mercer

American War Mobilization and the Use of Small Manufacturers, 1939-1943* pp. 295-319

Jim F. Heath

Scottish Railways and the Development of Scottish Locomotive Building in the Nineteenth Century pp. 320-338

Wray Vamplew

The Transformation of Bethlehem Steel, 1904-1909* pp. 339-360

Robert Hessen

Merchant Prince of Boston: Colonel T. H. Perkins, 1764–1854. By Carl Seaburg and Stanley Paterson. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. xi + 478. $16.00 pp. 366-367

Frank Carpenter

Copper for America: The Hendricks Family and a National Industry, 1755–1939. By Maxwell Whiteman. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1971. Pp. 353. $12.50 pp. 368-369

Irene D. Neu

Finance and Economic Development in the Old South: Louisiana Banking, 1804–1861. By George D. Green. Stanford, Cal., Stanford University Press, 1972. Pp. xiii + 268. $8.75 pp. 369-370

Roger S. White

Union Pacific Country. By Robert G. Athearn. New York, Rand McNally & Co., 1971. Pp. 480. $15.00. - The St. Louis-San Francisco Transcontinental Railroad: The Thirty-Fifth Parallel Project, 1853–1890. By H. Craig Miner. Lawrence, Kan., University Press of Kansas, 1972. Pp. viii + 236. $8.50 pp. 370-372

Albro Martin

American Business and Foreign Policy, 1920–1933. By Joan Hoff Wilson. Lexington, Ky., University Press of Kentucky, 1971. Pp. xvii + 339. $9.95 pp. 373-374

N. Stephen Kane

The Force of Energy: A Business History of The Detroit Edison Company. By Raymond C. Miller. East Lansing, Mich., Michigan State University Press, 1971. Pp. 363. $12.50 pp. 374-375

Rosario J. Tosiello

Ethnic Enterprise in America: Business and Welfare Among Chinese, Japanese, and Blacks. By Ivan H. Light. Berkeley, Cal., University of California Press, 1972. Pp. 209. $7.95 pp. 376-377

Thomas C. Cochran

A Short History of the Mail Service. By Carl H. Scheele. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970. Pp. 250. $6.95 pp. 377-378

Ross M. Robertson

The Coming of Age of American Business: Three Centuries of Enterprise, 1600-1900. By Elisha P. Douglass. Chapel Hill, N.C., University of North Carolina Press, 1971. Pp. xii + 606. $15.00 pp. 379-381

Jack Blicksilver

American Business History. By Herman E. Krooss and Charles Gilbert. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1972. Pp. x + 358. $10.00 pp. 381-382

Harold F. Williamson

The Corporate Economy: Growth, Competition and Innovative Potential. Edited by Robin Marris and Adrian Wood. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. xxvi + 454. $15.00 pp. 382-384

Herman Daems

Hull in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in Economic and Social History. By Gordon Jackson. Oxford, University of Hull Publications, 1972. Pp. xvi + 474. $27.25 pp. 384-386

Francis E. Hyde

Liverpool and the Mersey: An Economic History of a Port, 1700–1970. By Francis E. Hyde. Newton Abbot (England), David & Charles Ltd., 1971 Pp. xvi + 269. £3.50 pp. 386-387

Baron F. Duckham

Aspects of Capital Investment in Great Britain, 1750-1850: A Preliminary Survey. Edited by J. P. P. Higgins and Sidney Pollard. London, Methuen & Co., 1971. Pp. 200. £3.00 pp. 387-389

S. B. Saul

A Cotton Enterprise, 1795-1840: A History of M'Connel and Kennedy, Fine Cotton Spinners. By C. H. Lee. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1972. Pp. 188. £3.00 pp. 389-390

Richard L. Hills

Three Generations in a Family Textile Firm. By Jocelyn Morton. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1971. Pp. xxi + 481. $50.00 pp. 391-392

J. deL. Mann

A L'Aube du Capitalisme et de la Revolution Industrielle: Lieven Bauwens Industriel Gantois. By Fernand Leleux. Paris, S.E.V.P.E.N., 1969. Pp. 375. 41 francs pp. 392-393

Herman Freudenberger

The Correspondence of Lord Overstone. Edited by D. P. O'Brien. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1971. Vols. I, II, III. Pp. Ixxxi + 1548. £29.40 ($85.50 in U.S.A.) pp. 393-395

Frank W. Fetter

Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840. Edited by Donald N. McCloskey. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1971. Pp. xv + 439. $12.50 pp. 395-397

B. R. Mitchell

Partnership and Profit in Medieval Islam. By Abraham L. Udovitch. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1970. Pp. xxii + 282. $10.00 pp. 397-399

Subhi Labib

Florentine Public Finances in the Early Renaissance, 1400–1433. By Anthony Molho. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. ix + 234. $10.50 pp. 400-401

Richard A. Goldthwaite

Capitalism Without Capitalists: The Jains of India and the Quakers of the West. By Balwant Nevaskar. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Publishing Corporation, 1971. Pp. xxii + 235. $11.50 pp. 401-402

Ivan Light

Private Investment in India, 1900-1939. By Amiya Kumar Bagchi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. xii + 482. $19.50 pp. 402-404

Dwijendra Tripathi

Beyond Punjab: 1937-1960. By Prakash Tandon. Berkeley, Cal., University of California Press, 1971. Pp. 222. $6.95 pp. 404-406

Amiya Kumar Bagchi

La Communication dans les Organisations Industrielles: Contributions a L'Etude de la Presse d'Entreprise et Essai de Bibliographie. By Dimitri Weiss. Paris, Sirey, 1971. Pp. 238. 28 francs pp. 406-407

James M. Laux

Australian Economic Development in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Colin Forster. New York, Praeger, 1971. Pp. 334. $11.50 pp. 407-408

Alan Barnard

Volume 46, issue 2, 1972

Anthracite Coal and the Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in the United States* pp. 141-181

Alfred Chandler

Petrobrás: The Politicizing of a State Company, 1953–1964* pp. 182-201

Peter Seaborn Smith

The Development of Diversified and Conglomerate Firms in the United States, 1920–1970 pp. 202-219

Jon Didrichsen

The Relationship of Records Management Activities to the Field of Business History pp. 220-232

Maynard Brichford

Institutional Change and American Economic Growth. By Lance E. Davis and Douglass C. North. London, Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp. viii + 283. $10.95 pp. 236-239

Alfred S. Eichner

Business and Politics in America from the Age of Jackson to the Civil War: The Career Biography of W. W. Corcoran. By Henry Cohen. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Publishing Corporation, 1971. Pp. xvii + 409. $13.50 pp. 239-241

Ralph W. Hidy

Garden in the Grasslands: Boomer Literature of the Central Great Plains. By David M. Emmons. Lincoln, Neb., University of Nebraska Press, 1971. Pp. xi + 220. $10.00 pp. 241-243

Lewis E. Atherton

Portrait of a Port: Boston, 1852–1914. By W. H. Bunting. Cambridge, Mass., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. xviii + 519. $20.00 pp. 243-244

William L. Taylor

A Productive Monopoly: The Effect of Railroad Control on New England Coastal Steamship Lines, 1870–1916. By William Leonhard Taylor. Providence, R.I., Brown University Press, 1970. Pp. xvi + 323. $10.00 pp. 244-246

James P. Baughman

Leland Stanford: Man of Many Careers. By Norman E. Tutorow. Menlo Park, Calif., Pacific Coast Publishers, 1971. Pp. xvi + 317. $9.95 pp. 246-248

Joseph F. Wall

Arthur E. Stilwell: Promoter with a Hunch. By Keith L. BryantJr., Nashville, Tenn., Vanderbilt University Press, 1971. Pp. vii + 256. $10.00 pp. 248-249

E. Dale Odom

Seth Low: The Reformer in an Urban and Industrial Age. By Gerald Kurland. New York, Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1971. Pp. 415. $7.95 pp. 249-250

Melvin I. Urofsky

Joseph Stephen Cullinan: A Study of Leadership in the Texas Petroleum Industry, 1897–1937. By John O. King. Nashville, Tenn., published for the Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association by Vanderbilt University Press, 1970. Pp. ix + 229. $10.95 pp. 251-252

Muriel E. Hidy

Elmer Sperry: Inventor and Engineer. By Thomas Parke Hughes. Baltimore, Md., The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. Pp. xx + 348. $15.00 pp. 252-254

A. Hunter Dupree

Pierre S. Dupont and the Making of the Modern Corporation. By Alfred D. ChandlerJr., and Stephen Salsbury. New York, Harper and Row, 1971. Pp. xii + 722. $17.50 pp. 254-256

Earl F. Cheit

The Credit Union Movement: Origins and Development, 1850–1970. By J. Carroll Moody and Gilbert C. Fite. Lincoln, Neb., University of Nebraska Press, 1971. Pp. ix + 369. $9.50 pp. 256-257

Herman E. Krooss

TVA and the Power Fight, 1933–1939. By Thomas K. McCraw. New York, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1971. Pp. ix + 201. $5.95 pp. 257-259

Ellis W. Hawley

Pipeline: Transcanada and the Great Debate — a History of Business and Politics. By William Kilbourn. Toronto, Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970. Pp. xiii + 222. $7.95 pp. 259-261

John L. Loos

The Development of the Factory. By Jennifer Tann. London, Cornmarket Press, 1970. Pp. 175. $36.00 pp. 261-262

Herman Freudenberger

The Cloth Industry in the West of England from 1640 to 1880. By J. de L. Mann. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971. Pp. xviii + 371. £3.50 pp. 262-264

David J. Jeremy

The Portugal Trade: A Study of Anglo-Portuguese Commerce, 1700–1770. By H. E. S. Fisher. London, Methuen, 1971. Distributed in the U.S. by Barnes & Noble. Pp. xviii + 171. $9.50 pp. 264-266

Ralph Davis

The Decline of Inland Bills of Exchange in the London Money Market, 1855–1913. By Shizuya Nishimura. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp. viii + 134. $12.50 pp. 266-267

J. Keith Horsefield

Britain's Railways: An Industrial History. By Harold Pollins. Totowa, N.J., Rowman and Littlefield, 1971. Pp. 223. $11.00 pp. 267-269

R. J. Irving

The Weir Group: A Centenary History. By W. J. Reader. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. Pp. x + 238. £3.00 pp. 269-270

Wray Vamplew

Miners & Merchants in Bourbon Mexico, 1763–1810. By D. A. Brading. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp. xvii + 382. $16.50 pp. 270-271

Robert A. Potash

A Yankee Merchant in Goldrush Australia: The Letters of George Francis Train, 1853–55. Edited by E. Daniel and Annette Potts. Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia PTY Ltd., 1970. Pp. xxx + 204. $12.83 pp. 272-274

Sydney J. Butlin

The Land Question and the Irish Economy, 1870–1903. By Barbara Lewis Solow. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. ix + 247. $8.50 pp. 274-275

Kieran A. Kennedy

Karl Helfferich, 1872–1924: Economist, Financier, Politician. By John G. Williamson. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1971. Pp. xviii + 439. $13.50 pp. 275-276

Eugene C. McCreary

Fascism and the Industrial Leadership in Italy, 1919–1940: A Study in the Expansion of Private Power Under Fascism. By Roland Sarti. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1971. Pp. xii + 154. $8.00 pp. 276-278

Robert Wohl

Volume 46, issue 1, 1972

Taylorism Versus Welfare Work in American Industry: H. L. Gantt and the Bancrofts pp. 1-16

Daniel Nelson and Stuart Campbell

The Organizational Dimension of United States Economic Foreign Policy, 1900-1920 pp. 17-44

Burton I. Kaufman

The Cherokee Oil and Gas Co., 1889-1902: Indian Sovereignty and Economic Change* pp. 45-66

H. Craig Miner

Structural and Labor Productivity Patterns in United States Manufacturing, 1849-1899 pp. 67-84

Albert W. Niemi

Laws to Encourage Manufacturing: New York Policy and the 1811 General Incorporation Statute* pp. 85-95

Ronald E. Seavoy

Sovereignty at Bay: The Multinational Spread of U.S. Enterprises. By Raymond Vernon. New York, Basic Books, 1971. Pp. x + 236. $8.50 pp. 98-100

Edith Penrose

The Chemical Industry, 1900-1930: International Growth and Technological Change. By L. F. Haber. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xii + 452. $19.25 pp. 100-102

Mira Wilkins

Silent Surrender: The American Economic Empire in Canada. By Kari Levitt. New York, Liveright, 1971. Pp. xvii + 185. $2.75 pp. 102-103

Raymond Vernon

Approaches to American Economic History. Edited by George Rogers Taylor and Lucius F. Ellsworth. Charlottesville, Va., published for the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation by the University Press of Virginia, 1971. Pp. xiv + 135. $7.50 pp. 103-105

Glenn Porter

American Economic and Business History: A Guide to Information Sources. By Robert W. Lovett. Detroit, Mich., Gale Research Co., 1971. Pp. 323. $14.50 pp. 105-106

Henrietta M. Larson

Business in American History. By Scott D. Walton. Columbus, Ohio, Grid, Inc., 1971. Pp. viii + 199. $5.95 pp. 106-106

Harold F. Williamson

Economic Beginnings in Colonial South Carolina, 1670-1730. By Converse D. Clowse. Columbia, S.C., University of South Carolina Press, 1971. Pp. ix + 283. $6.95 pp. 107-108

Peter H. Wood

The Legitimacy of the Business Corporation in the Law of the United States, 1780-1970. By James Willard Hurst. Charlottesville, Va., University Press of Virginia, 1970. Pp. xiii + 191. $6.50 pp. 108-110

Harry N. Scheiber

New Orleans, 1718-1812: An Economic History. By John G. Clark. Baton Rouge, La., Louisiana State University Press, 1970. Pp. xii + 395. $10.00 pp. 110-112

Lucius F. Ellsworth

Merchants and Manufacturers: Studies in the Changing Structure of Nineteenth-Century Marketing. By Glenn Porter and Harold C. Livesay. Baltimore, Md., Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. Pp. x + 257. $11.50 pp. 112-114

Glenn Porter

The Curbstone Brokers: The Origins of the American Stock Exchange. By Robert Sobel. New York, Macmillan, 1970. Pp. xv + 296. $7.95 pp. 114-116

Samuel Hayes

Paternalism and Protest: Southern Cotton Mill Workers and Organized Labor, 1875-1905. By Melton Alonza McLaurin. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Publishing Corp., 1971. Pp. xviii + 265. $11.00 pp. 116-117

S. Mary Oates

The Depletion Myth: A History of Railroad Use of Timber, By Sherry H. Olson. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. xvi + 228. $9.00 pp. 118-119

David C. Smith

A Mind of One Piece: Brandeis and American Reform. By Melvin I. Urofsky. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Pp. xiii + 210. $10.00 pp. 120-121

Arthur S. Link

History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey): New Horizons, 1927-1950. By Henrietta M. Larson, Evelyn H. Knowlton, and Charles S. Popple. New York, Harper & Row, 1971. Pp. xxv + 945. $12.50 pp. 121-123

Arthur M. Johnson

The Road and the Car in American Life. By John B. Rae. Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press, 1971. Pp. xiv + 390. $12.00 pp. 123-124

James J. Flink

The Automobile Industry Since 1945. By Lawrence J. White. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. xii + 348. $12.00 pp. 124-126

John B. Rae

Studies in the Medieval Wine Trade. By Margery Kirkbride James. Edited by Elspeth M. Veale, with an Introduction by E. M. Carus-Wilson. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971. Pp. xiv + 232. $13.00 pp. 126-127

G. V. Scammell

The Industrial Revolution. Edited by R. M. Hartwell. New York, Barnes & Noble, 1970. Pp. x+ 179. $7.25 pp. 128-129

B. R. Mitchell

Henry Wansey and His American Journal, 1794. Edited by David John Jeremy. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 82. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1970. Pp. xvii + 186. $7.00 pp. 129-130

Carroll Pursell

Grimsby and the Haven Company. By Gordon Jackson. Grimsby Public Libraries, 1971. Pp. x + 101. £1.00 pp. 130-132

Sheila Marriner

The Inter-War Economy: Britain, 1919-1939. By Derek H. Aldcroft. New York, Columbia University Press, 1970. Pp. 441. $12.50 pp. 132-133

William Ashworth

The Amalgamated Engineers in Australia, 1852-1920. By K. D. Buckley. Canberra, Australian National University, 1970. Pp. x + 318. $Aust. 5.00 pp. 133-135

W. A. Sinclair

Steeped in Two Cultures: A Selection of Essays Written by Fritz Redlich. New York, Harper & Row, 1971. Pp. xviii + 430. $9.00 pp. 135-135

Anonymous

Voraussetzungen und Entwicklungslinien von Wirtschaftsarchiven bis zum zweiten Weltkrieg. By Klara van Eyll. (Schriften zur rheinisch-westfälischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 20). Köln (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv) 1969, Pp. 224. DM 19 pp. 136-137

Jürgen Kocka

The Russian Factory in the Nineteenth Century. By Mikhail I. Tugan-Baranovsky, trans. by Arthur and Claora Levin, under the supervision of Gregory Grossman. Homewood, Ill., Richard D. Irwin, 1970. Pp. xviii + 474. $8.75 pp. 137-139

John P. McKay