The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 57, issue 4, 1997

The European Grain Invasion, 1870–1913 pp. 775-801

Kevin O'Rourke

Trade Wars: Canada's Reaction to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff pp. 802-826

Judith A. McDonald, Anthony Patrick O'Brien and Colleen M. Callahan

Matching Supply to Demand: Crop Production and Disposal by English Demesnes in the Century of the Black Death pp. 827-858

Bruce M. S. Campbell

The Check Tax: Fiscal Folly and the Great Monetary Contraction pp. 859-878

William Lastrapes and Grorge Selgin

The Rising Share of British Industrial Exports in Industrial Output, 1700–1851 pp. 879-906

Javier Cuenca Esteban

The Determinants of the Wealth and Asset Holding in Nineteenth-Century Canada: Evidence from Microdata pp. 907-934

Livio Di Matteo

Endogenous Growth or “Big Bang”: Two views of the First Industrial Revolution pp. 935-949

David Greasley and Les Oxley

Endogenous Innovation, Trend Growth, and the British Industrial Revolution: Reply to Greasley and Oxley pp. 950-956

Nicholas Crafts and Terence C. Mills

Endogenous Growth, Trend Output, and the Industrial Revolution: Reply to Crafts and Mills pp. 957-960

David Greasley and Les Oxley

Modern Europe - Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century Edinbuigh. By Elizabeth C. Sanderson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 236. $55.00 pp. 963-964

Joyce Burnette

The Lancashire Cotton Industry: A History Since 1700. Edited by Mary Rose. Preston: Lancashire County Books, 1996. Pp. xii, 404. £24.95, cloth; £14.95, paper pp. 964-965

Tim Leunig

Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763–1815. By Ken Alder. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 476. $59.50 pp. 965-967

Daniel R. Headrick

Science, Technology and the British Industrial “Decline” 1870–1970. By David Edgerton. New Studies in Economic and Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, for the Economic History Society, 1996. Pp. vii, 88. $29.95, cloth; $9.95, paper pp. 967-968

Ian Inkster

Sweden and the European Miracles; Conquest, Growth and Voice: A Survey of Problems and Theories. By Erik Emilsson. Goteborg: Goteborg University, 1996. Pp. v, 142 pp. 968-969

Lars G. Sandberg

Southern Slavery and the Law: 1619–1860. By Thomas D. Morris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 575. $49.95 pp. 969-970

Dean Lueck

The American Century: The Rise and Decline of the United States as a World Power. By Donald W. White. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 551. $35.00 pp. 970-972

Robert Higgs

The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal during the Roaring Twenties. By Jules Tygiel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. ix, $15.95, paper pp. 972-973

Paul Rhode

Fordism, Flexibility, and Regional Productivity Growth. By Richard A. Matthews. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. Pp. xvii, 259. $59.00 pp. 973-974

Louis Cain

Poverty and Power. The Political Representation of Poor Americans. By Douglas R. Imig. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 159. $37.50 pp. 974-976

Alic O'Connor

Rewarding Work: How to Restore Participation and Self-Support to Free Enterprise. By Edmund S. Phelps. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 198. $24.95 pp. 976-977

Peter Temin

The Banking Panics of the Great Depression. By Elmus Wicker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 174. $39.95 pp. 977-978

David Wheelock

Economic Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform. Edited by Henry J. Aaron and William G. Gale. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1996. Pp. xvii, 521. $52.49, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 978-980

Jane G. Gravelle

General and Miscellaneous - The Economics of New Goods. Edited by Timothy F. Bresnahan and Robert J. Gordon. Studies in Income and Wealth. Volume 58. Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1997. Pp. x, 494. $75.00 pp. 980-982

Richard Easterlin

International Monetary Cooperation since Bretton Woods. By Harold James. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 742. $45.00 pp. 982-983

Anna J. Schwartz

The Global Impact of the Great Depression. By Dietmar Rothermund. London: Routledge, 1996. Pp. ix, 180. £40.00, cloth; £11.99, paper pp. 983-985

Rick Szostak

Child Labour in Historical Perspective 1800–1985: Case Studies From Europe, Japan and Colombia. Edited by Hugh Cunningham and Pier Paolo Viazzo. Italy: UNICEF International Child Development Centre, 1996. Pp. 105. $9.00 pp. 985-986

Carolyn Tuttle

Empirical Studies in Institutional Change. Edited by Lee J. Alston, Thráinn Eggertsson, and Douglass C. North. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 360. $64.95, cloth; $22.95, paper pp. 986-988

Shawn Kantor

Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to the Present. Edited by Patrick Murray. New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. xiv, 486. $75.00, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 988-988

Gordon Tullock

Volume 57, issue 3, 1997

Standards of the Present for People of the Past: Height, Weight, and Mortality among Men of Amherst College, 1834–1949 pp. 585-606

John E. Murray

When the Tide Turned: Immigration and the Delay of the Great Black Migration pp. 607-632

Wiiliam J. Collins

Without Coal in the Age of Steam: A Factor-Endowment Explanation of the Italian Industrial Lag Before World War I pp. 633-653

Carlo Bardini

Rent Control and Virtual Prices: A Case Study for Interwar Belgium pp. 654-673

Leon Bettendorf and Erik Buyst

Profit Differentials Between Canadian and U.S. Commercial Banks: the Role of Regulation pp. 674-696

Mark Nichols and Jill M. Hendrickson

Greenback-Gold Returns and Expectations of Resumption, 1862–1879 pp. 697-717

Gregor W. Smith and R. Todd Smith

The New Institutional Economics and Economic History pp. 718-721

Gary D. Libecap

Medieval and Early Modern Europe - Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter. By Maryanne Kowaleski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 442 pp. 723-724

Mavis Mate

Medieval Southwark. By Martha Carlin. London: Hambledon Press, 1996. Pp, xxiii, 351. $55.00 pp. 724-725

Stephen Rigby

The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century. By William Chester Jordan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. 318. $29.95 pp. 725-726

Bruce M. S. Campbell

Women and Property in Early Modern England. By Amy Louise Enkson. London: Routledge, 1995. Pp. xiii, 306. $17.95 pp. 726-727

Leslie Moscow

European Women and Preindustrial Craft. Edited by Daryl M. Hafter. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. xv, 204. $29.95, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 727-728

Judith G. Coffin

Modern Europe - The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700–1920: The Politics of Deindustrialization. By Christopher H. Johnson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 307. $60.00 pp. 729-730

Tessie P. Liu

L'or du monde: La France et la stabilité du systéme monétaire international 1848–1873. By Marc Flandreau. Etudes d'economie politique. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 1995. Pp. 367. 190FF pp. 730-732

Angela Redish

After the Famine. Irish Agriculture, 1850–1914. By Michael Turner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press1996. Pp. xv, 313. $54.95 pp. 732-734

Timothy W. Guinnane

British Population in the Twentieth Century. By N. L. Tranter. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 172. $49.95 pp. 734-735

Paul Huck

The Belgian Economy in the Twentieth Century. By André Mommen. Contemporary Economic History of Europe. London: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xxx, 266. $74.95 pp. 735-736

Peter Scholliers

Italian Industrialists from Liberalism to Fascism: The Political Development of the Industrial Bourgeoisie, 1906–1934. By Franklin Hugh Adler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 458 pp. 736-738

Brian A'Hearn

Russian Corporate Capitalism from Peter the Great to Perestroika. By Thomas C. Owen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 259. $55.00 pp. 738-739

Martin C. Spechler

An Economic History of Russia 1856–1914. By W. E. Mosse. New York: I. B. Tauris, 1996. Pp. xii, 298. $19.95 pp. 739-740

Colin White

Labour's Reward: Real Wages and Economic Change in 19th and 20th Century Europe. Edited by Peter Scholliers and Zamagni Vera. Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995, Pp. xvii, 300. $84.95 pp. 740-741

Arthur Van Riel

Europe's Postwar Recovery. Edited by Barry Eichengreen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 357. $ 49.95 pp. 742-743

Ludger Lindlar

Australia and the Pacific - Aboriginal Labour and the Cattle Industry: Queensland from White Settlement to the Present. By Dawn May. Studies in Australian History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 242. $59.95 pp. 743-744

Geoffrey Bolton

Land, Custom and Practice in the South Pacfic. Edited by R. Gerard Ward and Kingdon Elizabeth. Melbourne: University of Cambridge Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 290. $59.95 pp. 745-746

Deryck Scarr

Agricultural Growth in Indonesia: Productivity Change and Policy Impact Since 1880. By Pierre van der Eng. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 375. $79.95 pp. 746-747

Summer J. La Croix

United States and Canada - Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth. By Marc Egnal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 300. $45.00, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 747-749

Avner Greif

The Politics of Power. Ontario Hydro and its Government, 1906–1995. By Neil B. Freeman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 252. $55.00, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 749-750

William M. Emmons

Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century. By Gerhard J. Ens. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 268. $55.00, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 750-751

Ann Carlos

Memories of Migration: Gender Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives of Jewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870–1924. By Kathie Friedman-Kasaba. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 214. $19.95 pp. 751-753

Jennifer M. Guglielmo

African American Entrepreneurship in Richmond, 1870–1940. The Story of R. C. Snow. By Michael A. Plater. New York: Garland Publishnig, Inc., 1996 Pp. xxiii, 191. $49.00 pp. 753-754

Gerald Gunderson

Mexicans in the Midwest: 1900–1932. By Juan R. Garcia. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. Pp. x, 292. $39.95 pp. 754-755

Mary Eschelbach Gregson

Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. By Anne Kelly Knowles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii, 330. $24.95 pp. 756-757

John E. Murray

Modern Housing in America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. By Gail Radford. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. x, 273. $45.00, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 757-758

Alexander Field

Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890–1950. By James P. Kraft. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 255. $35.00 pp. 758-759

Robert Whaples

Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut. By Edward S. CookeJr. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 295. $45.00 pp. 760-761

Winifred B. Rothenberg

A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad. By John Hoyt Williams. New York: Times Books, 1988. Reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Pp. 341. $17.50 pp. 761-762

Douglas J. Puffert

Stability in the Financial System. Edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou. London: Macmillan Press, and New York: St. Martin’ Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 441. $79.95 pp. 762-763

Lawrence White

The Ownership of Enterprise. By Henry Hansmann. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 372. $39.95 pp. 763-764

Douglas Allen

The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America. By William J. Novak. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 396. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 765-766

Ronald N. Johnson

The Caribbean - West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan. Edited by Roderick A. McDonald. Kingston, Jamaica: The Press-University of the West Indies, 1996. Pp. xvi, 388. $20.00 pp. 766-767

David Eltis

Economic Thought - A Soaring Eagle: Alfred Marshall, 1842–1924. By Peter Groenewegen. Aldershot: Edward Alger, 1995. Pp. x, 874. $89.95 pp. 767-768

Alon Kadish

General and Miscellaneous - Growth Triumphant; the Twenty-First Century in Historical Perspective. By Richard A. Easterlin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 200. $37.50 pp. 768-770

William N. Parker

Rich Nations—Poor Nations. The Long-Run Perspective. Edited by Derek H. Aldcroft and Ross E. Catterall. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996. Pp. xiii, 226. - The Course of Human History: Economic Growth, Social Process, and Civilization. By Johan Goudsblom, Eric Jones, and Stephen Mennell. Sources and Studies in World History. London and New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. Pp. viii, 156. $46.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 770-772

Vera Zamagni

Gifts and Commodities: Exchange and Western Capitalism Since 1700. By James G. Carrier. London: Routledge, 1995. Pp. xvi, 240. £45.00 pp. 772-773

Ben Fine

The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy. Edited by Sanford M. Jacoby. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, Pp. xii, 231. $39.95 pp. 773-774

Michael Huberman

Volume 57, issue 2, 1997

Is it Kosher to Talk about Culture? pp. 267-287

Peter Temin

Agricultural Seasonalily and the Organization of Manufacturing in Early Industrial Economies: The Contrast Between England and the United States pp. 288-321

Kenneth L. Sokoloff and David Dollar

Failed Cooperation in Heterogeneous Industries Under the National Recovery Administration pp. 322-344

Barbara Alexander

In the Absence of Domestic Currency: Debased European Coinage in the Seventeenth–Century Ottoman Empire pp. 345-366

Sevket Pamuk

Monetary Populism in Nineteenth-Century America: An Open Economy Interpretation pp. 367-395

Jeffry Frieden

The Effects of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 on the Southern Seamless Hosiery and Lumber Industries pp. 396-415

Andrew J. Seltzer

Institutions and Economic Growth: The Politics of Productivity in West Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, 1945–1955 pp. 416-444

Alan Booth, Joseph Melling and Christoph Dartmann

A Revolution Too Many? pp. 476-480

John Majewski

The Legislated Adjustment of Labor Disputes: An Empirical Analysis, 1880 to 1894 pp. 481-484

Joshua Gotkin

Progress Amid Poverty: Economic Opportunity in Antebellum Newburyport pp. 484-488

Steven Herscovici

Law, Emerging Techonology, and Market Structure: The Developement of the Telegraph Industry, 1838–1868 pp. 488-490

Tomas Nonnenmacher

Exchange Rate Regime Choice and Economic Performance in the Interwar Years pp. 491-493

David Cowen

Capital Markets in the Coffee Economy: Economic Growth and Institutional Change in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850–1905 pp. 493-496

Anne G. Hanley

Time Use in Eighteenth-Century London: Some Evidence from the Old Bailey pp. 497-499

Hans-Joachim Voth

Comments on Gotkin, Herscovici, and Nonnenmacher pp. 500-505

Joshua Rosenbloom

Comments on Cowen, Hanley, and Voth pp. 505-509

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 510-521

Anonymous

Medieval and Early Modern - English Society in the Later Middle Ages: Class, Status and Gender. By S. H. Rigby. London: Macmillan, 1995. Pp. xii, 408. $14.95, paper pp. 527-528

Kathleen Biddick

The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: New Perspectives on the Economic and Social History of Seventeenth-Century Spain. Edited by I. A. A. Thompson and Bartolomé Yun Casalilla. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 328. $64.95 pp. 528-530

Akira Motomura

The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England. By Richard Grassby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxx, 615 pp. 530-531

David Harris Sacks

Growth in a Traditional Society. The French Countryside, 1450–1815. By Philip T. Hoffman. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1996. Pp. xiv, 361. $39.50 pp. 531-533

George Grantham

Modern Europe - Russian Overseas Commerce with Great Britain During the Reign of Catherine II. By Herbert H. Kaplan. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 218. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1995. Pp. xxxi, 309. $40.00 pp. 533-534

George E. Munro

The History of the Distillers Company, 1877–1939. By R. B. Weir. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 417. $80.00 pp. 534-536

George Robb

Reconciliation of National Income and Expenditure: Balanced Estimates of National Income for the United Kingdom, 1920–1990. By James Sefton and Martin Weale. Studies in the National Income and Expenditure of the United Kingdom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 323 pp. 536-537

Stephen Broadberry

Slow Train to Paradise: How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads. By Augustus J. VeenendaalJr. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 350. $45.00 pp. 537-538

Robert P. Swierenga

Wages, Manufacturers and Workers in the Nineteenth-Century Factory. The Voortman Cotton Mill in Ghent. By Peter Scholliers. Oxford, Washington DC: Berg Publishers. 1996. Pp xiv, 256. $45.95 pp. 538-539

Vincent Tassenaar

Vier Eeuwen Turfwinning: De verveningen in Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe en Overijssel tussen 1550 en 1950. By M. A. W. Gerding. A. A. G. Bijdragen, 35. Wageningen: Afdeling Agrarische Geschiedenis, Landbouwuniversiteit, 1995. Pp. 533 pp. 539-540

Richard W. Unger

Industrial Constructions: The Sources of German Industrial Power. By Gary Herrigel.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 480 pp. 541-542

Caroline Fohlin

Spanish Agriculture. The Long Siesta, 1765–1965. By James Simpson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 316. $30.00 pp. 542-543

Francesco L. Galassi

Spain, Europe and the “Spanish Miracle,” 1700–1900. By David Ringrose. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 439. $64.95 pp. 543-545

Joseph Harrison

Technological Development and Industrial Exhibitions, 1850–1914: Sweden in An International Perspective. By Göran Ahlström. Lund: Lund University Press, 1996. Pp. 251 pp. 545-546

Kristine Bruland

The Force of Labour: The Western European Labour Movement and the Working Class in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Stefan Berger and David Broughton. Oxford: Berg, 1995. Pp. xvi, 286. $39.95 pp. 546-547

Joyce Burnette

Banking Currency, and Finance in Europe Between the Wars. Edited by Charles H. Feinstein. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995, Pp. xviii, 536 pp. 547-548

Youssef Cassis

Latin America - Peasants and Tobacco in the Dominican Republic, 1870–1930. By Michiel Baud. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995. Pp. x, 326 pp. 549-550

Avi Chomsky

West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870–1940. By Aviva Chomsky. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 302. $35.00 pp. 550-551

Michiel Baud

Asia - China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism. By Hill Gates. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 326 pp. 552-553

Melissa Macauley

Japanese Banking: A History, 1859–1959. By Norio Tamaki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxii, 289. $54.95 pp. 553-554

William M. Tsutsui

Firms and Industrial Organization in Japan. By Yoshiro Miwa. New York: New York University Press, 1996, Pp. x, 312, $45.00 pp. 554-556

Yishay Yafeh

United States and Canada - Native Americans and Wage Labor: Ethnohistorical Perspectives. Edited by Alice Littlefield and Martha C. Knack. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Pp. x, 351. $32.95 pp. 556-557

Mary Young

The CIO, 1930–1955. By Robert H. Zieger. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 491. $39.95 pp. 557-558

Gerald Friedman

The American Labor Movement, 1955–1995. By Walter Galenson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. x, 171. $49.95 pp. 558-559

Robert H. Zieger

The Local State: Public Money and American Cities. By Eric H. Monkonnen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 191. $39.50 pp. 559-561

Joun Wallis

Principle and Interest. Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt. By Herbert E. Sloan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp viii, 377. $4500 pp. 561-562

Richard R. John

Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. By James T. Patterson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 829. $35.00 pp. 562-564

Brian Balogh

The American Economy: The Struggle for Supremacy in the 21st Century. By Nicolas Spulber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 286. $34.95 pp. 564-565

Joseph Michael Finger

Trade and the American Dream: A Social History of Postwar Trade Policy. By Susan A. Aaronson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Pp. xvii, 262. $45.00, cloth; $15.95, paper pp. 565-566

Douglas Irwin

The South as an American Problem. Edited by Larry H. Griffin and Don H. Doyle. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 310. $29.95 pp. 566-567

Robert Tracy McKenzie

Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands. By William D. Rowley. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 199. $27.50 pp. 568-569

Mark Kanazawa

Reforming the Health Care Market: An Interpretive Economic History. By David F. Drake. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1994. Pp. Xv, 224. $42.50, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 569-570

William D. White

America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound. By Andre Millard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.ix, 413. $59.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 570-571

William S. Pretzer

The Evolution of the Airline Industry. By Steven A. Morrison and Clifford Winston. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995. Pp. xii, 169. $28.95, cloth; $10.95, paper pp. 571-573

F. Robert van der Linden

Dollars Through The Doors: A Pre-1930 History of Bank Marketing in America. By Richard N. Germain. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. x, 224. $59.95 pp. 573-574

David Wheelock

Store Wars: Shopkeepers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890–1939. By David Monod. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 438. $55.00, cloth; $22.95, paper pp. 574-575

Michael Miller

La sidérurgie dans le monde rural: Les hauts fourneaux du Québec au XIXe sièlce. By René Hardy. Quebec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1995. Pp. xi, 303. $30.00 pp. 575-576

Michael Huberman

Volume 57, issue 1, 1997

Storage and English Government Intervention in Early Modern Grain Markets pp. 1-33

Randall Nielsen

The Immigrant Assimilation Puzzle in Late Nineteenth-Centuty America pp. 34-62

Timothy J. Hatton

Two Views of the British Industrial Revolution pp. 63-82

Peter Temin

African and European Bound Labor in the British New World: The Biological Consequences of Economic Choices pp. 83-115

Philip Coelho and Robert A. McGuire

The Decline in Southern Agricultural Output, 1860–1880 pp. 116-138

Garland L. Brinkley

Delivering Coal by Road and Rail in Britain: The Efficiency of the “Silly Little Bobtailed” Coal Wagons pp. 139-160

Va Nee L. Van Vleck

The Political Instability of Reciprocal Trade and the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom pp. 161-189

Sumner La Croix and Christopher Grandy

Individualism Transformed pp. 190-195

Larry G. Gerber

Searching for Consistency in Historical Data: Alternate Estimates of Russia’s Industrial Production, 1887–1913 pp. 196-202

Paul R. Gregory

Early Modern Europe - Germany: A New Social and Economic History. Volume 1. 1450–1630. Edited by Bob Scribner. London: Arnold, 1996. Pp. xiv, 399. $59.95, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 210-211

Terence McIntosh

Reforma y Fraude Fiscal en el Reinado de Carlos II: La Sala de Millones (1658–1700). By Beatriz Cárceles de Gea. Servicio de Estudios, Estudios de Historia Económica, No. 31. Madrid: Banco de Españna, 1995. Pp. 154 pp. 211-213

Philip Keefer

Tobacco in Atlantic Trade. By Jacob M. Price. Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1995. Pp. xii, 316. $82.50 pp. 213-213

Louis P. Cain

Modern Europe - The Rothschilds: Essays on the History of a European Family. Edited by Georg Heuberger. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, Ltd, 1994. Pp. 420. $63.00 pp. 214-216

Daniel Gutwein

British Business History, 1720–1994. By John F. Wilson. Manchester and New York: University of Manchester Press, 1995. Pp. x, 276. $69.95, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 216-217

R. Millward

Bread and the British Economy, c1700–1870. By Christian Petersen. Edited by Andrew Jenkins. Aldershot, Hampshire: Scolar Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 346. $84.95 pp. 217-218

Carole Shammas

From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790–1870. By David R. Green. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 298. $76.95 pp. 218-219

Gillian Hamilton

The Voluntary Sector, the State, and Social Work in Britain: The Charity Organisation Society/Family Welfare Association since 1869. By Jane Lewis. Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1995. Pp. viii, 189 pp. 220-221

Dawn Saunders

Power and the Professions in Britain, 1700–1850. By Penelope J. Corfield. London: Routledge, 1995. Pp. x, 269. £45.00, $79.95 pp. 221-222

Harold Perkin

The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist, 1843–1893. By Ruth Dudley Edwards. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 1020. $49.95 pp. 222-223

Hugh Rockoff

The First Teenagers: The Lifestyle of Young Wage-Earners in Interwar Britain. By David Fowler. London: The Woburn Press, 1995. Pp. x, 212. $35.00 pp. 223-225

Joan Perkin

China and Japan - Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries (translation of Les aspects economiques du bouddhisme dan la societe chinoise du Ve au Xe siecle by Franciscus Verellen). By Jacques Gernet. Columbia University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 435. $42.50 pp. 225-226

R. Bin Wong

Native Place, City, and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853–1937. By Bryna Goodman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 367. $48.00 pp. 227-228

R. Keith Schoppa

Agricultural Instability in China, 1931–1991: Weather; Technology, and Institutions. By Y. Y. Kueh. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, Pp. xxv, 387. $75.00 pp. 228-229

Dwayne Benjamin

The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy. By Christopher Howe. London: Hurst and Company, 1996. Pp. xxvii, 471. $39.50 pp. 229-231

Yasukichi Yasuba

Africa and the Middle East - African Market Women and Economic Power: The Role of Women in African Economic Development. Edited by Bessie House-Midamba and Felix K. Ekechi. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, Number 174. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. xix, 214. $59.95 pp. 231-232

Jane I. Guyer

The Building of an Empire: Italian Land Policy and Practice in Ethiopia 1935–1941. By Haile M. Larebo. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xxvii, 350. $69.00 pp. 232-233

Daniel Ayana

State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire. Agrarian Power Relations and Regional Economic Development in Ottoman Anatolia during the Sixteenth Century. By Huri Islamoglu-Inan. The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, Volume 1. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994. Pp. xvii, 293 pp. 234-235

Gad G. Gilbar

The Caribbean - Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment, the Political Economy of the Caribbean World. By Arthur L. Stinchcombe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 361. $45.00 pp. 235-236

Mary Turner

The United States and Canada - Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South. By Alex Lichtenstein. London: Verso, 1996. Pp. xix, 264. $18.95 paper pp. 237-238

Eric Arnesen

Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. Vol. 1, Commerce and Compromise, 1820–1850. By John Ashworth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 520. $64.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 238-239

Stanley L. Engerman

Working People of Calfornia. Edited by Daniel Cornford. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. x, 493. $50.00, cloth; $18.00, paper pp. 239-240

Daniel Jacoby

The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917–1942. By Gwendolyn Mink. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 198. $27.50 pp. 241-242

Cecilia A. Conrad

America Unequal. By Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. 220. $26.00 pp. 242-243

Joyce Burnette

Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925–1985. By Robert E. WeemsJr. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 158. $35.00 pp. 243-244

Margaret Levenstein

Beyond Labor’s Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor. By Robert E. Weir, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. Pp. xx, 343. $55.00, cloth; $22.50, paper pp. 245-246

David Witwer

William Cooper’s Twon: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic. By Alan Taylor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Pp. 549. $35.00 pp. 246-247

David Hancock

Strictly Business: Walter Carpenter at Du Pont and General Motors. By Charles W. Cheape. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xix, 309. $48.50 pp. 247-248

David A. Hounshell

Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution: The Holland Land Purchase. By Charles E. Brooks. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 239. $42.50 pp. 248-250

Thomas Summerhill

The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831–1915: A Study in American Industrial Practice. By John K. Brown. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xxxii, 328. $35.95 pp. 250-251

Steven W. Usselman

The Jeffersonian Dream: Studies in the History of American Land Policy and Development. By Paul W. Gates and edited by Allan G. Bogue and Margaret Beattie Bogue. Historians of the Frontier and American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press with the University of New Mexico Center for the American West, 1996. Pp. xx, 172. $42.50 pp. 251-252

David O. Whitten

American Trade Policy, 1923–1995. By Edward S. Kaplan. Contributions in Economics and Economic History, No. 172. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. x, 176. $55.00 pp. 252-253

Douglas Irwin

Social Science in the Crucible: The American Debate Over Objectivity and Purpose, 1918–1941. By Mark C. Smith. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994. Pp. 353. $49.95, cloth; $15.95, paper pp. 253-254

Roger Cryan

The Worst Tax? A History of the Property Tax in America. By Glenn W. Fisher. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp. x, 245. $35.00 pp. 254-256

Steven Sheffrin

Gas Pipelines and the Emergence of America's Regulatory State: A History of Panhandle Eastern Corporation, 1928–1993. By Christopher J. Castaneda and Clarance M. Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xx, 296. $39.95 pp. 256-257

Werner Troesken

Illegal Tender: Counterfeiting and the Secret Service in Nineteenth-Century America. By David R. Johnson. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 222. $29.95 pp. 257-258

Michael J. Haupert

Economic Thought - Work and Welfare: The Social Costs of Labor in the History of Economic Thought. Donald R. Stabile. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 224. $59.95 pp. 258-259

Robert L. Bennett

General and Miscellaneous - The New Economics of Human Behavior. Edited by Mariano Tommasi and Kathryn Ierulli. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 238. $17.95 pp. 259-260

Robert Margo

Technology and Industrial Progress: The Foundations of Economic Growth. By G. N. von Tunzelmann. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995. Pp. xiv, 532. $94.95 pp. 261-262

Christine MacLeod

Civilizations and World Systems: Studying World-Historical Change. Edited by Stephen K. Sanderson. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 1995. Pp. 324. $46.00, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 262-263

Philip Coelho

Structure and Strategy of Small and Medium Size Enterprises since the Industrial Revolution. Edited by Margrit Mueller. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994, Pp. 225. 66 DM pp. 263-264

John Nye

International Monetary Systems in Historical Perspective. By Jaime Reis. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 288, $ 75.00 pp. 264-266

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