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Volume 56, issue 4, 1996

Who Financed the Transportation Revolution? Regional Divergence and Internal Improvements in Antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia pp. 763-788

John Majewski

The Debasement Puzzle: An Essay on Medieval Monetary History pp. 789-808

Arthur J. Rolnick, Francois Velde and Warren Weber

The Durable Experiment: State Insurance of Workers' Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century pp. 809-836

Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor

Changes in the Cyclical Behavior of Real Wage Rates, 1870–1990 pp. 837-861

Christopher Hanes

The French Crime of 1873: An Essay on the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1870–1880 pp. 862-897

Marc Flandreau

Ancient and Early Modern Europe - Economic Structures of Antiquity. By Morris Silver. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. xxiv, 264. $59.95 pp. 929-930

Martin Bailey

On the Shoulders of Merchants: Exchange and the Mathematical Conception of Nature in Early Modem Europe. By Richard W. Hadden. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Pp. xviii, 191 pp. 930-931

Theodore M. Porter

Small Towns in Early Modem Europe. Edited by Peter Clark. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 310. $59.95 pp. 931-932

Christopher Dyer

The Origins of Middle-Class Culture: Halifax, Yorkshire, 1660–1780. By John Smail. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. xvi, 241 pp. 932-934

Albion M. Urdank

Modern Europe - The Bank of England: Money, Power, and Influence, 1694–1994. Edited by Richard Roberts and David Kynaston. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 315. $35.00 pp. 934-935

D. E. Moggridge

Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834–1922. By David Northrup. New York: University of Cambridge Press, 1995, Pp. v, 186. $49.95, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 935-936

Farley Grubb

Buliding in Britain: The Origins of a Modern Industry. By Akira Satoh. English edition by Ralph Morton. Aldershot: Scolar Press, Pp. xvi, 316. $76.95 pp. 936-938

Michael Ball

Business Enterprise in Modern Britain from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century. Edited by Maurice W. Kirby and Mary B. Rose. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xii, 378. $39.95 pp. 938-939

Paul Robertson

At the End of the Road: The Rise and Fall of Austin-Healey, MG and Triumph Sports Cars. By Timothy R. Whisler. Industrial Development and the Social Fabric. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1995. Pp. xix, 308 pp. 939-940

James Foreman-Peck

Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870-1914. By Elinor A. Accampo, Rachel Fuchs, and Mary Lynn Stewart. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 241 pp. 940-941

Liana Vardi

Steuem, Abgaben und Dienste vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Edited by Eckart Schremmer. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994. Pp. 247. DM 96 pp. 941-942

Hans-Joachim Voth

Latin America - La hacienda pública y la política económica, 1929–1958. By Enrique Cárdenas. Mexico City: Colegio de México, Fideicomiso Historia de las Américas and Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1994. Pp. 230. - Estado y mercado. La economía pública del liberalismo mexicano, 1850–1911. By Marcello Carmagnani. Mexico City: Colegio de México, Fideicomiso Historia de las Américas and Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1994. Pp. 439. - Banqueros y revolucionarios: la soberanía financiera de Méico, 1914–1929. By Emilio Zebadúa. Mexico City: Colegio de México, Fideicomiso Historia de las Américas and Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1994. Pp. 383 pp. 942-944

Richard J. Salvucci

Ethnicity, Markets and Migration in the Andes. Edited by Brooke Larson and Olivia Harris with Enrique Tandeter. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 428. $57.50, cloth; $18.95 paper pp. 944-945

David M. Wishart

Power and Violence in the Colonial City. By Oscar Cornblit. Translated by Elizabeth Ladd Glick Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. v, 230. $59.95 pp. 946-946

Timothy J. Yeager

Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America. Edited by William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson, and Mario Samper Kutschbach. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 304. $48.50, cloth; $15.95, paper pp. 947-948

Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Asia And Australia - Agricultural Production and Indian History. Edited by David Ludden. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 382. $29.95 pp. 948-949

Anand Swamy

Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception. By Irfan Habib. New Delhi: Tulika, 1995, Pp. x, 389 pp. 949-950

Anand Swamy

The Political Economy of Hunger: Selected Essays. Edited by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen, and Athar Hussain. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 626. $24.00, paper pp. 950-953

Peter C. Perdue

Australia's Trade Policies. Edited by Richard Pomfret. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 234 pp. 953-954

Ralph Shlomowitz

United States - New South–New Law: The Legal Foundations of Credit and Labor Relations in the Postbellum Agricultural South. By Harold D. Woodman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 124. $19.95 pp. 954-955

Thomas D. Morris

Platt Brothers and Company: Small Business in American Manufacturing. By Matthew W. Roth. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994. Pp. x, 256. $48.00 pp. 956-957

Robert Johnston

The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller 1888–1910. By James W. ElyJr, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 248. $49.95 pp. 957-958

Marc Jeffrey Stern

Producing Hegemony: The Politics of Mass Production and American Global Power. By Mark Rupert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 261. $54.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 958-960

Thomas W. Zeiler

Economic Policy in the Carter Administration. By Anthony S. Campagna. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. xv, 216. $59.95 pp. 960-961

Wyatt Wells

Deregulating Freight Transportation: Delivering the Goods. By Paul Teske, Samuel Best, and Michael Mintrom. Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 236. $39.95, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 961-962

William R. Childs

Economic Thought - Essays on Economics and Economists. By R. H. Coase. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, Pp. viii, 222. $11.95 pp. 962-964

Warren J. Samuels

General and Miscellaneous - Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States and Australia, 1880–1920. Edited by Ulla Wikander Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jane Lewis. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1995. Pp. vi, 379. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 964-965

Andrew J. Seltzer

The Failure of Agrarian Capitalism: Agrarian Politics in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA, 1846–1919. By Niek Koning. London: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xii, 292. $85.00 pp. 965-966

Peter A. Coclanis

Currency and Coercion: The Political Economy of International Monetary Power. By Jonathan Kirshner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. 289. $39.50 pp. 966-968

Lawrence Officer

The Bretton-Woods-GATT System: Retrospect and Prospect After Fifty Years. Edited by Orin Kirschner. Armounk, NY: M. E. Sharpe for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 1996. Pp. xiii, 321 pp. 968-969

Barry Eichengreen

Models of Management: Work, Authority, and Organization in a Comparative Perspective. By Mauro E. Guillen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 424. $57.50, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 970-972

Bernard Elbaum

Volume 56, issue 3, 1996

Did Japan Ever Suffer From a Shortage of Natural Resources Before World War II? pp. 543-560

Yasukichi Yasuba

Home Demand and British Industrialization pp. 561-604

Sara Horrell

The Rental Price of Housing in New York City, 1830–1860 pp. 605-625

Robert Margo

Was There a National Labor Market at the End of the Nineteenth Century? New Evidence on Earnings in Manufacturing pp. 626-656

Joshua Rosenbloom

Reform During Crisis: The Transformation of California's Fiscal System During the Great Depression pp. 657-678

James E. Hartley, Steven M. Sheffrin and J. David Vasche

A New Look at U.S. Agricultural Productivity Growth, 1800–1910 pp. 679-686

Lisa Geib-Gundersen and Elizabeth Zahrt

The Note Issue Paradox in the Free Banking Era pp. 687-693

Howard Bodenhorn and Michael Haupert

Human Capital and Other Determinants of the Price Life Cycle of a Slave: Peru and La Plata in the Eighteenth Century pp. 694-701

Carlos Newland and María Jesús San segundo

Venetian Twilight: How Economies Fade pp. 702-705

E. L. Jones

Medieval and Early Modern - Die Kölner Handelsbeziehungen im Spätmittelalter. By Gunther Hirschfelder. Cologne: Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, 1994. Pp. ix, 656 pp. 708-709

J. M. Kolpacoff

A Commercialising Economy: England 1086 to c. 1300. Edited by Richard H. Britnell and Bruce M. S. Campbell. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 228. $59.95 pp. 709-710

John Langodon

Medival and Early Modern - English and French Towns in Feudal Society: A Comparative Study. By R. H. Hilton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 175. $44.95, cloth. $17.95, paper pp. 710-711

Paul M. Hohenberg

Foreigners and Englishmen: The Controversy over Immigration and Population, 1660–1760. By Daniel Statt. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 301. $43.50 pp. 711-712

Farley Grubb

Clandestine Marriage in England, 1580–1850. By R. B. Outhwaite. London: The Hambledon Press, 1995. Pp. xxiv, 196. $40.00 pp. 712-713

Roger Schofield

Modern Europe - The European Economy, 1750–1914: A Thematic Approach. Edited by Derek H. Aldcroft and Simon P. Ville. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994. Pp. x, 323 pp. 713-714

Jan Luiten Zanden

Enterprise and Management: Essays in Honour of Peter L. Payne. Edited by Derek H. Aldcroft and Anthony Slaven. Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 311. $74.95 pp. 714-715

Leslie Hannah

Steel City: Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Technology in Sheffield, 1743–1993. By Geoffrey Tweedale. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, Pp. xiv, 436. $55.00 pp. 715-717

Sidney Pollard

Modern Europe - Smith & Nephew in the Health Care Industiy. By James Foreman-Peck. Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing Company, 1995. Pp. xiii, 269. $71.95 pp. 717-718

David Surdam

Minderheden in Westeuropese steden (16de–20ste eeuw). Minorities in Western European Cities (sixteenth-twentieth centuries). Edited by Hugh Soly and Alfons K. L. Thijs. Brussels and Rome: Institute Historique Beige de Rome, Belgisch Historisch Instituut te Rome, 1995. Pp. 246 pp. 718-719

Vincent Tassenaar

Die Mechanisierung des Ruhrbergbaus, 1890–1930. By Uwe Burghardt. Munich: Beck, 1995. Pp. 437. DM 34.00 pp. 719-720

Hans-Joachim Braun

The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914–1924. By Gerald D. Feldman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xix, 1011. $125.00, cloth; $39.95, paper pp. 720-722

Daniel Barbezat

Economic Change in Eastern Europe since 1918. By Derek H. Aldcroft and Steven Morewood. Hants: Edward Elgar, 1995. Pp. 277 pp. 722-723

David F. Good

Socialist Unemployment: The Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945–1990. By Susan L. Woodward. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 443. $55.0, cloth, $19.95, paper pp. 723-725

John R. Lampe

Latin America - The Cambridge History of Latin America. Vol. 6. 1930 to the Present. Part 1. Economy, Society, and Politics. Edited by Leslie Bethell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 635 pp. 725-727

Thomas E. Skidmore

The Cuban Slave Market, 1790–1880. By Laird W. Bergad, Fe Iglesias García, and María del Carmen Barcia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxi, 245. $59.95 pp. 727-728

Carlos Newland

Power in Transition: The Rise of Guatemala's Industrial Oligarchy, 1871–1994. By Paul J. Dosal. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995. Pp. xii, 223. $59.95 pp. 728-729

Alan Dye

Labour in the Medieval Islamic World. By Maya Shatzmiller. Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1994. Pp. vii, 450. $137.25 pp. 729-731

Andrew M. Watson

An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1914. Edited by Halil Inalcik. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xxxix, 1026. $120.00 pp. 731-733

Haim Gerber

Australia - Forming a Colonial Economy, Australia 1810–1850. By N. G. Butlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 263. $54.95 pp. 733-734

Graeme Donald Snooks

United States and the Caribbean - Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse. By Richard R. John. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 369. $49.95 pp. 734-735

John Majewski

International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820–1914. By Lance E. Davis and Robert J. Cull. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vii, 166. $34.95 pp. 735-737

Richard Grossman

International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820–1914. By Lance E. Davis and Robert J. Cull. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vii, 166. $34.95 pp. 737-738

John James

The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700–1860. By Wilma A. Dunaway. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1996. Pp. xvii, 448. $49.95 pp. 738-739

Ann Harper Fender

Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. By William Dusinberre. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 556. $55.00 pp. 739-741

Christopher Morris

One South or Many? Plantation Belt and Upcountry in Civil War-Era Tennessee. By Robert Tracy McKenzie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. x, 213. $39.95 pp. 741-742

Garland L. Brinkley

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas. Edited by Mary Turner. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 309. $39.95 cloth; $15.95 paper pp. 742-743

Christopher Hanes

The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois, 1890–1990. By Jane Adams. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. xxx, 321. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 743-745

Hal S. Barron

United States and the Caribbean - Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880–1990. By Daniel Nelson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 258. $29.95 pp. 745-746

Louis P. Cain

Technical Change, Human Capital, And Spillovers in United States Agriculture, 1949–1985. By Klaus W. Deininger. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. Pp. v, 158. $42.00 pp. 746-747

John Nader

Banking in an Unregulated Environment: California, 1878–1905. By Lynne Pierson Doti. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. Pp. xii, 164. $48.00 pp. 747-748

Kerry Odell

The Florida Land Boom: Speculation, Money, and the Banks. By William Frazer and John J. GuthrieJr. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1995. Pp. xviii, 181. $55.00 pp. 748-749

Gene Smiley

A. P. Giannini: Banker of America. By Felice A. Bonadio. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii, 429. $30.00 pp. 750-751

Lynne Pierson Doti

The Fall of the Packard Motor Car Company. By James A. Ward. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. xv, 309. $35.00 pp. 751-752

Dalit Baranoff

The Growth of American Government: Governance from the Cleveland Era to the Present. By Ballard C. Campbell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 289. $35.00, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 752-753

Patrick Reagan

Federal Antitrust Policy During the Kennedy-Johnson Years. By James R. Williamson. Wesport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. pp. xii, 180. $49.95 pp. 753-754

Andrew Jackson Holliday

Economic Thought - Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: New Interdisciplinary Essays. Edited by Stephen Copley and Kathryn Sutherland. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995. pp. vii, 205. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 755-756

R. F. Hébert

John Bates Clark: The Making of a Neoclassical Economist. By John F. Herny. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. pp. xi, 180. $59.95 pp. 756-757

Lawrence Officer

General and Miscellaneous - Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification. By Timur Kuran. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. pp. xv, 423 pp. 757-758

Laurence R. Lannaccone

Consumer Expenditures: New Measures and Old Motives. By Stanley Lebergott. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. pp. xii, 286. $55 pp. 759-760

Michael Bernstein

Drugs and Narcotics in History. Edited by Roy Porter and Mikulás Teich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. pp. xii, 227. $49.95 pp. 761-762

Marvin Fischbaum

Volume 56, issue 2, 1996

Globalization, Convergence, and History pp. 277-306

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Turnover Cost and the Distribution of slave Labor in Anglo-America pp. 307-329

Christopher Hanes

The Modern Silk Road: The Global Raw-Silk Market, 1850–1930 pp. 330-355

Debin Ma

Married Women's Property Laws and Female Commercial Activity: Evidence from United States Patent Records, 1790–1895 pp. 356-388

B. Zorina Khan

The Gold Standard as a “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” pp. 389-428

Michael Bordo and Hugh Rockoff

Myth and Reality of China's Seventeenth-Century Monetary Crisis pp. 429-454

Richard Von Glahn

Exclusion and the Market: The Causes of Occupational Segregation in Industrial Revolution Britain pp. 459-461

Joyce Burnette

Bridging the Archipelago: Cities and Regional Economies in Brazil, 1870–1920 pp. 461-463

Ruthanne Deutsch

Railroads and the Brazilian Economy Before 1914 pp. 464-467

William R. Summerhill

Commerce and Community: Internal Improvements in Virginia and Pennsylvania 1790–1860 pp. 467-469

John Majewski

The Evolution of Irrigation Institutions in California: The Rise of the Irrigation District, 1910–1930 pp. 469-473

Edward P. McDevitt

Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War pp. 473-475

David G. Surdam

Comments on Burnette, Deutsch, and Summerhill pp. 475-479

Cormac Ó Gráda

Comments on Majewski, McDevitt, and Surdam pp. 479-485

Winifred B. Rothenberg

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Metting pp. 486-495

Anonymous

Ancient and Medieval - Money and Government in the Roman Empire. By Richard Duncan-Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xix, 300 pp. 501-502

Nathan Sussman

Monnaies et marches au moyen age. By John Day. Comite pour l'histoire economique et financiere de la France. Paris: 1994. Pp. ix, 307 pp. 502-503

Nathan Sussman

Early Modern Europe - Banks, Palaces, and Entrepreneurs in Renaissance Florence. By A. Goldthwaite Richard. Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1995. Pp. x, 315. $87.50 pp. 503-504

Maristella Botticini

The European Peasant Family and Society: Historical Studies. Edited by Richard L. Rudolph. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 256. £30 pp. 504-505

L. A. Clarkson

Economic Systems and State Finance. Edited by Richard Bonney. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. xxii, 652. $98.00. - The Limits of Absolutism in ancien régime France. By Richard Bonney. Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1995. Pp. xii, 338. $89.95 pp. 505-506

John A. Hall

Modern Europe - Paper & Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897–1927. By Niall Ferguson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 539. $69.95 pp. 506-507

Ulrich Wengenroth

Illegitimacy, Sex, and Society: Northeast Scotland, 1750–1900. By Andrew Blaikie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 268. $55.00 pp. 508-509

Paul Huck

Victorian Insolvency: Bankruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and Company Winding-up in Nineteenth-Century England. By V. Markham Lester. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 354. $65.00 pp. 509-510

Willibald Steinmetz

The British Brewing Industry 1830–1980. By T. R. Gourvish and R. G. Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xxv, 690 pp. 510-512

Ron Weir

City Bankers, 1890–1914. By Youssef Cassis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xvi, 350. $64.95 pp. 512-513

Hugh Rockoff

Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914–1939. By Lee Downs Laura. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 329. $39.95 pp. 513-514

Joyce Burnette

From Airships to Airbus: The History of Civil and Commercial Aviation. Volume 1: Infrastructure and Environment. Edited by William M. Leary. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. Pp. xix, 203. $33.95. - From Airships to Airbus: The History of Civil and Commercial Aviation. Volume 2: Pioneers and Operations. Edited by F. Trimble William. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. Pp. vii, 296. $34.95 pp. 515-516

C. Derek Johnson

Africa and Asia - Swing Low Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century. By Antonio McDaniel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 191. $34.00 pp. 516-517

Farley Grubb

When Capitalists Collide: Business Conflict and the End of Empire in Egypt. By Robert Vitalis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. xxi, 282. $50.00, cloth; $20.00, paper pp. 517-519

Roger Owen

The Economic Growth of Singapore: Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century. By W. G. Huff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, Pp. vii, 472 pp. 519-520

Tan Lin-Yeok

Latin America - The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence. By Victor Bulmer-Thomas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 485. $69.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 520-522

Alan Taylor

Engines of Growth: The State and Transnational Auto Companies in Brazil. By Helen Shapiro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, Pp. xii, 267. $54.95 pp. 522-523

William Summerhill

United States - Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. By Stephanie McCurry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 320. $39.95. - Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770–1860. By Christopher Morris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xix, 258. $35.00 pp. 523-525

Martha Hodes

Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Mary Beth Pudup, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 391. $49.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 525-526

Sean Patrick Adams

A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America 1865–1925. By Thomas J. Misa. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xv, 367. $49.95 pp. 526-527

Patricia O'Brien

Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875–1920. By Henry M. McKivenJr. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 223. $37.50, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 527-529

Thomas J. Misa

State and Party in America's New Deal. By Theda Skocpol and Kenneth Finegold. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 342. $54.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 529-530

Colin Gordon

Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, The “Underclass,” and Urban Schools as History. By Michael B. Katz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 179. $22.50 pp. 530-532

Blanche D. Coll

Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany. By Mary Nolan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. x, 324. $45.00, cloth; 19.95, paper pp. 532-534

Frank Biess

The Politics of Trade. American Political Development and Foreign Economic Policy. By Cynthia A. Hody. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1996. Pp. ix, 210. $45.00 pp. 534-535

Bruce A. Khula

Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development. By K. Sanderson Stephen. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. Pp. xii, 452. $62.95, cloth; $22.95, paper pp. 535-537

E. L. Jones

Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. By Theodore M. Porter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 310 pp. 537-538

Daniel R. Headrick

Rethinking the Development Experience: Essays Provoked by the Work of Albert Hirschman. Edited by Rodwin Lloyd and A. Schön Donald. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1994. Pp. x, 364. $38.95, cloth; $16.95, paper. - Development Projects Observed. By O. Hirschman Albert. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1967. Reissued with new preface, 1995. Pp. 197. $19.95 pp. 538-540

Cynthia Taft Morris

The Biological Standard of Living on Three Continents: Further Explorations in Anthropometric History. Edited by John Komlos. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 225. $54.95 pp. 540-541

Paul Huck

Volume 56, issue 1, 1996

Economic History and Old Age pp. 1-4

Stanley L. Engerman

Myth of the Industrial Scrap Heap: A Revisionist View of Turn-of-the-Century American Retirement pp. 5-38

Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch

The Poverty of Impoverishment Theory: The Economic Well-Being of the Elderly, 1890–1950 pp. 39-61

Brian Gratton

Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900–1991 pp. 62-89

Dora Costa

The Scale of Production in Western Economic Development: A Comparison of Official Industry Statistics in the United States, Britain, France, and Germany, 1905–1913 pp. 90-112

Janice Rye Kinghorn and John Nye

Bonds without Bondsmen: Tenant-Right in Nineteenth-Century Ireland pp. 113-142

Timothy Guinnane and Ronald I. Miller

The Jurisprudence of American Slave Sales pp. 143-169

Jenny B. Wahl

Protection Against a Capricious State: French Investment and Spanish Railroads, 1845–1875 pp. 170-192

Philip Keefer

Rethinking the Economic History of the Dutch Republic: The Rise and Decline of Economic Modernity Before the Advent of Industrialized Growth pp. 223-229

Arthur Van Riel

Medieval and Early Modern - Barcelona and Its Rulers, 1096–1291. By Stephen P. Bensch. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. 4th ser., Vol. 26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 457. $64.95 pp. 235-236

David Abulafia

The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company. By John Keay. New York: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. xxii, 474. $25.00 pp. 236-237

Cormac Ò Gràda

Modern Europe - The Evolution of Financial Institutions and Markets in Twentieth-Century Europe. Edited by Cassis Youssef, Gerald D. Feldman, and Ulf Olsson. Aldershot: Scholar Press, 1995. Pp. vi, 337. $79.95 pp. 237-238

Caroline Fohlin

The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine and Emigration. By Robert J. Scally. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 266. $35.00 pp. 239-240

Daire Keogh

Structures of Society: Imperial Russia's “People of Various Ranks”. By Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994. Pp. xvii, 215 pp. 240-241

David L. Ransel

Law and English Railway Capitalism, 1825–1875. By R. W. Kostal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 417. $69.00 pp. 241-242

George Robb

The Anatomy of An International Monetary Regime: The Classical Gold Standard, 1880–1914. By Giulio M. Gallarotti. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 347 pp. 242-243

Marc Flandreau

Actively Seeking Work? The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain. By King Desmond. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 331 pp. 244-245

Carolyn Moehling

Freedom with Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918–1963. By A. J. Nicholls. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 422. $45.00 pp. 245-246

Till Geiger

Asia and Latin America - The Invisible City: Monetary, Administrative and Popular Infrastructures in Asia and Europe, 1500–1900. By Frank Perlin. Aldershot: Variorum, 1993. Pp. xii, 366. $89.95 pp. 246-248

Dennis O. Flynn

Unbroken Landscape: Commodity, Category, Sign and Identity; Their Production as Myth and Knowledge from 1500. By Frank Perlin. Aldershot: Variorum, 1994. Pp. xiv, 357. $89.95 pp. 248-250

Arturo Giraldez

Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600–1750. By Stephen Frederic Dale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 162. $54.95 pp. 250-251

Prasannan Parthasarathi

International Commercial Rivalry in Southeast Asia in the Interwar Period. Edited by Shinya Sugiyama and Milagros C. Guerrero. New Haven: Monograph 39/Yale Southeast Asia Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1994. Pp. x, 222 pp. 251-252

David Feeny

The Labor Wars in Córdoba, 1955–1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City. By James P. Brennan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 440. $59.95 pp. 252-254

Ricardo D. Salvatore

United States and Canada - Erie Lackawanna: Death of an American Railroad. By H. Roger Grant. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 284. $45.00 pp. 254-255

Don L. Hofsommer

Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in The United States and Prussia. By Colleen A. Dunlavy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 303. $39.50 pp. 255-256

William H. Becker

The Great Guano Rush. Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion. By Jimmy M. Skaggs. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 334. $16.95 pp. 256-257

Christopher Grandy

The Tariff Question in the Gilded Age: The Great Debate of 1888. By Joanne Reitano. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii, 190. $28.50 pp. 257-258

Anthony Patrick O'Brien

The Federal Civil Service System and the Problem of Bureaucracy: The Economics and Politics of Institutional Change. By Ronald N. Johnson and Gary D. Libecap. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. 229. $49.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 258-259

John Joseph Wallis

Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America. By Mark Rose. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 229. $34.50 pp. 260-261

Werner Troesken

Planning for the Private Interest: Land Use Controls and Residential Patterns in Columbus, Ohio, 1900–1970. By Patricia Burgess. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 258. $59.50 pp. 261-263

Gregory L. Thompson

Regulation and the Revolution in United States Farm Productivity. By Sally H. Clarke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 310. $59.95 pp. 263-264

Ruth Dupré

The Chicago Plan & New Deal Banking Reform. By Ronnie J. Phillips. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1995. Pp. xvi, 227. $55.00, cloth; $21.95, paper pp. 264-265

Richard C. Schiming

Bretton Woods and Dunbarton Oaks. By Schild George. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. xiii. 254. $45.00 pp. 265-266

Elmus Wicker

For Each, the Strength of All: A History of Banking in the State of New York. By J. T. W. Hubbard. New York: New York University Press, 1995. Pp. xxiii, 309. $40.00 pp. 266-267

Robert M. Blackson

Deficit Government: Taxing and Spending in Modern America. By Iwan W. Morgan. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995. Pp. x, 212. $24.95 pp. 267-268

Mark H. Leff

The Limits of Affluence: Welfare in Ontario, 1920–1970. By Struthers James. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 401. $55.00, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 268-269

Linda Barrington

Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective. By Skocpol Theda. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. vii, 328. $29.95 pp. 270-271

Robert Higgs

American Labor in the Era of World War II. Edited by Sally M. Miller and Daniel A. Comford. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995. Pp. x, 228. $59.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 271-272

Robert Cuff

“Without Blare of Trumpets”: Walter Drew, the National Erectors' Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903–1957. By Fine Sidney. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 384. $49.50 pp. 272-273

Melvyn Dubofsky

General and Miscellaneous - Coordination and Information: Historical Perspectives on the Organization of Enterprise. Edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Daniel M. G. Raff. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1995. Pp. viii, 337. $68.00 cloth; $22.50 paper pp. 273-275

Louis P. Cain