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Volume 55, issue 4, 1995

Exogenous or Endogenous Growth? The Industrial Revolution Reconsidered pp. 745-772

Nicholas Crafts

Learning, Capital Accumulation, and the Transformation of California Agriculture pp. 773-800

Paul Rhode

Did High Wages or High Interest Rates Bring Down the Weimar Republic? A Cointegration Model of Investment in Germany, 1925–1930 pp. 801-821

Hans-Joachim Voth

Worker Turnover in the 1920s: What Labor-Supply Arguments Don't Tell Us pp. 822-841

Laura J. Owen

Encomienda or Slavery? The Spanish Crown's Choice of Labor Organization in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America pp. 842-859

Timothy J. Yeager

Fertility, Marriage, and Culture: Demographic Processes Among Norwegian Immigrants to the Rural Middle West pp. 860-888

Jon Gjerde and Anne McCants

Success Story? Japanese Immigrant Economic Achievement and Return Migration, 1920–1930 pp. 889-901

Masao Suzuki

Three Centuries of Finance and Monetary Control in america pp. 902-907

Richard Sylla

A New Economic History of Britain pp. 908-913

François Crouzet

Erratum pp. 921-922

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson

Medieval and Early Modern - Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900–1500. By Olivia Remie Constable. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 320 pp. 923-924

Avner Greif

Trade and Urban Development in Poland: An Economic Geography of Cracow, from Its Origins to 1795. By F. W. Carter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xxii, 509 pp. 924-925

Mścisøaw Wróblewski

Les fermiers de l'ôle-de-France: L'ascension d'un patronat agricole (XVe–XVIIIe siècles). By Jean-Marc Moriceau. Paris: Fayard, 1994. Pp. 1,069 pp. 925-926

Philip T. Hoffman

Prices, Food, and Wages in Scotland, 1550–1780. By A. J. S. Gibson and T. C. Smout. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 398. $74.95 pp. 926-927

Lynne Kiesling

The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes. By James Steven Rogers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxv, 267 pp. 927-928

Stephen Quinn

Death and the Metropolis: Studies in the Demographic Histoiy of London, 1670–1830. By John Landers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xxiii, 408. $64.95 pp. 929-929

Johan Söderberg

Mercantilism: The Shaping of an Economic Language. By Lars Magnusson. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. viii, 222. $65.00 pp. 929-931

Mike Carney

Modern Europe - L 'immobilier et la Révolution; Marché de la pierre et mutations urbaines, 1770–1810. By Gérard Béaur. Cahier des Annales #44. Paris: Armand Cohn, 1994. Pp. 174. 130 F pp. 931-932

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

The Pre-industrial Urban System: France, 1740–1840. By Lepetit Bernard. Translated by Godfrey Rogers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 483 pp. 932-933

David R. Weir

Planning the French Canals: Bureaucracy, Politics, and Enterprise Under the Restoration. By Reed G. Geiger. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1994. Pp. 338 pp. 933-934

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age. By Dobbin Frank. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 262. $39.95 pp. 934-936

Douglas J. Puffert

Making a Medical Living: Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720–1911. By Anne Digby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 348. $64.95 pp. 936-937

James C. Riley

Feminism and Political Economy in Victorian England. Edited by Peter Groenewegen. Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1994. Pp. 197. - Women and Families: An Oral History, 1940–1970. By Elizabeth Roberts. Oxford: Black-well, 1995. Pp. 277. $54.95. - Women and Social Policies in Europe. Edited by Jane Lewis. Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1993. Pp. 247 pp. 937-938

Joan Perkin

The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain, 1920–1950. Edited by Robert Millward and John Singleton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 325 pp. 939-940

Ben Fine

Britain and the Sterling Area: From Devaluation to Convertibility in the 1950s. By Catherine R. Schenk. London:Routledge, pp.165. $65.00 pp. 940-942

Barry Eichengreen

Latin America and Asia - Business Interest Groups in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. By Ridings Eugene. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 377. $59.95 pp. 942-943

Sterphen Haber

The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-first Century. By Morris-Suzuki Tessa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. x, 304. $59.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 944-945

Gail Ann M. Honda

Economic Transformations in East and Central Europe: Legacies from the past and policies for the Future. Edited by F. Good David. London: Routledge, 1994, pp. Xvi, 301. $79.95 pp. 944-945

Martin C. Spechler

The Caribbean - The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados, 1823–1843. By Kathleen Mary Butler. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xviii + 198. $34.95, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 946-947

Stanley L. Engerman

The United States and Canada - Dividing the Land: Early American Beginnings of Our Private Property Mosaic. By Edward T. Price. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 410. $26.00 pp. 947-948

Joshua Micah Marshall

Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England. By Stephen Innes. W. W. Norton, 1995. Pp. x, 416. $25.00 pp. 948-950

Cathy Matson

Essays on English Law and the American Experience. Edited by Elisabeth A. Cawthon and David E. Narrett. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 135. $24.50 pp. 950-951

Shawn Kantor

C. C. Washburn and the Upper Mississippi Valley. By Karel D. Bicha. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. Pp. xi, 210. $52.00 pp. 951-952

Marion Nelson Winship

Working Toward Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South. Edited by E. Hudson Larry Jr Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 250. $45.00 pp. 952-954

James Irwin

Debt, Investment, Slaves: Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825–1885. By Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 201. $36.95 pp. 954-955

Nancy Virts

Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century. By Walter Licht. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 219. $38.95, cloth; $13.95, paper pp. 955-956

Lamer B. Jones

Fingers of Steel: Technological Innovation in the United States Knitting Industry, 1850–1914. By Louise Wehrle. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. Pp. xv, 258. $59.00 pp. 956-957

B. Zorina Khan

The Changing U.S. Auto Industry: a Geographical Analysis. By James M. Rubenstein. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. 318. $63.00 pp. 958-959

B. Zorina Khan

Autowork. Edited by Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth with the assistance of Stephen Merlino. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 307. $19.95 pp. 959-960

Marc Jeffrey Stern

Cold War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers. By Ronald L. Filippelli and Mark D. McColloch. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 296. $19.95 pp. 961-962

James R. Zetka

Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–1960. By Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 307. $49.95, cloth; 16.95, paper pp. 962-963

Colin Gordon

Land of Plenty: Oklahomans in the Cotton Fields of Arizona, 1933–1942. By Marsha L. Weisiger. Norman and London:University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 238. $24.95 pp. 963-964

Eleanor T. von Ende

Hope and Deception in Conception Bay: Marchant-Settler Relations in Newfoundland, 1785–1855. By Sean T. Cadigan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 242. $45.00, cloth; $1895, paper pp. 964-965

Marilyn Gerriets

Property and Inequality in Victorian Ontario: Structural Patterns and Cultural Communities in the 1871 Census. By Gordon Darroch and Lee Soltow. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Pp. xvi, 280. $54.00, cloth; $24.00, paper pp. 965-967

Clayne Pope

Economic Thought - Engaging the Past: The Uses of Histoiy Across the Social Sciences. Edited by Eric H. Monkkonen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994. Pp. 196. $39.95, cloth; $15.95, paper pp. 967-968

David I. Kertzer

General and Miscellaneous - Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence. By Jordan Goodman. London: Routledge, 1993. Pp. iii, 280. $59.95 pp. 968-971

Nancy Koehn

The Peasantry of Europe. By Werner Rösener. Translated by M. Barker Thomas. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1994. Pp. xiv, 235. $24.95 pp. 971-972

George Grantham

The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change. By Hendrik Spruyt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. 288 pp. 972-973

Avner Greif

Volume 55, issue 3, 1995

Making the Effort: The Contours of Racial Discrimination in Detroit’s Labor Markets, 1920–1940 pp. 465-493

Thomas Maloney and Warren Whatley

Imperfect Competition and Anglo-German Trade Rivalry: Markets for Cotton Textiles before 1914 pp. 494-527

John C. Brown

Infant Mortality and Living Standards of English Workers During the Industrial Revolution pp. 528-550

Paul Huck

Enforcement In Apprenticeship Contracts: Were Runaways a Serious Problem? Evidence from Montreal pp. 551-574

Gillian Hamilton

Mass Production Conquers the Pool: Firm Organization and the Nature of Competition in the Nineteenth Century pp. 575-611

Margaret Levenstein

Monetary Policy and Expectations: Market-Control Techniques and the Bank of England, 1925–1931 pp. 612-636

John R. Garrett

Supplanting the Roots of Southern Populism: The Contours of Political Protest in the Georgia Hills pp. 637-646

Shawn Kantor

In Search of Stock Market Bubbles: A Comment on Rappoport and White pp. 647-654

Tung Liu, Gray J. Santoni and Courtenay C. Stone

Stock Market Bubbles? A Reply pp. 655-665

Eugene White

Patent Counts and Textile Invention: A Comment on Griffiths, Hunt, and O’Brien pp. 666-670

Richard J. Sullivan

There Is Nothing Outside the Text, and There Is No Safety in Numbers: A Reply to Sullivan pp. 671-672

O’Brien, Patrick K., Trevor Griffiths and Philip Hunt

Recent developments in Irish Economic History, 1850–1914 pp. 673-678

Timothy Guinnane

Uneven World Development pp. 679-682

E. L. Jones

Lives of The Great Economists pp. 683-693

Thomas K. McGraw

Medieval and Early Modern - The Medieval Super-Companies: A Study of the Peruzzi Company of Florence. By Edwin S. Hunt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 291. $59.95 pp. 696-697

Edward Muir

Classes, Estates, and Order in Early Modern Brittany. By James B. Collins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 313. $59.95 pp. 697-698

Liana Vardi

Il filo d’oro: L’industria mondiale della seta dalla restaurazione alla grande crisi. By Giovanni Federico, with an Introduction by Luciano Cafagna. Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 1994. Pp. xvii, 573. Lit. 90,000 pp. 698-699

Stefano Fenoaltea

Modern Europe - Handbook on the History of European Banks. Edited by Manfred Pohl and Sabine Freitag for the European Association for Banking History e.V. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1994. Pp. xiv, 1,303. £199.00 pp. 699-700

Geoffrey Jones

Black Country Elites: The Exercise of Authority in an Industrialized Area, 1830–1900. By Richard H. Trainor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xix, 437. $72.00 pp. 700-702

Albion M. Urdank

Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650–1950. By John Habakkuk. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 786. $98.00 pp. 702-703

Gregory Clark

Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur. By Wilfried Feldenkirchen. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994. Pp. xxv, 203. $19.95, cloth; $12.50 paper pp. 703-704

Ulrich Wengenroth

The Crisis of Liberal Italy: Monetary and Financial Policy, 1914–1922. By Douglas J. Forsyth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 370. $59.95 pp. 704-705

Marcello De Cecco

Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia, 1900–1914: The Last Argument of Tsarism. By Peter Gatrell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xx, 399. $74.95, cloth; $27.95, paper pp. 705-706

Thomas C. Owen

Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929–1 941. By David L. Hoffman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. 282. $32.50 pp. 706-707

John Bushnell

Australia and Asia - El desarrollo de la España contemporánea. Historia económica de los siglos XIX y XX. By Gabriel Tortella. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1994. Pp. xxviii, 429 pp. 707-709

Eugenio Miravete

Australia and Asia - Mr. Brooks and the Australian Trade: Imperial Business in the Nineteenth Century. By Frank Broeze. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 375. $49.95 pp. 709-710

Colin White

The Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi: From Peasant to Entrepreneur. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Teruko Craig. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii, 192. $39.50 pp. 710-711

Gail Ann M. Honda

The Economics of Rapid Growth: The Experience of Japan and Korea. By Dirk Pilat. Aldershot: Edgar Elgar, 1994. Pp. xiv, 334. $67.95 pp. 711-713

Paul Kuznets

United States and Canada - Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850. Edited by Judith A. McGaw. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. x, 482. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 713-714

Ross Thomson

Farmers & Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630–1850. By Daniel Vickers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 347. $45.00, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 714-716

Gloria L. Main

Southwest Virginia’s Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis. By Kenneth W. Noe. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 221. $27.95 pp. 716-717

Jack Blicksilver

The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana. By Roderick A. McDonald. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 339. $39.95 pp. 717-718

Larry Hudson

Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. By Judith K. Schafer. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. Pp. xix, 389. $35.00 pp. 718-719

Jenny B. Wahl

The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South, Series 1, vol. 2 of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Edited by Ire Berlin, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xxxvii, 776. $79.95 pp. 719-720

Robert Tracy McKenzie

The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860–1870. By Julie Saville. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 221. $49.95 pp. 720-721

Kenneth Ng

Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850–1900. By Dean L. May. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 313. $44.95 pp. 721-722

Yasuo Okada

Facing West: Americans and the Opening of the Pacific. By John Curtis Perry. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1994. Pp. xi, 400. $65, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 722-724

James Mak

The Pottery Industry of Trenton: A Skilled Trade in Transition, 1850–1929. By Marc Jeffrey Stern. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 306. $48.00 pp. 724-725

Joshua Rosenbloom

New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920–1935. By Colin Gordon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 329. $59.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 725-726

Robert M. Collins

Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1973. By James R. Zetka Jr Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. pp. xii, 293. $18.95 pp. 727-728

Daniel Jacoby

Capital and Labor in American Copper, 1845–1990: Linkages Between Product and Labor Markets. By George Hildebrand and Garth L. Mangum. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Pp. xvii, 332. $25.00 pp. 728-729

Carroll Van West

Frontier Development: Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890–1914. By Jeremy Adelman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xvi, 322. $62.00 pp. 729-731

Alan Taylor

Economic Thought - New Directions in Economic Methodology. Edited by Roger E. Backhouse. New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. x, 394. $69.95, cloth; $22.95, paper pp. 731-733

Margaret Schabas

General and Miscellaneous - Historical Analysis in Economics. Edited by Graeme Donald Snooks. London: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xvi, 249. $62.50 pp. 733-734

Erik Buyst

Labor Market Evolution: The Economic History of Market Integration, Wage Flexibility, and the Employment Relation. Edited by George Grantham and Mary MacKinnon. New York: Routledge. Pp. v, 322. $69.95 pp. 734-735

Robert Margo

Stature, Living Standards, and Economic Development: Essays in Anthropometric History. Edited by John Komlos. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 262. $36.50 pp. 735-737

Thomas E. Jordan

Capitalism in Context: Essays on Economic Development and Cultural Change in Honor of R. M. Hartwell. Edited by John James and Mark Thomas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. x, 355 pp. 737-738

Lynne Kiesling

Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance. By Mark J. Roe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xvi, 324. $24.95 cloth pp. 738-740

Ernie Englander

Economist in an Uncertain World: Arthur F. Burns and the Federal Reserve, 1970–1978. By Wyatt C. Wells. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Pp. vii, xiii, 334. $37.50 pp. 740-741

Mark Toma

Bound by Our Constitution: Women, Workers, and the Minimum Wage. By Vivien Hart. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 255. $35.00 pp. 741-742

Elizabeth Field

Women in the Age of Economic Transformation: Gender Impact of Reforms in Post-Socialist and Developing Countries. Edited by Nahid Aslanbeigui, Steven Pressman, and Gale Summerfield. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xvi, 232. $18.95 pp. 742-743

O’Kelly, Charlotte G.

Volume 55, issue 2, 1995

How Fast and Why Did Early Capitalism Benefit the Majority? pp. 211-226

Cynthia Taft Morris

The French Revolution and the Politics of Government Finance, 1770–1815 pp. 227-255

Eugene White

Redistribution and Long-Term Private Debt in Paris, 1660–1726 pp. 256-284

Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Federal Personal Income Tax Policy in the 1920s pp. 285-303

Gene Smiley and Richard H. Keehn

The Political Economy of Public-Private Compensation Differentials: The Case of Federal Pensions pp. 304-320

Lee Craig

The Total Product of Barbados, 1664–1701 pp. 321-338

David Elitis

Women, Marital Status, and Work Opportunities in 1880 Colorado pp. 339-366

Elizabeth Herr

Capitalism, Morality, and the Peculiar Institution pp. 367-370

Harold D. Wooeman

The Economic Impact of Disease in the American South, 1860–1940 pp. 371-373

Garland L. Brinkley

Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century America pp. 374-375

Dora Costa

Causes and Consequences of American Minimum Wage Legislation, 1911–1947 pp. 376-378

Andrew Seltzer

The Gold Deflation, France, and the Coming of the Depression, 1919–1932 pp. 378-379

H. Clark Johnson

Collective Action and Assisting the Poor: The Political Economy of Income Assistance During the Lancashire Cotton Famine pp. 380-383

Lynne Kiesling

Reassessing Technological Backwardness: Absolving The “Silly Little Bobtailed” Coal Car pp. 383-385

Va Nee L. Van Vleck

Comments on Brinkley, Costa, and Seltzer: The Old, the Poor, and the Sick in American Economic History pp. 386-390

Lee Craig

Comments on Johnson, Kiesling, and Van Vleck pp. 390-393

Barbara Sands

Abstracts of papers presented at the Annual Meeting pp. 394-408

Anonymous

Medieval and Early Modern - Wage Labor & Guilds in Medieval Europe. By Steven A. Epstein. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. vii, 307. $39.95 pp. 413-414

Avner Greif

Everyday Life in Medieval England. By Christopher Dyer. London: The Hambledon Press, 1994. Pp. xvi, 336 pp. 414-415

Jeanne Schock

Private Money & Public Currencies: The 16th Century Challenge. By Marie-Therese Boyer-Xambeu, Ghislan Delaplace, and Lucien Gillard. Translated by Azizeh Azodi. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1994. Pp. xvi, 231 pp. 415-416

Nathan Sussman

Modern Europe - Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century. By Kenneth Morgan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xxii, 281 pp. 416-417

Jocob M. Price

The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. By Nancy F. Koehn. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 239. $29.95 pp. 417-418

T. H. Breen

The Language of Liberty 1660–1832: Political Discourse and Social Dynamics in the Anglo-American World. By J. C. D. Clark. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 404 pp. 418-419

Andrew Rutten

Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780–1939. By Cormac Ó Gráda. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 536 pp. 419-421

Donald Jordan

The Nearest Place That Wasn’t Ireland: Early Nineteenth-Century Irish Labor Migration. By Ruth-Ann M. Harris. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1994. Pp. xvii, 281 pp. 421-422

Timothy W. Guinnane

Land and Popular Politics in Ireland: County Mayo from the Plantation to the Land War. By Donald E. Jordan Jr Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 369. $69.95, cloth; $29.95, paper pp. 422-424

David Fitzpatrick

The Weaver’s Knot: The Contradictions of Class Struggle and Family Solidarity in Western France, 1750–1914. By Tessie P. Liu. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 279. $42.50, cloth. $17.95, paper pp. 424-425

Paul M. Hohenberg

Machines Are Frozen Spirit: The Scientification of Refrigeration and Brewing in the 19th Century: A Weberian Interpretation. By Mikael Hård. Frankfurt/Boulder: Campus Verlag/Westview Press, 1994. Pp. 275. $48.00/DM 58.00 pp. 425-426

Hans-Liudger Dienel

Public and Private Ownership of British Industry 1820–1990. By James Foreman-Peck and Robert Millward. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xvii, 386. $59.00 pp. 426-428

Sidney Pollard

Government and Enterprise since 1900: The Changing Problem of Efficiency. By Jim Tomlinson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 455 pp. 428-429

James Foreman-Peck

British Protectionism and the International Economy: Overseas Commercial Policy in the 1930s. By Tim Rooth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 357 pp. 429-430

James Foreman-Peck

The Rise of Consumer Society in Britain, 1880–1980. By John Benson. New York: Longman, 1994. Pp. viii, 245. £32.00, cloth; £11.99, paper pp. 430-431

Jeffrey Richards

Asia and Latin America - Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution. By Donald Quataert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 224. $59.95 pp. 431-432

Oya Köymen

Manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1500–1950. Edited by Donald Quataert. New York: State University of New York Press, 1994. Pp. 175 pp. 432-433

Oya Köymen

Capital and Entrepreneurship in South-East Asia. By Rajeswary Aapalavanar Brown. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 302 pp. 433-434

Eric Jones

Oil and Development in Venezuela during the Twentieth Century. By Jorge Salazar-Carrillo. London: Praeger Press, 1994. Pp. 280 pp. 434-436

Peter S. Linder

United States and Canada - American Economic Development in Historical Perspective. Edited by Thomas Weiss and Donald Schaefer. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 321. $45.00 pp. 436-437

Diane Lindstrom

Benevolence Among Slaveholders: Assisting the Poor in Charleston, 1670–1860. By Barbara L. Bellows. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 217. $29.95 pp. 437-439

Bruce Dorsey

Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780–1860. By Peter Way. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 304. $54.95 pp. 439-440

John T. Cumbler

Dividing Lines: Canals, Railroads and Urban Rivalry in Ohio’s Hocking Valley, 1825–1875. By David H. Mould. Dayton: Wright State University Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 306. $51.00 pp. 440-442

William Deverell

Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England. By Naomi R. Lamoreaux. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 170. $39.95 pp. 442-443

Richard Sylla

Panic in Paradise: Florida’s Banking Crash of 1926. By Raymond B. Vickers. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1994. Pp. xvi, 312. $34.95 pp. 444-445

David Wheelock

The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy. Edited by Claudia Goldin and Gary D. Libecap. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 312. $56.00 pp. 445-446

William R. Childs

Seeling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920–1934. By Susan Smulyan. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 223. $24.95 pp. 446-447

Kenneth Lipartito

The United States in the Twentieth Century: Markets. Edited by Grahame Thompson. London: Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., 1994. Pp. viii, 296. £12.99 pp. 447-448

Martha Olney

Understanding American Economic Decline. Edited by Michael A. Bernstein and David E. Adler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xvii, 403. $49.95, cloth; $16.95 paper pp. 448-453

William M. Emmons

Shawinigan Water and Power 1898–1963, Formation et déclin d’un groupe industriel au Quebec. By Claude Bellavance. Cap Saint-Ignace: Les Éditions du Boreal, 1994. Pp. 446 pp. 453-454

Jean-Thomas Bernard

General and Miscellaneous - The Workplace before the Factory: Artisans and Proletarians, 1500–1800. Edited By Thomas Max Safley and Leonard N. Rosenban. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 252 pp. 454-455

Robert S. DuPlessis

Machines and Economic Growth: The Implications for Growth Theory of the History of the Industrial Revolution. By Natalie McPherson. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 264. $59.95 pp. 456-456

Nicholas Crafts

Monetary Regimes in Transition. Editied by Michael D. Bordo and Forrest Capie. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 394 pp. 456-457

Lawrence Officer

Landowners, Capitalists, and Entrepreneurs: Essays for Sir John Habakkuk. Edited by F. M. L. Thompson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 312. $44.00 pp. 457-459

William N. Parker

The Constant Flux. By Robert Erikson and John Goldthorpe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 429. $19.95, paper pp. 459-460

Stanley Lebergott

Encyclopedia of American Social History, 3 vols. Edited by Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliot J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993. Pp. xix, 2,653. $350.00 pp. 460-461

Maureen Taylor

Exploring the Black Box: Technology, Economics and History. By Nathan Rosenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 274. $54.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 461-463

B. Zorina Khan

Volume 55, issue 1, 1995

Family Income, Mortality, and Fertility on the Eve of the Demographic Transition: A Case Study of Rosny-Sous-Bois pp. 1-26

David R. Weir

Beyond the Threshold: An Analysis of the Characteristics and Behavior of Early Reaper Adopters pp. 27-57

Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

Property Rights and Patent Litigation in Early Nineteenth-Century America pp. 58-97

B. Zorina Khan

British Abolition and its Impact on Slave Prices Along the Atlantic Coast of Africa, 1783–1850 pp. 98-119

Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson

Evidence of Surplus Production in the Cherokee Nation Prior to Removal pp. 120-138

David M. Wishart

Where Is There Consensus Among American Economic Historians? The Results of a Survey on Forty Propositions pp. 139-154

Robert Whaples

Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe - Regionalism and Change in the Economy of Independent Delos. By Gary Reger. Hellenistic Culture and Society, vol. 14. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. xvii, 396. $55.00 pp. 161-161

Brooks Kaiser

Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence. By Anthony Molho. Cambridge: Harvard University Prees, 1944. pp. xiv, 458. $59.00 pp. 162-163

Judith C. Brown

A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca. By David Abulafia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 292. $59.95 pp. 163-165

Avner Greif

Materielle Grundstrukturen im Spätmittelalter und der Frähen Neuzeit: Preisentwicklung und Agrarkonjunktur am Närnberger Getreidemarkt von' 1339 bis 1670. By Walter Bauernfeind. Neustadt/Aisch, Germany: Schmidt Gmbh, 1993. Pp. xvii, 544 pp. 165-166

John C. Brown

Modern Europe - Economic Policy in Europe since the Late Middle Ages: The Visible Hand and the Fortune of Cities. Edited by Herman Diederiks, Paul Hohenberg, and Michael Wagenaar. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1992. Pp. 229. $55.00 pp. 166-167

Carol E. Heim

The Sources of Social Power. Vol. 2: The Rise of Classes And Nation-Stales, 1760–1914. By Michael Mann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 826. $79.95, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 167-169

Wayne Snyder

The Fruits of Revolution: Property Rights, Litigation, and French Agriculture, 1700– 1860. By Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 216. $54.95 pp. 169-170

Ted Margadant

Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700–1820. By J. M. Neeson. Past and Present Publications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 382. $54.95 pp. 170-172

Jane Humphries

Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, c. 1815–1867. By James Vernon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xviii, 429 pp. 172-173

Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey

The Rise of Popular Literacy in Victorian England: The Influence of Private Choice and Public Policy. By David F. Mitch. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Pp. xxiii, 340. $34.95 pp. 173-174

Peter Lindert

A Management Odyssey: The Royal Dockyards, 1714–1914. By J. M. Haas. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994, Pp. vi, 243. $32.50 pp. 174-175

Gordon Boyce

The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry. By Roy Church. Studies in Economic and Social History. London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. x, 140. £5.99 pp. 175-176

Leslie Hannah

An Environmental History of Britain since the Industrial Revolution. By B. W. Clapp. London and New York: Longman, 1994. Pp. xiii, 268. £32.00 cased, £12.99 paper pp. 176-177

Thomas R. DeGregori

Family and Social Change: The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community. By Angelique Janssens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xxii, 317. $64.95 pp. 177-178

Gloria L. Main

Germany after the First World War. By Richard Bessel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 325. $39.95 pp. 178-179

David Crew

Before Command: An Economic History of Russia from Emancipation to the First Five Year Plan. By Paul R. Gregory. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 188. $35.00 pp. 179-180

Peter Temin

Asia - Development Versus Stagnation: Technological Continuity and Agricultural Progress in Pre-modern China. By Gang Deng. Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 1993. Pp. xxv, 263. $55.00 pp. 181-182

R. Bin Wong

Nourish the People: The State Civilian Granary System in China, 1650–1850. By Pierre-Etienne Will and R. Bin Wong, with James Lee. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, volume 60. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1991. Pp. xxiv, 607. $40.00 cloth; $20.00 paper pp. 182-183

Melissa Macauley

The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940. By Rajnarayan Chandavarkar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xviii, 468. $69.95 pp. 183-184

Gregory Clark

The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era. By James K. Boyce. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press in association with the OECD Development Centre, 1993. Pp. xv, 405. $32.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 184-185

Peter A. Coclanis

Latin America - The Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1850. Edited by Kenneth J. Andrien and Lyman L. Johnson. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 263 pp. 185-186

Tim Yeager

Oil and Revolution in Mexico. By Jonathan C. Brown. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 453. $40.00 pp. 186-187

Carlos Marichal

Poverty and Peasantry in Peru's Southern Andes, 1963–90. By R. F. Walters. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. Pp. xviii, 366. $75.00 pp. 187-188

Benjamin Orlove

United States and Canada - Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860–1880. By John Solomon Otto. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994. Pp. xi, 171. $49.95 pp. 189-190

Nancy Virts

The Texture of Industry: An Archaeological View of the Industrialization of North America. By Robert B. Gordon and Patrick M. Malone. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. 442. $49.95 pp. 190-191

Glenn Porter

Making Arms in the Machine Age: Philadelphia's Frankford Arsenal, 1816–1870. By James J. Farley. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Pp. x, 142. $32.50 pp. 191-192

John Nader

Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875–1925. By Perry K. Blatz. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 368. $19.95 pp. 192-193

David Witwer

Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers. By Michael K. Honey. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 364. $49.95, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 193-195

William A. Sundstrom

Can Workers Have a Voice? The Politics of Deindustrialization in Pittsburgh. By Dale A. Hathaway. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 232. $29.95 pp. 195-196

Robert Forrant

The Evolution of U.S. Finance. Vol. 1: Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1915–1935. Vol. 2: Restructuring Institutions and Markets. By Jane W. D'Arista. London: M. E. Sharpe, 1994. Vol. 1: Pp. xvi, 253. $60.00, cloth; $24.95, paper. Vol. 2: Pp. xix, 505. $75.00, cloth; $27.95, paper. Set: $120.00, cloth; $50.00, paper pp. 196-198

Mark Toma

Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. By Annalee Saxenian. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 226. $24.95 pp. 198-199

Paul Robertson

Reciprocity, U.S. Trade Policy, and the GATT Regime. By Carolyn Rhodes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 249. $32.50 pp. 199-200

Abby L. Gilbert

Contested Countryside: Rural Workers and Modern Society in Atlantic Canada, 1800–1950. Edited by Daniel Samson. Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: Acadiensis Press, 1994. Pp. 272. $19.95 pp. 200-201

Thomas Allen

Facts of Life: The Social Construction of Vital Statistics, Ontario 1869–1952. By George Emery. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 243. $39.95 pp. 201-203

Dora Costa

Economic Thought - The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Edited by Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, Pp. ix, 835. $95.00 pp. 203-204

Mark Casson

General and Miscellaneous - World Trade since 1431: Geography, Technology, and Capitalism. By Peter J. Hugill. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. xxiii, 376. $59.95 pp. 205-205

Daniel R. Headrick

Learning and Technological Change. Edited by Ross Thomson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 290. $55.00 pp. 206-207

Rick Szostak

Closing the Door to Destitution: The Shaping of the Social Security Acts of the United States and New Zealand. By Raymond Richards. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Pp. xxx, 178. $42.50 pp. 207-208

Brian Gratton

The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States. Edited by Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner. Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 440. $49.95 pp. 208-210

Richard Bensel