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Volume 54, issue 4, 1994

The Savings of Ordinary Americans: The Philadelphia Saving Fund Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century pp. 735-767

George Alter, Claudia Goldin and Elyce Rotella

Gender and the Guild Order: The Garment Trades in Eighteenth-Century Paris pp. 768-793

Judith G. Coffin

The End of European Immigrant Servitude in the United States: An Economic Analysis of Market Collapse, 1772–1835 pp. 794-824

Farley Grubb

Uncertainty as a Propagating Force in The Great Depression pp. 825-849

J. Ferderer and David A. Zalewski

World War II Fiscal Policies and the End of the Great Depression pp. 850-868

J. R. Vernon

The Economic Lag of Central and Eastern Europe: Income Estimates for the Habsburg Successor States, 1870–1910 pp. 869-891

David F. Good

Late Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Factor-Price Convergence: Were Heckscher and Ohlin Right? pp. 892-916

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson

Early Modern Europe - Charity and State in Late Renaissance Italy. By Carol Menning. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 333. $51.95 pp. 921-922

William Caferro

Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. By Merry E. Wiesner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 264 pp. 922-923

David Levine

Fashion's Favourite: The Cotton Trade and the Consumer in Britain. By Beverly Lemire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 244. $65.00 pp. 923-924

Ann Smart Martin

Modern Europe - The Aristocracy in Europe, 1815–1914. By Dominic Lieven. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. xxi, 308. $29.50 pp. 924-926

Scott M. Eddie

A New Lease on Life: Landlords, Tenants, and Immigrants in Ireland and Canada. By Catharine Anne Wilson. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. Pp. vii, 313. $39.95 pp. 926-927

H. A. Gemery

God's Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne. By R. Howard Bloch. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. vii, 152. $24.95 pp. 927-928

Paul M. Hohenberg

Le Cheval a Paris de 1850 á 1914. By Ghislaine Bouchet. Mémoires et Documents de l' École des Chartres, no. 37. Geneva: Droz, 1993. Pp. xv, 410 pp. 928-929

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

La Production Agricole de la France de 1810 á 1990: Départements et Régions. By Jean-Claude Toutain. 3 vols. Histoire Quantitative de l'Economie Française. Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1992–1993. Pp. 1079. 240 F pp. 929-930

John Nye

Birth Weight and Economic Growth: Women's Living Standards in the Industrializing West. By W. Peter Ward. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 218. $38.00 pp. 930-931

John E. Murray

British Monetary Policy, 1945–51. By Susan Howson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 369. £40.00 pp. 931-932

Michael Collins

The Soviet Household Under the Old Regime: Economic Conditions and Behavior in the 1970s. By Gur Ofer and Aaron Vinokur. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xviii, 396. $69.95 pp. 932-933

Paul Gregory

Africa, Asia, and Australia - Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia. Edited By Martin A. Klein. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 222. $40.00 pp. 933-935

Joseph E. Inikori

Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1680. Vol. 2: Expansion and Crisis. By Anthony Reid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 390. $35.00 pp. 935-936

Robert J. Donia

Artisans and Industrialization: Indian Weaving in the Twentieth Century. By Tirthankar Roy. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 243. $23.00 pp. 936-937

Michael J. Twomey

Economics and the Dreamtime: A Hypothetical History. By N. G. Butlin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 252 pp. 937-938

Sumner La Croix

Latin America - Veracruz Merchants, 1770–1829: A Mercantile Elite in Late Bourbon and Early Independent Mexico. By Jackie R. Booker. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. xxi, 191. $45.00 pp. 938-939

Richard Salvucci

La independencia americana: consecuencias económicas. Edited By L. Prados de la Escosura and S. Amaral. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1993. Pp. 329. $29.95 pp. 939-940

Agustín González Enciso

United States and Canada - The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution. By John E. Crowley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 215. $32.50 pp. 941-942

Margaret E. Newell

Quantitative Studies in Agrarian History. Edited By Morton Rothstein and Daniel Field. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 275. $39.95 pp. 942-943

Allan G. Bogue

Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850–1910. By William Deverell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 278. $30.00 pp. 943-945

John Majewski

The Passenger Train in the Motor Age: California's Rail and Bus Industries, 1910–1941. By Gregory Lee Thompson. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 247. $42.50 pp. 945-946

David J. St. Clair

Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1865–1917. By Gerald Berk. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 243. $35.95 pp. 946-947

John Landry

Unfinished Business: The Railroad in American Life. By Maury Klein. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994. Pp. 226. $24.95 pp. 947-948

John Lauritz Larson

Harrisburg Industrializes: The Coming of Factories to an American Community. By Gerald G. Eggert. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. Pp. xix, 341. $35.00 pp. 948-950

Richard Stott

A Place to Live and Work: The Henry Disston Saw Works and the Tacony Community of Philadelphia. By Harry C. Silcox. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Pp. xix, 231. $35.00 pp. 950-951

Daniel Nelson

The Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars. By Tracy Campbell. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993. Pp. xii, 223. $28.00 pp. 951-953

Victoria Saker Woeste

The South and the New Deal. By Roger Biles. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994. Pp. x, 205. $23.00 pp. 953-954

Patrick Reagan

Hanging By a Thread: Social Change in Southern Textiles. Edited By Jeffrey Leiter, Michael D. Schulman, and Rhonda Zingraff. Ithaca: ILR Press, 1991. Pp. viii, 248. $32.00, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 954-956

Leonard Carlson

Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic. By Christopher L. Tomlins. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xviii, 406. $54.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 956-957

Tony Freyer

Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century. By Shelton Stromquist. University of Iowa Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 346. $39.95, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 957-959

Gerald Friedman

Contract, Economic Change, and the Search for Order in Industrializing America. By Lester G. Lindley. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993. Pp. ix, 325. $57.00 pp. 959-960

Christopher Grandy

Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America. By Richard H. K. Vietor. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994. Pp. 439. $35.00 pp. 960-962

Gary D. Libecap

Uneasy Partners: Big Business in American Politics, 1945–1990. By Kim McQuaid. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. xvi, 224. $38.95, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 962-964

Stephen Adams

Old Age and the Search for Security: An American Social History. By Carole Haber and Brian Gratton. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 230. $35.00, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 964-965

Robert Whaples

American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945–1955. Edited By Jeffry M. Diefendorf, Axel Frohn, and Hermann-Josef Rupieper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xviii, 537. $69.95 pp. 965-966

Frank Biess

Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada's Pacific Coast Fisheries. By Dianne Newell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 306. $40.00 cloth; $18.95 paper pp. 966-968

Ann Carlos

Gross National Product, Canada, 1870–1926: The Derivation of the Estimates. By M. C. Urquhart, with chapters By A. G. Green, Thomas Rymes, Marion Steele, and A. M. Sinclair, and contributions By D. M. McDougall and R. M. McInnis. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. Pp. iii, 714. $65.00 pp. 968-969

Robert E. Gallaman

General and Miscellaneous - Plantation Workers: Resistance and Accommodation. Edited By Brij V. Lal, Doug Munro, and Edward D. Beechert. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. Pp. viii, 343. $38.00 pp. 970-971

Thomas E. Schweigert

Coming Full Circle: An Economic History of the Pacific Rim. By Eric Jones, Lionel Frost, and Colin White. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 188. $49.95, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 971-973

Dennis O. Flynn

Old and New Methods in Historical Demography. Edited By David Reher and Roger Schofield. International Studies in Demography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. viii, 426. $59.00 pp. 973-974

Morton Owen Schapiro

Volume 54, issue 3, 1994

Productivity, Extent of Markets, and Manufacturing in the Late Antebellum South and Midwest pp. 497-525

Viken Tchakerian

Crop Choices in the Piedmont Before and After the Civil War pp. 526-542

J. William Harris

Competition in a Network Industry: The Telephone Industry, 1894–1910 pp. 543-572

David Gabel

Remeasuring Business Cycles pp. 573-609

Christina Romer

The Bubble Act: Its Passage and Its Effects on Business Organization pp. 610-627

Ron Harris

Avoiding Holdup: Asset Specificity and Technical Change in the Cuban Sugar Industry, 1899–1929 pp. 628-653

Alan Dye

The Shoe That Didn't Drop: Explaining Banking Stability During the Great Depression pp. 654-682

Richard Grossman

Medieval and Early Modern - Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History. By Barbara A. Hanawalt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 300. $27.50 pp. 693-694

Lori A. Gates

La Révolte des Ciompi: Les Hommes, Les Lieux, Le Travail. By Alessandro Stella. Paris: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1993. Pp. 368. 250 F pp. 694-695

Judith C. Brown

The Nobility of Holland: From Knights to Regents, 1500–1650. By H. F. K. van Nierop. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 252. (No price given.) pp. 695-696

Richard F. J. Paping

Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare. By Douglas Bruster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 164. $39.95 pp. 696-697

Peter Razzell

Modern Europe - A Distinctive Industrialization: Cotton in Barcelona, 1728–1832. By J. K. J. Thomson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xx, 347. $89.95 cloth pp. 697-698

Gabriel Tortella

Ireland Before and After the Famine: Essays in Economic History, 1800–1925. By Cormac Ó Gráda. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2nd edition, 1993. Pp. 224. (No price given.) pp. 698-699

Timothy W. Guinnane

The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland. Edited by J. H. Goldthorpe and C. T. Whelan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. vi, 470. $60.00 pp. 699-700

Kevin O'Rourke

The Economic History of Italy, 1860–1990: Recovery after Decline. By Vera Zamagni. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 413. £40.00, cloth pp. 701-702

Francesco L. Galassi

Enterprise and Technology: The German and British Steel Industries, 1865–1895. By Ulrich Wengenroth. Translated by Sarah Hanbury Tenison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 293. (No price given.) pp. 702-703

Charles K. Hyde

Britain in the International Economy, 1870–1939. Edited by S. N. Broadberry and N. F. R. Crafts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 426. £40.00 hardback pp. 703-704

E. T. J. Butchart

The Welfare State in Britain Since 1945. By Rodney Lowe. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Pp. x, 382. $45.00 pp. 704-705

Paul Johnson

Asia - The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853–1937. By Kenneth Pomeranz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xxiii, 336. $40.00, cloth pp. 705-706

Xin Zhang

Latin America - Coercion and Market: Silver Mining in Colonial Potosí, 1692–1826. By Enrique Tandeter. Translated from the Spanish by Richard Warren. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 332. $50.00 pp. 706-707

A. J. Bauer

Mirages of Transition: The Peruvian Altiplano, 1780–1930. By Nils Jacobsen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xviii, 481. $55.00, cloth; $25.00, paper pp. 707-709

A. J. Bauer

Politics in the Portuguese Empire: The State, Industry, and Cotton, 1926–1974. By M. Anne Pitcher. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xvi, 322. $62.00 pp. 709-710

Walter C. Opello

Frondizi and the Politics of Developmentalism in Argentina, 1955–1962. By Celia Szusterman. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 318. $75.00 pp. 710-711

Clarence Zuvekas

Money Doctors, Foreign Debts, and Economic Reforms in Latin America from the 1890s to the Present. By Paul W. Drake. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1994. Pp. xxxiii, 270. $40.00, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 711-712

Marcelo Abreu

United States and Canada - The Political Economy of North American Indians. Edited by John H. Moore. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 349. $32.95 pp. 712-714

Peter George

North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion, and Differentiation. By Terry G. Jordan. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 439. $35.00, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 714-715

Robert R. Dykstra

The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828–1852. By James D. Dilts. Stanford: Stanford University Press1993. Pp. xi, 472. $60.00 pp. 715-716

Nathan Miller

From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory: Telegraphy and the Changing Context of American Invention, 1830–1920. By Paul Israel. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Pp. x, 251. $38.50 pp. 716-718

W. Bernard Carlson

Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City. By Thomas R. Beardsley. Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile ' History Museum, 1993. Pp. xx, 244. $15.95 pp. 718-719

William H. Phillips

Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870–1914. By Walter Nugent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. Pp. xvi, 234. $29.95 pp. 719-720

Alan Taylor

Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880–1930. By Mark Wyman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 267. $34.50 pp. 720-722

Joseph P. Ferrie

The Battle for Homestead 1880–1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel. By Paul Krause. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 548. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 722-723

Joseph F. Wall

Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920. By Robert F. Burk. Chapel Hill ' London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 284. $34.95 pp. 723-724

Stanley L. Engerman

Reform of the Federal Reserve System in the Early 1930s: The Politics of Money and Banking. By Sue C. Patrick. New York: Garland, 1993. Pp. xii, 349. $83.00 pp. 724-725

Joseph R. Mason

Ideas, Interests, and American Trade Policy. By Judith Goldstein. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 268. $39.95, cloth; $13.95, paper pp. 725-727

Thomas W. Zeiler

Economic Thought - Explorations in Economic Sociology. Edited by Richard Swedberg. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Pp. xxiv, 452. $45.00 pp. 727-728

Mark Casson

General and Miscellaneous - Taylored Lives: Narrative Production in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford. By Martha Banta. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 431. $34.95 pp. 728-729

Wayne Lewchuk

Competitiveness, Convergence, and International Specialization. By David Dollar and Edward N. Wolff. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 228. $35.00 pp. 729-730

Jene Kwon

Advances in Behavioral Finance. Edited by Richard H. Thaler. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993. Pp. xxi, 597. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 730-731

Gerald P. Dwyer

Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience, 1840– 1930. Edited by Dirk Hoerder and Horst Rössler. New York: Holmes ' Meier, 1993. Pp. viii, 312. $45.00 pp. 731-732

Raymond L. Cohn

Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies. By William Chester Jordan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. Pp. 161. $28.95, cloth pp. 732-733

Jane Humphries

Going Private: The International Experience with Transport Privatization. By Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez and John R. Meyer. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1993. Pp. xiv, 310. $36.95, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 733-734

David J. St. Clair

Volume 54, issue 2, 1994

The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution pp. 249-270

Jan de Vries

On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries pp. 271-287

Avner Greif

Rural Credit Markets and Aggregate Shocks: The Experience of Nuits St. Georges, 1756–1776 pp. 288-306

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

The Perils of Lifetime Employment Systems: Productivity Advance in the Indian and Japanese Textile Industries, 1920–1938 pp. 307-324

Susan Wolcott

The U.S. Banking System From a Northern Exposure: Stability versus Efficiency pp. 325-341

Michael Bordo, Hugh Rockoff and Angela Redish

At What Cost A Room of Her Own? Factors Contributing to the Feminization of Poverty Among Prime-Age Women, 1939–1959 pp. 342-357

Linda Barrington and Cecilia A. Conrad

Wage Compression and Wage Inequality Between Black and White Males in the United States, 1940–1960 pp. 358-381

Thomas Maloney

The Color Line: Racial Norms and Discrimination in Urban Labor Markets, 1910–1950 pp. 382-396

William A. Sundstrom

The Rise of an Inventive Profession: Learning Effects in the Midwestern Harvester Industry, 1850–1890 pp. 397-408

John Nader

Consistent Output Series for the Antebellum and Postbellum Periods: Issues and Preliminary Results pp. 409-422

Charles Calomiris and Christopher Hanes

Strategies for Commercialization: Missouri Agriculture, 1860–1880 pp. 423-425

Mary Eschelbach Gregson

The Economics of the Coal Company Town: Institutional Relationships, Monopsony, and Distributional Conflicts in American Coal Towns pp. 426-427

Lawrence W. Boyd

An Empirical Analysis of Uncertainty and Investment During the Great Depression pp. 428-429

David A. Zalewski

Enterprise and Culture: Jewish Immigrants in London and New York, 1880–1914 pp. 430-432

Andrew Godley

China's First Modern Corporation and the State: Officials, Merchants, and Resource Allocation in the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company, 1872–1902 pp. 432-434

Chi-Kong Lai

Argentine Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective pp. 434-437

Alan Taylor

Comments on Gregson, Boyd, and Zalewski pp. 437-440

Carole Shammas

Comments on Godley, Lai, and Taylor pp. 441-445

Carol E. Heim

Medieval and Early Modern - Kings and Lords in Conquest England. By Fleming Robin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xxi, 257. (No price given.) pp. 450-451

Graeme Snooks

The Medieval Village Economy: A Study of the Pareto Mappings in General Equilibrium Models. By Robert M. Townsend. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xxi, 145. $35.00 pp. 451-452

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

The English Economy. From Bede to the Reformation. By A. R. Bridbury. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1992. Pp. 328. (No price given.) pp. 453-454

Graeme Snooks

Economic Effects of the European Expansion, 1492–1824. Edited by José Casas Pardo. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1992. Pp. 512. (No price given.) pp. 454-455

A. J. H. Latham

The Land and the Loom: Peasants and Profit in Northern France, 1680–1800. By Liana Vardi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993. Pp. v, 297. $34.95 pp. 455-456

Gay L. Gullickson

The Most Necessary Luxuries: The Mercers' Company of Coventry, 1550–1680. By Ronald M. Berger. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 317. $55.00 pp. 456-457

Joseph P. Ward

Modern Europe - The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective. Edited by Joel Mokyr. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 362. $55.00, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 457-459

G. N. von Tunzelmann

Textilindustrie und Staat in Westfalen 1914–1933. By Karlheinz Wiegmann. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1993. Pp. 289. DM 94 pp. 459-460

John C. Brown

The Rise and Fall of Road Transport 1700–1990. By Theo Barker and Dorian Gerhold. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. 118. £5.99 pp. 461-462

Rick Szostak

The Middle East and Asia - The Commerce of Smyrna in the Eighteenth Century (1700–1820). By Elena Frangakis-Syrett. Athens: Centre for Asia Minor Studies, 1992. (No price given.) pp. 462-463

Elias H. Tuma

The Pasha's Peasants. Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt, 1740–1858. By Kenneth M. Cuno. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xviii, 277. $59.95 pp. 463-464

Murat Cizakca

United States and Canada - To Sow One Acre More: Childbearing and Farm Productivity in the Antebellum North. By Lee A. Craig. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 161. $28.50 pp. 464-465

Mary Eschelbach Gregson

An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730–1815. By Joyce E. Chaplin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 411. $45.00 pp. 465-467

Daniel C. Littlefield

Indians, Settlers, & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783. By Daniel H. UsnerJr. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Pp. vii, 294. $32.50, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 467-468

Richard L. Haan

From Gentlemen to Townsmen: The Gentry of Baltimore County, Maryland, 1660–1776. By Charles G. Steffen. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993. Pp. xi, 209. $35.00 pp. 468-469

Gloria L. Main

Elite Families: Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century Boston. By Betty G. Farrell. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. Pp. viii, 229. $16.95 pp. 469-470

Kohei Kawashima

Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Louis. By Jeffrey S. Adler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. v, 247. $42.50 pp. 470-472

Jane Knodell

The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914–1915: Espionage, Labor Conflict, and New South Industrial Relations. By Gary Fink. Ithaca: Industrial and Labor Relations Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 180. $26.00 pp. 472-473

Eric Arnesen

Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City, 1900–1950. By Miriam Cohen. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 237. $39.95, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 473-474

Lynn Y. Weiner

Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913–1963. By Katherine Jellison. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Pp. xxii, 217. $39.95, cloth; $13.95, paper pp. 474-476

Lee Craig

The “Underclass” Debate: Views From History. Edited by Michael B. Katz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. vii, 507. $59.95, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 476-477

Joan Underhill Hannon

Regulating Big Business: Antitrust in Great Britain and America, 1880–1990. By Tony Freyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 399. $59.95 pp. 477-479

Robert Stanley

Money, Time & Politics: Investment Tax Subsidies & American Democracy. By Ronald F. King. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Pp. 536. $45.00 pp. 479-480

W. Elliot Brownlee

American Trade and Power in the 1960s. By Thomas W. Zeiler. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 371. $45.00 pp. 480-481

Joseph Finger

Farm, Factory and Fortune: New Studies in the Economic History of the Maritime Provinces. Edited by Inwood Kris. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1993. Pp. viii, 274. $19.95 pp. 481-483

Douglas McCalla

Economic Thought - Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics. Edited by Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp. vii, 178. $35.00, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 483-484

Jane Humphries

General and Miscellaneous - International Banking, 1870–1914. Edited by Rondo Cameron and V. I. Bovykin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 655. $80.00 pp. 485-486

Steven Tolliday

Beyond the Protective State: The Political Economy of Australia's Manufacturing Industry Policy. By Ann Capling and Brian Galligan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xvi, 272. $54.95 pp. 486-487

John Perkins

Family, Church, and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and the New Worlds, 1850–1930. By Royden K. Loewen. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 370. $42.50, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 487-488

Metin Cosgel

The Flowering of the Third America: The Making of an Organizational Society, 1850–1920. By Maury Klein. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1993. The American Ways Series. Pp. 217. $22.50 pp. 488-490

Angel Kwolek-Folland

Laissez-faire Banking. By Kevin Dowd. New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. viii, 380. $59.95 pp. 490-491

Richard Grossman

Pursuing Happiness: American Consumers in the Twentieth Century. By Stanley Lebergott. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 188. $24.95 pp. 491-492

Martha Olney

Governance of the American Economy. Edited by John L. Campbell, J. Rogers Hollingsworth, and Leon N. Lindberg. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 462. $65.00 pp. 492-494

David Bunting

The Deal Decade: What Takeovers and Leveraged Buyouts Mean for Corporate Governance. Edited by Margaret M. Blair. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1993. Pp. xiii, 390. $39.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 494-495

Anthony Patrick O'Brien

Volume 54, issue 1, 1994

The Wealth Accumulation of Antebellum European Immigrants to the U.S., 1840–60 pp. 1-33

Joseph P. Ferrie

“Man to Loan $1500 and Serve as Clerk”: Trading Jobs for Loans in Mid-Nineteenth-Century San Francisco pp. 34-63

Frederic Rogers

Work Relief and the Labor Force Participation of Married Women in 1940 pp. 64-84

T. Aldrich Finegan and Robert Margo

City and Countryside in Siena in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century pp. 85-103

William Caferro

The Best and Worst of Currencies: Seigniorage and Currency Policy in Spain, 1597–1650 pp. 104-127

Akira Motomura

Factory Discipline pp. 128-163

Gregory Clark

Pitfalls in the Estimation of the Yield on British Consols, 1850–1914 pp. 164-187

Jan Tore Klovland

Medieval and Early Modern - Peasants in the Middle Ages. By Werner Rösener. Translated and with foreword and glossary by Alexander Stützer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 338. $21.95, paper pp. 194-195

William W. Hagen

The Commercialization of English Society 1000–1500. By R. H. Britnell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 273. $49.95, cloth pp. 195-197

Scott L. Waugh

The Estates of the English Crown, 1558–1640. Edited by R. W. Hoyle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xviii, 440. $79.95, cloth pp. 197-198

Joel T. Rosenthal

Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World. By Jack Goldstone. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. xxix, 608. $17.00, paper pp. 198-199

Francois Velde

Modern Europe - The Origins and Course of the German Economic Crisis, 1923–1932. By Theo Balder-ston. Berlin: Haude und Spener Verlag, 1993. Pp. xxi, 505. DM 165 pp. 200-201

Arthur van Riel

The Industrial Revolution: A Macroeconomic Interpretation. By Douglas Fisher. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 313. $75.00 pp. 201-202

Gary Richardson

The Rise and Decline of Holland's Economy: Merchant Capitalism and the Labour Market. By Jan L. Van Zanden. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 186. Cloth, $69.95 pp. 202-203

Joel Mokyr

The Advent of Modern Capitalism in France, 1770–1840: The Contribution of Pierre-François Tubeuf. By Gwynne Lewis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. vii, 339 pp. 203-204

Reed Geiger

British Multinational Banking 1830–1990. By Geoffrey Jones. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 511. $69.00, cloth pp. 204-205

Kevin Dowd

Poor and Pregnant in Paris: Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth Century. By Rachel G. Fuchs. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 325. $45.00, cloth; $18.00, paper pp. 205-206

Tessie P. Liu

Postwar Economic Reconstruction and Lessons for the East Today. Edited by Rudiger Dornbusch, Wilhelm Nölling, and Richard Layard. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 249. $29.95 pp. 206-207

Suzanne Gleason

Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization. Edited by William G. Rosenberg and Lewis H. Siegelbaum. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. Pp. xix, 296. $39.95 cloth; $14.95 paper pp. 207-208

Mark Harrison

Road Transport Before the Railways: Russell's London Flying Waggons. By Dorian Gerhold. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 316. $69.95, cloth pp. 208-209

John Langdon

United States and Canada - The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism. By Allan Kulikoff. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992. Pp. xiv, 341. $49.50, cloth; $17.50, paper pp. 209-211

Winifred B. Rothenberg

The Republic of Labor: Philadelphia Artisans and the Politics of Class, 1720–1830. By Ronald Schultz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 298. $45.00 pp. 211-213

Charles G. Steffen

Shoulder to Shoulder? The American Federation of Labor, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1924. By Gregg Andrews. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. 272. $45.00 pp. 213-215

Jeffrey Bortz

Visions of a New Industrial Order: Social Science and Labor Theory in America's Progressive Era. By Clarence E. Wunderlin Jr New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 230. $45.00 pp. 215-216

Guy Alchon

Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States. By Victoria C. Hattam. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xii266. $35.00 pp. 216-218

Steve Fraser

The Men and the Vision of the Southern Commercial Conventions, 1845–1871. By Vicki Vaughn Johnson. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992. Pp. x, 328. $39.95 pp. 218-220

Douglas Flamming

The Era of Good Stealings. By Mark Wahlgren Summers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 390. $49.95 pp. 220-221

James L. Huston

Free People of Color: Inside the African American Community. By James Oliver Horton. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 238. $39.95, cloth; $15.95, paper pp. 221-222

Alessandra Lorini

Afro-Americans in Antebellum Boston: An Analysis of Probate Records. By Carol Buchalter Stapp. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993. Pp. xxiii, 309. $73.00 pp. 222-223

Loren Schweninger

Their Sisters' Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830–1870. By Marilynh Wood Hill. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 434. $35.00 pp. 223-225

Lucy Barber

Commercial Bank Liquidity Management, Discretionary Reserve Behavior, and the Allocation of Credit, 1863–1913. By J. M. Carter. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992. Pp. v, 179. $53.00 pp. 225-226

Gary Gorton

The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890–1920. By Mansel G. Blackford. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 189. $35.00 pp. 226-228

Gregory L. Thompson

Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West. By M. Catherine Miller. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Pp. 255. $45.00 pp. 228-229

Mark Kanazawa

Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land. By John Opie. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Pp. xxi, 412. $35.00 pp. 229-230

Carroll Van West

Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada, 1784–1870. By Douglas McCalla. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Pp. xviii, 446. $50.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 230-231

Tony Ward

Prophesying upon the Bones: J. Reuben Clark and the Foreign Debt Crisis, 1933–1939. By Gene A. Sessions. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 149. $24.95 pp. 231-233

Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt

Politics of Immigrant Workers. Edited by Camille Guerin-Gonzales and Carl Strikwerda. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1993. Pp. xiv, 333. $40.00, cloth pp. 233-234

Philip L. Martin

The Caribbean - Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740–1800. By Alan L. Karras. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 231. $34.50 pp. 234-236

David Hancock

Slave Society in the Danish West Indies: St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix. By Neville A. T. Hall. Edited by B. W. Higman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Pp. xxiv, 287. $45.00 pp. 236-237

Rhett S. Jones

General and Miscellaneous - The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America. By Thomas R. Cole. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xxxv, 251. $27.95, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 237-239

Robert Whaples

Organizational Form and Business Strategy in the U.S. Petroleum Industry. By Michael Ollinger. Lanham, MD. University Press of America, Inc., 1993. Pp. [x], 166. $35.00 pp. 239-240

Steven C. Agee

History and Memory. By Jacques LeGoff. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Pp. xxiii, 265. $29.50 pp. 240-242

Philip Benedict

Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes. By Paul Bairoch. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. Pp. xvi, 184. $45.00 pp. 242-243

Rondo Cameron

The Sinews of War: Essays on the Economic History of World War II. Edited by Geofrey T. Mills and Hugh Rockoff. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1993. Pp. xxi, 262. $42.95 pp. 243-245

Michael Bernstein

Antarctica: An Economic History of the Last Continent. By Martijn Wilder. Sydney: University of Sydney, 1992. Pp. viii, 155. $20.00 pp. 245-246

Kenneth J. White

Entrepreneurship, Networks and Modern Business. Edited by Jonathan Brown and Mary B. Rose. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993. Pp. x, 262. $49.95 pp. 246-247

Gordon Boyce