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Volume 52, issue 4, 1992

What Ended the Great Depression? pp. 757-784

Christina Romer

Uncontrolled Land Development and the Duration of the Depression in the United States pp. 785-805

Alexander Field

Regulation and Bank Failures: New Evidence from the Agricultural Collapse of the 1920s pp. 806-825

David Wheelock

“Square Deal” or Raw Deal? Market Compensation for Workplace Disamenities, 1884–1903 pp. 826-848

Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor

Old Questions, New Data, and Alternative Perspectives: Families' Living Standards in the Industrial Revolution pp. 849-880

Sara Horrell and Jane Humphries

Inventive Activity in the British Textile Industry, 1700–1800 pp. 881-906

Trevor Griffiths, Philip A. Hunt and Patrick K. O'Brien

External Dependence, Demographic Burdens, and Argentine Economic Decline After the Belle Époque pp. 907-936

Alan Taylor

Medieval and Early Modern - A Rural Society After the Black Death: Essex 1350–1525. By L. R. Poos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xv, 330. $59.50 pp. 939-940

Christopher Dyer

The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450–1700. By David Harris Sacks. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Pp. xxvii, 464. $45.00 pp. 940-941

Jacob M. Price

The Cost of Empire: The Finances of the Kingdom of Naples in the Time of Spanish Rule. By Antonio Calabria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 179. $42.50 pp. 941-942

Judith C. Brown

Ships, Money and Politics: Seafaring and Naval Enterprise in the Reign of Charles I. By Kenneth R. Andrews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 240. $44.50 pp. 942-943

Daniel A. Baugh

The Making of an Industrial Society: Whickham, 1560–1765. By David Levine and Keith Wrightson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. xx, 456. $98.00 pp. 943-945

Albion M. Urdank

Modern Europe - État, finances et économie pendant la Révolution française. Comité pour l'Histoire Économique et Financière de la France. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1991. Pp. xxx, 621. 199F pp. 945-946

Eugene White

Central Bank, Peripheral Industry: The Bank of England in the Provinces, 1826–1913. By Dieter Ziegler. Leicester: University of Leicester Press, 1990. Pp. x, 162. $55.00 pp. 946-948

William P. Kennedy

The First Industrial Revolution. Edited by Peter Mathias and John A. Davis. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. viii, 175. $48.95 pp. 948-949

C. Knick Harley

Finance and Financiers in European History, 1880–1960. Edited by Youssef Cassis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 445. $59.50 pp. 949-951

Richard Sylla

Economic Decline in Britain: The Shipbuilding Industry, 1890–1970. By Edward H. Lorenz. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. ix, 166. $46.00 pp. 951-952

Sidney Pollard

Politik, Wirtschaft und Internationale Beziehungen: Studien zu ihrem Verhältnis in der Zeit zwischen den Weltkriegen. Edited by Harm G. Schröter and Clemens A. Wurm. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1991. Pp. ix, 176. DM 48 pp. 952-953

Gerald D. Feldman

Africa and Asia - Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades. By Patrick Manning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 236. $49.50, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 953-954

Donald Schaefer

The Extended Metropolis: Settlement Transition in Asia. Edited by Norton Ginsburg, Bruce Koppel, and T. G. McGee. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 339. $38.00 pp. 954-956

G. William Skinner

Latin America - The Economics of Cuban Sugar. By Jorge F. Pérez-López. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 318. $49.95 pp. 956-957

Charles Moss

United States - Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century. By John Frederick Martin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. xiv, 363. $34.95, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 957-959

Winifred B. Rothenberg

John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic. By John Denis Haeger. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992. Pp. 365. $39.95 pp. 959-960

Thomas C. Cochran

The Political Economy of the Family Farm: The Agrarian Roots of American Capitalism. By Sue Headlee. New York: Praeger, 1991. Pp. xii, 212. $42.95 pp. 960-961

Lee Craig

Broke by the War: Letters of a Slave Trader. Edited by Edmund L. Drago. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. x, 152. $24.95 pp. 961-962

Jonathan Pritchett

Banking in the American West: From the Gold Rush to Deregulation. By Lynne Pierson Doti and Larry Schweikart. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 357. $38.50 pp. 962-963

Kerry Odell

Appalachian Frontiers: Settlement, Society and Development in the Preindustrial Era. Edited by Robert D. Mitchell. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1991. Pp. x, 350. $43.00 pp. 963-965

Turk McCleskey

Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era. Edited by Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991. Pp. 202. $24.00 pp. 965-967

Nancy Folbre

Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century. By Dorothy Sue Cobble. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Pp. xiv, 327. $34.95 pp. 967-968

Angel Kwolek-Folland

Enterprise and American Law 1836–1937. By Herbert Hovenkamp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. x, 443. $39.95 pp. 968-969

Barry Cushman

Eisenhower and the Management of Prosperity. By John W. Sloan. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. Pp. viii, 191. $25.00 pp. 969-970

R. Alton Lee

Baker & Botts in the Development of Modern Houston. By Kenneth J. Lipartito and Joseph A. Pratt. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 253. $24.95 pp. 970-971

J. Herschel Barnhill

R & D for Industry: A Century of Technical Innovation at Alcoa. By Margaret B. W. Graham and Bettye H. Pruitt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 645. $49.50 pp. 971-973

Margaret Levenstein

The Public Debt of the United States: An Historical Perspective, 1775–1990. By Donald R. Stabile and Jeffrey A. Cantor. New York: Praeger, 1991. Pp. xiii, 243. $42.95 pp. 973-974

Ben Baack

Financial Markets and Financial Crises. Edited by R. Glenn Hubbard. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 394. $52.00 pp. 974-976

Howard Bodenhorn

Economic Thought - The Golden Age of the Quantity Theory: The Development of Neoclassical Monetary Economics, 1870–1914. By David Laidler. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 220. $35.00 pp. 976-977

Colleen M. Callahan

Stabilizing Dynamics: Constructing Economic Knowledge. By E. Roy Weintraub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. x, 177. $39.50 pp. 977-978

Avi Cohen

A History of Canadian Economic Thought. By Robin Neill. London: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1991. Pp. 297. $49.95 pp. 978-979

Rick Szostak

General and Miscellaneous - Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel. Edited by Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. Pp. ix, 491. $60.00 pp. 979-982

Louis P. Cain

Regulation: Economic Theory and History. Edited by Jack High. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991. Pp. 191. $34.50 pp. 982-983

Shane Greenstein

Europe, America, and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism. Vol. 2: America and the Wider World. By William N. Parker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 372. $59.50, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 983-985

Alexander Field

Patterns of European Industrialization: The Nineteenth Century. Edited by Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo. London and New York: Routledge and Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, 1991. Pp. xii, 276. $65.00 pp. 985-986

Rondo Cameron

Volume 52, issue 3, 1992

Britain's Productivity Gap in the 1930s: Some Neglected Factors pp. 531-558

Stephen Broadberry and Nicholas Crafts

International Competitiveness of the Antebellum American Cotton Textile Industry pp. 559-584

C. Knick Harley

Capital Mobility and Financial Integration in Antebellum America pp. 585-610

Howard Bodenhorn

The Bank Panic of 1907: The Role of Trust Companies pp. 611-630

Jon Moen and Ellis Tallman

Interest Rate Controls: The United States in the 1940s pp. 631-650

Mark Toma

Age at Leaving Home in Rural Ireland, 1901–1911 pp. 651-674

Timothy Guinnane

City-Farm Wage Gaps in Late Nineteenth-Century France pp. 675-695

Pierre Sicsic

Medieval and Early Modern - England in the Reign of Edward III. By Scott L. Waugh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 303. $44.50, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 706-707

Robert C. Stacey

The Beginnings of Commercial and Financial Journalism: The Commodity Price Currents, Exchange Rate Currents, and Money Currents of Early Modern Europe. By John J. McCusker and Cora Gravesteijn. Amsterdam: Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief, 1991. Pp. 515. $89.00 pp. 707-708

Larry Neal

The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Vol. 3, 1348–1500. Edited by Edward Miller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xxv, 982. $130.00 pp. 708-709

Gregory Clark

Modern Europe - Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939. By Barry Eichengreen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xix, 425. $39.95 pp. 709-710

Solomos Solomou

A Stagnating Metropolis: The Economy and Demography of Stockholm, 1750–1850. By Johan Söderberg, Ulf Jonsson, and Christer Persson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 234. $49.50 pp. 710-711

Brinley Thomas

Britain Ascendant: Comparative Studies in Franco-British Economic History. By François Crouzet. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. vi, 514. $75.00 pp. 711-712

Rondo Cameron

The Great Landowners of East Yorkshire 1530–1910. By Barbara English. New York and London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990. Pp. x, 290. $94.95 pp. 712-713

J. V. Beckett

Deux Siècles de travail en France. By Olivier Marchand and Claude Thèlot. Paris: INSEE Ètudes, 1991. Pp. 202. F140 pp. 713-714

Gilles Postel-Vinay

The Role of Transportation in the Industrial Revolution: A Comparison of England and France. By Rick Szostak. Montreal: McGill—Queen's University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 331. $44.95 pp. 714-715

Gary R. Hawke

The Role of Banks in the Interwar Economy. Edited by Harold James, Håkan Lindgren, and Alice Teichova. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 277. $44.50 pp. 715-716

Richard Grossman

Before the Luddites: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776–1809. By Adrian Randall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 318. $59.50 pp. 716-717

Michael Huberman

Emigrants and Empire: British Settlement in the Dominions Between the Wars. Edited by Stephen Constantine. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 208. $59.95 pp. 717-719

Avner Offer

From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy: Continuity and Change in the Economy of the USSR. Edited by R. W. Davies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xx, 417. $57.50, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 719-720

Carol S. Leonard

Asia - Asia Before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750. By K. N. Chaudhuri. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xxviii, 477. $69.50, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 720-721

Barbara D. Metcalf

The Japanese Economy. By Takatoshi Ito. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1992. Pp. xvi, 455. $39.95 pp. 721-722

Kozo Yamamura

The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas. Edited by Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan. London: Frank Cass, 1991. Pp. 213. £25.00 pp. 722-724

Stanley L. Engerman

Race and Schooling in the South, 1880–1950: An Economic History. By Robert A. Margo. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 164. $24.95 pp. 724-725

Warren Whatley

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Series 1, Vol. 3: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South. Edited by Ira Berlin, Thavolia Glymph, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland, and Julie Saville. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xxxvii, 937. $54.00 pp. 725-727

Harold D. Woodman

The “Lower Sort”: Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750–1800. By Billy G. Smith. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xvi, 249. $34.50 pp. 727-728

Daniel Vickers

Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class and Politics, 1863–1923. By Eric Arnesen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv, 353. $39.95 pp. 729-730

Gerald Friedman

Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880–1960. By Crandall A. Shifflett. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1991. Pp. xx, 259. $34.95 pp. 730-731

Price Fishback

The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930. By Harold L. Platt. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 371. $34.95 pp. 731-732

John Neufeld

Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets, and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1885–1941. By Philip Scranton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi, 518. $49.50 pp. 732-734

William Lazonick

Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. By Theodore Steinberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 284. $34.50 pp. 734-735

Richard W. Judd

Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers. Edited by Sanford M. Jacoby. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 249. $35.00 pp. 735-737

William A. Sundstrom

The Origins of American Social Science. By Dorothy Ross. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xxii, 508. $29.95 pp. 737-737

M. E. Cookingham

Race, Gender, and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States. By Teresa Amott and Julie Matthaei. Boston: South End Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 433. $40.00, cloth; $16.00, paper pp. 738-739

Joyce Jacobsen

The Blacksmith in Upper Canada, 1784–1850: A Study of Technology, Culture and Power. By William T. Wylie. Gananoque, Canada: Langdale Press, 1990. Pp. 216. $39.50 pp. 739-740

Kris Inwood

Economic Thought - New Principles of Political Economy: Of Wealth in Its Relation to Population. By J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991. Pp. vii, 658. $89.95, cloth; $66.95, paper pp. 740-741

Robert F. Hébert

Between Two Cultures: An Introduction to Economic History. By Carlo M. Cipolla. New York: Norton, 1991. Pp. x, 198. $19.95 pp. 741-742

Richard A. Goldthwaite

Opening Doors: The Life and Work of Joseph Schumpeter. 2 vols. By Robert Loring Allen. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991. Pp. 660. $69.95 pp. 742-744

Carl Parrini

The Vital One: Essays in Honor of Jonathan R. T. Hughes. Edited by Joel Mokyr. Research in Economic History Supplement 6. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1991 pp. 744-745

Douglass North

Economic Theories, True or False? Essays in the History and Methodology of Economics. By Mark Blaug. Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar, 1990. Pp. 250. $59.95 pp. 745-747

D. Wade Hands

General and Miscellaneous - Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System. Edited by Barbara L. Solow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. viii, 355. $39.50 pp. 747-748

Raymond L. Cohn

Favorites of Fortune: Technology, Growth, and Economic Development Since the Industrial Revolution. Edited by Patrice Higonnet, David S. Landes, and Henry Rosovsky. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. viii, 558. $14.95 pp. 748-750

Sidney Pollard

Railway Imperialism. Edited by Clarence B. Davis and Kenneth E. WilburnJr., with Ronald E. Robinson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991. Pp. xix, 225. $42.95 pp. 750-751

Arthur Schmidt

From Industry to Arms: The Political Economy of High Technology. By Anthony DiFilippo. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 204. $42.95 pp. 751-752

David J. St. Clair

A History of Interest Rates. By Sidney Homer and Richard Sylla. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991. Pp. xxii, 662. $50.00 pp. 752-753

Larry Neal

Ricardo and the Gold Standard: The Foundations of the International Monetary Order. By Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Annalisa Rosselli. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Pp. x, 183. $59.95 pp. 754-755

Lawrence Officer

The New Urban Frontier. By Lionel Frost. Kensington, Australia: New South Wales University Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 226. $24.95 pp. 755-756

Dennis J. Hanseman

Volume 52, issue 2, 1992

Emigration and the Standard of Living: The Seventeenth Century Chesapeake pp. 271-291

Lois Green Carr

Private Credit Markets in Paris, 1690–1840 pp. 293-306

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

Productivity Growth and Machinery Investment: A Long-Run Look, 1870–1980 pp. 307-324

J. Bradford De Long

Technological Inertia in Economic History pp. 325-338

Joel Mokyr

Market Organization, Protection, and Vertical Integration: German Cotton Textiles before 1914 pp. 339-351

John C. Brown

Italian Industrialization and the Gerschenkronian “Great Spurt”: A Regional Analysis pp. 353-362

Alfredo G. Esposto

Educational Choice in the Era Before Free Public Schooling: Evidence from German Immigrant Children in Pennsylvania, 1771–1817 pp. 363-375

Farley Grubb

The Occupations of English Immigrants to the United States, 1836–1853 pp. 377-387

Raymond L. Cohn

Patent Growth in the Old Dominion: The Impact of Railroad Integration before 1880 pp. 389-400

William H. Phillips

The Magnetic Telegraph, Price and Quantity Data, and the New Management of Capital pp. 401-413

Alexander Field

Last Hired, First Fired? Unemployment and Urban Black Workers During the Great Depression pp. 415-429

William A. Sundstrom

Working Class Rosies: Women Industrial Workers during World War II pp. 431-446

Sherrie A. Kossoudji and Laura J. Dresser

The Role of the Charitable Institution in the Early Modern Dutch Economy: the Case of the Amsterdam Burgerweeshuis pp. 447-449

Anne McCants

The Economics of Spatial Network Externalities and the Dynamics of Railway Gauge Standardization pp. 449-452

Douglas J. Puffert

Mints and Debasements: Monetary Policy in France during the Second Phase of the Hundred Years War: 1400–1425 pp. 452-454

Nathan Sussman

The Development of Nominal Wage Rigidity in Nineteenth-Century America pp. 454-456

Christopher Hanes

Property Rights and the Dynamics of Institutional Change: The Closing of the Georgia Open Range, 1870–1900 pp. 456-459

Shawn Kantor

The Decline in Turnover of Manufacturing Workers: Case Study Evidence from the 1920s pp. 459-461

Laura J. Owen

Comments on McCants, Puffert and Sussman pp. 461-464

Eugene White

Comments on Hanes, Kantor, and Owen pp. 464-468

Robert Margo

Medieval and Early Modern - Episcopal Power and Florentine Society, 1000–1320. By George W. Dameron. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. xv, 284. $45.00 pp. 476-476

Douglas Dowd

The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London. By Ian W. Archer. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xvi, 307. $49.50 pp. 476-478

Martha Carlin

Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal: Workers and Workplace in the Preindustrial City. By Robert C. Davis. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Pp. x, 270. $34.95 pp. 478-479

Domenico Sella

The Pre-Industrial Consumer in England and America. By Carole Shammas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 319. $65.00 pp. 479-480

Winifred B. Rothenberg

British Privateering Enterprise in the Eighteenth Century. By David J. Starkey. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1990. Pp. 344. £25 pp. 480-482

Daniel A. Baugh

Modern Europe - La fortune de Sully. By Isabelle Aristide. Paris: Comité pour l'Histoire Économique et Financiére de la France, Ministére de l'Économie des Finances et du Budget, 1990. Pp. xxv, 497. 270 F pp. 482-483

Eugene White

Politics, Shipping and the Repeal of the Navigation Laws. By Sarah Palmer. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991. Pp. x, 209. $59.95 pp. 483-484

Simon Ville

Schuldenzyklen in der Dritten Welt: Kreditaufnahme, Zahlungskrisen und Schuldenregelungen peripherer Länder im Weltsystem von 1820 bis 1986. By Christian Suter. Frankfurt am Main: Haim, 1990. Pp. xv, 333 pp. 484-486

Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich

Peasant Economy, Culture, and Politics of European Russia, 1800–1921. Edited by Esther Kingston-Mann and Timothy Mixter. Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 443. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $12.95 pp. 486-487

Walter M. Pintner

Peasants and Protest: Agricultural Workers, Politics, and Unions in the Aude, 1850–1914. By Laura Levine Frader. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. xiv, 260. $38.00 pp. 488-488

James R. Lehning

International Competition and Strategic Response in the Textile Industries Since 1870. Edited by Mary B. Rose. London: Frank Cass, 1991. Pp. v, 194. £24 pp. 489-490

Lars G. Sandberg

An Economic History of Liberal Italy, 1850–1918. By Gianni Toniolo. London and New York: Routledge, 1990. Pp. xv, 181. $55.00 pp. 490-491

Jon S. Cohen

A Monetary History of France in the Twentieth Century. By Jean-Pierre Patat and Michel Lutfalla. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Pp. xxx, 312. $55.00 pp. 491-492

Eugene White

Latin America - Agrarian Capitalism and the World Market: Buenos Aires in the Pastoral Age, 1840–1890. By Hilda Sábato. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 316. $50.00 pp. 492-493

A. J. Bauer

Dinero, deuda y crisis: Evolución fiscal y monetaria en la Argentina, 1862–1890. By Roberto Cortés Conde. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana/Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, 1989. Pp. 294 pp. 493-495

David Felix

Governing Capital: International Finance and Mexican Politics. By Sylvia Maxfield. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 198. $24.95 pp. 495-496

James M. Cypher

Privatization of Public Enterprises in Latin America. Edited by William Glade. San Francisco: ICS Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 150. $12.95 pp. 496-497

Marcelo Abreu

United States - From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980. By Bruce J. Schulman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 332. $35.00 pp. 497-499

Lee J. Alston

Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic. By Jeanne Boydston. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xx, 222. $29.95 pp. 499-500

Ruth H. Bloch

Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians. By Peter R. Knights. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. xxv, 281. $34.95 pp. 500-501

Stuart M. Blumin

Workers in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity, and Youth in Antebellum New York City. By Richard B. Stott. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 300. $34.95 pp. 501-502

Amy Bridges

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. By William Cronon. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. Pp. xxiii, 530. $27.50 pp. 503-504

Louis P. Cain

Watering the Valley: Development along the High Plains and Arkansas River, 1870–1950. By James Earl Sherow. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990. Pp. xiii, 222. $29.95 pp. 505-506

Charles Coate

The Transformation of Corporate Control. By Neil Fligstein. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 391. $35.00 pp. 506-507

Louis Galambos

Technology and Power in the Early American Cotton Industry: James Montgomery, the Second Edition of His “Cotton Manufacture” (1840) and the Justitia Controversy about Relative Power Costs. By David J. Jeremy. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1990. Pp. xiv, 348. $38.00 pp. 507-508

Michael Huberman

Damming the Colorado: The Rise of the Lower Colorado River Authority, 1933–1939. By John A. AdamsJr., College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 161. $32.50 pp. 508-509

Richard Lowitt

Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700–1800. By Peter C. Mancall. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 253. $29.95 pp. 509-510

Gloria L. Main

Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland. By Lois Green Carr, Russell R. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture. Pp. xxi, 362. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 510-512

Peter C. Mancall

Wall Street. By Walter Werner and Steven T. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 306. $35.00 pp. 512-513

Bruce C. Nelson

Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859–1877. By Richard Franklin Bensel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 452. $59.50, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 513-514

Phillip Paludan

Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America. By Samuel H. Preston and Michael R. Haines. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xxi, 272. $37.50 pp. 514-515

Wayne Lewchuk

The Depression and the Urban West Coast, 1929–1933: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland. By William Mullins. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1991. Pp. 192. $35.00 cloth pp. 516-517

Paul Rhode

Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865–1920. By James D. Norris. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 206. $39.95 pp. 517-518

Vincent Vinikas

Buy Now Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durables in the 1920's. By Martha L. Olney. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 424. $45.00 pp. 518-519

Robert Zevin

Economic Thought - Carl Menger and the Origins of Austrian Economics. By Max Alter. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 256. $69.00 pp. 519-521

Peter Boettke

Profit and Enterprise: The Political Economy of Profit. By David Parker and Richard Stead. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 201 pp. 521-522

John Davis

General and Miscellaneous - Mountains of Debt: Crisis and Change in Renaissance Florence, Victorian Britain, and Postwar America. By Michael Veseth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 246. $32.50 pp. 522-524

Michael Edelstein

Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism. By Michael Rothschild. New York: Henry Holt, 1990. Pp. xv, 423. $24.95 pp. 524-525

Joel Mokyr

Letters of Eugene V. Debs (3 volumes). Edited by J. Robert Constantine. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Pp. lxxxvii, 591 pp. 525-527

Michael H. Nash

A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980. By Donald N. McCloskey and George K. HershJr., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 505. $49.50 pp. 527-528

Joshua Rosenbloom

Long-Wave Rhythms in Economic Development and Political Behavior. By Brian J. L. Berry. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv, 242. $49.50, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 528-529

John C. Soper

International Technology Transfer: Europe, Japan, and the USA, 1700–1914. Edited by David J. Jeremy. Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar, 1991. Pp. xiii, 253. $68.95 pp. 529-530

Mira Wilkins

Volume 52, issue 1, 1992

The Financial Market and Government Debt Policy in France, 1746–1793 pp. 1-39

Francois Velde and David R. Weir

Wartime Prosperity? A Reassessment of the U.S. Economy in the 1940s pp. 41-60

Robert Higgs

The Economics of Exhaustion, the Postan Thesis, and the Agricultural Revolution pp. 61-84

Gregory Clark

Fatherless and Friendless: Factors Influencing the Flow of English Emigrant Servants pp. 85-108

Farley Grubb

A Peculiar Sample: The Selection of Slaves for the New Orleans Market pp. 109-127

Jonathan Pritchett and Herman Freudenberger

How Long Was the Workday in 1880? pp. 129-160

Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman

Employment Duration and Industrial Labor Mobility in the United States, 1880–1980 pp. 161-179

Sanford M. Jacoby and Sunil Sharma

64thers, Syndicates, and Stock Promotions: Information Flows and Fund-raising Techniques of British Shipowners Before 1914 pp. 181-205

Gordon Boyce

The European Discovery of the World and Its Economic Effects on Pre-Industrial Society, 1500–1800: Papers of the Tenth International Economic History Congress. Edited by Hans Pohl. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1990. Pp. x, 330. DM 80 pp. 220-222

Jan de Vries

Early Modern - Lille and the Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500–1582. By Robert S. DuPlessis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xv, 372. $54.50 pp. 220-220

Paul M. Hohenberg

Liberty in Absolutist Spain: The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516–1700. By Helen Nader. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Pp. xvi, 305. $39.50 pp. 222-223

Richard Herr

Modern Europe - Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime. By Richard Herr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Pp. xxx, 879. $75.00 pp. 223-225

Joseph Harrison

Collana storica della Banco d'Italia—Documenti. Volume 1: L'Italia e il sistema finanziario internationale 1861–1914. Edited by Marcello De Cecco. Rome: Laterza, 1990. Pp. xiii, 1044. - Collana storica della Banco d'Italia—Documenti. Volume 2: Gli istituti di emissione in Italia: I tentativi di unificazione, 1843–1892. Edited by Renato De Mattia. Rome: Laterza, 1990. Pp. xi, 518. - Collana storica della Banco d'Italia—Documenti. Volume 3: Giolitti e la nascita delta Banco d'Italia nel 1893. Edited by Guglielmo Negri. Rome: Laterza, 1989. Pp. xi, 521. - Collana storica della Banco d'Italia—Documenti. Volume 5: La Banco d'Italia e l'economia di guerra 1914–1919. Edited by Gianni Toniolo. Rome: Laterza, 1989. Pp. xi, 382. - Collana storica delta Banco d'Italia—Contributi. Volume 1: Ricerche per la storia delta Banco d'Italia. Edited by Franco Cotula. Rome: Laterza, 1990. Pp. xi, 426 pp. 225-227

Francesco L. Galassi

Portuguese Emigration to the United States, 1820–1930. By Maria Ioannis Benis Baganha. New York: Garland, 1990. Pp. xix, 422. $87.00 pp. 227-228

Philip Coelho

Class, Sect and Party: The Making of the British Middle Class: Leeds, 1820–1850. By R. J. Morris. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 356. $59.95 pp. 229-230

Patrick Joyce

The Proletarianizing of the Fonctionnaires: Civil Service Workers and the Labor Movement Under the Third Republic. By Judith Wishnia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 394. $47.50, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 230-231

Gerald Friedman

Splintered Classes: Politics and the Lower Middle Classes in Interwar Europe. Edited by Rudy Koshar. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1990. Pp. viii, 251. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 231-232

Peter Baldwin

The Attlee and Churchill Administrations and Industrial Unrest, 1945–55: A Study in Consensus. By Justin Davis Smith. London: Frances Pinter, 1990. Pp. vii, 1971. $45.00 pp. 232-233

Jonathan Schneer

Asia - The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350–1988. By Philip C. C. Huang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 421. $49.50, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 234-236

Peter C. Perdue

Latin America - Weak Foundations: The Economy of El Salvador in the Nineteenth Century, 1821–1898. By Héctor Lindo-Fuentes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 239. $34.95 pp. 236-237

Paul Cantor

British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830–1960. By Marshall C. Eakin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1980. Pp. xxiii, 334. $47.50 pp. 237-238

John D. Wirth

United States - Making America Corporate, 1870–1920. By Oliver Zunz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Pp. x, 267, $24.95 pp. 238-239

Guy Alchon

The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns. 1880–1950. By Joy Parr. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 314. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 239-241

Nancy E. Bertaux

American Commercial Banking: A History. By Benjamin J. Klebaner. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990. Pp. xi, 283. $26.95 pp. 241-242

Howard Bodenhorn

Radicalism in the States: The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the American Political Economy. By Richard M. Valelly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Pp. xviii, 258. $29.95 pp. 242-243

W. Elliot Brownlee

Easy Money: Oil Promoters and Investors in the Jazz Age. By Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 216. $29.95, cloth; $11.95, paper pp. 243-244

Peter Z. Grossman

Lessons from the Great Depression. By Peter Temin. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989. Pp. xv, 193. $16.95 pp. 244-246

Richard Grossman

The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn in Illinois, 1890–1940. By Deborah Fitzgerald. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990, Pp. xi, 247. $29.95 pp. 246-247

Joel Kunze

Patriotism for Profit: Georgia's Urban Entrepreneurs and the Confederate War Effort. By Mary A. DeCredico, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xx, 211. $29.95 pp. 247-248

Lawrence H. Larsen

Slavery Attacked: Southern Slaves and Their Allies, 1619–1865. By Merton L. Dillon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. Pp. vii, 300. $39.95, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 248-249

David L. Lightner

Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890–1950. By Darlene Clark Hine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Pp. xxiii, 264. $35.00, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 249-251

Pamela J. Nickless

On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work. Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein and Stephen Meyer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Pp. 256. $32.50, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 251-251

Robert Ozanne

The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program. By Peter J. T. Morris. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 191. $34.95 pp. 252-253

John W. Servos

Constructing Brotherhood: Class, Gender, and Fraternalism. By Mary Ann Clawson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp. ix, 270. $29.95 pp. 253-255

Robert Whaples

The Federal Reserve System: A History of the First 75 Years. By Carl H. Moore. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co. Inc., 1990. Pp. xiv, 266. $25.95 pp. 255-256

David Wheelock

Economic Thought - Bureaucracy. By Eugene Kamenka. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. x, 192. $14.95 pp. 256-257

Matthew Crenson

Keynes' Principle of Effective Demand. By Edward J. Amadeo. Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1989. Pp. 189. $42.75 pp. 257-258

William Darity

Education and Economic Development Since the Industrial Revolution. Edited by Gabriel Tortella. Valencia, Spain: Generalitat Valenciana, 1990. Pp. x, 353 pp. 259-260

Richard Easterlin

The History of Japanese Economic Thought. By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. London and New York: Routledge and Nissan Institute For Japanese Studies, 1989. Pp. vii, 213. $35.00 pp. 260-261

Michael Smitka

General and Miscellaneous - The Modern World System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s–1840s. By Immanuel Wallerstein. San Diego: Academic Press, 1989. Pp. xi, 372. $39.50, cloth; $17.50, paper pp. 261-262

William Darity

The Plantation Slaves of Trinidad, 1783–1816: A Mathematical and Demographic Enquiry. By A. Meredith John. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xvi, 259. $39.50 pp. 263-264

Douglas C. Ewbank

Banks As Multinationals. Edited by Geoffrey Jones. London and New York: Rout-ledge, 1990. Pp. xii, 301. $74.00 pp. 264-265

Udo Heyn

A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Nation-State. By Hilary McD. Beckles. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 224. $37.50, cloth; $15.95, paper pp. 265-266

Jay Mandle

The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology, and Industrial Growth. By Michael Storper and Richard Walker. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. xi, 279. $59.95, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 266-268

David R. Meyer

The Political Economy of World Energy: A Twentieth-Century Perspective. By John G. Clark. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xx, 397. $39.95, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 268-269

Robert Weiner