The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 51, issue 4, 1991

Land Rents and Agricultural Productivity: The Paris Basin, 1450–1789 pp. 771-805

Philip T. Hoffman

The Panic of 1857: Origins, Transmission, and Containment pp. 807-834

Charles Calomiris and Larry Schweikart

Peopling the Land by Lottery? The Market in Public Lands and the Regional Differentiation of Territory on the Georgia Frontier pp. 835-860

David F. Weiman

Razorbacks, Ticky Cows, and the Closing of the Georgia Open Range: The Dynamics of Institutional Change Uncovered pp. 861-886

Shawn Kantor

The Transformation of Industrial Apprenticeship in the United States pp. 887-910

Daniel Jacoby

An Evolutionary Explanation for Competitive Decline: The British Shipbuilding Industry, 1890–1970 pp. 911-935

Edward Lorenz

Heights and Living Standards of English Workers During the Early Years of Industrializations, 1770–1815 pp. 937-957

Stephen Nicholas and Richard H. Steckel

The Scale and Scope of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr pp. 958-963

William N. Parker

Medieval and Early Modern - Geldumlauf und Wirtschaftskonjunktür im südlichen Ostseeraum an der Wende zur Neuzeit (1440–1570). By Michael North. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1990. Pp. 276. DM 68 pp. 966-967

Charles P. Kindleberger

Izmir and the Levantine World, 1550–1650. By Daniel Goffman. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 236. $25.00 pp. 967-968

Sevket Pamuk

Cardinal Richelieu: Power and the Pursuit of Wealth. By Joseph Bergin. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 341. $37.50, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 968-969

Jeffrey S. Ravel

An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England. By Susan Dwyer Amussen. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. xi, 203. $39.95 pp. 969-971

S. H. Mendelson

Modern Europe - Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780–1865. By Albion M. Urdank. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Pp. xvii, 448. $50.00 pp. 971-972

Richard W. Davis

Women in an Industrialising Society: England 1750–1880. By Jane Rendall, Oxford:Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. vi, 112. $8.95 pp. 972-973

Jane Humphries

Transport and the Development of the European Economy, 1750–1918. By Simon P. Ville. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 252. $59.95 pp. 973-974

G. R. Hawke

Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830–1914. By Martin J. Wiener. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 381. $39.50 pp. 974-975

Peter Stansky

Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution. By Clark Nardinelli. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 194. $25.00 pp. 975-976

Carolyn Tuttle

From Provinces into Nations: Demographic Integration in Western Europe, 1870–1960. By Susan Cotts Watkins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 235. $42.50 pp. 976-977

Carl Mosk

The Economy and Polity in Early Twentieth-Century Hungary: The Role of the National Association of Industrialists. By George Déak. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1990. Pp. ix, 209. $27.50 pp. 977-978

Scott M. Eddie

Economic Development in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Successor States. Edited by John Komlos. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1990. Pp. vi, 368. $38.00 pp. 978-979

Herman Freudenberger

The Agony of Modernization: Labor and Industrialization in Spain. By Benjamin Martin. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1990. Pp. xvii, 576. $42.00 pp. 979-980

James Simpson

Middle East and Asia - Economic and Social Policy in Israel: The First Generation. Edited by Moshe Sanbar. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990. Pp. 312. $22.50 pp. 980-981

Sulayman Al-Qudsi

Opium and Empire: Chinese Society in Colonial Singapore, 1800–1910. By Carl A. Trocki. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. v, 260. $39.95 pp. 981-982

Lee Poh Ping

Latin America - Cuban Rural Society in the Nineteenth Century: The Social and Economic History of Monoculture in Matanzas. By Laird W. Bergad. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 425. $65.00 pp. 982-984

Hilary McD. Beckles

Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830–1848. By Dale W. Tomich. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 353. $46.50 pp. 984-985

John Stiles

Coffee, Contention, and Change in the Making of Modern Brazil. By Mauricio A. Font. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. xii, 351. $49.95 pp. 985-986

Steven Topik

United States - Manhattan For Rent, 1785–1850. By Elizabeth Blackmar. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 348. $29.95 pp. 987-987

David C. Hammack

The Mirage of Oil Protectionism. By Robert L. BradleyJr. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989. Pp. xvi, 266. $23.50, cloth; $11.95, paper pp. 988-988

Joseph A. Pratt

America in the Twenties and Thirties: The Olympian Age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By Sean Dennis Cashman. New York: New York University Press, 1989. Pp. xv, 632. $40.00, cloth; $17.50, paper pp. 988-990

Ellis W. Hawley

The Making of an American Pluralism: Buffalo, New York, 1825–60. By David A. Gerber. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Pp. xvii, 531. $34.95 pp. 990-991

Gordon W. Kirk

Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry. By Priscilla Long. New York: Paragon House, 1989. Pp. xxv, 420. $24.95 pp. 991-992

Price Fishback

Phoenix: The History of a Southwestern Metropolis. By Bradford Luckingham. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989. Pp. xi, 316. $29.95 pp. 992-993

John C. Brown

Distribution of Wealth and Income in the United States in 1798. By Lee Soltow. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990. Pp. xix, 328. $49.95 pp. 993-995

Clayne Pope

Budget Reform Politics: The Design of the Appropriations Process in the House of Representatives, 1865–1921. By Charles StewartIII. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xi, 254. $39.50 pp. 995-996

Edward John Ray

Economic Thought - Adam Smith's Economics: Its Place in the Development of Economic Thought. By Maurice Brown. New York: Croom Helm, 1988. Pp. vii, 189. $55.00 pp. 996-997

David Levy

Before Adam Smith: The Emergence of Political Economy, 1662–1776. By Terence Hutchison. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. x, 469. $65.00 pp. 997-998

Mohamed Ali El-Hodiri

Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor. By William Lazonick. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. Pp. vi, 419. $37.50 pp. 998-999

Gregory Clark

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. By Douglass C. North. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 152. $32.50, cloth; $10.95, paper pp. 999-1001

Alexander Field

The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism. By Colin Campbell. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp. vi, 301. $19.95. - Pre-Industrial Societies. By Patricia Crone. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. xii, 214. $45.00, cloth; $14.95, paper. - The Culture of Capitalism. By Alan Macfarlane. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. 254. $16.95. - Europe and the Rise of Capitalism. Edited by Jean Baechler, John A. Hall, and Michael Mann. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. vi, 249. $18.95 pp. 1001-1003

Jack Goldstone

Volume 51, issue 3, 1991

Bank Mergers in Late Nineteenth-Century New England: The Contingent Nature of Structural Change pp. 537-557

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Industrial Concentration and the Capital Markets: A Comparative Study of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, 1830–1930 pp. 559-580

Stephen H. Haber

Economic Opportunity on the urban frontier: nativity, work, and wealth in early chicago pp. 581-603

David Galenson

Unemployment, employment contracts, and compensating wage differentials: michigan in the 1890s pp. 605-632

Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson

Caloric Consumption in Industrializing Belgium pp. 633-655

Geert Bekaert

Male Retirement Behavior in the United States, 1930–1950 pp. 657-674

Donald Parsons

The stock market bubble of 1929: evidence from clsoed-end mutual funds pp. 675-700

J. Bradford De Long and Andrei Shleifer

Rural Communities in the Medieval West. By Léopold Genicot. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 185. $30.00 pp. 709-711

Kathleen Biddick

Medieval and Early Modern - Les Cadastres anciens des villes et leur traitement par l'informatique. Edited by J. L. Biget, J.-C. Hervé, and Y. Thébert. Collection de l'École Française de Rome, 120. Rome: Palais Farnese, 1989. Pp. ix, 497 pp. 709-709

David Herlihy

English Rural Society, 1500–1800: Essays in Honour of Joan Thirsk. Edited by John Chartres and David Hey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 384. $59.50 pp. 711-712

Patrick Dillon

Town and Country in Pre-Industrial Spain: Cuenca, 1550–1870. By David Sven Reher. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 337. $49.50 pp. 713-714

Richard Herr

Nascent Proletarians: Class Formation in Post-Revolutionary France. By Michael P. Hanagan. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. x, 243. $34.95 pp. 714-715

Gerald Friedman

Work and Wages: Natural Law, Politics and the Eighteenth-Century French Trades. By Michael Sonenscher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xi, 427. $69.50 pp. 715-717

Judith A. Miller

Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History. By John Komlos. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp. xvii, 325. $45.00 pp. 717-719

William W. Hagen

An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750–1850. By George R. Boyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 297. $44.50 pp. 719-720

Anthony Brundage

Height, Health and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750–1980. By Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, and Annabel Gregory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 354. $59.50 pp. 720-722

Stephen Nicholas

Coping with City Growth during the British Industrial Revolution. By Jeffrey G. Williamson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xxi, 344. $54.50 pp. 722-723

Nicholas Crafts

Revolution in the Factory: The Birth of the Soviet Textile Industry, 1917–1920. By William B. Husband. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 227. $32.50. - Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy: Shop Floor Culture and State Policy, 1921–1929. By Chris Ward. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 340. $44.50 pp. 723-724

David J. Sedik

Inflation and the Merchant Economy: The Hamburg Mittelstand, 1914–1924. By Peter J. Lyth. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1990. Pp. xi, 201. $48.00 pp. 725-726

Gerald D. Feldman

The Fruits of Fascism: Postwar Prosperity in Historical Perspective. By Simon Reich. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 341. $46.50, cloth; $15.95, paper pp. 726-727

David J. Clair

Middle East, Africa, and Asia - The Fertile Crescent, 1800–1914. By Charles Issawi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 502 pp. 727-728

Elias H. Tuma

The Modern Economic and Social History of the Middle East in Its World Context. Edited by Georges Sabagh. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. 161. $39.50 pp. 728-730

Caglar Keyder

The Political Economy of Ethiopia. Edited by Marina Ottaway. New York: Praeger, 1990. Pp. vi, 251. $42.95. - Ethiopia: Failure of Land Reform and Agricultural Crisis. By Kidane Mengisteab. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 216. $39.95 pp. 730-731

Donald Crummey

Toward an Alternative Land Reform Paradigm: A Philippine Perspective. By Yujiro Hayami, Ma. Agnes R. Quisumbing, and Lourdes S. Adriano. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 209. - The Peasant Betrayed: Agriculture and Land Reform in the Third World. By John P. Powelson and Richard Stock. Washington, DC: The Cato Institute, 1990. Pp. xvi, 401. $20.00 pp. 731-732

Keith Griffin

Latin America - Society and Economy in Mexico. Edited by James W. Wilkie. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1990. Pp. xxiii, 163. $36.50 pp. 732-734

Enrique Cárdenas

United States and Canada - The Separation of Commercial and Investment Banking: The Glass-Steagall Act Revisited and Reconsidered. By George J. Benston, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 263. $29.95 pp. 734-735

David Wheelock

Minnesota in a Century of Change: The State and Its People Since 1900. Edited by Clifford E. Clark Jr St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 607. $35.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 735-736

Eric L. Almquist

New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860–1910. By Don H. Doyle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xix, 369. $39.95, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 736-737

Leonard Carlson

Articles on American Slavery. Vol. 10: Economics, Industrialization, Urbanization, and Slavery. Edited by Paul Finkelman. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989. Pp. xv, 581. $90.00 pp. 737-739

Fred Bateman

Creating the Computer: Government, Industry, and High Technology. By Kenneth Flamm. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1988. Pp. xi, 282. $28.95, cloth; $10.95, paper pp. 739-740

William Aspray

The Anti-Redeemers: Hill-Country Political Dissenters in the Lower South from Redemption to Populism. By Michael R. Hyman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 252. $39.95, cloth; $16.95, paper pp. 740-741

Shawn Kantor

Eisenhower and Landrum-Griffin: A Study in Labor-Management Politics. By R. Alton Lee. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. Pp. xi, 202. $21.00 pp. 741-743

Christopher L. Tomlins

The Credit Card Industry: A History. By Lewis Mandell. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990, Pp. xxiv, 176. $26.95, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 743-744

Martha Olney

Technology in America: A Brief History. By Alan I. Marcus and Howard P. Segal. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989, Pp. xii, 380. $11.00, paper pp. 744-745

Peter Z. Grossman

Edison and the Bussiness of Innovation. By Andre Millard. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, Pp. xiv, 387. $38.50 pp. 745-746

Robert Rosenberg

Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920–1945. By Phyllis Palmer. Philadelphia: Pemple University Press, 1990. Pp. xvi, 214. $29.95 pp. 746-747

Angel Kwolek-Folland

The Humane Economy: Populism, Capitalism, and Democracy. By Norman Pollack. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 215. $40.00 pp. 748-750

Anne Mayhew

New York and the Rise of American Capitalism: Economic Development and the Social and Political History of an American State, 1780–1870. Edited by William Pencak and Conrad Edick Wright. New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1989. Pp. xx, 315. $19.95 pp. 748-748

Russel S. Kirby

U.S. Protectionism and the World Debt Crisis. By Edward John Ray. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1989. Pp. xiv, 245. $45.00 pp. 750-751

Susan Aaronson

Black Property Owners in the South, 1790–1915. By Loren Schweninger. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Pp. xvii, 426. $50.00 pp. 751-752

Stanley L. Engerman

Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760–1820. By Alan Taylor. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1990. Pp. xiv, 381. $35.00, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 753-755

Peter C. Mancall

Financial Markets and Regional Economic Development: The Canadian Experience. By Sheila C. Dow. Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1990. Pp. xi, 188. $48.95 pp. 755-756

Kerry Odell

The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age. By Arthur J. Ray. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 283. $40.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 756-757

Ann Harper Fender

Economic Thought - Political Economy in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Maxine Berg. Savage, MD: Barnes and Noble Books, 1990. Pp. vi, 164. $33.75 pp. 757-759

Carl Parrini

The State and Economic Knowledge: The American and British Experiences. Edited by Mary O. Furner and Barry Supple. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 477. $44.50 pp. 759-760

Larry G. Gerber

Neoclassical International Economics: An Historical Survey. By Leonard Gomes. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 276. $49.95 pp. 760-761

M. June Flanders

More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics. By Philip Mirowski. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 450. $59.50 pp. 762-764

Joel Mokyr

The History of Econometric Ideas. By Mary S. Morgan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 296. $44.50 pp. 764-765

Kevin D. Hoover

Adam Smith and Modern Economics: From Market Behaviour to Public Choice. By Edwin G. West. Hampshire, England: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1990. Pp. vii, 212. $47.95 pp. 765-766

Young Back Choi

General and Miscellaneous - Understanding Quantitative History. By Loren Haskins and Kirk Jeffrey. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xxv, 366. $27.50 pp. 766-767

David Mitch

Interactions in the World Economy: Perspectives for International Economic History. Edited by Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich. New York: New York University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi, 376. $45.00 pp. 768-769

Steven B. Webb

A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences. By Alice Kessler-Harris. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1990. Pp. xii, 168. $19.00 pp. 769-770

Nancy Folbre

Volume 51, issue 2, 1991

All Things Reconsidered: The Life-Cycle Perspective and the Third Task of Economic History pp. 271-288

Richard Sutch

A Quantitative History of the Journal of Economc History and the Cliometric Revolution pp. 289-301

Robert Whaples

A Tale of Two Currencies: British and French Finance During the Napoleonic Wars pp. 303-316

Michael Bordo and Eugene White

Intra-Industry Heterogeneity and the Great Depression: The American Motor Vehicles Industry, 1929–1935 pp. 317-331

Timothy Bresnahan and Daniel M. G. Raff

The Microeconomics of Depression Unemployment pp. 333-341

Robert Margo

The Prudent Peasant: New Findings on Open Fields pp. 343-355

Donald N. McCloskey

Burn Everything British but their Coal: the Anglo-Irish Economic War of the 1930s pp. 357-366

Kevin O'Rourke

British Myopia and the Collapse of Indian Textile Demand pp. 367-384

Susan Wolcott

The Effciency of Southern Tenant Plantations, 1900–1945 pp. 385-395

Nancy Virts

Institutional Choice and the Development of U.S. Agricultural Policies in the 1920s pp. 397-411

Elizabeth Hoffman and Gary D. Libecap

Integrated and Segmented Labor Markets: Thinking in Two Sectors pp. 413-425

Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson

Occupational Differences in Labor Market Integration: The United States in 1890 pp. 427-439

Joshua Rosenbloom

Modes of Labor Control in Cattle-Ranching Economies: California, Southern Brazil, and Argentina, 1820–1860 pp. 441-451

Ricardo D. Salvatore

Private and Public Responses to Market Failure in the U.S. Electric Power Industry, 1882–1942 pp. 452-454

William M. Emmons

The Shortening of the American Work Week: An Economic and Historical Analysis of Its Context, Causes, and Consequences pp. 454-457

Robert Whaples

Landlords, Tenants, and Immigrants: The Irish and the Canadian Experience pp. 457-459

Catharine Anne Wilson

The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries pp. 459-462

Avner Greif

Schwäbisch Hall, 1650–1750: Urban Social and Economic Life in Southwest Germany After the Thirty Years' War pp. 462-464

Terence McIntosh

Agricultural Change and Rural Depopulation: Ireland, 1845–1876 pp. 464-466

Kevin O'Rourke

Comments on Emmons, Whaples, and Wilson pp. 466-469

Carter, Susan B:

Comments on Greif, McIntosh, and O'Rourke pp. 469-474

David R. Weir

Medieval and Early Modern - Structure and Scale in the Roman Empire. By Richard Duncan-Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xvi, 245. $59.50 pp. 480-481

M. K. Thornton and R. L. Thornton

God and the Moneylenders: Usury and Law in Early Modern England. By Norman L. Jones. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. viii, 217. $49.95 pp. 481-482

Michael N. Hayes

The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1350–1750. Edited by James D. Tracy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 442. $44.50 pp. 482-484

Rondo Cameron

The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade 1600–1815. By Johannes Menne Postma. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 428. $54.95 pp. 484-485

David Eltis

Modern Europe - A General View of the Rural Economy of England, 1538–1840. By Ann Kussmaul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 216. $39.50 pp. 485-487

Jane Humphries

English Laundresses: A Social History, 1850–1930. By Patricia E. Malcolmson. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. xv, 220. $26.95 pp. 487-488

Anne C. Meyering

Protectionism and Economic Revival: The British Interwar Economy. By Michael Kitson and Solomos Solomou. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xi 123. $44.50 pp. 488-490

Barry Eichengreen

British Unemployment 1919–1939: A Study in Public Policy. By W. R. Garside. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. Pp. 414. $69.50 pp. 490-492

T. J. Hatton

Mercedes in Peace and War: German Automobile Workers 1903–1945. By Bernard Bellon. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 356. $37.50 pp. 492-493

Harold James

The European Payments Union: Financial Diplomacy in the 1950s. By Jacob J. Kaplan and Gunther Schleiminger. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. xx, 383. $72.00 pp. 493-496

Samuel I. Katz

British Culture and Economic Decline. Edited by Bruce Collins and Keith Robbins. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Pp. v, 208. $33.95 pp. 496-498

Edward H. Lorenz

The Modern Industrialisation of Ireland 1940–1988. By Liam Kennedy. Dunkalk: The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 1989. Pp. 74. £3.50 pp. 498-499

Brian Girvin

Asia - Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1820–1940. Edited by Angus Maddison and Gé Prince. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Foris Publications, 1989. Pp. vii, 300. Hfl 40 pp. 499-501

Sumner La Croix

Commercialization and Agricultural Development: Central and Eastern China, 1870–1937. By Loren Brandt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 232. $42.50 pp. 501-503

Joseph W. Esherick

Latin America - From Plots to Plantations: Land Transactions in Jamaica, 1866–1900. By Veront M. Satchell. Mona, Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1990. Pp. xv, 197. $16.50, paper pp. 503-504

Jay Mandle

United States and Canada - The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900–1985. By Steven Brint and Jerome Karabel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. ix, 312. $24.95 pp. 504-505

John Strudwick

Enterprise: The Dynamic Economy of a Free People. By Stuart Bruchey. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 645. $49.50, cloth; $24.95, paper pp. 505-506

J. Bradford De Long

Labor in Illinois: The Affluent Years, 1945–80. By Milton Derber. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Pp. ix, 460. $47.50 pp. 506-508

Jack Blicksilver

Administering the Taylor Law: Public Employee Relations in New York. By Ronald Donovan. Ithaca: ILR Press, 1990. Pp. x, 251. $32.00, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 508-509

Edward P. Duggan

Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Lou Ferleger. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990. Pp. xxiii, 363. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 509-511

Thomas Weiss

Articles on American Slavery. Vol. 2: Slave Trade and Migration: Domestic and Foreign. Edited by Paul Finkelman. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1989. Pp. xx, 463. $70.00 pp. 511-511

David Eltis

Articles on American Slavery. Vol. 7: Southern Slavery at the State and Local Level. Edited by Paul Finkelman. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1989. Pp. xiii, 332. $52.00 pp. 512-513

David L. Lightner

Grain Grades and Standards: Historical Issues Shaping the Future. By Lowell D. Hill. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 423. $39.95 pp. 513-514

Murray N. Rothbard

Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808. By Rachel N. Klein, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 331. $34.95 pp. 514-515

Peter A. Coclanis

The Fictitious Commodity: A Study of the U.S. Labor Market, 1880–1940. By Ton Korver. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990: Pp. x, 196. $39.95 pp. 515-516

Joshua Rosenbloom

Contracting for Property Rights. By Gary D. Libecap. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 132. $39.50 pp. 517-518

Lee Alston

Workers and Workplace Dynamics in Reconstruction-Era Atlanta: A Case Study. By Jonathan W. McLeod. Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies and the Institute of Industrial Relations, 1990. Pp. viii, 135. $28.00, paper pp. 518-519

Joseph P. Reidy

Income Inequality in the United States, 1947–1985. By Nan L. Maxwell. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 213. $42.95 pp. 519-521

Lee Soltow

The Cross of Gold: Money and the Canadian Business Cycle, 1867–1913. By Georg Rich. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1988. Pp. 307. $14.95 pp. 521-523

Michael Bordo

The Capacity To Budget. By Allen Schick. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 225. $32.50, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 523-524

Robert Higgs

Economic Thought - The Invisible Hand: Economic Equilibrium in the History of Science. By Bruna Ingrao and Giorgio Israel. Translated by Ian McGilvray. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 491. $47.50 pp. 524-526

Gary Mongiovi

General and Miscellaneous - The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. By Joel Mokyr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 349. $24.95 pp. 526-528

Kenneth L. Sokoloff

“The Workers Themselves”: Revolutionary Syndicalism and International Labour, 1913–1923. By Wayne Thorpe. Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. Pp. xviii, 352. $83.00 pp. 528-529

Gerald Friedman

The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis. Edited by Peter Mandler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Pp. x, 259. $29.95 pp. 529-530

Frances Gouda

La Filature de coton dans le monde en 1910: Une analyse comparée (1908–1913)/Cotton Spinning Around the World in 1910: A Comparative Analysis (1908–1913). By David Asséo. Geneva: Centre of International Economic History, 1989. Pp. 98 pp. 530-531

Gregory Clark

American Management and British Labor: A Comparative Study of the Cotton Spinning Industry. By Isaac Cohen. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. x, 250. $45.00 pp. 531-532

Michael Huberman

Descent into Discourse: The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History. By Bryan D. Palmer. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. Pp. xvii, 289. $34.95 pp. 532-535

Jack Amariglio

The Evolution of Regional Economies: Entrepreneurship and Macroeconomic Change. By Luis Suarez-Villa. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1989. Pp. xvii, 263. $45.00 pp. 535-536

David R. Meyer

Volume 51, issue 1, 1991

Did the Great Irish Famine Matter? pp. 1-22

Kevin O'Rourke

The Myth of Free-Trade Britain and Fortress France: Tariffs and Trade in the Nineteenth Century pp. 23-46

John Nye

Bank Rates of Return and Entry Restrictions, 1869–1914 pp. 47-66

John J. Binder and David T. Brown

The Value of Household Labor in Antebellum Northern Agriculture pp. 67-81

Lee Craig

The Earnings Gap Between Agricultural and Manufacturing Laborers, 1925–1941 pp. 83-99

Lee Alston and T. J. Hatton

New Deal Regulation and the Revolution in American Farm Productivity. A Case Study of the Diffusion of the Tractor in the Corn Ielt, 1920–1940 pp. 101-123

Sally Clarke

Information and Emigrants: Interprefectural Differences of Japanese Emigration to the Pacific Northwest, 1880–1915 pp. 125-147

Yuzo Murayama

The Economic Crisis of 1619 to 1623 pp. 149-175

Charles P. Kindleberger

Medieval and Early Modern - Medieval Westminster, 1200–1540. By Gervase Rosser. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. xvi, 425. $74.00 pp. 207-208

Kathryn L. Reyerson

Modern Europe - Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850. By Alain Corbin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. Pp. 478. $39.50 pp. 208-209

Theresa Mcbride

Industrielle Revolution in Deutschland 1815–1914. By Hubert Kiesewetter. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1989. Pp. xi, 351 pp. 209-211

David F. Good

Finance and Empire: Sir Charles Addis, 1861–1945. By Roberta Allbert Dayer. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Pp. 384. $45.00 pp. 211-212

Susan Howson

Public Policy and the Economy since 1900. By Jim Tomlinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp.xii, 380. $72.00 pp. 212-213

Susan Wolcott

Pautas regionales de la industrialización espanola (siglos XIX y XX). Edited by Jordi Nadal and Albert Carreras. Barcelona: Editorial Ariel, 1990. Pp. vii, 437 pp. 213-214

Robert H. Whealey

The Gatecrashing Apprentice: Industrializing Finland As an Adopter of New Technology. By Timo Myllntaus Helsinki: Institute of Economic and Social History, University of Helsinki, 1990. pp. 132 pp. 214-215

Lars G. Sandberg

The Coal Question: Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. By Ben Fine. London and New York: Routledge, 1990. pp. xiv, 226. $55.00 pp. 215-216

David Greasley

Regionen im historishcen vergleich. Studien zu Deutschland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. By Jürgen Bergmann, Jürgen Brockstedt, Rainer Fremding, Rüdiger Hohls, Hartmut Kaelble, Hubert Kiesewetter, and Klaus Megerle. Schriften des Zentralinstituts für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung der Freien Universität Berlin, vol. 55. Opladen: Westdentscher Verlag, 1989. pp. 413. DM95 pp. 216-217

James William Miller

Modern Europe - British Economic Policy 1931–1949: Was There a Keynesian Revolution? By Alan Booth. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1989. Pp. x, 202. $54.00 pp. 218-219

Timothy J. Hatton

Asia and Africa - British Business in Asia Since 1860. Edited by R. P. T. Davenport-Hines and Geoffrey Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi, 301. $54.50 pp. 219-221

Shanti S. Tangri

The Economies of Africa and Asia in the Inter-war Depression. Edited by Ian Brown. London: Routledge, 1989. Pp.vii, 285 pp. 221-222

H. A. Gemery

The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500–1650. By Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 401. $54.50 pp. 223-224

M. N. Pearson

The Economic Development of Japan and Korea: A Parallel With Lessons. Edited by Chung H. Lee and Ippei Yamazawa. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. Pp. xxix, 208. $39.95 pp. 224-225

Alice H. Amsden

Latin America - The Political Economy of Mexican Oil. By Laura Randall. New York: Praeger, 1989. Pp. x, 238. $45.00 pp. 225-227

John Sheahan

Guiding the Invisible Hand: Economic Liberalism and the State in Latin American History. Edited by Joseph L. Love and Nils Jacobsen. New York: Praeger, 1988. Pp. x, 222. $38.95 pp. 227-228

Richard P. F. Holt

Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. By B. W. Higman. Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Jamaica Publications Limited, 1988. Pp. xv, 307. $55.00, cloth; $30.00, paper pp. 228-230

Michael Craton

United States - Rum and the American Revolution: The Rum Trade and the Balance of Payments of the Thirteen Continental Colonies. By John J. McCusker. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989. 2 vols. Pp. xxix, 1367. $210.00 pp. 230-232

Kenneth Morgan

Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South. By Michael Tadman. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 317. $27.75 pp. 232-233

Richard H. Steckel

The Urban South: A History. By Lawrence H. Larsen. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 199, $23.00 pp. 233-234

Timothy R. Mahoney

The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860. By Christopher Clark. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 339. $32.50 pp. 234-235

Maris A. Vinovskis

Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850–1986. By Robert Kelley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Pp. xxi, 395. $35.00 pp. 236-237

Donald Worster

The Path to Mechanized Shoe Production in the United States. By Ross Thomson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 296. $39.95 pp. 236-236

William H. Mulligan

Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia during the Civil War. By J. Matthew Gallman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 354. $49.50 pp. 238-239

Diane Lindstrom

Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery Normal Institute. By Edmund L. Drago. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 402. $45.00 pp. 239-240

James Gerber

The Bell System and Regional Business: The Telephone in the South, 1877–1920. By Kenneth Lipartito. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi, 283. $29.50 pp. 240-241

James E. Brittain

Forgotten Frontier. A History of Wyoming Coal Mining. By A. Dudley Gardner and Verla R. Flores. Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 243. $34.95, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 241-243

Stephane E. Booth

Ourselves Alone: Women's Emigration from Ireland 1885–1920. By Janet A. Nolan. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989. Pp. xii, 133. $16.00 pp. 243-244

Caroline Brettell

Ingenious Yankees: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures in the Private Sector. By Donald R. Hoke. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 345. $40.00 pp. 244-246

Merritt Roe Smith

Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. By Claudia Goldin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xx, 287. $29.95 pp. 246-248

Jeremy Atack

Tearing Down the Color Bar: A Documentary History and Analysis of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. By Joseph F. Wilson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. Pp. x, 396. $45.00 pp. 248-249

Jack Blicksilver

Becoming a Mighty Voice: Conflict and Change in the United Furniture Workers of America. By Daniel B. Cornfield. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1990. Pp. xii, 292. $35.00 pp. 249-250

H. M. Gitelman

Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry. By Richard F. Hirsh. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 274. $37.50 pp. 250-251

Peter Z. Grossman

Liberalism at Work: The Rise and Fall of OSHA. By Charles Noble. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. Pp. x, 292. $29.95, paper pp. 252-253

Wayne Lewchuk

The Economic Consequences of Immigration. By Julian S. Simon. Cambridge, MA; Basil Blackwell, Inc., 1989. Pp. xxxii. 402. $39.95 pp. 253-254

Norman R. Yetman

Economic Thought - Ricardo's Economics: A General Equilibrium Theory of Distribution and Growth. By Michio Morishima. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. viii, 254. $39.50 pp. 255-256

Antonio Callari

History, Policy, and Economic Theory: Essays in Interaction. By W. W. Rostow. Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 385. $59.95 pp. 256-257

Gregory Clark

Markets in History: Economic Studies of the Past. Edited by David W. Galenson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv. $39.50, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 258-259

John Nye

A Celebration of Work. By Norman E. Best. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 223. $19.95. - On The Line. By Harvey Swados. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Pp. xxvii, 247. $32.50, cloth; $11.95, paper pp. 259-261

Richard O'Connor

The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History. By Philip D. Curtin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 222. $39.50 cloth; $10.95 paper pp. 261-262

Jay Mandle

Free Banking and Monetary Reform. By David Glasner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi, 276. $32.50 pp. 262-263

Hugh Rockoff

Technology and Capital Formation. Edited by Dale W. Jorgenson and Ralph Landau. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. Pp. xi, 525. $39.95 pp. 263-264

Donald G. Paterson

Blueprints for Exchange-Rate Management. Edited by Marcus Miller, Barry Eichengreen, and Richard Portes. San Diego: Academic Press, 1989. Pp. xviii, 329. $29.50 pp. 264-266

Steven B. Webb

Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth. By David C. Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. viii, 330. $29.95 pp. 266-268

F. M. Scherer

Wealth and Poverty: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. Edited by Sidney Pollard. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. 256. $29.95 pp. 268-268

David Mitch

The Political Limits of Environmental Regulation: Tracking the Unicorn. By Bruce Yandle. New York: Quorum Books, 1989. Pp. xii, 180. $39.95 pp. 269-270

John G. Clark