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Volume 49, issue 4, 1989

Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England pp. 803-832

Douglass North and Barry Weingast

The Political Economy of Crude Oil Cartelization in the United States, 1933–1972 pp. 833-855

Gary D. Libecap

Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders pp. 857-882

Avner Greif

The Price Revolution: A Monetary Interpretation pp. 883-902

Douglas Fisher

Male-Female Wage Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century France pp. 903-920

Donald Cox and John Nye

Midwestern Industrialization and the American Manufacturing Belt in the Nineteenth Century pp. 921-937

David R. Meyer

Education, Economic Development, and Technology Transfer: A Colonial Test pp. 939-957

John R. Hanson

Bringing the Covert Structure of the Past to Light pp. 992-999

Osamu Saito

Medieval - Small Worlds: The Village Community in Early Medieval Brittany. By Wendy Davies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 227. $30.00 pp. 1004-1005

Kathryn L. Reyerson

The Mills of Medieval England. By Richard Holt. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. x, 202. $55.00 pp. 1005-1007

Kathleen Biddick

Modern Europe - La population des villes européennes: Banque de données et analyse sommaire des résultats, 800–1850. By Paul Bairoch, Jean Batou, and Pierre Chèvre. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1988. Pp. xix, 337. SF 45.00 pp. 1007-1008

Jan de Vries

Continuity, Chance, and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England. By E. A. Wrigley. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. viii, 146. $29.95 pp. 1008-1009

Jack Goldstone

Inventing the Industrial Revolution: The English Patent System, 1660–1800. By Christine MacLeod. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 302. $44.50 pp. 1009-1011

Richard Sullivan

The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune. By R. S. Fitton. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 322. $70.00 pp. 1011-1012

Michael Gunderloy

Britain's Prime and Britain's Decline: The British Economy, 1870–1914. By Sidney Pollard. New York: Edward Arnold, 1989. Pp. xii, 324. £25 pp. 1012-1014

Michael Edelstein

The Upheaval of War: Family, Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914–1918. Edited by Richard Wall and Jay Winter. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. vii, 497. $65.00 pp. 1014-1015

Susan Pedersen

External Economic Policy since the War. Vol. 1: The Post-War Financial Settlement. By L. S. Pressnell. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1987. Pp. xiv, 501 pp. 1015-1016

Susan Howson

British Historical Statistics. By Brian R. Mitchell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 886. $135.00 pp. 1016-1018

Joel Mokyr

Inflation in the Twentieth Century: Evidence From Europe and North America. By George Horsman. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1988. Pp. xiv, 299. $39.95 pp. 1018-1019

Gail E. Makinen

Family, Class, and Ideology in Early Industrial France: Social Policy and the Working Class Family, 1825–1848. By Katherine A. Lynch. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 272. $39.50, cloth; $18.75, paper pp. 1020-1021

Michael Hanagan

Childhood in Nineteenth-Century France: Work, Health and Education Among the Classes Populaires. By Colin Heywood. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. vii, 350. $44.50 pp. 1021-1023

Carolyn Tuttle

Creating Capitalism: The State and Small Business since 1945. By Linda Weiss. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. xii, 272. $49.95 pp. 1023-1024

Jon S. Cohen

Demographic Behavior in the Past: A Study of Fourteen German Village Populations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. By John E. Knodel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xxvi, 587. $59.50 pp. 1024-1025

James R. Lehning

Germany's Informal Empire in East-Central Europe: German Economic Policy Toward Yugoslavia and Rumania, 1933–1939. By William S. Grenzebach. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1988. Pp. ix, 269 pp. 1025-1026

James William Miller

Economic Reforms in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the 1960s. By Jan Adam. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Pp. xvi, 264. $49.95 pp. 1026-1028

Mark A. Lutz

Africa - The End of Slavery in Africa. Edited by Suzanne Miers and Richard Roberts. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. Pp. xx, 524. $47.50, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 1028-1030

Janet Ewald

The Making of Contemporary Algeria, 1830–1987: Colonial Upheavals and Post Independence Development. By Mahfoud Bennoune. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 323. $54.50 pp. 1030-1031

James L. A. Webb

Banking and Business in South Africa. Edited by Stuart Jones. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 190. $39.95 pp. 1031-1032

Jan Hogendorn

Asia - The Agrarian System of Eastern Rajasthan (c. 1650–c. 1750). By Satya Prakash Gupta. Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1986. Pp. xvi, 352. Rs. 1,851 pp. 1032-1033

David Feeny

Japan's Industrialization in the World Economy, 1859–1899: Export Trade and Overseas Competition. By Shinya Sugiyama. Atlantic Highlands: The Athlone Press, 1988. Pp. 304. $70.00 pp. 1033-1034

Richard Rice

Government Policy towards Industry in the United States and Japan. Edited by John B. Shoven. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. ix, 354. $47.50 pp. 1034-1035

Janet Hunter

Latin America - Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosi: The Life and Times of Antonio Lopez de Quiroga. By Peter Bakewell. Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1989. Pp. xviii, 250. $35.00, cloth; $15.95, paper pp. 1035-1036

Richard L. Garner

A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America: From Independence to the Great Depression, 1820–1930. By Carlos Marichal. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 283. $45.00, cloth; $16.50, paper pp. 1037-1038

David Felix

Studies in the Economics of Central America. By Victor Bulmer-Thomas. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 246. $55.00 pp. 1038-1040

Laird W. Bergad

Up the Down Escalator: Development and the International Economy—A Jamaican Case Study. By Michael Manley. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1987. Pp. xv, 332. $19.95 pp. 1040-1041

R. A. McDonald

United States and Canada - The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670–1920. By Peter A. Coclanis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. ix, 370. $39.95 pp. 1041-1042

James M. Clifton

First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492–2000. By Jack Ralph KloppenburgJr, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xviii, 349. $37.50. - From Farming to Biotechnology: A Theory of Agro-Industrial Development. By David Goodman, Bernardo Sorj, and John Wilkinson. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp. vii, 214. $39.95 pp. 1042-1044

Wayne D. Rasmussen

Corn and Its Early Fathers. By Henry A. Wallace and William L. Brown. Revised Edition. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 141. $18.95 pp. 1044-1045

Harry C. McDean

Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785–1954. By David Tyack, Thomas James, and Aaron Benavot. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. Pp. xi, 259. $25.00 pp. 1045-1046

Martin J. Eisenberg

Liberty, Property, and the Foundations of the American Constitution. Edited by Ellen Frankel Paul and Howard Dickman. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. Pp. ix, 181. $39.50, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 1046-1048

Robert A. McGuire

A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience of a Swedish Immigrant Settlement in the Upper Middle West, 1835–1915. By Robert C. Ostergren. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 400. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 1048-1049

Walter D. Kamphoefner

Atlanta, 1847–1890: City Building in the Old South and the New. By James Michael Russell. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 314. $32.50 pp. 1049-1051

Thomas E. Terrill

America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. By Sean Dennis Cashman. Second Edition. New York: New York University Press, 1988. Pp. xvi, 408. $40.00, cloth; $17.50, paper pp. 1051-1052

Clair E. Morris

Textiles in Transition: Technology, Wages, and Industry Relocation in the U.S. Textile Industry, 1880–1930. By Nancy Frances Kane. New York: Greenwood Press Inc., 1988. Pp. x, 190. $37.95 pp. 1052-1054

Jack Blicksilver

Southern Timberman: The Legacy of William Buchanan. By Archer H. Mayor. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1988. Pp. xvii, 263. $30.00 pp. 1054-1055

William Marr

From Monopoly to Competition: The Transformations of Alcoa, 1888–1986. By George David Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xxxiv, 554. $29.95 pp. 1055-1056

H. V. Nelles

Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899–1922. By Susan J. Douglas. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. Pp. xxix, 363. $29.50 pp. 1056-1057

James E. Brittain

Managing the American Economy: From Roosevelt to Reagan. By Nicolas Spulber. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Pp. xv, 172. $25.00 pp. 1058-1059

James Bradford De Long

Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics. By Ronald A Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 290. $29.95 pp. 1059-1060

Stanley L. Engerman

The Wealth Creators: An Entrepreneurial History of the United States. By Gerald Gunderson. New York: E. P. Dutton/Truman Talley Books, 1989. Pp. viii, 278. $18.95 pp. 1060-1060

Thomas C. Cochran

Voluntarism, Planning, and the State: The American Planning Experience, 1914–1946. Edited by Jerold E. Brown and Patrick D. Reagan. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press Inc., 1988. Pp. xix, 168. $37.95 pp. 1061-1062

Joseph A. McCartin

Business and Religion in the American 1920s. By Rolf Lundén. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press Inc., 1988. Pp. xiii, 204. $37.95 pp. 1062-1063

Martha Olney

The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980. Edited by Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp. xxv, 311. $25.00 pp. 1063-1064

Donald R. McCoy

Corporatism and the Rule of Law: A Study of the National Recovery Administration. By Donald R. Brand. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 340. $39.95, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 1065-1065

James S. Olson

The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States. By Michael Goldfield. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1987, pp. xv, 294, $12.95 pp. 1066-1067

David Card

Economic Thought - Governing Economy: The Reformation of German Economic Discourse, 1750–1840. By Keith Tribe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 241. $44.50 pp. 1067-1068

Eric Dorn Brose

Consuming Desire: Sexual Science and the Emergence of a Culture of Abundance, 1871–1914. By Lawrence Birken. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. Pp. ix. 167. $21.50 pp. 1068-1069

Angel Kwolek Folland

Trade, Development, and the World Economy: Selected Essays of Carlos F. Díaz-Alejandro. Edited by Andrés Velasco. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. x, 399. $75.00 pp. 1069-1070

Stephen Haber

The Origins of the Keynesian Revolution: The Development of Keynes's Theory of Employment and Output. By Robert W. Dimand. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. Pp. vii, 213. $32.50 pp. 1070-1071

Robert Stanley Herren

The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. Vol. 1: The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism. Edited by W. W. BartleyIII. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 180. $24.95 pp. 1072-1073

Frederic L. Pryor

Economic Exiles. By J. E. King. New York: St. Martin's, 1988. Pp. x, 289. $45.00 pp. 1073-1074

Philip Mirowski

General and Miscellaneous - A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present. By Rondo Cameron. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 437. $39.95 pp. 1074-1075

W. W. Rostow

Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure of Human History. By Ernest Gellner. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Pp. 288. $24.95 pp. 1075-1076

Rondo Cameron

Cities and Economic Development: From the Dawn of History to the Present. By Paul Bairoch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. xxii, 574. $49.95 pp. 1076-1078

David R. Ringrose

Comparative Economic Systems: Preindustrial & Modern Case Studies. By Manuel Gottlieb. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1989. Pp. xv, 382. $39.95 pp. 1078-1079

David Mitch

Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. By Robert Fishman. New York: Basic Books, 1987. Pp. xii, 241. $19.95 pp. 1079-1080

Henry C. Binford

Production, Distribution, and Growth in Transitional Economies. By M. Katherine Perkins. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1988. Pp. xxii, 150. $39.95 pp. 1080-1082

Antonio Callari

A Theory of Efficient Cooperation and Competition. By Lester G. Telser. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 306. $29.95 pp. 1082-1083

Thomas S. Ulen

Worktime and Industrialization: An International History. Edited by Gary Cross. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. Pp. vi, 251. $34.95 pp. 1083-1084

Carl Strikwerda

Studies of Development and Change in the Modern World. Edited by Michael T. Martin and Terry R. Kandal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 458. $39.00, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 1084-1086

David Felix

Volume 49, issue 3, 1989

Was There a Solution to the Ancien Régime's Financial Dilemma? pp. 545-568

Eugene White

Technological Adaptation in Canadian Manufacturing, 1900–1929 pp. 569-591

Peter J. Wylie

Losing to Win: U.S. Steel's Pricing, Investment Decisions, and Market Share, 1901–1938 pp. 593-619

Thomas K. McCraw and Forest Reinhardt

Sweden's Financial Sophistication in the Nineteenth Century: An Appraisal pp. 621-634

Douglas Fisher and Walter Thurman

Economic and Geographic Mobility on the Farming Frontier: Evidence from Appanoose County, Iowa, 1850–1870 pp. 635-655

David Galenson and Clayne L. Pope

A Spatial Approach to Structural Change: The Making of the French Hexagon pp. 657-675

Ulrich Blum and Leonard Dudley

New Jersey Corporate Chartermongering, 1875–1929 pp. 677-692

Christopher Grandy

Promising and Stimulating: Modern Business History in Germany and the Netherlands pp. 720-724

Joachim F. D. Bläsing

Early Modern - Pre-Industrial Economic Growth: Social Organization and Technological Progress in Europe. By Karl Gunnar Persson. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. viii, 159. $45.00 pp. 727-728

Joel Mokyr

The Maritime Trade of the East Anglian Ports, 1550–1590. By N. J. Williams. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. xvii, 321. $64.00 pp. 728-730

Ronald Pollitt

Capitalism, the State, and the Lutheran Reformation: Sixteenth-Century Hesse. By William John Wright. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 326. $37.95 pp. 730-731

James M. Kittelson

Modern Europe - Handbuch der europäischen Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte. Vol. 6: Europäische Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte vom ersten Weltkrieg bis zur Gegenwart. Edited by Wolfram Fischer. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1987. Pp. xvii, 1,136 pp. 731-732

Rondo Cameron

Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780–1850. By Lenore Davidoff and Catherine Hall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. 576. $35.00 pp. 732-733

Miriam Slater

A Histry of GKN. Vol. 1: Innovation and Enterprise, 1759–1918. By Edgar Jones. London: MacMillan Press Ltd., 1987. Pp. xxxviii, 422 pp. 733-735

Steven Tolliday

Transport in Victorian Britain. Edited by Michael J. Freeman and Derek H. Aldcroft. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp. vii, 310. $40.00 pp. 735-736

Rick Szostak

The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing: The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain. By Samuel Cohn. Philadephia: Temple University Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 279. $34.95 pp. 736-737

Elyce J. Rotella

Labour and Society in Britain, 1918–1979. By James E. Cronin. New York: Schocken Books, 1984. Pp. x, 248. $22.50 pp. 738-739

Wayne Lewchuk

The Economic Modernization of Spain, 1830–1930. Edited by Nicolás Sánchez-Al-bornoz. New York: New York University Press, 1987. Pp. xv, 295. $45.00 pp. 739-741

J. K. J. Thomson

Russian Economic History: The Nineteenth Century. By Arcadius Kahan. Edited by Roger Weiss. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 244. $47.50, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 741-742

Paul R. Gregory

Africa, Middle East, Asia - Culture and Context in Sudan: The Process of Market Incorporation in Dar Masalit. By Dennis Tully. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 306. $49.50, cloth; $18.95, paper pp. 742-743

Jay Spaulding

The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy: The Nineteenth Century. By Reşt Kasaba. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 191. $39.50 cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 743-745

Çağlar Keyder

The Ottoman Empire and European Capitalism, 1820–1913: Trade, Investment and Production. By Se¸vket Pamuk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 278. $42.50 pp. 745-746

M. Şükrü Hanioğlu

The Economy of the Mughal Empire, c. 1595: A Statistical Study. By Shireen Moosvi. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xi, 442. $29.95 pp. 746-747

Sugata Bose

Economic Development in Provincial China: The Central Shaanxi since 1930. By Eduard B. Vermeer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 534. $79.50 pp. 747-749

Barry Naughton

Agricultural Development and Tenancy Disputes in Japan, 1870–1940. By Richard J. Smethurst. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 472. $52.50 pp. 749-750

Loren Brandt

Japanese Agriculture Under Siege: The Political Economy of Agricultural Policies. By Yujiro Hayami. New York: St. Martins Press, 1988. Pp. xlv, 145. $45.00 pp. 750-751

Vernon Ruttan

Latin America - Spain's Empire in the New World: The Role of Ideas in Institutional and Social Change. By Colin M. MacLachlan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 201. $35.00 pp. 751-752

John E. Kicza

Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730–1830. By Joseph C. Miller. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. Pp. xxx, 770. $35.00 pp. 752-753

Raymond L. Cohn

British West Indian Slavery, 1750–1834: The Process of Amelioration. By J. R. Ward. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. x, 320. $65.00 pp. 753-755

Stanley L. Engerman

External Constraints on Economic Policy in Brazil, 1889–1930. By Winston Fritsch. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Pp. xvi, 265. $49.95 pp. 755-756

Steven C. Topik

The Peruvian Mining Industry: Growth, Stagnation, and Crisis. By Elizabeth Dore. Boulder: Westview Press, 1988. Pp. xxiii, 297. $33.50 pp. 756-757

Michael J. Gonzales

The Political Economy of Argentina, 1946–83. Edited by Guido Di Tella and Rudiger Dornbusch. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. Pp. xvi, 349. $49.95 pp. 757-758

Paul B. Goodwin

United States and Canada - The Politics of Progress: The Origins and Development of the Commercial Republic, 1600–1835. By Hiram Caton. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 627.$49.00 pp. 759-760

Marc Egnal

Authority and Resistance in Early New York. Edited by William Pencak and Conrad Edick Wright. New York: New York Historical Society, 1988. Pp. xvii, 252. $19.95 pp. 760-762

Mary M. Schweitzer

A History of the American Rice Industry, 1685–1985. By Henry C. Dethloff. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 215. $29.50 pp. 762-763

James M. Clifton

Work and Labor in Early America. Edited by Stephen Innes. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Pp. vii, 297. $29.95, cloth; $9.95, paper pp. 763-764

Robert Margo

Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture. By Jack P. Greene. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 284. $32.50 pp. 764-766

Gloria L. Main

A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution. By Marc Egnal. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 381. $36.95, cloth; $10.95, paper pp. 766-767

John Shy

Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800–1860. By Lacy K. FordJr, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 414. $39.95 pp. 767-769

J. Morgan Kousser

From Open Door to Dutch Door: An Analysis of U.S. Immigration Policy Since 1820. By Michael C. LeMay. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1987. Pp. vii, 183. $36.95, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 769-769

H. A. Gemery

The American Census: A Social History. By Margo J. Anderson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 257. $30.00 pp. 769-771

Jeremy Atack

German Workers' Culture in the United States, 1850 to 1920. Edited by Hartmut Keil. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. Pp. xxii, 330. $24.95 pp. 771-772

Henry B. Leonard

Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon, 1850–1986. By William G. Robbins. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 194. $30.00, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 772-774

Richard O'Connor

Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880–1890. By Michael Schwartz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. [Reprint, New York: Academic Press, 1976.] Pp. xi, 302. $12.95, paper pp. 774-775

Lou Ferleger

That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession. By Peter Novick. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 648. $49.50, cloth; $15.95, paper pp. 775-777

Geoffrey Elton

Conspicuous Production: Automobiles and Elites in Detroit, 1899–1933. By Donald Finlay Davis. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 282. $29.95 pp. 777-778

Charles K. Hyde

The Automobile Age. By James J. Funk. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 456. $25.00 pp. 779-779

Charles K. Hyde

Women, Work, and Fertility, 1900–1986. By Susan Householder Van Horn. New York: New York University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 232. $35.00 pp. 779-780

Elyce J. Rotella

Prairie Grass Roots: An Iowa Small Town in the Early Twentieth Century. By Thomas J. Morain. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988. Pp. xviii, 287. $24.95 pp. 780-781

Clayne L. Pope

Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre: A Chapter in American Industrial Relations. By Howard M. Gitelman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 355. $29.95 pp. 781-783

Price Fishback

Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Reform. By Edward Berkowitz and Kim McQuaid. Second Edition. New York: Praeger, 1988. Pp. xiv, 243. $39.95 pp. 783-784

Brian Gratton

The New Deal at the Grass Roots: Programs for the People in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. By D. Jerome Tweton. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1988. Pp. x, 205. $19.95, cloth; $10.95, paper pp. 784-785

Patrick Reagan

Reasons of State: Oil Policies and the Capacities of the American Government. By G. John Ikenbery. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 213. $31.50, cloth; $10.95, paper pp. 785-786

John G. Clark

Land Rites and Wrongs: The Management, Regulation and Use of Land in Canada and the United States. Edited by Elliot J. Feldman and Michael A. Goldberg. Cambridge, MA: The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1987. Pp. xiii, 326. $35.00 pp. 786-788

Valerie Preston

Winning the Second Battle: Canadian Veterans and the Return to Civilian Life, 1915–1930. By Desmond Morton and Glenn Wright. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. Pp. xl, 328. $40.00, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 788-789

Ellis W. Hawley

Economic Thought - Classical Economics. By Samuel Hollander. New York: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1987. Pp. x, 485. $75.00 pp. 789-790

William L. Miller

Phases of Economic Growth, 1850–1973: Kondratieff Waves and Kuznets Swings. By Solomos Solomou. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 197. $44.50 pp. 790-791

Brinley Thomas

Competition: The Economics of Industrial Change. By Paul Auerbach. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. viii, 339. $5.00 pp. 791-793

Shane Greenstein

The Innovative Choice: An Economic Analysis of the Dynamics of Technology. By Mario Amendola and Jean-Luc Gaffard. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. xii, 116. $39.95 pp. 793-794

W Steinmueller

General and Miscellaneous - The Evolution of Central Banks. By Charles Goodhart. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1988. Pp. viii, 205. $22.50, cloth; $11.95, paper pp. 794-796

Richard Grossman

Colonial Trade and International Exchange: The Transition from Autarky to International Trade. By R. A. Johns. New York: Pinter Publishers, 1988. Pp. xii, 206. $39.95 pp. 796-797

John R. Hanson

Comparative Patterns of Economic Development, 1850–1914. By Cynthia Taft Morris and Irma Adelman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 575. $39.50 pp. 797-800

Adam Szirmai

Interwar Unemployment in International Perspective. Edited by Barry Eichengreen and Timothy J. Hatton. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. Pp. xxii, 434. $114.00 pp. 800-802

J. Bradford De Long

Volume 49, issue 2, 1989

What Did Merchants Do? Reflections on British Overseas Trade, 1660–1790 pp. 267-284

Jacob M. Price

The Decline of Property Rights in Man in Thailand, 1800–1913 pp. 285-296

David Feeny

The Integration of Regional and Interregional Capital Markets: Evidence from the Pacific Coast, 1883–1913 pp. 297-310

Kerry A. Odell

State-Issued Currency and the Ratification of the U.S. Consitution pp. 311-322

Mary M. Schweitzer

System Building at the Margin: The Problem of Public Choice in the Telephone Industry pp. 323-336

Kenneth Lipartito

Why Apprenticeship Persisted in Britain But Not in the United States pp. 337-349

Bernard Elbaum

Biological Consequences of Segregation and Economic Deprivation: A Post-Slavery Population from Southwest Arkansas pp. 351-360

Jerome C. Rose

Explaining Vertical Integration: Lessons from the American Automobile Industry pp. 361-375

Richard Langlois and Paul Robertson

Credit as a Production-Smoothing Device: The Case of Automobiles, 1913–1938 pp. 377-391

Martha Olney

Plantation Management in the Chesapeake, 1620–1820 pp. 393-406

Lorena S. Walsh

Land, Labor, and Economies of Scale in Early Maryland: Some Limits to Growth in the Chesapeake System of Husbandry pp. 407-418

Lois Green Carr and Russell R. Menard

Managing Competition in German Coal, 1893–1913 pp. 419-433

Lon L. Peters

Cooperation and Rivalry in the International Steel Cartel, 1926–1933 pp. 435-447

Daniel Barbezat

State Intervention and Industrialization: The Origins of the Brazilian Automotive Industry pp. 448-450

Helen Shapiro

Reforming the Urban Environment: Sanitation, Housing, and Government Intervention in Germany, 1870–1910 pp. 450-452

John C. Brown

Migration, Marriage, and Household Formation: The Irish at the Turn of the Century pp. 452-454

Timothy Guinnane

Schooling and Occupational Choice in Nineteenth-Century America pp. 454-457

Ali I. Saad

Movements in Aggregate Price Uncertainty in the United States: 1884–1981 pp. 457-459

Colleen M. Callahan

The Strategy and Consistency of Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1919–1933 pp. 459-461

David Wheelock

Comments on Shapiro, Brown, and Guinnane pp. 461-464

Jon S. Cohen

Comments on Saad, Callahan, and Wheelock pp. 464-468

Warren Whatley

Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern - Sons, Slaves and Freedmen in Roman Commerce. By Aaron Kirschenbaum. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 220. $29.95 pp. 473-473

Barry S. Strauss

Reproducing Families: The Political Economy of English Population History. By David Levine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. ix, 251 pp. 474-476

Jack Goldstone

Untersuchungen zu Handel und Verkehr der vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Zeit in Mittelund Nordeuropa. Part IV: Der Handel der Karolinger- und Wikingerzeit. Edited by Klaus Düwel, Herbert Jankuhn, Harald Siems, and Dieter Timpe. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987. Pp. 818. DM 228 pp. 474-474

Peter S. Wells

From Manor to Market: Structural Change in England, 1536–1640. By Richard Lachmann. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 166. $35.00, cloth; $17.75, paper pp. 476-477

Ben Baack

The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England. By Peter Edwards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 205. $39.50 pp. 477-478

John Langdon

Pastoral Economics in the Kingdom of Naples. By John A. Marino. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 381. $38.50 pp. 478-478

Peter R. Toscano

Economy and Society in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Hungary (1525–1650). By Vera Zimányi. Budapest: Akademiai Kaido, 1987. Pp. 119. $14.00 pp. 479-479

Peter Bodo and Peter Pete

Modern Europe - People, Cities and Wealth: The Transformation of Traditional Society. By E. A. Wrigley. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp.x, 348. $49.95 pp. 480-481

Christopher R. Fridrichs

Calicos und gedrucktes Zeug: Die Entwicklung der englischen Textilveredelung und der Tuchhandel der East India Company, 1650–1750. By Sergio Aiolfi. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1987. Pp. x, 441. DM 76 pp. 481-482

Raymond L. Sicknger

Studies in British Privateering, Trading Enterprise and Seamen's Welfare, 1775– 1900. Edited by Stephen Fisher. Exeter: University of Exeter, 1987. Pp. xiii, 165 pp. 482-482

Jacob M. Price

Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. By David Eltis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii, 418. $39.95 pp. 483-484

Robert Rhodes Crout

The History of the British Coal Industry. Vol. 4: 1913–1946: The Political Economy of Decline. By Barry Supple, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp. xxv, 733. $98.00 pp. 484-485

B. R. Mitchell

Employment Policy: The Crucial Years, 1939–1955. By Jim Tomlinson. New York:Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xi, 185. $47.50 pp. 485-486

Martha Ellen Shiells

The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century. By Robert Louis Stein. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. Pp. xvi, 185. $27.50 pp. 486-487

Pierre H. Boulle

The Alliance of Iron and Wheat in the Third French Republic, 1860–1914: Origins of the New Conservatism. By Herman Lebovics. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 219. $25.00 pp. 487-488

Judith A. Miller

Jews in the German Economy: The German-Jewish Economic Elite, 1820–1935. By W. E. Mosse. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp. viii, 420. $67.00 pp. 488-489

Charles E. McClelland

Industrialisering och beskattning i Sverige, 1861–1914. By Peter Gårestad. With a summary in English. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1987. Pp. 294. SEK 182 pp. 489-490

Lars G. Sandberg

Proto-industrialisation in Scandinavia. Craft Skills in the Industrial Revolution. By Maths Isacson and Lars Magnusson. New York: Berg Publishers, 1987. Pp. viii, 151. $29.95 pp. 491-492

Karl-Gustaf Hildebrand

Autocracy, Capitalism, and Revolution in Russia. By Tim McDaniel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. xi, 500. $45.00, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 492-493

Oliver Hayward

Die deutsche Industrie und die Industrialisierung Russlands, 1815–1914. By Walter Kirchner. St. Katharinen: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 1986. Pp. v, 409. DM 58 pp. 493-495

John P. McKay

Africa - Merchants of Essaouira: Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern Morocco, 1844–1866. By Daniel J. Schroeter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xxii, 322. $49.50 pp. 495-496

A. J. H. Latham

Islam and Urban Labor in Northern Nigeria: The Making of a Muslim Working Class. By Paul Lubeck. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. x, 362. $49.50 pp. 496-497

Richard Roberts

Asia - Family, Fields, and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China's Social and Economic History, 1550–1949. By Lloyd E. Eastman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. x, 267. $29.95, cloth; $10.95, paper pp. 497-498

A. Feuerwerker

Economic Integration and Planning in Maoist China. By Thomas P. Lyons. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp. xviii, 376. $45.00 pp. 498-499

Peter Schran

Economic and Social Aspects of the Performing Arts in Japan: Symphony Orchestras and Opera. Yoshimasa Kurabayashi and Yoshiro Matsuda. Tokyo: Kinokuniya Company Ltd., 1988. Pp. xxxi, 431 pp. 499-500

Richard T. Gill

The Evolution of the State Bank of India: The Roots, 1806–1876. Part I: The Early Years, 1806–1860; Part II: Diversity and Regrouping, 1860–1876. By Amiya Kumar Bagchi. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1987. Part I: Pp. xxii, 535; Part II: Pp. xiii, 515. $45.00 the set pp. 500-501

Gary M. Anderson

Village Republics: Economic Conditions for Collective Action in South India. By Robert Wade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 238. $44.50 pp. 501-502

David Feeny

Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1680. Vol. 1: The Lands below the Winds. By Anthony Reid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. xvi, 275. $25.00 pp. 503-504

M. Mahmud Khan

Latin America - Textiles and Capitalism in Mexico: An Economic History of the Obrajes, 1539–1840. By Richard Salvucci. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 250. $40.00 pp. 504-505

John Jay TePaske

The Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil. By Laura Randall. New York: Praeger, 1987. Pp. xiii, 246. $42.95 pp. 505-506

M. A. Adelman

United States and Canada - American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History since 1492. By Russell Thornton. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. Pp. xx, 292. $29.95 pp. 506-507

Peter George

The Decline of Authority: Public Economic Policy and Political Development in New York State, 1800–1860. By L. Ray Gunn. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 284. $29.95 pp. 507-508

Richard Sylla

Families and Farmhouses in Nineteenth Century America: Vernacular Design and Social Change. By Sally McMurry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 261. $29.95 pp. 508-509

Winifred B. Rothenberg

Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit. By Robert Bogdan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 322. $29.95 pp. 510-511

David W. Frayer

The Politics of Community: Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio. By Kenneth J. Winkle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 239. $32.50 pp. 511-512

Donald Schaefer

Union Maids Not Wanted: Organizing Domestic Workers, 1870–1940. By Donna L. Van Raaphorst. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1988. Pp. ix, 318. $39.95 pp. 512-513

Lynn Weiner

Creating Chicago's North Shore: A Suburban History. By Michael H. Ebner. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. xxx, 338. $29.95 pp. 513-515

Louis P. Cain

American Rubber Workers and Organized Labor, 1900–1941. By Daniel Nelson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 339. $32.50 pp. 515-516

Stanley L. Engerman

The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890–1916: The Market, The Law, and Politics. By Martin J. Sklar. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 484. $49.50, cloth; $15.95, paper pp. 516-518

Nick Salvatore

“Big Bill” Haywood. By Melvyn Dubofsky. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Pp. viii, 184. $19.95 pp. 518-518

Nick Salvatore

America in the Age of the Titans: The Progressive Era and World War I. By Sean Dennis Cashman. New York: New York University, 1988. Pp. xvi, 605. $40.00, cloth; $17.50, paper pp. 518-520

Paul J. Mirantim

American “Reparations” to Germany, 1919–1933: Implications for the Third-World Debt Crisis. By Stephen A. Schuker. Princeton Studies in International Finance, No. 61. Princeton: Princeton University, 1988. Pp. 170. $6.50, paper pp. 520-521

Steven B. Webb

Academic Scientists and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Corporate Research in Twentieth-Century America. By John P. Swann. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 249. $32.50 pp. 521-522

Robert K. Dekosky

Social Security: The First Half-Century. Edited by Gerald D. Nash, Noel H. Pugach, and Richard Tomasson. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 344. $24.95, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 522-523

Jill Quadagno

Welfare, Democracy and the New Deal. By William R. Brock. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. viii, 376. $49.50 pp. 524-525

Peter Fearon

The New Deal in the Urban South. By Douglas L. Smith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. Pp. 287. $29.95 pp. 525-526

Elliot A. Rosen

Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s. By Bruce Nelson. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 352. $29.95 pp. 526-527

Walter Galenson

The Irony of Victory: World War II and Lowell, Massachusetts. By Marc Scott Miller. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 233. $24.95 pp. 527-528

Alan Clive

And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry. By John P. Hoerr. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 689. $39.95, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 528-530

Harland Prechel

American-Soviet Trade in the Cold War. By Philip J. Funigiello. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 289. $32.50 pp. 530-531

Theodore A. Wilson

Growth in a Changing Environment: A History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) 1950–1972 and Exxon Corporation 1972–1975. By Bennett H. Wall. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1988. Pp. xlv, 1020. $39.95 pp. 531-533

Joseph A. Pratt

Issues in US-EC Trade Relations. Edited by Robert E. Baldwin, Carl B. Hamilton, and André Sapir. Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1988. Pp. xii, 397. $49.00 pp. 533-534

Daniel Barbezat

The Decline and Crash of the American Economy. By Joel Kurtzman. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1988. Pp. 224. $18.95 pp. 534-535

Richard Vedder

Corporate Takeovers: Causes and Consequences. Edited by Alan J. Auerbach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. ix, 343. $45.00 pp. 535-536

Anthony Patrick O'Brien

The Fall of the Bell System: A Study in Prices and Politics. By Peter Temin with Louis Galambos. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xviii, 378. $27.95 pp. 536-537

Gary D. Libecap

Canadian Papers in Rural History. Vol. VI. Edited by Donald H. Akenson. Gananoque, Ontario: Langdale Press, 1988. Pp. 353. $35.00 pp. 538-539

Ruth Dupre

Economic Thought - Econometric History. By Donald N. McCloskey. London: Macmillan Education Ltd., 1987. Pp. 117. $9.95 pp. 539-541

William N. Parker

General and Miscellaneous - In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy. By Charles S. Maier. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 293. $29.95, cloth; $10.95, paper pp. 541-543

Brendan Kennelly

The Rise of Modern Business in Great Britain, the United States, and Japan. By Mansel G. Blackford. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Pp. 176. $19.95, cloth; $8.95, paper pp. 543-544

Louis Galambos

Volume 49, issue 1, 1989

The Remarkable Efficiency of the Dollar-Sterling Gold Standard, 1890–1906 pp. 1-41

Lawrence Officer

Agricultural Supply During the Industrial Revolution: French Evidence and European Implications pp. 43-72

George Grantham

Capital Mobilization and Southern Industry, 1880–1905: The Case of the Carolina Piedmont pp. 73-94

David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis

Tontines, Public Finance, and Revolution in France and England, 1688–1789 pp. 95-124

David R. Weir

The Quality of Services in Company Towns: Sanitation in Coal Towns During the 1920s pp. 125-144

Price Fishback and Dieter Lauszus

Locational Choice in the Antebellum South pp. 145-165

Donald F. Schaefer

Jean Meuvret and the Subsistence Problem in Early Modern France pp. 184-200

George Grantham

Medieval and Early Modern - Your Money Or Your Life: Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages. By Jacques Le Goff. Translated by Patricia Ranum. New York: Zone Books, 1988. Pp. 116. $18.95 cloth pp. 205-206

Scott L. Waugh

Money and Its Uses in Medieval Europe. By Peter Spufford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 467. $79.50 pp. 206-208

Susan Mosher Stuard

Landlords, Peasants and Politics in Medieval England. Edited by T. H. Aston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. viii, 446. $44.50 pp. 208-209

J. S. Hamilton

Modern Europe - Technologischer Wandel und internationaler Handel im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Die Eisenindustrien in Grossbritannien, Belgien, Frankreich und Deutschland. By Rainer Fremdling. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 1986. Pp. 493. DM190 paper pp. 209-210

Paul B. Huber

Trade and Banking in Early Modern England. By Eric Kerridge. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp. 185. $39.95 pp. 210-212

Michael N. Hayes

Warshipbuilding on the Clyde: Naval Orders and the Prosperity of the Clyde Shipbuilding Industry, 1889–1939. By Hugh B. Peebles. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1987. Pp. 205. $45.00 pp. 212-213

Michael Huberman

Modernization Frustrated: The Politics of Industrial Decline in Britain Since 1900. By Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter. Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1988. Pp. xv, 224. $14.95 paper pp. 213-214

Kent Worcester

Paying for the German Inflation. By Michael L. Hughes. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 267. $32.50 pp. 214-215

Gerald Dwyer

The Gold Standard and the International Monetary Standard, 1900–1939. By Ian M. Drummond. London: MacMillan Education Ltd., 1987. Pp. 71. $8.50. - The Netherlands and the Gold Standard, 1931–1936: A Study in Policy Formation and Policy. Edited by Richard T. Griffiths. Amsterdam: NEHA, 1987. Pp. xvi, 214 pp. 215-217

Thomas Cunningham

The Small Giant: Sweden Enters the Industrial Era. By Carl G. Gustavson. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 364. $23.95 pp. 217-218

Lennart Schön

Government and Peasant in Russia, 1861–1906: The Prehistory of the Stolypin Reforms. By David A. J. Macey. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1987. Pp xviii, 380. $32.00 pp. 218-219

William J. Kelly

The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization. By Lynne Viola. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 285. $29.95 pp. 219-220

Robert J. Gibbons

Stalin's Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928–1932. By Hiroaki Kuromiya, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xviii, 364. $44.50 pp. 220-221

Holland Hunter

Africa and Middle East - African Economic History: Internal Development and External Dependency. By Ralph A. Austen. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1987. Pp. ix, 294. $22.50 pp. 221-223

Jay Spaulding

Palm Oil and Protest: An Economic History of the Ngwa Region, South-Eastern Nigeria, 1800–1980. By Susan M. Martin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. pp. xi, 209. $42.50 pp. 223-223

Thomas R. De Gregori

Agrarian Relations in the Ottoman Empire in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. By Vera P. Moutafchieva. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1988. pp. xiii, 245. $25.00 pp. 224-224

Elias H. Tuma

Latin America - The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889–1930. By Steven Topik. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987. pp. xii, 241. $25.00 pp. 225-226

Albert Fishlow

United States and Canada - Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780–1910. By Mary H. Blewett. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988. pp. xxii, 444. $29.95 pp. 226-227

Nancy Folbre

The African Exchange: Toward a Biological History of Black People. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple. Durham: Duke University Press, 1987. Pp. vi, 280. $34.95 pp. 227-228

B. W. Higman

The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821–1861. By Brian C. Mitchell. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 247. $24.95 pp. 228-229

William H. Mulligan

The Economic Effects of the American Civil War. By Patrick O'Brien. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press International, Inc., 1988. Pp. 79. $9.95, paper pp. 229-230

Barry W. Poulson

Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall et al. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Pp. xxxiii, 468. $34.95, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 230-231

Jack Blicksilver

Women Adrift: Independent Wage-earners in Chicago, 1880–1930. By Joanne J. Meyerowitz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. xxiii, 224. $29.95 pp. 231-232

Katherine Hempstead

Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939. By David A. Lake. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 242. $29.95 pp. 232-234

Stephen J. Randall

Grand Plans: Business Progressivism and Social Change in Ohio's Miami Valley, 1890–1929. By Judith Sealander. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. Pp. viii, 263. $26.00 pp. 234-235

Mansel Blackford

Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism: The Shoeworkers and Tanners of Endicott Johnson, 1890–1950. By Gerald Zahavi. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 261. $24.95 pp. 235-236

Warren R. Van Tine

Entrepreneurs vs. the State. By Burton W. FolsomJr, Reston, VA: Young America's Foundation, 1987. Pp. xii, 145. $16.95 pp. 236-237

Irene D. Neu

The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth: United States Business and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. By Louis Galambos and Joseph Pratt. New York: Basic Books, 1988. Pp. xiv, 286. $19.95 pp. 237-238

Louis P. Cain

Farm Families and Change in Twentieth-Century America. By Mark Friedberger. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. Pp. x, 282. $28.00 pp. 238-239

Sally Clarke

Origins of Protective Labor Legislation for Women: 1905–1925. By Susan Lehrer. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. Pp viii, 318. $44.50, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 239-240

Alice Kessler-Harris

The Fragile Bridge: Paterson Silk Strike, 1913. By Steve Golin. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. Pp. ix, 320. $34.95 pp. 240-241

Gerald Friedman

Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work. By Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. Pp. x, 404. $34.95 pp. 241-243

Robert Whaples

The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929–1939. By Michael A. Bernstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xvii, 269. $29.95 pp. 243-244

John Joseph Wallis

Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930–1950. By Vicki L. Ruiz. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. Pp. xviii, 194. $22.50, cloth; $10.95, paper pp. 244-245

Peter Philips

The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State. By Jill Quadagno. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 253. $27.50 pp. 245-247

Samuel H. Williamson

The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America. By Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone. New York: Basic Books, 1988. Pp. 242. $19.95 pp. 247-248

Tim Knapp

The Politics of Right to Work: The Labor Federations as Special Interests, 1943–1979. By Gilbert J. Gall. Westport: Greenwood Press Inc., 1988. Pp. xiii, 244. $39.95 pp. 248-249

Ethel B. Jones

The Mobility of Labor and Capital: A Study in International Investment and Labor Flow. By Saskia Sassen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 224. $34.50 pp. 249-251

Brinley Thomas

Bushworkers and Bosses: Logging in Northern Ontario, 1900–1980. By Ian Radforth. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. Pp. x, 336. $42.50, cloth; $17.95, paper pp. 251-252

Michael Huberman

Economic Thought - Classical Political Economy: A Survey of Recent Literature. Edited by William O. Thweatt. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. Pp. viii, 275. $50.00 pp. 252-254

Kate Stirling

English Historical Economics, 1870–1926: The Rise of Economic History and Neomercantilism. By Gerard M. Koot. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. viii, 277. $39.50 pp. 254-255

T. W. Hutchison

The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. Vols. 13, 14, and 29. The General Theory and After. Edited by Donald Moggridge. New York: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Economic Society, 1987. Part I: Preparation. Pp. 653. $19.95. Part II: Defence and Development. Pp. 584. $19.95. A Supplement. Pp. 340. $19.95 pp. 255-257

Thomas A. McGahagan

The Reconstruction of Economic Theory. Edited by Philip Mirowski. Dordrecht: Kluwer Martin Nijhoff, 1986. Pp. 266. $42.50 pp. 257-260

E. Canterbery

Marx and Keynes on Economic Recession: The Theory of Unemployment and Effective Demand. By Claudio Sardoni. New York: New York University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 152. $45.00 pp. 257-257

Thomas A. McGahagan

General and Miscellaneous - The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman. 4 vols. New York: Stockton Press, 1987. Pp. 3,500. $650.00 pp. 260-262

Lance Davis

Marshall Plan Days. By Charles P. Kindleberger. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987. Pp. 273. $34.95 pp. 262-263

Martin Wolfe

From Marshall Plan to Debt Crisis: Foreign Aid and Development Choices in the World Economy. By Robert E. Wood. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Pp. xviii, 400. $40.00 cloth; $14.95 paper pp. 263-265

Daniel Landau

The Less Developed Countries and the World Trading System: A Challenge to the GATT. By Diane Tussie. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Pp. viii, 1962 pp. 265-266

Yung Whee Rhee