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Volume 48, issue 4, 1988

Inventive Activity in Early Industrial America: Evidence From Patent Records, 1790–1846 pp. 813-850

Kenneth Sokoloff

Ocean Freight Rates and Productivity, 1740–1913: The Primacy of Mechanical Invention Reaffirmed pp. 851-876

Knick Harley

Free Banking Laws and Barriers to Entry in Banking, 1838–1860 pp. 877-889

Kenneth Ng

Product Quality and Vertical Integration in the Early Cotton Textile Industry pp. 891-907

Peter Temin

Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern - The Archaeology of Economic Ideas; The Classical Greek Tradition. By S. Todd Lowry. Durham: Duke University Press, 1987. Pp. 366. $54.00 pp. 914-915

James Redfield

The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Vol. 2: Trade and Industry in the Middle Ages. Second Edition. Edited By M. M. Postan and Edward Miller, assisted by Cynthia Postan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Pp. xiv, 999. $89.50 pp. 915-917

David Herlihy

A Financial Revolution in the Habsburg Netherlands: Renten and Renteniers in the County of Holland, 1515–1565. By James D. Tracy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 276. $35.00 pp. 917-918

John McCusker

The End of the Antwerp Mart. By G[eorge] D. Ramsay. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Vol. 1: The City of London in International Politics at the Accession of Elizabeth Tudor, 1975. Pp. x, 310. Vol. 2: The Queen's Merchants and the Revolt of the Netherlands. 1986. Pp. viii, 231. $37.50 pp. 918-920

John McCusker

Toward the Modern Economy: Early Industry in Europe, 1500–1800. By Myron P. Gutmann. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. Pp. xxi, 257. $29.95, cloth; $8.00, paper pp. 920-921

Gilbert Schrank

Modern Europe - Europe and the Rise of Capitalism. Edited by Jean Baechler, John A. Hall, and Michael Mann. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. vi, 249. $45.00 pp. 921-922

Alexander Field

An Historical Geography of Europe, 1800–1914. By Norman J. G. Pounds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xx, 598. $69.50 pp. 922-923

John G. Rice

Population Change in North-Western Europe, 1750–1850. By Michael Anderson. London: MacMillan Education Ltd., 1988. Pp. 94. $9.95 pp. 923-924

Farley Grubb

An Economic and Social History of Europe, 1890–1939. By Frank B. Tipton and Robert Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 323. $32.50 cloth; $12.95 paper. - An Economic and Social History of Europe, From 1939 to the Present. By Frank B. Tipton and Robert Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. Pp. ix,. $30 cloth; $9.95 paper pp. 925-926

R. Locke

Elites and the Wealthy in Modern British History: Essays in Social and Economic History. By W. D. Rubinstein. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Pp. x, 383. $35.00 pp. 926-927

Joseph Finkelstein

The Cotton Industry in the Industrial Revolution. By S. D. Chapman. Second Edition. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education Ltd., 1987. Pp. 74. $8.50 pp. 926-926

Robert Glen

The Reluctant Patron: Science and the State in Britain, 1850–1920. By Peter Alter. Translated by Angela Davies. New York: Berg, 1987. Pp. 292. $45.00 pp. 927-928

Eric Robinson

Industrial Structure, Capital Markets and the Origins of British Economic Decline. By William P. Kennedy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 230. $49.50 pp. 928-931

Bernard Elbaum

British Capitalism at the Crossroads: A Study in Politics, Economics and International Relations, 1919–1932. By Robert W. D. Boyce. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xv, 514. $54.50 pp. 931-933

John Gillingham

Women's Work, 1840–1940. By Elizabeth Roberts. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education Ltd., 1988. Pp. 85. $9.95 pp. 933-934

Gay L. Gullickson

An Edwardian Mixed Doubles: The Bosanquets versus the Webbs: A Study in British Social Policy, 1890–1929. By Alan M. McBriar. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 407. $72.00 pp. 934-935

Carolyn Tuttle

Business, Banking, and Politics: The Case of British Steel, 1918–1939. By Steven Tolliday. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. vi, 433. $42.00 pp. 936-937

Charles R. Perry

British Railways, 1948–1973: A Business History. By T. R. Gourvish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xxvii, 781. $89.50 pp. 937-939

Bradley G. Lewis

A Man of Influence: The Extraordinary Career of S. G. Warburg. By Jacques Attali. Bethesda, MD: Adler & Adler, 1987. Pp. xvii, 380. $22.50 pp. 939-940

Bruce R. Dalgaard

The Growth and Decline of the South Wales Iron Industry, 1760–1880: An Industrial History. By Michael Atkinson and Colin Baber. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1987. Pp. 101. $15.00 pp. 940-941

William H. Phillips

Modern South Wales: Essays in Economic History. Edited By Cohn Baber and L. J. Williams. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 324. $49.50 pp. 941-942

Frank T. Melton

The Famine in Ireland. By Mary E. Daly. Dublin: Dublin Historical Association, 1986. Pp. 138 pp. 942-943

Eric L. Almquist

L'Invention de l'économie sociale: Le XIXe siècle français. By André Gueslin. Paris: Editions Economica, 1987. Pp. 340 pp. 943-945

Michael S. Smith

Da un sistema agricolo a un sistema industriale: Il Comasco dal Settecento al Novecento. Vol. 1: Il difficile equilibrio agricolo-manifatturiero (1750–1814). Edited By Sergio Zaninelli. Como: Camera di Commercio, Industria e Agricoltura, 1987. Pp. 594 pp. 945-946

Dominico Sella

Bürgertum und Pöbel: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Kölns im 18. Jahrhundert. By Dietrich Ebeling. Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 1987. Pp. xiv, 213. DM 62 pp. 946-947

Gerald L. Soliday

Der Kampf urn die Mark 1923/24: Die deutsche Währungsstabilisierung unter dern Einfluss der nationalen Interessen Frankreichs, Grossbritanniens und der USA. By Hans Otto Schötz. New York: de Gruyter, 1987. Pp. ix, 205. DM 88 pp. 948-949

Michael L. Hughes

Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market. By Svetlana Alpers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. xvi, 160. $29.95 pp. 949-951

J. M. Montias

Wirtschaftsgeschichte Polens im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. By Zbigniew Landau and Jerzy Tomaszewski. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1985. Pp. 300. M42 pp. 951-952

Richard Blanke

Africa, Middle East, and Asia - Warriors, Merchants, and Slaves: The State and the Economy in the Middle Niger Valley, 1700–1914. By Richard L. Roberts. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 293. $39.50 pp. 952-953

Patrick Manning

The History of the British Bank of the Middle East. By Geoffrey Jones. Vol. 1: Banking and Empire in Iran. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xxiv, 418. $75.00. Vol. 2: Banking and Oil. 1987. Pp. xxi, 359. $70.00 pp. 953-954

Sevket Pamuk

The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal, 1630–1720. By Om Prakash. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 291. $38.50. - The Management of Monopoly: A Study of the English East India Company's Conduct of Its Tea Trade, 1784–1833. By Hoh-cheung Mui and Lorna H. Mui. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 192. $18.95 pp. 955-956

John McCusker

Business History of General Trading Companies: The International Conference on Business History 13. Edited By Shin'ichi Yonekawa and Hideki Yoshihara. Tokyo: Tokyo University Press, 1988. Pp. 365. $42.50 pp. 956-957

Janet Hunter

Latin America - South America and the First World War: The Impact of the War on Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Chile. By Bill Albert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 388. $42.50 pp. 957-958

Mark Wasserman

The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492. By David Watts. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xxii, 609. $49.50 pp. 958-959

Mary Butler

Jamaican Labor Migration: White Capital and Black Labor, 1850–1930. By Elizabeth McLean Petras. Boulder: Westview Press, 1988. Pp. x, 297. $31.50 pp. 959-961

Michael Craton

The People of Sonora and Yankee Capitalists. By Ramón Eduardo Ruiz. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988. Pp. x, 326. $35.00 pp. 961-962

Stephen Haber

Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy. By Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 344. $35.00 pp. 962-963

Jay Mandle

United States and Canada - Quantity and Quiddity: Essays in U.S. Economic History. Edited By Peter Kilby. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 440. $40.00 pp. 963-965

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Balanced Budgets & American Politics. By James D. Savage. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. pp. xvi, 350. $27.95 pp. 965-966

Robert Higgs

Paupers and Poor Relief in New York and Its Rural Environs, 1700–1830. By Robert E. CrayJr, Temple University Press, 1988. pp. xii, 269. $34.95 pp. 966-968

Joan Underhill Hannon

Bound for American: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1775. By A. Roger Ekirch. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. pp. xvii, 277. $45.00 pp. 968-969

Farley Grubb

Banking in the American South From the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction. By Larry Schweikart, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. pp. xiv, 367. $35.00 pp. 969-970

Richard Timberlake

The Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840–1875. By Elliott Ashkenazi. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabana Press, 1988, pp. x, 219. $22.95 pp. 970-971

Pamela J. Nickless

the Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1986–1920: A History of a German-American Enterprise. By Anita Rapone. New york: New York University Press,1987. pp. xv, 209. $35.00 pp. 971-972

Richard H. Keehn

Why the South Lost the Civil War. By Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William N. StillJr, Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 582. $29.95 pp. 972-973

Geofrey T. Mills

The Road to Rebellion: Class Formation and Kansas Populism, 1865–1900. By Scott G. McNall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. xviii, 354. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 973-974

Allan G. Bogue

No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, Helena, Montana, 1865–1900. By Paula Petrik. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. Pp. xix, 206. $19.95 pp. 974-975

Shoshana Grossbard

The Samuel Gompers Papers. Vol. 2: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887–1890. Edited By Stuart B. Kaufman. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xxv, 495. $39.95 pp. 975-976

H. M. Gitelman

The Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio, 1900–1932. By Hugh G. J. Aitken. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. Pp. xvii, 588. $67.50, cloth; $19.95, paper pp. 977-978

Robert W. Garnet

American Automobile Workers, 1900–1933. By Joyce Shaw Peterson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 231. $39.50, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 978-979

Daniel Nelson

Banker to the Third World: U.S. Portfolio Investment in Latin America, 1900–1986. By Barbara Stallings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. xvii, 434. $45.00, cloth; $12.95, paper pp. 979-980

Anne Sibert

Toward a New Deal in Baltimore: People and Government in the Great Depression. By Jo Ann E. Argersinger. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Pp. xix, 284. $29.95 pp. 980-981

Stanley Deviney

Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933–1940. By James S. Olson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 246. $30.00 pp. 982-983

Michael Bernstein

The Marshall Plan:Amerjca, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952. By Michael J. Hogan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 482. $34.50 pp. 983-984

Robert M. Collins

Russia and America: The Roots of Economic Divergence. By Cohn White. New York: Croom Helm, 1987. Pp. 268. $39.95 pp. 984-985

Jonathan Hughes

Emporium of the North: Fort Chipewyan and the Fur Trade in 1835. By James Parker. Regina: Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism/Canadian Plains Research Centre Publications, 1987. Pp. xv, 208. $15.00 pp. 985-986

Ann Carlos

Economic Thought - The Correspondence of Adam Smith. Edited By Ernest Campbell Mossner and Ian Simpson Ross. Second Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp xxxi, 464. $94.00 pp. 986-987

William L. Miller

The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus. Edited By E. A. Wrigley and David Souden. London: Pickering, 1986. 8 vols. £360 pp. 987-989

Samuel Hollander

Long Cycles. Prosperity and War in the Modern Age. By Joshua S. Goldstein. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 433. $45.00, cloth $19.95, paper pp. 989-990

W. W. Rostow

General and Miscellaneous - Labor Movements and Labor Thought: Spain, France, Germany, and the United States. By Sima Lieberman. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986. Pp. ix, 288. $40.95 pp. 990-991

Jurg K. Siegenthaler

Volume 48, issue 3, 1988

The Emergence of Farm Labor Markets and the Transformation of the Rural Economy: Massachusetts, 1750–1855 pp. 537-566

Winifred B. Rothenberg

Changes in the Level of Literacy in a New Community of Early America pp. 567-582

Robert E. Gallman

The Auction of Redemptioner Servants, Philadelphia, 1771–1804: An Economic Analysis pp. 583-603

Farley Grubb

International resource flows and construction movements in the atlantic economy: the kuznets cycle in Italy, 1861–1913 pp. 605-637

Stefano Fenoaltea

Factory size, economies of scale, and the great merger wave of 1898–1902 pp. 639-649

Anthony Patrick O'Brien

The Rise and Fall of the Williamson Curve pp. 699-729

Charles Feinstein

Medieval and Early Modern - The Metamorphosis of a Medieval City: Ghent in the Age of the Arteveldes, 1302–1390. By David Nicholas. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 369. $35.00 pp. 733-734

Kathryn L. Reyerson

Economie et refuge à Genève au siècle de la réforme: La draperie et la soierie (1540–1630). By Liliane Mottu-Weber. Memoires et Documents publiés par la Société d'historie et d' Archéologie de Genève, series 8, vol. 52. Geneva: Droz, 1987. Pp. 539 pp. 734-735

Domenico Sella

Neighbourhood and Society: A London Suburb in the Seventeenth Century. By Jeremy Boulton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xvii, 329. $44.50 pp. 735-737

James Horn

The Historical Meanings of Work. Edited by Patrick Joyce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. v, 320. $44.50 pp. 737-738

Michael Hanagan

The World We Have Gained. Histories of Population and Social Structure. Essays Presented to Peter Laslett on his Seventieth Birthday. Edited by Lloyd Bonfield, Richard M. Smith, and Keith Wrightson Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Pp. x, 421. $60.00 pp. 739-740

Myron P. Gutmann

Managing Industrial Change in Western Europe. Edited by François Duchêne and Geoffrey Shepherd. New York: Frances Pinter, 1987. Pp. xii, 247. $35.00 pp. 740-741

Gerald Flueckiger

1848: The British State and the Chartist Movement. By John Saville. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 310. $44.50. - John Fielden and the Politics of Popular Radicalism, 1832–1847. By Stewart Angas Weaver. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 320. $62.00 pp. 741-743

Jonathan Schneer

The London and New York Stock Exchanges, 1850–1914. By R. C. Michie. London: Allen & Unwin, 1987. Pp. xv, 312 pp. 743-744

Richard C. Schiming

Richard Cantillon: Enterpreneur and Economist. By Antoin E. Murphy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. pp. xv, 336. $48.00 pp. 744-745

Arjo Klamer

Population et révolution industrielle: Evolution des structures démographiques à Verviers dans la première moitié du 19e siècle. By Claude Desama. Paris: Société d' Edition “Les Belles Lettres,”1985. Pp. 284. FB 800 pp. 746-747

J. K. J. Thomson

Education for the Industrial World: The Ecoles d'Arts et Métiers and the Rise of French Industrial Engineering. By Charles R. Day. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1987, pp. vii, 293. $30.00 pp. 747-749

Warren F. Spencer

Syndicalist Legacy: Trade Unions and Politics in Two French Cities in the Era of World War I. By Kathryn E. Amdur. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. pp. xvi, 476. $37.95 pp. 749-750

Herrick Chapman

Die Auswirkungen von Zöllen und anderen Handelshemmnissen auf Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Edited by Hans Pohl. Stuttgart: Fritz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1987. Pp. 397. DM96 pp. 750-751

Paul B. Huber

Industry and Ideology: I. G. Farben in the Nazi Era. By Peter Hayes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xxviii, 411. $39.50 pp. 752-753

Edmund N. Todd

Wirtschaftswachstum in der Industrie der DDR, 1945–1970. By Joerg Roesler, Veronika Siedt, and Michael Elle. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1986. Pp. 280. DM 45 pp. 753-754

Andrei S. Markovits

The Crisis Zone of Europe: An Interpretation of East-Central European History in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. By Iván T. Berend. Translated from the Hungarian by Adrienne Makkay-Chambers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. viii, 106. $24.95 pp. 754-755

William H. Hubbard

The Economy of Finland in the Twentieth Century. By Fred Singleton. Bradford: University of Bradford, 1986. Pp. ix, 177. £15.05 cloth, £13.00 paper pp. 755-755

Bernard M. Olsen

Africa - Kenyan Communities in the Age of Imperialism: The Central Region in the Late Nineteenth Century. By Charles H. Ambler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. Pp. 181. $27.00 pp. 756-757

Michael Watts

Moroccan Mirages: Agrarian Dreams and Deceptions, 1912–1986. By Will D. Swearingen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. xviii, 217. $35.50 cloth, $14.95 paper pp. 757-758

James L. A. Webb

Asia and Australia - Man and Land in Chinese History: An Economic Analysis. By Kang Chao. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 268. $35.00 pp. 759-760

Loren Brandt

The Economic Development of Japan c. 1868–1941. By W. J. Macpherson. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education Ltd., 1987. Pp. 93. $8.50 pp. 760-761

Richard Rich

Power Revolution in the Industrialization of Japan, 1885–1940. By Ryoshin Minami. Tokyo: Kinokuniya Company, 1987. pp. xvi, 399. ¥ 4900 pp. 761-762

Barbara Molony

Japan and World Depression: Then and Now. Essays in Memory of E. F. Penrose. Edited by Ronald Dore and Radha Sinha, with assistance from Marl Sako. New York: St. Martin's Press,1987. Pp. xxiv, 208. $29.95 pp. 763-763

Kazuo Sato

The Era of High-Speed Growth: Notes on the Postwar Japanese Economy. By Yutaka Kosai. Translated by Jacqueline Kaminski. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 223 pages. $24.50 pp. 764-765

Carl Mosk

Land and Sovereignty in India: Agrarian Society and Politics under the Eighteenth–century Maratha Svarājya. By André Wink. University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 36. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xviii, 417. $49.50 pp. 765-766

Frank F. Conlon

Economic Growth in Monsoon Asia: A Comparative Study. By H. T. Oshima. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 371. $47.50 pp. 766-768

M. Mahmud Khan

The Philippine Economy and the United States: Studies in Past and Present Interactions. Edited by Norman G. Owen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, 1983. Pp. xvi, 208. $13.95 paper pp. 768-769

Carmel Chiswick

Prosperity Without Progress: Manila Hemp and Material Life in the Colonial Philippines. By Norman G. Owen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Pp. xxii, 312. $30.00 pp. 769-770

Carmel Chiswick

The Australian Economy in the Long Run. Edited by Rodney Maddock and Ian W. McLean. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 372. $42.50 pp. 770-772

Frank Lewis

The Stubborn Earth: American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898–1937. By Randall E. Stross. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 272. $25.00 pp. 772-772

Barbara N. Sands

United States and Canada - “To Serve Well and Faithfully,” Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682–1800. By Sharon V. Salinger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987, Pp. vii, 192. $29.95 pp. 772-774

Farley Grubb

Custom and Contract: Household, Government, and the Economy in Colonial Pennsylvania. By Mary M. Schweitzer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 271. $32.00 pp. 774-775

James Lemon

The Townshend Duties Crisis: The Second Phase of the American Revolution, 1767–1773. By Peter D. G. Thomas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. v, 282. $52.00 pp. 775-776

Joseph Ernst

The Economy of Early America: The Revolutionary Period, 1763–1790. Edited by Ronald Hoffman, John J. McCusker, Russell R. Menard, and Peter J. Albert. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988. Pp. xvi, 334. $30.00 pp. 776-777

Edwin J. Perkins

Enterprising Elite: The Boston Associates and the World They Made. By Robert F. DalzellJr, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. xviii, 298. $27.50 pp. 777-778

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Medical Science and Medical Industry: The Formation of the American Pharmaceutical Industry. By Jonathan Liebenau. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 207. $35.00 pp. 778-779

Peter Temin

The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War. By James L. Huston. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 315. $32.50 pp. 779-780

Gerald Gunderson

Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad, 1862–1893. By Maury Klein. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1987. Pp. xv, 685. $27.50 pp. 780-781

Lloyd J. Mercer

Flagler:Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron. By Edward N. Akin. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 305. $24.50 pp. 781-782

Maury Klein

The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885–1985. By Gary R. Mormino and George E. Pozzetta. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xiii, 368. $24.95 pp. 782-783

Henry B. Leonard

Kingsport, Tennessee: A Planned American City. By Margaret Ripley Wolfe. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. Pp. xii, 259. $24.00 pp. 783-784

Shirley F. Weiss

A History of Neglect: Health Care for Blacks and Mill Workers in the Twentieth-Century South. By Edward H. Beardsley, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. pp. xvi, 383. $34.95 pp. 784-785

Douglas C. Ewbank

No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880–1940. By Sarah Deutsch. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. pp. ix, 356. $34.50 pp. 785-786

Darlis A. Miller

The Forested Land: A History of Lumbering in Western Washington. By Robert E. Ficken, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. pp. xv, 324. $25.00. - Workers and Dissent in the Redwood Empire. By Daniel A. Cornford. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 276. $29.95 pp. 786-788

Albro Martin

Less than Forever: The Rise and Decline of Union Solidarity in Western Pennsylvania, 1914–1948. By Carl I. Meyerhuber Jr Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1987. pp. 235. $30.00 pp. 788-788

Robert H. Zieger

A New Deal for Workers' Education: The Workers' Service Program, 1933–1942. By Joyce L. Kornbluh. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. pp. xii, 175, $24.95 pp. 788-790

August C. Bolino

The American Monetary System: A Concise Survey of its Evolution since 1896. By Robert A. Degen. Lexington: Lexington Books, 1987. Pp. x, 242. $30.00 pp. 790-791

David Wheelock

Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steel Workers. Edited by Paul F.Clark, Peter Gottlieb, and Donald Kennedy Ithaca: ILR Press, 1987. Pp. vii, 153. $22.50. cloth, $8.95 paper pp. 790-790

Walter Galenson

War, Prosperity and Depression: The U.S. Economy, 1917–45. By Peter Fearon. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 294. $35.00 cloth, $17.00 paper pp. 791-792

Gerald D. Nash

The Bank of Upper Canada. By Peter Baskerville. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. cliii, 400. $18.95 paper pp. 792-794

Angela Redish

Progress without Planning: The Economic History of Ontario from Confederation to the Second World War. By Ian Drummond. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. Pp. xvi, 509. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper pp. 794-796

Marvin McInnis

Economic Thought - The Coming of Age of Political Economy, 1815–1825. By Gary F. Langer. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1987, Pp. xv, 224. $34.95 pp. 796-797

Clark Nardinelli

The Economic Thought of Karl Polanyi: Lives and Livelihood By J. R. Stanfield. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Pp. vii, 162. $25.00 pp. 797-798

Michael Hechter

General and Miscellaneous - The Labyrinths of Literacy: Reflections on Literacy Past and Present. By Harvey J. Graff. Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis, 1987, Pp. xii, 264. $35.00 cloth, $19.00 paper pp. 798-799

Farley Grubb

Trade Wars: The Theory and Practice of International Commercial Rivalry. By John A. C. Conybeare. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp. xv, 319. $35.00 pp. 799-801

Barry Eichengreen

Industrialization and Growth: A Comparative Study. By Hollis Chenery, Sherman Robinson; and Moshe Syrquin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. x, 387. $29.95 pp. 801-802

John R. Hanson

Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective. Edited by Alice Teichova, Maurice Léboyer, and Helga Nussbaum, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. x, 396. $49.50 pp. 802-804

Vladimir N. Bandera

Money in Historical Perspective: Anna J. Schwartz. Edited by Michael D. Bordo and Milton Friedman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. xvii, 442. $51.00 pp. 804-805

Hugh Rockoff

Ruling the Waves: The Political Economy of International Shipping. By Alan W. Cafruny. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. xvii, 323. $40.00 pp. 805-807

Gordon Boyce

The Long-Run Behavior of the Velocity of Circulation: The International Evidence. By Michael D. Bordo and Lars Jonung. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 181. $34.50 pp. 805-805

Steven B. Webb

Premodern Financial Systems: A Historical Comparative Study. By Raymond William Goldsmith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 348. $49.50 pp. 807-809

John Munro

Foreign Trade and the National Economy: Mercantilist and Classical Perspectives. By Leonard Gomes. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Pp. viii, 323. $45.00 pp. 809-811

Lawrence Officer

The Peasant Betrayed: Agriculture and Land Reform in the Third World. By John P. Powelson and Richard Stock. Boston: Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain in association with the Lincolon Institute of Land Policy, 1987. Pp. ix, 302 pp. 811-812

Elias H. Tuma

Volume 48, issue 2, 1988

What Have CEOs Been Doing? pp. 243-258

Louis Galambos

Urban Growth on the Periphery of the Antebellum Cotton Belt: Atlanta, 1847–1860 pp. 259-272

David F. Weiman

Mortgage Lending and American Urbanization, 1880–1890 pp. 273-285

Kenneth Snowden

Interregional Financial Intergration and the Banknote Market: The Old Northwest, 1815–1845 pp. 287-298

Jane Knodell

Innovations, Debts, and Bubbles: International Integration of Financial Markets in Western Europe, 1688–1720 pp. 299-306

Eric S. Schubert

Coping with Crisis? The Diffusion of Waterworks in Late Nineteenth-Century German Towns pp. 307-318

John C. Brown

What Did Unions Do in Nineteenth-Century Britain? pp. 319-332

George R. Boyer

The Health and Mortality of Women and Children, 1850–1860 pp. 333-345

Richard Steckel

U.S. City Finances and the Growth of Government, 1850–1902 pp. 347-356

John B. Legler, Richard Sylla and John J. Wallis

Peripheral Cities and Their Regions in the Dutch Urban System until 1900 pp. 357-371

Pim Kooij

Did France's Colonial Empire Make Economic Sense? A Perspective from the Postwar Decade, 1946–1956 pp. 373-385

Edward Peter Fitzgerald

Wage Determination Theory and the Five-Dollar Day at Ford pp. 387-399

Daniel M.G. Raff

The Russian Private Banking Houses, 1870–1914 pp. 401-407

Boris V. Anan'ich

The Ties That Bound: Market Behavior in Foreign Exchange in Western Europe during the Eighteenth Century pp. 409-410

Eric S. Schubert

Reassessing Mediterranean Agriculture: Stagnation and Growth in Tuscany, 1870–1914 pp. 410-412

Francesco L. Galassi

The Pragmatic Economy: Liberal Reforms and the Grain Trade in Upper Normandy, 1750–1789 pp. 412-414

Judith A. Miller

Prospertity and Depression, 1893–1933 pp. 415-416

Anthony O'Brien

Farmers as Entrepreneurs: Regulation and Innovation in American Agriculture during the Twentieth Century pp. 416-418

Sally Clarke

The Telephone in the South: A Comparative Analysis, 1877–1920 pp. 419-421

Kenneth Lipartito

Discussion of Schubert, Galassi, and Miller pp. 421-424

Barry Eichengreen

Discussion of O'Brien, Clarke, and Lipartito pp. 424-427

Maris Vinovskis

Old Themes and New Techniques, Part I pp. 428-435

William N. Parker

Old Themes and New Techniques, Part II pp. 435-437

David R. Weir

Ancient and Medieval - Economic Structures of the Ancient Near East. By Morris Silver. Totowa: Barnes & Noble Books, 1986. Pp. x, 211. $28.50 pp. 442-443

Walter C. Neale and David W. Tandy

Jesus and the Economic Questions of His Day. By Douglas E. Oakman. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1986. Pp. xv. 319. $59.95 pp. 443-444

Mary J. Oates

Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe. Edited by Kathleen Biddick. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1984. Pp. x, 301 pp. 444-445

Maurice Beresford

Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering, 1200–1500. By Majorie Keniston Mcintosh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 319. $44.50 pp. 446-447

J.M.W. Bean

L'imposizione diretta nei comuni dell' Italia centrale nel XIII secolo: La Libra di Perugia del 1285. By Alberto Grohmann. Rome: École Française de Rome, 1986. Pp. vi, 355 pp. 447-448

Richard A. Goldthwaite

Treasure of the Land of Darkness: The Fur Trade and its Significance for Medieval Russia. By Janet Martin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. x, 277. $39.50 pp. 448-449

Thomas S. Noonan

Pont-St-Pierre, 1398–1789: Lordship, Community, and Capitalism in Early Modern France. By Jonathan Dewald. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. xx, 326. $35.00 pp. 449-450

Jonathan J. Liebowitz

Peasants and King in Burgundy: Agrarian Foundations of French Absolutism. By Hilton L. Root. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. xi, 277. $35.00 pp. 450-451

George W. Grantham

Migration Across Time and Nations: Population Mobility in Historical Contexts. Edited by Ira Glazier and Luigi de Rosa. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986. Pp. 384. $49.50. - Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales, 1861–1900. By Dudley Baines. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 354. $44.50 pp. 451-452

David M. Reimers

Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical Understanding. By William M. Reddy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 264. $34.50 cloth, $10.95 paper pp. 453-454

David Laidler

Handbuch der Europäischen Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte. Vol. 5: Europäische Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte von der Mine des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zum ersten Weltkreig. Edited by Wolfram Fischer. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1985. Pp. xvi, 814 pp. 454-456

Rondo Cameron

International Business in the Nineteenth Century: The Rise and Fall of a Cosmopolitan Bourgeoisie. By Charles Jones. New York: New York University Press, 1987. Pp. xi, 260. $45.00 pp. 456-457

William Woodruff

Sir Robert Clayton and the Origins of English Deposit Banking, 1658–1685. By Frank T. Melton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 259. $49.50 pp. 457-458

Ben Baack

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750. By Marcus Rediker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xv, 322. $24.95 pp. 458-459

Jacob M. Price

The British Economy since 1700: A Macroeconomic Perspective. By C. H. Lee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 297. $49.50 cloth, $16.95 paper pp. 459-461

Joel Mokyr

France: A Geographical, Social, and Economic Survey. By Philippe Pinchemel, with Chantal Balley, Nicole Mathieu, Genevieve Pinchemel, and Denise Pumain. Translated by Dorothy Elkins and T. H. Elkins. New York: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l' Homme, 1987. Pp. xxvi, 660. $64.40 pp. 461-462

John Bell Henneman

The Imperfect Peasant Economy: The Loire Country, 1800–1914. By Gregor Dallas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 352. $34.50 pp. 462-463

Gay L. Gullickson

Le Capitalismefrançais, XIXe–XXe siècle: Blocages et dynamismes d'une croissance. Edited by Patrick Fridenson and André Straus. Paris: Libraine Arthéme Fayard, 1987. Pp. 427. FF 150 pp. 464-465

Charles E. Freedeman

Capitalism at War: Industrial Policy and Bureaucracy in France, 1914–1918. By John F. Godfrey. Leamington Spa: Berg, 1987. Pp. xiv, 313. $45.00 pp. 465-466

Marjorie M. Farrar

El carbón en Espana, 1770–1961: Una história económica. By Sebastián Coil Martin and Carles Sudrià i Triay. Madrid: Turner, 1987. Pp. 624. - The Road to Revolution in Spain: The Coal Miners of Asturias, 1860–1934. By Adrian Shubert. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. 183. $22.95 pp. 467-469

Stanley G. Payne

Wealth and Taxation in Central Europe: The History and Sociology of Public Finance. Edited by Peter-Christian Witt. New York: Berg, 1987. Pp. 162. $29.95 pp. 469-470

Catherine Albrecht

Banque et investissement industriel: Paribas, le pétrole roumain et la politique française, 1919–1939. By Philippe Marguerat. Neuchâtel: Faculté des Lettres and Librairie Droz, 1987. Pp. 145 pp. 470-471

John P. McKay

Structural Rigidities and Policy Inertia in Inter-War Belgium. By Robin L. Hogg. Brussels: Paleis der Academien, 1986. Pp. 203. BF 900 pp. 471-472

Julie Laureyssens

Italian Economic Literature in the Kress Library, 1475–1850. Compiled by P. Barucci and K. Carpenter. Cambridge, Mass.: Kress Library, Harvard University, 1985. 2 volumes. Pp. xxii, 490. $25.00 pp. 473-473

Peter R. Toscano

Merchants and Reform in Livorno, 1814–1868. By David G. LoRomer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. x, 389. $45.00 pp. 473-474

Frank J. Coppa

Growth Policies in a Nordic Perspective. Stockholm: Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research, 1987. Pp. 367 pp. 474-475

Donald J. Daly

Africa - Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar: Integration of an East African Commercial Empire into the World Economy, 1770–1873. By Abdul Sheriff. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1987. Pp. xx, 297. $29.95 cloth, $15.95 paper pp. 475-476

Paul E. Lovejoy

Africa, 1880–1980: An Economic History. By Peter Lionel Wickins. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. x, 321. $34.95 pp. 476-477

Richard Roberts

Empire on the Nile: The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898–1934. By M. W. Daly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 542. $65.00 pp. 477-478

Jay Spaulding

The Development of Capitalism in Northern Nigeria. By Robert W. Shenton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986. Pp. xvii, 169. $27.50 pp. 479-481

Jan Hogendorn

On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa. By Frederick Cooper. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. Pp. xvi, 290. $27.50 pp. 481-482

Jan Hogendorn

South Africa's City of Diamonds: Mine Workers and Monopoly Capitalism in Kimberley, 1867–1895. By William H. Worger. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987, Pp. xvi, 330. $30.00 pp. 482-484

Jim Cobbe

Asia - Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns to Meiji Japan. By D. Eleanor Westney. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. 252. $25.00 pp. 484-485

Janet Hunter

The Political Economy of Japan. Vol. 1: The Domestic Transformation. Edited by Kozo Yamamura and Yasukichi Yasuba. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. Pp. xxvi, 666. $37.50 cloth, $12.95 paper pp. 485-488

Robert S. Ozaki

Latin America - Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850. By Mary C. Karasch. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. xxv, 422. $85.00 pp. 488-489

David Eltis

United States and Canada - Inheritance in America: From Colonial Times to the Present. By Carole Shammas, Marylynn Salmon, and Michel Dahlin. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii, 320. $32.00 cloth, $12.00 paper pp. 490-491

Clayne Pope

Joseph Wharton: Quaker Industrial Pioneer. By W. Ross Yates. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1987. Pp. 413. $49.50 pp. 491-492

Thomas C. Cochran

Society and Family Strategy: Erie County, New York, 1850–1920. By Mark J. Stern. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 172. $39.50 pp. 492-493

Richard Steckel

Urban Elders: Family, Work, and Welfare among Boston's Aged, 1890-1950. By Brian Gratton. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. Pp. xv, 232. $32.95 pp. 493-494

Roger L. Ranson

Professionalism and Social Change: From the Settlement House Movement to Neighborhood Centers, 1886 to the Present. By Judith Ann Trolander. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 300. $37.50 pp. 494-495

Mary J. Oates

Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham. Edited by John B. Boles and Evelyn Thomas Nolen. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 624. $45.00 pp. 495-496

Dacid F. Weiman

Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980. By Ronald L. Lewis. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. Pp. xv, 239. $25.00 pp. 496-498

Price Fishback

St. Clair: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-Prone Industry. By Anthony F. C. Wallace. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Pp. xvii, 519. $30.00 pp. 498-499

Stanley L. Engerman

The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster. By Martin Cherniack. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Pp. iv, 194. $19.95 pp. 499-500

David Buffum

From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community. By Louise Lamphere. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. Pp. xviii, 390. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper pp. 500-501

Lynn Weiner

The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925. By David Montgomery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 494. $27.95 pp. 501-503

Gavin Wright

Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922. By James R. Barrett. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xvi, 290. $24.95 pp. 503-504

Daniel Nelson

The I.W.W. and the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913. By Anne Huber Tripp. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 317. $29.95 pp. 504-505

Melvyn Dubofsky

New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy. By Stanley Vittoz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 241. $24.95 pp. 505-507

Michael Weinstein

City Unions: Managing Discontent in New York City. By Mark H. Maier. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 221. $26.00 cloth, $12.00 paper pp. 507-508

Howard M. Gitelman

The Parameters of Urban Fiscal Policy: Sociecinomic Change and Political Culture in San Francisco, 1860–1906. By Terrence J. McDonald. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Pp. xvii, 356 pp. 508-510

Christine Meisner Rosen

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. By Patricia Nelson Limerick New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1987. Pp. 396. $17.95 pp. 508-508

Gerld D. Nash

Los Angeles and the Automoble: The Making of the Modern City. By Scott L. Bottles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 302. $25.00 pp. 510-511

David J. St. Clair

The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning. By Marc A. Weiss. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 228. $30.00 pp. 511-512

Kenneth Snowden

In Its Corporate Capacity: The Seminary of Montreal as a Business institution, 1816–1876. By Brian Young. Toronto: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. Pp. xix, 295. $30.00 pp. 512-513

Rick Szostak

Wood and Water: The Story of Seaboard Lumber and Shipping. By E. G. Perrault. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. Pp. 320. $24.95 pp. 513-514

William L. Marr

Everything that Floats: Pat Sullivan, Hal Banks, and the Seamen's Unions of Canada. By William Kaplan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. Pp. xxxii, 241. $30.00 cloth, $14.95 paper pp. 514-515

Michael Huberman

A Staple State: Canadian Industrial Resources in Cold War. By Melissa Clark-Jones. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 260. $35.00 cloth, $14.95 paper pp. 515-516

Ian Parker

Economic Thought and Theory - The Economics of François Quesnay. By Gianni Vaggi. Durham: Duke University Press, 1987. Pp. xv, 247. $37.50 pp. 516-517

Arthur I. Bloomfield

Malihus and His Time. Edited by Michael Turner. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Pp. xx, 244. $29.95 pp. 517-519

Geofffrey Gilbert

Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics. By David Reisman. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Pp. vii, 499. $45.00 pp. 519-520

Robert Hebert

John Maynard Keynes: Critical Assessments. Edited by John Cunningham Wood. London: Croom Helm, 1983. 4 vols. $495.00 set pp. 520-522

Axel Leijonhufvud

Keynes, Beveridge and Beyond. By Tony Cutler, Karel Williams, and John Williams. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. Pp. xi, 162. $47.50 pp. 522-523

Robert Stanley Herren

General and Miscellaneous - The Future of Economic History. Edited by Alexander J. Field. Boston: Kluwer Nijhoff Publishing, 1987. Pp. ix, 356. $54.95 pp. 523-527

Jeffrey G. Williamson

The Prairies and the Pampas: Agrarian Policy in Canada and Argentina, 1880–1930. By Carl E. Solberg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. Pp. xv, 297. $39.50 pp. 527-529

Wilfred Malenbaum

Prolonged Connections: The Rise of the Extended Family in Nineteenth-Century England and America. By Steven Ruggles. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. Pp. xx, 282. $37.50 cloth, $15.75 paper pp. 529-531

Katherine A. Lynch

Population in an Interacting World. Edited by William Alonso. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. 286. $30.00 pp. 531-532

Michael Haines

The Causes of Progress: Culture, Authority and Change. By Emmanuel Todd. Translated by Richard Boulin. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp. xv, 217. $34.95 pp. 532-533

Gregory Clark

History and the Economic Past: An Account of the Rise and Decline of Economic History in Britain. By D. C. Coleman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp. 150. $38.00 pp. 533-536

A. W. Coats

Volume 48, issue 1, 1988

Strike Success and Union Ideology: The United States and France, 1880–1914 pp. 1-25

Gerald Friedman

Economic Growth and the Standard of Living in Southern New England, 1640–1774 pp. 27-46

Gloria L. Main and Jackson T. Main

Institutional Failure, Monetary Scarcity, and the Depreciation of the Continental pp. 47-68

Charles Calomiris

Is There Still Life in the Pessimist Case? Consumption during the Industrial Revolution, 1790—1850 pp. 69-92

Joel Mokyr

On the Road Again with Arthur Young: English, Irish, and French Agriculture during the Industrial Revolution pp. 93-116

Robert Allen and Cormac Ó Gráda

Inferring Yields from Probate Inventories pp. 117-125

Robert Allen

The National Banking System and Southern Economic Growth: Evidence from One Southern City, 1870–1900 pp. 127-137

James T. Campen and Anne Mayhew

Urban History, Urbanization, and Economic History pp. 150-154

Robert S. DuPlessis

Medieval and Early Modern - Charity and Community in Medieval Cambridge. By Miri Rubin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 365. $49.50 pp. 160-160

William Chester Jordan

Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming, 1066–1500. By John Langdon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 331. $49.50 pp. 160-162

David E. Vassberg

Tradesmen and Traders: The World of the Guilds in Venice and Europe, c.1250–c.1640. By Richard MacKenney. Totowa: Barnes and Noble Books, 1987. Pp. xv, 288. $29.95 pp. 162-163

Richard Rapp

La repubblica internazionale del denaro tra XV e XVII secolo. Edited by Aldo De Maddalena and Hermann Kellenbenz. Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 1984. Pp. 383. L.34,000 pp. 163-165

Carol Bresnahan Menning

Peasant Classes: The Bureaucratization of Property and Family Relations under Early Habsburg Absolutism, 1511–1636. By Hermann Rebel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. xviii, 354. $32.50 pp. 165-166

R. Po-chia Hsia

Monnaie privée et pouvoir des princes: L'économie des relations monétaires à la Renaissance. By Marie-Thérèse Boyer-Xambeu, Ghislain Deleplace, and Lucien Gillard. Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1986. Pp. xv, 423. Fr. 240 pp. 166-167

Susan Mosher Stuard

Modern Europe - The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society. By Harvey J. Graff. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 493. $57.50 pp. 167-168

Kristen B. Neuschel

Explorations in Historical Geography: Interpretive Essays. Edited by Alan R. H. Baker and Derek Gregory. Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography 5. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. viii, 252. $49.50 pp. 168-170

William H. TeBrake

The Genesis of Industrial Capital: A Study of the West Riding Wool Textile Industry, c. 1750–1850. By Pat Hudson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xx, 345. $44.50 pp. 170-172

Carol E. Heim

The Commercial Crisis of 1847. By. H. M. Boot. Hull: Hull University Press, 1984. Occasional Papers in Economic and Social History No. 11. Pp. xiv, 101. £7.50 pp. 172-173

Max E. Fletcher

The Price of War: British Policy on German Reparations, 1941–1949. By Alec Cairncross. London: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Pp. x, 249. $34.95 pp. 173-174

John Gillingham

Ireland in Crisis: A Study in Capitalist Colonial Undevelopment. By Raymond Crotty. Dingle, Ireland: Brandon Book Publishers, 1986. Pp. viii, 296. IR £12.50 paper pp. 174-176

Cormac Ó Gráda

Spinners and Weavers of Auffay: Rural Industry and the Sexual Division of Labor in a French Village, 1750–1850. By Gay L. Gullickson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. x, 256. $34.50 pp. 176-177

Reed G. Geiger

Workers on Strike: France, 1871–1890. By Michelle Perrot. Translated by Chris Turner with the assistance of Erica Carter and Claire Laudet. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. Pp. 321. $27.50 pp. 178-179

Donald Reid

Eisenbahnen und deutsches Wirtschaftswachstum 1840–1879: Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungstheorie und zur Theorie der Infrastruktur. By Rainer Fremdling. Second edition. Dortmund: Gesellschaft fuer Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 1985. Pp. xiii, 236. DM30 pp. 179-180

Rolf H. Dumke

Die deutsche Beamtenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert: Zwischen Stand und Beruf. By Hans-joachim Henning. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1984. Pp. 197. DM 24.00 pp. 180-181

David W. Hendon

Unternehmensstrategien und technischer Fortschritt: Die deutsche und die britische Stahlindustrie, 1865–1895. By Ulrich Wengenroth. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986. Pp. 316. DM68.00 pp. 181-183

Gerhard Rosegger

The German Inflation, 1914–1923: Causes and Effects in International Perspective. By Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich. Translated by Theo Balderston. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1986. Pp. xi, 369. $49.95 pp. 183-185

Udo Heyn

German White-Collar Workers and the Rise of Hitler. By Hans Speier. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Pp. xxv, 208. $27.50 pp. 185-186

Felix Butschek

The Politics of the West German Trade Unions: Strategies of Class and Interest Representation in Growth and Crisis. By Andrei S. Markovits. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. 599. $54.50 pp. 186-187

Everett Kassalow

La politica monetaria en España, 1919–1935. By Pablo Martín Aceña. Madrid: Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, 1984. Pp. xvi, 336. - La cantidad de dinero en España, 1900–1935. By Pablo Martín Aceña. Madrid: Banco de Espana, Servicio de Estudios, 1985. Pp. 115 pp. 188-190

Juan Hernández Andreu

Six Galleons for the King of Spain: Imperial Defense in the Early Seventeenth Century. By Carla Rahn Phillips. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 318. $37.50 pp. 188-188

Peter Bakewell

España y la crisis de 1929. By Juan Hernández Andreu. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1986. Pp. 260 pp. 190-191

Robert H. Whealey

Latin America - Costa Rica Before Coffee: Society and Economy on the Eve of the Export Boom. By Lowell Gudmondson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 204. $30.00 pp. 191-193

John A. Booth

Latin American Oil Companies and the Politics of Energy. Edited by John D. Wirth. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985, Pp. xxxix, 282. $27.95. - Latin America, Economic Imperialism and the State: The Political Economy of the External Connection from Independence to the Present. Edited by Christopher Abel and Cohn M. Lewis. London: Athlone Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 540. $52.00 pp. 193-195

William Glade

The Mexican Colonial Copper Industry. By Elinore M. Barrett. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. Pp. xi, 143. $22.50 pp. 195-196

James A. Mulholland

Agrarian Reform and Public Enterprise in Mexico: The Political Economy of Yucatán's Henequen Industry. By Jeffery Brannon and Eric N. Baklanoff, University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1987. Pp. xv, 237. $31.95 pp. 196-197

Allen Wells

Asia - Peasants and Imperial Rule: Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency, 1850–1935. By Neil Charlesworth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xix, 319. $49.50. - Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy. By Ian Stone. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 374. $59.50 pp. 197-199

John Adams

Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics, 1919–1947. By Sugata Bose. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 284. $42.50 pp. 199-200

Alan Heston

Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870–1979. By Ann Laura Stoler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 244. $22.50 pp. 200-201

Robert C. Rice

The Survival of Empire: Portuguese Trade and Society in China and the South China Sea, 1630–1754. By George Bryan Souza. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xx, 282. $44.50 pp. 201-202

M. N. Pearson

Economic Imperialism in China: Silk Production and Exports, 1861–1932. By Robert Y. Eng. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1986. Pp. x, 243. $15.00 paper. - The South China Silk District: Local Historical Transformation and World-System Theory. By Alvin Y. So. Albany: SUNY Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 206. $39.50, cloth; $14.95, paper pp. 203-204

Tim Wright

Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750–1950. By Susan Mann. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 278. $35.00 pp. 204-205

Albert Feuerwerker

United States - Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790–1860. By Brooke Hindle and Steven Lubar. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. Pp. 309. $29.95. cloth, $14.95 paper pp. 205-206

Kenneth Sokoloff

The Roots of Southern Distinctiveness: Tobacco and Society in Danville, Virginia, 1780–1865. By Frederick F. Siegel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Pp. xi, 205. $22.00 pp. 206-207

Paul G. E. Clemens

Planters and Plain Folk: Agriculture in Antebellum Texas. By Richard G. Lowe and Randolph B. Campbell. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1987. Pp. xvi, 216. $22.50 pp. 207-208

Harold D. Woodman

History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. By John F. Stover. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press. Pp. xiv, 419. $29.50 pp. 208-209

Lloyd J. Mercer

The American President Lines and Its Forebears, 1848–1984. By John Niven. Cranbury: University of Delaware Press, 1987. Pp. 327. $39.50 pp. 209-210

Harold F. Williamson

From Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-Century Georgia. By Peter Wallenstein. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 284. $27.50 pp. 210-211

Richard Sylla

Challenge and Change: The History of the Tobacco Workers International Union. By Stuart Bruce Kaufman. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 163. $27.50 cloth, $10.95 paper. - A Vision of Unity: The History of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union. By Stuart Bruce Kaufman. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 182. $27.50 cloth, $1095 paper pp. 211-213

Mark J. Prus

Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900–1919. By Patricia A. Cooper. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xvi., 350. $29.95 pp. 213-214

Thomas Dublin

Solidarity or Survival? American Labor and European Immigrants, 1830–1924. By A. T. Lane. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 230. $34.50 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 214-215

Gerald Friedman

Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts. By Alexander Keyssar. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xviii, 469. $49.50 cloth, $14.95 paper pp. 215-217

Richard Sutch

Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900–1945. By Sanford M. Jacoby. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 377. $35.00 pp. 217-219

Joseph D. Reid

Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy. By Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers. University: University of Alabama Press, 1987. Pp. x, 159. $19.95 pp. 219-220

Price Fishback

Redeeming the Time: A People's History of the 1920s and the New Deal. By Page Smith. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1987. Pp. xiii, 1205. $34.95 pp. 220-221

Lester V. Chandler

A Caring Society: The New Deal, the Worker, and the Great Depression. By Irving Bernstein. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1985. Pp. xii, 338. $22.95 pp. 221-223

John Joseph Wallis

Labor Leaders in America. Edited by Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. pp. xvi, 396. $34.95 cloth, $14.95 paper pp. 223-224

Howard M. Gitelman

American Workers, American Unions, 1920–1985. By Robert H. Zieger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 233. $25.00 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 224-225

Peter Philips

Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945–1960. By Donald L. Fixico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986. Pp. xviii, 268. $27.50 pp. 225-226

Leonard Carlson

Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. By Robert Higgs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xix, 350. $24.95 pp. 226-227

James Buchanan

Economic Thought - Critics of Capitalism: Victorian Reactions to ‘Political Economy.’ Edited by Elisabeth Jay and Richard Jay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. vii, 268. $39.50 cloth; $14.95 paper pp. 227-229

J. R. Stanfield

The Economics of John Stuart Mill. By Samuel Hollander. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Vol. 1: Theory and Method. Pp. xx, 481. Vol. 2: Political Economy. Pp. 483–1037. $95.00 pp. 229-230

Robert Hebert

General and Miscellaneous - Economic Development: The History an Idea. By H. W. Arndt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. viii, 217. $20.95 pp. 230-232

W. W. Rostow

Other Times, Other Places: Macroeconomic Lessons from U.S. and European History. By Charles L. Schultze. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1986. Pp. xiii, 88. $15.95 cloth, $7.95 paper pp. 232-233

Charles P. Kindleberger

Economic Progress. Edited by Austin Robinson. Second edition. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Pp. xxviii, 389. $45.00 pp. 233-235

Henry J. Bruton

Enterprise and History: Essays in Honour of Charles Wilson. Edited by D. C. Coleman and Peter Mathias. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. x, 290. $49.50. - Business Life and Public Policy: Essays in Honour of D. C. Coleman. Edited by Neil McKendrick and R. B. Outhwaite. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 263. $44.50 pp. 235-237

Alexander Field

Famine in Peasant Societies. By Ronald E. Seavoy. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 478. $45.00 pp. 237-239

Michelle McAlpin

The Impact of the Great Depression of the 1930s and Its Relevance for the Contemporary World. Edited by Ivan T. Berend and Knut Borchardt. Budapest: Karl Marx University of Economics, 1986. Pp. 562. $25.00 pp. 239-240

J. Bradford DeLong

Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth. Vol. 1: Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Impact of Venture Capital in the Development of New Entreprise. Edited by Gary D. Libecap. Greenwich: JAI Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 213. $28.25 pp. 241-241

Thomas C. Cochran