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Volume 47, issue 4, 1987

The Growth of Wages in Antebellum America: New Evidence pp. 873-895 Downloads
Robert Margo and Georgia C. Villaflor
The Height and Weight of West Point Cadets: Dietary Change in Antebellum America pp. 897-927 Downloads
John Komlos
“…The Most Free From Objection …” The Sexual Division of Labor and Women's Work in Nineteenth-Century England pp. 929-949 Downloads
Jane Humphries
Origins of Labor Policy in the Russian Coal and Steel Industry, 1874–1900 pp. 951-965 Downloads
Susan P. McCaffray
The Technical Transformation of the Late Nineteenth-Century Gas Industry pp. 967-980 Downloads
Derek Matthews
Efficiency and Management: A Comment on Gregory Clark's “Why Isn't the Whole World Developed?” pp. 981-983 Downloads
Mira Wilkins
Estimating the Importance of the Plantation System to Southern Agriculture in 1880 pp. 984-988 Downloads
Nancy Virts
Modern Europe - Industrialisation and Social Inequality in 19th–Century Europe. By Hartmut Kaelble. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Pp. 216. $23.95 cloth, $12.95 paper pp. 992-993 Downloads
Cynthia Taft Morris
Consciousness and the Urban Experience. By David Harvey. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. Pp. xix, 293. $25.00. - The Urbanization of Capital. By David Harvey. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. Pp. xvii, 239. $25.00 pp. 993-995 Downloads
Sanford Elwitt
A History of the World Economy: International Relations since 1850. By James Foreman-Peck. Totowa: Barnes & Noble Books, 1983. Pp. xiv, 394. $28.50 pp. 995-996 Downloads
C. Knick Harley
Europe, America, and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism. Vol. 1: Europe and the World Economy. By William N. Parker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 270. $32.50 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 996-998 Downloads
Sidney Pollard
Agriculture and Food Supply in the Second World War. Edited by Bernd Martin and Alan S. Milward. St. Katharinen: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 1985. Pp. 323. DM 59 pp. 998-999 Downloads
John Komlos
Economic Expansion and Social Change: England, 1500–1700. Vol. 1: People, Land and Towns. Vol. 2: Industry, Trade and Government. By C.G.A. Clay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Vol. 1: pp. xiii, 268; vol. 2: pp. xii, 324. $34.50 cloth, $12.95 paper pp. 999-1002 Downloads
Diane Willen
The Agrarian History of England and Wales, 1640–1750. Edited by Joan Thirsk. New York: Cambridge University Press. Vol. 1: Regional Farming Systems. Pp. 480. $59.50. 1984. Vol. 2: Agrarian Change. Pp. 952. $94.50. 1985 pp. 1002-1004 Downloads
Hilton Root
Textile Manufacturers in Early Modern England. By Eric Kerridge. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 428. $50.00 pp. 1004-1005 Downloads
Maxine Berg
Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective. By Seymour Drescher. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xv, 300. $19.95 pp. 1005-1006 Downloads
Karl de Schweinitz
Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860–1912. By Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback, with the assistance of Susan Gray Davis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. x, 395. $47.50 pp. 1006-1008 Downloads
Karl de Schweinitz
The History of the British Coal Industry. Vol. 5: 1946–1982: The Nationalized Industry. By William Ashworth, with the assistance of Mark Pegg. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. xix, 710. $98.00 pp. 1008-1009 Downloads
William J. Hausman
The Trade Cycle in Britain, 1958–1982. By Andrew Britton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 96. $24.95 pp. 1009-1010 Downloads
Forrest H. Capie
The Seven Years War and the Old Regime in France: The Economic and Financial Toll. By James C. Riley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. 256. $32.50 pp. 1010-1011 Downloads
P. W. Bamford
L'Électricité dans l'histoire: Problémes et méthodes. Actes du colloque de l'Association pour l'histoire de l'électricité en France. Paris, 11–13 octobre 1983. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1985. Pp. x, 286. FF 190 pp. 1011-1013 Downloads
Robert L. Frost
The Politics of Depression in France, 1932–1936. By Julian Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 303. $39.50 pp. 1013-1014 Downloads
Stephen A. Schuker
Staat und ländliche Industrialisierung: Sozialer Wandel in zwei Dörfern einer deutschniederländischen Textilgewerberegion, 1830–1914. By Reinhard Schüren. Dortmund: Gesellschaft für westfälische Wirtschaftsgeschichte e. V., 1985. Untersuchungen zur Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Technikgeschichte, vol. 5. Pp. x, 242. DM40 pp. 1015-1017 Downloads
Frank B. Tipton
German Macroeconomic History, 1880–1979: A Study of the Effects of Economic Policy on Inflation, Currency, Depreciation and Growth. By Andrea Sommariva and Giuseppe Tullio. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Pp. xx, 264. $35.00 pp. 1017-1018 Downloads
Gerald P. Dwyer
The German Slump: Politics and Economics 1924–1936. By Harold James. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. xvi. 469. $57.00 pp. 1018-1020 Downloads
Arthur Schweitzer
La politica del debito pubblico in Italia, 1919–1943. By Antonio Confalonieri and Ettore Gatti. Milan: Cariplo-Laterza, 1986. 2 vols. Pp. 536 pp. 1020-1021 Downloads
Elmiro Argento
La Hacienda del siglo XIX: Progresistas y moderados. By Miguel Artola. Madrid: Alianza Editorial and Banco de España, 1986. Pp. 366 pp. 1021-1022 Downloads
David R. Ringrose
The Third Portuguese Empire, 1825–1975: A Study in Economic Imperialism. By Gervase Clarence-Smith. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 246. $29.50 pp. 1022-1024 Downloads
Eul-Soo Pang
The Bulgarian Economy in the Twentieth Century. By John R. Lampe. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Pp. 245, $29.95. - The Romanian Economy in the Twentieth Century. By David Turnock. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Pp. 296. $35.00 pp. 1024-1026 Downloads
John Montias
Food Economy in Hungary. By Ernö Csizmadia and Magda Székely. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1986. Pp. 218. $18.00. - The Hungarian Economy in the Twentieth Century. By Iván T. Berend and György Ránki. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp. 316. $32.50 pp. 1026-1027 Downloads
Joseph Held
Africa, the Middle East, and Asia - The Cambridge History of Africa. Vol. 7: From 1905 to 1940. Edited by A. D. Roberts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xx, 1062. $85.00 pp. 1027-1028 Downloads
Patrick Manning
The Shell Money of the Slave Trade. By Jan Hogendorn and Marion Johnson. African Studies Series No. 49. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 230. $34.50 pp. 1028-1029 Downloads
Ralph A. Austen
The Dynamics of Productive Relationships: African Share Contracts in Comparative Perspective. By A. F. Robertson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xx, 321. $44.50 pp. 1029-1030 Downloads
Thomas R. de Gregori
Arabia and the Gulf: From Traditional Society to Modern States. Edited by Ian Richard Netton. Totowa: Barnes and Noble Books, 1986. Pp. xviii, 259. $32.50 pp. 1030-1032 Downloads
R. Bayly Winder
Feudalism and Non-European Societies. Edited by T. J. Byres and Harbans Mukhia. London: Frank Cass, 1986. Pp. vii, 292. $25.00 pp. 1032-1034 Downloads
David Ludden
The Workers of Tianjin, 1900–1949. By Gail Hershatter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. Pp. viii, 313. $37.50. - Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919–1949. By Emily Honig. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 299. $37.50 pp. 1034-1035 Downloads
Thomas R. Gottschang
Latin America - Landowners in Colonial Peru. By Keith A. Davies. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. Pp. x, 237. $22.50. - Plantation Agriculture and Social Control in Northern Peru, 1875–1933. By Michael J. Gonzales. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985. Pp. xiii, 235. $25.00 pp. 1035-1037 Downloads
Jonathan C. Brown
The Politics of Penury: Debts and Taxes in Mexico: 1821–1856. By Barbara A. Tenenbaum. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986. Pp. xviii, 250. $32. 50 pp. 1037-1038 Downloads
John Jay Tepaske
Kinship, Business, and Politics: The Martinez del Rio Family in Mexico, 1823–1867. By David W. Walker. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986. Latin American Monographs No. 70. Pp. vii, 278. $27.50 pp. 1038-1039 Downloads
Stephen H. Haber
Economic History of Puerto Rico: Institutional Change and Capitalist Development. By James L. Dietz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. xxiii, 337. $65.00 cloth, $20.00 paper pp. 1039-1040 Downloads
Francisco Rivera-Batiz
United States - The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660–1820. By Edward Byers. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 367. $35.00 pp. 1040-1041 Downloads
Lorena S. Walsh
Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity. Edited by Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, and Edward C. CarterII. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture. Pp. x, 366. $25.00 cloth, $8.95 paper pp. 1041-1042 Downloads
Jackson Turner Main
Liberty and Property: Political Economy and Policymaking in the New Nation, 1789–1812. By John R. Nelson Jr Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. Pp. xv, 171. $25.00 pp. 1042-1043 Downloads
Stuart Bruchey
The New England Working Class and the New Labor History. Edited by Herbert G. Gutman and Donald H. Bell. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. The Working Class in American History. Pp. xvi, 296. $37.50 cloth, $12.95 paper pp. 1044-1044 Downloads
William H. Mulligan
Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801–1885. By Judith A. McGaw. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. xvii, 439. $40.00 pp. 1044-1046 Downloads
Avi Cohen
Railroads and the Character of America, 1820–1887. By James A. Ward. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 200. $14.95 pp. 1046-1047 Downloads
Bradley G. Lewis
A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America. By Shelton Stromquist. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. The Working Class in American History Series. Pp. xix, 353. $29.95 pp. 1047-1048 Downloads
Albro Martin
The Morgans: Private International Bankers, 1854–1913. By Vincent P. Carosso. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. Harvard Studies in Business History. Pp. xx, 888. $65.00 pp. 1049-1050 Downloads
Thomas Huertas
To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. By Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987. Pp. xi, 322. $29.95 pp. 1050-1051 Downloads
Allan G. Bogue
This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860–1910. By Sucheng Chan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. xxv, 503. $40.00 pp. 1051-1052 Downloads
David Galenson
Fordson, Farmall, and Poppin' Johnny: A History of the Farm Tractor and Its Impact on America. By Robert C. Williams. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 232. $24.95 pp. 1052-1053 Downloads
Wayne D. Rasmussen
For Bread with Butter: The Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1890–1940. By Ewa Morawska. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xvii, 429. $39.50 pp. 1053-1055 Downloads
Thomas A. McGahagan
Work Sights: Industrial Philadelphia, 1890–1950. By Philip Scranton and Walter Licht. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. Pp. 279. $29.95 pp. 1055-1056 Downloads
David Montgomery
Making Their Own Way: Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916–30. By Peter Gottlieb. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987, Pp. xiii, 250. $26.95 pp. 1056-1057 Downloads
Joe W. Trotter
Mining the Summit: Colorado's Ten Mile District, 1860–1960. By Stanley Dempsey and James E. Fell Jr Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986, Pp. xiv, 306. $19.95. - Aspen: The History of a Silver Mining Town, 1879–1893. By Malcolm J. Rohrbough. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 263. $19.95 pp. 1057-1058 Downloads
Wayne G. Broehl
Energy and the Federal Government: Fossil Fuel Policies, 1900–1946. By John G. Clark. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xxiii, 511. $39.95 pp. 1058-1059 Downloads
Gerald D. Nash
The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850–1980. By Arthur F. McEvoy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Studies in Environment and History. Pp. xviii, 368. $39.50 pp. 1059-1061 Downloads
Gary D. Libecap
From Progressivism to Prosperity: World War I and American Society. By Neil A. Wynn. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986. Pp. xxii, 268. $19.95 pp. 1061-1062 Downloads
Ellis W. Hawley
Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920–1940. By Roland Marchand. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Pp. xxii, 448. $27.50 pp. 1062-1063 Downloads
Martha Olney
Social Security. Visions and Revisions. By W. Andrew Achenbaum. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Twentieth Century Fund Study. Pp. xii, 300. $19.95 pp. 1063-1065 Downloads
Carolyn L. Weaver
Industrial Democracy in America: Ideological Origins of National Labor Relations Policy. By Howard Dickman. La Salle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing, 1987. Pp. xv, 445. $16.95 pp. 1065-1066 Downloads
Christopher L. Tomlins
Management and Managed. By Steve Jefferys. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986, Pp. xiv, 290. $29.95 pp. 1066-1067 Downloads
Robert Ozanne
Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War Two. By Ruth Milkman. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xv, 213. $32.50 cloth, $8.95 paper pp. 1067-1068 Downloads
Jerry A. Jacobs
Gunnar Myrdal and Black-White Relations: The Use and Abuse of An American Dilemma, 1944–1969. By David W. Southern. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii, 341. $35.00 pp. 1068-1069 Downloads
Robert Margo
General and Miscellaneous - The Economics of Alfred Marshall. By David Reisman. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 433. $32.50 pp. 1069-1071 Downloads
Donald A. Walker
Technique, Spirit and Form in the Making of Modern Economies: Essays in Honor of William N. Parker. Edited by Gary Saxonhouse and Gavin Wright. Supplement 3 of Research in Economic History. Greenwich: JAI Press, 1984. Pp. xii, 300. $47.50 pp. 1071-1072 Downloads
Jonathan Hughes
The Power of the Past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm. Edited by Pat Thane, Geoffrey Crossick, and Roderick Floud. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1984. Pp. vii, 308. $49.50 pp. 1073-1075 Downloads
Louise A. Tilly
Women's Work, Men's Property: The Origins of Gender and Class. Edited by Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson. London: Verso, 1986. Pp. 220. $28.00 cloth, $8.95 paper. - Working Women in Renaissance Germany. By Merry E. Wiesner. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 263. $28.00 pp. 1075-1077 Downloads
Nancy Fitch
Political Economy and Laissez Faire: Economics and Ideology in the Ricardian Era. By Rajani K. Kanth. Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1986. Pp. 200. $34.50 pp. 1077-1078 Downloads
A. W. Coats
The World of the Industrial Revolution: Comparative and International Aspects of Industrialization. Edited by Robert Weible. North Andover, Massachusetts: Museum of American Textile History, 1986. Essays from the Lowell Conference on Industrial History, 1984. Pp. 177. $10.00 paper pp. 1078-1079 Downloads
Philip Scranton
Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. By Peter Kolchin. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 517. $25.00 pp. 1079-1081 Downloads
Eugene D. Genovese
The American Family and the State. Edited by Joseph R. Peden and Fred R. Glahe. San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1986. Pp. xxvi, 488. $34.95 cloth, $14.95 paper pp. 1081-1082 Downloads
Daniel Scott Smith
Shop Floor Bargaining and the State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Edited by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. vii, 261. $34.50 pp. 1082-1083 Downloads
Greg Patmore

Volume 47, issue 3, 1987

English Poor Law Policy and the Crusade Against Outrelief pp. 603-625 Downloads
Mary MacKinnon
Farmers and the Market in Antebellum America: A View from the Georgia Upcountry pp. 627-647 Downloads
David F. Weiman
Firm Size and Economic Backwardness: A New Look at the French Industrialization Debate pp. 649-669 Downloads
John Nye
Mortgage Rates and American Capital Market Development in the Late Nineteenth Century pp. 671-691 Downloads
Kenneth A. Snowden
Price Discrimination and the Adoption of the Electricity Demand Charge pp. 693-709 Downloads
John Neufeld
Farm Household Behavior, Factor Markets, and the Distributive Consequences of Commercialization in Early Twentieth-Century China pp. 711-737 Downloads
Loren Brandt
Was the Bank Holiday of 1933 Caused by a Run on the Dollar? pp. 739-755 Downloads
Barrie A. Wigmore
Kahan on Russian Economic History pp. 769-774 Downloads
Evsey D. Domar
The Wisdom of Conventional Wisdom pp. 775-777 Downloads
James E. Cronin
Medieval - Domesday Economy: A New Approach to Anglo-Norman History. By John McDonald and G.D. Snooks. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. xv, 240. $45.00 pp. 780-781 Downloads
Robert C. Stacey
Handbook of Medieval Exchange. By Peter Spufford. London: The Royal Historical Society, 1986. Pp. xcii, 378. $22.50 pp. 781-782 Downloads
Archibald R. Lewis
Medieval European Coinage, with a Catalogue of the Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Vol. 1: The Early Middle Ages (5th-10th Centuries). By Philip Grierson and Mark Blackburn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. 674. $125.00 pp. 782-784 Downloads
Ronald Edward Zupko
Growth and Decline in Colchester, 1300–1525. By R.H. Britnell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 304. $39.95 pp. 784-785 Downloads
Ronald Berger
Modern Europe - The Decline of Fertility in Europe. The Revised Proceedings of a Conference on the Princeton European Fertility Project. Edited by Ansley J. Coale and Susan Cotts Watkins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. xxii, 484. $55.00 cloth, $14.50 paper pp. 785-787 Downloads
Myron P. Gutmann
European Bills of Entry and Marine Lists: Early Commercial Publications and the Origins of the Business Press. By John J. McCusker. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 1985. Pp. 75. $12.50 pp. 788-789 Downloads
Larry Neal
The English Atlantic 1675–1740: An Exploration of Communication and Community. By Ian K. Steele. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 400. $34.00. - The North Sea: A Highway of Economic and Cultural Exchange: Character— History. Edited by Arne Bang-Andersen, Basil Greenhill, and Egil Harald Grude. Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 1986. Pp. 278. $45.00 pp. 789-790 Downloads
Jacob M. Price
British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution. By N.F.R. Crafts. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. 193. $27.50 pp. 790-792 Downloads
J. Bradford De Long
The Decline of the British Economy. Edited by Bernard Elbaum and William Lazonick. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. 310. $49.00 pp. 792-795 Downloads
J. Bradford De Long
The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins. By François Crouzet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 229.$37.50 pp. 795-796 Downloads
John Lyons
Britain's Investment Overseas on the Eve of the First World War: The Use and Abuse of Numbers. By D.C.M. Platt. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 179. $29.95 pp. 797-798 Downloads
John R. Hanson
British Banking, 1960–85. By John Grady and Martin Weale. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 232.$29.95. - The Bank of England 1891–1944. By R. S. Sayers. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xxiv, 680.$24.95 paper pp. 798-799 Downloads
D. E. Moggridge
Incroyables gazettes et fabuleux métaux Les retours des trésors américains d'saprès les qazettes hollandaises (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles). By Michel Morineau. New York and Paris: Cambridge University Press and Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1985. Pp. 687. $70.50 pp. 799-801 Downloads
Denis O. Flynn
The Third Republic Defended: Bourgeois Reform in France, 1880–1914. By Sanford Elwitt. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Pp. 304. $27.50 pp. 802-803 Downloads
Marjorie M. Farrar
Necker and the Revolution of 1789. By Robert D. Harris. Lanham: University Press of America, 1986. Pp. ix, 805. $38.75 pp. 803-805 Downloads
Eugene White
La France restaurée 1944–1954: Dialogue sur les choix d'une modernisation. By François Bloch-Lainé and Jean Bouvier. Paris: Fayard, 1986. Pp. 338 pp. 805-807 Downloads
A. W. DePorte
A Genève et autour de Genève aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Etudes d'histoire économique. By Anne-Marie Piuz. Lausanne: Editions Payot, 1985. Pp. 304 pp. 807-808 Downloads
James R. Lehning
Social Change and the Labouring Poor: Antwerp, 1770–1860. By Catharina Lis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 237. $20.00 pp. 808-809 Downloads
Martha C. Howell
Entstehung und Entwicklung des Universalbankensyslems: Konzentration und Krise als wichtige Faktoren. By Manfred Pohl. Schriftenreihe des Instituts fuer bankhistorische Forschung e.V., Vol. 7. Frankfurt: Fritz Knapp Verlag, 1986. Pp. 199 pp. 809-810 Downloads
Udo Meyn
Geschichte der deutschen Kriegswirtschaft 1939–1945. Vol. 2: 1941–1943. By Dietrich Eichholtz. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1985. Pp. 713. DM 68 pp. 810-811 Downloads
John Gillingham
The Americanisation of West German Industry, 1945–1973. By Volker R. Berghahn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. viii, 344. $29.50 pp. 811-813 Downloads
Heinz Hartmann
America and the Reconstruction of Italy, 1945–1948. By John Lamberton Harper. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. vii, 213. $29.95 pp. 813-814 Downloads
Jon S. Cohen
The Danish Economy in the Twentieth Century. By Hans Christian Johansen, New York: St. Martin's Press. 1987. Pp. 230. $35.00 pp. 814-815 Downloads
Ole Feldbæk
The Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526–1918. By Robert A. Kann and Zdeněk V. David. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984. Pp. xxi, 543. $30.00 pp. 815-816 Downloads
Andrejs Plakans
Middle East - Oil Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century. By Fiona Venn. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986, Pp. xii, 228. $29.95 pp. 816-817 Downloads
Jim Cobbe
Africa - West African Diamonds, 1919–1983: An Economic History. By Peter Greenhalgh. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. Pp. xiii, 306. $32.50. - Migrant Labour in South Africa's Mining Economy: The Struggle for the Gold Mines' Labour Supply, 1890–1920. By Alan H. Jeeves. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 323. $30.00. - Industrialization and Trade Union Organisation in South Africa, 1924–55: The Rise and Fall of the South African Trades and Labour Council. By Jon Lewis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. x, 246. £25.00 pp. 817-820 Downloads
Jan S. Hogendorn
Black and White in Southern Zambia: The Tonga Plateau Economy and British Imperialism 1890–1939. By Kenneth P. Vickery. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 248. $35.00. - Salt of the Desert Sun: A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan. By Paul E. Lovejoy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 351. $42.50 pp. 820-821 Downloads
Thomas R. De Gregori
Asia and Australia - Silkworms, Oil, and Chips… (Proceedings of the Economics and Economic History Section of the Fourth International Conference on Japanese Studies, Paris, September 1985; Bonner Zeitschrift für Japanologie, vol. 8). Edited by Erich Pauer. Bonn: Josef Kreiner, 1986. Pp. iv, 333 pp. 821-822 Downloads
Frank B. Tipton
Two Colonial Empires: Comparative Essays on the History of India and Indonesia in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by C. A. Bayly and D.H.A. Kolif. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1986. Pp. 237. $57.50 pp. 822-824 Downloads
David Feeny
Settlers and the Agrarian Question: Foundations of Capitalism in Colonial Australia. By Philip McMichael. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xvi, 304. $34.50 pp. 824-825 Downloads
Kevin Burley
Latin America - The Political Economy of Argentina, 1880–1946. Edited by Guido Di Tella and D.C.M. Platt. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp. 217. $30.00. - Argentina, Australia and Canada: Studies in Comparative Development, 1870–1965. Edited by D.C.M. Platt and Guido Di Tella. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp. 237. $29.95 pp. 825-827 Downloads
David Rock
United States and Canada - Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History. Edited by Helen Hornbeck Tanner. Cartography by Miklos Pinther. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. Pp. xv, 224. $75.00 pp. 827-828 Downloads
Ann Harper-Fender
The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. By Thomas P. Slaughter. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. 291. $19.95 pp. 828-829 Downloads
David O. Whitten
Farming the Frontier: The Agricultural Opening of the Oregon Country, 1786–1846. By James R. Gibson. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 265. $25.00 pp. 829-830 Downloads
Ann Carlos
River of Lost Dreams: Navigation on the Rio Grande. By Pat Kelley. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 149. $19.95 pp. 830-831 Downloads
Erik Haites
Financing Growth: A Financial History of American Life Insurance Through 1900. By B. Michael Pritchett. Philadelphia: Huebner Foundation Monograph No. 13, University of Pennsylvania, 1985. Pp. xvi, 90. $14.95 paper pp. 831-832 Downloads
Jack Blicksilver
Filling Up America: An Economic-Demographic Model of Population Growth and Distribution in the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Morton Owen Schapiro. Greenwich: JAI Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 149. $24.75 pp. 832-834 Downloads
Michael R. Haines
Medicine and American Growth, 1800–1860. By James H. Cassedy. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. Pp. xvii, 298. $39.50 cloth, $19.95 paper pp. 834-835 Downloads
Richard H. Steckel
Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750–1950. By Judith Walzer Leavitt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 284. $21.95 pp. 835-836 Downloads
Robert Margo
The Mills of Manayunk: Industrialization and Social Conflict in the Philadelphia Region, 1787–1837. By Cynthia J. Shelton. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 227. $26.50 pp. 836-837 Downloads
Philip Scranton
Prime Cut: Livestock Raising and Meatpacking in the United States, 1607–1983. By Jimmy M. Skaggs. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 263. $28.50 pp. 837-838 Downloads
Robert M. Aduddell
Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century. By Louise Carroll Wade. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 423. $32.50 pp. 838-839 Downloads
Margaret Walsh
Auto Slavery: The Labor Process in the American Automobile industry, 1897–1950. By David Gartman. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986. Pp. xv, 348. $20.00 paper. - Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan. By Ronald Edsforth. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. Pp. xvi, 294. $20.00 paper pp. 839-840 Downloads
Daniel Nelson
Working in Hawaii: A Labor History. By Edward D. Beechert. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. Pp. xi, 401. $30.00. - Imigaisha, Japanese Emigration Companies and Hawaii, 1894–1908. By Alan T. Moriyama. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. Pp. xix, 260. $19.95 pp. 840-842 Downloads
James Mak
Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875–1900. By Richard Jules Oestreicher. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. xix, 263. $24.95 pp. 842-843 Downloads
Walter Licht
Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890–1940. By Susan Porter Benson. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 322. $27.50 pp. 843-844 Downloads
Susan B. Carter
Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era. By Michael Kazin. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 319. $24.95 pp. 844-845 Downloads
Walter Galenson
The Golden Sword: The Coming of Capitalism to the Colorado Mining Frontier. By Michael Neuschatz. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 301. $37.95 pp. 845-846 Downloads
Melvyn Dubofsky
Union Busting in the Tri-State: The Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri Metal Workers' Strike of 1935. By George G. Suggs Jr Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 282. $22.50 pp. 846-847 Downloads
Daniel Nelson
New Deal Labor Policy and the Southern Textile Industry, 1933–1941. By James A. Hodges. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 252. $24.95 pp. 847-849 Downloads
Leonard Carlson
Farm Tenancy and the Census in Antebellum Georgia. By Frederick A. Bode and Donald E. Ginter. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. Pp. xxi, 278. $27.50 pp. 849-850 Downloads
Donald L. Winters
Southern Capitalists: The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832–1885. By Laurence Shore. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 282. $25.00 pp. 849-849 Downloads
Drew Gilpin Faust
Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920–1960. By Jack Temple Kirby. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Pp. xix, 390. $40.00 cloth, $16.95 paper pp. 851-852 Downloads
Gavin Wright
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America. By Michael B. Katz. New York: Basic Books, 1986. Pp. xiv, 338. $22.95 pp. 852-854 Downloads
Joan Underhill Hannon
The Homeless Transient in the Depression: New York State, 1929–1941. By Joan M. Crouse. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 319. $39.50 cloth, $14.95 paper pp. 854-855 Downloads
James Leiby
The Great Depression: An Inquiry into the Cause, Course and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the Nineteen-Thirties, as Seen by Contemporaries and in the Light of History. By John A. Garraty. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1986. Pp. xii, 292. $17.95 pp. 855-856 Downloads
Charles P. Kindleberger
Memphis in the Great Depression. By Roger Biles. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. Pp. x, 174. $23.95 pp. 856-857 Downloads
Michael V. Namorato
The First Franco-Americans: New England Life Histories from the Federal Writers Project, 1938–1939. By C. Stewart Doty. Orono, Maine: University of Maine at Orono Press, 1985. Pp. 163. $9.95 paper pp. 857-857 Downloads
David M. Reimers
Monopoly's Moment: The Organization and Regulation of Canadian Utilities, 1830–1930. By Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. Pp. xvii, 393. $34.95 pp. 857-859 Downloads
William R. Childs
Technology on the Frontier: Mining in Old Ontario. By Dianne C. E. Newell. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 220. $19.50 pp. 859-860 Downloads
Alexander Dow
General and Miscellaneous - The Classical Theory of Economic Growth. By Walter Eltis. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Pp. xv, 372. $29.95 pp. 860-861 Downloads
M. Ray Perryman
Theory of Population and Economic Growth. By Julian L. Simon. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Pp. xi, 232. $24.95 pp. 861-862 Downloads
Michael R. Haines
Pour une histoire économique vraie. By Michel Morineau. Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1985. Pp. 513. 230F pp. 863-864 Downloads
Rondo Cameron
Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and Contradictions of Modern Social Thought. By Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1986. Pp. x, 244. $16.95 pp. 864-864 Downloads
Robert L. Bennett
Proletarians and Protest: The Roots of Class Formation in an Industrializing World. Edited by Michael Hanagan and Charles Stephenson. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 250. $45.00 pp. 865-866 Downloads
John R. Gillis
Development, Democracy and the Art of Trespassing: Essays in Honor of Albert O. Hirschman. Edited By Alejandro Foxley, Michael S. McPherson, and Guillermo O'Donnell. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986. Pp. viii, 379. $25.95 pp. 866-869 Downloads
Charles P. Kindleberger
Africans in Bondage: Studies in Slavery and the Slave Trade. Edited by Paul E. Lovejoy. Madison: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, 1986. Pp. xi, 378. $16.00 paper pp. 869-870 Downloads
Ralph A. Austen
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips: Historian of the Old South. By Merton L. Dillon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. Pp. xiii, 190. $20.00 pp. 870-871 Downloads
Julie Saville
Marshall, Orthodoxy and Professionalisation of Economics. By John Maloney. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 278. $44.50 pp. 871-872 Downloads
David Levy

Volume 47, issue 2, 1987

Economy and Society in an Earlier America pp. 299-319 Downloads
Stuart Bruchey
British and American Horology: Time to Test Factor-Substitution Models pp. 321-327 Downloads
Donald Hoke
Mass Production and the U.S. Tire Industry pp. 329-339 Downloads
Daniel Nelson
Edison, Coolidge, and Langmuir: Evolving Approaches to American Industrial Research pp. 341-351 Downloads
Leonard S. Reich
Carl Bosch and Carl Krauch: Chemistry and the Political Economy of Germany, 1925–1945 pp. 353-363 Downloads
Peter Hayes
R & D, Defense, and Spatial Divisions of Labor in Twentieth-Century Britain pp. 365-378 Downloads
Carol E. Heim
Tontine Insurance and the Armstrong Investigation: A Case of Stifled Innovation, 1868–1905 pp. 379-390 Downloads
Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch
Banks and State Public Finance in the New Republic: The United States, 1790–1860 pp. 391-403 Downloads
Richard Sylla, John B. Legler and John J. Wallis
Why Did the Bank of Canada Emerge in 1935? pp. 405-417 Downloads
Michael Bordo and Angela Redish
Productivity Growth without Technical Change in European Agriculture before 1850 pp. 419-432 Downloads
Gregory Clark
Learning by Selling and Invention: The Case of the Sewing Machine pp. 433-445 Downloads
Ross Thomson
“Going in Between”: The Impact of European Technology on the Work Patterns of the West Main Cree of Northern Ontario pp. 447-460 Downloads
Peter J. George and Richard J. Preston
French Colonialism, Imported Technology, and the Handicraft Textile Industry in the Western Sudan, 1898–1918 pp. 461-472 Downloads
Richard Roberts
Modern Business Enterprise as a Capital-Saving Innovation pp. 473-485 Downloads
Alexander Field
Thomas Blanchard's Patent Management pp. 487-488 Downloads
Carolyn C. Cooper
Advertising, Consumer Credit, and the “Consumer Durables Revolution” of the 1920s pp. 489-491 Downloads
Martha Olney
The Racial Division of Education Expenditures in the South, 1910 pp. 491-493 Downloads
Jonathan Pritchett
The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890–1940: The Structure and Growth of Manufacturing in an Underdeveloped Economy pp. 493-495 Downloads
Stephen H. Haber
The Credit-Anstalt Crisis of 1931: A Financial Crisis Revisited pp. 495-497 Downloads
Aurel Schubert
Hours of Work and Shiftwork in the Early Industrial Labor Markets of Great Britain, the United States, and Japan pp. 497-499 Downloads
Martha Shiells
Discussion of Pritchett, Olney, and Cooper pp. 501-505 Downloads
Glenn Porter
Discussion of Haber, Schubert, and Shiells pp. 505-508 Downloads
Larry Neal
The Black Death: A Comment pp. 509-510 Downloads
Robert S. Gottfried
Medieval Europe - Wealth and Money in the Aristotelian Tradition. By Odd Langholm. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1983. Distributed by Columbia University Press. Pp. 110. $22.00. - The Aristotelian Analysis of Usury. By Odd Langholm. Oslo: Universitetsforgalet, 1984. Distributed by Columbia University Press. Pp. 153. $29.00 pp. 516-517 Downloads
Julius Kirshner
Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities. By Martha C. Howell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Pp. xv, 285. $25.00 pp. 518-519 Downloads
Merry E. Wiesner
Trier am Ende des Mittelalters: Studien zur Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Verfas- sungsgeschichte der Stadt Trier vom 14. bis 16. Jahrhundert. By Michael Matheus. Trier: Trierer Historische Forschungen5, 1984. Pp. 475. DM 68 pp. 519-520 Downloads
R. Po-chia Hsia
The Celys and their world: An English merchant family of the fifteenth century. By Alison Hanham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xv, 472. $49.50 pp. 520-521 Downloads
Donald Woodward
Modern Europe - Enclosures in Britain, 1750–1830. By Michael Turner. London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., for the Economic History Society, 1984. Pp. 96. $5.95 paper pp. 521-522 Downloads
Robert Allen
Cross-Cultural Trade in World History. By Philip D. Curtin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. 293. $37.50 cloth, $9.95 paper. - Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480–1630. By Kenneth R. Andrews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. 394. $49.50 cloth, $16.95 paper pp. 522-524 Downloads
Edmund Burke
The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century Industry. By John Rule. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. Pp. 227. $25.00 pp. 524-525 Downloads
Robert Glen
The History of the British Coal Industry. Vol. 3: 1830–1913: Victorian Pre-eminence. By Roy Church. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. xxi, 831. $98.00 pp. 525-527 Downloads
Michael J. Galgano
Selling Art in Georgian London: The Rise of Arthur Pond. By Louise Lippincott. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. Pp. xii, 212. $27.50 pp. 525-525 Downloads
David Galenson
Phoenix Assurance and The Development of British Insurance. Vol. 1: 1782–1870. By Clive Trebilcock. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xx, 792. $79.50 pp. 527-528 Downloads
Peter R. Kressler
Labor Migration in the Atlantic Economies: The European and North American Working Classes During the Period of Industrialization. Edited by Dirk Hoerder. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 491. $55.00 pp. 528-529 Downloads
Robert P. Swierenga
A Monetary History of the United Kingdom, 1870–1982. Vol. 1. By Forrest Capie and Alan Webber. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1985. Pp. xxiv, 596. $50.00 pp. 529-530 Downloads
William M. Dugger
House and Home in the Victorian City: Working-Class Housing, 1850–1914. By M. J. Daunton. Baltimore: Edward Arnold, 1983. Pp. ix, 320. $65.00 pp. 530-531 Downloads
R. J. Morris
The Devil Makes Work: Leisure in Capitalist Britain. By John Clarke and Chas Critcher. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 1985. Pp. xiv, 245. $29.95 pp. 531-532 Downloads
Wray Vamplew
The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society, 1750–1900. By William M. Reddy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; and Paris: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1984. Pp. xii, 402. $37.50 pp. 533-534 Downloads
Kathryn Amdur
The Black Economy in England Since 1914. By Edward Smithies. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1984. Pp. 165. $38.00 pp. 533-533 Downloads
Hugh Rockoff
American Money and the Weimar Republic: Economics and Politics on the Eve of the Great Depression. By William C. McNeil. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. Pp. x, 352. $35.00 pp. 534-536 Downloads
Steven B. Webb
Ferrocarriles y cambio económico en Espana (1855–1913). By Antonio Gómez Mendoza. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1982. Pp. 278 pp. 536-538 Downloads
John H. Coatsworth
The Tsarist Economy, 1850–1917. By Peter Gatrell. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 288. $29.95 pp. 538-539 Downloads
Susan P. McCaffray
Materials for a Balance of the Soviet National Economy, 1928–1930. Edited by S. G. Wheatcroft and R. W. Davies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xxiv, 467. $59.50 pp. 539-541 Downloads
Paul R. Gregory
Africa, Asia, and Latin America - Colonialism and Migration: Indentured Labour Before and After Slavery. Edited by P. C. Emmer. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1986. Pp. vi, 303. $77.50 pp. 541-542 Downloads
Farley Grubb
World of Sorrow: The African Slave Trade to Brazil. By Robert Edgar Conrad. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Pp. xv, 215. $25.00 pp. 542-543 Downloads
David Eltis
Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World: The Diffusion of Crops and Farming Techniques, 700–1100. By Andrew M. Watson. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. x, 260. $39.50 pp. 543-544 Downloads
Elias H. Tuma
Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750. By K. N. Chaudhuri. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 269. $42.50 cloth; $16.95 paper pp. 544-545 Downloads
Richard T. Lindholm
Muslim Endowments and Society in British India. By Gregory C. Kozlowski. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 211. $42.50 pp. 545-546 Downloads
David Ludden
Patriarchy and Fertility: Japan and Sweden, 1880–1960. By Carl Mosk. Orlando: Academic Press, 1983. Pp. xxii, 320. $41.50 pp. 546-547 Downloads
Richard H. Steckel
The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota. By Michael Cusumano. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. xxi, 487. $25.00 pp. 547-549 Downloads
John Kwoka
Financial Development in Korea, 1945–1978. By David C. Cole and Yung Chul Park. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1983. Pp. xxii, 349. $15.00 cloth pp. 549-550 Downloads
Sung Y. Kwack
Traders, Planters, and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America. By David W. Galenson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 230. $34.50 pp. 550-552 Downloads
Richard H. Steckel
Commercial Relations between Spain and Spanish America in the Era of Free Trade, 1778–1796. By John Fisher. Liverpool: Centre for Latin American Studies, The University of Liverpool, 1985. Pp. 159. $11.00. - Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana, 1700–1763. By John Robert McNeill. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Pp. 329. $32.00 pp. 552-553 Downloads
Linda K. Salvucci
Between Slavery and Free Labor: The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Manuel Moreno Fraginals, Frank Moya Pons, and Stanley L. Engerman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, Pp. vii, 294. $30.00 pp. 553-555 Downloads
Robert L. Paquette
Mexican Government and Industrial Development in the Early Republic: The Banco de Avio. By Robert A. Potash. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1983. Pp. xii, 251. $27.50 pp. 555-555 Downloads
John H. Coatsworth
South America and the World Economy from Independence to 1930. By Bill Albert. London: MacMillan Press Ltd., 1983. Pp. 96. $6.25 pp. 556-556 Downloads
John H. Coatsworth
United States and Canada - Propreitors, Patronage, and Paper Money: Legislative Politics in New Jersy, 1703–1776. By Thomas L. Purvis. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 348. $38.00 pp. 556-557 Downloads
Elmus Wicker
The Washington Iron Works of Franklin Country, Virginia, 1733–1850. By John S. Salmon. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1986. Pp. ix, 86. $17.50 pp. 557-559 Downloads
Paul F. Paskoff
But Also Good Business: Texas Commerce Banks and the Financing of Houston and Texas, 1886–1986. By Walter L. Buenger and Joseph A. Pratt. College Station, Texas: A & M University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 450. $29.50 pp. 559-561 Downloads
Thomas F. Huertas
Shawmut: 150 Years of Banking, 1836–1986. By Asa S. Knowles. Boston: Houghton Miffin Co., 1986. Pp. xx, 517. $19.95 pp. 559-559 Downloads
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
The Life and Legend of Jay Gould. By Maury Klein. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 595. $27.50 pp. 561-562 Downloads
Lloyd J. Mercer
Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Series I, Vol. 1: The Destruction of Slavery. Edited by Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Thavolia Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xxxvi, 852. $39.50 pp. 562-563 Downloads
Lawrence N. Powell
Southern Capitalism: The Political Economy of North Carolina, 1880–1980. By Phillip J. Wood. Durham: Duke University Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 272. $37.50 cloth, $12.95 paper pp. 563-565 Downloads
William H. Phillips
The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876–1926. By Leonard S. Reich. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 309. $24.95 pp. 565-566 Downloads
Stuart W. Leslie
A Corporate Tragedy: The Agony of International Harvester Company. By Barbara Marsh. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1985. Pp. viii, 324. $19.95 pp. 566-567 Downloads
Fred Carstensen
GM Passes Ford, 1918–1938: Designing the General Motors Performance-Control System. By Arthur J. Kuhn. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 380. $29.75 pp. 567-569 Downloads
Stephen Salsbury
The Motorization of American Cities. By David J. St. Clair. Westport: Praeger (Greenwood), 1986. Pp. xi, 192. $32.95 pp. 569-570 Downloads
T. C. Barker
The Samuel Gompers Papers. Vol. 1. The Making of a Union Leader, 1850–1886. Edited by Stuart B. Kaufman. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. xxxvi, 529. $39.95 pp. 570-571 Downloads
Bernard Elbaum
Confrontation, Class Consciousness, and the Labor Process: Studies in Proletarian Class Formation. Edited by Michael Hanagan and Charles Stephenson. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986. Pp. vi, 261. $45.00. - “Struggle a Hard Battle”: Essays on Working-Class Immigrants. Edited by Dirk Hoerder DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986. Pp. vi, 375. $25.00 cloth, $9.50 paper pp. 571-573 Downloads
Richard Oestreicher
Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875–1980. By Dennis C. Dickerson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 323. $39.50 cloth, $12.95 paper pp. 573-574 Downloads
Price Fishback
Working Lives: The American Work Force since 1920. By John D. Owen. Lexington: D. C. Heath and Company, 1986. Pp. x, 218. $25.00 pp. 574-576 Downloads
Mark R. Killingsworth
Le Port de New York et le Commerce Extérieur American, 1860–1900. By Jean Heffer. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1986. Pp. ii, 568. 100F pp. 576-577 Downloads
Cathy Matson
Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854–1941. By Thomas E. Sheridan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 327. $22.50 pp. 577-578 Downloads
James E. Crisp
The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America. By Christine Meisner Rosen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xii. 395. $39.50 pp. 578-579 Downloads
Louis P. Cain
San Francisco, 1865–1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development. By William Issel and Robert W. Cherny. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 294. $35.00 pp. 579-580 Downloads
Jon C. Teaford
The Inland Empire: Unfolding Years, 1879–1929. By John Fahey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 298. $19.95 pp. 580-581 Downloads
Albro Martin
The American Business Cycle: Continuity and Change. Edited by Robert J. Gordon. Studies in Business Cycles, Vol. 25, National Bureau of Economic Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, Pp. xiv, 868. $78.00 pp. 581-584 Downloads
Barry Eichengreen
United States Foreign Oil Policy, 1919–1948: For Profits and Security. By Stephen J. Randall. Toronto: McGill-Queens University Press, 1985. Pp. viii, 328. $35.00 pp. 584-585 Downloads
Linda Wills Qaim-Maqami
Leadership at the Fed. By Donald F. Kettl. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 218. $22.50 pp. 585-586 Downloads
Eugene White
A Conjunction of Interests: Business, Politics and Tariffs, 1825–1879. By Ben Forster. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1986. Pp. ix, 288. $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper pp. 586-587 Downloads
Paul McGouldrick
Explorations in Canadian Economic History: Essays in Honour of Irene M. Spry. Edited by Duncan Cameron. Ottawa: Ottawa University Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 330. $30.00 pp. 587-588 Downloads
Trevor J. O. Dick
General and Miscellaneous - Economic Theory and History. Edited by Jurgen Kocka and Gyorgy Ranki. Budapest:Akademiai Kiado, 1985. Pp. 164. $18.00. - Economic History and the Modern Economist. Edited by William N. Parker. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Pp. 105. $24.95 pp. 589-590 Downloads
Martin Weitzman
Economic History and the History of Economics. By Mark Blaug. New York: New York University Press, 1986. Pp. xx, 284. $40.00 pp. 590-591 Downloads
A. W. Coats
Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History. By C.Vann Woodward. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Pp. x, 158. $12.95 pp. 591-592 Downloads
J. Morgan Kousser
The State of Afro-American History: Past, Present, and Future. Edited by Darlene Clark Hine. Introduction by Thomas C. Holt. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 301. $27.50 pp. 592-593 Downloads
Jonathan M. Wiener
Measures and Men. By Witold Kula. Translated by Richard Szreter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. 386. $39.50 pp. 593-595 Downloads
Douglass North
How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World. By Nathan Rosenberg and L. E. Birdzell Jr New York: Basic Books, 1986. Pp. xii, 353. $19.95 pp. 595-596 Downloads
Joel Mokyr
The Rhetoric of Economics. By Donald N. McCloskey. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. Pp. xx, 209. $21.50 pp. 596-598 Downloads
Michael S. McPherson
The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions About Prosperity, Equality, and Liberty. By Peter L. Berger. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1986. Pp. v, 262. $17.95 pp. 598-599 Downloads
Robert L. Bennett
The European Experience: A Historical Critique of Development Theory. By Dieter Senghaas. Translated from the German by K. H. Kimmig. Leamington Spa and Dover, N.H.: Longwood Publ. Group, 1985. Pp. 280 pp. 598-598 Downloads
Rondo Cameron
John Maynard Keynes. Vol. I: Hopes Betrayed, 1883–1920. By Robert Skidelsky. New York: Viking Penguin, 1986. Pp. xxviii, 447. $24.95 pp. 599-601 Downloads
Dudley Dillard
Standing Guard: Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Charles Lipson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Pp. xvii, 332. $29.50 pp. 601-602 Downloads
Fred Carstensen

Volume 47, issue 1, 1987

A Revolution of Scale in Overseas Trade: British Firms in the Chesapeake Trade, 1675–1775 pp. 1-43 Downloads
Jacob M. Price and Paul G. E. Clemens
Southern Agrarian Labor Contracts as Impediments to Cotton Mechanization pp. 45-70 Downloads
Warren Whatley
Technology, Transaction Costs, and the Transition to Factory Production in the British Silk Industry, 1700–1870 pp. 71-96 Downloads
S. R. H. Jones
The Integration and Efficiency of the London and Amsterdam Stock Markets in the Eighteenth Century pp. 97-115 Downloads
Larry Neal
Interest Rates and Crowding-Out During Britain's Industrial Revolution pp. 117-139 Downloads
Carol E. Heim and Philip Mirowski
Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? Lessons from the Cotton Mills pp. 141-173 Downloads
Gregory Clark
Government Loan Guarantees and the Failure of the Canadian Northern Railway pp. 175-196 Downloads
Frank Lewis and Mary MacKinnon
Compliance with Price Controls in the United States and the United Kingdom During World War II pp. 197-213 Downloads
Geofrey Mills and Hugh Rockoff
Ancient and Medieval - Medieval Frontier: Culture and Ecology in Rijnland. By William H. TeBrake, College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 293. $23.50 pp. 221-222 Downloads
Richard C. Hoffmann
Medieval Households. By David Herlihy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 227. $30.00 cloth; $11.95 paper pp. 222-223 Downloads
Kathryn L. Reyerson
Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, Vol. 1: Coins and Moneys of Account. By Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. Pp. xx, 684. $45.00 pp. 223-225 Downloads
Angela Redish
Modern Europe - The Making of Urban Europe 1000–1950. By Paul M. Hohenberg and Lynn Hollen Lees. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 398. $30.00 pp. 225-226 Downloads
Jeffrey G. Williamson
East-Central Europe in transition: From the fourtheenth to the seventeenth century. Edited by Antoni Maczak, Hanryk Samsonowicz, and Peter Burke. New York and Paris: Cambridge University Press and Editions de la Maison des Sciences de I'Homme, 1985. Pp. 207. $39.50 pp. 227-228 Downloads
Robert Millward
The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England. By Neil McKendrick, John Brewer, and J. H. Plumb. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. Pp. viii, 345. $29.95 pp. 228-229 Downloads
Robert Glen
Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity: Illiteracy and Society in Scotland and Northern England, 1600–1800. By R. A. Houston. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 325. $44.50 pp. 229-230 Downloads
David Mitch
British Shipping and Seamen, 1630–1960: Some Studies. Edited by Stephen Fisher. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1984. Pp. xi, 109. £3.00 pp. 230-231 Downloads
Christopher J. French
Essays in Social History, Vol. 2. Edited for the Economic History Society by Pat Thane and Anthony Sutcliffe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. xxxiv, 315. $42.00 pp. 231-232 Downloads
Barrington Moore
Work in France: Representations, Meaning, Organization, and Practice. Edited by Steven Laurence Kaplan and Cynthia J. Koepp. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986. Pp. 576. $42.50 pp. 232-234 Downloads
Whitney Walton
Merchants and Capitalists: Industrialization and Provincial Politics in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France. By David M. Gordon. University: University of Alabama Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 249. $29.75 pp. 234-236 Downloads
Christopher H. Johnson
Structure and Mobility: The Men and Women of Marseille, 1820–1870. By William H. Sewell Jr New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 377. $44.50 pp. 236-237 Downloads
Christopher E. Guthrie
Prosperity and Upheaval: The World Economy, 1945–1980. By Herman van der Wee. Translation by Robin Hogg and Max R. Hall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Pp. 621. $32.50 pp. 237-239 Downloads
Charles P. Kindleberger
British Food Policy during the First World War. By L. Margaret Barnett. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1985. Pp. xix, 241. $35.00 pp. 239-240 Downloads
H. R. C. Wright
British Manufacturing Investment Overseas. By David Shephard, Aubrey Silberston, and Roger Strange. London: Methuen & Co., 1985. Pp. 170. $35.00 pp. 240-241 Downloads
Michael Edelstein
Expansion, Crisis, Reconstruction: 1917–39. By Karl-Gustav Hildebrand. Stockholm: Liber Forlag, 1985. Pp. 496 pp. 242-243 Downloads
Lars G. Sandberg
The Rise of Merchant Banking. By Stanley Chapman. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1984. Pp. xi, 224. $27.50 pp. 243-244 Downloads
Richard Sylla
Remaking Ibieca: Rural Life in Aragon under Franco. By Susan Friend Harding. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. Pp. xvi, 221. $24.50 pp. 244-245 Downloads
Joseph Harrison
La nueva historia económica en España. Edited by Pablo Martín Aceña and Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Madrid: Editorial Tecnos, 1985. Pp. 343 pp. 245-246 Downloads
David Ringrose
Land and Revolution in Modern Greece, 1800–1881. By William W. McGrew. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1985. Pp. xxii, 339. $35.00 pp. 246-247 Downloads
Nicholas V. Gianaris
Asia - Towns and Townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia: Trade, Crafts and Food Production in an Urban Setting, 1520–1650. By Suraiya Faroqhi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 425. $59.50 pp. 247-249 Downloads
Maya Shatzmiller
Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society, 1895–1937. By Tim Wright. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xiii, 249. $59.50 pp. 249-250 Downloads
Thomas R. Gottschang
America's China Trade in Historical Perspective: The Chinese and American Performance. Edited by Ernest R. May and John K. Fairbank. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. Pp. xvii, 388. $21.00 pp. 250-251 Downloads
Thomas R. Gottschang
Japan and the Developing Countries. Edited by Kazushi Ohkawa and Gustav Ranis. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. viii, 456. $45.00 pp. 252-253 Downloads
Frank B. Tipton
Latin America - Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. By Sidney W. Mintz. New York: Viking Penguin, 1985. Pp. xxx, 274. $20.00. - Tobacco on the Periphery: A Case Study in Cuban Labour History, 1860–1958. By Jean Stubbs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xiii, 203. $42.50. - Coffee and Peasants: The Origins of the Modern Plantation Economy in Guatemala, 1853–1897. By J. C. Cambranes. Stockholm: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1985. Pp. 334. $14.95 paper pp. 253-257 Downloads
Laird W. Bergad
Frontier Expansion and Peasant Protest in Colombia, 1830–1936. By Catherine LeGrand. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986. Pp. xviii, 302. $27.50 pp. 257-259 Downloads
Michael J. Gonzales
The Search for Public Policy: Regional Politics and Government Finances in Ecuador, 1830–1940. By Linda Alexander Rodríquez. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985, Pp. xv, 281. $32.50 pp. 259-260 Downloads
Susan E. Ramirez
United States and Canada - Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era. Edited by Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Pp. ix, 508. $28.50 cloth; $14.95 paper pp. 260-261 Downloads
Russell R. Menard
Holland on the Hudson: An Economic and Social History of Dutch New York. By Oliver A. Rink. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986. Pp. 285. $29.95 pp. 261-262 Downloads
C. Elton Hinshaw
The Dutch in America: Immigration, Settlement, and Cultural Change. Edited by Robert P. Swierenga. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1985. Pp. xv, 303. $32.00 pp. 263-264 Downloads
Henry A. Gemery
New York City Cartmen, 1667–1850. By Graham Russell Hodges. New York: New York University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 224. $35.00 pp. 264-265 Downloads
H. M. Gitelman
Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800. By Allan Kulikoff. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Pp. xviii, 449. $30.00 pp. 265-267 Downloads
Carville Earle
Women and the Law of Property in Early America. By Marylynn Salmon. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Pp. xvii, 267. $24.00 pp. 267-268 Downloads
Lois Green Carr
Loosening the Bonds, Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750–1850. By Joan M. Jensen, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Pp. xv, 271. $25.00 pp. 268-269 Downloads
Diane Lindstrom
Indian Traders of the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Panton, Leslie & Company and John Forbes & Company, 1783–1847. By William S. Coker and Thomas D. Watson. Pensacola: West Florida University Press, 1986. Pp. xix, 428. $30.00 pp. 269-270 Downloads
John Jay Tepaske
A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Vol. 2: Steam Power. By Louis C. Hunter. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985. Pp. xxii, 732. $50.00 pp. 270-273 Downloads
Jeremy Atack
Municipal Ownership in the Electric Utility Industry: A Centennial View. By David Schap. New York: Praeger, 1986. Pp. xiii, 128. $33.95 pp. 273-274 Downloads
Arthur Woolf
The Anthracite Aristocracy: Leadership and Social Change in the Hard Coal Regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1800–1930. By Edward J. DaviesII. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 277. $27.00 pp. 274-275 Downloads
Shirley F. Weiss
Farming and Folk Society: Threshing among the Pennsylvania Germans. By Beauveau BoneIV. Edited by Gregory Sharrow. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 139. $39.95 pp. 275-276 Downloads
Donald Hoke
Schooling for All: Class, Race, and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal. By Ira Katznelson and Margaret Weir. New York: Basic Books, 1985. Pp. viii, 258. $19.95. - The Politics of School Reform, 1870–1940. By Paul E. Peterson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. x, 241. $25.00 cloth, $11.95 paper pp. 276-278 Downloads
Michael B. Katz
Prohibition in Kansas: A History. By Robert Smith Bader. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1986. Pp. xiii, 322. $19.95 cloth, $12.95 paper pp. 278-279 Downloads
K. Austin Kerr
Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890–1913. By James Livingston. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986. Pp. 250. $27.50 pp. 279-281 Downloads
Richard H. Timberlake
The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. By James R. Beniger. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 493. $25.00 pp. 281-282 Downloads
Robert Higgs
Rohm and Haas: History of a Chemical Company. By Sheldon Hochheiser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 231. $19.95 pp. 282-284 Downloads
Peter Morris
The Brookings Institution, 1916–1952: Expertise and the Public Interest in a Democratic Society. By Donald T. Critchlow. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 247. $23.00 pp. 284-285 Downloads
Patrick Reagan
Hugh S. Johnson and the New Deal. By John Kennedy Ohl. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1985. Pp. xi, 374. $27.50 pp. 285-286 Downloads
Lester V. Chandler
Paul G. Hoffman: Architect of Foreign Aid. By Alan R. Raucher. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. Pp. xi, 208. $22.00 pp. 286-288 Downloads
Clair E. Morris
Managing Macroeconomic Policy: The Johnson Presidency. By James E. Anderson and Jared E. Hazleton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986. An Administrative History of the Johnson Presidency Series. Pp. xii, 285. $27.50 pp. 288-289 Downloads
F. Gerard Adams
Company of Adventurers: The Story of Hudson's Bay Company. Vol. 1. By Peter C. Newman. Viking: Penguin Books Canada Ltd., 1985. Pp. xxiii, 413. $25.00 pp. 289-290 Downloads
Ann Carlos
The Rise and Fall? of Montreal: A Case Study of Urban Growth, Regional Economic Expansion and National Development. By Benjamin Higgins. Moncton, New Brunswick: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1986. Pp. x, 256. $12.95 paper pp. 290-291 Downloads
Morris Altman
Canadian Papers in Rural History, Vol. V. Edited by Donald H. Akenson. Gananoque, Ontario: Langdale Press, 1986. Pp. 375. $19.95 pp. 291-292 Downloads
William Marr
Maturing in Hard Times: Canada's Department of Finance through the Great Depression. By Robert B. Bryce. Toronto: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 278. $32.50 pp. 293-294 Downloads
Ian M. Drummond
Economic Thought and Doctrine - Henry C. Carey and American Economic Development. By Rodney J. Morrison. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1986. Pp. ix, 91. $15.00 paper pp. 294-295 Downloads
Lawrence Officer
The Logic of Economic Discovery: Neoclassical Economics and the Marginalist Revolution. By Robert M. Fisher. New York: New York University Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 226. $40.00 pp. 295-296 Downloads
Philip Mirowski
General and Miscellaneous - Inflation Through the Ages: Economic, Social, Psychological and Historical Aspects. Edited by Nathan Schmuckler and Edward Marcus. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. Pp. 886. $50.00 pp. 296-298 Downloads
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