The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 46, issue 4, 1986

The Political Economy of Segregation: The Case of Segregated Streetcars pp. 893-917

Jennifer Roback

Agricultural Investment and the Management of the Royal Demesne Manors, 1236–1240 pp. 919-934

Robert C. Stacey

Industrialization and Regional Inequality: Wages in Britain, 1760–1914 pp. 935-966

E. H. Hunt

The North American Fur Trade: Bargaining to a Joint Profit Maximum under Incomplete Information, 1804–1821 pp. 967-986

Ann Carlos and Elizabeth Hoffman

Invisible Handshakes in Lancashire: Cotton Spinning in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century pp. 987-998

Michael Huberman

Resource Endowments and Location Theory in Economic History: A Case Study of Quebec and Ontario at the Turn of the Twentieth Century pp. 999-1009

Morris Altman

Did Coal Miners “Owe Their Souls to the Company Store”? Theory and Evidence from the Early 1900s pp. 1011-1029

Price Fishback

Was England Really Superior to France? pp. 1031-1039

Rondo Cameron

Modern Europe - From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism. By Chandra Mukerji. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. Pp. xv, 329. $30.00 cloth, $12.00 paper pp. 1044-1046

John Munro

The Origins of the Scottish Railway System, 1722–1844. By C.J.A. Robertson. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1983. Pp. ix, 421. $42.00 pp. 1046-1047

John Butt

Essai sur la révolution industrielle en Belgique, 1770–1847. By Pierre Lebrun, Marinette Bruwier, Jan Dhondt, Georges Hansotte. Historie Quantitative et Dévelopement de la Belgique, Pierre Lebrun, ed., Tome II, vol. 1, La révolution industrielle, 2nd edition. Brussels; Académie Royale de Belgique, 1981. - Les débuts de la machine à vapeur dans l'industrie belge, 1800–1850. By Anne van Neck. Historie Quantitative et Dévelopment de la Belgique, Pierre Lebrun, ed., Tome II, Vol. 2, La révolution industrielle. Brussels: Académie Royale de Belgique, 1979. - La métallurgie et le commerce international du fer dans les Pays-Bas autrichiens et la Principauté de Liège pendant la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle. By Georges Hansotte. Historie Quantitative et Développement de la Belgique, Pierre Lebrun, ed., Tome II, Vol. 3, La révolution industrielle. Brussels: Académie Royale de Belgique, 1980. - Le commerce extérieur de la Belgique, 1830–1913–1939: Présentation critique des données statistiques. By D. Degrève. Histoire Quantitative et Développement de la Belgique, Pierre Lebrun, ed. Tome VI, vol. 1a and b, Les relations internationales belges 1830–1913. Brussels: Académie Royale de Belgique, 1982. - Le pouvoir central belge et ses comptes économiques, 1830–1913. By Joseph Pirard. Histoire Quantitative et Développement de la Belgique, Pierre Lebrun, ed. Tome VI, vol. la, L'état et les finances publiques belges. Brussels: Académie Royale de Belgique, 1980 pp. 1047-1049

Franklin Mendels

Lange Wellen wirtschaftlichen Wachstums in der Schweiz, 1814–1913: Eine Untersuchung der Hochbauinvestitionen und ihrer Bestimmungsgründe. By Bernhard Beck. Bern: Paul Haupt, 1983. Pp. 175. DM 46 pp. 1049-1049

Walter Wasserfallen

The Cotton Masters, 1830–1860. By Anthony Howe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp. xii, 359. $39.95 pp. 1050-1051

John Lyons

A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. IX: The East Midlands. By Robin Leleux. North Pomfret: David & Charles, 1984. Pp. 268. $24.00. - A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. XIV: The Lake Counties. By David Joy. North Pomfret: David & Charles, 1984. Pp. 270. $23.50 pp. 1051-1052

Geoffrey Channon

Management and Labor in Imperial Germany: Ruhr Industrialists as Employers, 1896–1914. By Elaine Glovka Spencer. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1984. Pp. x, 207. $28.00 pp. 1052-1053

Mary Nolan

Property Companies and the Construction Industry in Britain. By Hedley Smyth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 265. $44.50 pp. 1053-1054

E. W. Cooney

Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean - Bondmen & Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua with Implications for Colonial British America. By David Barry Gaspar. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. Pp. xvii, 336. $35.00 pp. 1054-1056

N. A. T. Hall

Tunisian Peasants in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. By Lucette Valensi. Translated by Beth Archer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xiii, 290. $49.50 pp. 1056-1057

E. P. Fitzgerald

Business History of Shipping: Strategy and Structure. Edited by Tsunehiko Yui and Keiichiro Nakagawa. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1985. Pp. xxix, 330 pp. 1057-1058

C. Knick Harley

Race, Class, and Politics: Essays on American Colonial and Revolutionary Society. By Gary B. Nash. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. xxii, 370. $37.50 cloth, $15.95 paper pp. 1059-1059

Jackson Turner Main

A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia. By Thomas M. Doerflinger. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 413. $32.00 pp. 1059-1061

Donald R. Adams

The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America. By W. J. Rorabaugh. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 270. $24.95 pp. 1061-1063

Jonathan Prude

Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain. By Richard A. Epstein. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. xi, 362. $25.00 pp. 1063-1064

Nathan Miller

New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp. Edited by Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. Pp. ix, 206. $19.00 pp. 1064-1065

Gavin Wright

On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. By Clarence L. Mohr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. Pp. xxiv, 397. $35.00 pp. 1065-1066

John Cimprich

Slavery's End in Tennessee, 1861–1865. By John Cimprich. University: The University of Alabama Press, 1985. Pp. x, 191. $24.50 pp. 1066-1067

Paul D. Escott

An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865–1918. By John David Smith. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 315. $35.00 pp. 1067-1068

J. William Harris

Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War. By Gavin Wright. New York: Basic Books, Inc.1986. Pp. x, 321. $19.95 pp. 1068-1070

Harold D. Woodman

The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America. Edited by Steven Hahn and Jonathan Prude. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 355. $32.00 pp. 1070-1071

William N. Parker

The Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Styles in Boston and Charleston, 1828–1843. By William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 334. $29.95 pp. 1071-1073

Allan Kulikoff

Worker and Community: Response to Industrialization in a Nineteenth-Century American City, Albany, New York, 1850–1884. By Brian Greenberg. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 227. $34.50 cloth, $12.95 paper pp. 1073-1074

John T. Cumbler

Paths of Resistance: Tradition and Dignity in Industrializing Missouri. By David Thelen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 321. $29.95 pp. 1074-1075

Barry O'Connell

Class and Reform: School and Society in Chicago, 1880–1930. By David John Hogan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. Pp. xxv, 328. $30.00 pp. 1075-1077

Alexander Field

Population Change and Social Continuity: Ten Years in a Coal Town. By Harold W. Aurand. Cranbury: Susquehanna University Press, 1986. Pp. 139. $24.50 pp. 1077-1078

Ewa Morawska

Steel City: Urban and Ethnic Patterns in Gary, Indiana, 1906–1950. Raymond A. Mohl and Neil Betten. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1986. Pp. x, 227. $32.50 cloth, $23.50 paper pp. 1078-1079

Paul Tiffany

The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise, and Reality. By Jon C. Teaford. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Pp.x. 177. $20.00 cloth, $8.95 paper pp. 1079-1080

Louis P. Cain

The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Towards the Consumer Society in America, 1865–1940. By Daniel Horowitz. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1985. Pp. xxxi, 254. $26.50 pp. 1080-1081

Steven Dubnoff

Fair Play in the Marketplace: The First Battle for Pure Food and Drugs. By Mitchell Okun. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986. Pp. xv, 345. $27.50 pp. 1081-1083

Gary D. Libecap

Strategic Uses of Public Policy: Business and Government in the Progressive Era. By Donna J. Wood, Marshfield: Pitman Publishing, 1986. Pp. xiii, 258. $26.95 pp. 1083-1084

Gary D. Libecap

Women in the Campaign to Organize Garment Workers, 1880–1917. By Carolyn Daniel McCreesh. New York: Garland Publishing, 1985. Pp. xiv, 298. $30.00 pp. 1084-1085

H. M. Gitelman

Coxey's Army: An American Odyssey. By Carlos A. Schwantes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 321. $22.95 pp. 1085-1086

Ellis W. Hawley

The Soul of the Wobblies: The I. W. W., Religion, and American Culture in the Progressive Era, 1905–1917. By Donald E. Winters Jr Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. xi, 159. $27.95 pp. 1086-1088

Jack Blicksilver

From New Era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, the Economists, and American Economic Policy, 1921–1933. By William J. Barber. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 237. $39.50 pp. 1088-1089

Ellis W. Hawley

The Crash and its Aftermath: A History of Securities Markets in the United States, 1929–1933. By Barrie A. Wigmore. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. xx, 731. $49.95 pp. 1089-1090

Robert B. Zevin

Hard Times and New Deal in Kentucky, 1929–1939. By George T. Blakey. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. Pp. vii, 252. $25.00 pp. 1090-1091

John Joseph Wallis

Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression. By Janet Poppendieck. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986. Pp. xvii, 306. $30.00 pp. 1091-1092

Roger Lambert

Willis R. Whitney, General Electric, and the Origins of U.S. Industrial Research. By George Wise. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 375. $29.00. - Image Worlds, Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890–1930. By David E. Nye. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 188. $20.00 pp. 1092-1093

Martha M. Trescott

E. H. Harriman: Master Railroader. By Lloyd J. Mercer. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985. Pp. xi, 188. $19.95 pp. 1093-1095

Bradley G. Lewis

Trucking and the Public Interest: The Emergence of Federal Regulation, 1914–1940. By William R. Childs. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 243. $19.95 pp. 1095-1096

Wayne G. Broehl

Synthetic Rubber: A Project that Had to Succeed. By Vernon Herbert and Attilio Bisio. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. xi, 243. $45.00 pp. 1096-1097

John B. Rae

More Deadly than War: Pacific Coast Logging, 1827–1981. By Andrew Mason Prouty. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985. Pp. xxvii, 252. $30.00 pp. 1097-1098

Price Fishback

Phil Weyerhaeuser: Lumberman. By Charles E. Twining. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1985. Pp. xvii, 401. $25.00 pp. 1098-1099

Avi Cohen

Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. By Donald Worster. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. Pp. xi, 402. $24.95 pp. 1099-1100

Randal R. Rucker

The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War. By Gerald D. Nash. Bloomington: Indian University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 304. $35.00 pp. 1100-1101

James E. Crisp

TVA and the Tellico Dam, 1936–1979: A Bureaucratic Crisis in Post-Industrial America. By William Bruce Wheeler and Michael J. McDonald. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. Pp. xxi, 290. $34.50 pp. 1101-1102

Jerome K. Laurent

Economic Security and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1980. By Robert A. Pollard. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 378. $32.50 pp. 1102-1104

Marc Trachtenberg

Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Oil Policy, 1941–1954. By David S. Painter. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 302. $32.50 pp. 1104-1105

Linda Qaim-Maqami

Economic Thought and Doctrine - The Educational Thought of the Classical Political Economists. By Margaret G. O'Donnell. Lanham: University Press of America, 1985. Pp. viii, 156. $23.75 cloth, $10.75 paper pp. 1105-1106

Samuel Hollander

General and Miscellaneous - The Gold Standard in Theory and History. Edited by Barry Eichengreen. New York: Methuen, 1985. Pp. vi, 280. $11.95 paper pp. 1106-1107

Anna J. Schwartz

Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History. Edited by Olivier Zunz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Pp. x, 334. $29.00 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 1107-1108

Daniel Scott Smith

Social Mobility in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Europe and America in Comparative Perspective. By Hartmut Kaelble. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Pp. 183. $32.50 pp. 1108-1110

Clyde Griffen

Volume 46, issue 3, 1986

What Do Bosses Really Do? pp. 585-623

David S. Landes

Prices and Wages in Maryland, 1750–1850 pp. 625-645

Donald R. Adams

Banks, Kinship, and Economic Development: The New England Case pp. 647-667

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

English Open Fields and Enclosures: Retardation or Productivity Improvements pp. 669-692

Michael Turner

The Impact of the Irish on British Labor Markets During the Industrial Revolution pp. 693-720

Jeffrey G. Williamson

A Peculiar Population: The Nutrition, Health, and Mortality of American Slaves from Childhood to Maturity pp. 721-741

Richard H. Steckel

Craft Labor and Mechanization in Nineteenth-Century American Canning pp. 743-756

Martin Brown and Peter Philips

Municipal Financing of the U.S. Fine Arts Museum: A Historical Rationale pp. 757-768

Eugene Smolensky

Fiscal News and Inflationary Expectations in Germany after World War I pp. 769-794

Steven B. Webb

The Greek Hyperinflation and Stabilization of 1943–1946 pp. 795-805

Gail E. Makinen

Ancient and Medieval - Prophets and Markets: The Political Economy of Ancient Israel. By Morris Silver. Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing, 1983. Pp. xii, 306. $35.00 pp. 813-813

Gerald Gunderson

Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy c. 300–1450. By Michael F. Hendy, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xxi, 773. $120.00 pp. 814-815

George L. Kustas

The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe. By Robert S. Gottfried. New York and London: The Free Press, 1983. Pp. xvii, 203. $16.95 pp. 815-823

Stuart Jenks

Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe Ed. by N. B. Harte and K. G. Ponting. Pasold Studies in Textile History 2. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1983. Pp xiv, 401. £19.50 pp. 823-824

Mavis Mate

Modern Europe - Tithe and Agrarian History from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century. An Essay in Comparative History. By Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Joseph Goy. New York:Cambridge University Press; Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l' Homme, 1982. Pp. ix, 206. $34.50 pp. 824-825

Timothy B. Davies

The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Preindustrial Europe. Edited by T. H. Aston and C. H. E. Philpin. New York:Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. 339. $34.50 pp. 825-827

A. R. Bridbury

Food Shortage, Climatic Variability, and Epidemic Disease in Preindustrial Europe:The Mortality Peak in the Early 1740s. By John D. Post. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. Pp. 303. $29.95 pp. 827-829

J. L. Anderson

Railways and the Economic Development of Western Europe, 1830–1914. Edited by Patrick O'Brien. New York: St. Martin's Press; London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1983. Pp. xiv, 243. $30.00; £25 pp. 829-830

Bradley G. Lewis

The Economics of the Industrial Revolution. Edited by Joel Mokyr. Totowa: Rowman and Allanheld, 1985. Pp. xii, 268. $34.50 cloth, $15.95 paper pp. 831-836

Stefano Fenoaltea

British Economists and the Empire. By John Cunningham Wood. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. 299. $32.50 pp. 836-837

Robert A. Huttenback

A Guide to the Historical Records of British Banking. By L. S. Pressnell and John Orbell. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp. xxv, 130. $29.95 pp. 837-838

Richard Sylla

Free Banking in Britain: Theory, Experience, and Debate, 1800–1845. By Lawrence H. White. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xv, 171. $29.50 pp. 838-839

Hugh Rockoff

James Nasmyth and the Bridgewater Foundry: A Study of Enterpreneurship in the Early Engineering Industry. By J. A. Cantrell. Manchester: Manchester University Press for the Chetham Society, 1985. Pp. viii, 279. £25.00 pp. 840-840

Roderick Floud

Labour and the Poor in England and Wales, 1849–1851. Volume I: Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire. Volume II: Northumberland, Durham, Staffordshire and the Midlands. Volume III: The Mining and Manufacturing Districts of North Wales and South Wales. Edited by Jules Ginswick. Totowa, N.J.: Frank Cass and Company,1983. Pp. lxxxvi, 229; xi, 216; ix, 252. $30 cloth per volume; $12.50 paper pp. 840-842

James H. Treble

Irish Emigration, 1801–1921. By David Fitzpatrick. Studies in Irish Economic and Social History 1. General Editors: Peter Roebuck and David Dickson. Dublin: Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 1984. Pp. 51. £Ir2.50. - Landlords and Tenants in Ireland, 1848–1904. By W.E. Vaughan. Studies in Irish Economic and Social History 2. General Editors: Peter Roebuck and David Dickson. Dublin: Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 1984. Pp. 48. £Ir2.50. - Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. By Sean Connolly. Studies in Irish Economic and Social History 3. General Editors: Peter Roebuck and David Dickson. Dublin: Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 1985. Pp. 69. £Ir2.50. - The Interwar Economy in Ireland. By David Johnson. Studies in Irish Economic and Social History 4. General Editors: Peter Roebuck and David Dickson. Dublin:Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 1985. £Ir2.50 pp. 842-843

Barbara L. Solow

Paradoxical Harvest: Energy and Explanation in British History, 1870–1914. By Richard N. Adams. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 141. $27.50 cloth; $8.95 paper pp. 844-844

Nicholas Crafts

The British Economy, Volume I: The Years of Turmoil, 1920–1951.By Derek H. Aldcroft. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press International, 1986. Pp. 264. $39.95 pp. 844-846

Mark Thomas

The Opera Industry in Italy from Cimarosa to Verdi: The Role of the Impresario. By John Rosselli. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. viii, 214. $34.50 pp. 846-847

Richard T. Gill

Soviet Planning in Peace and War, 1938–1945. By Mark Harrison. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 315. $44.50 pp. 847-847

Susan Linz

Latin America - Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807–1834. By B. W. Higman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Pp. xxxiii, 781. $65.00 pp. 848-849

David Galenson

The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History. By Kenneth F. Kiple. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xiii, 274. $32.50 pp. 849-850

Maris A. Vinovskis

Yucatan's Gilded Age: Haciendas, Henequen, and International Harvester, 1860–1915. By Allen Wells. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 239. $27.50 pp. 850-852

Fred Carstensen

Juan Vincente Gómez and the Oil Companies in Venezuela, 1908–1935. By B. S. McBeth. Cambridge Latin American Studies, No. 43. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 275. $49.50 pp. 852-853

Colin M. Lewis

United States and Canada - Saint John: The Making of a Colonial Urban Community. By T. W. Acheson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Pp. 314. $29.95. - Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts,1690–1750. By Christine Leigh Heyrman. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1984. Pp. 431. $9.95 paper pp. 854-855

Gloria Main

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England. By Thomas C. Hubka. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1984. Pp. xiv, 226. $35.00 cloth, $19.95 paper pp. 855-857

Sally McMurray

Shaping a Maritime Empire: The Commercial and Diplomatic Role of the American Navy, 1829–1861. By John H. Schroeder. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 229. $35.00 pp. 857-858

Charles A. Keene

Robert Fulton: A Biography. By Cynthia Owen Philip. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1985. Pp.xii, 371. $18.95 pp. 858-859

James Henwood

American Farm Tools from Hand-Power to Steam-Power. By R. Douglas Hurt. Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 1982. Pp. 121. $20.00 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 858-858

Donald Hoke

The Origins of Public High Schools: A Reexamination of the Beverly High School Contoversy. By Maris A. Vinovskis. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. Pp, xiv, 172. $27.50 pp. 859-861

Alexander Field

The Telephone Enterprise: The Evolution of the Bell System's Horizontal Structure, 1876–1909. By Robert W. Garnet. Pp.xix, 210. $22.50. The Anatomy of a Business Strategy: Bell, Western Electric, and the Origins of the American Telephone Industry. By George David Smith. Pp. xxii, 237. $20.00. From Invention to Innovation: Long-Distance Telephone Transmission at the Turn of the Century. By Neil H. Wasserman. Pp. xxiii, 160. $17.50. From the Johns Hopkins/AT&T Series in Telephone History. Edited by Louis Galambos. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985 pp. 861-863

Bernard S. Finn

Atlas of Antebellum Southern Agriculture. By Sam Bowers Hilliard. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. Pp. xi, 77. $27.50 cloth, $8.95 paper pp. 863-864

Fred Bateman

Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century. By Barbara Jeanne Fields. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Pp. xv, 268. $27.50. - Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy. Edited by Thavolia Glymph and John J. Kushma. Texas A&M University Press. Pp. 119. $17.50 pp. 864-866

Steven F. Miller

Branches without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the American South, 1862–1882. By Gerald David Jaynes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 351. $29.95 pp. 866-868

Robert Higgs

Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850–1900 By Paul D. Escott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Pp. xxii, 344. $29.00 pp. 868-869

James M. Gallman

Workers On the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788–1890. By Steven J. Ross. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Pp. xx,406. $35.00 pp. 869-871

Diane Lindstrom

The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields. By Donald L. Miller and Richard E. Sharpless. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. Pp. xxii, 360. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper pp. 871-872

Price Fishback

The Correspondence of Mother Jones. Edited by Edward M. Steel. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. Pp. xlix, 360. $34.95 pp. 872-872

H. M. Gitelman

The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880–1960. By Christopher L. Tomlins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 348. $39.50 cloth, $12.95 paper pp. 873-874

Gerald Friedman

Citibank, 1812–1970. By Harold van B. Cleveland and Thomas F. Huertas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. Harvard Studies in Business History. Pp. xx, 456.$25.00 pp. 874-875

Eugene White

The U.S. Economy in World War II. By Harold G. Vatter. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 198. $25.00 pp. 876-877

Hugh Rockoff

The Quest for Economic Stability: Roosevelt to Reagan. By Hugh S. Norton. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1985. $19.95 pp. 877-878

Christina Romer

Performance of the U.S. Railroads Since World War II: A Quarter Century of Private Operation. By Kent T. Healy. New York: Vantage Press, 1985. Pp. vii, 295. $17.95 pp. 878-879

William F. Huneke

Irredeemable America: The Indians' Estate and Land Claims. Edited by Imre Sutton. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985. Pp. xxiii, 421. $27.50 pp. 879-880

Ann Harper-Fender

The IDB: A History of Canada's Industrial Development Bank. By E. Ritchie Clark. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Pp. xix, 435. $30.00 pp. 880-881

Ian M. Drummond

The Prosperous Years: The Economic History of Ontario, 1939–1975. By Kenneth J. Rea. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 287. $27.50 cloth, $12.50. paper pp. 881-883

Trevor J. O. Dick

General and Miscellaneous - The Idea of Economic Complexity. By David Warsh. New York: Viking Press, 1984. Pp. xxvi, 222. $16.95 pp. 883-884

Arjo Klamer

Pioneers in Development. Edited by Gerald M. Meier and Dudley Seers. New York: Oxford University Press for The World Bank, 1984. Pp. x, 372. $29.95 pp. 884-885

Cynthia Taft Morris

Encyclopedia of International Commerce. William J. Miller. Centreville: Cornell Maritime press, 1985. Pp. x, 391. $37.50 pp. 885-886

Mira Wilkins

Volume 46, issue 2, 1986

Slavery and Emancipation in Comparative Perspective: A Look at Some Recent Debates pp. 317-339

Stanley L. Engerman

New Estimates of Prewar Gross National Product and Unemployment pp. 341-352

Christina Romer

The Reliability of Historical Macroeconomic Data for Comparing Cyclical Stability pp. 353-365

David R. Weir

Occupational Segregation, Teachers' Wages, and American Economic Growth pp. 373-383

Susan B. Carter

Catching Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind pp. 385-406

Moses Abramovitz

Redemptioner Immigration to Pennsylvania: Evidence on Contract Choice and Profitability pp. 407-418

Farley Grubb

The Poor Law, Migration, and Economic Growth pp. 419-430

George R. Boyer

Westward Who? Estimates of Native White Interstate Migration After the War of 1812 pp. 431-440

James W. Oberly

The Earnings of Skilled and Unskilled Immigrants at the End of the Nineteenth Century pp. 441-454

Barry Eichengreen and Henry A. Gemery

Bank Portfolios and Bank Failures During the Great Depression: Chicago pp. 455-462

Milton Esbitt

Firm Size and Industrial Structure in the United States During the Nineteenth Century pp. 463-475

Jeremy Atack

Consumer Behavior in the Nineteenth Century and Ontario Workers, 1885–1889 pp. 477-488

Trevor J. O. Dick

Ingenious yankees, The Rise of the American System of Manufactures in the Private Sector pp. 489-491

Donald Hoke

Three Essays on the American Capital Market, 1870–1913 pp. 491-493

Kenneth Snowden

The Instability of the Prewar Economy Reconsidered: A Critical Examination of Historical Macroeconomic Data pp. 494-496

Christina Romer

The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-Scale Business Enterprise: The Furness Interest, 1892–1919 pp. 496-498

Gordon Boyce

British Labor in Britain's Decline pp. 498-500

Gregory Clark

Poverty and Policy: The English Poor Law, 1860–1910 pp. 500-502

Mary MacKinnon

Marxism in a Nutshell - A Dictionary of Marxist Thought. Edited by Tom Bottomore. Editorial Board: Laurence Harris, V. G. Kiernan, and Ralph Miliband. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 587. $35.00 pp. 515-520

Jon S. Cohen

Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660–1900. By K.D.M. Snell. New York: University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 464. $49.50 pp. 526-527

Ann Kussmaul

The Age of Manufactures: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain, 1700–1820. By Maxine Berg. London: Fontana Press, 1985. Pp. 378. £4.95 (paper) pp. 527-528

Charles K. Hyde

The Poor and the City: The English Poor Law in its Urban Context, 1834–1914. Edited by E. Rose Michael. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp. xi, 175. $29.95 pp. 529-530

Mary MacKinnon

Divisions of Labour: Skilled Workers and Technological Change in Nineteenth Century England. Edited by Royden Harrison and Jonathan Zeitlin. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1985. Pp. ix., 254. $29.95. - Skilled Workers in the Class Structure. By Roger Penn. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 259. $49.95 pp. 530-532

Gregory Clark

Sterling in Decline: The Devaluations of 1931, 1949 and 1967. By Alec Cairncross and Barry Eichengreen. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983. Pp. vii, 261. $34.95 cloth; $12.95 paper pp. 532-533

D. E. Moggridge

Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France: State Power and Provincial Aristocracy in Languedoc. By William Beik. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xviii, 375. $44.50 pp. 533-534

Philip T. Hoffman

Provisioning Paris: Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade During the Eighteenth Century. By Steven Laurence Kaplan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984. Pp. 666. $39.95 pp. 534-535

Jacob M. Price

Selling Mother's Milk: The Wet-Nursing Business in France, 1715–1914. By George D. Sussman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982. Pp. ix, 210. $16.95 pp. 536-537

Anne C. Meyering

The Sources of Mortality Changes in Italy since Unification. By Elizabeth [Newell] Hoffman. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Pp. xxiv. 285. $27.50 pp. 537-539

Michael R. Haines

The End of the Practical Man: Entrepreneurship and Higher Education in Germany, France, and Great Britain, 1880–1940. By Robert R. Locke. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, Inc., 1984. Pp. xii, 363. $22.50 pp. 539-540

Paul M. Hohenberg

The Marshall Plan Revisited: The European Recovery Program in Economic Perspective. By Imanuel Wexler. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 327. $35.00 pp. 540-541

Susan Linz

Formirovanie finansovogo kapitala v Rossii: Konsets XIX v.-1908 g. By V. I. Bovykin. Moscow: Nauka, 1984. Pp. 287. 3 rubles pp. 541-544

Paul R. Gregory

Asia, Africa, Oceania, Latin America - Settler Capitalism: The Dynamics of Dependent Development in the Southern Hemisphere. By Donald Denoon. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. vii, 280. $49.50. - The Political Economy of a Dual Labor Market in Africa: The Copper Industry and Dependency in Zambia, 1929–1969. By Guy C. Z. Mhone. East Brunswick, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982. Pp. 254. $25.00. - The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1900–1963. By Paul Mosley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. xiv, 289. $49.50 pp. 544-547

Jan Hogendorn

Subject to Famine: Food Crises and Economic Change in Western India, 1860–1920. By Michelle Burge McAlpin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. xvi, 288. $35.00 pp. 547-549

Paul Greenough

An Indian Rural Economy, 1880–1955: The Tamilnad Countryside. By Christopher John Baker. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. xvi, 616. $45.00 pp. 549-551

Michelle B. McAlpin

The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth–Century Ch'ing China. By Madeleine Zelin. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1984. Pp. xviii, 385. $35.00 pp. 551-552

Thomas Rawski

United States and Canada - The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America. By John Bodnar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985. Pp. xxi, 294. $27.50 pp. 552-553

Stanley L. Engerman

Society and Economy in Colonial Connecticut. By Jackson Turner Main. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. Pp. xv, 395. $34.00 pp. 553-555

Jacob M. Price

The First Suburbs: Residential Communities on the Boston Periphery, 1815–1860. By Henry C. Binford. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 304. $25.00 pp. 555-556

John Cumbler

Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience. Edited by Merritt Roe Smith. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 391. $30.00 pp. 556-557

Daniel J. Kevles

Investigation and Responsibility: Public Responsibility in the United States, 1865–1900. By William R. Brock. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. viii, 280.$39.50 pp. 557-558

Harold G. Vatter

Silk City: Studies on the Paterson Silk Industry, 1860–1940. Edited by B. Scranton Philip. Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1985. Pp. 176. $19.95 pp. 558-560

Rachel Maines

The Politics and Development of the Federal Income Tax. By John F. Witte. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. Pp. xxii, 438. $25.00 pp. 560-561

Edward John Ray

The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895–1904. By Naomi R. Lamoreaux. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 208. $29.95 pp. 561-563

John James

Alcoholic Beverages: Dimensions of Corporate Power. By John Cavanagh and Frederick F. Clairmonte. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp. 173. $25.00 pp. 563-564

James MacDonald

Richard Peters: Champion of the New South. By Royce Shingleton. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 258. $21.95 pp. 564-565

Leonard Carlson

Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present. By Jacqueline Jones. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1985. Pp. xiii, 432. $25.95 pp. 565-566

Anne Mayhew

Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy: Farmers, Agricultural Colleges, and Experiment Stations, 1870–1890. By Alan I. Marcus. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 269. $22.50 pp. 566-568

Allan G. Bogue

Working the Range: Essays on the History of Western Land Management and the Environment. Edited by R. Wunder John. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. xv, 237. $29.95 pp. 568-569

Gary D. Libecap

Historical Dictionary of the New Deal: From Inauguration to Preparation for War. Edited by S. Olson James. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. vii, 611. $65.00 pp. 569-570

John Joseph Wallis

The War Against The Seals: A History of the North American Seal Fishery. By Briton Cooper Busch. Toronto: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985. Pp. xviii, 374. $29.95 pp. 570-571

Arthur F. McEvoy

Peasant, Lord and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes, 1740–1840. By Allan Greer. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 304. $35.00 cloth; $15.00 paper pp. 571-572

Marvin McInnis

Uncle Sam's Family: Issues in and Perspectives On American Demographic History. By Robert V. Wells. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. Pp. x, 184. $29.50 cloth, $8.95 paper pp. 572-573

Daniel Scott Smith

Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. By Orlando Patterson. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. xiii, 511. $30.00 pp. 573-574

Stefano Fenoaltea

The Nature and Logic of Capitalism. By Robert L. Heilbroner. New York: W. W. Norton, 1985. Pp. 225. $15.95 pp. 575-577

W. W. Rostow

In Search of the Spirit of Capitalism: An Essay on Max Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis. By Gordon Marshall. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. Pp. 236. $22.50 cloth; $10.00 paper. - The Spirit of Capitalism: The Max Weber Thesis in an Economic Historical Perspective. By Hisao Otsuka (translated by Masaomi Kondo). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1982. Pp. x, 180 pp. 577-579

D. C. Coleman

International Trade Theories and the Evolving International Economy. By R. A. Johns. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 321. $32.50 pp. 579-580

John R. Hanson

Sharecropping and Sharecroppers. Edited by T. J. Byres. London: Frank Cass and Company, Ltd., 1983. Pp. 283. $32.00 pp. 580-581

Joseph D. Reid

International Economic Indicators: A Sourcebook. By Geoffrey H. Moore and Melita H. Moore. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 373. $45.00 pp. 580-580

Alan Heston

Volume 46, issue 1, 1986

The Labor of Older Americans: Retirement of Men On and Off the Job, 1870–1937 pp. 1-30

Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch

Repudiations and Confiscations by the Medieval State pp. 31-36

John M. Veitch

Taxes and Agrarian Life in Early Modern France: Land Sales, 1550–1730 pp. 37-55

Philip T. Hoffman

New Evidence on the Causes of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade pp. 57-77

Richard H. Steckel and Richard Jensen

An Economic Model of Voting Behaviour over Specific Issues at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 pp. 79-111

Robert A. McGuire and Robert L. Ohsfeldt

The Old Poor Law and the Agricultural Labor Market in Southern England: An Empirical Analysis pp. 113-135

George R. Boyer

Uneven Development in the Nineteenth Century: A Comparison of the Habsburg Empire and the United States pp. 137-151

David F. Good

Biased Technical Change, Scale, and Factor Substitution in American Industry, 1850–1919 pp. 153-164

Louis P. Cain and Donald G. Paterson

Non-Balanced Growth and Kondratieff Waves in the World Economy, 1850–1913 pp. 165-169

Solomos Solomou

The London and New York Stock Exchanges, 1850–1914 pp. 171-187

Ranald C. Michie

Race, Educational Attainment, and the 1940 Census pp. 189-198

Robert Margo

The Cotton Harvester in Retrospect: Labor Displacement or Replacement? pp. 199-216

Willis Peterson and Yoav Kislev

Standard of Living in Japan Before Industrialization: From What Level Did Japan Begin? A Comment pp. 217-224

Yasukichi Yasuba

Standard of Living in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Reply to Yasuba pp. 225-226

Susan B. Hanley

The Ecclesiastical Economy of Medieval Europe pp. 227-231

Richard Roehl

Medieval Europe - Money and Power in Fifteenth Century France. By Harry A. Miskimin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Pp. x, 303. $26.00 pp. 247-248

Angela Redish

Les Sources de l'histoire économique et sociale du Moyen Âge. Edited by Robert-Henri Bautier and Janine Sornay, with the collaboration of Françoise Muret. Series 2: Les états de la maison de Bourgogne, vol. 1, fasc. 2. Paris: C.N.R.S., 1984. Pp. 734 pp. 248-249

John Bell Henneman

Modern Europe - Princes and Paupers in the English Church, 1500–1800. Edited by Rosemary O'Day and Felicity Heal. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble, 1981. Pp. 283. $27.50 pp. 249-250

Cynthia Herrup

Harvesters and Harvesting, 1840–1900: A Study of the Rural Proletariat. By David Hoseason Morgan. London: Croom Helm, 1982. Pp. viii, 224. $28.00 pp. 250-252

Stuart Macdonald

Dictionary of Business Biography: A Biographical Dictionary of Business Leaders Active in Britain in the Period 1860–1980. Edited by David J. Jeremy. Volume 1, A–C. London: Butterworths, 1984. Pp. xxxi, 878 pp. 252-253

John N. Ingham

British Economic Growth, 1856–1973. By R.C.O. Matthews, C. H. Feinstein, and J. C. Odling-Smee. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982. Pp. xxiv, 712. $65.00 pp. 253-257

Jeffrey G. Williamson

A History of British Industrial Relations, 1875–1914. Edited by Chris Wrigley. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982. Pp. xv, 269. $22.50 pp. 257-258

Gerry R. Rubin

British Public Policy, 1776–1939: An Economic, Social and Political Perspective. By Sydney Checkland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. ix, 431. $54.50. - The Managed Economy: Essays in British Economic Policy and Performance since 1929. Edited by Charles Feinstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. viii, 284. $39.95 cloth, $17.95 paper pp. 259-261

A. W. Coats

Years of Recovery: British Economic Policy, 1945–51. By Alec Cairncross. New York: Methuen, 1985. Pp. xiv, 527. $59.95 pp. 261-263

Charles P. Kindleberger

History and Heritage: The Social Origins of the British Industrial Relations System. By Alan Fox. Winchester, Mass.: George Allen & Unwin, 1985. Pp. xiii, 481. $42.50 pp. 263-264

Walter Galenson

Le marché foncier à la veille de la Révolution. Les mouvements de propriété beaucerons dans les régions de Maintenon et de Janville de 1761 à 1790. By Gérard Béaur. Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1984. Pp. 359. 170 francs pp. 264-266

George Grantham

Empire coloniale et capitalisme français: Histoire d'un divorce. By Jacques Marseille. Paris: Albin Michel, 1984, Pp. 449 pp. 266-267

William J. Duiker

Merchants, Monopolists and Contractors: A Study of Economic Activity and Society in Bourbon Naples, 1815–1860. By John A. Davis. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Pp. 340. $32.00 pp. 267-268

Elmiro Argento

Die Industrielle Revolution in Sachsen, 1800–1861. By Rudolf Forberger. Volume 1/1: Die Revolution der Produktivkräfte in Sachsen, 1800–1830. Volume 1/2: Übersichten zur Fabrikentwicklung, compiled by Ursula Forberger. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1982. Pp. xi, 613; viii, 234. 150.-Mark pp. 268-269

Hubert Kiesewetter

The Russian Worker: Life and Labor under the Tsarist Regime. Edited by Victoria E. Bonnell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Pp. xviii, 220. $32.50 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 270-270

Jeffrey Brooks

An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa. By Charles Issawi. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. Pp. xiii, 304. $25.00. - The Middle East in the World Economy, 1800–1914. By Roger Owen. London and New York: Methuen, 1981. Pp. v, 378, $45.00 pp. 270-272

Robert L. Tignor

The Semiconductor Business: The Economics of Rapid Growth and Decline. By Franco Malerba. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985, Pp. viii, 264. $27.50 pp. 272-274

Brian Peckham

Asia and Latin America - Technology and Agricultural Development in Pre-War Japan. By Penelope Francks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Pp. xiii, 322. - Kikkoman: Company, Clan and Community. By W. Mark Fruin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 358. $30.00 pp. 274-275

Kozo Yamamura

Growth against Development: The Economic Impact of Railroads in Porfirian Mexico. By John H. Coatsworth. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1981. Pp. xvii, 249 pp. 275-277

Antonio Gomez-Mendoza

The Health Revolution in Cuba. By Sergio Díaz-Briquets. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983. Pp. xv, 227. $19.95 pp. 277-278

Kenneth F. Kiple

Coffee and Capitalism in the Venezuelan Andes. By William Roseberry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983. Pp. xv, 256. $22.50 pp. 278-279

Laird W. Bergad

United States and Canada - The Economy of British America, 1607–1789. By John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard. Needs and Opportunities Series, The Institute of Early American History and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Pp. xxiv, 485. $35.00 pp. 279-281

Edwin J. Perkins

Mechanical Metamorphosis: Technological Change in Revolutionary America. By Neil Longley York, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985. Contributions in American Studies, No. 78. Pp. xviii, 240. $35.00 pp. 281-282

David J. Jeremy

Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City Philadelphia, 1800–1854. By Priscilla Ferguson Clement. Crabury, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985. Pp. 223. $27.50 pp. 282-283

Hannah Hiles

Early California: Gold, Prices, Trade. By Thomas Senior Berry. Richmond, Virginia: The Bostwick Press, 1984. Pp. vii, 254. $15.00 cloth, $7.00 paper pp. 283-284

James E. Fell

Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco and Rice Cultures since 1880. By Pete Daniel. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 352. $22.50 pp. 284-285

Warren Whatley

Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity Aid under the Radical Republicans, 1865–1877. By Mark W. Summers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Pp. xiii, 361. $37.50 pp. 286-287

David F. Weiman

Off The Track: The Decline of the Intercity Passenger Train in the United States. By Donald M. Itzkoff. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985. Contributions in Economics and Economic History. Pp. xii, 161. $27.95 pp. 287-289

David J. St. Clair

The Southern Railway: Road of Innovators. By Burke Davis. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Pp. viii, 309. $19.95 pp. 289-290

William F. Huneke

Family Firm to Modern Multinational: Norton Company, a New England Enterprise. By Charles W. Cheape. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. Harvard Studies in Business History, 36. Pp. xvii, 424. $25.00 pp. 290-292

D.M.P. McCarthy

The Altruistic Imagination: A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United States. By John H. Ehrenreich. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. Pp. 271. $24.50. - Social Change in the United States, 1945–1983. By William Issel. New York: Schocken Books, 1985. Pp. xi, 228. $24.00 pp. 292-294

Blanche D. Coll

As Rare as Rain: Federal Relief in the Great Southern Drought of 1930–31. By Nan Elizabeth Woodruff. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 203. $18.95 pp. 294-295

Elliot A. Rosen

Family Connections: A History of Italian and Jewish Immigrant Lives in Providence, Rhode Island, 1900–1940. By Judith E. Smith. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 228. $39.50 cloth, $12.95 paper pp. 295-296

Mary J. Oates

Coping With Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America. By Martin V. Melosi. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 355. $29.95 pp. 296-297

J. Herschel Barnhill

Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains: Canadian Traders Among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, 1783–1818. Edited and introduction by W. Raymond Wood and Thomas D. Thiessen. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. American Exploration and Travel Series. Pp. xx, 353. $29.95 pp. 297-299

Ann Harper Fender

Challenges to American Values: Society, Business, and Religion. By Thomas C. Cochran. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. 147. $13.95 pp. 299-300

W. Elliot Brownlee

Fishermen and Merchants in 19th Century Gaspé. By Roch Samson. Ottawa, Canada: Parks Canada, 1984. Studies in Archaeology, Architecture and History. Pp. 124. $7.50 pp. 300-301

Leah J. Smith

Change and Adaptation in Maritime History: The North Atlantic Fleets in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Lewis R. Fischer and Gerald E. Panting. St. John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Maritime History Group, 1985. Pp. xi, 198. $15.00 pp. 301-302

Peter George

Economic Theory and Doctrine - Keynesianism vs. Monetarism and Other Essays in Financial History. By Charles P. Kindleberger. Winchester, Mass: George Allen & Unwin, 1985. Pp. viii, 328. $24.95 pp. 302-303

Richard Sylla

Anticipations of the General Theory? And Other Essays on Keynes. By Don Patinkin. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1982. Pp. xxiv, 283. $25.00 pp. 303-305

Björn A. Hansson

A Theory of Economic Systems. By Manuel Gottlieb. New York: Academic Press, Inc., 1984. Studies in Social Discontinuity. Pp. xxi, 449. $49.50 pp. 305-306

Stephen Resnick

Henry George and Contemporary Economic Development. Edited by Stephen R. Lewis Jr Williamstown, Mass.: Economics Department, Williams College, 1985. Pp. 95. $8.50 for libraries and institutions, $5.00 for individuals pp. 306-307

Manuel Gottlieb

General and Miscellaneous - Financial Crises: Theory, History, and Policy. Edited by Charles P. Kindleberger and Jean-Pierre Laffargue. New York: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1982. Pp. ix, 301. $37.50 pp. 307-308

A. R. Hall

The Military Origins of Industrialisation and International Trade Rivalry. By Gautam Sen. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Pp. 277. $30.00 pp. 308-310

Rolf H. Dumke

The Growth of International Business. Edited by Mark Casson. Winchester, Mass.: George Allen & Unwin, 1983. Pp. xii, 276. $28.50 pp. 310-311

Stephen J. Nicholas

An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. By Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. xi, 437. $25.00 pp. 311-312

Paul Stoneman

The United States and Africa: A History. By Peter Duignan and L. H. Gann. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 450. $29.95 pp. 312-313

Patrick Manning

Rhythms in Politics and Economics. Edited by Paul M. Johnson and William R. Thompson. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1985. Pp. xviii, 338. $38.95 pp. 313-314

Michael Bernstein