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Volume 44, issue 4, 1984

On the Profitability of Russian Serfdom pp. 919-955

Evsey D. Domar and Mark Machina

Monetary Policy, Loan Liquidation, and Industrial Conflict: The Federal Reserve and the Open Market Operations of 1932 pp. 957-983

Gerald Epstein and Thomas Ferguson

The Function of Commercial Centers in the Modernization of European Capitalism: Amsterdam as an Information Exchange in the Seventeenth Century pp. 985-1005

Woodruff D. Smith

Poverty in the Antebellum Northeast: The View from New York State's Poor Relief Rolls pp. 1007-1032

Joan Underhill Hannon

Tariff Protection and Production in the Early U.S. Cotton Textile Industry pp. 1033-1045

Mark Bils

Supply-Side Shocks: The Case of Australian Gold pp. 1047-1067

Rodney Maddock and Ian McLean

Authority and Efficiency: The Labor Market and the Managerial Revolution of the Late Nineteenth Century pp. 1069-1083

Gregory Clark

South Asia Cambridged in Economic Perspective pp. 1091-1093

David Ludden

And Thou, Happy Austria? A Review Essay pp. 1094-1099

Joel Mokyr

Modern Europe - The Tontine: From the Reign of Louis XIV to the French Revolutionary Era. By Robert M. Jennings and Andrew P. Trout. Philadelphia: S. S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education, 1983. Pp. xi, 91. $14.95 pp. 1105-1105

Thomas J. Schaeper

Revolución burguesa, oligarquía y constitucionalismo (1834–1923). By Gabriel Tortella Casares, Casimiro Martí, José Ma. Jover Zamora, José Luis García Delgado, and David Ruiz. Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 1981. Pp. 574 pp. 1106-1107

Michael R. Weisser

Estudis d'Història Agrària, vol. 4. Centre d'Estudis Històrics Internacionals. Barcelona: Curial Edicions Catalanes, 1983. Pp. 235 pp. 1107-1108

J. K. J. Thomson

Giuseppe Volpi et L'Italie Moderne: Finance, industrie et Etat de l'ère giolittienne à la Deuxième guerre mondiale. By Sergio Romano. Rome: Ecole Francaise de Rome, 1982. Pp. 266 pp. 1108-1109

Jon S. Cohen

Die hausindustriellen Textilgewerbe am Niederrhein vor der industriellen Revolution: Von der ursprünglichen zur kapitalistischen Akkumulation. By Herbert Kisch. With a foreword by Richard Tilly. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1981. Pp. 373. DM 78.00 pp. 1109-1110

Frank B. Tipton

Venezuela und Deutschland (1815–1870). By Rolf Walter. Volume 22, Beiträge zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte. Edited by Hermann Kellenbenz, Eberhard Schmitt, and Jürgen Schneider. Wiesbaden: F. Steiner, 1983. Pp. 406 pp. 1110-1111

Richard Tilly

Bruttoanlageinvestitionen in der Schweiz von 1850 bis 1914: Eine empirische Unrersuchung zur Kapitalbildung. By Jutta Schwarz. Berne and Stuttgart: Haupt, 1981. Pp. 487. Sfr. 48.00, DM 55.00 pp. 1111-1112

Sidney Pollard

Von der Glückseligkeit des Staates: Staat, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in Österreich im Zeitalter des aufgeklärten Absolutismus. Edited by Herbert Matis. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 1981. Pp. 558. DM 178,— pp. 1112-1114

David F. Good

United States and Canada - From the American System to Mass Production, 1800–1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. By David A. Hounshell. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Studies in Industry and Society, Number 4. Pp. xxi, 411. $37.50 pp. 1114-1116

Charles K. Hyde

Economics and World Power: An Assessment of American Diplomacy Since 1789. Edited by William H. Becker and Samuel F. Wells. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Pp. xvi, 474. $35.00 cloth, $10.00 paper pp. 1116-1117

Mira Wilkins

Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800–1885. By Philip Scranton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 431. $34.50 pp. 1117-1118

Diane Lindstrom

The Rise and Decline of the American Cut Nail Industry: A Study of the Relationships of Technology, Business Organization, and Management Techniques. By Amos J. LovedayJr., Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983. Pp. xx, 160. $29.95 pp. 1118-1119

Jeremy Atack

North Carolina Planters and their Children, 1800–1860. By Jane Turner Censor. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. $20.00 pp. 1119-1120

Gail W. O'Brien

America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. By Sean Dennis Cashman. New York: New York University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 370. $35.00 cloth, $13.50 paper pp. 1120-1121

Raymond M. Hyser

Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States. By Hugh Rockoff. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xi, 289. $29.95 pp. 1121-1122

Lester V. Chandler

Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age. By John Lauritz Larson. Boston: Harvard Business School, 1984. Distributed by Harvard University Press. Pp. xvii, 257. $27.50 pp. 1123-1124

Robert A. McGuire

The Rebirth of the Missouri Pacific, 1956–1983. By H. Craig Miner. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, Pp. xx, 236. $19.50 pp. 1124-1125

William F. Huneke

TVA: Fifty Years of Grass-Roots Bureaucracy. Edited by Erwin C. Hargrove and Paul K. Conkin. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1984. Pp. xvii, 345. $24.95 pp. 1125-1127

Jerome K. Laurent

Conservation Under FDR. By A. L. Riesch Owen. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983. Pp. xvi, 268. $24.95 pp. 1127-1128

Gary D. Libecap

Big Business and Presidential Power: From FDR to Reagan. Kim McQuaid. New York: William Marrow and Company, Inc., 1982. Pp. 383. $17.50 pp. 1128-1129

Clair E. Morris

Growth in the American South. By Robert J. Newman. New York: New York University Press, 1984. Pp. xviii, 227. $30.00 pp. 1129-1130

H. M. Gitelman

The Laws of Human Relations and the Rules of Human Action Derived Therefrom. By Hermann Heinrich Gossen. Translated by Rudolph C. Blitz with an introductory essay by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1983. Pp. 460. $47.50 pp. 1130-1132

Laurence S. Moss

The Pacific Alliance: United States Foreign Economic Policy and Japanese Trade Recovery, 1947–1955. By William S. Borden. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, Pp. xi, 320. $25.00 pp. 1132-1133

Martin Bronfenbrenner

Working Class Hero: A New Strategy for Labor. By Stanley Aronowitz. New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1983. Pp. xviii, 229. $18.95 pp. 1133-1134

Jordan A. Schwarz

The Political Economy of U.S. Tariffs: An Empirical Analysis. By Réal P. Lavergne. Toronto, New York, London: Academic Press, 1983. Pp. ix, 210 pp. 1134-1136

William Dougan

Regulation in Perspective: Historical Essays. Edited by Thomas K. McCraw. (Essays by Morton Keller, Ellis Hawley, Samuel P. Hays, David Vogel and McCraw, with a Report by Gerald P. Berk.) Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University, 1981. Pp. ix, 246. $14.95 cloth, $8.95 paper pp. 1136-1138

Harry N. Scheiber

Atlantic Canada and Confederation: Essays in Canadian Political Economy. By David G. Alexander (compiled by Eric W. Sager, Lewis R. Fischer and Stuart O. Pierson). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. Pp. 157. $20.00 cloth, $6.00 paper pp. 1138-1139

Kenneth Norrie

No Fault of Their Own: Unemployment and the Canadian Welfare State, 1914–1941. By James Struthers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. Pp. 268. $12.50 paper, $30.00 cloth pp. 1139-1140

Paul Phillips

Beyond Sixty-Five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America's Past. By Carole Haber. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. ix, 181. $19.95 pp. 1140-1141

Robert L. Clark

General and Miscellaneous - Period and Place: Research Methods in Historical Geography. Edited by Alan R. H. Baker and Mark Billinge. Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography No. I. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. x, 377. $49.50 pp. 1141-1142

Mark Overton

From Craft to Industry: The Ethnography of Proto-Industrial Cloth Production. Edited by Esther N. Goody. Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. x, 220. $39.50 pp. 1143-1144

Thomas F. Taylor

Charles A. Beard, an Intellectual Biography. By Ellen Nore. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. Pp. xii, 322. $25.00 cloth pp. 1144-1145

Jack Roper

The Pragmatic Imagination:A History of the Wharton School, 1881–1981. By Steven A. Sass. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Pp. xxiii, 351. $25.00 pp. 1145-1147

Harold F. Williamson

The Development of the Labour Process in Capitalist Societies: A Comparative Study of the Transformation of Work Organization in Britain, Japan, and the USA. By Craig R. Littler. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1982. Pp. x, 226. $29.00 pp. 1147-1148

William Lazonick

The Pursuit of Urban History. Edited by Derek Fraser and Anthony Sutcliffe. Baltimore: Edward Arnold, 1983. Pp. xxx, 482. $69.50. - Business, Banking and Urban History: Essays in Honour of S. G. Checkland. Edited by Anthony Slaven and Derek H. Aldcroft. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1982. Pp. xi, 235. $31.50 pp. 1148-1150

Christopher J. French

History–The Human Gamble. By Reuven Brenner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 247. $17.50 pp. 1150-1152

Douglas Fisher

An Evolutionary View of Economic Growth. By Ashok S. Guha. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. iii, 139. $24.95 pp. 1152-1153

E. L. Jones

The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Volume 19: Activities 1922–1929: The Return to Gold and Industrial Policy. Parts 1 and 2. Pp. xiv, 923. Two—volume set, $85.00. Volume 20: Activities 1929–1931: Rethinking Employment and Unemployment Policies. Pp. xii, 668. $42.50. Volume 21: Activities 1931–1939: World Crises and Policies in Britain and America. Pp. xiii, 632. $42.50. Edited by Donald Moggridge. New York: Macmillan, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Economic Society, 1981 and 1982 pp. 1153-1155

Don Roper

Volume 44, issue 3, 1984

Slavery and Supervision in Comparative Perspective: A Model pp. 635-668

Stefano Fenoaltea

Mold Poisoning and Population Growth in England and France, 1750–1850 pp. 669-686

Mary Kilbourne Matossian

Why Was British Growth So Slow During the Industrial Revolution? pp. 687-712

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Why Was Specie Scarce in Colonial Economies? An Analysis of the Canadian Currency, 1796–1830 pp. 713-728

Angela Redish

Rostow's Kondratieff Cycle in Australia pp. 729-753

David Pope

Segregation in Job Hierarchies: West Virginia Coal Mining, 1906–1932 pp. 755-774

Price Fishback

Technological Change as Historical Process: The Case of the U.S. Pulp and Paper Industry, 1915–1940 pp. 775-799

Avi Cohen

Why Ireland Starved pp. 839-843

Barbara L. Solow

Charles M. De La Roncière, Prix et salaires à Florence au XIVe Siécle, 1280–1380. Rome: Écoloe française de Rome, 1982. Pp. x, 867 pp. 848-849

Julius Kirshner

Nordisk Numismatisk Årsskrift 1981/Nordic Numismatic Journal: Coinage and Monetary Circulation in the Baltic Area c.1350–c.1500. Edited by Jørgen Steen Jensen. Copenhagen: Nordisk Numismatisk Unions Medlemsblad, 1982. Pp. 276. D.Kr. 150,0 cloth pp. 849-850

Thomas S. Noonan

Ireland and Scotland, 1600–1850: Parallels and Contrasts in Economic and Social Development. Edited by T. M. Devine and David Dickson, Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1983. Pp. 283. $33.75 pp. 850-852

Barbara L. Solow

The Scottish Country Miller, 1700–1900: A History of Water-powered Meal Milling in Scotland. By Enid Gauldie. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, Ltd., 1981. Distributed in the United States by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Pp. x, 254. $37.50 pp. 852-853

Paul Robertson

Money, Mania and Markets: Investment, Company Formation and the Stock Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Scotland. By R. C. Michie. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, Ltd., 1981. Distributed in the United States by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Pp. ix, 287. $38.00 pp. 853-854

W. A. Thomas

The English Labour Movement, 1700–1951. By Kenneth D. Brown. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Pp. 322. $27.50 pp. 854-855

Robert Glen

Railways and the British Economy, 1830–1914. By T. R. Gourvish. Studies in Economic and Social History. London: Macmillan, 1982. Distributed in the United States by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Pp. viii, 70. $5.50 paper pp. 855-856

Geoffrey Channon

Making Ends Meet: Pawnbroking and Working-Class Credit. By Melanie Tebbutt. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1983; and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. 235. $27.50 pp. 856-857

Harold L. Smith

Business Policies in the Making: Three Steel Companies Compared. By Jonathan Boswell. London and Boston: George Allen & Unwin, 1983. Pp. xi, 241. $29.50 pp. 857-859

Bernard Elbaum

The French Council of Commerce, 1700–1715: A Study of Mercantilism after Colbert. By Thomas J. Schaeper. Coloumbus: Ohio State University Press, 1983. Pp. xvi, 305. $30.00 pp. 859-860

Jacob M. Price

La Rochelle and the Atlantic Economy during the Eighteenth Century. By John G. Clark. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981, Pp. xiv, 286. $24.00 pp. 860-862

Jean-François Briere

Bordeaux et le Sud-Ouest au XVIIIe siècle: croissance économique et attraction urbaine. By Jean-Pierre Poussou. Paris: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en sciences sociales, 1983. Pp. 651 pp. 862-863

Thomas J. Schaeper

French Cities in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by John M. Merriman. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1981. Pp. 304. $29.50 pp. 863-864

Robert J. Bezucha

Dutch Capitalism and World Capitalism/Capitalism hollandais et capitalisme mondial. Edited by Maurice Aymard. Studies in Modern Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1982. Pp. viii, 312. $39.50 pp. 864-865

Woodruff D. Smith

Risks at Sea: Amsterdam Insurance and Maritime Europe, 1766–1780. By Frank C. Spooner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 306. $54.50 pp. 865-866

Hans Chr. Johansen

Négociants et fabricants dans l'industrie cotonnière suisse, 1760–1840: Aux origines financières de l'industrialisation. By Beatrice Veyrassat. Lausanne: Editions Payot, 1982. Pp. 385 pp. 866-867

J. K. J. Thomson

Iron and Steel on the European Market in the 17th Century: A Contemporary Swedish Account of Production Forms and Marketing. Edited and translated by Gunnar Pipping. Stockholm: The Historical Metallurgy Group of the Swedish Ironmasters' Association, 1982. Pp. 271. SEK 90:- pp. 867-868

Charles K. Hyde

The Long Wave in Economic Life. By J. J. van Duijn. Boston: George Allen and Unwin, 1983. Pp. x, 239. $29.50 cloth, $12.50 paper pp. 868-869

Brinley Thomas

Aspects of German Peasant Emigration to the United States, 1815–1914: A Reexamination of Some Behavioral Hypotheses in Migration Theory. By Takenori Inoki. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Pp. 274. $25.00 pp. 869-870

Richard Vedder

Population Change, Labor Supply, and Agriculture in Augsburg, 1480–1618: A Study of Early Demographic-Economic Interactions. By Martha White Paas. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Pp. x, 252. $24.00 pp. 870-871

Hermann Rebel

Slovenian Lands and their Economies, 1848–1873. By John A. Arnez. New York and Washington: Studia Slovenica, 1983. Pp. 321. $16.00 pp. 871-872

Michael Palairet

Social Disintegration and Popular Resistance in the Ottoman Empire, 1881–1908: Reactions to European Economic Penetration. By Donald Quataert. Studies in Near Eastern Civilization. New York: New York University Press, 1983. Distributed by Columbia University Press, New York. Pp. xxii, 205. $35.00 pp. 872-873

Sevket Pamuk

Job Studies and Industrial Relations: Ideas about efficiency and relations between the parties of the labour market in Sweden, 1920–1950. By Hans de Geer. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1982. Pp. 315. SKr pp. 873-874

Lars G. Sandberg

Entrepreneurship in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. Edited by Gregory Guroff and Fred V. Carstensen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. ix, 361. $40.00 cloth, $12.95 paper pp. 874-875

Martin C. Spechler

The Urge to Mobilize: Agrarian Reform in Russia, 1861–1930. By George Yaney. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982. Pp. 599. $24.95 pp. 875-877

Martin C. Spechler

An Atlas of the Mughal Empire: Political and Economic Maps with Detailed Notes, Bibliography and Index. By Irfan Habib. Centre for Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University. New York and Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. 105. $69.00 pp. 877-879

Paul R. Greenough

Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943–1944. By Paul R. Greenough. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xix, 342. $37.00 pp. 879-880

Lillian M. Li

Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640–1960. By Patrick Manning. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xviii, 446. $49.95 pp. 880-881

Jan Hogendorn

Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies. Edited by J. E. Inikori. New York: Africana Publishing Company, Holmes & Meier, 1982. Pp. 349. $29.50 cloth; $13.50 paper pp. 881-882

Ralph A. Austen

La renta del pulque en Nueva Espana, 1663–1810. ByJosé Jesús Hernández Palomo. Publicaciones de la Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla, No. 262. Seville: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1979. Pp. xxxv, 503 pp. 882-883

Eric Van Young

Underdevelopment and Development in Brazil. Vol. 1: Economic Structure and Change, 1822–1947. Vol. 2: Reassessing the Obstacles to Economic Development. By Nathaniel H. Leff. Boston: George Allen & Unwin, 1982. Pp. 251 and 140. $29.50 and $24.50 pp. 883-885

Samuel A. Morley

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. By William Cronon. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983. Pp. 241. $15.95 cloth, $6.95 paper pp. 885-887

Gloria L. Main

The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos. By Richard White. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. Pp. xix, 433. $26.50 pp. 887-889

Leonard Carlson

The First Chouteaus: River Barons of Early St. Louis. By William E. Foley and C.David Rice. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Pp. 241. $22.50 pp. 889-890

John Haeger

History of Agriculture in Ohio to 1880. By Robert Leslie Jones. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1983. Pp. 416. $15.00 pp. 890-891

Charlotte W. Wells

Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii. By Ronald Takaki. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 213. $15.00 pp. 891-892

David Galenson

Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730–1870. By Hendrik Hartog. (Studies in Legal History, G. Edward White, Ed.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. $27.50 pp. 892-893

Michael H. Ebner

Forts and Supplies: The Role of the Army in the Economy of the Southwest, 1846–1861. By Robert W. Frazer. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1983. Pp. x, 253. $22.50 pp. 893-895

William R. Hawkins

Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century. By Walter Licht. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. xx, 328. $27.50 pp. 895-896

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention. By Lloyd J. Mercer. New York: Academic Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 268. $34.00 pp. 896-897

Frank Lewis

Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene. By John R. Stilgoe. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 397. $29.95 pp. 897-898

John B. Rae

The Roots of Southern Populism. By Steven Hahn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 340. $29.95 pp. 898-899

Louis Ferleger

White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia. By Charles L. Flynn Jr Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1983, Pp. xi, 196 pp. 899-900

David F. Weiman

Theirs Be The Power: The Moguls of Eastern Kentucky. By Harry M. Caudill. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Pp. vi, 189. $13.95 pp. 900-902

Ann Harper Fender

German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850–1910: A Comparative Perspective. Edited by Helmut Keil and John B. Jentz. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983. Pp. viii, 252. $22.50 pp. 902-903

Dominic Candeloro

Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870–1920. By Roy Rosenzweig. Cambridge, London, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 304. $29.95 pp. 903-904

Mark Aldrich

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters: The First Hundred Years. By Walter Galenson. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press, 1983. Pp. vii, 440. $25.00 pp. 904-905

Ed Duggan

Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics. By Leon Fink. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Pp. xvi, 249. $22.50 pp. 905-906

Donald T. Critchlow

The Automobile and Urban Transit: The Formation of Public Policy in Chicago, 1900–1930. By Paul Barrett. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983. Pp. vii, 295 pp. 906-908

David J. St. Clair

The Electrical Workers: A History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse, 1923–1960. By Ronald W. Schatz. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1983. Pp. xv, 279. $22.95 pp. 908-909

Kim Mcquaid

Flight Patterns: Trends of Aeronautical Development in the United States, 1918–1929. By Roger E. Bilstein. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1983. Pp. 230. $18.50 pp. 909-910

Pamela C. Marett

Counting Sheep: From Open Range to Agri-Business on the Columbia Plateau. By Alexander Campbell McGregor. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 482. $25.00 pp. 910-912

Peter J. Hill

The Invisible Farmers: Women in Agricultural Production. By Carolyn E. Sachs. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Allanheld, 1983. Pp. xiv, 153. $23.95 pp. 912-912

Anne Mayhew

High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York. By Mark Goldman. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1983. Pp. viii, 324. $44.50 cloth, $14.95 paper pp. 912-913

Shirley F. Weiss

Sunbelt Cities: Politics and Growth since World War II. Edited by Richard M. Bernard and Bradley R. Rice. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1984. Pp. x, 346. $25.00 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 913-915

Shirley R. Weiss

Ethyl—A History of the Corporation and the People Who Made It. By Joseph C. Robert. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983. Pp. xv, 448. $20.00 pp. 915-916

Saul Engelbourg

The United States and the Control of World Oil. By Ed Shaffer. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. ix, 246. $27.50 pp. 916-917

Roger M. Olien

Volume 44, issue 2, 1984

Wealth and Growth of the Thirteen Colonies: Some Implications pp. 239-254

Alice Hanson Jones

Government and the Cost of Exchange in History pp. 255-264

Douglass North

The Presidential Political Business Cycle of 1972 pp. 265-271

Robert R. Keller and Ann Mari May

Discussion pp. 273-276

Peter D. McClelland

Inheritance Laws Across Colonies: Causes and Consequences pp. 277-287

Lee Alston and Morton Owen Schapiro

Mortality on Immigrant Voyages to New York, 1836–1853 pp. 289-300

Raymond L. Cohn

Mortality and Voyage Length in the Middle Passage: New Evidence from the Nineteenth Century pp. 301-308

David Eltis

The Economic Theory of Sharecropping in Early Modern France pp. 309-319

Philip T. Hoffman

Cheap Coals or Limitation of the Vend? The London Coal Trade, 1770–1845 pp. 321-328

William J. Hausman

Planning the French Canals: The “Becquey Plan” of 1820–1822 pp. 329-339

Reed Geiger

Discussion pp. 341-343

Joel Mokyr

Macroeconomic Instability and the “Natural” Processes in early Neoclassical Economics pp. 345-354

Philip Mirowski

The Role of the British Government in the Spread of Scientific Management and Fordism in the Interwar Years pp. 355-361

Wayne A. Lewchuk

Keynes and Protection pp. 363-373

Barry Eichengreen

Discussion pp. 375-379

Mark Thomas

The Political Allocation of Mineral Rights: A Re–Evaluation of Teapot Dome pp. 381-391

Gary D. Libecap

Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and the Policy Process: A Study of the Post–1945 California Sardine Depletion pp. 393-406

Arthur F. McEvoy and Harry N. Scheiber

The Roots of Decline: Business-Government Relations in the American Steel Industry, 1945–1960 pp. 407-419

Paul A. Tiffany

Economic Policy and the True Believer: The Use of Ricardian Rent Theory in the Bombay Survey and Settlement System pp. 421-427

Michelle Burge McAlpin

The Impact of Agricultural Research in British India pp. 429-440

Carl E. Pray

Money Statistics of New England, 1785–1837 pp. 441-453

J. Van Fenstermaker, John E. Filer and Robert Stanley Herren

Langdon Cheves and the Panic of 1819: A Reassessment pp. 455-461

Edwin J. Perkins

Banking Struture and the National Capital Market, 1869–1914 pp. 463-477

Marie Elizabeth Sushka and W. Brian Barrett

A Reassessment of Investment Failure in the Interwar American Economy pp. 479-488

Michael Bernstein

A New Interpretation of the Onset of the Great Depression pp. 489-498

Alexander Field

The Supply of Money and Reichsbank Financing of Government and Corporate Debt in Germany, 1919–1923 pp. 499-507

Steven B. Webb

Economic Interests and the American Constitution: A Quantitative Rehabilitation of Charles A. Beard pp. 509-519

Robert A. McGuire and Robert L. Ohsfeldt

Trends and Cycles in U.S. Trade with Spain and the Spanish Empire, 1790–1819 pp. 521-543

Javier Cuenca Esteban

Investment in Fixed and Working Capital During Early Industrialization: Evidence from U. S. Manufacturing Firms pp. 545-556

Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Underinvestment in Literacy? The Potential Contribution of Government Involvement in Elementary Education to Economic Growth in Nineteenth-Century England pp. 557-566

David Mitch

The Decline of the British Economy: An Institutional Perspective pp. 567-583

Bernard Elbaum and William Lazonick

Structural Transformation and the Demand for New Labor in Advanced Economies: Interwar Britain pp. 585-595

Carol E. Heim

Discussion pp. 596-602

Lance Davis and Michael Edelstein

Mexico's Industrialization During the Great Depression: Public Policy and Private Response pp. 603-605

Enrique Cárdenas

Employment Conditions of Blacks in the Coal Industry, 1900–1930 pp. 605-608

Price Fishback

Economic Causation and British Emigration in the Late Nineteenth Century pp. 608-610

John M. Gandar

The Optimal Supply of Bank Money: Upper Canada's Experience On and Off the Specie Standard pp. 610-612

Angela Redish

Fertility Transition in Rural France, 1740–1829 pp. 612-614

David R. Weir

Institutional Change and Mechanization in the Cotton South pp. 614-616

Warren Whatley

Discussion of Redish, Gandar, and Whatley pp. 617-621

John James

General and Miscellaneous - Produktivkräfte und Gesellschaftsformationen in Vorkapitalistischer Zeit. Edited by Joachim Herrmann and Irmgard Sellnow. East Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1982. Pp. 637. 58,-M pp. 630-631

Barry S. Strauss

Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism. By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xxii, 469. $29.95 cloth, $10.95 paper pp. 631-632

Gavin Wright

Volume 44, issue 1, 1984

The Rise and Fall of Indentured Servitude in the Americas: An Economic Analysis pp. 1-26

David Galenson

Life Under Pressure: France and England, 1670–1870 pp. 27-47

David R. Weir

Economic Growth in France and Britain, 1830–1910: A Review of the Evidence pp. 49-67

Nicholas Crafts

Monetary Aspects of the Treasury Notes of the War of 1812 pp. 69-88

Donald H. Kagin

Real Estate Mortgages, Foreclosures, and Midwestern Agrarian Unrest, 1865–1920 pp. 89-105

James H. Stock

The Ottoman Empire in the “Great Depression” of 1873–1896 pp. 107-118

Sevket Pamuk

A Reinterpretation of the Banking Crisis of 1930 pp. 119-138

Eugene Nelson White

The Birth of the Old Federalism: Financing the New Deal, 1932–1940 pp. 139-159

John Joseph Wallis

Development of the U.S. Urban System pp. 179-184

Roger F. Riefler

Modern Europe - Custom, Work and Market Capitalism: The Forest of Dean Colliers, 1788–1888. By Chris Fisher. London: Croom Helm, 1981. Distributed in the United States by Biblio Distribution Center, Totowa, New Jersey. Pp. xvi, 203. $27.00 pp. 190-191

Peter Linebaugh

Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography. By David Vincent. London and New York: Methuen, 1982. Pp. ix, 221. $10.95 paper pp. 191-192

David Mitch

Imperialism: The Idea and Reality of British and French Colonial Expansion, 1880–1914. By Winfried Baumgart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Originally published in German. Pp. ix, 239. $34.95 cloth; $9.95 paper pp. 192-193

Robert A. Huttenback

Industrial Retardation in the Netherlands, 1830–1850. By Richard T. Griffiths. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979. Pp. xviii, 235. $34.00 pp. 193-194

Robert P. Swierenga

The German Family: Essays on the Social History of the Family in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany. Edited by Richard J. Evans and W. R. Lee. London: Croom Helm; Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble, 1981. Pp. 302. $27.50. - The German Working Class, 1888–1933: The Politics of Everyday Life. Edited by Richard J. Evans. London: Croom Helm; Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble, 1982. Pp. 259. $28.50 pp. 194-195

Günther Schulz

Österreichische Bankpolitik in der Zeit der grossen Wende, 1913–1923; Am Beispiel der Creditanstalt für Handel und Gewerbe. By Eduard März. Vienna: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, 1981. Pp. 608 pp. 196-196

John Komlos

Serf and State Peasant Agriculture: Kharkov Province, 1842–1861. By Zack J. DealIII. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 460. $39.00 pp. 197-198

William J. Kelly

Asia, Latin America, and Oceania - Coastal Western India: Studies from the Portuguese Records. By M. N. Pearson. Xavier Centre of Historical Research Series, No. 2. New Delhi: Concept Publishing, 1981. Pp. xxxii, 149. $13.00 cloth pp. 198-199

Ashin Das Gupta

Some Aspects of Peasant Behavior in Bengal, 1890–1914: A Neoclassical Analysis. By Akbar Ali Khan. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 1982. Pp. viii, 171. Taka 100 cloth; taka 60 paper pp. 199-200

Michelle B. McAlpin

The Dynamics of a Tradition: Kasturbhai Lalbhai and His Entrepreneurship. By Dwijendra Tripathi. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1981. Pp. xiv, 243. Rs. 80 pp. 200-201

Morris David Morris

The Rise and Fall of British India: Imperialism as Inequality. By Karl de SchweinitzJr. New York: Methuen, 1983. Pp. 275. $19.95 cloth; $9.95 paper pp. 201-202

Robert A. Huttenback

Inequality and Social Mobility in Brazil. By José Pastore. Translated by Robert M. Oxley. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. Pp. xviii, 194. $30.00 pp. 202-204

Herbert S. Klein

The Rake's Progress: The New Zealand Economy Since 1945. By John Gould. Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. Pp. 247. $NZ 17.95 cloth; $NZ 12.95 paper pp. 204-205

Brent Layton

United States - Labor in a New Land: Economy and Society in Seventeenth-Century Springfield. By Stephen Innes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. xxi, 463. $35.00 cloth, $7.95 paper (without appendix) pp. 205-208

Winifred B. Rothenberg

Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650–1720. By Gloria L. Main. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1982. Pp. xv, 326 pp. 208-209

Russell R. Menard

Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790, Volume 1: Virginia and North Carolina; Volume 2: Maryland; Volume 3: South Carolina; Volume 4: Georgia. Compiled by Lathan A. Windley. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 468; xiv, 437; xiv, 778; xiv, 198. $150.00 (the set) pp. 209-210

Stanley L. Engerman

Black Southerners, 1619–1869. By John B. Boles. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983. Pp. xi, 244. $24.00 cloth pp. 210-211

Stanley L. Engerman

The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810–1860. By Jonathan Prude. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xvii, 364. $34.50 pp. 211-212

Rachel Maines

Stagecoach East: Stagecoach Days in the East from the Colonial Period to the Civil War. By Oliver W. Holmes and Peter J. Rohrbach. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. Pp. vii, 220. $17.50 pp. 213-213

William F. Huneke

The South Returns to Congress: Men, Economic Measures, and Intersectional Relationships, 1868–1879. By Terry L. Seip. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. Pp. xii, 322. $25.00 pp. 214-215

Michael V. Namorato

Woman's Place Is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers, 1870–1930. By Margery W. Davies. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982. Pp. x, 217 pp. 215-216

Mary J. Oates

California Farmland: A History of Large Agricultural Holdings. By Ellen Liebman. Totawa, New Jersey: Rowman & Allanheld, 1984. Pp. xi, 226. $29.50 pp. 217-218

Robert E. Ankli

The American Farmer and the New Deal. By Theodore Saloutos. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1982. Pp. xviii, 327. $25.75 pp. 218-219

Wayne D. Rasmussen

Social Welfare or Social Control? Some Historical Reflections on ‘Regulating the Poor’. Edited by Walter I. Trattner. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1983. Pp. 161. $14.95 cloth, $7.95 paper pp. 219-220

Gaston V. Rimlinger

Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II. By Nelson Lichtenstein. Cambridge, London, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xii, 304. $29.95 pp. 220-222

James R. Barrett

The Shock of Peace: Military and Economic Demobilization After World War II. By James Stokes Ballard. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1983. Pp. x, 259 pp. 222-224

Geofrey T. Mills

The Baby Boom Generation and the Economy. By Louise B. Russell. Brookings Studies in Social Economics. Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1982. Pp. xiii, 183 pp. 224-226

Mark Perlman

United States Oil Policy and Diplomacy: A Twentieth-Century Overview. By Edward W. Chester. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 399. $35.00 pp. 226-227

Russell Shannon

IBM and the U.S. Data Processing Industry: An Economic History. By Franklin M. Fisher, James W. McKie, and Richard B. Mancke. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983. Pp. xii, 533 pp. 227-228

Brian Peckham

The National Balance Sheet of the United States. By Raymond W. Goldsmith. National Bureau of Economic Research Monograph. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 217. $30.00 pp. 228-230

Lee Soltow

General and Miscellaneous - Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930. By Thomas P. Hughes. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 465. $38.50 pp. 230-232

Warren D. Devine

Stronger Than A Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel. By Terry S. Reynolds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology, New Series (No. 7), 1983. Pp. xviii, 454. $35.00 pp. 232-233

Jeremy Atack

The Dynamics of Agricultural Change: The Historical Experience. By David Grigg. New York: St. Martins Press, 1982. Pp. 260. $26.00 pp. 233-234

Vernon Ruttan

Economic Thought and Doctrine - The Rise and Decline of Nations. By Mancur Olson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. Pp. xi, 273. $14.95. - The Political Economy of Growth. Edited by Dennis C. Mueller. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983, Pp. vii, 285. $23.50 pp. 234-237

Warren J. Samuels

The Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments, Exchange Rates, and World Inflation. By Thomas M. Humphrey and Robert E. Keleher. New York: Praeger, 1982. Pp. xvi, 413. $37.95 pp. 237-238

Dallas S. Batten