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Volume 43, issue 4, 1983

Karl Polanyi and Markets in the Ancient Near East: The Challenge of the Evidence pp. 795-829

Morris Silver

Agriculture and Cottage Industry: Redefining the Causes of Proto-Industrialization pp. 831-850

Gay L. Gullickson

The Effect of the 1859 Crop Year Upon Relative Productivity in the Antebellum Cotton South pp. 851-865

Donald F. Schaefer

Interest Rates and Foreign Capital in Egypt Under British Occupation pp. 867-884

Bent Hansen

Farm Foreclosures in the United States During the Interwar Period pp. 885-903

Lee Alston

Labor for the Picking: the New Deal in the South pp. 905-929

Warren Whatley

Industrial Organization and Regional Development in Interwar Britain pp. 931-952

Carol E. Heim

Industrial Research and Firm Size, Survival, and Growth in American Manufacturing, 1921–1946: An Assessment pp. 953-980

David C. Mowery

Remodeling British Economic History: A Review Article pp. 986-992

Peter Lindert

Some Recent Histories of International Oil pp. 993-996

Geoffrey Jones

New Sources for Studying China's Economy pp. 997-1002

Thomas Rawski

Modern Europe - Approaches to the History of the Western Family, 1500–1914. By Michael Anderson. Studies in Economic and Social History. London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1980. Distributed in United States by Humanities Press, Inc., Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Pp. 96. $5.50 paper pp. 1008-1008

David Galenson

Patterns of European Urbanisation since 1500. Edited by Henk Schmal. London: Croom Helm, 1981. Distributed in the United States by Biblio Distribution Center, Totowa, New Jersey. Pp. 309. $31.00 pp. 1009-1010

Eric E. Lampard

The Impact of English Towns, 1700–1800. By P. J. Corfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. viii, 206. $23.95 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 1010-1011

Robert Glen

Bath: A Social History 1680–1850, or A Valley of Pleasure, yet a Sink of Iniquity. By R. S. Neale. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. xiv, 466. $45.00 pp. 1011-1012

Richard G. Rodger

Overseas Investment in the Age of High Imperialism: The United Kingdom, 1850–1914. By Michael Edelstein. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv, 367. $35.00 cloth, $15.00 paper pp. 1012-1013

A. R. Hall

Anglo-American Economic Collaboration in War and Peace, 1942–1949. By Richard Sir Clarke. Edited by SirAlec Cairncross. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Pp. xxiii, 215. $29.95 pp. 1013-1014

D. E. Moggridge

Economische Ontwikkeling en levensstandaard in Nederland in de eerste helft van de negentiende eeuw. Aspecten en trends (Economic Development and Standard of Living in the Netherlands during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Aspects and Trends) By J. M. M. de Meere. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Press, 1982. Pp. 144 pp. 1014-1017

Frances Gouda

Une Grande Entreprise fransçaise sous l'Ancien Régime: La Manufacture Royale des Galces des Saint-Gobain (1665–1830). By Claude Pris. Dissertations in European Economic History. 2 vols. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Pp. 660. $60.00 pp. 1017-1018

Martyn Lyons

The Social and Economic Foundations of Association Among the Silk Weavers of Lyons, 1852–1870. By George J. SheridanJr Dissertations in European Economic History. 2 vols. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Pp. xvi, 697. $65.00 pp. 1019-1020

Michael Hanagan

Penal Servitude in Early Modern Spain. By Ruth Pike. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Pp. xviii, 204. $26.00 pp. 1020-1021

William D. Pederson

The Rio Tinto Company: An Economic History of a Leading International Mining Concern, 1873–1954. By Charles E. Harvey. Penzance, Cornwall: Alison Hodge, 1981. Pp. xiv, 390. £25 pp. 1021-1022

David R. Ringrose

Die Anfänge der Konsumgesellschaft: Konsumverbrauch, Lebensstandard und Alltagskultur in Österreich im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. By Roman Sandgruber. Vienna: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, 1982. Pp. 468 pp. 1022-1023

John Komlos

Balkan Economic History, 1550–1950: From Imperial Borderlands to Developing Nations. By John R. Lampe and Marvin R. Jackson. Bloomington, Indiana; Indiana University Press, 1982. Pp. xviii, 728. $37.50 pp. 1023-1025

Kemal Karpat

Soviet Economic Facts, 1917–81. By Roger A. Clarke and Dubravko J. I. Matko. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 228. $25.00 pp. 1025-1026

Martin C. Spechler

Industrial Innovation in the Soviet Union. Edited by Ronald Amann and Julian Cooper. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982. Pp. xxix, 526. $60.00 pp. 1026-1027

Holland Hunter

United States and Canada - White Servitude in Colonial America: An economic analysis. By David W. Galenson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 291. $29.50 pp. 1027-1029

Richard S. Dunn

Demographic Dimensions of the New Republic. By Peter D. McClelland and Richard J. Zeckhauser. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 222. $37.50 pp. 1029-1031

Marvin McInnis

A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America. by Patricia Cline Cohen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. pp. x, 269 pp. 1031-1032

Alexander Field

No Strength Without Union: An Illustrated History Of Ohio Workers, 1803–1980. By Raymond Borcyczka and Lorin Lee Cary. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio Historical Society, 1982. Pp. xi, 328. $19.95 pp. 1032-1033

Richard C. Schiming

The Rise of the Midwestern Meat Packing Industry. By Margaret Walsh. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1982. Pp. x, 182. $14.95 pp. 1033-1035

Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Capitalism, Slavery, and Republican Values: American Political Economists, 1819–1848. By Allen Kaufman, with a foreword by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1982. Pp. xxx, 189. $25.00 pp. 1035-1036

Drew R. McCoy

Sawdust Empire: The Texas Lumber Industry, 1830–1940. By Robert S. Maxwell and Robert D. Baker. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1983. Pp. 228. $24.95 pp. 1036-1037

Errol Meidinger

The Reshaping of the Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880. By Michael Wayne. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. Pp. xii, 226. $22.50 pp. 1037-1039

Louis Ferleger

Great Waters: A History of Boston's Water Supply. By Fern L. Nesson. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1983. Pp. ix, 106. $15.00 pp. 1039-1040

Letty Anderson

Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth Century America. By Faye Dudden. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1983. Pp. viii, 352. $19.95 pp. 1040-1041

Susan B. Carter

Reform and Reformers in the Progressive Era. Edited by David R. Colburn and George E. Pozzetta, Contributions in American History, No. 101. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 196. $27.95 pp. 1041-1042

Michael H. Ebner

East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio. By Ricardo Romo. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983. Pp. xii, 220. $22.50 cloth, $8.95 paper pp. 1042-1043

James E. Crisp

The Regulation and Reform of the American Banking System, 1900–1929. By Eugene Nelson White. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. 251 pp. 1043-1044

Thomas F. Huertas

The National War Labor Board. By Valerie Jean Conner. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina, Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 234. $23.50 pp. 1044-1046

Allen R. Sanderson

As Minority Becomes Majority: Federal Reaction to the Phenomenon of Women in the Work Force, 1920–1963. By Judith Sealander, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 201. $27.95 pp. 1046-1046

Claudia Goldin

The Politics of U.S. Labor: From the Great Depression to the New Deal. By David Milton. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1982. Pp. 189. $18.00 pp. 1048-1049

Jordan A. Schwarz

The Politics of Recovery: Roosevelt's New Deal. By Albert U. Romasco. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. ix, 276. $19.95 pp. 1048-1049

Michael A. Bernstein

Depression and New Deal in Virginia: The Enduring Dominion. By Ronald L. Heinemann. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia. Pp. xi, 267. $14.95 pp. 1050-1050

Kenneth E. Hendrickson

Walter Reuther and the Rise of the Auto Workers. By John Barnard. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. Pp. viii, 236. $13.50 pp. 1050-1052

Ed Duggan

The Mill on the Boot, The Story of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company. By Murray Morgan. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1982. Pp. x, 286. $19.95 pp. 1052-1053

William L. Marr

Partners in Furs. A History of the Fur Trade in Eastern James Bay 1600–1870. By Daniel Francis and Toby Moranz. Kingston and Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983. Pp. xvi, 203. $25.00 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 1053-1054

Ann Carlos

The Canadian Prairie West and the Ranching Frontier, 1874–1924. By David H. Breen, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 302. $28.95 pp. 1054-1055

Frank Lewis

Empire of Wood: The MacMillan Bloedel Story. by Donald MacKay. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1982. Pp. 361. $24.95 pp. 1055-1056

William L. Marr

Economic Thought and Doctrine - A History of Economic Reasoning. By Karl Pribram. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Pp. li, 764. $42.50 pp. 1056-1058

Warren J. Samuels

General and Miscellaneous - World Energy Supply: Resources, Technologies, Perpectives. By Manfred Grathwohl. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1982, Pp. x, 450. $54.50 pp. 1058-1060

William R. Hawkins

Volume 43, issue 3, 1983

New Thinking about the Marker, 1896–1904: Some American Economists on Investment and the Theory of Surplus Captial pp. 559-578

Carl P. Parrini and Martin J. Sklar

Dollar-Sterling Mint Parity and Exchange Rates, 1791–1834 pp. 579-616

Lawrence Officer

Kentucky Wealth at the End of the Eighteenth Century pp. 617-633

Lee Soltow

Contract Labor, Sugar, and Technology in the Nineteenth Century pp. 635-659

Stanley L. Engerman

Patterns of Cotton Agriculture in Post-Bellum Georgia pp. 661-674

Peter Temin

Agency Contracts, Institutional Modes, and the Transition to Foreign Direct Investment by British Manufacturing Multinationals Before 1939 pp. 675-686

Stephen Nicholas

Extensive versus Intensive Agricultural Development: Induced Public Investment in Southeast Asia, 1900–1940 pp. 687-704

David Feeny

Monetary Trends and Other Phenomena pp. 729-739

Peter Temin

Medieval - The World Encompassed: The First European Maritime Empires c. 800–1650. By G. V. Scammell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. Pp. xiv, 538. $35.00 pp. 747-748

Richard W. Unger

The Bullion Flow between Europe and the East, 1000–1750. By Artur Attman. Translated by Eva and Allan Green. Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum et Litterarum Gothoburgensis, Humaniora no. 20. Göteborg: Kungl. Vetenskaps-och Vitterhets Samhället, 1981. Pp. 149. Price: 70 Swedish crowns pp. 748-749

John Munro

Modern Europe - The Selected Papers of Boulton & Watt. Volume 1: The Engine Partnership, 1775–1825. Edited by Jennifer Tann. London: Diploma Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts: M.I.T. Press: 1981. Pp. xvi, 425. $50.00 pp. 749-750

G. N. Von Tunzelmann

Industrial Finance, 1830–1914: The Finance and Organization of English Manufacturing Industry. By P. L. Cottrell. London and New York: Methuen, 1980. Pp. xii, 298. $40.00 pp. 750-752

William P. Kennedy

London Chartism, 1838–1848. By David Goodway. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xviii, 333. $39.50 pp. 752-753

Charles Tilly

“Dear, Dirty Dublin”: A City in Distress, 1899–1916. By Joseph V. O'Brien. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. Pp. 338. $32.50 pp. 753-754

Eric L. Almquist

Die Reichsbank in der Weimarer Republik: Zur Rolle der Zentralbank in der Politik des deutschen Imperialismus, 1919–1933. By Heinz Habedank. Berlin, German Democratic Republic: Akademie-Verlage, 1981. Pp. 254. 32.00 M. - The German Inflation Reconsidered: A Preliminary Balance. Edited by Gerald D. Feldman, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, Gerhard A. Ritter and Peter-Christian Witt. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1982. pp. xxiv, 341. $41.00 pp. 754-756

Steven B. Webb

Reparation in World Politics: France and European Economic Diplomacy, 1916–1923. By Marc Trachtenberg. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. Pp. x, 423. $25.00 pp. 757-758

Stephen A. Schuker

Reconstructing Europe after the Great War. By Dan P. Silverman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. vii, 347. $25.00 pp. 758-759

Richard F. Kuisel

Trade Unionism in Germany from Bismarck to Hitler. Vol. 1: 1869–1918. Vol. 2: 1918–1933. By John A. Moses. Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, 1982. Pp. xxi, 269; vii, 270–560. $25.00 each pp. 759-760

Lawrence Schofer

The Adaptable Nation: Essays in Swedish Economy during the Second World War. By Martin Fritz Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1982. Pp. 109. 79 Swedish crowns pp. 760-761

Lars G. Sandberg

Organizing Interests in Western Europe: Pluralism, Corporatism and the Transformation of Politics. Edited by Suzanne Berger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. x, 426. $37.50 pp. 761-763

William N. Parker

The Definition of a Peripheral Economy: Turkey, 1923–1929. By Caglar Keyder. Studies in Modern Capitalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. vii, 158. $34.50 pp. 763-764

John R. Lampe

The Soviet Union and its Geographical Problems. By Roy E. H. Mellor. London: The Macmillan Press, 1982. Distributed in United States by Humanities Press. Pp. 207. $27.25 pp. 764-765

Susan Linz

Asia, Africa, and Latin America - China and Her Neighbours: From Ancient Times to the Middle Ages. Edited by S. L. Tikhvinsky. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981. Distributed in United States by Imported Publications, Chicago. Pp. 222. $5.00. - The Long Road: Sino-Russian Economic Contacts from Ancient Times to 1917. By M. I. Sladkovsky. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982. Distributed in United States by Imported Publications, Chicago. Pp. 302. $7.00 pp. 765-766

William H. McNeill

Egypt's Agricultural Development, 1800–1980. Technical and Social Change. By Alan Richards. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 296. $26.50 pp. 767-768

Bent Hansen

Chile in the Nitrate Era: The Evolution of Economic Dependence, 1880–1930. By Michael Monteón. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. Pp. xviii, 256. $30.00. - The Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition, 1870–1891. By Thomas F. O'Brien. New York: New York University Press, 1982. Pp. xiii, 211. $30.00 pp. 768-769

Bruce Herrick

The Role of Economic Advisers in Developing Countries. By Lauchlin Currie. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xiv, 270. $27.50 pp. 770-770

A. W. Coats

United States and Canada - A Great and Necessary Measure, George Grenville and the Genesis of the Stamp Act, 1763–1765. By John L. Bullion. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1982. Pp. xiv, 290. $24.00 pp. 771-771

Gerald Gunderson

An Economic History of Women in America: Women's Work, the Sexual Division of Labor, and the Development of Capitalism. By Julie A. Matthaei. New York: Schocken Books, 1982. Pp. xiv, 381. $29.50 pp. 772-773

Claudia Goldin

Henry S. Sanford: Diplomacy and Business in Nineteenth Century America. By Joseph A. Fry. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 1982. Pp. x, 226. $9.25 pp. 773-775

Clair E. Morris

Industrial Progress and Human Welfare: The Rise of the Factory System in 19th Century Lancaster. By Thomas R. Winpenny. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1982. Pp. x, 132. $17.50 cloth, $7.50 paper pp. 773-773

Michael V. Namorato

U. S. International Monetary Policy: Markets, Power, and Ideas as Sources of Change. By John S. Odell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 385. $35.00 pp. 774-774

George Macesich

Independence and Empire: The New South's Cotton Mill Campaign, 1865–1901. By Patrick J. Hearden. Dekaib, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1982. Pp. xiii, 175. $18.50 pp. 775-776

James C. Cobb

Mill and Town in South Carolina: 1880–1920. By David L. Carlton. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Pp. 313. $32.50 pp. 776-777

Cathy Mchugh

The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880–1920. By Olivier Zunz. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982. Pp. xix, 482. $43.00 pp. 777-779

Louis P. Cain

Workers' World: Kinship, Community, and Protest in an Industrial Society, 1900–1940. By John Bodnar. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 200 pp. 779-781

John Joseph Wallis

Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State, By Linda C. Majka and Theo J. Majka. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 1983. Pp. 346. $24.95 pp. 781-782

Robert E. Ankli

Redwood Lumber Industry. By Lynwood Carranco. San Marino, California: Golden West Books, 1982. Pp. 218. $35.95 pp. 782-783

Charlotte Wells

The Taxicab: An Urban Transportation Survivor. By Gorman Gilbert and Robert E. Samuels. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 200. $19.95 pp. 783-784

George W. Hilton

U.S. International Monetary Policy: Markets, Power, and Ideas as Sources of Change. By John S. Odell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 385. $35.00 pp. 785-786

George Macesich

Economic Thought and Doctrine - Adam Smith. By R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Pp. 231. $25.00 pp. 786-788

Knud Haakonssen

General and Miscellaneous - From Custom to Capital: The English Novel and the Industrial Revolution. By Igor Webb. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1981. Pp. 219. $17.50 cloth pp. 788-789

Laurence Lafore

The Fallacies of Monetarism. By Robert B. Russel. Western Michigan University, 1981 pp. 789-790

Michael Bordo

The Phenomenon of Money. By Thomas Crump. London, Boston and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. xiii, 366. $40.00 cloth pp. 790-791

Walter C. Neale

Volume 43, issue 2, 1983

From Shafts to Wires: Historical Perspective on Electrification pp. 347-372

Warren D. Devine

Manpower Needs for the Public Works Programs of the Julio-Claudian Emperors pp. 373-378

M. K. Thornton and R. L. Thornton

Arable Productivity in Medieval England: Some Evidence from Norfolk pp. 379-404

Bruce M. S. Campbell

Land Abundance, Interest/Profit Rates, and Nineteenth-Century American and British Technology pp. 405-431

Alexander Field

Structural Change in American Manufacturing, 1850–1890 pp. 433-459

John James

Economies of Scale in Tobacco Manufacture, 1897–1910 pp. 461-474

Malcolm R. Burns

Reply pp. 482-482

Steven B. Webb

Reply pp. 486-486

Richard Tilly

Economic Development in China during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Review Article pp. 494-500

Tim Wright

Ancient and Medieval - Ledgers and Prices: Early Mesopolamian Merchant Accounts. By Daniel C. Snell. Yale Near Eastern Researches, 8. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982. Pp. xx, 282. $50.00 pp. 505-506

Miguel Civil

In the Shadow of Florence: Provincial Society in Renaissance Pescia. By Judith C. Brown. New York arid Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xxv, 244. $29.50 pp. 506-508

Julius Kirshner

Modern Europe - Shipping, Trade and Commerce: Essays in Memory of Ralph Davis. Edited by P. L. Cottrell and D. H. Aldcroft. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1981. Distributed by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Pp. viii, 200. $31.50 pp. 508-509

Christopher J. French

Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. By F. K. Prochaska. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. ix, 301. $48.00 cloth, $21.00 paper pp. 509-510

M. A. Crowther

Accountancy and The British Economy, 1840–1980: The Evolution of Ernst & Whinney. By Edgar Jones. London: B. T. Batsford, 1981. Pp. 288. £10 pp. 510-511

Gary John Previts

British Economic and Strategic Planning, 1905–1915. By David French. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982. Pp. x, 191. $25.00 pp. 511-512

Alan Milward

Changing Perceptions of Economic Policy: Essays in Honour of the Seventieth Birthday of Sir Alec Cairncross. Edited by Frances Cairncross. London and New York: Methuen, 1981. Pp. xii, 276. $25.00 pp. 512-514

A. W. Coats

Agriculture in France on the Eve of the Railway Age. By Hugh Clout. London: Croom Helm; Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble Books, 1980. Pp. 289. $28.00 pp. 514-515

Paul M. Hohenberg

Death is a Social Disease: Public Health and Political Economy in Early Industrial France. By William Coleman. Wisconsin Publications in the History of Science and Medicine, No. 1. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. Pp. xxi, 322. $35.00 pp. 515-516

F. B. Smith

The History of Modern Whaling. By J. N. Tonnessen and A. O. Johnsen. Translated from the Norwegian by R. I. Christophersen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. Pp. 798. $45.00 pp. 516-517

Conrad Dixon

The Evolution of Social Insurance, 1881–1981. Studies of Germany, France, Great Britain, Austria and Switzerland. Edited by Peter A. Köhler and Hans F. Zacher, in collaboration with Martin Partington. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Pp. viii, 453. $35.00 pp. 517-518

Karl de Schweinitz

Asia, Africa, Oceania - Change in Bengal Agrarian Society, c. 1760–1850. By Ratnalekha Ray. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1979. Pp. x, 339. Rs. 80 pp. 518-519

David Ludden

British Rule and the Indian Economy, 1800–1914. By Neil Charlesworth. London: The Macmillan Press, Ltd., for the Economic History Society, 1982. Distributed by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Pp. 91. $6.25 paper pp. 519-520

Dharma Kumar

MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–1975. By Chalmers Johnson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 394. $28.50 pp. 520-521

Yasukichi Yasuba

An Economic History of Africa from the Earliest Times to Partition. By Peter Wickins. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 323. $29.95 pp. 521-522

Philip D. Curtin

River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500–1891. By Robert W. Harms. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. Pp. xv, 277. $24.00 pp. 522-523

Ralph A. Austen

European Farming in Australia: An Economic History of Ausiralian Farming. By Bruce R. Davidson. Amsterdam, Oxford, New York: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1981. Pp. x, 437. $65.75 pp. 523-524

Michael Havinden

United States and Canada - The Pynchon Papers: Volume I, Letters of John Pynchon, 1654–1700. Edited with an introduction by Carl Bridenbaugh, collected by Juliette Tomlinson. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts distributed by the University Press of Virginia, 1982. Pp. xxxix, 338. $25.00 pp. 524-526

Daniel Snydacker

Law and Markets in United States History: Different Modes of Bargaining among Interests. By James Willard Hurst. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. Pp. vii, 207. $25.00 cloth, $8.25 paper pp. 526-527

Warren J. Samuels

Who Owns the Wildlife? The Political Economy of Conservation in Nineteenth-Century America. By James A. Tober. Contributions in Economics and Economic History, Number 37. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. 330. $27.00 pp. 527-528

Gary D. Libecap

The Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1784–1855: Broadening the Concept of Public Service During Industralization. By Ronald E. Seavoy. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 314. $29.95 pp. 528-529

Benjamin J. Klebaner

The Cause of the South: Selections from De Bow's Review, 1846–1867. Edited by Paul F. Paskoff and Daniel J. Wilson. New Orleans, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv, 306. $27.50 cloth, $8.95 paper pp. 529-530

Louis Ferleger

Good and Faithful Labor: From Slavery to Sharecropping in the Natchez District, 1860–1890. By Ronald L. F. Davis. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. xx, 225. $25.00 pp. 531-532

Lee Alston

Authoritarian Socialism in America: Edward Bellamy and the Nationalist Movement. By Arthur Lipow. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 315. $28.50 pp. 532-533

David Thelen

Power and Society—Greater New York at the Turn of the Century. By David C. Hammack. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1982. Pp. xix, 422. $29.95 pp. 533-535

Harold L. Platt

Borax Pioneer: Francis Marion Smith. By George H. Hildebrand. San Diego, California: Howell-North Books, 1982. Pp. xviii, 318. $15.00 pp. 535-536

Paul Tiffany

Arthur Redman Wilfiey: Miner, Inventor, and Entrepreneur. By Jay E. Niebur, in collaboration with James E. FellJr, Denver, Colorado: Western Business History Research Center, Colorado Historical Society, 1982. Pp. 245. $8.95 paper pp. 536-537

Martha M. Trescott

Mills, Mansions, and Mergers: The Life of William M. Wood. By Edward G. Roddy. North Andover, Massachusetts: Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, 1982. Pp. 148. $15.00 pp. 537-538

James E. Fell

Perkins/Budd: Railway Statesmen of the Burlington. By Richard C. Overton. (Contributions in Economics and Economic History, No.45). Westport, Connecticut: Green wood Press, Pp. xxiv, 271. $29.95 pp. 538-539

Saul Engelbourg

Wages and Hours: Labor and Reform in Twentieth Century America. By Ronnie Steinberg. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1982. Pp. xxi, 274. $25.00 pp. 539-540

Susan B. Carter

The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s, By Howell John Harris. Madison, Wisconsin and London: University of Wisconsin, 1982. pp. ix, 296. $21.50 pp. 540-541

Ed Duggan

A Portrait Cast in Steel: Buckeye International and Columbus, Ohio, 1881–1980. By Mansel G. Blackford. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982. pp. xviii, 225. $29.95 pp. 541-542

Ann Harper-Fender

From Sky Girl to Flight Attendant: Women and the Making of a Union. By Georgia Panter Nielsen. Ithaca, New York: ILR Press, 1982. pp. 166 pp. 542-543

Pamela C. Marett

A History of Banking in Arizona. By Larry Schweikart. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1982. pp. x, 253. $16.50 cloth, $9.50 paper pp. 543-545

Eugene White

Timber Colony: A Historical Geography of Early Nineteenth Century New Brunswick. By Graeme Wynn. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. Pp. xiv, 224. $25.00 cloth, $10.00 paper pp. 545-546

Larry McCann

Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880–1900. By Gregory S. Kealey and Bryan D. Palmer. Cambridge, London, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv, 487. $49.50 pp. 546-547

James R. Barrett

Economic Thought and Doctrine - Authorship Puzzles in the History of Economics: A Statistical Approach. Edited by D. P. O'Brien and A. C. Darnell. London: Macmillian, 1982. Distributed by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Pp. xii, 230. $38.00 pp. 547-550

Stephen M. Stigler

General and Miscellaneous - The Pattern of Imperialism: The United States, Great Britain, and the Late-Industrializing World since 1815. By Tony Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 308. $29.50 cloth, $10.95 paper pp. 551-552

Lloyd Gardner

General and Miscellaneous - Development and Diffusion of Technology: Electrical and Chemical Industries. The International Conference on Business History, No. 6. Edited by Akio Okochi and Hoshimi Uchida. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1980. Distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, Pp. xii, 236. $24.50 pp. 552-553

A. J. Millard

Development of Mass Marketing: The Automobile and Retailing Industries. Proceedings of the Fuji Conference. Edited by Akio Okochi and Koichi Shimokawa. Tokyo:University of Tokyo Press, 1981. Pp. xiii, 308. $24.50 pp. 553-554

James Foreman-Peck

The Automobile Revolution: The Impact of an Industry. By Jean-Pierre Bardou, Jean-Jacques Chanaron, Patrick Fridenson, and James M. Laux. Translated from the French and edited by James M. Laux. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 335. $20.00 pp. 554-555

James Foreman-Peck

Volume 43, issue 1, 1983

Changes in Mechanical and Plant Technology: The Corn Belt, 1910–1940 pp. 1-25

Allan G. Bogue

A Comparison of Levels of GDP Per Capita in Developed and Developing Countries, 1700–1980 pp. 27-41

Angus Maddison

Institutional Influences on Poverty in the Nineteenth Century: A Quantitative Comparative Study pp. 43-55

Cynthia Taft Morris and Irma Adelman

Discussion pp. 56-60

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Reply to Williams pp. 61-62

Cynthia Taft Morris and Irma Adelman

Development Indicators and the Historical Study of Human Welfare: Towards a New Perspective pp. 63-70

John Othick

Fertility and the Standard of Living in Early Modern England: in Consideration of Wrigley and Schofield pp. 71-77

Martha Olney

“Reform” Social Darwinists and Measuring Levels of Living on American Farms, 1920–1926 pp. 79-85

Harry C. McDean

Discussion pp. 86-88

Mancur Olson

Food Expenditures and Economic Well-Being in Early Modern England pp. 89-100

Carole Shammas

The Standard of Living in Colonial Massachusetts pp. 101-108

Gloria L. Main

Urban Amenities and Rural Sufficiency: Living Standards and Consumer Behavior in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1643–1777 pp. 109-117

Lorena S. Walsh

Discussion pp. 118-119

Paul G. E. Clemens

Did Capitalism Lead to the Decline of the Peasantry? The Case of the French Combraille pp. 121-128

Anne C. Meyering

Poverty and Industrialization at the End of the “Phase-Transition” in the Czech Crown Lands pp. 129-135

John Komlos

Was Russian Peasant Agriculture Really That Impoverished? New Evidence from a Case Study from the “Impoverished Center” at the End of the Nineteenth Century pp. 137-144

Elvira M. Wilbur

Discussion pp. 145-147

Ira A. Glazier and Herman H. Freudenberger

The Life Cycle in Economic History pp. 149-158

J. R. Kearl and Clayne L. Pope

Standards of Living and the Life Cycle in Colonial Connecticut pp. 159-165

Jackson Turner Main

Heights of Native-Born Whites During the Antebellum Period pp. 167-174

Robert Margo and Richard H. Steckel

The Standard of Living Debate: Glasgow, 1800–1850 pp. 175-182

R. A. Cage

A High Standard of Living in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Fact or Fantasy? pp. 183-192

Susan B. Hanley

Did Australian Living Standards Stagnate between 1890 and 1940? pp. 193-202

Ian McLean and Jonathan Pincus

Discussion pp. 203-208

R. M. Hartwell and James I. Nakamura

Did Incomes for Most of the Population Fall from 1923 Through 1929? pp. 209-216

Gene Smiley

The Distribution of the Income in the Great Depression: Preliminary State Estimates pp. 217-230

Mark Schmitz and Price Fishback

Differentiating between the Living Standards of Husbands and Wives in Two-Wage-Earner Families, 1968 and 1979 pp. 231-240

Roberta M. Spalter-Roth

Discussion pp. 241-242

Louis P. Cain

Measurement of Levels of Living in the People's Republic of the Congo since 1950 pp. 243-250

Margaret Sanders

Commercialization of Agriculture and Rural Living Standards: El Palmar, Colombia, 1960–1979 pp. 251-259

Nola Reinhardt

Income Distribution in Post-1964 Brazil: New Results pp. 261-271

M. Louise Fox

Discussion pp. 272-273

D. M. P. McCarthy

Uneven Regional Development in Interwar Britain pp. 274-276

Carol E. Heim

The Origins of Internal Labor Markets in American Manufacturing Firms, 1910–1940 pp. 276-279

Sanford M. Facoby

The Economics of U. S. Public Land Policy Prior to 1860 pp. 279-281

Stephen W. Schoene

Discussion pp. 282-284

Diane Lindstrom

Bank Behavior, Regulation, and Economic Development: California, 1860–1910 pp. 284-286

Roger C. Loster

The Spread of Literacy in Nineteenth-Century England pp. 287-288

David Mitch

Agrarian Reform and the Development of Capitalist Agriculture in Algeria pp. 289-291

Karen Pfeifer

Discussion pp. 291-293

Robert E. Gallman

Population Under Low Pressure: Reviews of the Population History of England - The population History of England, 1541–1871: A Reconstruction. By E. A. Wrigley and R. S. Schofield. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1981. Pp. xv, 779. $60.00 pp. 307-313

James Trussell and Cormal Ó Gráda

Ancient and Medieval - Commerce and Social Standing in Ancient Rome. By John H. D'Arms. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1981. pp. xviii, 201. $20.00 pp. 314-315

P. A. Brunt

Icelandic Enterprise: Commerce and Economy in the Middle Ages. By Bruce E. Gelsinger. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981. pp. xix, 299. $19.50 pp. 315-316

David Friedman

Modern Europe - Population and Metropolis: The Demography of London, 1580–1650. By Roger Finlay New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 188. $44.50 pp. 317-317

David Loschky

Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England. By Ann Kussmaul. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 233. $29.95 pp. 318-319

David Galenson

The National Charity Company: Jeremy Bentham's Silent Revolution. By Charles F. Bahmueller. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 272. $25.00 pp. 319-320

Karl de Schweinitz

The Scottish Poor Law, 1745–1845. By R. A. Cage. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1981. Pp. v, 180. $20.00 pp. 320-321

George R. Boyer

Economic Control and Colonial Development—Crown Colony Financial Management in the Age of Joseph Chamberlain. By Richard M. Kesner. Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies, No. 7. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xvii, 305. $35.00 pp. 321-322

Robert A. Huttenback

Ireland: Land, Politics and People. Irish Studies 2. Edited By P. J. Drudy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. viii, 331. $49.50 pp. 322-324

Barbara L. Solow

The Making of Technological Man: The Social Origins of French Engineering Education. By John Hubbel Weiss. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: MIT Press, 1982. Pp. xviii, 377. $30.00 pp. 324-325

George Weisz

Banker i brytningstid: AO Wallenberg i svensk bankpolitik, 1850–1856. By Göran B. Nilsson. Stockholm: Institutet för Ekonomisk Historisk Forskning vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholdm, 1981. Pp. 466 pp. 325-326

Lars G. Sandberg

Asia - The Political Economy of Productivity: Thai Agricultural Development, 1880–1975. By David Feeny. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1982. Pp. x, 238. $28.00 pp. 326-328

Carmel Chiswick

United States - The King's Coffer: Proprietors of the Spanish Florida Treasury, 1565–1702. By Amy Bushnell. Gainesville: The University Presses of Florida, 1982. Pp. ix, 198. $20.00 pp. 328-329

Helen Hornbeck Tanner

Region, Race, and Reconstruction; Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward. Edited By J. Morgan Kousser and James McPherson. New York: Oxford University, 1982. Pp. xxxvii, 463. $25.00 pp. 329-331

Jack Roper

The Emergence of Industrial America: Strategic Factors in American Economic Growth Since 1870. By Peter George. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 242. $33.50 cloth, $10.95 paper pp. 331-332

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

A Moral Response to Industrialism: The Lectures of Reverend Cook in Lynn, Massachusetts. By John T. Cumbler. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982. Pp. vii, 160. $30.50 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 332-333

William H. Mulligan

European Direct Investment in the USA before World War I. By Peter J. Buckley and Brian R. Roberts. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. Pp. xiv, 157. $25.00 pp. 333-334

Michael Edelstein

Conflict and Accommodation: Coal Miners, Steel Workers, and Socialism, 1890–1920. By Michael Nash. Westport, Connecticut, and London: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. xix, 197. $27.50 pp. 334-335

Edward P. Duggan

Forging the Copper Collar: Arizona's Labor-Management War, 1901–1921. By James W. Byrkit. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1982. Pp. xv, 435. $24.95 pp. 335-336

Nina Asher

Family Time and Industrial Time. By Tamara K. Hareven. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. 474. $49.50 pp. 337-338

H. M. Gitelman

Red Harvest: The Communist Party and American Farmers. By Lowell K. Dyson. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Pp. 259. $18.95 pp. 338-339

Willard Cochrane

Oil Booms: Social Change in Five Texas Towns. By Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Pp. xiv, 220. $16.95 pp. 339-340

Ronald B. Jager

The Politics of Banking. By George S. Eccles. Edited by Sidney Hyman. Salt Lake City, Utah: The Graduate School of Business, University of Utah, 1982. Pp. 291. $20.00 pp. 340-341

Richard C. Schiming

Southern Businessmen and Desegregation. Edited by Elizabeth Jacoway and David R. Colburn. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Pp. x, 324. $27.50 pp. 341-342

Jack E. Adams

Economic Thought and Doctrine - Pioneers of Modern Economics in Britain. Edited by D. P. O'Brien and John R. Presley. Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble Books, 1981. Pp. xix, 272. $26.50 pp. 342-343

William Breit

General and Miscellaneous - Patterns of Technological Innovation. By Devendra Sahal. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, Advanced Book Program, World Science Division, 1981. Pp. xvi, 400. $34.50 pp. 344-345

David C. Mowery