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Volume 42, issue 4, 1982

Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic: Evidence from the Manufacturing Censuses pp. 741-774

Claudia Goldin and Kenneth Sokoloff

The Spanish Wool Trade, 1500–1780 pp. 775-795

Carla Rahn Phillips

Oligopoly Agreement and the Timing of American Railroad Construction pp. 797-823

C. Knick Harley

City Size and Ethnic Discrimination: Michigan Agricultural Implements and Iron Working Industries, 1890 pp. 825-845

Joan Underhill Hannon

Determinants of Mortality Among New England Cotton Mill Workers During the Progressive Era pp. 847-863

Mark Aldrich

The American Challenge of the Twenties: Multinationals and the European Motor Industry pp. 865-881

James Foreman-Peck

The Role of Business Liquidity During the Great Depression and Afterwards: Differences Between Large and Small Firms pp. 883-902

Helen Manning Hunter

Sweden as an “Impoverished Sophisticate”: A Reply pp. 921-922

Lars G. Sandberg

Modern Europe - The European Demographic System, 1500–1820. By Michael W. Flinn. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Pp. 175. $15.00 cloth pp. 929-930

Michael Drake

European Textile Printers in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of Peel and Oberkampf. By S. D. Chapman and S. Chassagne. London: Heinemann Educational Books, The Pasold Fund, 1981. Pp. xii, 257. £15 pp. 930-931

Herman Freudenberger

South Africa's Impact on Britain's Return to Gold, 1925. By Bruce Ronald Dalgaard. Dissertations in European Economic History 1981. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 197. $18.00 pp. 931-932

D. E. Moggridge

Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain. By Donald N. McCloskey. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1981. Pp. xix, 211. $37.50 cloth, $14.50 paper pp. 932-933

Charles Feinstein

Footballers and Businessmen: The Origins of Professional Soccer in England. By Steven Tischler. New York: Holmes & Meiers, 1981. Pp. x, 154. $24.00 pp. 933-934

Wray Vamplew

Institutional Determinants of Technical Change and Agricultural Productivity Growth. Denmark, France and Great Britain, 1870–1965. By William Windsor Wade. Dissertations in Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Pp. x, 353. $32.00 pp. 935-935

George Grantham

Artists and Artisans in Delft: A Socio-Economic Study of the Seventeenth Century. By John Michael Montias. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. pp. xvi, 424. $36.50 cloth, $16.50 paper pp. 936-937

David Galenson

Social Democracy and Society: Working-Class Radicalism in Düsseldorf, 1890–1920. By Mary Nolan. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 376. $37.50 cloth pp. 938-940

Robert G. Moeller

Demographic Developments and Economic Growth in Norway, 1740–1940. By Thorvald Moe. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xi, 250. $20.00 pp. 938-938

Michael Drake

Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia. By Alfred J. Rieber. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. Pp. xxvi, 464. $35.00 pp. 940-941

John P. McKay

Latin America - A Legacy of Promises: Agriculture, Politics, and Ritual in the Morelos Highlands of Mexico. By Guillermo de la Peña. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 289. $25.00 pp. 941-942

Manning Nash

United States and Canada - Indians, Animals and the Fur Trade: A Critique of Keepers of the Game. Edited by Shepard KreechIII. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1981. Pp. 207. $12.00 pp. 942-943

Leonard Carlson

The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700–1807. By Jay Coughtry. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981. $22.95 pp. 943-945

Jan Hogendorn

Regulation, Federalism, and Interstate Commerce. Edited by A. Dan Tarlock. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1981. Pp. vi, 167 pp. 945-946

Charles W. McCurdy

Olive Branch and Sword—The Compromise of 1833. By Merrill D. Peterson. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 132. $15.00 pp. 946-947

Sidney Ratner

Transportation and the Early Nation. Papers presented at an Indiana American Revolution Bicentennial Symposium. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1982. Pp. vii, 156. $3.50 pp. 947-948

George Rogers Taylor

Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. By Alice Kessler-Harris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 400. $19.95. - Women's America: Refocusing the past. Edited by Linda K. Kerber and Jane DeHart Mathews. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xi, 478. $21.95 pp. 948-950

Mary J. Oates

Farm to Factory: Women's Letters, 1830–1860. Edited by Thomas Dublin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Pp. x, 191, $17.50 pp. 950-951

Claudia Goldin

The Tejano Community, 1836–1900. By Arnold De León. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982. Pp. xix, 277. $19.95 pp. 951-953

James E. Crisp

Class, Conflict, and Consensus: Antebellum Southern Community Studies. Edited by Orville Vernon Burton and Robert C. McMathJr. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. xxvi, 308. $29.95 pp. 953-955

Douglas Deal

Toward A New South? Studies in Post-Civil War Southern Communities. Edited by Orville Vernon Burton and Robert C. McMathJr. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. 319. $29.95 pp. 955-957

Cathy McHugh

Market Institutions and Economic Progress in the New South, 1865–1900: Essays Stimulated by One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation. Edited by Gary M. Walton and James F. Shepherd. New York: Academic Press, 1981. Pp. xiii, 162. $17.50 pp. 957-958

Robert Higgs

Segmented Work, Divided Workers: The Historical Transformation of Labor in the United States. By David M. Gordon, Richard Edwards, and Michael Reich. Cambridge, London, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 288. $34.50 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 958-959

M. Bronfenbrenner

Working-Class Life: The “American Standard” in Comparative Perspective, 1899–1913. By Peter R. Shergold. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982. Pp. 306. $21.95 pp. 959-961

Stanley Lebergott

Americans and Their Servants: Domestic Service in the United States from 1800–1920. By Daniel E. Sutherland. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. Pp. 229. $20.00 pp. 961-962

Pamela J. Nickless

George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol. By Linda O. McMurry. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. 367. $25.00 pp. 962-963

Harold D. Woodman

Southern Workers and their Unions, 1880–1975. Selected papers, the Second Labor History Conference, 1978. Edited by Merl E. Reed, Leslie S. Hough, and Gary M. Fink. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981 pp. 963-964

Tom E. Terrill

Custom Combining on the Great Plains. By Thomas Isern. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. Pp. 248. $14.95 pp. 964-965

J. Larry Deaton

From New Deal to New Economics: The American Liberal Response to the Recession of 1937. By Dean L. May. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1981. Pp. xiv, 204. $25.00 pp. 965-966

Michael M. Weinstein

The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board. By James A. Gross. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp. 381. $44.00 cloth, $14.95 paper pp. 966-968

Morgan Reynolds

Aramco, the United States, and Saudi Arabia: A Study of the Dynamics of Foreign Oil Policy, 1933–1950. By Irvine H. Anderson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Pp. xiii, 259. $18.50 pp. 968-969

Michael B. Stoff

The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936–1980. By James C. Cobb. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 293. $16.95 pp. 969-970

Gavin Wright

Economics and the Truman Administration. Edited by Francis H. Heller. Lawrence: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1981. Pp. xviii, 193. $17.50 pp. 970-971

Robert M. Collins

Trade & Aid, Eisenhower's Foreign Economic Policy, 1953–1961. By Burton I. Kaufman. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp. 279. $25.00 pp. 972-973

John L. Harper

No Way to Run A Railroad: The Untold Story of the Penn Central Crisis. By Stephen Salsbury. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982. Pp. xvii, 363. $19.95 pp. 973-975

Thomas K. McCraw

Merchant Shipping and Economic Development in Atlantic Canada, Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, 06 25–06 27, 1981. Edited by Lewis R. Fischer and Eric W. Sager. St. John's: Maritime History Group, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1982. Pp. 242 pp. 975-976

Peter George

Canadian Papers in Rural History, Vol. III. Edited by Donald H. Akenson. Gananoque, Ontario: Langdale Press, 1982. Pp. 256. $14.95 pp. 976-977

Trevor J. O. Dick

Economic Thought and Doctrine - Mercantilism as a Rent-Seeking Society: Economic Regulations in Historical Perspective. By Robert B. EkelundJr., and Robert D. Tollison. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1981. Pp. xiii, 169. $17.50 cloth pp. 978-979

Terry L. Anderson

Classical and Marxian Political Economy: Essays in Honor of Ronald L. Meek. Edited by Ian Bradley and Michael Howard. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 300. $27.50 pp. 979-980

Geoffrey Gilbert

Tawney, Galbraith and Adam Smith: State and Welfare. By David Reisman. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Pp. vii, 254. $25.00 pp. 980-981

Michael Bernstein

Tomorrow, Capitalism: The Economics of Economic Freedom. By Henri Lepage. La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 1982. Pp. xiii, 256. $14.95 pp. 982-983

M. Bronfenbrenner

General and Miscellaneous - Literacy in History: An Interdisciplinary Research Bibliography. By Harvey J. Graff. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 254. New York: Garland Publishing, 1981. Pp. x, 422. $50.00 cloth pp. 983-984

David Mitch

Essays in Socioeconomic Evolution. By Morris A. Copeland. New York: Vantage Press, 1981. Pp. xv, 184. $10.00 cloth pp. 984-985

Gerhard Lenski

Gold. By Brian Kettell. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1982, Pp. xv, 283. $22.50 pp. 985-986

John Dutton

Structure and Change in Economic History. By Douglass C. North. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981. Pp. xi, 228. $19.95 pp. 986-989

Frederic L. Pryor

Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. By Amartya Sen. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 257. $17.95 pp. 989-991

Morris David Morris

Economists in Government: An International Comparative Study. Edited by A. W. Coats. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 365. $19.75 pp. 991-992

D. E. Moggridge

Technological Diffusion and Industrialisation Before 1914. By A. G. Kenwood and A. L. Lougheed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Pp. 216. $32.00 pp. 992-993

Rondo Cameron

Volume 42, issue 3, 1982

The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Barbados Market, 1673–1723 pp. 491-511

David Galenson

An Economic Analysis of the Organization of Serfdom in Eastern Europe pp. 513-548

Robert Millward

Influences on the Distribution of Landholdings in Early Colonial North Carolina pp. 549-575

Robert E. Gallman

Land Availability and Fertility in the United States, 1760–1870 pp. 577-600

Morton Owen Schapiro

The Growth of the Utilities Industries in Italy, 1861–1913 pp. 601-627

Stefano Fenoaltea

Mergers, External Growth, and Finance in the Development of Large-Scale Enterprise in Germany, 1880–1913 pp. 629-658

Richard Tilly

Canadian Newsprint, 1913–1930: National Policies and the North American Economy pp. 659-687

Trevor J. O. Dick

Economic Causes of Late Nineteenth-Century Agrarian Unrest: Reply pp. 697-699

Robert A. McGuire

Modern Europe - Men of Property: The Very Wealthy in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. By W. D. Rubinstein (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1981). Pp. 261. $22.00 pp. 705-706

Peter Lindert

Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell. Edited by J. M. Goldstrom and L. A. Clarkson. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. x, 322. $45.00 pp. 706-707

Joel Mokyr

Economy and Society in Baroque Portugal, 1668–1703. By Carl A. Hanson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981. Pp. 384 pp. 707-708

C. R. Boxer

A Magyar Gazdaság Hosszútávu Vizsgálata Ökonometriai Módszerrel (Long-Run Analysis of the Hungarian Economy, Using Econometric Methods, 1875–1913). Vol. 6 of Töténeti Statisztikai Füzetek (Historical-Statistical Studies). By Zsigmond Nyári. Budapest: Központi Statisztikai Hivatal, 1981. Pp. 109 pp. 708-709

John Komlos

Asia and Latin America - Essays on Technology, Employment and Institutions in Economic Development: Comparative Asian Experience. By Shigeru Ishikawa. Economic Research Series No. 19. Tokyo: Kinokuniya Company, 1981. Pp. xxii, 466. 6000 Yen pp. 709-710

Harry T. Oshima

Hacienda and Market in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: The Rural Economy of the Guadalajara Region, 1675–1820. By Eric Van Young. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. Pp. xvi, 388. $30.00 pp. 710-711

John H. Coatsworth

The Struggle for Land: A Political Economy of the Pioneer Frontier in Brazil from 1930 to the Present Day. By Joe Foweraker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xxvi, 260. $39.50 pp. 711-712

Pedro Carvalho De Mello

United States and Canada - For Want of Trade: Shipping and the New Jersey Ports, 1680–1783. By James H. Levitt. Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1981. Pp. xii, 224. $21.45 pp. 712-713

Jacob M. Price

Measuring Charleston's Overseas Commerce, 1717–1767: Statistics from the Port's Naval List. By Converse D. Clowse. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1981. Pp. x, 157. $20.50 cloth, $9.75 paper pp. 713-714

David Galenson

Village and Seaport: Migration and Society in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts. By Douglas Lamar Jones. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1981. pp. xx, 167. $15.00 pp. 714-715

Alice Hanson Jones

The American Law of Slavery, 1810–1860: Consideration of Humanity and Interest. By Mark V. Tushnet. Princeton: Priceton University Press, 1981. pp. 232. $20.00 pp. 715-716

Quintard Taylor

Indian Traders on the Middle Border: The House of Ewing, 1827–54. By Robert A. TrennertJr. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1981. Pp. xiii, 271. $17.95 cloth pp. 716-718

Ann Carlos

Urban Growth and City-Systems in the United States, 1840–1860. By Allan Pred. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980. Pp. 282. $28.00 pp. 718-720

John Sharpless

The Rise of Literacy and the Common School in the United States: A Socioeconomic Analysis to 1870. By Lee Soltow and Edward Stevens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 247. $20.00 pp. 720-721

Alexander Field

The Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864–1906. By Michael P. Malone. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981, Pp. xiv, 281. $17.95 pp. 722-723

Paul A. Tiffany

The United States and the Problem of Recovery after 1893. By Gerald T. White. University, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1982. Pp. x, 160. $13.75 pp. 723-724

Harold G. Vatter

The Dynamics of Business Government Relations: Industry and Exports, 1893–1921. By William H. Becker. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 240. $20.00 pp. 724-725

Donald T. Critchlow

Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment, 1880–1980. By Martin V. Melosi. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1981. Pp. xvi, 268. $21.50 pp. 725-727

Louis P. Cain

Plutokraten und Sozialisten: Berichte deutscher Diplomaten und Agenten über die amerikanische Arbeiterbewegung 1878–1917 (Plutocrats and Socialists: Reports by German Diplomats and Agents on the American Labor Movement 1878–1917). Edited by Dirk Hoerder. Munich: K. G. Saur Verlag, 1981. Pp. xxxv, 422 pp. 727-728

Jürg K. Siegenthaler

Steelmasters and Labor Reform, 1886-1923. By Gerald G. Eggert. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981. Pp. 212. $17.95 pp. 728-729

John A. Garraty

Communism, Anticommunism, and the CIO. By Harvey A. Levenstein. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 364. $29.95 pp. 729-731

Joshua B. Freeman

Strikes in the United States, 1881–1974. By P. K. Edwards. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. PP. xvi, 336. $27.50 pp. 731-733

Joseph D. Reid

J. P. Morgan, Jr., 1867–1943. By John Douglas Forbes. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981. Pp. xiv, 262. $20.00 pp. 733-734

Homer Jones

The Role of the U.S. Treasury in Stabilizing the Economy, 1941–1946. By Esther R. Taus. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1981. Pp. xiv, 141. $17.75 cloth, $9.00 paper pp. 734-735

Richard H. Timberlake

Locking Up the Range: Federal Land Controls and Grazing. By Gary D. Libecap. Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1981, Pp. xviii, 109. $14.50 pp. 735-736

James W. Eaton

The Regulation of Natural Gas: Policy and Politics, 1938–1978. By M. Elizabeth Sanders. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple, 1981. Pp. xvi, 254. $18.95 pp. 736-738

Edward W. Erickson

The Population of the South: Structure and Change in Social Demographic Context. Edited by Dudley L. PostonJr and Robert H. Weller. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 307. $25.00 pp. 738-739

Bruce Gardner

Volume 42, issue 2, 1982

British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial Revolution pp. 267-289

C. Knick Harley

The 1807–1809 Embargo Against Great Britain pp. 291-308

Jeffrey Frankel

Agricultural Protection in Wilhelminian Germany: Forging an Empire with Pork and Rye pp. 309-326

Steven B. Webb

Contractual Mix in Southern Agriculture since the Civil War: Facts, Hypotheses, and Tests pp. 327-353

Lee Alston and Robert Higgs

Agriculture and Development in Prussian Upper Silesia, 1846–1913 pp. 355-384

Michael R. Haines

The Rise of the Cotton Industry in California: A Comparative Perspective pp. 385-412

Moses S. Musoke and Alan Olmstead

Medieval - The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100–1600. By Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xiv, 250. $49.50 pp. 445-445

Louise Buenger Robbert

Modern Europe - The Integration of the European Economy Since 1815. By Sidney Pollard. Winchester, Massachusetts: Allen and Unwin, 1981. Pp. 109. $15.95 cloth, $6.95 paper. - Peaceful Conquest. The Industrialization of Europe, 1760–1970. By Sidney Pollard. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 451. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper pp. 446-447

Richard Roehl

The Scottish Provincial Banking Companies, 1747–1864. By Charles W. Munn. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd., 1981. Distribution in the United States by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Pp. xi, 306. $37.50 pp. 447-448

Rondo Cameron

Easter Ross, 1750–1850: The Double Frontier. By Ian R. M. Mowat. Edinburgh: John Donald; Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1981. Pp. x, 270. $39 pp. 448-449

Rosalind Mitchison

Histoire quantitative et developpement de la Belgique, Tome II, La révolution industrielle. Vol. 1, Essai sur la révolution industrielie en Beigique, 1770–1847. By Pierre Lebrun, Marinette Bruwier, Jan Dhondt, and Georges Hansotte. Brussels: Palais des Academies, 1979. Pp. 753 pp. 449-451

Hubert Watelet

Historische Konjunkturforschung. Edited by Wilhelm H. Schröder and Reinhard Spree. Historisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungen, Zentrum für Historisch-Sozialforschung, vol. 2. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1981. Pp. 419. DM 70–00 pp. 451-452

Brinley Thomas

Social Change and Political Development in Weimar Germany. Edited by Richard Bessel and F. J. Feuchtwanger. Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble, 1981. Pp. 297. $27.00. - The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political Economy and Crisis. By David Abraham. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Pp. xvi, 366. $30.00 cloth, $12.50 paper pp. 452-454

Joel Rogers

L'economia dell' Italia fascista. By Gianni Toniolo. Rome: Laterza, 1980 Pp. xx, 354. Lire 11000 pp. 454-456

Ira A. Glazier

Asia, Africa, Latin America - Trade in Transition: Exports from the Third World, 1840–1900. By John R. HansonII. Studies in Social Discontinuity. New York: Academic Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 197. $18.00 pp. 456-457

A. J. H. Latham

The Depression and the Developing World, 1914–1939. By A. J. H. Latham. London: Croom Helm Ltd., 1981. Pp. 230. $25.00 pp. 458-458

John R. Hanson

The Mandarin-Capitalists from Nanyang: Overseas Chinese Enterprise in the Modernization of China, 1893–1911. By Michael R. Godley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. x, 222. $39.50 pp. 458-459

Albert Feuerwerker

The Postwar Japanese Economy: Its Development and Structure. By Takafusa Nakamura. Translated by Jacqueline Kaminski. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1981. Distributed by Columbia University Press, New York. Pp. xiv, 277. $17.50 pp. 459-460

Carl Mosk

Class, State, and Industrial Structure: The Historical Process of South American Industrial Growth. By Frederick Stirton Weaver. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xiv, 247. $28.50 pp. 460-461

John H. Coatsworth

United States - “Poor Carolina”: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776. By A. Roger Ekirch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. Pp. xix, 305. $22.50 pp. 461-462

Jack Roper

A History of Metals in Colonial America. By James A. Mulholland. University, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1981. Pp. xiv, 215. $17.95 cloth, $8.95 paper pp. 462-463

Irene D. Neu

Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas. Edited by Carroll W. PursellJr. Cambridge, Massachusetts: M. I. T. Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 264. $9.95 paper pp. 463-465

Martha M. Trescott

Emulation and Invention. By Brooke Hindle. New York: New York University Press, 1981. Pp. xix, 1622. $22.50 pp. 465-466

James A. Mulholland

Mechanics and Manufactures in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780–1860. By Paul G. Faler. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp. xvii, 267. $34.00 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 466-467

William H. Mulligan

The Investment Frontier: New York Businessmen and the Economic Development of the Old Northwest. By John Denis Haeger. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp. xviii, 311. $39.00 cloth, $12.95 paper pp. 467-468

Richard H. Keehn

Boosters and Businessmen: Popular Economic Thought and Urban Growth in the Antebellum Middle West. By Carl Abbott. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 266. $27.50 pp. 468-469

John Haeger

Louisiana Commercial Law: The Antebellum Period. By Richard Holcombe KilbourneJr. Baton Rouge: The Paul M. Hebert Law Center Publications Institute of Louisiana State University, 1980. Pp. xix, 233 pp. 469-470

Harold R. Weinberg

A Theory of Property Rights with Application to the California Gold Rush. By John R. Umbeck. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1981. Pp. 158. $13.95 pp. 470-472

Gary D. Libecap

Environmental Factors of Early Railroads: A Comparative Study of Massachusetts and the German States of Baden and Pfalz (Palatinale) Before 1870. By Klaus Peter Harder. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Pp. viii, 395. $35.00 pp. 472-473

Paul B. Huber

Competition and Regulation: The Development of Oligopoly in the Meat Packing Industry. By Mary Yeager. Industrial Development and the Social Fabric, Vol. 2. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1981. Pp. xxvi, 296. $30.00 pp. 474-475

Louis P. Cain

The Harder We Run: Black Workers since the Civil War. By William H. Harris. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xi, 259. $17.95 pp. 475-476

Robert Higgs

Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields. By David Alan Corbin. Chicago: The University of Illinois Press, 1981. Pp. xix, 294 pp. 476-477

Alexander Mackenzie Thompson

Jewish Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880–1910. By Uri D. Herscher. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981. Pp. vi, 197. $15.95 pp. 477-479

Joseph Brandes

At the Point of Production: The Local History of the I.W.W. Edited by Joseph R. Conlin. Contributions in Labor History, No. 10. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. viii, 329. $29.95 pp. 479-480

Jack Blicksilver

Race and Class in the Southwest. By Mario Barrera. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979. Pp. x, 261. $13.95 pp. 480-481

Michael F. Sheehan

American Farmers: The New Minority. By Gilbert C. Fite. Minorities in Modern America Series. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 265. $19.50 pp. 481-482

J. Larry Deaton

New Deal Planning: The National Resources Planning Board. By Marion Clawson. Published for Resources for the Future. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Pp. xxii, 356. $32.50 pp. 483-483

Robert M. Collins

America's Struggle Against Poverty 1900–1980. By James T. Patterson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 268. $17.50 pp. 483-484

Gaston V. Rimlinger

General and Miscellaneous - The Power of Money. By Henry Bretton. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1980. Pp. xxxiii, 418 pp. 485-486

Richard H. Timberlake

General and Miscellaneous - The European Miracle: Environments, Economies, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. By Eric Jones. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 276. $29.50 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 486-487

Douglass North

People's History and Socialist Theory. Edited by Raphael Samuel. History Workshop Series. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. lvi, 417. $32.50 cloth, $19.95 paper pp. 487-487

Geoffrey Crossick

Volume 42, issue 1, 1982

The Great Strike at Nushagak Station, 1951: Institutional Gridlock pp. 1-20

Jonathan Hughes

Monetary Innovation in America pp. 21-30

Richard Sylla

Discussion pp. 31-32

Michael Bordo

The Political Economy of Banking Regulation, 1864–1933 pp. 33-40

Eugene White

Discussion pp. 41-42

Richard H. Keehn

The Economics of Normalcy pp. 43-52

Robert B. Zevin

A Reformulation of Marxian Theory and Historical Analysis pp. 53-59

Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff

Factors, Bankers, and Masters: Class Relations in the Antebellum South pp. 61-67

Susan Feiner

The Transition from Primitive Communism: The Wolof Social Formation of West Africa pp. 69-76

Rolf Jensen

Primitive Accumulation in the United States: The Interaction between Capitalist and Noncoapitalist Class Relations in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts pp. 77-82

Rona S. Weiss

Discussion pp. 83-85

William Lazonick

The Proximate Determinants of Domestic Investment in Victorian Britain pp. 87-95

Barry Eichengreen

Induced Innovation and Economic Performance in Late Victorian British Industry pp. 97-103

William H. Phillips

Economic Growth and Structural Change in the United Kingdom, 1870–1914 pp. 105-114

William P. Kennedy

Discussion pp. 115-118

Ben Baack and Donald N. McCloskey

The Political Economy of British Imperialism: Measures of Benefits and Support pp. 119-130

Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback

Discussion pp. 131-132

Michael Edelstein

The Political Economy of the Raj: The Decline of Colonialism pp. 133-137

B. R. Tomlinson

Fiscal Crisis and the Decline of Spain (Castile) pp. 139-147

Dennis O. Flynn

The Agrarian Depression in Seventeenth-Century Spain pp. 149-154

Michael R. Weisser

Sharecropping and Investment in Agriculture in Early Modern France pp. 155-159

Philip T. Hoffman

Discussion pp. 160-162

Carla Rahn Phillips and Domenico Sella

The Labor Market and the American High School Girl 1890–1928 pp. 163-171

Susan B. Carter and Mark Prus

Families at Work: An Analysis by Sex of Child Workers in the Cotton Textile Industry pp. 173-180

Susan A. Matthies

Gender-Based Wage Differentials in Pennsylvania and New Jersey Manufacturing, 1900–1950 pp. 181-186

Peter Philips

Discussion pp. 187-189

Robert Margo

The Changing Structure of Canadian Agriculture, 1867–1897 pp. 191-198

Marvin McInnis

Mechanization and North American Prairie Farm Costs 1896–1930 pp. 199-206

Trevor J. O. Dick

Ontario Agriculture in Transition: The Switch from Wheat to Cheese pp. 207-215

Robert E. Ankli and Wendy Millar

Discussion pp. 216-217

Wayne D. Rasmussen

The Wyoming Stock Growers Association: An Application of Davis's and North's Theory of Institutional Change pp. 218-220

James Winton Eaton

The Family Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880–1915 pp. 220-222

Cathy Louise McHugh

Growing in Silence: The Slave Economy of Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil pp. 222-223

Roberto Borges Martins

Peasants, Politics, and Pressure Groups in War and Inflation: A Study of the Rhineland and Westphalia, 1914–1924 pp. 223-227

Robert G. Moeller

Cooperative Competition in German Coal and Steel, 1893–1914 pp. 227-230

Lon L. Peters

Energy and Technology in American Manufacturing: 1900–1929 pp. 230-232

Arthur G. Woolf

Medieval - The Origins of Open-Field Agriculture. Edited by Trevor Rowley. London: Croom Helm; Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble, 1981. Pp. 258. $26.50 pp. 239-240

Carl J. Dahlman

Modern Europe - Public Policy and the Supply of Coal to London, 1700–1770. By William J. Hausman. New York: Arno Press, Dissertations in European Economic History, 1981. Pp. x, 306. $28.00 cloth pp. 240-241

Charles K. Hyde

The Early Scottish Limited Companies. 1856–1895. An Historical and Analytical Study. By Peter L. Payne. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1980. Distributed in the United States by Columbia University Press, New York. Pp. xii, 140. $22.00 cloth pp. 241-243

Michael Edelstein

English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirite. 1850–1980. By Martin J. Wiener. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 217. $15.95 - The Decline of British Economic Power since 1870. By M. W. Kirby. London: Allen & Unwin, 1981. Pp. x, 205 £10 pp. 243-244

Derek H. Aldcroft

The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany. Edited by W. J. Mommsen in collaboration with Wolfgang Mock. London: Croom Helm Ltd., 1981. Distributed by Biblio Center, Totowa, New Jersey. Pp. 443. $31.00. - From Pauperism to Poverty. By Karel Williams. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. 383. $60.00 cloth pp. 244-245

Karl de Schweinitz

The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869–1920. By Michael B. Miller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 266. $13.50 cloth pp. 245-246

Reed Geiger

Capitalism and the State in Modern France: Renovation and Economic Management in the Twentieth Century. By Richard F. Kuisel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xv, 344. $37.50 cloth pp. 247-248

Charles P. Kindleberger

Kapitalismus im zaristischen Staat 1906–1917: Organisationsformen, Machtverhältnisse und Leistungsbilanz im Industrialisierungsprozess. By Heiko Haumann. Königstein, Germany, Ts.: Hain, 1980. Pp. 324. DM 84 pp. 248-249

Martin C. Spechler

Asia - The Development of Capitalism in Colonial Indochina (1870–1940). By Martin J. Murray. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 685. $34.50 pp. 249-250

Tony Smith

United States - Legislative History of American Immigration Policy, 1798–1965. By E. P. Hutchinson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (for The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies), 1981. Pp. xv, 685 pp. 251-251

Stanley L. Engerman

Philadelphia. Work, Space, Family, and Group Experiences in the Nineteenth Century. Essays Toward An Inter-Disciplinary History of the City. Edited by Theodore Hershberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981, Pp. 525. $29.95 pp. 251-253

Diane Lindstrom

Financiers and Railroads, 1869–1889: A Study of Morton, Bliss & Company. By Dolores Greenberg. East Brunswick, New Jersey: University of Delaware Press, 1980. Pp. 286. $22.50 pp. 253-254

Geofrey T. Mills

The Kansas Beef Industry. By Charles L. Wood, Lawrence, Kansas: Regents Press of Kansas, 1980. Pp. xiii, 352 pp. 254-257

Mary A. Yeager

Herbert Hoover as Secretatry of Commerce: Studies in New Era Thought and Practice. Edited by Ellis W. Hawley. Papers Presented At The Herbert Hoover Centennial Seminars. Herbet Hoover Presidential Library Assciation. West Branch, Iowa, 041974. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 263. $19.50 pp. 257-258

Saul Engelbourg

Energy Transition and the Local Economy: A Theory of Society Applied to Hazleton, Pennsylvania. By Dan Rose. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. Pp. xvii, 189. $21.50 pp. 258-259

Arthur G. Woolf

U.S. Maritime Policy: History and Prospects. By H. David Bess and Martin T. Farris. New York: Praeger, 1981. Pp. xvi, 219 pp. 259-259

C. Knick Harley

Economic Thought and Doctrine - Finance Capital: A Study in the Latest Phase of Capitalist Development. By Rudolf Hilferding. Edited with an introduction by Tom Bottomore from translations by Morris Watnick and Sam Gordon. London, Boston, and Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. ix, 446. $60.00 pp. 259-260

Rondo Cameron

General and Miscellaneous - Silver: The Restless Metal. By Roy W. Jastram. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1981. Pp. xvii, 224, $26.95 pp. 260-261

John McCusker

Accounting Evolution to 1900. By A. C. Littleton. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 373. $11.95 pp. 261-262

H. Thomas Johnson

Regulatory Politics and Electric Utilities: A Case Study in Political Economy. By Douglas D. Anderson. Boston: Auburn House Publishing Company, 1981. Pp. 191. $19.95 pp. 262-263

Allen R. Sanderson

The Past and the Present. By Lawrence Stone. Boston, London and Henley,: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. xii, 274. $15.95 pp. 263-265

Charles Tilly

Population and Technological Change: A Study of Long-Term Trends. By Ester Boserup. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 255. $17.50 cloth pp. 265-266

W. W. Rostow