The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 39, issue 4, 1979

Grain Prices and Subsistence Crises in England and France, 1590–1740 pp. 865-887

Andrew B. Appleby

A New Look at Productivity in the New England Cotton Textile Industry, 1830–1860 pp. 889-910

Pamela J. Nickless

International Competition in Iron and Steel, 1850–1913 pp. 911-937

Robert Allen

Indispensable Railroads in a Backward Economy: The Case of Mexico pp. 939-960

John H. Coatsworth

Nineteenth-Century Urbanization Patterns in the United States pp. 961-974

Roger F. Riefler

A Price Index for Rural Massachusetts, 1750–1855 pp. 975-1001

Winifred B. Rothenberg

World Demand for Cotton during the Nineteenth Century: Wright's Estimates Re-examined pp. 1015-1021

John R. Hanson

World Demand for Cotton during the Nineteenth Century: Reply pp. 1023-1024

Gavin Wright

The Sea Peoples: Warriors of the Ancient Mediterranean, 1250–1150 B.C. By N. K. Sandars. Ancient People and Places. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978. Pp. 224. $12.95 pp. 1027-1028

Maria Ellis

Le sel et la fortune de Venise. Vol. I: Production et monopole. By Jean-Claude Hocquet. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Publications de l'Université de Lille III, 1978. Pp. 352 pp. 1028-1029

Domenico Sella

Change in the Countryside: Essays on Rural England, 1500–1900. Edited by H. S. A. Fox and R. A. Butlin. Institute of British Geographers Special Publications, No. 10. London: Institute of British Geographers, 1979. Pp. 187. £8.50 pp. 1029-1030

A. S. Kussmaul

The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. By Albert Goodwin. Cambridge; Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. 594. $20.00 pp. 1030-1031

Gayle T. Pendleton

The Early Industrial Revolution: Britain in the Eighteenth Century. By Eric Pawson. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1979. Pp. 233. $14.50 pp. 1031-1031

S. D. Chapman

John Bright. By Keith Robbins. London, Boston, and Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. Pp. xvi, 288. $21.50 pp. 1031-1032

Frederic B. Jennings

British Industry and Economic Policy. By G. C. Allen. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc., 1979. Pp. x, 220. $29.75 pp. 1032-1033

Peter Fearon

The English Cotton Industry and the World Market, 1815–1896. By D. A. Farnie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. Pp. xiii, 399. $41.00 pp. 1033-1035

John Lyons

The British Shipbuilding Industry, 1870–1914. By Sidney Pollard and Paul Robertson. Harvard Studies in Business History, 30. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. xii, 312. $18.50 pp. 1035-1036

C. Knick Harley

The British Electrical Industry, 1875–1914: The Economic Returns to a New Technology. By I. C. R. Byatt. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. Pp. 228. $22.50. - Electricity before Nationalisation: A Study of the Development of the Electricity Supply Industry in Britain to 1948. By Leslie Hannah. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. Pp. 467. $28.50 pp. 1036-1037

A. J. Millard

Ideology and the Labour Movement: Essays Presented to John Saville. Edited by David E. Martin and David Rubinstein. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1979. Pp. 276. $21.50 pp. 1038-1038

Henry Pelling

Industrial Relations in the Coal Industry. By Brian J. McCormick. London: The MacMillan Press Ltd., 1979. Pp. xi, 263. $25.00 pp. 1038-1039

Alexander M. Thompson

British Rearmament and the Treasury, 1932–1939. By G. C. Peden. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1979. Distributed by Columbia University Press. Pp. xii, 227. $17.50 pp. 1039-1040

D. E. Moggridge

Le Commerce colonial atlantique et la Guerre d'Indépendance des Etats-Unis d'Amérique, 1778–1783: Essai d'étude quantitative. By Patrick Villiers. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 470. $35.00 pp. 1040-1041

Robert Rhodes Crout

An Economic History of Modern France. By François Caron. Translated by Barbara Bray. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Pp. 384. $16.50 pp. 1041-1042

Paul M. Hohenberg

Paths to Authority: The Middle Class and the Industrial Labor Force in France, 1820–48. By Peter N. Stearns. Chicago and London: University of Illinois Press, 1979. Pp. 222. $12.95 pp. 1042-1044

Christopher H. Johnson

Alexandre Millerand: The Socialist Years. By Leslie Derfler. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1978. Pp. xiv, 326. DM 48 pp. 1044-1045

Marjorie M. Farrar

Diensteinkommen der Göttinger Officianten, 1750–1850. By Hans-Jürgen Gerhard. Studien zur Geschichte der Stadt Göttingen, vol. 12. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1978. Pp. iv, 530. DM 49 pp. 1045-1046

Klaus H. Wolff

Staat und Agrarwirtschaft, 1800–1865: Subjekte und Mittel der Agrarverfassung und Agrarverwaltung im Frühindustrialismus. Vol. 1: Textband. Vol. 2: Anhangband. By Herbert Pruns. Berichte über Landwirtschaft, new series, 194. Hamburg and Berlin: Verlag Paul Parey, 1979. Pp. xvi, 327; 127. DM 198 pp. 1046-1047

Frank B. Tipton

Stadtwachstum und Wohnungsnot: Determinanten unzureichender Wohnungsversorgung in Wien 1848 bis 1914. By Peter Feldbauer. Sozial- und Wirtschafts-historische Studien. Vienna: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik; Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1977, Pp. 340 pp. 1047-1048

Herman Freudenberger

The Kingdom of Valencia in the Seventeenth Century. By James Casey Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. 425. $32.50 pp. 1048-1049

Lorna Jury Gladstone

Storia del capitale della Banca d'Italia e degli istituti predecessori. Volume III. Books 1 and 2. Edited by Renato de Mattia. Rome: Banca d'Italia, 1977; 1978. Pp. xliv, xiii, 1122 pp. 1049-1050

Frank J. Coppa

The Politics and Economics of the Transition Period. By Nikolai Bukharin. Edited with an Introduction by Kenneth J. Tarbuck. Trans. Oliver Field. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. Pp. viii, 261. $22.95 pp. 1050-1051

Thomas Remington

Money, Banking, and Credit in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. By Adam Zwass. White Plains, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe Publishers, Inc., 1979. Pp. x, 233. $18.50 pp. 1051-1052

George Garvy

Political Economy and Soviet Socialism. By Alec Nove. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1979. Pp. xii, 249. $27.50 pp. 1052-1053

Oliver Hayward

The Age of Partnership: Europeans in Asia before Dominion. Edited by Blair B. Kling and M. N. Pearson. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1979. Pp. 250. $12.50 pp. 1053-1054

H. R. C. Wright

Hong Kong: A Study in Economic Freedom. By Alvin Rabushka. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1979. Pp. x, 129. $10.00 pp. 1054-1055

Mo-huan Hsing

Growth and Structural Transformation: Studies in the Industrialization of the Republic of Korea, 1945–1975. By Kwangsuk Kim and Michael Roemer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. xxiv, 195. $15.00 pp. 1055-1056

Bertrand Renaud

Village and Family in Contemporary China. By William L. Parish and Martin King Whyte. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1978. Pp. xiii, 419. $23.00 pp. 1056-1057

Benjamin Ward

Forced Native Labor in Sixteenth-Century Central America. By William L. Sherman. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. Pp. xvi, 496. $18.50 pp. 1057-1057

Woodrow Borah

Haciendas and Ranchos in the Mexican Bajío: León, 1700–1860. By D. A. Brading. Cambridge Latin American Studies, no. 32. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. 255. $29.50 pp. 1058-1059

John H. Coatsworth

The French Experience in Mexico, 1821–1861: A History of Constant Misunderstanding. By Nancy Nichols Barker. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. Pp. xi, 264, $18.00 pp. 1059-1059

Shirley J. Black

A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, 1776–1860. By Jonathan C. Brown. Cambridge Latin American Studies, no. 35. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 307. $24.95 pp. 1060-1061

James R. Scobie

British Mercantile Houses in Buenos Aires, 1810–1880. By Vera Blinn Reber. Harvard Studies in Business History, 29. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. xi, 206. $17.50 pp. 1061-1062

Susan Migden Socolow

The Governmental Habit: Economic Controls from Colonial Times to the Present. By Jonathan R. T. Hughes. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1977. Pp. xii, 260. $11.95 pp. 1062-1063

Bruce F. Davie

“Give -Us Good Measure”: An Economic Analysis of Relations between the Indians and the Hudson's Bay Company Before 1763. By Arthur J. Ray and Donald Freeman. Toronto: Univeristy of Toronto Press, 1978. Pp. xvi, 298. $17.50 cloth; $4.95 paper pp. 1063-1064

James H. Soltow

The Economic Rise of Early America. By Gary M. Walton and James F. Shepherd. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. x, 226. $19.95 cloth, $4.95 paper pp. 1064-1065

Russell R. Menard

Joshua Johnson's Letterbook 1771–1774: Letters from a Merchant in London to His Partners in Maryland. Edited by Jacob M. Price. London: London Record Society, 1979. Pp. xxviii, 182. Ł 10 (to non-members of the London Record Society) pp. 1065-1066

James H. Soltow

Tench Coxe and the Early Republic. By Jacob E. Cooke. The Institute of Early American History and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 573. $25.00 pp. 1066-1066

Stuart Bruchey

Taxation and Political Change in the Young Nation, 1781–1833. By Dall W. Forsythe. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp. x, 167. $15.00 pp. 1067-1068

Bruce F. Davie

Artisans and the New Republic: The Tradesmen of New York City in the Age of Jefferson. By Howard B. Rock. New York: New York University Press. 1979. Pp. xviii, 340. $17.50 pp. 1067-1067

Edward P. Duggan

Family and Population in Nineteenth-Century American. Edited by Tamara K. Hareven and Maris A. Vinovskis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 250. $25.00 cloth, $9.75 paper pp. 1068-1069

Claudia Goldin

City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development. By Roberta Balstad Miller. Contributions in American History, No. 77. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 179. $17.50 pp. 1069-1070

Diane Lindstrom

The Origins of Central Banking in the United States. By Richard H. Timberlake Jr. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. ix, 272. $18.50 pp. 1070-1071

Hugh Rockoff

Coal, Iron and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715–1865. By Ronald L. Lewis. Contributions in Labor History, No. 6. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979. Pp xii, 283. $22.95 pp. 1071-1072

Thomas Weiss

Hard Rock Epic: Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860–1910. By Mark Wyman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Pp. 341. $15.95 pp. 1072-1073

Gary D. Libecap

Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century. By Richard Edwards. New York: Basic Books, 1979. Pp. ix + 261. $12.95 pp. 1073-1075

Alexander Field

The March Inland: Origins of the ILWU Warehouse Division, 1934–1938. By Harvey Schwartz. Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations, 1978. Pp. ix, 262. $7.50 pp. 1075-1076

John L. Bernardi

The Divided Left: American Radicalism, 1900–1975. By Milton Cantor. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978. Pp. 248. $11.95 pp. 1076-1077

Robert Collins

Mexican Workers in the United States: Historical and Political Perspectives. Edited by George C. Kiser and Martha Woody Kiser. Albuquerque: New Mexico Press, 1979. Pp. x, 295. $7.50 pp. 1077-1078

Donald T. Critchlow

American Dollars—Canadian Prosperity: Canadian-American Economic Relations; 1945–1950. By R. D. Cuff and J. L. Granatstein. Toronto: Samuel-Stevens, 1978. Pp. 286. $14.95 pp. 1078-1079

Craufurd Goodwin

The State and Enterprise: Canadian Manufacturers and the Federal Government, 1917–1931. By Tom Traves. The State and Economic Life Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979. Pp. viii, 175. $15.00 cloth, $6.00 paper pp. 1079-1080

David Lightner

The Elusive Quest: America's Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919–1933. By Melvin P. Leffler. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. Pp. xvi, 409. $22.00 pp. 1080-1081

Henry Blumenthal

Delta: The History of an Airline. By W. David Lewis and Wesley Philips Newton. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. Pp. xiii, 503. $15.00 pp. 1081-1082

John B. Rae

Revolution in Miniature: The History and Impact of Semiconductor Electronics. By Ernest Braun and Stuart MacDonald. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. viii, 231. $16.95 pp. 1082-1083

James A. Mulholland

Rhode Island: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites. By Gary Kulik and Julia C. Bonham. Washington, D.C.: Historic American Engineering Record, Department of Interior, 1978. Pp. xv, 296 (map, 30 illustrations). No price given pp. 1083-1084

Kenneth V. Lundberg

The Mystery of Wealth. By John Hutton. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1979. Pp. 412. $18.95 pp. 1084-1085

Warren S. Gramm

Classical Theories of Value: From Smith to Sraffa. By Jeffrey T. Young. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 129. $15.00 pp. 1085-1086

A. W. Coats

Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation. By Robert L. Schuettinger and Eamonn F. Butler. Washington D. C.: The Heritage Foundation, 1979. Pp. 186. $9.95 pp. 1086-1086

Richard C. Schiming

The Second Slump: A Marxist. Analysis of Recession in the Seventies. By Ernest Mandel. London: N.L.B., 1978. Pp. 212. $12.95 pp. 1087-1087

C. P. Kindleberger

Gold Was the Mortar: The Economics of Cathedral Building. By Henry Kraus. London, Henley, and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. Pp. xv, 292. $30.00 pp. 1088-1089

Elaine B. Johnson

New Directions in Political Economy: An Approach from Anthropology. Edited by Madeline Barbara Léons and Frances Rothstein. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979. Pp. xxvii, 350. $25.00 pp. 1088-1088

Douglass North

Research in Economic History: An Annual Compilation of Research. Volume 3 (1978). Edited by Paul Uselding. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1978. Pp. 378. $28.50 pp. 1089-1091

Lloyd J. Mercer

Volume 39, issue 3, 1979

From Traditional to British Currency in Southern Nigeria: Analysis of a Currency Revolution, 1880–1948 pp. 623-654

Walter I. Ofonagoro

Cheap Labor and Southern Textiles before 1880 pp. 655-680

Gavin Wright

Explaining the Shift of Labor from Agriculture to Industry in the United States: 1869 to 1899 pp. 681-698

Frank Lewis

Pre-Famine Ireland and the Theory of European Proto-industrialization: Evidence from the 1841 Census pp. 699-718

Eric L. Almquist

Fiscal Pressure and Peasant Impoverishment in Serbia before World War I pp. 719-740

Michael Palairet

The Postal Savings System in the Depression pp. 741-753

Maureen O'Hara and David Easley

Factoring Out Industrialization pp. 755-759

Anonymous

Die Auflösung des Altertums: Beiträge zu einer Umdeutung der Alten Geschichte. By László Várady. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1978. Pp. 148. $13.00 pp. 763-764

John Buckler

Trade and Industry in Classical Greece. By R. J. Hopper. Aspects of Greek and Roman Life. London: Thames and Hudson, 1979. Pp. 240. $19.95 pp. 763-763

Chester G. Starr

L'esclavage dans l'Europe médiévale. Vol. II: Italie; Colonies italiennes du Levant; Levant latin; Empire byzantin. By Charles Verlinden. Werken uitgegeven door de Faculteit van de Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, 162 aflevering. Ghent: Royal University of Ghent, 1977. Pp. 1068 pp. 764-765

Robert S. Lopez

“El buon governo”: Un progetto di riforma generale nella Firenze savonaroliana. By Umberto Mazzone. Biblioteca di storia toscana moderna e contemporanea, Studi e documenti, 18. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1978. Pp. xvi, 220. L. 6,000 pp. 765-766

Benjamin G. Kohl

Mechanisms of the Rural Economy during the Ottoman Domination [in the Balkans], 15th-16th Centuries. [In Greek.] By Spyros Asdrachas. Athens: Themelio, 1978. Pp. 300. Dr. 300 pp. 766-767

Eleftherios N. Botsas

Natural Resources in European History: A Conference Report. Edited by Antoni Maczak and William N. Parker. Resources for the Future Research Paper, No. R-13. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. Pp. xii, 226. $6.75 paper pp. 767-768

Rudolph C. Blitz

The Struggle for Baltic Markets: Powers in Conflict, 1558–1618. By Artur Attman. Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum et Litterarum Gothoburgensis, Humaniora No. 14. Gothenburg: Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället, 1979. Pp. 231. Sw.Cr. 50 pp. 768-769

Walther Kirchner

Handel und Politik im Ostseeraum während des Dreissigjährigen Kreiges; zur Rolle des Kaufmannskapitals in der aufkommenden allgemeinen Krise der Feudalgesellschaft in ropa. By Miroslav Hroch. Acta Universitatis Carolinae—Philosophica et Historica LXIV. Prague: Univerzita Karlova, 1976. Pp. 159. Kčs. 20 pp. 769-770

Walther Kirchner

The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property, and Social Transition. By Alan Macfarlane. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xvi: 216. $19.95 cloth, $6.95 paper pp. 770-772

Scott L. Waugh

Famine in Tudor and Stuart England. By Andrew B. Appleby. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1978. Pp. 250. $14.50. - Crisis and Development: An Ecological Case Study of the Forest of Arden, 1570–1674. Victor H. T. Skipp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xii, 132. $14.95 pp. 772-774

E. A. Wrigley

Public Finance and Private Wealth: The Career of Sir Stephen Fox, 1627–1716. By Christopher Clay. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. xvi, 362. $32.50 pp. 774-775

Daniel A. Baugh

Naval Administration, 1715–1750. Edited by Daniel A. Baugh. Liverpool: The Navy Records Society, 1978. Pp. xv, 523. £9.00 pp. 775-776

William J. Hausman

The Conquest of Smallpox. By Peter Razzell. Sussex: Caliban Books, 1977. Pp. x, 190. £8.00 pp. 776-777

Robert J. McIntyre

The Fishing Industries of Scotland, 1790–1914: A Study in Regional Adaptation. By Malcolm Gray. Aberdeen University Studies Series, Number 155. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. x, 230. $19.50 pp. 777-777

Jacob M. Price

Economic Growth in Britain and France, 1780–1914. By Patrick O'Brien and Caglar Keyder. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1978. Pp. 205. £8.50; $21.25 pp. 778-779

Richard Roehl

Les fonderies et forges d'Alais à l'époque des premiers chemins de fer, 1829–1874: La création d'une entreprise moderne. By Robert R. Locke. Paris: Marcel Rivière et Cie., 1978. Pp. 298 pp. 779-780

John P. McKay

France Faces Depopulation: Postlude Edition, 1936–1976. By Joseph J. Spengler. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1979. Pp. xiii, 383. $17.75 pp. 780-781

Paul M. Hohenberg

Das Problem Leibeigenschaft: Eine Untersuchung über die Anfänge einer Ideologisierung des Verfassungsrechtlichen Wandels von Freiheit und Eigentum im deutschen Bauernkrieg. By Hannah Rabe. Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Beiheft 64. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1978. Pp. xi, 128 pp. 781-782

Hermann Rebel

Wachstumstrends und Konjunkturzyklen in der deutschen Wirtschaft von 1820 bis 1913: Quantitativer Rahmen für eine Konjunkturgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts. By Reinhard Spree, with the assistance of Michael Tybus. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1978. Pp. 215. DM 26 pp. 782-783

Rolf Horst Dumke

Quantitative sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen von historischen und prozess-produzierten Daten. Edited by Heinrich Best and Reinhard Mann. Historisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungen, vol. 3. Stuggart: Ernst Klett Verlag, 1977. Pp. 254. - Quantitative historische Forschung 1977: Eine Dokumentation der QUANTUM-Erhebung. By Wolfgang Bick, Paul J. Müller, and Herbert Reinke. Historisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungen, vol. 1. Stuggart: Ernst Klett Verlag, 1977. Pp. 236 pp. 783-784

Hugh Neuburger

Zwei Generationen im deutschen Bankwesen 1833–1914. By Hermann Wallich and Paul Wallich Introduction by Henry C. Wallich. Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Bankhistorische Forschung E.V., volume 2. Frankfurt am Main: Fritz Knapp Verlag, 1978. Pp. 432 pp. 784-785

Udo Heyn

Joseph Maria Baernreither (1845–1925): Der Werdegang eines altösterreichischen Ministers und Sozialpolitikers. By Harald Bachmann. Nürberger: Ph. C. W. Schmidt Verlagsdruckerei, 1977. Neustadt a.d. Aisch: Pp. 178. DM 38 pp. 785-786

Alfred L. Thimm

La Fabrique-Neuve de Cortaillod: Entreprise et profit pendant la Révolution industrielle, 1752–1854. By Pierre Caspard. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1979. Pp. 227 pp. 786-787

Jürg K. Siegenthaler

Rush to the Alps: The Evolution of Vacationing in Switzerland. By Paul P. Bernard. East European Monographs, No. XXXVII. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. ix, 228. $15.00 pp. 787-788

J.-F. Bergier

Industriële Naamloze Vennootschappen in België, 1819–1857. By Julienne Laureyssens. Interuniversitair Centrum voor Hedendaagse Geschiedenis, Bijdragen No. 78. Leuven: Editions Nauwelaerts, 1975. Pp. 771, v. BF 1,300 pp. 788-789

Joel Mokyr

The Netherlands Economy in the Twentieth Century: An Examination of the Most Characteristic Features in the Period 1900–1970. By Johan de Vries. The Netherlands: Van Gorcum Assen, 1978. Pp. 136. Dfl. 23 pp. 789-790

Lawrence J. Minet

Relazioni dei rettori veneti in terraferma. Vol. X: Provveditorato di Salò, Provveditorato di Peschiera. Vol. XI: Podesteria e capitanato di Brescia. Vol. XII: Podesteria e capitanato di Bergamo. Edited by Amelio Tagliaferri et al. Milan: Dott. A. Giuffrè for the Istituto di Storia Economica, Università di Trieste, 1978. Pp. lxxxi, 410; lx, 698; xlvii, 845. L 14,000; L 22,000; L 26,000 pp. 790-791

Louise Buenger Robbert

Ciudad Real, 1500–1750: Growth, Crisis, and Readjustment in the Spanish Economy. By Carla Rahn Phillips. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. viii, 190. $16.50 pp. 791-792

Ruth Pike

An Economic History of Modem Spain. By Joseph Harrison. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1978. Pp. 187. $22.00 pp. 792-793

David R. Ringrose

The Social Democratic Image of Society: A Study of the Achievements and Origins of Scandinavian Social Democracy in Comparative Perspective. By Francis G. Castles. London, Henley, and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. Pp. xiv, 162. $15.50 pp. 793-794

Niels Thomsen

Schwedens Wirtshcaftsbeziehungen zum Dritten Reich, 1933–1945. By Klaus Wittmann. Munich: R. Oldenburg Verlag, 1978. Pp. 479. DM 98 pp. 794-795

Arthur Schweitzer

Socialism, Politics, and Equality: Hierarchy and Change in Eastern Europe and the USSR. By Walter D. Connor. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Pp. 389. $20.00 pp. 795-796

Vladimir N. Bandera

The Metamorphosis of Greece since World War II. By William H. McNeill. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1978. Pp. viii, 264. $12.95 pp. 796-797

John R. Lampe

The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660–1760. By K. N. Chaudhuri. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xviii, 629. $84.50 pp. 797-798

M. N. Pearson

Government, Landlord, and Peasant in India: Agrarian Relations under British Rule, 1865–1935. By Dietmar Rothermund. Schriftenreihe des Südasien-Instituts der Universität Heidelberg, Band 25. Weisbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH, 1978. Pp. xii, 210. DM 36 pp. 798-799

Michelle McAlpin

Bengal Agriculture, 1920–1946: A Quantitative Study. By M. Mufakharul Islam. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 283. $29.50 pp. 799-800

Alan Heston

Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760–1840. By Peter Gran. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. Pp. xvii, 278 pp. 800-801

Charles Issawi

Iran: The Illusion of Power. By Robert Graham. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Pp. 228. $16.50 pp. 801-802

Nikki R. Keddie

Der Atlantische Sklavenhandel von Dahomey, 1740–1797: Wirtschaftsanthropologie und Sozialgeschichte. By Werner Peukert. Studien zur Kurturkunde, band 40. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1978. Pp. xvi, 412. DM 38 pp. 802-803

Philip D. Curtin

Economic Imperialism in Theory and Practice: The Case of South African Gold Mining Finance, 1886–1914. By Robert V. Kubicek. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1979. Pp. xii, 239. $12.75 pp. 803-804

Elena L. Berger

Dependency and Development in Latin America. By Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto. Translated by Marjory Mattingly Urquidi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Pp. vii, 227. $ 18.50 cloth, $4.50 paper pp. 804-805

Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro

Mexican Agriculture, 1521–1630: Transformation of the Mode of Production. By Andre Gunder Frank. Studies in Modern Capitalism. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 91. $13.95 pp. 805-806

Ruth Pike

Sugar and the Underdevelopment of Northeastern Brazil, 1500–1970. By Kit Sims Taylor. Gainesville: The University Presses of Florida, 1978. Pp. x, 167. $9.00 pp. 806-807

Pedro Carvalho de Mello

The Merchants of Buenos Aires, 1778–1810: Family and Commerce. By Susan Migden Socolow. Cambridge Latin American Studies, 30. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 253. $22.50 pp. 807-808

James R. Scobie

An Economic History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century. By Laura Randall. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. x, 323. $17.50 pp. 808-809

James H. Street

Coffee and Conflict in Colombia, 1886–1910. By Charles W. Bergquist. Durham: Duke University Press, 1978. Pp. x, 277. $16.75 pp. 809-810

William J. Fleming

The Commonwealth Caribbean: The Integration Experience. By Sidney E. Chernik and others. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, for the World Bank, 1978. Pp. 521. $22.50 pp. 810-811

B. W. Higman

The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775–1850. By Malcolm J. Rohrbough. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. 444. $ 17.50 pp. 811-812

Charlotte W. Wells

Fabric of Freedom, 1763–1800. Revised Edition. By Esmond Wright. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978. Pp. xvi, 304. $15.00 cloth, $6.95 paper pp. 811-811

Gerald Gunderson

Farmers without Farms: Agricultural Tenancy in Nineteenth-Century Iowa. Contributions in American History. No. 79. By Donald L. Winters. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. 267. $15.95 pp. 812-813

Dale Hoover

The Roots of Black Poverty: The Southern Plantation Economy after the Civil War. By Jay Mandle. Durham: Duke University Press, 1978. Pp. 144. $8.75 pp. 813-814

Joseph D. Reid

Hired Hands: Seasonal Farm Workers in the United States. By Stephen H. Sosnick. Santa Barbara: McNally & Loftin, West, 1978. Pp. xi, 453. $20.00 cloth, $14.95 paper pp. 814-815

Daniel A. Sumner

Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City. By Tamara K. Hareven and Randolph Langenbach. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. Pp. 389. $15.00 pp. 815-816

Tom E. Terrill

Which Side Are You On? The Harlan Coal Miners, 1931–39. By John W. Hevener. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 216. $10.95 pp. 816-817

J. Carroll Moody

Philadelphia's First Fuel Crisis: Jacob Cist and the Developing Market for Pennsylvania Anthracite. By H. Benjamin Powell. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978. Pp. 167. $10.00 pp. 817-818

Richard Hydell

Copper Mining and Management. By Thomas R. Navin. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1978. Pp. 341. $16.50 cloth, $9.75 paper pp. 819-820

Gary D. Libecap

Tombstones and Paving Blocks: The History of the Maine Granite Industry. By Roger L. Grindle. Rockland, Maine: Courier-Gazette, Inc., 1977. Pp. xi, 277 pp. 819-819

Albro Martin

Iron Road to the West: American Railroads in the 1850s. By John F. Stover. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. xii, 232. $ 14.95 pp. 820-821

Richard Hydell

Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis. By Louis P. Cain. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1978. Pp. xv, 141. $15.00 pp. 821-822

Martha Moore Trescott

The Origin and Resolution of an Urban Crisis: Baltimore, 1890–1930. By Alan D. Anderson. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1977. Pp. xi, 143. $12.00 pp. 822-823

Christopher Curren

The Productivity Dilemma: Roadblock to Innovation in the Automobile Industry. By William J. Abernathy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. 265. $16.00 pp. 823-825

Richard Hydell

R. G. Dun & Co. 1841–1900: The Development of Credit-Reporting in the Nineteenth Century. By James D. Norris. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. xx, 206. $17.50 pp. 825-826

James H. Madison

Inflation and the Money Supply in the United States, 1956–1977. By Peter I. Berman. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath & Company, 1978. Pp. xiii, 137 pp. 826-827

Douglas Fisher

American Ethnic Groups. Edited by Thomas Sowell. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, 1978. Pp. vii, 252. $7.50 paper pp. 827-828

John Bodnar

Natives and Strangers: Ethnic Groups and the Building of America. By Leonard Dinnerstein, Roger L. Nichols, and David M. Reimers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. ix, 333. $13.95 pp. 828-829

Dominic Candeloro

The Kirtland Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics. By Marvin S. Hill, C. Keith Rooker, and Larry T. Wimmer. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1977. Pp. viii, 85. $4.95 pp. 829-829

Michael P. Shields

A History of Social Welfare and Social Work in the United States, 1815–1972: By James Leiby. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. 426. $17.50 pp. 829-830

Elyce Rotella

The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America. By Lawrence Goodwyn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. xxiv, 349. Cloth, $15.95; paper, $4.95 pp. 830-831

Thomas Burnell Colbert

Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream. By G. S. Boritt. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1978. Pp. xxiv, 432. $ 15.00 pp. 831-832

Elisha P. Douglass

Political Control of the Economy. By Edward R. Tufte. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 168. $10.00 pp. 832-833

Clair E. Morris

Religious Thought and Economic Society: Four Chapters of an Unfinished Work. By Jacob Viner. Edited and with an Introduction by Jacques Melitz and Donald Winch. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1978. Pp. 211. $11.75 pp. 833-834

Gaston V. Rimlinger

Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretative Sociology. 2 vols. By Max Weber. Translated and edited by, Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. ex, 1469; lxiv. $52.75 cloth, $22.50 paper pp. 834-835

Karl de Schweinitz

Class, Crisis, and the State. By Erik Olin Wright. New York: Schocken Books, 1978. Pp. 255. $13.95 pp. 835-836

W. Elliot Brownlee

Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations, 1776–1976: Bicentennial Essays. Edited and with an Introduction by Fred R. Glahe. Boulder, Colorado: Colorado Associated University Press, 1978. Pp. x, 172, $12.50. - Adam Smith and Modern Political Economy: Bicentennial Essays on the Wealth of Nations. Edited by Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1979. Pp. xv, 181. $10.50 pp. 836-838

A. W. Coats

Understanding Marxism: An Approach through Dialogue. By W. H. C. Eddy. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1979. Pp. xviii, 157. $17.50 pp. 838-839

Richard Kalish

The Economics of Vilfredo Pareto. Renato Cirillo. Totowa, N.J.: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1979. Pp. ix,148. $22.50 pp. 839-840

Vincent J. Tarascio

Marx and the End of Orientalism. By Bryan S. Turner. Controversies in Sociology, No. 7. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1978. Pp. 98. $21.00 cloth, $8.95 paper pp. 839-839

Richard Wolff

The Shadow of Keynes: Understanding Keynes, Cambridge, and Keynesian. Economics. Elizabeth S. Johnson and Harry G. Johnson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 253, $15.00 pp. 840-841

A. W. Coats

Essays on the History of Accounting: The Development of Contemporary Accounting Thought. By Basil S. Yamey. New York: Arno Press, 1978. Pp. xxvi, 225. $25.00 pp. 841-842

Stanley L. Engerman

The Capitalist World-Economy: Essays. By Immanuel Wallerstein. New York and London: Cambridge University Press; Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1979. Studies in Modern Capitalism/Etudes sur le capitalisme moderne. Pp. xiv, 305. $36.00 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 842-843

E. L. Jones

Imperialism in the Twentieth Century. By A.P. Thornton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977. Pp. xii, 363. $20.00 pp. 843-844

David K. Fieldhouse

Foreign State Enterprise: A Threat to American Business. By Douglas F. Lamont. New York: Basic Books, 1979. Pp. xv, 272. $11.95 pp. 844-845

Mira Wilkins

World Industrial Archaeology. By Kenneth Hudson. New Studies in Archaeology Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. vii, 247. $37.50 cloth, $9.95 paper pp. 845-846

Charles K. Hyde

World Accumulation, 1492–1789. By Andre Gunder Frank. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1978. Pp. 303. $16.50 pp. 846-847

Jan de Vries

Imperialism: From the Colonial Age to the Present. By Harry Magdoff. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1978. Pp. 279. $12.50 pp. 847-849

David K. Fieldhouse

Late Capitalism. By Ernest Mandel. Translated by Joris De Pres. London: NLB (Verso Edition), 1978; distributed in the USA and Canada by Schocken Books. Pp. 618. $9.95 pp. 849-850

W. W. Rostow

The New Economic History of the Railways. By Patrick O'Brien. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. Pp. 121. $13.95 pp. 850-850

Gerald Gunderson

The World Automotive Industry. By Gerald Bloomfield. North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles, 1978. Pp. 368. $32.50 pp. 851-852

James M. Laux

Induced Innovation: Technology, Innovation, Institutions, and Development. By Hans P. Binswanger and Vernon W. Rutten. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 423. $22.50 pp. 852-853

S. B. Saul

British Overseas Investment, 1918–1931. By John Michael Atkin. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arao Press, 1977. Pp. viii, 351. $28.00 pp. 853-854

Michael Edelstein

Bretton Woods: Birth of a Monetary System. By Armand Van Dormael. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1978. Pp. xi, 322. $21.00. - Floating Exchange Rates and National Economic Policy. By Stanley W. Black. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. xvii, 204. $12.95 pp. 854-856

Charles P. Kindleberger

Twenty-Five Years of Economic Development, 1950–1975. By David Morawetz. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 125. $3.50. - Image and Reality in Economic Development. By Lloyd G. Reynolds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. xiii, 497. $25.00 pp. 856-857

Michael Wattleworth

The Rise of Professionalism: A Sociological Analysis. By Magali Sarfati Larson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xviii, 309. $14.95 pp. 857-858

Gaston V. Rimlinger

The Demise of a Rural Economy. By Stephen Gudeman. International Library of Anthropology. London, Henley, and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. Pp. vii, 176. $16.50 pp. 858-859

Bernard Olsen

Inter Organizational Relations. Edited by William M. Evan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976; American edition, 1978. Pp. xi, 442. $4.95, paper pp. 859-861

Mary Yeager

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte (1977). Part 1. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1977. Pp. 314 28 M pp. 861-862

William Forsyth

Annali della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi (1976). Vol. 10. Turin: Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, 1977. Pp. 643. Lit. 12.000 pp. 861-861

Gianni Toniolo

Volume 39, issue 2, 1979

The Sailing of the “Saint Esprit” pp. 345-362

Rosalind Kent Berlow

Estimating Crop Yields from Probate Inventories: An Example from EastAnglia, 1585–1735 pp. 363-378

Mark Overton

The Russian Balance of Payments, the Gold Standard, and Monetary Policy: A Historical Example of Foreign Capital Movements pp. 379-400

Paul R. Gregory

The Labor Force Participation of Turn-of-the-Century Married Women pp. 401-418

Martha Norby Fraundorf

Bulk Exports, Trade Tiers, Regulation, and Development: An Economic Approach to the Study of West Africa's “Legitimate Trade” pp. 419-438

Christopher Chamberlin

Economic and Demographic Determinants of Educational Commitment: Massachusetts, 1855 pp. 439-459

Alexander Field

The Antebellum Money Market and the Economic Impact of the Bank War: A Comment pp. 461-466

Christopher Curran and Jack Johnston

The Antebellum Money Market and the Economic Impact of the Bank War: A Reply pp. 467-474

Marie Elizabeth Sushka

The Diffusion of the Reaper: One More Time! pp. 475-476

Alan Olmstead

Penultimo Cavour pp. 477-480

Frank M. Murtaugh

Conflict on the Left: Marxist Economists and the Friendly Enemy pp. 481-486

Jon S. Cohen

Les Toscans et leurs familles: Une étude du Catasto florentin de 1427. By David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1978. Pp. 728. 260 FF pp. 495-496

Aldo De Maddalena

The Procuratori di San Marco and the Venetian Credit Market: A Study of the Development of Credit and Banking in the Trecento. By Reinhold C. Mueller. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 384. $27.00 pp. 496-497

Louise Buenger Robbert

Epidemic Disease in Fifteenth-Century England: The Medical Response and the Demographic Consequences. By Robert S. Gottfried. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1978. Pp. xiii, 262. $17.00 pp. 497-497

A. R. Bridbury

Cities and the Sea: Port City Planning in Early Modern Europe. By Josef W. Konvitz. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. xv, 235. $17.00 pp. 498-499

Richard Rapp

Guide international d'histoire urbaine. Vol. I: Europe. Compiled by Philippe Wolff. Commission Internationale pour l'Histoire des Villes. Paris: Éditions Klincksieck, 1977. Pp. 544 pp. 498-498

Eric E. Lampard

Dutch Trade with Russia from the Time of Peter I to Alexander I: A Quantitative Study in Eighteenth Century Shipping. Vols. I–III. By Jake Th. Knoppers. Centre Interuniversitaire d'Etudes Européennes, Montreal, Occasional Papers, No. 1. Amsterdam: Directie Oostersche Handel en Reederijen, 1976. Pp. lv, 867 pp. 499-500

Walther Kirchner

Brits-Nederlandse Handel en Scheepvaart, 1870–1914: Een Analyse van Machtsafbrokkeling op een Markt. By Roeland W.J.M. Bos. Wageningen: Druk Co. Pudoc, 1978. Pp. xi, 419 pp. 500-501

H. R. C. Wright

Women, Work, and Family. By Louis A. Tilly and Joan W. Scott. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978. Pp. xiv, 274 pp. 501-502

Neil J. Smelser

The Growth of European Mixed Economies, 1945–1970; A Concise Study of the Economic Evolution of Six Countries. By Sima Lieberman. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1977. Pp. xix, 347. $18.95 pp. 502-503

Herman Van der Wee

Comparative Industrial Relations in Europe. Edited by Derek Torrington. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. 270. $18.95 pp. 503-505

Val R. Lorwin

National Health Insurance and Health Resources: The European Experience. By Jan Blanpain with Luc Delesie and Herman Nys. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 294. $18.50 pp. 505-506

Edward P. Duggan

Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism. By David Levine. Studies in Social Discontinuity. New York: Academic Press, 1977. Pp. xiv, 191. $14.50 pp. 506-507

Carole Shammas

The Tudor Coinage. By C. E. Challis. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1978. Pp. 348. $27.50 pp. 507-508

Ben Baack

Trade and Industry in Tudor and Stuart England. By Sybil M. Jack. London: Allen and Unwin, 1977. Pp. 200. $23.25 cloth, $10.95 paper pp. 508-509

R. B. Outhwaite

Trade and Transport: Essays in Economic History in Honour of T. S. Willan. Edited by William H. Chaloner and Barrie M. Ratcliffe. Totowa, N. J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977; distributed for Manchester University Press. Pp. x, 293. $26.50 pp. 509-510

Walter Minchinton

A Selection from the Records of Philip Foley's Stour Valley Iron Works, 1668–74. Part I. Edited by R. G. Schafer. Worcestershire Historical Society Publications, New Series, volume 9. Worcester, 1978. Pp. xxiii, 128. £12.00 to non-members pp. 510-510

M. W. Flinn

Diamonds and Coral: Anglo-Dutch Jews and Eighteenth Century Trade. By Gedalia Yogev. Leicester: Leicester University Press; New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1978. Pp. 360 pp. 511-512

Sima Lieberman

The Industrial Revolution: The Birth of the Modern Age. By Peter Lane. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1978. Pp. xii, 276. $18.50 pp. 512-513

Charles K. Hyde

When I Was a Child. By Charles Shaw. Firle, Sussex: Caliban Books, 1977. Pp viii, 256. £7.50. - A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. By John Brown. Firle, Sussex: Caliban Books, 1977. Pp vi, 100. £6.00 pp. 513-514

S. G. Checkland

Bridge Hall Mills: Three Centuries of Paper and Cellulose Film Manufacture. By Martin Tillmanns. Bury Lancashire: Transparent Paper Ltd., 1978. Pp. xi, 219; tables and illustrations. £6.00 pp. 514-515

Neil K. Buxton

Pioneers of Prefabrication: The British Contribution in the Nineteenth Century. By Gilbert Herbert. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. xii, 228. $17.50 pp. 515-516

James H. Soltow

Business Organisation in Great Britain, 1856–1914. By James B. Jefferys. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 476. $32.00 pp. 516-517

Leslie Hannah

Ethics and Society in England: The Revolution in the Social Sciences, 1870–1914. By Reba N. Soffer. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978. Pp vii, 325 pp. 517-518

Craufurd Goodwin

The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb. 3 volumes. Edited by Norman MacKenzie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xvii, 453; xi, 405; ix, 482. $125.00 pp. 518-519

Harold Smith

Dictionary of Labour Biography. Volumes 3 and 4. Edited by Joyce M. Bellamy and John Saville. Fairfield, N.J.: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1977. Pp. xix, 236; xix, 236. $37.50 each pp. 519-520

David Mitch

Labour and the Left in the 1930's. By Ben Pimlott. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xi, 259. $13.95 pp. 520-521

Joseph Finkelstein

Immigrants and Minorities in British Society. Edited by Colin Holmes. Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin. Pp. 208. $24.75 pp. 521-522

B. R. Mitchell

The Agrarian History of England and Wales. Volume VIII: 1914–39. By Edith H. Whetham. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xxiii, 353. $29.50 pp. 522-523

Wray Vamplew

Terre et hommes en Lorraine (1550–1635): Toulois et Comté de Vaudémont. 2 vols. By Guy Cabourdin. Annales de l'Est. Nancy: Université de Nancy II, 1977. Pp. 424; 335 pp. 523-524

Thomas F. Sheppard

Mines, manufactures et ouvriers du Valenciennois au XVIIIe siècle. 2 volumes. By Philippe Guignet. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 844. $52.00.s pp. 524-525

William M. Reddy

Une société rurale aux XIXe siècle: Les paysans du Calvados, 1815–1895. By Gabriel Desert. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xxxviii, 808. $53.00.s pp. 525-526

George Grantham

Village on the Seine: Tradition and Change in Bonnières, 1815–1914. By Evelyn Bernette Ackerman. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1978. Pp. 185 pp. 526-527

Paul M. Hohenberg

La Croissance agricole en France et en Bourgogne de 1850 à nos jours. 2 volumes. By Jean-Baptiste Viallon. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 226; 278. $34.00 pp. 527-528

William H. Newell

Agricultural Productivity and Economic Development in France, 1852–1950. By Louis-Marie Goreux. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. vii, 376. $18.00. - Population Change and Agricultural Development in Nineteenth-Century France. By William Henry Newell. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xvii, 199. $20.00 pp. 529-530

Michel Morineau

Les Forêts de la Cote dʼOr au XlXème siècle et l'utilisation de leurs produits. By Arlette Brosselin. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xxxvii, 263. $28.00 pp. 530-531

Charles E. Freedeman

Les raffineries de sucre des ports en France, XlXe-début du XXe siècles. By Jacques Fierain. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 632. $42.00 pp. 531-532

Reed Geiger

Les Agences régionales du Crédit Lyonnais, années 1870–1914. By Jacques Dagneau. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xx, 485; appendices. $45.00 pp. 532-533

Michael S. Smith

La Politique des grands travaux en France, 1929–1939: Grands travaux et investissements publics des années trente dans la tradition administrative française. By Pierre Saly. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 601. $27.00 pp. 533-534

Michael J. Rust

La Mortalité dans les campagnes: Le duché de Brabant aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. 2 volumes. By Claude Bruneel. Recueil de Travaux d'Histoire et de Philologie, series 6, fasc. 10. Louvain: Editions Nauwelaerts, 1977. Pp. lxiv, 777; 97 (maps, graphs). FrB 1800 pp. 534-535

Myron P. Gutmann

Kernproblemen der Economische Geschiedenis. Edited by H. Baudet and H. Van Der Meulen. Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1978. Pp. xi, 404. DF 45 pp. 535-537

Joel Mokyr

A. A. G. Bijdragen, 21. Wageningen: Afdeling Agrarische Geschiedenis, Landbouwhogeschool, 1978. Pp. 398; appendix, 52 tables, 53 figures, 6 maps pp. 537-538

Frank E. Dykema

Agrarian Structure and Peasant Politics in Scandinavia: A Comparative Study of Rural Response to Economic Change. By Øyvind Østerud. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1978. Pp. 278. $15.00 pp. 538-539

Bernard Olsen

Agrarkrisen und Agrarkonjunktur. Eine Geschichte der Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft Mitteleuropas seit dem hohen Mittelalter. By Wilhelm Abel. Third revised and expanded edition; Hamburg and Berlin: Verlag Paul Parey, 1978. Pp. 323. DM 98 pp. 539-540

Jerome Blum

Basler Wirtschaft in vor- und frühindustrieller Zeit: Ökonomische Theorie und Wirtschaftsgeschichte im Dialog. By Peter Stolz. Basler Sozialökonomische Studien, vol. 6. Zürich: Schulthess Polygraphischer Verlag, 1977. Pp. v, 178. Sfr. 28 pp. 540-541

Herman Freudenberger

Population Growth, Economic Development, and Social Change in Bavaria, 1750–1850. By W. Robert Lee. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xxxi, 462 pp. 541-542

Eckart Schremmer

Wirtschaftswachstum und Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Preussen 1816 bis 1914. By Gerd Hohorst. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xii, 467. $32.00 pp. 542-543

Lawrence Schofer

Economic-Demographic Interrelations in Developing Agricultural Regions: A Case Study of Prussian Upper Silesia, 1840–1914. By Michael R. Haines. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xliv, 499. $35.00 pp. 543-543

William H. Hubbard

Technik und technischer Fortschritt im Industrialisierungsprozess: Dargestellt am Beispiel der Papier-, Zucker- und chemischen Industrie der nördlichen Rheinlande (1800–1875). By Ralf Schaumann. Rheinisches Archiv, 101. Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid Verlag, 1977. Pp. 553 pp. 544-545

Hans R. Rosenberg

Public Policy in Industrial Growth: The Case of the Ruhr Mining Region, 1776–1865. By Manfred Dieter Jankowski. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 300. $27.00 pp. 544-544

Paul B. Huber

German Banks and German Economic Growth from Unification to World War I. By Hugh Neuburger. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 135. $15.00 pp. 546-547

Udo Heyn

Die Konzentration in der deutschen Wirtschaft seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte Supplement II. Edited by Hans Pohl and Wilhelm Treue. Wiesbaden: Steiner Verlag, 1978. Pp. vii, 87 pp. 546-546

Richard Tilly

Die deutsche Wirtschaft in der Zwischenkriegszeit. By Dietmar Petzina. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1977. Pp. 205. DM 18 pp. 547-548

William H. Hubbard

Die Herausbildung der sozialistischen Planwirtschaft in der DDR: Aufgaben, Methoden und Ergebnisse der Wirtschaftsplanung in der zentralgeleiteten volkseigenen Industrie während der Übergangsperiode vom Kapitalismus zum Socialismus. By Jörg Roesler. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1978. Pp. xix, 355. 25.00 M pp. 548-549

Robert J. Gibbons

Economic Growth and Economic Policy in a Multi-National Setting: The Habsburg Monarchy, 1841–1865. By Thomas Huertas. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. ii, 114. $15.00 pp. 549-550

David F. Good

Österreichische Agrarstatistik 1750–1918. By Roman Sandgruber. Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik Österreich-Ungarns, Part 2. Directed by Alfred Hoffmann and Herbert Matis. Vienna: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik; also Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1978. Pp. 265 pp. 550-551

Nachum T. Gross

Von der Provinzstadt zur Industrieregion (Brünn-Studie): Ein Beitrag zur Politökonomie der Sozialinnovation, dargestellt am Innovationsschub der industriellen Revolution im Raume Brünn. By Herman Freudenberger and Gerhard Mensch. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975. Pp. 130. DM 28. - Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft der Wiener Stadterweiterung. By Franz Baltzarek, Alfred Hoffmann, and Hannes Stekl. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1975. Pp. 343 pp. 551-552

Steven B. Webb

Sallustio Bandini: Con una nuova edizione del “Discorso sopra la Maremma di Siena.” By George R. F. Baker. Translated by Jacopo Detti. Biblioteca de storia Toscana moderna e contemporanea, Studi e Documenti, 16. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1978. Pp. xi, 300. L. 5,500 pp. 552-553

Lloyd Saville

Produzione e commercio della carta nello stato veneziano settecentesco: lineamenti e problemi. By Ivo Mattozzi. Bologna: Università degli Studi di Bologna, Istituto di Storia Medioevale e Moderna, 1975. Pp. 100 pp. 553-554

Peter R. Toscano

Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily. By Jane and Peter Schneider. New York: Academic Press, 1976. Pp. xv, 256 pp. 554-555

Gustav Schachter

Finance and Industrialization in Italy, 1894–1914. By Jon S. Cohen. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 164. $18.00 pp. 554-554

Shepard B. Clough

La Bureba à L'époque de Philippe II. 2 vols. By Francis Brumont. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arao Press, 1977. Pp. 161; tables, maps, graphs. $20.00 pp. 555-556

Ruth Pike

El latifundio: Propiedad y explotación, ss. XVIII-XX. By Miguel Artola, A.M. Bernal, and Jaime Contreras. Madrid: Ministerio de Agricultura, 1978. Pp. 197 pp. 556-557

Juan Hernández Andreu

Antiguo régimen y revolución liberal. By Miguel Artola. Barcelona: Editorial Ariel, 1978. Pp.318 pp. 557-558

David R. Ringrose

Banking, Railroads, and Industry in Spain, 1829–1874. By Gabriel Tortella-Casares. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xii, 707. $45.00 pp. 559-559

James H. Rial

Hungary. Központi Statisztikai Hivatal Könyvtára, Történeti statisztikai tahulmányok (Statistical historical studies). Volume 3 (1977). Pp. 348 pp. 559-560

John Komlos

Transportation in Eastern Europe: Empirical Findings. By Bogdan Mieczkowski. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. xv, 221. $14.50 pp. 560-561

Georg Ranki

A History of the Russian-American Company. By P. A. Tikhmenev. Richard A. Pierce and Alton S. Donnelly, trans, and ed. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 522. $35.00 pp. 561-562

Walther Kirchner

Der russische Imperialismus: Studien über denn Zusammenhang von innerer und auswärtiger Politik, 1860—1914. By Dietrich Geyer. Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft, 27. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1977. Pp. 344; tables. DM 92 pp. 562-563

Anita B. Baker

China's Modern Economy in Historical Perspective. Edited by Dwight Perkins. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975, Pp. xiv, 344. $13.85. - China's Economic Revolution. By Alexander Eckstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xii, 340. $19.95 cloth, $6.95 paper pp. 563-565

Shannon R. Brown

Economic Growth and Distribution in China. By Nicholas R. Lardy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. x, 244. $ 18.95 pp. 565-566

Bobby A. Williams

Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese Trade, 1652–1853. By Sarasin Viraphol. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. xi, 253. $15.00 pp. 566-567

Yeh-Chien Wang

Economic Development of Taiwan, 1860–1970. By Samuel P. S. Ho. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978. Pp. xx, 461. $27.50 pp. 567-568

Shou-Eng Koo

Kurusu: The Price of Progress in a Japanese Village, 1951–1975. By Robert J. Smith. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1978. Pp. xviii, 269; index. $15.00 pp. 569-570

Koji Taira

Annotated Bibliography on the Economic History of India (1500 A. D. to 1947 A.D.) Volume I: Parts 1 to 4; Volume II: Parts 5 and 6. Edited by V. D. Divekar and others. Pune and New Delhi: Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics and Indian Council of Social Science Research, 1977. Pp. xxviii, 96; 311; 82; 241; xxviii, 181; 318. $60.00 each volume pp. 570-571

Morris David Morris

Twilight of the Pepper Empire: Portuguese Trade in Southwest India in the Early Seventeenth Century. By A. R. Disney. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. 227. $18.50 pp. 571-572

C. R. Boxer

The Structure of Disparity in Developing Agriculture: A Case Study of the Pakistan Punjab. By Shigemochi Hirashima. Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 1978. Pp. xii, 138. $18.00 pp. 572-573

David Feeny

The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade. By Herbert S. Klein. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xxiii, 282. $20.00 cloth, $9.75 paper pp. 573-574

Patrick Bryan

British Slave Trade Suppression Policies, 1821–1865. By E. Phillip LeVeen. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. x, 186. $18.00 pp. 574-575

David Eltis

British Business and Ghanaian Independence. By Josephine F. Milbourn. Hanover, N.H.: The University Press of New England, 1977. Pp. ix, 156; tables, index. $12.50 pp. 575-576

Holger L. Engberg

A Comparative Economic History of Latin America: 1500–1914. 4 volumes. Volume I: Mexico. Volume II: Argentina. Volume III: Brazil. Volume IV: Peru. By Laura Randall. Monograph Publishing on Demand, Sponsor Series. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, by University Microfilms International, 1977. Pp. 295; 268; 269; 231. $16.50 each pp. 576-577

Kenneth J. Grieb

The Spanish Caribbean: Trade and Plunder, 1530–1630. By Kenneth R. Andrews. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 258. $17.50 pp. 577-578

Ruth Pike

Silver Mines and Silver Miners in Colonial Peru, 1776–1824. By J. R. Fisher. Centre for Latin-American Studies Monograph Series, no. 7. Liverpool: The University of Liverpool, 1977. Pp. 151. £2.75 pp. 579-579

Enrique Tandeter

Estratificación socio-racial y económica de Costa Rica: 1700–1850. By Lowell Gudmundson Kristjanson. San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia, 1978. Pp. 178 pp. 579-580

Susan Migden Socolow

In Pursuit of Happiness: American Perceptions of Property from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. By William B. Scott. Bloomington: Indiana' University Press, 1977. Pp. xi, 244 pp. 580-581

Jonathan Hughes

The Promise of American Life: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century Immigrant Community, Holland, Michigan, 1847–1894. By Gordon W. Kirk Jr. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1978. Pp. 164. $8.00 pp. 581-582

Howard P. Chudacoff

Fortunes and Failures: White Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. By Peter R. Decker. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. xvi, 336. $20.00 pp. 582-583

Roger D. Simon

Old Age in the New Land: The American Experience since 1790. By W. Andrew Achenbaum. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1979. Pp. xii, 237. $13.95 pp. 583-583

Robert Clark

Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America. By David M. Katzman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. xviii, 374. $14.95 pp. 584-584

Elyce J. Rotella

When Workers Fight: The Politics of Industrial Relations in the Progressive Era, 1898–1916. By Bruno Ramirez. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. vii, 241. $17.50 pp. 585-585

Daniel J. Leab

The Factory Girls. Edited by Philip S. Foner. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977. Pp. xxvii, 360. $15.00 pp. 585-585

H. M. Gitelman

The Knights of Labor in the South. By Melton A. McLaurin. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Corporation, 1978. Pp. xi, 232. $16.95 pp. 586-586

Max M. Schreiber

Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865–1914. By Robert Higgs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977 pp. 586-587

Joel Williamson

Agriculture in the Postbellum South: The Economics of Production and Supply. By Stephen J. DeCanio. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1974. Pp. xii, 335. $16.50 pp. 588-589

Robert Higgs

The Urban Idea in Colonial America. By Sylvia Doughty Fries. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1977. Pp. xviii, 218. $12.50 pp. 589-589

Edward P. Duggan

Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution. By Anthony F. C. Wallace. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Pp. xx, 553. $ 17.50 pp. 589-591

Stanley L. Engerman

The City-Building Process: Housing and Services in New Milwaukee Neighborhoods, 1880–1910. By Roger D. Simon. Philadelphia: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 68, Pt. 5, July 1978. Pp. 64. $8.00 pp. 591-591

Louis P. Cain

The Challenge to Urban Liberalism: Federal-City Relations during World War II. By Phillip J. Funigiello. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1978. Pp. xx, 273. $13.50 pp. 591-592

Alan D. Anderson

Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change. By Merritt Roe Smith. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977. Pp. 363. $15.00 pp. 592-594

Paul Uselding

The American Railroad Passenger Car. By John H. White Jr. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. xii, 699. $45.00 pp. 594-595

John B. Rae

Cleveland: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites. Edited by Daniel M. Bluestone. Washington, D.C.: Historic American Engineering Record, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1978. Pp. vi, 118 pp. 594-594

Edward Pershey

The Railroad Mergers and the Coming of Conrail. By Richard Saunders. Contributions in Economics and Economic History, No. 19. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. viii, 389. $25.00 pp. 595-596

Kent T. Healy

Money and Capital Markets in Postbellum America. By John A. James. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xv, 293. $16.00 pp. 596-597

Richard H. Keehn

Analysis of Inflation: 1965 to 1974. Edited by Joel Popkin. Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1977. Pp. 485. $20.00 pp. 597-599

Michael Bordo

Budgets and Bureaucrats: The Sources of Government Growth. Edited by Thomas E. Borcherding. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 291. $13.75 pp. 599-600

W. Elliot Brownlee

The Antitrust Penalties: A Study in Law and Economics. By Kenneth G. Elzinga and William Breit. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. Pp. vii, 160. $10.50 pp. 600-601

Clair E. Morris

Promoters and Politicians: The North Shore Railways in the History of Quebec, 1854–85. By Brian J. Young. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978. Pp. xii, 193. $15.00 pp. 601-602

Trevor J. O. Dick

The Decay of Trade: An Economic History of the Newfoundland Saltfish Trade, 1935–1965. By David Alexander. St. John's, Newfoundland: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1977. Pp. x, 173 pp. 602-602

Douglas McCalla

Socialism in Canada: A Study of the CCF-NDP in Federal and Provincial Politics. By Ivan Avakumovic. Toronto: Ontario: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1978. Pp. 316. $6.95, paper pp. 602-603

R. E. Olley

Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1177–1740. By Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson. London: Allen and Unwin, 1978. Pp. 189. $24.75 pp. 604-604

Camille Castorina

Adam Smith's Politics: An Essay in Historiographic Revision. By Donald Winch. Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 206. $22.95 cloth; $6.95 paper pp. 604-605

Thomas Sowell

Pour une histoire de la statistique. Volume I: Contributions. By F. Bédarida, et al. Paris: Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques, 1978. Pp. 593. 50 F pp. 605-605

Richard Roehl

The Evolution of Economic Ideas. By Phyllis Deane. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xv, 236. $21.00 cloth, $7.95 paper pp. 606-607

Alexander Field

Keynes, Cambridge, and the General Theory. Edited by Don Patinkin and J. Clark Leith. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978. Pp. xii, 182. $20.00 pp. 607-608

Robert Lekachman

The Inequality of Pay. By Henry Phelps Brown. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xv, 360. $16.75 pp. 608-609

Martin Bronfenbrenner

Politics and Markets: The World's Political-Economic Systems. By Charles E. Lindbloom. New York: Basic Books, 1977. Pp. xii, 403. $15.00 pp. 609-610

D. E. Moggridge

Economic Studies: Contributions to the Critique of Economic Theory. By David P. Levine. London, Henley, and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. Pp. xi, 318. $19.50 pp. 611-612

Hans E. Jensen

The Livelihood of Man. By Karl Polanyi, edited By Harry W. Pearson. New York, San Francisco, and London: Academic Press, 1977. Pp. lv, 280. $17.50. - The Origins of the Economy: A Comparative Study of Distribution in Primitive and Peasant Economies. By Frederic L. Pryor. New York, San Francisco, and London: Academic Press, 1977. Pp. xviii, 475. $19.50 pp. 612-614

Barrington Moore

Population Patterns in the Past. Edited by Ronald Demos Lee. New York: Academic Press, 1977. Pp. x, 376; illustrations. $19.00. - Historical Studies in Changing Fertility. Edited by Charles Tilly. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. ix, 390; illustrations. $27.50 cloth, $10.95 paper pp. 614-616

David Levine

Neptune's Gift: A History of Common Salt. By Robert P. Multhauf. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. xviii, 326. $22.50 pp. 616-616

John Geise

Nahrungsmittel-Produktion und Weltaussenhandel seit Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts. By Gertrud Helling. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1977. Pp. xiii, 383. DDR 48 M pp. 617-617

Geza Grosschmid

The International Economy and the Undeveloped World, 1865–1914. By A. J. H. Latham. London: Croom Helm Ltd., 1978. Pp. 217. $21.50 pp. 618-619

John R. Hanson

Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600–1775: A Handbook. By John J. McCusker. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1978. Pp. xiv, 365. $25.95 pp. 618-618

Julian Gwyn

Growth and Fluctuations, 1870–1913. By W. Arthur Lewis. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1978. Pp. 333, tables, charts pp. 620-621

W. W. Rostow

Volume 39, issue 1, 1979

Notes on the Social Saving Controversy pp. 1-54

Robert Fogel

Money, Prices, and Economic Development in India, 1861–1895 pp. 55-68

John Adams and Robert Craig West

The Impact of Regional Differences in Prices and Wages on Economic Growth: The United States in 1890 pp. 69-85

Philip Coelho and James F. Shepherd

Damnifying Growth in the Antebellum South pp. 87-100

Thomas F. Huertas

Interregional Per Capita Income Differentials and Convergence: 1880–1950 pp. 101-112

Charles A. Roberts

Competing Hypotheses of Underdevelopment: A Thai Case Study pp. 113-127

David Feeny

Property Rights, Nineteenth-Century Federal Timber Policy, and the Conservation Movement pp. 129-142

Gary D. Libecap and Ronald N. Johnson

Dearth, Famine, and Risk: The Changing Impact of Crop Failures in Western India, 1870–1920 pp. 143-157

Michelle Burge McAlpin

The Role of Institutional Influences in Patterns of Agricultural Development in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: A Cross-Section Quantitative Study pp. 159-176

Irma Adelman and Cynthia Taft Morris

Discussion pp. 177-179

William N. Parker

The Transfer of Technology to China in the Nineteenth Century: The Role of Direct Foreign Investment pp. 181-197

Shannon R. Brown

Household Values, Women's Work, and Economic Growth, 1800–1930 pp. 199-209

W. Elliot Brownlee

The Cultural Determinants of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: A Case Study Of Mendoza Province, Argentina, 1861–1914 pp. 211-224

William J. Fleming

The Case of the Impoverished Sophisticate: Human Capital and Swedish Economic Growth before World War I pp. 225-241

Lars G. Sandberg

Economic Growth in Colonial New England: “Statistical Renaissance” pp. 243-257

Terry L. Anderson

Eastern Financiers and Institutional Change: The Origins of the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company and the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company pp. 259-273

John Denis Haeger

The Economic Growth of the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Colonies pp. 275-288

Allan Kulikoff

American Economic Growth before 1840: New Evidence and New Directions pp. 289-301

Diane Lindstrom

Comment pp. 303-309

Paul David

Comment pp. 311-312

Robert E. Gallman

Mayo and Beyond: Land, Domestic Industry, and Rural Transformation in the Irish West pp. 323-324

Eric L. Almquist

Costs of Contracting and the Decline of Tenancy in the South, 1930–1960 pp. 324-326

Lee Alston

Aggregate Aspects of the Poor Law, Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment in Britain, 1855–1940 pp. 326-329

Stephen Easton

Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England pp. 329-331

Ann S. Kussmaul

Women's Labor Force Participation and the Growth of Clerical Employment in the United States, 1870–1930 pp. 331-333

Elyce J. Rotella

The Transition from Slave to Freedman Labor Arrangements in Southern Agriculture, 1865–1870 pp. 333-336

Ralph Shlomowitz

Comment on Alston and Shlomowitz pp. 336-338

Claudia Goldin

Comment on Almquist and Kussmaul pp. 338-339

Michelle Burge McAlpin

Comment on Rotella and Easton pp. 339-340

Mary Yeager