The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 38, issue 4, 1978

Agricultural Growth against a Land Resource Constraint: A Comparative History of Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and the Philippines pp. 839-864

Masao Kikuchi and Yujiro Hayami

Western Settlement and the Price of Wheat, 1872–1913 pp. 865-878

Knick Harley

Hard Driving and Efficiency: Iron Production in 1890 pp. 879-900

Peter Berck

Economic Opportunity and the Responses of “Old” and “New” Migrants to the United States pp. 901-917

James Dunlevy and Henry A. Gemery

The Household Balance Sheet and the Great Depression pp. 918-937

Frederic Mishkin

The Profitability of the Suez Canal as a Private Enterprise, 1859–1956 pp. 938-958

Bent Hansen and Khairy Tourk

The Cost of World War II to the Soviet People: A Research Note pp. 959-962

James R. Millar and Susan Linz

Towns in Societies: Essays in Economic History and Historical Sociology. Edited by Philip Abrams and E. A. Wrigley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. $17.95 pp. 967-967

Leo F. Schnore

Le Conte's Report on East Florida. Edited by Richard Adicks. Orlando: University Presses of Florida, 1978. Pp. x, 80. $5.00 pp. 968-968

Gary D. Libecap

Mutualità e cooperazione in Piemonte: Le Società operaie di vinovo dall'eta Cavouriana alla crisi de fine secolo. By Renata Allio. Santeno: Fondazione “Camillo Cavour,”1977. Pp. 77 pp. 968-969

Elmiro Argento

Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece: An Introduction. By M. M. Austin and P. Vidal-Naquet. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xv, 397. $20.00 pp. 969-970

John Buckler

The Decision to Divide Germany. By John H. Backer. Durham: Duke University Press, 1978. Pp. x, 212. $9.95 pp. 970-971

Arthur Schweitzer

The Glassmakers. Pilkington: The Rise of an International Company, 1826–1976. By T. C. Barker. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. Pp. xxxi, 557. £10.00 pp. 971-972

Irene D. Neu

Community and Social Change in America. By Thomas Bender. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1978. Pp. 159. $8.00 pp. 973-973

Marcellus S. Snow

The United States and Cuba: Hegemony and Dependent Development, 1880–1934. By Jules Robert Benjamin. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. Pp. xii, 188. $14.95 pp. 974-975

Charles E. Neu

The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe. By Jerome Blum. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xiii, 505. $27.50 cloth, $12.50 paper pp. 975-976

E. L. Jones

Austro-Marxism. Translated and edited by Tom Bottomore and Patrick Goode, with an Introduction by Tom Bottomore. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. viii, 308. $19.95 cloth, $8.50 paper pp. 977-978

Richard Wolff

Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism. By Fernand Braudel; translated by Patricia M. Ranum. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. Pp. xi, 120. $7.95 pp. 978-979

Rondo Cameron

Wealth and Power in Antebellum Texas. By Randolph B. Campbell and Richard G. Lowe. College Station and London: Texas A&M University Press, 1977. Pp. iv,. 183. $14.50 pp. 979-980

Jeremy Atack

Revolution in the Third World. By Gerard Chaliand. Hassocks, Sussex: The Harveste Press, 1977. Pp. xxii, 195, $11.95 pp. 980-981

William Woodruff

Welch's Grape Juice: From Corporation to Co-operative. By William Chazanof. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1977. Pp. 407. $20.00 pp. 981-982

Anna M. Craig

The Lands of Hawaii: Their Use and Misuse. By Thomas H. Creighton. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1978. Pp. xii, 417. $15.00 pp. 982-983

Gary D. Libecap

Feudalism. By John S. Critchley. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1978. Pp. 210 pp. 983-984

Stefano Fenoaltea

Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today, Vol. 2. By Antony Cutler, Barry Hindess, Paul Hirst, and Athar Hussain. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. Pp. vii, 307. $16.50 cloth, $8.25 paper pp. 984-985

Richard B. Du Boff

The Chivalrous Society. By Georges Duby. Translated by Cynthia Postan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. viii, 246. $28.50 pp. 985-986

John W. Perrin

The Soviet Union. Edited by R. W. Davies. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1978. Pp. 191. $14.75 cloth, $7.50 paper pp. 985-985

J. Patrick Lewis

Land and Labour in Latin America: Essays on the Development of Agrarian Capitalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited by Kenneth Duncan and Ian Rutledge with the collaboration of Colin Harding. Cambridge Latin American Studies, vol. 26. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xiii, 535. $29.95 pp. 986-987

Tamás Szmrecsányi

Essays on the Service Industry and Social Security in Japan. By Koichi Emi. Tokyo: Kinokuniya Book-Store Co., Ltd., 1978. Pp. xi, 186. ¥2,300 pp. 987-988

Richard Rice

Social Policy, 1830–1914: Individualism, Collectivism, and the Origins of the Welfare State. Edited by Eric J. Evans. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. Pp. xvi, 302. $15.00 cloth, $9.00 paper pp. 988-989

Katherine Schreuder Whitman

Corporate Power and Urban Crisis in Detroit. By Lynda Ann Ewen. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xii, 312. $17.50 pp. 989-990

Charles Cheape

La Banqueroute de Law. By Edgar Faure. Trente journées qui ont fait la France, no. 15, le 17 juillet 1720. Paris: Gallimard, 1977. Pp. 742, illustrations pp. 990-991

Martyn Lyons

Essays in Southern Labor History: Selected Papers, Southern Labor History Conference, 1976. Edited by Gary M. Fink and Merl E. Reed. Westport, Conn, and London: Greenwood Press, 1977. Pp. xv, 275 pp. 991-992

Leonard Carlson

Money, Financial Flows, and Credit in the Soviet Union. By George Garvy. Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1977. Pp. xii, 223 pp. 992-994

Andrzej Brzeski

Farm Workers and Agri-Business in California, 1947–1960. By Ernesto Galarza. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977. Pp. xiii, 405. $11.95 pp. 992-992

Pamela J. Nickless

Financing Strikers. By John Gennard London: Macmillan, 1977. Pp. xi, 184. £8.95 pp. 994-995

John Williams

The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages. By Jean Gimpel. London and New York: Penguin Books, 1977. Pp. xi, 274; tables, charts, illustrations. $2.95 pp. 995-996

Ian Blanchard

Textes et documents d'histoire du Moyen Age, XIVe-XVe siècles. Vol. I: Perspectives d'ensemble: Les “crises” et leur cadre. Vol. II: Les structures agraires et la vie rurale. Edited by Jean Glénisson and John Day. Regards sur l'histoire, nos. 14 and 30. Paris: Société d'Edition d'Enseignement Supérieur, 1970 and 1977. Pp. xlvii, 341; viii, 308 pp. 996-997

Kathryn L. Reyerson

Immigrant Destinations. By Caroline Golab. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1977. Pp. x, 246. $15.00 pp. 997-998

Dominic Candeloro

China's Economy and the Maoist Strategy. By John G. Gurley. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1976. Pp. ix, 325. $15.00 pp. 999-999

Peter Schran

Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan; 1600–1868. By Susan B. Hanley and Kozo Yamamura. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. Pp. 409. $27.50 cloth, $10.75 paperback pp. 999-1001

Carl Mosk

Mining and Metallurgy in the Greek and Roman World. By J. F. Healy. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1978. Pp. 316. $19.95 pp. 1001-1002

Morris E. Fine

Domination, Legitimation, and Resistance; The Incorporation of the Nineteenth-Century English Working Class. By Francis Hearn. Contributions in Labor History, no. 3. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. 309. $17.95. - Conflict or Cooperation? The Growth of Industrial Democracy. By John Elliott. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1978. Pp. xiv, 306. $21.50 pp. 1002-1003

David Mitch

Rice in Malaya: A Study in Historical Geography. By R. D. Hill. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xvii, 234. $39.50 pp. 1003-1004

Vernon Ruttan

The Economics of European Imperialism. By Alan Hodgart. London: Edward Arnold, 1977. Pp. xi, 88. $7.95 pp. 1004-1005

D. K. Fieldhouse

Land and People in Nineteenth-Century Wales. By David W. Howell. Studies in Economic History. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. Pp. xv, 207. $15.50 pp. 1005-1007

Barbara Solow

Einfuhrung in die historische Demographie. By Arthur E. Imhof. Munich: Verlag C. Beck, 1977. Pp. 149 pp. 1007-1008

Michael Haines

Global Fracture: The New International Economic Order. By Michael Hudson. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1977. Pp. 296. $12.50 pp. 1007-1007

Pierce G. Fredericks

The Iron Barons: A Social Analysis of an American Urban Elite, 1874–1965. By John N. Ingham. Contributions in Economics and Economic History, No. 18. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. xix, 242. $19.95 pp. 1008-1009

Louis P. Cain

Villes d'imprimerie et moulins à papier du XIVe au XVIe siècle: Aspects èconomiques et sociaux. International colloquium, Spa, Sept. 11–24, 1973. Brussels: Centre Culturel du Crédit Communal de Belgique, 1976. Pp. 369. 1100F pp. 1010-1010

John Muendel

Den effektiva arbetstiden: Verkstäderna och arbetsintensitetens problem, 1900–1920. By Alf. Johansson. Stockholm: Almquist & Wicksell International, 1977. Pp. 182. Sw. Kr. 66.50 pp. 1011-1012

Lars G. Sandberg

Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York: Manorial Society, 1664–1775. By Sung Bok Kim. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978. Pp. xxii, 456. $19.00 pp. 1012-1012

Gloria L. Main

Das Wachstum der Deutschen Baumwollindustrie im 19. Jahrhundert. Eine Historische Modellstudie zur empirischen Wachstumsforschung. By Günter Kirchhain. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 378. $27.00 pp. 1013-1013

Klaus H. Wolff

Studies in Russian-American Commerce, 1820–1860. By Walther Kirchner. Studien zur Geschichte Osteuropas, 19. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1975. Pp. x, 265. Guilders 68 pp. 1014-1015

Patricia Herlihy

Angestellte zwischen Faschismus und Demokratie: Zur politischen Sozialgeschichte der Angestellten, USA 1890–1940 im internationalen Vergleich. By Jürgen Kocka. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1977. Pp. 556. DM 92 pp. 1015-1016

Gerd Korman

An Economic History of Tropical Africa. 2 vols. Edited by Z. A. and J. M. Konczacki. London: Frank Cass, 1977. Pp. xv, 260; xii, 310. $49.00 pp. 1016-1017

Philip D. Curtin

Bank Control of Large Corporations in the United States. By David M. Kotz. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. 217. $11.50 pp. 1017-1018

Benjamin J. Klebaner

Zur Geschichte der Wirtschaftsgeschichtsschreibung. By Jürgen Kuczynski. Studien au einer Geschichte der Gesselschaftswissenschaften, vol. 8. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1978. Pp. 230 pp. 1019-1020

Karl H. Niebyl

The Decline of Belgian Fertility, 1800–1970. By Ron J. Lesthaeghe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. Pp. xix, 259. $16.50 pp. 1020-1022

Herbert Moller

A History of South Africa. By Robert Lacour-Gayet. New York: Hastings House, 1978. Pp. 387. $9.95 pp. 1020-1020

Elena L. Berger

Economic Development in the Philadelphia Region, 1810–1850. By Diane Lindstrom. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. vii, 255. $15.00 pp. 1022-1022

Robert E. Gallman

Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America. By Harold C. Livesay. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. Pp. 195. $3.95 pp. 1022-1023

Ronald M. Benson

I Riccardi di Firenze: Una famiglia e un patrimonio nella Toscana dei Medici. By Paolo Malanima. Biblioteca di Storia Toscana Moderna e Contemporanea, 15. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1977. Pp. viii, 272. Lire 5000 pp. 1023-1025

David Herlihy

Class and Status in France: Economic Change and Social Immobility,.1945–1970. By Jane Marceau. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. 217. $13.95 pp. 1025-1026

Maurice Lévy-Leboyer

Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade. By Calvin Martin. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 221. $10.95 pp. 1026-1027

Leonard Carlson

Altopascio: A Study in Tuscan Rural Society, 1587–1784. By Frank McArdle. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. x, 226. $22.50 pp. 1027-1028

Bernard Dov Cooperman

Smith, Marx, and After: Ten Essays in the Development of Economic Thought. By Ronald L. Meek. London: Chapman & Hall, 1977. Pp. 193. $17.95 pp. 1028-1030

Werner Hochwalds

Some Economic Aspects of Railroad Development in Tsarist Russia. By Jacob Metzer. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 138. $15.00 pp. 1030-1031

William J. Kelly

Carlo Bosellini, Opere Complete. Vol. I: Nuovo esame delle sorgenti della privata e pubblica ricchezza. Vol. II: Opere minori. Edited by Miriam Rotondo Michelini. Turin: Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, 1976. Pp. xiii, 629; 750. lit. 36,000 pp. 1031-1032

Joseph S. Giganti

The Agricultural Revolution: Changes in Agriculture, 1650–1880. Edited and with Introduction by G. E. Mingay. Documents in Economic History, Sidney Pollard, general editor. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1977. Pp. 322. £6.95 pp. 1032-1033

Morton Rothstein

Terms of Trade and Class Relations: An Essay in Political Economy By Ashok Mitra. London: Frank Cass, 1977. Pp. xi, 193. $25.00 pp. 1033-1034

Robert Baldwin

Economisch- en Sociaal-Historisch Jaarboek. Vol. 40 (1977). The Hague: Martinus Nijhof, for Het Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief, 1977. Pp. 322 pp. 1035-1036

Wayne Te Brake

The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa. Edited by Robin Palmer and Neil Parsons. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. xviii, 448; 9 maps. $16.50 clodi, $5.95 paper pp. 1036-1037

Elena L. Berger

Business Imperialism, 1840–1930: An Inquiry Based on British Experience in Latin America. Edited by D. C. M. Platt. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 449. $28.50 pp. 1037-1038

Michael Edelstein

The Social Impact of the Telephone. Edited by Ithiel de Sola Pool. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1977. Pp. viii, 502 pp. 1038-1039

Hugh G. J. Aitken

One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation. By Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch. Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xix, 409. $19.95 pp. 1039-1041

Robert E. Gallman

The World Economy: History and Prospect. By Walt W. Rostow. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 833. $34.50 pp. 1041-1043

William N. Parker

España hace tin siglo: una economía dual. By Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1977. Pp. 183 pp. 1043-1044

James H. Rial

Relations of Production: Marxist Approaches to Economic Anthropology. Edited by David Seddon. Translated by Helen Lackner. London: Frank Cass and Co., Ltd., 1978. Pp. xiii, 414. $9.50 pp. 1044-1045

Anne Mayhew

The Landed Society and the Farming Community of Essex in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. By Colin Shrimpton. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 425 pp. 1045-1046

Julia Emmons

Drang nach Afrika: Die Koloniale Expansionspolitik und Herrschaft des deutschen Imperialismus in Afrika von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des zweiten Weltkrieges. Edited by Helmuth Stoecker. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1977. Pp. 370. 38 M pp. 1046-1047

Nicholas Balabkins

Essays in British Business History. Edited by Barry Supple. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. Pp. viii, 267. $17.50 cloth, $10.50 paper pp. 1048-1050

Alfred Chandler

Economic Regulation and the Public Interest: The Federal Trade Commission in Theory and Practice. By Alan Stone. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977. Pp. 314. $15.00 pp. 1048-1048

Donald H. K. Farness

Relazioni dei rettori veneti in terraferma. Vol. VIII: Provveditorato di Legnano. Vol. IX: Podestaria e capitanato di Verona. Edited by Amelio Tagliaferri and others. Milan: Dott. A. Giuffrè for the Istituto di Storia Economica, Università di Trieste, 1977. Pp. lxiv, 234; lxxxviii, 643. L 9,000; L 20,000 pp. 1050-1051

Benjamin G. Kohl

Las características operativas de las instituciones bancarias y de ahorro como factores relevantes en la determinación de las tasas de interés. By José M. Tejero García. Madrid: Confederatión Espacola de Cajas de Ahorros, 1978. Pp. 317. 600 pesetas pp. 1051-1052

Gabriel Tortella-Casares

On Money: A Translation of Della Moneta by Ferdinando Galiani. By Peter R. Toscano. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms Monographs, 1977. Pp. 432. $29.00 pp. 1052-1053

Camille Castorina

Food and Population in the Middle East. Edited with an Introduction by Elias H. Tuma. Washington, D.C.: Institute for Middle Eastern and African Affairs, Inc., 1976. Pp. 84 pp. 1053-1054

Kenneth W. Stein

Dutch Shipbuilding before 1800: Ships and Guilds. By Richard W. Unger. Aspects of Economic History: The Low Countries, no. 2. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1978. Pp. xii, 216 and 7 plates. Dfl. 32.50 pp. 1054-1055

H. R. C. Wright

Industrialisierung und Qualität der Arbeit: Eine Bildungsökonomische Untersuchung für das 19. Jahrhundert. By Herman von Laer. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 470. $32.00 pp. 1055-1056

Ramon Knauerhase

Steam Power and British Industrialization to 1860. By G. N. Von Tunzelmann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. x, 344. $31.00 pp. 1056-1058

Charles Hyde

The Economic and Business History of the South Wales Steam Coal Industry, 1840–1914. By R. H. Walters. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 375. $35.00 pp. 1058-1059

William Hausman

The Way the World Works: How Economies Fail—and Succeed. By Jude Wanniski. New York: Basic Books, 1978. Pp. xv, 319. $12.95 pp. 1059-1060

Gerald Gunderson

The Limits of Trade Union Militancy: The Lancashire Textile Workers, 1910–1914. By Joseph L. White. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. x, 258. $16.95 pp. 1060-1061

Lars G. Sandberg

An Introduction to the Sources of European Economic History, 1500–1800. Edited by Charles Wilson and Geoffrey Parker. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977. Pp. xxx, 256. $17.50 pp. 1062-1063

Jan De Vries

The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century. By Gavin Wright. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1978. Pp. 205. $10.95 pp. 1063-1065

Roger L. Ransom

Volume 38, issue 3, 1978

American Law and the Marketing Structure of the Large Corporation, 1875–1890 pp. 631-649

Charles W. McCurdy

Banking and Economic Growth in Sweden before World War I pp. 650-680

Lars G. Sandberg

American Shipping and Trade, 1798–1820: The Evidence from Leghorn pp. 681-700

Charles A. Keene

Indentured Servitude: The Philadelphia Market, 1771–1773 pp. 701-713

Robert O. Heavner

Structural Retardation and the Modernization of French Agriculture: A Skeptical View pp. 714-728

Vernon Ruttan

The Twentieth Century Fontana pp. 729-733

Charles P. Kindleberger

Finance and Enterprise in Early America: A Study of Stephen Girard's Bank, 1812–1831. By Donald R. AdamsJr, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 163. $12.50 pp. 737-738

Stuart Bruchey

From Versailles to Wall Street, 1919–1929. By Derek H. Aldcroft. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. 283. $12.95 pp. 738-740

Graeme Snooks

Lecturas de histofia económica de Espãna. Vol. I: Siglos XVlll y XIX. Vol. II: Siglo XX. Edited by Rafael Aracil and M. García Bonafé. Barcelona: Oikos-Tau, S. A.-Ediciones, 1976, 1977. Pp. 352, 491 pp. 740-741

David R. Ringrose

The Australian Trading Banks. By H. W. Arndt and W. J. Blackert. Fifth edition; Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1977. Pp. xii, 206. $12.00 pp. 741-742

Albert J. Robinson

L M Ericsson 100 Years. Volume I: The Pioneering Years, Struggle for Concessions, Crisis, 1876–1932. By Artur Attman, Jan Kuuse, and Ulf Olsson. Translated by Allan Green, Eve Green, and Keith Bradfield. Volume II: Rescue, Reconstruction, Worldwide Enterprise, 1932–1976. By Artur Attman and Ulf Olsson. Translated by Allan Green, Eve Green, and Keith Bradfield. Volume III: Evolution of the Technology, 1876–1976. By Christian Jacobaeus. Translated by John Hogg. Örebro Sweden: Ljungföretagen, 1977. Pp. xv, 369; viii, 389; xv, 425 pp. 742-744

August W. Giebelhaus

Alienation, Praxis, and Techne in the Thought of Karl Marx. By Kostas Axelos. Translated by Ronald Bruzina. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. Pp. xxxiii, 401. $12.50 pp. 744-746

Sidney Hook

De Nasomer vań Antwerpens Welvaart: De Diaspora en het Handelshuis De Groote tijdens de eerst helft der 17de eeuw;, 2 vols. By Roland Baetens. Historische Uitgaven Pro Civiate, no. 45. Brussels: Gemeentekrediet van Belgie, 1976. Pp. 391, 370; appendices, graphs, maps, plates. 980 FB the set; paper pp. 746-747

Frank E. Dykema

Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899–1923. By John D. Bell. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977. Pp. xiv, 271. $16.50 pp. 747-748

John R. Lampe

The Origins of International Economic Disorder. By Fred L. Block. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. 282 pp. 749-749

William B. Harrison

Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870–1940. By John Bodnar. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. Pp. 213 pp. 750-751

H. M. Gitelman

Geld und Banken im 19 und 20. Jahrhundert. By Karl E. Born. Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlag, 1977. Pp. viii, 663. DM 28.50 pp. 751-752

David F. Good

Apostles into Terrorists: Women and the Revolutionary Movement in the Russia of Alexander II. By Vera Broido. New York: Viking Press, 1977. Pp. vii, 238. $15.00 pp. 752-753

Anita B. Baker

International Organization, National Policies and Economic Development. Edited by Karl Brunner and Allan H. Meltzer. VI Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy. Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co., 1977. Pp. viii, 240 pp. 753-755

Carlos Manuel Pelaez

Worker Participation in Europe. By J. R. Carby-Hall. London: Croom Helm; To-towa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1977: Pp. 271. $18.50 pp. 755-756

Harvey Mitchell

Earning a Crust: An Illustrated Economic History of Australia. By Brian Carroll. Sydney: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1977. Pp. 176. $US 13.95 pp. 756-757

Albert J. Robinson

The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. By Alfred D. ChandlerJr, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. xv, 608 pp. 757-761

Thomas Weiss

Latin America: A Guide to Economic History, 1830–1930. Edited by Roberto Cortés Conde and Stanley J. Stein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. 703. $35.00 pp. 761-762

John H. Coatsworth

Political Economists and the English Poor Laws: A Historical Study of the Influence of Classical Economics on the Formation of Social Welfare Policy. By Raymond G. Cowherd. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1977. Pp. xvii, 300 pp. 762-764

A. W. Coats

Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition. By Seymour Drescher. Pittsburgh, Penn.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. Pp. 279. $14.95 pp. 764-766

Richard B. Sheridan

Economic History of Canada: A Guide to Information Sources. By Trevor J. O. Dick. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1978. Pp. xiii, 174 pp. 764-764

Hugh G. J. Aitken

Getreideumsatz, Getreide- und Brotpreise in Köln, 1368–1797. Part II: Brotgewichte find Brotpreise: Wochen-, Monats- und Jahrestabelle, Graphiken: Edited by Dietrich Ebeling and Franz Irsigler. Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau-Verlag, 1977. Pp. lii, 270, plus 86 graphs pp. 766-767

Herbert Moller

Legislatures in Plural Societies: The Search for Cohesion in National Development. Edited by Albert F. Eldridge. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1977. Pp. xv, 284. $12.75 pp. 767-767

Allan G. Bogue

Scottish Population History from the Seventeenth Century to the 1930s. Edited by Michael Flinn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xxv, 547 pp. 767-769

Michael Drake

Better City Government: Innovation in American Urban Politics, 1850–1937. By Kenneth Fox. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1977. Pp. xxi, 222. $15.00 pp. 769-770

Alan D. Anderson

Recent Developments in the Study of Business and Economic History: Essays in Memory of Herman E. Krooss. Edited by Robert E. Gallman. Research in. Economic History, Supplement'I.. Greenwich, Conn: JAI Press, 1977. Pp. ix, 305. $27.50 institutions; $12.50 individuals pp. 771-772

Stanley L. Engerman

Belgian Business in the Nazi New Order. By John Gillingham. Ghent-Belgium: Jan Dhondt Stichting, 1977. Pp.237 pp. 772-773

Arthur Schweitzer

Political Economy in Parliament, 1819–1823. By Barry Gordon. New York: Bames and Noble, 1977. Pp. ix, 246. $21.50 pp. 773-775

Alexander Field

Privatkapital und Kanalbau in Frankreich, 1814–1848. Eine Fallstudie zur Rolle in der französischen Industrialisierung. By Helmut Grosskreutz. Schriften zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, vol. 28. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1977. Pp. 351. DM 56 pp. 775-776

Manfred Jankowski

Concentration in Modern Industry: Theory, Measurement and the U. K. Experience. By Leslie Hannah and J. A. Kay. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1977. Pp. 144. $17.50 pp. 776-778

James H. Soltow

William Beveridge: A Biography. By José Harris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. 488. $22.00 pp. 778-779

Pierce G. Fredericks

Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536–1966. By Michael Hechter. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xviii, 361. $4.95 pp. 779-780

R. C. Michie

Population, Prosperity and Poverty: Rural Kano, 1900 and 1970. By Polly Hill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. 240. £8.50 pp. 780-781

Jan Hogendorn

Corn, Cash, Commerce: The Economic Policies of the Tory Governments, 1815–1830. By Boyd Hilton. Oxford: The University Press, 1978. Pp. ix, 338. $19.50 pp. 781-783

Glenn Hueckel

Technological Change and the British Iron Industry, 1700–1870. By Charles K. Hyde. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 283. $18.50 pp. 783-784

R. H. Campbell

The Golden Constant: The English and American Experience, 1560–1976. By Roy W. Jastram. New York: John Wiley, 1977. Pp. xvii, 231; tables and charts pp. 784-786

Anna Schwartz

Haciendas and Plantations in Latin American History. Edited by Robert G. Keith. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1977. Pp. vi, 200. $18.00 cloth pp. 786-787

John P. Harrison

Karl Korsch: Revolutionary Theory. Edited by Douglas Kellner. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1977. Pp. vii, 299. $14.95 pp. 787-788

William M. Dugger

Economic Response: Comparative Studies in Trade, Finance, and Growth. By Charles P. Kindleberger. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. viii, 308. $16.50 pp. 788-789

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Dynamic Economics: By Burton H. Klein. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. ix, 289. $15.00 pp. 789-791

Louis P. Cain

Economic Growth and Structure in the Republic of Korea. By Paul W. Kuznets. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. xv, 238. $16.50 pp. 791-792

Kang Chao

Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations: Essays in Historical Sociology. Peter Laslett. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. vii, 270. $24.50 cloth, $8.95 paper pp. 792-793

Tamara K. Hareven

The Evolution of the International Economic Order. By W. Arthur Lewis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. 81. $7.50 cloth, $2.45 paper pp. 794-794

John R. Hanson

A History of the Bolivian Labour Movement, 1848–1971. By Guillermo Lora. Edited and abridged by Laurence Whitehead. Translated by Christine Whitehead. Cambridge Latin American Series, no. 27. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. x, 408. $24.95 pp. 795-796

Vincent C. Peloso

Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe. By John P. McKay. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976. Pp. 266. $14.50 pp. 796-797

Edward P. Duggan

Social and Economic Change in Modern Peru. Edited by Rory Miller. Clifford T. Smith, and John Fisher. Centre for Latin-American Studies Monograph Series, 6. Liverpool: University of Liverpool, 1977. Pp. 197, tables, maps. £2.75 pp. 798-799

William Glade

The Development of the Economies of Continental Europe, 1850–1914. By Alan S. Milward and S. B. Saul. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. 555 pp. 799-801

William N. Parker

The Economy of Later Renaissance Europe, 1460–1600. By Harry A. Miskimin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. x, 222. $15.95 cloth, $4.95 paper pp. 801-802

Martin Wolfe

L'industrializzazione in Italia (1861–1900). Edited by Giorgio Mori, with annotated bibliography compiled by Michele Lungonelli. Bologna: II Mulino, 1977. Pp. 429. pp. 8,000 pp. 802-803

Frank M. Murtaugh

New York City Mutual Savings Banks, 1819–1861. By Alan L. Olmstead. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1976. Pp. xiv, 236. $15.95 pp. 803-804

Richard H. Keehn

An Italian Lordship: The Bishopric of Lucca in the Late Middle Ages. By Duane J. Osheim. Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, 8. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 211. $9.00 pp. 805-806

David Herlihy

Die Wirtschaft der griechisch-römischen Antike. By Thomas Pekáry. Wissenschaftliche Paperbacks: Sozial-und Wirtschaftgeschichte, vol. 9. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1976. Pp. x, 133. DM 18 pp. 806-806

James Harper

A Comparative Economic History of Latin America: 1500–1914. Volume 1: Mexico. By Laura Randall. Ann Arbor, Michigan.: Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, by University Microfilms International, 1977. Pp. 295; index, tables, notes, bibliography. $16.50 pp. 807-808

Kenneth J. Grieb

Sheep Farming in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Lincolnshire. By J. A. Perkins. Occasional Paper no. 4. Lincoln: The Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 1977. Pp. 58. £ 1.40 pp. 807-807

Ian P. H. Duffy

An Introduction to the History of English Medieval Towns. By Susan Reynolds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xiv, 234. $17.50. - The Medieval City. Edited by Harry A. Miskimin, David Herlihy, and A. L. Udovich. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. x, 345. $18.50 pp. 808-810

R. D. Face

The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Volume V: The Economic Organization of Early Modern Europe. Edited by E. E. Rich and C. H. Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xi, 749. $38.50 pp. 810-812

Rondo Cameron

The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen. By L. T. C. Rolt and J. S. Allen. New York: Science History Publications/USA, 1977. Pp. 160; illustrations, appendix, bibliography. $15.00 pp. 813-815

Charles K. Hyde

The Yugoslav Experiment, 1948–1974. By Denison Rusinow. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xxii, 410. $16.50 pp. 815-815

Benjamin Ward

Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers. Edited by Raphael Samuel. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1977. Pp. xvi, 363 pp. 816-817

Robert Thornton

Nigerian Capitalism. By Sayre P. Schatz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xii, 294, tables, index. $19.50 pp. 817-818

Holger L. Engberg

Nakahara: Family Farming and Population in a Japanese Village, 1717–1830. By Thomas C. Smith, with Robert Y. Eng and Robert T. Lundy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977. Pp. xiii, 183. $10.00 pp. 818-819

Carl Mosk

Les Travaux publics de la ville de Bruges, XIVe-XVe siècles. By Jean-Pierre Sosson. Collection Histoire Pro Civitate, no. 48. Brussels: Credit Communal de Belgique, 1977. Pp. 375. 750 FB. - Urbanisme en Kapitalisme te Antwerpen in de 16de Eeuw. By Hugo Soly. Historische Uitgaven Pro Civitate, no. 47. Brussels: Gemeentekrediet van Belgie, 1977. Pp. 496. 700 FB pp. 819-821

Josef Konvitz

La mercatura e la formazione del prezzo nella riflessione teologica medioevale. By Amleto Spicciani. Memoria: Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche, ser. VIII, vol.XX, fasc. 3. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1977. Pp. 125, tables pp. 821-822

Louise Buenger Robbert

Die Wachstumszyklen der deutschen Wirtschaft von 1840 bis 1880. By Reinhard Spree. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1977. Pp. xxxii, 577. DM 60 pp. 822-824

Thomas F. Huertas

The Economic and Social Growth of Early Greece, 800–500 B.C. By Chester G. Starr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xii, 267. $12.50 pp. 824-826

James R. Millar

Growth and Structural Changes in the Korean Economy, 1910–1940: The Korean Economy under the Japanese Occupation. By Sang-Chul Suh. Harvard East Asian Monograph Series. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. 227. $15.00 pp. 826-827

Bertrand Renaud

Arator, Being a Series of Agricultural Essays, Practical and Political: In Sixty-Numbers. By John Taylor. Edited and with an Introduction by M. E. Bradford. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund Inc., 1977. Pp. 394. $9.00 pp. 827-828

Robert E. Gallman

Colbert. By Andrew Trout. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978. Pp. 244. $12.50 pp. 828-829

John J. Hurt

La Population de Diest pendant les deux premiers tiers du XIXe siècle. By Michel Theys. Collection Pro Civitate, ser. 8, no. 50. Brussels: Credit Communal de Belgique, 1977. Pp. 164. 300 BF pp. 828-828

Joel Mokyr

De Economische Geschiedenis van Nederland. Edited by J. H. Van Stuijvenberg. Groningen: Wolters Noordholt, 1977. Pp. x, 398; index. DF 39.50 pp. 829-831

Joel Mokyr

Research in Economic History: An Annual Compilation of Research. Volume 2 (1977). Edited by Paul Uselding. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1977. Pp. 389. $12.50 pp. 831-832

Cynthia Taft Morris

The Fur Trade in Minnesota: An Introductory Guide to Manuscript Sources. Compiled by Bruce M. White. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1977. Pp. 61. $4.50 pp. 833-833

Kenneth Hammer

Frauenarbeit im “Dritten Reich.” By Dörte Winkler. Historische Perspektiven, vol. 9. Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1977. Pp. 253. DM 36 pp. 833-834

James S. Roberts

Volume 38, issue 2, 1978

The Diffusion of the New Husbandry in Northern France, 1815–1840 pp. 311-337

George W. Grantham

Economic Variables and the Development of the Law: The Case of Western Mineral Rights pp. 338-362

Gary D. Libecap

Marketing Methods in the International Steam Engine Market: The Case of Boulton and Watt pp. 363-391

Jennifer Tann

Foreign Interest Rates in American Financial Markets: A Revised Series of Dollar-Sterling Exchange Rates, 1833–1900 pp. 392-417

Edwin J. Perkins

Taxation and Inequality in Uganda, 1900–1964 pp. 418-438

Vali Jamal

American Entrepreneurs and the Horatio Alger Myth pp. 439-456

Bernard Sarachek

Economies of Scale in Western River Steamboating: A Comment pp. 457-466

Jeremy Atack

Economies of Scale in Western River Steamboating: A Reply pp. 467-470

Erik F. Haites and James Mak

The Rate of Settlement of the Canadian Prairies, 1870–1911: A Comment pp. 471-473

K. Gary Grant

The Rate of Settlement of the Canadian Prairies, 1870–1911: A Reply pp. 474-475

Kenneth H. Norrie

The Kreditbanken and German Growth: A Postscript pp. 476-479

John Komlos

German Banks and German Growth: Reply to Komlos pp. 480-486

Hugh Neuburger, Houston Stokes and John Komlos

The Post-Bellum Recovery of the South and the Cost of the Civil War: Comment pp. 487-492

Claudia Goldin and Frank Lewis

Reply to Goldin and Lewis pp. 493-493

Peter Temin

Professionalism and the Transformation of American Social Thought pp. 494-499

Dorothy Ross

French Economic and Social History from the Revolution to the 1880s pp. 500-506

Charles E. Freedeman

Program of the 1978 Meeting of the Economic History Association pp. 509-512

Anonymous

The Socialist Price Mechanism. Edited by Alan Abouchar. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1977, Pp. xvi, 298. $14.75. - The Structure of Economic Systems. By John M. Montias. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. Pp. x, 323. $20.00 pp. 513-514

Gaston V. Rimlinger

Merchants and Merchandise: The Expansion of Trade in Europe, 1500–1630. By J. N. Ball. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. Pp. 226. $16.95 pp. 514-515

Jan de Vries

Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development: Chile. By Jere R. Behrman. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1976; distributed by Columbia University Press. Pp. xxv, 408. $17.50 pp. 515-516

Markos Mamalakis

Farming in Prehistory: From Hunter-Gatherer to Food-Producer. By Barbara Bender. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975. Pp. xi, 268, illustrations. $18.95. - The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of Agriculture. By Mark Nathan Cohen. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. x, 341. $15.00. - Crops & Man. By Jack R. Harlan. Madison, Wis.: American Society of Agronomy and Crop Science Society of America, 1975. Pp. xi, 295, illustrations. $12.25 pp. 516-519

Jonathan D. Sauer

The Mining Industry and the Developing Countries. By Rex Bosson and Bension Varon. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1977. Pp. xii, 292. $13.95 cloth, $5.95 paper pp. 519-520

S. G. Checkland

The Currency of the American Colonies, 1700–1764: A Study in Colonial Finance and Imperial Relations. By Leslie V. Brock. New York: Arno Press, 1975. Pp. vi + ix, 601. $43.00 pp. 520-521

John McCusker

International Organization, National Policies and Economic Development. Edited by Karl Brunner and Allan H. Meltzer. VI Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy. Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co., 1977. Pp. viii, 240 pp. 521-522

Carlos Manuel Peláez

The Making of Economics. By E. Ray Canterbury. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1976. Pp. xii, 275 pp. 522-523

John K. Whitaker

The Fontana Economic History of Europe. Vol. 1: The Middle Ages. Edited by Carlo M. Cipolla. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1976. Pp. 389. $16.50 pp. 524-524

Stefano Fenoaltea

Die Augsburger Steuerbücher um 1600. By Claus-Peter Clasen. Augsburg: Verlag Hieronymus Mühlberger, 1976. Pp. 64 pp. 524-525

Eckart Schremmer

Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade. By Philip D. Curtin. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. Pp. 363; maps, illustrations, tables, index. Supplementary Evidence, pp. 150. $15.00 cloth pp. 525-527

Peter Duignan

Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn. By Alan Dawley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976. Pp. viii, 301. $17.50 pp. 527-528

Roger D. Simon

Interpretations of Fascism. By Renzo de Felice. Translated by Brenda Huff Everett. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. xiii, 241. $15.00 pp. 528-530

Melinda Murtaugh

Amalfi medioevale. By Mario Del Treppo and Alfonso Leone. Biblioteca di Studi Meridionali, 5. Naples: Giannini Editore, 1977. Pp. xii, 340. Lire 12,000 pp. 530-531

David Herlihy

Essays on Caribbean Integration and Development. By William G. Demas. Jamaica, West Indies: Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1976. Pp. 159. $6.50 pp. 531-532

Jay R. Mandle

Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development: Colombia. By Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1976. Pp. 281 pp. 532-533

William Paul McGreevey

Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World. By William A. Douglass and Jon Bilbao. University of Nevada Press: Reno, Nevada, 1975. Pp. 519. - By the Sweat of Their Brow: Mexican Immigrant Labor in the United States, 1900–1940. By Mark Reisler. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976. Pp. xi, 298. $14.50 pp. 533-535

H. M. Gitelman

From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology. By Louis Dumont. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977. Pp. ix, 236. $16.50 pp. 535-536

William Baumol

The Social Physics of Adam Smith. By Vernard Foley. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1976. Pp. xvii, 265. $11.95 pp. 536-537

Scott Gordon

The European Multinationals: A Renewed Challenge to American and British Big Business. By Lawrence G. Franko. Stamford, Conn.: Greylock Publishers, 1976. Pp. xii, 276 pp. 538-539

Charles Wilson

Nationalism, Technology and the Future of Canada. Edited by Wallace Gagne. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1976. Pp. 167. $12.50 cloth, $4.95 paper pp. 539-540

Alan Rugman

Population and Emigration. By D. V. Glass and P. A. M. Taylor. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1976. Pp. 125. £4.95 pp. 540-541

Allen C. Kelley

Interwar Britain: A Social and Economic History. By Sean Glyn and John Oxborrow. New York: Harper and Row, 1976. Pp. 276. $15.75 pp. 541-542

Sidney Pollard

Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200–1800. Edited by Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk, and E. P. Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. 421. $19.95 pp. 542-544

Robert Wheaton

Mass Society and the Extension of Welfare, 1960–1970. By Kirsten A. Gronbjerg. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977. Pp. xiii, 265 pp. 545-546

Eugene Smolensky

La economia del antiguo regimen: La “renta nacional” de la Corona de Castilla. By “Grupo ʻ75,” Departamento de Historia Contemporanea. Madrid: Universidad Automa de Madrid, 1977. Pp. 228 pp. 546-547

David R. Ringrose

The First World War, 1914–1918. By Gerd Hardach. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 328. - War, Economy and Society, 1939–1945. By Alan S. Milward. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xiv, 395 pp. 547-549

Paul M. Hohenberg

Wilderness Calling: The Hardeman Family in the American Westward Movement, 1750–1900. By Nicholas Perkins Hardeman. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1977. Pp. xiv, 357. $14.95 pp. 549-550

Larry A. McFarlane

Westminster Abbey and its Estates in the Middle Ages. By Barbara Harvey. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1977. Pp. xii, 499 pp. 550-551

Steven Epstein

Alfred's Kingdom: Wessex and the South, 800–1500. By David A. Hinton. History in the Landscape series, edited by Dennis Harding. London: J. M. Dent and Sons; Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977. Pp. xii, 228. $10.75 pp. 551-552

Philip N. Cronenwett

Die Bauernbefreiung im Königreich Württemberg. 2 vols. By Wolfgang v. Hippel. Forschungen zur deutschen Sozialgeschichte. Boppard am Rhein: Harald Boldt Verlag, 1977. Pp. xiii, 624; xxvii, 786 pp. 552-553

Jerome Blum

Informal Entente: The Private Structure of Cooperation in Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy, 1918–1926. By Michael J. Hogan. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1977. Pp. viii, 254. $12.50 pp. 553-554

Derek H. Aldcroft

Essays in Nineteenth-Century American Legal History. Edited by. Wythe Holt. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976. Pp. xv, 735. $25.00 pp. 554-555

Daun van Ee

The Economic Advisory Council, 1930–1939: A Study in Economic Advice During Depression and Recovery. By Susan Howson and Donald Winch. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. vii, 424. $50.00 pp. 555-557

J. Ronnie Davis

Knowledge and Ignorance in Economics. By T. W. Hutchinson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Pp. 186. $12.50 pp. 557-557

Thomas Sowell

Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur and Public Servant. By Sidney Hyman. Stanford, California: Stanford University School of Business, 1976. Pp. xi, 456. $15.00 pp. 558-558

Joseph Brandes

Cotton-Textile Diplomacy: Japan, Great Britain and the United States, 1930–1936. By Osamu Ishii. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1977. Pp. viii, 511 pp. 559-560

Robert L. Brandfon

A History of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and its Activities among Indians. By Curtis E. Jackson and Marcia J. Galli. San Francisco, Cal.: R & E Research Associates, 1977. Pp. 162 pp. 560-561

Leonard Carlson

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 1976. Teil II. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1976. Pp. 308. 28M pp. 561-562

P. R. Duggan

Social Control of the Welfare State. Morris Janowitz. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977. Pp. xxii, 170. $3.95 pp. 562-563

Jonathan Hughes

Tennessee at the Crossroads: The State Debt Controversy, 1870–1883. By Robert B. Jones. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1977. Pp. ix, 192. $10.95 pp. 563-564

Irwin Unger

Soviet Armed Forces Review Annual, vol. 1. Edited by David R. Jones. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1977. Pp. ix, 278. $29.50. - USSR: Facts & Figures Annual, vol. 1. Edited by John L. Scherer. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1977. Pp. xii, 321. $31.50 pp. 563-563

Oliver Hayward

Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV. 2 Volumes. By Steven L. Kaplan. International Archives of the History of Ideas, no. 86. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976. Pp. xxx, vi; 707 pp. 564-566

John Rogers

Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776–1900. By John F. Kasson. New York: Penguin Books, 1977. Pp. xxiv, 219. $2.95 paper. - Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900–1941. By William E. Akin. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xv, 242. $9.50 pp. 566-568

Leonard S. Reich

Cities and Frontiers in Brazil: Regional Dimensions of Economic Development. By Martin T. Katzman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. 252, tables, maps, appendix. $16.50 pp. 569-569

Bainbridge Cowell

The Middle Eastern Economy: Studies in Economics and Economic History. Edited by Elie Kedourie. Totowa, New Jersey; London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1977. Pp. xx, 185. $22.50 pp. 569-571

Charles Issawi

Economic Interest, Militarism, and Foreign Policy: Essays on German History. By Eckart Kehr. Edited and introduced by Gordon Craig. Translated by Grete Heinz. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xxi, 230. $12.50 pp. 571-572

Richard Tilly

The Formation and Stocks of Total Capital. By John W. Kendrick. Assisted by Yvonne Lethem and Jennifer Rowley. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1976. Pp. vii, 256 pp. 572-573

Robert E. Gallman

Industrialisierung vor der Industrialisierung: Gewerbliche Warenproduktion auf dem Land in der Formationsperiode des Kapitalismus. By Peter Kriedte, Hans Medick, and Jürgen Schlumbohm, with contributions by Herbert Kisch and Franklin F. Mendels. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1977. Pp. 393 pp. 573-574

Michael R. Haines

Peruvian Democracy under Economic Stress: An Account of the Belaunde Administration, 1963–1968. By Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. Pp. xiv, 308. $16.50 pp. 575-576

Shane Hunt

The Lebanese Traders in Sierra Leone. By H. L. Van der Laan. The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1975. Pp. xii, 385 pp. 576-577

A. J. H. Latham

Bourgeois et Marchands en Provence et en Languedoc. By Michel and Mireille Lacave. Avignon: Aubanel, 1977. Pp. 300 pp. 577-578

James B. Wood

Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and Working Class Culture, 1780–1850. By Thomas Walter Laqueur. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. Pp. xvi, 293. $22.50 pp. 578-579

John F. C. Harrison

The Quantitative Approach to Economic History. By C. H. Lee. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. Pp. 117. $10.95 pp. 579-580

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Women and Trade Unions: An Outline History of Women in the British Trade Union Movement. By Sheila Lewenhak. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976. Pp. 308. $14.95 pp. 580-581

Barbara Breitmayer Vatter

Labor on the Illinois Central Railroad, 1852–1900: The Evolution of an Industrial Environment. By David L. Lightner. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. x, 437. $27.00. - Hired Hands and Plowboys: Farm Labor in the Midwest, 1815–60. By David E. Schob. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975. Pp. viii, 329. $9.50 pp. 582-583

Anne Mayhew

The English Wool Trade in the Middle Ages. By T. H. Lloyd. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. xi, 351. $27.50 pp. 583-584

R. D. Face

A History of Thought on Economic Integration. By Fritz Machlup. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp. xi, 323. $20.00 pp. 584-585

William Allen

The Economic Writings of Du Pont de Nemours. By James J. McLain. Newark, Del. & London: University of Delaware Press, 1977. Pp. 244. $13.00 pp. 585-587

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Mémoires. By Jean Monnet. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1976. Pp. 642. FF 59 pp. 587-589

Michael J. Rust

Il Capitalismo industriale in Italia. By Giorgio Mori. Rome: Editore Riunite, 1977. Pp. 519. Lire 7500 pp. 589-589

Shepard B. Clough

The Correspondence of Adam Smith. Edited by Ernest Campbell Mossner and Ian Simpson Ross. Oxford: Oxiord University Press, 1977. Pp. xxx, 441. $33.00 pp. 590-590

Vincent J. Tarascio

Japan, China and the Modern World Economy: Toward a Reinterpretation of East Asian Development ca. 1600 to ca. 1918. By Frances V. Moulder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. x, 255. $16.95 pp. 591-592

Dwight Perkins

Living with Capitalism: Class Relations and the Modern Factory. By Theo Nichols and Huw Beynon. London, Henley, and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. Pp. xvi, 204. $12.75 pp. 592-593

Edward P. Duggan

Economics as a Coordination Problem: The Contributions of Friedrich A. Hayek. By Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr. Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1977. Pp. xxi, 172. $15.00.1 pp. 593-594

Martin Bronfenbrenner

Land and Racial Domination in Rhodesia. By Robin Palmer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. 319. $15.75 pp. 594-595

Elena Berger

Keynes' Monetary Thought: A Study of Its Development. By Don Patinkin. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1976. Pp. 163. $9.75 pp. 595-597

Sidney Weintraub

Men and Organizations: The American Economy in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Edwin J. Perkins. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. Pp. viii, 201. $7.95 pp. 597-597

Jerry Israel

L'Age d'or de la statistique régionale française (an IV–1804). By Jean-Claude Perrot. Paris: Société des Etudes Robespierristes, 1977. Pp. 235 pp. 597-598

George Grantham

Pressure Groups and Politics in Antebellum Tariffs. By Jonathan J. Pincus. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp. xii, 237 pp. 598-599

Stanley L. Engerman

Studien zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte Lateinamerikas. By Hans Pohl. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1976. Pp. viii, 287. DM18 pp. 599-601

Thomas E. Skidmore

Population, Factor Movements and Economic Development: Studies Presented to Brinley Thomas. Edited by Hamish Richards. Cardiff: University of Wales Press1976. Pp. viii, 288 pp. 601-601

Philip Friedman

Inlandse Tabak: Expansie en contractie van een handelsgewas in de 17e en 18e eeuw in Nederland. By H. K. Roessingh. A. A. G. Bijdragen, 20. Wageningen: Landbouwhogeschool, 1976. Pp. 594 pp. 602-602

Richard W. Unger

Borghesia industriale in ascesa: Gli imprenditori tessili nella Inchiesta industriale del 1870–74. Edited by Roberto Romano. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1977. Pp. 211. Lit. 4,500 pp. 603-604

PierAngelo Toninelli and Ira A. Glazier

The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. By James C. Scott. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. Pp. ix, 246. $15.00 pp. 604-605

David Feeny

The Making of the Modern Family. By Edward Shorter. New York: Basic Books, 1975. Pp. xiv, 369. $15.00 pp. 605-606

Hugh G. J. Aitken

Rural Industrialization in China. By John Sigurdson. Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, Monograph No. 73. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. xii, 281. $15.00 pp. 606-607

Nicholas Lardy

The End of the Keynesian Era: Essays on the Disintegration of the Keynesian Political Economy. Edited by Robert Skidelsky. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1977. Pp. xiv, 114. $17.50 cloth, $7.50 paper pp. 608-609

Jack Johnston

European Landed Elites in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by David Spring. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. Pp. vii, 147. $11.50 pp. 609-610

William N. Parker

Entrepreneur and Gentleman: A Case History of a Japanese Company. By Akira Sueno. Translated by Neal Donner. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1977. Pp. 245. $12.50. - My Life With Toyota. By Shotaro Kamiya. Toyota Motor Sales Company, Ltd., 1976. Pp. 141 pp. 611-612

Kozo Yamamura

Regional Variations in the Economic Development of Germany During the Nineteenth Century. By Frank B. Tipton Jr. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1976. Pp. xiv, 270. $22.00 pp. 612-613

Richard Tilly

Le Mirage des Iles: Le négoce français aux Mascareignes au XVIIIe siècle, suivi de la correspondence du négociant lyonnais Jean-Baptiste Pipon. By Auguste Toussaint. Aix-en-Provence: EDISUD, 1977. Pp. 352. 60 F pp. 614-615

Reed Geiger

Business History: Selected Readings. Edited by K. A. Tucker. London and Forest Grove, Oregon: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1977. Pp. xvi, 442. $27.50 pp. 615-616

Thomas A. Bowden

The Population of the British Colonies in America before 1776. By Robert V. Wells. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. xii, 342. $18.50 pp. 616-617

Jacob M. Price

A Tool of Power: The Political History of Money. By William Wiseley. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1977. Pp. xi, 401. $16.95 pp. 617-618

Homer Jones

Volume 38, issue 1, 1978

Introduction pp. 1-2

Jonathan R. T. Hughes and Joel Mokyr

On Avoiding Babel pp. 3-12

David Landes

The Achievements of the Cliometric School pp. 13-28

Donald N. McCloskey

The Achievements of Economic History: The Marxist School pp. 29-57

Jon S. Cohen

Achievements of the Annales School pp. 58-76

Robert Forster

Comment pp. 77-80

Douglass North

Economic Burden: Spark to the American Revolution? pp. 81-100

Joseph D. Reid

Economic Structure and National Goals—The Jewish National Home in Interwar Palestine pp. 101-119

Jacob Metzer

Businessman and Bureaucrat: The Evolution of the American Social Welfare System, 1900–1940 pp. 120-142

Edward Berkowitz and Kim McQuaid

Comment pp. 143-147

Stephen DeCanio

An Econometric Model of National Income, Commercial Policy and the Level of International Trade: The Open Economies of Europe, 1924–1938 pp. 148-180

Philip Friedman

Structural Change in Fascist Italy pp. 181-201

Maurizio Vaudagna

Comment1 pp. 202-204

D. E. Moggridge

Landless by Law: Japanese Immigrants in California Agriculture to 1941 pp. 205-225

Robert Higgs

The Immigrant, Economic Opportunity and Type of Settlement in Nineteenth-Century America pp. 226-234

Gordon W. Kirk and Carolyn Tyirin Kirk

Economic Opportunities and Some Pilgrims' Progress: Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe in the U.S., 1890–1914 pp. 235-251

Arcadius Kahan

Comment pp. 252-255

Joan U. Hannon

Estimation of Economies of Scale in Nineteenth-Century United States Manufacturing and the Form of the Production Function pp. 268-270

Jeremy Atack

Regional Cyclical Behavior and Sensitivity in Canada, 1919–1973 pp. 271-273

Larry Blain

The Dawes Act and the Decline of Indian Farming pp. 274-276

Leonard Carlson

The Political Economy of German Economic Unification: Tariffs, Trade and Politics of the Zollverein Era pp. 277-278

Rolf H. Dumke

The Immigrant Worker in the Promised Land: Human Capital and Ethnic Discrimination in the Michigan Labor Market, 1888–1891 pp. 279-280

Joan U. Hannon

Economic Growth and Economic Policy in a Multinational Setting: The Habsburg Monarchy, 1841–1865 pp. 281-282

Thomas F. Huertas

The Lancashire Cotton Industry and the Introduction of the Powerloom, 1815–1850 pp. 283-284

John Lyons

Demographic Transition in Japan, 1920–1960 pp. 285-286

Carl Mosk

Changing Labor Productivity and the Utilization of Native Women Workers in the American Cotton Textile Industry, 1825–1860 pp. 287-288

Pamela J. Nickless

The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern White Fertility pp. 289-291

Richard Steckel

Comment by Cain pp. 292-296

Louis P. Cain

Comment by Harley pp. 297-300

Knick Harley