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Volume 36, issue 4, 1976

Abstracts pp. i-i

Anonymous

The Antebellum Money Market and the Economic Impact of the Bank War pp. 809-835

Marie Elizabeth Sushka

Russian Monetary Policy and Industrialization, 1861-1913 pp. 836-851

Paul Gregory and Joel W. Sailors

Freight Capacity and Utilization of the Erie and Great Lakes Canals before 1850 pp. 852-877

Thomas F. McIlwraith

The Development of the National Money Market, 1893-1911 pp. 878-897

John James

The Post-Bellum Recovery of the South and the Cost of the Civil War pp. 898-907

Peter Temin

Poetry, Prosaism, and Analysis in American Agricultural History pp. 919-927

Harry N. Scheiber

Erratum pp. 930-930

Anonymous

El Antiguo Régimen: Los Borbones. By Gonzalo Anes. Volume IV. Historia de España Alfaguara. Edited by Miguel Artola. Madrid: Ediciones Alfaguara, 1975. Pp. 513 pp. 931-933

Kelly Ainsworth

Tradition and Growth: A Study of Four Mexican Villages. By Manuel Avila. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1969. Pp. xv, 212. No price listed. - The Economic System of Mexico. By John B. Ross. Stanford: California Institute of International Studies, 1971. Pp. xiv, 126. $5.00. - The United States and Revolutionary Nationalism in Mexico, 1916-1932. By Robert Freeman Smith. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1972. Pp. xv, 279. No price listed. - A Mexican Family Empire: The Latifundio of the Sánchez Navarro Family, 1765-1867. By Charles H. HarrisIII, Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1975. Pp. xvii, 402. $15.00 pp. 933-935

John Womack

Die Geschichte der Wiener Börse: Öffentliche Finanzen und privates Kapital im Spiegel einer österreichischen Wirtschaftsinstitution. By Franz Baltzarek. Vienna: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1973. Pp. 173. AS 240 pp. 935-936

Richard L. Rudolph

The Failure of the NRA (Norton Essays in American History Series). By Bernard Bellush. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1975. Pp. 197. $8.95 cloth, $2.95 paper pp. 937-938

Michael S. Holmes

Talmudische Ökonomie: Die Wirtschaft des jüdischen Palästina zur Zeit der Mischna und des Talmud. By Arye Ben-David. Vol. I. Hildesheim and New York: Georg olms Verlag, 1974. Pp. xxv, 454, illus., with maps. DM 84.00 pp. 938-939

Jacob Neusner

Cocoa, Custom, and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria. By Sara S. Berry. London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Oxford Studies in African Affairs. Pp. xiv, 240. $19.75 pp. 939-940

Dennis M. P. McCarthy

The Politics of American Individualism: Herbert Hoover in Transition, 1918-1921. By Gary Dean Best. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1975. Pp. vi, 202. $13.50 pp. 940-940

Robert M. Collins

The Economics of Imperialism. By Michael Barratt Brown. Harmondsworth and Baltimore: Penguin, 1974. Pp. 380. $4.95, paper pp. 940-942

Martin Bronfenbrenner

The Equity Side of the Exchequer: Its Jurisdiction, Administration, Procedures, and Records. By W. H. Bryson. Cambridge Studies in Legal History. Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. xiii, 217. $22.50 pp. 942-943

G. P. Cuttino

Scottish Banking: A History, 1695-1973. By S. G. Checkland. Glasgow and London: Collins, 1975. Pp. xxvi, 785. £8.25 pp. 943-945

Richard Sylla

Public Health and the Medical Profession in the Renaissance. By Carlo Cipolla. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. viii, 136. $14.50 pp. 945-946

Judith C. Brown

Archaisme et modernité en Limousin au XIXe siècle, 1845-1880. By Alain Corbin. Paris: Editions Marcel Rivière et Cie, 1975. Pp. 1,168. 150F pp. 946-948

Jack Censer

Growth and Stability in a Mature Economy. By John Cornwall. New York: Wiley, 1972. Pp. 287. $15.50 pp. 948-949

Harold G. Vatter

Investimenti e sviluppo economico a Genova alia vigilia della prima guerra mondiale, Vol. II, 1883-1914. By Giorgio Doria. Milan: Giuffrè, 1973. Pp. 775. L. 10,000 pp. 950-950

Jürg K. Siegenthaler

Colonialism in Africa, 1870-1960. Vol. IV. The Economics of Colonialism. Edited by Peter Duignan and L. H. Gann. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. xiii, 719. $42.50 pp. 951-952

Edward Reynolds

Education and Democracy. Edited by A. E. Dyson and Julian Lovelock. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. Pp. xii, 295. - The Universities in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Michael Sanderson. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. Pp. xiv, 262 pp. 952-953

Arnold S. Levine

The Structure of Classical Economic Theory. By Robert V. Eagly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. xi, 142. $7.50. - Economic Analysis Before Adam Smith. By Barry Gordon. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1975. Pp. xiii, 272. $27.50. - The Classical Economists. By D. P. O'Brien. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Pp. xiii, 306. $19.25 pp. 953-956

William L. Miller

The I. G. in Peking: Letters of Robert Hart; Chinese Maritiine Customs, 1868-1907. Two vols. Edited by John King Fairbank, Katherine Frost Bruner, and Elizabeth MacLeod Matheson, with an introduction by L. K. Little. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. xxviii, 1625; illustrations, maps, and Chinese glossary. $50.00 pp. 956-958

Thomas Ganschow

Urban Networks in Russia, 1750-1800, and Premodern Periodization. By Gilbert Rozman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. Pp. 337. $16.50. - Patterns of Urban Growth in the Russian Empire During the Nineteenth Century. By Thomas Stanley Fedor. Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Geography, 1975. Pp. 245. $6.00 pp. 958-960

Oliver Hayward

The Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936-1939: A Study in Class and Culture. By Peter Friedlander. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975. Pp. xxxiii, 155. $8.95 pp. 960-961

William Graebner

The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change. By Louis Galambos, with the assistance of Barbara Barrow Spence. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Pp. xii, 324. $15.00 pp. 961-963

J. R. T. Hughes

David Ricardo. By Michael J. Gootzeit. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. Pp. ix, 90. $7.50, cloth; $1.95, paper pp. 963-963

W. Tate Whitman

Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political Economy of Reform. By William Graebner. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1975. Pp. xvii, 244; tables. $16.75 pp. 964-965

James P. Johnson

Western River Transportation: The Era of Early Internal Development, 1810-1860. By Erik Haites, James Mak, and Gary Walton. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Pp. xi, 209. $12.50 pp. 965-966

Hugh G. J. Aitken

The Rise of German Industrial Power, 1834-1914. By W. O. Henderson. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975. Pp. 264. $14.00 cloth; $3.45 paperback pp. 966-968

Rainer Fremdling

Domestic Monetary Management in Britain, 1919-1938. By Susan Howson. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. ix, 213. $15.00 cloth; $6.95 paper pp. 968-969

James S. Earley

Taxation and Governmental Finance in Sixteenth-Century Ming China. By Ray Huang. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. xvi, 385. $25.00. - Land Taxation in Imperial China, 1750-1911. By Yeh-chien Wang. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. Pp. xii, 172. $8.95 pp. 970-971

Clifton W. Pannell

The West Riding Wool Textile Industry 1770-1835: A Study of Fixed Capital Formation. By D. T. Jenkins. Edington, Wiltshire: Pasold Research Fund Limited, 1975. Pp. xvi, 336. $21.50 pp. 972-973

Neil K. Buxton

Sweden's Development from Poverty to Affluence, 1750-1970. Edited by Steven Kloblik. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1975. Pp. 380. $16.50 cloth; $4.95, paper pp. 973-975

Ingemar Nygren

Swedish National Product, 1861-1970. By Olle Krantz and Carl-Axel Nilsson. Lund: CWK Gleerup, 1975. Pp. 217. 40 kr pp. 975-976

Bernard Olsen

The Peruvian Experiment: Continuity and Change under Military Rule. Edited by Abraham F. Lowenthal. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. xvi, 497. $22.50, cloth; $6.95, paper pp. 976-978

William Glade

Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls. By Angus Maddison. New York: W. W. Norton, 1971. Pp. 181. $7.95. - The Economic Development of India Under the East India Company, 1814-1858: A Selection of Contemporary Writings. Edited by K. N. Chaudhuri. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp. vi, 319. $19.50 pp. 978-980

Peter Harnetty

The Soviet Union: An Economic Geography. By R. S. Mathieson. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1976. Pp. xvii, 342. $18.50 pp. 980-980

Everett M. Jacobs

Populist Vanguard: A History of the Southern Farmers' Alliance. By Robert C. McMathJr, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1975. Pp. 221. - The Improbable Era: The South Since World War II. By Charles P. Roland. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1975. Pp. 228. $11.95 pp. 981-982

Gavin Wright

Akademie und Wirtschaft im 18. Jahrhundert: Agrarökonomische Preisaufgaben und Preisschriften der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Versuch, Tendenzen und Überblick). By Hans-Heinrich Müller. Studien zur Geschichte der Wissenschaften der DDR, Vol. III. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1975 pp. 982-985

Herbert Kisch

Wool, Cloth, and Gold: The Struggle for Bullion in Anglo-Burgundian Trade, 1340-1478. By John H. A. Munro. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972. Pp. xi, 241. $20.00 pp. 985-986

R. D. Face

Smith Ricardo Marx. By Claudio Napoleoni. trans. J. M. A. Gee. New York: John Wiley (Halsted Press), 1975. Pp. viii, 198. $14.75 pp. 986-987

D. P. O'Brien

Economisch- en Sociaal-Historisch Jaarboek. Vols. XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVII. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff for Het Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief, 1971; 1972; 1974. Pp. 362; 331; 355 pp. 987-988

H. R. C. Wright

German Coal and Swedish Fuel, 1939-1945. By Sven-Olof Olsson. Gothenburg: Publications of the Institute of Economic History of Gothenburg University, No. 36, 1975. Pp. 348 pp. 989-990

S. B. Saul

Max Weber on the Spirit of Capitalism. By Hisao Otsuka. Institute of Development Economics. Occasional Paper Series, No. 13. Tokyo: Institute of Development Economics, 1976. Pp. iv, 95. $12.50 pp. 990-990

Gaston V. Rimlinger

The Transition in Open Dualistic Economics. By Douglas S. Paauw and John C. H. Fei. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1973. Pp. xii, 306. $12.50 pp. 990-991

John R. Hanson

Italy. Development and Crisis in the Post-War Economy. By Gisele Podbielski. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. 207. $9.75 pp. 991-992

Gustav Schachter

France and the Chesapeake: A History of the French Tobacco Monopoly, 1674-1791, and of its Relationship to the British and American Tobacco Trades. Two volumes. By Jacob M. Price. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1973. Pp. xxii, 1239, tables, charts, illustrations, and appendix. $35.00 the set pp. 993-994

Aubrey C. Land

The Economic Modernisation of France, 1730-1880. By Roger Price. New York: Halsted Press Division of John Wiley and Sons, 1975. Pp. 235. $17.95. - French Economic Growth. By J.-J. Carré, P. Dubois, and E. Malinvaud. Translated from the French by John P. Hatfield. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1975. Pp. xviii, 581. $22.50 pp. 995-997

Richard Roehl

John Wesley Hunt: Pioneer Merchant, Manufacturer, and Financier. By James A. Ramage. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1974. Pp. 104. $3.95 pp. 997-997

James E. Fell

Liable to Floods: Village Landscape on the Edge of the Fens, A.D. 450-1850. By J. R. Ravensdale. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. xi, 206. $15.50 pp. 998-999

Carolina Lane

Les travailleurs du coton au Québec, 1900-1915. By Jacques Rouillard. Quebec: Les Presses de L'Université du Quebec, 1974. Pp. vii, 152. $4.00 pp. 999-999

Norman W. Taylor

Das Arbeitsbeschaffungsprogramm des ADGB: Zur gewerkschaftlichen Politik in der Endphase der Weimarer Republik. By Michael Schneider. Schriftenreihe des Forschungsinstituts der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Band 120. Bonn-Bad Godesberg: Verlag Neue Gesellschaft GmbH, 1975. Pp. 272. DM 32 paper pp. 1000-1001

Robert J. Gibbons

William G. Shepherd, The Treatment of Market Power: Antitrust, Regulation, and Public Enterprise, Columbia University Press, New York and London, 1975. Pp. ix, 326. $15.00 pp. 1001-1002

William Baumol

Oil and Politics in Modern Brazil. By Peter Seaborn Smith. Toronto: The Macmillan Company, 1976. Pp. 289 pp. 1002-1003

Russell J. Cameron

Contrasting Communities: English Villagers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By Margaret Spufford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. xxiii, 374. $23.50 pp. 1003-1004

Mildred Campbell

Ravitaillement et alimentation en Provence aux XIVe et XVe siècles. By Louis Stouff. Paris and the Hague: Mouton, 1970. Pp. 507. 72 fr pp. 1004-1005

Richard M. Golden

Dispersion of Engineers in a Transitional Society: Swedish Technicians, 1860-1940. By Rolf Torstendahl. Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1975. Pp. 313 pp. 1005-1006

Warren O. Hagstrom

Research in Economic History: An Annual Compilation of Research. Vol. I. Edited by Paul Uselding. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1976. Pp. v, 379. Individuals, $17.50; institutions, $22.50 pp. 1006-1009

Stuart Bruchey

The Drive to Industrial Maturity: The U. S. Economy, 1860-1914. By Harold G. Vatter. (Contributions in Economics and Economic History, Number 13). Westport, Connecticut and London, England: Greenwood Press, 1975. Pp. ix, 368. $15.00 pp. 1009-1010

Stanley L. Engerman

Volume 36, issue 3, 1976

Abstracts pp. i-ii

Anonymous

Scots, Jews, and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists pp. 543-571

William D. Grampp

Slavery, the Supply of Agricultural Labor, and the Industrialization of the South pp. 572-597

Heywood Fleisig

Family Limitation and the English Demographic Revolution: A Simulation Approach pp. 598-623

Nicholas Crafts and N. J. Ireland

Urban Growth in the Mid-Atlantic States, 1785–1850 pp. 624-644

Simeon J. Crowther

Media as Ends: Money and the Underdevelopment of Tanganyika to 1940 pp. 645-662

D. M. P. McCarthy

The Russian Gold Standard, 1897–1914 pp. 663-688

Ian M. Drummond

Economies of Scale in Western River Steamboating pp. 689-703

Erik F. Haites and James Mak

A Note on the Value of Colonial Exports of Shipping pp. 704-724

Jacob M. Price

A Medieval Feast pp. 725-728

Richard Roehl

A Guide for the Perplexed pp. 729-731

Stanley L. Engerman

Gompers in Canada: A Study in American. Continentalism Before the First World War. By Robert H. Babcock, Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 292. $4.95 pp. 735-736

Gregory S. Kealey

Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth Century America. By Thomas Bender. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1975. Pp. xv, 277. $14.50 cloth pp. 736-737

Louis P. Cain

Democracy and Organization in the Chinese Industrial Enterprise: 1948–1953. By William Brugger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. 374. $27.50 pp. 738-739

Stephen Andors

Socialist Ownership and Political Systems. By Wlodzimierz Brus. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. Pp. 222. $20.00 pp. 739-740

David Granick

The Origins of British Industrial Relations: The Nineteenth Century Experience. By Keith Burgess. London: Croom Helm; Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975. Pp. 331. $19.50 pp. 740-742

Sidney Pollard

Medieval Colonialism: Postcrusade Exploitation of Islamic Valencia. By Robert Ignatius Burns. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. 394, illustrations, maps. $20.00 pp. 742-744

John Boswell

Lopez of Newport: Colonial American Merchant Prince. By Stanley F. Chyet. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970. Pp. 246. $8.75 pp. 744-744

Julian Gwyn

Tenure, Nativity and Age as Factors in Iowa Agriculture, 1850–1880. By Seddie CogswellJr., Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University Press, 1975. Pp. 170. $5.00 pp. 744-745

Don R. Leet

Debtors and Creditors in America: Insolvency, Imprisonment for Debt, and Bankruptcy, 1607–1900. By Peter J. Coleman. Madison: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1974. Pp. vii, 303. $17.50 pp. 746-747

Duane B. Graddy

Dependence and Opportunity: Political Change in Ahafo. By John Dunn and A. F. Robertson. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. xiii, 400. $19.50 pp. 747-748

Dennis M. P. McCarthy

The Environment of Early Man in the British Isles. By John G. Evans. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975. Pp. xiv, 216. $12.95 pp. 748-749

Richard J. Harrison

The Wine Trade. By A. D. Francis. New York: Harper and Row, 1973. Pp. vi, 353. 3 maps. $12.50 pp. 749-750

B. W. E. Alford

Histoire des Usines Renault. Vol. 1. Naissance de la Grande Entreprise, 1898–1939. By Patrick Fridensen. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1972. Pp. 359 pp. 750-751

Charles E. Freedeman

Black Men and Businessmen: The Growing Awareness of a Social Responsibility. By Steven M. Gelber. National University Publications, Series in American Studies. Port Washington, New York and London: Kennikat Press, 1974. Pp. 270. $15.00 pp. 751-752

Arthur M. Johnson

The Lay Subsidy of 1334. Edited by Robin E. Glasscock. Records of Social and Economic History. New Series, Vol. II. London: published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. xxxvii, 516. £13.00 pp. 752-753

Richard D. Face

Caput and Colonate: Towards a History of Late Roman Taxation. By Walter Goffart. (Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1974). Pp. 165. $10.00 pp. 753-755

John C. Murdock

Studies in the Colonial History of Latin America. By Mario Góngora. Translated by Richard Southern. Cambridge Latin American Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. xii, 296 pp. 755-756

Enrique Tandeter

The Agricultural Systems of the World: An Evolutionary Approach. By D. B. Grigg. London: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. ix, 358. $19.50 pp. 756-758

Vernon Ruttan

Politics, Economics, and Society in Argentina in the Revólutionary Period. By Tulio Halperín-Donghi. Translated by Richard Southern. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. xii, 425. $42.50 pp. 758-759

Carl Solberg

A Century of Agricultural Growth in Japan. By Yujiro Hayami in association with M. Akino, M. Shintani and S. Yamada. Minneapolis and Tokyo: University of Minnesota Press and University of Tokyo Press, 1975. Pp. 248. $17.50 pp. 759-760

Kozo Yamamura

Southeast Asia's Chinese Minorities. By Mary F. Somers Heidhues. Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia: Longman, 1974. Pp. 125. Index and Glossary. $6.50, cloth. - Tales of Two City-States: The Development Progress of Hong Kong and Singapore. By Theodore Geiger, assisted by Frances M. Geiger. Washington, D.C.: National Planning Association Studies in Development Progress No. 3, 1973. Pp. xii, 239. Index. $3.50, paper pp. 760-761

David Feeny

Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production. By Barry Hindess and Paul Q. Hirst. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. Pp. vi + 354. $23.50. - Marxian and Post-Marxian Political Economy. By Arun Bose. Baltimore: Penguin, 1975. Pp. 330. $5.95 pp. 761-763

Martin Bronfenbrenner

The Development of Japanese Business 1600–1973. By Johannes Hirschmeier and Tsunehiko Yui. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. 340. $12.00 pp. 764-765

Koji Taira

Self-governing Socialism: A Reader. 2 vols. Historical Development: Social and Political Philosophy. Sociology and Politics: Economics. Edited by Branko Horvat, Mihailo Marković, and Rudi Supek. White Plains, New York: International Arts and Sciences Press, 1975. Pp. xiv, 490; viii, 327. $21.50, $18.50 cloth; $9.95, $8.95 paper pp. 766-766

Kathryn Amdur

Peterborough Abbey, 1086–1310: A Study in the Land Market. By Edmund King. Cambridge Studies in Economic History. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. xiv, 208. $17.50 pp. 767-767

John Munro

Un changeur florentin du Trecento: Lippo di Fede del Sega (1285 env.-1363 env). By Charles M. de la Roncière. Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1973. Pp. 277 pp. 768-768

Benjamin G. Kohl

Robert W. Larson. New Mexico Populism: A Study of Radical Protest in a Western Territory. Foreword by Howard R. Lamar. Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 240. $10.00 pp. 769-769

Walter T. K. Nugent

The American Economy: Income, Wealth, and Want. By Stanley Lebergott. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. Pp. vi, 382. $17.50. - Wealth and Want. By Stanley Lebergott. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. vii, 217. $6.95 pp. 770-772

Stanley L. Engerman

Economic Planning and Politics in Britain. By Jacques Leruez. Translated by Martin Harrison. Preface by J. E. S. Hayward. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1976. Pp. xi, 324. $20.00 pp. 772-773

Leslie Hannah

Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates. By Moshe Lewin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974. Pp. xix, 373 pp. 773-774

Barbara Katz

San Francisco, 1846–1856: From Hamlet to City. By Roger W. Lotchin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. xxvi, 406. $12.50 pp. 775-775

Kathleen Neils Conzen

Social Science and the Ignoble Savage. By Ronald L. Meek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. 243. $17.50 pp. 776-777

Craufurd Goodwin

Negro Slavery in Latin America. By Rolando Mellafe. Translated by J. W. S. Judge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. Pp. 172. $11.50 pp. 777-779

Franklin W. Knight

El fracaso de la revolución industrial en España. 1814–1913. By Jordi Nadal. Barcelona: Editorial Ariel, 1975. Pp. 314 pp. 779-780

Stanley G. Payne

Trek of the Oil Finders: A History of Exploration for Petroleum. By Edgar Wesley Owen. Tulsa, Oklahoma: The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Pp. xv, 1647. $38.00 pp. 781-782

Henrietta M. Larson

European Peasants and Their Markets: Essays in Agrarian Economic History. Edited by William N. Parker and Eric L. Jones. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. 366. $16.50 pp. 782-784

Paul M. Hohenberg

Investment in Railways in Britain, 1820–1844: A Study in the Development of the Capital Market. By M. C. Reed. London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. xiv, 315. £8.00 pp. 784-785

G. R. Hawke

Welfare Policy and Industrialization in Europe, America, and Russia. By Gaston V. Rimlinger. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1971. Pp. xi, 362 pp. 785-786

John P. McKay

How It All Began: Origins of the Modern Economy. By W. W. Rostow. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975. Pp. x, 264. $11.50 pp. 786-789

E. L. Jones

The Seven Sisters: The Great Oil Companies and the World They Shaped. By Anthony Sampson. New York: Viking Press, 1975. Pp. 334 pp. 789-790

Mira Wilkins

The Formation of A Modern Labor Force: Upper Silesia, 1865–1914. By Lawrence Schofer. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1975. Pp. 233. $12.00 pp. 790-792

Michael R. Haines

STRIKES IN FRANCE: 1830–1968. By Edward Shorter and Charles Tilly. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. 428. $27.50 pp. 792-794

James M. Laux

Family and Fortune: Studies in Aristocratic Finance in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By Lawrence Stone. Oxford: Clarendon Press (New York: Oxford University Press), 1973. Pp. xviii, 315. $12.50 pp. 794-795

David Underdown

Men and Wealth in the United States, 1850–1870. By Lee Soltow. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. Pp. xx, 206. $12.50 pp. 795-797

Stanley Lebergott

The Citizen and the State: Essays on Regulation. By George J. Stigler. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975. Pp. 209. $10.95 pp. 797-798

Allen R. Sanderson

Podestaria e Capitanato di Padova, Edited by Amelio Tagliaferri. Relazioni dei Rettori Veneti in Terraferma, Vol. IV. Instituto di Storia Economica dell'Università di Trieste. Milan: Dott. A. Giuffrè Editore, 1975. Pp. xli, 736. £it. 18,000 pp. 798-799

Louise Buenger Robbert

The Standard of Living in Britain in the Industrial Revolution. Edited by Arthur J. Taylor. London: Methuen & Company, 1975. Pp. lvi, 216. $18.50, cloth; $10.00, paper pp. 800-801

Charles K. Hyde

The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. By Immanuel Wallerstein. Studies in Social Discontinuity. New York: Academic Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 410. $16.50 cloth, $7.95 paper pp. 801-803

Richard Rapp

Evolution of International Management Structures. Edited by Harold F. Williamson. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1975. Pp. v + 254. $20.00 pp. 803-804

Robert D. Cuff

Volume 36, issue 2, 1976

Abstracts pp. i-ii

Anonymous

American Prices and Urban Inequality Since 1820 pp. 303-333

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Population and Economic Change in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe: Prussian Upper Silesia, 1840–1913 pp. 334-358

Michael R. Haines

The Determinants of the Fertility Transition in Antebellum Ohio pp. 359-378

Don R. Leet

Banking Under the Gold Standard: An Analysis of Liquidity Management in the Leading Financial Centers pp. 379-398

Roger H. Hinderliter and Hugh Rockoff

The Mechanization of Reaping in Nineteenth-Century Ontario: A Case Study of the Pace and Causes of the Diffusion of Embodied Technical Change pp. 399-415

Richard Pomfret

German Banks, German Growth, and Econometric History pp. 416-424

Rainer Fremdling and Richard Tilly

German Banks and German Growth: Reply pp. 425-427

Hugh M. Neuberger and Houston H. Stokes

A Note on the Inter-Regional Trade in Manufactures in 1840 pp. 428-435

Paul J. Uselding

The Agricultural Revolution in Nineteenth-Century France: Comment pp. 436-437

Michel Morineau

The Agricultural Revolution in Nineteenth-Century France: Reply pp. 438-438

William H. Newell

W. D. and H. O. Wills and the Development of the U.K. Tobacco Industry, 1786–1965. By B. W. E. Alford. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1973. Pp. xv, 500. $30.00 pp. 450-451

Edwin J. Perkins

Ivory and Slaves: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century. By Edward A. Alpers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975. Pp. xx, 296. $13.50 pp. 451-452

D. M. P. McCarthy

Città e campagne nella Puglia del secolo XIX: L'evoluzione demografica. By Franca Assante. Biblioteca dei “Cahiers Internationaux d'Histoire Economique et Sociale,” 21. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1974. Pp. xii, 429 pp. 452-453

Lloyd Saville

The Economic Development of the Third World Since 1900. By Paul Bairoch. Translated by Lady Cynthia Postan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975. Pp. 260. $12.00 pp. 453-454

Thomas R. de Gregori

Technologische Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und England von der Mitte des 17. bis zum Ausgang des 18. Jahrhunderts. By Hans-Joachim Braun. Düsseldorf: Verlag Schwann, 1974. DM 28 pp. 455-456

Herbert Kisch

Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience: Society in Rhode Island, 1636–1690. By Carl Bridenbaugh. Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press, 1974. Pp. xvii, 157. $8.00 pp. 456-457

Gloria L. Main

The English Public Revenue, 1660–1688. By C. D. Chandaman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. Pp. xii, 386. $49.50 pp. 457-458

Larry Neal

Banca e industria in Italia, 1894–1906. Vol. I: Le premesse: Dall'abolizione del corso forzoso alla caduta del Credito Mobiliare. By Antonio Confalonieri. Milan: Banca Commerciale Italiana. 1974. Pp. 453 pp. 458-460

Jon S. Cohen

Population Pressure in Rural Anatolia, 1450–1600. By M. A. Cook. London: Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. 118 pp. 460-461

Murat Cizakca

A Venetian Family and Its Fortune, 1500–1900: The Donà and the Conservation of Their Wealth. By James C. Davis. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1975. Pp. xiv, 189. $6.50 pp. 461-462

Louise Buenger Robbert

A History of Economic Theory and Method. By Robert B. EkelundJr. and Robert F. Hebert. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975. Pp. xiii, 508 pp. 463-464

Robert V. Eagly

The Intellectual Capital of Michal Kalečki, A Study in Economic Theory and Policy. By George R. Feiwel. Foreword by Lawrence R. Klein. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1975. Pp. xxii, 583. $22.50 pp. 464-466

Martin Bronfenbrenner

Biology of Man in History. Robert Forster and Orest Ranum, editors. Translated by Elborg Forster and Patricia M. Ranum. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Pp. x, 205. $12.00 cloth, $2.95 paper pp. 466-468

John D. Post

Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865–1905. By Mary O. Furner. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1975. Pp. xv, 357. $17.50 pp. 468-470

Dorothy Ross

Emprunts russes et investissements français en Russie, 1887–1914. By René Girault. Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1973. Pp. 618. 93.00 F pp. 470-472

William J. Kelly

Landesherrschaft und Bergbauwirtschaft. By Ekkehard Henschke. Berlin: Dunker und Humblot, 1974. Pp. 443; 18 illus. DM. 88.60. - Schwerpunkte der Eisengewinnung und Eisenverarbeitung in Europa, 1500–1650. Edited by Herman Kellenbenz. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 1974. Pp. viii, 506; 26 maps. DM 140. - Die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der Türken Kriege. Edited by Othmar Pickl. Graz: Selbstverlag der Lehrkanzel für Wirtschafts-und Sozialgeschichte der Universität Graz, 1971. Pp. 362; 2 art prints, 7 maps, illustrations and tables. $16.00. - Schiffahrt und Güterverkehr zwischen Köln und Rotterdam, 1794–1850/51. By J. H. Schachwacht. Cologne: Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln, 1973. Pp. 247; tables and charts. No price given. - Das Eislebener Garkupfer und seine Bedeutung für den europäischen Kupfer-Markt, 1460–1560. By Ekkehard Westerman. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 1971. Pp. ii, 373; 2 maps, tables and charts. DM. 36.00 pp. 472-476

Ramon Knauerhase

Bauernland Oberösterreich: Entwicklungsgeschichte seiner Land- und Forstwirtschaft. By Alfred Hoffmann and others. Publication of the Landwirtschaftskammer für Oberösterreich. Linz, Austria: Rudolf Trauner Verlag, 1974. Pp. 784, 166 tables, 92 illustrations, 3 charts + 2 maps pp. 476-477

Franz A. J. Szabo

Patriotism with Profit: British Agricultural Societies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. By Kenneth Hudson. New York: The British Book Centre, 1975. Pp. vii, 143. $22.50 pp. 478-479

Glenn Hueckel

The Economics of Defense. By Gavin Kennedy. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975. Pp. 251. $17.50 pp. 479-480

William A. Lindsay

War and Trade in Northern Seas: Anglo-Scandinavian Economic Relations in the Mid-Eighteenth Century. By H. S. K. Kent. Cambridge, England: The University Press, 1973. Pp. xvi, 240. $17.00 pp. 480-481

John McCusker

Commercial Banking in the United States: A History. By Benjamin J. Klebaner. Hinsdale, Illinois: The Dryden Press, 1974. Pp. v, 202. $5.95 pp. 481-482

Richard H. Keehn

Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development: Turkey. By Anne O. Krueger. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1974. Pp. 339. $17.50 cloth; $5.00 paper. - Exporting Workers: The Turkish Case. By Suzanne Paine. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. 227. $13.95 cloth; $6.95 paper. - State and Society in the Politics of Turkey's Development. By Ilkay Sunar. Ankara University Faculty of Political Science, Publication No. 377, 1974. Pp. ix, 196 pp. 482-484

Joachim O. Ronall

The Decline and Abolition of Negro Slavery in Venezuela, 1820–1854. By John V. Lombardi. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Corporation, 1971. Pp. xviii, 217. - Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623–1775. By Richard B. Sheridan. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. Pp. xiii, 486. $22.50 pp. 484-486

Colin Palmer

Prezzi e mercedi a Milano dal 1701 al 1860. By Aldo De Maddalena. 2 vols. Milano: Banca Commerciale Italiana, 1974. Pp. Vol. I, 455; Vol. II, 99 graphs pp. 487-488

Stefano Fenoaltea

Paternalism and Protest: Southern Cotton Mill Workers and Organized Labor, 1875–1905. By Melton A. McLaurin. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Corp., 1971. Pp. xviii, 265. $11.00 pp. 488-489

H. M. Gitelman

European Historical Statistics, 1750–1970. By Brian R. Mitchell. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. Pp. xx, 827. $50.00 pp. 489-490

Rondo Cameron

Japanese Economic Growth: Trend Acceleration in the Twentieth Century. By Kazushi Ohkawa and Henry Rosovsky. Stanford, California, and London: Stanford University Press and Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. xvi, 327. $15.00 pp. 490-492

James I. Nakamura

Financing Anglo-American Trade: The House of Brown, 1800–1880. By Edwin J. Perkins. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. 323. $15 pp. 493-493

Ralph W. Hidy

Implantation rurale antique sur le Bas-Guadalquivir. By Michel Ponsich. Publication of the Casa de Velázquez. Madrid: Gráficas Reunidas, S.A.1973. Pp. 296 + 87 plates. - The Western Pyrenees. By Alexander Gómez-Ibáñez. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Pp. xix, 162. $16.75 pp. 494-496

Ruth Pike

Documents of European Economic History. Vol. 3: The End of the Old Europe, 1914–1939. Edited by Sidney Pollard and Colin Holmes. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1972. Pp. xvi, 623. $26.95 pp. 494-494

William L. Marr

War, Politics and Finance Under Edward I. By Michael Prestwich. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1972. Pp. 317, 2 maps, 3 figures. $16.00 pp. 496-497

G. P. Cuttino

Assart Data and Land Values: Two Studies in the East Midlands, 1200–1350. By J. A. Raftis. Toronto, Canada: The Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1974. Pp. 169. $8.50 cloth pp. 497-498

Richard D. Face

The City of London in International Politics at the Accession of Elizabeth Tudor. By G. D. Ramsay. Manchester: Manchester University Press, and Rowman and Littlefield (USA), 1975. Pp. 310. $21.50. - Hull in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in Economic and Social History. By Gordon Jackson. London: Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. xvi, 474. $27.25. - Hampstead: Building a Borough, 1650–1964. By F. M. L. Thompson. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974. Pp. xi, 459. $25.00 pp. 498-500

Ronald M. Berger

Argentina in the Twentieth Century. Edited by David Rock. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975. Pp. vii, 230. $14.50 pp. 500-501

Donna J. Guy

Dogma, Depression, and the New Deal: The Debate of Political Leaders over Economic Recovery. By Theodore Rosenof. Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1975. Pp. xiii, 155. $12.50 pp. 502-503

Ellis W. Hawley

Village Life and Labour. Edited by Raphael Samuel. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. Pp. xxi, 278. $21.75 cloth; $10.95 paper pp. 503-504

Raymond G. Cowherd

Die russische Agrarreform von 1861: Ihre Probleme und der Stand ihrer Erforschung. By Peter Scheibert. Beiträge zur Geschichte osteuropas herausgegeben von Dietrich Geyer und Hans Roos, Band 10. Cologne and Vienna, Verlag Böhlau, 1973. Pp. xii, 195. DM 44 pp. 504-506

S. Frederick Starr

Shipping, Maritime Trade, and the Economic Development of Colonial North America. By James F. Shepherd and Gary M. Walton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. 255. $14.50 pp. 506-510

Glenn Porter

Whereby We Thrive: A History of American Farming, 1607–1972. By John T. Schlebecker. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1975. Pp. x, 342 pp. 506-506

John D. Bowman

Depression and Recovery in Western Australia, 1928/29–1938/39. By G. D. Snooks. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 192. $14.80 pp. 510-511

Kevin Burley

Die Entstehung der Köln-Mindener Eisenbahngesellschaft: Ein Beitrag zur Frühgeschichte der deutschen Eisenbahnen und des Preussischen Aktienwesens. By Walter Steitz. Köln: Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv, 1974. Pp. 387 pp. 511-512

Manfred P. Jankowski

Middle East Oil and the Energy Crisis. By Joe Stork. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1975. Pp. x, 326. $12.95 pp. 512-513

Kathleen M. Langley

Economic Growth in China and India, 1952–1970. By Subramanian Swamy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973. Pp. ix, 84. $6.95 pp. 513-514

John G. Gurley

Relazioni del Rettori Veneti in Terraferma. Vol. II: Podestaria e Capitanato di Belluno, Podestaria e Capitanato di Feltre. By Amelio Tagliaferri and collaborators. Publication of the Istituto di storia economica dell'Universita di Trieste. Milan: A. Giuffrè, 1974. Pp. lx, 554. 10,600 lire. - Relazioni dei Rettori Veneti in Terraferma. Vol. III: Podestaria e Capitanato di Treviso. By Amelio Tagliaferri and collaborators. Publication of the Istituto di storia economica dell'Universita di Trieste. Milan: A. Giuffrè, 1975. Pp. lxiii, 365. 9,000 lire pp. 514-515

Domenico Sella

The Municipal Revolution in America: Origins of Modern Urban Government, 1650–1825. By Jon C. Teaford. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1975. Pp. viii, 152. $9.75 pp. 515-516

Edward P. Duggan

Plantation Societies, Race Relations, and the South: The Regimentation of Populations. Selected papers of Edgar T. Thompson. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1975. Pp. 407. $12.75 cloth; $6.75 paper pp. 516-517

John A. Tomaske

The Formation of National States in Western Europe. Edited by Charles Tilly. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. xiv, 711. $22.50 cloth; $4.95 paper pp. 518-519

John S. Pettengill

De Westindische Plantages van 1720 tot 1795: Financiën en Handel. By Johannes Petrus van de Voort. Eindhoven: De Witte, 1973. Pp. 366 pp. 519-520

James C. Riley

Max Weber: A Biography. By Marianne Weber. Translated and edited by Harry Zorn. New York, London, Sidney, Toronto: John Wiley and Sons, 1975. Pp. xiv, 719. $19.95 pp. 521-523

Gaston V. Rimlinger

War and Economic Development: Essays in Memory of David Joslin. Edited by J. M. Winter. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. viii, 297. $22.50 pp. 523-526

Frederic C. Lane

British Commercial Policy and Trade Expansion, 1750–1850. By Judith Blow Williams. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. Pp. x, 514. $24.00 pp. 526-527

Max E. Fletcher

The Money Machines: The Breakdown and Reform of Governmental and Party Finance in the North, 1860–1920. By Clifton K. Yearley. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1970. Pp. xvii, 377. $12.00 pp. 527-529

Michael F. Holt

Volume 36, issue 1, 1976

Abstracts pp. i-ii

Anonymous

Introduction pp. 1-2

Robert E. Gallman

Economic History, Pure and Applied pp. 3-27

Rondo Cameron

Population Change and Farm Settlement in the Northern United States pp. 45-75

Richard Easterlin

Comment on Paper by Easterlin pp. 76-81

Allan G. Bouge

Reply to Bogue pp. 81-83

Richard Easterlin

Eager Hands: Labor for Southern Textiles, 1850–1860 pp. 84-99

Tom E. Terrell

Comment on Paper by Terrill pp. 100-101

H. M. Gitelman

Agricultural Productivity Change in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania pp. 102-117

D. E. Ball and G. M. Walton

Comment on Paper by Ball and Walton pp. 118-125

Russell R. Menard

The Indivisibility of Land: A Microanalysis of the System of Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century Ontario pp. 126-141

David P. Gagan

Comment on Paper by Gagan pp. 142-146

Marvin McInnis

Are The Rich Getting Richer? Trends in U.S. Wealth Concentration pp. 147-162

Stanley Lebergott

Comment on Paper by Lebergott pp. 163-165

Lee Soltow

Krooss on Executive Opinion pp. 166-172

J. R. T. Hughes

Forgotten Men of Money: Private Bankers in Early U.S. History pp. 173-188

Richard Sylla

Comment on Paper by Sylla pp. 189-197

Lance E. Davis and Thomas C. Cochran

Domestic and International Integration of the London Money Market, 1731–1789 pp. 198-212

Robert V. Eagly and V. Kerry Smith

Comment on Paper by Eagly and Smith pp. 213-216

Stephen B. Baxter

Factor and Commodity Flows in the International Economy of 1870–1914: A Multi-Country View pp. 217-252

Alan Green and M. C. Urquhart

Comment on Papers by Eagly and Smith, and Green and Urquhart pp. 253-258

Michael Edelstein

The Evolution of Urban Public Transit, 1880–1912: A Study of Boston, New York and Philadelphia pp. 259-262

Charles W. Cheape

Educational Reform and Manufacturing Development in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts pp. 263-266

Alexander Field

Epidemic Disease in Fifteenth-Century England pp. 267-270

Robert Gottfried

The Evolution of the National Money Market, 1888–1911 pp. 271-275

John James

Industrial Growth and Stagnation in the Low Countries, 1800–1850 pp. 276-278

Joel Mokyr

Accumulation, Distribution and Technical Change in Egyptian Agriculture: 1800–1940 pp. 279-282

Alan R. Richards

Sweated Industries and Sweated Labor: A Study of Industrial Disorganization and Worker Attitudes in the London Clothing Trades, 1867–1909 pp. 283-286

James Andrew Schmiechen

From Slave South to New South: Taxes and Spending in Georgia From 1850 Through Reconstruction pp. 287-290

Peter Wallenstein

Comment by Uselding pp. 291-296

Paul Uselding

Comment by De Vries pp. 297-300

Jan De Vries