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Volume 35, issue 4, 1975

Authority, Efficiency, and Agricultural Organization in Medieval England and Beyond: A Hypothesis pp. 693-718

Stefano Fenoaltea

Kondratieff, Schumpeter, and Kuznets: Trend Periods Revisited pp. 719-753

W. W. Rostow

Vargas and Brazilian Economic Development, 1930–1945: A Reappraisal of his Attitude Toward Industrialization and Planning pp. 754-778

Stanley E. Hilton

The Profitability of the Nantes Slave Trade, 1783–1792 pp. 779-793

Robert Stein

Residential Construction Industry in the Early Nineteenth Century pp. 794-816

Donald R. Adams

In the Beginning … pp. 817-820

Hugh G. J. Aitken

De Roover on Business, Banking, and Economic Thought pp. 821-830

Thomas W. Blomquist

British Economic Thought and India. By William J. Barber. London: Oxford University Press, 1975. P. 243. $19.25 pp. 837-838

Ralph B. Price

Le Bâtiment: Enquête d'historie économique XIVe-XIXe siècles. Vol. I. Maisons rurales et urbaines dans la France traditionnelle. By Jean-Pierre Bardet, Pierre Chaunu, Gabriel Désert, Pierre Gouhier, Hughes Neveux. Paris: Mouton, 1971. Pp. 544 pp. 838-840

Robert Forster

Peasants and Strangers: Italians, Rumanians, and Slovaks in an American City, 1890–1950. By Josef J. Barton. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. xii, 217. $12.00 pp. 840-841

Roy Lubove

Naissance et croissance de la Suisse industrielle. By Jean-François Bergier. Monographies d'Histoire Suisse, Société Générale Suisse d'Histoire. Vol. 8. Berne: Francke Editions, 1974. Sfr. 18. - Une entreprise horlogère du Val de Travers: Fleurier Watch Co. S.A.; De l'atélier familial du XIXe aux concentrations du XXe siècle. By François Jequier. Neuchâtel: Editions de la Baconnière, 1972. Fr. 30 pp. 841-843

Hans H. Jenny

Coal Age Empire; Pennsylvania Coal and Its Utilization to 1860. By Frederick Moore Binder. Harrisburg, Pa.: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1974. Pp. 184. Tables. $5.50 pp. 843-844

Simeon J. Crowther

A Short History of Economic Progress. By Y. S. Brenner. London: Frank Cass & Company Limited, 1969. Pp. 295. $5.95 paper. - Economic Growth in History, Survey and Analysis. By J. D. Gould. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1973. Pp. 446. $7.50 paper, $15.00 cloth. - Economic Development in the Long Run. Edited by A. J. Youngson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973. Pp. 253. $9.95 cloth pp. 844-846

Douglass North

Business Enterprise and Economic Change, Essays in Honor of Harold F. Williamson. Edited by Louis P. Cain and Paul J. Uselding. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. Pp. xi, 323. $12.50 pp. 846-849

Alfred S. Eichner

Getting, Spending and Investing in Early Modern Times. By Alice Claire Carter. Aspects of Economic History: The Low Countries, Edited by Johan de Vries. Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum & Company, 1975. Pp. 179 pp. 849-850

Jan De Vries

Rural Change and Urban Growth. 1500–1800: Essays in English Regional History in Honour of W. G. Hoskins. Edited by C. W. Chalkin and M. A. Havinden. New York: Longman, 1974. Pp. xxvi, 360 pp. 850-852

Ronald M. Berger

Technical Choice, Innovation and Economic Growth: Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century. By Paul Allan David. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. x, 334. $21.00 pp. 852-855

G. N. Von Tunzelmann

Money and Empire: The International Gold Standard, 1890–1914. By Marcello de Cecco. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975. Pp. x, 254, $20.00 pp. 855-856

Michael Edelstein

L'international du capital. By Pierre Dockès. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1975. Pp. 287 pp. 856-857

Charles P. Kindleberger

The Land and People of Nineteenth Century Cork: The Rural Economy and the Land Question. By James S. Donnelly Jr. London & Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. Pp. xiv, 440. $31.25 pp. 857-859

Barbara L. Solow

Rubber in Malaya, 1876–1922: The Genesis of the Industry. By John H. Drabble. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. xx, 256. £7.25 pp. 859-860

William Woodruff

Taxes and Politics, A Study of Illinois Public Finance. By Glenn W. Fisher. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1969. Pp. xi, 332. $10.00 pp. 861-861

W. Elliot Brownlee

The Anzin Coal Company, 1800–1833: Big Business in the Early Stages of the French Industrial Revolution. By Reed G. Geiger. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1974. Pp. xiii, 345. $18.00 pp. 862-863

Charles E. Freedeman

Finanza e politico in Piemonte alle soglie del decennio cavouriano. By Giulio Guderzo. Santena: Fondazione Camillo Cavour, 1973. Pp. 340 pp. 863-864

Frank Murtaugh

Economic Institutional Change in Tokugawa Japan: Osaka and the Kinai Cotton Trade. By William B. Hauser. London: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 237; 31 tables and 3 maps. $18.50 pp. 864-866

G. Cameron Hurst

Palaeoeconomy: Being the Second Volume of Papers in Economic Prehistory by Members and Associates of the British Academy Major Research Project in the Early History of Agriculture. Edited by E. S. Higgs. London: Cambridge University Press. Pp. vii, 244. $25.00 pp. 866-867

George Dalton

The New Deal in Georgia: An Administrative History. By Michael S. Holmes. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1975. Pp. xi, 364. $14.95 pp. 867-868

Ellis W. Hawley

The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France, 1750–1789. By Olwen H. Hufton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. 414. $29.00 pp. 868-870

Richard M. Golden

A Rehabilitation of Say's Law. By W. H. Hutt. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1974. Pp. viii, 150. $12.95 pp. 870-871

Thomas Sowell

Far Eastern Trade, 1860–1914. By Francis E. Hyde. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1973. Pp. xii, 229 pp. 871-872

John Huttman

Railway Development in the Ottoman Empire, 1856–1914. By Yakub N. Karkar. New York: Vantage Press, 1972. Pp. 181. $5.95 pp. 872-873

John R. Lampe

Newcastle, A Duke Without Money: Thomas Pelham-Holles 1693–1768. By Ray A. Kelch. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974. Pp. x, 222. $12.00. - The Enterprising Admiral: The Personal Fortune of Admiral Sir Peter Warren. By Julian Gwyn. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974. Pp. xvi, 292. $16.00 pp. 873-876

Robert A. Smith

Essays on John Maynard Keynes. Edited by Milo Keynes. Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. xviii, 306. $16.50 pp. 876-879

M. Bronfenbrenner

Essays in Nineteenth Century Economic History: The Old Northwest. Edited by David C. Klingaman and Richard K. Vedder. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1975. Pp. xiv, 356. $12.00 pp. 879-881

Fred Bateman

L'Industrialisation en Europe au XIXe siècle, Cartographie et typologie. Edited by Pierre Leon, Francois Crouzet, and Richard Gascon. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1972. Pp. 617. F 128.40 pp. 881-884

John P. McKay

Swedish Economic Policy. By Assar Lindbeck. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974. Pp. xiii, 268. $10.00 cloth, $3.45 paper pp. 884-885

Folke Dovring

Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business. By Harold C. Livesay. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Pp. x, 202. Illustrations. $3.95, paper pp. 885-886

Stephen Salsbury

The Cloth Industry in the West of England from 1640 to 1880. By Julia de Lacy Mann. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Pp. xviii, 371. $11.25. - Textile History and Economic History, Essays in Honour of Miss Julia de Lacy Mann. Edited by N. B. Hart and K. G. Ponting, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1973. Pp. xvi, 396. £6.60 pp. 886-888

Helen M. Burns

Plantation, Town and County: Essays on the Local History of American Slave Society. Edited by Elinor Miller and Eugene D. Genovese. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1974. Pp. 457. $12.95 cloth, $4.50 paper pp. 889-889

Jay R. Mandle

State and Regional Patterns in American Manufacturing, 1860–1900. By Albert W. Niemi Jr. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974. Pp. xiii, 209. $11.00 pp. 890-891

Robert P. Swierenga

The Decline of Inland Bills of Exchange in the London Money Market 1855–1913. By Shizuya Nishimura. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp. viii, 134. $12.50 pp. 891-892

Robert Craig West

History of Population Theories. By J. Overbeek. Rotterdam: Rotterdam University Press, 1974. Pp. xi, 232. Dfl. 49.50 pp. 892-893

Stewart Long

Twelfth-Century Europe: An Interpretive Essay. By Sidney R. Packard. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1973. Pp. 362. $12.50 pp. 893-894

Norman A. Stillman

An Economic History of Medieval Europe. By N. J. G. Pounds. London: Longman Group Limited, 1974. Pp. xii, 562. $13.50 (text edition) pp. 894-895

John W. Perrin

Urban Networks in Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan. By Gilbert Rozman. Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. xv, 355. $16.50 pp. 895-896

Katharine H. Hsiao

The New Urban History: Quantitative Explorations by American Historians. Edited by Leo F. Schnore, with a foreword by Eric E. Lampard. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. 284. $17.50 pp. 896-898

Howard P. Chudacoff

The New Political Economy of J. S. Mill. By Pedro Schwartz. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1973. Pp. viii, 341. $11.75 pp. 898-900

Arthur E. Rockwell

The Development of the West of Scotland, 1750–1960. By Anthony Slaven. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. Pp. xvi, 272. $20.25 pp. 900-902

Paul Robertson

The Credit Merchants: A History of Spiegel, Inc. By Orange A. Smalley and Frederick D. Sturdivant. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973. Pp. xvii, 336 pp. 902-903

Mary A. Yeager

Birmingham 1939–1970. History of Birmingham, Vol. III. By Anthony Sutcliffe and Roger Smith. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press. Published for the Birmingham City Council, 1974. Pp. viii, 515 plus illustrations. $38.50 pp. 903-904

Edward P. Duggan

An Economic Background to Munich: International Business and Czechoslovakia 1918–1938. By Alice Teichova. London: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. xx, 422. $27.50 pp. 904-905

Werner Braatz

Historical Farm Records, a Summary Guide to Manuscripts and Other Material in the University Library Collected by the Institute of Agricultural History and the Museum of English Rural Life.Library, University of Reading, 1973. Pp. xii, 320 pp. 905-906

Carolina Lane

The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad From 1914 to 1970. By Mira Wilkins. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974. Pp. 590 pp. 906-908

Robert Gilpin

America's Impact on the World. By William Woodruff. London: Macmillan Press and New York: Halstead Press (John Wiley), 1975. Pp. 296. $12.95 pp. 908-910

William N. Parker

The Systematization of Russian Government: Social Evolution in the Domestic Administration of Imperial Russia, 1711–1905. By George L. Yaney. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1973. Pp. xvi, 430. $13.50 pp. 910-912

William J. Kelly

Volume 35, issue 3, 1975

The Unmaking of the Mediterranean Trade Hegemony: International Trade Rivalry and the Commercial Revolution pp. 499-525

Richard Rapp

Cotton, Corn and Risk in the Nineteenth Century pp. 526-551

Gavin Wright and Howard Kunreuther

The Central Pacific Railroad and the Railroad Land Grant Controversy pp. 552-566

Heywood Fleisig

Purges and Production: Soviet Economic Growth, 1928–1940 pp. 567-590

Barbaba G. Katz

Interest Rate Movement in the United States, 1888–1913 pp. 591-620

Gene Smiley

The Optimal Utilization of Slaves pp. 621-629

Giorgio Canarella and John A. Tomaske

Medieval Social and Economic History as Viewed by North American Medievalists pp. 630-634

Archibald R. Lewis

Journal Publication Performance of Economic History Programs: 1960–1969 and 1970–1974 pp. 635-641

Albert W. Niemi

Entrepreneur in a Small Country: A Case Study Against the Background of the Latvian Economy, 1919–1940. By Nicholas Balabkins and Arnolds Aizsilnieks. Hicksville, N.Y.: Exposition Press, 1975. Pp. xiv, 143. $6.50 pp. 646-647

John P. McKay

Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. By Harry Braverman. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974. Pp. xiii, 465. $12.50 pp. 647-648

Daniel Coleman

Progressivism and Economic Growth: The Wisconsin Income Tax, 1911–1929. By W. Elliot Brownlee Jr Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1975. Pp. 154. $10.00 pp. 648-649

Harold C. Livesay

Growth of the Modern American Economy. By Stuart Bruchey. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1975. Pp. xii, 154 pp. 649-650

Alan D. Anderson

The Federal Machine: Beginnings of Bureaucracy in Jacksonian America. By Matthew A. Crenson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Pp. xii, 186. $10.00 pp. 651-652

Gerald N. Grob

The Chicopee Manufacturing Company 1823–1915. By John Michael Cudd. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1974. Pp. xix, 325. $8.95 pp. 652-653

William H. Becker

Les Fortunes Françaises au XIXe Siècle. By Adeline Daumard with the collaboration of F. Codaccioni, G. Dupeux, J. Herpin, J. Godechot, and J. Sentou. Mouton: Paris, 1973. Pp. xv, 603 pp. 653-654

Keith Aufhauser

The World Between the Wars, 1919–1939: An Economist's View. By Joseph S. Davis. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Pp. xi, 436. $16.00 pp. 655-657

C. P. Kindleberger

China and Great Britain: The Diplomacy of Commercial Relations, 1860–1864. By Britten Dean. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974. Pp. 223. $6.00. - Augustine Heard and Company, 1858–1862: American Merchants in China. By Stephen Lockwood. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. xii, 157 pp. 657-658

Shannon R. Brown

The Dutch Rural Economy in the Golden Age, 1500–1700. By Jan de Vries. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1974. Pp. xx, 316. $15.00 pp. 658-659

René C. Alltmont

The Early Growth of the European Economy: Warriors and Peasants from the Seventh to the Twelfth Century. By Georges Duby. Translated by Howard B. Clarke. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1974. Pp. x, 292. $10.00 pp. 659-660

W. Kent Hackmann

The Great Rumanian Peasant Revolt of 1907, Origins of a Modern Jacquerie. By Philip Gabriel Eidelberg. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974. Pp. xii, 259. 64 guilders pp. 661-663

John R. Lampe

The Sugar Industry in Pernambuco, Modernization Without Change, 1840–1910. By Peter L. Eisenberg. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. 1974. Pp. xix, 289. $15.00 pp. 663-664

Donna J. Guy

Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies. Stanley L. Engerman and Eugene D. Genovese, editors. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. xv, 556. $20.00 pp. 664-667

B. W. Higman

Money and Politics in America 1755–1775: A Study in the Currency Act of 1764 and the Political Economy of Revolution. By Joseph Albert Ernst. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1973. Pp. xix, 403. $14.95 pp. 667-668

William B. Harrison

The Impact of Trade Destruction on National Incomes: A Study of Europe, 1924–1938. By Philip Friedman. Gainesville: The University Presses of Florida, 1974. Pp. 150 pp. 669-669

J. R. T. Hughes

Prospettive nella storia dell'industria veneta. Istituto di Storia Economica, Università di Trieste. Studi e Ricerche, IV, Trieste, 1972. Pp. 155. No price pp. 670-671

Thomas W. Blomquist

The Second International 1889–1914. By James Joll. Revised Edition. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. Pp. 224. $11.75 pp. 671-672

Adolf Sturmthal

Railways and the Copper Mines of Katanga. By S. E. Katzenellenbogen. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. Pp. xii, 165. £3.75 pp. 672-674

Raymond E. Dumett

Lessons from Japanese Development: An Analytical Economic History. By Allen C. Kelley and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1974. Pp. xvi, 285 + tables. $15.00 pp. 674-675

Janet Ragatz

A History of Regulatory Taxation. By R. A. Lee. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1973. Pp. xi, 228 pp. 675-676

Robert F. Severson

West African Food in the Middle Ages. By Tadeusz Lewicki (A translation of the 1963 Cracow edition). New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. xv, 262. $23.50 pp. 676-678

B. Marie Perinbeam

In Pursuit of Profit: The Annapolis Merchants in the Era of the American Revolution, 1763–1805. By Edward C. Papenfuse. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Pp. xi, 288. $12.00 pp. 678-679

Stuart Bruchey

Rural Industry in the Port Phillip Region 1835–1880. By Lynnette J. Peel. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 196 + 15 maps, 3 figures. $24.75 pp. 679-680

E. L. Jones

Three Centuries of Social Mobility in America. Edited by Edward Pessen. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath and Company, 1974. Pp. xxii, 313 pp. 680-681

Gerald P. O'Driscoll

The Cattle-Trailing Industry: Between Supply and Demand, 1866–1890. By Jimmy M. Skaggs. Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 1973. Pp. ix, 173 + 8 plates. $8.00 pp. 682-682

John A. Shaw

The Tariff, Politics, and American Foreign Policy, 1874–1901. By Tom E. Terrill. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973. Pp. x, 218 + 85 notes, bibliographical essay and index. $12.00 pp. 683-684

Allen R. Sanderson

The Female Population of France in the Nineteenth Century. By Etienne Van De Walle. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1974. Pp. xix, 483 pp. 684-686

Keith Aufhauser

The Paper Industry in Scotland, 1590–1861. By Alistair G. Thomson. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1974. Pp. xvi, 201 + Appendices. £4.00 pp. 684-684

Norman Taylor

Nigeria: Options for Long-Term Development. Report of a Mission Sent to Nigeria by the World Bank. Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974. Pp. ix, 256. $12.00 cloth, $6.00 paper pp. 686-687

J. S. Hogendorn

Volume 35, issue 2, 1975

The Economic Cost of the American Civil War: Estimates and Implications pp. 299-326

Claudia Goldin and Frank Lewis

The Mechanization of Reaping and Mowing in American Agriculture, 1833–1870 pp. 327-352

Alan Olmstead

Britain and the Motorship: A Case of the Delayed Adoption of New Technology? pp. 353-385

Graydon R. Henning and Keith Trace

The Rise and Fall of A Theoretical Model: The Manorial System pp. 386-409

Stefano Fenoaltea

The Rate of Settlement of the Canadian Prairies, 1870–1911 pp. 410-427

K. H. Norrie

Stages in Corporate Stability and the Risks of Corporate Failure pp. 428-457

Richard C. Edwards

Cattle Trailing in the Nineteenth Century pp. 458-460

R. Taylor Dennen

Cattle Trailing in the Nineteenth Century: A Reply pp. 461-466

David Galenson

Erratum pp. 467-467

Anonymous

Colonial Roots of Modern Brazil, Papers of the Newberry Library Conference. Edited by Dauril Alden. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1973. Pp. xiv, 294. $12.50 pp. 468-469

Donna J. Guy

Russian Economic Development from Peter the Great to Stalin. Edited by William L. Blackwell. New York: New Viewpoints, 1974. Pp. xxxiv, 459. $5.95 pp. 469-470

William J. Kelly

Die Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung. Ed. by Alois Brusatti as Vol. I of Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918. 9 Vols., Gen. eds. Adam Wandruszka and Peter Urbanitsch. Vienna: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1973. Pp. vii, 666. 115 DM pp. 470-472

David F. Good

The American Banking Community and the New Deal Banking Reforms, 1933–1935. By Helen M. Burns. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974. Pp. xiii, 203. $11.95 pp. 472-473

Benjamin J. Klebaner

Cristofano and The Plague: A Study in The History of Public Health in the Age of Galileo. By C. M. Cipolla. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1973. Pp. 188 + 8 plates. $7.50 pp. 474-475

Elizabeth Hoffman

Studies in Finance and Development: The Gold Coast (Ghana) Experience 1914–1950. By N. A. Cox-George. London: Dobson Books Ltd., 1973. Pp. 217. £5.50 pp. 475-476

Duane B. Graddy

The Twisted Dream: Capitalist Development in the United States Since 1776. By Douglas F. Dowd. Cambridge, Mass.: Winthrop Publishers, Inc., 1974. Pp. xvii, 315. $9.95 cloth, $5.95 paper pp. 477-478

Robert F. Severson

The Electric Telegraph in the U.K.: A Social and Economic History. By Jeffrey L. Kieve. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1973. Pp. 310 plus illustrations. $17.50 pp. 479-480

Lester G. Lindley

Espaces et réseaux du haut moyen âge. By Maurice Lombard. Paris and the Hague: Mouton & Co., 1972. Pp. 229 + 6 maps. 28 F pp. 480-482

Norman A. Stillman

The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War. By Robert M. Myers. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972. Pp. xxv, 1845. $19.95. - All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw. By Theodore Rosengarten. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Pp. xxv, 561, xiii. $10.00 pp. 482-483

Joseph D. Reid

L'agricoltura toscana nella prima metà dell'800; tecniche di produzione e rapporti mezzadrili. By Carlo Pazzagli. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1973. Pp. ix, 572. Lire 6,000 pp. 483-484

Richard Rapp

The Twelve Year Sentence: Radical Views of Compulsory Education. Edited by William F. Rickenbacker. LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, 1974. Pp. 236. $6.95 pp. 485-486

Gerald P. O'Driscoll

Tramps and Reformers, 1873–1916: The Discovery of Unemployment in New York. By Paul T. Ringenbach. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1973. Pp. iii, 193. $10.50 pp. 486-487

Fred Siegel

The Spiritual Power: Republican Florence under Interdict. By Richard C. Trexler. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, ed. by Heiko A. Oberman, vol. IX. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974. Pp. xii, 208 + 1 table. 58, guilders pp. 487-489

Marcia L. Colish

The Manufacturing Frontier: Pioneer Industry in Antebellum Wisconsin, 1830–1860. By Margaret Walsh. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1972. Pp. xii, 263. $8.95 pp. 489-490

Richard H. Keehn

Volume 35, issue 1, 1975

Comparative Study in the Barnyard pp. 1-7

Sylvia L. Thrupp

The Role of Governments in Economic Growth in Early Modern Times pp. 8-17

Frederic C. Lane

Comment pp. 18-19

Douglass North and Robert Paul Thomas

The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe, 1820–1875 pp. 20-55

C. P. Kindleberger

Varieties of Unsuccessful Industrialization: The Balkan States Before 1914 pp. 56-85

John R. Lampe

Comment pp. 86-93

Paul M. Hohenberg and John P. Mckay

Economic Imperialism: The Case of the Gold Coast pp. 94-116

Edward Reynolds

The British in the Atacama Desert: The Cultural Bases of Economic Imperialism pp. 117-133

Michael Monteón

Comment pp. 134-137

D. M. P. McCarthy

Monetary Trends in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1878–1970: Selected Findings pp. 138-159

Anna Jacobson Schwartz

Varieties of Banking and Regional Economic Development in the United States, 1840–1860 pp. 160-181

Hugh Rockoff

Comparative Regional Development in Antebellum Manufacturing pp. 182-208

Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss

Comment pp. 209-215

Edward P. Duggan and George D. Green

The Quantitative International Comparison of Financial Structure and Development pp. 216-237

Raymond W. Goldsmith

German Banking and Japanese Banking: A Comparative Analysis pp. 238-252

Hugh M. Neuburger and Houston H. Stokes

The Process of Settlement in Eighteenth-Century Chester County, Pennsylvania: A Social and Economic History pp. 253-255

Duane E. Ball

From Tobacco to Grain: Economic Development on Maryland's Eastern Shore, 1660–1750 pp. 256-259

Paul G. E. Clements

Sugar Production in Northeastern Brazil and Cuba, 1858–1908 pp. 260-263

David A. Denslow

Interregional Commodity Trade from the North to the South and American Economic Development in the Antebellum Period pp. 264-270

Lawrence A. Herbst

Demand, Markets, and Eastern Economic Development: Philadelphia, 1815–184 pp. 271-273

Diane L. Lindstrom

The Legal Status of the Jewish Merchants of Venice, 1541–1638 pp. 274-279

Benjamin Ravid

An Economic Model of the Money Market in the United States, 1823–1859 pp. 280-285

Marie Elizabeth Sushka

Comment pp. 286-290

Harry N. Scheiber

The Denigration of Cotton and other Dissertations: A Discussion pp. 291-295

Richard Sylla