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Volume 34, issue 4, 1974

New York City Mutual Savings Bank Portfolio Management and Trustee Objectives pp. 815-834

Alan Olmstead

Denominational Factors in Nineteenth-Century Currency Experience pp. 835-850

Richard H. Timberlake

Land Scarcity and American Growth pp. 851-884

Peter Lindert

The Fishers of Men: The Profits of the Slave Trade pp. 885-914

Robert Paul Thomas and Richard Nelson Bean

The Origin of the American Civil War pp. 915-950

Gerald Gunderson

Farm Labor and Power Politics: Germany, 1850–1914 pp. 951-979

Frank B. Tipton

The Determinants of U.K. Investment Abroad, 1870–1913: The U.S. Case pp. 980-1007

Michael Edelstein

The Equity Effects of Public Land Speculation in Iowa: Large versus Small Speculators pp. 1008-1020

Robert P. Swierenga

The Pastoral Age: A Re-Examination. By G. J. Abbott Melbourne: Macmillan of Australia and Dalgety Australia Limited, 1971. Pp. 221. $A6.00 pp. 1022-1023

Albert J. Robinson

The European Administrative Elite. By John A. Armstrong Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. viii, 406. $20.00 pp. 1023-1024

Werner Braatz

Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles. Alan R. H. Baker and Robin A. Butlin editors. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. xxvi, 702. $32.50 pp. 1024-1025

W. Kent Hackmann

Economic Development in East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. By Ivan T. Berend and György Ránki New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1974. Pp. xiii, 402 pp. 1026-1027

Lawrence Schofer

The Timber Economy of Puritan New England. By Charles F. Carroll. Providence: Brown University Press, 1973. Pp. xiii, 221. $12.50 pp. 1027-1028

Duane E. Ball

Government in the American Economy: Conventional and Radical Studies on the Growth of State Economic Power. Edited by Robert B. Carson, Jerry Ingles, and Douglas McLaud Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath and Company, 1973. Pp. xiv, 506 pp. 1028-1030

Russell D. Shannon

American Business in the Twentieth Century. By Thomas C. Cochran Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. Pp. 259. $11.95 pp. 1030-1031

David O. Whitten

Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation. By Richard B. Day. Cambridge: The University Press, 1973. Pp. 221. $10.95 pp. 1031-1032

Moshe Lewin

Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade. By Arghiri Emmanuel, with Additional Comments by Charles Bettelheim. Translated by Brian Pearce. Originally published in French as L'échange inégal, Paris: Librairie François Maspero, 1969. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1972. Pp. xlii, 453. $16.50 pp. 1033-1035

Barbara Huddleston Sharkey

German Steel and Swedish Iron Ore, 1939–1945. By Martin Fritz. Translated by Eva and Allan Green. Gothenburg: Publications of the Institute of Economic History at Gothenburg University, 1974. Pp. 137 + Map, Tables. Kr. 30 pp. 1035-1036

Charles K. Hyde

Landlords and Tenants on the Prairie Frontier. By Paul W. Gates. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973. Pp. 333. $12.50 pp. 1036-1037

George Lamson

Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders. By S. D. Goitein. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. 359 + 2 maps, 4 plates. $12.50 pp. 1037-1038

Norman A. Stillman

Economic Instability and Growth: The American Record. By Robert Aaron Gordon. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1974. Pp. viii, 216. Paper: $4.95 pp. 1038-1039

John A. Shaw

The Evolution of American Society, 1700–1815: An Interdisciplinary Analysis. By James A. Henretta. Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company, 1973. Pp. 242 plus index. $3.50 pp. 1040-1041

Duane E. Ball

An Economic History of West Africa. By A. G. Hopkins. London: Longman Group, Ltd., 1973. £5, paperback £2.25. And New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. x, 337, 6 figures, 17 maps. $15.00 pp. 1041-1043

Jan S. Hogendorn

A History of Prices in Sweden, 1732–1914. Vol I: Sources, Methods, Tables. Vol. II: Description, Analysis. By Lennart Jörberg. Lund: CWK Gleerup, 1972. Pp. VIII, 714; x, 391, 54 diagrams, 142 Tables, 2 maps. Sw. kr. 230 pp. 1043-1044

Austin Spencer

The Last Phase in the Transformation of Capitalism. By Michal Kalecki. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972. Pp. 124. $6.50 (cloth), $2.25 (paper) pp. 1044-1045

Stewart Long

The World in Depression, 1929–1939. By Charles P. Kindleberger. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1973. Pp. 336 pp. 1045-1047

Stephen A. Schuker

New Horizons, 1927–1950: History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). By Henrietta M. Larson, Evelyn H. Knowlton, and Charles S. Popple. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. Pp. xxv, 945 + Tables, Maps, Illustrations, Charts and Diagrams, Appendices, Notes, Index. $12.50 pp. 1047-1050

Francis J. Munch

Le revenu agricole et la rente foncière en Basse-Normandie: Étude de croissance régionale. By Maurice Lévy-Leboyer. Paris: Éditions Klincksieck, 1972. Pp. xi, 201. 7s Francs pp. 1050-1051

William H. Newell

Spanish Central America: A Socioeconomic History, 1520–1720. By M. J. MacLeod. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. Pp. xvi, 554. $20.00 pp. 1052-1053

Caedmon A. Liburd

The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History. By Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. viii, 171. $7.95 pp. 1053-1054

Ramon Knauerhase

Liberal America and the Third World. By Robert A. Packenham. Political Development Ideas in Foreign Aid and Social Science, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. xxii, 395. $15.00 pp. 1055-1056

Paul P. Abrahams

The Populist Context: Rural Versus Urban Power on a Great Plains Frontier. By Stanley B. Parsons. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973. Pp. xviii, 205. $11.00 pp. 1056-1057

Matthew Edel

Riches, Class, and Power Before the Civil War. By Edward Pessen. Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company, 1973. Pp. 378 pp. 1057-1058

Brodie Remington

Socialist Banking and Monetary Control: The Experience of Poland. By T. M. Podolski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. ix, 392. $28.50 pp. 1058-1059

Duane B. Graddy

The Age of Giant Corporations: A Microeconomic History of American Business, 1914–1970. By Robert Sobel. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1972. Pp. 257 pp. 1060-1060

Austin Spencer

Five Percent Philanthropy. An Account of Housing in Urban Areas Between 1840 and 1914. By John Nelson Tarn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. II, 181 + 135 plates. $23.50 pp. 1061-1062

Fred Siegel

A New System of Slavery: The Export of Indian Labour Overseas, 1830–1920. By Hugh Tinker. London: Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. xvi, 432 + 18 plates. £5.75 pp. 1062-1063

Michael Adas

Volume 34, issue 3, 1974

Railroad Development and Market Integration: The Case of Tsarist Russia pp. 529-550

Jacob Metzer

Differences in Regional Prices: The United States, 1851–1880 pp. 551-591

Philip Coelho and James F. Shepherd

Agricultural Terms of Trade in Four Midwestern States, 1870–1900 pp. 592-609

John D. Bowman and Richard H. Keehn

Cotton Competition and the Post-Bellum Recovery of the American South pp. 610-635

Gavin Wright

Watersheds and Turning Points: Conjectures on the Long-Term Impact of Civil War Financing pp. 636-661

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Railroads, Prices, and Peasant Rationality: India 1860–1900 pp. 662-684

Michelle Burge McAlpin

Railroads and the Equity Receivership: An Essay on Institutional Change pp. 685-709

Albro Martin

German Banks and German Growth, 1883–1913: an Empirical View pp. 710-731

Hugh Neuburger and Houston H. Stokes

The Plantation States as a Sub-Region of the Post-Bellum South pp. 732-738

Jay R. Mandle

Slavery: The Progressive Institution? pp. 739-783

Paul David and Peter Temin

The Russian and Polish Markets in International Trade, 1500–1650. By Artur Attman. Translated by Eva and Allan Green. Publication Number 26 of the Institute of Economic History of Gothenburg University. Göteborg: Gothenburg University, 1973. Pp. 232. kr. 30 pp. 785-786

William J. Kelly

Los Origenes del Capitalismo en Espana. Banca, Industria y Ferrocarriles en el siglo XIX. By Gabriel Tortella Casares. Madrid: Editorial Tecnos, 1973. Pp. xiv, 407 pp. 786-787

Robert W. Kern

Business and Politics in America from the Age of Jackson to the Civil War: The Career Biography of W. W. Corcoran. By Henry Cohen. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Corporation, 1971. Pp. xviii, 409. $13.50 pp. 787-788

William Haller

The Rise of the Atlantic Economies. By Ralph Davis. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1973. Pp. xiv, 352. $5.95 pp. 789-789

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire. By Michael Hudson. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. Pp. xxx, 304. $9.95 pp. 789-790

Paul P. Abrahams

Berliner Unternehmer während der frühen Industrialisierung. Herkunft, sozialer Status und politischer Einfluss. By Hartmut Kaelble. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1972. Pp. xi, 302. DM 68 pp. 790-791

Lawrence Schofer

The Advance of American Cooperative Enterprise: 1920–1945. By Joseph G. Knapp. Danville, Illinois: The Interstate Printers & Publishers, Inc., 1973. Pp. 646. $9.95 pp. 791-793

John A. Shaw

Monnaie et histoire d'Alexandre à Mahomet. By Maurice Lombard. Paris and the Hague: Mouton & Co., 1971. Pp. 233, 10 maps and diagrams. 36 F pp. 793-795

Norman A. Stillman

Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline: British Iron and Steel, 1870–1913. By Donald N. McCloskey. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. Pp. xiv, 157. $11.00 pp. 795-796

Charles K. Hyde

The Economic Development of Continental Europe, 1780–1870. By A. Milward and S. B. Saul. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1973. Pp. 548. £6-75 hardcover, £3-75 softcover pp. 796-797

Robert R. Locke

The Dawes Act and the Allotment of Indian Lands. By D. S. Otis. Edited and with an introduction by Francis Paul Prucha. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973. Pp. xvii, 197. $6.95 pp. 797-798

David R. Wrone

Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information: The United States System of Cities, 1790–1840. By Allan R. Pred. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973. Pp. 348. $15.00 pp. 799-801

George Rogers Taylor

The Tariff in American History. Sidney Ratner. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1972. Pp. viii, 214. $2.95 paper pp. 801-802

Ben Baack

London 1808–1870: The Infernal Wen. By Francis Sheppard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. Pp. xx, 427 + 49 plates. $11.75 pp. 802-802

Barry McGill

Het Noorderkwartier: Een regionaal historisch onderzoek in de demografische en economische geschiedenis van westelijk Nederland van de late middeleeuwen tot het begin van de negentiende eeuw. By A. M. Van der Woude. Wageningen, Netherlands: Afdeling Agrarische Geschiedenis, Landbouwhogeschool, 3 Vols. 1972. Pp. 858. Tables, charts, graphs, diagrams, and bibliography. Available to scholars upon request pp. 803-804

Rene C. Alltmont

Disease and Economic Development: The Impact of Parasitic Diseases in St. Lucia. By B. A. Weisbrod, R. L. Andreano, R. E. Balwin, and A. C. Kelley. Madison: The University of Wisconsin-Press, 1973. Pp. xvii, 218. $12.50 pp. 804-806

Elizabeth Hoffman

Volume 34, issue 2, 1974

A Study in Meteorological and Trade Cycle History: The Economic Crisis Following the Napoleonic Wars pp. 315-349

John D. Post

The End of the Chisholm Trail pp. 350-364

David Galenson

The Industrial Revolution in the Low Countries in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: A Comparative Case Study pp. 365-391

Joel Mokyr

The Social Rate of Return on Investment in Public Health, 1880–1910 pp. 392-421

Edward Meeker

Productivity and Income Distribution in the Post-Bellum South pp. 422-446

Stephen DeCanio

The Second Bank of the United States: An Instrument for an Interregional Monetary Union pp. 447-467

Arthur Fraas

Patterns of Farm Rental in the Georgia Cotton Belt, 1880–1900 pp. 468-482

Robert Higgs

L'Archivio Storico del Banco di Napoli. Una fonte preziosa per la storia economica sociale e artistica del Mezzogiorno d'ltalia. Naples, 1972. Pp. 183. No price pp. 502-503

Thomas W. Blomquist

Open-Field Farming in Medieval England: A Study of Village By-Laws. By Warren O. Ault. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1972. Pp. 183. $9.50 pp. 503-504

David O. Whitten

Neither Slave Nor Free. Edited by David W. Cohen and Jack P. Greene. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972. Pp. xiv, 344. $13.50 pp. 504-505

Don R. Leet

An Economic History of Ireland Since 1660. By L. M. Cullen. London: Batsford, 1972. £2.00 pp. 505-507

Cormac Ó Gráda

Land and People in Holywell-cum-Needingworth. Structure of Tenure and Patterns of Social Organization in an East Midlands Village, 1252–1457. By Edwin B. Dewindt. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Studies and Texts 22,1972. Pp. vi, 299. $12.00 pp. 507-508

James A. Corbett

The Overproduction Trap in U.S. Agriculture: A Study of Resource Allocation from World War I to the Late 1960's. Edited by Glenn L. Johnson and C. Leroy Quance. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press for Resources for the Future, Inc., 1972. Pp. xvii, 211. 28 Tables. $10.00 pp. 508-509

John A. Shaw

Wisconsin Death Trip. By Michael Lesy. New York: Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, 1973. Unpaged. $15.00 cloth, $5.95 paper pp. 509-510

Duane E. Ball

Rural Settlement and Farming in Germany. By Alan Mayhew. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1973. Pp. 224. $14.00 pp. 511-511

Lawrence Schofer

The New Order and the French Economy. By Alan S. Milward. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1970, Pp. VIII, 320. $12.00 pp. 512-514

Richard Tilly

Sociétés et Compagnies de Commerce en Orient et dans l'Ocean Indien. By Michel Mollat editor. (Actes du Huitième Colloque International d'Histoire Maritime, Beirut, 1966). Paris: S. E. V. P. E. N., 1970. Pp. 731, 8 plates. 62 Francs pp. 514-515

P. C. Nair

Documents of European Economic History. Volume I, The Process of Industrialization, 1750–1850; Volume II, Industrial Power and National Rivalry, 1870–1914; Volume III, The End of Old Europe, 1914–1939. Edited by Sidney Pollard and Colin Holmes. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1968 (Volume I), 1972. $16.50, $21.95, $6.95 pp. 516-516

Ramon Knauerhase

Merchants and Manufacturers: Studies in the Changing Structure of Nineteenth-Century Marketing. By Glenn Porter and Harold Livesay. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. Pp. X, 257. $11.50 pp. 517-517

John L. Bernardi

The Medieval Economy and Society: An Economic History of Britain, 1100–1500. By M. M. Postan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1972. Pp. viii, 261. $8.75 pp. 517-519

William M. Bowsky

Strutture sociali e sistemi economici precapitalistici. By Amelio Tagliaferri. Milan: Giuffré, 1972, Pp. vii, 319 + 14 plates. Lire 4,500 pp. 519-520

Richard A. Goldthwaite

The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880–1970. By Stephan T. Thernstrom. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973. Harvard Studies in Urban History. Pp. xvi, 345. $12.00 pp. 520-522

Matthew Edel

Dokumenten voor de Geschiedenis van Prijzen en Lonen in Vlaanderen en Brabant, Deel III (XVIe-XIXe eeuw)—Documents pour l'histoire des prix et des salaires en Flandre et en Brabant, tome III (XVIe-XIXe siècle). By Charles Verlinden, E. Scholliers and collaborators. Publication of the Rijksuniversiteit at Ghent, 1972. Pp. xxviii, 468. Graphs and bibliography. (No price available.) pp. 522-524

René C. Alltmont

Nineteenth Century Society: Essays in the Use of Quantitative Methods for the Study of Social Data. Edited by E.A. Wrigley. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. vii, 448. $27.50 pp. 524-525

Michael R. Haines

Volume 34, issue 1, 1974

Beyond the New Economic History pp. 1-7

Douglass North

The Arab Agricultural Revolution and Its Diffusion, 700–1100 pp. 8-35

Andrew M. Watson

Slavery and Technological Change pp. 36-50

R. Keith Aufhauser

International Diffusion of Agrarian Technology pp. 51-73

Robert Evenson

Comment on Paper by Watson pp. 74-78

Thomas F. Glick

Comment on Paper by Aufhauser pp. 79-83

Heywood Fleisig

Comment on Paper by Evenson pp. 84-90

Ralph W. Cummings

The Early Diffusion of Steam Power pp. 91-107

Eric H. Robinson

The International Diffusion of Electrical Power Technology, 1870–1920 pp. 108-121

James E. Brittain

Comment on Papers by Robinson and Brittain pp. 122-125

Richard B. Du Boff and Thomas Parke Hughes

Comment on Paper by Brittain and Robinson pp. 126-130

Thomas Parke Hughes

Conditions for the Diffusion of Agricultural Technology: An Asian Perspective pp. 131-148

Yujiro Hayami

A Tale of Japanese Technological Diffusion in the Meiji Period pp. 149-165

Gary Saxonhouse

The Role of Private Business in the International Diffusion of Technology pp. 166-188

Mira Wilkins

Comment on Papers by Hayami, Saxonhouse, and Wilkins pp. 189-193

Kozo Yamamura

Technological Dualism in Late Industrializers: On Theory, History, and Policy pp. 194-238

David Felix

The Economic Development of Manchuria: The Rise of a Frontier Economy pp. 239-264

Alexander Eckstein, Kang Chao and John Chang

A Positive Theory of Tariff Formation Applied to Nineteenth Century United States pp. 273-274

Jonathan Pincus

Railroad Inventions' Investment: The United States, 1870–1950 pp. 275-278

Trevor J.O. Dick

The Impact of Industrialization on an Urban Labor Market: Birmingham, England, 1770–1860 pp. 279-282

Edward P. Duggan

The Economic Bases for Agrarian Protest Movements in the United States, 1870–1900 pp. 283-285

Robert Klepper

Population Pressure and Human Fertility Response: Ohio, 1810–1860 pp. 286-288

Don R. Leet

Personal Wealth in Colonial America: Explorations in the Use of Probate Records from Maryland and Massachusetts, 1650 to 1720 pp. 289-293

Gloria L. Main

The Development of National Advertising, 1865–1920 pp. 294-296

Daniel Pope

Child-Labor Legislation and the Labor Force Participation of Children pp. 297-299

Allen R. Sanderson

An Examination of the Relative Downward Industrial Price Flexibility, 1870–1921 pp. 300-303

Austin H. Spencer

Dissertation Comments pp. 304-312

Gavin Wright and Paul M. Hohenberg