The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 32, issue 4, 1972

The Coastal Trade of the British North American Colonies, 1768–1772 pp. 783-810

James F. Shepherd and Samuel H. Williamson

Investment Constraints and New York City Mutual Savings Bank Financing of Antebellum Development pp. 811-840

Alan Olmstead

The Bank of Stephen Girard, 1812–1831 pp. 841-868

Donald R. Adams

Banking Under the Tsars and the Soviets pp. 869-893

George Garvy

The Portuguese Slave Trade From Angola in the Eighteenth Century pp. 894-918

Herbert S. Klein

The Industrial Distribution of the Urban and Rural Workforces: Estimates for the United States, 1870–1910 pp. 919-937

Thomas Weiss

The Rise and Fall of the Manorial System: A Critical Comment pp. 938-944

Andrew Jones

Alessandro Rossi e le origini dell'Italia industriale. By Lucio Avagliano. Naples: Libreria Scientifica Editrice, 1970. Pp. 554. L. 6000 pp. 945-946

Richard Rapp

Alienation of Church Wealth in Mexico: Social and Economic Aspects of the Liberal Revolution, 1856–1875 by Jan Bazant, Michael P. Costeloe (ed. and tr.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp. 286. $17.50 pp. 946-947

Thomas J. Dodd

Gospodarska in družbena zgodovina Slovencev. Zgodovina agrarnih panog: 1, Zvezek-Agrarno gospodarstvo. (Economic and Social History of the Slovenes. History of Agrarian Industries: Vol. 1—Agrarian Economy). By Pavle Blaznik et al.Ljubljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti—Državnazaložba Slovenije, 1970. Pp. XVII, 651. $10.00 pp. 947-948

Toussaint Hočevar

Twentieth Century Economic Development in Australia. By E. A. Boehm. Camberwell: Longman Australia Pty Limited, 1971. Pp. vii, 2.48. £3.00. - Australian Economic Development in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Colin Forster. Sydney: Australasian Publishing Co.; London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.; and New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1970. Pp. 334. $11.50. - Australia and the Great Depression. By C. B. Schedvin. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1970. Pp. xvi, 419. $A 10.00 pp. 948-954

Albert J. Robinson

Der Aussenhandel Ostmitteleuropas 1450–1650. Herausgegeben von Ingomar Bog. Köln-Wien: Bohlau Verlag, 1971 Pp. xv, 627. DM 88 pp. 954-955

M. L. Flaningam

The Economic Basis of American Civilization. By Shepard B. Clough and Theodore F. Marburg. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1968. Pp. x, 350. $8.95 cloth, $4.95 paper pp. 955-957

David O. Whitten

Perspectives in Public Welfare: A History. By Blanche D. Coll. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. Reprinted 1970, 1971. Pp. viii; 107. $0.70 pp. 957-959

William B. Hartley

Essays in European Economic History, 1789–1914. Edited by F. M.-J. Crouzet, W. H. Chaloner, and W. M. Stem. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1969. 280 pages. $12.00 pp. 959-960

Michael R. Haines

Economic Anthropology and Development. Essays on Tribal and Peasant Economies. By George Dalton. New York: Basic Books, 1971. Pp. iii–386. $12.50 pp. 960-961

Sidney W. Mintz

Institutional Change and American Economic Growth. By Lance Davis and Douglass C. North with the assistance of Calla Smorodin. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1971. $10.95 pp. 961-962

Allan G. Bogue

American Economic Growth: An Economist's History of the United States. By Lance E. Davis, Richard A. Easterlin, William N. Parker, et al. New York: Harper and Row, 1972. $13.95 pp. 963-966

Donald N. McCloskey

The New Economics and the Old Economists. By J. Ronnie Davis. Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University Press, 1971. Pp. xvi, 170. $5.95 pp. 966-968

Dean May

Historians' Fallacies. Toward a Logic of Historical Thought. by David Hackett Fischer. New York: Harper and Row. Pp. xxii, 338. $10.00 pp. 968-970

Albro Martin

The Rise of Teamster Power in the West. By Donald Garnel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. Pp. xii, 363. $12.50 pp. 971-972

Gerald N. Grob

Productivity and Factor Proportions in Less Developed Countries: The Case of Industrial Firms in the Congo. By J. Gouverneur. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xvii, 162, $8.00 pp. 972-973

William B. Eastlake

Essays on Interest Rates: Volume II. Edited by Jack M. Guttentag. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1971. Pp. xxxii, 450. $15.00 pp. 973-974

Joseph Horton

Royal Taxation in Fourteenth Century France: The Development of War Financing, 1322–1356. By John Bell Heinneman. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1971. Pp xviii, 388. $15.00 pp. 974-976

Gustav Schachter

The Public Interest and Individual Interests. By Virginia Held. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1970. Pp. xiv, 248 $6.95 pp. 976-977

Dean May

Die Handelskammer für den Kreis Mülheim am Rhein (1871–1914) und die Wirtschaft des Köln-Mülheimer Raumes. By Heinz Hermanns. Cologne: Rheinische-westfälisches Wirtschaftarchiv zu Köln, 1969. Pp. 472 + 127 plates pp. 978-979

Richard V. Pierard

The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865–1914: An Essay in Interpretation. By Robert Higgs. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1971. pp. 137. $5.95 pp. 980-981

William B. Hartley

The Cable Car in America: A New Treatise upon Cable or Rope Traction as Applied to the Working of Street and Other Railways. By George W. Hilton. Berkeley, California: Howell-North Books, 1971. Pp. 484. $17.50 pp. 981-982

Duane E. Ball

Liverpool and the Mersey: An Economic History of a Port, 1700–1970. By Francis E. Hyde. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971. Pp. xvi, 269. $12.00 pp. 982-984

Max E. Fletcher

The Organization of Space in Developing Countries. By E.A.J. Johnson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. Pp. xvi, 452. $15.00 pp. 984-986

John B. Parr

The Clifton-Morenci Strike: Labor Difficulty in Arizona, 1915–1916. By James R. Kluger. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1970. Pp. viii (Unnumbered), 85 + 1 map and 4 plates. $3.50 pp. 987-988

Joe C. Ashby

A History of Financial Intermediaries. By Herman B. Krooss and Martin R. Blyn. New York: Random House, 1971. Pp. xi, 254. $7.50 pp. 988-989

Roger S. White

Labor Organizations in the United States and Mexico: A History of Their Relations. Contributions in American History No. 13. By Harvey A. Levenstein. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Co., 1971. Pp. x, 258. $11.00 pp. 989-991

Mark Perlman

The Three Ages of the Italian Renaissance. By R. S. Lopez. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1970. Pp. 103. $6.00 pp. 991-993

M. M. Knight

Beyond the Revolution: Bolivia Since 1952. Edited by James M. Malloy and Richard S. Thorn. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971. Pp. xviii, 402 + 6 illustrations + 53 tables. $11.95. - Foundations of an Agricultural Policy in Paraguay. By Adlai F. Arnold. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Pp. xxii, 295 + 4 figures + 37 tables. $17.50 pp. 993-995

Dwight B. Heath

The First Industrial Nation: An Economic History of Britain, 1700–1914. By Peter Mathias. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. Pp. xiv, 522. $10.00. Pp. xiv, 522. $10.00 pp. 995-998

Arthur E. Rockwell

An Economic History of Colombia, 1845–1930. By William Paul McGreevey. Cambridge: The University Press, 1971. Pp. xiv, 330. $10.95 pp. 998-1000

Richard Wolff

The Development of Indigenous Trade and Markets in West Africa. Edited by Claude Meillassoux. Oxford: Published for the International African Institute, 1971. pp. x, 432. $13.00 pp. 1000-1002

B. Marie Perinbam

The Credit Union Movement: Origins and Development, 1850–1970. By J. Carroll Moody and Gilbert C. Fite. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971. Pp. ix, 369 + 8 plates, $9.50 pp. 1002-1004

Robert P. Withington

The Term Structure of Interest Rates. By Charles R. Nelson. New York: Basic Books, 1972. Pp. xiv, 129. $8.95 pp. 1004-1005

Joseph Horton

Rich and Poor in Renaissance Venice: The Social Institutions of a Catholic State, to 1620. By Brian Pullan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. x, 689. $13.50 pp. 1005-1008

Marvin B. Becker

Regional Industrial Development in Central America: A Case Study of the Integration Industries Scheme. By David E. Ramsett. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1969. Pp. xv, 133, tables. $15.00 pp. 1008-1009

Kenneth J. Grieb

James Watt and the Steam Revolution: A Documentary History. By Eric Robinson and A. E. Musson. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969. Pp. ix, 229 + 35 plates. $17.50 pp. 1009-1010

John F. Hanieski

The Treasury. The Evolution of a British Institution. By Henry Roseveare. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Pp. 406. $12.50 pp. 1010-1011

William J. Baker

Il libro bianco della compagnia dei Covoni. Edited by Armando Sapori and with a Study by Giulio Mandich. Milano: published by Istituto Editoriale Eisalpino for Direzione degli “Studi Medieval,”1970. Pp. ccxxiii, 381. Lire 35,000 pp. 1011-1012

Pierluigi Profumieri

The Royal Exchange Assurance: A History of British Insurance 1720–1970. By Barry Supple. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. xxii, 548 + 18 plates, 14 figures, 35 tables. $16.00 pp. 1012-1014

Michael Edelstein

Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom. By Hugh Thomas. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1971. Pp. xxiv, 1696, maps, tables, appendices. $20.00 pp. 1014-1016

Kenneth J. Grieb

European Economic History: Tenth Century to the Present: Theory and History of Economic Change. By Elias H. Tuma. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Pp. x, 384. $11.00 pp. 1016-1019

David R. Ringrose

Copper for America: The Hendricks Family and a National Industry 1775–1939. By Maxwell Whiteman. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1971. Pp. x, 353. $12.50 pp. 1019-1021

Stephen Salsbury

The Draining of the Somerset Levels. By Michael Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. xvi, 288 + 21 plates. $18.50 pp. 1021-1023

Donald N. McCloskey

Labor and Society in Tsarist Russia: the Factory Workers of St. Petersburg, 1855–1870. By Reginald E. Zelnik. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1971. Pp. viii, 450. $15.00 pp. 1023-1025

Oliver Hayward

Merchants, Farmers, and River Gods; An Essay on Eighteenth-Century American Politics. By Robert Zemsky. Boston: Gambit Incorporated, 1971. Pp. xii, 361. $10.00 pp. 1025-1027

Van Beck Hall

Volume 32, issue 3, 1972

Steamboats and the Great Productivity Surge In River Transportation pp. 619-640

James Mak and Gary M. Walton

Debt Peonage in the Cotton South After the Civil War pp. 641-669

Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch

Factor Substitution and Labor Productivity Growth in American Manufacturing, 1839–1899 pp. 670-681

Paul J. Uselding

Internal Funds and Automobile Industry Investment: An Evaluation of the Seltzer Hypothesis pp. 682-690

Lloyd J. Mercer and W. Douglas Morgan

Embodiment, Disembodiment, Learning by Doing, and Returns to Scale in Nineteenth-Century Cotton Textiles pp. 691-705

Jeffrey G. Williamson

The Use and Abuse of Prior Information in Econometric History: A Rejoinder to Professor Williamson on the Antebellum Cotton Textile Industry pp. 706-727

Paul David

The History of the Dutch Slave Trade, A Bibliographical Survey pp. 728-747

Pieter C. Emmer

Civilization Since Waterloo. A Book of Source Readings. Edited by Rondo Cameron. Itasca, Illinois: F. E. Peacock Publishers, Inc., 1971. Pp. xx, 605 pp. 749-750

John S. Wozniak

Pierre S. du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation. By Alfred D. ChandlerJr. and Stephen Salsbury. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Pp. xxii, 722 + 14 Tables, 7 Charts, Illustrations. $17.50 pp. 751-753

Stanley L. Engerman

The Kennedy Round in American Trade Policy: The Twilight of the GATT? By John W. Evans. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. xiv, 383, 8 tables. $13.95 pp. 753-754

Frederick J. Dobney

The Norman Conquest and its Effects on the Economy, 1066–86. By R. Welldon Finn. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1971. Pp. xiv, 322. $16.50 pp. 755-756

W. Kent Hackmann

New Series on Home Mortgage Yields Since 1951. By Jack M. Guttentag and Morris Beck. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1970. Pp. xvii, 357. $10.00. - Home Mortgage Delinquency and Foreclosure. By John P. Herzog and James S. Earley. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1970. Pp. xx, 170. $7.50 pp. 756-757

Joseph J. Horton

The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution—The Paris Academy of Sciences, 1666–1803. By Roger Hahn. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1971. Pp. xiv, 433 + 4 plates. $12.00 pp. 757-759

John G. Brainerd

Aspects of Capital Investment in Great Britain, 1750–1850. Edited by J. P. P. Higgins and Sidney Pollard. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1971. Pp. 200. $9.50 pp. 759-760

Jeffrey F. Zabler

Enterprise Denied, Origins of the Decline of American Railroads, 1897–1917. By Albro Martin. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. xiv, 402. $10.95. - Main Line to Oblivion, The Disintegration of the New York Railroads in the Twentieth Century. By Robert B. Carson. $12.95 pp. 761-763

James Sturm

Plan and Market in Yugoslav Economic Thought. By Deborah D. Milenkovitch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971. Pp. x, 300. $10.00 pp. 763-764

Michael F. Hamm

The Soviet Rural Community. Edited by James R. Millar. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1971. Pp. xv, 404 + bibliographies + index. $12.50 pp. 764-766

W. Robert Brazelton

Railroads and the Granger Laws. By George H. Miller. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. Pp. xi, 296. $12.50 pp. 766-767

David R. Wrone

Economisch- en Sociaal-Historisch Jaarboek. Volume 33. Published by the Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief. 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nyhoff, 1971. Pp. viii, 272 pp. 768-769

Max Gideonse

Economic Dimensions in Education, By M. O'Donoghue. Chicago: Aldine Atherton, 1971. Pp. 223. $5.95 pp. 769-770

John R. Hanson

Britain's Railways: An Industrial History. By Harold Pollins. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1971. Pp. 223. $11.00 pp. 770-771

Albro Martin

Industrialization without National Patents: The Netherlands, 1869-1912, Switzerland, 1850–1907. By Eric Schiff. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1971. Pp. xi. 137. $9.50 pp. 771-772

John S. Wozniak

Transportation to the Seaboard: The “Communication Revolution” and American Foreign Policy, 1860–1900. By Howard B. Schonberger. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Corporation, 1971. Pp. xix, 265. $9.50 pp. 772-773

Max E. Fletcher

Investment in Human Capital. By Theodore W. Schultz. New York: The Free Press, 1971. Pp. xii, 272. $8.75 pp. 773-774

Herbert Grubel

The Land Question and the Irish Economy, 1870–1903. Harvard Economic Studies, 139. By Barbara Lewis Solow. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. vi, 247. $8.50 pp. 774-775

Barry McGill

The Growth of Economic Thought. By Henry William Spiegel. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1971. Pp. xiv, 816. $12.95 pp. 775-777

Robert D. Patton

The Canadian Commercial Revolution, 1845–1851, reprinted. By Gilbert N. Tucker. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1971. Pp. 258 and map. $7.75 pp. 777-778

H. C. Pentland

Planning for Economic Growth in the Soviet Union, 1918–1932. By E. Zaleski. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1971. Pp. 425. $15.75 pp. 779-780

Daniel R. Brower

Volume 32, issue 2, 1972

Industrial Efficiency and Biased Technical Change in American and British Manufacturing: The Case of Textiles in the Nineteenth Century pp. 431-442

Ephraim Asher

Some Economic Issues Relating to Railroad Subsidies and the Evaluation of Land Grants pp. 443-463

Stanley L. Engerman

A Reappraisal of the Causes of Farm Protest in the United States, 1870–1900 pp. 464-475

Anne Mayhew

Interest Rates and Price Expectations During the Civil War pp. 476-498

Richard Roll

The Real-Balance Effect in the Great Depression pp. 499-519

William P. Gramm

American Reformers Abroad: The Kemmerer Missions in South America, 1923–1931 pp. 520-545

Robert N. Seidel

British Investment in Argentina pp. 546-547

Irving Stone

Economic Theory and the Antitrust Dilemma. By Peter Asch. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1970. Pp. 409. $9.95 pp. 551-552

William B. Eastlake

Social-Economic Researches on the History of East Central Europe. By I. T. Berend, P. Hanak, L. Katus, and Gy. Ranki. Budapest: Akademia Kiado, 1970. Pp. 231. $7.20 pp. 553-554

V. N. Bandera

A travers la Normandie des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. By Michel Bouvet and Pierre Marie Bourdin. Caen: Cahiers des Annales de Normandie, 1968 pp. 554-555

H. Leridon

Essays in French Economic History. Edited by Rondo Cameron with the assistance of F. F. Mendels and J. P. Ward. Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, 1970. Pp. xiv, 423. $8.50 pp. 555-557

Robert Forster

Capital Transfers and Economic Policy: Canada, 1951–1962. By Richard E. Caves and Grant L. Reuber, with Robert W. Bagaley, John M. Curtis, and Raymond Lubitz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970. Pp. xviii, 432 pp. 557-559

Eric J. Hanson

Les Financiers de Languedoc au XVIIIe Siècle. By Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret. Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1970. Pp. 374 pp. 559-560

R. Burr Litchfield

Joseph Ellicott and the Holland Land Company. By William Chazanof. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1970. Pp. ix, 240. $9.00 pp. 560-561

William Marr

New Orleans, 1718–1812: An Economic History. By John G. Clark. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1970. Pp. xii, 395. $10.00 pp. 561-562

Lewis E. Hill

The Old World and the New, 1492–1650. By J. H. Elliott. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. x, 118. Cloth $5.95, Paper $1.95 pp. 562-563

Robert V. Eagly

India Trade under the Danish Flag, 1772–1808: European Enterprise and Anglo-Indian Remittance and Trade. By Ole Feldbaek. (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, #2). Andelsbogtrykkeriet i Odense, 1969. Pp. 359 pp. 563-564

Lynn Lees

City and Country in the Third World: Issues in the Modernization of Latin America. Edited by Arthur J. Field. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1970. Pp. xii, 303. $4.95 pp. 564-566

Matthew Edel

The Reinterpretation of American Economic History. Edited by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Pp. 494 pp. 566-569

Gavin Wright

Monetary Statistics of the United States, Estimates, Sources, Methods. By Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1970. Pp. xx, 629. $15.00. - Varieties of Monetary Experience. Edited by David Meiselman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. Pp. 391. - Monetary Experiments, Early American and Recent Scandinavian. By Richard A. Lester. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1970 (originally published Princeton: Princeton, University Press, 1939). 84s pp. 569-573

Lars G. Sandberg

A Survey of General Equilibrium Systems. By Bent Hansen. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1970. Pp. viii, 238 pp. 573-574

J. K. S. Ghandhi

Das deutsche Kapital in Russland 1850–1894. By Joachim Mai. East Berlin: VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1970. Pp. 255. 35.00 Mark pp. 574-575

John S. Wozniak

The Analysis of Public Output. Edited by Julius Margolis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. Pp. xvi, 409. $12.50 pp. 576-577

Patrick A. McGuire

The City Moves West; Economic and Industrial Growth in Central West Texas. By Robert L. Martin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969. Pp. vii, 190. $5.00 pp. 578-579

R. David Weber

New England Textiles in the Nineteenth Century: Profits and Investment. By Paul F. McGouldrick. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1968. Pp. 307. $6.50 pp. 579-581

Barry W. Poulson

Land and the Constitution in India. By H. C. L. Merillat. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1970. Pp. xiv, 313. $10.00 pp. 581-582

John Adams

The Return to Gold, 1925; The Formulation of Economic Policy and its Critics. By D. E. Moggridge. Cambridge Department of Applied Economics, Occasional Paper 19. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. 119. Cloth $4.50, paper $2.75 pp. 582-584

Heywood Fleisig

Badisches Glas, Seine Hütten und Werkstätten. (Veröffentlichungen zur Geschichte des Glases und der Glashütten in Deutschland, Band I). By L. Moser. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH, 1969. Pp. 51 & 42 plates. DM 24 pp. 584-585

Ulrich W. Hiesinger

Soviet Image of Contemporary Latin America. A Documentary History, 1960–1968. Compiled and Translated by J. Gregory Oswold. Introduction by Herbert S. Dinnerstein. Edited by Robert G. Carleton. Austin and London: The University of Texas Press for the Conference on Latin American History, 1970. Pp. xvi, 365. $15.00 pp. 586-587

James L. Crouthamel

The Revolution in America: 1754–1788. Edited by J. R. Pole. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1970. Pp. xxxi, 614. $13.50 pp. 587-589

Paul R. Lucas

The Public Lands of Australia Felix. By J. M. Powell. Melbourne: Oxord University Press, 1970. Pp. xxix, 328. $13.75 pp. 589-590

Albert J. Robinson

Imperial Chemical Industries: A History, Vol. 1—The Forerunners, 1870–1926. By W. J. Reader. London: Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. xvi, 563 + 38 plates. $17.50 pp. 590-592

Claude K. Deischer

Transportation and Economic Stagnation in Spain, 1750–1850. By David R. Ringrose. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970. Pp. xxv, 171 + 14 maps pp. 592-594

Richard Herb

The Behavior of Interest Rates: The Application of the Efficient Market Model to U.S. Treasury Bills. By Richard Roll. New York: Basic Books, 1970. Pp. xviii, 139. $7.95 pp. 594-595

Joseph J. Horton

Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance. By F. M. Scherer. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1970. Pp. xi, 576. $13.00 pp. 595-597

John Rapoport

The Metropolitan Economy: The Process of Employment Expansion. By Thomas M. StanbackJr. and Richard V. Knight. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. Pp. xxi, 279 + 37 Tables. $11.50 pp. 598-599

Kathleen M. Langley

Middle East Oil, A Study in the Political and Economic Controversy. By George W. Stocking. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1970. Pages xii, 485. $15.00. - United States Oil Policy 1890-1964: Business and Government in Twentieth Century America. By Gerald D. Nash. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968. Pages ix, 286. $7.95 pp. 599-602

John F. Hanieski

Technological Change and Economic Development: The Manufacturing Experience of Mexico and Puerto Rico. By W. Paul Strassmann. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1968. Pp. xvii, 353. $12.50 pp. 602-603

Kenneth J. Grieb

The Beginnings of Modern Colonization. By Charles Verlinden. (Translated by Yvonne Freccero.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970. Pp. xxi, 248. Cloth $9.75 pp. 603-604

Robert V. Eagly

American and Soviet Aid, A Comparative Analysis. By Robert S. Walters. Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970. Pp. xiii, 299. $9.95 pp. 604-606

Paul P. Abrahams

The Trade of Elizabethan Chester. By D. M. Woodward. Hull: University of Hull Publications, 1970. Pp. x, 150 + 3 maps. £ 1.75 pp. 606-607

Lawrence W. Belle

Volume 32, issue 1, 1972

Current Directions in Economic History pp. 1-2

Robert Fogel

The Road We are Traveling pp. 3-14

Ralph W. Hidy

The Enclosure of Open Fields: Preface to a Study of Its Impact on the Efficiency of English Agriculture in the Eighteenth Century pp. 15-35

Donald N. McCloskey

An Economic Analysis of Indian Behavior in the North American Fur Trade pp. 36-53

John C. McManus

Compulsory Schooling Legislation: An Economic Analysis of Law and Social Change in the Nineteenth Century pp. 54-91

William Landes and Lewis C. Solmon

Comment on Papers by McCloskey, McManus, and Landes and Solmon pp. 92-97

Earl Finbar Murphy

Wealth Estimates for the New England Colonies about 1770 pp. 98-127

Alice Hanson Jones

Trade, Distribution, and Economic Growth in Colonial America pp. 128-145

James F. Shepherd and Gary M. Walton

Sources of Investment Capital in the Colonial Philadelphia Shipping Industry pp. 146-157

John McCusker

Comments on Papers by Jones, Shepherd and Walton, and McCusker pp. 158-164

Jackson Turner Main, Richard B. Sheridan and Roger W. Weiss

The Demographic History of Colonial New England pp. 165-183

Daniel Scott Smith

Mortality Rates and Trends in Massachusetts Before 1860 pp. 184-213

Maris A. Vinovskis

Comments on Papers by Smith, Vinovskis pp. 214-218

J. J. Spengler and Richard Sutch

Change in Rural France in the Period of Industrialization, 1830–1914 pp. 219-240

Paul Hohenberg

Proto-industrialization: The First Phase of the Industrialization Process pp. 241-261

Franklin F. Mendels

The Cotton Industry of Northern Italy in the Late Middle Ages: 1150–1450 pp. 262-286

Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui

Comments on Papers by Hohenberg, Mendels, and Mazzaoui pp. 287-297

David Landes, Sylvia L. Thrupp and Tom G. Kessinger

The Terms of Trade as a Tax on Agriculture: Hungary's Trade with Austria, 1883–1913 pp. 298-315

Scott M. Eddie

An Interpretation of American Imperialism pp. 316-360

Robert Zevin

The Social Basis of English Commercial Expansion, 1550–1650 pp. 361-384

Robert Brenner

Comments on Papers by Eddie, Zevin, and Brenner pp. 385-392

Martin Bronfenbrenner, William Woodruff and Arcadius Kahan

The Effect of Net Interregional Migration on Agricultural Income Growth: The United States, 1850–1860 pp. 393-395

Edith M. Lang

Agricultural Production, Supply, and Institutions in the Post-Civil War South pp. 396-398

Stephen DeCanio

Craft to National Industry in the Nineteenth Century: A Case Study of the Transformation of the New York State Tanning Industry pp. 399-402

Lucius F. Ellsworth

Watered Stock and Control of Telegraph Rates: Early Proposals for Regulating a Public Utility pp. 403-408

Lester G. Lindley

The British Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade 1650-1775 pp. 409-411

Richard Nelson Bean

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