The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 19, issue 4, 1959

The Impact of Money on an African Subsistence Economy pp. 491-503

Paul Bohannan

Barriers to Economic Development in Traditional Societies: Malabar, A Case Study* pp. 504-522

Thomas W. Shea

Discussion pp. 523-527

Marvin W. Mikesell and Walter C. Neale

Some Neglected Factors in the English Industrial Revolution pp. 528-540

John T. Krause

The Textile Industries in Silesia and the Rhineland: A Comparative Study in Industrialization* pp. 541-564

Herbert Kisch

Discussion pp. 565-569

Morris David Morris

The Principles of Freedom and Government Intervention in American Economic Expansion pp. 570-583

Joseph Dorfman

Industrialization and Stabilization Dilemmas in Latin America pp. 584-599

David Felix

Small Industry in Underdeveloped Countries pp. 600-618

Bert F. Hoselitz

Discussion pp. 619-620

William N. Parker

Der Aussenhandel und die Schiffahrt Finnlands im 18. Jahrhundert, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Umbruchsperiode der Handelsfreiheit im Bottnischen Meerbusen und der grossen Seekriege. By Aulis J. Alanen. (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Series B, Volume CIII.) Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia; Helsinki: Akateeminen Kirjakauppa; Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1957. Pp. 495. Mk. 2,400 pp. 621-622

J. William Fredrickson

Le avventure della lira. By Carlo M. Cipolla. Milan: Edizioni di Communità, 1958. Pp. 136. Lire 800 pp. 622-623

Martin Wolfe

La France sous les derniers Capétiens, 1223–1328. By Marc Bloch. (“Cahiers des Annales,” No. 13.) Paris: Armand Colin, 1958. Pp. 132 pp. 622-622

David Herlihy

The Puerto Rican Businessman: A Study in Cultural Change. By Thomas C. Cochran. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959. Pp. 198. $5.00 pp. 623-624

Harold F. Williamson

A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, edited by John R. Commons, Ulrich B. Phillips, Eugene A. Gilmore, Helen L. Sumner, and John B. Andrews. New York: Russell and Russell, 1958. 10 vols., $125.00 pp. 624-626

Carl N. Degler

The Making of an American Community: A Case Study of Decocracy in a Frontier County. By Merle Curti with the assistance of Robert Daniel, Shaw Livermore, Jr., Joseph Van Hise, Margaret W. Curti. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1959. Pp. vii, 483. $8.50 pp. 627-628

Ray Allen Billington

Movements Ouvrier et Socialiste. Chronologie et Bibliographie Angleterre, France, Allemagne, Etats-Unis (1750–1918). By Edouard Dolléans and Michel Crozier. Paris: Editions Ouvrières, 1950. Pp. xvi, 381. - Movements Ouvriers et Socialistes (Chronologie et Bibliographie). L'ltalie (Des Origines à 1922). By Alfonso Leonetti (Collection dirigée par E. Dolléans et M. Crozier.) Paris: Editions Ouvrières, 1952. Pp. 198. - Movements Ouvriers et Socialistes (Chronologie et Bibliographie). L'Espagne (1750–1936) By Renée Lamberet. (Collection dirigée par E. Dolléans et M. Crozier.) Paris: Editions Ouvrières, 1953. Pp. 204. - Movements Ouvriers et Socialistes. Chronologie et Bibliographie. La Russie. Vol. I (1725–1907); Vol. II (1908–1917). By Eugène Zaleski. (Published under the auspices of the Institut Français d'Histoire Sociale.) Paris Editions Ouvrières, 1956. Pp. 463 and 492 pp. 628-631

Gaston V. Rimlinger

The Economic Mind in American Civilization. Volumes IV and V, 1918–1933. By Joseph Dorfman. New York: The Viking Press, 1959. Volume IV, pp. xxxiv, 398, and Volume V, pp. liv, 378. 2 vols., $12.50 pp. 631-633

Allan G. Gruchy

American Business Cycles, 1865–1897. By Rendigs Fels. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1959. Pp. vii, 244. $6.00 pp. 633-634

George Rogers Taylor

Pre-Famine Ireland: A Study in Historical Geography. By T. W. Freeman. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1957 pp. 634-635

Emmet Larkin

Illinois Internal Improvements, 1818–1848. By John H. Krenkel. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press. 1958. Pp. 252. $4.00 pp. 635-636

Robert M. Sutton

Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization. By John U. Nef. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958. Pp. xv, 164. $4.00 pp. 636-638

D. E. C. Eversley

The Scholastic Analysis of Usury. By John T. NoonanJr. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957. Pp. xii, 432. $9.00 pp. 638-639

David Herlihy

Rails, Mines, & Progress: Seven American Promoters in Mexico, 1867–1911. By David M. Pletcher. (Published for the American Historical Association.) Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1958. Pp. x, 321. $5.50 pp. 640-640

Joe B. Frantz

A History of American Labor. By Joseph G. Rayback. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. Pp. vi, 459. $6.00 pp. 641-641

Elinor Pancoast

The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan. By Thomas C. Smith. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1959. Pp. xi, 250. $5.00 pp. 642-642

Delmer M. Brown

Volume 19, issue 3, 1959

Creative Destruction and Partial Obsolescence in American Economic Development* pp. 335-349

W. Paul Strassmann

Japanese Capital Formation: The Role of the Public Sector* pp. 350-375

Henry Rosovsky

The Social Interpretation of the English Revolution* pp. 376-401

Perez Zagorin

Sequential Growth, the Labor-Safety-Valve Doctrine and the Development of American Unionism* pp. 402-421

George G. S. Murphy and Arnold Zellner

Debt Servicing Capacity and Postwar Growth in International Indebtedness. By Dragoslav Avromovic, assisted by Ravi Guehati. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1958. Pp. xvi, 228. $5.00 pp. 422-423

Donald M. Street

The American Labor Force: Its Growth and Changing Composition. By Gertrude Bancroft. (A volume in the Cenus Monograph Series for the Social Sciences Research Council in coopreation with the U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Cenus.) New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1958. Pp. xiv, 256. $7.50 pp. 423-424

Lois MacDonald

Bondsmen and Bishops, Slavery and Apprenticeship on the Codrington Plantations of Barbados 1710–1838. By J. Harry BennettJr. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1958. Pp. xii, 176. $3.50 pp. 424-425

Elsa V. Goveia

British Public Finance and Administration, 1774–92. By J. E. D. Binney. Oxford: The Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1958. Pp. xii, 320. $7.20. - The Post Office in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in Administrative History. By Kenneth Ellis. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1958. Pp. xvi, 176. $4.00 pp. 425-427

R. K. Webb

The Golden Trade of the Moors. By E. W. Bovill. London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Pp. vi, 281. $7.00. - Trade Routes of Algeria and the Sahara. By Benjamin E. Thomas. “University of California Publications in Geography,” Vol. vii, No. 3, pp. 165–288. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957. $2.50 (separate, paperbound) pp. 427-429

M. M. Knight

The Board of Trade and the Free-Trade Movement, 1830–42. By Lucy Brown. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford, 1958. Pp. 245. $4.80 pp. 429-430

J. R. T. Hughes

Benjamin Strong, Central Banker. By Lester V. Chandler. Washington, D. C.: The Brookings Institution, 1958. Pp. x, 495. $6.00 pp. 430-431

Charles Gilbert

The Economic Development of Western Civilization. By Shepard B. Clough. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959. Pp. xv, 493. $7.50 pp. 431-432

Joseph Finkelstein

The British Paper Industry, 1495–1860, A Study in Industrial Growth. By D. C. Coleman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958. Pp. xvi, 367. $8.80 pp. 432-434

W. E. Minchinton

A Critique of the United States Income and Product Accounts. By the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth. (Publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research: Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume 22.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958. Pp. x, 589. $11.50 pp. 434-435

Thomas S. Berry

Storia del lavoro in Italia dagli inizi del secolo XVIII al 1815. By Luigi Dal Pane. 2d ed.; Milan: A. Giuffrè, 1958. Pp. 629. L. 4,000 pp. 435-438

Samuel J. Surace

Out of Our Past. The Forces That Shaped Modern America. By Carl N. Degler. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. Pp. xvi, 484. $6.00 pp. 438-439

Robert A. Lively

Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta, 1830–1885; An Introduction to the Economic and Political History of Nigeria. By K. Onwuka Dike. (“Oxford Studies in African Affairs.”) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. Pp. vii, 250. $4.80 pp. 439-440

John Flint

China's Early Industrialization: Sheng Hsuan-huai (1844–1916) and Mandarin Enterprise. By Albert Feuerwerker. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959. Pp. xii, 311, xxxvii. $6.50 pp. 441-444

Choh-Ming Li

Cradle of Ship: A History of the Bath Iron Works. By Garnett Laidlaw Eskew. (Introduction by Samuel Eliot Morison.) New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1958. Pp. 279. $6.00 pp. 441-441

John G. B. Hutchins

A History of Prices and Wages in Denmark 1600–1800. Volume I. By Astrid Friis and Kristof Glamann. (Institute of Economics and History, Copenhagen.) London: Longmans, Green, 1958. Pp. xii, 350. £2 10 s pp. 445-446

David Felix

Economic Regulation of the Motor Trucking Industry by the States (Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, vol. 43). By Donald V. Harper, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1959. Pp. 320. $5.00 cloth; $4.00 paper pp. 446-447

John G. B. Hutchins

The Dynamic Decade. By Eric J. Hanson. Toronto: McLelland Stewart Limited, 1958, Pp. xi, 314 pp. 446-446

W. T. Easterbrook

The Eastland Trade and the Common Weal in the Seventeenth Century. By R. W. K. Hinton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1959. Pp. xi, 230. $6.00 pp. 449-450

Wallace T. MacCaffrey

Industrial Evolution of Columbus, Ohio. By Henry L. Hunker. (Bureau of Business Research Monograph Number 93, College of Commerce and Administration, The Ohio State University.) Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University, 1958. Pp. xxvi, 260. $4.00 pp. 450-451

Mildred Thorne

Law and Locomotives: The Impact of the Railroad on Wisconsin Law in the Nineteenth Century. By Robert S. Hunt. Madison: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1958. Pp. xiv, 292. $6.50 pp. 451-452

Irene D. Neu

Economic Elements in the Pax Britannica. Studies in British Foreign Trade in the Nineteenth Century. By Albert H. Imlah. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958. Pp. xiii, 224. $6 pp. 452-453

S. B. Saul

Federal Budget and Fiscal Policy, 1789–1958. By Lewis H. Kimmel. Washington, D. C.: Brookings Institution, 1959. Pp. 337. $5.00 pp. 453-454

James A. Maxwell

The Wisconsin Business Corporation. By George J. Kuehnl. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1959. Pp. vii, 284. $6.50 pp. 454-455

Richard Lowitt

Le commerce des soies à Lyon sous Napoléon et la crise de 1811. By Jean Labasse. (Universités de Clermont, Lyon, Grenoble, “Collection des Cahiers d'histoire,” No. 1.) Paris: Presses Universitaires, 1957. Pp. 136. Frs. 600 pp. 456-457

Robert Forster

The Northern Seas: Shipping and Commerce in Northern Europe A.D. 300–1100. By Archibald R. Lewis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958. Pp. xi, 498. $9.00 pp. 457-459

William L. Winter

The Labor Force under Changing Income and Employment. By Clarence D. Long. (National Bureau of Economic Research. General Series, no. 65.) A Study by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958. Pp. xxiv, 440. $10.00 pp. 459-459

John Philip Hall

Canadians in the Making: a Social History of Canada. By Arthur R. M. Lower: Toronto: Longmans, Green and Company, 1958. Pp. xxiv, 475. Illus. Diagrams. $7.50 pp. 460-461

Margaret A. Ormsby

Die mitteldeutsche Grundherrschaft und ihre Auflösung. By Friedrich Lütge. (“Quellen und Forschungen zur Agrargeschichte,” Band IV.) 2d ed.; Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer, 1957. Pp. xiii, 317 pp. 461-462

Bryce Lyon

Canadian Monetary, Banking and Fiscal Development. By R. Craig McIvor. Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited; New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1958. Pp. xix, 263. $6.50 pp. 462-464

Hugh G. J. Aitken

The Royal General Farms in Eighteenth Century France. By George W. Matthews. New York: Columbia University Press, 1958. Pp. xii, 318. $5.50 pp. 464-465

Martin Albaum

Central America, the Crisis and the Challenge. By John D. Martz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959. Pp. ix, 356. $7.50 pp. 464-464

Sanford A. Mosk

The Economics of Ancient Greece. By H. Michell, 2d edition; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1957. Pp. ii, 427. $8.50 pp. 466-467

W. F. McDonald

Conflict Within the AFL: A Study of Craft Versus Industrial Unionism, 1901–1938. By James O. Morris. (Publication of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1959. Pp. xi, 319. $5.00 pp. 467-468

Scott D. Walton

American Aid to Greece. By C. A. Munkman. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1958. Pp. ix, 306. $5.00 pp. 468-469

Theodore Saloutos

Zgodovina Trbovelj, Hrastnika in Dola, Volume I: Od početka do 1918 (The History of Trbovlje, Hrastnik, and Dol, Volume I: From the beginnings until 1918). By Janko Orožen. Trbovlje: Občinski ljudski odbor v Trbovljah, 1958. Pp. 736 pp. 469-471

Toussaint Hočevar

The Estates of Ramsey Abbey: A Study in Economic Growth and Organization. By J. Ambrose Raftis. With a preface by M. M. Postan. (“Studies and Texts,” No. 3.) Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1957. Pp. xx, 341. $7.00 pp. 471-472

John T. Krause

The Rise of the Merchant Class in Tokugawa Japan, 1600–1868. By Charles David Sheldon. Locust Valley, N. Y.: J. J. Augustin, 1958. Pp. 206 pp. 472-473

Thomas C. Smith

A History of Technology, Volume IV: The Industrial Revolution c. 1750—c. 1850; Volume V: The Late Nineteenth Century c. 1850—c. 1900. Edited by Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall, and Trevor I. Williams. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958. Pp. xxxiii, 728; 48 plates; xxxviii, 888; 44 plates. $26.90 per volume pp. 473-475

David S. Landes

British Investments and the American Mining Frontier, 1860–1901. By Clark C. Spence. (Published for the American Historical Association.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1958. Pp. xii, 288. $4.50 pp. 475-475

Earl Pomeroy

Business and Politics under James I: Lionel Cranfield as Merchant and Minister. By R. H. Tawney. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1958. Pp. xii, 325. $7.50 pp. 476-477

Harold Hulme

The Rise of the British Rubber Industry during the Nineteenth Century. By William Woodruff. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1958. Pp. xvii, 246. 35 s pp. 477-479

Barry Supple

Volume 19, issue 2, 1959

The Legal System and Economic Development of Greece* pp. 173-198

A. A. Pepelasis

The Great Depression in Britain, 1873–1896: a Reappraisal* pp. 199-228

A. E. Musson

Interpretations of the Industrial Revolution in England: A Methodological Inquiry* pp. 229-249

R. M. Hartwell

Business Entrepreneurs, Their Major Functions and Related Tenets* pp. 250-270

G. Heberton Evans

Starr on Slavery pp. 271-277

Carl N. Degler

Japan's Economic Recovery. By G. C. Allen. (Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.) London, New York, and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1958. Pp. xi, 215. $4.75 pp. 278-279

Marius B. Jansen

Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-Day Saints 1830–1900. By Leonard J. Arrington. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958. Pp. xix, 534. $9.00 pp. 279-280

Paul W. Gates

West of the Great Divide: Norwegian Migration to the Pacific Coast, 1847–1893. By Kenneth O. Bjork. Nordifield, Minn.: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1958. Pp. vii, 671. Illustrations and maps. $7.50 pp. 280-282

John M. Gaus

D'Etingy et l'administration de l'intendance d'Auch, 1751–1767. By Maurice Bordes. 2 vols.; Auch: Frédéric Cocharaux, 1957. Pp. 1034. Fr. 4,000 pp. 282-283

Robert Forster

Essays in Roman Coinage Presented to Harold Mattingly. Edited by R. A. G. Carson and C. H. V. Sutherland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956. Pp. xiv, 292. 60s pp. 283-284

M. I. Finley

Archivio economico dell'unificazione italiana. Edited by Carlo Cipolla. Volumes I, II, and III–IV. Turin: Industria Libraria Tipografica Editrice, 1956. Pp. 139, 147, 280. Annual subscription, foreign, L. 3,800; separate volumes, L. 1,500 pp. 284-285

Martin Wolfe

L'évolution de la lettre de change. By Raymond de Roover. (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section, Centre de Recherches Historiques, “Affaires et Gens d'Affaires,” No. 4.) Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1953. Pp. 240. Fr. 850. - Le pacte de ricorsa et le marché italien des changes au XVIIe siècle. By Giulio Mandich. (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section, Centre de Recherches Historiques, “Affaires et Gens d'Affaires,” No. 7.) Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1953. Pp. ix, 198. Fr. 850. - II contratti di cambio nei moralisti dal secolo XII alla meta dal secolo XVII. By Luciano dalle Molle. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Litteratura, 1954. Pp. 180. L. 2,000 pp. 285-289

John T. Noonan

Studi in onore di Antonio Genovesi nel bicentenario della istituzione della cattedra di Economia. Edited by Domenico Demarco. (Istituto di Storia Economica e Sociale della Università di Napoli, Series I, No. 2.) Naples: L'Arte Tipografica, 1956. Pp. xvi, 346. - Quello che è vivo del pensiero economico di Antonio Genovesi. By Domenico Demarco. (Reprinted from Rassegna economica del Banco di Napoli [1957].) Naples: L'Arte Tipografica, 1957. Pp. 34 pp. 289-290

Raymond de Roover

Swedish Corn Export in the Free Trade Era: Patterns in the Oats Trade, 1850–1880. By Gunnar Fridlizius. (Lund University Institute of Economic History, “Samhallsvetenskapliga Studier,” No. 14.) Lund, Sweden: C. W. K. Gleerup, 1957. Pp. 292 pp. 290-291

Goran Ohlin

The Chemical Industry During the Nineteenth Century: A Study of the Economic Aspects of Applied Chemistry in Europe and North America. By L. F. Haber. New York: Oxford University Press, 1958. Pp. x, 292. $7.50 pp. 291-294

D. W. F. Hardie

Vein of Iron: The Pickands Mather Story. By Walter Havighurst. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1958. Pp. 224. $4.00 pp. 295-295

Richard Lowitt

Pisa in the Early Renaissance: A Study of Urban Growth. By David Herlihy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. Pp. xx, 229. $4.50 pp. 295-296

Gene A. Brucker

Soviet Transportation Policy. By Holland Hunter. (Russian Research Center Studies, No. 28.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957. Pp. xxiii, 416. $8.50 pp. 296-299

Gregory Grossman

Origins of Modern Capitalism and Eastern Asia. By Norman Jacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958. Pp. 254. $4.60 pp. 299-300

Helen B. Lamb

American Labor Unions and Politics, 1900–1918. By Marc Karson. Foreword by Selig Perlman. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1958. Pp. xv, 358. $6.50 pp. 300-302

August C. Bolino

The Soviet 1956 Statistical Handbook: A Commentary. By Naum Jasny. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1957. Pp. xii, 212. $4.95 pp. 302-302

Peter Wiles

Hokkaido: Its Present State of Development and Future Prospects. By F. C. Jones. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1958. Pp. viii, 146. 21s. - Industrial Relations in Postwar Japan. By Solomon B. Levine. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958. Pp. xiii, 200. $4.25 pp. 302-304

Robert F. Hackett

The First Labour Government, 1924. By Richard W. Lyman. London: Chapman and Hall, 1957. Pp. x, 302. 25s pp. 304-305

Samuel J. Hurwitz

Migration and Economic Development in Rhode Island. By Kurt E. Mayer and Sidney Goldstein. Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press, 1958. Pp. vii, 64. $1.75 pp. 305-306

Forest G. Hill

An Appraisal of the 1950 Census Income Data: Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume 23. By the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth. (Publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958. Pp. x, 450. $10.00 pp. 307-308

Thomas S. Berry

Hobson and Underconsumption. By Erwin Esser Nemmers. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1956. Pp. xi, 152 pp. 309-311

Daniel Gordon

Population: An International Dilemma. A Summary of the Proceedings of the Conference Committee on Population Problems—1956–1957. By Frederick Osborn. New York: The Population Council, 1958. Pp. ix, 97. $2.00 pp. 311-312

Thomas S. Berry

Structures sociales et dépopulation rurale dans les campagnes picardes de 1836 à 1936. By Philippe Pinchemel. (Centre d'Etudes Economiques, “Etudes et mémoires.”) Paris: Armand Colin, 1957. Pp. 232 pp. 312-313

Claude Fohlen

Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris. By David H. Pinkney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958. Pp. xi, 245. S6.00 pp. 313-315

John Bowditch

Technik und Industriearbeit: Soziologische Untersuchungen in der Hüttenindustrie. By Heinrich Popitz, Hans Paul Bahrdt, Ernst August Jüres, and Hanno Kesting. (Sozialforschungstelle an der Universität Münster, Dortmund, “Soziale Forschung und Praxis,” Bd. XVI.) Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1957. Pp. xii, 234. DM 21.60 pp. 315-316

William N. Parker

Coal and Steel in Western Europe: The Influence of Resources and Techniques on Production. By Norman J. G. Pounds and William N. Parker. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957. Pp. 381. $6.00 pp. 316-318

W. E. Minchinton

The French Book Trade in the Ancien Regime, 1500–1791. By David D. Pottinger. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. Pp. vii, 363. $7.50 pp. 316-316

Stanley J. Idzerda

The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire. By M. Rostovtzeff. 2d ed., revised by P. M. Fraser; 2 vols.; New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. Pp. xxxi, x, 847. $26.90 pp. 318-319

M. I. Finley

Un grand homme d'affaires au début du XVIe siècle: Jacob Fugger. By Léon Schick. (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section, Centre de Recherches Historiques, “Affaires et Gens d'Affaires,” Vol. XI.) Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1957. Pp. xi, 323. Fr. 1,700 pp. 319-320

Raymond de Roover

Ireland and the American Emigration, 1850–1900. By Arnold Schrier. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1958. Pp. x, 210. $4.50 pp. 320-321

Mildred Campbell

Economic Changes in the Baking Industry (Published as a Supplement to Baking in America.) By Charles C. Slater. Chicago: American Bakers Association, 1958. Pp. iv, 73 pp. 321-322

Theodore F. Marburg

English Peasant Farming: The Agrarian History of Lincolnshire from Tudor to Recent Times. By Joan Thirsk. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1957. Pp. xv, 350. 40s pp. 322-323

David Spring

The Great Siberian Migration: Government and Peasant in Resettlement from Emancipation to the First World War. By Donald W. Treadgold. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957. Pp. xiii, 278. $5.00 pp. 323-325

Marc Raeff

Antitrust Policies: American Experience in Twenty Industries. By Simon N. Whitney. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1958. Volumes I, II. Pp. xxiii, 560; x, 541. $10.00 pp. 326-328

Theodore F. Marburg

The Cotton Regency: The Northern Merchants and Reconstruction, 1865–1880. By George Ruble Woolfolk. New York: Bookman Associates, 1958. Pp. 311. $5.00 pp. 328-328

Kenneth M. Stampp

Volume 19, issue 1, 1959

Recent Contributions to American Economic History: American History to 1789* pp. 1-24

Lawrence A. Harper

Recent Contributions to Economic History: The United States, 1789-1860 pp. 25-43

Carter Goodrich

Recent Contributions to Economic History: The United States, 1861-1900 pp. 44-63

Thomas LeDuc

Recent Contributions to Economic History: The United States, The Twentieth Century pp. 64-75

Thomas C. Cochran

Recent Contributions to Economic History: Canada pp. 76-102

W. T. Easterbrook

Recent Contributions to Business History: The United States pp. 103-121

John G. B. Hutchins

The Japanese Factory: Aspects of Its Social Organization. By James G. Abegglen. (Publication of the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) Glencoe, 1ll.: The Free Press, 1958. Pp. xiii, 142. $3.50 pp. 122-123

Yasuo Sakakibara

The Crawshay Dynasty: A Study in Industiral Organization and Development, 1765-1867. By John P. Addis. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1957. Pp. xiv, 184. 12s. 6d pp. 123-123

Norman J. G. Pounds

Printers and Technology. A History of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union. By Elizabeth Faulkner Baker. New York: Columbia University Press, 1957. Pp. 545. $7.00 pp. 123-124

William A. Sullivan

Price Trends of Some Basic Commodities in Central Mexico, 1531-1570. By Woodrow Borah and Sherburne F. Cook. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956. Pp. 89. $2.00 pp. 125-126

Lionel J. Lerner

Clyde C. Carter, State Regulation of Commerical Motor Carriers in North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958. Pp. x, 210. $5.00 pp. 126-127

John G. B. Hutchins

The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. By A. W. Currie. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957. Pp. viii, 556. $8.50 pp. 127-128

Ralph W. Hidy

Labor and the New Deal. Edited by Milton Derber and Edwin Young. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957. Pp. xi, 393. $6.00 pp. 128-129

Bruno Stein

Financial Intermediaries in the American Economy Since 1900. By Raymond W. Goldsmith. (A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958. Pp. xxxv, 415. $8.50 pp. 129-130

Margaret G. Myers

Competition in Oil: The Gulf Coast Refinery Market, 1925-1950. By Daniel C. Hamilton. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. Pp. xiv, 233. $6.75 pp. 130-131

Arthur M. Johnson

Corporate Bond Quality and Investor Experience. By W. Braddock Hickman. (National Bureau of Economic Research.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958. Pp. xxix, 536. $10 pp. 131-132

Arthur Kemp

Roads, Rails and Waterways: The Army Engineers and Early Transportation. By Forest G. Hill. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. Pp. xii, 248. $4.00 pp. 132-133

James F. Doster

The Sources of Invention. By John Jewkes, David Sawers, and Richard Stillerman. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd.; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1958. Pp. xii, 428. $6.75 pp. 133-134

Abbott Payson Usher

As Unions Mature. An Analysis of the Evolution of American Unionism. By Richard A. Lester. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958. Pp. xi, 171. $3-75 pp. 134-135

Lois MacDonald

The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32. By William E. Leuchtenburg. (The Chicago History of American Civilization, Daniel J. Boorstin, ed.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. Pp. ix, 313. $3.50 pp. 135-136

John D. Hicks

Lumberman from Flint: The Michigan Career of Henry H. Crapo, 1885-1869. By Martin D. Lewis. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1958. Pp. x, 289. $5.00 pp. 137-137

William G. Rector

The World's Sugar: Progress and Policy. By Vladimir P. Timoshenko and Boris C. Swerling. (Studies of the Food Research Institute of Stanford University.) Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1957. Pp. xii, 364. $6.50. - South Pacific Enterprise: The Colonial Sugar Refining Corporation Limited. Edited by A. G. Lowndes. Sydney, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1956. Pp. xvii, 500. 42 s pp. 138-139

S. B. Saul

We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution. By Forrest McDonald. (Publication of the American History Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. Pp. x, 436. $7.00 pp. 139-140

Brooke Hindle

The British Tinplate Industry: A History. By W. E. Minchinton. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. Pp. xvi, 286. $5.60 pp. 140-142

Sidney Pollard

Labor Problems in the Industrialization of India. By Charles A. Myers. (A Wertheim Publication in Industrial Relations.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. Pp. xvii, 297. $6.50 pp. 142-144

George B. Baldwin

Rubber Developments in Latin America. By D. M. Phelps. (Publication of the Bureau of Business Research, School of Business Administration, University of Michigan.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1957. Pp. vi, 174 pp. 144-144

Sanford A. Mosk

Little Business in the American Economy. By Joseph D. Phillips (Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, Volume 42) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958. Pp. ix, 135. Cloth, $3.50. Paper, $2.50 pp. 145-146

Theodore F. Marburg

The New Cambridge Modern History. Volume I: The Renaissance, 1493-1520. Edited by G. R. Potter. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1957. Pp. xxxvi, 532. $7.50 pp. 146-148

Frederic C. Lane

The Economic Societies in the Spanish World (1763-1821). By Robert Jones Shafer. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1958. Pp. xiii, 416. $5.00 pp. 148-149

Robert S. Smith

Catholic Colonization on the Western Frontier. By James P. Shannon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. Pp. xiii, 302. $5.00 pp. 149-150

Kenneth O. Bjork

Economic Readjustment of an Old Cotton State, South Carolina, 1820-1860. By Alfred Glaze SmithJr., Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1958. Pp. viii, 239. $5.00 pp. 150-151

Arthur M. Johnson

Participation in Union Locals. By Arnold S. Tannenbaum and Robert L. Kahn. Evanston, III.: Row, Petersen and Company, 1958. Pp. xii, 275. $5.50 pp. 151-152

Bruno Stein

Under Chartered Company Rule: North Borneo, 1881-1946. By K. G. Tregonning. Singapore: University of Malaya Press, 1958. Pp. iii, 250. $4.80 pp. 152-153

John W. Wilkes

The American Clyde, a History of Iron and Steel Shipbuilding on the Delaware from 1840 to World War I. By David B. Tyler. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 1958. Pp. xi, 132. $5.00 pp. 153-154

Martha Taber

The Regulation of Rail-Motor Rate Competition. By Ernest W. WilliamsJr, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. Pp. ix, 247. $4.50 pp. 154-156

George P. Baker

Northwestern Mutual Life: A Century of Trusteeship. By Harold F. Williamson and Orange A. Smalley. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1957. Pp. 368. $7.50 pp. 156-157

George S. Gibb

Britons in American Labor: A History of the Influence of the United Kingdom Immigrants on American Labor, 1820-1914. By Clifton K. YearleyJr. (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series LXXV, Number 1.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1957. Pp. 332. $4.00 pp. 158-158

Martha Taber

Book Notes - Huguette Chaunu and Pierre. Séville et I'Atlantique (1504–1650). Vols. IV-VII. Paris: A. Colin, 1956–1957. Pp. 594, 530, 1098, 143. Frs. 3,200; 3,200; 7,800; 1,900 pp. 159-160

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