The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 18, issue 4, 1958

Economic Consequences of Organized Violence pp. 401-417

Frederic C. Lane

The Concept of the Just Price: Theory and Economic Policy pp. 418-434

Raymond de Roover

Discussion pp. 435-438

J. A. Raftis and David Herlihy

The Role of Staple Industries in Canada's Economic Development* pp. 439-450

Kenneth Buckley

Discussion pp. 451-452

Hugh G. J. Aitken

Business History, Entrepreneurial History, and Business Administration pp. 453-466

John G. B. Hutchins

Economic History and the New Business History pp. 467-480

Herman E. Krooss

Discussion pp. 481-485

Lance Davis and Thomas LeDuc

The Economic History of Modern Britain pp. 486-501

H. J. Habakkuk

Recent Research in the Economic History of Modern France pp. 502-515

Claude B. Fohlen

Recent Developments in German Economic History* pp. 516-530

Fritz Redlich

Discussion pp. 531-536

David S. Landes

Ocean Freight Rates and Economic Development 1730-1913 pp. 537-555

Douglass North

The Suez Canal and World Shipping, 1869-1914 pp. 556-573

Max E. Fletcher

Discussion pp. 574-579

J. H. Dales and J. R. T. Hughes

Volume 18, issue 3, 1958

The Origins of the United Automobile Workers, 1933-1935* pp. 249-282

Sidney Fine

Variations in Economic Growth and Banking Developments in the United States From 1835 to 1885* pp. 283-297

Clark Warburton

Wholesale and Retail Prices in the Nineteenth Century pp. 298-316

Ethel D. Hoover

Feudal Incomes and Demand Elasticity for Bread in Late Eighteenth-Century France* pp. 317-331

André Danière

Reply To Mr. Danière and Some Reflections on the Significance of the Debate* pp. 331-338

David S. Landes

Rejoinder pp. 339-341

Andre Daniere

The Life of Lord Nuffield: A Study in Enterprise and Benevolence. By P. W. S. Andrews and Elizabeth Brunner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 356. 25s pp. 346-347

E. M. Sigsworth

Forests and French Sea-Power, 1660–1789. By Paul W. Bamford. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1956. Pp. ix, 240. $5.00 pp. 347-348

Leichton Shields

The Development of the Treasury, 1660–1702. By Stephen B. Baxter. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957. Pp. xi, 301. $6.00 pp. 348-350

Robert Ashton

Central Banking in Mexico: Monetary Policies and Financial Crises, 1864–1940. By Virgil M. Bett. (Publication of the Bureau of Business Research, School of Business Administration, University of Michigan. Michigan Business Studies, Vol. XIII, No. 1.) Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 1957. Pp. x, 123 pp. 351-352

David M. Pletcher

La società veneta alla fine del Settecento: ricerche storiche. By Marino Berengo. (Biblioteca storica Sansoni, nuova serie, XXVIII.) Florence: G. C. Sansoni, 1956. Pp. 360. L. 3,000 pp. 351-351

Frederic C. Lane

The Demand and Supply of Scientific Personnel. By David M. Blank and George J. Stigler. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1957. Pp. xix, 200. $4.00 pp. 352-353

Norton Garfinkle

The American Business System, A Historical Perspective, 1900-–1955. By Thomas C. Cochran. (R. H. Gabriel, ed., The Library of Congress Series.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957. Pp. viii, 227. $4.75 pp. 354-355

Ralph W. Hidy

Organized Business in France. By Henry W. Ehrmann. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957. Pp. xx, 514. $7.50 pp. 355-356

James M. Laux

The Position of the Laborer in a System of Nationalism. By Edgar S. Furniss. New York: Kelley and Millman, Inc., 1957. Pp. 260. $6.00. - An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation. By Richard Jones. New York: Kelley and Millman, Inc., 1956. Pp. xlix, 329. $8.50. - Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms. By Adam Smith. New York: Kelley and Millman, Inc., 1956. Pp. xxxix, 293. $7.50 pp. 356-356

Charles Gilbert

Stratégie des affaires à Lasbonne entre 1595 et 1607: lettres marchandes des Rodrigues d'Evora et Veiga. By J. Gentil da Silva. (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section, Centre de Recherches Historiques, “Affaires et Gens d'Affaires,” IX.) Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1957. Pp. xii, 445. Fr. 2,400 pp. 357-359

Raymond de Roover

The Co-operative Movement in Indonesia. By Mohammad Hatta. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1957. Pp. xxxiv, 121. $3.00 pp. 361-361

Chester Young

Jay Gould: His Business Career, 1867-1892. By Julius Grodinsky. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1957. Pp. 627. $10.00 pp. 361-361

Irene D. Neu

Customs Letter-Books of the Port of Liverpool, 1711–1813. Edited with an introduction by Rupert C. Jarvis. (Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volume VI, Third Series.) Manchester: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1956. Pp. xxiv, 192. 35s pp. 362-363

Lawrence A. Harper

Manufakturni Období v Čechách [The manufacturing period in Bohemia]. By Arnošt Klíma. Prague: Nakladatelství Čěskoslovenské Akademie Věd, 1955. Pp. 523, plus 20 plates. 68 Kčs pp. 363-364

Herman Freudenberger

The Growth of the Shipping Industry in the Rio de la Plata Region, 1794–1860. By Clifton B. Kroeber. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957. Pp. ix, 194. $4.00 pp. 364-365

Richard K. Murdoch

The Teamsters Union: A Study of Its Economic Impact. By Robert D. Leiter. New York: Bookman Associates, Inc., 1957. Pp. 304. $5.00 pp. 365-366

Lois MacDonald

Studies in the History of Accounting. Edited by A. C. Littleton and B. S. Yamey. Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin; London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1956. Pp. xi, 392. $7.00 pp. 366-368

Paul Garner

From Fief to Indenture: The Transition from Feudal to Non-Feudal Contract in Western Europe. By Bryce D. Lyon. (Harvard Historical Studies, Vol. LXVIII.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. Pp. xv, 331. $8.00 pp. 368-369

Sidney Painter

Histoire du mouvement anarchiste en France, 1880–1914. By Jean Maitron. Paris: Société Universitaire, 1951. Pp. 744. (2d, revised ed., 1955. Pp. 562.) - The Second International, 1889–1914. By James Joll. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1955. Pp. 213. 18s pp. 369-370

John Bowditch

English People in the Eighteenth Century. By Dorothy Marshall. London: Long-mans, Green and Co., 1956. Pp. xvi, 288. 30s pp. 371-372

L. P. Curtis

Kilowatts at Work: A History of the Detroit Edison Company. By Raymond C. Miller. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1957. Pp. xvii, 468. $7.50 pp. 372-373

Harris Proschansky

Economic Opinion and Policy in Ceylon. By Henry M. OliverJr, (Published for the Duke University Commonwealth-Studies Center.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Pp. xiii, 145. $3.50 pp. 373-374

Edna E. Ehrlich

Geschichte der Kokereitechnik. By Franz Michael Ress. Essen: Verlag Glückauf, 1957. Pp. 672. DM. 148 pp. 374-375

David S. Landes

South Africa: Economic and Political Aspects. By Hector Menteith Robertson. (Publication of the Duke University Commonwealth-Studies Center.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1957. Pp. x, 192. $3.50 pp. 375-376

Samuel Clyde McCulloch

Movements of the British Iron and Steel Industry—1720–1951. By Howard G. Roepke. (Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. 36.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956. Pp. vii, 198. $3.00 pp. 376-377

Norman J. G. Pounds

A History of Technology. Edited by Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall, and Trevor I. Williams. Volume III: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, c. 1500—c. 1750. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Pp. xxxvii, 766 plus 32 plates. $26.90 pp. 377-379

David S. Landes

Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850–1900. By Stanley J. Stein. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. Pp. xv, 316. $7.00 pp. 379-380

Sanford A. Mosk

An Elizabethan: Sir Horatio Palavicino. By Lawrence Stone. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. Pp. xix, 345. 45s pp. 380-381

T. S. Willan

Chessie's Road. By Charles W. Turner. Richmond, Va.: Garrett and Massie, Inc., 1956. Pp. xi, 286. $4.90 pp. 382-383

Martha Taber

Le commerce du port de Nantes au milieu du XVIe siècle. By Jean Tanguy. (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section, Centre de Recherches Historiques, “Ports, Routes, Trafics,” VII.) Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1956. Pp. xiv, 102. Fr. 600 pp. 382-382

P. W. Bamford

Les “estimes” toulousaines des XIVe et XVe siècles. By Philippe Wolff (Bibliothèque de l'Association Marc Bloch de Toulouse. Documents d'histoire méridionale.) Toulouse: Association Marc Bloch de Toulouse, 1956. Pp. 333. Fr. 1,200 pp. 383-385

Bryce Lyon

The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism: The T'ung-Chih Restoration, 1862–1874. By Mary Clabaugh Wright. (Stanford Studies in History, Economics, and Political Science, XIII.) Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1957. Pp. x, 426. $7.50 pp. 385-387

K. C. Liu

The Frontier in Perspective. Edited by Walker D. Wyman and Clifton B. Kroeber. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957. Pp. xx, 300. $5.50 pp. 387-389

Edwin C. Rozwenc

Marg Blaug. Ricardian Economics, A Historical Study.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. Pp. x, 269. $5.00 pp. 390-392

Anonymous

Volume 18, issue 2, 1958

American Versus West Indian Traders in Liverpool, 1793–1815 pp. 141-160

S. G. Checkland

The Knights of St. Crispin in Massachusetts, 1869–1878 pp. 161-175

John Philip Hall

The Knights of Labor and the Trade Unions, 1878–1886 pp. 176-192

Gerald N. Grob

Financing the British War Effort pp. 193-199

J. R. T. Hughes

Ford: Expansion and Challenge 1915–1933. By Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. Pp. xviii, 714. $8.95 pp. 200-201

George Soule

Laissez Faire and the General-Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in American Thought, 1865-1901. By Sidney Fine. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1956. Pp. x, 468. $7.50 pp. 201-201

Thomas LeDuc

The Wealth of Five Northamptonshire Families, 1540–1640. By Mary E. Finch, with a Preface by H. J. Habakkuk. (Publications of the Northamptonshire Record Society, Vol. XIX.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956. Pp. xx, 246. 30s pp. 202-204

Perez Zagorin

Railroads in Alabama Politics, 1875–1914. By James F. Doster (University of Alabama Studies, No. 12.) University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1957. Pp. x, 273. $5.00 cloth; $4.00 paper pp. 204-204

Joe B. Frantz

Farm Crisis. By James H. Shideler. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957. Pp. viii, 345. $5.00 pp. 204-205

Theodore Saloutos

The Changing Shape of Metropolitan America: Deconcentration Since 1920. By Amos H. Hawley. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1956. Pp. 177. $4.00 pp. 206-207

Eric E. Lampard

Messrs Carey & Lea of Philadelphia. By David Kaser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1957. Pp. 182. $4.00 pp. 207-208

Nancy P. Norton

A History of Chicago, Volume III: The Rise of a Modern City. By Bessie Louise Pierce. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Pp. xvi, 575. $8.50 pp. 208-209

Bayrd Still

Let There Be Light: The Electric Utility Industry in Wisconsin, 1881–1955. By Forrest McDonald. Madison: The American History Research Center 1957. Pp. x, 404. $5.95 pp. 209-210

Raymond C. Miller

The Cabinet Diary of William L. Wilson 1869–1897. Edited by Festus P. Summers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1957. Pp. xxvii, 276. $5.00 pp. 210-211

Harold U. Faulkner

Harold Adams Innis: Portrait of a Scholar. By Donald Creighton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957. Pp. 146. $3.00 pp. 211-212

John W. Wilkes

The Agricultural Implement Industry in Canada. A Study of Competition. By W. G. Phillips. (Canadian Studies in Economics, No. 7.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1956. Pp. xi, 208. $4.50 pp. 212-213

Clarence H. Danhof

The National Policy and the Wheat Economy. By Vernon C. Fowke. (Social Credit in Alberta Series, S. D. Clark, General Editor.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957. Pp. viii, 312. $5.50 pp. 213-215

Hugh G. J. Aitken

Hydroelectricity and Industrial Development: Quebec 1898–1940. By John H. Dales (Foreword by Abbott Payson Usher.) Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1957. Pp. xxi, 269. $5.50 pp. 215-216

James R. Nelson

The Administration of Technical Assistance: Growth in the Americas. By Philip M. Glick. (National Planning Association Studies of Technical Co-operation in Latin America.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957. Pp. xix, 390. $5.50 pp. 217-218

Eugene R. Schlesinger

Development Banks. By William Diamond. (The Economic Development Institute, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.) Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1957. Pp. xiv, 128. $3.00 pp. 218-218

Edna E. Ehrlich

Lord Norman. By SirHenry Clay. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1957. Pp. xi, 495. $7.50 pp. 218-220

J. R. T. Hughes

Central Banking after Bagehot. By R. S. Sayers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957. Pp. 149. 18s pp. 220-221

J. R. T. Hughes

The Merchant of Prato: Francesco di Marco Datini, 1335-1410. By Iris Origo New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Pp. xxii, 415. $7.50 pp. 222-222

Gene A. Brucker

The Transformation of the Board of Trade, 1830–1855: A Study of Administrative Reorganization in the Heyday of Laissez Faire. By Roger Prouty. London: William Heinemann, 1957. Pp. viii, 123. 15s pp. 223-224

A. R. Schoyen

Merchants and Merchandise in Seventeenth-Century Bristol. Edited by Patrick McGrath. (Bristol Record Society's Publications, Volume XIX.) Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 1955. Pp. xl, 315. 17s. 6d pp. 224-225

J. M. Price

Economie et civilisation. 1: Niveaux de vie, besoins et civilisation. By L.-J. Lebret, A. Piettre, A. Sauvy, and R. Delprat. (Cahiers d'économie humaine.) Paris: Les Editions Ouvrières, 1956. Pp. 207. Fr. 780 pp. 225-226

Stanley J. Stein

Les capitaux et la région, étude géographique: essai sur le commerce et la circulation des capitaux dans la région lyonnaise. By Jean Labasse. Paris: A. Colin, 1955. Pp. 532. Fr. 1,800. - Essor et problèmes d'une région française: houillères et sidérurgie de Moselle. By Emile Rideau. Paris: Les Editions Ouvrières, 1956. Fr. 600 pp. 226-227

Warren C. Baum

The Estates of the Higher Nobility in Fourteenth-Century England. By G. A. Holmes. (Cambridge Studies in Economic History.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957. Pp. xiv, 180. $4.00 pp. 227-229

Edgars Dunsdorfs

Studies of Overseas Supply. By H. Duncan Hall and C. C. Wrigley, with a chapter by J. D. Scott. (History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Civil Series.) London: H. M. Stationery Office and Longmans, Green, 1956. Pp. xi; 537. 37s. 6d. (New York: British Information Services. $6.98.) pp. 229-230

Sidney Ratner

Histoire d'une entreprise française. By C. J. Gignoux. Paris: Hachette, 1955. Pp 254. Fr. 960 pp. 230-231

Warren C. Baum

Polish Postwar Economy. By Thad Paul Alton. (Studies of the Russian Institute of Columbia University.) New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. xv, 330, $5.75 pp. 231-234

Alexander Erlich

Die Hoffinanz und der moderne Staat: Geschichte and System der Hoffaktoren an deutschen Fürstenhöfen im Zeitalter des Absolutismus. By Heinrich Schnee. 3 vols.; Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 1953–1955. Pp. 267, 367, 359. DM 22, 33, 35 pp. 234-236

Bernard D. Weinryb

Der Krimkrieg and die Entstehung der modernen Flotten. By Wilhelm Treue. (Göttinger Bausteine zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Bd. 18.) Göttingen: Musterschmidt Verlag, 1954. Pp. 145. DM 14.80 pp. 236-237

J. R. T. Hughes

Volume 18, issue 1, 1958

The Intellectual Origins and New-Worldliness of American Industry* pp. 1-16

Charles L. Sanford

An Overdose of Slavery pp. 17-32

Chester G. Starr

The Fall of Silver in Mexico, 1870–1910, and Its Effect on American Investments* pp. 33-55

David M. Pletcher

New Light on the History of Urban Populations* pp. 56-61

Karl F. Helleiner

Thomas Mun and Specie Flows pp. 62-63

George W. Wilson

Rejoinder pp. 63-64

J. D. Gould

Erratum pp. 66-66

Anonymous

A History of Technology. Edited by Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall, and Trevor I. Williams. Volume II: The Mediterranean Civilization and the Middle Ages, c. 700 b.c. to a.d. 1500. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956. Pp. lix, 802 plus 44 plates. $26.90 pp. 67-70

Abbott Payson Usher

The Theory of Economic Growth. By W. Arthur Lewis. Homewood, Ill.: Richard D. Irwin, 1955. Pp. 453. $7.20; text edition $6.00 pp. 70-73

S. B. Saul

Economic Development: Theory, History, Policy. By Gerald M. Meier and Robert E. Baldwin. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1957. Pp. xx, 588. $8.50 pp. 74-74

Otto H. Ehrlich

Robert Oliver, Merchant of Baltimore, 1783–1819. By Stuart Weems Bruchey. (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series LXXIV, Number I.) Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1957. Pp. 412. $5.00 pp. 75-76

Ralph W. Hidy

Banks and Politics in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War. By Bray Hammond. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957. Pp. xi, 771. $12.50 pp. 76-77

Charles Gilbert

Enterprise in Oil: A History of Shell in the United States. By Kendall Beaton. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1957. Pp. xiii, 815. $7.50 pp. 77-78

Gerald T. White

Policy Formation in Railroad Finance. Refinancing the Burlington, 1936–1945. By John Tettemer O'Neil. (Studies in Economic History, published in co-operation with the Committee on Research in Economic History.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. xii, 234. $4.50 pp. 78-79

Muriel E. Hidy

The Daniel Shaw Lumber Company, A Case Study of the Wisconsin Lumbering Frontier. By A. R. Reynolds. New York: New York University Press, 1957. Pp. x, 177. $5.00 pp. 79-81

Frederick W. Kohlmeyer

Baking in America. Volumes I, II. By William G. Panschar and Charles C. Slater. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1956. Pp. xvi, 251; xvii, 458. $15.00 pp. 81-83

Theodore F. Marburg

Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains, 1900–1925. By Mary Wilma M. Hargreaves. (Harvard Economic Studies, Volume CI.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. Pp. xii, 587. $10.00 pp. 84-85

James H. Shideler

Ironworks on the Saugus. The Lynn and Braintree Ventures of the Company of Undertakers of the Ironworks in New England. By E. N. Hartley. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. Pp. xvi, 328. $4.50 pp. 85-86

James B. Hedges

Studies in Enterprise: A Selected Bibliography of American and Canadian Company Histories and Biographies of Businessmen. Lorna M. Daniells, Compiler. Boston: Baker Library, Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, 1957. Pp. x, 169. $4.50 pp. 86-87

Thomas C. Cochran

History of Employers' Associations in the United States. By Clarence E. Bonnett. New York: Vantage Press, 1956. Pp. 573 pp. 87-88

Scott D. Walton

Dymanic Factors in Industrial Productivity. By Seymour Melman. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1956. Pp. xiii, 238. $4.75 pp. 88-89

Irving H. Siegel

The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. By Kenneth M. Stampp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1956. Pp. xxi, 435. $5.75 pp. 89-90

Richard B. Morris

American Industry and the European Immigrant, 1860–1885. By Charlotte Erickson. (Studies in Economic History. Published in Cooperation with the Committee on Research in Economic History.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. Pp. x, 269. $4.75 pp. 90-92

Forest G. Hill

Regional Income, Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume XXI (The Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957. Pp. 408. $8.00 pp. 92-93

Edwin Kuh

The Brazilian Cotton Manufacture: Textile Enterprise in an Underdeveloped Area, 1850–1950. By Stanley J. Stein. (Studies in Entrepreneurial History, published in cooperation with the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, Harvard University.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957, Pp. xii, 273. $5.00 pp. 94-95

Wendell Gordon

American Cities in the Growth of the Nation. By Constance McLaughlin Green. New York: John De Graff, Inc., 1957. Pp. xii, 258. $6.50 pp. 95-95

Blake McKelvey

Establishment of the International Finance Corporation and United States Policy: A Case Study in International Organization. By B. W. Matecki. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1957. Pp. x, 194. $5.00 pp. 96-96

Edna E. Ehrlich

Food. By R. J. Hammond. Volume II: Studies in Administration and Control. (History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Civil Series.) London: H.M. Stationery Office and Longmans, Green and Co., 1956. Pp. xiv, 835. 50s. (New York: British Information Service. $9.29.) pp. 97-98

Sidney Ratner

Economic Problems of the Church: From Archbishop Whitgift to the Long Parliament. By Christopher Hill. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. Pp. xiv, 367. $6.75. - The Royalists During the Puritan Revolution. By Paul H. Hardacre. (International Scholars Forum, Vol. VI.) The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1956. Pp. xiv, 185. Guilders 12.50 pp. 98-100

Madeline R. Robinton

Blue Funnel: A History of Alfred Holt and Company of Liverpool from 1865 to to 1914. By Francis E. Hyde, with the assistance of J. R. Harris. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1956. Pp. xvii, 201. 30s pp. 100-101

Sidney Pollard

La prima crisi della Banca di Genova, 1250–1259. By Roberto S. Lopez. (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Istituto di Storia Economica, Series I: Fonti, Vol. XI.) Milan: Università L. Bocconi, 1956. Pp. 197. No price given pp. 102-103

Marvin B. Becker

The Bubonic Plague and England: An Essay in the History of Preventive Medicine. By Charles F. Mullett, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1956. Pp. ix, 401. $9.00 pp. 102-102

Karl F. Helleiner

Mitteleuropa in German Thought and Action, 1815–1945. By Henry Cord Meyer. (International Scholars Forum, Volume IV.) The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1955. Pp. xv, 378. 23.75 guilders pp. 104-105

Theodore S. Hamerow

British Reconstruction and American Policy, 1945–1955. By William C. Mallalieu. New York: The Scarecrow Press, 1956. Pp. 233. $5.00 pp. 106-107

P. Sargant Florence

Les mines d'anthracite de la Mure, 1806–1946. By Charles de Marliave. Paris and Grenoble: B. Arthaud, 1955. Pp. 312. Fr. 1,500 pp. 106-106

William N. Parker

Eine Reise durch Sibirien im achtzehnten Jahrhundert. Die Fahrt des Schweizer Doktors Jakob Fries. Edited with an introduction and bibliographical notes by Walther Kirchner. (Veröffentlichungen des Osteuropa-Institutes Mönchen, Volume X.) Munich: Isar Verlag, 1955. Pp. 126. Two maps. No price given pp. 108-108

Fritz T. Epstein

Location and Space-Economy. By Walter Isard. New York: Published Jointly by The Technology Press of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1956. Pp. xix, 350. $8.75 pp. 108-110

Theodore C. Boyden

Canada's Arctic Outlet. A History of the Hudson Bay Railway. By Howard A. Fleming. (University of California Publications in History, Volume 54.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957. Pp. 129. $2.50 paper; $3.50 cloth pp. 110-111

Mildred Throne

Australian Company Finance: Sources and Uses of Funds of Public Companies, 1946–1955. By A. R. Hall. (Publication of the Department of Economics, The Australian National University.) Canberra, A. C. T.: Australian National University, 1956. Pp. x, 198. 32/6 (Australia currency) pp. 111-111

Jules I. Bogen

Public Capital Formation in Australia: Estimates, 1860–1900. By N. G. Butlin and H. de Meel. (Australian National University Social Science Monographs II.) Canberra: Australian National University, 1954. Pp. 226. - Private Capital Formation in Australia: Estimates, 1861–1900. By N. G. Butlin. (Australian National University Social Science Monographs V.) Canberra: Australian National University, 1955. Pp. vi, 166 pp. 112-114

Raymond W. Goldsmith

The Dutch in Brazil, 1624–1654. By Charles R. Boxer. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv, 327. $6.75 pp. 114-115

Richard K. Murdoch

Tax Documents from Theadelphia: Papyri of the Second Century A.D. Edited with introduction and notes by John Day and Clinton Walker Keyes. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956. Pp. xviii, 342. $10.00 pp. 115-116

William F. McDonald

The Colombo Plan and Other Essays. By Frederic Benham. London and New York: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1956. Pp. viii, 89. $1.50 pp. 116-117

Chester C. Tan

Western Enterprise in Indonesia and Malaya: A Study in Economic Development. By G. C. Allen and Audrey G. Donnithorne. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. Pp. 321. $5.00 pp. 117-119

Helen B. Lamb

Economic Recovery in Victoria, 1894–1899. By W. A. Sinclair. (Australian National University Social Science Monographs No. 8.) Canberra: Australian National University, 1956. 25s (Australian currency) pp. 119-119

W. Woodruff

The Population of Jamaica: An Analysis of Its Structure and Growth. By George W. Roberts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956. Pp. xii, 356. $7.50 pp. 119-120

G. E. Cumper

Industrial Tax-Exemption in Puerto Rico: A Case Study in the Use of Tax Subsidies for Industrializing Underdeveloped Areas. By Milton C. Taylor. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957. Pp. xi, 272. $3.50 pp. 120-121

Sanford A. Mosk

The South African Frontier: Economic Influences, 1652–1836. By S. Daniel Neumark. (Publication of the Food Research Institute, Stanford University.) Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1957. Pp. xiii, 196. $5.00 pp. 121-122

Samuel Clyde McCulloch

British Emigration to North America: Projects and Opinions in the Early Victorian Period. By Wilbur S. Shepperson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1957. Pp. xvi, 301. $5.00 pp. 122-123

A. L. Burt

The Economic Factors in the Growth of Russia: An Economic-Historical Analysis. By Nicholas L. Fr.-Chirovsky. New York: Philosophical Library, 1957. Pp. xv, 178. $3.75 pp. 123-124

Michael T. Florinsky

Il Viceregno di Napoli nel Sec. XVII: Notizie sulla vita commerciale e finanziaria secondo nuove ricerche negli archivi italiani e spagnoli. By Giuseppe Coniglio. (Storia ed Economia: Studi, Testi, Documenti, Quaderni a cura di Bruno Rossi Ragazzi, No. 5.) Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1955. Pp. 371. L. 3,600 pp. 124-125

Frederic C. Lane

Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power. By Karl A. Wittfogel. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. Pp. xix, 556. $7.50 pp. 125-126

Chester C. Tan