The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 17, issue 4, 1957

The Interrelation of Theory and Economic History pp. 509-523

W. W. Rostow

Economic Theory, Statistical Inference, and Economic History* pp. 524-544

John R. Meyer and Alfred H. Conrad

The Role of Comparison in the Development of Economic Theory pp. 554-570

Sylvia L. Thrupp

Long-Period Comparative Study: Some Historical Cases pp. 571-595

W. T. Easterbrook

Summary of Discussion pp. 596-602

Herbert Heaton

Volume 17, issue 3, 1957

Conspectus for a History of Economic and Business Literature pp. 333-388

Arthur H. Cole

Labor's Role in Government Agencies During World War II pp. 389-408

Bruno Stein

Earnings of Capital in the English Shipping Industry, 1670–1730 pp. 409-425

Ralph Davis

British and World Shipbuilding, 1890–1914: A Study in Comparative Costs* pp. 426-444

Sidney Pollard

Three Cases Concerning the Restitution of Usury in Florence pp. 445-450

Marvin B. Becker

Alexander Hamilton: Youth to Maturity, 1755–1788. By Broadus Mitchell. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. Pp. xvi, 675. $8.75 pp. 453-453

Charles Gilbert

Alexander Hamilton and the Founding of the Nation. Edited by Richard B. Morris. New York: The Dial Press, 1957. Pp. xxi, 617. $7.50 pp. 454-455

Brooke Hindle

Alexander Hamilton in the American Tradition. By Louis M. Hacker. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1957. Pp. xi, 273. $4.75 pp. 455-456

Forest G. Hill

Dream and Thought in the Business Community, 1860–1900. By Edward C. Kirkland. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1956. Pp. ix, 175. $3.00 pp. 456-458

Alfred Chandler

Engineering in History. By Richard Shelton Kirby, Sidney Withington, Arthur Burr Darling, and Frederick Gridley Kilgour. New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1956. Pp. vii, 530. $8.50 pp. 458-459

Louis C. Hunter

Approaches to Economic Development. By Norman S. Buchanan and Howard S. Ellis. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1955. Pp. xiv, 494. $5.00 pp. 459-461

Richard Easterlin

Westernized Yankee: The Story of Cyrus Woodman. By Larry Gara. (Publication of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.) Madison, 1956. Pp. x, 254. $4.50 pp. 461-462

William G. Rector

The Agricultural Commodity Programs: Two Decades of Experience. By Murray R. Benedict and Oscar C. Stine. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1956. Pp. xliii, 510. $5.00 pp. 462-463

Rodney C. Loehr

Colonists from Scotland: Emigration to North America, 1707–1783. By Ian Charles Cargill Graham. (Published for the American Historical Association.) Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1956. Pp. 213. $4.50 pp. 464-465

Kenneth O. Bjork

The New Revolution in the Cotton Economy. By James H. Street. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1957. Pp. x, 294. $5.00 pp. 466-466

Lloyd Saville

Studies in the Quantity Theory of Money. Edited by Milton Friedman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956. Pp. v, 265. $5.00 pp. 467-468

Lester V. Chandler

From Merchants to “Colour Men”; Five Generations of Samuel Wetherill's White Lead Business. By Miriam Hussey. (Research Studies XXXIX, Industrial Research Department, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1956. Pp. xvi, 149. $5.00 pp. 467-467

Joe B. Frantz

The Beekmans of New York in Politics and Commerce, 1647–1877. By Philip L. White. New York: New-York Historical Society, 1956. Pp. xxxi, 705. Illustrations. $10.00. - The Beekman Mercantile Papers, 1746–1799. Edited by Philip L. White. Three Volumes. New York: New-York Historical Society, 1956. Pp. ix, 1485. $25.00 the set pp. 468-470

Brooke Hindle

United States Imports and World Trade. By Henry G. Aubrey. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1957. Pp. x, 169. 21s pp. 470-471

Leo Silverman

Tokugawa Religion: The Values of Pre-Industrial Japan. By Robert N. Bellah. Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1957. Pp. ix, 249. $5.00 pp. 471-472

Roger F. Hackett

Life and Labour in Newfoundland. By C. R. Fay. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1956. Pp. vii, 285. $5.00 pp. 472-473

H. B. Mayo

De Nederlandse Emissiemarkt van 1904–1939. By Dirk C. Renooij. Amsterdam: J. H. de Busey, 1951. Pp. 219. Guilders 12.50 pp. 473-475

Arthur Leon Horniker

Vienne sur le Rhône. La ville et les habitants: situations et attitudes. Sociologie d'une cité française. By Pierre Clément and Nelly Xydias. (Cahiers de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, No. 71.) Paris: A. Colin, 1955. Pp. 280. Fr. 1,100. - La Région du Nord. Essai d'analyse économique. By René Gendarme. (Centre d'Etudes Economiques, Etudes et mémoires.) Paris: A. Colin, 1954. Pp. 305. Fr. 1,000 pp. 475-476

Gordon Wright

Réaumur's Memoirs on Steel and Iron. A translation from the original printed in 1722 by Anneliese Grünhaldt Sisco. Edited with an introduction and notes by Cyril Stanley Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956. Pp. xxxiv, 396, plus 17 plates with explanations. $6.00 pp. 476-477

Arthur H. Cole

Les Algériens en France: étude démographique et sociale. (Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques, Cahier No. 24.) Paris: Presses Universitaires, 1955. Pp. 166. Fr. 600 pp. 477-478

P. M. Williams

Historical Atlas. Edited by William R. Shepherd. 8th ed.; Pikesville, Md.: The Colonial Offset Co.; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1956. Pp. xii, 115. $12.50. - Westermanns Atlas zur Weltgeschichte. Brunswick: Georg Westermanns Verlag, 1956. Pp. 160. DM 22.50 pp. 479-480

Herman Freudenberger

Canada's Immigration Policy, A Critique. By David C. Corbett. (Published under the Auspices of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957. Pp. xiii, 215. $4.00 pp. 480-481

John Hall Stewart

The Hawaiian Labor Movement: A Brief History. By Edward Johannessen. Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1956. Pp. 181. $3.75 pp. 481-482

Lois MacDonald

Food and Inflation in the Middle East, 1940–45. By E. M. H. Lloyd. (A publication of the Food Research Institute of Stanford University.) Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1956. Pp. 375. $6.00 pp. 482-483

Martin W. Wilmington

Development for Free Asia. By Maurice Zinkin. (Issued under the auspices of the Institute of Pacific Relations.) Fair Lawn, New Jersey: Essential Books, Inc., 1956. Pp. viii, 263. $4.50 pp. 483-485

George Rosen

A Multiple Exchange Rate System: An Appraisal of Thailand's Experience. 1946–1955. By Shu-Chin Yang. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1957. Pp. xviii, 200. $3.00 pp. 485-486

Edna E. Ehrlich

Must Men Starve? The Malthusian Controversy. By Jacob Oser. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1957. Pp. 331. $4.50 pp. 486-487

Dennis H. Wrong

Architects and Craftsmen in History: Festschrift für Abbott Payson Usher. Edited by Joseph T. Lambie. (Veröffentlichen der List-Gesellschaft, Band 2.) Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1956. Pp. xiv, 176. $4.00 pp. 487-489

Herbert Heaton

An Encyclopaedia of the Iron and Steel Industry. By A. K. Osborne. (Published by arrangement with The Technical Press Ltd., London.) New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1956. Pp. xi, 558. $25.00 pp. 489-490

Arthur C. Bining

Essays in Canadian Economic History. By Harold A. Innis. Edited by Mary Quayle Innis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1956. Pp. viii, 418. $8.50 pp. 490-491

Hugh G. J. Aitken

Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy: Anglo-American Collaboration in the Reconstruction of Multilateral Trade. By Richard N. Gardner. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. Pp. xxiv, 423. $6.75 pp. 491-493

Jeannette P. Nichols

The Sterling Area in the Postwar World: Internal Mechanism and Cohesion, 1946–1952. By Philip W. Bell. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. Pp. xxvi, 478. 63s pp. 493-494

C. P. Kindleberger

Studies in the Agrarian History of England in the Thirteenth Century. By E. A. Kosminsky. Translated by Ruth Kisch. Edited by R. H. Hilton. (Studies in Mediaeval History, ed. Geoffrey Barraclough, Volume VIII.) Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1956. Pp. xxvii, 370. 37s. 6d pp. 494-496

Joseph R. Strayer

Merchant Shipping and the Demands of War. By C. B. A. Behrens. (History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Civil Series.) London: H.M.S.O. and Longmans, Green and Co., 1955. Pp. xix, 494. 35s pp. 496-497

Robin D. S. Higham

A Small Household of the XVth Century, Being the Account Book of Munden's Chantry, Bridport. Edited with an introduction by K. L. Wood-Legh. Manchester: University Press, 1956. Pp. xxxvii, 90. 18s pp. 497-497

Ralph Davis

Volume 17, issue 2, 1957

The Economic Significance of “Constructive Imperialism” pp. 173-192

S. B. Saul

Patterns of Business Growth and Survival in a Medium-Sized Community pp. 193-206

Sidney Goldstein and Kurt Mayer

The Output of the British Woolen Industry in the Eighteenth Century pp. 207-223

Phyllis Deane

The Noble as Landlord in the Region of Toulouse at the End of the Old Regime pp. 224-244

Robert Forster

The Industrial Revolution in France: Some Reflections Inspired by a recent study by arthur Louis Dunham* pp. 245-254

Paul Leuilliot

Agriculture - Forest and Range Policy. Its Development in the United States. By Samuel Trask Dana. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1956. Pp. xi, 455. $6.50 pp. 255-256

Ralph W. Hidy

Business and Industrial History - The Resurgent Years: History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) 1911–1927. By George Sweet Gibb and Evelyn Knowlton. New York: Harper & Brothers. Pp. xxix, 754. $7.50 pp. 256-259

Abbott Payson Usher

Small Enterprise and Oligopoly: A Study of Butter, Flour, Automobile, and Glass Container Industries. By Harold G. Vatter. (Oregon State Monographs, Studies in Economics, No. 4.) Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State College Press, 1955. Pp. iv, 116. $1.00 pp. 259-260

Theodore F. Marburg

Henry Varnum Poor: Business Editor, Analyst, and Reformer. By Alfred D. Chandler Jr Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. vi, 362. $6.50 pp. 260-262

Richard C. Overton

L'industrie textile au temps du Second Empire. By Claude Fohlen. Paris: Plon, 1956. Pp. 534. Fr. 1,500. - Une affaire de famille au XlXe siècle: Méquillet-Noblot. By Claude Fohlen. (Cahiers de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, No. 75.) Paris: Armand Colin, 1955. Pp. 141. Fr. 500. - Origines et évolution d'une bourgeoisie: quelques families du patronat textile de Lille-Armentières (1789–1914). By Jean Lambert-Dansette. Preface by Jacques Chastenet. Lille: Emile Raoust, 1954. Pp. xxii, 811. Fr. 1,200 pp. 262-265

David S. Landes

Le origini della grande industria contemporanea. By Corrado Barbagallo. (Storici Antichi e Moderni, Nuova Serie, No. 1.) Florence: Nuova Italia, 1951. Pp. x, 549. L. 2,500 pp. 265-265

Douglas F. Dowd

The Industrial Structure of American Cities: A Geographic Study of Urban Economy in the United States. By Gunnar Alexandersson. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1956. Pp. 134. $6.50 pp. 265-266

Eric E. Lampard

The Fur Trade in Canada. An Introduction to Canadian Economic History. By Harold A. Innis. Revised edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1956. Pp. xi, 463. $8.50 pp. 267-267

Margaret A. Ormsby

Capital Formation in Residential Real Estate. By Leo Grebler, David M. Blank, and Louis Winnick. (A Study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.) Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1956. Pp. xxx, 519. $10.00 pp. 268-269

Otto H. Ehrlich

Commerce and Trade - Organization for European Economic Cooperation. Liberalization of Europe's Dollar Trade. Paris: O.E.E.C, 1956. Pp. 135. $1.25 pp. 269-270

C. P. Kindleberger

The Development of the Russian Iron and Steel Industry. By Robert J. Holloway. (Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Business Research Studies, No. 6.) Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1952. Pp. 59. $1.00 pp. 269-269

William N. Parker

Manchester Merchants and Foreign Trade, Vol. II: 1850–1939. By Arthur Redford, assisted by Brian Clapp. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1956. Pp. xxiii, 307. 30s pp. 270-271

T. C. Barker

Commerce et prix du blé à Marseille au XVIIIe siècle. By Ruggiero Romano. (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section, Centre de Recherches Historiques; Monnaie, Prix, Conjoncture, No. 3.) Paris: A. Colin, 1956. Pp. 188. Fr. 1,100 pp. 271-272

F. C. Spooner

Economic Growth - Capital Formation and Economic Growth. A Conference of the Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research. (National Bureau of Economic Research, Special Conference Series, No. 6.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955. Pp. xiii, 677. $12 pp. 272-274

Arthur Robert Burns

Institutional Changes in the Postwar Economy of Poland. By W. J. Stankiewicz and J. M. Montias. New York: Mid-European Studies Center, Free Europe Committee, 1955. Pp. i, 125 pp. 274-275

Leon Smolinski

Planification et croissance économique des démocraties populaires. By Jan Marczewski. Vol. I, Analyse historique; Vol. II, Analyse économique. Paris: Presses Universitaires, 1956. Pp. 572. Fr. 1,200 and 900 pp. 275-276

Michael T. Florinsky

History of Economic Thought - On the History and Method of Economics. By Frank H. Knight. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956. Pp. vii, 309. $6.00 pp. 276-279

Emile Grunberg

Adam Smith and the Scotland of his Day. By C. R. Fay. (Department of Social and Economic Research, University of Glasgow, Social and Economic Studies, No. 3.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1956. Pp. vii, 174. $4.75 pp. 279-280

Sidney A. Burrell

The New World of Henri Saint-Simon. By Frank E. Manuel. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. 433. $7.50 pp. 280-281

Russell M. Jones

Money and Prices - The Present Position of Central Banks. By Sir Theodore Gregory. (The 1955 Stamp Memorial Lecture.) London: University of London, 1955; New York: John de Graff, Inc., 1956. Pp. 25. 2s 6d pp. 281-282

J. R. T. Hughes

Money, Prices, and Civilization in the Mediterranean World: Fifth to Seventeenth Century. By Carlo M Cipolla. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956. Pp. x, 75. $2.50 pp. 282-283

William P. Snavely

Population and Labor - Trend of Employment in the Service Industries. By George J. Stigler (A Study of the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956. Pp. xviii, 167. $3.75 pp. 283-284

Edwin Kuh

Rassegna della stampa—problemi fiscali. Associazione fra le Societa Italiene per Azione, Director, Dott. Francesco Coppola D'Anna; Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Cesare Cosciani. (Piazza Venezia No. 11.) Rome: 1956. Annual subscription, L. 5,000; separate issues, L. 500 pp. 283-283

Carl S. Shoup

The Enforcement of English Apprenticeship, 1563-1642. By Margaret Gay Davies. (Harvard Economic Studies, Vol. XCVII.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. 301. $6.00 pp. 285-287

Mildred Campbell

Continental and Colonial Servants in Eighteenth Century England. By J. Jean Hecht. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XL.) Northampton, Mass.: Department of History of Smith College, 1954. Pp. iv, 61. $1.25 pp. 285-285

Elinor G. Barber

A Report on World Population Migrations as related to the United States of America; an exploratory survey of past studies and researches on world population migrations, with the view of evaluating areas already covered and outlining areas which warrant development. By Stanley J. Tracy, director. Washington, D.C.: George Washington University, 1956. Pp. vii, 449 pp. 287-288

Paul S. Taylor

National Economics - France against Herself. By Herbert Lüthy. Translated by Eric Mosbacher. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1955. Pp. xl, 469. $6.50. - Liberated France. By Catherine Gavin. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1955. Pp. 292. $5.00 pp. 288-289

Joseph Kraft

Die deutsche Industrie im Kriege, 1939-1945. (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.) Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1954. Pp. 216. DM 22.60 pp. 289-290

Arthur Leon Horniker

Mainsprings of the German Revival. By Henry C. Wallich. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955. Pp. xi, 401. $4.50. - Germany's Comeback in the World Market. By Ludwig Erhard. (With the assistance of Dr. von Maltzan. Edited by Dr. Herbert Gross. Translated by W. H. Johnston.) New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. Pp. 276. $4.50 pp. 290-292

Fritz Stern

British Malaya: An Economic Analysis. By Dun J. Li. New York: The American Press, 1955. Pp. xi, 123. $3.00 pp. 292-293

S. B. Saul

Le commerce de Salonique au XVIIIe siècle. By N[icolas] G. Svoronos. Paris: Presses Universitaires, 1956. Pp. xvi, 430. Fr. 1,600 pp. 293-295

Traian Stoianovich

A Modern Economic History of England and India. By T. Srinivasaraghavan. (2 vols. Vol. I: Rs. 3-8; Vol. II: Rs. 5-8.) Madras, India: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1954–1955. Pp. 706 (pag. continuous) pp. 295-296

Morris David Morris

Forces et faiblesses de l'économie française, 1945–1956. By Jean-Marcel Jeanneney. Paris: A. Colin, 1956. Pp. 339. Fr. 1,500 pp. 296-297

Warren C. Baum

Aspects de la crise et de la dépression de l'économie française au milieu du XIXe siècle. Etudes sous la direction de E. Labrousse. (Société d'histoire de la révolution de 1848, Bibliothèque de la révolution de 1848, Vol. XIX.) La Roche-sur-Yon: Imprimerie centrale de l'Ouest, 1956. Pp. xxiv, 356. Fr. 700 pp. 298-299

David S. Landes

The Industrial Revolution in France, 1815-1848. By Arthur Louis Dunham. New York: Exposition Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 516. $7.50 pp. 298-298

David S. Landes

A History of the Croatian People, Vol. I: Prehistory and Early Period until 1397 A. D. By Francis R. Preveden. New York: Philosophical Library, 1955. Pp. xvi, 134. Pl. 64. $7.50 pp. 299-300

Traian Stoianovich

An Introduction to British Economic Statistics. By Ely Devons. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1956. Pp. vii, 255. $4.00 pp. 300-300

Albert H. Imlah

Regional Studies - The Cokers of Carolina: A Social Biography of a Family. By George Lee SimpsonJr. Chapel Hill, N. C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1956. Pp. xvi, 327. $5.00 pp. 300-301

Frederick W. Kohlmeyer

The Far Western Frontier, 1830–1860. By Ray Allen Billington. (New American Nation Series.) New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Pp. xix, 324. $3.75, text edition pp. 301-302

Carlton C. Qualey

Rochester, The Quest for Quality, 1890–1925. By Blake McKelvey. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. xiv, 432. $6.00 pp. 302-303

Constance McL. Green

Mirror for Gotham: New York as Seen by Contemporaries from Dutch Days to the Present. By Bayrd Still. New York: New York University Press, 1956. Pp. xix, 417. $7.50 pp. 303-304

Blake Mckelvey

Les tableaux économiques: analyse de la région lorraine. By Pierre Bauchet. Preface by R. Goetz-Girey. Paris: Editions Genin, Librairie de Médicis, 1955. Pp. 182. Fr. 1,200. - Les salaires dans l'industrie française (la métallurgie). By A. Chabert. (Centre d'Etudes Economiques, Etudes et Memoires.) Paris: A. Colin, 1955. Pp. 255. Fr. 1,000 pp. 304-305

William N. Parker

Miscellaneous - Das Zehntwesen in der Erzdiözese Hamburg-Bremen bis zu seiner Privatisierung. By E. O. Kuujo. (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Ser. B, Tome 62, I.) Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1949. Pp. 312 pp. 305-307

Matthew M. Fryde

L'art mosan: mémoires et exposés. Edited by Pierre Francastel. (Bibliothèque générale de l'Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section.) Paris: Armand Colin, 1953. Pp. 219, 23 plates. Fr. 1,150 pp. 307-308

William J. Bouwsma

De Praeda Militari. Looting and Booty, 1500–1815. By Fritz Redlich. Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Beiheft No. 39. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1956. Pp. ix, 79. DM 6 pp. 308-309

Herman Freudenberger

The Founding of the French Socialist Party (1893–1905). By Aaron Noland. (Harvard Historical Monographs, XXIX.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. viii, 233. $4.50 pp. 309-310

John Bowditch

Les Français et la République. By Charles Morazé. (Cahiers de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, No. 79.) Paris: A. Colin, 1956. Pp. 256. Fr. 900 pp. 310-311

Stanley Hoffmann

The Cost of the National Health Service in England and Wales. By Brian Abel-Smith and Richard M. Titmuss. (National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Occasional Papers, XVIII.) Cambridge: University Press, 1956. Pp. 176. $5.50 pp. 311-312

William C. Mallalieu

Frühgeschichte der europäischen Stadt. By Edith Ennen. Bonn: Röhrscheid Verlag, 1953. Pp. 324 pp. 312-314

Karl Polanyi

Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes 1851–67. By Asa Briggs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955. Pp. 313. $5.00 pp. 314-316

Joseph Finkelstein

Toynbee and History: Critical Essays and Reviews. Edited by M. F. Ashley Montagu. Boston: Porter Sargent, 1956. Pp. xiv, 385. $5.00 pp. 316-318

Sigmund Diamond

Volume 17, issue 1, 1957

“Profits” and the Frontier Land Speculator pp. 1-24

Allan G. Bogue and Margaret Beattie Bogue

Reflections on the History of the French and American Labor Movements* pp. 25-44

Val R. Lorwin

Money and Politics in the Rebuilding of Paris, 1860–1870* pp. 45-61

David H. Pinkney

The Molasses Act and the Market Strategy of the British Sugar Planters pp. 62-83

Richard B. Sheridan

Agriculture - The Rebecca Riots: A Study in Agrarian Discontent. By David Williams. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 377.25s pp. 84-85

R. K. Webb

Les caractères originaux de l'histoire rurale française. By Marc Bloch. Vol. II: Supplément établi par Robert Dauvergne d'après les travaux de l'auteur. (Collection Economies-Sociétés-Civilisations.) Paris: A. Colin, 1956. Pp. xliv, 230. Frs. 585 pp. 85-86

Bryce D. Lyon

Historia Agriculturae, Volume II. (Jaarboek uitgegeven door het Nederlands Agronomisch-Historisch Instituut, Groningen.) Groningen, Djakarta: J. B. Wolters, 1954. Pp. x, 233 pp. 86-89

Richard M. Westebbe

Land Tenure. Proceedings of the International Conference on Land Tenure and Related Problems in World Agriculture held at Madison, Wisconsin, 1951. Edited by Kenneth H. Parsons, Raymond J. Penn, and Philip M. Raup. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1955. Pp. xxiv, 739. $10 pp. 89-91

Paul Gates

Business and Industrial History - Designed for Digging. The First 75 Years of Bucyrus-Erie Company. By Harold F. Williamson and Kenneth H. MyersII. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1955. Pp. 384. $7.50 pp. 91-92

George S. Gibb

The Development of American Petroleum Pipelines, A Study in Private Enterprise and Public Policy, 1862–1906. By Arthur Menzies Johnson. (Published for the American Historical Association from the income of the Albert J. Beveridge Memorial Fund.) Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1956. Pp. xiii, 307. $4.50 pp. 92-94

John G. B. Hutchins

Consumption and Business Fluctuations: A Case Study of the Shoe, Leather, Hide Sequence. By Ruth P. Mack. (Publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1956. Pp. xvii, 293. $7.50 pp. 94-96

Henrietta C. Jennings

Krupps: The Story of an Industrial Empire. By Gert von Klass. Translated from the German by James Cleugh. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1954. Pp. 437. 25s pp. 96-97

William N. Parker

Le siècle des Fugger. By Richard Ehrenberg. (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Oeuvres étrangères, No. 2.) Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1955. Pp. iii, 433. Frs. 2,000 pp. 97-99

Hans Rosenberg

L'industrie cotonnière française. By Georges Rabeil. Paris: Médicis, 1955. Pp. 201. Frs. 616 pp. 99-100

Jesse R. Pitts

United States v. United Shoe Machinery Corporation. An Economic Analysis of an Anti-Trust Case. By Carl Kaysen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. xi, 404. $6.50 pp. 100-101

Abbott Payson Usher

Commerce and Trade - Yankees and Creoles: The Trade between North America and the West Indies before the American Revolution. By Richard Pares. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Pp. vii, 168. $4.75 pp. 101-103

Bernard Bailyn

Séville et l'Atlantique (1504–1650). By Huguette and Pierre Chaunu. Première Partie: Partie Statistique. Vols. I–III. Preface by Lucien Febvre. (Ports, Routes et Trafics, VI. Centre de Recherches Historiques. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section.) Paris: A. Colin, 1955. Pp. xv, 322, 603, 572. Frs. 1,600; 3,200; 3,200 pp. 103-104

Robert S. Smith

The American Railroad Network, 1861–1890. By George Rogers Taylor and Irene D. Neu. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. viii, 113. $3.75 pp. 104-104

George Rogers Taylor

Economic Theory - The American Railroad Network, 1861–1890. By George Rogers Taylor and Irene D. Neu. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. viii, 113. $3.75 pp. 104-105

Charles Gilbert

Income of the American People. By Herman P. Miller. (A volume in the Census Monograph Series, published for the Social Science Research Council in cooperation with the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.) New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1955. Pp. xvi, 206. $5.50 pp. 106-108

Solomon Fabricant

Income and Wealth: Series V. Edited by Simon Kuznets. (Publication of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth.) Fair Lawn, New Jersey: Essential Books, Inc. Pp. xiv, 242. $6.75. (First published by Bowes & Bowes, London.) pp. 108-109

Edwin Kuh

Industrialisation et technocratie. Edited by Georges Gurvitch. Introduction by Lucien Febvre. (Bibliothèque générate de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section.) Paris: A. Colin, 1949. Pp. xiii, 214. Frs. 400 pp. 109-110

Wilbert E. Moore

Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology. By Constance McL. Green. (In the Library of American Biography. Edited by Oscar Handlin.) Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1956. Pp. vii, 215. $3.50 pp. 110-111

John W. Oliver

Economic Progress. Papers and Proceedings of a Round Table Held by the International Economic Association. Edited by Leon H. Dupriez with the assistance of Douglas C. Hague. Louvain: Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, 1955. Pp. 574 pp. 112-112

David S. Landes

Labor and Population - The Rise of the National Trade Union: The Development and Significance of Its Structure, Governing Institutions, and Economic Policies. By Lloyd Ulman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. xiii, 639. $9.50 pp. 112-114

Edwin E. Witte

Empire in Wood: A History of the Carpenters' Union. By Robert A. Christie. (Published by the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor Relations: Volume VII.) Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1956. Pp. xvii, 356. $4.50 pp. 114-115

William A. Sullivan

Immigrants and Their Children, 1850–1950. By E. P. Hutchinson. (For the Social Science Research Council in cooperation with the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.) New York and London: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1956. Pp. xiv, 391. $6.50 pp. 115-117

Theodore Saloutos

The Great Burlington Strike of 1888: A Case History in Labor Relations. By Donald L. McMurry. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. xii, 377. $6.00 pp. 117-118

Colston E. Warne

The Evolution of Wage Structure. By Lloyd G. Reynolds and Cynthia H. Taft. (Yale Studies in Economics, 6.) New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. Pp. xii, 398. $5.00 pp. 118-119

Emanuel Stein

Labor on the March. By Edward Levinson. Introduction by Walter P. Reuther. Foreword by James T. Farrell. New York: University Books, 1956. Pp. xxii, 325. $3.50 pp. 119-120

Elinor Pancoast

The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity. By William L. Westermann. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1955. Pp. 180. $3.00 pp. 120-123

Karl Polanyi

The Human Element in Industrialization: a Hypothetical Case Study of Ecuadorean Indians. By Beate R. Salz. Chicago: University of Chicago Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1955. (Published as Volume IV, No. 1, Part 2, of Economic Development and Cultural Change.) Pp. ix, 265 pp. 123-125

Wilbert E. Moore

Money and Banking - English Bank Note Circulation, 1694–1954. By Emmanuel Coppieters. Foreword by R. G. Hawtrey. Louvain: Institute of Economic and Social Research. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1955. Pp. 171. Fr. belg. 125 or 8.50 guilders pp. 125-126

J. R. T. Hughes

Urban Mortgage Lending: Comparative Markets and Experience. By J. E. Morton. (Publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956. Pp. xxi, 187. $4.00 pp. 126-129

Herbert B. Dorau

Settecento anni fa: il ritorno all'oro nell'Occidente duecentesco. By Roberto Sabatino Lopez. (Quaderni della Rivista storica italiana, No. 4.) Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1955. Pp. 91. L. 700 pp. 129-130

Frederic C. Lane

National Economics - Der Bancho Publico zu Nürnberg. By Rudolf Fuchs. (Nürnberger Abhandlungen zu den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Heft 6.) Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1955. Pp. 86. DM 6.60 pp. 130-131

Fritz Redlich

History of American Technology. By John W. Oliver. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. Pp. x, 676. $6.50 pp. 131-132

Brooke Hindle

An Economic History of England: the 18th Century. By T. S. Ashton. London: Methuen; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1955. Pp. vi, 257. 18s pp. 132-133

W. Woodruff

Comparative Economic Development. By Ralph H. Blodgett and Donald L. Kemmerer. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1956. Pp. x, 557. $6.00 pp. 134-135

Theodore F. Marburg

The Soviet Economy during the Plan Era. The Soviet Price System. Soviet Proces of Producers Goods. Three volumes by Naum Jasny. (Stanford University Food Research-Institute, Misc. Publications IIA, IIB, IIC.) Stanford: University Press, 1951, 1951, 1952. Pp. ix, 116; ix, 179; vii, 180. Paper, $2.00 each pp. 135-137

Joseph S. Berliner

History of the American Economy. By Ross M. Robertson. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. Pp. xiv, 593. $8.00 pp. 137-138

Milton S. Heath

Villes et campagnes: civilisation urbaine et civilisation rurale en France. Edited by Georges Friedmann. (Bibliothèque Générale de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section.) Paris: A. Colin, 1953. Pp. xxiv, 480. Frs. 1,200 pp. 138-139

Gordon Wright

Studi di storia economica (secoli xiii-xiv-xv). By Armando Sapori; 3d ed.; 2 vols. Florence: G. C. Sansoni, 1955. Pp. xxxii, 652; 653–1368. L. 8,000. - Le marchand italien au moyen âge: conférences et bibliographie. By Armando Sapori. (Affaires et gens d'affaires, I. Centre de Recherches Historiques. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section.) Paris: A. Colin, 1952. Pp. lxx, 126.Frs. 750 pp. 139-140

Gene A. Brucker

Le XIXe siècle: l'apogée de l'expansion européenne (1815–1914). By Robert Schnerb. (Histoire générale des civilisations, Maurice Crouzet, ed., Volume VI.) Paris: Presses universitaires, 1955. Pp. 627. Frs. 3,000 pp. 140-141

David S. Landes

Roman Civilization, Selected Readings. Volume II: The Empire. By Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold. (Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies, Austin P. Evans, editor, Number XLV.) New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 652. $7.50 pp. 141-142

Vincent M. Scramuzza

Economic Change in Thailand since 1850. By James C. Ingram. (Issued under the auspices of the Institute of Pacific Relations.) Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1955. Pp. vii, 254. $5.00 pp. 142-144

Sidney Klein

Journal d'un bourgeois du Caire. By Ibn Iyâs. Translated and annotated by Gaston Wiet. (Bibliothèque Générale de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section.) Paris: A. Colin, 1955. Pp. iv, 454. Frs. 1,400 pp. 144-146

Robert Sabatino Lopez

The Bourgeoisie in 18th Century France. By Elinor G. Barber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 165. $3.50 pp. 146-147

Paul H. Beik

Niveau de vie et progrès technique en France (1860–1939). Postface By Paul Combe. Preface by Jean Fourastié. Paris: Presses Universitaires, 1956. Pp. xli, 618. Frs. 1,995 pp. 148-150

Val R. Lorwin

Greatness and Decline of Planned Economy in the Hellenistic World. By Luigi Einaudi. Berne: A. Francke, 1950. Pp. 48. Frs. 480 pp. 148-148

Karl Polanyi

Regional Studies - Constructive Liberalism. The Role of the State in Economic Development in Georgia to 1860. By Milton Sydney Heath. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1954. Pp. xiv, 448. $7.50 pp. 150-152

Carter Goodrich

Aux origines des sociétés anonymes: les moulins de Toulouse au moyen âge. By Germain Sicard. (Affaires et gens d'affaires, V. Centre de Recherches Historiques, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section.) Paris: A. Colin, 1953. Pp. 408. Frs. 1,350 pp. 152-154

John H. Mundy

Comptabilité du port de Dieppe au XVe siècle. By Michel Mollat. (Ports, routes, et trafics, IV. Centre de Recherches Historiques. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section.) Paris: A. Colin, 1951. Pp. 138. Frs. 960. - Les affaires de Jacques Coeur (Journal du Procureur Dauvet). Edited by Michel Mollat. (Affaires et gens d'affaires, I and II. Centre de Recherches Historiques. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section.) Paris: A. Colin, 1952–1953. 2 vols. Pp. xxiii, 696 (pagination continuous). Frs. 1,150, each volume pp. 154-155

Frank Pegues

Miscellaneous - The French Faust: Henri de Saint-Simon. By Mathurin Dondo. New York: Philosophical Library, 1955. Pp. 253. $3.75 pp. 155-156

David H. Pinkney

Essays in Medieval Life and Thought Presented in Honor of Austin Patterson Evans. Edited by John H. Mundy, Richard W. Emery, and Benjamin N. Nelson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. xviii, 258. $4.00 pp. 156-158

Philip A. Knachel

From the Depths: The Discovery of Poverty in the United States. By Robert H. Bremner. New York: New York University Press, 1956. Pp. xiii, 364. $5.50 pp. 158-158

Blanche D. Coll

Social Forces in the Middle East. Edited by Sydney N. Fisher. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1955. Pp. xvi, 282. $5.00 pp. 159-160

Harold W. Glidden

The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America, 1735–1789. By Brooke Hindle. (Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956. Pp. xi, 410. $7.50 pp. 161-162

Wesley Frank Craven

Pomponne's “Relation de mon Ambassade en Hollande” 1669–1671. Edited by Herbert H. Rowen. (Werken uitgegeven door het Historisch Genootschap [gevestigd te Utrecht], vierde serie, No. 2.) Utrecht: Kemink en Zoon N.V., 1955. Pp. 178 pp. 162-164

Violet Barbour

A History of Europe from the Invasions to the XVI Century. By Henri Pirenne. Introduction by Jan-Albert Goris. New York: University Books [1956]. Pp. xxii, 12–625. $7.50 pp. 162-162

David S. Landes

Education for Business Leadership: The Role of the German "Hochschulen." By Heinz Hartmann. (European Productivity Agency Project, No. 346.) Paris: Organization for European Economic Cooperation, 1955. Pp. 120 pp. 164-164

Fritz Redlich