The Journal of Economic History

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Volume 16, issue 4, 1956

American Development Policy: The Case of Internal Improvements* pp. 449-460

Carter Goodrich

National Policy and Western Development in North America pp. 461-479

Vernon C. Fowke

Discussion pp. 479-481

Forest G. Hill

When the Pound Sterling Went West: British Investments and the American Mineral Frontier pp. 482-492

Clark C. Spence

International Capital Flows and the Development of the American West pp. 493-505

Douglass North

Promoting the American West in England, 1865–1890 pp. 506-513

Oscar O. Winther

Three Generations of Business Enterprise in a Midwestern City: The McGees of Kansas City* pp. 514-528

R. Richard Wohl

Northern Pine Lumbermen: A Study in Origins and Migrations pp. 529-538

Frederick W. Kohlmeyer

The Role of the Merchant on the Oregon Frontier: The Early Business Career of Henry W. Corbett, 1851–1869 pp. 539-550

Arthur L. Throckmorton

The Genesis of the Great Northern's Mesabi Ore Traffic* pp. 551-557

Joseph W. Thompson

A Comparative Analysis of Economic Development in the American West and South* pp. 558-574

Douglas F. Dowd

The Changing Pattern of American Economic Development pp. 575-589

Donald L. Kemmerer

Volume 16, issue 3, 1956

Some French Contributions to the Industrial Development of Germany, 1840–1870* pp. 281-321

Rondo E. Cameron

The Locofocos: Urban “Agrarians” pp. 322-333

Carl N. Degler

Economic Growth in Italy: An Analysis of the Uneven Development of North and South pp. 334-349

Shepard B. Clough and Carlo Livi

Aubrey on Industrial Investment Decisions pp. 350-354

Benjamin Higgins

Rejoinder pp. 354-355

Henry G. Aubrey

An Index of the Output of British Industry Since 1700 pp. 356-364

J. F. Wright

Agriculture - Food and Agriculture in Britain 1939–1945. Aspects of Wartime Control. By R. J. Hammond. (Publication of the Food Research Institute of Stanford University.) Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1954. Pp. xii, 246. $5.00 pp. 369-370

William C. Mallalieu

Can We Solve the Farm Problem? An Analysis of Federal Aid to Agriculture. By Murray R. Benedict. With the Report and Recommendations of the Committee on Agricultural Policy. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1955. Pp. xix, 601. $5.00 pp. 370-373

Vernon Carstensen

Business and Industrial History - Standard Oil Company (Indiana): Oil Pioneer of the Middle West. By Paul H. Giddens. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1956. Pp. xviii, 741. $7.50 pp. 373-375

Ralph W. Hidy

History of American Merchant Seamen. By Elmo Paul Hohman. Hamden, Conn.: The Shoe String Press, 1956. Pp. viii, 125. $3.50 pp. 375-376

Vernon H. Jensen

Small Business in Brass Fabricating: The Smith & Griggs Manufacturing Co. of Waterbury. By Theodore F. Marburg. New York: New York University Press, 1956. Pp. xii, 116. $5.00 pp. 376-377

W. Woodruff

The Mexican Petroleum Industry, 1938–1950. By J. Richard Powell. (Publication of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of California.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956. Pp. xiv, 269. $4.00 pp. 377-377

Henrietta M. Larson

The Railroads of the South 1865–1900, A Study in Finance and Control. By John F. Stover. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1955. Pp. xviii, 310. $5.00 pp. 377-379

Robert M. Sutton

The Power to Go: The Story of the Automotive Industry. By Merrill Denison. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company, Inc. Pp. 324. $5.00 pp. 379-380

Frank Ernest Hill

Great Enterprise: Growth and Behavior of the Big Corporation. By Herrymon Maurer. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955. Pp. x, 303. $5.00 pp. 380-381

Anne E. Hulse

Commerce and Trade - American Imports. By Don D. Humphrey. (A study jointly sponsored by the Twentieth Century Fund and the National Planning Association, with a policy statement by the Association's Committee on International Policy.) New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1955. Pp. xviii, 546. $6.00 pp. 382-385

Wolfgang F. Stolper

Early Colonial Trade and Navigation Between Mexico and Peru. By Woodrow Borah. (Publications in Ibero-Americana, No. 38.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954. Pp. 170. $2.50 pp. 385-386

John E. Fagg

Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World: Illustrative Documents. Translated with introductions and notes by Robert S. Lopez and Irving W. Raymond. (Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies, Austin P. Evans, editor, Vol. LII.) New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. xi, 458. $6.75 pp. 386-387

Frederic C. Lane

The British Co-operative Movement. By Jack Bailey. (Hutchinson's University Library: Politics.) London: Hutchinson and Company, 1955; New York: Longmans, Green and Company. Pp. 180. Text edition, $1.80; trade edition, $2.40 pp. 387-387

R. K. Webb

Naissance et croissance d'un port: Sète de 1666 à 1880. By Louis Dermigny. (Actes de l'Institut d'Etudes économiques, maritimes et commerciales de la Ville de Sète, Cahier V.) Montpellier: Causse, Graille, Castelnau, 1955. Pp. 136. 900 francs pp. 388-388

David S. Landes

The Muscovy Merchants of 1555. By T. S. Willan. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1953. Pp. viii, 141. $3.25 pp. 388-389

Andrew P. Lassen

Economic Growth - Economic Growth: Brazil, India, Japan. Edited by Simon Kuznets, Wilbert E. Moore, and Joseph J. Spengler. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1955. Pp. xiv, 613. $12.50 pp. 389-391

Ragnar Nurkse

Aspects of Economic Development in South Asia. By Robert I. Crane. With a Supplement on “Development Problems in Ceylon” by Burton Stein. (Publication of International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations.) New York, 1954. Pp. 138. $2.00 pp. 391-392

Helen B. Lamb

History of Economic Growth - The Economic Thought of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Origins of the New Deal. By Daniel R. Fusfeld. (No. 586, Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences.) New York: Columbia University Press, 1956. Pp. 337. $5.00 pp. 393-394

Robert E. Burke

The Psychology of Economics. By Walter A. Weisskopf. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 266. $4.00 pp. 394-396

Walter S. Measday

Policies to Combat Depression: A Conference of the Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research. (A Report of the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.) Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1956. Pp. x, 417. $8.50 pp. 396-397

Harvey H. Segal

Histoire des faits économiques des origines au XXe siècle. By J. Maillet. Paris: Editions Payot, 1952. Pp. 362. 800 francs pp. 397-398

Rondo E. Cameron

Wesen und Ziele des Ordo-Liberalismus. By Dr. Ernst-Wolfram Dürr. Winterthur: P. G. Keller, 1954. Pp. 166 pp. 398-398

T. W. Hutchison

Money and Prices - British Public Finances. Their Structure and Development, 1880–1952. By Ursula K. Hicks. (Home University Library of Modern Knowledge.) London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. Pp. viii, 225. $1.00 pp. 398-399

E. Gordon Keith

The London Capital Market: Its Structures, Strains and Management. By Norman Macrae. London: Staples Press, Ltd.; New York: John de Graff, Inc., 1955. Pp. 285. $6.00 pp. 399-400

J. R. T. Hughes

Prix et monnaies au Portugal, 1750–1850. By Vitorino Magalhães Godinho. (Publication of the Centre de Recherches historiques of the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section, Paris.) Paris: Armand Colin, 1955. Pp. xvi, 371, folding map and graphs. 1,400 francs pp. 400-401

F. C. Spooner

Country Banking in the Industrial Revolution. By L. S. Pressnell. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. Pp. xvi, 591. $11.20 pp. 401-403

T. C. Barker

Problems Historical and Numismatic in the Reign of Augustus. By H. R. W. Smith. (University of California Publications in Classical Archaeology, Vol. II, No. 4.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1951. Pp. x, 133–230. $1.00 pp. 403-404

M. I. Finley

Population and Labor - The Industrial Worker in Pennsylvania, 1800–1840. By William A. Sullivan. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1955. Pp. vii, 253. $3.25 pp. 404-405

John Philip Hall

Industrial Relations in Australia. By Kenneth F. Walker. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. xviii, 389. $7.50 pp. 405-407

Herbert Heaton

Human Relations in the Industrial Southeast: A Study of the Textile Industry. By Glenn Gilman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956. Pp. xii, 327. $5.00 pp. 407-408

Lloyd Saville

Jobs and Workers in India. By Oscar A. Ornati. (Publication of the Institute of International Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.) Ithaca: Cornell University, 1955. Pp. xix, 215. Paper $3.00; cloth $4.00 pp. 408-409

Willis D. Weatherford

Planned Migration: The Social Determinants of the Dutch-Canadian Movement. By William Petersen. (University of California Publications in Sociology and Social Institutions, Vol. II.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 261. $3.50 pp. 409-410

Penelope Hartland

Personal Income During Business Cycles. By Daniel Creamer, with the assistance of Martin Bernstein. (Publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.) Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Pp. xlii, 166. $4.00 pp. 410-412

R. S. Weckstein

The United States Patent System: Legal and Economic Conflicts in American Patent History. By Floyd L. Vaughan. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. Pp. xvi, 355. $8.50 pp. 412-414

Abbott Payson Usher

Monopoly in America: The Government as Promoter. By Walter Adams and Horace M. Gray, with an introduction by Senator Paul H. Douglas. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955. Pp. xv, 221. $2.75 pp. 414-415

H. F. R. Shaw

Two Postwar Recoveries of the German Economy. By Horst Mendershausen. (Contributions to Economic Analysis, VIII. Edited by J. Tinbergen, P. J. Verdoorn and H. J. Witteveen.) Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1955. Pp. x, 130. $4.00 pp. 416-418

Ralph H. Bowen

The British West Indies. By W. L. Burn. London: Hutchinson's University Library, 1951. Pp. 196 pp. 416-416

P. D. Curtin

L'Espagne éclairée de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle. By Jean Sarrailh. Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1954. Pp. vi, 779. 2,900 francs pp. 418-419

Charles E. Nowell

The Struggle for the Indian Stream Territory. By Roger Hamilton Brown. Cleveland: Western Reserve University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 104. $3.00 pp. 419-419

Brooke Hindle

Water for the Cities: A History of the Urban Water Supply Problem in the United States. By Nelson Manfred Blake. (Maxwell School Series—III.) Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1956. Pp. viii, 341. $4.00 pp. 419-420

Richard C. Wade

New Spain's Century of Depression. By Woodrow Borah. (Publications in Ibero-Americana, No. 35.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1951. Pp. vii, 58. $.75 pp. 421-423

Pierre Chaunu

Every House a Frontier: Detroit's Economic Progress, 1815–1825. By Floyd Russell Dain. Detroit: Wayne University Press, 1956. Pp. vi, 168. $3.50 pp. 421-421

Lucile M. Kane

A Mersey side Town in the Industrial Revolution: St. Helens, 1750–1900. By T. C. Barker and J. R. Harris. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 1954. Pp. xviii, 508. 30s pp. 423-424

W. H Chaloner

A History of South-East Asia. By D. G. E. Hall. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1955. Pp. xvi, 807. $10.00 pp. 424-425

Lucian W. Pye

Virginia at Mid-Century. By Jean Gottmann. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955. Pp. vii, 584. $7.50 pp. 425-427

Patrick W. Riddleberger

The Whoop-Up Country: The Canadian-American West, 1865–1885. By Paul F. Sharp. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1955. Pp. xiii, 347. $5.00 pp. 427-428

Thomas Leduc

La ville et la campagne au XVIIe siècle: etude sur les populations du pays dijonnais. By Gaston Roupnel. (Publication of the VIe Section, Bibliothèque gènèrale de l'Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes.) Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1955. Pp. xxxi, 357. 1,200 francs pp. 428-431

Traian Stoianovich

Miscellaneous - The Power Elite. By C. Wright Mills. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. Pp. 423. $6.00 pp. 431-433

Mabel Newcomer

Middle-Class Democracy and the Revolution in Massachusetts, 1691-1780. By Robert E. Brown. (Published for the American Historical Association by Cornell University Press.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1955. Pp. 458. $6.00 pp. 433-435

Carl Bridenbaugh

L'esclavage dans l'Europe mèdièvale, Tome I: Péninsule Ibérique-France. By Charles Verlinden. (Rijksuniversiteit te Gent, Werken uitgegeven door de Faculteit van de Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, 119 Afleverung.) Bruges: De Tempel, 1955. Pp. 930 pp. 435-436

Joseph R. Strayer

Il Comasco sotto il dominio spagnolo; saggio di storia economica e sociale. By Bruno Caizzi. (Raccolta di saggi e ricerche diretta da Gianfranco Miglio, I.) Como: Centro Lariano per gli Studi Economici, 1955. Pp. 227. L. 2,000 pp. 436-439

A. William Salomone

Knowledge Is Power. The Life Story of Percy Hampton Johnston, Banker. By Frank Wilson Nye. New York: Random House, 1956. Pp. xxxvi, 347. $5.00 pp. 439-440

A. E. Haase

The Expansion of Elizabethan England. By A. L. Rowse. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1955. Pp. xiii, 450. 27 plates. $5.75. - Elizabethan Copper: The History of the Company of Mines Royal, 1568–1605. By M. B. Donald. London: Pergamon Press, 1955. Pp. 405. 9 plates. £3. - The Third Book of Remembrance of Southampton, 1514–1602: Vol. II, 1540–73. Edited by A. L. Merson. Southampton: at the University, 1955. Pp. xvi, 200. 2 plates. 25s pp. 440-441

Syliva Thrupp

Volume 16, issue 2, 1956

The Depression of the Nineties* pp. 137-164

Charles Hoffmann

Landlords and Rural Capitalists in the Modernization of Japan pp. 165-181

Thomas C. Smith

Prices in Russia in the Sixteenth Century* pp. 182-199

Jerome Blum

The Textile Industry of the Old South as Described in a Letter by J. M. Wesson in 1858 pp. 200-205

John Hebron Moore

Agenda For A History Of Management Policies Towards Labor In The United States* pp. 206-211

Douglass North

Five Decades of United States Saving* pp. 211-218

Edwin Kuh

Money at Interest: The Farm Mortgage on the Middle Border. By Allan G. Bogue. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 293. $4.00 pp. 219-221

Thomas LeDuc

Agriculture - The Agricultural Regions of the United States. By Ladd Haystead and Gilbert C. Fite. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955. Pp. xx, 288. $4.00 pp. 219-219

James H. Shideler

Wartime Agriculture in Australia and New Zealand, 1939–50.J. G. Crawford, C. M. Donald, C. P. Dowsett, and D. B. Williams; and A. A. Ross. (Food Research Institute.) Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1954. 392 Pp. $7.50 pp. 221-222

Colston E. Warne

Business and Industrial History - Pioneering in Big Business 1882–1911. History of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). By Ralph W. Hidy and Muriel E. Hidy. (Prepared under the auspices of the Business History Foundation, Inc.) New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. Pp. xxx, 839. $7.50 pp. 222-224

Allan Nevins

Merchants, Farmers, and Railroads: Railroad Regulation and New York Politics, 1850–1887. By Lee Benson. (Harvard Studies in Economic History, published in co-operation with The Committee on Research in Economic History.) Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 310. $5.50 pp. 225-225

Robert C. Black

The Empire of Oil. By Harvey O'Connor. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 372. $5.00 pp. 225-226

John Ise

Nathan Trotter, Philadelphia Merchant, 1787–1853. By Elva Tooker. (Harvard Studies in Business History XVIII.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. xvii, 276. $6.00 pp. 227-228

Thomas S. Berry

Occupational Mobility in American Business and Industry 1928–1952. By W. Lloyd Warner and James C. Abegglen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955. Pp. xxi, 315. $5.50 pp. 228-229

Henrietta M. Larson

The Canadian Nickel Industry, A Study in Market Control and Public Policy. By O. W. Main. (Canadian Studies in Economics, Number 4.) Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1955. Pp. ix, 168. $3.25 pp. 229-231

W. R. McClelland

The Business Enterprise as a Subject for Research. By Howard R. Bowen. Prepared for the Committee on Business Enterprise Research. New York: Social Science Research Council, Pamphlet No. II, 1955. Pp. viii, 103. $1.25 pp. 231-232

Muriel E. Hidy

A History of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company. By Gerald T. White. (Harvard Studies in Business History.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. xvii, 229. $5.00 pp. 232-233

Orange A. Smalley

A History of the Cutlery Industry in the Connecticut Valley. By Martha Van Hoesen Taber. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLI.) Northampton, Mass.: Dept. of History, Smith College, 1955. Pp. vi, 136. $2.00 pp. 233-234

Theodore F. Marburg

La naissance de la grande Industrie en Dauphiné (fin du XVIIe siècle-1869). By Pierre Léon. (Université de Grenoble, Publications de la Faculté des Lettres, no. 9.) Paris: Presses universitaires, 1954. 2 vols. Pp. xvii, 965 (pag. continuous) pp. 234-236

David S. Landes

Commerce and Trade - Distribution's Place in the American Economy since 1869. By Harold Barger. (Publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955. Pp. xviii, 222. $4.50 pp. 236-240

Arnold Corbin

Industry in the Pacific Northwest and the Location Theory. By Edwin J. CohnJr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. Pp. x, 214. $3.50 pp. 240-241

Charles M. Gates

The First Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1795–1805. By Bradford Perkins. (Publication of the American Historical Association, from the Income of the Albert J. Beveridge Memorial Fund.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 257. $5.00 pp. 241-242

Margaret Marion Spector

Money and Finance - Bank of Canada Operations, 1935-54. By E. P. Neufeld. (Canadian Studies in Economics, Number 5.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1955. Pp. ix, 221. $3.75 pp. 243-243

Hugh G. J. Aitken

Esquisse d'une histoire monetaire de l'Europe. By Marc Bloch. (Cahiers des Annales, no. 9.) Paris: Armand Colin, 1954. Pp. 93. Frs. 325 pp. 243-244

Martin Wolfe

The Irish Pound 1797–1826: A Reprint of the Report of the Committee of 1804 of the British House of Commons on the Condition of the Irish Currency, With Selections From the Minutes of Evidence Presented to the Committee, and an introduction by Frank Whitson Fetter. Northwestern University Press, 1955. Pp. 136 pp. 244-247

J. R. T. Hughes

La Monnaie et l'opinion publique en France et en Angleterre, 1924–1936. By Marguerite Perrot. Paris: Armand Colin, 1955. Pp. 252. Frs. 800 pp. 247-248

Martin Wolfe

Le Recouvrement des Impôts Directs sous l'Ancien Régime. By Jean Villain. (Publication of the Bibliothèque d'Histoire Economique et Sociale in co-operation with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.) Paris: Librairie Marcel Rivière et Cie., 1952. Pp. ix, 321 pp. 248-249

George T. Matthews

National Economic Histories - American Economic Development. By Herman E. Krooss. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1955. Pp. vii, 529. $6.00 pp. 249-250

Clarence H. Danhof

The Economic Development of Van Diemen's Land: 1820–1850. By R. M. Hartwell. Melbourne University Press; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1954. Pp. 273. $6.00. - The Peaks of Lyell. By Geoffrey Blainey. Melbourne University Press; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 290. $5.00 pp. 250-251

Colston E. Warne

The Great Experiment: An Introduction to the History of the American People. By Frank Thistlethwaite. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1955. Pp. xiv, 335. $5.00 pp. 252-253

William B. Whiteside

Peasants, Politics, and Economic Change in Yugoslavia. By Jozo Tomasevich. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 743. $7.50. - The Agricultural Economy of the Danubian Countries, 1935–45. By S. D. Zagoroff, Jenö Végh, and Alexander D. Bilimovich. (Publication of the Food Research Institute, Stanford University.) Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1955. Pp. xiv, 478. $7.50 pp. 253-257

Traian Stoianovich

Political Change and Industrial Development in Japan: Government Enterprise, 1868–1880. By Thomas C. Smith. (Stanford University Series, History, Economics, and Political Science, Volume X) Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 126, Paper $2.50 pp. 257-258

Roger F. Hackett

Population and Labor - Earnings of Cotton Mill Operatives, 1825–1914. By Robert G. Layer. (Publication of the Committee on Research in Economic History, Inc.) Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. ix, 71. $2.75 pp. 258-260

Nancy P. Norton

The Rise of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles. By Grace Heilman Stimson. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955. Pp. xvi, 529. $6.00 pp. 260-261

Harold U. Faulkner

Scientific Management and the Unions, 1900–1932: A Historical Analysis. By Milton J. Nadworny. (Publication of the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, Harvard University.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. vii, 187. $3.75 pp. 261-262

Lois MacDonald

Prices - Minimum Price Fixing in the Bituminous Coal Industry. By Waldo E. Fisher and Charles M. James. (Report of the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York in co-operation with the Industrial Research Department, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Philadelphia.) Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1955. Pp. xxxi, 523. $10.00 pp. 262-266

C. L. Christenson

Les prix à Lwow (XVIe–XVIIe siècles). By St. Hoszowski. Translated from the Polish, (École Pratique des Hautes Études-VIe Section. Centre de Recherches Historiques.) Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1954. Pp. 232 pp. 266-267

Jerome Blum

Social History - A History of the Freedmen's Bureau. By George R. Bentley. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955. Pp. 298. $5.00 pp. 267-268

David Donald

Billy Sunday Was His Real Name. By William G. McLoughlinJr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955. Pp. xxx, 325. $5.50 pp. 268-269

Bayrd Still

The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning: A Study in Economic and Social History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By William Ashworth. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954. Pp. 259, 21s pp. 269-271

Eric E. Lampard

Volume 16, issue 1, 1956

Capitalism and the Historians: A Contribution to the Discussion on the Industrial Revolution in England* pp. 1-17

W. Woodruff

American Technique and Steam Navigation on the Saône and the Rhône, 1827–1850* pp. 18-33

Félix Rivet

Business and Industrial History - Edwin D. Morgan, 1811–1883: Merchant in Politics. By James A. Rawley. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. 321 pp. 63-63

James B. Hedges

Agriculture - Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League, 1915–1922. By Robert L. Morlan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c.1955. Pp. 408. $5.75 pp. 63-63

Fred A. Shannon

Broadlooms and Businessmen, A History of the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company. By John S. Ewing and Nancy P. Norton. (Harvard Studies in Business History, Vol. XVII.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. xx, 417. $9.00 pp. 64-65

Constance McL Green

The Big Business Executive, The Factors that Made Him, 1900–1950. By Mabel Newcomer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 164. $4.00 pp. 65-67

John G. B. Hutchins

Regularization of Business Investment. A conference of the Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research. (Publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954. Pp. xxvi, 513. $8.00. - Business Concentration and Price Policy. A conference of the Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research. (Publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 514. $9.00 pp. 67-69

Edward Marcus

The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It. By Richard N. Current. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1954. Pp. 149. $3.50 pp. 69-70

Frederick W. Kohlmeyer

Trucks, Trouble, and Triumph—The Norwalk Truck Line Company. By Wayne G. BroehlJr. (An Indiana University School of Business Report.) New York: Prentice-Hall, 1954. Pp. xiii, 228. $5.50 pp. 70-72

John G. B. Hutchins

The History of the National Association of Insurance Agents: Fifty-Eight Years of a Stabilizing Force in Insurance. By Walter H. Bennett, Cincinnati: The National Underwriter Company, 1954. Pp. 275 pp. 72-74

Harris Proschansky

The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century. By Bernard Bailyn. (Studies in Entrepreneurial History, published in co-operation with the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, Harvard University.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 249. $4.75 pp. 74-76

Robert A. East

History of Economic Thought - Economics and Liberalism—Collected Papers. By O. H. Taylor. (Harvard Economic Studies, Vol. XCVI). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. 321. $5.00 pp. 76-77

William N. Loucks

The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo: Biographical Miscellany, Volume X. Edited by Piero Sraffa with the collaboration of M. H. Dobb. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 424. $4.75 pp. 77-78

Dudley Dillard

Marginal—Cost Price—Output Control. By Burnham P. Beckwith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. 283. $5.75 pp. 78-79

Jerome Rothenberg

Henry George. By Charles Albro Barker. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 696. $9.50 pp. 79-82

Constance McL Green

Labor and Population - Labor Mobility and Economic Opportunity. By E. Wight Bakke, Philip M. Hauser, Gladys L. Palmer, Charles A. Myers, Dale Yoder, Clark Kerr. Preface by Paul Webbink. New York: Technology Press and John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1954. Pp. vi, 118. $3.50 pp. 82-84

N. Arnold Tolles

The Mine Workers' District 50: The Story of the Gas, Coke and Chemical Unions of Massachusetts and Their Growth into a National Union. By James Nelson. New York: Exposition Press, 1955. Pp. 158. $3.50. Special union edition $2.75 pp. 84-84

Amy Hewes

Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. By John Higham. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1955. Pp. xiv, 431. Illustrated. $6.00 pp. 85-86

David A. Shannon

Hungry Generations. By Harold A. Boner. New York: King's Crown Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 234. $3.75 pp. 86-88

G. Kitson Clark

Employment Expansion and Population Growth. The California Experience: 1900–1950. By Margaret S. Gordon. (Publication of the Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954. Pp. xiii, 192. $3.50 pp. 88-91

George J. Stolnitz

Money and Finance - Robert Morris, Revolutionary Financier. By Clarence L. Ver Steeg. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press for The American Historical Association, 1954. Pp. xiii, 276. $5.00 pp. 91-92

Charles Gilbert

National Economics - Economic History of the United States. By Howard R. Smith. New York: The Ronald Press, 1955. Pp. vii, 763. $6.00 pp. 92-93

Theodore Saloutos

The Secret of American Prosperity. By William E. Rappard (translated from the original French by Kenneth A. J. Dickson) with a foreword by Henry Hazlitt. New York: Greenberg, 1955. Pp. 124. $3.50 pp. 93-94

Harold F. Williamson

Australia in the War of 1939–1945 Series 4 (Civil): I. The Government and the People, 1939–1941. By Paul Hasluck. 1952. Pp. xvii, 644. II. War Economy, 1939–1942. By S. J. Butlin. 1955. Pp. xvii, 475. (Publications of The Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia.) Obtained from Anglobooks, 475 Fifth Avenue, New York. 25/- each pp. 94-97

Marion R. Daugherty

The Federal Antitrust Policy: Origination of an American Tradition. By Hans B. Thorelli. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1955. Pp. vi, 658. $8.00 pp. 97-100

Joel B. Dirlam

China's Response to the West: A Documentary Survey, 1839–1923. By Ssu-yü Teng and John K. Fairbank. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. Pp. vi, 296. $6.75. - Research Guide for “China's Response to the West: A Documentary Survey, 1839–1123).” By Ssu-yü Teng and John K. Fairbank. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. Pp. 84. $4.00 pp. 100-102

Han-Sheng Chuan

The Southern Claims Commission. By Frank W. Klingberg. (University of California Publications in History, Vol. L., J. S. Galbraith, R. N. Burr, and Brainerd Dyer, eds.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955. Pp. ix, 261. $3.50 pp. 102-103

David Donald

The Road to Spindletop: Economic Change in Texas, 1875–1901. By John S. Spratt. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1955. Pp. xxix, 337. $5.00 pp. 103-104

Joe B. Frantz

The Chinese Gentry: Studies on their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society. By Chung-li Chang. Introduction by Franz Michael. (University of Washington Publications on Asia, sponsored by the Far Eastern and Russian Institute.) Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955. Pp. xxi, 250. $5.75 pp. 105-106

Charles Macsherry

Great Britain and the United States. By H. C. Allen. New York: St Martin's Press Inc., 1955. Pp. 1024. $10.00 pp. 106-107

J. B. Brebner

Standard of Living in India and Pakistan 1931–32 to 1940–41. By R. C. Desai. Bombay: Popular Book Depot, 1953. Pp. xvii, 286. Rs. 20 pp. 107-107

Willard L. Thorp