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Volume 57 - Issue 2 - June 1997

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Asia - China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism. By Hill Gates. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 326.
Melissa Macauley
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03 March 2009, pp. 552-553
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Japanese Banking: A History, 1859–1959. By Norio Tamaki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxii, 289. $54.95.
William M. Tsutsui
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03 March 2009, pp. 553-554
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Firms and Industrial Organization in Japan. By Yoshiro Miwa. New York: New York University Press, 1996, Pp. x, 312, $45.00.
Yishay Yafeh
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03 March 2009, pp. 554-556
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United States and Canada - Native Americans and Wage Labor: Ethnohistorical Perspectives. Edited by Alice Littlefield and Martha C. Knack. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Pp. x, 351. $32.95.
Mary Young
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03 March 2009, pp. 556-557
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The CIO, 1930–1955. By Robert H. Zieger. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 491. $39.95.
Gerald Friedman
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The American Labor Movement, 1955–1995. By Walter Galenson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. x, 171. $49.95.
Robert H. Zieger
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The Local State: Public Money and American Cities. By Eric H. Monkonnen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 191. $39.50.
Joun Wallis
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03 March 2009, pp. 559-561
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Principle and Interest. Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt. By Herbert E. Sloan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp viii, 377. $4500.
Richard R. John
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Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. By James T. Patterson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 829. $35.00.
Brian Balogh
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03 March 2009, pp. 562-564
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The American Economy: The Struggle for Supremacy in the 21st Century. By Nicolas Spulber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 286. $34.95.
Joseph Michael Finger
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Trade and the American Dream: A Social History of Postwar Trade Policy. By Susan A. Aaronson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Pp. xvii, 262. $45.00, cloth; $15.95, paper.
Douglas A. Irwin
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The South as an American Problem. Edited by Larry H. Griffin and Don H. Doyle. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 310. $29.95.
Robert Tracy McKenzie
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Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands. By William D. Rowley. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 199. $27.50.
Mark Kanazawa
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Reforming the Health Care Market: An Interpretive Economic History. By David F. Drake. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1994. Pp. Xv, 224. $42.50, cloth; $16.95, paper.
William D. White
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America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound. By Andre Millard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.ix, 413. $59.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.
William S. Pretzer
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The Evolution of the Airline Industry. By Steven A. Morrison and Clifford Winston. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995. Pp. xii, 169. $28.95, cloth; $10.95, paper.
F. Robert van der Linden
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Dollars Through The Doors: A Pre-1930 History of Bank Marketing in America. By Richard N. Germain. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. x, 224. $59.95.
David C. Wheelock
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Store Wars: Shopkeepers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890–1939. By David Monod. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 438. $55.00, cloth; $22.95, paper.
Michael Miller
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La sidérurgie dans le monde rural: Les hauts fourneaux du Québec au XIXe sièlce. By René Hardy. Quebec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1995. Pp. xi, 303. $30.00.
Michael Huberman
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Reviews of Books

Asia - China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism. By Hill Gates. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 326.

Japanese Banking: A History, 1859–1959. By Norio Tamaki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxii, 289. $54.95.

Firms and Industrial Organization in Japan. By Yoshiro Miwa. New York: New York University Press, 1996, Pp. x, 312, $45.00.

United States and Canada - Native Americans and Wage Labor: Ethnohistorical Perspectives. Edited by Alice Littlefield and Martha C. Knack. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Pp. x, 351. $32.95.

The CIO, 1930–1955. By Robert H. Zieger. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 491. $39.95.

The American Labor Movement, 1955–1995. By Walter Galenson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. x, 171. $49.95.

The Local State: Public Money and American Cities. By Eric H. Monkonnen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 191. $39.50.

Principle and Interest. Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt. By Herbert E. Sloan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp viii, 377. $4500.

Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. By James T. Patterson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 829. $35.00.

The American Economy: The Struggle for Supremacy in the 21st Century. By Nicolas Spulber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 286. $34.95.

Trade and the American Dream: A Social History of Postwar Trade Policy. By Susan A. Aaronson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Pp. xvii, 262. $45.00, cloth; $15.95, paper.

The South as an American Problem. Edited by Larry H. Griffin and Don H. Doyle. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 310. $29.95.

Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands. By William D. Rowley. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 199. $27.50.

Reforming the Health Care Market: An Interpretive Economic History. By David F. Drake. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1994. Pp. Xv, 224. $42.50, cloth; $16.95, paper.

America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound. By Andre Millard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.ix, 413. $59.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.

The Evolution of the Airline Industry. By Steven A. Morrison and Clifford Winston. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995. Pp. xii, 169. $28.95, cloth; $10.95, paper.

Dollars Through The Doors: A Pre-1930 History of Bank Marketing in America. By Richard N. Germain. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. x, 224. $59.95.

Store Wars: Shopkeepers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890–1939. By David Monod. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 438. $55.00, cloth; $22.95, paper.

La sidérurgie dans le monde rural: Les hauts fourneaux du Québec au XIXe sièlce. By René Hardy. Quebec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1995. Pp. xi, 303. $30.00.

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