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Volume 9 - May 1949

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The Shipbuilding Business in the United States of America. Edited by F. G. FassettJr, New York: The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 1948. Vol. I: pp. ix, 324; Vol. II: pp. 255. $12.00.

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The Place of Theory in Teaching American Economic History

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Entrepreneurs and Enterprises - Business Incorporations in the United States, 1800–1943. By George Heberton EvansJr, New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1948. Pp. viii, 184. $6.00.

The Medici Bank: Its Organization, Management, Operations, and Decline. By Raymond de Roover. [Business History Series, Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University.] New York: New York University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1948. Pp. xv, 98. $4.00.

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JEH supplement 1 Volume 9 Front matter

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English Merchant Shipping, 1460-1540. By Dorothy Burwash. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1947. Pp. xii, 259. $2.75.

The Legend of Henry Ford. By Keith Sward. New York: Rinehart and Company, 1948. Pp. viii, 550. $5.00.

Empire on Wheels. By Raymond W. Settle and Mary Lund Settle. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1949. Pp. xix, 153. $3.50.

Customs Valuation in the United States: A Study in Tariff Administration. By R. Elberton Smith. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1948. Pp. xv, 380. $7.50.

GATX: A History of the General American Transportation Corporation, 1898–1948. By Ralph C. Epstein. New York: North River Press, 1948. Pp. x, 198. Not for sale.

Old China Hands and the Foreign Office. By Nathan A. Pelcovits. New York: King's Crown Press, under the auspices of the American Institute of Pacific Relations, 1948. Pp. xi, 349. $3.75.

Communication - Men, Cities and Transportation: A Study in New England History, 1820–1900. By Edward Chase Kirkland. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948. 2 vols.; pp. xvi, 528; 499. $12.50.

Bet a Millionl The Story of John W. Gates. By Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1948. Pp. 357. $3.50. - Industry Builder: The Biography of Chester Earl Gray. By Robert E. Jones. Palo Alto, Calif.: Pacific Books, 1948. Pp. 233, $4.00.

John Law: The History of an Honest Adventurer. By H. Montgomery Hyde. Denver: Alan Swallow, M.D. London: Howe and Van Thai, 1948. Pp. 200. $4.00.

A History of the Jorehaut Tea Co., Ltd., 1859–1946. By H. A. Antrobus. London: Tea and Rubber Mail, 1948. Pp. 368. 21s.

Pioneer Telegraphy in Chile, 1852–1876. By John J. Johnson. [Stanford University Publications, University Series in History, Economics and Political Science, Vol. VI, No. 1.] Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1948. Pp. 160. $2.50.

The Pabst Brewing Company. By Thomas C. Cochran. New York: New York University Press, 1948. Pp. xii, 451. $5.00.

The National Road. By Philip Dillon Jordan. [American Trails Series.] Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1948. Pp. 442. $4.00.

Changes in Social Structure - The Merchant Class of Medieval London (1300-1500). By Sylvia Thrupp. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1948. Pp. xix, 401. $6.00. - Social Structure in Caroline England. By David Mathew. New York: Oxford University Press, 1948. Pp. 140. $3.00.

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