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Volume 39 - December 1979

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Haciendas and Ranchos in the Mexican Bajío: León, 1700–1860. By D. A. Brading. Cambridge Latin American Studies, no. 32. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. 255. $29.50.

The Agrarian History of England and Wales. Volume VIII: 1914–39. By Edith H. Whetham. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xxiii, 353. $29.50.

The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660–1760. By K. N. Chaudhuri. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xviii, 629. $84.50.

Government, Landlord, and Peasant in India: Agrarian Relations under British Rule, 1865–1935. By Dietmar Rothermund. Schriftenreihe des Südasien-Instituts der Universität Heidelberg, Band 25. Weisbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH, 1978. Pp. xii, 210. DM 36.

Terre et hommes en Lorraine (1550–1635): Toulois et Comté de Vaudémont. 2 vols. By Guy Cabourdin. Annales de l'Est. Nancy: Université de Nancy II, 1977. Pp. 424; 335.

The French Experience in Mexico, 1821–1861: A History of Constant Misunderstanding. By Nancy Nichols Barker. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. Pp. xi, 264, $18.00.

Mines, manufactures et ouvriers du Valenciennois au XVIIIe siècle. 2 volumes. By Philippe Guignet. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 844. $52.00.s

Bengal Agriculture, 1920–1946: A Quantitative Study. By M. Mufakharul Islam. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 283. $29.50.

A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, 1776–1860. By Jonathan C. Brown. Cambridge Latin American Studies, no. 35. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 307. $24.95.

British Mercantile Houses in Buenos Aires, 1810–1880. By Vera Blinn Reber. Harvard Studies in Business History, 29. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. xi, 206. $17.50.

Une société rurale aux XIXe siècle: Les paysans du Calvados, 1815–1895. By Gabriel Desert. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xxxviii, 808. $53.00.s

Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760–1840. By Peter Gran. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. Pp. xvii, 278.

The Governmental Habit: Economic Controls from Colonial Times to the Present. By Jonathan R. T. Hughes. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1977. Pp. xii, 260. $11.95.

Iran: The Illusion of Power. By Robert Graham. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Pp. 228. $16.50.

Village on the Seine: Tradition and Change in Bonnières, 1815–1914. By Evelyn Bernette Ackerman. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1978. Pp. 185.

Der Atlantische Sklavenhandel von Dahomey, 1740–1797: Wirtschaftsanthropologie und Sozialgeschichte. By Werner Peukert. Studien zur Kurturkunde, band 40. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1978. Pp. xvi, 412. DM 38.

“Give -Us Good Measure”: An Economic Analysis of Relations between the Indians and the Hudson's Bay Company Before 1763. By Arthur J. Ray and Donald Freeman. Toronto: Univeristy of Toronto Press, 1978. Pp. xvi, 298. $17.50 cloth; $4.95 paper.

La Croissance agricole en France et en Bourgogne de 1850 à nos jours. 2 volumes. By Jean-Baptiste Viallon. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 226; 278. $34.00.

Economic Imperialism in Theory and Practice: The Case of South African Gold Mining Finance, 1886–1914. By Robert V. Kubicek. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1979. Pp. xii, 239. $12.75.

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