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Volume 19 - September 1959

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Out of Our Past. The Forces That Shaped Modern America. By Carl N. Degler. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. Pp. xvi, 484. $6.00.

Vein of Iron: The Pickands Mather Story. By Walter Havighurst. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1958. Pp. 224. $4.00.

The Making of an American Community: A Case Study of Decocracy in a Frontier County. By Merle Curti with the assistance of Robert Daniel, Shaw Livermore, Jr., Joseph Van Hise, Margaret W. Curti. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1959. Pp. vii, 483. $8.50.

Corporate Bond Quality and Investor Experience. By W. Braddock Hickman. (National Bureau of Economic Research.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958. Pp. xxix, 536. $10.

Roads, Rails and Waterways: The Army Engineers and Early Transportation. By Forest G. Hill. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. Pp. xii, 248. $4.00.

Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta, 1830–1885; An Introduction to the Economic and Political History of Nigeria. By K. Onwuka Dike. (“Oxford Studies in African Affairs.”) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. Pp. vii, 250. $4.80.

Pisa in the Early Renaissance: A Study of Urban Growth. By David Herlihy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. Pp. xx, 229. $4.50.

Soviet Transportation Policy. By Holland Hunter. (Russian Research Center Studies, No. 28.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957. Pp. xxiii, 416. $8.50.

Cradle of Ship: A History of the Bath Iron Works. By Garnett Laidlaw Eskew. (Introduction by Samuel Eliot Morison.) New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1958. Pp. 279. $6.00.

The Sources of Invention. By John Jewkes, David Sawers, and Richard Stillerman. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd.; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1958. Pp. xii, 428. $6.75.

The Economic Mind in American Civilization. Volumes IV and V, 1918–1933. By Joseph Dorfman. New York: The Viking Press, 1959. Volume IV, pp. xxxiv, 398, and Volume V, pp. liv, 378. 2 vols., $12.50.

As Unions Mature. An Analysis of the Evolution of American Unionism. By Richard A. Lester. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958. Pp. xi, 171. $3-75.

China's Early Industrialization: Sheng Hsuan-huai (1844–1916) and Mandarin Enterprise. By Albert Feuerwerker. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959. Pp. xii, 311, xxxvii. $6.50.

Origins of Modern Capitalism and Eastern Asia. By Norman Jacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958. Pp. 254. $4.60.

American Business Cycles, 1865–1897. By Rendigs Fels. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1959. Pp. vii, 244. $6.00.

American Labor Unions and Politics, 1900–1918. By Marc Karson. Foreword by Selig Perlman. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1958. Pp. xv, 358. $6.50.

The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32. By William E. Leuchtenburg. (The Chicago History of American Civilization, Daniel J. Boorstin, ed.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. Pp. ix, 313. $3.50.

A History of Prices and Wages in Denmark 1600–1800. Volume I. By Astrid Friis and Kristof Glamann. (Institute of Economics and History, Copenhagen.) London: Longmans, Green, 1958. Pp. xii, 350. £2 10 s.

Pre-Famine Ireland: A Study in Historical Geography. By T. W. Freeman. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1957.

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