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Volume 59 - Issue 3 - Autumn 1985

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Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation. By David F. Noble. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. xviii + 409 pp. $22.95.)
Daniel Nelson
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William Stewart Herron: Father of the Petroleum Industry in Alberta. Edited by David H. Breen. (Calgary: Historical Society of Alberta, 1984. xlv + 359 pp. $19.95 Canadian.)
H. V. Nelles
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11 June 2012, pp. 512-513
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Dictionary of Business Biography: A Biographical Dictionary of Business Leaders Active in Britain in the Period 1860–1980. Volume 1: A-C. Edited by David J. Jeremy. (London: Butterworth & Co., 1984. xxxi + 878 pp. £65.)
Jonathan M. Liebenau
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England's Sea Empire, 1550–1642. By David B. Quinn and A. N. Ryan. (Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1983. xiv + 257 pp. $25.00.)
John J. McCusker
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Men of Business and Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Quaker Pease Dynasty of North-East England, 1700–1943. By Maurice William Kirby. (Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1984. xv + 167 pp. $25.00.)
Peter N. Stearns
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The Management of Monopoly: A Study of the East India Company's Conduct of Its Tea Trade, 1784–1833. By Hoh-cheung Mui and Lorna H. Mui. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984. xiv + 192 pp. $18.95.)
Geoffrey Gilbert
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11 June 2012, pp. 517-518
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The Patent System and Inventive Activity during the Industrial Revolution, 1750–1852. By H. I. Dutton. (Dover, N. H.: Manchester University Press, 1984. vii + 232 pp. $32.50.)
Jeremy Atack
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Walter Boyd: A Merchant Banker in the Age of Napoleon. By Sydney R. Cope. (London: Alan Sutton, 1983. viii + 197 pp. £16.)
Edwin J. Perkins
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Sweated Industries and Sweated Labor: The London Clothing Trades, 1867–1914. By James A. Schmiechen. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1984. 209 pp. $23.95.)
Steven Fraser
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The Wounded Soldiers of Industry: Industrial Compensation Policy, 1833–1897. By P. W. J. Bartrip and S. B. Burman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. xi + 253 pp. $29.95.)
Leslie Hannah
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The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain. Volume 2: The Twentieth Century. By Stephen Koss. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. x + 718 pp. $34.00.)
Eugene C. Black
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Undermining Capitalism: State Ownership and the Dialectic of Control in the British Coal Industry. By Joel Krieger. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. xii + 321 pp. $27.50.)
William J. Hausman
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De la Croissance à la désindustrialisation: Un siècle dans le Valenciennois. By Odette Hardy-Hémery. (Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1984. 401 pp. Fr 135.)
Donald M. Reid
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Foreign Finance in Continental Europe and the USA 1815–1870: Quantities, Origins, Functions and Distribution. By D. C. M. Platt. (Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1984. viii + 216 pp. $27.50.)
Lance E. Davis
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International Banking in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Karl Erich Born. Translated by Volken R. Berghahn. (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1983. Originally published in German in 1977. 353 pp. $14.25.)
Vincent P. Carosso
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Peasants, Landlords and Merchant Capitalists: Europe and the World Economy, 1500–1800. By Peter Kriedte. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 191 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $9.95.)
David Herlihy
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Economy and Foreign Policy: The Struggle of the Great Powers for Hegemony in the Danube Valley, 1919–1939. By György Ránki. (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1983. Distributed by Columbia University Press, New York. 224 pp. $25.00.)
Elaine Glovka Spencer
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Between Dependency and Autonomy: India's Experience with the International Computer Industry. By Joseph M. Grieco. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. x + 224 pp. $37.50.)
Alan M. Rugman
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Patentsgesetzgebung und chemisch-pharmazeutische Industrie im deutschen Kaiserreich (1871–1918). By Arndt Fleischer. (Stuttgart: Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1984. xix + 440 pp. DM 46.)
Jonathan M. Liebenau
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Die chemische Industrie in den Rheinlanden während der industrieilen Revolution. Volume 1: Die Farhenindustrie. By Hans Pohl, Ralf Schaumann, and Frauke Schönert-Röhlk. (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1983. viii + 237 pp. DM 46.)
Elaine Glovka Spencer
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Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation. By David F. Noble. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. xviii + 409 pp. $22.95.)

William Stewart Herron: Father of the Petroleum Industry in Alberta. Edited by David H. Breen. (Calgary: Historical Society of Alberta, 1984. xlv + 359 pp. $19.95 Canadian.)

Dictionary of Business Biography: A Biographical Dictionary of Business Leaders Active in Britain in the Period 1860–1980. Volume 1: A-C. Edited by David J. Jeremy. (London: Butterworth & Co., 1984. xxxi + 878 pp. £65.)

England's Sea Empire, 1550–1642. By David B. Quinn and A. N. Ryan. (Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1983. xiv + 257 pp. $25.00.)

Men of Business and Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Quaker Pease Dynasty of North-East England, 1700–1943. By Maurice William Kirby. (Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1984. xv + 167 pp. $25.00.)

The Management of Monopoly: A Study of the East India Company's Conduct of Its Tea Trade, 1784–1833. By Hoh-cheung Mui and Lorna H. Mui. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984. xiv + 192 pp. $18.95.)

The Patent System and Inventive Activity during the Industrial Revolution, 1750–1852. By H. I. Dutton. (Dover, N. H.: Manchester University Press, 1984. vii + 232 pp. $32.50.)

Walter Boyd: A Merchant Banker in the Age of Napoleon. By Sydney R. Cope. (London: Alan Sutton, 1983. viii + 197 pp. £16.)

Sweated Industries and Sweated Labor: The London Clothing Trades, 1867–1914. By James A. Schmiechen. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1984. 209 pp. $23.95.)

The Wounded Soldiers of Industry: Industrial Compensation Policy, 1833–1897. By P. W. J. Bartrip and S. B. Burman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. xi + 253 pp. $29.95.)

The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain. Volume 2: The Twentieth Century. By Stephen Koss. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. x + 718 pp. $34.00.)

Undermining Capitalism: State Ownership and the Dialectic of Control in the British Coal Industry. By Joel Krieger. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. xii + 321 pp. $27.50.)

De la Croissance à la désindustrialisation: Un siècle dans le Valenciennois. By Odette Hardy-Hémery. (Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1984. 401 pp. Fr 135.)

Foreign Finance in Continental Europe and the USA 1815–1870: Quantities, Origins, Functions and Distribution. By D. C. M. Platt. (Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1984. viii + 216 pp. $27.50.)

International Banking in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Karl Erich Born. Translated by Volken R. Berghahn. (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1983. Originally published in German in 1977. 353 pp. $14.25.)

Peasants, Landlords and Merchant Capitalists: Europe and the World Economy, 1500–1800. By Peter Kriedte. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 191 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $9.95.)

Economy and Foreign Policy: The Struggle of the Great Powers for Hegemony in the Danube Valley, 1919–1939. By György Ránki. (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1983. Distributed by Columbia University Press, New York. 224 pp. $25.00.)

Between Dependency and Autonomy: India's Experience with the International Computer Industry. By Joseph M. Grieco. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. x + 224 pp. $37.50.)

Patentsgesetzgebung und chemisch-pharmazeutische Industrie im deutschen Kaiserreich (1871–1918). By Arndt Fleischer. (Stuttgart: Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1984. xix + 440 pp. DM 46.)

Die chemische Industrie in den Rheinlanden während der industrieilen Revolution. Volume 1: Die Farhenindustrie. By Hans Pohl, Ralf Schaumann, and Frauke Schönert-Röhlk. (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1983. viii + 237 pp. DM 46.)

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