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Volume 74 - Winter 2000

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Business History: Wissenschaftliche Entwicklungstrends und Studien aus Zentraleuropa [Scholarly Development Trends and Studies in Central Europe]. Edited byAlice Teichova, Herbert Matis, and Andreas Resch. Vienna: Manz, 1999. 320 pp. Cloth, DM58.60. ISBN 3-214-08328-7.

Histoire de l'électricité en Suisse. La dynamique d'un petit pays européen, 1875–1939, 2 volumes. By Serge Paquier. Geneva: Éditions Passé Présent: 1998, 1216 pp. Appendices, bibliography, charts, graphs, illustrations, index, and tables. 130 Sf. ISBN 2940014159.

The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy. ByRichard K. Marshall. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 216 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $42.50. ISBN 0-801-86057-1.

The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. ByBlake Gumprecht. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 369 pp. Figures, notes, and index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-86047-4.

The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850–1930. BySteven C. Topik and Allen Wells, eds. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. 200 pp. Bibliography, graphs, maps, tables, index. Cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-292-78157-1; Paper, $13.95, 0-292-78153-9.

The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway. Vol. 1, 1920-1932. ByAlfred C. Mierzejewski. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 656 pp. Figures, maps, photographs, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 0-807-82496-8.

Industrial Culture & Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany. By Jürgen Kocka, New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. xviii + 325. Bibliography, figures, index, and tables. $59.95. ISBN 1571811983.

Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy. ByCathie Jo Martin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. x + 262 pp. Tables and index. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-691-00960-0; paper 0-691-00961-9.

Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism. By David Woodruff. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. xvii + 228pp. Appendices, figures, index, and tables. $29.95. ISBN 0801436605.

Small Business Policy and the American Creed. BySandra M. Anglund. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000. 192 pp. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-275-96697-6.

American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898–1934. ByCésar J. Ayala. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii + 321 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-807-82506-9; Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-807-84788-7.

Big Business in Russia: The Putilov Company in Late Imperial Russia, 1868-1917. ByJonathan A. Grant. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburg Press, 1999. 256 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-822-944110-4.

Major Recessions: Britain and the World, 1920-1995. ByChristopher Dow. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xvii + 471 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $98.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-198-28858-1; paper 0-199-24123-6.

The Rise of Capitalism on-the Pampas. The Estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785–1870. BySamuel Amaral. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 359 pp. Diagrams, maps, tables, appendices. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN 0-521-57248-7.

Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: The Formation of a Business Environment. By Sergio de Oliveira Birchal. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xvii + 233 pp. $65.00. ISBN 0312217161.

Betting on Lives: The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695–1775. ByGeoffrey Clark. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1999. 220 pp. Appendices, bibliography, photographs, index, maps, notes, and tables. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 0-719-05675-6.

A Bahian Counterpoint: Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava, and Slavery in the Recôncavo, 1780-1860. ByB. J. Barickman. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998. ix + 276 pp. Maps, index, charts, tables, bibliography, notes. Cloth, $55. ISBN 0-804-72632-9.

The London Stock Exchange: A History. ByRanald C. Michie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 688 pp. Tables, diagram. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN 0-198-29508-1.

Russia Enters the Railway Age, 1842–1855. ByRichard Mowbray Haywood. Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs, 1998. 650 pp. Cloth, $91.00. ISBN 0-880-33390-1.

United States-Latin American Relations, 1850–1903: Establishing a Relationship. Edited by Thomas Leonard. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. 303 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95. ISBN 0817309373.

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