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A History of the Russian-American Company. By P. A. Tikhmenev. Richard A. Pierce and Alton S. Donnelly, trans, and ed. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 522. $35.00.

Der russische Imperialismus: Studien über denn Zusammenhang von innerer und auswärtiger Politik, 1860—1914. By Dietrich Geyer. Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft, 27. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1977. Pp. 344; tables. DM 92.

China's Modern Economy in Historical Perspective. Edited by Dwight Perkins. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975, Pp. xiv, 344. $13.85. - China's Economic Revolution. By Alexander Eckstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xii, 340. $19.95 cloth, $6.95 paper.

Economic Growth and Distribution in China. By Nicholas R. Lardy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. x, 244. $ 18.95.

Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese Trade, 1652–1853. By Sarasin Viraphol. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. xi, 253. $15.00.

Economic Development of Taiwan, 1860–1970. By Samuel P. S. Ho. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978. Pp. xx, 461. $27.50.

Kurusu: The Price of Progress in a Japanese Village, 1951–1975. By Robert J. Smith. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1978. Pp. xviii, 269; index. $15.00.

Twilight of the Pepper Empire: Portuguese Trade in Southwest India in the Early Seventeenth Century. By A. R. Disney. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. 227. $18.50.

The Structure of Disparity in Developing Agriculture: A Case Study of the Pakistan Punjab. By Shigemochi Hirashima. Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 1978. Pp. xii, 138. $18.00.

The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade. By Herbert S. Klein. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xxiii, 282. $20.00 cloth, $9.75 paper.

British Slave Trade Suppression Policies, 1821–1865. By E. Phillip LeVeen. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. x, 186. $18.00

British Business and Ghanaian Independence. By Josephine F. Milbourn. Hanover, N.H.: The University Press of New England, 1977. Pp. ix, 156; tables, index. $12.50.

The Spanish Caribbean: Trade and Plunder, 1530–1630. By Kenneth R. Andrews. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 258. $17.50.

Silver Mines and Silver Miners in Colonial Peru, 1776–1824. By J. R. Fisher. Centre for Latin-American Studies Monograph Series, no. 7. Liverpool: The University of Liverpool, 1977. Pp. 151. £2.75.

Estratificación socio-racial y económica de Costa Rica: 1700–1850. By Lowell Gudmundson Kristjanson. San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia, 1978. Pp. 178.

In Pursuit of Happiness: American Perceptions of Property from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. By William B. Scott. Bloomington: Indiana' University Press, 1977. Pp. xi, 244.

The Promise of American Life: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century Immigrant Community, Holland, Michigan, 1847–1894. By Gordon W. Kirk Jr. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1978. Pp. 164. $8.00.

Fortunes and Failures: White Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. By Peter R. Decker. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. xvi, 336. $20.00.

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