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Volume 42 - Issue 2 - June 1982

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Reviews of Books

Asia, Africa, Latin America - Trade in Transition: Exports from the Third World, 1840–1900. By John R. HansonII. Studies in Social Discontinuity. New York: Academic Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 197. $18.00.
A. J. H. Latham
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03 March 2009, pp. 456-457
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The Depression and the Developing World, 1914–1939. By A. J. H. Latham. London: Croom Helm Ltd., 1981. Pp. 230. $25.00.
John R. Hanson II
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03 March 2009, p. 458
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The Mandarin-Capitalists from Nanyang: Overseas Chinese Enterprise in the Modernization of China, 1893–1911. By Michael R. Godley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. x, 222. $39.50.
Albert Feuerwerker
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03 March 2009, pp. 458-459
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The Postwar Japanese Economy: Its Development and Structure. By Takafusa Nakamura. Translated by Jacqueline Kaminski. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1981. Distributed by Columbia University Press, New York. Pp. xiv, 277. $17.50.
Carl Mosk
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03 March 2009, pp. 459-460
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Class, State, and Industrial Structure: The Historical Process of South American Industrial Growth. By Frederick Stirton Weaver. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xiv, 247. $28.50.
John H. Coatsworth
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United States - “Poor Carolina”: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776. By A. Roger Ekirch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. Pp. xix, 305. $22.50.
Jack Roper
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A History of Metals in Colonial America. By James A. Mulholland. University, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1981. Pp. xiv, 215. $17.95 cloth, $8.95 paper.
Irene D. Neu
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Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas. Edited by Carroll W. PursellJr. Cambridge, Massachusetts: M. I. T. Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 264. $9.95 paper.
Martha M. Trescott
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Emulation and Invention. By Brooke Hindle. New York: New York University Press, 1981. Pp. xix, 1622. $22.50.
James A. Mulholland
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Mechanics and Manufactures in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780–1860. By Paul G. Faler. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp. xvii, 267. $34.00 cloth, $9.95 paper.
William H. Mulligan, Jr
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The Investment Frontier: New York Businessmen and the Economic Development of the Old Northwest. By John Denis Haeger. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp. xviii, 311. $39.00 cloth, $12.95 paper.
Richard H. Keehn
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Boosters and Businessmen: Popular Economic Thought and Urban Growth in the Antebellum Middle West. By Carl Abbott. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 266. $27.50.
John Haeger
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Louisiana Commercial Law: The Antebellum Period. By Richard Holcombe KilbourneJr. Baton Rouge: The Paul M. Hebert Law Center Publications Institute of Louisiana State University, 1980. Pp. xix, 233.
Harold R. Weinberg
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A Theory of Property Rights with Application to the California Gold Rush. By John R. Umbeck. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1981. Pp. 158. $13.95.
Gary D. Libecap
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03 March 2009, pp. 470-472
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Environmental Factors of Early Railroads: A Comparative Study of Massachusetts and the German States of Baden and Pfalz (Palatinale) Before 1870. By Klaus Peter Harder. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Pp. viii, 395. $35.00.
Paul B. Huber
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Competition and Regulation: The Development of Oligopoly in the Meat Packing Industry. By Mary Yeager. Industrial Development and the Social Fabric, Vol. 2. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1981. Pp. xxvi, 296. $30.00.
Louis P. Cain
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03 March 2009, pp. 474-475
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The Harder We Run: Black Workers since the Civil War. By William H. Harris. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xi, 259. $17.95.
Robert Higgs
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Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields. By David Alan Corbin. Chicago: The University of Illinois Press, 1981. Pp. xix, 294.
Alexander Mackenzie Thompson III
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Jewish Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880–1910. By Uri D. Herscher. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981. Pp. vi, 197. $15.95.
Joseph Brandes
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03 March 2009, pp. 477-479
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At the Point of Production: The Local History of the I.W.W. Edited by Joseph R. Conlin. Contributions in Labor History, No. 10. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. viii, 329. $29.95.
Jack Blicksilver
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Asia, Africa, Latin America - Trade in Transition: Exports from the Third World, 1840–1900. By John R. HansonII. Studies in Social Discontinuity. New York: Academic Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 197. $18.00.

The Depression and the Developing World, 1914–1939. By A. J. H. Latham. London: Croom Helm Ltd., 1981. Pp. 230. $25.00.

The Mandarin-Capitalists from Nanyang: Overseas Chinese Enterprise in the Modernization of China, 1893–1911. By Michael R. Godley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. x, 222. $39.50.

The Postwar Japanese Economy: Its Development and Structure. By Takafusa Nakamura. Translated by Jacqueline Kaminski. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1981. Distributed by Columbia University Press, New York. Pp. xiv, 277. $17.50.

Class, State, and Industrial Structure: The Historical Process of South American Industrial Growth. By Frederick Stirton Weaver. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xiv, 247. $28.50.

United States - “Poor Carolina”: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776. By A. Roger Ekirch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. Pp. xix, 305. $22.50.

A History of Metals in Colonial America. By James A. Mulholland. University, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1981. Pp. xiv, 215. $17.95 cloth, $8.95 paper.

Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas. Edited by Carroll W. PursellJr. Cambridge, Massachusetts: M. I. T. Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 264. $9.95 paper.

Emulation and Invention. By Brooke Hindle. New York: New York University Press, 1981. Pp. xix, 1622. $22.50.

Mechanics and Manufactures in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780–1860. By Paul G. Faler. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp. xvii, 267. $34.00 cloth, $9.95 paper.

The Investment Frontier: New York Businessmen and the Economic Development of the Old Northwest. By John Denis Haeger. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp. xviii, 311. $39.00 cloth, $12.95 paper.

Boosters and Businessmen: Popular Economic Thought and Urban Growth in the Antebellum Middle West. By Carl Abbott. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 266. $27.50.

Louisiana Commercial Law: The Antebellum Period. By Richard Holcombe KilbourneJr. Baton Rouge: The Paul M. Hebert Law Center Publications Institute of Louisiana State University, 1980. Pp. xix, 233.

A Theory of Property Rights with Application to the California Gold Rush. By John R. Umbeck. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1981. Pp. 158. $13.95.

Environmental Factors of Early Railroads: A Comparative Study of Massachusetts and the German States of Baden and Pfalz (Palatinale) Before 1870. By Klaus Peter Harder. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Pp. viii, 395. $35.00.

Competition and Regulation: The Development of Oligopoly in the Meat Packing Industry. By Mary Yeager. Industrial Development and the Social Fabric, Vol. 2. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1981. Pp. xxvi, 296. $30.00.

The Harder We Run: Black Workers since the Civil War. By William H. Harris. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xi, 259. $17.95.

Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields. By David Alan Corbin. Chicago: The University of Illinois Press, 1981. Pp. xix, 294.

Jewish Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880–1910. By Uri D. Herscher. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981. Pp. vi, 197. $15.95.

At the Point of Production: The Local History of the I.W.W. Edited by Joseph R. Conlin. Contributions in Labor History, No. 10. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. viii, 329. $29.95.

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