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British Economic and Strategic Planning, 1905–1915. By David French. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982. Pp. x, 191. $25.00.

Changing Perceptions of Economic Policy: Essays in Honour of the Seventieth Birthday of Sir Alec Cairncross. Edited by Frances Cairncross. London and New York: Methuen, 1981. Pp. xii, 276. $25.00.

Agriculture in France on the Eve of the Railway Age. By Hugh Clout. London: Croom Helm; Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble Books, 1980. Pp. 289. $28.00.

Death is a Social Disease: Public Health and Political Economy in Early Industrial France. By William Coleman. Wisconsin Publications in the History of Science and Medicine, No. 1. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. Pp. xxi, 322. $35.00.

The History of Modern Whaling. By J. N. Tonnessen and A. O. Johnsen. Translated from the Norwegian by R. I. Christophersen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. Pp. 798. $45.00.

The Evolution of Social Insurance, 1881–1981. Studies of Germany, France, Great Britain, Austria and Switzerland. Edited by Peter A. Köhler and Hans F. Zacher, in collaboration with Martin Partington. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Pp. viii, 453. $35.00.

Asia, Africa, Oceania - Change in Bengal Agrarian Society, c. 1760–1850. By Ratnalekha Ray. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1979. Pp. x, 339. Rs. 80.

British Rule and the Indian Economy, 1800–1914. By Neil Charlesworth. London: The Macmillan Press, Ltd., for the Economic History Society, 1982. Distributed by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Pp. 91. $6.25 paper.

MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–1975. By Chalmers Johnson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 394. $28.50.

An Economic History of Africa from the Earliest Times to Partition. By Peter Wickins. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 323. $29.95.

River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500–1891. By Robert W. Harms. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. Pp. xv, 277. $24.00.

European Farming in Australia: An Economic History of Ausiralian Farming. By Bruce R. Davidson. Amsterdam, Oxford, New York: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1981. Pp. x, 437. $65.75.

Law and Markets in United States History: Different Modes of Bargaining among Interests. By James Willard Hurst. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. Pp. vii, 207. $25.00 cloth, $8.25 paper.

Who Owns the Wildlife? The Political Economy of Conservation in Nineteenth-Century America. By James A. Tober. Contributions in Economics and Economic History, Number 37. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. 330. $27.00.

The Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1784–1855: Broadening the Concept of Public Service During Industralization. By Ronald E. Seavoy. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 314. $29.95.

The Cause of the South: Selections from De Bow's Review, 1846–1867. Edited by Paul F. Paskoff and Daniel J. Wilson. New Orleans, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv, 306. $27.50 cloth, $8.95 paper.

Good and Faithful Labor: From Slavery to Sharecropping in the Natchez District, 1860–1890. By Ronald L. F. Davis. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. xx, 225. $25.00.

Authoritarian Socialism in America: Edward Bellamy and the Nationalist Movement. By Arthur Lipow. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 315. $28.50.

Power and Society—Greater New York at the Turn of the Century. By David C. Hammack. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1982. Pp. xix, 422. $29.95.

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