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Volume 55 - Issue 3 - September 1995

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Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650–1950. By John Habakkuk. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 786. $98.00.
Gregory Clark
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03 March 2009, pp. 702-703
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Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur. By Wilfried Feldenkirchen. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994. Pp. xxv, 203. $19.95, cloth; $12.50 paper.
Ulrich Wengenroth
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03 March 2009, pp. 703-704
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The Crisis of Liberal Italy: Monetary and Financial Policy, 1914–1922. By Douglas J. Forsyth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 370. $59.95.
Marcello De Cecco
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03 March 2009, pp. 704-705
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Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia, 1900–1914: The Last Argument of Tsarism. By Peter Gatrell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xx, 399. $74.95, cloth; $27.95, paper.
Thomas C. Owen
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03 March 2009, pp. 705-706
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Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929–1 941. By David L. Hoffman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. 282. $32.50.
John Bushnell
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03 March 2009, pp. 706-707
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Australia and Asia - El desarrollo de la España contemporánea. Historia económica de los siglos XIX y XX. By Gabriel Tortella. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1994. Pp. xxviii, 429.
Eugenio J. Miravete
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03 March 2009, pp. 707-709
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Australia and Asia - Mr. Brooks and the Australian Trade: Imperial Business in the Nineteenth Century. By Frank Broeze. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 375. $49.95.
Colin White
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03 March 2009, pp. 709-710
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The Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi: From Peasant to Entrepreneur. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Teruko Craig. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii, 192. $39.50.
Gail Ann M. Honda
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The Economics of Rapid Growth: The Experience of Japan and Korea. By Dirk Pilat. Aldershot: Edgar Elgar, 1994. Pp. xiv, 334. $67.95.
Paul Kuznets
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03 March 2009, pp. 711-713
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United States and Canada - Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850. Edited by Judith A. McGaw. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. x, 482. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.
Ross Thomson
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03 March 2009, pp. 713-714
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Farmers & Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630–1850. By Daniel Vickers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 347. $45.00, cloth; $16.95, paper.
Gloria L. Main
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03 March 2009, pp. 714-716
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Southwest Virginia’s Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis. By Kenneth W. Noe. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 221. $27.95.
Jack Blicksilver
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03 March 2009, pp. 716-717
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The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana. By Roderick A. McDonald. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 339. $39.95.
Larry Hudson, Jr
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03 March 2009, pp. 717-718
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Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. By Judith K. Schafer. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. Pp. xix, 389. $35.00.
Jenny B. Wahl
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03 March 2009, pp. 718-719
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The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South, Series 1, vol. 2 of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Edited by Ire Berlin, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xxxvii, 776. $79.95.
Robert Tracy McKenzie
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03 March 2009, pp. 719-720
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The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860–1870. By Julie Saville. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 221. $49.95.
Kenneth Ng
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03 March 2009, pp. 720-721
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Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850–1900. By Dean L. May. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 313. $44.95.
Yasuo Okada
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03 March 2009, pp. 721-722
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Facing West: Americans and the Opening of the Pacific. By John Curtis Perry. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1994. Pp. xi, 400. $65, cloth; $19.95, paper.
James Mak
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03 March 2009, pp. 722-724
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The Pottery Industry of Trenton: A Skilled Trade in Transition, 1850–1929. By Marc Jeffrey Stern. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 306. $48.00.
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
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03 March 2009, pp. 724-725
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New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920–1935. By Colin Gordon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 329. $59.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.
Robert M. Collins
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03 March 2009, pp. 725-726
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Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650–1950. By John Habakkuk. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 786. $98.00.

Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur. By Wilfried Feldenkirchen. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994. Pp. xxv, 203. $19.95, cloth; $12.50 paper.

The Crisis of Liberal Italy: Monetary and Financial Policy, 1914–1922. By Douglas J. Forsyth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 370. $59.95.

Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia, 1900–1914: The Last Argument of Tsarism. By Peter Gatrell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xx, 399. $74.95, cloth; $27.95, paper.

Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929–1 941. By David L. Hoffman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. 282. $32.50.

Australia and Asia - El desarrollo de la España contemporánea. Historia económica de los siglos XIX y XX. By Gabriel Tortella. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1994. Pp. xxviii, 429.

Australia and Asia - Mr. Brooks and the Australian Trade: Imperial Business in the Nineteenth Century. By Frank Broeze. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 375. $49.95.

The Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi: From Peasant to Entrepreneur. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Teruko Craig. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii, 192. $39.50.

The Economics of Rapid Growth: The Experience of Japan and Korea. By Dirk Pilat. Aldershot: Edgar Elgar, 1994. Pp. xiv, 334. $67.95.

United States and Canada - Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850. Edited by Judith A. McGaw. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. x, 482. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.

Farmers & Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630–1850. By Daniel Vickers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 347. $45.00, cloth; $16.95, paper.

Southwest Virginia’s Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis. By Kenneth W. Noe. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 221. $27.95.

The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana. By Roderick A. McDonald. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 339. $39.95.

Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. By Judith K. Schafer. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. Pp. xix, 389. $35.00.

The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South, Series 1, vol. 2 of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Edited by Ire Berlin, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xxxvii, 776. $79.95.

The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860–1870. By Julie Saville. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 221. $49.95.

Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850–1900. By Dean L. May. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 313. $44.95.

Facing West: Americans and the Opening of the Pacific. By John Curtis Perry. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1994. Pp. xi, 400. $65, cloth; $19.95, paper.

The Pottery Industry of Trenton: A Skilled Trade in Transition, 1850–1929. By Marc Jeffrey Stern. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 306. $48.00.

New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920–1935. By Colin Gordon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 329. $59.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.

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