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Volume 46 - Issue 3 - September 1986

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Reviews of Books

The Telephone Enterprise: The Evolution of the Bell System's Horizontal Structure, 1876–1909. By Robert W. Garnet. Pp.xix, 210. $22.50. The Anatomy of a Business Strategy: Bell, Western Electric, and the Origins of the American Telephone Industry. By George David Smith. Pp. xxii, 237. $20.00. From Invention to Innovation: Long-Distance Telephone Transmission at the Turn of the Century. By Neil H. Wasserman. Pp. xxiii, 160. $17.50. From the Johns Hopkins/AT&T Series in Telephone History. Edited by Louis Galambos. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
Bernard S. Finn
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Atlas of Antebellum Southern Agriculture. By Sam Bowers Hilliard. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. Pp. xi, 77. $27.50 cloth, $8.95 paper.
Fred Bateman
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03 March 2009, pp. 863-864
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Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century. By Barbara Jeanne Fields. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Pp. xv, 268. $27.50. - Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy. Edited by Thavolia Glymph and John J. Kushma. Texas A&M University Press. Pp. 119. $17.50.
Steven F. Miller
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Branches without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the American South, 1862–1882. By Gerald David Jaynes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 351. $29.95.
Robert Higgs
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03 March 2009, pp. 866-868
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Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850–1900 By Paul D. Escott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Pp. xxii, 344. $29.00.
James M. Gallman
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Workers On the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788–1890. By Steven J. Ross. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Pp. xx,406. $35.00.
Diane Lindstrom
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The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields. By Donald L. Miller and Richard E. Sharpless. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. Pp. xxii, 360. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper.
Price V. Fishback
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The Correspondence of Mother Jones. Edited by Edward M. Steel. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. Pp. xlix, 360. $34.95.
H. M. Gitelman
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The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880–1960. By Christopher L. Tomlins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 348. $39.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.
Gerald Friedman
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Citibank, 1812–1970. By Harold van B. Cleveland and Thomas F. Huertas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. Harvard Studies in Business History. Pp. xx, 456.$25.00.
Eugene Nelson White
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The U.S. Economy in World War II. By Harold G. Vatter. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 198. $25.00.
Hugh Rockoff
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The Quest for Economic Stability: Roosevelt to Reagan. By Hugh S. Norton. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1985. $19.95.
Christina Romer
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Performance of the U.S. Railroads Since World War II: A Quarter Century of Private Operation. By Kent T. Healy. New York: Vantage Press, 1985. Pp. vii, 295. $17.95.
William F. Huneke
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Irredeemable America: The Indians' Estate and Land Claims. Edited by Imre Sutton. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985. Pp. xxiii, 421. $27.50.
Ann Harper-Fender
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The IDB: A History of Canada's Industrial Development Bank. By E. Ritchie Clark. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Pp. xix, 435. $30.00
Ian M. Drummond
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The Prosperous Years: The Economic History of Ontario, 1939–1975. By Kenneth J. Rea. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 287. $27.50 cloth, $12.50. paper.
Trevor J. O. Dick
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General and Miscellaneous - The Idea of Economic Complexity. By David Warsh. New York: Viking Press, 1984. Pp. xxvi, 222. $16.95.
Arjo Klamer
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Pioneers in Development. Edited by Gerald M. Meier and Dudley Seers. New York: Oxford University Press for The World Bank, 1984. Pp. x, 372. $29.95.
Cynthia Taft Morris
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03 March 2009, pp. 884-885
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Encyclopedia of International Commerce. William J. Miller. Centreville: Cornell Maritime press, 1985. Pp. x, 391. $37.50.
Mira Wilkins
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03 March 2009, pp. 885-886
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Reviews of Books

Atlas of Antebellum Southern Agriculture. By Sam Bowers Hilliard. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. Pp. xi, 77. $27.50 cloth, $8.95 paper.

Branches without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the American South, 1862–1882. By Gerald David Jaynes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 351. $29.95.

Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850–1900 By Paul D. Escott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Pp. xxii, 344. $29.00.

Workers On the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788–1890. By Steven J. Ross. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Pp. xx,406. $35.00.

The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields. By Donald L. Miller and Richard E. Sharpless. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. Pp. xxii, 360. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper.

The Correspondence of Mother Jones. Edited by Edward M. Steel. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. Pp. xlix, 360. $34.95.

The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880–1960. By Christopher L. Tomlins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 348. $39.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.

Citibank, 1812–1970. By Harold van B. Cleveland and Thomas F. Huertas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. Harvard Studies in Business History. Pp. xx, 456.$25.00.

The U.S. Economy in World War II. By Harold G. Vatter. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 198. $25.00.

The Quest for Economic Stability: Roosevelt to Reagan. By Hugh S. Norton. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1985. $19.95.

Performance of the U.S. Railroads Since World War II: A Quarter Century of Private Operation. By Kent T. Healy. New York: Vantage Press, 1985. Pp. vii, 295. $17.95.

Irredeemable America: The Indians' Estate and Land Claims. Edited by Imre Sutton. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985. Pp. xxiii, 421. $27.50.

The IDB: A History of Canada's Industrial Development Bank. By E. Ritchie Clark. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Pp. xix, 435. $30.00

The Prosperous Years: The Economic History of Ontario, 1939–1975. By Kenneth J. Rea. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 287. $27.50 cloth, $12.50. paper.

General and Miscellaneous - The Idea of Economic Complexity. By David Warsh. New York: Viking Press, 1984. Pp. xxvi, 222. $16.95.

Pioneers in Development. Edited by Gerald M. Meier and Dudley Seers. New York: Oxford University Press for The World Bank, 1984. Pp. x, 372. $29.95.

Encyclopedia of International Commerce. William J. Miller. Centreville: Cornell Maritime press, 1985. Pp. x, 391. $37.50.

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