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Volume 48 - Issue 4 - December 1988

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Reviews of Books

The People of Sonora and Yankee Capitalists. By Ramón Eduardo Ruiz. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988. Pp. x, 326. $35.00.
Stephen Haber
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03 March 2009, pp. 961-962
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Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy. By Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 344. $35.00.
Jay R. Mandle
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03 March 2009, pp. 962-963
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United States and Canada - Quantity and Quiddity: Essays in U.S. Economic History. Edited By Peter Kilby. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 440. $40.00.
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
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03 March 2009, pp. 963-965
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Balanced Budgets & American Politics. By James D. Savage. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. pp. xvi, 350. $27.95.
Robert Higgs
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03 March 2009, pp. 965-966
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Paupers and Poor Relief in New York and Its Rural Environs, 1700–1830. By Robert E. CrayJr, Temple University Press, 1988. pp. xii, 269. $34.95.
Joan Underhill Hannon
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03 March 2009, pp. 966-968
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Bound for American: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1775. By A. Roger Ekirch. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. pp. xvii, 277. $45.00.
Farley Grubb
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03 March 2009, pp. 968-969
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Banking in the American South From the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction. By Larry Schweikart, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. pp. xiv, 367. $35.00.
Richard Timberlake
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03 March 2009, pp. 969-970
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The Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840–1875. By Elliott Ashkenazi. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabana Press, 1988, pp. x, 219. $22.95.
Pamela J. Nickless
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03 March 2009, pp. 970-971
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the Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1986–1920: A History of a German-American Enterprise. By Anita Rapone. New york: New York University Press,1987. pp. xv, 209. $35.00.
Richard H. Keehn
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03 March 2009, pp. 971-972
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Why the South Lost the Civil War. By Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William N. StillJr, Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 582. $29.95.
Geofrey T. Mills
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03 March 2009, pp. 972-973
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The Road to Rebellion: Class Formation and Kansas Populism, 1865–1900. By Scott G. McNall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. xviii, 354. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.
Allan G. Bogue
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03 March 2009, pp. 973-974
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No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, Helena, Montana, 1865–1900. By Paula Petrik. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. Pp. xix, 206. $19.95.
Shoshana A. Grossbard-Shechtman
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The Samuel Gompers Papers. Vol. 2: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887–1890. Edited By Stuart B. Kaufman. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xxv, 495. $39.95.
H. M. Gitelman
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03 March 2009, pp. 975-976
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The Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio, 1900–1932. By Hugh G. J. Aitken. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. Pp. xvii, 588. $67.50, cloth; $19.95, paper.
Robert W. Garnet
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03 March 2009, pp. 977-978
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American Automobile Workers, 1900–1933. By Joyce Shaw Peterson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 231. $39.50, cloth; $14.95, paper.
Daniel Nelson
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03 March 2009, pp. 978-979
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Banker to the Third World: U.S. Portfolio Investment in Latin America, 1900–1986. By Barbara Stallings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. xvii, 434. $45.00, cloth; $12.95, paper.
Anne Sibert
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03 March 2009, pp. 979-980
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Toward a New Deal in Baltimore: People and Government in the Great Depression. By Jo Ann E. Argersinger. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Pp. xix, 284. $29.95.
Stanley Deviney
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03 March 2009, pp. 980-981
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Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933–1940. By James S. Olson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 246. $30.00.
Michael A. Bernstein
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03 March 2009, pp. 982-983
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The Marshall Plan:Amerjca, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952. By Michael J. Hogan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 482. $34.50.
Robert M. Collins
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03 March 2009, pp. 983-984
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Russia and America: The Roots of Economic Divergence. By Cohn White. New York: Croom Helm, 1987. Pp. 268. $39.95.
Jonathan Hughes
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03 March 2009, pp. 984-985
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Reviews of Books

The People of Sonora and Yankee Capitalists. By Ramón Eduardo Ruiz. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988. Pp. x, 326. $35.00.

Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy. By Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 344. $35.00.

United States and Canada - Quantity and Quiddity: Essays in U.S. Economic History. Edited By Peter Kilby. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 440. $40.00.

Balanced Budgets & American Politics. By James D. Savage. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. pp. xvi, 350. $27.95.

Paupers and Poor Relief in New York and Its Rural Environs, 1700–1830. By Robert E. CrayJr, Temple University Press, 1988. pp. xii, 269. $34.95.

Bound for American: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1775. By A. Roger Ekirch. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. pp. xvii, 277. $45.00.

Banking in the American South From the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction. By Larry Schweikart, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. pp. xiv, 367. $35.00.

The Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840–1875. By Elliott Ashkenazi. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabana Press, 1988, pp. x, 219. $22.95.

the Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1986–1920: A History of a German-American Enterprise. By Anita Rapone. New york: New York University Press,1987. pp. xv, 209. $35.00.

Why the South Lost the Civil War. By Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William N. StillJr, Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 582. $29.95.

The Road to Rebellion: Class Formation and Kansas Populism, 1865–1900. By Scott G. McNall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. xviii, 354. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.

No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, Helena, Montana, 1865–1900. By Paula Petrik. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. Pp. xix, 206. $19.95.

The Samuel Gompers Papers. Vol. 2: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887–1890. Edited By Stuart B. Kaufman. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xxv, 495. $39.95.

The Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio, 1900–1932. By Hugh G. J. Aitken. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. Pp. xvii, 588. $67.50, cloth; $19.95, paper.

American Automobile Workers, 1900–1933. By Joyce Shaw Peterson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 231. $39.50, cloth; $14.95, paper.

Banker to the Third World: U.S. Portfolio Investment in Latin America, 1900–1986. By Barbara Stallings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. xvii, 434. $45.00, cloth; $12.95, paper.

Toward a New Deal in Baltimore: People and Government in the Great Depression. By Jo Ann E. Argersinger. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Pp. xix, 284. $29.95.

Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933–1940. By James S. Olson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 246. $30.00.

The Marshall Plan:Amerjca, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952. By Michael J. Hogan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 482. $34.50.

Russia and America: The Roots of Economic Divergence. By Cohn White. New York: Croom Helm, 1987. Pp. 268. $39.95.

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