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The Early Scottish Limited Companies. 1856–1895. An Historical and Analytical Study. By Peter L. Payne. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1980. Distributed in the United States by Columbia University Press, New York. Pp. xii, 140. $22.00 cloth.

English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirite. 1850–1980. By Martin J. Wiener. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 217. $15.95 - The Decline of British Economic Power since 1870. By M. W. Kirby. London: Allen & Unwin, 1981. Pp. x, 205 £10.

The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869–1920. By Michael B. Miller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 266. $13.50 cloth.

Capitalism and the State in Modern France: Renovation and Economic Management in the Twentieth Century. By Richard F. Kuisel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xv, 344. $37.50 cloth.

Kapitalismus im zaristischen Staat 1906–1917: Organisationsformen, Machtverhältnisse und Leistungsbilanz im Industrialisierungsprozess. By Heiko Haumann. Königstein, Germany, Ts.: Hain, 1980. Pp. 324. DM 84.

Asia - The Development of Capitalism in Colonial Indochina (1870–1940). By Martin J. Murray. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 685. $34.50.

United States - Legislative History of American Immigration Policy, 1798–1965. By E. P. Hutchinson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (for The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies), 1981. Pp. xv, 685.

Philadelphia. Work, Space, Family, and Group Experiences in the Nineteenth Century. Essays Toward An Inter-Disciplinary History of the City. Edited by Theodore Hershberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981, Pp. 525. $29.95.

Financiers and Railroads, 1869–1889: A Study of Morton, Bliss & Company. By Dolores Greenberg. East Brunswick, New Jersey: University of Delaware Press, 1980. Pp. 286. $22.50.

The Kansas Beef Industry. By Charles L. Wood, Lawrence, Kansas: Regents Press of Kansas, 1980. Pp. xiii, 352.

Energy Transition and the Local Economy: A Theory of Society Applied to Hazleton, Pennsylvania. By Dan Rose. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. Pp. xvii, 189. $21.50.

U.S. Maritime Policy: History and Prospects. By H. David Bess and Martin T. Farris. New York: Praeger, 1981. Pp. xvi, 219.

General and Miscellaneous - Silver: The Restless Metal. By Roy W. Jastram. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1981. Pp. xvii, 224, $26.95.

Accounting Evolution to 1900. By A. C. Littleton. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 373. $11.95.

Regulatory Politics and Electric Utilities: A Case Study in Political Economy. By Douglas D. Anderson. Boston: Auburn House Publishing Company, 1981. Pp. 191. $19.95.

The Past and the Present. By Lawrence Stone. Boston, London and Henley,: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. xii, 274. $15.95.

Population and Technological Change: A Study of Long-Term Trends. By Ester Boserup. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 255. $17.50 cloth.

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