The Journal of Economic History: Volume 56 -

Published on behalf of The Economic History Association

Only show content I have access to (13)

Over 3 years (191)

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations (8)

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save this undefined to your undefined account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your undefined account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save this article to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
The Journal of Economic History
ISSN: 0022-0507

EISSN: 1471-6372

URL: /core/journals/journal-of-economic-history
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

< Back to all issues

Volume 56 - December 1996

Contents

Page 8 of 10

Reviews of Books

One South or Many? Plantation Belt and Upcountry in Civil War-Era Tennessee. By Robert Tracy McKenzie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. x, 213. $39.95.
Garland L. Brinkley
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 741-742
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Mary Beth Pudup, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 391. $49.95, cloth; $18.95, paper.
Sean Patrick Adams
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 525-526
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

The Chicago Plan & New Deal Banking Reform. By Ronnie J. Phillips. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1995. Pp. xvi, 227. $55.00, cloth; $21.95, paper.
Richard C. Schiming
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 264-265
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

General and Miscellaneous - Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States and Australia, 1880–1920. Edited by Ulla Wikander Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jane Lewis. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1995. Pp. vi, 379. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.
Andrew J. Seltzer
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 964-965
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America 1865–1925. By Thomas J. Misa. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xv, 367. $49.95.
Patricia O'Brien
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 526-527
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Bretton Woods and Dunbarton Oaks. By Schild George. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. xiii. 254. $45.00.
Elmus Wicker
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 265-266
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

The Failure of Agrarian Capitalism: Agrarian Politics in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA, 1846–1919. By Niek Koning. London: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xii, 292. $85.00.
Peter A. Coclanis
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 965-966
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas. Edited by Mary Turner. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 309. $39.95 cloth; $15.95 paper.
Christopher Hanes
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 742-743
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

For Each, the Strength of All: A History of Banking in the State of New York. By J. T. W. Hubbard. New York: New York University Press, 1995. Pp. xxiii, 309. $40.00.
Robert M. Blackson
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 266-267
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois, 1890–1990. By Jane Adams. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. xxx, 321. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.
Hal S. Barron
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 743-745
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875–1920. By Henry M. McKivenJr. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 223. $37.50, cloth; $14.95, paper.
Thomas J. Misa
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 527-529
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Currency and Coercion: The Political Economy of International Monetary Power. By Jonathan Kirshner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. 289. $39.50.
Lawrence H. Officer
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 966-968
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

State and Party in America's New Deal. By Theda Skocpol and Kenneth Finegold. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 342. $54.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.
Colin Gordon
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 529-530
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

The Bretton-Woods-GATT System: Retrospect and Prospect After Fifty Years. Edited by Orin Kirschner. Armounk, NY: M. E. Sharpe for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 1996. Pp. xiii, 321.
Barry Eichengreen
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 968-969
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

United States and the Caribbean - Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880–1990. By Daniel Nelson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 258. $29.95.
Louis P. Cain
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 745-746
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Deficit Government: Taxing and Spending in Modern America. By Iwan W. Morgan. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995. Pp. x, 212. $24.95.
Mark H. Leff
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 267-268
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, The “Underclass,” and Urban Schools as History. By Michael B. Katz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 179. $22.50.
Blanche D. Coll
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 530-532
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Technical Change, Human Capital, And Spillovers in United States Agriculture, 1949–1985. By Klaus W. Deininger. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. Pp. v, 158. $42.00.
John Nader
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 746-747
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Models of Management: Work, Authority, and Organization in a Comparative Perspective. By Mauro E. Guillen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 424. $57.50, cloth; $18.95, paper.
Bernard Elbaum
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 970-972
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

The Limits of Affluence: Welfare in Ontario, 1920–1970. By Struthers James. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 401. $55.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.
Linda Barrington
Published online by Cambridge University Press:

03 March 2009, pp. 268-269
- Article
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation

Page 8 of 10

The Journal of Economic History

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Volume 56 - December 1996

Reviews of Books

One South or Many? Plantation Belt and Upcountry in Civil War-Era Tennessee. By Robert Tracy McKenzie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. x, 213. $39.95.

Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Mary Beth Pudup, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 391. $49.95, cloth; $18.95, paper.

The Chicago Plan & New Deal Banking Reform. By Ronnie J. Phillips. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1995. Pp. xvi, 227. $55.00, cloth; $21.95, paper.

General and Miscellaneous - Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States and Australia, 1880–1920. Edited by Ulla Wikander Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jane Lewis. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1995. Pp. vi, 379. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.

A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America 1865–1925. By Thomas J. Misa. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xv, 367. $49.95.

Bretton Woods and Dunbarton Oaks. By Schild George. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. xiii. 254. $45.00.

The Failure of Agrarian Capitalism: Agrarian Politics in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA, 1846–1919. By Niek Koning. London: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xii, 292. $85.00.

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas. Edited by Mary Turner. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 309. $39.95 cloth; $15.95 paper.

For Each, the Strength of All: A History of Banking in the State of New York. By J. T. W. Hubbard. New York: New York University Press, 1995. Pp. xxiii, 309. $40.00.

The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois, 1890–1990. By Jane Adams. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. xxx, 321. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.

Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875–1920. By Henry M. McKivenJr. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 223. $37.50, cloth; $14.95, paper.

Currency and Coercion: The Political Economy of International Monetary Power. By Jonathan Kirshner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. 289. $39.50.

State and Party in America's New Deal. By Theda Skocpol and Kenneth Finegold. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 342. $54.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.

The Bretton-Woods-GATT System: Retrospect and Prospect After Fifty Years. Edited by Orin Kirschner. Armounk, NY: M. E. Sharpe for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 1996. Pp. xiii, 321.

United States and the Caribbean - Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880–1990. By Daniel Nelson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 258. $29.95.

Deficit Government: Taxing and Spending in Modern America. By Iwan W. Morgan. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995. Pp. x, 212. $24.95.

Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, The “Underclass,” and Urban Schools as History. By Michael B. Katz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 179. $22.50.

Technical Change, Human Capital, And Spillovers in United States Agriculture, 1949–1985. By Klaus W. Deininger. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. Pp. v, 158. $42.00.

Models of Management: Work, Authority, and Organization in a Comparative Perspective. By Mauro E. Guillen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 424. $57.50, cloth; $18.95, paper.

The Limits of Affluence: Welfare in Ontario, 1920–1970. By Struthers James. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 401. $55.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.

The Journal of Economic History

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Volume 56 - December 1996

Reviews of Books