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San Francisco 1846–1856: From Hamlet to City. By Roger Lotchin. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press, 1979. Pp. xxii, 406. $6.25 paper.

Guatemalan Caudillo: The Regime of Jorge Ubico, Guatemala, 1931 to 1944. By Kenneth J. Grieb. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1979. Pp. xvii, 384. $16.00

Jefferson's English Crisis: Commerce, Embargo, and the Republican Revolution. By Spivak . Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979. Pp. 250. $17.50.

Images and Enterprise: Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839 to 1925. By Reese V. Jenkins. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Pp. xviii, 371. $20.00.

A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Volume One: Waterpower in the Century of the Steam Engine. By Louis C. Hunter. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, 1979. Pp. xxiv, 606. $24.95.

Contadini e proprietari nella Toscana moderna: Atti del Convegno di studi in onore di Giorgio Giorgetti. Vol. 1. Edited by Mario Mirri et al. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1979. Pp. 576.

A Russian Looks at America: The Journey of Aleksandr Borisovich Lakier. Translated and edited by Arnold Schrier and Joyce Story. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Pp. xli, 272.

Spain: A Historical Enigma. By Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz. Introduction by David Sven Reher. Translated by Colette Joly Dees and David Sven Reher. 2 vols. Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1975. Pp. 1265. 1,800 pesetas, paper.

Sangers: Pioneer Texas Merchants. By Leon Joseph Rosenberg. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1978. Pp. 135. $12.95.

Life and Labor on Argyle Island: Letters and Documents of a Savannah River Rice Plantation, 1833–1867. Edited with an Introduction by James M. Clifton. Svannah: The Beehive Press, 1978. Pp. xlvi, 365.

America's Maritime Legacy: A History of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipbuilding Industry since Colonial Times. Edited by Robert A- Kilmarx. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1979. Pp. xvi, 264. $23.50.

Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826–1860. By Thomas Dublin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Pp. 312. $17.50.

Historia económica y social de España, Vol. III: Los siglos XVI y XVII. By V. Vazquez de Prada. Madrid: Confederacion Española de Cajas de Ahorros, 1978. Pp. 757.

Merchant Princes: An Intimate History of Jewish Families Who Built Great Department Stores. By Leon Harris. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979. Pp. 411. $12.95.

The Fur Trade of the American West, 1807–1840. By David J. Wishart. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. Pp. 237. $15.00.

Case Studies on the Labor Process. Edited by Andrew Zimbalist. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1980. Pp. xxiv, 314. $16.50.

Tropical Enterprise: Standard Fruit and Steamship Company in Latin America. By Thomas L. Karnes. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. Pp. xv, 332. $20.00.

Josiah Gregg and His Vision of the Early West. By Paul Horgan. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. Pp. 116, $8.95.

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