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The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987. 405 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 341-342
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Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media. By James L. Baughman. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1987. x + 264 pp. Illustrations, notes and references, and index. $24.95.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 342-343
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Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. By Robert Higgs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xx + 350 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, select bibliography, and index. $24.95.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 343-344
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Made in the U.S.A.: The History of American Business. By Thomas V. DiBacco. New York: Harper & Row, 1987. xii + 290 pp. Bibliography and index. $19.95.
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- 11 June 2012, p. 345
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The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning. By Marc A. Weiss. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. xii + 228 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $27.50.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 346-347
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Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550–1835. By Stuart B. Schwartz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xxiii + 616 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, glossary, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $23.95.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 347-348
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Economic Development: The History of an Idea. By H. W. Arndt. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1987. viii + 217. Notes and partial index. $20.95.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 348-350
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The London and New York Stock Exchanges, 1850–1914. By R. C. Michie. Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1987. xv + 312 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 350-351
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Royal Mail: The Post Office since 1840. By M. J. Daunton. London: Athlone Press, 1985. xviii + 388 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $36.50.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 352-353
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The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill: The Rise and Decline of a Family Firm, 1750–1914. By Mary B. Rose. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xv + 169 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.50.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 353-354
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Werken aan Zekerheid: Een terugblik over de schouder van AEGON op twee eeuwen verzekeringsgeschiedenis. By B. P. A. Gales. The Hague: Uitgave Aegon Verzekeringen, 1986. 390 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. With English summary. Dfl 25.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 354-356
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The Hatters of Eighteenth–Century France. By Michael Sonenscher. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xiv + 187 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, notes on sources, and index. $28.00.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 356-357
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Education for the Industrial World: The Ecole d'Arts et Métiers and the Rise of French Industrial Engineering. By Charles R. Day. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987. ix + 293 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 357-358
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South Africa's City of Diamonds: Mine Workers and Monopoly Capitalism in Kimberley, 1867–1895. By William H. Worger. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1987. xiii + 330 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 358-360
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Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921–29. By Alan M. Ball. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xvii + 226 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. $32.50.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 360-362
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Business History of General Trading Companies. The International Conference on Business History 13: Proceedings of the Fuji Conference. Edited by Shin'ichi Yonekawa and Hideki Yoshihara. New York: University of Tokyo Press, 1987. xviii + 365 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, and index. $42.50.
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- 11 June 2012, pp. 362-364
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- 11 June 2012, p. 365
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Front matter
BHR volume 62 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
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BHR volume 62 issue 2 Cover and Back matter
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