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Volume 61 - Autumn 1987

Editor's Corner

Editor's Corner

Exhibit Review

“Engines of Change”: An Exhibition on the American Industrial Revolution

Book Reviews

Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century. Volume 3: The Perspective of the World. By Fernand Braudel. Translated by Sîan Reynolds. New York: Harper & Row, 1984. 699 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. $35.00.

The End of the Practical Man: Entrepreneurship and Higher Education in Germany, France and Great Britain, 1880–1940. By Robert R. Locke, (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1984. xii + 363 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50.)

Holland on the Hudson: An Economic and Social History of Dutch New York. By Oliver A. Rink. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986. 285 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.

Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890–1913. By James Livingston. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986. ix + 250 pp. Notes, appendixes, and index. $27.50.)

Traders, Planters, and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America. By David W. Galenson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiv + 230 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.50.

A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia. By Thomas M. Doerflinger. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xvi + 413 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.00.)

The Morgans: Private International Bankers, 1854–1913. By Vincent P. Carosso, with the assistance of Rose C. Carosso. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. xvii + 888 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $65.00.

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal: Pathway to the Nation's Capital. By Thomas F. Hahn. (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1984. viii + 269 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $21.00.)

Proprietors, Patronage, and Paper Money: Legislative Politics in New Jersey, 1703–1776. By Thomas L. Purvis. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986. xii + 348 pp. Maps, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $38.00.

Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790–1860. By Brooke Hindle and Steven Lubar. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. 309 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical note, and index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95.)

The Anthracite Aristocracy: Leadership and Social Change in the Hard Coal Regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1800–1930. By Edward J. Davies II. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1985. 277 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.00.

The Inland Empire: Unfolding Years, 1879–1929. By John Fahey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. xii + 298 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.

A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Volume 2: Steam Power. By Louis C. Hunter. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985. xxii + 732 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $50.00.)

Frances Willard: A Biography. By Ruth Bordin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xv + 294 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.)

The Anti-Monopoly Persuasion: Popular Resistance to the Rise of Big Business in the Midwest. By Steven L. Piott. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. x + 194 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $35.00.

The Great Yellow Fleet: A History of American Railroad Refrigerator Cars. By John H. White. (San Marino, Calif.: Golden West Books, 1986. 188 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95.)

Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875–1980. By Dennis C. Dickerson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. xiv + 323 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.50.

Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930. By Ronald D. Eller. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982. xxvi + 272 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $23.50; paper, $12.50.)

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Editor's Corner

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