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Volume 61 - Autumn 1987

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Innovation and Market Structure: Lessons from the Computer and Semiconductor Industries. By Nancy S. Dorfman. Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1987. xiv + 263 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $32.00.

A Conjunction of Interests: Business, Politics, and Tariffs, 1825–1879. By Ben Forster. (Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1986. ix + 288 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $15.95.)

Energy and the Federal Government: Fossil Fuel Policies, 1900–1946. By John G. Clark. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xxiii + 511 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. $39.95.

Performance of the U. S. Railroads since World War II: A Quarter Century of Private Operation. By Kent T. Healy. (New York: Vantage Press, 1985. vii + 295 pp. Maps, charts, tables, and notes. $17.95.)

RCA and the VideoDisc: The Business of Research. By Margaret B. W. Graham. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiv + 258 pp. Illustrations, charts, appendix, notes, and index. $19.95.

Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities. By Martha C. Howell. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1986. xv + 285 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.)

The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor, and Government in the American Economy. By Walter Adams and James W. Brock. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. xiii + 426 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $22.95.

Aurora: Gateway to the Rockies. By Steven F. Mehls, Carol J. Drake, and James E. FellJr., (Evergreen, Colo.: Cordillera Press, 1985. 243 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $17.95.)

The Age of Manufactures: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain, 1700–1820. By Maxine Berg. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. 378 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, £4.95.)

Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism. By William K. Carroll. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986. xvii + 284 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00.

National Styles of Regulation: Environmental Policy in Great Britain and the United States. By David Vogel. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986. 325 pp. Notes and index. Paper, $12.95.

Railways and the Economic Development of Western Europe, 1830–1914. Edited by Patrick O'Brien. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. xiv + 243 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $30.00.)

In Its Corporate Capacity: The Seminary of Montreal as a Business Institution, 1816–1876. By Brian Young. Buffalo, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. xix + 295 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00.

Inventing Retirement: The Development of Occupational Pensions in Britain. By Leslie Hannah. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xi + 201 pp. Charts, tables, notes, note on sources, and index. $39.50.)

African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. By Herbert S. Klein. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. 311 pp. Maps, tables, bibliographical notes, and index. $22.95.

The Bad Yankee, El Peligro Yankee: American Entrepreneurs and Financiers in Mexico. By Gene Z. Hanrahan. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Documentary Publications, 1985. Vol. 1: 156 + 400 pp.; vol. 2: 281 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, sources, and index. $49.95 set.)

Costa Rica before Coffee; Society and Economy on the Eve of the Export Boom. By Lowell Gudmundson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. xvi + 204 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00.

Technology on the Frontier: Mining in Old Ontario. By Dianne Newell. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986. 220 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.50.

The Pacific Alliance: United States Foreign Policy and Japanese Trade Recovery, 1947–1955. By William S. Borden. (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. xiii + 320 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.)

Britain's Investment Overseas on the Eve of the First World War: The Use and Abuse of Numbers. By D. C. M. Platt. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. xii + 179 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.)

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