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Volume 62 - Autumn 1988

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Financial Crisis and the World Banking System. Edited by Forrest Capie and Geoffrey E. Wood. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. x + 270 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.

The Professions in Early Modern England. Edited by Wilfrid Prest. London: Croom Helm, 1987. 231 pp. Tables, notes, and index. £30.

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.

Miners and Mining in the Americas. Edited by William W. Culver and Thomas C. Greaves. Dover, N.H.: Manchester University Press, 1985. vi + 358 pp. Charts, tables, notes, annotated bibliography, and index. $50.00.

Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780–1850. By Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. 576 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, select bibliography, and index. $35.00.

A History of GKN. Volume 1: Innovation and Enterprise, 1759–1918. By Edgar Jones. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, Ltd., 1987. xxxviii + 442 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index.

Grace: W. R. Grace and Company: The Formative Years, 1850–1930. By Lawrence A. Clayton. Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1985. xiii + 403 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and bibliography. $22.50.

Norfolk Beers from English Barley: A History of Steward & Patteson, 1793–1963. By Terry Gourvish. Research by Pam Barnes. Norwich: Centre of East Anglian Studies, 1987. 206 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index.

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.

Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance. Volume 1: 1782–1870. By Clive Trebilcock. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xx + 792 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.50.

Sheffield Steel and America: A Century of Commercial and Technological Interdependence, 1830–1930. By Geoffrey Tweedale. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xvi + 296 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50.

The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850–1940. By Daniel R. Headrick. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. x + 405 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $11.95.

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.

The Stock Exchanges of Ireland. By William Arthur Thomas. Liverpool: Francis Cairns Publications, 1986. xii + 273 pp. Charts, tables, illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. $42.00.

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.

Business, Banking, and Politics: The Case of British Steel, 1918–1939. By Steven Tolliday. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. vii + 433 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $42.00.

Richard Cantillon: Entrepreneur and Economist. By Antoin E. Murphy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xx + 336 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $48.00.

Industrial Structure, Capital Markets, and the Origins of British Economic Decline. By William P. Kennedy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xii + 230 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50.

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.

Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen auf internationalen Märkten. Volume 46 of Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte. Edited by Hans Pohl. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1988. 297 pp. Tables and notes. 58DM.

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