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Volume 69 - Autumn 1995

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Science on the Run: Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940. ByGeoffrey C. Bowker · Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994. viii + 191 pp. Illust, charts, notes, index, and bibliography. $27.50. ISBN 0-262-02367-9.

The Japanese Iron and Steel Industry, 1850–1990: Continuity and Discontinuity. By Seiichiro Yonekura · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. xix + 327 pp. Tables, figures, photographs, notes and references, bibliography, and index. $65.00. ISBN 0-312-10673-4.

Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929-1987. ByD. K Fieldhouse · Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. xxviii + 832 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-822625-X.

Models of Management: Work, Authority, and Organization in a Comparative Perspective. By Mauro F. Guillén · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xiii + 424 pp. Tables, charts, appendix, index, and bibliography. Cloth, $57.50, ISBN 0-226-31035-3; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-226-31036-1.

The Most Necessary Luxuries: The Mercers' Company of Coventry, 1550–1680. ByRonald M. Berger · University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. xvi + 317 pp. Tables, figures, notes, appendices, sources, and index. $55.00, ISBN 0-271-008679.

New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920–1935. By Colin Gordon · Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xii + 329 pp. Bibliographical essay, manuscript sources, and index. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-45122-1; paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-521-45755-6.

The Origins of Railway Enterprise: The Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1821–1863. ByMaurice W. Kirby · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xv + 223 pp. Illust, maps, plans, appendices, and bibliography. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-38445-1.

Business, Politics and International Relations: Steel, Cotton and International Cartels in British Politics, 1924–1993. ByClemens Wurm · Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 389 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $84.95. ISBN 0-5214-0520-3.

The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy. Edited by Claudia Goldin and Gary Libecap · Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. viii + 312 pp. Tables, charts, and index. $56.00. ISBN 0-226-30110-9.

The Bank of England: Money, Power and Influence, 1694–1994. Edited byRichard Roberts and David Kynaston · Oxford: Clarendon Press. X + 315 pp. Index and bibliography. $35.00. ISBN 0-19-828952-9.

Logs for Capital: The Timber Industry and Capitalist Enterprise in the Nineteenth Century. By Sing C. Chew · Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. xi + 191 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-313-28497-0.

Uneasy Partners: Big Business in American Politics, 1945–1990. ByKim McQuaid · Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xvi + 224 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth, $38.95, ISBN 0-8018-4651-x; paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8108-4652-8.

Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England. By Naomi R. Lamoreaux · New York: NBER, Cambridge University Press, 1994. xii + 170 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-521-46096-4.

American Technological Sublime. By David E. Nye · Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, xx + 362 pp. Photos, notes, index, and bibliography. $35.00, ISBN 0-262-14056-X.

Telecommunications and Politics: The Decentralized Alternative. ByAndrew Davies · New York and London: Pinter Publishers, 1994. xi + 265 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, and index. $49.00 ISBN 1-85567-144-1.

The English Gentleman in Trade: The Life and Works of Sir Dudley North, 1641–1691. By Richard Grassby · Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. xvi + 390 pp. Illustrations, notes, and bibliography. $69.00. ISBN 0-19-820439-6.

Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884–1984. ByDouglas Flamming · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xxxi + 433 pp. Illustrations, maps, references, and index. $42.50. ISBN 0-807820563.

The Origins of Japanese Industrial Power: Strategy, Institutions and the Development of Organisational Capability. Edited by Etsuo Abe and Robert Fitzgerald · London: Frank Cass, 1995. 140 pp. Tables and notes. $30.00. ISBN 0-7146-4623-7.

Planning the French Canals: Bureaucracy, Politics, and Enterprise Under the Restoration. ByReed G. Geiger · Cranbury: University of Delaware Press, 1995. 338 pp. Tables, charts, notes, index, and bibliography. $43.50. ISBN 0-87413-527-3.

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