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Volume 70 - Winter 1996

Book Reviews

Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics. By Donald N. McCloskey · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xviii + 445 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-521-43475-0; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-521-43603-6.

Debt, Investment, Slaves: Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825–1885. ByRichard Holcombe KilbourneJr. · Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995. xx + 204 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $36.95. ISBN 0-8173-0730-3.

American Artisans: Crafting Social Identity, 1750–1850. Edited byHoward B. Rock, Paul A. Gilje, and Robert Asher · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xx + 251 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-5029-0; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8018-5030-4.

The Mechanisms of Governance. By Oliver E. Williamson · New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii + 429 pp. Prologue, figures, glossary and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-507824-1.

The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought. By Scott Bowman · University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. xii + 436 pp. Bibliography and index. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-271-01472-5; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-271-01473-3.

Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850. Edited byJudith A. McGaw · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. x + 482 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2173-X; paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4484-5.

A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865–1925. By Thomas J. Misa · Baltimore, Md: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xxvi + 367 pp. Photos, graphs, tables, figures, notes, and index. Paper, $49.95, ISBN 0-8018-4967-5.

Sugar Dynasty: M. A. Patout & Son, Ltd., 1791–1993. By Michael G. Wade · Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1995. xv + 405 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-940984-96-2.

Reaping the Bounty: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Turns Abroad, 1878–1902. By Esko Heikkonen · Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society, 1995. ISBN 951-710-022-1.

Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735–1785. By David Hancock · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xxiii + 477 pp. Illustrations, photographs, appendices, notes and index. $59.95. ISBN 0-5214-7430-2.

Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America. ByMark H. Rose · University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. xviii + 229 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliographic essay, and index. $34.50. ISBN 0-271-01349-4.

American Plastic: A Cultural History. By Jeffrey L. Meikle · New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995. 500 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography and Index. $49.95. ISBN 0-8135-2234-x.

Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925–1985. By Robert WeemsJr, · Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. xvii + 158 pp. Tables, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-253-330-25-4.

Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse. By Richard R. John · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995. xiii + 369 pp. Notes, tables, sources, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0-674-83338-4.

Strictly Business: Walter Carpenter at Du Pont and General Motors. ByCharles W. Cheape. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xix + 309 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical references, and index. $48.50. ISBN 0-8018-4941-1.

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