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Volume 75 - Spring 2001

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Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720–1844. ByRon Harris. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvi + 332 pp. Bibliography, references, tables, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-521-66275-3.

Historia económica de la empresa [The Economic History of Business]. By Jesús M. Valdaliso and Santiago López. Barcelona: Crítica, S.L., 2000. 573 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $41.90 ISBN 8-484-32014-6.

Gales: A Study in Brewing, Business and Family History. ByBarry Stapleton and James H. Thomas. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2000. xvi + 192 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN 0-754-60146-3.

British Society, 1680–1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change. ByRichard Price. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 361 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-521-65172-7; paper 0-521-65701-6.

A Victorian Film Enterprise: The History of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1897–1915. ByRichard Brown and Barry Anthony. Wiltshire, U.K.: Flick Books, 2001. xiv + 345 pp. Appendix, bibliography. Cloth, $65.50. ISBN 0-948-91127-1.

The Coventry Motor Industry: Birth to Renaissance. ByDavid Thoms and Tom Donnelly. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2000. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, photos. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN 0-75460-108-0.

Hard at Work in Factories and Mines: The Economics of Child Labor during the British Industrial Revolution. ByCarolyn Tuttle. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999. ix + 308 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, index. Paper, $63.00. ISBN 0-813-33698-8.

The British Motor Industry, 1945–1994: A Case Study in Industrial Decline. By Timothy R. Whisler. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii + 428 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $105.00. ISBN 0-198-29074-8.

The Business of Medicine: A History of Glaxo. ByEdgar Jones. Profile Books Limited, 2001. xxiii + 520 pp. Tables, photos, illustrations, index, notes, and bibliography. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 1-861-97340-3.

Raleigh and the British Bicycle Industry: An Economic and Business History, 1870–1960. ByRoger Lloyd-Jones andM. J. Lewis. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2000. Cloth, $84.95. ISBN 1-859-28457-4.

Trade Shocks in Developing Countries. Vol. 1: Africa. By Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning and Associates, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 502 pp. Graphs and tables. Cloth, $98.00. ISBN 0-198-29338-0.

Industrial Espionage and Technological Transfer: Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century. ByJ. R. Harris. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1997. xvii + 655 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, index. Cloth, $119.95. ISBN 0-859-67827-X.

Renascent Empire? The House of Braganza and the Quest for Stability in Portuguese Monsoon Asia, c. 1640–1683. ByGlenn J. Ames. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2000. 262 pp. Bibliography, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, $34.50. ISBN 9-053-56382-2.

Smoking in British Popular Culture, 1800–2000. ByMatthew Hilton. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2000. xvii + 245 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $29.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-719-05256-4; paper 0-719-05257-2.

The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo Roots of Brazil's Rural Labor Movement, 1924–1964. By Cliff Welch. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. 448 pp. Cloth, $65. ISBN 0-271-01788-0.

The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause. ByJulian L. Simon (Timur Kuran, editor). Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 240 pp. Tables, graphs, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN 0-472-11097-7.

Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880–1937. By Sherman Cochran. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xii + 257 pp. Photographs, tables. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 0-520-21625-3.

The Treasury and British Public Policy, 1906–1959. ByG. C. Peden. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiv + 582 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, £65.00 (U.S.$90.50). ISBN 0-198-20707-7.

The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700–2000. ByNiall Ferguson. New York: Basic Books. 2001. xix + 552 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $17.00. ISBN: Cloth 0-465-02325-8; paper 0-465-02326-6.

Condor: Cycles, motocycles et construction mécanique [Condor: Cycles, Motorcycles, and Mechanical Construction]. ByAlain Cortat. Delémont: Editions Alphill, 1996. 324 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, photographs, tables. 150 francs. ISBN 2-940-23500-7.

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