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Volume 37 - Issue 4 - December 1977

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In Search of the Scrounger: The Administration of Unemployment Insurance in Britain, 1920–1931. By Alan Deacon. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1976. Pp. 110. £2.95.

Agriculture and the State in Ancient Mesopotamia. An Introduction to Problems of Land Tenure. By Maria de J. Ellis. Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund, 1. Philadelphia: The Babylonian Fund, 1976. Pp. xiii, 194.

The Contentious Tithe: The Tithe Problem and English Agriculture, 1750–1850. By Eric J. Evans. Studies in Economic History. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976. Pp. xiii, 185. $13.00.

Iron and Steel in the German Inflation, 1916–1923. By Gerald D. Feldman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. Pp. xix, 519. $26.50.

The Foreign Establishment in China in the Early Twentieth Century. Ry Albert Feuerwerker. Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies, no. 29. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Center for Chinese Studies, 1976. Pp. 120.

Studies in Roman Property by the Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History. Edited by M. I. Finley. Cambridge Classical Studies. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. 212. $9.95.

Labor and the American Revolution. By Philip S. Foner. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1976.

An Economic Spurt That Failed: Four Lectures in Austrian History. By Alexander Gerschenkron. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. Pp. ix, 172. $12.50.

Production and Reproduction: A Comparative Study of the Domestic Domain. By Jack Goody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. xiii, 157. $14.95 cloth, $4.95 paper.

Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America. By Herbert G. Gutman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Pp. 343. $12.50.

Economic Development and Social Change in Sicily. By Jane Hilowitz. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1976. Pp. xviii, 204; illustrations and map. $11.95.

The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph. By Albert O. Hirschman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. Pp. x, 153. $10.00 cloth, $2.95 paper.

La Reconstruction du Parti socialiste, 1921–1926. By Tony Judt. Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1976. Pp. 232. 85F. - Révolutionnaires de la S.F.I.O. By Jean-Paul Joubert. Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1977. Pp. 296. 95F.

Merchants in Crisis: Genoese and Venetian Men of Affairs and the Fourteenth-Century Depression. By Benjamin Z. Kedar. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. Pp. xii, 260. $17.50.

The Origins of the Popular Press in England, 1855–1914. By Alan J. Lee. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1976. Pp. 310. $18.50.

The Growth and Structure of the Chilean Economy: From Independence to Allende. By Markos J. Mamalakis. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. Pp. xx, 390. $20.00.

Haciendas, Plantations and Collective Farms. By Juan Martinez-Alier. London: Frank Cass, 1977. Pp. vii, 185. $19.50.

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