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Volume 55 - Issue 4 - December 1995

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Planning the French Canals: Bureaucracy, Politics, and Enterprise Under the Restoration. By Reed G. Geiger. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1994. Pp. 338.
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
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Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age. By Dobbin Frank. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 262. $39.95.
Douglas J. Puffert
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03 March 2009, pp. 934-936
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Making a Medical Living: Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720–1911. By Anne Digby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 348. $64.95.
James C. Riley
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03 March 2009, pp. 936-937
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Feminism and Political Economy in Victorian England. Edited by Peter Groenewegen. Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1994. Pp. 197. - Women and Families: An Oral History, 1940–1970. By Elizabeth Roberts. Oxford: Black-well, 1995. Pp. 277. $54.95. - Women and Social Policies in Europe. Edited by Jane Lewis. Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1993. Pp. 247.
Joan Perkin
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03 March 2009, pp. 937-938
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The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain, 1920–1950. Edited by Robert Millward and John Singleton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 325.
Ben Fine
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03 March 2009, pp. 939-940
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Britain and the Sterling Area: From Devaluation to Convertibility in the 1950s. By Catherine R. Schenk. London:Routledge, pp.165. $65.00.
Barry Eichengreen
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03 March 2009, pp. 940-942
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Economic Transformations in East and Central Europe: Legacies from the past and policies for the Future. Edited by F. Good David. London: Routledge, 1994, pp. Xvi, 301. $79.95.
Martin C. Spechler
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03 March 2009, pp. 944-945
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Latin America and Asia - Business Interest Groups in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. By Ridings Eugene. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 377. $59.95.
Sterphen Haber
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03 March 2009, pp. 942-943
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The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-first Century. By Morris-Suzuki Tessa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. x, 304. $59.95, cloth; $18.95, paper.
Gail Ann M. Honda
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The Caribbean - The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados, 1823–1843. By Kathleen Mary Butler. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xviii + 198. $34.95, cloth; $16.95, paper.
Stanley L. Engerman
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03 March 2009, pp. 946-947
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The United States and Canada - Dividing the Land: Early American Beginnings of Our Private Property Mosaic. By Edward T. Price. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 410. $26.00.
Joshua Micah Marshall
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Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England. By Stephen Innes. W. W. Norton, 1995. Pp. x, 416. $25.00.
Cathy Matson
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Essays on English Law and the American Experience. Edited by Elisabeth A. Cawthon and David E. Narrett. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 135. $24.50.
Shawn Everett Kantor
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C. C. Washburn and the Upper Mississippi Valley. By Karel D. Bicha. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. Pp. xi, 210. $52.00.
Marion Nelson Winship
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03 March 2009, pp. 951-952
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Working Toward Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South. Edited by E. Hudson Larry Jr Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 250. $45.00.
James R. Irwin
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03 March 2009, pp. 952-954
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Debt, Investment, Slaves: Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825–1885. By Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 201. $36.95.
Nancy Virts
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03 March 2009, pp. 954-955
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Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century. By Walter Licht. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 219. $38.95, cloth; $13.95, paper.
Lamer B. Jones
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03 March 2009, pp. 955-956
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Fingers of Steel: Technological Innovation in the United States Knitting Industry, 1850–1914. By Louise Wehrle. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. Pp. xv, 258. $59.00.
B. Zorina Khan
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03 March 2009, pp. 956-957
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The Changing U.S. Auto Industry: a Geographical Analysis. By James M. Rubenstein. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. 318. $63.00.
B. Zorina Khan
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03 March 2009, pp. 958-959
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Autowork. Edited by Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth with the assistance of Stephen Merlino. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 307. $19.95.
Marc Jeffrey Stern
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03 March 2009, pp. 959-960
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Planning the French Canals: Bureaucracy, Politics, and Enterprise Under the Restoration. By Reed G. Geiger. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1994. Pp. 338.

Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age. By Dobbin Frank. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 262. $39.95.

Making a Medical Living: Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720–1911. By Anne Digby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 348. $64.95.

The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain, 1920–1950. Edited by Robert Millward and John Singleton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 325.

Britain and the Sterling Area: From Devaluation to Convertibility in the 1950s. By Catherine R. Schenk. London:Routledge, pp.165. $65.00.

Economic Transformations in East and Central Europe: Legacies from the past and policies for the Future. Edited by F. Good David. London: Routledge, 1994, pp. Xvi, 301. $79.95.

Latin America and Asia - Business Interest Groups in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. By Ridings Eugene. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 377. $59.95.

The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-first Century. By Morris-Suzuki Tessa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. x, 304. $59.95, cloth; $18.95, paper.

The Caribbean - The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados, 1823–1843. By Kathleen Mary Butler. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xviii + 198. $34.95, cloth; $16.95, paper.

The United States and Canada - Dividing the Land: Early American Beginnings of Our Private Property Mosaic. By Edward T. Price. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 410. $26.00.

Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England. By Stephen Innes. W. W. Norton, 1995. Pp. x, 416. $25.00.

Essays on English Law and the American Experience. Edited by Elisabeth A. Cawthon and David E. Narrett. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 135. $24.50.

C. C. Washburn and the Upper Mississippi Valley. By Karel D. Bicha. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. Pp. xi, 210. $52.00.

Working Toward Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South. Edited by E. Hudson Larry Jr Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 250. $45.00.

Debt, Investment, Slaves: Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825–1885. By Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 201. $36.95.

Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century. By Walter Licht. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 219. $38.95, cloth; $13.95, paper.

Fingers of Steel: Technological Innovation in the United States Knitting Industry, 1850–1914. By Louise Wehrle. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. Pp. xv, 258. $59.00.

The Changing U.S. Auto Industry: a Geographical Analysis. By James M. Rubenstein. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. 318. $63.00.

Autowork. Edited by Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth with the assistance of Stephen Merlino. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 307. $19.95.

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