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The Journal of Economic History
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Volume 16 - Issue 2 - June 1956

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Industry in the Pacific Northwest and the Location Theory. By Edwin J. CohnJr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. Pp. x, 214. $3.50.

The First Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1795–1805. By Bradford Perkins. (Publication of the American Historical Association, from the Income of the Albert J. Beveridge Memorial Fund.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 257. $5.00.

Money and Finance - Bank of Canada Operations, 1935-54. By E. P. Neufeld. (Canadian Studies in Economics, Number 5.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1955. Pp. ix, 221. $3.75.

Esquisse d'une histoire monetaire de l'Europe. By Marc Bloch. (Cahiers des Annales, no. 9.) Paris: Armand Colin, 1954. Pp. 93. Frs. 325.

La Monnaie et l'opinion publique en France et en Angleterre, 1924–1936. By Marguerite Perrot. Paris: Armand Colin, 1955. Pp. 252. Frs. 800.

Le Recouvrement des Impôts Directs sous l'Ancien Régime. By Jean Villain. (Publication of the Bibliothèque d'Histoire Economique et Sociale in co-operation with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.) Paris: Librairie Marcel Rivière et Cie., 1952. Pp. ix, 321.

National Economic Histories - American Economic Development. By Herman E. Krooss. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1955. Pp. vii, 529. $6.00.

The Economic Development of Van Diemen's Land: 1820–1850. By R. M. Hartwell. Melbourne University Press; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1954. Pp. 273. $6.00. - The Peaks of Lyell. By Geoffrey Blainey. Melbourne University Press; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 290. $5.00.

The Great Experiment: An Introduction to the History of the American People. By Frank Thistlethwaite. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1955. Pp. xiv, 335. $5.00.

Political Change and Industrial Development in Japan: Government Enterprise, 1868–1880. By Thomas C. Smith. (Stanford University Series, History, Economics, and Political Science, Volume X) Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 126, Paper $2.50.

Population and Labor - Earnings of Cotton Mill Operatives, 1825–1914. By Robert G. Layer. (Publication of the Committee on Research in Economic History, Inc.) Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. ix, 71. $2.75.

The Rise of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles. By Grace Heilman Stimson. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955. Pp. xvi, 529. $6.00.

Scientific Management and the Unions, 1900–1932: A Historical Analysis. By Milton J. Nadworny. (Publication of the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, Harvard University.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. vii, 187. $3.75.

Les prix à Lwow (XVIe–XVIIe siècles). By St. Hoszowski. Translated from the Polish, (École Pratique des Hautes Études-VIe Section. Centre de Recherches Historiques.) Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1954. Pp. 232.

Social History - A History of the Freedmen's Bureau. By George R. Bentley. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955. Pp. 298. $5.00.

Billy Sunday Was His Real Name. By William G. McLoughlinJr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955. Pp. xxx, 325. $5.50.

The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning: A Study in Economic and Social History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By William Ashworth. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954. Pp. 259, 21s.

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