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Volume 17 - Issue 1 - March 1957

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History of the American Economy. By Ross M. Robertson. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. Pp. xiv, 593. $8.00.

Villes et campagnes: civilisation urbaine et civilisation rurale en France. Edited by Georges Friedmann. (Bibliothèque Générale de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section.) Paris: A. Colin, 1953. Pp. xxiv, 480. Frs. 1,200.

Le XIXe siècle: l'apogée de l'expansion européenne (1815–1914). By Robert Schnerb. (Histoire générale des civilisations, Maurice Crouzet, ed., Volume VI.) Paris: Presses universitaires, 1955. Pp. 627. Frs. 3,000.

Roman Civilization, Selected Readings. Volume II: The Empire. By Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold. (Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies, Austin P. Evans, editor, Number XLV.) New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 652. $7.50.

Economic Change in Thailand since 1850. By James C. Ingram. (Issued under the auspices of the Institute of Pacific Relations.) Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1955. Pp. vii, 254. $5.00.

Journal d'un bourgeois du Caire. By Ibn Iyâs. Translated and annotated by Gaston Wiet. (Bibliothèque Générale de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section.) Paris: A. Colin, 1955. Pp. iv, 454. Frs. 1,400.

The Bourgeoisie in 18th Century France. By Elinor G. Barber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 165. $3.50.

Greatness and Decline of Planned Economy in the Hellenistic World. By Luigi Einaudi. Berne: A. Francke, 1950. Pp. 48. Frs. 480.

Niveau de vie et progrès technique en France (1860–1939). Postface By Paul Combe. Preface by Jean Fourastié. Paris: Presses Universitaires, 1956. Pp. xli, 618. Frs. 1,995.

Regional Studies - Constructive Liberalism. The Role of the State in Economic Development in Georgia to 1860. By Milton Sydney Heath. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1954. Pp. xiv, 448. $7.50.

Aux origines des sociétés anonymes: les moulins de Toulouse au moyen âge. By Germain Sicard. (Affaires et gens d'affaires, V. Centre de Recherches Historiques, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section.) Paris: A. Colin, 1953. Pp. 408. Frs. 1,350.

Miscellaneous - The French Faust: Henri de Saint-Simon. By Mathurin Dondo. New York: Philosophical Library, 1955. Pp. 253. $3.75.

Essays in Medieval Life and Thought Presented in Honor of Austin Patterson Evans. Edited by John H. Mundy, Richard W. Emery, and Benjamin N. Nelson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. xviii, 258. $4.00.

From the Depths: The Discovery of Poverty in the United States. By Robert H. Bremner. New York: New York University Press, 1956. Pp. xiii, 364. $5.50.

Social Forces in the Middle East. Edited by Sydney N. Fisher. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1955. Pp. xvi, 282. $5.00.

The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America, 1735–1789. By Brooke Hindle. (Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956. Pp. xi, 410. $7.50.

A History of Europe from the Invasions to the XVI Century. By Henri Pirenne. Introduction by Jan-Albert Goris. New York: University Books [1956]. Pp. xxii, 12–625. $7.50.

Pomponne's “Relation de mon Ambassade en Hollande” 1669–1671. Edited by Herbert H. Rowen. (Werken uitgegeven door het Historisch Genootschap [gevestigd te Utrecht], vierde serie, No. 2.) Utrecht: Kemink en Zoon N.V., 1955. Pp. 178.

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