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Volume 15 - December 1955

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Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842–1854. By John King Fairbank. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. Pp. xiii, 489. $7.50.

“Those Having Torches …” Economic Essays in Honor of Alzada Comstock. Edited by Lucile Tomlinson Wessmann. South Hadley, Mass.: Mount Holyoke College, 1954. Pp. iv, 134. $3.00.

People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character. By David M. Potter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954. Pp. xxvii, 219. $3.50.

The Oil Business as I Saw It: Half a Century with Sinclair. By W. L. Connelly. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954. Pp. xiv, 177. $3.75.

Population and Labor - British Post-War Migration. By Julius Isaac. (“Occasional Papers,” No. 17, National Institute of Economic and Social Research.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954. Pp. xix, 310. 30s.

The American Life Convention (1906–1950): A Study in the History of Life Insurance. By R. Carlyle Buley. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1953. 2 Vols. Pp. 1,397. $15.00.

A Theory of Economic-Demographic Development. By Harvey Leibenstein. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954. Pp. xi, 204. $4.00. - Economic Development and Population Growth in Rhode Island. By Kurt B. Mayer. (Brown University Papers, XXVIII.) Providence: Brown University, 1953. Pp. 70.

The French Labor Movement. By Val R. Lorwin. (“Wertheim Publications in Industrial Relations.”) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. Pp. xix, 346. $6.00.

New Light on the History of Great American Fortunes. Edited with an Introduction by Sidney Ratner. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, Inc., 1953. Pp. xxvii, 106. $3.00.

Commerce - De Engelse Natie te Antwerpen in de 16e Eeuw (1496–1582). By Oskar de Smedt. Antwerp: De Sikkel, 1954. Vol. II, pp. vi, 743.

A Merchant Prince of the Nineteenth Century: William E. Dodge. By Richard Lowitt. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. Pp. xii, 384. $5.00.

Vijf jaar praktijk in dienst van het economisch- en sociaal-historisch hoger onderwijs: met illustratieve beschouwingen over stedelijke rentebrieven en een keukenboek van 1596. By J. H. Kernkamp. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1954. Pp. 33. Guilders 1.75.

Histoire du commerce de Marseille. Vol. IV: De 1599 à 1660. By Louis Bergasse. De 1660 à 1789. By Gaston Rambert. Paris: Librairie Plon, 1954. Pp. viii, 683.

American Economic Policy Toward the Philippines. By Shirley Jenkins. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1954. Pp. viii, 181. $4.00.

Economic History of Great Britain. By W. Stanford Reid. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1954. Pp. x, 557. $6.00.

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