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Volume 56 - Winter 1982

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Boosters and Businessmen: Popular Economic Thought and Urban Growth in the Antebellum Middle West. By Carl Abbott. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xii + 266. $27.50

The Investment Frontier: New York Businessmen and The Economic Development of the Old Northwest. By John Denis Haeger. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp. xviii + 311. $39.00, cloth; $12.95, paper.

Industrial Design. By John Heskett. New York, Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. 216. $17.95, cloth; $9.95, paper. - American Realism and the Industrial Age. By Marianne Doezema. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. 142. $9.95, paper.

Correspondence of the Van Cortlandt Family of Cortlandt Manor, 1815–1848. Compiled and edited by Jacob Judd. Tarrytown, New York, Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1981. Pp. xxxiii + 652. $27.00

The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. By Alan Trachtenberg. New York, Hill and Wang, 1982. Pp. viii + 261. $16.95 cloth; $6.95 paper.

Sovereignty for Sale: the Origins and Evolution of the Panamanian and Liberian Flags of Convenience. By Rodney P. Carlisle. Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 278. $19.95.

American Industrialization, Economic Expansion, and The Law. Edited by Joseph R. Frese, S.J., and Jacob Judd. Tarrytown, New York, Sleepy Hollow Press, 1981. Pp. xv +238. $20.00.

A Scientist in American Life: Essays and Lectures Of Joseph Henry. Edited by Arthur P. Molella, Nathan Reingold, Marc Rothenberg, Joan F. Steiner, and Kathleen Waldenfels. Foreword by Lewis Thomas. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980. Pp. vii + 136. $6.95.

To Build A Canal: Sault Ste. Marie, 1853–1854 and After. By John N. Dickinson. Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1981. Pp. xviii + 192. $21.50.

Market Institutions and Economic Progress in the New South, 1865–1900: Essays Stimulated by One Kind of Freedom: the Economic Consequences of Emancipation. Edited by Gary M. Walton and James F. Shepherd. New York, Academic Press, 1981. Pp. xiii + 162. $17.50

Urban Capitalists: Enterepreneurs and City Growth in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna and Lehigh Regions, 1800–1920. By Burton W. FolsomJr., Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Pp.xiv +191. $16.50.

The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840–1857. By Edward K. Spann. New York, Columbia University Press, 1981. Pp. xiii + 546. $19.95.

From Home to Office: U. S. Women at Work, 1870–1900. By Elyce J. Rotella. Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.M.I. Research Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 233. $31.95.

Indian Traders on the Middle Border: The House of Ewing, 1827–1854. By Robert A. TrennertJr., Lincoln, University of Nebraska Tress, 1981. Pp. vvi + 271. $17.95.

J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1867–1943. By John Douglas Forbes. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1981. Pp. xiv + 262. $20.00.

Texas Rich: The Hunt Dynasty from the Early Oil Days through the Silver Crash. By Harry HurtIII. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1981. Pp. 446. $16.95.

America's Match King: Ohio Columbus Barber, 1841–1920. By William Franklin Fleming. Barberton, Ohio, Barberton Historical Society, 1981. Pp. ix + 305. $15.95.

Work Hazards and Industrial Conflict. By Carl Gersuny. Hanover, New Hampshire, University Press of New England, 1981. Pp. xiii + 162. $14.00.

The Rise of the American Electrochemicals Industry, 1880–1910: Studies in the American Technological Environment. By Martha Moore Trescott. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xxxviii + 391. $45.00

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