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The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism. ByAllan Kulikoff · Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1992. xiv + 341 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8139-1388-8; paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-8139-1420-5.
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How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States. By John J. McCusker · Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1992. 78 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and bibliography. $10.95. ISBN 0-994026-33-8.
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The Beginnings of Commercial and Financial Journalism: The Commodity Price Currents, Exchange Rate Currents, and Money Currents of Early Modern Europe. By John J. McCusker and Cora Gravesteijn · Amsterdam: Netherlands Economic History Archives, 1991. 515 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $89.00, ISBN 90-71617-27-0.
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Agriculture, Geology, and Society in Antebellum South Carolina: The Private Diary of Edmund Ruffin, 1843. Edited by William M. Mathew · Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. xvi + 368 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00. ISBN 0-8203-1324-6.
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Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780–1835. By William J. Gilmore · Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989. xxxvii + 528 pp. Maps, charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0-87049-586-0.
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American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War. Edited byRobert E. Gallman and John Joseph Wallis · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1992. viii + 396 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00. ISBN 0226-27945-6.
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Keepers of the Revolution: New Yorkers at Work in the Early Republic. Edited by Paul A. Gilje and Howard B. Rock · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992. xx + 288 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-2665-0; paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8014-9959-3.
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The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828–1853. By James D. Dilts · Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993. xix + 472 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00. ISBN 0-8047-2235-8.
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Fair to Middlin': The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley. By Lynn Willoughby · Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993. xiii + 198 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95. ISBN 0-8173-0680-3.
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Cargill: Trading the World's Grain. By Wayne G. BroehlJr. , · Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1992. xx + 1007 pp. Tables, charts, illustrations, appendix, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-87451-572-6.
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“The king of the Alley”: William Duer—Politician, Entrepreneur, and Speculator, 1768–1799. ByRobert F. Jones · Philadelphia, Pa.: American Philosophical Society, 1992. x + 236 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $25.00. ISBN 0-87169-202-3.
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Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Louis. By Jeffrey S. Adler · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. vii + 274 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.50, ISBN 0-521-41284-6.
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Breweries of Wisconsin. By Jerry Apps · Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. xx + 252 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-299-13370-2; paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-299-13374-5.
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Industry and Technology in Antebellum Tennessee: The Archaeology of Bluff Furnace. ByR. Bruce Council, Nicholas Honerkamp, andM. Elizabeth Will · Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. xiv + 227 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-87049-743-X; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-87049-744-8.
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Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840–1950. By Walter Licht · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992. xiii + 317 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-35428-1.
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- 13 December 2011, pp. 149-151
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A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public. By Ronald J. Zboray · New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xxii + 326 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-507582-X.
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The Men and the Vision of the Southern Commercial Conventions, 1845–1871. ByVicki Vaughn Johnson · Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992. x + 328 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8262-0855.
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The Black Press in Mississippi, 1865-1985. By Julius E. Thompson Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993. xiii + 228 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-8130-1174-4.
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Labor Law in America: Historical and Critical Essays. Edited by Christopher L. Tomlins and Andrew J. King · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. vi + 355 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00. ISBN 0-8018-4362-6.
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Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel. Edited by Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1992. ix + 491 pp. Tables, charts, notes, and index. $60.00, ISBN 0-226-30112-5.
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