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Volume 54 - Issue 1 - March 1994

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Road Transport Before the Railways: Russell's London Flying Waggons. By Dorian Gerhold. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 316. $69.95, cloth.
John Langdon
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03 March 2009, pp. 208-209
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United States and Canada - The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism. By Allan Kulikoff. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992. Pp. xiv, 341. $49.50, cloth; $17.50, paper.
Winifred B. Rothenberg
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03 March 2009, pp. 209-211
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The Republic of Labor: Philadelphia Artisans and the Politics of Class, 1720–1830. By Ronald Schultz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 298. $45.00.
Charles G. Steffen
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03 March 2009, pp. 211-213
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Shoulder to Shoulder? The American Federation of Labor, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1924. By Gregg Andrews. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. 272. $45.00.
Jeffrey Bortz
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03 March 2009, pp. 213-215
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Visions of a New Industrial Order: Social Science and Labor Theory in America's Progressive Era. By Clarence E. Wunderlin Jr New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 230. $45.00.
Guy Alchon
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03 March 2009, pp. 215-216
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Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States. By Victoria C. Hattam. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xii266. $35.00.
Steve Fraser
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03 March 2009, pp. 216-218
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The Men and the Vision of the Southern Commercial Conventions, 1845–1871. By Vicki Vaughn Johnson. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992. Pp. x, 328. $39.95.
Douglas Flamming
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03 March 2009, pp. 218-220
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The Era of Good Stealings. By Mark Wahlgren Summers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 390. $49.95.
James L. Huston
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03 March 2009, pp. 220-221
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Free People of Color: Inside the African American Community. By James Oliver Horton. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 238. $39.95, cloth; $15.95, paper.
Alessandra Lorini
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03 March 2009, pp. 221-222
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Afro-Americans in Antebellum Boston: An Analysis of Probate Records. By Carol Buchalter Stapp. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993. Pp. xxiii, 309. $73.00.
Loren Schweninger
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03 March 2009, pp. 222-223
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Their Sisters' Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830–1870. By Marilynh Wood Hill. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 434. $35.00.
Lucy Barber
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03 March 2009, pp. 223-225
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Commercial Bank Liquidity Management, Discretionary Reserve Behavior, and the Allocation of Credit, 1863–1913. By J. M. Carter. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992. Pp. v, 179. $53.00.
Gary Gorton
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03 March 2009, pp. 225-226
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The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890–1920. By Mansel G. Blackford. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 189. $35.00.
Gregory L. Thompson
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03 March 2009, pp. 226-228
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Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West. By M. Catherine Miller. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Pp. 255. $45.00.
Mark Kanazawa
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03 March 2009, pp. 228-229
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Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land. By John Opie. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Pp. xxi, 412. $35.00.
Carroll Van West
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03 March 2009, pp. 229-230
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Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada, 1784–1870. By Douglas McCalla. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Pp. xviii, 446. $50.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.
Tony Ward
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03 March 2009, pp. 230-231
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Prophesying upon the Bones: J. Reuben Clark and the Foreign Debt Crisis, 1933–1939. By Gene A. Sessions. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 149. $24.95.
Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt
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03 March 2009, pp. 231-233
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Politics of Immigrant Workers. Edited by Camille Guerin-Gonzales and Carl Strikwerda. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1993. Pp. xiv, 333. $40.00, cloth.
Philip L. Martin
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03 March 2009, pp. 233-234
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The Caribbean - Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740–1800. By Alan L. Karras. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 231. $34.50.
David Hancock
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03 March 2009, pp. 234-236
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Slave Society in the Danish West Indies: St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix. By Neville A. T. Hall. Edited by B. W. Higman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Pp. xxiv, 287. $45.00.
Rhett S. Jones
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03 March 2009, pp. 236-237
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Road Transport Before the Railways: Russell's London Flying Waggons. By Dorian Gerhold. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 316. $69.95, cloth.

United States and Canada - The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism. By Allan Kulikoff. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992. Pp. xiv, 341. $49.50, cloth; $17.50, paper.

The Republic of Labor: Philadelphia Artisans and the Politics of Class, 1720–1830. By Ronald Schultz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 298. $45.00.

Shoulder to Shoulder? The American Federation of Labor, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1924. By Gregg Andrews. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. 272. $45.00.

Visions of a New Industrial Order: Social Science and Labor Theory in America's Progressive Era. By Clarence E. Wunderlin Jr New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 230. $45.00.

Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States. By Victoria C. Hattam. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xii266. $35.00.

The Men and the Vision of the Southern Commercial Conventions, 1845–1871. By Vicki Vaughn Johnson. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992. Pp. x, 328. $39.95.

The Era of Good Stealings. By Mark Wahlgren Summers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 390. $49.95.

Free People of Color: Inside the African American Community. By James Oliver Horton. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 238. $39.95, cloth; $15.95, paper.

Afro-Americans in Antebellum Boston: An Analysis of Probate Records. By Carol Buchalter Stapp. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993. Pp. xxiii, 309. $73.00.

Their Sisters' Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830–1870. By Marilynh Wood Hill. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 434. $35.00.

Commercial Bank Liquidity Management, Discretionary Reserve Behavior, and the Allocation of Credit, 1863–1913. By J. M. Carter. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992. Pp. v, 179. $53.00.

The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890–1920. By Mansel G. Blackford. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 189. $35.00.

Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West. By M. Catherine Miller. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Pp. 255. $45.00.

Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land. By John Opie. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Pp. xxi, 412. $35.00.

Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada, 1784–1870. By Douglas McCalla. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Pp. xviii, 446. $50.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.

Prophesying upon the Bones: J. Reuben Clark and the Foreign Debt Crisis, 1933–1939. By Gene A. Sessions. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 149. $24.95.

Politics of Immigrant Workers. Edited by Camille Guerin-Gonzales and Carl Strikwerda. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1993. Pp. xiv, 333. $40.00, cloth.

The Caribbean - Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740–1800. By Alan L. Karras. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 231. $34.50.

Slave Society in the Danish West Indies: St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix. By Neville A. T. Hall. Edited by B. W. Higman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Pp. xxiv, 287. $45.00.

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