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Asia - Peasants and Imperial Rule: Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency, 1850–1935. By Neil Charlesworth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xix, 319. $49.50. - Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy. By Ian Stone. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 374. $59.50.
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Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics, 1919–1947. By Sugata Bose. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 284. $42.50.
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Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870–1979. By Ann Laura Stoler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 244. $22.50.
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The Survival of Empire: Portuguese Trade and Society in China and the South China Sea, 1630–1754. By George Bryan Souza. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xx, 282. $44.50.
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Economic Imperialism in China: Silk Production and Exports, 1861–1932. By Robert Y. Eng. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1986. Pp. x, 243. $15.00 paper. - The South China Silk District: Local Historical Transformation and World-System Theory. By Alvin Y. So. Albany: SUNY Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 206. $39.50, cloth; $14.95, paper.
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Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750–1950. By Susan Mann. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 278. $35.00.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 204-205
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United States - Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790–1860. By Brooke Hindle and Steven Lubar. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. Pp. 309. $29.95. cloth, $14.95 paper.
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The Roots of Southern Distinctiveness: Tobacco and Society in Danville, Virginia, 1780–1865. By Frederick F. Siegel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Pp. xi, 205. $22.00.
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Planters and Plain Folk: Agriculture in Antebellum Texas. By Richard G. Lowe and Randolph B. Campbell. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1987. Pp. xvi, 216. $22.50.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 207-208
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History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. By John F. Stover. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press. Pp. xiv, 419. $29.50.
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The American President Lines and Its Forebears, 1848–1984. By John Niven. Cranbury: University of Delaware Press, 1987. Pp. 327. $39.50.
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From Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-Century Georgia. By Peter Wallenstein. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 284. $27.50.
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Challenge and Change: The History of the Tobacco Workers International Union. By Stuart Bruce Kaufman. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 163. $27.50 cloth, $10.95 paper. - A Vision of Unity: The History of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union. By Stuart Bruce Kaufman. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 182. $27.50 cloth, $1095 paper.
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Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900–1919. By Patricia A. Cooper. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xvi., 350. $29.95.
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Solidarity or Survival? American Labor and European Immigrants, 1830–1924. By A. T. Lane. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 230. $34.50 cloth, $9.95 paper.
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Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts. By Alexander Keyssar. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xviii, 469. $49.50 cloth, $14.95 paper.
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Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900–1945. By Sanford M. Jacoby. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 377. $35.00
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Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy. By Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers. University: University of Alabama Press, 1987. Pp. x, 159. $19.95.
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Redeeming the Time: A People's History of the 1920s and the New Deal. By Page Smith. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1987. Pp. xiii, 1205. $34.95.
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A Caring Society: The New Deal, the Worker, and the Great Depression. By Irving Bernstein. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1985. Pp. xii, 338. $22.95.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 221-223
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