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Mechanical Metamorphosis: Technological Change in Revolutionary America. By Neil Longley York, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985. Contributions in American Studies, No. 78. Pp. xviii, 240. $35.00.
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Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-Century City Philadelphia, 1800–1854. By Priscilla Ferguson Clement. Crabury, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985. Pp. 223. $27.50.
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Early California: Gold, Prices, Trade. By Thomas Senior Berry. Richmond, Virginia: The Bostwick Press, 1984. Pp. vii, 254. $15.00 cloth, $7.00 paper.
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Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco and Rice Cultures since 1880. By Pete Daniel. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 352. $22.50.
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Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity Aid under the Radical Republicans, 1865–1877. By Mark W. Summers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Pp. xiii, 361. $37.50.
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Off The Track: The Decline of the Intercity Passenger Train in the United States. By Donald M. Itzkoff. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985. Contributions in Economics and Economic History. Pp. xii, 161. $27.95.
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The Southern Railway: Road of Innovators. By Burke Davis. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Pp. viii, 309. $19.95.
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Family Firm to Modern Multinational: Norton Company, a New England Enterprise. By Charles W. Cheape. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. Harvard Studies in Business History, 36. Pp. xvii, 424. $25.00.
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The Altruistic Imagination: A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United States. By John H. Ehrenreich. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. Pp. 271. $24.50. - Social Change in the United States, 1945–1983. By William Issel. New York: Schocken Books, 1985. Pp. xi, 228. $24.00.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 292-294
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As Rare as Rain: Federal Relief in the Great Southern Drought of 1930–31. By Nan Elizabeth Woodruff. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 203. $18.95.
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Family Connections: A History of Italian and Jewish Immigrant Lives in Providence, Rhode Island, 1900–1940. By Judith E. Smith. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 228. $39.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.
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Coping With Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America. By Martin V. Melosi. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 355. $29.95.
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Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains: Canadian Traders Among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, 1783–1818. Edited and introduction by W. Raymond Wood and Thomas D. Thiessen. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. American Exploration and Travel Series. Pp. xx, 353. $29.95.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 297-299
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Challenges to American Values: Society, Business, and Religion. By Thomas C. Cochran. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. 147. $13.95.
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Fishermen and Merchants in 19th Century Gaspé. By Roch Samson. Ottawa, Canada: Parks Canada, 1984. Studies in Archaeology, Architecture and History. Pp. 124. $7.50.
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Change and Adaptation in Maritime History: The North Atlantic Fleets in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Lewis R. Fischer and Gerald E. Panting. St. John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Maritime History Group, 1985. Pp. xi, 198. $15.00.
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Economic Theory and Doctrine - Keynesianism vs. Monetarism and Other Essays in Financial History. By Charles P. Kindleberger. Winchester, Mass: George Allen & Unwin, 1985. Pp. viii, 328. $24.95.
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Anticipations of the General Theory? And Other Essays on Keynes. By Don Patinkin. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1982. Pp. xxiv, 283. $25.00.
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A Theory of Economic Systems. By Manuel Gottlieb. New York: Academic Press, Inc., 1984. Studies in Social Discontinuity. Pp. xxi, 449. $49.50.
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Henry George and Contemporary Economic Development. Edited by Stephen R. Lewis Jr Williamstown, Mass.: Economics Department, Williams College, 1985. Pp. 95. $8.50 for libraries and institutions, $5.00 for individuals.
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