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Volume 46 - Issue 3 - September 1986

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British Economists and the Empire. By John Cunningham Wood. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. 299. $32.50.

A Guide to the Historical Records of British Banking. By L. S. Pressnell and John Orbell. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp. xxv, 130. $29.95.

Free Banking in Britain: Theory, Experience, and Debate, 1800–1845. By Lawrence H. White. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xv, 171. $29.50.

James Nasmyth and the Bridgewater Foundry: A Study of Enterpreneurship in the Early Engineering Industry. By J. A. Cantrell. Manchester: Manchester University Press for the Chetham Society, 1985. Pp. viii, 279. £25.00.

Paradoxical Harvest: Energy and Explanation in British History, 1870–1914. By Richard N. Adams. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 141. $27.50 cloth; $8.95 paper.

The British Economy, Volume I: The Years of Turmoil, 1920–1951.By Derek H. Aldcroft. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press International, 1986. Pp. 264. $39.95.

The Opera Industry in Italy from Cimarosa to Verdi: The Role of the Impresario. By John Rosselli. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. viii, 214. $34.50.

Soviet Planning in Peace and War, 1938–1945. By Mark Harrison. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 315. $44.50.

Latin America - Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807–1834. By B. W. Higman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Pp. xxxiii, 781. $65.00.

The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History. By Kenneth F. Kiple. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xiii, 274. $32.50.

Yucatan's Gilded Age: Haciendas, Henequen, and International Harvester, 1860–1915. By Allen Wells. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 239. $27.50.

Juan Vincente Gómez and the Oil Companies in Venezuela, 1908–1935. By B. S. McBeth. Cambridge Latin American Studies, No. 43. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 275. $49.50.

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England. By Thomas C. Hubka. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1984. Pp. xiv, 226. $35.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Shaping a Maritime Empire: The Commercial and Diplomatic Role of the American Navy, 1829–1861. By John H. Schroeder. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 229. $35.00.

American Farm Tools from Hand-Power to Steam-Power. By R. Douglas Hurt. Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 1982. Pp. 121. $20.00 cloth, $9.95 paper.

Robert Fulton: A Biography. By Cynthia Owen Philip. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1985. Pp.xii, 371. $18.95.

The Origins of Public High Schools: A Reexamination of the Beverly High School Contoversy. By Maris A. Vinovskis. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. Pp, xiv, 172. $27.50.

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