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Volume 53 - Issue 1 - March 1993

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The Bread of Affliction: The Food Supply in the USSR During World War II. By William Moskoff. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xvi, 256. $49.50.
James R. Millar
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03 March 2009, pp. 176-178
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The British Economy Since 1945: Economic Policy and Performance, 1945–1990. By Alec Cairncross. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Pp. xiii, 338. £12.99. - The Development of the British Economy: 1914–1990. By Sidney Pollard. London: Edward Arnold, 1992. Pp. ix, 437. £15.99.
Jim Tomlinson
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03 March 2009, pp. 178-179
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Asia - Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840–1950. By Kathryn Bernhardt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 326. $37.50.
Barbara Sands
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03 March 2009, pp. 179-181
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United States and Canada - Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice. By Susan Archer Mann. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 211. $29.95.
William H. Phillips
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03 March 2009, pp. 181-182
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Traders and Gentlefolk, The Livingstons of New York, 1665–1790. By Cynthia A. Kierner. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. xvi, 283. $39.95.
Cathy Matson
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03 March 2009, pp. 183-184
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Aspirations & Anxieties: New England Workers & the Mechanized Factory System, 1815–1860. By David A. Zonderman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. viii, 357. $45.00.
Daniel Nelson
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03 March 2009, pp. 184-185
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The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture after Slavery. Edited by Frank McGlynn and Seymour Drescher. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. Pp. viii, 333. $44.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.
J. William Harris
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03 March 2009, pp. 185-186
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The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713–1861. By John Brooke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. vii, 446. $34.50.
Brendan McConville
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03 March 2009, pp. 186-187
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Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833–1872. By Robin L. Einhorn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 295. $34.95.
Howard P. Chudacoff
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03 March 2009, pp. 187-189
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Making Iron and Steel: Independent Mills in Pittsburgh, 1820–1920. By John Ingham. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 297. $45.00.
Thomas K. McCraw
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03 March 2009, pp. 189-190
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Knights of the Plow: Oliver H. Kelley and the Origins of the Grange in Republican Ideology. By Thomas A. Woods. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991. Pp. xxii, 254. $26.95.
Anne Mayhew
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03 March 2009, pp. 190-191
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Mainstreet in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains. By Catherine McNicol Stock. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 305. $37.50.
Roger Lambert
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03 March 2009, pp. 191-192
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Montana: A History of Two Centuries. By Michael P. Malone, Richard B. Roeder, and William L. Land. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 466. $40.00.
Mary Yeager
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03 March 2009, pp. 192-194
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The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in U.S. History in the Progressive Era and the 1920s. By Martin J. Sklar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 238. $49.95, cloth; $14.95, paper.
Robert Higgs
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03 March 2009, pp. 194-195
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The Great Myths of 1929 and the Lessons to Be Learned. By Harold BiermanJr., Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 202. $39.95.
Richard S. Grossman
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03 March 2009, pp. 195-196
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From New Day to New Deal: American Farm Policy from Hoover to Roosevelt, 1928–1933. By David E. Hamilton. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 333. $39.95.
Robert Charles Graham
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03 March 2009, pp. 196-197
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Cargill: Trading the World's Grain. By Wayne G. BroehlJr. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1992. Pp. xx, 1007. $35.00.
Mansel G. Blackford
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03 March 2009, pp. 197-198
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Forging the Military-Industrial Complex: World War II's Battle of the Potomac. By Gregory Hooks. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 303. $39.95.
David J. St. Clair
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03 March 2009, pp. 198-199
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Power at Cost: Ontario Hydro and Rural Electrification, 1911–1958. By Keith R. Fleming. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 326. $39.95.
Peter Wylie
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03 March 2009, pp. 199-201
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Close Ties: Railways, Government, and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1851–1933. By Ken Cruikshank. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv, 287. $44.95.
Frank Lewis
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03 March 2009, pp. 201-202
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The Bread of Affliction: The Food Supply in the USSR During World War II. By William Moskoff. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xvi, 256. $49.50.

The British Economy Since 1945: Economic Policy and Performance, 1945–1990. By Alec Cairncross. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Pp. xiii, 338. £12.99. - The Development of the British Economy: 1914–1990. By Sidney Pollard. London: Edward Arnold, 1992. Pp. ix, 437. £15.99.

Asia - Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840–1950. By Kathryn Bernhardt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 326. $37.50.

United States and Canada - Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice. By Susan Archer Mann. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 211. $29.95.

Traders and Gentlefolk, The Livingstons of New York, 1665–1790. By Cynthia A. Kierner. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. xvi, 283. $39.95.

Aspirations & Anxieties: New England Workers & the Mechanized Factory System, 1815–1860. By David A. Zonderman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. viii, 357. $45.00.

The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture after Slavery. Edited by Frank McGlynn and Seymour Drescher. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. Pp. viii, 333. $44.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.

The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713–1861. By John Brooke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. vii, 446. $34.50.

Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833–1872. By Robin L. Einhorn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 295. $34.95.

Making Iron and Steel: Independent Mills in Pittsburgh, 1820–1920. By John Ingham. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 297. $45.00.

Knights of the Plow: Oliver H. Kelley and the Origins of the Grange in Republican Ideology. By Thomas A. Woods. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991. Pp. xxii, 254. $26.95.

Mainstreet in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains. By Catherine McNicol Stock. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 305. $37.50.

Montana: A History of Two Centuries. By Michael P. Malone, Richard B. Roeder, and William L. Land. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 466. $40.00.

The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in U.S. History in the Progressive Era and the 1920s. By Martin J. Sklar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 238. $49.95, cloth; $14.95, paper.

The Great Myths of 1929 and the Lessons to Be Learned. By Harold BiermanJr., Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 202. $39.95.

From New Day to New Deal: American Farm Policy from Hoover to Roosevelt, 1928–1933. By David E. Hamilton. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 333. $39.95.

Cargill: Trading the World's Grain. By Wayne G. BroehlJr. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1992. Pp. xx, 1007. $35.00.

Forging the Military-Industrial Complex: World War II's Battle of the Potomac. By Gregory Hooks. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 303. $39.95.

Power at Cost: Ontario Hydro and Rural Electrification, 1911–1958. By Keith R. Fleming. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 326. $39.95.

Close Ties: Railways, Government, and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1851–1933. By Ken Cruikshank. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv, 287. $44.95.

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