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Volume 50 - December 1990

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Reviews of Books

Business in the Age of Reason. Edited by R. T. P. Davenport-Hines and Jonathan Liebenau. London: Frank Cass, 1989. Pp. ix, 150. $29.50.
Eric S. Schubert
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03 March 2009, pp. 467-468
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Rising Damp: Sydney, 1870–90. By Shirley Fitzgerald. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xvi, 264. $42.50.
John C. Brown
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03 March 2009, pp. 208-209
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Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century France: Assuring the Future Harvest. By Lee Shai Weissbach. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press1989. Pp. xv, 268. $35.00.
Carolyn Tuttle
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03 March 2009, pp. 737-739
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The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier. By Alan Gallay. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. Pp. xx, 282.$35.00.
Lorena S. Walsh
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03 March 2009, pp. 976-978
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No Paradise for Workers: Capitalism and the Common People in Australia, 1788–1914. By Ken Buckley and Ted Wheelwright. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. vii, 296. $42.50.
Frank D. Lewis
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03 March 2009, pp. 209-210
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Housing in Urban Britain, 1780–1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction. By Richard Rodger. London: Macmillan Education Ltd., 1989. Pp. vii, 90. $9.95, paper.
Gail Radford
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03 March 2009, pp. 468-470
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Reconversions de Ia main-d'oeuvre et transition démographique: Les bassins industriels en aval de Liège XVIIe-XX Me siécles. By René Leboutte. Paris: Sociéeté d'Edition “Les Belles Lettres”1988. pp. 519.
Elinor Accampo
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03 March 2009, pp. 739-740
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A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America. By Cathy D. Matson and Peter S. Onuf. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990. Pp. x, 237.$25.00.
Jack N. Rakove
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03 March 2009, pp. 978-979
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Latin America - The Leverage of Labor: Managing the Cortés Haciendas in Tehuantepec, 1588–1688. By Lolita Gutiérrez Brockington. Durham: Duke University Press, 1989. Pp. xxv, 245. $42.00.
John Frederick Schwaller
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03 March 2009, pp. 211-212
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Prato: Storia di una città. Volume 3, Parts I and 2: Ii tempo dell'industria (1815–1943). Edited by Giorgio Mon. Florence: Le Monnier, 1988. pp. xiv, 1563. L.380,000.
Francesco L. Galassi
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03 March 2009, pp. 740-741
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The Engineers: A History of the Engineering Profession in Britain, 1750–1914. By R. A. Buchanan. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1989. Pp. 240. £25.
Eric Robinson
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03 March 2009, pp. 470-471
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Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Countiy Life among the Boston Elite, 1785–1860. By Tamara Plakins Thornton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 244.$29.95.
Gary J. Kornblith
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03 March 2009, pp. 979-980
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Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840–68. By Grace Palladino. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 195. $26.50.
Phillip S. Paludan
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03 March 2009, pp. 980-982
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British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams. Edited by Barbara L. Solow and Stanley L. Engerman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 345. $29.95.
Russell R. Menard
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03 March 2009, pp. 212-213
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A Social and Economic History of Central European Jewry. Edited by Yehuda Don and Victor Karady. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1990. pp. viii, 262. $34.95.
Charles E. McClelland
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03 March 2009, pp. 741-742
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Peasants, Politicians and Producers: The Organisation of Agriculture in France Since 1918. By M. C. Cleary. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. ix, 209.
George Grantham
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03 March 2009, pp. 471-472
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Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890–1940. By Stephen H. Haber. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 238. $35.00.
Steven Topik
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03 March 2009, pp. 213-214
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Joy in Work, German Work: The National Debate, 1800–1945. By Joan Campbell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp. xi, 431. $37.50.
Helena Waddy Lepovitz
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Proletarian Peasants: The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest. By Robert Edelman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. pp. xv, 195. $28.95, cloth; $9.95, paper. - Violence and Great Estates in the South of Italy: Apulia, 1900–1922. By Frank M. Snowden. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. pp. x, 245. $42.50.
William J. Kelly
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03 March 2009, pp. 743-744
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Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation, and the American Civil War. By Roger L. Ransom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xv, 317. $39.50. cloth: $12.95, paper.
James M. McPherson
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03 March 2009, pp. 982-984
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Reviews of Books

Business in the Age of Reason. Edited by R. T. P. Davenport-Hines and Jonathan Liebenau. London: Frank Cass, 1989. Pp. ix, 150. $29.50.

Rising Damp: Sydney, 1870–90. By Shirley Fitzgerald. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xvi, 264. $42.50.

Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century France: Assuring the Future Harvest. By Lee Shai Weissbach. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press1989. Pp. xv, 268. $35.00.

The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier. By Alan Gallay. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. Pp. xx, 282.$35.00.

No Paradise for Workers: Capitalism and the Common People in Australia, 1788–1914. By Ken Buckley and Ted Wheelwright. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. vii, 296. $42.50.

Housing in Urban Britain, 1780–1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction. By Richard Rodger. London: Macmillan Education Ltd., 1989. Pp. vii, 90. $9.95, paper.

Reconversions de Ia main-d'oeuvre et transition démographique: Les bassins industriels en aval de Liège XVIIe-XX Me siécles. By René Leboutte. Paris: Sociéeté d'Edition “Les Belles Lettres”1988. pp. 519.

A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America. By Cathy D. Matson and Peter S. Onuf. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990. Pp. x, 237.$25.00.

Latin America - The Leverage of Labor: Managing the Cortés Haciendas in Tehuantepec, 1588–1688. By Lolita Gutiérrez Brockington. Durham: Duke University Press, 1989. Pp. xxv, 245. $42.00.

Prato: Storia di una città. Volume 3, Parts I and 2: Ii tempo dell'industria (1815–1943). Edited by Giorgio Mon. Florence: Le Monnier, 1988. pp. xiv, 1563. L.380,000.

The Engineers: A History of the Engineering Profession in Britain, 1750–1914. By R. A. Buchanan. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1989. Pp. 240. £25.

Cultivating Gentlemen: The Meaning of Countiy Life among the Boston Elite, 1785–1860. By Tamara Plakins Thornton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 244.$29.95.

Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840–68. By Grace Palladino. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 195. $26.50.

British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams. Edited by Barbara L. Solow and Stanley L. Engerman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. x, 345. $29.95.

A Social and Economic History of Central European Jewry. Edited by Yehuda Don and Victor Karady. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1990. pp. viii, 262. $34.95.

Peasants, Politicians and Producers: The Organisation of Agriculture in France Since 1918. By M. C. Cleary. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. ix, 209.

Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890–1940. By Stephen H. Haber. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 238. $35.00.

Joy in Work, German Work: The National Debate, 1800–1945. By Joan Campbell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp. xi, 431. $37.50.

Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation, and the American Civil War. By Roger L. Ransom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xv, 317. $39.50. cloth: $12.95, paper.

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