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Volume 16 - December 1956

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The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It. By Richard N. Current. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1954. Pp. 149. $3.50.

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A Comparative Analysis of Economic Development in the American West and South *

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History of American Merchant Seamen. By Elmo Paul Hohman. Hamden, Conn.: The Shoe String Press, 1956. Pp. viii, 125. $3.50.

Merchants, Farmers, and Railroads: Railroad Regulation and New York Politics, 1850–1887. By Lee Benson. (Harvard Studies in Economic History, published in co-operation with The Committee on Research in Economic History.) Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 310. $5.50.

The Empire of Oil. By Harvey O'Connor. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 372. $5.00.

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The Changing Pattern of American Economic Development

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Small Business in Brass Fabricating: The Smith & Griggs Manufacturing Co. of Waterbury. By Theodore F. Marburg. New York: New York University Press, 1956. Pp. xii, 116. $5.00.

Trucks, Trouble, and Triumph—The Norwalk Truck Line Company. By Wayne G. BroehlJr. (An Indiana University School of Business Report.) New York: Prentice-Hall, 1954. Pp. xiii, 228. $5.50.

The History of the National Association of Insurance Agents: Fifty-Eight Years of a Stabilizing Force in Insurance. By Walter H. Bennett, Cincinnati: The National Underwriter Company, 1954. Pp. 275.

The Mexican Petroleum Industry, 1938–1950. By J. Richard Powell. (Publication of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of California.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956. Pp. xiv, 269. $4.00.

Nathan Trotter, Philadelphia Merchant, 1787–1853. By Elva Tooker. (Harvard Studies in Business History XVIII.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. xvii, 276. $6.00.

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Index to Volume XVI

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The Railroads of the South 1865–1900, A Study in Finance and Control. By John F. Stover. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1955. Pp. xviii, 310. $5.00.

The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century. By Bernard Bailyn. (Studies in Entrepreneurial History, published in co-operation with the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, Harvard University.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 249. $4.75.

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JEH Volume 16 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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Occupational Mobility in American Business and Industry 1928–1952. By W. Lloyd Warner and James C. Abegglen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955. Pp. xxi, 315. $5.50.

History of Economic Thought - Economics and Liberalism—Collected Papers. By O. H. Taylor. (Harvard Economic Studies, Vol. XCVI). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. 321. $5.00.

The Canadian Nickel Industry, A Study in Market Control and Public Policy. By O. W. Main. (Canadian Studies in Economics, Number 4.) Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1955. Pp. ix, 168. $3.25

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JEH Volume 16 issue 4 Cover and Back matter

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The Power to Go: The Story of the Automotive Industry. By Merrill Denison. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company, Inc. Pp. 324. $5.00.

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