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Volume 16 - December 1956

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The Economic Development of Van Diemen's Land: 1820–1850. By R. M. Hartwell. Melbourne University Press; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1954. Pp. 273. $6.00. - The Peaks of Lyell. By Geoffrey Blainey. Melbourne University Press; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 290. $5.00.

Money and Prices - British Public Finances. Their Structure and Development, 1880–1952. By Ursula K. Hicks. (Home University Library of Modern Knowledge.) London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. Pp. viii, 225. $1.00.

The Southern Claims Commission. By Frank W. Klingberg. (University of California Publications in History, Vol. L., J. S. Galbraith, R. N. Burr, and Brainerd Dyer, eds.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955. Pp. ix, 261. $3.50.

The Great Experiment: An Introduction to the History of the American People. By Frank Thistlethwaite. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1955. Pp. xiv, 335. $5.00.

The Road to Spindletop: Economic Change in Texas, 1875–1901. By John S. Spratt. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1955. Pp. xxix, 337. $5.00.

The London Capital Market: Its Structures, Strains and Management. By Norman Macrae. London: Staples Press, Ltd.; New York: John de Graff, Inc., 1955. Pp. 285. $6.00.

Political Change and Industrial Development in Japan: Government Enterprise, 1868–1880. By Thomas C. Smith. (Stanford University Series, History, Economics, and Political Science, Volume X) Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1955. Pp. viii, 126, Paper $2.50.

The Chinese Gentry: Studies on their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society. By Chung-li Chang. Introduction by Franz Michael. (University of Washington Publications on Asia, sponsored by the Far Eastern and Russian Institute.) Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955. Pp. xxi, 250. $5.75.

Prix et monnaies au Portugal, 1750–1850. By Vitorino Magalhães Godinho. (Publication of the Centre de Recherches historiques of the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, VIe Section, Paris.) Paris: Armand Colin, 1955. Pp. xvi, 371, folding map and graphs. 1,400 francs.

Country Banking in the Industrial Revolution. By L. S. Pressnell. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. Pp. xvi, 591. $11.20.

Population and Labor - Earnings of Cotton Mill Operatives, 1825–1914. By Robert G. Layer. (Publication of the Committee on Research in Economic History, Inc.) Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. ix, 71. $2.75.

Great Britain and the United States. By H. C. Allen. New York: St Martin's Press Inc., 1955. Pp. 1024. $10.00.

Problems Historical and Numismatic in the Reign of Augustus. By H. R. W. Smith. (University of California Publications in Classical Archaeology, Vol. II, No. 4.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1951. Pp. x, 133–230. $1.00.

Standard of Living in India and Pakistan 1931–32 to 1940–41. By R. C. Desai. Bombay: Popular Book Depot, 1953. Pp. xvii, 286. Rs. 20.

The Rise of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles. By Grace Heilman Stimson. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955. Pp. xvi, 529. $6.00.

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Population and Labor - The Industrial Worker in Pennsylvania, 1800–1840. By William A. Sullivan. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1955. Pp. vii, 253. $3.25.

Scientific Management and the Unions, 1900–1932: A Historical Analysis. By Milton J. Nadworny. (Publication of the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, Harvard University.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. vii, 187. $3.75.

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