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Volume 46 - September 1986

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The Poor and the City: The English Poor Law in its Urban Context, 1834–1914. Edited by E. Rose Michael. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp. xi, 175. $29.95.

On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. By Clarence L. Mohr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. Pp. xxiv, 397. $35.00.

Years of Recovery: British Economic Policy, 1945–51. By Alec Cairncross. New York: Methuen, 1985. Pp. xiv, 527. $59.95.

Slavery's End in Tennessee, 1861–1865. By John Cimprich. University: The University of Alabama Press, 1985. Pp. x, 191. $24.50.

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.

History and Heritage: The Social Origins of the British Industrial Relations System. By Alan Fox. Winchester, Mass.: George Allen & Unwin, 1985. Pp. xiii, 481. $42.50.

An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865–1918. By John David Smith. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 315. $35.00.

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.

Sterling in Decline: The Devaluations of 1931, 1949 and 1967. By Alec Cairncross and Barry Eichengreen. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983. Pp. vii, 261. $34.95 cloth; $12.95 paper.

Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War. By Gavin Wright. New York: Basic Books, Inc.1986. Pp. x, 321. $19.95.

Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France: State Power and Provincial Aristocracy in Languedoc. By William Beik. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xviii, 375. $44.50.

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.

Le marché foncier à la veille de la Révolution. Les mouvements de propriété beaucerons dans les régions de Maintenon et de Janville de 1761 à 1790. By Gérard Béaur. Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1984. Pp. 359. 170 francs.

The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America. Edited by Steven Hahn and Jonathan Prude. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 355. $32.00.

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

Provisioning Paris: Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade During the Eighteenth Century. By Steven Laurence Kaplan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984. Pp. 666. $39.95.

Empire coloniale et capitalisme français: Histoire d'un divorce. By Jacques Marseille. Paris: Albin Michel, 1984, Pp. 449.

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