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Volume 46 - September 1986

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Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England. By Thomas C. Hubka. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1984. Pp. xiv, 226. $35.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Steel City: Urban and Ethnic Patterns in Gary, Indiana, 1906–1950. Raymond A. Mohl and Neil Betten. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1986. Pp. x, 227. $32.50 cloth, $23.50 paper.

Asia and Latin America - Technology and Agricultural Development in Pre-War Japan. By Penelope Francks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Pp. xiii, 322. - Kikkoman: Company, Clan and Community. By W. Mark Fruin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 358. $30.00.

Growth against Development: The Economic Impact of Railroads in Porfirian Mexico. By John H. Coatsworth. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1981. Pp. xvii, 249.

Subject to Famine: Food Crises and Economic Change in Western India, 1860–1920. By Michelle Burge McAlpin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. xvi, 288. $35.00.

Shaping a Maritime Empire: The Commercial and Diplomatic Role of the American Navy, 1829–1861. By John H. Schroeder. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 229. $35.00.

The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise, and Reality. By Jon C. Teaford. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Pp.x. 177. $20.00 cloth, $8.95 paper.

The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Towards the Consumer Society in America, 1865–1940. By Daniel Horowitz. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1985. Pp. xxxi, 254. $26.50.

American Farm Tools from Hand-Power to Steam-Power. By R. Douglas Hurt. Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 1982. Pp. 121. $20.00 cloth, $9.95 paper.

An Indian Rural Economy, 1880–1955: The Tamilnad Countryside. By Christopher John Baker. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. xvi, 616. $45.00.

The Health Revolution in Cuba. By Sergio Díaz-Briquets. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983. Pp. xv, 227. $19.95.

Fair Play in the Marketplace: The First Battle for Pure Food and Drugs. By Mitchell Okun. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986. Pp. xv, 345. $27.50.

The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth–Century Ch'ing China. By Madeleine Zelin. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1984. Pp. xviii, 385. $35.00.

Robert Fulton: A Biography. By Cynthia Owen Philip. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1985. Pp.xii, 371. $18.95.

Coffee and Capitalism in the Venezuelan Andes. By William Roseberry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983. Pp. xv, 256. $22.50.

Strategic Uses of Public Policy: Business and Government in the Progressive Era. By Donna J. Wood, Marshfield: Pitman Publishing, 1986. Pp. xiii, 258. $26.95.

United States and Canada - The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America. By John Bodnar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985. Pp. xxi, 294. $27.50.

The Origins of Public High Schools: A Reexamination of the Beverly High School Contoversy. By Maris A. Vinovskis. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. Pp, xiv, 172. $27.50.

United States and Canada - The Economy of British America, 1607–1789. By John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard. Needs and Opportunities Series, The Institute of Early American History and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Pp. xxiv, 485. $35.00.

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