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Volume 39 - December 1979

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The Economic Rise of Early America. By Gary M. Walton and James F. Shepherd. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. x, 226. $19.95 cloth, $4.95 paper.

Joshua Johnson's Letterbook 1771–1774: Letters from a Merchant in London to His Partners in Maryland. Edited by Jacob M. Price. London: London Record Society, 1979. Pp. xxviii, 182. Ł 10 (to non-members of the London Record Society).

Les Forêts de la Cote dʼOr au XlXème siècle et l'utilisation de leurs produits. By Arlette Brosselin. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xxxvii, 263. $28.00.

Dependency and Development in Latin America. By Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto. Translated by Marjory Mattingly Urquidi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Pp. vii, 227. $ 18.50 cloth, $4.50 paper.

Mexican Agriculture, 1521–1630: Transformation of the Mode of Production. By Andre Gunder Frank. Studies in Modern Capitalism. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 91. $13.95.

Les raffineries de sucre des ports en France, XlXe-début du XXe siècles. By Jacques Fierain. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 632. $42.00.

Tench Coxe and the Early Republic. By Jacob E. Cooke. The Institute of Early American History and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 573. $25.00.

Sugar and the Underdevelopment of Northeastern Brazil, 1500–1970. By Kit Sims Taylor. Gainesville: The University Presses of Florida, 1978. Pp. x, 167. $9.00.

Artisans and the New Republic: The Tradesmen of New York City in the Age of Jefferson. By Howard B. Rock. New York: New York University Press. 1979. Pp. xviii, 340. $17.50.

Les Agences régionales du Crédit Lyonnais, années 1870–1914. By Jacques Dagneau. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. xx, 485; appendices. $45.00.

Taxation and Political Change in the Young Nation, 1781–1833. By Dall W. Forsythe. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp. x, 167. $15.00.

The Merchants of Buenos Aires, 1778–1810: Family and Commerce. By Susan Migden Socolow. Cambridge Latin American Studies, 30. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 253. $22.50.

La Politique des grands travaux en France, 1929–1939: Grands travaux et investissements publics des années trente dans la tradition administrative française. By Pierre Saly. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 601. $27.00.

An Economic History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century. By Laura Randall. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. x, 323. $17.50.

Family and Population in Nineteenth-Century American. Edited by Tamara K. Hareven and Maris A. Vinovskis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 250. $25.00 cloth, $9.75 paper.

La Mortalité dans les campagnes: Le duché de Brabant aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. 2 volumes. By Claude Bruneel. Recueil de Travaux d'Histoire et de Philologie, series 6, fasc. 10. Louvain: Editions Nauwelaerts, 1977. Pp. lxiv, 777; 97 (maps, graphs). FrB 1800.

City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development. By Roberta Balstad Miller. Contributions in American History, No. 77. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 179. $17.50.

Coffee and Conflict in Colombia, 1886–1910. By Charles W. Bergquist. Durham: Duke University Press, 1978. Pp. x, 277. $16.75.

Kernproblemen der Economische Geschiedenis. Edited by H. Baudet and H. Van Der Meulen. Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1978. Pp. xi, 404. DF 45.

The Origins of Central Banking in the United States. By Richard H. Timberlake Jr. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. ix, 272. $18.50.

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