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Volume 39 - December 1979

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British Business and Ghanaian Independence. By Josephine F. Milbourn. Hanover, N.H.: The University Press of New England, 1977. Pp. ix, 156; tables, index. $12.50.

Imperialism: From the Colonial Age to the Present. By Harry Magdoff. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1978. Pp. 279. $12.50.

Late Capitalism. By Ernest Mandel. Translated by Joris De Pres. London: NLB (Verso Edition), 1978; distributed in the USA and Canada by Schocken Books. Pp. 618. $9.95.

The New Economic History of the Railways. By Patrick O'Brien. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. Pp. 121. $13.95.

The Spanish Caribbean: Trade and Plunder, 1530–1630. By Kenneth R. Andrews. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 258. $17.50.

The World Automotive Industry. By Gerald Bloomfield. North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles, 1978. Pp. 368. $32.50.

Silver Mines and Silver Miners in Colonial Peru, 1776–1824. By J. R. Fisher. Centre for Latin-American Studies Monograph Series, no. 7. Liverpool: The University of Liverpool, 1977. Pp. 151. £2.75.

Induced Innovation: Technology, Innovation, Institutions, and Development. By Hans P. Binswanger and Vernon W. Rutten. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 423. $22.50.

Estratificación socio-racial y económica de Costa Rica: 1700–1850. By Lowell Gudmundson Kristjanson. San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia, 1978. Pp. 178.

British Overseas Investment, 1918–1931. By John Michael Atkin. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arao Press, 1977. Pp. viii, 351. $28.00.

In Pursuit of Happiness: American Perceptions of Property from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. By William B. Scott. Bloomington: Indiana' University Press, 1977. Pp. xi, 244.

Bretton Woods: Birth of a Monetary System. By Armand Van Dormael. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1978. Pp. xi, 322. $21.00. - Floating Exchange Rates and National Economic Policy. By Stanley W. Black. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. xvii, 204. $12.95.

The Promise of American Life: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century Immigrant Community, Holland, Michigan, 1847–1894. By Gordon W. Kirk Jr. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1978. Pp. 164. $8.00.

Twenty-Five Years of Economic Development, 1950–1975. By David Morawetz. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 125. $3.50. - Image and Reality in Economic Development. By Lloyd G. Reynolds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. xiii, 497. $25.00.

Fortunes and Failures: White Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. By Peter R. Decker. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978. Pp. xvi, 336. $20.00.

Old Age in the New Land: The American Experience since 1790. By W. Andrew Achenbaum. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1979. Pp. xii, 237. $13.95.

The Rise of Professionalism: A Sociological Analysis. By Magali Sarfati Larson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xviii, 309. $14.95.

Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America. By David M. Katzman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. xviii, 374. $14.95.

The Demise of a Rural Economy. By Stephen Gudeman. International Library of Anthropology. London, Henley, and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. Pp. vii, 176. $16.50.

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