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Volume 47 - December 1987

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Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750–1950. By Judith Walzer Leavitt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 284. $21.95.

The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota. By Michael Cusumano. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. xxi, 487. $25.00.

This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860–1910. By Sucheng Chan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. xxv, 503. $40.00.

Prohibition in Kansas: A History. By Robert Smith Bader. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1986. Pp. xiii, 322. $19.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.

Fordson, Farmall, and Poppin' Johnny: A History of the Farm Tractor and Its Impact on America. By Robert C. Williams. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 232. $24.95.

The Mills of Manayunk: Industrialization and Social Conflict in the Philadelphia Region, 1787–1837. By Cynthia J. Shelton. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 227. $26.50.

Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890–1913. By James Livingston. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986. Pp. 250. $27.50.

Financial Development in Korea, 1945–1978. By David C. Cole and Yung Chul Park. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1983. Pp. xxii, 349. $15.00 cloth.

For Bread with Butter: The Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1890–1940. By Ewa Morawska. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xvii, 429. $39.50.

The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. By James R. Beniger. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. Pp. xi, 493. $25.00.

Prime Cut: Livestock Raising and Meatpacking in the United States, 1607–1983. By Jimmy M. Skaggs. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 263. $28.50.

Traders, Planters, and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America. By David W. Galenson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 230. $34.50.

Work Sights: Industrial Philadelphia, 1890–1950. By Philip Scranton and Walter Licht. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. Pp. 279. $29.95.

Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century. By Louise Carroll Wade. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 423. $32.50.

Rohm and Haas: History of a Chemical Company. By Sheldon Hochheiser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 231. $19.95.

The Brookings Institution, 1916–1952: Expertise and the Public Interest in a Democratic Society. By Donald T. Critchlow. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 247. $23.00.

Between Slavery and Free Labor: The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Manuel Moreno Fraginals, Frank Moya Pons, and Stanley L. Engerman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, Pp. vii, 294. $30.00.

Making Their Own Way: Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916–30. By Peter Gottlieb. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987, Pp. xiii, 250. $26.95.

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