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Volume 17 - December 1957

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The New World of Henri Saint-Simon. By Frank E. Manuel. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. 433. $7.50.

Labor and Population - The Rise of the National Trade Union: The Development and Significance of Its Structure, Governing Institutions, and Economic Policies. By Lloyd Ulman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. xiii, 639. $9.50.

Réaumur's Memoirs on Steel and Iron. A translation from the original printed in 1722 by Anneliese Grünhaldt Sisco. Edited with an introduction and notes by Cyril Stanley Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956. Pp. xxxiv, 396, plus 17 plates with explanations. $6.00

Money and Prices - The Present Position of Central Banks. By Sir Theodore Gregory. (The 1955 Stamp Memorial Lecture.) London: University of London, 1955; New York: John de Graff, Inc., 1956. Pp. 25. 2s 6d.

Money, Prices, and Civilization in the Mediterranean World: Fifth to Seventeenth Century. By Carlo M Cipolla. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956. Pp. x, 75. $2.50.

Les Algériens en France: étude démographique et sociale. (Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques, Cahier No. 24.) Paris: Presses Universitaires, 1955. Pp. 166. Fr. 600.

Empire in Wood: A History of the Carpenters' Union. By Robert A. Christie. (Published by the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor Relations: Volume VII.) Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1956. Pp. xvii, 356. $4.50.

Historical Atlas. Edited by William R. Shepherd. 8th ed.; Pikesville, Md.: The Colonial Offset Co.; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1956. Pp. xii, 115. $12.50. - Westermanns Atlas zur Weltgeschichte. Brunswick: Georg Westermanns Verlag, 1956. Pp. 160. DM 22.50.

Rassegna della stampa—problemi fiscali. Associazione fra le Societa Italiene per Azione, Director, Dott. Francesco Coppola D'Anna; Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Cesare Cosciani. (Piazza Venezia No. 11.) Rome: 1956. Annual subscription, L. 5,000; separate issues, L. 500.

Immigrants and Their Children, 1850–1950. By E. P. Hutchinson. (For the Social Science Research Council in cooperation with the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.) New York and London: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1956. Pp. xiv, 391. $6.50.

The Great Burlington Strike of 1888: A Case History in Labor Relations. By Donald L. McMurry. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. xii, 377. $6.00.

Population and Labor - Trend of Employment in the Service Industries. By George J. Stigler (A Study of the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956. Pp. xviii, 167. $3.75.

Canada's Immigration Policy, A Critique. By David C. Corbett. (Published under the Auspices of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957. Pp. xiii, 215. $4.00.

Continental and Colonial Servants in Eighteenth Century England. By J. Jean Hecht. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XL.) Northampton, Mass.: Department of History of Smith College, 1954. Pp. iv, 61. $1.25.

The Hawaiian Labor Movement: A Brief History. By Edward Johannessen. Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1956. Pp. 181. $3.75.

The Evolution of Wage Structure. By Lloyd G. Reynolds and Cynthia H. Taft. (Yale Studies in Economics, 6.) New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. Pp. xii, 398. $5.00.

The Enforcement of English Apprenticeship, 1563-1642. By Margaret Gay Davies. (Harvard Economic Studies, Vol. XCVII.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. 301. $6.00.

Labor on the March. By Edward Levinson. Introduction by Walter P. Reuther. Foreword by James T. Farrell. New York: University Books, 1956. Pp. xxii, 325. $3.50.

Food and Inflation in the Middle East, 1940–45. By E. M. H. Lloyd. (A publication of the Food Research Institute of Stanford University.) Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1956. Pp. 375. $6.00.

The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity. By William L. Westermann. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1955. Pp. 180. $3.00.

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