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Volume 55 - Winter 1981

Book Reviews

The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869–1920. By Michael B. Miller. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1981. Pp. xii + 266. $13.50.

Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina. By Anthony J. Badger. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Pp. xviii + 295. $20.00.

The Public Eye: Television and the Politics of Canadian Broadcasting 1952–1968. By Frank W. Peers. Buffalo, University of Toronto Press, 1979. Pp. xvi + 459. $25.00.

Bibliographic Guide to Business and Economics: 1979. Boston, Mass., G.K. Hall & Company, 1979. Vol. 1, 834 Pp.; Vol. 2, 827 Pp.; Vol. 3, 844 Pp. $205.00.

History of Western Oil Shale. By Paul L. Russell. East Brunswick, N.J., The Center for Professional Advancement, 1980. Pp. xxii + 152. $49.50.

The Story of the Steam Plough Works: Fowlers of Leeds. By Michael R. Lane. Warrendale, PA, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1980. Pp. xii + 410. $55.00.

C. & J. Clark, 1833–1903. A History of Shoe Making in Street, Somerset. By George Barry Sutton. York, William Sessions, 1979. Pp. viii + 208. £4.95.

The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. By Daniel R. Headrick. New York, Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. x + 221. $14.95, cloth; $6.95, paper.

Die Industrieaktiengesellschaft in Österreich, 1880–1913. By Alois Mosser. Vienna, Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1980. Pp. 338. DM 85.

Arms and the Men: The Arms Trade and Governments. By Basil Collier. North Pomfret, Vermont, Hamish Hamilton, 1980. Pp. xii + 315. $34.00.

Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939–1945. By Leila J. Rupp. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. 243. $12.50.

Coal and Tobacco: The Lowthers and the Economic Development of West Cumberland, 1660–1760. By J. V. Beckett. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xiii + 279. $47.50.

The Economist in Parliament, 1780–1868. By Frank Whitson Fetter. Durham, Duke University Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 306. $18.75. - The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815–1848. By Maxine Berg. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. x + 379. $35.00.

Traffic and Transport: An Economic History of Pickfords. By Gerard L. Turnbull. Winchester, Mass., Allen & Unwin, 1980. Pp. xii + 196. $27.50.

TUC: The Growth of a Pressure Group 1868–1976. By Ross M. Martin. New York, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. xiii + 394. $42.00.

Courtaulds: An Economic and Social History. Volume III: Crisis and Change, 1940–1965. By D.C. Coleman. New York, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 345. $44.00.

Picking Up the Linen Threads: A Study in Industrial Folklore. By Betty Messenger. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1978. Pp. xiv + 265. $15.95.

Big Business in China: Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry, 1890–1930. By Sherman Cochran. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1980. Pp. x + 332. $20.00.

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