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Volume 71 - Winter 1997

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Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital and Technology in Britain and America. By Gary Bryan Magee · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi + 293 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0521581974.

The History of the Distillers Company, 1877–1939. By R. B. Weir · New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xxii + 417 pp. Bibliography and index. $80.00. ISBN 0-19-828867-0.

Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America. By Stuart D. Brandes · Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1997. 371 pp. Tables, appendices, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-8131-2020-9.

The Life of Herbert Hoover: Master of Emergencies, 1917–1918. ByGeorge H. Nash · New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. xiii + 656 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0–393–03841–6.

Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897–1927. By Niall Ferguson · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ix + 539. Appendix, bibliography, and index. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-47016.

Industry and Air Power: The Expansion of British Aircraft Production, 1935–41. By Sebastian Ritchie · London: Frank Cass, 1997. xvi + 283 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, index of aircraft and aero-engines, and general index. $49.50. ISBN 0714647241

Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. ByRonald C. Tobey · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 334 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, bibliography and index. $35.00. ISBN 0–520–20421–2.

Horse-drawn Cabs and Omnibuses in Paris: The Idea of Circulation and the Business of Public Transit. By Nicholas Papayanis · Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xiv + 217 pp. Tables, photographs, sources, and index. $49.50. ISBN 08071-2043-X.

The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History. ByDavid Hackett Fischer · New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii + 536 pp. Figures, bibliographical references and index. $30.00. ISBN 0–1950–5377–X.

The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780–1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence. By Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt · New York: Routledge, 1995. xi + 296 pp. Notes, further reading, and index. $75.00. ISBN 0-415-11882-4.

European Enterprise: Strategies of Adaptation and Renewal in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Margarita Dritsas and Terry Gourvish · Athens, Greece: Trochalia Publications, 1997. 310 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and index. ISBN 9607809025.

The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England. ByRichard Grassby · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xxx + 615 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $74.95. ISBN 0–521–43450–5.

Rationalisierung und Industriearbeit: Arbeitsmarkt, Management, Arbeiterschaft im Siemens Konzern, 1900–1939. By Heidrun Homburg · Berlin: Haude & Spener, 1991. xxiii + 806 pp. Notes, tables, appendices, bibliography, and index. ISBN 3775903291.

European Monetary Union since 1848: A Political and Historical Analysis. By Wim F. V. Vanthoor · Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1996. 207 pp. Charts, tables, appendices, bibliography and index. $70.00. ISBN 1-8589-8461-0.

Textiles and Industrial Transition in Japan. By Dennis L. McNamara · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995. xvii + 206 pp. Tables, notes and index. $37.50. ISBN 0-8014-3100-X.

History of Pedlars in Europe. ByLaurence Fontaine (translated by Vicki Whittaker) · Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996. 280 pp. Tables, figures, notes, and index. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0–8223–1786–9; paper, $17.95, ISBN 0–8223– 1794–X.

Le Groupe Mitsubishi (1870–1990): Du Zaibatsu Au Keiretsu. By Claude Hamon · Paris: Éditions L'Harmattan, 1995. 469 pp. 250 FF. ISBN 2-7384-3036-8.

Les Deux Révolutions Industrielles du XXe Siècle. By François Caron · Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1997. 525 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 2226094059.

Women Workers and Technological Change in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited byGertjan de Groot and Marlou Schrover · London: Taylor & Francis, 1995. ix + 206 pp. Notes, charts, graphs, figures, photographs, and index. $75.00. ISBN 0-7484-0261-6.

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