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Volume 52 - Issue 2 - June 1992

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Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians. By Peter R. Knights. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. xxv, 281. $34.95.
Stuart M. Blumin
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Workers in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity, and Youth in Antebellum New York City. By Richard B. Stott. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 300. $34.95.
Amy Bridges
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. By William Cronon. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. Pp. xxiii, 530. $27.50.
Louis P. Cain
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Watering the Valley: Development along the High Plains and Arkansas River, 1870–1950. By James Earl Sherow. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990. Pp. xiii, 222. $29.95.
Charles Coate
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The Transformation of Corporate Control. By Neil Fligstein. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 391. $35.00.
Louis Galambos
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Technology and Power in the Early American Cotton Industry: James Montgomery, the Second Edition of His “Cotton Manufacture” (1840) and the Justitia Controversy about Relative Power Costs. By David J. Jeremy. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1990. Pp. xiv, 348. $38.00.
Michael Huberman
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Damming the Colorado: The Rise of the Lower Colorado River Authority, 1933–1939. By John A. AdamsJr., College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 161. $32.50.
Richard Lowitt
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Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700–1800. By Peter C. Mancall. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 253. $29.95.
Gloria L. Main
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Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland. By Lois Green Carr, Russell R. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture. Pp. xxi, 362. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.
Peter C. Mancall
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Wall Street. By Walter Werner and Steven T. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 306. $35.00.
Bruce C. Nelson
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Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859–1877. By Richard Franklin Bensel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 452. $59.50, cloth; $18.95, paper.
Phillip Paludan
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Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America. By Samuel H. Preston and Michael R. Haines. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xxi, 272. $37.50.
Wayne Lewchuk
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The Depression and the Urban West Coast, 1929–1933: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland. By William Mullins. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1991. Pp. 192. $35.00 cloth.
Paul Rhode
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Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865–1920. By James D. Norris. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 206. $39.95.
Vincent Vinikas
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Buy Now Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durables in the 1920's. By Martha L. Olney. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 424. $45.00.
Robert Zevin
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Economic Thought - Carl Menger and the Origins of Austrian Economics. By Max Alter. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 256. $69.00.
Peter J. Boettke
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Profit and Enterprise: The Political Economy of Profit. By David Parker and Richard Stead. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 201.
John B. Davis
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General and Miscellaneous - Mountains of Debt: Crisis and Change in Renaissance Florence, Victorian Britain, and Postwar America. By Michael Veseth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 246. $32.50.
Michael Edelstein
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Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism. By Michael Rothschild. New York: Henry Holt, 1990. Pp. xv, 423. $24.95.
Joel Mokyr
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03 March 2009, pp. 524-525
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Letters of Eugene V. Debs (3 volumes). Edited by J. Robert Constantine. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Pp. lxxxvii, 591.
Michael H. Nash
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Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians. By Peter R. Knights. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. xxv, 281. $34.95.

Workers in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity, and Youth in Antebellum New York City. By Richard B. Stott. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 300. $34.95.

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. By William Cronon. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. Pp. xxiii, 530. $27.50.

Watering the Valley: Development along the High Plains and Arkansas River, 1870–1950. By James Earl Sherow. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990. Pp. xiii, 222. $29.95.

The Transformation of Corporate Control. By Neil Fligstein. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 391. $35.00.

Technology and Power in the Early American Cotton Industry: James Montgomery, the Second Edition of His “Cotton Manufacture” (1840) and the Justitia Controversy about Relative Power Costs. By David J. Jeremy. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1990. Pp. xiv, 348. $38.00.

Damming the Colorado: The Rise of the Lower Colorado River Authority, 1933–1939. By John A. AdamsJr., College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 161. $32.50.

Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700–1800. By Peter C. Mancall. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 253. $29.95.

Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland. By Lois Green Carr, Russell R. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture. Pp. xxi, 362. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.

Wall Street. By Walter Werner and Steven T. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 306. $35.00.

Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859–1877. By Richard Franklin Bensel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 452. $59.50, cloth; $18.95, paper.

Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America. By Samuel H. Preston and Michael R. Haines. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xxi, 272. $37.50.

The Depression and the Urban West Coast, 1929–1933: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland. By William Mullins. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1991. Pp. 192. $35.00 cloth.

Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865–1920. By James D. Norris. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 206. $39.95.

Buy Now Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durables in the 1920's. By Martha L. Olney. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 424. $45.00.

Economic Thought - Carl Menger and the Origins of Austrian Economics. By Max Alter. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 256. $69.00.

Profit and Enterprise: The Political Economy of Profit. By David Parker and Richard Stead. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 201.

General and Miscellaneous - Mountains of Debt: Crisis and Change in Renaissance Florence, Victorian Britain, and Postwar America. By Michael Veseth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 246. $32.50.

Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism. By Michael Rothschild. New York: Henry Holt, 1990. Pp. xv, 423. $24.95.

Letters of Eugene V. Debs (3 volumes). Edited by J. Robert Constantine. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Pp. lxxxvii, 591.

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