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Volume 56 - Issue 2 - June 1996

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The European Peasant Family and Society: Historical Studies. Edited by Richard L. Rudolph. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 256. £30.

Economic Systems and State Finance. Edited by Richard Bonney. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. xxii, 652. $98.00. - The Limits of Absolutism in ancien régime France. By Richard Bonney. Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1995. Pp. xii, 338. $89.95.

Modern Europe - Paper & Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897–1927. By Niall Ferguson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 539. $69.95.

Illegitimacy, Sex, and Society: Northeast Scotland, 1750–1900. By Andrew Blaikie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 268. $55.00.

Victorian Insolvency: Bankruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and Company Winding-up in Nineteenth-Century England. By V. Markham Lester. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 354. $65.00.

The British Brewing Industry 1830–1980. By T. R. Gourvish and R. G. Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xxv, 690.

City Bankers, 1890–1914. By Youssef Cassis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xvi, 350. $64.95.

Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914–1939. By Lee Downs Laura. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 329. $39.95.

Africa and Asia - Swing Low Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century. By Antonio McDaniel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 191. $34.00.

When Capitalists Collide: Business Conflict and the End of Empire in Egypt. By Robert Vitalis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. xxi, 282. $50.00, cloth; $20.00, paper.

The Economic Growth of Singapore: Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century. By W. G. Huff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, Pp. vii, 472.

Latin America - The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence. By Victor Bulmer-Thomas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 485. $69.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.

Engines of Growth: The State and Transnational Auto Companies in Brazil. By Helen Shapiro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, Pp. xii, 267. $54.95.

Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Mary Beth Pudup, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 391. $49.95, cloth; $18.95, paper.

A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America 1865–1925. By Thomas J. Misa. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xv, 367. $49.95.

Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875–1920. By Henry M. McKivenJr. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 223. $37.50, cloth; $14.95, paper.

State and Party in America's New Deal. By Theda Skocpol and Kenneth Finegold. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 342. $54.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.

Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, The “Underclass,” and Urban Schools as History. By Michael B. Katz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 179. $22.50.

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