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Volume 50 - December 1990

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Reviews of Books

Evolution of United States Budgeting: Changing Fiscal and Financial Concepts. By Annette E. Meyer. Westport: Greenwood Press Inc., 1989. Pp. xiv, 179. $39.95.
W. Elliot Brownlee
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03 March 2009, pp. 990-991
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The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones. Edited by Edward M. Steel. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Pp. xvii, 333. $32.95.
Ann Schofield
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03 March 2009, pp. 221-222
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Colonial Chesapeake Society. Edited by Lois Green Carr, Philip D. Morgan, and Jean B. Russo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. pp. xii, 512. $29.50.
Charles Wetherell
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03 March 2009, pp. 751-752
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Middle East, Africa, and Asia - Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882–1914. By Gershon Shafir. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi, 288. $44.50.
Elias H. Tuma
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03 March 2009, pp. 480-481
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Nashville, 1780–1860: From Frontier to City. By Anita Shafer Goodstein. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1989. pp. xv, 278. $29.95.
Rodney D. Green
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03 March 2009, pp. 752-754
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Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900–1980. Edited by Keith L. BryantJr, New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. and Facts On File Publications, 1988. Pp. xxix, 518. $75.00.
Thomas S. Ulen
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03 March 2009, pp. 222-223
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The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa. By Anne Phillips. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Pp. vii. 184. $29.95.
Philip D. Curtin
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03 March 2009, pp. 481-483
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Wrong Number: The Breakup of AT&T. By Alan Stone. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1989. Pp. xi, 381. $21.95.
George David Smith
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Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont Research and Development, 1902–1980. By David A. Hounshell and John Kenly Smith Jr New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xx, 756. $39.50.
John A. Heitmann
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03 March 2009, pp. 223-224
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Agrarian Transformations: Local Processes and the State in Southeast Asia. Edited by Gillian Hart, Andrew Turton, and Benjamin White. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Pp. xv, 341. $35.00.
Jose Edgardo L. Campos
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03 March 2009, pp. 483-484
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The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914. By Mira Wilkins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989. pp. xxiii, 1055. $65.00.
Mary A. Yeager
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03 March 2009, pp. 754-757
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Canadian Papers in Rural History. Volume VII. Edited by Donald H. Akenson. Gananoque, Ontario: Langdale Press, 1990. Pp. 406. $35.00.
Catharine Anne Wilson
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03 March 2009, pp. 992-993
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Latin America - Our Daily Bread: The Peasant Question and Family Farming in the Colombian Andes. By Nola Reinhardt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 308. $35.00.
Richard L. Garner
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03 March 2009, pp. 485-486
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A Tale of Three Cities: Labor Organization and Protest in Paterson, Passaic, and Lawrence, 1916–1921. By David J. Goldberg. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 276. $38.00, cloth; $15.00, paper.
H. M. Gitelman
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03 March 2009, pp. 225-226
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Constructing Urban Culture: American Cities and City Planning, 1800–1920. By Stanley K. Schultz. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. pp. xviii, 275. $34.95.
Louis Cain
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03 March 2009, pp. 757-759
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Economic Thought - Historians, Economists and Economic History. By Alon Kadish. New York: Routledge, 1989. Pp. xii, 297. $65.00.
A. W. Coats
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03 March 2009, p. 994
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United States and Canada - Science and Medicine in the Old South. Edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Todd L. Savitt. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 370. $37.50.
Marvin Fischbaum
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03 March 2009, pp. 486-487
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The High Cost of Farm Welfare. By Clifton B. Luttrell. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1989. Pp. xiii, 149. $19.95, cloth; $9.95, paper.
Frank M. Howland
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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. pp. xi, 544. $34.95, cloth; $12.95, paper.
David F. Weiman
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03 March 2009, pp. 759-761
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The Spread of Economic Ideas. Edited by David Colander and A. W. Coats. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1989. Pp. xvi, 262. $34.50.
Kate J. Stirling
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03 March 2009, pp. 995-996
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Reviews of Books

Evolution of United States Budgeting: Changing Fiscal and Financial Concepts. By Annette E. Meyer. Westport: Greenwood Press Inc., 1989. Pp. xiv, 179. $39.95.

The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones. Edited by Edward M. Steel. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Pp. xvii, 333. $32.95.

Colonial Chesapeake Society. Edited by Lois Green Carr, Philip D. Morgan, and Jean B. Russo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. pp. xii, 512. $29.50.

Middle East, Africa, and Asia - Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882–1914. By Gershon Shafir. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi, 288. $44.50.

Nashville, 1780–1860: From Frontier to City. By Anita Shafer Goodstein. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1989. pp. xv, 278. $29.95.

Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900–1980. Edited by Keith L. BryantJr, New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. and Facts On File Publications, 1988. Pp. xxix, 518. $75.00.

The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa. By Anne Phillips. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Pp. vii. 184. $29.95.

Wrong Number: The Breakup of AT&T. By Alan Stone. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1989. Pp. xi, 381. $21.95.

Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont Research and Development, 1902–1980. By David A. Hounshell and John Kenly Smith Jr New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xx, 756. $39.50.

Agrarian Transformations: Local Processes and the State in Southeast Asia. Edited by Gillian Hart, Andrew Turton, and Benjamin White. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Pp. xv, 341. $35.00.

The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914. By Mira Wilkins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989. pp. xxiii, 1055. $65.00.

Canadian Papers in Rural History. Volume VII. Edited by Donald H. Akenson. Gananoque, Ontario: Langdale Press, 1990. Pp. 406. $35.00.

Latin America - Our Daily Bread: The Peasant Question and Family Farming in the Colombian Andes. By Nola Reinhardt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 308. $35.00.

A Tale of Three Cities: Labor Organization and Protest in Paterson, Passaic, and Lawrence, 1916–1921. By David J. Goldberg. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 276. $38.00, cloth; $15.00, paper.

Constructing Urban Culture: American Cities and City Planning, 1800–1920. By Stanley K. Schultz. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. pp. xviii, 275. $34.95.

Economic Thought - Historians, Economists and Economic History. By Alon Kadish. New York: Routledge, 1989. Pp. xii, 297. $65.00.

United States and Canada - Science and Medicine in the Old South. Edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Todd L. Savitt. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 370. $37.50.

The High Cost of Farm Welfare. By Clifton B. Luttrell. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1989. Pp. xiii, 149. $19.95, cloth; $9.95, paper.

Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. pp. xi, 544. $34.95, cloth; $12.95, paper.

The Spread of Economic Ideas. Edited by David Colander and A. W. Coats. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1989. Pp. xvi, 262. $34.50.

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