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Family and Social Change: The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community. By Angelique Janssens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xxii, 317. $64.95.

Germany after the First World War. By Richard Bessel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 325. $39.95.

Before Command: An Economic History of Russia from Emancipation to the First Five Year Plan. By Paul R. Gregory. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 188. $35.00.

Asia - Development Versus Stagnation: Technological Continuity and Agricultural Progress in Pre-modern China. By Gang Deng. Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 1993. Pp. xxv, 263. $55.00.

Nourish the People: The State Civilian Granary System in China, 1650–1850. By Pierre-Etienne Will and R. Bin Wong, with James Lee. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, volume 60. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1991. Pp. xxiv, 607. $40.00 cloth; $20.00 paper.

The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940. By Rajnarayan Chandavarkar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xviii, 468. $69.95.

The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era. By James K. Boyce. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press in association with the OECD Development Centre, 1993. Pp. xv, 405. $32.95, cloth; $18.95, paper.

Latin America - The Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1850. Edited by Kenneth J. Andrien and Lyman L. Johnson. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 263.

Oil and Revolution in Mexico. By Jonathan C. Brown. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 453. $40.00.

Poverty and Peasantry in Peru's Southern Andes, 1963–90. By R. F. Walters. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. Pp. xviii, 366. $75.00.

United States and Canada - Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860–1880. By John Solomon Otto. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994. Pp. xi, 171. $49.95.

The Texture of Industry: An Archaeological View of the Industrialization of North America. By Robert B. Gordon and Patrick M. Malone. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. 442. $49.95.

Making Arms in the Machine Age: Philadelphia's Frankford Arsenal, 1816–1870. By James J. Farley. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Pp. x, 142. $32.50.

Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875–1925. By Perry K. Blatz. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 368. $19.95.

Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers. By Michael K. Honey. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 364. $49.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.

Can Workers Have a Voice? The Politics of Deindustrialization in Pittsburgh. By Dale A. Hathaway. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 232. $29.95.

Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. By Annalee Saxenian. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 226. $24.95.

Reciprocity, U.S. Trade Policy, and the GATT Regime. By Carolyn Rhodes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 249. $32.50.

Contested Countryside: Rural Workers and Modern Society in Atlantic Canada, 1800–1950. Edited by Daniel Samson. Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: Acadiensis Press, 1994. Pp. 272. $19.95.

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