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The First Teenagers: The Lifestyle of Young Wage-Earners in Interwar Britain. By David Fowler. London: The Woburn Press, 1995. Pp. x, 212. $35.00.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 223-225
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China and Japan - Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries (translation of Les aspects economiques du bouddhisme dan la societe chinoise du Ve au Xe siecle by Franciscus Verellen). By Jacques Gernet. Columbia University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 435. $42.50.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 225-226
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Native Place, City, and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853–1937. By Bryna Goodman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 367. $48.00.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 227-228
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Agricultural Instability in China, 1931–1991: Weather; Technology, and Institutions. By Y. Y. Kueh. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, Pp. xxv, 387. $75.00.
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The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy. By Christopher Howe. London: Hurst and Company, 1996. Pp. xxvii, 471. $39.50.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 229-231
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Africa and the Middle East - African Market Women and Economic Power: The Role of Women in African Economic Development. Edited by Bessie House-Midamba and Felix K. Ekechi. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, Number 174. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. xix, 214. $59.95.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 231-232
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The Building of an Empire: Italian Land Policy and Practice in Ethiopia 1935–1941. By Haile M. Larebo. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xxvii, 350. $69.00.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 232-233
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State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire. Agrarian Power Relations and Regional Economic Development in Ottoman Anatolia during the Sixteenth Century. By Huri Islamoglu-Inan. The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, Volume 1. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994. Pp. xvii, 293.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 234-235
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The Caribbean - Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment, the Political Economy of the Caribbean World. By Arthur L. Stinchcombe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 361. $45.00.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 235-236
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The United States and Canada - Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South. By Alex Lichtenstein. London: Verso, 1996. Pp. xix, 264. $18.95 paper.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 237-238
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Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. Vol. 1, Commerce and Compromise, 1820–1850. By John Ashworth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 520. $64.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 238-239
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Working People of Calfornia. Edited by Daniel Cornford. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. x, 493. $50.00, cloth; $18.00, paper.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 239-240
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The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917–1942. By Gwendolyn Mink. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 198. $27.50.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 241-242
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America Unequal. By Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. 220. $26.00.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 242-243
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Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925–1985. By Robert E. WeemsJr. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 158. $35.00.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 243-244
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Beyond Labor’s Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor. By Robert E. Weir, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. Pp. xx, 343. $55.00, cloth; $22.50, paper.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 245-246
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William Cooper’s Twon: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic. By Alan Taylor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Pp. 549. $35.00.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 246-247
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Strictly Business: Walter Carpenter at Du Pont and General Motors. By Charles W. Cheape. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xix, 309. $48.50.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 247-248
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Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution: The Holland Land Purchase. By Charles E. Brooks. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 239. $42.50.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 248-250
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The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831–1915: A Study in American Industrial Practice. By John K. Brown. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xxxii, 328. $35.95.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 250-251
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