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Volume 55 - Issue 2 - June 1995

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Private Money & Public Currencies: The 16th Century Challenge. By Marie-Therese Boyer-Xambeu, Ghislan Delaplace, and Lucien Gillard. Translated by Azizeh Azodi. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1994. Pp. xvi, 231.

Modern Europe - Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century. By Kenneth Morgan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xxii, 281.

The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. By Nancy F. Koehn. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 239. $29.95.

The Language of Liberty 1660–1832: Political Discourse and Social Dynamics in the Anglo-American World. By J. C. D. Clark. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 404.

Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780–1939. By Cormac Ó Gráda. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 536.

The Nearest Place That Wasn’t Ireland: Early Nineteenth-Century Irish Labor Migration. By Ruth-Ann M. Harris. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1994. Pp. xvii, 281.

Land and Popular Politics in Ireland: County Mayo from the Plantation to the Land War. By Donald E. Jordan Jr Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 369. $69.95, cloth; $29.95, paper.

The Weaver’s Knot: The Contradictions of Class Struggle and Family Solidarity in Western France, 1750–1914. By Tessie P. Liu. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 279. $42.50, cloth. $17.95, paper.

Machines Are Frozen Spirit: The Scientification of Refrigeration and Brewing in the 19th Century: A Weberian Interpretation. By Mikael Hård. Frankfurt/Boulder: Campus Verlag/Westview Press, 1994. Pp. 275. $48.00/DM 58.00.

Public and Private Ownership of British Industry 1820–1990. By James Foreman-Peck and Robert Millward. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xvii, 386. $59.00.

Government and Enterprise since 1900: The Changing Problem of Efficiency. By Jim Tomlinson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 455.

British Protectionism and the International Economy: Overseas Commercial Policy in the 1930s. By Tim Rooth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 357.

The Rise of Consumer Society in Britain, 1880–1980. By John Benson. New York: Longman, 1994. Pp. viii, 245. £32.00, cloth; £11.99, paper.

Asia and Latin America - Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution. By Donald Quataert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 224. $59.95.

Manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1500–1950. Edited by Donald Quataert. New York: State University of New York Press, 1994. Pp. 175.

Capital and Entrepreneurship in South-East Asia. By Rajeswary Aapalavanar Brown. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 302.

Oil and Development in Venezuela during the Twentieth Century. By Jorge Salazar-Carrillo. London: Praeger Press, 1994. Pp. 280.

United States and Canada - American Economic Development in Historical Perspective. Edited by Thomas Weiss and Donald Schaefer. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 321. $45.00.

Benevolence Among Slaveholders: Assisting the Poor in Charleston, 1670–1860. By Barbara L. Bellows. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 217. $29.95.

Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780–1860. By Peter Way. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 304. $54.95.

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