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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.

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.

Agricultural Instability in China, 1931–1991: Weather; Technology, and Institutions. By Y. Y. Kueh. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, Pp. xxv, 387. $75.00.

The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy. By Christopher Howe. London: Hurst and Company, 1996. Pp. xxvii, 471. $39.50.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Working People of Calfornia. Edited by Daniel Cornford. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. x, 493. $50.00, cloth; $18.00, paper.

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.

America Unequal. By Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. 220. $26.00.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution: The Holland Land Purchase. By Charles E. Brooks. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 239. $42.50.

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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