...John Shelton Curtiss Russian-American Trade: A Study of the Soviet Foreign-Trade Monopoly . By Condoide Mikhail V. . Columbus, Ohio : The Ohio State University , 1946 . Pp. xiii , 160 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 433 Russian-American...

...The Editor Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 Character of the Early Virginia Trade. The earliest form which the trade of Virginia took was a monopoly in the hands of those who projected the settlement. The London Company, however, were only partially success­ ful...

...Theodore Ropp Naval Power and Trade in the Mediterranean, a.d. 500-1000 . By Lewis Archibald R. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1951 . Pp. xii , 271 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 430 The South Atlantic Quarterly of history, for the latter...

...Theodore Ropp Commerce and Conquest in East Africa, with particular reference to the Salem Trade with Zanzibar . By Brady Cyrus Townsend Jr . Salem : The Essex Institute , 1950 . Pp. xxi , 245 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 458 The South Atlantic...

... is masterly. HAROLD T. PARKER Trade and Industry in the Middle Ages. Edited by M. Postan and E. E. Rich. Vol. II of the Cambridge Economic History of Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1952. Pp. xvi, 604. $9.00. Some twenty years ago the distinguished British economic historians, John H. Clapham...

...Charles Wallace Collins Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Organizing for American Export Trade Chakles Wallace Collins Washington, D. C. With a powerful merchant marine giving us the means of an all-American ocean transportation, with every foreign country furnishing us...

...Howard Douglas Dozier Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Trade and Transportation Along the South Atlantic Seaboard Before the Civil War Howard Douglas Dozier University of Georeia In 1784 George Washington presided over a convention held at Annapolis in behalf of the people...

...Walter L. Fleming Copyright © 1905 by Duke University Press 1905 Blockade Running and Trade Through the Lines Into Alabama, 1861 -1865' Walter L. Fleming, Professor of History in West Virginia University When commercial intercourse is thus refused its usual direct roads, it seeks a new path...

...Paul S. Peirce Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 American Trade-Promoting Activities Paul S. Peirce Professor of Political Economy in the State University of Iowa Till very recently the American people have been quite indifferent to the problems and possibilities of foreign trade...

...W. J. Carnathan Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 The Proposal to Reopen the African Slave Trade in the South, 18?4-186O W. J. Carnathan College of the City of New York When the future historian shall address himself to the task of portraying the rise, progress, and decline...

...Robert S. Smith Empire in Green and Gold: The Story of the American Banana Trade . By Wilson Charles Morrow . New York : Henry Holt And Company , 1947 . Pp. 303 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 597 careful to hedge themselves with ifs...

...James L. Godfrey Trade Union Leadership: Based on a Study of Arthur Deakin . By Allen V. L. . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1947 . Pp. xiii , 336 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 3*7 appear. Finally, one may question a technique...

...Arthur B. Ferguson English Books and Readers, 1558 to 1603, Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade in the Reign of Elizabeth I . By Bennett H. S. . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1965 . Pp. xviii , 320 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966...

...Frank T. de Vyver Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION IN AUSTRALIA: THE CASE OF THE CLOTHING TRADES AWARD Frank T. de Fyver WAGES AND MOST OTHER CONDITIONS of employ­ ment in Australia are established by compulsory arbitration rather than by collective...

... the middle of the nineteenth. The volume of slave exports showed a secular rising trend until 1808, when the international slave trade was declared illegal by both Great Britain and the United States, and a decline thereafter. For much of the three and a half centuries of its history, and espe­ cially...

...Bernard M. Olsen Bearsted: A Biography of Marcus Samuel, First Viscount Bearsted and Founder of “Shell” Transport and Trading Company . By Henriques Robert . New York : The Viking Press , 1960 . Pp. xi , 676 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Book...

...Herman Walker Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Commonwealth and Common Market: Two Trading Systems Herman Walker The Commonwealth and the Common Market are kindred spirits in one respect, at least: each uses tariff preferences to promote trade among its members. But the kinship...

...Elizabeth Parish Smith This essay examines the experiences of three women—one Creole, one black, one white—in New Orleans’s Reconstruction-era demimonde. Enacted just months after the end of the Civil War and surviving in various forms for fifty-two years, a regulatory system governed the sex trade...

...Dick Bryan; Michael Rafferty; Chris Jefferis The process of financialization of accumulation brings to the fore the issue of risk and risk trading. This article explores the way finance and risk relate to capital accumulation and how risk might be integrated into Marxian value theory. It looks...

... the complex human-technological assemblage of derivatives trading? What does this trial tell us about the ways the boundary between legitimate speculation and illegitimate fraud is drawn and performed in the postcrisis era? What is important is that Tourre’s is not a case of a rogue trader, but pivoted...