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Volume 78, issue 4, 2004

Introduction: The Ambiguities of Risk in the Early Republic pp. 595-606

Cathy Matson

Commercial Risk and Capital Formation in Early America: Virginia Merchants and the Rise of American Marine Insurance, 1750–1815 pp. 607-633

A. Glenn Crothers

Weathering the Storms: Hurricanes and Risk in the British Greater Caribbean pp. 635-663

Matthew Mulcahy

“What Is My Prospects?”: The Contours of Mercantile Apprenticeship, Ambition, and Advancement in the Early American Economy pp. 665-702

Brian P. Luskey

Vertical Restraints in the Spanish Steel Industry and Their Effects on Competition, 1906–1936 pp. 703-720

José-Ignacio Martínez Ruiz

Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940–1945. ByPaul A. C. Koistinen. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xiii + 655 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-300-70060-8 pp. 729-731

Mark R. Wilson

Steam: The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention. ByAndrea Sutcliffe. New York: Palgrave, 2004. x + 272 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 1-403-96261-8 pp. 731-733

Terry S. Reynolds

The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development. ByDavid Carlton and Peter Coclanis. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. 234 pp. Figures, tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-813-92184-8 pp. 734-735

Sheldon Hackney

The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876–1926. ByJohn Henry Hepp IV. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. ix + 278 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $36.50. ISBN: 0-8122-3723-4 pp. 735-738

Scott Miltenberger

The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940. ByAndrew Wender Cohen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 333 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-521-83466-x pp. 738-741

Elliott J. Gorn

Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1919. ByTim Brooks. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004. x + 634 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 0-252-02850-3 pp. 741-744

Brian Ward

Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. ByNeil Lanctot. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xi + 496 pp. Index, notes, photographs, tables. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-812-23807-9 pp. 744-747

Charles C. Alexander

Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer. ByKathleen G. Donohue. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii + 326 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $45.95. ISBN: 0-8018-7426-2 pp. 747-750

Mary O. Furner

Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929–1945. ByMichael Johnston Grant. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xi + 232 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-803-27105-0 pp. 751-753

Richard S. Kirkendall

Suburban Steel: The Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945–1951. ByDouglass Knerr. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2004. x + 248 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 0-814-20961-0 pp. 753-756

Howard R. Stanger

The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, USA. ByLisa M. Fine. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. xii + 239 pp. Index, notes, appendix, illustrations. Cloth, $69.50; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 1-592-13257-X; paper, 1-592-13258-8 pp. 757-759

James M. Rubenstein

American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers during the Reuther Years, 1935–1970. ByJohn Barnard. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. xiv + 607 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-814-32947-0 pp. 759-761

Joshua B. Freeman

The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924–1970. ByRobert F. Freeland. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvii + 364 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, figures, tables. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 0-521-63034-7 pp. 762-764

Jeffrey Fear

The Bellwomen: The Story of the Landmark AT&T Sex Discrimination Case. ByMarjorie A. Stockford. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. xv + 247 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 0-813-53428-3 pp. 765-767

Dorothy Sue Cobble

Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880–1980. ByChristopher Newfield. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 290 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 0-822-33201-9 pp. 767-769

John Servos

Medicine, Science, and Merck. ByRoy Vagelos and Louis Galambos. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 301. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-521-66295-8 pp. 770-772

Arthur Daemmrich

JSTOR: A History. ByRobert C. Schonfeld. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xxxiv + 412 pp. Index, appendix, figures, illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-11531-1 pp. 772-774

David Morton

Waterfront Blues: Labour Strife in the Port of Montreal, 1960–1978. ByAlexander C. Pathy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xviii + 328 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-802-08980-1 pp. 774-777

Christopher Armstrong

Reclaiming Church Wealth: The Recovery of Church Property after Expropriation in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1860–1911. ByJosé Roberto Juárez. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. ix + 251 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, tables. Cloth, $45.00 ISBN: 0-826-33162-9 pp. 777-780

Arnold J. Bauer

Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present. ByJürgen Buchenau. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. xii + 268 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-9263-3087-8 pp. 780-784

William Schell

Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of Modern Brazil, 1906–1930. ByTodd A. Diacon. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. xi + 228 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth 0-822-33210-8; paper 0-822-33249-3 pp. 784-786

Gail D. Triner

The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer. ByJon Agar. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. viii + 554 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-262-01202-2 pp. 787-789

Atsushi Akera

Des Barrages, des usines et des hommes: L'industrialisation des Alpes du Nord entre ressources locales et apports extérieurs [Dams, Factories, and Labor Force: The Industrialization of the Northern Alps: Local Resources and External Support]. Edited byHervé Joly Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2002. 387 pp. Tables, maps, illustrations, notes. Paper, &35. ISBN: 2-706-11063-5 pp. 789-792

Michael P. Hanagan

Die Industrialisierung der Saarregion, 1815–1914. Band 2: Take-Off Phase und Hochindustrialisierung, 1850–1914 [The Industrialization of the Saar Region, 1815–1914. Vol. 2: Take-Off Phase and Intensive Industrialization, 1850–1914]. ByRalf Banken. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 653 pp. + CD-ROM disk. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €88. ISBN 3-515-07828-2 pp. 792-794

Frank B. Tipton

Interhandel: Die schweizerische Holding der IG Farben und ihre Metamorphosen—eine Affäre um Eigentum und Interessen, 1910–1999 [Interhandel: The Swiss Holding Company of I. G. Farben and Its Metamorphoses: An Affair of Property and Interests, 1910–1999]. ByMario König. Zurich: Chronos, 2001. 412 pp. Appendix, notes. Paper, €36. ISBN: 3-034-00602-0 pp. 795-797

Peter Hayes

Geld und Kredit in der Wirtschaftsgeschichte [Money and Credit in Economic History]. ByRichard Tilly. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 224 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes. Paper, €16. ISBN: 3-515-06785-X pp. 797-798

Welf Werner

Poverty, Progress, and Population. ByE. A. Wrigley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 463 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $28.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-82278-5; paper 0-521-52974-3 pp. 799-802

Jane Humphries

Ford, 1903–2003: The European History. Edited byHubert Bonin, Yannick Lung, and Steven Tolliday. Paris: PLAGE, 2003. Vol. 1, 611 pp.; vol. 2, 630 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, €150. ISBN: 2-914-369-9 pp. 802-805

Tim Whisler

African Economics and the Politics of Permanent Crisis. ByNicolas van de Walle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 291 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-80364-0; paper 0-521-00836-0 pp. 806-808

Jennifer Widner

Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1835–1901: The Spirit of Enterprise in Modern Japan. ByNorio Tamaki. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. xxiii + 248 pp. Notes, index, bibliography, tables, maps, illustrations. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0-333-80121-0 pp. 809-811

Kim Eric Bettcher

House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880–1930. ByJordan Sand. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xvii + 482 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photos. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 0-674-01218-6 pp. 811-813

Sarah Teasley

Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin. ByBrett Sheehan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. xiii + 269 pp. Photographs, maps, glossary, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 0-674-01080-9 pp. 813-817

Elisabeth Köll

Volume 78, issue 3, 2004

Planting a Seed: The Nineteenth-Century Horticultural Boom in America pp. 381-421

Cheryl Lyon-Jenness

Counterpoint to Reform: Gilbert H. Montague and the Business of Regulation pp. 423-450

Wyatt Wells

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange: Adapting to Survive in Changing Markets pp. 451-487

John Caskey

Review Essay - Carnegie. By Peter Krass. Hoboken: John Wiley, 2002. ix + 612 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $35. ISBN: 0-471-38630-8 pp. 501-506

Kenneth Warren

The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square. By James Traub. New York: Random House, 2004. xvii + 313 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 0-375-50788-4 pp. 507-509

Robert W. Snyder

The Roots of American Industrialization. By David R. Meyer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 333 pp. Tables, figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-87141-7 pp. 509-512

A. Glenn Crothers

Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. By Lawrence A. Peskin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 294 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-87324-X pp. 512-514

Gary J. Kornblith

Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England. By Michael J. Connolly. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. ix + 210 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 0-826-21499-1 pp. 514-517

Vagel C. Keller

Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860. By Michael Zakim. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. x + 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $30. ISBN: 0-226-97793-5 pp. 517-519

Wendy Gamber

Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. By Angela Lakwete. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 232 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45. ISBN: 0-801-87394-0 pp. 520-522

John Majewski

A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. By Robert H. Gudmestad. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UniversityPress, 2003. xvi + 246 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-12884-8; paper 0-8071-2922-4 pp. 522-524

David Hickman

“Origins of the New South” Fifty Years Later: The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic. Edited by John B. Boles and Bethany L. Johnson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. ix + 305 pp. Tables, notes. Cloth, $62.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-807-12905-4; paper, 0-8071-2920-8 pp. 524-526

Bess Beatty

Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889–1909. By Jonathan W. Singer. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xiii + 344 pp. Illustrations, appendix, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 1-585-44160-0 pp. 526-528

Hugh Gorman

Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West. By Claire Strom. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. x + 228 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35. ISBN: 0-295-98348-5 pp. 528-531

Ryan J. Carey

The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad. By Robert E. Mohowski. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xix + 205 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN:0-801-87222-7 pp. 531-532

Don L. Hofsommer

The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789–1880. By Candy Gunther Brown. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiv + 336 pp. Index, notes, appendix, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-807-82838-6; paper, 0-807-85511-1 pp. 532-535

Peter J. Wosh

The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM's Founding Father and Son. By Richard S. Tedlow. New York: HarperBusiness, 2003. xi + 340 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 0-060-01405-9 pp. 535-537

H. W. Brands

Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800–1950. By Mark Tebeau. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 425 pp. Index, notes, appendix, illustrations. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-86791-6 pp. 537-540

Carl Smith

Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region. Edited by Joel A. Tarr. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. 312 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32. ISBN: 0-822-94156-2 pp. 540-542

Frank Uekoetter

Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law. By John Fabian Witt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 311 pp. Index, notes, index, tables. Cloth, $49-95- ISBN: 0-674-01267-4 pp. 542-545

Jennifer Klein

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security. By Edward D. Berkowitz. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xvii + 455 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-299-18950-3 pp. 546-548

David Stebenne

The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. By Gijs Mom. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 423 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 0-801-87138-7 pp. 548-551

Michael Brian Schiffer

Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood. By Andrew Brodie Smith. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2003. 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-870-81746-9 pp. 551-554

Eric Schaefer

Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World. Edited by Glenn Adamson. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xi + 219 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, appendices, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-262-01207-3 pp. 554-556

Carolyn Thomas de la Peña

The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space. By Reinhold Martin. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xix + 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-262-13426-8 pp. 557-559

Richard Longstreth

Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter and Gamble. By Davis Dyer, Frederick Dalzell, and Rowena Olegario. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004. x + 467 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 1-591-39147-4 pp. 559-561

Peter Miskell

Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. By Walter A. Friedman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 368 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-674-01298-4 pp. 562-564

Daniel Pope

Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers. By Pablo J. Boczkowski. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. xi + 243 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $30. ISBN: 0-262-02559-0 pp. 564-566

Alex Nalbach

The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries. By James W. Cortada. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvii + 494 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-195-16588-8 pp. 566-569

Martin Campbell-Kelly

The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War. By Jorma Ahvenainen. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2004. 427 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Paper, &35. ISBN: 951-41-O947-3 pp. 569-571

René De La Pedraja

Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640–1845. By William J. Ashworth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiii + 396 pp. Notes, index, Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 0-199-25921-6 pp. 571-574

Michael J. Braddick

The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester. By Stephen Mosley. Cambridge, U.K.: White Horse Press, 2001. x + 271 pp. Index, notes, maps, bibliography, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $65.00/£35. ISBN: 1-874-26749-9 pp. 574-576

Matthew Osborn

Geiz und Gerechtigkeit: Ökonomisches Denken im frühen Mittelalter [Avarice and Justice: Economic Thought in the Early Middle Ages]. By Bettina Emmerich. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. 334 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €68. ISBN: 3-515-08041-4 pp. 576-578

Charlotte Masemann

The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Preindustrial West. By John Landers, xiv + 440 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 0-199-24916-4 pp. 578-580

David Nicholas

The Michelin Men: Driving an Empire. By Herbert R. Lottman. London: I. B. Tauris, 2003. ix + 310 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 1-860-64896-7 pp. 581-583

Stephen L. Harp

The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development. By Isabella Mares. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvii + 319 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $65; paper, $24. ISBN:cloth 0-521-82741-8; paper 0-521-53477-1 pp. 583-586

Jan-Otmar Hesse

Chemie und Politik: Die Geschichte der Chemischen Werke Hüls, 1938–1979 [Chemistry and Politics: The History of Hüls Chemical Works, 1938–1979]. By Bernhard Lorentz and Paul Erker. Munich: C. H. Beck Verlag, 2003. 461 pp. Photographs, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €34.90. ISBN: 3-406-590962-2 pp. 586-588

Jeffrey Lewis

A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917–1953. By Julie Hessler. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi + 366 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, tables. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 0-691-11492-7 pp. 588-591

Thomas C. Owen

From Cotton Mill to Business Enterprise: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China. By Elizabeth Köll. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xvi + 242 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, figures, photographs, tables. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN: 0-674-01394-8 pp. 591-594

Madeleine Zelin

Volume 78, issue 2, 2004

Enforcing Business Contracts in South America: The United Fruit Company and Colombian Banana Planters in the Twentieth Century pp. 181-212

Marcelo Bucheli

From Independence to Integration: The Corporate Evolution of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, 1904–2004 pp. 213-253

Dimitry Anastakis

The Organization of Industrial Research as a Network Activity: Agricultural Research at Philips in the 1930s pp. 255-272

F. Kees Boersma

Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence. By Bruce H. Mann. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. viii + 344 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-674-00902-9 pp. 285-287

Bruce G. Carruthers

Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. By Helen Tangires. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xx + 265 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-87133-6 pp. 287-289

Paul A. Gilje

The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History. Edited by Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer. xiv + 422 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. References, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-691-11376-9; paper 0-691-11377-7 pp. 289-292

Robin L. Einhorn

C. F. Martin and His Guitars, 1796–1873. By Philip F. Gura. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xix + 250 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-807-82801-7 pp. 292-295

Timothy B. Spears

God's Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola. By Kathryn W. Kemp. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002. 312 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, appendix, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-865-54782-3 pp. 295-297

Jocelyn Wills

Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903–2003. By Henry D. Fetter. New York: Norton, 2003. xi + 461 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN 0-393-05719-4 pp. 298-300

Steven A. Riess

Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s. By Carolyn S. Loeb. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xvi + 273 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86618-9 pp. 300-302

Richard Guy Wilson

Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America. By Tona J. Hangen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ix + 220 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $18.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82752-5; paper 0-807-85420-4 pp. 302-305

Joy Elizabeth Hayes

The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation and the American Corporate State, 1877–1929. By R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. x + 168 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-87054-2 pp. 305-307

Ajay K. Mehrotra

Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America. By Todd DePastino. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxv + 325 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN 0-226-14378-3 pp. 308-310

Elaine S. Abelson

Territories of Profit: Communications, Capitalist Development, and the Innovative Enterprises of G. F. Swift and Dell Computer. By Gary Fields. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xviii + 281 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, references, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-804-74721-0; paper 0-804-74722-9 pp. 311-313

Richard R. Nelson

Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century. By Glenna Matthews. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xvii + 313 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-8047-04154-9; paper 0-804-74796-2 pp. 313-316

Allison Baker

The Second Information Revolution. By Gerald W. Brock. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. xiv + 322 pp. Index, references. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-674-01178-3 pp. 316-318

Thomas Haigh

Arnold O. Beckman: One Hundred Years of Excellence. By Arnold Thackray and Minor Myers Jr. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2000. xvii + 379 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-941-90123-8 pp. 319-321

David B. Sicilia

Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970–2002. By Richard Saunders Jr. De Kalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois Press, 2003. xxii + 436 pp. Tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-875-80316-4 pp. 321-323

John F. Stover

Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946–61. By Colin J. Davis. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003. x + 246 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-252-02878-3 pp. 324-326

Kenneth Lunn

Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective. Edited by Daniel E. Bender and Richard A. Greenwald. New York: Routledge, 2003. xii + 300 pp. Photographs, illustration, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-415-93560-1; paper 0-415-93561-X pp. 326-328

Jo Ann E. Argersinger

The Interwar Depression in an International Context. Edited by Harold James. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2002. xv + 192 pp. Figures, notes, references. Cloth, ∈44.80. ISBN 3-486-56610-5 pp. 329-331

W. R. Garside

Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development. Edited by Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. vii + 350 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-521-82054-5 pp. 331-333

Hans-Joachim Voth

The Silver King: The Remarkable Life of the Count of Regla in Colonial Mexico. By Edith Boorstein Couturier. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. x + 224 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-826-32873-3; paper 0-826-32874-1 pp. 334-336

Richard Salvucci

Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930. By Julie A. Charlip. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. xiv + 288 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $28.00. ISBN 0-89680-227-2 pp. 336-338

Renzo Ramírez Bacca

The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740–1914. By Margot C. Finn. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 362 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, £50.00. ISBN 0-521-82342-0 pp. 338-340

Robin Pearson

Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition. By James H. Mills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 239 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-199-24938-5 pp. 341-343

Alex Mold

Operational Research in War and Peace: The British Experience from the 1930s to 1970. By Maurice W. Kirby. London: Imperial College Press, 2003. 444 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $97.25; paper, $35.00. ISBN: cloth 1-860-94297-0; paper 1-860-94366-7 pp. 343-345

William M. McBride

Vauxhall Motors and the Luton Economy, 1900–2002. By Len Holden. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2003. xviii + 249 pp. Tables, photographs, illustrations, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39-95- ISBN 0-851-55068-1 pp. 346-349

Timothy R. Whisler

Le Crédit lyonnais (1863–1986): Etudes historiques [The Crédit Lyonnais (1863–1986): Historical Studies]. Edited by Bernard Desjardins Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2003. 1020 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Paper, €43.90. ISBN 2-600-00807-1 pp. 349-351

Kenneth Mouré

La banque nationale de crédit: Histoire de la quatrième banque de dépôts française en 1913–1932 [The National Credit Bank: History of the Fourth French Deposit Bank, 1913–1932]. By Hubert Bonin. Paris: Éditions PLAGE, 2002. 237 pp. Index, notes, figures, illustrations. Paper, €70. ISBN 2-914-36904-2 pp. 352-354

Elisabeth Paulet

Lost Momentum: Austrian Economic Development, 1750S–1830s. By Herman Freudenberger. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2003. 301 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €45. ISBN 3-205-77061-7 pp. 354-356

Ivan T. Berend

The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000. By Mark Cioc. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xiii + 252 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, bibliography, notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-295-98254-3 pp. 356-359

Christoph Bernhardt

August Thyssen und Hugo Stinnes: Ein Briefwechsel, 1898–1912 [August Thyssen and Hugo Stinnes: Correspondence, 1898–1912]. Edited by Manfred Rasch and Gerald D. Feldman, prepared and annotated by Vera Schmidt. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2003. 752 pp. Cloth, €39.90. ISBN 3-406-49637-7 pp. 359-362

Jeffrey Fear

The Chemistry Must Be Right: The Privatization of Buna Sow Leuna Olefinverbund GmbH, 1990–2000. By Rainer Karlsch and Raymond Stokes. Berlin: Buna Sow Leuna Olefinverbund GmbH and Edition Leipzig, 2001. 252 pp. Tables, photographs, maps, illustrations, appendix, notes. Cloth, no price. ISBN 3-361-00508-6 pp. 363-366

Kees Gispen

Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944–1947: From Liberation to the Truman Doctrine. By Athanasios Lykogiannis. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. ix + 287 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, appendix, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-826-21422-3 pp. 366-368

Kostas P. Kostis

Russia's Economic Transitions from Late Tsarism to the New Millennium. By Nicolas Spulber. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxiv + 420 pp. Maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 0-521-81699-8 pp. 368-371

Peter Gatrell

Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life. By Tim Rowse. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ix + 419 pp. Illustrations, references, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-521-81783-8 pp. 371-373

Simon Ville

China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation. By Karl Gerth. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. xv + 445 PP. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-674-01214-3 pp. 373-375

Arif Dirlik

Volume 78, issue 1, 2004

Showdown in South America: James Scrymser, John Pender, and United States–British Cable Competition pp. 1-27

John A. Britton and Jorma Ahvenainen

Cavity Protection or Cosmetic Perfection? Innovation and Marketing of Toothpaste Brands in the United States and Western Europe, 1955–1985 pp. 29-60

Peter Miskell

Making a Short Story Long: The Construction of the Suez–Mediterranean Oil Pipeline in Egypt, 1967–1977 pp. 61-88

Elie Podeh

A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State. By Max M. Edling. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 333 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-195-14870-3 pp. 99-101

Pauline Maier

The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective. By Eric Helleiner. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 277 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN 0-801-44049-1 pp. 101-104

Stephen Mihm

Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982–1999: What Drove the Breakneck Market—and What Every Investor Needs to Know about Financial Cycles. By Maggie Mahar. New York: HarperBusiness, 2003. xxii + 486 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN 0-06-056413-X pp. 104-106

Maury Klein

Taverns and Drinking in Early America. By Sharon V. Salinger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xi + 309 pp. Tables, maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN 0-801-86878-5 pp. 106-109

Madelon Powers

Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wendy A. Woloson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xi + 277 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN 0-801-86876-9 pp. 109-111

Gail Cooper

Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization. By William H. Roberts. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xi + 285 pp. Tables, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $46.95. ISBN 0-801-86830-0 pp. 111-114

Heather Cox Richardson

The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American. By Carolyn Thomas de la Pena. New York: New York University Press, 2003. xvi + 328 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-8147-1953-8 pp. 114-116

Karen Halttunen

Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair. By Richard Moran. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. xxii + 271 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN 0-375-41059-7 pp. 116-119

Paul Israel

The King of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire. By Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman. New York: Public Affairs, 2003. viii + 534 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN 1-586-48028-6 pp. 119-121

David Vaught

Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895–1945. By Diana Davids Olien and Roger M. Olien. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. xi + 307 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-292-76056-6 pp. 121-123

Linda B. Hall

Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts. By Daniel Tyler (foreword by Donald J. Pisani). Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 2003. xxi + 392 pp. Maps, photographs, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-806-13515-8 pp. 123-126

Ryan J. Carey

Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest. By Linda Carlson. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. viii + 286 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Paper, $22.50. ISBN 0-295-98332-9 pp. 126-128

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community. By Paul H. Mattingly. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xi + 333 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, appendix. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-86680-4 pp. 128-131

Michael J. Birkner

The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. By Robert D. Johnston. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xxiii + 394 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-691-09668-6 pp. 131-134

Nancy Cohen

Rethinking the Great Depression: A New View of Its Causes and Consequences. By Gene Smiley. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. xii + 179 pp. Index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 1-566-63472-5 pp. 134-137

Howard Bodenhorn

Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors. By David Farber. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xii + 292 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN 0-226-23804-0 pp. 137-139

Steven Tolliday

Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism. By S. M. Amadae. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xii + 401 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.00. ISBN 0-226-01653-6 pp. 139-142

Stanley L. Engerman

Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream. By M. Jeffrey Hardwick. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 268 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-812-23762-5 pp. 142-144

Richard Longstreth

The Southern Movie Palace: Rise, Fall, and Resurrection. By Janna Jones. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xii + 291 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-813-02605-9 pp. 144-146

Tom Hanchett

The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States. By Megan Mullen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xiii + 229 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-292-75272-5 pp. 146-148

James A. Von Schilling

Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth Century America. By Colin Gordon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xii + 316 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-691-05806-7 pp. 148-151

David Rosner

Eye on the Future: Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900. By Henry C. Klassen. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002. xxxvii + 458 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs, tables. Paper, $(Can) 29.95. ISBN 1-552-38086-5 pp. 151-153

H. V. Nelles

The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500-1989. Edited by William Gervase Clarence-Smith and Steven Topik. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. viii + 486 pp. Tables, maps, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 0-521-81851-6 pp. 153-156

Cyrus Veeser

Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion. By José A. Gómez-Ibáñez. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. xi + 431 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-674-01177-5 pp. 156-159

Tony A. Freyer

The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. By Sarah Maza. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. x + 255 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-674-01046-9 pp. 159-161

Cissie Fairchilds

Luftverkehr zwischen Markt und Macht (1919–1937): Lufthansa, Verkehrsflug und der Kampf ums Monopol [Air Transportation between Market and Power: Lufthansa, Aviation and the Struggle for a Monopoly]. By Albert Fischer. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 366 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, appendix, index. Paper, €64. ISBN 3-515-08277-8 pp. 161-163

Christopher Kopper

The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps. By Michael Thad Allen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 377 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-807-82677-4 pp. 163-168

Jeffrey Fear

Soziale Marktwirtschaft und administrative Praxis. Das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium unter Ludwig Erhard [Social Market Economy and Administrative Practice. The Federal Ministry of Economics under Ludwig Erhard]. By Bernhard Löffler. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. 658 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. €110.00. ISBN 3-515-07940-8 pp. 168-170

Alfred C. Mierzejewski

A Indústria Portuguesa e os Seus Dirigentes [The Portuguese Manufacturing Industry and its Leaders]. By Manuel Lisboa. Lisbon: EDUCA, 2002. xix + 617 pp. Bibliography, notes, index, photographs, tables, figures, CD Rom. Cloth, €37.50. ISBN 9-728-03647-7 pp. 170-172

Teresa Lopes

The History of Family Business, 1850–2000. By Andrea Colli. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 100 pp. Index, bibliography. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $15.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-80028-5; paper 0-521-80472-8 pp. 172-175

Giandomenico Piluso

Nation, State, and the Economy in History. Edited by Alice Teichova and Herbert Matis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 450 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 0-521-79278-9 pp. 175-177

Christopher Kobrak

The Mexican Economy, 1870–1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth. Edited by Jeffrey L. Bortz and Stephen Haber. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. xvii + 348 pp. Index, notes, tables, figures. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-804-74207-3; paper 0-804-74208-1 pp. 178-180

William Schell