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Volume 76, issue 4, 2002

From Free Privilege to Regulation: Wireless Firms and the Competition for Spectrum Rights before World War I pp. 659-703

Elizabeth Kruse

Constructing an Industrial Divide: Western Union, AT&T, and the Federal Government, 1876–1971 pp. 705-732

David Hochfelder

Corporate Learning and Traffic Management at the Bell System, 1900–1929: Probability Theory and the Evolution of Organizational Capabilities pp. 733-765

Paul J. Miranti

IBM's Early Adaptation to Cold War Markets: Cuthbert Hurd and His Applied Science Field Men pp. 767-802

Atsushi Akera

Graceful Exits and Missed Opportunities: Xerox's Management of its Technology Spin-off Organizations pp. 803-837

Henry Chesbrough

Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries. ByAlfred D. Chandler Jr New York: Free Press, 2001. xiv + 322 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0–743–21567–2 pp. 847-849

Martin Campbell-Kelly

The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877–1900. ByRichard Franklin Bensel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxiii + 549 pp. Index, notes, figures, maps, tables. Cloth, $70.00; paper $25.00. ISBN: cloth 0–521–77233–8; paper 0–521–77604-X pp. 850-852

Robin L. Einhorn

From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighborhoods. ByLawrence J. Vale. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. vii + 460 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0–674–00286–5 pp. 852-855

Elizabeth Blackmar

Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City. ByMatthew Gandy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. 344 pp. Index, notes, maps, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0–262–07224–6 pp. 855-858

Richard Longstreth

Steel and Steelworkers: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh. ByJohn Hinshaw. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. xvii + 348 pp. Index, notes, tables. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.95. ISBN: cloth 0–791–45225–5; paper 0–791–45226–3 pp. 858-860

Thomas J. Misa

Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism. ByElizabeth Faue. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xii + 249 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0–801–43461–0 pp. 860-863

Annelise Orleck

Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration. ByHasia R. Diner. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. xvii + 292 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0–674–00605–4 pp. 863-865

Tyler Anbinder

City Lights: Illuminating the American Night. ByJohn Jakle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. x + 292 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0–801–86593-X pp. 866-868

Craig Wollner

Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement. ByPaul S. Sutter. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xvi + 343 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0–295–98219–5 pp. 868-871

John Paul Rossi

Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890–1960. ByPatrick J. McGrath. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. x + 248 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0–807–82655–3 pp. 871-873

Robert E. Kohler

America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918–1947. ByJanet R. Daly Bednarek. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. viii + 226 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 1–585–44130–9 pp. 873-876

Peter Bakewell

Making Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA. ByMargaret Walsh, xvii + 245 pp. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2000. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $74.95. ISBN 0–754–60207–9 pp. 876-878

Owen D. Gutfreund

The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s. Edited byPhilip Scranton. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2001. xiv + 310 pp. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0–820–32218–0 pp. 879-881

Craig S. Pascoe

Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, & the American Dream. ByNancy Beck Young. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2000. xix + 428 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0–870–74453–4 pp. 881-883

Robert H. Ferrell

Taking Trade to the Streets: The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization. BySusan Ariel Aaronson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 248 pp. Tables, index. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0–472–11212–0; paper 0–472–08867-X pp. 883-885

Alan Rugman

Barnett: The Story of “Florida's Bank.”ByDavid Ginzl. Tampa: University of Tampa Press, 2001. xix + 441 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photos, tables. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 1–879–85272–1 pp. 885-888

Lynne Pierson Doti

Fixin' to Git: One Fan's Love Affair with NASCAR's Winston Cup. ByJim Wright. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 305 pp. Index, notes, figures, photographs, tables. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN 0–822–32926–3 pp. 888-890

Randal L. Hall

Hollyworld: Space, Power and Fantasy in the American Economy. ByAida Hovic. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. 256 pp. Photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0–801–43926–4 pp. 890-893

Lary May

Corporate Governance and Sustainable Prosperity. Edited byWilliam Lazonick and Mary O'Sullivan. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave, 2002. Index, figures, references. Cloth, $72.00. ISBN 03–33777–573 pp. 893-896

David Merrett

Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880–1935. ByGerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xviii + 275 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0–226–64556–8 pp. 896-898

Klaus Veigel

Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela. ByDarlene Rivas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 290 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0–807–82684–7 pp. 898-901

Thomas F. O'Brien

Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil. ByMaureen O'Dougherty. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. xv + 262 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, photographs, maps. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0–8223–2879–8; paper 0–8223–2894–1 pp. 901-903

Anne Hanley

Protestantism and Capitalism: The Mechanisms of Influence. ByJere Cohen. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 2002. vii +296 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $53.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth 0–202–30671–2; paper 0–202–30672–0 pp. 903-906

Michael Lessnoff

Barclays: The Business of Banking, 1690–1996. ByMargaret Ackrill and Leslie Hannah. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xxi + 480 pp. Index, notes, appendices, figures, photographs, tables. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0–521–79035–2 pp. 906-908

Paul Lockard

Business Structure, Business Culture and the Industrial District: The Potteries, c.1850–1914. ByAndrew Popp. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2001. viii + 288 pp. Bibliography, tables, index. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN 0–754–60176–5 pp. 908-912

Marc J. Stern

Food for War: Agriculture and Rearmament in Britain before the Second World War. ByAlan F. Wilt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. vi + 262 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0–198–20871–5 pp. 912-914

Wyn Grant

The Bouchayers of Grenoble and French Industrial Enterprise, 1850–1970. ByRobert J. Smith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiv + 247 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $42.50. ISBN 0–801–86683–9 pp. 914-916

Michael S. Smith

Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue. ByPaul F. Jankowski. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiv + 326 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0–801–43959–0 pp. 917-919

Donald Reid

Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France. BySteven Harp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2001. xiii + 356 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0–801–86651–0 pp. 919-921

Vanessa R. Schwartz

Die rheinischen Sparkasse: Entwicklung und Bedeutung fuer Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft von den Anfaengen bis 1990 [The Rhenish Savings Banks: Their Development and Economic and Social Significance, from the Beginnings to 1990]. ByHans Pohl. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2001. 319 pp. Notes, bibliography, tables, appendix. Cloth, € 45. ISBN 3–515–07846–0 pp. 922-924

Timothy W. Guinnane

European Banks and the American Challenge: Competition and Cooperation in International Banking under Bretton Woods. Edited byStefano Battilossi and Youssef Cassis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. vi + 228 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 0–19–925027–8 pp. 924-926

Lawrence H. Officer

The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600–2000. Volume 4: Economic and Business Relations. Edited byJanet Hunter and S. Sugiyama. New York: Palgrave, 2002. xiii + 355 pp. Index, notes, photographs, figures, tables. Cloth, $78.00. ISBN 0–333–79197–5 pp. 926-929

Takeshi Yuzawa

Unmaking the Japanese Miracle: Macroeconomic Politics, 1985–2000. ByWilliam W. Grimes. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. xix + 254 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0–801–43849–7 pp. 929-931

W. Miles Fletcher

Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines. By David C. Kang. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0–521–80817–0 pp. 931-934

Dennis McNamara

Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation. By Hagen Koo. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. xii + 240 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95. ISBN: cloth 0–801–43835–7; paper 0–801–48696–3 pp. 934-936

Kirk W. Larsen

The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace: State, Revolution, and Labor Management. By Mark W. Frazier. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii + 286 pp. Index, notes, tables, bibliography. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0–521–80021–8 pp. 937-939

Philip Richardson

Volume 76, issue 3, 2002

Control, Performance, and Knowledge Transfers in Large Multinationals: Unilever in the United States, 1945–1980 pp. 435-478

Geoffrey Jones

Control, Performance, and Knowledge Transfers in Large Multinationals: Unilever in the United States, 1945–1980 pp. 435-478

Geoffrey Jones

The Failure of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council Experiment, 1934–1940 pp. 479-514

Michael R. Adamson

The Institution of Residential Investment in Seventeenth-Century London pp. 515-551

William C. Baer

John Maynard Keynes. Volume 3: Fighting for Freedom, 1937–1946. By Robert Skidelsky. London: Viking-Penguin, 2001. xxv + 580 pp. Index, illustrations, photographs, tables, references. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-670-03022-8 pp. 561-564

Jack High

A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors. By John McDonald. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. 220 pp. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-262-13410-1 pp. 565-567

Daniel Nelson

Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies. By Louis Pizzitola. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 540 pp. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-231-11646-2 pp. 567-569

Pennee Bender

State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. By Nelson Lichtenstein. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. 298 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-691-05768-0 pp. 569-572

Kevin Boyle

Living It Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury. By James B. Twitchell. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 448 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-231-12496-1 pp. 572-574

Michael Kammen

Railroads and American Law. By James W. ElyJr Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2001. ix + 365 pp. Notes, bibliography, illustrations, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-700-61144-4 pp. 574-577

John Majewski

Down and Out, on the Road: The Homeless in American History. By Kenneth L. Kusmer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Notes, index, figures, photographs, tables. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-195-04778-8 pp. 577-580

Elaine S. Abelson

Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750–1800. By Robert E. Wright. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 224 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-7425-2086-2; paper 0-7425-2087-0 pp. 580-582

A. Glenn Crothers

God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790–1860. Edited by Mark A. Noll. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii + 313 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth 0-19-514800-2; paper 0-19-514801-0 pp. 583-585

Peter J. Wosh

The Goodyear Story: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly. By Richard Korman. San Francisco, Encounter Books, 2002. 230 pp. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN 1-893-55437-6 pp. 586-587

Michael French

Otis: Giving Rise to the Modern City. By Jason Goodwin. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. xv + 286 pp. Illustrations, appendix, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN 1-56663-385-0 pp. 587-589

Amy Bix

Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built. By Richard S. Tedlow. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. 528 pp. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN 0-066-62035-X pp. 590-592

Maury Klein

Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America. By David A. SkeelJr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 272 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-691-08810-1 pp. 592-595

Tony A. Freyer

The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the Middle Class. Edited by Burton J. Bledstein and Robert D. Johnston. New York: Routledge, 2001. 384 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth 0-415-92641-6; paper 0-415-92642-4 pp. 595-598

Scott Miltenberger

The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890–1930. By Nikki Mandell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49-95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82685-3; paper 0-807-85351-8 pp. 598-601

Judith Sealander

Wireless: From Marconi's Black Box to the Audion. By Sungook Hong. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001. 272 pp. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-262-08298-5 pp. 601-603

David Hochfelder

Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West. By Mark Fiege. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. xv + 323 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-295-97757-4; paper 0-295-98013-3 pp. 603-605

Donald C. Jackson

South Carolina and the New Deal. By Jack Irby HayesJr Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. 306 pp. Photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 1-570-03399-4 pp. 606-608

Stephen West

Don't Get above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class Music in American Life. By Bill C. Malone. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xvi + 392 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-252-02678-0 pp. 608-610

Don H. Doyle

Advertising to the American Woman, 1900–1999. By Daniel Delis Hill. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002. 329 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-814-20890-8 pp. 610-613

Lori Loeb

Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture. By Andrew Hurley. New York: Basic Books, 2002. 416 pp. Paper, $17.00. ISBN 0-465-03187-0 pp. 613-615

Beth Bailey

Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration. By Jonathan J. Bean. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. xii + 224 pp. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-8131-2187-6 pp. 615-617

Kenneth O'Reilly

The Triumph of Ethernet: Technological Communities and the Battle for the LAN Standard. By Urs von Burg. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xx + 300 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-8047-4094-1; paper 0-8047-4095-X pp. 617-620

Greg Downey

Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows: Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865–1914. By Lance E. Davis and Robert Gallman. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. vii + 986 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $100.00. ISBN 0-521-55352-0 pp. 620-623

Ranald C. Michie

Transferring Wealth and Power from the Old to the New: Monetary and Fiscal Institutions in the 17th through the 19th Centuries. Edited by Michael D. Bordo and Roberto Cortés-Conde. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. x + 442 pp. Index, figures, tables, references. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 0-521-77305-9 pp. 623-625

Larry Neal

Integral Outsiders: The American Colony in Mexico City, 1876–1911. By William SchellJr. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2001. xix + 274 pp. Illustrations, photos, index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-842-02838-2 pp. 625-627

Noel Maurer

Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico Before 1911. By Edward Beatty. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2001. 312 pp. Tables, figures, appendices. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-804-74064-X pp. 627-630

William Schell

Moose Pastures and Mergers: The Ontario Securities Commission and the Regulation of Share Markets in Canada, 1940–1980. By Christopher Armstrong. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. x + 424 pp. Photographs, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-802-03510-8 pp. 630-633

Barry E. C. Boothman

Building the Trident Network: A Study of the Enrollment of People, Knowledge, and Machines. By Maggie Mort. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. 279 pp. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN 0-262-13397-0 pp. 633-635

William M. McBride

Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933–1945. By Gerald D. Feldman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xxii + 568 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-521-80929-0 pp. 635-638

Richard Deeg

Geschichte und Zukunft der deutschen Automobilindustrie [History and Future of the German Automotive Industry]. Edited by Rudolf Boch. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. 290 pp. Notes, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, 49€. ISBN 3-515-07866-5 pp. 638-641

Ulrich Jürgens

Stalin's Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism. By Matthew J. Payne. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 400 pp. Cloth, $37.00. ISBN 0-822-94166-X pp. 641-643

Jonathan A. Grant

Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia. By Wendy Z. Goldman. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 320 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $23.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-78064-0; paper 0-521-78553-7 pp. 643-645

Mark Harrison

A History of Brewing in Holland, 900–1900: Economy, Technology, and the State. By Richard W. Unger. Leiden: Brill, 2001. xxii + 428 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $154.00. ISBN 9-004-12037-8 pp. 646-648

John S. Ceccatti

The Growth of the Italian Economy, 1820–1960. By Jon Cohen and Giovanni Federico. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 133 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $13.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-66150-1; paper 0-521-66692-9 pp. 648-651

Giandomenico Piluso

Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India. By Sanjay Joshi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. xiv + 209 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-195-64562-6 pp. 651-653

Tirthankar Roy

Building in China: Henry K. Murphy's “Adaptive Architecture,” 1914–1935. By Jeffrey W. Cody. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. xxiv + 264 pp. Photos, drawings, bibliography, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-295-98095-8 pp. 653-655

Christopher A. Reed

Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan: The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism. By Patricia Maclachlan. 270 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.50. ISBN: cloth,0-231-12346-9; paper, 0-231-12347-7 pp. 656-658

Franziska Seraphim

Volume 76, issue 2, 2002

Social Science and State Policy in World War II: Human Relations, Pedagogy, and Industrial Training, 1940–1945 pp. 233-266

William J. Breen

Regulating Transportation of Hazardous Substances: Railroads and Reform, 1883–1930 pp. 267-297

Mark Aldrich

Settling the Canadian Colonies: A Comparison of Two Nineteenth-Century Land Companies pp. 299-335

Anatole Browde

Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865–1920. By Barbara Young Welke. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 426 pp. Photographs, diagrams. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.00. ISBN: cloth 0–521–64020–2; paper 0–521–64966–8 pp. 345-347

William G. Thomas

Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century. By Robert J. Steinfeld. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 330 pp. Illustrations, tables, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $37.00. ISBN: cloth, 0–521–77360–1; paper, 0–521–77400–4 pp. 347-350

William A. Sundstrom

The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought. By Paul V. Murphy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xii + 351 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0–807–82630–8; paper 0–807–84690-X pp. 351-353

Sheldon Hackney

Antitrust and the Formation of the Postwar World. ByWyatt Wells. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 240 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN 0–231–12398–1 pp. 353-356

Tony A. Freyer

Villard: The Life and Times of an American Titan. ByAlexandra Villard de Borchgrave and John Cullen. New York: Doubleday, 2001. 414 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, photo credits, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN 0–385–48662–6 pp. 356-358

Ryan J. Carey

The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance. ByDan Rottenberg. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. xiv + 248 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0–812–23626–2 pp. 359-361

Martin Horn

More Than They Promised: The Studebaker Story. ByThomas E. Bonsall. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 496 pp. Illustrations, tables. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN 0–804–73586–7 pp. 362-364

Donald T. Critchlow

Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate. ByNeil Baldwin. New York: Public Affairs, 2001. 432 pp. Illustrations, references, index. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN 1–891–62052–5 pp. 365-367

Leonard Dinnerstein

The Early Modern Atlantic Economy. Edited byJohn J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 383 pp. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0–521–78249-X pp. 367-370

Christian J. Koot

The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America. ByJohn E. Crowley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 384 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0–801–86437–2 pp. 370-373

Richard Lyman Bushman

Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720–1850. ByThomas S. Wermuth. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 192 pp. Tables. Cloth, $54.50; paper, $17.95. ISBN: cloth 0–791–45083-X; paper 0–791–45084–8 pp. 373-375

Thomas J. Humphrey

Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War. ByDavid G. Surdam. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. 310 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 1–570–03407–9 pp. 375-377

Heather Cox Richardson

The Model Man: A Life of Edward William Bok, 1863–1930. ByHans Krabbendam. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001. x + 278 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Paper, $47.00. ISBN 9–042–01495–4 pp. 377-380

Jennifer Scanlon

The Diplomacy of Involvement: American Economic Expansion Across the Pacific, 1784–1900. ByDavid M. Fletcher. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. xii + 380 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN 0–826–21315–4 pp. 380-382

Jeffrey J. Matthews

Labor in Retreat: Class and Community among Men's Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1871–1929. ByYoungsoo Bae. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 320 pp. Maps. Cloth, $78.50; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth 0–791–45117–8; paper 0–791–45118–6 pp. 382-385

Jo Ann E. Argersinger

A Union Against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight Against Organized Labor, 1903–1947. ByWilliam Millikan. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 2001. 488 pp. Photographs, notes, appendix, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0–873–51398–3 pp. 385-387

Colin J. Davis

Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900–1930. ByAmy E. Slaton. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiv + 254 pp. Photographs, drawings. Cloth, $42.50. ISBN 0–801–86559-X pp. 387-389

Richard Rodger

Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901–2001. ByKenneth Warren. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. xviii + 406 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $32.00. ISBN 0–822–94160–0 pp. 389-392

James D. Rose

Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Ritual. ByElizabeth H. Pleck. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 352 pp. Photos. Cloth, $57.95; paper $24.00. ISBN: cloth 0–674–00230-X; paper 0–674–00279–2 pp. 392-393

Hasia R. Diner

Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America. Edited byPhilip Scranton. New York: Routledge, 2000. iv + 340 pp. Photos and illustrations. Paper, $22.95. ISBN 0–415–92667-X pp. 393-395

Janet S. Rose

Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning. ByChristian Warren. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 384 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth 0–801–86289–2; paper 0–801–86820–3 pp. 396-397

Hugh S. Gorman

Saving International Capitalism During the Early Truman Presidency: The National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems. ByKevin M. Casey. New York: Routledge, 2001. 256 pp. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0–815–33954–2 pp. 398-400

Melvyn P. Leffler

Nixon's Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy. ByDean Kotlowski. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. xii + 404. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0–674–00623–2 pp. 400-402

Jonathan J. Bean

The Business of America. ByJohn Steele Gordon. New York: Walker & Co., 2001. 285 pp. Cloth, $27.00; paper, $14.95. ISBN: cloth, 0–802–71383–1; paper, 0–802–77635–3 pp. 402-403

K. Austin Kerr

La moneda en México, 1750–1920 [Currency in Mexico, 1750–1920]. Edited byBátiz Vázquez, José Antonio, and José Enrique Covarrubias. Mexico City: Institute Mora, 1998. 234 pp. Illustrations, map, tables. Paper, $26.00. ISBN 9–686–91486–2 pp. 404-405

David J. Weiland

Labors Appropriate to their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930. ByElizabeth Quay Hutchison. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. xviii + 342. Photographs, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth 0–822–32732–5; paper 0–8223–2742–2 pp. 405-407

J. Pablo Silva

The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk, 1440–1580. ByJane Whittle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 370 pp. Tables, figures. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN 0–198–20842–1 pp. 407-409

L. R. Poos

The Politics of Trade: The Overseas Merchants in State and Society, 1660–1720. ByPerry Gauci. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. xvi + 302 pp. Tables, maps. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0–199–24193–7 pp. 409-412

Gordon Jackson

Well Suited: A History of the Leeds Clothing Industry, 1850–1990. ByKatrina Honeyman. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2000. 350 pp. Photographs, maps, tables. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 0–199–20237–0 pp. 412-414

Michael Zakim

Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791. ByClare Haru Crowston. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. 528 pp. Photographs, graphs, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth 0–822–32662–0; paper 0–822–32666–3 pp. 414-417

Cissie Fairchilds

A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France. ByChristine Adams. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. x + 292 pp. Appendixes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $21.95. ISBN 0–271–01956–5 pp. 417-419

Suzanne R. Pucci

Créateurs et créations d'entreprises de la Révolution industrielle à nos jours [Entrepreneurs and the creation of enterprises from the Industrial Revolution to the present]. Edited byJacques Marseille. Paris: Association pour le Développement de l'Histoire Économique, 2000. 751 pp. Notes, figures, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, 28.97 Euros. ISBN 2–912912–01–6 pp. 419-421

Leonard N. Rosenband

“La Chasse à l'hectolitre”: La Brasserie Müller à Neuchâtel, 1885–1953. [The Hectoliter Hunt: The Müller Brewery at Neuchâtel, 1885–1953]. ByHélène Pasquier. Neuchâtel: Editions Alphil, 2001. 158 pp. Photographs. Paper, 23€. ISBN 2–940235–02–3 pp. 421-423

Rebecca Spang

Bimetallism: An Economic and Historical Analysis. ByAngela Redish. Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press, 2000. 288 pp. Diagrams, photos, tables. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN 0–521–57091–3 pp. 423-426

Susan Howson

West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945–1955. ByS. Jonathan Wiesen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press; 2001. xviii + 330 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0–807–82634–0 pp. 426-428

Jonathan Steinberg

!Es un motor español! Historia empresarial de Barreiros [It's a Spanish car! An entrepreneurial history of Barreiros]. ByJ. L. García Ruíz and M. Santos Redondo. Madrid: Síntesis, 2001. 368 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography. Paper, 15.89 Euros. ISBN 8–47738–900–4 pp. 428-430

S. Estapé-Triay

The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720–1800. ByPrasannan Parthasarathi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 165 pp. Figures, tables. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0–521–57042–5 pp. 431-433

Kenneth R. Hall

Volume 76, issue 1, 2002

Moral Hazard and the Assessment of Insurance Risk in Eighteenth-and Early-Nineteenth-Century Britain pp. 1-35

Robin Pearson

Competition and Business Strategy in Historical Perspective pp. 37-74

Pankaj Ghemawat

Visions of Transportation: The EVC and the Transition from Service- to Product-Based Mobility pp. 75-110

David A. Kirsch and Gijs P. A. Mom

Notes for a Panel on Entrepreneurship in Business History pp. 123-132

Robert D. Cuff

Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando. ByRichard Foglesong. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 288 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN 0-300-08707-1 pp. 137-139

Susan G. Davis

Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing. ByPamela Walker Laird. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xiv + 479 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-801-85841-0; paper 0-801-86645-6 pp. 139-141

William L. Bird

Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell. ByNancy F. Koehn. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001. 470 pp. Notes, index, illustrations, figures, tables. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 1-578-51221-2 pp. 141-144

George David Smith

The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896. BySven Beckert. Cambridge University Press, 2001. 512 pp. Photographs, 4 maps, graphs, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-521-79039-5 pp. 144-146

David Nasaw

The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization. ByCurtis J. Evans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. 360 pp. Photos, maps, chart. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-807-12695-0 pp. 147-149

Susanna Delfino

The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865–1901. ByHeather Cox Richardson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 336 pp. Index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-674-00637-2 pp. 149-151

Michael S. Green

Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry. ByKenneth Warren. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 270 pp. Maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-822-94132-5 pp. 152-153

David R. Meyer

Contesting the New South Order: The 1914–1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills. ByClifford M. Kuhn. University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 320 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82644-8; paper 0-807-84973-1 pp. 154-155

Bess Beatty

The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas Between Reconstruction and the Great Depression. ByWalter L. Buenger. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. xxvi + 342 pp. Maps, photos, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $27.50. ISBN: cloth 0-292-70887-4; paper 0-292-70888-2 pp. 156-158

Glenn Feldman

Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850–1920. ByDavid Igler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xiv + 268 pp. Photographs, maps. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN 0-520-22658-5 pp. 158-161

Don Mitchell

Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California. Edited byLawrence B. DeGraaf, Kevin Mulroy, andQuintard Taylor. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. 550 pp. Index. Cloth $45.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-295-98082-6; paper 0-295-98083-4 pp. 161-163

John Ingham

The Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality. ByEric Arnesen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. 332 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-674-00319-5 pp. 164-166

Francille Rusan Wilson

Merging Lines: American Railroads, 1900–1970. ByRichard Sounders Jr. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. xix + 492 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-875-80265-6 pp. 166-168

Clifton Hood

The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. ByAdam Rome. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 299 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-521-80059-5; paper 0-521-80490-6 pp. 168-170

Patricia Burgess

Much More Than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball Since 1921. ByRobert Fredrick Burk. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 384 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82592-1; paper 0-807-84908-1 pp. 170-173

Steven A. Riess

Sematech: Saving the U.S. Semiconductor Industry. ByLarry D. Browning andJudy C. Shetler. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 320 pp. Table, bibliography, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN 0-890-96937-X pp. 173-176

Andrew Davies

Three Strikes: Labor's Heartland Losses and What They Mean for Working Americans. ByStephen Franklin. New York: Guilford Press, 2001. 308 + xii pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $23.95. ISBN 1-572-30477-4 pp. 176-178

Kevin Boyle

Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture. ByArnold J. Bauer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xx + 245 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-521-77208-7 pp. 178-181

Marie Francois

Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750–1821. ByJeremy Baskes. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 326 pp. Notes, bibliography, maps, tables, graphs. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-804-73512-3 pp. 181-184

Cynthia Radding

Kinship and Capitalism: Marriage, Family and Business in the Englishspeaking World, 1580–1740. ByRichard Grassby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xx + 506 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN 0-521-78203-1 pp. 184-186

John Smail

Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London. Edited byPatrick O'Brien, Derek Keene, Marjolein 't Hart, andHerman Van Der Wee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 376 pp. Photographs, tables, graphs. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN 0-521-59408-1 pp. 186-188

Wim Klooster

Time and Work in England, 1750–1830. ByHans-Joachim Voth. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. viii + 312 pp. Figures. Cloth, $65.00 ISBN 0-199-24194-5 pp. 188-192

Penelope J. Corfield

Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880–1914: Enterprise and Culture. ByAndrew Godley. New York: Palgrave, 2001. xii + 187 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00 ISBN O-333-96045-9 pp. 192-194

Michael French

Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780–1980. ByF. M. L. Thompson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. x + 200 pp. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-199-24330-1 pp. 194-196

Peter T. Marsh

An Irish Working Class: Explorations in Political Economy and Hegemony, 1800–1950. ByMarilyn Silverman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. x + 566 pp. Maps, tables, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 0-802-03531-0 pp. 196-199

David M. Emmons

Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe. ByRichard Lachmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 328 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-195-07568-4 pp. 199-201

William D. Rubinstein

When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700–1850. ByDaniel Headrick. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 256 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-195-13597-0; paper 0-195-15373-1 pp. 201-203

Catherine Bertho Lavenir

Gold for the Sultan: Western Bankers and Ottoman Finance, 1856–1881. ByChristopher Clay. London: I. B. Tauris, 2001. xx + 698 pp. Tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 1-860-64476-7 pp. 203-207

Priscilla Roberts

L'Occupation, l'État français et les enterprises [The Occupation, the French State, and Business]. Edited byOlivier Dard, Jean-Claude Daumas, and François Marcot. Paris: Association pour le Développement de l'Histoire Économique, 2000. 487 pp. Notes, bibliography, tables, index. Fr 180. ISBN 2-912912-06-7 pp. 208-213

Donald Reid

Statistics and the German State, 1900–1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge. ByJ. Adam Tooze. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xviii + 314 pp. Figures, diagrams, tables, graphs. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-521-80318-7 pp. 213-216

Harold James

Recovery and Restoration: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Politics of Reconstruction of West Germany's Shipbuilding Industry, 1945–1955. ByHenry Burke Wend. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, 2001. xxxii + 255 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-275-96990-8 pp. 216-218

Raymond G. Stokes

The Multinational Traders. Edited byGeoffrey Jones. London: Routledge, 1998. xiv + 236 pp. Figures, tables, notes bibliographies, index. Cloth, $110.00 ISBN 0-415-18002-3 pp. 218-220

Ray Barrell

Prosperity, Region, and Institutions in Maritime China: The South Fukien Pattern, 946–1368. ByBilly K. L. So. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. 496 pp. Maps, drawings. Cloth, $52.00. ISBN 0-674-00371-3 pp. 220-223

Angela Schottenhammer

The Economic History of India, 1857–1947. ByTirthankar Roy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 336 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-195-65154-5 pp. 223-226

Susan Wolcott

From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantage in the Hard Disk Drive Industry. ByDavid G. McKendrick, Richard F. Doner, andStephan Haggard. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. 366 pp. Figures, tables, notes, references, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-804-74152-2; paper 0-804-74183-2 pp. 226-228

Steven W. Usselman

Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote d'Ivoire, 1880–1995. ByThomas J. Bassett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 266 pp. Tables, graphs, maps. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN 0-521-78313-5 pp. 228-230

Robert L. Tignor

Wheels and Deals: The Automobile Industry in Twentieth Century Australia. ByRobert Conlon andJohn Perkins. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2001. 190 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN 0-754-60405-5 pp. 230-232

David T. Merrett