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Volume 75, issue 4, 2001

State Regulators and Pragmatic Federalism in the United States, 1889–1945 pp. 701-738

William R. Childs

Chambers of Commerce and Business Elites in Great Britain and Brazil in the Nineteenth Century: Some Comparisons pp. 739-773

Eugene Ridings

The National Association of Manufacturers and the Militarization of American Conservatism pp. 775-805

Jonathan Soffer

Tea Processing in China, circa 1885—A Photographic Essay pp. 807-812

Robert Gardella

Edison: A Life of Invention. ByPaul Israel. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. 480 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $18.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-471-52942-7; paper 0-471-36270-0 pp. 819-822

John W. Servos

Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790–1850. ByDonna J. Rilling. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 280 pp. Photos, maps, illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-812-23580-0 pp. 822-824

Ronald Schultz

Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum AmericaByEdward J. Balleisen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 344 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, illustrations. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth, 0-807-82600-6; paper, 0-807-84916-2 pp. 825-827

Clyde A. Haulman

Ties that Bind: Economic and Political Dilemmas of Urban Utility Networks, 1800–1990. ByCharles David Jacobson. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 202 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index, bibliography. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-822-94133-3 pp. 827-830

William Hausman

Covering Iowa: The History of the Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, 1849–1985. ByWilliam B. Friedericks. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000. 318 pp. Photos, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-813-82620-9 pp. 830-832

Richard B. Kielbowicz

Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest. ByDavid Blanke. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. 282 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-821-41347-3; paper 0-8214-1348-1 pp. 832-835

Thomas A. Woods

Women in Labor: Mothers, Medicine, and Occupational Health in the United States, 1890–1980. ByAllison L. Hepler. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000. xii + 177 pp. Photos, illustrations, index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $18.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-814-20850-9; paper 0-814-25055-6 pp. 835-837

Anna R. Igra

Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop. ByJulie A. Willett. New York: New York University Press, 2000. 240 pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $18.50. ISBN: Cloth 0-814-79357-6; paper 0-814-79358-4 pp. 838-840

Elysa Engelman

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker. ByA'Lelia Bundles. New York: Scribner, 2001. 400 pp. Photos, index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN 0-684-82582-1 pp. 840-843

Alexa Benson Henderson

The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps. ByOlen ColeJr. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1999. 192 pp. Figures, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN 0-813-01660-6 pp. 843-845

Mark D. Higbee

Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. ByElliott J. Gorn. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. xiii + 408 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.00. ISBN 0-809-07093-6 pp. 845-848

Craig Phelan

Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930–1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists. ByGerald Home. 335 pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Photos, notes, index. Paper, $22.95. ISBN 0-292-73138-8 pp. 848-850

James J. Lorence

The Social Consequences of Economic Restructuring in the Textile Industry: Change in a Southern Mill Village. ByCynthia D. Anderson. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. xii + 169 pp. Index, appendix, bibliography, and references. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-815-33622-5 pp. 850-853

Randall L. Patton

Mexican American Odyssey: Felix Tijerina, Entrepreneur & Civic Leader, 1905–1965. ByThomas H. Kreneck. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2001. 432 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-890-96936-1 pp. 853-855

Paul H. Carlson

Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit. BySusanne E. Smith. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. 336 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index, Cloth, $26.50; paper, $15.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-674-00063-3; paper 0-674-00546-5 pp. 855-858

Kathy M. Newman

Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California. Edited byRuth Milkman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000. 272 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $18.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-801-43697-4; paper 0-801-48617-3 pp. 858-860

Zaragosa Vargas

Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959–2000. ByMansel Blackford. University Press of Kansas, 2001. 296 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-700-61086-3 pp. 860-862

Harvey K. Newman

Corning and the Craft of Innovation. ByMargaret B. W. Graham and Alec T. Shuldiner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xvi + 505 pp. Index, notes, and photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-19-514097-4 pp. 862-865

Christopher Tucci

Wings of Power: Boeing and the Politics of Growth in the Northwest. ByT. M. Sell. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. xxx + 162 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-295-98049-4 pp. 865-866

David D. Lee

Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After. Edited byAgatha C. Hughes and Thomas P. Hughes. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. 513 pp. Index, notes, and figures. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-262-08285-3 pp. 866-869

Stephen P. Waring

Telecom Nation: Telecommunications, Computers, and Governments in Canada. ByLaurence B. Mussio. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. x + 308 pp. Photos, illustrations, index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-7735–21755 pp. 869-872

Hudson Janisch

The Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada, 1869–1900. ByGlen Norcliffe. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Photos, maps, illustrations. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-802-04398-4; paper 0-802-08205-X pp. 873-875

Colin Harris

Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850–1930. ByRobert Lewis. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xvii + 336 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, index, notes. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86349-X pp. 875-877

Michael Huberman

Ontario's Cattle Kingdom: Purebred Breeders and Their World, 1870–1920. ByMargaret Derry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xx + 221 pp. Sketches, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-802-04866-8 pp. 877-880

Connie L. Lester

Un siglo de deuda pública en México [A century of public debt in Mexico]. ByLeonor Ludlow and Carlos Marichal, eds. Mexico: Instituto Mora, 1998. 269 pp. Notes, figures, bibliography. Paper, $19.00. ISBN 9-686-91490-0 pp. 880-883

Edward Beatty

Gales: A Study in Brewing, Business and Family History. ByBarry Stapleton and James H. Thomas. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2000. xvi + 192 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN 0-754-60146-3 pp. 883-885

Christine Clark

The Coventry Motor Industry: Birth to Renaissance. ByDavid Thoms and Tom Donnelly. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2000. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, photos. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN 0-75460-108-0 pp. 885-888

Timothy R. Whisler

The Business of Medicine: A History of Glaxo. ByEdgar Jones. Profile Books Limited, 2001. xxiii + 520 pp. Tables, photos, illustrations, index, notes, and bibliography. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 1-861-97340-3 pp. 888-890

Stephen B. Adams

The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause. ByJulian L. Simon (Timur Kuran, editor). Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 240 pp. Tables, graphs, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN 0-472-11097-7 pp. 891-893

Roderick Floud

The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700–2000. ByNiall Ferguson. New York: Basic Books. 2001. xix + 552 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $17.00. ISBN: Cloth 0-465-02325-8; paper 0-465-02326-6 pp. 893-895

Richard F. Teichgraeber

Money and Politics: European Monetary Unification and the International Gold Standard (1865–1873). ByLuca Einaudi. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2001. xix + 241 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $72.00. ISBN 0-19-924366-2 pp. 896-899

Lawrence H. Officer

Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761–1805. ByLeonard N. Rosenband. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 240 pp. Graphs, tables, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-86392-9 pp. 899-902

Christopher H. Johnson

Naissance d'une industrie touristique: Les Anglais et la Suisse au XIXe siècle [Birth of a tourist industry: The English and the Swiss in the nineteenth century]. ByLaurent Tissot. Lausanne: Editions Payot, 2000. Paper, F149; €22.71. ISBN 2-601-03257-X pp. 903-905

Stephen L. Harp

Das “Stahltrusf”-Projekt: Die Gründung der Vereinigte Stahlwerke A.G. und ihre Unternehmensentwicklung, 1926–1933/34 [The “steeltrust” project: The founding of the United Steel Works AG and its business development, 1926–1933/34]. ByAlfred Reckendrees. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2000. 639 pp. Cloth, DM 138; C70.56. ISBN 3-406-45819-X pp. 906-909

Jeffrey Fear

The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property. ByHarold James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 280 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN 0-521-80329-2 pp. 910-912

Jeremy Leaman

Naukratis: Trade in Archaic Greece. ByAstrid Möller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 321 pp. Table, plates, drawings. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN 0-198-15284-1 pp. 913-916

Claire Calcagno

Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations. ByRajeswary Ampalavanar Brown. Palgrave, 2000. xii + 328. Figures, tables, maps, index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN 0-3433-75344-5 pp. 916-919

Elisabeth Köll

A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization. ByKerry Smith. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 325 pp. Figures, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN 0-674-00370-5 pp. 920-922

Louis G. Perez

The Rise of “the Rest”: Challenges to the West from Late-Industrialization Economies. ByAlice Amsden. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 416 pp. Notes, reference, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-195-13969-0 pp. 922-925

Robert Forrant

Volume 75, issue 3, 2001

Product Diversification in the U.S. Pulp and Paper Industry: The Case of International Paper, 1898–1941 pp. 467-505

Thomas Heinrich

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Company (NTT) and the Building of a Telecommunications Industry in Japan pp. 507-541

Marie Anchordoguy

Submarine Telegraph Cables: Business and Politics, 1838–1939 pp. 543-578

Daniel R. Headrick and Pascal Griset

Historians Approach Tourism in the American West: A Review Essay - Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West. ByHal K. Rothman. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xi + 434 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $17.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-700-60910-5; paper 0-700-61056-1. - Seeing & Being Seen: Tourism in the American West. Edited byDavid M. Wrobel andPatrick T. Long. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xv + 336 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-700-61082-0; paper 0-700-61083-9 pp. 579-585

Mansel G. Blackford

Constructing Socialism: Technology and Change in East Germany, 1945–1990. ByRaymond G. Stokes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xi + 280 pp. Photos, drawings. Cloth, $42.50. ISBN 0-801-86391-0 pp. 593-596

Jeffrey Fear

John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire. ByAxel Madsen. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. 304 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN 0-471-38503-4 pp. 596-598

H. W. Brands

Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius. ByVincent Curcio. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiv + 700 pp. Notes, index, photos. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-195-07896-9 pp. 598-600

Steven Tolliday

Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday. ByKaral Ann Marling. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. xxii + 442 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $27.00. ISBN 0-674-00318-7 pp. 601-603

Russell W. Belk

Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England. ByMary H. Blewett. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. x + 521 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 1-558-49239-9 pp. 604-605

Lisa M. Fine

The Origins and Economic Impact of the First Bank of the United States, 1791–1797. ByDavid Jack Cowen. New York: Garland Press, 2000. 323 pp. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-815-33837-6 pp. 605-607

John James

A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War. ByJohn Majewski. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 234 pp. Tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-521-59023-X pp. 608-610

Joyce Chaplin

Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era. ByLandon R. Y. Storrs. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 448 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-807-82527-1; paper 0-807-84838-7 pp. 610-613

Meg Jacobs

American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830–1998. ByTed Ownby. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 248 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, index, Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-807-82479-8; paper 0-807-84806-9 pp. 613-616

Mary Stovall Richards

From Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America. ByPriscilla J. Brewer. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000. 320 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-815-60650-8 pp. 616-619

Carolyn C. Cooper

Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida. Edited byJane G. Landers. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. 220 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-813-01772-6 pp. 619-621

Lloyd Johnson

A History of Navigation on Cypress Bayou and the Lakes. ByJacques D. Bagur. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2001. 822 pp. Maps, illustrations, photographs, tables, bibliography. Cloth, $67.95. ISBN 1-574-41135-7 pp. 622-624

Thomas Becnel

Banking Panics of the Gilded Age. ByElmus Wicker. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 160 pp. Illustrations, tables, Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-521-77023-8 pp. 624-626

Richard Sylla

The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West. ByMichael Wallis. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 640 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $21.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-312-19286-X; paper 0-312-26381-3 pp. 627-628

William W. Savage

Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard. ByGeoffrey Tweedale. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2000. xx + 313 pp. Figures, map, graphs, tables. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-198-29690-8; paper 0-199-24399-9 pp. 628-631

Christian Warren

Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920–1960. By Hugh R. Slotten. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xv + 308 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86450-X pp. 631-633

James Schwoch

Odyssey in Prime Time. By Robert Lewis Shayon. Philadelphia: Waymark Press, 2001. 351 pp. Paper, $14.95. ISBN 0-970-54690-4 pp. 633-636

Margaret A. Blanchard

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation. ByEdwin Black. New York: Crown, 2001. 519 pp. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN 0-609-60799-5 pp. 636-639

Henry Ashby Turner

Bootstrapping: Douglas Englebart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing. ByThierry Bardini. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi + 284 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-804-73723-1; paper 0-804-73871-8 pp. 639-641

Nathan Ensmenger

Fortunes, Fiddles & Fried Chicken: A Nashville Business History. ByBill Carey. Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Press, 2000. xii + 500 pp. Photographs, notes, and index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 1-577-36178-4 pp. 641-643

Wyatt Wells

Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America. ByCamilla Townsend. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. xxii + 320 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-292-78167-9; paper 0-292-78169-5 pp. 644-646

Carlos Espinosa

The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850–1930. Edited bySteven C. Topik andAllen Wells. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. 200 pp. Bibliography, graphs, maps, tables, index. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $13.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-292-78157-1; paper 0-292-78153-9 pp. 646-649

Emilio H. Kourí

Trade Shocks in Developing Countries, Vol. 2: Asia and Latin America. Edited byPaul Collier andJan Willem Gunning. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 0-198-29463-8 pp. 649-652

Jeffrey Cason

Selling Themselves: The Emergence of Canadian Advertising. ByRussell Johnston. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 368 pp. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-802-04495-6 pp. 652-654

Daniel Pope

Roughing It in the Suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties. ByValerie J. Korinek. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. xv + 460 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-802-04180-9; paper 0-802-08041-3 pp. 654-656

Michelle Elizabeth Tusan

British Society, 1680–1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change. ByRichard Price. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 361 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-521-65172-7; paper 0-521-65701-6 pp. 657-659

Stuart Semmel

A Victorian Film Enterprise: The History of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1897–1915. ByRichard Brown and Barry Anthony. Wiltshire, U.K.: Flick Books, 2001. xiv + 345 pp. Appendix, bibliography. Cloth, $65.50. ISBN 0-948-91127-1 pp. 660-661

Gregory D. Black

Raleigh and the British Bicycle Industry: An Economic and Business History, 1870–1960. ByRoger Lloyd-Jones andM. J. Lewis. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2000. Cloth, $84.95. ISBN 1-859-28457-4 pp. 662-664

Glen Dowell

Smoking in British Popular Culture, 1800–2000. ByMatthew Hilton. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2000. xvii + 245 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $29.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-719-05256-4; paper 0-719-05257-2 pp. 665-667

Jordan Goodman

The Treasury and British Public Policy, 1906–1959. ByG. C. Peden. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiv + 582 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, £65.00 (U.S.$90.50). ISBN 0-198-20707-7 pp. 667-669

Ranald C. Michie

British Petroleum and Global Oil, 1950–1975: The Challenge of Nationalism. ByJames Bamberg. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxviii + 637 pp. Photos, figures, maps. Cloth, $130.00; paper, $39.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-521-25951-7; paper 0-521-78515-4 pp. 669-671

Roger M. Olien

Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660–1870. ByPhilip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, andJean-Laurent Rosenthal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. x + 350 pp. Drawings, tables. Cloth $55.00. ISBN 0-226-34801-6 pp. 672-674

Forrest Capie

La seta in Italia dal Medioevo al Seicento: dal baco al drappo [Silk in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century: From Silkworm to Cloth]. Edited byLuca Molà, Reinhold C. Mueller, andClaudio Zanier. Venice: Marsilio, 2000. xiv + 568 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, 80,000 lire (U.S. $37.50). ISBN 8-831-77442-5 pp. 674-676

Giovanni Federico

Impresa e industria in Italia dall'Unità a oggi [Enterprise and Industry in Italy from Unification to the Present]. ByFranco Amatori andAndrea Colli. Venice: Marsilio, 1999. 414 pp. Bibliography, appendix, maps, illustrations, figures. Cloth, 48,000 lire (U.S.$22.50). ISBN 88-317-7289-9 pp. 676-680

David LoRomer

IT and Business: A History of Scandinavian Airlines. ByJens Christensen. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 2000. 440 pp. Tables, figures. Paper, $45.95. ISBN 8-772-88820-2 pp. 680-682

Harm G. Schröter

A Fistful of Rubles: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Banking System. ByJuliet Johnson. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000. xviii + 244 pp. Bibliography, figures, illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-801-43744-X pp. 682-684

Mark Harrison

Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century. ByDionicio Nodin Valdés. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. viii + 380 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-292-78743-X; paper 0-292-78744-8 pp. 685-687

Brian Gratton

Las finanzas públicas en los siglos XVIII–XIX [Public Finance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries]. Edited byLuis Jáuregui andJosé Antonio Serrano Ortega. Mexico: Instituto Mora, 1998. 251 pp. Notes, figures, bibliography. Paper, $19.00. ISBN 9-68691482-X pp. 688-690

John F. Schwaller

Raíles en la Ciudad: ciudad y empresa en torno a los tranvías en Granada [Railroads in the City: How City and Industry Shaped Transport in Granada]. ByGregorio Núñez. Granada: Caja General de Ahorros de Granada y Ayutamiento de Granada, 1999. 185 pp. Tables, figures, maps, bibliography, and index. Paper, 4800 pesetas (U.S. $26.25). ISBN 8-495-14905-2 pp. 691-693

Juan Carlos Santamarina

The Landowners of the Argentine Pampas: A Social and Political History, 1860–1945. ByRoy Hora. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 272 pp. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-198-20884-7 pp. 694-696

Donna Guy

The Rural Entrepreneurs: A History of the Stock and Station Agent Industry in Australia and New Zealand. BySimon Ville. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 274 pp. Diagrams, tables, photographs. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN 0-521-64265-5 pp. 697-699

Deborah Oxley

Volume 75, issue 2, 2001

“A Person of Good Character and Considerable Property”: James Forten and the Issue of Race in Philadelphia's Antebellum Business Community pp. 261-296

Julie Winch

California Banking in the Nineteenth Century: The Art and Method of the Bank of A. Levy pp. 297-324

Eugene N. White

The Stock Market Crash of 1929: A Review Article pp. 325-351

Maury Klein

It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States. BySeymour Martin Lipset andGary Marks. New York: W. W. Norton Press, 2000. 379 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN 0-393-04098-4 pp. 359-361

Warren van Tine

The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture. ByRebecca L. Spang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. vii + 325 pp. Bibliography, notes, illustrations, photographs, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-674-00064-1 pp. 361-363

Whitney Walton

Manufacturing Time: Global Competition in the Watch Industry, 1795–2000. ByAmy K. Glasmeier. New York: Guilford Press, 2000. 311 pp. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 1-572-30589-4 pp. 364-365

Alexis McCrossen

Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of “The Little White Slaver.” ByCassandra Tate. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 240 pp. Maps, notes, appendix, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-195-11851-0 pp. 366-368

Matthew Hilton

Frontier Swashbuckler: The Life and Legend of John Smith T. ByDick Steward. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000. xi + 246 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-826-21248-4 pp. 369-371

Clark C. Spence

Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. ByFrederick Cooper, Thomas C. Holt, andRebecca J. Scott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xii + 198 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, notes, index. Paper, $15.95. ISBN 0-807-84854-9 pp. 371-374

Martha Hodes

American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture. ByBrian Roberts. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xii + 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-807-82543-3; paper 0-8078-4856-5 pp. 374-376

John L. Brooke

Coast to Coast by Automobile: The Pioneering Trips, 1899–1908. ByCurt McConnell. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. xiv + 349 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-804-73380-5 pp. 377-379

John Paul Rossi

The Origins and Early Development of Professional Football, 1890–1920. ByMarc S. Maltby. New York: Garland, 1997. xvi + 238 pp. Bibliography and index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-815-32797-8 pp. 379-381

Elliott J. Gorn

Insane Sisters: Or, the Price Paid for Challenging a Company Town. ByGregg Andrews. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. xii + 262 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, and index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-826-21240-9 pp. 382-385

Erika Bsumek

From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890–1967. ByDavid T. Beito. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiv + 320 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-807-82531-X; paper 0-8078-4841-7 pp. 385-388

Judith Sealander

Empowering the West: Electrical Politics Before FDR. ByJay L. Brigham. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. vii + 211 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, appendix, and index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-700-60920-2 pp. 388-391

Craig Wollner

The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900–1940. ByMax Page. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xiv + 303 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, tables, figures, notes, and index. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: Cloth 0-226-64468-5; paper 0-226-64469-3 pp. 391-393

Peter Marcuse

Struggling with “Iowa's Pride”: Labor Relations, Unionism, and Politics in the Rural Midwest since 1877. ByWilson J. Warren. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000. 232 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-877-45712-3; paper 0-877-45713-1 pp. 394-396

Charles L. Lumpkins

Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890–1940. ByHowell John Harris. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 456 pp. Figures, tables, notes, appendix, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN 0-521-58435-3 pp. 396-398

Jonathan Rees

Lochner v. New York: Economic Regulation on Trial. ByPaul Kens. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. ix + 216 pp. Bibliographical essay, index. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $12.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-700-60918-0; paper 0-7006-0919-9 pp. 398-400

Tony A. Freyer

The Voice of America and the Domestic Propaganda Battles, 1945–1953. ByDavid F. Krugler. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000, xii + 246 pp. Bibliography, notes, appendix, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-826-21302-2 pp. 401-403

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

Paying with Plastic: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing. ByDavid Evans andRichard Schmalensee. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. xii + 373 pp. Bibliography, notes, figures, tables, illustrations, index. $16.95. ISBN 0-262-55037-7 pp. 403-406

Timothy S. Wolters

Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution. ByJohn D. Wirth. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2000. xx + 264 pp. Bibliography, notes, illustrations, maps, photographs, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-700-60984-9 pp. 407-409

David Stradling

Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Line. ByWilliam Adler. New York: Scribner, 2000. 350 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN 0-684-83779-X pp. 409-412

Steve Babson

La minería mexicana: De la colonia al siglo XX [Mexican Mining: From the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century]. Edited byInés Herrera Canales. Mexico City: Instituto Mora, 1998. 271 pp. Paper, $14.17. ISBN: 9-686-91483-8 pp. 412-414

Peter Bakewell

Mercado interno en México. Siglos XVIII–XIX [The Internal Market in Mexico during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries]. Edited byJorge Silva Riquer andJesús López Martínez. Mexico City: Institute Mora, 1998. 226 pp. Paper, $14.17. ISBN 9-686-91485-4 pp. 415-417

John E. Kicza

Agriculture mexicana: crecimiento e innovaciónes [Mexican Agriculture: Growth and Innovation]. Edited byMargarita Menegus and Alejandro Tortolero. Mexico City: Instituto Mora, 1999. 249 pp. Bibliography, notes, illustrations, maps, tables. Paper, $14.17. ISBN 9-686-91489-7 pp. 417-420

Richard L. Garner

La Banca en México, 1820–1920 [Banking in Mexico, 1820–1920]. Edited byLeonor Ludlow andCarlos Marichal. Mexico City: Instituto Mora, 1998. Bibliography, notes, tables. 269 pp. Paper, $14.17. ISBN 9-686-91481-1 pp. 420-423

Gail D. Triner

La industria textil en México [The Textile Industry in Mexico]. Edited byAurora Gómez-Galvarriato. Mexico City: Instituto Mora, 1999. Bibliography, notes, tables. 269 pp. Paper, $14.17. ISBN 9-686-91487-0 pp. 423-425

Richard Salvucci

Isotopes and Innovation: MDS Nordion's First Fifty Years, 1946–1996. ByPaul Litt. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. 249 pp. Notes, appendix, photographs, index. Paper, $40.00. ISBN 0-773-52082-1 pp. 425-427

Geoffrey Tweedale

Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720–1844. ByRon Harris. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvi + 332 pp. Bibliography, references, tables, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-521-66275-3 pp. 427-429

Henry Horwitz

Hard at Work in Factories and Mines: The Economics of Child Labor during the British Industrial Revolution. ByCarolyn Tuttle. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999. ix + 308 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, index. Paper, $63.00. ISBN 0-813-33698-8 pp. 429-432

Robert Whaples

Industrial Espionage and Technological Transfer: Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century. ByJ. R. Harris. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1997. xvii + 655 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, index. Cloth, $119.95. ISBN 0-859-67827-X pp. 432-435

Liana Vardi

Renascent Empire? The House of Braganza and the Quest for Stability in Portuguese Monsoon Asia, c. 1640–1683. ByGlenn J. Ames. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2000. 262 pp. Bibliography, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, $34.50. ISBN 9-053-56382-2 pp. 435-437

David Birmingham

Condor: Cycles, motocycles et construction mécanique [Condor: Cycles, Motorcycles, and Mechanical Construction]. ByAlain Cortat. Delémont: Editions Alphill, 1996. 324 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, photographs, tables. 150 francs. ISBN 2-940-23500-7 pp. 437-439

Michael S. Smith

Histoire de la Gazette de Lausanne: le temps du colonel, 1874–1917 [History of the Lausanne Gazette: The Colonel's Era, 1874–1917]. ByAlain Clavien. Vevey: Editions de l'Aire, 1997. 355 pp. 210 francs. ISBN 2-881-08467-2 pp. 439-441

Clive H. Church

The Development of Modern Spain. An Economic History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. ByGabriel Tortella (translated by Valerie Herr). Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. 544 pp. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-674-00094-3 pp. 442-445

Jesús M. Valdaliso

La construcción de los saltos del Duero, 1930–1970. Historia de una epopeya colectiva [The Building of the Douro River Dams, 1930–1970: A History of a Joint Epic]. ByAlvaro Chapa. Pamplona: Ediciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 1999. iii + 510 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, chronology, appendix, index. Cloth, $47.30. ISBN 8-431-31688-8 pp. 445-447

Gregorio Núñez

Swallows and Settlers: The Great Migration from North China to Manchuria. ByThomas R. Gottschang andDiana Lary. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 2000. 190 pp. Tables, figures. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-892-64134-7 pp. 448-451

Dorothy V. Borei

Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900–1945. Edited bySherman Cochran. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. 256 pp. Maps, illustrations. Cloth, $28.00; paper, $17.00. ISBN: Cloth 1-885-44563-6; paper 1-885-44503-2 pp. 451-453

Philip Richardson

America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival, 1950–1960. ByAaron Forsberg. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xv + 332 pp. Bibliography, notes, tables, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-807-82528-X pp. 453-456

W. Miles Fletcher

The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan. ByAndrew Gordon. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. viii + 280 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $36.95. ISBN 0-674-80577-1 pp. 456-459

Koji Taira

Corporate Capitalism in Japan. ByHiroshi Okumura (translated byDouglas Anthony and Naomi Brown). New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. lxi + 165 pp. Notes, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-312-23083-4 pp. 459-462

Leonard H. Lynn

To Be a Worker: Identity and Politics in Peru. ByJorge Parodi (translated byJames Alstrum andCatherine M. Conaghan). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xx + 177 pp. Notes, appendix, glossary, tables, index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $17.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-807-82548-4; paper 0-807-84860-3 pp. 462-465

Thomas F. O'Brien

Volume 75, issue 1, 2001

Rendezvous with Information? Computers and Communications Networks in the United States pp. 1-13

Richard R. John

Inventing Information Systems: The Systems Men and the Computer, 1950–1968 pp. 15-61

Thomas Haigh

Robert Noyce and Fairchild Semiconductor, 1957–1968 pp. 63-101

Leslie R. Berlin

Not Only Microsoft: The Maturing of the Personal Computer Software Industry, 1982–1995 pp. 103-145

Martin Campbell-Kelly

Government, Business, and the Making of the Internet pp. 147-176

Janet Abbate

A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. Edited by Alfred D. ChandlerJr. and James W. Cortada. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 404 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-195-12701-3 pp. 179-181

Thomas Hughes

Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash. By Susan Strasser. London: Metropolitan Books, 1999. 355 pp. Cloth, $26.00; paper, $16.00. ISBN: Cloth 0-805-04830-8; paper 0-805-06512-1 pp. 181-184

Timothy Spears

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business— Their Lives, Times, and Ideas. By Andrea Gabor. New York: Times Books, 2000. 384 pp. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN 0-812-92820-2 pp. 184-186

Donald Stabile

Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism. By Dana Frank. Boston: Beacon Press. Notes, index. Cloth, $26.00; paper, $17.50. ISBN: Cloth 0-807-04710-4; paper 0-807-04711-2 pp. 186-189

Elizabeth McKillen

Capital, Labor and the State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal. By David Brian Robertson. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 320 pp. Tables, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-847-69728-2; paper 0-847-69729-0 pp. 189-192

Alan Draper

The Global Cigarette: Origins and Evolution of British American Tobacco, 1880–1945. By Howard Cox. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2000. xxii + 401 pp. Maps, photographs, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth, $58.00. ISBN 0-198-29221-X pp. 192-194

Jordan Goodman

Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday. By Alexis McCrossen. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000. 240 pp. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-43417-3 pp. 194-196

Richard Butsch

Catskill Culture: A Mountain Rat's Memories of the Great Jewish Resort Area. By Phil Brown. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. 304 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 1-566-39642-5 pp. 196-199

Andrew R. Heinze

Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network. By Matthew Lasar. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 320 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth, 1-566-39660-3; paper, 1-566-39777-4 pp. 199-202

Marc J. Stern

The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City. By Sara E. Wermiel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. viii + 301 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86311-2 pp. 202-204

Mark Aldrich

Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business. By Jane R. Plitt. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000. 224 pp. Photographs. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN 0-815-60638-9 pp. 205-207

Elysa Engelman

The Electric Car and the Burden of History. By David A. Kirsch. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000. xiv + 292 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $52.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: Cloth 0-8135-2808-9; paper 0-813-52809-7 pp. 207-210

Thomas J. Misa

Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution. By Susannah Handley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 192 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-801-86325-2 pp. 210-212

Robert W. Rydell

Henry Rand Hatfield: Humanist, Scholar, and Accounting Educator. By Stephen A. Zeff. Stamford, Conn.: JAI Press, 2000. Cloth, $89.00. ISBN 0-762-30622-X pp. 212-214

Richard Vangermeersch

U.S. Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective. By Charles W. Calomiris. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxxii + 357 pp. Tables, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-521-58362-4 pp. 215-217

Richard Grossman

The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way. By Lary May. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xvi + 348 pp. Photographs, tables. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN 0-226-51162-6 pp. 217-220

Stephen Prince

Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation Building” in the Kennedy Era. By Michael E. Latham. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 304 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-807-82533-6; paper 0-807-84844-1 pp. 220-222

Timothy J. McKeown

You Say You Want a Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics. By Reed E. Hundt. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 264 pp. Cloth $27.50. ISBN 0-300-08364-5 pp. 223-225

Karen Schnietz

A Business History of Alberta. By Henry C. Klassen. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1999. xxii + 362 pp. Maps, illustrations, index. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth 1-55238-022-X; paper 1-55238-009-2 pp. 225-227

Douglas McCalla

A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600–1800. By Daniel Roche. Translated by Brian Pearce. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 320 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-521-63329-X; paper 0-521-63359-1. [Originally published as Histoire des choses banales: Naissance de la consommation dans les sociétés traditionnelles (XVIIe–XlXe siècle). Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1997.] pp. 228-230

Benjamin F. Martin

Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias. By Peter M. Garber. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. 175 pp. Charts, bibliography, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-262-07204-1 pp. 230-232

Bruce G. Carruthers

Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance. By Janet Gleeson. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999. 304 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $24.00. ISBN 0-684-487295-1 pp. 232-235

Thomas E. Kaiser

An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800–1920: Demographic, Economic and Social Transition. By Michael Wintle. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 416 pp. Photographs, figures, tables. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 0-521-78295-3 pp. 235-239

Martine van Ittersum

Historia económica de la empresa [The Economic History of Business]. By Jesús M. Valdaliso and Santiago López. Barcelona: Crítica, S.L., 2000. 573 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $41.90 ISBN 8-484-32014-6 pp. 239-241

José L. García-Ruiz

The British Motor Industry, 1945–1994: A Case Study in Industrial Decline. By Timothy R. Whisler. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii + 428 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $105.00. ISBN 0-198-29074-8 pp. 242-244

Gary Magee

Trade Shocks in Developing Countries. Vol. 1: Africa. By Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning and Associates, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 502 pp. Graphs and tables. Cloth, $98.00. ISBN 0-198-29338-0 pp. 244-247

Robert L. Tignor

The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo Roots of Brazil's Rural Labor Movement, 1924–1964. By Cliff Welch. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. 448 pp. Cloth, $65. ISBN 0-271-01788-0 pp. 247-248

Hendrik Kraay

Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880–1937. By Sherman Cochran. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xii + 257 pp. Photographs, tables. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 0-520-21625-3 pp. 248-251

Christopher A. Reed

Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea: The Onoda Cement Factory. By Soon-Won Park. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. 325 pp. Maps, tables, figures, index. Cloth, $42.50. ISBN 0-674-14240-3 pp. 251-254

Kirk W. Larsen

India's Newspaper Revolution: Capitalism, Politics and the Indian Language Press, 1977–1999. By Robin Jeffrey. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xxii + 234 pp. Maps, photographs, glossary, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-312-23253-5 pp. 254-257

Paula Chakravartty

Business Institutions and Behaviour in Australia. By David Merrett, ed. London: Frank Cass, 2000. vi + 159 pp. Cloth, $57.50; paper, $24.50. ISBN: Cloth 0-714-64994-5; paper 0-714-68055-9 pp. 257-260

Paul Robertson