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Volume 74, issue 4, 2000

Markets, Management, and Merger: John Mackintosh & Sons, 1890–1969 pp. 555-609

Robert Fitzgerald

High Finance/Low Strategy: Corporate Collapse in the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry, 1919–1932 pp. 611-656

Barry E.C. Boothman

A Consumer Service in Interwar Britain: The Hotel Trade, 1924–1938 pp. 657-682

Rex Pope

The Nineteenth-Century American Trade Card pp. 683-688

Margaret E. Hale

The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. By David Nasaw. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. xv + 687 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-395-82759-0 pp. 695-696

Michael Schudson

Company Men: White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941. By Clark Davis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 320 pp. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-86274-4 pp. 697-699

Lynn Dumenil

The Fourth Great Awakening & The Future of Egalitarianism. ByRobert William Fogel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 320 pp. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN 0-226-25662-6 pp. 699-702

Jon Butler

A History of Consumer Credit: Doctrines and Practices. ByRosa-Maria Gelpi and François Julien-Labruyère. New York: St. Martins Press. Illustrations, appendices, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-312-22415-X pp. 702-706

Rowena Olegario

A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building. ByHoward Bodenhorn. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxi + 260 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-521-66285-0; paper 0-521-66999-5 pp. 706-709

A. Glenn Crothers

The Unseen Wall Street of 1969-1975. ByAlec Benn. Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 2000. 216 pp. + xxii. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 1-567-20333-2 pp. 709-711

Wyatt Wells

Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890–1943. ByPatrick D. Reagan. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. 400 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 1-558-49230-5 pp. 711-714

Ira Katznelson

From Warfare State to Welfare State: World War I, Compensatory State Building, and the Limits of the Modern Order. ByMarc Allen Eisner. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. 408 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-271-01995-6; paper 0-271-01996-4 pp. 714-717

Michael R. Fein

Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown. ByRobert Bruno. 224 pp. Photos. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.95. ISBN: cloth 0-801-43439-4; paper 0-801-48600-9 pp. 717-720

James B. Lane

Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II. ByDaniel Kryder. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xv + 301 pp. Tables, maps, appendices, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-521-593387 pp. 720-723

Eric Arnesen

American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953–1980. ByJon Lauck. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xiv + 259 pp. Tables, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-803-22932-1 pp. 723-726

John R. Wunder

California and the Fictions of Capital. ByGeorge L. Henderson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxvii + 265 pp. Figures, notes, references, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-195-10890-6 pp. 726-728

Stephen Pitti

A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California. Edited byJames J. Rawls and Richard J. Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 335 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-520-21770-5; paper 0-520-21771-3 pp. 728-731

William Deverell

The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy. ByAndrew Gibson and Arthur Donovan. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. xiv + 362 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 1-57003-319-6 pp. 731-733

Richard Sicotte

Lake Erie Rehabilitated: Controlling Cultural Eutrophication, 1960s–1990s. ByWilliam McGucken. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2000. xiv + 318 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $39.95. ISBN: cloth 1-884-83657-7; paper 1-884-83658-5 pp. 734-736

Tom McCarthy

Airline Executives and Federal Regulation: Case Studies in American Enterprise from the Airmail Era to the Dawn of the Jet Age. Edited byW. David Lewis. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000. 288 pp. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-814-20833-9 pp. 737-739

David D. Lee

The Economics and Politics of Sports Facilities. Edited byWilbur C. Rich. Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 2000. 248 pp. Cloth, $67.50. ISBN 1-567-20317-5 pp. 739-741

Gerald W. Scully

Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age. ByJohn A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xiii + 394 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-802-86109-8 pp. 741-744

David Gerard Hogan

Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel. ByJames D. Savage. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 256 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-521-64315-5, paper 0-521-79461-7 pp. 744-747

Marcel C. LaFollette

Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981. ByAmy Sue Bix. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. x + 376 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86244-2 pp. 747-750

Howard Brick

Business History: Wissenschaftliche Entwicklungstrends und Studien aus Zentraleuropa [Scholarly Development Trends and Studies in Central Europe]. Edited byAlice Teichova, Herbert Matis, and Andreas Resch. Vienna: Manz, 1999. 320 pp. Cloth, DM58.60. ISBN 3-214-08328-7 pp. 750-752

Jeffrey Fear

The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway. Vol. 1, 1920-1932. ByAlfred C. Mierzejewski. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 656 pp. Figures, maps, photographs, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 0-807-82496-8 pp. 753-755

James M. Brophy

Big Business in Russia: The Putilov Company in Late Imperial Russia, 1868-1917. ByJonathan A. Grant. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburg Press, 1999. 256 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-822-944110-4 pp. 756-758

Fred Carstensen

Major Recessions: Britain and the World, 1920-1995. ByChristopher Dow. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xvii + 471 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $98.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-198-28858-1; paper 0-199-24123-6 pp. 758-760

Michael A. Bernstein

The London Stock Exchange: A History. ByRanald C. Michie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 688 pp. Tables, diagram. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN 0-198-29508-1 pp. 761-762

Christopher Armstrong

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. ByGeoffrey Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 0-198-29450-6 pp. 762-765

Timothy R. Whisler

The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947. ByClaude Markovits. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xv + 327. Tables, maps, appendices, glossary, index. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN 0-521-62285-9 pp. 766-767

Pradeep Barua

Business Legends. ByGita Piramal. Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books, 1998. 654 pp. Cloth, $52.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-670-87898-7; paper 0-140-27187-2 pp. 767-770

Tarun Khanna

Tracks to the Sea: Galveston and Western Railroad Development, 1866-1900. ByEarle B. Young. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. 184 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-890-96883-7 pp. 770-773

Thomas G. Andrews

Japan's Protoindustrial Elite: The Economic Foundations of the Gōnō. ByEdward E. Pratt. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. 250 pp. Maps, notes, glossary, index. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN 0-674-47290-X pp. 773-776

W. Miles Fletcher

Policies for Competitiveness: Comparing Business-Government Relations in the “Golden Age of Capitalism.”Edited byHideaki Mityajima, Takeo Kikkawa, and Takashi Hikino. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii + 344 pp. Notes, tables, figures, references, and index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 0-198-29323-2 pp. 776-778

Takeshi Yuzawa

Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology, and the World Market. BySucheta Mazumdar. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xxii + 657 pp. Illustrations, maps. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN 0-674-85408-X pp. 779-781

Robert Marks

Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer. BySimon Partner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 334 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-520-21792-6; paper 0-520-21939-2 pp. 781-784

Jeffrey R. Bernstein

Volume 74, issue 3, 2000

The People's Welfare and the Origins of Corporate Reorganization: The Wabash Receivership Reconsidered pp. 377-405

Bradley Hansen

From Factory to Family: The Creation of a Corporate Culture in the Larkin Company of Buffalo, New York pp. 407-433

Howard R. Stanger

Local and Regional Breweries in America's Brewing Industry, 1865 to 1920 pp. 435-463

Martin Stack

From the Archives: Women's History in Baker Library's Business Manuscripts Collection pp. 465-476

Laura Cochrane

Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. ByDavid Howard Bain. New York: Viking-Penguin, 1999. xiii + 797 pp. Bibliography, maps, notes, photographs, and index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $18.00. ISBN: Cloth 0-670-80889-X; paper 0-140-08499-1 pp. 479-480

Maury Klein

American Business, 1920-2000: How It Worked. ByThomas K. McCraw. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 2000. xii + 260 pp. Photographs, tables, bibliographic essay, and index. Paper, $15.95. ISBN 0-882-95985-9 pp. 481-482

Mansel G. Blackford

Banking and Business in the Roman World. ByJean Andreau (Janet Lloyd, translator). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 211 pp. Table, map, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-521-38031-6; paper 0-521-38932-1 pp. 483-485

Richard Saller

The House of Rothschild: The Worlds Banker, 1849-1999. ByNiall Ferguson. New York: Viking-Penguin, 1998. xxx + 658 pp. Appendices, bibliography, graphs, illustrations, notes, photographs, tables, and index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $19.00. ISBN: Cloth 0-670-85768-8; paper 0-140-28662-4 pp. 485-489

Edwin Perkins

The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman. ByMaury Klein. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xvi + 521 pp. Index, notes, and photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-807-82517-4 pp. 489-492

William B. Friedricks

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. ByWalter Johnson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 320 pp. Photographs. Cloth, $26.00. ISBN 0-674-82148-3 pp. 492-494

John David Smith

From Mountain Man to Millionaire: The “Bold and Dashing Life” of Robert Campbell. ByWilliam R. Nester. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. 288 pp. Bibliography, index, illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-826-21218-2 pp. 495-497

Michael Fellman

A Sense of Place: Birmingham's Black Middle-Class Community, 1890-1930. ByLynne B. Feldman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. xvi + 326 pp. Bibliography, index, notes, and photographs. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 0-81730-969-1 pp. 497-501

Maceo Crenshaw Dailey

Bostons “Changeful Times”: Origins of Preservation and Planning in America. ByMichael Holleran. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 352 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-85729-5 pp. 501-503

James J. Connolly

Oil & Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry. ByRoger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xviii + 305 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-807-82523-9; paper 0-807-84835-2 pp. 504-506

Hugh S. Gorman

Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930. ByEmily S. Rosenberg. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. 352 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-674-00059-5 pp. 506-509

Cynthia A. Hody

The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Home Dressmaking. Barbara Burman, ed. Oxford, U.K.: Berg Publishers, Ltd., 1999. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 224 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.50. ISBN: Cloth 1-859-73203-8; paper 1-859-73208-9 pp. 509-511

Michael Zakim

“Rights, Not Roses”: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80. ByDennis A. Deslippe. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 288 pp. Index, notes, photographs, tables. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-252-02519-9; paper 0-252-06834-3 pp. 511-514

Ruth Milkman

Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgewood to Corning. ByRegina Lee Blaszczyk. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiii + 365 pp. Photographs, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-86193-4 pp. 514-516

David E. Nye

Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America. ByAlison J. Clarke. Illustrations, index. 265 pp. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 1-560-98827-4 pp. 517-519

Jeffrey L. Meikle

Alamance: The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County, 1837-1900. ByBess Beatty. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. xvi + 248 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-807-12373-0; paper 0-807-12449-4 pp. 519-522

William G. Thomas

Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920. ByDavid Vaught. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 280 pp. Illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $38. ISBN 0-801-86221-3 pp. 522-525

Kevin Starr

U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960. ByNancy E. Bernhard. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xix + 245 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, notes, and tables. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-521-59415-4 pp. 526-528

Alan Nadel

Off the Record: The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America. ByDavid Morton. Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xii + 220. Photographs, notes, index. Paper, $22. ISBN: Cloth 0-813-52746-5; paper 0-813-52747-3 pp. 529-531

Jeffrey Tang

Making Iron on the Bald Eagle: Roland Curtin's Ironworks and Workers' Community. ByGerald G. Eggert. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, xvi + 189 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, photographs, index. Cloth, $22.50. ISBN 0-271-01946-8 pp. 531-533

Paul F. Paskoff

The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. ByBlake Gumprecht. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 369 pp. Figures, notes, and index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-86047-4 pp. 533-535

Jules Tygiel

Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy. ByCathie Jo Martin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. x + 262 pp. Tables and index. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-691-00960-0; paper 0-691-00961-9 pp. 535-538

Doug Schuler

Small Business Policy and the American Creed. BySandra M. Anglund. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000. 192 pp. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-275-96697-6 pp. 538-540

Jonathan J. Bean

Betting on Lives: The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695–1775. ByGeoffrey Clark. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1999. 220 pp. Appendices, bibliography, photographs, index, maps, notes, and tables. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 0-719-05675-6 pp. 541-543

Timothy Alborn

A Bahian Counterpoint: Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava, and Slavery in the Recôncavo, 1780-1860. ByB. J. Barickman. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998. ix + 276 pp. Maps, index, charts, tables, bibliography, notes. Cloth, $55. ISBN 0-804-72632-9 pp. 543-546

Hal Langfur

How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic History of Brazil and Mexico, 1800 to 1914. Edited byStephen Haber. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998. xi + 315. Figures, tables, and index. Cloth, $55. ISBN 0-804-72737-6 pp. 546-549

Brian P. Owensby

Ideas, Ideologies, and Social Movements: The United States Experience since 1800. Edited byPeter Coclanis and Stuart Bruchey. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. xviii + 231 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 1-570-03313-7 pp. 550-552

David Vogel

The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present. ByKenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. xvii + 256 pp. Abbreviated bibliography and index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-765-60249-0 pp. 552-554

Peter J. Hugill

Volume 74, issue 2, 2000

Certificates and Computers: The Remaking of Wall Street, 1967 to 1971 pp. 193-235

Wyatt Wells

The Origins of the Swiss Banking Secrecy Law and Its Repercussions for Swiss Federal Policy pp. 237-266

Sébastien Guex

The Rise of Specialist Firms in Spanish Shipping and Their Strategies of Growth, 1860 to 1930 pp. 267-300

Jesús Ma Valdaliso

Global Communications since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology. ByPeter J. Hugill. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xvii + 277 pp. Illustrations, maps, references, and index. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-80186039-3; Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-80186074-1 pp. 307-309

Jonathan Coopersmith

Inventing the Internet. ByJanet Abbate. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. viii + 264 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN 0-262-01172-7 pp. 309-312

Daniel R. Headrick

Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy. ByKevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. xii + 343 pp. Figures, graphs, notes, references, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-262-15049-2 pp. 312-315

Henry A. Gemery

In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816–1906. ByLance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, and Karin Gleiter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii + 550 pages. Figures, photographs, tables, and index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 0-226-13789-9 pp. 315-318

Robert C.H. Sweeny

The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832–1900. ByKathleen Waters Sander. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. 192 pp. Photographs. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02401-X; Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-252-06703-7 pp. 318-320

Judith Sealander

Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880–1940. ByArwen P. Mohun. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 352 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $48.00. ISBN 0-801-86002-4 pp. 320-322

Thomas Dublin

Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South. ByWilliam G. Thomas. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xx + 318 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, maps, and photographs. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-8071-2367-6; Paper, 24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2504-0 pp. 323-325

Herbert Hovenkamp

Cattle in the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama. ByBrooks Blevins. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998. 216 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography, index, illustrations, and maps. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-8173-0940-3 pp. 325-327

Charles S. Aiken

The Languages of Edison's Light. ByCharles Bazerman. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. 434 pp. Bibliography, notes, index, illustrations, and photographs. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN 0-262-02456-X pp. 328-330

Alexis McCrossen

Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881–1951. ByDavid Stradling. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 282 pp. Photographs, tables, bibliography, index, and notes. Cloth, $42.50. ISBN 0-801-86083-0 pp. 330-333

Edward K. Muller

Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890–1943. ByJared N. Day. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 315 pp. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-231-11402-8; Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-231-11403-6 pp. 333-336

Joel Schwartz

For Wood River or Bust: Idaho's Silver Boom of the 1880s. ByClark C. Spence. University of Idaho Press, 1999. xi + 260 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, index, maps, notes, photographs, and tables. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-893-01215-7 pp. 336-337

Duane A. Smith

Voice Over: The Making of Black Radio. ByWilliam Barlow. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. xiv + 334 pp. Notes, illustrations, and index. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 1-566-39666-2; Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-566-39667-0 pp. 337-339

Kathy M. Newman

Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry. ByWilliam R. Haycraft. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 496 pp. Photographs, notes, appendices, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-252-02497-4 pp. 340-342

Michael R. Fein

NASA and the Space Industry. ByJoan Lisa Bromberg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 247 pp. Cloth, $38.50, ISBN 0-801 86050-4; Paperback, $18.95, ISBN 0-801-86532-8 pp. 342-344

Robert A. Divine

The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony: Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets. ByDavid E. Spiro. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. xiv + 177 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-801-42884-X pp. 344-348

Michael R. Adamson

Power Loss: The Origins of Deregulation and Restructuring in the American Electric Power Industry. ByRichard F. Hirsh. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. xii + 406 pp. Figures, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-262-08273-X pp. 348-350

Richard H.K. Vietor

Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT. ByThomas W. Zeiler. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii + 267 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-807-82458-5 pp. 350-352

Michael H. Hunt

The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law: The British Experience, 1760–1911. ByBrad Sherman and Lionel Bently. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xx + 242 pp. Bibliography. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 0-521-56363-1 pp. 352-355

Caren Irr

Transition of Power, Britain's Loss of Global Pre-eminence to the United States, 1930–1945. ByB.J.C. McKercher. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 416 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN 0-521-44090-4 pp. 355-356

Geoffrey Jones

Banques locales et banques régionales en France au XIXe siècle. Edited byMichel Lescure and Alain Plessis. Paris: Albin Michel, 1999. 342 pp. Tables, index. ISBN 2-2261-0883-1 pp. 356-359

Michael S. Smith

The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy. ByRichard K. Marshall. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 216 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $42.50. ISBN 0-801-86057-1 pp. 359-362

Paolo Squatriti

The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850–1930. BySteven C. Topik and Allen Wells, eds. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. 200 pp. Bibliography, graphs, maps, tables, index. Cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-292-78157-1; Paper, $13.95, 0-292-78153-9 pp. 362-364

Thomas F. O'Brien

American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898–1934. ByCésar J. Ayala. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii + 321 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-807-82506-9; Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-807-84788-7 pp. 365-368

Juan Carlos Santamarina

The Rise of Capitalism on-the Pampas. The Estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785–1870. BySamuel Amaral. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 359 pp. Diagrams, maps, tables, appendices. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN 0-521-57248-7 pp. 369-370

Carlos Newland

Russia Enters the Railway Age, 1842–1855. ByRichard Mowbray Haywood. Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs, 1998. 650 pp. Cloth, $91.00. ISBN 0-880-33390-1 pp. 371-373

Jonathan Grant

One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865–1937. ByLynda S. Bell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xvi + 290 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, appendices, index. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN 0-804-72998-0 pp. 373-375

Parks M. Coble

Volume 74, issue 1, 2000

The U.S. Cable Television Industry, 1948–1995: Managerial Capitalism in Eclipse pp. 1-40

Thomas R. Eisenmann

The Cuba Company and the Expansion of American Business in Cuba, 1898–1915 pp. 41-83

Juan C. Santamarina

A Private Bank at War: J.P. Morgan & Co. and France, 1914–1918 pp. 85-112

Martin Horn

The J. and W. Seligman Archives at the Harry W. Bass Business History Collection pp. 113-117

Daniel A. Wren

Morgan: American Financier - Morgan: American Financier. By Jean Strouse. New York: Random House, 1999. 769 pp. Bibliography, photograph, references, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0375501665 pp. 121-126

George David Smith

Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates. By Charles R. Geisst. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. x + 300 pp. Bibliography, index, notes, and illustrations. $30.00. ISBN 0195123018 pp. 127-128

Maury Klein

The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power, 1653–2000. By John Steele Gordon. New York: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1999. 319 pp. Bibliography, index, notes, and photographs. $25.00. ISBN 0684832879 pp. 129-131

Peter Eisenstadt

Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. By William G. Roy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. Notes, tables, references, and index. 360 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 069104353; Paper, $18.95, ISBN 069101034X pp. 131-133

Neil Fligstein

The Atlantic Slave Trade. By Herbert S. Klein. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxi + 234 pp. Appendix, bibliography, figures, maps, index, and tables. $49.95. ISBN 0521465885 pp. 134-135

Ralph A. Austen

From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. By Amy Dru Stanley. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi + 277 pp. Bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0521414709 pp. 136-137

Loren Scheweninger

Provincial Lives: Middle Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West. By Timothy R. Mahoney. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 334 pp. Bibliography, appendices, illustrations, index, and notes. $54.95. ISBN 052164092x pp. 137-140

Lawrence H. Larsen

The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics. Eds.Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 288 pp. Figures, index, and notes. $18.95. ISBN 025206755x pp. 140-142

Colin J. Davis

Tuck & Tucker: The Origin of the Graduate Business School. By Wayne G. BroehlJr, Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1999. x + 110 pp. Illustrations. $19.95. ISBN 0874519160 pp. 143-145

Jeffrey L. Cruikshank

Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor. By Paul Buhle. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999. ix + 315 pp. Index and notes. $18.00. ISBN 1583670033 pp. 145-148

Glenn Feldman

The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865–1945. By Victoria Saker Woeste. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii + 369 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0807824216 pp. 149-151

Sally Clarke

The Politics of Purity: Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy. By Clayton Coppin and Jack High. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 219 pp. Bibliography, index, and notes. $49.50. ISBN 0472109847 pp. 151-155

Suzanne White Junod

F. K. Weyerhaeuser: A Biography. By Charles E. Twining. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1997. ix + 332 pp. Bibliography, index, maps, and photographs. $29.95. ISBN 0873513568 pp. 155-157

James E. Fickle

The Concepts of Luxury and Waste in American Radicalism, 1880–1929. By Sulevi Riukulehto. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1998. 239 pp. Bibliography and index. FIM 140. ISBN 9514108507 pp. 157-159

Timothy B. Spears

Little Labels—Big Sounds: Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music. By Rick Kennedy and Randy McNutt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxiii + 198 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0253335485 pp. 159-160

James P. Kraft

Southern Hospitality: Tourism and the Growth of Atlanta. By Harvey K. Newman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. x + 372 pp. Bibliography, notes, photographs and index. $24.95. ISBN 0817309721 pp. 161-163

W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Forged Consensus: Science, Technology and Economic Policy in the United States. By David M. Hart. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xiv + 272 pp. Bibliography, charts, and index. $42.50. ISBN 069102667x pp. 163-165

Brian Balogh

The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States. By Christopher Howard. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xi + 250 pp. Appendices, index, notes and tables. $17.95. ISBN 069100529x pp. 166-168

Julian E. Zelizer

Business, Race and Politics in British India, c. 1850–1960. By Maria Misra. Oxford: Historical Monographs, 1999. xiii + 250. Bibliography, figures, index, and tables. $72.00. ISBN 0198207115 pp. 169-171

Gita Piramal

Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance: The Era of the Insurance Giants. By Clive Trebilcock. Boston: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 1056 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, and index. $150.00. ISBN 0521254159 pp. 172-174

David Kynaston

Histoire de l'électricité en Suisse. La dynamique d'un petit pays européen, 1875–1939, 2 volumes. By Serge Paquier. Geneva: Éditions Passé Présent: 1998, 1216 pp. Appendices, bibliography, charts, graphs, illustrations, index, and tables. 130 Sf. ISBN 2940014159 pp. 174-177

Pierre Lanthier

Industrial Culture & Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany. By Jürgen Kocka, New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. xviii + 325. Bibliography, figures, index, and tables. $59.95. ISBN 1571811983 pp. 177-179

Margaret Eleanor Menninger

Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism. By David Woodruff. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. xvii + 228pp. Appendices, figures, index, and tables. $29.95. ISBN 0801436605 pp. 179-184

Richard Ericson

Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: The Formation of a Business Environment. By Sergio de Oliveira Birchal. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xvii + 233 pp. $65.00. ISBN 0312217161 pp. 184-186

Anne Hanley

United States-Latin American Relations, 1850–1903: Establishing a Relationship. Edited by Thomas Leonard. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. 303 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95. ISBN 0817309373 pp. 187-189

William Schell

Merchants, Companies and Trade. Edited by Sushil Chaudhury and Michel Morineau. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xi + 330 pp. Index, notes, and tables. $69.95. ISBN 0521563674 pp. 189-192

Kenneth Pomeranz