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Volume 12, issue 4, 2011

Introduction pp. 715-716

Philip Scranton

The Science of Difference: Developing Tools for Discrimination in the American Life Insurance Industry, 1830–1930 pp. 717-731

Dan Bouk

The Post-Heroic Generation: American Independent Inventors, 1900–1950 pp. 732-748

Eric S. Hintz

Body Banks: A History of Milk Banks, Blood Banks, and Sperm Banks in the United States pp. 749-760

Kara W. Swanson

How Choice Fueled Panic: Philadelphians, Consumption, and the Panic of 1837 pp. 761-789

Sean Patrick Adams

The Carbon-Consuming Home: Residential Markets and Energy Transitions pp. 790-823

Christopher Jones

Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Control: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, 1933–1951 pp. 824-862

Neveen Abdelrehim, Josephine Maltby and Steven Toms

The Strategy of Structure: Architectural and Managerial Style at Alcoa and Owens-Corning pp. 863-902

Stuart W. Leslie

Mary Lynne Stewart. Dressing Modern Frenchwomen: Marketing Haute Couture, 1919–1939. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2008. xi-xvii + 305 pp. ISBN 13 978-0-8018-8803-8, $55.00 (cloth) pp. 903-905

Paul Jobling

Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, eds. Children in Slavery through the Ages. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2009. vi + 234 pp. ISBN 978-0-8214-1876-5, $49.95 (cloth); 978-0-8214-1877-2, $19.95 (paper) pp. 905-907

Jane Humphries

John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff. The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press, 2009. 160 pp. ISBN: 978- 1-58367-185-6 (cloth) $50.00; 978-1-58367-184-9 (paper) $12.95 pp. 907-910

Vera Asenova

Christine MacLeod. Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity 1750–1914. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv + 458 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-87370-3, $110 (cloth); 9780521153829, $39.99 (paper) pp. 910-912

Richard A. Cosgrove

John Kirk. The British Working-Class in the Twentieth Century: Film, Literature and Television. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2009. viii + 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-7083-2190-4, £24.88 (paper) pp. 912-914

Jon Lawrence

John Hillman. The International Tin Cartel. London: Routledge, 2010. 484 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-55412-1, £120 (cloth) pp. 914-916

Manuel Llorca-Jaña

Camilo Carrasco. Banco Central de Chile, 1925–1964: Una Historia Institucional. Santiago de Chile: Banco Central de Chile, 2009. 640 pp. ISBN 978-956-7421-33-6, $40 (cloth) pp. 917-919

Manuel Llorca-Jaña

Wayne Cornelius, David Fitzgerald, Pedro Lewin-Fischer, Leah Muse-Orlinoff. Mexican Migration and the U.S. Economic Crisis. A Transnational Perspective. La Jolla, CA: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, 2010. xvii + 269 pp. ISBN 978-0980-0-5604-4, $29.50 (paper) pp. 919-921

Alejandra Castañeda

Moses E. Ochonu. Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2009. 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-8214-1890-1, $24.95 (paper) pp. 921-923

Philip S. Zachernuk

Nathan Ensmenger. The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2010. 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-2620-5-0937, $30 (cloth) pp. 924-926

Jonathan Clemens

Andrew Zimmerman, Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. xii + 397 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-12362-2, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 926-929

Erik Grimmer-Solem

Rodney K. Watterson. 32 in '44: Building the Portsmouth Submarine Fleet in World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2011. xix + pp. ISBN 978-1-59114-953-8, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 929-931

Thomas Heinrich

Volume 12, issue 3, 2011

Cola in the German Democratic Republic. East German Fantasies on Western Consumption pp. 489-524

Milena Veenis

French Direct Investments in the Ottoman Empire Before World War I pp. 525-561

Necla Geyikdağı

The Rhetoric of Restraint: The Struggle for Legitimacy of the Dutch Temporary Work Agency Industry, 1961–1996 pp. 562-600

Bas Koene and Hugo van Driel

The Medieval Pilgrimage Business pp. 601-627

Adrian Bell and Richard S. Dale

Steven Noll and David Tegeder. Ditch of Dreams: The Cross Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle for Florida's Future. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xi + 394 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8130-3406-5, $29.95 (hardcover) pp. 628-630

Jeffrey K. Stine

Huaiyin Li. Village China Under Socialism and Reform, A Micro History, 1948–2008. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. xv + 402 pp. ISBN 978-0804-7-5974-8 $65.00 (hardcover) pp. 630-632

Sucheta Mazumdar

Didier Bensadon. Les comptes de groupe en France (1929-1985). Origine, enjeux et pratiques de la consolidation des comptes. Rennes, France: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010. 350 pp. ISBN 978-2-7535-0895-8, 18 € (paper) pp. 633-635

Béatrice Touchelay

Bee Wilson. Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. xiv + 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-13820-6, $26.95 (hardcover) pp. 635-637

Derek Attig

Mark I. Vail. Recasting Welfare Capitalism: Economic Adjustment in Contemporary France and Germany. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2010. xi + 228 pp. ISBN 978-1-59213-967-5 pp. 638-640

Rayna Flye

Richard John. Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 2010. viii + 520 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-02429-8, $39.95 (hardcover) pp. 640-642

Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb

Laurie Nussdorfer. Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xi + 354 pp. ISBN 13-0-8018-9204-2, $65 (cloth) pp. 642-644

Thomas V. Cohen

Lake Lambert III. Spirituality, Inc.: Religion in the American Workplace. New York: New York University Press, 2009. viii + 215 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-5246-3, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 644-646

Bethany Moreton

Peadar Kirby. Celtic Tiger in Collapse: Explaining the Weaknesses of the Irish Model, 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xi + 237 pp. ISBN 978-0-333-71708-0, $95.00 (hardcover); 978-0-333-71110-1, $28.00 (paperback) pp. 646-648

Frank Barry

Robert E. Shalhope. The Baltimore Bank Riot: Political Upheaval in Antebellum Maryland. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 208 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03480-0, $50.00 (cloth) pp. 648-650

Hugh Rockoff

Tracey Deutsch. Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 337 pp. ISBN 0-8078-3327-8, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 651-653

Laresh Jayasanker

Daniel Pope. Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xix + 282 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-40253-8, $91.99 (cloth) pp. 653-656

Bruce Hevly

Chad Montrie. Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 192 pp. ISBN 978-0807858783, $18.95 (paper) pp. 656-658

David Rosner

Tiffany M. Gill. Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xi + 192 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03505-0, $75.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-252-07696-1, $25.00 (paper) pp. 658-660

Carina C. Spaulding

Beate Andrees and Patrick Belser (eds). Forced Labour: Coercion and Exploitation in the Private Economy. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009. xv + 227 pp. ISBN 9-781588-266897, $55.00 (paper) pp. 660-663

Silvia Scarpa

Adam Green. Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv + 306 pp. ISBN 987-0-226-30640-7, $20.00 pp. 663-665

Gregory D. Squires

Karen Pastorello. A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xx + 273 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03230-1, $42.00 (cloth) pp. 665-667

Dennis Deslippe

Marie-Monique Robin. The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply. Translated by George Holoch. New York: The New Press, 2009. xii + 358 pp. ISBN 978-1-59558-426-7, $26.95 (cloth) pp. 668-670

Tore Carl Olsson

Gabriela Soto Laveaga. Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. xiii + 332 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4587-9, $84.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-8223-4605-0, $23.95 (paper) pp. 670-672

Mariola Espinosa

Jennifer Sherman. Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-5905-0, $19.95 (paper) pp. 672-674

Arlene Stein

Daniel Samson. The Spirit of Industry and Improvement: Liberal Government and Rural-Industrial Society, Nova Scotia, 1790–1862. Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. 448 pp. ISBN 978-0-7735-3354-7, $85.00 (cloth), $34.95 (paper) pp. 674-677

Matthew J. Bellamy

Sarah Hand Meacham. Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 2009. 208 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-9312-4, $48.00 (cloth) pp. 677-678

Peter Clark

Christopher Harvie. A Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Culture, and Technology on Britain's Atlantic Coast, 1860–1930. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii+ 319 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-822783-0, $110.00 (cloth) pp. 678-680

Robert McLain

John Heitmann. The Automobile and American Life. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Publishers, Inc., 2009. xi + 248 pp. ISBN 978-0-7864-4013-9, $39.95 (paper) pp. 680-682

Lesley-Anne Stafford Reed

Douglas B. Ward. A New Brand of Business: Charles Coolidge Parlin, Curtis Publishing Company, and the Origins of Market Research. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2010. vii + 228 pp. ISBN 978-1-4399-0015-4, $54.50 (cloth) pp. 682-685

Janice M. Traflet

Maya Shatzmiller. Her Day in Court: Women's Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 230 pp. ISBN 978-06-7402-501-1, $28.95 (cloth) pp. 685-686

Thomas F. Glick

Kristin Mann. Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760–1900. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. xii + 473 pp. ISBN 978-0-225-322235-0, $29.95 (paper) pp. 686-688

Godfrey N. Uzoigwe

Dolores L. Augustine. Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945–1990. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. xxx + 381 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01236-2, $46.00 (cloth) pp. 688-691

Jonathan Coopersmith

Matthew Pratt Guterl. American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. xii + 237 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-02868-5, $41.50 (cloth) pp. 691-693

Timothy Roberts

James Hunt. Relationship Banker: Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, and American Business, 1916–1959. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2009. 386 pp. ISBN 978-0-8655-4915-9, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 693-696

Jane Knodell

Miriam Forman-Brunell. Babysitter: An American History. New York: New York University Press, 2009. xi + 313 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-2759-1, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 696-698

Susan A. Miller

Boris B. Gorshkov. Russia's Factory Children: State, Society, and the Law, 1800–1917. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. ix +216 pp. ISBN 978-0-8229-6048-5, $60.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-82296048-6, $25.95 (paper) pp. 698-701

Ben Eklof

David A. Phillips. Reforming the World Bank. Twenty Years of Trial—and Error. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xx + 324 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-88305-4, $50.00 (cloth) pp. 701-703

Michele Alacevich

Wendy A. Woloson. In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiii + 233 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-94664-1, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 703-706

Cory Davis

Jeffrey Haydu. Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870–1916. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. ix + 261 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4641-2, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 706-707

Jason Russell

Noelle Plack. Common Land, Wine and the French Revolution: Rural Society and Economy in Southern France, c. 1789–1820. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2009. xiv + 215 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-6728-5, $100 (hardcover) pp. 708-709

Kolleen M. Guy

Carl Kaestle and Janice Radway. A History of the Book in America, Volume 4—Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880–1940. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvii + 669 pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-3186-1, $60.00 (cloth) pp. 709-712

Michael Stamm

Ben Wubs. International Business and National War Interests. Unilever between Reich and Empire, 1939–1945. London: Routledge, 2008. xiv + 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-41667-2, $135 (hardcover) pp. 712-714

Samuël Kruizinga

Volume 12, issue 2, 2011

Editor's Introduction pp. 263-264

Philip Scranton

Business Attitudes Toward Statistical Investigation in Late Nineteenth Century Italy: A Wool Industrialist from Reticence to Influence pp. 265-316

Giovanni Favero

“The Devil We Know”: Gold Coast Consumers, Local Employees, and the United Africa Company, 1940–1960 pp. 317-355

Bianca Murillo

The Hybrid Production System and the Birth of the Japanese Specialized Industry: Watch Production at Hattori & Co. (1900–1960) pp. 356-397

Pierre-Yves Donzé

Multinational Enterprise and Government Controls on Outward Foreign Direct Investment in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s pp. 398-434

Neil Rollings

Liesl Miller Orenic. On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xiv + 281 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-07627-5, $25.00 (paper) pp. 435-437

Paul Miller

Neil Rollings. British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration, 1945–1973. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi + 278 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-88811-0, $87.00 (cloth) pp. 437-439

Erik Jones

Richard Dennis. Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840–1930. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiii + 436 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-46470-3, $38.02 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-521-46841-1, $29.51 (paper) pp. 439-441

Ken Cruikshank

Sharon T. Strocchia. Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xvi + 261 pp. ISBN 0-8018-9292-9, $50.00 (cloth) pp. 441-443

Holly S. Hurlburt

Alexander B. Magoun. Television: The Life Story of a Technology. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 232 pp. ISBN 10: 0-8018-9072-1 (cloth); ISBN 13: 978-0-8018-9072-7, $25.00 (paper) pp. 443-445

Patrick Parsons

Sean Barrett. Deregulation and the Airline Business in Europe: Selected Readings. New York, N.Y.: Routledge, Studies in the European Economy, 2009. xx+187 pp. ISBN 10-415=44722-4, $140.00 (cloth) pp. 446-448

Thomas Gale Moore

Angela Vergara. Copper Workers, International Business, and Domestic Politics in Cold War Chile. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xii + 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-271-03334-1, $60.00 (cloth) pp. 448-450

Thomas O'Brien

Nathan Jensen. Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 193 pp. ISBN 0-6911-2222-9, $58.00 (hardcover); 0-691-1363-6, $25.95 (paperback) pp. 451-453

Amit Jain

Jeri Quinzio. Of Sugar and Snow: A History of Ice Cream Making. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009. xvi + 279 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-24861-8, $35.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-520-26591-2, $16.95 (paperback) pp. 453-455

Kellen Backer

Laura Levine Frader. Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. ix + 347 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4182-6, $89.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8223-4198-7, $24.95 (paperback) pp. 455-457

Lara Vapnek

Stacy E. Holden. The Politics of Food in Modern Morocco. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. 269 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3373-0, $69.95 (cloth) pp. 458-460

Moshe Gershovich

Claiborne A. Skinner. The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 202 + xiv pp. ISBN 978-0-801-88837-3, $50.00 (cloth) pp. 460-462

Daniel Samson

David D. Hamlin. Work and Play: The Production and Consumption of Toys in Germany, 1870–1914. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2007. x + 286 pp. ISBN 978-0472115884, $80.00 (hardcover) pp. 462-464

Andrew Donson

Kees Camfferman and Stephen Zeff. Financial Reporting and Global Capital Markets: A History of the International Accounting Standards Committee 1973–2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 752 pp. ISBN: 978-0199-29629-3, $175.00 (cloth) pp. 465-467

Peter Walton

Diane Pecknold. The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. x + 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4059-1, $79.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8223-4080-5, $22.95 (paper) pp. 467-469

Susan Schmidt-Horning

Peter Baskerville. A Silent Revolution? Gender and Wealth in English Canada 1860–1930. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. viii + 375 pp. ISBN 978-0-7735-3411-7, $95.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-7735-3470-4, $29.95 (paperback) pp. 469-472

Andrew J. Ross

Ritu Birla. Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 360 pp. ISBN 0822342456, $84.95 (cloth); ISBN 0822342685, $23.95 (paperback) pp. 472-475

Priya Satia

Derek Phillips. Well-Being in Amsterdams Golden Age. Amsterdam: Pallas Publications, 2008. 264 pp. ISBN 978-90-8555-042-6, $45.00 (paperback) pp. 475-477

Ivan Paris

Otmar Issing. The Birth of the Euro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiv+ 260 pp. ISBN 978-052173, $29.00 (paper) pp. 477-480

Barry Eichengreen

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. Global Shanghai, 1850–2010. Abingdon, Oxon (UK): Routledge, 2009. xvi, 170 pp. ISBN 0-415-21328-8, $39.95 (paper) pp. 480-482

Joyman Lee

Jan De Vries. The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii + 327 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-71925-4, $23.99 (paper) pp. 482-484

Joyce Burnette

Malcolm D. Magee. What the World Should Be: Woodrow Wilson and the Crafting of a Faith-Based Foreign Policy. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2008. ix + 189 pp. ISBN 978-1-60258-070-1, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 485-487

Alfred Flores

Volume 12, issue 1, 2011

New Perspectives on the History of the Military–Industrial Complex pp. 1-9

Michael A. Bernstein and Mark R. Wilson

Making “Goop” Out of Lemons: The Permanente Metals Corporation, Magnesium Incendiary Bombs, and the Struggle for Profits during World War II pp. 10-45

Mark R. Wilson

Eisenhower versus the Spin-off Story: Did the Rise of the Military–Industrial Complex Hurt or Help America's Commercial Aircraft Industry? pp. 46-95

Eugene Gholz

“Aid Where It Is Needed Most”: American Labor's Military–Industrial Complex pp. 96-119

Edmund F. Wehrle

Innovation in a Cold [War] Climate: Engineering Peace with the American Military–Industrial Complex pp. 120-174

Jocelyn Wills

Not Yet A Garrison State: Reconsidering Eisenhower's Military–Industrial Complex pp. 175-199

Jeffrey A. Engel

Ending Discrimination, Legitimating Debt: The Political Economy of Race, Gender, and Credit Access in the 1960s and 1970s pp. 200-232

Louis Hyman

Karl Moore & David Charles Lewis. The Origins of Globalization. New York: Routledge, 2009. xvi + 276 pp. ISBN10 0-415-77720-8, $62.63 (hardback); ISBN10 0-415-80598-8, $40.62 (paperback); ISBN10 0-203-88097-8, $19.22 (e-book) pp. 233-235

Neville Morley

Simone Selva. Integrazione Internazionale e Sviluppo Interno. Stati Uniti e Italia nei Programmi di Riarmo del Blocco Atlantico (1945–1955) [International ntegration and Internal Development. United States and Italy in the Rearmament Programme of the Atlantic Block (1945–1955)]. Rome: Carocci, 2009. 384 pp. ISBN 978-88-430-5253-0, €40 (paperback) pp. 235-237

Tito Menzani

Michael Dennis. The New Economy and the Modern South. Gainesville: The University Press of Florida, 2009. 272 pp. ISBN 978-0813032917, $75.00 (cloth) pp. 237-238

Marko Maunula

Marko Maunula. Guten Tag, Y'All: Globalization and the South Carolina Piedmont, 1950–2000. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. viii + 162 pp. ISBN 978-0820329017 (cloth), $44.95 pp. 239-241

Michael Dennis

Clifford Farrington. Biracial Unions on Galveston's Waterfront, 1865–1925. Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association, 2007. vi + 253 pp. ISBN 978-0-87611-217-5, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 241-244

Caitlin Verboon

Paul Michel Taillon. Good, Reliable,WhiteMen: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877–1917. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 296 pp. $25.00 (paper) pp. 244-246

H. Roger Grant

Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, ed. Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 290 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-24973-8, $27.95 (paper) pp. 246-247

Richard Butsch

Hugh Richard Slotten. Radio's Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 325 pp. ISBN 978-0-25203447-3, $50.00 (cloth) pp. 248-250

Jack W. Mitchell

Jon Hartley Fox. King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records. Foreword by Dave Alvin. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxii + 234 pp. ISBN 0-252-03468-8, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 250-252

David Cochran

Miriam Greenberg. Branding New York: How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World. New York and London: Routledge, 2008. xv + 326 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-95442-6, $39.95 (paperback) pp. 252-254

Louis P. Cain

Kenneth Roman. The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. 282 pp. ISBN 978-1-4039-7895-0, $27.95 (cloth) pp. 254-257

Chris Taylor

Frederick Dalzell. Engineering Invention: Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. Electrical Industry. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2010. xii + 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-04256-7, $30.00 (hardcover) pp. 257-259

Ross Thomson

Andrew Ross. Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times. New York: New York University Press, 2009. viii + 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-7629-2, $27.95 (cloth) pp. 260-262

Steven T. Sheehan