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Volume 8, issue 4, 2007

Editor's Introduction pp. 763-764 Downloads
Kenneth Lipartito
The Soul of the Service Economy: Wal-Mart and the Making of Christian Free Enterprise, 1929–1994 pp. 777-783 Downloads
Bethany Moreton
The Iron Horse Turns South: A History of Antebellum Southern Railroads pp. 784-789 Downloads
Aaron W. Marrs
Making Tobacco Bright: Institutions, Information, and Industrialization in the Creation of an Agricultural Commodity, 1617–1937 pp. 790-798 Downloads
Barbara Hahn
The New England Cod Fishing Industry and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution pp. 799-806 Downloads
Christopher P. Magra
Converting Academic Expertize into Industrial Innovation: University-based Research at Solvay and Gevaert, 1900–1970 pp. 807-841 Downloads
Kenneth Bertrams
Bankers, Industrialists, and their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil during Early Industrialization pp. 842-880 Downloads
Aldo Musacchio and Ian Read
Jealous Monopolists? British Banks and Responses to the Macmillan Gap during the 1930s pp. 881-919 Downloads
Peter Scott and Lucy Newton
Organizational Culture and Organizational Change: The Transformation of Savings Banks in Denmark, 1965–1990 pp. 920-953 Downloads
Per H. Hansen
Paul Jobling. Man Appeal: Advertising, Modernism, and Menswear. New York and London: Berg, 2005. xi + 161 pp. ISBN 1-84520-086-1, $89.95 (cloth); ISBN 1-84520-087-X, $29.95 (paper). - Linda Welters and Patricia Cunningham, eds. Twentieth-Century American Fashion. Dress, Body, Culture Series edited by Joanne B. Eicher. New York and London: Berg, 2005. xiv + 264 pp. ISBN: 1-84520-0782-1, $89.95 (cloth); ISBN 1-84520-073-X, $28.95 (paper) pp. 954-956 Downloads
Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Jonathan A. Grant. Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xi + 288 pp. ISBN: 0-674-0244-27, $49.95 pp. 956-958 Downloads
Rodney Carlisle
David P. Billington and David P. Billington, Jr. Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. xxv + 270 pp. ISBN 0-691-10292-9, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 958-960 Downloads
David Hochfelder
Warren Belasco. Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. xiii + 358 pp. ISBN 0-520-24151-0, $55.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-520-25035-4, $21.95 (paper) pp. 960-962 Downloads
Jeffrey P. Miller
Mary Frank Fox, Deborah G. Johnson, and Sue V. Rosser, eds. Women, Gender, and Technology. Urbana and Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii + 204 pp. ISBN 0-252-07336-3 (paper), $20.00 pp. 962-964 Downloads
Wendy Cukier
Gustav Schachter and Saul Engelbourg. Cultural Continuity in Advanced Economies: Britain and the US versus Continental Europe. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005. 367 pp. ISBN 0-7546-4476-6, $134.95 (cloth) pp. 964-966 Downloads
Simone Selva
George Feifer. Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853. New York: Smithsonian Books, 2006. xx + 389 pp. ISBN-10: 0-06-088432-0, $25.95 (Hardback) pp. 967-968 Downloads
Richard Sylla
Martin J. Iversen. GN Store Nord. A Company in Transition, 1939–1988. Copenhagen: Business School Press, 2005. 216 pp. ISBN 87-630-0133-0, $32.00 pp. 969-970 Downloads
Werner Bührer
Terry Gourvish. The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel. London: Routledge, 2006. xxi + 521 pp. ISBN10: 0-415-39183-0, $93.95 (Cloth) pp. 970-972 Downloads
Robert Millward
Graeme J. Milne. North-East England, 1850–1914: The Dynamics of a Maritime-Industrial Region. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: The Boydell Press, 2006. ix + 230 pp. ISBN 1 84383 240 2, $90.00, £55.00 (cloth) pp. 973-975 Downloads
M. Stephen Salmon
Deborah A. Symonds. Notorious Murders, Black Lanterns, & Moveable Goods: The Transformation of Edinburgh's Underworld in the Early Nineteenth Century. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2006. xiv + 167 pp. ISBN 1-931968-27-6, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 975-977 Downloads
Louise A. Jackson
S. Max Edelson. Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii + 383 pp. ISBN-10:0-674-02303-X (alk. Paper); ISBN 13: 978-0-674-02303-1 (alk. Paper), $45.00 pp. 977-979 Downloads
Tom Downey
Daniel W. Hamilton. The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. vii + 231 pp. ISBN 0-226-31482-0, $39.00 pp. 979-981 Downloads
Franklin Noll
Richard Abel. Richard Abel. Americanizing the Movies and “Movie-Mad” Audiences, 1910–1914. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. xvii + 373 pp. ISBN-13, 978-0-520-24742-0, $65.00 (hardcover); 978-0-520-24743-7, $29.95 (paper) pp. 981-983 Downloads
J. Andrew Ross
Ruth Crocker. Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xx + 526 pp. ISBN 0-253-34712-2. $49.95 (cloth) pp. 984-986 Downloads
Kathleen D. McCarthy
John Patrick Diggins. Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and Making of History. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. 512 pp. ISBN 0-393-06022-5, $27.95 (cloth) pp. 986-988 Downloads
Kim Phillips-Fein

Volume 8, issue 3, 2007

A New Wave in the History of Corporate Governance pp. 475-488 Downloads
Gary Herrigel
The Expansion of the U.S. Stock Market, 1885–1930: Historical Facts and Theoretical Fashions pp. 489-542 Downloads
Mary O'Sullivan
Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth pp. 543-601 Downloads
Randall Morck and Masao Nakamura
Does Civil Law Tradition and Universal Banking Crowd out Securities Markets? Pre-World War I Germany as Counter-Example pp. 602-641 Downloads
Caroline Fohlin
Pioneering Modern Corporate Governance: A View from London in 1900 pp. 642-686 Downloads
Leslie Hannah
Putting the Corporation in its Place pp. 687-729 Downloads
Timothy Guinnane, Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
Robert B. EkelundJr., Robert F. Hébert, and Robert D. Tollison. The Marketplace of Christianity. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2006. x + 355 pp. ISBN 0-262-05082-X, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 730-732 Downloads
Craig H. Roell
John H. Lienhard. How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of the Machines. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2006. ix + 277 pp. ISBN 0-19-530599-X, $30.00 (cloth) pp. 732-734 Downloads
Robert Friedel
Frederick H. Smith. Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History. Gainesville, Fl.: University Press of Florida, 2005. xvi + 339 pp. ISBN 0-8130-2867-1; 978-0-8130-2867-5, $59.95 (cloth) pp. 734-736 Downloads
John McCusker
Michael Redclift. Chewing Gum: The Fortunes of Taste. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. vii + 197 pp. ISBN 0-415-94418-X, $24.00 (cloth) pp. 736-738 Downloads
Victor J. Rodriguez
Robert Beachy, Béatrice Craig, and Alastair Owens, eds. Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006. xii + 244 pp. ISBN 978-184520-184-5, £55/$99.95 (cloth); 978-184520-185-2, £17.99/$29.95 (paper) pp. 738-740 Downloads
Janet Greenlees
Samuel Tilman. Les Grands Banquiers Belges: (1830–1935) Portrait Collectif d'une élite. Classe des Lettres. Bruxelles: Académie Royale de Belgique, 2005. 441 pp. ISBN 2-8031-0226-9, €40 pp. 741-742 Downloads
Youssef Cassis
Charles Loft. Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain: Beeching's Last Trains. British Politics and Society. London and New York: Routlege, 2006. xii + 214 pp. ISBN 0-714-65338-1, $125.00 (cloth) pp. 743-744 Downloads
Terry Gourvish
James Delbourgo. A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. ix + 367 pp. ISBN 0-674-02299-8, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 745-747 Downloads
John L. Neufeld
Rowena Olegario. A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. vii + 274 pp. ISBN 0-674-02340-4, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 747-749 Downloads
Lynne Moulton
David M. Henkin. The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xv + 221 pp. ISBN 0-226-32720-5, $38.00 (cloth) pp. 749-751 Downloads
David A. Gerber
Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely, and Paul F. Barrett. The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, 2006. xxvi + 318 pp. ISBN 0-8142-1036-8, $49.95 (cloth) pp. 751-753 Downloads
H. Roger Grant
Charles F. McGovern. Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890–1945. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xv + 536 pp. ISBN 0-8078-5676-2, $24.95 (paper) pp. 753-755 Downloads
Susan Matt
Frank J. Byrne. Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820–1865. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. x + 297 pp. ISBN 0-8131-2404-2, $50.00 (cloth) pp. 756-758 Downloads
Jennifer R. Green
Robert E. Wright. The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, & The Birth of American Finance. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. vii + 210 pp. ISBN 0-226-91026-1, $25.00 (cloth) pp. 758-760 Downloads
Daniel Holt
Elizabeth Alice Clement. Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900–1945. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiii + 321 pp. ISBN 0-8078-5690-8, $21.95 (paper) pp. 760-762 Downloads
Angel Kwolek-Folland

Volume 8, issue 2, 2007

Doing Business History in the Age of Global Climate Change pp. 221-226 Downloads
Christine Meisner Rosen
Extraction Not Creation: The History of Offshore Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico pp. 227-267 Downloads
Tyler Priest
Piercing the Corporate Veil: Cape Industries and Multinational Corporate Liability for a Toxic Hazard, 1950–2004 pp. 268-296 Downloads
Geoffrey Tweedale and Laurie Flynn
The Role of Pollution Regulation and Litigation in the Development of the U.S. Meatpacking Industry, 1865–1880 pp. 297-347 Downloads
Christine Meisner Rosen
How did the Invisible Hand Handle Industrial Waste? By-product Development before the Modern Environmental Era pp. 348-374 Downloads
Pierre Desrochers
Negotiating Innovation in a Market Economy: Foodstuffs and Beverages Adulteration in Nineteenth-Century France pp. 375-412 Downloads
Alessandro Stanziani
David A. Hanks and Anne Hoy. American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow. Paris: Flammarion, 2005. 312 pp. ISBN 2-0803-0499-2, $75.00. - Christina Cogdell. Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xvii + 328 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3824-9, $42.50 pp. 413-420 Downloads
Glenn Porter
Youssef Cassis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, eds. Entrepreneurship in Theory and History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xiii + 211 pp. ISBN 1-4039-3947-0, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 421-424 Downloads
R. Daniel Wadhwani
John Brewer and Frank Trentmann, eds. Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges. New York: Berg Publishing, 2006. ix + 317 pp. ISBN 1-845-2024-73, $29.95 pp. 424-426 Downloads
Lisa Jacobson
Richard Perren. Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. xi + 285 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3648-8, $99.95 (cloth) pp. 426-428 Downloads
Roger Horowitz
Man-houng Lin. China Upside Down: Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808–1856. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. xxvi + 362 pp. ISBN 0-674-02268-8, $49.95 pp. 428-430 Downloads
William T. Rowe
Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal and Zephyr Frank, eds. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. 377 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3766-5, $23.95 (paper) pp. 431-433 Downloads
Michelle Craig McDonald
Moisés Arce. Market Reform in Society: Post-Crisis Politics and Economic Change in Authoritarian Peru. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xiv + 169 pp. ISBN 0-271-02543-3, $25.00 (paper) pp. 433-435 Downloads
Charles Jones
Giorgio Riello. A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century. Pasold Studies in Textile History 15. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiii + 320 pp. ISBN 0-19-929225-6, $110.00 pp. 435-437 Downloads
Nancy Packer
Martin Grosky and Sally Sheard, eds. Financing Medicine: The British Experience since 1750. London: Routledge, 2006. xiv + 258 pp. ISBN 0-415-35025-5, $125.00 pp. 437-439 Downloads
Deborah Levine
John F. Wilson and Andrew W. Thomson. The Making of Modern Management: British Management in Historical Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xvii + 297 pp. ISBN 0-19-926158-X, $90.00 pp. 439-441 Downloads
Alan Booth
Marc J. de Vries, with contributions by F. Kees Boersma. 80 Years of Research at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium, 1914–1994. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. 325 pp. ISBN 90-8555-051-3, $40.00 pp. 441-444 Downloads
Thomas C. Lassman
Hubert Kiesewetter. Industrielle Revolution in Deutschland: Regionen als Wachstumsmotoren. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2005. 307 pp. ISBN 3-515-08613-7, €24.00 (paper) pp. 444-446 Downloads
Harm G. Schröter
Hermann-J. Rupieper, Friederike Sattler and Georg Wagner-Kyora, eds. Die mitteldeutsche Chemieindustrie und ihre Arbeiter im 20. Jahrhundert. Halle, Germany: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2005. 416 pp. ISBN 3-89812-246-8, €24.00 pp. 447-449 Downloads
Jeffrey Fear
Jeffrey J. Rossman. Worker Resistance under Stalin: Class and Revolution on the Shop Floor. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. 326 pp. ISBN 0-674-01926-1, $49.95 pp. 449-451 Downloads
Clayton Black
Dimitry Anastakis. Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960–1971. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xiv + 285 pp. ISBN 0-8020-3821-2, $30.00 (paper) pp. 451-453 Downloads
Greig Mordue
Reed Hundt. In China's Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. viii + 200 pp. ISBN 0-300-10852-4, $26.00 pp. 453-455 Downloads
Brian King
Nicholas Onuf and Peter Onuf. Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006. xii + 362 pp. ISBN 0-813-9250-29, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 455-457 Downloads
Gerald Friedman
Edith Sparks. Capital Intentions: Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850–1920. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xi + 329 pp. ISBN 0-8078-3061-5, $59.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8078-5775-0, $19.95 (paper) pp. 457-459 Downloads
Eileen Wallis
Jason Scott Smith. Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 283 pp. ISBN 0-521-82805-8, $75.00 (cloth) pp. 459-461 Downloads
William Hausman
Elizabeth Fones-Wolf. Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii + 367 pp. ISBN-10: 0252031199, $60.00 (cloth); 10–0252073649, $25.00 (paper) pp. 461-463 Downloads
Marc J. Stern
Cynthia Lee Henthorn. From Submarines to Suburbs: Selling a Better America, 1939–1959. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006. xv + 368 pp. ISBN 0821416774 $59.95 (cloth); 0821416782 $26.95 (paper) pp. 463-465 Downloads
Karen Russell Miller
Rachel Maines. Asbestos and Fire: Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk. Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xiv + 254 pp. ISBN 0-8135-3575-1, $34.95 pp. 465-467 Downloads
Mark Tebeau
Steven F. Wilson. Learning on the Job: When Business Takes on Public Schools. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 425 pp. ISBN 0-674-S01946-6, $29.95 pp. 467-469 Downloads
Dan Jacoby
Denise von Herrmann, ed.,. Resorting to Casinos: The Mississippi Gambling Industry. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. vi + 182 pp. ISBN 1-57806-790-1, $45.00 (Hardcover) pp. 470-472 Downloads
Randall L. Patton
Fred Turner. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. x + 327 pp. ISBN 0-226-81741-5, $29.00 (Cloth) pp. 472-474 Downloads
Jennifer Pattison Bartholomew

Volume 8, issue 1, 2007

Red, White, and “Big Blue”: IBM and the Business-Government Interface in the United States, 1956–2000 pp. 1-34 Downloads
David Hart
Property Rights, Family, and Business Partnership in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brazil: The Case of the St. John d'el Rey Mining Company, 1834–1960 pp. 35-67 Downloads
Gail D. Triner
The Indispensable Service of Banks: Commercial Transactions, Industry, and Banking in Revolutionary Mexico pp. 68-105 Downloads
Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato and Gabriela Recio
The Next Best Thing to Getting Married: Partnerships among the Jewelry Manufacturers in the Providence/Attleboro Area during the Nineteenth Century pp. 106-135 Downloads
Duol Kim
Model of Welfare Capitalism? The United States Rubber Company in Southeast Asia, 1910–1942 pp. 136-174 Downloads
Shakila Yacob
Mark Duckenfield, Stefan Altorfer, and Benedikt Koehler, eds. History of Financial Disasters, 1763-1995. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006. 3 Volumes. ISBN-10: 1851968253, $495.00 (cloth) pp. 175-177 Downloads
Marc D. Weidenmier
Douglass C. North. Understanding the Process of Economic Change. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi + 187 pp. ISBN 0-691-11805-1, $29.95 pp. 177-179 Downloads
Larry Neal
Christopher McKenna. The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxi + 370 pp. ISBN 0-521-81039-6, $30.00 (cloth) pp. 180-182 Downloads
Christopher Tassava
Madeleine Zelin. The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xxiv + 406 pp. ISBN 0-231-13596-3, $45.00 (Cloth) pp. 182-184 Downloads
David Pong
Dwijendra Tripathi. The Oxford History of Indian Business. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. xi + 371 pp. ISBN 0-19-565968-6, $99.50 (cloth) pp. 184-186 Downloads
Sanjay Marwah
Erik Benson. Aviator of Fortune: Lowell Yerex and the Anglo–American Commercial Rivalry, 1931–1946. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xii + 264 pp. ISBN 1-58544-500-2, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 186-188 Downloads
Robert Greenhill
Robert Millward. Private and Public Enterprise in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830–1990. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xix + 351 pp. ISBN 0521835240, $90.00 (cloth) pp. 188-190 Downloads
Tim Leunig
Daniel M. Abramson. Building the Bank of England: Money, Architecture, Society, 1694–1942. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. viii + 282 pp. ISBN 0-300-10924-5, $95.00 (cloth) pp. 190-192 Downloads
Marilyn Casto
Harold James. The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 286 pp. ISBN 0-521-83874-6, $40.00 pp. 192-194 Downloads
Ralf Banken
Keetie E. Sluyterman. Dutch Enterprise in the Twentieth Century: Business strategies in a Small Open Economy. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. xii + 319 pp. ISBN 0-415-35027-1, $145.00 (cloth) pp. 194-196 Downloads
Lars Heide
Norton Garfinkle. The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. ix + 230 pp. ISBN 0-300-10860-5, $22.00 (cloth) pp. 196-198 Downloads
John Smart
Douglas Ambrose and Robert W. T. Martin, editors. The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founder Father. New York: New York University Press, 2006. x + 300 pp. ISBN 0-8147-0714-9, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 199-200 Downloads
Edwin J. Perkins
Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen. Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. 240 pp. ISBN 0-226-91068-7, $25.00 (cloth) pp. 200-202 Downloads
Ronald W. Michener
Mark R. Wilson. The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 306 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8348-2, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 202-204 Downloads
Ann N. Greene
Diane C. Vecchio. Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. X + 130 pp. ISBN 0-252-03039-7, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 204-206 Downloads
Edie Sparks
Justin Kaplan. When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age. New York: Viking, 2006. viii + 196 pp. ISBN 0-670-03769-9, $24.95 (cloth) pp. 207-208 Downloads
Joshua A. T. Salzmann
Rosemary Feurer. Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900–1950. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xix + 320 pp. ISBN 0-252-03087-7, $65.00 (cloth); 0-252-07319-3, $25.00 (paper) pp. 209-211 Downloads
Ken Fones-Wolf
Inger L. Stole. Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s. Urbana and Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xviii + 290 pp. ISBN 0-252-03059-1, $50.00 (cloth); 0-252-07299-5, $25.00 (paper) pp. 211-213 Downloads
Daniel Pope
Tom Sito. Drawing The Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xiv + 414 pp. ISBN 0-8131-2407-7, $32.00 (cloth) pp. 213-215 Downloads
Paul Buhle
Vicki Howard. Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 301 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3945-8, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 215-217 Downloads
Helen Sheumaker
Joanna Demers: Steal This Music: How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity. Athens, Ga. and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2006. xiv + 178 pp. ISBN 0-8203-2777-8, $19.95 (paper) pp. 217-219 Downloads
Susan Schmidt Horning
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