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Volume 2, issue 4, 2001

Reframing the Past: Thoughts about Business Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty pp. 632-659

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Managing Security: The Business of American Social Policy, 1910-1960 pp. 660-665

Jennifer Klein

Making Silicon Valley: Engineering Culture, Innovation, and Industrial Growth, 1930–1970 pp. 666-672

Christophe LéCuyer

The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century pp. 673-679

Christopher D. McKenna

Mobilizing for War, Engineering the Peace: The State, the Shop Floor, and the Engineer in Japan, 1935-1960 pp. 680-686

Andrew Robertson

Mavericks and Mavens of Business History: Miriam Beard and Henrietta Larson pp. 687-768

Mary A. Yeager

Abstracts of 2001 Conference Papers pp. 769-808

Anonymous

John Block Friedman and Kristen Mossler Figg, eds. Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. xxxix + 715 pp. ISBN 0-8153-2003-5, $135.00 pp. 809-811

Pamela O. Long

JoAnne Yates and John Van Maanen, eds. Information Technology and Organizational Transformation: History, Rhetoric, and Practice. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2001. xvi + 367 pp. ISBN 0-7619-2301-2, $59.95 pp. 811-813

David Morton

Oscar Ugarteche. The False Dilemma—Globalization: Opportunity or Threat. London: Zed Books, 2000. xvi + 240 pp. ISBN 1-85649-689-9, $65.00 (cloth); 1-85649-690-2, $22.50 (paper) pp. 813-815

Gail D. Triner

Linsu Kim and Richard R. Nelson, eds. Technology, Learning and Innovation: Experiences of Newly Industrialising Economies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. x + 377 pp. ISBN 0-52-7003-3, $64.95 (cloth); 0-521-77987-1, $22.95 (paper). - John A. Mathews and Dong-Sung Cho. Tiger Technology: The Creation of a Semiconductor Industry in East Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxiii + 389 pp. ISBN 0-521-66269-9, $54.95 pp. 816-819

Richard Coopey

David G. McKendrick, Richard F. Doner, and Stephan Haggard. From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantage in the Hard Disk Drive Industry. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi + 351 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4152-2, $49.50 (cloth); 0-8047-4183-2, $22.95 (paper) pp. 819-821

Robert G. Ferguson

Richard Lachmann. Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. viii + 314 pp. ISBN 0-19-507568-4, $49.95 pp. 821-823

Anne E. C. McCants

Alfred C. Mierzejewski. The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway, Volume 2: 1933–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xxi + 280 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2574-3, $45.00 pp. 823-825

Geoffrey Channon

Raymond G. Stokes. Constructing Socialism: Technology and Change in East Germany, 1945–1990. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. iii + 260 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6391-0, $42.50 pp. 825-827

Martina Hessler

Allan M. Williams and Vladimir Baláž. Tourism in Transition: Economic Change in Central Europe. London: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2000. xi + 256 pp. ISBN 1-86064-578-X, $65.00 (cloth); 1-86064-579-8, $24.50 (paper) pp. 827-830

John Perkins

Mats Larsson. Bonniers—en mediefamilj: Förlag, konglomerat och mediekoncern, 1953–1990. [Bonniers—a Media Family: Publishing House, Conglomerate, and Media Group, 1953–1990]. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2001. x + 416 pp. ISBN 91-0-057541-0, 278 Kr pp. 830-832

Anna Christina Ulfsparre

Nancy Koehn. Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust From Wedgwood to Dell. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 2001. 469 pp. ISBN 1-57851-221-2, $39.95 pp. 832-834

Tom Dicke

Edward J. Balleisen. Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xv + 322 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2600-6, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8078-4916-2, $18.95 (paper) pp. 834-836

Sean Adams

Sven Beckert. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvii + 492 pp. ISBN 0-521-79039-5, $34.95 pp. 836-838

Tom Mertes

Howell John Harris. Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 456 pp. ISBN 0-521-58435-3, $44.94 pp. 839-841

Peter Wardley

Nancy E. Owen. Rookwood and the Industry of Art: Women, Culture, and Commerce, 1880–1913. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001. xiv + 335 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1337-6, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8214-1338-4, $24.95 (paper) pp. 842-844

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Robert F. Freeland. The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924–1970. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvii + 364 pp. ISBN 0-521-63034-7, $59.95 pp. 844-847

David Kirsch

Richard F. Hirsh. Power Loss: The Origins of Deregulation and Restructuring in the American Electric Utility System. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1999. x + 406 pp. ISBN 0-262-08273-X, $50.00 pp. 847-850

John L. Neufeld

David Brian Robertson. Capital, Labor, & State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. xxii + 296 pp. ISBN 0-8476-9728-2, $75.00 (cloth); 0-8476-9729-0, $22.95 (paper) pp. 850-852

Andrew W. Cohen

William Millikan. A Union Against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight Against Organized Labor, 1903–1947. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001. xxiii + 488 pp. ISBN 0-87351-398-3, $34.95 pp. 852-855

Howard R. Stanger

Sharon Beder. Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR. London: Zed Books, 2001. viii + 292 pp. ISBN 1-85649-884-0, $65.95 (cloth); 1-85649-885-9, $25.00 (paper) pp. 855-857

Pamela Laird

Volume 2, issue 3, 2001

Coming Full Circle: The Study of Big Business since 1950 pp. 425-460

Maury Klein

Stars and Stories: How Films Became Branded Products pp. 461-502

Gerben Bakker

Product Development of Branded, Packaged Household Goods in Britain, 1870–1914: Colman’s, Reckitt’s, and Lever Brothers pp. 503-542

Roy Church and Christine Clark

Multilateral Contracting in Australian Mining: The Development of Hamersley Iron, 1961–1966 pp. 543-575

Gordon Boyce

Israel M. Kirzner. The Driving Force of the Market: Essays in Austrian Economics. New York: Routledge, 2000. xii + 295 pp. ISBN 0-415-22823-9, $100.00. - David Colander, ed. Complexity and the History of Economic Thought. New York: Routledge, 2000. xii + 249 pp. ISBN 0-415-13356-4, $90.00 pp. 576-578

Ben Fine

Karen Tranberg Hansen. Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xv + 298 pp. ISBN 0-226-31580-0, $52.50 (cloth); ISBN 0-226-31581-9, $22.50 (paper) pp. 579-580

Susan Strasser

Ronie Garcia-Johnson. Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. xvi + 282 pp. ISBN 0-262-07200-9, $60.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-262-57136-6, $20.00 (paper) pp. 581-582

Darwin H. Stapleton

Lynda S. Bell. One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865–1937. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. xvi + 291 pp. ISBN 0-8047-2998-0, $49.50 pp. 582-584

David Pollard

Sherman Cochran. Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880–1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xxii + 269 pp. ISBN 0-520-21625-3, $40.00 pp. 584-587

Mira Wilkins

Andrea Finkelstein. Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 381 pp. ISBN 0-472-11143-4, $49.50 pp. 587-588

Edwin J. Perkins

Keith Wrightson. Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000. xii + 372 pp. ISBN 0-300-08391-2, $35.00 pp. 588-590

John Smail

Luca Molà The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xix + 457 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6189-6, $48.00. - Luca Molà, Reinhold C. Mueller, and Claudio Zanier, eds. Dal baco al drappo: La seta in Italia dal Medioevo al Seicento. Venezia: Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 2000. xiii + 568 pp. ISBN 88-317-7442-5, 80,000 ITL pp. 590-593

Daryl M. Hafter

Susan J. Terrio. Crafting the Culture and History of French Chocolate. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xiii + 313 pp. ISBN 0-520-22125-7, $55.00 (cloth); 0-520-22126-5, $22.50 (paper) pp. 593-595

Sydney Watts

Jean-Louis Barsoux. INSEAD: From Intuition to Institution. New York: Palgrave, 2000. xii + 249 pp. ISBN 0-312-23385-X, $69.95 pp. 595-597

John F. Wilson

Wolfgang König Geschichte der Konsumgesellschaft. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. 509 pp. ISBN 3-515-07650-6, DM98.00 pp. 597-599

Werner Bϋhrer

James P. Hawley and Andrew T. Williams. The Rise of Fiduciary Capitalism: HowInstitutional Investors Can Make Corporate America More Democratic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. xix + 232 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3563-0, $47.50 pp. 599-601

Dale L. Flesher

Robert M. Collins. More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xi + 299 pp. ISBN 0-19-504646-3, $35.00 pp. 601-603

Judith Stein

Agatha C. Hughes, and Thomas P. Hughes eds. Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. vi + 513 pp. ISBN 0-262-13363-6, $50.00. - Miriam R. Levin, ed. Cultures of Control. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. xx + 274 pp. ISBN 90-5823-012-0, $56.00 (cloth); ISBN 90-5823-013-9, $24.00 (paper) pp. 603-607

Michael N. Geselowitz

Nancy A. Walker. Shaping Our Mothers’ World: American Women’s Magazines. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. xvii + 257 pp. ISBN 1-57806-294-2, $45.00 (cloth); ISBN1-57806-295-0, $18.00 (paper) pp. 607-609

Sarah Leavitt

David A. Kirsch. The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000. xiii + 291 pp. ISBN 0-8135-2808-9, $45.00 (cloth); 0-8135-2809-7, $20.00 (paper) pp. 609-611

Thomas Zeller

Alison J. Clarke. Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. x + 241 pp. ISBN 1-56098-827-4, $24.95 pp. 611-613

Marc R. Sykes

Margaret Walsh. Making Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2000. xvii + 245 pp. ISBN 0-7546-0207-9, $74.95 pp. 613-615

Jan Davidson

Kathleen P. Chamberlain. Under Sacred Ground: A History of Navajo Oil, 1922–1982. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. xii + 177 pp. ISBN 0-8263-2043-0, $35.00 pp. 615-617

William R. Childs

Jeffery M. Dorwart. The Philadelphia Navy Yard: From the Birth of the U.S. Navy to the Nuclear Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. vii + 271 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3575-4, $45.00 pp. 617-618

Thomas Heinrich

Martin Kenney, ed. Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvii + 285 pp. ISBN 0-8047-3733-9, $49.50 (cloth); 0-8047-3734-7, $24.95 (paper). - Chong-Moon Lee, et al., eds. The Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. xxiii + 424 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4062-3, $49.50 (cloth); 0-8047-4063-7, $19.95 (paper) pp. 619-622

Glenn Bugos

David Blanke. Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. xiii + 282 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1347-3, $59.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8214-1348-1, $21.95 (paper). - Ronald R. Kline. Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii + 372 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6248-5, $39.95 pp. 622-626

Amy Bix

Wilson J. Warren. Struggling with “Iowa's Pride”: Labor Relations, Unionism, and Politics in the Rural Midwest since 1877. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000. xv + 185 pp. ISBN 0-87745-712-3, $34.95 (cloth); 0-87745-713-1, $19.95 (paper). - Dennis A. Deslippe. “Rights, Not Roses”: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945–80. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. x + 259 pp. ISBN 0-252-02519-9, $49.95 (cloth); 0-252-06834-3, $21.95 (paper) pp. 626-630

Peter Rachleff

Volume 2, issue 2, 2001

Petites Bourgeoises and Penny Capitalists: Women in Retail in the Lille Area during the Nineteenth Century pp. 198-224

Béatrice Craig

Manly Boys and Enterprising Dreamers: Business Ideology and the Construction of the Boy Consumer, 1910–1930 pp. 225-258

Lisa Jacobson

Informal Financial Service Institutions for Survival: African Women and Stokvels in Urban South Africa, 1930–1998 pp. 259-296

Grietjie Verhoef

The Extensive Side of Nineteenth-Century Military Economy: The Tent Industry in the Northern United States during the Civil War pp. 297-337

Mark R. Wilson

Marketing Diversity: The Making of a Global Consumer Product—Hohner's Harmonicas, 1857–1930 pp. 338-372

Hartmut Berghoff

Colin Hay and David Marsh, eds. Demystifying Globalization. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. x + 197 pp. ISBN 0-312-23027-3, $68.00 pp. 373-375

Lars Engwall

Reviews - Gabriel Tortella. The Development of Modern Spain: An Economic History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. xvi + 528 pp. ISBN 0-674-00094-3, $49.95 pp. 375-377

Jose Luis Garcia-Ruiz

Gian Luigi Basini and Gianpiero Lugli, eds. L’affermazione dell’industria: Reggio Emilia, 1940-1973. Rome: Editori Laterza, 1999. xxxiv + 556 pp. ISBN 88-420-5801-7, 40,000 ITL pp. 377-379

Andrea Colli

John Smail. Merchants, Markets and Manufacture: The English Wool Textile Industry in the Eighteenth Century. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. x + 198 pp. ISBN 0-312-22162-2, $65.00 pp. 379-381

James Jaffe

Ron Harris. Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720–1844. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvi + 331 pp. ISBN 0-521-66275-3, $60.00 pp. 381-383

Roy Church

Xu Dixin and Wu Chengming, eds. Chinese Capitalism, 1522–1840. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. xl + 517 pp. ISBN 0-333-49732-5, $79.95 pp. 383-386

David Pong

David R. Meyer. Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii + 272 pp. ISBN 0-521-64344-9, $64.00. - David L. Wank. Commodifying Communism: Business, Trust, and Politics in a Chinese City. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv + 298 pp. ISBN 0-521-62073-2, $59.95 pp. 386-389

Ferry de Goey

Hiroshi Okumura. Corporate Capitalism in Japan. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. lxi + 165 pp. ISBN 0-312-23083-4, $65.00. - Mayumi Itoh. Globalization of Japan: Japanese Sakoku Mentality and U.S. Efforts to Open Japan.. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. vi + 224 pp. ISBN 0-312-17708-9, $45.00 (cloth); 0-312-23505-4, $18.95 (paper) pp. 389-391

Mansel G. Blackford

Richard E. Caves. Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. ix + 454 pp. ISBN 0-674-00164-8, $45.00. - Lary May. The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xvi + 348 pp. ISBN 0-226-51162-6, $32.50 pp. 392-395

Gerben Bakker

Ralph Landau, Basil Achilladelis, and Alexandre Scriabine, eds. Pharmaceutical Innovation: Revolutionizing Human Health. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Press, 1999. xxiii + 409 pp. ISBN 0-941901-21-1, $44.95 pp. 395-396

Frederik Nebeker

John Majewski. A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 214 pp. ISBN 0-521-59023-X, $49.95 pp. 396-398

Michael Zakim

Gerard T. Koeppel. Water for Gotham: A History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. xiv + 335 pp. ISBN 0-691-01139-7, $29.95 pp. 398-400

Joel A. Tarr

Isabelle Lehuu. Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xi + 244 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2521-2, $39.95 (cloth); 0-8078-4832-8, $17.95 (paper) pp. 400-401

Rosalind Remer

Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiii + 368 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6193-4, $34.95 pp. 402-404

Katherine Grier

David Vaught. Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875–1920. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 280 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6221-3, $38.00 pp. 404-406

Brian Black

Jane R. Plitt. Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000. xviii + 184 pp. ISBN 0-8156-0638-9, $26.95. - Julie A. Willett. Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop. New York: New York University Press, 2000. xii + 248 pp. ISBN 0-8147-9357-6, $55.00 (cloth); 0-8147-9358-4, $18.50 (paper) pp. 407-409

Steven Zdatny

Ian R Bartky. Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi + 310 pp. ISBN 0-8047-3874-2, $45.00 pp. 409-410

Barbara Adam

Landon R. Y. Storrs. Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiv + 392 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2527-1, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8078-4838-7, $19.95 (paper) pp. 411-413

Bryant Simon

Ferdinando Fasce. La democrazia degli affari: comunicazione aziendale e discorso pubblico negli Stati Uniti, 1900–1940. Rome: Carocci, 2000. 216 pp. ISBN 88-430-1535-4. 33,000 ITL pp. 413-414

Giuseppe Berta

Vincent Curcio. Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiv + 699 pp. ISBN 0-19-507896-9. $35.00 pp. 415-416

Nelson Lichtenstein

Robert Jackall and Janice M. Hirota. Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-226-38916-2, $25.00 pp. 417-418

Ferdinando Fasce

Volume 2, issue 1, 2001

Gender and Business History pp. 1-10

Angel Kwolek-Folland

Women in the Underground Business of Eighteenth-Century Lyon pp. 11-40

Daryl M. Hafter

Gender Differences in Labor Turnover and the Development of Internal Labor Markets in the United States during the 1920s pp. 41-71

Laura J. Owen

True Womanhood in Hollywood: Gendered Business Strategies and the Rise and Fall of the Woman Filmmaker, 1896–1928 pp. 72-110

Karen Ward Mahar

Ted Turner’s Corporate Cross-Dressing and the Shifting Images of American Business Leadership pp. 111-142

Eric Guthey

Reviews - Jan Rath, ed. Immigrant Business: The Economic, Political and Social Environment. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xv + 231 pp. ISBN 0-312-22775-2, $65.00 pp. 143-144

Donna R. Gabaccia

Karl Gunnar Persson. Grain Markets in Europe, 1500–1900: Integration and Deregulation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 19999. xx + 174 pp. ISBN 0-521-65096-8, $59.55 pp. 145-146

Philip T. Hoffman

Rebecca L. Spang. The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. x + 325 pp. ISBN 0-674-0064-1, $35.00 pp. 146-148

Sydney Watts

Franco Amatori and Andrea Colli. Impresa e industria in Italia dall’Unità a oggi. Venice: Marsilio, 1999. xv + 414 pp. ISBN 88-317-7289-9, 48,000 ITL (€24.79) pp. 148-150

Luciano Segreto

Jennifer A. Loehlin.From Rugs to Riches: Housework, Consumption and Modernity in Germany. New York: Berg, 1999. ix + 250 pp. ISBN 1-85973-284-4, $68.00 pp. 150-152

Lawrence B. Glickman

James Schmiechen and Kenneth Carls. The British Market Hall: A Social and Architectural History. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999. xii + 312 pp. ISBN 0-300-06064-5, $50.00 pp. 152-154

Roberta M. Moudry

Luigi Manzetti. Privatization South American Style. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii + 373 pp. ISBN 0-19-829466-2, $74.00 pp. 154-156

Yovanna Pineda

César J. Ayala. American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898–1934. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii + 321 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2506-9, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8078-4788-7, $19.95 (paper) pp. 156-157

Jules R. Benjamin

Myung-Gun Choo. The New Asia in Global Perspective. London: Macmillan Press, 2000. xvii + 215 pp. ISBN 0-312-22172-X, $69.95 pp. 157-158

Stephanie Po-yin Chung

Yehouda Shenhav. Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. vi + 247 pp. ISBN 0-19-829630-4,$49.95 pp. 159-161

John K. Smith

Arnold Pacey. Meaning in Technology. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. viii + 264 pp. ISBN 0-262-16182-6, $27.50 pp. 161-163

Paul Israel

Sandra M. Anglund. Small Business Policy and the American Creed. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000. xvi + 176 pp. ISBN 0-275-96697-6, $59.95 pp. 163-165

Jon Lauck

Mark L. Gardner. Wagons for the Santa Fe Trade: Wheeled Vehicles and Their Makers, 1822–1880. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. xx + 204 pp. ISBN 0-8263-1846-0, $40.00 (cloth); 0-8263-2196-8, $19.95 (paper) pp. 165-166

Thomas Kinney

Charles W. Calomiris. U.S. Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxxii + 359 pp. ISBN 0-521-58362-4, $54.95 pp. 166-168

Edwin J. Perkins

Susannah Handley. Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution—A Celebration of Design from Art Silk to Nylon and Thinking Fibres. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 192 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6325-2, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 168-170

Sarah Elvins

David Desser and Garth S. Jowett, eds. Hollywood Goes Shopping. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. xxi + 363 pp. ISBN 0-8166-3512-9, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8166-3513-7, $19.95 (paper) pp. 170-173

Alison Clarke

Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien. Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xviii + 305 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2523-9, $49.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8078-4835-2, $18.95 (paper) pp. 173-175

Tyler Priest

Jefferson Cowie. Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. x + 273 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3525-0, $29.95 pp. 175-177

David Palmer

Walter Johnson. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. vii + 283 pp. ISBN 0-674-82148-3, $26.00 pp. 180-182

Douglas R. Egerton

Bruce E. Johansen, ed. The Encyclopedia of Native American Economic History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. xviii + 301 pp. ISBN 0-313-30623-0, $85.00 pp. 182-184

Brian Hosmer

Lloyd C. Irland. The Northeast’s Changing Forest. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. xxiv + 401 pp. ISBN 0-674-62680-X, $50.00. - Richard A. Rajala. Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest: Production, Science, and Regulation. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1998. xxiii + 286 pp. ISBN 0-7748-0590-0, $75.00 (cloth); 0-7748-0591-9, $27.95 (paper) pp. 184-187

W. Scott Prudham

Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee. The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv + 434. ISBN 0-521-65229-4, $59.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-521-65546-3, $24.95 (paper) pp. 187-189

Richard D. Starnes

Brian Roberts. American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xii + 328 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2543-3, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8078-4856-5, $19.95 (paper) pp. 189-191

Clark Davis

Clark Davis. Company Men: White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892–1941. Baltimore, Md.: John’s Hopkins University Press, 2000. xvii + 298. ISBN 0-8018-6274-4, $39.95 pp. 191-193

Daniel Jacoby

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