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Volume 76 - Issue 2 - Summer 2002

Book Reviews

Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900–1930. ByAmy E. Slaton. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiv + 254 pp. Photographs, drawings. Cloth, $42.50. ISBN 0–801–86559-X.

Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901–2001. ByKenneth Warren. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. xviii + 406 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $32.00. ISBN 0–822–94160–0.

Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Ritual. ByElizabeth H. Pleck. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 352 pp. Photos. Cloth, $57.95; paper $24.00. ISBN: cloth 0–674–00230-X; paper 0–674–00279–2.

Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America. Edited byPhilip Scranton. New York: Routledge, 2000. iv + 340 pp. Photos and illustrations. Paper, $22.95. ISBN 0–415–92667-X.

Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning. ByChristian Warren. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 384 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth 0–801–86289–2; paper 0–801–86820–3.

Saving International Capitalism During the Early Truman Presidency: The National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems. ByKevin M. Casey. New York: Routledge, 2001. 256 pp. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0–815–33954–2.

Nixon's Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy. ByDean Kotlowski. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. xii + 404. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0–674–00623–2.

The Business of America. ByJohn Steele Gordon. New York: Walker & Co., 2001. 285 pp. Cloth, $27.00; paper, $14.95. ISBN: cloth, 0–802–71383–1; paper, 0–802–77635–3.

La moneda en México, 1750–1920 [Currency in Mexico, 1750–1920]. Edited byBátiz Vázquez, José Antonio, and José Enrique Covarrubias. Mexico City: Institute Mora, 1998. 234 pp. Illustrations, map, tables. Paper, $26.00. ISBN 9–686–91486–2.

The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk, 1440–1580. ByJane Whittle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 370 pp. Tables, figures. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN 0–198–20842–1.

The Politics of Trade: The Overseas Merchants in State and Society, 1660–1720. ByPerry Gauci. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. xvi + 302 pp. Tables, maps. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0–199–24193–7.

Well Suited: A History of the Leeds Clothing Industry, 1850–1990. ByKatrina Honeyman. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2000. 350 pp. Photographs, maps, tables. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 0–199–20237–0.

Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791. ByClare Haru Crowston. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. 528 pp. Photographs, graphs, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth 0–822–32662–0; paper 0–822–32666–3.

A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France. ByChristine Adams. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. x + 292 pp. Appendixes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $21.95. ISBN 0–271–01956–5.

“La Chasse à l'hectolitre”: La Brasserie Müller à Neuchâtel, 1885–1953. [The Hectoliter Hunt: The Müller Brewery at Neuchâtel, 1885–1953]. ByHélène Pasquier. Neuchâtel: Editions Alphil, 2001. 158 pp. Photographs. Paper, 23€. ISBN 2–940235–02–3.

Bimetallism: An Economic and Historical Analysis. ByAngela Redish. Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press, 2000. 288 pp. Diagrams, photos, tables. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN 0–521–57091–3.

West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945–1955. ByS. Jonathan Wiesen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press; 2001. xviii + 330 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0–807–82634–0.

!Es un motor español! Historia empresarial de Barreiros [It's a Spanish car! An entrepreneurial history of Barreiros]. ByJ. L. García Ruíz and M. Santos Redondo. Madrid: Síntesis, 2001. 368 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography. Paper, 15.89 Euros. ISBN 8–47738–900–4.

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