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Volume 60 - Issue 2 - June 2000

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Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries. Edited by David C. Mowery and Richard R. Nelson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 401. $59.95, cloth; $22.95, paper.

Tracks to the Sea: Galveston and Western Railroad Development, 1866–1900. By Earle B. Young. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 158. $29.95.

Trasure from the Painted Hills: A History of Calico, California, 1882–1907. By Douglas Steeples. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 142. $49.95.

Endangered Dreasm: The Great Depression in California. By Kevin Starr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 402. £14.50.

True Security: Rethinking American Social Insurance. By Michael J. Graetz and Jerry L. Mashaw. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 369. $40.00, cloth; $16.95, paper.

Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History. Edited by Dale D. Goble and Paul W. Hirt. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 552. $60.00, cloth: $29.95, paper.

Still the Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York. By Roger Waldinger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 374. $18.95, paper.

The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning. By Alain Desrosieres. Translated byCamille Naish. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. 368. $45.00.

Business Cycles Since 1820: New International Perspectives from Historical Evidence. Edited by Trevor J. O. Dick. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1998. Pp. v, 294. $95.00.

Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment. By Charles L. Griswold Jr Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. ix,412. $59.95, cloth; $21.95, paper.

Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture. By David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt, and Jonathan Perraton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 515. $75.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.

Against the Odds: The Public Life and Times of Louis Rasminsky. By Bruce Muirhead. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. x, 380. $45.00.

The State, The Financial System, and Economic Modernization. Edited by Richard Sylla Richard Tilly, and Gabriel Tortella. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 295. $64.95.

Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science. Edited by James E. Alt Margaret Levi, and Elinor Ostrom. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. Pp. xix, 347. $39.95.

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Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880–1940. By Arwen P. Mohun. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 348. $48.00.

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From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery. By Seymour Drescher. Forward by Stanley Engerman. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Pp. xxv, 454. $45.00.

Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. By Thomas R. Dunlap. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 350. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.

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