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Volume 76 - Autumn 2002

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Otis: Giving Rise to the Modern City. By Jason Goodwin. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. xv + 286 pp. Illustrations, appendix, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN 1-56663-385-0.

Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850–1920. ByDavid Igler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xiv + 268 pp. Photographs, maps. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN 0-520-22658-5.

Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890–1960. ByPatrick J. McGrath. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. x + 248 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0–807–82655–3.

Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War. ByDavid G. Surdam. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. 310 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 1–570–03407–9.

Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built. By Richard S. Tedlow. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. 528 pp. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN 0-066-62035-X.

America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918–1947. ByJanet R. Daly Bednarek. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. viii + 226 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 1–585–44130–9.

Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California. Edited byLawrence B. DeGraaf, Kevin Mulroy, andQuintard Taylor. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. 550 pp. Index. Cloth $45.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-295-98082-6; paper 0-295-98083-4.

The Model Man: A Life of Edward William Bok, 1863–1930. ByHans Krabbendam. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001. x + 278 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Paper, $47.00. ISBN 9–042–01495–4.

The Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality. ByEric Arnesen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. 332 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-674-00319-5.

Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America. By David A. SkeelJr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 272 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-691-08810-1.

The Diplomacy of Involvement: American Economic Expansion Across the Pacific, 1784–1900. ByDavid M. Fletcher. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. xii + 380 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN 0–826–21315–4.

Making Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA. ByMargaret Walsh, xvii + 245 pp. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2000. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $74.95. ISBN 0–754–60207–9.

The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s. Edited byPhilip Scranton. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2001. xiv + 310 pp. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0–820–32218–0.

Merging Lines: American Railroads, 1900–1970. ByRichard Sounders Jr. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. xix + 492 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-875-80265-6.

The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the Middle Class. Edited by Burton J. Bledstein and Robert D. Johnston. New York: Routledge, 2001. 384 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth 0-415-92641-6; paper 0-415-92642-4.

Labor in Retreat: Class and Community among Men's Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1871–1929. ByYoungsoo Bae. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 320 pp. Maps. Cloth, $78.50; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth 0–791–45117–8; paper 0–791–45118–6.

The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890–1930. By Nikki Mandell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49-95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82685-3; paper 0-807-85351-8.

The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. ByAdam Rome. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 299 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-521-80059-5; paper 0-521-80490-6.

Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, & the American Dream. ByNancy Beck Young. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2000. xix + 428 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0–870–74453–4.

A Union Against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight Against Organized Labor, 1903–1947. ByWilliam Millikan. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 2001. 488 pp. Photographs, notes, appendix, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0–873–51398–3.

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