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Volume 85 - Winter 2011

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After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy. ByMurray Milgate and Shannon C. Stimson. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2009. x + 306 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-14037-7.

Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800–1914. ByTimothy Alborn. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. xi + 439 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, appendices, notes, references, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-1-442-63996-6.

Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America. By Elizabeth Fraterrigo. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. vii + 295 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-195-38610-3.

Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century. By Tracey Deutsch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 337 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-807-83327-8.

Vegas at Odds: Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960–1985. By Joseph P. Kraft. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. x + 273 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89375-5.

From Telegrapher to Titan: The Life of William C. Van Horne. ByValerie Knowles. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. 501 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-22250-3.

Hollowed Ground: Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840s-1990s. By Larry Lankton. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010. xii + 375 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $34.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-814-33458-4; paper, 978-0-814-33490-4.

The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy. ByHardy Green. New York: Basic Books, 2010. 248 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-465-01826-0.

Reno's Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City. By Alicia Barber. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. x + 319 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-700-61594-0.

Selling Beauty: Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750–1830. By Morag Martin. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2009. viii + 228 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89309-4.

Gary, the Most American of All American Cities. ByS. Paul O'Hara. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. x + 195 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $19.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-22288-6.

It's Our Day: America's Love Affair with the White Wedding, 1945–2005. By Katherine Jellison. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xi + 297 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-700-61559-9.

Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France. By Daniel S. Pierce. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 348 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-807-83384-1.

Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood. By Mark Garrett Cooper. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xxix + 230 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03522-7; paper, 978-0-252-07700-5.

Tobacco in Russian History and Culture: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present. Edited by Matthew P. Romaniello and Tricia Starks. New York: Routledge, 2009. x + 295 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-99655-6.

Finders Keepers? How the Law of Capture Shaped the World Oil Industry. ByTerence Daintith. Washington, D.C.: Earthscan, 2010. xvii + 500 pp. Figures, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $59.95. ISBN: 978-1-933-11583-2.

Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks. By Alexander Russo. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. xi + 278 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-822-34517-6; paper, 978-0-822-34532-9.

Negotiating Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America. By Dennis Merrill. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi + 327 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-807-83288-2; paper, 978-0-807-85904-9.

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