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Volume 78 - Winter 2004

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The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940. ByAndrew Wender Cohen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 333 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-521-83466-x.

Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s. By Carolyn S. Loeb. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xvi + 273 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86618-9.

Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. By Angela Lakwete. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 232 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45. ISBN: 0-801-87394-0.

The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American. By Carolyn Thomas de la Pena. New York: New York University Press, 2003. xvi + 328 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-8147-1953-8.

A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. By Robert H. Gudmestad. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UniversityPress, 2003. xvi + 246 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-12884-8; paper 0-8071-2922-4.

Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair. By Richard Moran. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. xxii + 271 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN 0-375-41059-7.

Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America. By Tona J. Hangen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ix + 220 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $18.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82752-5; paper 0-807-85420-4.

Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1919. ByTim Brooks. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004. x + 634 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 0-252-02850-3.

The King of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire. By Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman. New York: Public Affairs, 2003. viii + 534 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN 1-586-48028-6.

Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. ByNeil Lanctot. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xi + 496 pp. Index, notes, photographs, tables. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-812-23807-9.

The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation and the American Corporate State, 1877–1929. By R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. x + 168 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-87054-2.

Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889–1909. By Jonathan W. Singer. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xiii + 344 pp. Illustrations, appendix, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 1-585-44160-0.

Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895–1945. By Diana Davids Olien and Roger M. Olien. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. xi + 307 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-292-76056-6.

Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America. By Todd DePastino. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxv + 325 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN 0-226-14378-3.

Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer. ByKathleen G. Donohue. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii + 326 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $45.95. ISBN: 0-8018-7426-2.

Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West. By Claire Strom. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. x + 228 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35. ISBN: 0-295-98348-5.

Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts. By Daniel Tyler (foreword by Donald J. Pisani). Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 2003. xxi + 392 pp. Maps, photographs, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-806-13515-8.

Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929–1945. ByMichael Johnston Grant. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xi + 232 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-803-27105-0.

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