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Volume 78 - Winter 2004

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Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law. By John Fabian Witt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 311 pp. Index, notes, index, tables. Cloth, $49-95- ISBN: 0-674-01267-4.

Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective. Edited by Daniel E. Bender and Richard A. Greenwald. New York: Routledge, 2003. xii + 300 pp. Photographs, illustration, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-415-93560-1; paper 0-415-93561-X.

Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism. By S. M. Amadae. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xii + 401 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.00. ISBN 0-226-01653-6.

Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880–1980. ByChristopher Newfield. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 290 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 0-822-33201-9.

Medicine, Science, and Merck. ByRoy Vagelos and Louis Galambos. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 301. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-521-66295-8.

Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream. By M. Jeffrey Hardwick. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 268 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-812-23762-5.

The Interwar Depression in an International Context. Edited by Harold James. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2002. xv + 192 pp. Figures, notes, references. Cloth, ∈44.80. ISBN 3-486-56610-5.

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security. By Edward D. Berkowitz. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xvii + 455 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-299-18950-3.

Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development. Edited by Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. vii + 350 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-521-82054-5.

The Southern Movie Palace: Rise, Fall, and Resurrection. By Janna Jones. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xii + 291 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-813-02605-9.

JSTOR: A History. ByRobert C. Schonfeld. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xxxiv + 412 pp. Index, appendix, figures, illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-11531-1.

The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. By Gijs Mom. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 423 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 0-801-87138-7.

Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood. By Andrew Brodie Smith. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2003. 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-870-81746-9.

The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States. By Megan Mullen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xiii + 229 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-292-75272-5.

Waterfront Blues: Labour Strife in the Port of Montreal, 1960–1978. ByAlexander C. Pathy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xviii + 328 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-802-08980-1

Reclaiming Church Wealth: The Recovery of Church Property after Expropriation in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1860–1911. ByJosé Roberto Juárez. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. ix + 251 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, tables. Cloth, $45.00 ISBN: 0-826-33162-9.

Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World. Edited by Glenn Adamson. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xi + 219 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, appendices, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-262-01207-3.

Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930. By Julie A. Charlip. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. xiv + 288 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $28.00. ISBN 0-89680-227-2.

Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth Century America. By Colin Gordon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xii + 316 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-691-05806-7.

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