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Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History. By Ian Baucom. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. x + 387 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33558-1; paper, 0-822-33596-4.
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The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century. By Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 275 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-801-43469-6; paper, 0-801-48473-1.
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From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture. By Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xvi + 356 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 0-253-34571-5.
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Ist Deutschland noch zu retten? [Can Germany still be saved?]ByHans-Werner Sinn. Munich: Econ-Verlag, 2003. 499 pp. Cloth, €25.00. ISBN: 3-430-18533-5.
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The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century. By William R. Childs. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. x + 323 pp. Index, notes, maps, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 1-585-44452-9.
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Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community. By Mark A. Lause. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005. viii + 240 pp. Appendix, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $42.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-02980-1; paper, 0-252-07230-8.
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Oware-yuku Kofu-tachi [The plight of the Chikuho miners]. ByHidenobu Ueno. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1960; reprinted 1994. vii + 184 pp. LCCN: 72-807784.
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The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel. Edited by Peter A. Coclanis. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. xix + 377 pp. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 1-570-03554-7.
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“Coase Revisited: Business Groups in the Modern Economy.” ByMark Granovetter. In Giovanni Dosi, David J. Teece, and Josef Chytry, editors, Technology, Organization and Competitiveness: Perspectives on Industrial and Corporate Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 360 pages. Index, notes. Cloth, $175.62; paper, $54.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-198-29098-5; paper, 0-198-29096-9.
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Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South. Edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005. 240 pp. Tables, notes, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 0-826-21583-1.
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Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union. By David Witwer. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003. viii + 298 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-252-02825-2.
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The Hudson: A History. By Tom Lewis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 340 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, photographs. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-300-10424-3.
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Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America. By Diane C. Vecchio. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x + 130 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-252-03039-7.
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Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation. By Roger Horowitz. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xiii + 170 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $19.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-801-88240-0; paper, 0-801-88241-9.
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Review Essay - The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–45. ByMira Wilkins. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xxvi + 980 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 0-674-01308-5.
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City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870–1920. By Jerome P. Bjelopera. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005. ix + 208 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $22.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-02977-1; paper, 0-252-07227-8.
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The Man Everybody Knew: Bruce Barton and the Making of Modern America. By Richard M. Fried. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005. xv + 286 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN: 1-566-63663-9.
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- 13 December 2011, pp. 564-566
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Atlantic History: Concept and Contours. ByBernard Bailyn. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2005. ix + 149 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $18.95. IBSN: 0-674-01688-2.
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The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement. By Robert D. Parmet. New York: New York University Press, 2005. xii + 346 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-814-76711-7.
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Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871–1919. By Timothy B. Spears. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxiii + 322 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-226-76873-2; paper, 0-226-76874-0.
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- 13 December 2011, pp. 362-364
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