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Volume 80 - Winter 2006

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Hollywood's Road to Riches. By David Waterman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xvi + 393 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01945-8.

Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery. By Elliot A. Rosen. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. x + 308 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 0-813-92368-9.

Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898–1938. By Keith D. Revell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. x + 327 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-801-87073-9; paper, 0-801-88206-0.

The Creation of the British Atlantic World. Edited byCarole Shammas and Elizabeth Mancke. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. vi + 400 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $52.00. ISBN: 0-801-88039-4.

From the Boardroom to the War Room: America's Corporate Liberals and FDR's Preparedness Program. By Richard E. Holl. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005. x + 191 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 1-580-46192-1.

Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850–1930. ByRichard J. Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii + 615 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-520-20019-5.

Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800–2000. By Giovanni Federico. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiv + 388 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables, appendix. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN: 0-691-12051-X.

Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth-Century New York. By Thomas Summerhill. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005. xi + 287 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 0-252-02976-3.

Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile. By Kathleen Franz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-812-23881-8.

Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. By Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xix + 366 pp. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01720-X.

The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy. ByCharles K. Hyde. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. xvi + 251 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-814-33246-3.

Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies. By Ernesto R. Gantman. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. viii + 185 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-64186-4.

Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries. By Howard Segal. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. xv + 244 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 1-558-49481-2.

Plantation Jamaica, 1750–1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy. By B. W. Higman. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2005. xiv + 386 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 9-766-40165-9.

A Nation of Realtors: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class. ByJeffrey M. Hornstein. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. x + 252 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $79-95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33528-X; paper, 0-822-33540-9.

Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama's Catfish Industry. By Karni R. Perez. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xv + 263 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index. Paper, $22.95. ISBN: 0-817-35344-5.

Building the King's Highway: Labor, Society and Family on Mexico's Caminos Reales, 1757–1804. By Bruce A. Castleman. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. xii + 163 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-816-52439-4.

Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe. Edited byRobert Lewis. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. viii + 294 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $68.50; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 1-592-13085-2; paper, 1-592-13086-0.

The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas WatsonSr., and the Making of IBM. By Kevin Maney. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley, 2003. xxv + 485 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-471-41463-8.

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