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Volume 68 - Winter 1994

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The Passenger Train in the Motor Age: California's Rail and Bus Industries, 1910–1941. ByGregory Lee Thompson · Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994. xvii + 247 pp. Maps, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.50. ISBN 0-8412-0609-3.

Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. By Annalee Saxenian · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994. xi + 226 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-674-75339-9.

Service Clubs in American Society: Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions. ByJeffrey A. Charles · Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1993. x + 226 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $32.50. ISBN 0-252-02015-4.

The State & Labor in Modern America. By Melvyn Dubofsky · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xviii + 321 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2125-X; paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8076-4436-5.

Old Age and the Search for Security: An American Social History. By Carole Haber and Brian Gratton · Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. xv + 230 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-253-32691-5; paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-253-20836-X.

Pride and Solidarity: A History of the Plumbers and Pipefitters of Columbus, Ohio, 1889–1989. ByRichard Schneirov · Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1993. x + 189 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-87546-306-1; paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-87546-307-X.

Regulatory Politics in Transition. By Marc Allen Eisner · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xxii + 246 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8018-4557-2.

From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory: Telegraphy and the Changing Context of American Invention, 1830–1920. ByPaul Israel · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. viii + 251 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $38.50. ISBN 0-8018-4379-0.

Profits of Science: The American Marriage of Business and Technology. ByRobert Teitelman · New York: Basic Books, 1994. xi + 258 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $23.00. ISBN 0-465-03983-9.

The Workplace before the Factory: Artisans and Proletarians, 1500–1800. Edited by Thomas Max Safley and Leonard N. Rosenband · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. xi + 252 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-8014-2847-5.

Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830–1930. ByMiriam Formanek-Brunell · New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. xi + 233 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $25.00. ISBN 0-300-05072-0.

Canadian Papers in Business History, vol. 2. Edited by Peter A. Baskerville · Victoria: University of Victoria, B.C., 1993. ix + 233 pp. Tables, figures, maps, and notes. $27.95. ISBN 0-921278-10-1.

Family Capitalism. Edited by Geoffrey Jones and Mary B. Rose · Brookfield, Vt: Frank Cass, 1993. 211 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-7146-4553-2.

Bank Behavior, Regulation, and Economic Development: California, 1860–1910. ByRoger C. Lister · New York: Garland, 1993. xxv + 261 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $62.00. ISBN 0-8153-0967-8.

Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History. Edited byDonald N. McCloskey · New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. x + 208 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-19-506633-2.

Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy. By John H. Dunning · Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993. xvi + 687 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $58.50. ISBN 0-201-17530-4.

Platt Brothers and Company: Small Business in American Manufacturing. ByMatthew W. Roth · Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1994. x + 256 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. $40.00. ISBN 0-87451-654-4.

The New Democracy: Challenging the Social Order in Industrial Ontario, 1914–1925. ByJames Naylor · Toronto, Ont: University of Toronto Press, 1991. x + 336 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8020-5953-8; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8020-6886-3.

Missionaries of Science: The Rockefeller Foundation and Latin America. Edited by Marcos Cueto · Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. xx + 171 pp. Tables, illustrations, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-253-31583-2.

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