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But Also Good Business: Texas Commerce Banks and the Financing of Houston and Texas, 1886–1986. By Walter L. Buenger and Joseph A. Pratt. College Station, Texas: A & M University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 450. $29.50.
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The Life and Legend of Jay Gould. By Maury Klein. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 595. $27.50.
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Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Series I, Vol. 1: The Destruction of Slavery. Edited by Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Thavolia Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xxxvi, 852. $39.50.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 562-563
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Southern Capitalism: The Political Economy of North Carolina, 1880–1980. By Phillip J. Wood. Durham: Duke University Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 272. $37.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 563-565
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The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876–1926. By Leonard S. Reich. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xvi, 309. $24.95.
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A Corporate Tragedy: The Agony of International Harvester Company. By Barbara Marsh. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1985. Pp. viii, 324. $19.95.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 566-567
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GM Passes Ford, 1918–1938: Designing the General Motors Performance-Control System. By Arthur J. Kuhn. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 380. $29.75.
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The Motorization of American Cities. By David J. St. Clair. Westport: Praeger (Greenwood), 1986. Pp. xi, 192. $32.95.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 569-570
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The Samuel Gompers Papers. Vol. 1. The Making of a Union Leader, 1850–1886. Edited by Stuart B. Kaufman. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. xxxvi, 529. $39.95.
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Confrontation, Class Consciousness, and the Labor Process: Studies in Proletarian Class Formation. Edited by Michael Hanagan and Charles Stephenson. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986. Pp. vi, 261. $45.00. - “Struggle a Hard Battle”: Essays on Working-Class Immigrants. Edited by Dirk Hoerder DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986. Pp. vi, 375. $25.00 cloth, $9.50 paper.
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Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875–1980. By Dennis C. Dickerson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 323. $39.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.
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Working Lives: The American Work Force since 1920. By John D. Owen. Lexington: D. C. Heath and Company, 1986. Pp. x, 218. $25.00.
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Le Port de New York et le Commerce Extérieur American, 1860–1900. By Jean Heffer. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1986. Pp. ii, 568. 100F.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 576-577
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Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854–1941. By Thomas E. Sheridan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 327. $22.50.
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The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America. By Christine Meisner Rosen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xii. 395. $39.50.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 578-579
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San Francisco, 1865–1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development. By William Issel and Robert W. Cherny. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 294. $35.00.
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The Inland Empire: Unfolding Years, 1879–1929. By John Fahey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 298. $19.95.
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The American Business Cycle: Continuity and Change. Edited by Robert J. Gordon. Studies in Business Cycles, Vol. 25, National Bureau of Economic Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, Pp. xiv, 868. $78.00.
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United States Foreign Oil Policy, 1919–1948: For Profits and Security. By Stephen J. Randall. Toronto: McGill-Queens University Press, 1985. Pp. viii, 328. $35.00.
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Leadership at the Fed. By Donald F. Kettl. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 218. $22.50.
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- 03 March 2009, pp. 585-586
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