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The Rise of the Urban South. By Lawrence H. Larsen. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1985. xi + 220 pp. Tables, notes, essay on sources, and index. $22.00.

Labor's True Women: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization, and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age. By Susan Levine. (Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1984. xii + 191 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $24.95.)

Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900–1919. By Patricia A. Cooper. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xvi + 350 pp. Illustrations, tables, note on sources, oral history bibliography, and index. $29.95.

Railroads and the Character of America, 1820–1887. By James A. Ward. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. xii + 200 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $14.95.)

Life in the Oil Fields. By Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien. (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1986. xi + 263 pp. Map, illustrations, and index. $19.95.)

The Moxie Encyclopedia. Volume 1. The History. By Q. David Bowers. (Vestal, N.Y.: The Vestal Press, Ltd., 1985. 760 pp. Illustrations and index. $19.95.)

Business Enterprise in American History. By Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. xi + 456 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, select bibliography, and index. Paper, $23.95.

Union Busting in the Tri-State: The Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Metal Workers' Strike of 1935. By George G. SuggsJr., Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. xiv + 285 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $22.50.

The Entrepreneurs: An American Adventure. By Robert Sobel and David B. Sicilia. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. x + 278 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $29.95.

West of Wichita: Settling the High Plains of Kansas, 1865–1890. By Craig Miner. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1986. vii + 303 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.

The Vital Few: The Entrepreneur and American Economic Progress. Expanded edition. By Jonathan Hughes. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. xiv + 610 pp. Bibliographical notes and index. Paper, $11.95.)

The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880–1960. By Christopher L. Tomlins. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xvi + 348 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, and index. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $12.95.)

GM Passes Ford, 1918–1938: Designing the General Motors Performance-Control System. By Arthur J. Kuhn. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986. xii + 380 pp. Charts, bibliography, and index. $29.75.)

Business & Government: Essays in 20th-century Cooperation and Confrontation. Edited by Joseph R. Frese, S. J., and Jacob Judd. (Tarrytown, N.Y.: Sleepy Hollow Press, 1985. xii + 233 pp. Notes and index. $25.00.)

Prime Cut: Livestock Raising and Meatpacking in the United States, 1607–1983. By Jimmy M. Skaggs. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1986. xiii + 263 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $28.50.

Worker and Community: Response to Industrialization in a Nineteenth-Century American City, Albany, New York, 1850–1884. By Brian Greenberg. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. ix + 227 pp. Maps, chart, table, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $34.50; paper, $12.95.

The Money Game in Old New York: Daniel Drew and His Times. By Clifford Browder. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1986. viii + 319 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $28.00.

American Workers, American Unions, 1920–1985. By Robert H. Zieger. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. xii + 233 pp. Bibliographic essay and index. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $9.95.)

The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America. By Christine Meisner Rosen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xii + 395 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, notes, and index. $39.50.

Herbert Hoover and the Republican Era: A Reconsideration. Edited by Carl E. Krog and William R. Tanner. (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1984. xii + 268 pp. Tables, notes, and bibliographical essay. Cloth, $26.50; paper, $14.50.)

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