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Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801–1885. By Judith A. McGaw. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987. xv + 439 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, bibliography, and notes. $40.00.

Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction. By Larry Schweikart. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xiv + 367 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00.

The Forested Land: A History of Lumbering in Western Washington. By Robert E. Ficken. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. xv + 324 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.

The Cycles of American History. By Arthur M. SchlesingerJr., Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. xiv + 498 pp. Bibliography and index. $22.95.

The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry, 1830–1910. By John Alfred Heitmann. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xii + 298 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00.

Why the South Lost the Civil War. By Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William N. StillJr., Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. xi + 582 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.

The Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840–1875. By Elliott Ashkenazi. University: University of Alabama Press, 1988. x + 219 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.95.

American Singularity: The 1787 Northwest Ordinance, the 1862 Homestead and Morrill Acts, and the 1944 G.I. Bill. By Harold M. Hyman. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. x + 95 pp. Notes and index. $15.00.

The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821–61. By Brian C. Mitchell. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xiii + 247 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95.

The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America. Edited by Steven Hahn and Jonathan Prude. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. xii + 355 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $36.00; paper, $9.95.

New Orleans Dockworkers: Race, Labor, and Unionism, 1892–1923. By Daniel Rosenberg. Albany: SUNY Press, 1988. x + 233 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $44.50; paper, $14.95.

Soldiers, Sutlers, and Settlers: Garrison Life on the Texas Frontier. By Robert Wooster. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. xv + 240 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $22.95.

Land Fever: Dispossession and the Frontier Myth. By James M. Marshall. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. viii + 238 pp. Appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $21.00.

John L. Lewis: Labor Leader. By Robert H. Zieger. Boston: Twayne Publishers. 1988. xviii + 220 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $24.95.

A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth–Century America. By Shelton Stromquist. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xix + 353 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.

Trails South: The Wagon-Road Economy in the Dodge City-Panhandle Region. By C. Robert Haywood. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. xv + 312 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.

The Great Northern Railway: A History. By Ralph W. Hidy, Muriel E. Hidy, and Roy V. Scott, with Don L. Hofsommer. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1988. xv + 360 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes on sources, and index. $49.95.

Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism: The Shoeworkers and Tanners of Endicott Johnson, 1890–1950. By Gerald Zahavi. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xiii + 261 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95.

Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts. By Alexander Keyssar. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xviii + 469 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $14.95.

The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925. By David Montgomery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xii + 494 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $27.95.

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