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Volume 82 - Autumn 2008

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The Great Strikes of 1877. Edited by David O. Stowell. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. ix + 197 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 978–0; paper, 978–0–252–07477–6.

A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. By Stephen Mihm. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xii + 457 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–02657–5.

George Gallup in Hollywood. By Susan Ohmer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xiii + 281 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth. $69.50; paper, $24.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-231-12132-6; paper, 0-231-12133-4.

Fraude, contrefaçon et contrebande de l'Antiquité à nos jours [Fraud, Counterfeiting, and Contraband from Antiquity to Today]. Edited byGérard Béaur, Hubert Bonin, and Claire Lemercier. Geneva: Droz, 2006. 829 pp. Figures, illustrations, notes, index. CHF80.00. ISBN: 978–2–600–1069–6.

Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants. By Kathleen M. Barry. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. xv + 304 pp. Photo-graphs, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $22.95. ISBN: 0-822-33946-5.

Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds. By John E. Murray. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xiv + 313 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00 ISBN: 978–0–300–12091–2.

Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice. By Gavin Fridell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. xix + 347 pp. Tables, figures, maps, notes, references, index. Cloth, $71.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8020-9238-0; paper, 978-0-8020-9590-9.

Favored Flowers: Culture and Economy in a Global System. By Catherine Ziegler. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. vii + 306 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-34007-2; paper, 0-822-34026-3.

Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture. By Bruce Lenthall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xi + 261 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 978–0–226–47191–4; paper, 978–0–226–47192–1.

Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War. By David L. Lightner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 228 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0–300–11470–2.

American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe. By John Krige. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. viii + 376 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-262-11297-3.

American Silk, 1830–1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts. By Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Seneschal, and Madelyn Shaw. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxiv + 326 pp. Tables, glossary, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978–0–896–72589–8.

Motoring: The Highway Experience in America. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. xiii + 274 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978–0–820–33028–0.

Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class. By Aviva Chomsky. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xiii + 397 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-822-34173-4; paper, 978-0-8223-4190-1.

City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871–1919. By Margaret Garb. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xv + 261 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-226-28209-0.

A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750–1920. By Marie Eileen Francois. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xiii + 415 pp. Notes, illustrations, tables, index, appendixes. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8032-6923-1.

Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine. By Paul R. Josephson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xv + 258 pp. Notes, appendix, index. Cloth, $22.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–88641–6.

William F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows. By Robert E. Bonner. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xxii + 318 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 978–0–806–13829–9.

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