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Volume 84 - Winter 2010

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Managing the Human Factor: The Early Years of Human Resource Management in American Industry. By Bruce E. Kaufman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xii + 376 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978–0–801–44227–8.

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Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century. By Robert E. WeemsJr. with Lewis A. Randolph. New York: New York University Press, 2009. x + 311 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-814-77517-2.

The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880–1970. By Frank Uekoetter. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. viii + 350 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6012-6.

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Visionary Railroader: Jervis Langdon Jr. and the Transportation Revolution. By H. Roger Grant. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xii + 258 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $24.94. ISBN: 978–0–253–35216–3.

Horse Trading in the Age of Cars: Men in the Marketplace. By Steven M. Gelber. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii + 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–88997–4.

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On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry. By Liesl Miller Orenic. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xiv + 281 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03433-6; paper, 978-0-252-07627-5.

The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941–1972. By Anthony S. Chen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. xxiii + 395 pp. Notes, illustrations, tables, appendices, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-13953-1.

American Firms in Europe, 1880–1980: Strategy, Identity, Perception, and Performance. Edited by Hubert Bonin and Ferry de Goey. Geneva: Droz, 2009. 699 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, $80.00. ISBN: 978-2-600-01259-1.

The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia. By Guian A. McKee. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. ix + 384 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-56012-0.

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Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations. By Susan Sessions Rugh. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. 240 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–700–61588–9.

Global TV: New Media and the Cold War, 1946–69. By James Schwoch. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xv + 220 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 978–0–252–07569–8.

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Fresh: A Perishable History. By Susanne Freidberg. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 408 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-03291-0.

Flick: Eine Konzerngeschichte vom Kaiserreich bis zur Bundesrepublik [Flick: A Corporate History from Empire to Federal Republic]. By Kim Christian Priemel. Goettingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2007. 864 pp. Photographs, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, ϵ48.00. ISBN: 978-3-835-30219-8.

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Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt. By Sean Safford. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 212 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, references, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–03179–0.

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Communications under the Seas: The Evolving Cable Network and Its Implications. Edited by Bernard Finn and Daqing Yang. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. vii + 303 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-01286-7.

Gaps in the Iron Curtain: Economic Relations between Neutral and Socialist Countries in Cold War Europe. Edited by Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Piotr Franaszek, Dieter Stiefel, and Alice Teichova. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-8-323-32532-1.

The Origins of Europe's New Stock Markets. By Elliot Posner. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. xvi + 242 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-03171-5.

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America's Waterfront Revival: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment. By Peter Hendee Brown. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 228 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 978–0–812–24122–8.

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Global Experience Industries: The Business of the Experience Economy. By Jens Christensen. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2009. 454 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, $64.00. ISBN: 978-87-7934-432-7.

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The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela. By Miguel Tinker Salas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xvi + 325 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, 978–0–822–34400–1; paper, 978–0–822–34419–3.

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