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Volume 68 - Winter 1994

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Local Attachments: The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood, 1850 to 1920. By Alexander von Hoffman · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xxiv + 311 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8018-4710-9.

Eighteenth-Century Capitalism: The Formation of American Marine Insurance Companies. ByMary Elizabeth Ruwell · New York: Garland Publishers, 1993. xiii + 184 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.00. ISBN 0-8153-0969-4.

A Place to Live and Work: The Henry Disston Saw Works and the Tacony Community of Philadelphia. By Harry C. Silcox · University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. xix + 231 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-271-01079-7.

Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. ByWalter B. Weare · Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1993. xv + 312 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-1338-3.

Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860–1912. By Ardis Cameron · Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. xix + 229 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $36.95. ISBN 0-252-02013-8.

An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730–1815. ByJoyce E. Chaplin · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. xiv + 411 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8078-2084-9.

African-American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary. ByJohn N. Ingham and Lynne B. Feldman · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, 1993. xiv + 806 pp. Appendixes, bibliographic essay, and index. $99.50. ISBN 0-313-27253-0.

Panic in Paradise: Florida's Banking Crash of 1926. By Raymond B. Vickers · Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994. xvi + 336 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-8173-0723-0.

Daniel Willard and Progressive Management on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. ByDavid M. Vrooman · Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991. xvi + 218 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, and index. $42.50. ISBN 0-8142-0552-6.

Chester I. Barnard and the Guardians of the Managerial State. By William G. Scott · Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. Tables, figures, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $27.50. ISBN 0-7006-0550-9.

The American Grocery Store: The Business Evolution of an Architectural Space. By James M. Mayo · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. xviii + 286 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0-313-26520-8.

To Sow One Acre More: Childbearing and Farm Productivity in the Antebellum North. ByLee A. Craig · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xii + 161 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $28.50. ISBN 0-8018-4529-7.

Railroad Signatures across the Pacific Northwest. By Carlos A. Schwantes · Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993. 360 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00. ISBN 0-295-97210-6.

Creating an American Institution: The Merchandising Genius of J. C. Penney. ByMary Elizabeth Curry · New York: Garland Publishing, 1993. xviii + 348 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00. ISBN 0-8153-0991-0.

A Century in the Works: Freese and Nichols Consulting Engineers, 1894–1994. By Simon W. Freese and Deborah Lightfoot Sizemore · College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1994. xix + 435 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.50. ISBN 0-89096-561-7.

The Origins and Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States. By Bruce E. Kaufman · Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1992. xv + 286 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00. ISBN 0-87546-191-3.

Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force. By Albro Martin · New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xiv + 428 pp. Illustrations, tables, selected bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-19-503853-3.

The American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel. By John H. WhiteJr., · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xi + 644 pp. Tables, charts, illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. $125.00. ISBN 0-8018-4404-5.

The Union Inspiration in American Politics: The Autoworkers and the Making of a Liberal Industrial Order. By Stephen Amberg · Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1994. xiii + 354 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $44.95. ISBN 1-56639-189-X.

Justice Lies in the District: The U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1902–1960. ByCharles L. Zelden · College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1993. xii + 312 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50. ISBN 0-89096-520-X.

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