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Volume 65 - Issue 4 - December 2005

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City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870–1920. By Jerome P. Bjelopera. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 208. $22, paper.

Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882. By Roger Daniels. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. Pp. xi, 328. $30.00, cloth; $15.00, paper.

Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Failures in Corporate America and Where They Came From. By David Skeel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Pp. viii, 250.

The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston's Public Schools, 1950–1985. By Adam R. Nelson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 332. $27.50, paper.

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Imperfect Institutions: Possibilities and Limits of Reform. By Thrainn Eggertsson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. vi, 264. $65, cloth; $27.95, paper.

The English Gentleman Merchant at Work: Madras and the City of London 1660–1740. By Søren Mentz. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005. Pp. 304. $46.

Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South. Edited by Susana Delfino and Michele Gillespie. New Currents in the History of Southern Economy and Society Series. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. Pp. vii, 240. $24.95, paper.

Atlantic History: Concepts and Contours. By Bernard Bailyn. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 149. $18.95.

Servants of the Poor: Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and Irish America. By Janet Nolan. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 191. $45.00, cloth; $18.00, paper.

Vor der groβen Flut: Die europäische Migration in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika 1783–1820. By Hans-Jürgen Grabbe. Stuttgart: Franz-Steiner, 2001. Pp. 458. € 71.

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