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Volume 77 - Issue 3 - Autumn 2003

Book Reviews

Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea. By Andrew F. Smith. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xx + 234 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-252-02553-9.

A Breed So Rare: The Life of J. R. Parten, Liberal Texas Oil Man. By Don E. Carleton. Austin: Texas State History Association, 1998. 560 pp. Index, illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-876-11166-5.

Benjamin V. Cohen: Architect of the New Deal. By William Lasser. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xvi + 385 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-300-08879-5.

The Market, the State, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1934–2000. By William H. Becker and William M. McClenahan Jr New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 340 pp. Index, notes, appendix, tables. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 0-521-81143-0.

Confronting American Labor: The New Left Dilemma. By Jeffrey W. Coker. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xiv + 211 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN 0-826-21420-7.

Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980. By Venus Green. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. xv + 370 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $59-95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-822-32554-3; paper 0-822-32573-X.

Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics. By David A. Mindell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv + 440 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $46.00. ISBN 0-801-86895-5.

Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983–1993. By Alex Roland and Philip Shiman. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. xxvi + 427 pp. Index, notes, figures, photographs, glossary. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-262-18226-2.

False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today. By James Hoopes. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, 2003. xxxiv + 308 pp. Index, notes, figures, photographs. Paper, $27.50. ISBN 0-738-20798-5.

Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits. By W. Carl Biven. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv + 346 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN 0-807-82738-X.

Credit and Debt in Medieval England c. 1180–c. 1350. Edited by P. R. Schofield and N. J. Mayhew. Oxford, U.K.: Oxbow Books, 2002. x + 164 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Paper, $39.95. ISBN 1-842-17073-2.

The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and The Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650–1770. By David Ormrod. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvii + 400 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 0-521-81926-1.

The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation. By Seymour Drescher. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ix + 307 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-195-09346-1.

Chronicles of British Business in Asia, 1850–1960: A Bibliography of Printed Company Histories with Short Accounts of the Concerns. By Lionel Carter. New Delhi: Manohar, 2002. 227 pp. Index, appendix. Cloth, 500 Rs./25 BPS. ISBN 8-173-04470-8.

The Great Train Race. Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815–1914. By Allan Mitchell. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000. xv + 328 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, tables. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 1-571-8166-4.

National Cultures and International Competition: The Experience of Schering AG, 1851–1950. By Christopher Kobrak. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xv + 394 pp. Index, notes, appendix, maps, photographs. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-521-81481-2.

Il Quarto Capitalismo: Un profilo italiano [The Fourth Capitalism: An Italian Profile]. By Andrea Colli. Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2002. 117 pp. Index, notes, appendix, figures. Paper, €9. ISBN 8-831-78001-8.

Commerce in Russian Urban Culture, 1861–1914. Edited by William Craft Brumfield, Boris V. Anan'ich, and Yuri A. Petrov. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xvi + 239 pp. Index, notes, illustration, photographs. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN 0-801-86750-9.

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