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Volume 79 - Winter 2005

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Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South. By Robert B. OutlandIII. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xii + 352 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, maps, photographs. Cloth, $47.95. ISBN: 0-8071-2981-X.

America As Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings. By David E. Nye. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. x + 371 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-262-14081-0.

Sales & Celebrations: Retailing and Regional Identity in Western New York State, 1920-1940. By Sarah Elvins. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. xxi + 222 pp. Photographs, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $42.95. ISBN: 0-821-41549-2.

From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry. ByMartin Campbell-Kelly. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xiv + 372 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-262-03303-8.

The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. By Kathryn Morse. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xvii + 290 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-295-98329-9.

An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune Magazine and Depression America. By Michael Augspurger. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. viii + 292 pp. Illustrations, index, notes. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-801-44204-4.

Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America. ByDavid Paul Nord. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii + 212 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-195-17311-2.

Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community. By Jon Hunner. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. xi + 288 pp. Maps, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-806-13634-0.

Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity. By Amy G. Richter. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii + 272 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $49-95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-8078-2926-9; paper, 0-8078-5591-X.

The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America. By Thomas A. Kinney. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xi + 381 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-87946-9.

America's Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels. By J'Nell L. Pate. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2005. xiv + 225 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, glossary, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-875-65304-9.

The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America. ByThomas Augst. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xii + 321 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $62.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth 0-226-03219-1; 0-226-03220-5.

Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism. By Jonathan Cutler. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. xi + 236 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.50. ISBN: 1-592-13246-4.

Boosters, Hustlers, and Speculators: Entrepreneurial Culture and the Rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1849–1883. By Jocelyn Wills. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005. xi + 290 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-873-51510-2.

United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism. ByIleen A. DeVault. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 244 pp. Photographs, maps, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-801-42768-1; paper 0-801-48926-1.

Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin Jr. and the Creation of the American Financial System. By Robert P. Bremner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. vi + 357 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 0-300-10508-8.

That Toddlin' Town: Chicago's White Dance Bands and Orchestras, 1900–1950. By Charles A. SengstockJr. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004. xv + 244 pp. Index, notes, appendices, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-252-02954-2.

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