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Volume 71 - Winter 1997

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The Motel in America. By John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle, and Jefferson S. Rogers · Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiv + 340 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.95. 0-8018-5384-4.

WCFL: Chicago's Voice of Labor, 1926–78. By Nathan Godfried · Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xix + 390pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 0252065921.

The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America. ByWilliam J. Novack · Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. x + 396 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0–8078–2292–2; paper, $19.95, ISBN 0–8078–4611–2.

The Great Texas Banking Crash: An Insider's Account. By Joseph M. Grant · Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. 320 pp. Photographs, tables, figures, notes, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-292-72791-7.

Profits and Politics: Beaverbrook and the Gilded Age of Canadian Finance. By Gregory P. Marchildon · Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. xvi + 348 pp. Figures, illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $39.00. ISBN 0-8020-0740-6.

The Man Who Found the Money: John Stewart Kennedy and the Financing of Western Railroads. BySaul Engelbourg and Leonard Bushkoff · East Lansing: Michigan University Press, 1996. xiv + 257 pp. Notes, bibliography, index and maps. $34.95. ISBN 0–87013–414–0.

The World According to Hollywood, 1918–1939. By Ruth Vasey · Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. xv + 299 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, works cited, and index. Paper, $17.95. ISBN 0299151948.

Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870–1939. By Mark Aldrich · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xx + 415 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, appendices, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0-8018-5405-9.

Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910–1935. By Claudia Clark · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii + 289 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0-8078-2331-7.

Store Wars: Shopkeepers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890–1939. By David Monod · Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1996. vii + 438 pp. Notes, Index. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8020-0650-7; paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8020-7604-1.

Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World. By Joseph Turow · Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiv + 242 pp. Notes and index. $22.50. ISBN 0226817490.

Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago. ByCarol Willis · New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995. 217 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 1–56898-070–6; paper, $24.95, ISBN 1–56898–044–2.

Concorde and the Americans: International Politics of the Supersonic Transport. By Kenneth Owen · Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. xvi + 232 pp. Photographs, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 1560987367.

British Business History, 1720–1994. By John F. Wilson · Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995. 276 pp. Bibliography and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-71904133-3.

Escape from the Market: Negotiating Work in Lancashire. By Michael Huberman · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvii + 222 pp. Tables, figures, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-56151-5

Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. ByChristopher C. Sellers · Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 331 pp. Figures, illustrations, notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0–8078–2314–7.

Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914–1939. By Laura Lee Downs · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995. xiv + 329 pp. Photographs, bibliography and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-3015-1.

The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900–1945. By Thomas F. O'Brien · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv + 356 pp. Maps, photographs, sources, and index. $52.95. ISBN 0521550157.

The Factory Question and Industrial England 1830–1860. By Robert Gray · Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv + 253 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography and index. $59.95. ISBN 0-5214-9659-4.

The Northern Gold Fleet: Twentieth-Century Gold Dredging in Alaska. ByClark C. Spence · Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. 328 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95. ISBN 0–2520–2218–1.

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