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Volume 77 - Issue 4 - Winter 2003

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Before the World Series: Pride, Profits, and Baseball's First Championships. By Larry G. Bowman. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. x + 252 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $32.00. ISBN 0-875-80307-5.

The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. By Jonathan Sterne. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xvi + 450 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Paper, $22.95. ISBN 0-822-33013-X.

Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation. By Charles K. Hyde. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. xix + 385 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-814-33091-6.

On the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in World War II. By Stephanie A. Carpenter. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. viii + 214 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, tables. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 0-875-80314-8.

Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California. By Alfred Yee. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xi + 193 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-295-98304-3.

Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam. By Thomas Alan Schwartz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. 352 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, tables. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01074-4.

Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of Small-Scale Industry in Britain, c.1589–2000. By Stanley L. Chapman. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv + 328 pp. Index, notes, photographs, illustrations, tables. Cloth, £55.00. ISBN 0-199-25567-9.

Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age. Edited by John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson. Stroud, U.K.: Tempus, 2002. 192 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Paper, $26.99. ISBN 0-752-42766-0.

Railways in Britain and the United States, 1830–1940. By Geoffrey Channon. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2001. xi + 341 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $84.95. ISBN 1-840-14253-7.

Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823–1893. By J. Forbes Munro. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2003. ix + 525 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, references, tables. Cloth, $130.00. ISBN 0-851-15935-4.

The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in New-market. By Rebecca Cassidy. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. x + 186 pp. Index, notes, references. Cloth, $58.00; paper, $21.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-80877-4; paper 0-521-00487-X.

A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing. Edited by John Benson and Laura Ugolini. London: I. B. Tauris, 2003. x + 270 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.50. ISBN: cloth 1-860-64709-X; paper 1-860-64708-1.

The Rise of Management Consulting in Britain. By Michael Ferguson. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2002. x + 289. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $84.95. ISBN 0-754-60561-2.

International Financial History in the Twentieth Century: System and Anarchy. Edited by Marc Flandreau, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, and Harold James. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. x + 278 pp. Index, notes, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81995-4.

Sir Henri Deterding and Royal Dutch–Shell: Changing Control of World Oil, 1900–1940. By Paul Hendrix. Bristol, U.K.: Bristol Academic Press, 2002. xviii + 275. Notes, index. Cloth, £45.00. ISBN 0-951-37628-4.

Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism: Labour and the Restoration of the Stalinist System after World War II. By Donald Filtzer. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xviii + 276 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81503-7.

Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897–1937. By Linsun Cheng. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 277 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-521-81142-2.

Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937–1945. By Parks M. Coble. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xvi + 296 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-520-23268-2.

Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change. By Bruce J. Dickson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. x + 187 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-81817-6; paper 0-521-52143-2.

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