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Volume 73 - Winter 1999

Book Reviews

Selling 'em by the Sack: White Castle and the Creation of American Food. By David G. Hogan · New York: New York University Press, 1998. x + 199 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0814735665.

Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience. By Susan G. Davis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii + 313 pp. Figures, index, and notes. Paper, $18.95. ISBN 0520209818.

Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal. BySanford M. Jacoby · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. xii + 345 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0691015708.

A Business History of Britain. By David J. Jeremy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxviii + 610 pp. Appendices, figures, index, and tables. Cloth, $82.00. ISBN 0198773765.

Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution. ByBarry Cushman · New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xi + 320 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0195115325; paper $24.95. ISBN 0195120434.

The Filenes. By George E. Berkley · Boston: Branden Publishing Co., 1998. 291 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $18.95. ISBN 0828320357.

The Americanisation of European Business: The Marshall Plan and the Transfer of US Management Models. Edited byMatthias Kipping and Ove Bjarnar · New York: Routledge, 1998. xv + 235 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $85.00. ISBN 0415171911.

Guinness 1886–1939: From Incorporation to the Second World War. By S. R. Dennison and Oliver MacDonagh. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press, 1998. xiv + 282 pp. Appendices, index, and tables. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 1859181759.

The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations. By Karen S. Miller · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii + 261 pp. Illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0807824399.

World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization. Edited byCharles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. x + 510. Tables, notes, appendices, and index. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN 0521495555.

Market Dominance: How Firms Gain, Hold, or Lose It and the Impact on Economic Performance. Edited byDavid I. Rosenbaum · Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1998. viii + 274 pp. Bibliography and index. $69.50. ISBN 0275956040.

Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms: Buying and Selling Securities in Canada, 1870–1940. ByChristopher Armstrong · Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xxvii + 390 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0802041841.

The Invisible Industrialist: Manufacturers and the Production of Scientific Knowledge (Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History). Edited byJean Paul Gaudillière and liana Lowy · New York: St. Martins Press, 1998. Cloth $69.95. ISBN 0312212542.

Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism. By Judith Stein · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi + 410 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0807824143.

Gentlemen Engineers: The Working Lives of Frank and Walter Shanly. By Richard White. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. xx + 262 pp. Illustrations, index, maps, and notes. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0802008879.

Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Regime France. By Robert Fox and Anthony John Turner, eds. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998. xviii + 307 pp. Illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $86.95. ISBN 0860786641.

Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors. ByEdwin J. Perkins · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 320 pp. Tables, photographs, notes, appendices, and bibliography. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0521630290.

Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession. Edited by Sarah Stage and Virginia B. Vincenti · Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. xii + 347 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $52.50. ISBN 0801429714; paper, $19.95. ISBN 0801481759.

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