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Volume 74 - Winter 2000

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Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. ByWalter Johnson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 320 pp. Photographs. Cloth, $26.00. ISBN 0-674-82148-3.

Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South. ByWilliam G. Thomas. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xx + 318 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, maps, and photographs. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-8071-2367-6; Paper, 24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2504-0.

From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. By Amy Dru Stanley. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi + 277 pp. Bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0521414709.

The Unseen Wall Street of 1969-1975. ByAlec Benn. Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 2000. 216 pp. + xxii. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 1-567-20333-2.

Provincial Lives: Middle Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West. By Timothy R. Mahoney. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 334 pp. Bibliography, appendices, illustrations, index, and notes. $54.95. ISBN 052164092x.

Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890–1943. ByPatrick D. Reagan. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. 400 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 1-558-49230-5.

From Mountain Man to Millionaire: The “Bold and Dashing Life” of Robert Campbell. ByWilliam R. Nester. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. 288 pp. Bibliography, index, illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-826-21218-2.

Cattle in the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama. ByBrooks Blevins. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998. 216 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography, index, illustrations, and maps. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-8173-0940-3.

A Sense of Place: Birmingham's Black Middle-Class Community, 1890-1930. ByLynne B. Feldman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. xvi + 326 pp. Bibliography, index, notes, and photographs. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 0-81730-969-1.

The Languages of Edison's Light. ByCharles Bazerman. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. 434 pp. Bibliography, notes, index, illustrations, and photographs. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN 0-262-02456-X.

From Warfare State to Welfare State: World War I, Compensatory State Building, and the Limits of the Modern Order. ByMarc Allen Eisner. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. 408 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-271-01995-6; paper 0-271-01996-4.

The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics. Eds.Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 288 pp. Figures, index, and notes. $18.95. ISBN 025206755x.

Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown. ByRobert Bruno. 224 pp. Photos. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.95. ISBN: cloth 0-801-43439-4; paper 0-801-48600-9.

Tuck & Tucker: The Origin of the Graduate Business School. By Wayne G. BroehlJr, Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1999. x + 110 pp. Illustrations. $19.95. ISBN 0874519160.

Bostons “Changeful Times”: Origins of Preservation and Planning in America. ByMichael Holleran. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 352 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-85729-5.

Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881–1951. ByDavid Stradling. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 282 pp. Photographs, tables, bibliography, index, and notes. Cloth, $42.50. ISBN 0-801-86083-0.

Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II. ByDaniel Kryder. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xv + 301 pp. Tables, maps, appendices, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-521-593387.

Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890–1943. ByJared N. Day. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 315 pp. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-231-11402-8; Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-231-11403-6.

Oil & Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry. ByRoger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xviii + 305 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-807-82523-9; paper 0-807-84835-2.

Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor. By Paul Buhle. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999. ix + 315 pp. Index and notes. $18.00. ISBN 1583670033.

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