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Volume 66 - Winter 1992

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The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills. ByJudith A. Adams · New York: Twayne Publishers, 1991. xvi + 225 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $27.95, ISBN 0-8057-9821-8; paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-8057-9821-8.

Hanging by a Thread: Social Change in Southern Textiles. Edited byJeffrey Leiter, Michael D. Schulman, and Rhonda Zingraff · Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1991. viii + 248 pp. Tables, figures, references, and index. Cloth, $32.00, ISBN 0-87546-173-5; paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-87546-174-3.

The City Builders: One Hundred Years of Union Carpentry in Portland, Oregon, 1883–1983. ByCraig Wollner · Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990. xvi + 165 pp. Appendixes, notes, sources, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-87595-198-8.

Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863–1923. ByEric Arnesen · New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xiii + 353 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-505380.

The Depression and the Urban West Coast, 1929–1933: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland. ByWilliam H. Mullins · Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. xi + 176 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-253-33935-9.

Buy Now Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durables in the 1920s. ByMartha L. Olney · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. viii + 424 pp. Tables, graphs, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8078-1958-1.

Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor. BySteven Fraser · New York: Free Press, 1991. xvi + 688 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-02-910630-3.

Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments. ByRichard Gillespie · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. x + 282 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $39.50. ISBN 0-521-40358-8.

Taylorism Transformed: Scientific Management Theory since 1945. ByStephen P. Waring · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. ix + 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-8078-1972-7.

Labors of a Modern Hercules: The Evolution of a Chemical Company. ByDavis Dyer and David B. Sicilia · Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1990. xxiii + 528 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. ISBN 0-87584-227-5.

Southern Timberman: The Legacy of William Buchanan. ByArcher H. Mayor · Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. xviii + 263 pp. Illustrations, charts, bibliography, notes, and index. $30.00. ISBN 0-8203-0999-0.

Partners in Science: Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1900–1945. ByRobert E. Kohler · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xv + 415 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-226-45060-0.

Fig Leaves and Fortunes: A Fashion Company Named Warnaco. ByJohn W. Field · West Kennebunk, Me.: Phoenix Publishing, 1990. x + 160 pp. Illustrations and index. $25.00. ISBN 0-914659-46-4.

Chicago's North Michigan Avenue: Planning and Development, 1900–1930. ByJohn W. Stamper · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xxv + 318 pp. Illustrations, maps, plans, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-226-77085-0.

Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor. Edited byAva Baron · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991. vii + 385 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-8014-2256-6; paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-8014-9543-1.

Eberstadt and Forrestal: A National Security Partnership, 1909–1949. ByJeffery M. Dorwart · College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991. ix + 237pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-89096-469-6.

Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940. ByDavid E. Nye · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991. xi + 479 pp. Illustrations, notes, research collections, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-262-14048-9.

Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: Roosevelt versus Recovery, 1933–1938. ByGary Dean Best · New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. xvii + 267 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-275-93524-8.

Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company. ByCharles Musser · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xii + 591 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, index, and film title index. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-520-06080-6; paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-520-06986-2.

The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930. ByHarold L. Platt · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xviii + 381 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-226-67075-9.

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