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Volume 66 - Winter 1992

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Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America. ByNeil Harris · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1990. vii + 453 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-226-31757-9; paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-226-31758-7.

Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. ByVirginia Scharff · New York: Free Press, 1991. xi + 219 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $22.95. ISBN 0-02-928135-0.

A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Volume 3: The Transmission of Power. ByLouis C. Hunter and Lynwood Bryant · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991. vi + 596 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, and index. $50.00. ISBN 0-262-08198-9.

Baker & Botts in the Development of Modern Houston. ByKenneth Lipartito and Joseph Pratt · Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. vii + 253 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-292-70782-7.

Public Service Liberalism: Telecommunications and Transitions in Public Policy. ByAlan Stone · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. xi + 296 pp. Notes and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-691-02841-9.

The Struggle for Auto Safety. ByJerry L. Mashaw and David L. Harfst · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. xi + 285pp. Notes and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-84530-7.

The Portable Radio in American Life. ByMichael Brian Schiffer · Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991. xvii + 259 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8165-1259-0.

Saving the Savings and Loan: The U.S. Thrift Industry and the Texas Experience, 1950–1988. ByM. Manfred Fabritius and William Borges · Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1989. xiii + 162 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.95. ISBN 0-275-93161-7.

Regulation: Economic Theory and History. Edited byJack High · Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991. 191 pp. Tables, figures, notes, and index. $34.50. ISBN 0-472-10272-9.

Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance during the Great Depression. ByDavid T. Beito · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. xv + 216 pp. Charts, maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-8078-1836-4.

High Rollers: Inside the Savings and Loan Debacle. ByMartin Lowy · Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1991. v + 321 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-275-93988-X.

Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, 1945–1975. ByBrian Balogh · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xi + 340 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $34.50, ISBN 0-521-37296-8; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-521-45736-X.

The Costing Heritage: Studies in Honor of S. Paul Garner. Edited byO. Finley Graves · Harrisonburg, Va.: The Academy of Accounting Historians, 1991. vii + 171 pp. Notes, tables, bibliography, and index. $20.00. ISBN 1-879750-04-X.

More Profile than Courage: The New York City Transit Strike of 1966. ByMichael Marmo · Albany: SUNY Press, 1990. ix + 333 pp. Charts, notes, and index. Cloth, $57.50, ISBN 0-7914-0261-4; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-7914-0262-2.

Hoffa. ByArthur A. Sloane · Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. ix + 430 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-262-19309-4.

The Governmental Habit Redux: Economic Controls from Colonial Times to the Present. ByJonathan R. T. Hughes · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. 271 pp. Notes and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-04272-1.

After the Breakup: Assessing the New Post–AT&T Divestiture Era. Edited byBarry G. Cole · New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. xxvi + 480 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $55.00. ISBN 0-231-07322-4.

A History of Small Business in America. ByMansel G. Blackford · New York: Twayne Publishers, 1991. xx + 176 pp. Charts, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-8057-9824-2; paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-8057-9825-0.

Power and Economic Institutions: Reinterpretations in Economic History. Edited byBo Gustafsson · Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1991. vii + 344 pp. Notes, tables, bibliography, and index. $69.95. ISBN 1-85278-397-4.

Mexico's Merchant Elite, 1590–1660: Silver, State, and Society. ByLouisa Schell Hoberman · Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991. xiv + 352 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8223-1134-8.

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