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Volume 81 - Autumn 2007

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After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley. By David Vaught. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiv + 310 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-801-88497-7.

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The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship. By Juliet E. K. Walker. Woodbridge, Conn.: Twayne, 1998. 482 pp. Cloth, $52.00. ISBN: 0-805-71650-5.

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Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820–1920. By William H. Thiesen. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. x + 302 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-8130-2940-6.

The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America. By David M. Henkin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xv + 221 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 0-226-32720-5.

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Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation: How Companies Can Seize Opportunities in the Face of Technological Change. By James Utterback. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-875-84342-5.

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Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons. By Edward J. Renehan Jr New York: Basic Books, 2005. xiii + 352 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $18.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-465-06885-5; paper, 0-465-06886-3.

The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wendy Gamber. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xii + 213 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8018-8571-6.

A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business. By Rowena Olegario. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2006. ix + 274 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-674-02340-4.

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Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars. By Georg Leidenberger. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. viii + 202 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-875-80356-3.

The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860–1914. By David O. Whitten and Bessie E. Whitten. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 0-313-32395-X.

Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy. By Robert Higgs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xv + 221 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-195-18292-7.

Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio. By Elizabeth Fones-Wolf. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii + 307 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-03119-9; paper, 0-252-07364-9.

Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. By Eric Jay Dolin. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. 460 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-393-06057-7.

The Paradox of Democratic Capitalism: Politics and Economics in American Thought. By David Prindle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xv + 368 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $49-95. ISBN: 0-801-88411-X.

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Concept of the Corporation. By Peter Drucker. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1993. Third Edition. 329 pp. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 1-560-00625-0.

Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790–1860. By Tom Downey. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 2006. xii + 262 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-807-13107-5.

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The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster. By Werner Troesken. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. x + 318 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, figures, appendix. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-262-20167-4.

House of Plenty: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Luby's Cafeterias. By Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. 277 pp. Photographs, index. Cloth, $21.00. ISBN: 0-292-70656-1.

Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission. By Michael Adas. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 542 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01867-2.

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