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Volume 81 - Autumn 2007

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Rails Through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad. By H. Roger Grant. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. xvi + 223 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $36.00. ISBN: 0-875-80365-2.

Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition. By Vicki Howard. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 306 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-8122-3945-8.

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Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837–1873. By Jay Sexton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ix + 287 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN: 0-199-28103-3.

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Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law. By Alan D. Morrison and William J. Wilhelm Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiii + 341 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, figures. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-199-29657-X.

When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy. By William L. Silber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xi + 217 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-691-12747-6.

L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement. By Ruth Milkman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. xiii + 244 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $27.50 ISBN: 0-871-54635-3.

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Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828–1965. By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xvi + 466 pp. Appendices, tables, graphs, notes, illustrations, photographs, essay on sources. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 0-808-18236-2.

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When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security. By Edwin Amenta. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. viii + 322 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-12473-6.

Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930. By Robert M. Fogelson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 264 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-300-10876-1.

Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood. By Karen Ward Mahar. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. x + 291 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-88436-5.

Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800–1920. By Margaret E. Derry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xvii + 302 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-802-09112-1.

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John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier. By Albert Hurtado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xvii + 412 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-806-13772-X.

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A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis. By Alan Lawson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xv + 280 pp. Index, bibliography. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-88406-3.

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Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. By John Franch. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 374 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-252-03099-0.

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Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market. By Sally H. Clarke. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv + 296 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-86878-5.

The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and Identity. By Jarrett Rudy. McGill–Queen's University Press, 2006. xii + 232 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, CAN$27.95. ISBN: 0-773-52911-X.

Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics. By David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, iv + 369 pp. Cloth, $36.95. ISBN: 0-806-13795-9.

From Submarines to Suburbs: Selling a Better America, 1939–1959. By Cynthia Lee Henthorn. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. xv + 368 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-821-41677-4; paper, 0-821-41678-2.

The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890–1917. By Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. x + 245 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 0-826-33796-1.

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Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900–1950. By Rosemary Feurer. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xix + 320 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-03087-7; paper, 0-252-07319-3.

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