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David Evans and Richard Schmalensee. Paying with Plastic: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. xii + 373 pp. ISBN 0-262-05062-5, $29.95.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 638-640
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Jürgen Kocka. Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany, 1800-1918. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. xviii + 325 pp. ISBN 1-57181-158-3 $59.95 (cloth); 1-57181-198-2, $19.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 456-458
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George L. Henderson. California and the Fictions of Capital. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxvii + 265 pp. ISBN 0-19-510890-6, $55.00.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 640-642
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Aaron Forsberg.America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival, 1950–1960. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press,2000. xix +332 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2528-X, $45.00.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 859-860
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Jonah D. Levy. Tocqueville's Revenge: State, Society, and Economy in Contemporary France. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. xi + 371 pp. ISBN 0-674-89432-4,, $55.00.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 458-460
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T. J. Pempel. Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. xi + 263 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3532-3, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8014-8529-0, $17.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 461-462
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Susan Strasser. Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999. 355 pp. ISBN 0-8050-4830-8, $27.50.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 642-644
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Anthony Heywood.Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways.Cambridge, U.K.:Cambridge University Press,1999. xviii + 328. ISBN 0-521-62178-X, $69.95.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 861-862
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Bob Johnstone. We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs and the Forging of the Electronic Age. New York: Basic Books, 1999. xxiii + 422 pp. ISBN 0-465-09117-2, $27.50.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 462-464
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Erika Diane Rappaport.Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End.Princeton, N.J.:Princeton University Press,2000. xiii +323 pp. ISBN 0-691-04477-5, $35.00.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 863-864
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Jerold J. Duquette. Regulating the National Pastime: Baseball and Antitrust. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. xviii + 162 pp. ISBN 0-275-96535-X, $59.95.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 645-646
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Emily S. Rosenberg. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. x + 334 pp. ISBN 0-674-00059-5, $45.00.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 646-648
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Oscar Zanetti and Alejandro García, Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837–1959. Translated by Franklin W. Knight and Mary Todd. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xxviii + 496 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2385-6, $59.95 (cloth); 0-8078-4692-9, $29.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 464-465
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Barbara Burman, ed.The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Home Dressmaking.Oxford:Berg Publishers,1999. vi +350 pp. ISBN 1-85973-203-8, $65.00 (cloth); 1-85973-208-9, $19.50 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 865-866
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Sérgio de Oliveira Birchal. Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: The Formation of a Business Environment. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xvii + 233 pp. ISBN 0-312-21716-1, $65.00.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 466-467
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Masayo Umezawa Duus. The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xi + 375 pp. ISBN 0-520- 20484-0, $55.00 (cloth); 0-520-20485-9, $18.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 649-650
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Maury Klein.The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman.Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press,2000. xvi +521 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2517-4, $34.95.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 867-869
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Janet Abbate. Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. viii + 264 pp. ISBN 0-262-01172-7, $27.50.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 467-469
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Scott Reynolds Nelson.Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction.Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press,1999. x + 257 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2476-3, $39.95 (cloth); 0-8078-4803-4, $18.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 869-871
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David Haward Bain. Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. New York: Viking, 1999. xiii + 797 pp. ISBN 0-670-80889-X, $34.95.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 650-652
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