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Andrew Dawson. Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class, and Revolution, 1830–1890. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 302 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3396-9, $94.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 205-208
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Alfred D. ChandlerJr. Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. ix + 366 pp. ISBN 0-674-01720-x, $29.95 (Hardcover).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 624-626
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David M. Young. The Iron Horse and the Windy City: How Railroads Shaped Chicago. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. ix + 270 pp. ISBN 0-87580-334-2, $39.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 847-849
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William Faricy Condee. Coal and Culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xii + 210 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1588-3, $34.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 208-210
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Mark Aldrich. Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828–1965. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xvi + 446 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8236-2, $59.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 849-851
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Roger Horowitz. Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xiii + 170 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8240-0, $35.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-8018-8241-9, $19.00 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 626-628
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Robert G. Angevine. The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xvii + 351 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4239-1, $65.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 210-212
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John Franch. Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. vii + 374 pp. ISBN 0-252-03099-0, $45.00 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 851-853
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Carl A. Zimring. Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xi + 220 pp. ISBN 0-8135-3686-3, $39.95.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 628-630
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Clifford J. Doerksen. American Babel: Rogue Radio Broadcasters of the Jazz Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xi + 157 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3871-0, $34.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 631-632
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Amy G. Richter. Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii + 272 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2926-9, $49.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8078-5591-X, $19.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 212-214
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James W. Cortada. The Digital Hand, Volume 2: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xv + 629 pp. ISBN 0-19-516587-X, $59.50.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 853-855
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JoAnne Yates. Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins Press, 2005. x + 351 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8086-6, $49.95.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 633-635
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David Leverenz. Paternalism Incorporated: Fables of American Fatherhood, 1865–1940. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. x + 254 pp. ISBN 0-8014-4167-6, $39.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 214-216
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Arthur L. Norberg. Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946–1957. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. x + 347 pp. ISBN 0-262-14090-X, $40.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 855-857
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Douglas Cazaux Sackman. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 401 pp. ISBN 0-520-23886-9, $45.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 216-218
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Richard E. Caves. Switching Channels: Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. ix + 360 pp. ISBN: 0-674-01878-8, $39.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 635-637
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Paul Sabin. Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900–1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xx + 307 pp. ISBN 0-520-24198-3, $39.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 218-220
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Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht. The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 277 pp. ISBN 0-8014-8473-1, $24.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 637-639
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