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Volume 53 - December 1993

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Reviews of Books

The CIO's Left-Led Unions. Edited by Steve Rosswurm. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Pp. xviii, 250. $45, cloth; $17, paper.
Eric Arnesen
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03 March 2009, pp. 688-690
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Knights of the Plow: Oliver H. Kelley and the Origins of the Grange in Republican Ideology. By Thomas A. Woods. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991. Pp. xxii, 254. $26.95.
Anne Mayhew
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03 March 2009, pp. 190-191
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“To Make America”: European Emigration in the Early Modern Period. Edited by Ida Altman and James Horn. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. v, 251. $34.95.
Farley Grubb
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03 March 2009, pp. 428-429
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Islands in Transition: The Past, Present, and Future of Hawaii's Economy. By Thomas Kemper Hitch. Honolulu: First Hawaiian Bank, 1992. Pp. xxii, 353. $29.95.
Sumner J. La Croix
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03 March 2009, pp. 955-956
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Canada and the Gold Standard: Balance-of-Payments Adjustment Under Fixed Exchange Rates, 1871–1913. By Trevor J. O. Dick and John E. Floyd. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 236. $49.95.
Georg Rich
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03 March 2009, pp. 956-958
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Mainstreet in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains. By Catherine McNicol Stock. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 305. $37.50.
Roger Lambert
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03 March 2009, pp. 191-192
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The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present. By Jacqueline Jones. New York: Basic Books, 1992. Pp. xiii, 399. $25.00.
Richard Jensen
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03 March 2009, pp. 690-692
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The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846. By Charles Sellers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. 502. $35.00.
William G. Shade
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03 March 2009, pp. 429-430
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Montana: A History of Two Centuries. By Michael P. Malone, Richard B. Roeder, and William L. Land. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 466. $40.00.
Mary Yeager
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03 March 2009, pp. 192-194
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Uneven Tides: Rising Inequality in America. Edited by Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993. Pp. x, 287. $29.95.
James T. Patterson
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03 March 2009, pp. 692-693
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Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in the United States, 1790–1860. By Ronald E. Shaw. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1990. Pp. x, 284. $28.00.
Bradley G. Lewis
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03 March 2009, pp. 430-431
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Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884–1984. By Douglas Flamming. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Pp. xxxi, 433. $42.50.
Pamela J. Nickless
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03 March 2009, pp. 958-959
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Ten Hours' Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England. By Teresa Anne Murphy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 231. $29.95.
John L. Brooke
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03 March 2009, pp. 431-433
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Labor Law in America: Historical and Critical Essays. Edited by Christopher L. Tomlins and Andrew J. King. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Pp. vi, 355. $55.00.
Elisabeth A. Cawthon
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03 March 2009, pp. 693-694
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Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900–1939. By Ruth A. Frager. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 300. $60.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.
Frans J. Schryer
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03 March 2009, pp. 959-960
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The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in U.S. History in the Progressive Era and the 1920s. By Martin J. Sklar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 238. $49.95, cloth; $14.95, paper.
Robert Higgs
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03 March 2009, pp. 194-195
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Not Slave, Not Free: The African American Economic Experience since the Civil War. By Jay R. Mandle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 137. $29.95, cloth; $12.95, paper.
Peter A. Coclanis
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03 March 2009, pp. 433-434
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The Great Myths of 1929 and the Lessons to Be Learned. By Harold BiermanJr., Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 202. $39.95.
Richard S. Grossman
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03 March 2009, pp. 195-196
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Litigation and Inequality: Federal Diversity Jurisdiction in Industrial America, 1870–1958. By Edward A. PurcellJr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. x, 446. $59.00.
Christopher Grandy
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03 March 2009, pp. 694-696
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Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise. Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein and Howell John Harris. New York: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 293. $44.95.
David Witwer
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03 March 2009, pp. 960-962
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The CIO's Left-Led Unions. Edited by Steve Rosswurm. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Pp. xviii, 250. $45, cloth; $17, paper.

Knights of the Plow: Oliver H. Kelley and the Origins of the Grange in Republican Ideology. By Thomas A. Woods. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991. Pp. xxii, 254. $26.95.

“To Make America”: European Emigration in the Early Modern Period. Edited by Ida Altman and James Horn. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. v, 251. $34.95.

Islands in Transition: The Past, Present, and Future of Hawaii's Economy. By Thomas Kemper Hitch. Honolulu: First Hawaiian Bank, 1992. Pp. xxii, 353. $29.95.

Canada and the Gold Standard: Balance-of-Payments Adjustment Under Fixed Exchange Rates, 1871–1913. By Trevor J. O. Dick and John E. Floyd. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 236. $49.95.

Mainstreet in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains. By Catherine McNicol Stock. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 305. $37.50.

The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present. By Jacqueline Jones. New York: Basic Books, 1992. Pp. xiii, 399. $25.00.

The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846. By Charles Sellers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. 502. $35.00.

Montana: A History of Two Centuries. By Michael P. Malone, Richard B. Roeder, and William L. Land. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 466. $40.00.

Uneven Tides: Rising Inequality in America. Edited by Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993. Pp. x, 287. $29.95.

Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in the United States, 1790–1860. By Ronald E. Shaw. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1990. Pp. x, 284. $28.00.

Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884–1984. By Douglas Flamming. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Pp. xxxi, 433. $42.50.

Ten Hours' Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England. By Teresa Anne Murphy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 231. $29.95.

Labor Law in America: Historical and Critical Essays. Edited by Christopher L. Tomlins and Andrew J. King. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Pp. vi, 355. $55.00.

Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900–1939. By Ruth A. Frager. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 300. $60.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.

The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in U.S. History in the Progressive Era and the 1920s. By Martin J. Sklar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 238. $49.95, cloth; $14.95, paper.

Not Slave, Not Free: The African American Economic Experience since the Civil War. By Jay R. Mandle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 137. $29.95, cloth; $12.95, paper.

The Great Myths of 1929 and the Lessons to Be Learned. By Harold BiermanJr., Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 202. $39.95.

Litigation and Inequality: Federal Diversity Jurisdiction in Industrial America, 1870–1958. By Edward A. PurcellJr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. x, 446. $59.00.

Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise. Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein and Howell John Harris. New York: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 293. $44.95.

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