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Volume 85 - Issue 4 - Winter 2011

Book Reviews

Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany. ByDavid Ciarlo. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. xvi + 419 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05006-8.

Diamonds and War: State, Capital and Labor in British Ruled Palestine. ByDavid De Vries. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. vii + 351 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-1-845-45633-7.

Dressing Modern Frenchwomen: Marketing Haute Couture, 1919–1939. ByMary Lynn Stewart. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvii + 305 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-88803-8.

Svenskornas företagsamma historia [The Enterprising History of Swedish Women]. ByAnita Lignell Du Rietz. Stockholm: Timbro, 2009. 184 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes. Paper, 198.00 kr. ISBN: 978-9-175-66710-2.

After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy. ByMurray Milgate and Shannon C. Stimson. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2009. x + 306 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-14037-7.

Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800–1914. ByTimothy Alborn. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. xi + 439 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, appendices, notes, references, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-1-442-63996-6.

From Telegrapher to Titan: The Life of William C. Van Horne. ByValerie Knowles. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. 501 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-22250-3.

The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy. ByHardy Green. New York: Basic Books, 2010. 248 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-465-01826-0.

Gary, the Most American of All American Cities. ByS. Paul O'Hara. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. x + 195 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $19.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-22288-6.

Finders Keepers? How the Law of Capture Shaped the World Oil Industry. ByTerence Daintith. Washington, D.C.: Earthscan, 2010. xvii + 500 pp. Figures, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $59.95. ISBN: 978-1-933-11583-2.

Hitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge. ByAnn Johnson. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xviii + 207 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN: 978-0-822-34541-1.

Histories of Computing. ByMichael Sean Mahoney, edited byThomas Haigh. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. ix + 246 pp. Illustrations, table, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05568-1.

The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal. ByNoel Maurer and Carlos Yu. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. xi + 419 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-14738-3.

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