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Volume 79 - Issue 3 - Autumn 2005

Book Reviews

Architects of Globalism: Building a New World Order during World War II. By Patrick J. Hearden. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2002. xv + 418 pp. Notes, index, and bibliography of primary sources, published papers, and diaries. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 1-557-28730-9.

On Hollywood: The Place, The Industry. By Allen J. Scott. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii + 2000 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 0-691-11683-0.

Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From. By David Skeel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 250 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 0-195-17471-2.

Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s. By Yanek Mieczkowski. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2005. xi + 455 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-813-12349-6.

On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences, 1948–2000. By Julian E. Zelizer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi + 359 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-521-80161-3.

Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. By Geoffrey Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xi + 340 pp. Index, bibliography, appendix, figures, tables. Cloth, $124.50; paper, $44.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-199-27209-3; paper, 0-199-27210-7.

The Equity Culture: The Story of the Global Stock Market. By B. Mark Smith. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003. 344 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 0-374-28175-0.

Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba. By Muriel McAvoy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 338 pages. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, photographs. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-813-02613-X.

Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854–1913. By William R. Summerhill. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xv + 297 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, figures, maps, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-804-73224-8.

Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687–1851. By Margaret C. Jacob and Larry Stewart. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 216 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-674-01497-9.

Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Industry, 1889–1939. By Anne Clendinning. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. xvii + 352 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $99.99. ISBN: 0-754-60692-9.

Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics. By Kenneth R. Hoover. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. xv + 328 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Paper, $27.95. ISBN: 0-742-53113-9.

Histoire de la qualité alimentaire, XIXe-XXe siècles [History of foodquality during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries]. By Alessandro Stanziani. Paris: Seuil, 2005. 440 pp. Index, notes, tables. €26.00. ISBN: 2-020-78841-1.

We'll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930. By Harvey Levenstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 382 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-47378-3.

Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions. By Johann Peter Murmann. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxi + 294 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-521-81329-8.

L'impresa italiana nel novecento [Italian business in the twentieth century]. Edited by Renato Gianetti and Michelangelo Vasta. Bologna: II Mulino, 2003. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, tables. Paper, ξ30.00 ISBN: 88-150-9496-2.

Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500–2000. By James C. McCann. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii + 289 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-674-01718-8.

Australia's First Bank: Fifty Years from the Wales to Westpac. By L. Sharon Davidson and Steven Salisbury. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005. 407 pp. Index, notes, appendix, figures, photographs. Paper, $49.95. ISBN: 0-868-40791-7.

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