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Volume 78 - Issue 3 - Autumn 2004

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Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law. By John Fabian Witt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 311 pp. Index, notes, index, tables. Cloth, $49-95- ISBN: 0-674-01267-4.

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security. By Edward D. Berkowitz. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xvii + 455 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-299-18950-3.

The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. By Gijs Mom. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 423 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 0-801-87138-7.

Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood. By Andrew Brodie Smith. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2003. 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-870-81746-9.

Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World. Edited by Glenn Adamson. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xi + 219 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, appendices, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-262-01207-3.

The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space. By Reinhold Martin. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xix + 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-262-13426-8.

Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter and Gamble. By Davis Dyer, Frederick Dalzell, and Rowena Olegario. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004. x + 467 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 1-591-39147-4.

Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. By Walter A. Friedman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 368 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-674-01298-4.

Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers. By Pablo J. Boczkowski. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. xi + 243 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $30. ISBN: 0-262-02559-0.

The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries. By James W. Cortada. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvii + 494 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-195-16588-8.

The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War. By Jorma Ahvenainen. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2004. 427 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Paper, &35. ISBN: 951-41-O947-3.

Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640–1845. By William J. Ashworth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiii + 396 pp. Notes, index, Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 0-199-25921-6.

The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester. By Stephen Mosley. Cambridge, U.K.: White Horse Press, 2001. x + 271 pp. Index, notes, maps, bibliography, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $65.00/£35. ISBN: 1-874-26749-9.

Geiz und Gerechtigkeit: Ökonomisches Denken im frühen Mittelalter [Avarice and Justice: Economic Thought in the Early Middle Ages]. By Bettina Emmerich. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. 334 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €68. ISBN: 3-515-08041-4.

The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Preindustrial West. By John Landers, xiv + 440 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 0-199-24916-4.

The Michelin Men: Driving an Empire. By Herbert R. Lottman. London: I. B. Tauris, 2003. ix + 310 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 1-860-64896-7.

The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development. By Isabella Mares. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvii + 319 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $65; paper, $24. ISBN:cloth 0-521-82741-8; paper 0-521-53477-1.

A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917–1953. By Julie Hessler. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi + 366 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, tables. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 0-691-11492-7.

From Cotton Mill to Business Enterprise: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China. By Elizabeth Köll. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xvi + 242 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, figures, photographs, tables. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN: 0-674-01394-8.

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