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Volume 81 - Issue 3 - Autumn 2007

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Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II. By Andrew E. Kersten. New York: New York University Press, 2006. xiii + 273 pp. Index, notes, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 0-814-748786-8.

Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955. By Adam Green. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv + 306 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-30641-0.

Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948–92. By Xiaolan Bao. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xvi + 330 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $44.95; paper, $22.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-02631-4; paper, 0-252-07350-9.

From Marriage to Market: The Transformation of Women's Lives and Work. By Susan Thistle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xiv + 296 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Paper, $19.95. ISBN: 0-520-24646-2.

Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns that Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires. By Kristoffer A. Garin. New York: Viking Penguin, 2005. xvi + 366 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 0-670-023418-5.

The Effortless Economy of Science? By Philip Mirowski. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. 462 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, figures. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33310-4; paper, 0-822-33322-8.

Discounted Labour: Women Workers in Canada, 1870–1939. By Ruth A. Frager and Carmela K. Patrias. ix + 289 pp. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Index, bibliography. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-802-00828-3; paper, 0-802-07818-4.

The Politics of CANDU Exports. By Duane Bratt. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xv + 319 pp. Index, notes, figures, maps, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-802-09091-5.

Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology. By Duncan K. Foley. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xv + 265 pp. Index, figures. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 0-674-02309-9.

North East England, 1850–1914: The Dynamics of a Maritime-Industrial Region. By Graeme J. Milne. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2006. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, tables, xi + 230 pp. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 1-843-83240-2.

Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970. By David Edgerton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv + 364 pp. Index, notes, appendix, tables. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $32.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-85636-1; paper, 0-521-67231-7.

Networking Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Shaping of Europe, 1850–2000. Edited by Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2006. vii + 335 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, figures. Cloth, $47.50. ISBN: 0-881-35394-9.

The Entrepreneurial Shift: Americanization in European High-Technology Management Education. By Robert R. Locke and Katja Schöne. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiii + 250 pp. Index, figures, references, tables. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 0-521-84010-4.

The Rise of Spanish Multinationals: European Business in the Global Economy. By Mauro F. Guillén. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ix + 268 pp. Index, notes, references, photographs, tables. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-521-84721-4.

Business Expansion and Structural Change in Pre-War China: Liu Hongsheng and His Enterprises, 1920–1937. By Kai Yiu Chan. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xv + 283 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, figures, tables. Cloth, $59.50. ISBN: 9-789-622097-643.

Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia. By Sherman Cochran. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 242 pp. Index notes, bibliography, maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-674-02161-4.

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