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Volume 64 - Winter 1990

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Ruffin: Family and Reform in the Old South. ByDavid F. AllmendingerJr. · New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xiv + 274 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $34.50.

The Piano in America, 1890–1940. ByCraig H. Roell · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. xx + 396 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, select bibliography, and index. $35.95.

The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance. ByHenry Petroski · New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. xi + 434 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.

The Politics of Philanthropy: Abraham Flexner and Medical Education. BySteven C. Wheatley · Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. xx + 249 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $37.50; paper, $14.95.

Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management. ByJoAnne Yates · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. xx + 339 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $29.50.

Efficiency, Scientific Management, and Hospital Standardization: An Anthology of Sources. Edited ByEdward T. Morman · New York: Garland Publishing, 1989. xxx + 74 pp. Maps, charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and select bibliography. $45.00.

Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899–1922. BySusan J. Douglas · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xix + 363 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $29.50.

Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South: The Failure of Agricultural Reform. ByWilliam M. Mathew · Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. xiv + 286 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00.

Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. ByRobert William Fogel · New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. 539 pp. Charts, maps, illustrations, tables, notes, references, and index. $22.50.

Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present. ByDavid K Goldfield · Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. xviii + 321 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical essay, and index. $24.95.

Mill Family: The Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880–1915. By Cathy L. McHugh · New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. x + 144 pp. Tables, charts, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95.

William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader. ByCraig Phelan · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. x + 223 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $12.95.

From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community. ByLouise Lamphere · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987. xviii + 390 pp. Maps, charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $14.95.

United States Railroad Policy: Uncle Sam at the Throttle. ByJeffrey Orenstein · Chicago, III.: Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1990. ix + 186 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $23.95.

Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry. ByPriscilla Long · New York: Paragon House, 1989. xxv + 420 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95.

In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933–1966. ByJoshua B. Freeman · New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xiii + 434 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes and index. $34.50.

The Conrey Placer Mining Company: A Pioneer Gold-Dredging Enterprise in Montana, 1897–1922. ByClark C. Spence · Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 1990. x + 161 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $19.95.

Perspectives on American Labor History: The Problems of Synthesis. Edited byJ. Carroll Moody and Alice Kessler-Harris · DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1989. xix + 236 pp. Illustrations, tables, and notes. $28.50.

Dillard's: The First Fifty Years. ByLeon Joseph Rosenberg · Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. xx + 141 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.95.

Eisenhower & Landrum-Griffin: A Study in Labor-Management Politics. ByR. Alton Lee · Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. xi + 202 pp. Index and notes. $21.00.

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