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Volume 77 - Winter 2003

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Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Edited by Peter Hall and David Soskice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xvi + 540 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $74.00; paper, $32.50. ISBN: cloth 0-199-24774-9; paper 0-199-24775-7.

The End of Baseball As We Knew It: The Players' Union, 1960–81. ByCharles Korr. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xviii + 336 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-252-02752-3.

Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam. By Thomas Alan Schwartz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. 352 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, tables. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01074-4.

Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980. By Venus Green. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. xv + 370 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $59-95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-822-32554-3; paper 0-822-32573-X.

Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies. Edited byWarren Belasco andPhilip Scranton. New York: Routledge, 2002. viii + 288 pp. Index, notes, figures, illustrations, tables. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 0-415-93077-4.

The Development of Modern Business. By Gordon Boyce and Simon Ville. New York: Palgrave, 2002. xvi + 376 pp. Index, bibliography, references, figures, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 0-333-59877-6.

Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics. By David A. Mindell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv + 440 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $46.00. ISBN 0-801-86895-5.

Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of Small-Scale Industry in Britain, c.1589–2000. By Stanley L. Chapman. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv + 328 pp. Index, notes, photographs, illustrations, tables. Cloth, £55.00. ISBN 0-199-25567-9.

Uplift: The Bra in America. ByJane Farrell-Beck andColleen Gau. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. xv + 243 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-812-23643-2.

Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process. Edited by John Ziman. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 379 pp. Index, bibliography, notes, figures, photos. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN 0-521-62361-8.

Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age. Edited by John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson. Stroud, U.K.: Tempus, 2002. 192 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Paper, $26.99. ISBN 0-752-42766-0.

Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983–1993. By Alex Roland and Philip Shiman. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. xxvi + 427 pp. Index, notes, figures, photographs, glossary. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-262-18226-2.

Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War. ByJohn Mason Hart. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xi + 677 pp. Index, notes, maps, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-520-22324-1.

Railways in Britain and the United States, 1830–1940. By Geoffrey Channon. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2001. xi + 341 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $84.95. ISBN 1-840-14253-7.

Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire. By Peter N. Stearns. New York: Routledge, 2002. x + 147 pp. Index, references. Paper, $17.95. ISBN 0-415-24409-9.

False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today. By James Hoopes. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, 2003. xxxiv + 308 pp. Index, notes, figures, photographs. Paper, $27.50. ISBN 0-738-20798-5.

Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823–1893. By J. Forbes Munro. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2003. ix + 525 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, references, tables. Cloth, $130.00. ISBN 0-851-15935-4.

Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia. By Mike Gasher. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002. viii + 176 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-774-80967-1; paper 0-774-80968-X.

Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits. By W. Carl Biven. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv + 346 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN 0-807-82738-X.

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