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Volume 74 - Winter 2000

Review Essay

Morgan: American Financier - Morgan: American Financier. By Jean Strouse. New York: Random House, 1999. 769 pp. Bibliography, photograph, references, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0375501665.

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The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. By David Nasaw. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. xv + 687 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-395-82759-0.

Inventing the Internet. ByJanet Abbate. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. viii + 264 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN 0-262-01172-7.

Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. ByDavid Howard Bain. New York: Viking-Penguin, 1999. xiii + 797 pp. Bibliography, maps, notes, photographs, and index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $18.00. ISBN: Cloth 0-670-80889-X; paper 0-140-08499-1.

Company Men: White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941. By Clark Davis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 320 pp. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-86274-4.

Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates. By Charles R. Geisst. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. x + 300 pp. Bibliography, index, notes, and illustrations. $30.00. ISBN 0195123018.

Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy. ByKevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. xii + 343 pp. Figures, graphs, notes, references, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-262-15049-2.

American Business, 1920-2000: How It Worked. ByThomas K. McCraw. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 2000. xii + 260 pp. Photographs, tables, bibliographic essay, and index. Paper, $15.95. ISBN 0-882-95985-9.

Banking and Business in the Roman World. ByJean Andreau (Janet Lloyd, translator). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 211 pp. Table, map, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-521-38031-6; paper 0-521-38932-1.

The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power, 1653–2000. By John Steele Gordon. New York: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1999. 319 pp. Bibliography, index, notes, and photographs. $25.00. ISBN 0684832879.

The Fourth Great Awakening & The Future of Egalitarianism. ByRobert William Fogel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 320 pp. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN 0-226-25662-6.

The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832–1900. ByKathleen Waters Sander. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. 192 pp. Photographs. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02401-X; Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-252-06703-7.

Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. By William G. Roy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. Notes, tables, references, and index. 360 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 069104353; Paper, $18.95, ISBN 069101034X.

The House of Rothschild: The Worlds Banker, 1849-1999. ByNiall Ferguson. New York: Viking-Penguin, 1998. xxx + 658 pp. Appendices, bibliography, graphs, illustrations, notes, photographs, tables, and index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $19.00. ISBN: Cloth 0-670-85768-8; paper 0-140-28662-4.

A History of Consumer Credit: Doctrines and Practices. ByRosa-Maria Gelpi and François Julien-Labruyère. New York: St. Martins Press. Illustrations, appendices, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-312-22415-X.

The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman. ByMaury Klein. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xvi + 521 pp. Index, notes, and photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-807-82517-4.

The Atlantic Slave Trade. By Herbert S. Klein. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxi + 234 pp. Appendix, bibliography, figures, maps, index, and tables. $49.95. ISBN 0521465885.

Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880–1940. ByArwen P. Mohun. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 352 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $48.00. ISBN 0-801-86002-4.

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