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Volume 74 - Winter 2000

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The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865–1945. By Victoria Saker Woeste. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii + 369 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0807824216.

American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953–1980. ByJon Lauck. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xiv + 259 pp. Tables, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-803-22932-1.

For Wood River or Bust: Idaho's Silver Boom of the 1880s. ByClark C. Spence. University of Idaho Press, 1999. xi + 260 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, index, maps, notes, photographs, and tables. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-893-01215-7.

Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930. ByEmily S. Rosenberg. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. 352 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-674-00059-5.

Voice Over: The Making of Black Radio. ByWilliam Barlow. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. xiv + 334 pp. Notes, illustrations, and index. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 1-566-39666-2; Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-566-39667-0.

The Politics of Purity: Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy. By Clayton Coppin and Jack High. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 219 pp. Bibliography, index, and notes. $49.50. ISBN 0472109847.

The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Home Dressmaking. Barbara Burman, ed. Oxford, U.K.: Berg Publishers, Ltd., 1999. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 224 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.50. ISBN: Cloth 1-859-73203-8; paper 1-859-73208-9.

California and the Fictions of Capital. ByGeorge L. Henderson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxvii + 265 pp. Figures, notes, references, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-195-10890-6.

F. K. Weyerhaeuser: A Biography. By Charles E. Twining. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1997. ix + 332 pp. Bibliography, index, maps, and photographs. $29.95. ISBN 0873513568.

A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California. Edited byJames J. Rawls and Richard J. Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 335 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-520-21770-5; paper 0-520-21771-3.

“Rights, Not Roses”: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80. ByDennis A. Deslippe. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 288 pp. Index, notes, photographs, tables. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-252-02519-9; paper 0-252-06834-3.

Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry. ByWilliam R. Haycraft. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 496 pp. Photographs, notes, appendices, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-252-02497-4.

NASA and the Space Industry. ByJoan Lisa Bromberg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 247 pp. Cloth, $38.50, ISBN 0-801 86050-4; Paperback, $18.95, ISBN 0-801-86532-8.

Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgewood to Corning. ByRegina Lee Blaszczyk. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiii + 365 pp. Photographs, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-86193-4.

The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy. ByAndrew Gibson and Arthur Donovan. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. xiv + 362 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 1-57003-319-6.

The Concepts of Luxury and Waste in American Radicalism, 1880–1929. By Sulevi Riukulehto. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1998. 239 pp. Bibliography and index. FIM 140. ISBN 9514108507.

Little Labels—Big Sounds: Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music. By Rick Kennedy and Randy McNutt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxiii + 198 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0253335485.

Lake Erie Rehabilitated: Controlling Cultural Eutrophication, 1960s–1990s. ByWilliam McGucken. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2000. xiv + 318 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $39.95. ISBN: cloth 1-884-83657-7; paper 1-884-83658-5.

The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony: Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets. ByDavid E. Spiro. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. xiv + 177 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-801-42884-X.

Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America. ByAlison J. Clarke. Illustrations, index. 265 pp. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 1-560-98827-4.

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