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Volume 79 - Winter 2005

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Architects of Globalism: Building a New World Order during World War II. By Patrick J. Hearden. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2002. xv + 418 pp. Notes, index, and bibliography of primary sources, published papers, and diaries. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 1-557-28730-9.

British Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Business, Culture and Identity in Bahia, 1808-1850. By Louise H. Guenther. Oxford: Centre for Brazilian Studies, 2004. xi + 211 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paper, £20.00. ISBN: 0-954-40703-2.

The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley. By Leslie Berlin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xi + 402 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, photographs. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-195-16343-5.

On Hollywood: The Place, The Industry. By Allen J. Scott. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii + 2000 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 0-691-11683-0.

Inside the Iron Works: How Grumman's Glory Days Faded. ByGeorge M. Skurla and William H. Gregory. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2004. xi + 225 pp. Illustrations, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 1-557-50329-X.

Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization. Edited byJefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, xvi + 372 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-8014-3921-3.

Cuba's Agricultural Sector. By José Alvarez. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xxvi + 306 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0-8130-2754-3.

Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture. By John D. French. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xviii + 233 pp. Photographs, illustration, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82857-2; paper 0-807-85527-8.

Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From. By David Skeel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 250 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 0-195-17471-2.

Mutually Beneficial: The Guardian and Life Insurance in America. ByRobert E. Wright and George David Smith. New York: New York University Press, 2004. xxiii + 501 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-8147-9397-5.

Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí. By Jane E. Mangan. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. xiii + 277 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33458-5; paper, 0-822-33470-4.

Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s. By Yanek Mieczkowski. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2005. xi + 455 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-813-12349-6.

Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. By Richard W. Unger. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xvi + 319 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-8122-3795-1.

Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, Culture. Edited byKenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii + 369 pp. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, £55.00. ISBN: 0-199-25189-4.

Politics and Urban Growth in Santiago, Chile, 1891–1941. By Richard J. Walter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. xvii + 319 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 0-804-74982-5.

On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences, 1948–2000. By Julian E. Zelizer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi + 359 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-521-80161-3.

The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution. By Carla Gardina Pestana. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xi + 342 pp. Maps, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-01502-9.

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