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Volume 62 - Autumn 1988

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Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad, 1862–1893. By Maury Klein. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987. xiii + 685 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes on sources, bibliography, and index. $27.50.

“Just a Housewife”: The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America. By Glenna Matthews. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xvii + 281 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $19.95.

Southern Capitalists: The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832–1885. By Laurence Shore. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xii + 282 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.

The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890–1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics. By Martin J. Sklar. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xiv + 484 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $15.95.

Middle–Class Providence, 1820–1940. By John H. GilkesonJr., Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. ix + 380 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $29.95.

Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885–1985. By Robert C. McMathJr., Ronald H. Bayor, James E. Brittain, Lawrence Foster, August W. Giebelhaus, and Germaine M. Reed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. xii + 560 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $37.50.

The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears. By Donald R. Katz, New York: Viking Press, 1987. xiv + 604 pp. Illustrations and index. $22.95.

Leadership at the Fed. By Donald F. Kettl. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986. xiii + 218 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. $22.50.

Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan. By Ronald Edsforth. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986. xvi + 294 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $12.00.

Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League. By K. Austin Kerr. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985. xvii + 293 pp. Illustrations, notes, note on sources, and index. $25.00.

The Woodlands: New Community Development, 1964–1983. By George T. MorganJr., and John O. King. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. xii + 162 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, bibliography, notes, and index. $27.50.

New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy. By Stanley Vittoz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. ix + 241 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95.

Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930–1950. By Vicki L. Ruiz. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. xviii + 194 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $22.50; paper, $10.95.

Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped. A Twentieth–Century Fund Report. By Edward D. Berkowitz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 280 pp. Notes and index. $24.95.

The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929–1939. By Michael A. Bernstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xvii + 269 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.

The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster. By Martin Cherniak. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986. x + 193 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.

The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War. By John Lewis Gaddis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xi + 332 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95.

White Collar Hobo: The Travels of Whiting Williams. By Daniel A. Wren. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987. xii + 165 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $16.95.

The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987. 405 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00.

The Automobile Industry and Its Workers: Between Fordism and Flexibility. Edited by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin. Oxford: Polity Press, 1987. viii + 335 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. £35.

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