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Volume 78 - Winter 2004

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Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. By Helen Tangires. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xx + 265 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-87133-6.

The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square. By James Traub. New York: Random House, 2004. xvii + 313 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 0-375-50788-4.

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The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective. By Eric Helleiner. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 277 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN 0-801-44049-1.

Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982–1999: What Drove the Breakneck Market—and What Every Investor Needs to Know about Financial Cycles. By Maggie Mahar. New York: HarperBusiness, 2003. xxii + 486 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN 0-06-056413-X.

The Roots of American Industrialization. By David R. Meyer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 333 pp. Tables, figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-87141-7.

Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940–1945. ByPaul A. C. Koistinen. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xiii + 655 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-300-70060-8.

The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History. Edited by Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer. xiv + 422 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. References, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-691-11376-9; paper 0-691-11377-7.

Steam: The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention. ByAndrea Sutcliffe. New York: Palgrave, 2004. x + 272 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 1-403-96261-8.

Taverns and Drinking in Early America. By Sharon V. Salinger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xi + 309 pp. Tables, maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN 0-801-86878-5.

Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. By Lawrence A. Peskin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 294 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-87324-X.

C. F. Martin and His Guitars, 1796–1873. By Philip F. Gura. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xix + 250 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-807-82801-7.

Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England. By Michael J. Connolly. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. ix + 210 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 0-826-21499-1.

Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wendy A. Woloson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xi + 277 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN 0-801-86876-9.

The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development. ByDavid Carlton and Peter Coclanis. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. 234 pp. Figures, tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-813-92184-8.

God's Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola. By Kathryn W. Kemp. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002. 312 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, appendix, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-865-54782-3.

The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876–1926. ByJohn Henry Hepp IV. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. ix + 278 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $36.50. ISBN: 0-8122-3723-4.

Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903–2003. By Henry D. Fetter. New York: Norton, 2003. xi + 461 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN 0-393-05719-4.

Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860. By Michael Zakim. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. x + 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $30. ISBN: 0-226-97793-5.

Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization. By William H. Roberts. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xi + 285 pp. Tables, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $46.95. ISBN 0-801-86830-0.

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