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Volume 78 - Winter 2004

Book Reviews

The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space. By Reinhold Martin. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xix + 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-262-13426-8.

The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740–1914. By Margot C. Finn. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 362 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, £50.00. ISBN 0-521-82342-0.

Eye on the Future: Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900. By Henry C. Klassen. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002. xxxvii + 458 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs, tables. Paper, $(Can) 29.95. ISBN 1-552-38086-5.

Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present. ByJürgen Buchenau. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. xii + 268 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-9263-3087-8.

Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter and Gamble. By Davis Dyer, Frederick Dalzell, and Rowena Olegario. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004. x + 467 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 1-591-39147-4.

Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition. By James H. Mills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 239 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-199-24938-5.

The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500-1989. Edited by William Gervase Clarence-Smith and Steven Topik. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. viii + 486 pp. Tables, maps, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 0-521-81851-6.

Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion. By José A. Gómez-Ibáñez. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. xi + 431 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-674-01177-5.

The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer. ByJon Agar. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. viii + 554 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-262-01202-2.

Operational Research in War and Peace: The British Experience from the 1930s to 1970. By Maurice W. Kirby. London: Imperial College Press, 2003. 444 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $97.25; paper, $35.00. ISBN: cloth 1-860-94297-0; paper 1-860-94366-7.

Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. By Walter A. Friedman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 368 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-674-01298-4.

The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. By Sarah Maza. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. x + 255 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-674-01046-9.

Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers. By Pablo J. Boczkowski. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. xi + 243 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $30. ISBN: 0-262-02559-0.

Vauxhall Motors and the Luton Economy, 1900–2002. By Len Holden. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2003. xviii + 249 pp. Tables, photographs, illustrations, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39-95- ISBN 0-851-55068-1.

Le Crédit lyonnais (1863–1986): Etudes historiques [The Crédit Lyonnais (1863–1986): Historical Studies]. Edited by Bernard Desjardins Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2003. 1020 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Paper, €43.90. ISBN 2-600-00807-1.

The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries. By James W. Cortada. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvii + 494 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-195-16588-8.

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