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Volume 70 - Winter 1996

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Done in Oil: An Autobiography. ByJ. Howard MarshallII; edited, with an introduction by Robert L. BradleyJr. · College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994. xxi + 282 pp. Photos, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-89096-533-1.

Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920–1934. By Susan Smulyan · Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. viii + 223 pp. Illustrations, index, and bibliography. Paper, $14.95. ISBN 1-56098-686-7.

The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology. By Carroll Pursell · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. vxi + 358 pp. Pictures, photos, figures, and index. $15.95. ISBN 0-8018-4818-0.

Telecommunications, Mass Media, & Democracy: The Battle for Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928–1935. By Robert W. McChesney · New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xvi + 393 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-507174-3; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-509394-1.

Trade and the American Dream: A Social History of Postwar Trade Policy. By Susan Ariel Aaronson · Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. 264 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8131-1955-3; paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-8131-0874-8.

Crusading for Chemistry: The Professional Career of Charles Holmes Herty. By Germaine M. Reed · Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995. xi + 474 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8203-1671-7.

A. P. Giannini and the Bank of America. By Gerald D. Nash · Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. xi + 162 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $26.95. ISBN 080612461X.

Hidden in the Home: The Role of Waged Homework in the Modern World-Economy. ByJamie Faricellia Dangler · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. xvi + 225 pp. Bibliography and index. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-7914-2129-5; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-7914-2130-9.

The Genie Out of the Bottle: World Oil Since 1970. By M. A. Adelman · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995. xxiii + 350 pp. Illustrations, biographical references, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-262-01151-4.

Hybrid Factory: Japanese Production Systems in the United States. Edited byTetsuo Abo · New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xxii + 318 pp. Forward, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-507974-4.

Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality. By Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz · New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. xvii + 176 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, references, and index. $28.95. ISBN 0-8057-9120–-5.

A Concise History of Business in Canada. By Graham D. Taylor and Peter A. Baskerville · Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1994. xvii + 491 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $28.95, ISBN 0-19-540978-7.

State and Party in America's New Deal. By Kenneth Finegold and Theda Skocpol · Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xiii + 342 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and index. $54.00 cloth; ISBN 0-299-14760-6. $19.95, paper; ISBN 0-299-14764-9.

Inventing the Nonprofit Sector, and Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations. By Peter Dobkin Hall · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xiv + 349 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $39.50. ISBN 0-8018-42727.

On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War. ByAngela Woollacott · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xiv + 241 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $38.00, ISBN 0-520-08397-0; paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-520-08502-7.

Capitalism in Context: Essays on Economic Development and Cultural Change in Honor of R. M. Hartwell. Edited byJohn A. James and Mark Thomas · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1994. x + 355 pp. Tables, charts, notes, index, and bibliography. $31.00. ISBN 0-226-39198-1.

The First Industrial Woman. By Deborah Valenze · New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 251 pp. Charts, figures, notes, index, and bibliography. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-19-508981-2; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-19-508982-0.

American Trade Policy, 1923–1995. By Edward S. Kaplan · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. 192 pp. Bibliography and index. $55.00. ISBN 0-313-29480-1.

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