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Volume 82 - Autumn 2008

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Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking. By Wilson J. Warren. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xii + 317 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–1–587–29536–2.

The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry. By Diane Pecknold. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. x + 294 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 978–0–8223–4059–1; paper, 978–0–8223–4080–5.

Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America. By David M. P. Freund. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xii + 514 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-26275-8.

Hotel: An American Story. By A. K. Sandoval-Strausz. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 375 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-10616-9.

The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660–1720. By Natasha Glaisyer. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2006. x + 220 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0-861-93281-1.

Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment on the Palouse. By Andrew P. Duffin. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xv + 240 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978–0–295–98743–9.

Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital. BySpencer E. Ante. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2008. xix + 299 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978–1–422–10122–3.

The Business of Women: Female Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England, 1760–1830. By Hannah Barker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xi + 189 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 0-19-929971-4.

Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills. By David Stradling. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xxvii + 311 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-295-98747-7.

Telecommunications and Empire. By Jill Hills. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xii + 291 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978–0–252–03258–5.

Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890s-1930s. By Ken Fones-Wolf. University of Illinois Press, 2007. xxviii + 236 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0–252–03131–1; paper, 0–252–07371–7.

Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation. By Peter Fearon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xiv + 316 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 978–0–8262–1736–3.

The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel. By Terry Gourvish. Research by Mike Anson. New York: Routledge, 2006. xxi + 521 pp. Figures, tables, maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $93.95. ISBN: 0-415-39183-0.

The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900–1938. By Myrna I. Santiago. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 411 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978–0–521–86324–7.

The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. By Sarah E. Igo. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2007. ix + 398 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-02321-5.

Nylon and Bombs: DuPont and the March of Modern America. By Pap A. Ndiaye. Translated from the French by Elborg Forster. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 289 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, historiographical essay, index. Cloth $45.00. ISBN: 0-8018-8444-6.

Anton Rupert: A Biography. By Ebbe Dommisse in cooperation with Willie Esterhuyse; translated byLinde Dietrich. Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2005. 463 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, R269.00. ISBN: 0–624–04150–6.

For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865. By Robert Zieger. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2007. x + 276 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-8131-2460-5.

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