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Volume 75 - Spring 2001

Book Reviews

Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network. By Matthew Lasar. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 320 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth, 1-566-39660-3; paper, 1-566-39777-4.

Empowering the West: Electrical Politics Before FDR. ByJay L. Brigham. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. vii + 211 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, appendix, and index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-700-60920-2.

Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. ByElliott J. Gorn. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. xiii + 408 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.00. ISBN 0-809-07093-6.

Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida. Edited byJane G. Landers. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. 220 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-813-01772-6.

The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City. By Sara E. Wermiel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. viii + 301 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86311-2.

Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930–1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists. ByGerald Home. 335 pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Photos, notes, index. Paper, $22.95. ISBN 0-292-73138-8.

The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900–1940. ByMax Page. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xiv + 303 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, tables, figures, notes, and index. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: Cloth 0-226-64468-5; paper 0-226-64469-3.

A History of Navigation on Cypress Bayou and the Lakes. ByJacques D. Bagur. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2001. 822 pp. Maps, illustrations, photographs, tables, bibliography. Cloth, $67.95. ISBN 1-574-41135-7.

The Social Consequences of Economic Restructuring in the Textile Industry: Change in a Southern Mill Village. ByCynthia D. Anderson. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. xii + 169 pp. Index, appendix, bibliography, and references. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-815-33622-5.

Banking Panics of the Gilded Age. ByElmus Wicker. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 160 pp. Illustrations, tables, Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-521-77023-8.

Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business. By Jane R. Plitt. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000. 224 pp. Photographs. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN 0-815-60638-9.

Struggling with “Iowa's Pride”: Labor Relations, Unionism, and Politics in the Rural Midwest since 1877. ByWilson J. Warren. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000. 232 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-877-45712-3; paper 0-877-45713-1.

The Electric Car and the Burden of History. By David A. Kirsch. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000. xiv + 292 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $52.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: Cloth 0-8135-2808-9; paper 0-813-52809-7.

Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890–1940. ByHowell John Harris. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 456 pp. Figures, tables, notes, appendix, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN 0-521-58435-3.

Mexican American Odyssey: Felix Tijerina, Entrepreneur & Civic Leader, 1905–1965. ByThomas H. Kreneck. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2001. 432 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-890-96936-1.

The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West. ByMichael Wallis. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 640 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $21.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-312-19286-X; paper 0-312-26381-3.

Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit. BySusanne E. Smith. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. 336 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index, Cloth, $26.50; paper, $15.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-674-00063-3; paper 0-674-00546-5.

Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution. By Susannah Handley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 192 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-801-86325-2.

Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard. ByGeoffrey Tweedale. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2000. xx + 313 pp. Figures, map, graphs, tables. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-198-29690-8; paper 0-199-24399-9.

Lochner v. New York: Economic Regulation on Trial. ByPaul Kens. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. ix + 216 pp. Bibliographical essay, index. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $12.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-700-60918-0; paper 0-7006-0919-9.

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