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Volume 81 - Autumn 2007

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Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II. By Andrew E. Kersten. New York: New York University Press, 2006. xiii + 273 pp. Index, notes, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 0-814-748786-8.

Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948–1961. By James H. Baughman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiii + 443 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-8018-7933-7.

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How New York Became American, 1890-1924. By Angela M. Blake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 242 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-88293-1.

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Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua. By Elizabeth Dore. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. xii + 252 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74-955 paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33686-3; paper, 0-822-33674-X.

Advertising Sin and Sickness: The Politics of Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing 1950–1990. By Pamela E. Pennock. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. vii + 282 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $36.00. ISBN: 0-875-80368-5.

Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955. By Adam Green. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv + 306 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-30641-0.

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Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction. By David A. Zimmerman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii + 294 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-807-83023-2; paper, 0-807-85687-8.

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The Social Life of Money in the English Past. By Deborah Valenze. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi + 308 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-85242-0; paper, 0-521-61780-4.

Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948–92. By Xiaolan Bao. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xvi + 330 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $44.95; paper, $22.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-02631-4; paper, 0-252-07350-9.

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Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s. By Inger L. Stole. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xviii + 290 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-03059-1; paper, 0-252-07299-5.

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Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London. By Caitlin Zaloom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii + 224 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $29.00. ISBN: 0-226-97813-3.

The Global Securities Market: A History. By Ranald C. Michie. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 399 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 0-199-28061-4.

From Marriage to Market: The Transformation of Women's Lives and Work. By Susan Thistle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xiv + 296 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Paper, $19.95. ISBN: 0-520-24646-2.

Building on Water: Venice, Holland and the Construction of the European Landscape in Early Modern Times. By Salvatore Ciriacono, translated by Jeremy Scott. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. x + 308 pp. Glossary, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 1-845-45065-5.

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Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption. By Laura J. Miller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. x + 316 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-52590-2.

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Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns that Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires. By Kristoffer A. Garin. New York: Viking Penguin, 2005. xvi + 366 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 0-670-023418-5.

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Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin. By Pamela Walker Laird. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiv + 439 PP. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01907-5.

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Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780–2005. By Youssef Cassis, translated by Jacqueline Collier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 385 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-84535-9.

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