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United States and Canada - Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial times to the 1990s. By Charles K. Hyde. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 267. $40.00.

United States and Canada - Oil, the State, and Federalism: The Rise and Demise of Petro-Canada as a Statist Impulse. By John Erik Fossum. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 368. $60, cloth; $24.95, paper.

United States and Canada - Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico. By Martin R. Ansell. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 302. $60.00.

United States and Canada - Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century. By Robert E. WeemsJr. New York and London: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. 193. $45.00, cloth; $18.98, paper.

Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation. By Margaret Levenstein. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. pp. ix, 277. $49.50.

Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886–1935. By Ruth O'Brien. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. pp. xiii, 313. $39.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.

United States and Canada - The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865–1945. By Victoria Saker Woeste. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. pp. xvii, 369. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.

The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. By Kurkpatrick Dorsey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. pp. xvi, 311. $35.00.

Votes Without Leverage: Women in American Electoral Politics, 1920–1970. By Anna L. Harvey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. pp. xi, 253. $59.95, cloth; $18.95, paper

The Causes of the 1929 Stock Market Crash: A Speculative Orgy or a New Era? By Harold BiermanJr. Wesport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1998. pp. xi, 161. $55.00.

Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience. Edited by Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998. pp. xiii, 382. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.

Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic: Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793–1821. By Donald J. Ratcliffe. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. pp. xii, 336. $52.50 cloth; $22.95 paper.

A New South Rebellion: The Battle Against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871–1896. By Karin A. Shapiro, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. pp. xvi, 333. $55.00, cloth; $22.50, paper.

The Origins of American Public Finance: Debates over Money, Debt, and Taxes in the Constitutional Era, 1776–1836. By Donald R. Stabile. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 208. $59.95.

Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860. By Laurence J. Malone. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 155. $59.95.

Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT. By Thomas W. Zeiler. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 288. $39.95.

In Irons: Britain–s Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy. By Richard Buel Jr New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 397. $35.00.

Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century Edited by Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press for The German Historical Institute, 1998. Pp. xiv, 477. $59.95, cloth; $21.95, paper.

The United States and European Reconstruction, 1945–1960. By John Killick. Edinburgh: Keele University Press, BAAS, 1997 and New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 209. $25.00, paper.

Britain and Japan: A Comparative Economic and Social History since 1900. By Kenneth D. Brown. New York: Manchester University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 269. $79.95, cloth; $27.95, paper.

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