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Volume 46 - Issue 4 - December 1986

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Reviews of Books

Race, Class, and Politics: Essays on American Colonial and Revolutionary Society. By Gary B. Nash. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. xxii, 370. $37.50 cloth, $15.95 paper.
Jackson Turner Main
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A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia. By Thomas M. Doerflinger. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 413. $32.00.
Donald R. Adams, Jr
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03 March 2009, pp. 1059-1061
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The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America. By W. J. Rorabaugh. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 270. $24.95.
Jonathan Prude
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03 March 2009, pp. 1061-1063
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Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain. By Richard A. Epstein. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. xi, 362. $25.00.
Nathan Miller
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03 March 2009, pp. 1063-1064
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New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp. Edited by Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. Pp. ix, 206. $19.00.
Gavin Wright
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03 March 2009, pp. 1064-1065
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On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. By Clarence L. Mohr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. Pp. xxiv, 397. $35.00.
John Cimprich
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03 March 2009, pp. 1065-1066
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Slavery's End in Tennessee, 1861–1865. By John Cimprich. University: The University of Alabama Press, 1985. Pp. x, 191. $24.50.
Paul D. Escott
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03 March 2009, pp. 1066-1067
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An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865–1918. By John David Smith. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 315. $35.00.
J. William Harris
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Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War. By Gavin Wright. New York: Basic Books, Inc.1986. Pp. x, 321. $19.95.
Harold D. Woodman
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03 March 2009, pp. 1068-1070
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The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America. Edited by Steven Hahn and Jonathan Prude. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 355. $32.00.
William N. Parker
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03 March 2009, pp. 1070-1071
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The Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Styles in Boston and Charleston, 1828–1843. By William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 334. $29.95.
Allan Kulikoff
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03 March 2009, pp. 1071-1073
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Worker and Community: Response to Industrialization in a Nineteenth-Century American City, Albany, New York, 1850–1884. By Brian Greenberg. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 227. $34.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.
John T. Cumbler
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Paths of Resistance: Tradition and Dignity in Industrializing Missouri. By David Thelen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 321. $29.95.
Barry O'Connell
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Class and Reform: School and Society in Chicago, 1880–1930. By David John Hogan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. Pp. xxv, 328. $30.00.
Alexander J. Field
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03 March 2009, pp. 1075-1077
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Population Change and Social Continuity: Ten Years in a Coal Town. By Harold W. Aurand. Cranbury: Susquehanna University Press, 1986. Pp. 139. $24.50.
Ewa Morawska
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03 March 2009, pp. 1077-1078
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Steel City: Urban and Ethnic Patterns in Gary, Indiana, 1906–1950. Raymond A. Mohl and Neil Betten. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1986. Pp. x, 227. $32.50 cloth, $23.50 paper.
Paul Tiffany
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03 March 2009, pp. 1078-1079
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The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise, and Reality. By Jon C. Teaford. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Pp.x. 177. $20.00 cloth, $8.95 paper.
Louis P. Cain
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03 March 2009, pp. 1079-1080
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The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Towards the Consumer Society in America, 1865–1940. By Daniel Horowitz. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1985. Pp. xxxi, 254. $26.50.
Steven Dubnoff
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03 March 2009, pp. 1080-1081
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Fair Play in the Marketplace: The First Battle for Pure Food and Drugs. By Mitchell Okun. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986. Pp. xv, 345. $27.50.
Gary D. Libecap
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03 March 2009, pp. 1081-1083
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Strategic Uses of Public Policy: Business and Government in the Progressive Era. By Donna J. Wood, Marshfield: Pitman Publishing, 1986. Pp. xiii, 258. $26.95.
Gary D. Libecap
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Reviews of Books

Race, Class, and Politics: Essays on American Colonial and Revolutionary Society. By Gary B. Nash. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. xxii, 370. $37.50 cloth, $15.95 paper.

A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia. By Thomas M. Doerflinger. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 413. $32.00.

The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America. By W. J. Rorabaugh. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 270. $24.95.

Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain. By Richard A. Epstein. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. xi, 362. $25.00.

New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp. Edited by Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. Pp. ix, 206. $19.00.

On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. By Clarence L. Mohr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. Pp. xxiv, 397. $35.00.

Slavery's End in Tennessee, 1861–1865. By John Cimprich. University: The University of Alabama Press, 1985. Pp. x, 191. $24.50.

An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865–1918. By John David Smith. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 315. $35.00.

Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War. By Gavin Wright. New York: Basic Books, Inc.1986. Pp. x, 321. $19.95.

The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America. Edited by Steven Hahn and Jonathan Prude. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 355. $32.00.

The Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Styles in Boston and Charleston, 1828–1843. By William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 334. $29.95.

Worker and Community: Response to Industrialization in a Nineteenth-Century American City, Albany, New York, 1850–1884. By Brian Greenberg. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 227. $34.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.

Paths of Resistance: Tradition and Dignity in Industrializing Missouri. By David Thelen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 321. $29.95.

Class and Reform: School and Society in Chicago, 1880–1930. By David John Hogan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. Pp. xxv, 328. $30.00.

Population Change and Social Continuity: Ten Years in a Coal Town. By Harold W. Aurand. Cranbury: Susquehanna University Press, 1986. Pp. 139. $24.50.

Steel City: Urban and Ethnic Patterns in Gary, Indiana, 1906–1950. Raymond A. Mohl and Neil Betten. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1986. Pp. x, 227. $32.50 cloth, $23.50 paper.

The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise, and Reality. By Jon C. Teaford. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Pp.x. 177. $20.00 cloth, $8.95 paper.

The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Towards the Consumer Society in America, 1865–1940. By Daniel Horowitz. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1985. Pp. xxxi, 254. $26.50.

Fair Play in the Marketplace: The First Battle for Pure Food and Drugs. By Mitchell Okun. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986. Pp. xv, 345. $27.50.

Strategic Uses of Public Policy: Business and Government in the Progressive Era. By Donna J. Wood, Marshfield: Pitman Publishing, 1986. Pp. xiii, 258. $26.95.

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