Autumn 2009Volume 83 Issue 3

Book Reviews


Review Essay: Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab
Reviewed by Mark R. Wilson
The 1933 World's Fair: A Century of Progress
Reviewed by Timothy B. Spears
Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America
Reviewed by Thomas A. Kinney
Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy
Reviewed by Matthew N. Eisler
Mass Motorization + Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis
Reviewed by Clifton Hood
Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750–1914
Reviewed by Pat Hudson
Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775–1821
Reviewed by Ranald Michie
The Liability Century: Insurance and Tort Law from the Progressive Era to 9/11
Reviewed by Tom Baker
The Internet and American Business
Reviewed by Joseph November
Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On
Reviewed by Tom D. Crouch
Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820–1865
Reviewed by Stephen A. West
CFAO (1887–2007): La réinvention permanente du commerce outre-mer [CFAO (1887–2007): The Permanent Reinvention of Overseas Commerce]
Reviewed by Eric Godelier
William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science
Reviewed by Graeme J. N. Gooday
Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South
Reviewed by Luther Adams
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005
Reviewed by Nathan Ensmenger
Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast
Reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford
Creating Player Appeal: Management of Technological Innovation and Changing Patterns of Industrial Leadership in the U.S. Gaming Machine Manufacturing Industry, 1965–2005
Reviewed by Atsushi Akera
The Atlantic World, 1450–2000
Reviewed by Mariana P. Candido
The Rise of Mutual Funds: An Insider’s View
Reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins
Britain’s Railways 1997–2005: Labour’s Strategic Experiment
Reviewed by Chris Wrigley
La France du marché noir (1940–1949) [The Black Market in France (1940–1949)]
Reviewed by Bertram M. Gordon
Institutions and Economic Performance
Reviewed by Gary D. Libecap
Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis
Reviewed by James M. Rubenstein
Pathbreakers: Small European Countries Responding to Globalisation and Deglobalisation
Reviewed by Martin Jes Iversen
Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab A Review Essay
Reviewed by Mark R. Wilson
Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Reviewed by Amy Froide
The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives
Reviewed by Paul Ashmore
The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present
Reviewed by Paul Cheney
Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s–1930s
Reviewed by Paul Ashmore
Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York
Reviewed by Gautham Rao
Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border
Reviewed by Geraldo Cadava
The United States and the Malaysian Economy
Reviewed by Lynn Hollen Lees

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