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Volume 40 (1999)

Accident: Aldrich, “‘The Peril of the Broken Rail’: The Carriers, the Steel Companies, and Rail Technology, 1900–1945,” 263; Stephens, The Texas City Disaster, 1947 (R) 189

Adams, R., Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist’s Inquiry into Western Technology (R) 130

Adams, S., Mr. Kaiser Goes to Washington: The Rise of a Government Entrepreneur (R) 439

Advertising (see also Consumerism; Mass Culture): Johnston, Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen’s Advertising Photography (R) 705

After the Breakthrough: The Emergence of High-Temperature Superconductivity as a Research Field, H. Nowotny and U. Felt (R) 195

Agriculture and food processing (see also Rural): Dye, Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899–1929 (R) 675; Jacob, New Pioneers: The Back-to-the-Land Movement and the Search for a Sustainable Future (R) 423; Knobloch, The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West (R) 420; Miner, Harvesting the High Plains: John Kriss and the Business of Wheat Farming, 1920–1950 (R) 422

Aldrich, M., “‘The Peril of the Broken Rail’: The Carriers, the Steel Companies, and Rail Technology, 1900–1945,” 263

Alexander, J. (R) 908

Alexander, M., “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present, at the National Museum of American History,” 861

Allen, F. (R) 652

Allen, M., “A History of Modern European Technology: The Propyläen Technikgeschichte,” 599

Altshuler, J. and M. Gonzalez, Una Luz que Llego para Quedarse: Comienzos del Alumbrado Electrico y su Introduccion en Cuba (R) 414

Alvarez, A. (R) 675

America at Home: A Celebration of Twentieth-Century Housewares, V. Matranga and K. Kohn (R) 180

American Design in the Twentieth Century: Personality and Performance, G. Votolato (R) 904

American Railroads, J. Stover (R) 666

Anderson, J. (R) 438; A History of Aerodynamics and Its Impact on Flying Machines (R) 688

Andrews, I. (R) 166

Anthropology (see also Ethnography): Adams, Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist’s Inquiry into Western Technology (R) 130

Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology, P. Théberge (R) 709

Architecture (see also Civil Engineering): Biggs, The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and Work in America’s Age of Mass Production (R) 677; Billington, Robert Maillart: Builder, Designer, and Artist (R) 154; Jakle, Sculle, and Rogers, The Motel in America (R) 431; Mukerji, Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles (R) 660; Peters, Building the Nineteenth Century (R) 145

“The Art of Scientific Precision: River Research in the United States Army Corps of Engineers to 1945,” Reuss, M., 292

Artistry and Ingenuity in Artificial Stone: Indiana’s Concrete Bridges, 1900–1942, J. Cooper (R) 715

Atkinson, G. (R) 148

Automobiles and automobility (see also Transportation): Borg, “The ‘Chauffeur Problem’ in the Early Auto Era: Structuration Theory and the Users of Technology,” 797; Casey, “The Vanderbilt Cup, 1908,” 358; Hård and Knie, “The Grammar of Technology: German and French Diesel Engineering, 1920–1940,” 26

Aviation, aerospace: Anderson, A History of Aerodynamics and Its Impact on Flying Machines (R) 688; Béon, Planet Dora: A Memoir of the Holocaust and the Birth of the Space Age (R) 908; Crouch, “Kill Devil Hills, 17 December 1903,” 594; de Syon, “The Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen,” 114; Kerber, Stalin’s Aviation Gulag: A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era (R) 150; Herring, Way Station to Space: A History of the John C. Stennis Space Center (R) 922; Kay, “NASA and Space History,” 120; Miner, So Many Worlds: Invention, Management, Philosophy, and Risk in the Life of Leroy Hill (R) 438; Reed and Lister, Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story (R) 921; Spires, Beyond Horizons: A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership (R) 919

Awards, 623

Baark, E., Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China’s Technological Modernization, 1860–1890 (R) 671

Bacay, V. (R) 169

Balzer, H. (R) 915

Barley, S. and J. Orr, eds., Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in U.S. Settings (R) 883

Barron, H., Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870–1930 (R) 889

Bassett, R. (R) 685

Batchen, G., Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography (R) 702

Bauer, J. (R) 926

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