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314REVIEWS margin, where the weevil problem has never been quite so severe. Each state has had its own unique problems with a program that requires close cooperation of state and federal agencies with local growers, and in 1 988 the Southeastern Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation was incorporated, with Marshall Grant as its founding chairman, as an umbrella organization to coordinate the work in different states. This book has eight historic background chapters and seventeen chapters describing in great detail the epic struggles with eradication in each individual state. Its 52 authors and seven editors are a surefire recipe for considerable repetition and even contradiction, and no one will read it from cover to cover for pleasure, even though some sections are riveting. It is a magnificent resource for anyone interested in the geography ofthe rural South, even though it is seriously flawed by the lack of an index. I suspect that anyone would have been mad to have aspired to index a work containing the names of the thousands of workers who have toiled so tirelessly to achieve the most comprehensive insect eradication program the world has ever seen. Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando. Richard E. Foglesong. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2001. xvi and 272 pp., biblio., index, maps, notes, photos. $27.95 cloth (ISBN 0-300-08707-1). Leo Zonn Richard Foglesong's Married to the Mouse traces the evolution of the "economic development marriage" between Walt Disney World and Orlando from the 1960s to the present, emphasizing the Disney strategies, the community's response, the resultant conflicts and negotiations, and ultimately, how the process affected the nature of Orlando's growth. The focus is at least partially on the value of privatization and deregulation as urban growth strategies, and so the book "assesses the significance of Walt Disney World for city building and urban governance in the new millennium." At a broader scale, the Disney-Orlando story can be linked to three important subjects that deal with growth of the post-industrial American city: 1) relations between global corporations and local governments; T) the nature of the division of labor between these two bodies in city building and service provision; and 3) the role of path dependence in these processes, that is, to what extent can a city get locked into a determinate pattern of growth? These issues are treated in broad strokes with specific examples, but—make no mistake—this is neither a technical nor boring read. It is a fascinating and engaging story that ranges from the vision Disney and his "imagineers" of the 1960s held for Dr. Zonn is Professor of Geography, University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. E-mail: zonn@unc.edu. REVIEWS315 the swamp lands of Orange and Osceola counties to the construction of Epcot in the 1970s and Celebration in the 1990s, and it is a story about the nature ofWalt Disney World as a clever, manipulative, and opportunistic arm of a major corporation that was able to construct for itselfa self-serving governance system ofnearly unlimited bounds, a "sort of Vatican with mouse ears." Eventually, though, this is a tale of warning to the many local governments, planning agencies, and legislatures who spend so much time and effort trying to land that major corporation, be it in the form of a sports team, manufacturing industry, think tank, major tourist site, or . . . mouse; it is a warning that you may get what you want. Married to the Mouse is broadly and vaguely cast in urban political economy terms and it occasionally notes other perspectives, including the immediately relevant regime theory. In reality, though, it is a straightforward historical narrative that is informed by the metaphor of marriage, which is used to contextualize the nature of interdependence between Disney and the local governments. Chapter titles include "seduction," "secrecy," "abuse," "marriage" and "therapy" and on occasion we are subject to an off-handed remark that is intended to remind us ofthis guiding set of principles. The metaphor is clearly intended toward a broader readership that might be interested in the subject matter and it can be grating at times, but ultimately it works, or at...

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