| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Lee M. A. Simpson. Selling the City: Gender, Class, and the California Growth Machine, 1880–1940. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2004. Pp. ix, 215. $49.50.

This book challenges established paradigms in urban history, women's history, and western American history. Lee M. A. Simpson argues persuasively, if not always conclusively, that women were important participants in California's "growth machine," a coalition of land-based business elites and local politicians working to increase property values through city development. Simpson's contributions are twofold. She shows that women played significant roles in the activities of the growth machine and that the work of that machine, "instead of harming the majority of the population ... made possible a wide range of economic policies designed to enhance quality of life as well as overall wealth" (p. 2).

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