| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Firms, Networks, and Business Values: The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750. By Mary B. Rose. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii, 352 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-521-78255-4.)

Despite the widely acknowledged place of the manufacture of cotton textiles as "the first industry," there are still surprising gaps in its history. Indeed, even in well-documented areas of scholarly inquiry such as the evolution of the cotton industries in Great Britain and the United States, important gaps remain, and comparative work on the industries in these two nation-states is still in its infancy. For this reason alone, the publication of Mary B. Rose's Firms, Networks, and Business Values is welcome indeed. That there are numerous other reasons to praise the volume should add further warmth to the scholarly reception it receives. . . .

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