Book ReviewsBob Carlin. The Birth of the Banjo: Joel Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. ix+193 pp.; illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index. $35.00.
Book ReviewsThomas A. Kinney. The Carriage Trade: Making Horse‐Drawn Vehicles in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 400 pp.; 15 halftones, 12 line drawings. $52.00.
The Globalization of Feminine Consumption Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo. By Susan Ossman. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2002. 204 pp. Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding. By Cele C. Otnes and Elizabeth H. Pleck. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2003. 384 pp. Wedding Dress Across Cultures. Edited by Helen Bradley Foster and Donald Clay Johnson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 227 pp.
Neil Harris. Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 608 pp.; black-and-white illustrations, postscript, notes, index. $35.00.
