David Freeland. Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan's Lost Places of Leisure. New York: New York University Press, 2009. 320 pp.; 24 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95 (paper).
In Difficult Order: Anthropology, History, Politics, Discipline Difficult Folk? A Political History of Social Anthropology. By David Mills. New York: Berghahn, 2008.