Book ReviewKathryn A. Morrison. English Shops and Shopping: An Architectural History. New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2004. viii+343 pp.; 117 black and white and 195 color illustrations, bibliography, index. $60.00.
Book ReviewMichele H. Bogart. The Politics of Urban Beauty: New York and Its Art Commission. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 368 pp.; 84 illustrations, list of abbreviations, appendixes, notes, index. $55.00.
Martha B. Katz-Hyman and Kym S. Rice, eds. World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the United States, 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2011. 581 pp.; black-and-white illustrations, bibliography, index. $180.00.