Harrisburg Industrializes: The Coming of Factories to an American Community

Poland, and the United States. A few chapters, however, come close to 25 pages, and on the whole they are of considerably higher quality than the rest. Particularly good are the chapters on Australia, Canada, Germany, and Korea. Unfortunately, the editors did not exercise their prerogatives as rigorously as they could have. Consequently some chapters, such as the ones on France and Saudi Arabia, suffer either from awkward constructions or from inelegant translations. Five chapters (on Czechoslovakia, Italy, Poland, the United States, and Venezuela) lack any kind of bibliography, and a sixth (on France) contains a small handful of exclusively French-language sources that, for wellknown reasons, are likely to be of little use to most readers. Perhaps in compensation, the chapters on Australia and Germany contain superb lists of sources suitable for further reading. Regrettably, the editors did not compel contributors to clarify obscure passages. What, for example, is one to make of the concluding paragraph of the chapter on Saudi Arabia?