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The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America. By Lawrence Culver. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. x + 317 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-538263-1.
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Die Geschichte der National-Bank, 1921 bis 2011 [The History of National-Bank, 1921 to 2011]. By Joachim Scholtyseck. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. 423 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €44.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09831-1.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 369-372
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Historia del Banco Popular: La lucha por la independencia [History of Banco Popular: The Fight for Independence]. By Gabriel Tortella, José María Ortiz-Villajos, and José Luís García Ruiz. Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2011. 431 pp. Illustrations, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes. Paper, €38.00. ISBN: 978-84-9768-917-5.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 372-373
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Banquiers et diplomates suisses (1938–1946) [Swiss Banking and Diplomacy, 1938–1946]. By Marc Perrenoud. Lausanne: Editions Antipodes, 2011. 540 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €37.00. ISBN: 978-2-88901-030-1.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 374-376
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Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883–1945. By Daqing Yang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010. xix + 446 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-01091-8.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 376-378
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Technology and the Making of the Netherlands: The Age of Contested Modernization, 1890–1970. Edited by Johan Schot, Harry Lintsen, and Arie Rip. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. 635 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-26-201362-8.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 378-381
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Creating Consumers: Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America. By Carolyn M. Goldstein. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xi + 412 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3553-1.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 381-384
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The Voice of the Citizen Consumer: A History of Market Research, Consumer Movements, and the Public Sphere. Edited by Kerstin Brückweh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xv + 304 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $150.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-960402-9.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 384-386
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Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840–1914. By James Simpson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. xli + 318 pp. Tables, maps, glossary, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.50; electronic, $39.50. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-691-13603-5; electronic, 978-1-400-83888-2.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 386-389
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American Tuna: The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food. By Andrew F. Smith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xiv + 242 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-26184-6.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 389-391
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Sweet Stuff: An American History of Sweeteners from Sugar to Sucralose. By Deborah Jean Warner. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2011. viii + 289 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-935623-05-2.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 391-393
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Art and Science in Breeding: Creating Better Chickens. By Margaret E. Derry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. 281 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4395-6.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 393-394
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They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California. By Don Mitchell. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. xii + 529 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8203-4175-0; paper, 978-0-8203-4176-7.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 394-397
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Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences. By Dominique A. Tobbell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xv + 294 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-520-27113-5; paper, 978-0-520-27114-2.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 397-399
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Oil Producing Countries and Oil Companies: From the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Alain Beltran. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. 294 pp. Figures and tables. Paper, $61.95 ISBN: 978-90-5201-711-2.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 399-401
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The Wealth and Poverty of Regions: Why Cities Matter. By Mario Polèse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv + 254 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, index. Paper, $22.50. ISBN: 978-0-226-67316-5.
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- 23 July 2013, pp. 402-404
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