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Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia, 1595–1660. ByRobert Parthesius. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. 217 pp. Maps, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $37.50. ISBN: 978-9-053-56517-9.
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- 17 February 2012, pp. 818-820
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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age. By Kurt Beyer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. xiii + 389 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-01310-9.
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- 11 May 2011, pp. 209-211
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National Capitalisms, Global Production Networks: Fashioning the Value Chain in the U.K., U.S.A., and Germany. By Christel Lane and Jocelyn Probert. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii + 335 pp. Tables, references, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-21481-5.
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- 28 June 2011, pp. 386-388
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Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City. ByJonathan Soffer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xi + 403 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-231-15032-3.
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- 19 October 2011, pp. 619-621
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Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce. By Sarah Abrevaya Stein. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii + 244 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $20.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-16818-1.
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- 28 June 2011, pp. 389-391
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Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression. ByMoses E. Ochonu. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xii + 217 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8214-1889-5; paper, 978-0-8214-1890-1.
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- 17 February 2012, pp. 820-823
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Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800–1930. By Catherine Fisk. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. x + 360 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-807-83302-5.
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- 11 May 2011, pp. 211-214
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Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940–1990. ByJennifer Delton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. vi + 313 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $87.00; paper, $24.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-521-51509-2; paper, 978-0-521-73080-8.
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- 19 October 2011, pp. 622-624
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The Empire in One City? Liverpool's Inconvenient Imperial Past. Edited bySheryllynne Haggerty, Anthony Webster, and Nicholas J. White. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2008. xiv + 237 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 978-0-719-07887-3.
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- 17 February 2012, pp. 823-825
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The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period. By Francesca Trivellato. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xiii + 470 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-13683-8.
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- 28 June 2011, pp. 391-393
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Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America. ByLawrence B. Glickman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xix + 403 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-29865-8.
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- 19 October 2011, pp. 624-627
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Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882–1950. By Aldo Musacchio. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxv + 298 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-51889-5.
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- 11 May 2011, pp. 214-216
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Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. ByKaren Ho. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xii + 374 pp. References, notes, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-822-3-4599-2.
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- 19 October 2011, pp. 627-629
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Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy. By Paul Cheney. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. xii + 305 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-04726-6.
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- 28 June 2011, pp. 393-395
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Politics, Markets and Mexico's “London Debt,” 1823–1887. By Richard J. Salvucci. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiii + 326 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-48999-7.
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- 11 May 2011, pp. 217-219
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Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era. ByClaude Markovits. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x + 292 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-20598-7.
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- 17 February 2012, pp. 825-828
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La République des inventeurs: Propriété et organisation de l'innovation en France (1791–1922) [The Republic of Inventors: Intellectual Property and the Organization of Innovation in France (1791–1922)]. By Gabriel Galvez-Behar. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008. 352 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €19.00. ISBN: 978-2-753-50695-4.
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- 28 June 2011, pp. 396-398
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Relationship Banker: Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, and American Business, 1916–1959. ByJames L. Hunt. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2009. xxvii + 386 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-865-54915-9.
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- 19 October 2011, pp. 629-630
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Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York. BySerena R. Zabin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 205 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-812-24160-0.
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- 17 February 2012, pp. 828-830
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From Windfall to Curse? Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present. By Jonathan Di John. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. xvii + 341 pp. Tables, references, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-271-03553-6.
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- 11 May 2011, pp. 219-221
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