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Volume 89 - Spring 2015

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Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way. ByHasia R. Diner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. xix + 247 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-17864-7.

The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve: A Return to Jekyll Island. Edited byMichael D. Bordo andWilliam Roberds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xix + 431 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-01372-8.

Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II. ByMauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xiii + 310 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-15149-6.

Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619–1807. ByGregory E. O'Malley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ix + 394 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 9-781469-615349.

Design by IKEA: A Cultural History. BySara Kristoffersson. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. viii + 148 pp. Illustrations, figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8578-5814-6.

The Role of Central Banks in Financial Stability: How Has It Changed?Edited byDouglas D. Evanoff, Cornelia Holthausen, George G. Kaufman, and Manfred Kremer. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2014. xi + 455 pp. Figures, tables. Cloth, $138.00. ISBN: 978-981-4449-91-5.

The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire. ByAdam D. Mendelsohn. New York: New York University Press, 2015. vii + 297 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-4798-4718-1.

Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America. ByQuincy T. Mills. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. xii + 319 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth: $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4541-7.

Les Banques centrales à l'échelle du monde [Central Banks at World Scale]. Edited byOlivier Feiertag andMichel Margairaz. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2012. 288 pp. Figures, illustrations, tables, references. Paper, €33.00. ISBN: 978-2-7246-1178-6.

The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order. ByLeon Fink. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 206 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4688-9.

Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life. ByAndrea Feeser. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013. 140 pp. Illustrations, map, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8203-3817-0; paper, 978-0-8203-4553-6.

A Business History of the Swatch Group: The Rebirth of Swiss Watchmaking and the Globalization of the Luxury Industry. ByPierre-Yves Donzé. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave, 2014. xiii + 152 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $91.89. ISBN: 978-1-137-38906-0.

The World's First Stock Exchange. ByLodewijk Petram. Translated by Lynne Richards. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. vi + 296 pp. Tables, figures, maps, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-231-16378-1.

Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South. ByMartin Ruef. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. x + 285 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, appendix, notes, references, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-16277-5.

The Workplace Constitution: From the New Deal to the New Right. BySophia Z. Lee. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xiii + 401 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $42.92; paper, $29.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-107-03872-1; paper, 978-1-107-61321-8.

Electric City: General Electric in Schenectady. ByJulia Kirk Blackwelder. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2014. x + 259 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-62349-186-4.

Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus. BySusan Nance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. viii + 294 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-0829-3.

Histoire économique et sociale de la Savoie de 1860 à nos jours [Economic and social history of Savoy from 1860 to the present]. Edited byDenis Varaschin with Hubert Bonin and Yves Bouvier. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. 652 pp. Tables, maps, notes, index. Paper, €49.90. ISBN: 978-2-600-01828-9.

Patently Contestable: Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Trial in Britain. ByStathis Arapostathis andGraeme Gooday. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2013. xv + 294 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-01903-3.

The Republican Party in the Age of Roosevelt: Sources of Anti-Government Conservatism in the United States. ByElliot A. Rosen. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. xiv + 229 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth: $39.50. ISBN: 978-0-8139-3554-6.

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