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Volume 89 - Spring 2015

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Transforming the South: Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1915–1960. ByMatthew L. Downs. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. 331 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $47.50. ISBN: 978-0-8071-5714-5.

Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England. ByJames Raven. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell & Brewer, 2014. xiv + 334 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-84383-910-1.

Confronting Decline: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England. ByDavid Koistinen. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. xii + 331 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.95. ISBN: 978-0-8130-4907-6.

The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier. ByDavid Schorr. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. xiv + 235 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-13447-6.

Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s. ByInger L. Stole. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. viii + 265 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-03712-2.

Ruin and Redemption: The Struggle for Canadian Bankruptcy Law, 1867–1919. ByThomas G. W. Telfer. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. xviii + 297 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9343-1.

Lo sviluppo sospeso: Il Mezzogiorno e l'impresa pubblica, 1948–1973 [Suspended Development: The Italian South and Public Enterprises, 1948–1973]. ByAugusto De Benedetti. Soveria Mannelli: Rubettino, 2013. 265 pp. Index. Paper, €17.00. ISBN: 978-88-498-3692-9.

A Better Way to Build: A History of the Pankow Companies. ByMichael R. Adamson. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2013. xxv + 470 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-55753-634-1.

Harriman vs. Hill: Wall Street's Great Railroad War. ByLarry Haeg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. xvi + 375 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8166-8364-2.

Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz. BySteven B. Bunker. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012. xiii + 333 pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-8263-4454-0.

Making National News: A History of Canadian Press. ByGene Allen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xi + 443 pp. Photographs, maps, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, Can$80.00; paper, Can$36.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4426-4716-9; paper, 978-1-4426-1532-8.

Making Seafood Sustainable: American Experiences in Global Perspective. ByMansel Blackford. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. xii + 273 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4393-2.

The Merchants’ Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South. ByScott P. Marler. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xv + 317 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-89764-8.

Brewery, Brand, and Family: 150 Years of Heineken. ByKeetie E. Sluyterman andBram Bouwens. Translated byDavid McKay. Amsterdam: Boom, 2014. 602 pp. Tables, photographs, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €49.90. ISBN: 978-90-8953-429-3.

Commodities and Colonialism: The Story of Big Sugar in Indonesia, 1880–1942. ByG. Roger Knight. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2013. xi + 291 pp. Photographs, map, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $146.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-25051-2.

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