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Volume 92 - Winter 2018

Book Reviews

Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920–2015. By Melvyn P. Leffler. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. x + 348 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17258-3.

Global Luxury: Organizational Change and Emerging Markets since the 1970s. Edited byPierre-Yves Donzé andRika Fujioka. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xix + 287 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $159.00. ISBN: 978-981-10-5235-4.

Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System. By Christy Ford Chapin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv + 358 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-04488-3.

The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770–1850. ByGillian Cookson. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2018. ix + 324 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, appendix, notes, index. Paper, $25.95. ISBN: 978-1-78327-276-1.

Higher Education and Silicon Valley: Conflicted but Connected. Edited by W. Richard Scott, Michael W. Kirst, and Colleagues. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. xi + 282 pp. Figures, tables, references, appendixes, index. Paper, $54.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2308-1.

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy. By Jonathan Taplin. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2017. 321 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $19.72. ISBN: 978-0-316-27577-4.

Danish Modern Furniture 1930–2016: The Rise, Decline and Re-emergence of a Cultural Market Category. ByPer H. Hansen. Odense, Denmark: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2018. xii + 510 pp. Notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs, index. Cloth, $52.25. ISBN: 978-87-7674-903-3.

Between Depression and Disarmament: The International Armaments Business, 1919–1939. ByJonathan A. Grant. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2018. x + 228 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-42835-4.

Analysing Corruption. By Dan Hough. London: Agenda Publishing, 2017. x + 205 pp. Notes, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $85.00; paper $30.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-911116-54-7; paper, 978-1-911116-55-4.

Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century: Inequality and Redistribution, 1901–1998. ByThomas Piketty translated bySeth Ackerman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. ix + 1,261 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-73769-3.

Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America. By Johann N. Neem. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. xiii + 240 pp. Bibliography, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $22.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2321-0.

Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century. ByLaDale C. Winling. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 251 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4968-2.

A Little History of Economics. By Niall Kishtainy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. vi + 249 pp. Index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-20636-4.

A Business of State: Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company. ByRupali Mishra. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. vii + 412 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-98456-1.

Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia. ByChris Miller. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. xv + 217 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-1-4696-4066-2.

Tug of War: Surveillance Capitalism, Military Contracting, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. By Jocelyn Wills. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. xv + 500 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-7735-5047-6.

The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations. By Tsedal Neeley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. vii + 188 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17537-9.

Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain, from Beveridge to Brexit. ByJim Tomlinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiii + 273 pp. Notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, tables, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-878609-2.

Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa. BySteven Press. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2017. iv + 371 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-97185-1.

From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs. By Joshua Clark Davis. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. 336 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $35.95. ISBN: 978-0-2311-7158-8.

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