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Volume 90 - Winter 2016

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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860. By Calvin Schermerhorn . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. xi + 336 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-19200-1.

Century of the Leisured Masses: Entertainment and the Transformation of Twentieth-Century America. ByDavid George Surdam with Preface byKen McCormick. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xviii + 305 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-021157-8.

Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700. By Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. xx + 398 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, references, appendixes, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-17049-7.

Postcard America: Curt Teich and the Imaging of a Nation, 1931–1950. By Jeffrey L. Meikle . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. viii + 508 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-292-72661-1.

The Urban Department Store in America, 1850–1930. By Louisa Iarocci . Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. xvi + 241 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $114.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-4743-6.

Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern Environmentalism. ByRobert D. Lifset. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. xvi + 309 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $25.95. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6305-9.

Smokestacks in the Hills: Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia. By Lou Martin . Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 264 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $28.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03945-4; paper, 978-0-252-08102-6.

Golden Rules: The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush. By Mark Kanazawa . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xviii + 350 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, figures, tables, appendices, notes, references, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-25867-6.

Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business. By Susan V. Spellman . New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xii + 226 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-938427-3.

Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade since 1750. Edited by Ulbe Bosma and Anthony Webster . Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xv + 318 pp. Photographs, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-137-46391-3.

How the Post Office Created America: A History. By Winifred Gallagher . New York: Penguin Press, 2016. 326 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-1-59420-500-2.

Little Business on the Prairie: Entrepreneurship, Prosperity, and Challenge in South Dakota. By Robert E. Wright . Sioux Falls, S.Dak.: Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, 2015. x + 340 pp. Map, photographs, figures, tables, sources, index. Paper, $16.95. ISBN: 978-0-931170-68-3.

French Banks and the Greek “Niche Market,” mid-1880s–1950s. By Hubert Bonin . Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2013. 379 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, tables. Paper, $52.48. ISBN: 978-2-600-01700-8.

The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans. By Bruce E. Baker and Barbara Hahn . New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xi + 214 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-021165-3.

Sovereign Debt and International Financial Control: The Middle East and the Balkans, 1870–1914. By Ali Coşkun Tunçer . Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xvii + 243 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $105.00. ISBN: 978-1-137-37853-8.

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