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Volume 90 - Winter 2016

Book Reviews

Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain. ByKatherine C. Epstein. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 305 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-72526-3.

The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture. By Pamela Haag . New York: Basic Books, 2016. xxv + 496 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.99. ISBN: 978-0-465-04895-3.

Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights in the War of 1812. By Paul A. Gilje . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xii + 425 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper, $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-60782-8.

How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual. By Dan Bouk . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xxx + 294 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-25917-8.

Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State. By Daniel Amsterdam . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 230 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4810-4.

Aluminum Ore: The Political Economy of the Global Bauxite Industry. Edited by Robin S. Gendron , Mats Ingulstad , and Espen Storli . Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2013. xii + 387 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-7748-2532-0.

The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South. By William Boyd . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xvii + 350 pp. Photographs, maps, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1878-0.

Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War. ByPierpaolo Barbieri. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 349 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72885-1.

Forestry in the U.S. South: A History. By Mason C. Carter , Robert C. Kellison , and R. Scott Wallinger . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. xx + 386 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, figures, references, appendixes, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-8071-6054-1.

Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age. By Benjamin F. Alexander . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. 158 pp. Maps, illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4214-1620-5; paper, 978-1-4214-1621-2.

American Surveillance: Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment. By Anthony Gregory . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. xiii + 263 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 978-0-299-30880-3.

Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France. ByClare Haru Crowston. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. xx + 424 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $27.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-5513-7; paper, 978-0-8223-5528-1.

The Beautiful Country: Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy. ByStephanie Malia Hom. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. xiv + 313 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4872-2.

America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve. By Roger Lowenstein . New York: Penguin Press, 2015. 355 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth $29.95. ISBN: 978-159420-549-1.

The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve. By Peter Conti-Brown . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. xiv + 347 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-16400-7.

Blood on Steel: Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937. By Michael Dennis . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. xii + 140 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4214-1017-3; paper, 978-1-4214-1018-0.

Crash! How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked. By Phillip G. Payne . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. viii + 142 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4214-1885-1; paper, 978-1-4214-1856-8.

Sugar and Civilization: American Empire and the Cultural Politics of Sweetness. By April Merleaux . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xviii + 302 pp. Photographs, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-2251-4.

A Long Time in Making: The History of Smiths. ByJames Nye. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxvi + 375 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, appendixes, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-871725-6.

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