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Volume 90 - Winter 2016

Book Reviews

Drive! Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age. By Lawrence Goldstone . New York: Ballantine Books, 2016. 372 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-553-39418-4.

Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line. By Gregory L. Schneider . Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. xx + 380 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-7006-1918-4.

The Other Welfare: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy. By Edward D. Berkowitz and Larry DeWitt . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. xi + 279 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5173-7.

Pesos and Politics: Business, Elites, Foreigners, and Government in Mexico, 1854–1940. ByMark Wasserman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. ix + 257 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9154-0.

The Power Brokers: The Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry. By Jeremiah D. Lambert . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2015. xiv + 379 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-02950-6.

Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe. By Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. xvi + 265 pp. Notes, references, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16545-5.

The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle. By Peter Baldwin . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014. 535 pp. Notes, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16909-5.

Waste into Weapons: Recycling in Britain during the Second World War. By Peter Thorsheim . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv + 289 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-09935-7.

Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772. By Tyler Beck Goodspeed . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. xii + 298 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-08888-7.

The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan. ByAdam Clulow. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xvi + 330 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-16428-3.

Economic Growth and Measurement Reconsidered in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, 1965–1995. By Morten Jerven . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii + 215 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-968991-0.

Sugar, Steam, and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830–1885. ByG. Roger Knight. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2014. xi + 242 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography. Paper, $44.00; electronic, free. ISBN: paper, 978-1-922064-98-1; electronic, 978-1-922064-99-8.

A History of Fair Trade in Contemporary Britain: From Civil Society Campaigns to Corporate Compliance. By Matthew Anderson . Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. x + 230 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-30381-2.

Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape. By Francesca Russello Ammon . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. xvi + 383 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-20068-3.

Economies under Occupation: The Hegemony of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in World War II. Edited by Marcel Boldorf and Tetsuji Okazaki . London and New York: Routledge, 2015. xiv + 335 pp. Map, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $168.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-83533-6.

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