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Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century: The Golden Age of Antwerp. By Jeroen Puttevils . New York: Routledge, 2015. xii + 312 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $150.00. ISBN: 978-1-84893-576-1.
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- 10 May 2017, pp. 191-193
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Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life. By Tamara Plakins Thornton . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. xiv + 402 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-4696-2693-2.
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- 10 October 2017, pp. 611-613
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A History of British National Audit: The Pursuit of Accountability. By David Dewar and Warwick Funnell . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. x + 303 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-879031-0.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 830-832
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British Banking: Continuity and Change from 1694 to the Present. By Ranald C. Michie . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xi + 334 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth, $105.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-872736-1.
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- 02 August 2017, pp. 403-406
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The Rise of the Global Company: Multinationals and the Making of the Modern World. By Robert Fitzgerald . Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 622 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $99.99; paper, $29.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-521-84974-6; paper, 978-0-521-61496-2.
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- 02 August 2017, pp. 406-409
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Middle Class Union: Organizing the “Consuming Public” in Post–World War I America. By Mark W. Robbins . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. viii + 219 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 978-0-472-13033-7.
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- 10 October 2017, pp. 613-616
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Carl Duisberg, 1861–1935: Anatomie eines Industriellen [Carl Duisberg, 1861–1935: Anatomy of an Industrialist]. By Werner Plumpe . Munich, Germany: C. H. Beck Press, 2016. 992 pp. Photographs, bibliography, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $42.35. ISBN: 978-3-406-69637-4.
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- 10 May 2017, pp. 193-196
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El Banco de Barcelona, 1874–1920: Decadencia y quiebra [Bank of Barcelona, 1874–1920: Decadence and bankruptcy]. By Yolanda Blasco-Martel and Carles Sudrià i Triay . Madrid: Marcial Pons Historia, 2016. 412 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, addendum, appendices, bibliography, index. Paperback, €30.00. ISBN: 978-84-15963-89-9.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 832-834
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The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life. By Margaret Guroff . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. 287 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-292-74362-5.
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- 10 October 2017, pp. 616-618
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Mutual Insurance 1550–2015: From Guild Welfare and Friendly Societies to Contemporary Micro-Insurers. By Marco H. D. van Leeuwen . London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xiii + 321 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $120.00. ISBN: 978-1-137-53109-4.
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- 02 August 2017, pp. 409-411
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Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon's Willamette Valley. By Peter A. Kopp . Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. xv + 306 pp. Photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-27748-9.
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- 10 May 2017, pp. 196-198
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Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective. Edited by Patrick Fridenson and Kikkawa Takeo . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. xvi + 273 pp. Notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-1-4875-0106-8.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 834-837
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Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893. By Yasuhiro Makimura . New York: Lexington Books, 2017. xx + 255 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $105.00. ISBN: 978-1-4985-5559-3.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 837-840
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Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest. By Andrew Needham . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. ix + 321 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-13906-7.
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- 10 May 2017, pp. 198-201
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The Capitalist and the Critic: J. P. Morgan, Roger Fry, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Charles Molesworth . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. xii + 244 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4773-0840-0.
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- 10 October 2017, pp. 618-620
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Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790–1860. By Gergely Baics . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. xv + 347 pp. Maps, figures, tables, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16879-1.
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- 02 August 2017, pp. 411-414
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Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America. By Joanna Cohen . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 296 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4892-0.
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- 02 August 2017, pp. 414-416
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A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau. By Rosemary Stevens . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. xviii + 376 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2130-8.
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- 10 October 2017, pp. 620-622
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The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World. By Sally Denton . New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016. viii + 436 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-1-4767-0646-7.
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- 10 May 2017, pp. 201-203
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The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age. By Wendy Gamber . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. xi + 305 pp. Photographs, maps, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2020-2.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 840-842
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