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Volume 82 - Autumn 2008

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Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America. By Kevin L. Borg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii + 249 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–88606–5.

Selling Shaker: The Commodification of Shaker Design in the Twentieth Century. By Stephen Bowe and Peter Richmond. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007. x + 404 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $40.00. ISBN: 1-846-31009-1.

The English Wool Market, c.1230–1327. By Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks, and Paul R. Dryburgh. Cambridge University Press, 2007. viii + 205 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978–0–521–85941–7.

Histoire de la Société générale: Volume I, 1864–1890: Naissance d'une banque [History of the Société générale: Volume I, 1864–1890: Birth of a Bank]. By Hubert Bonin. Geneva: Librarie Droz, 2006. 723 pp. Index, notes, appendix, tables. Paper, €68.47. ISBN: 2-600-01038-6.

The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London. By Barbara A. Hanawalt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv + 317 pp. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN: 978–0–195–31175–4.

Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. By Tom McCarthy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xx + 347 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 978–0–300–11038–8.

The Natural Origins of Economics. By Margaret Schabas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi + 231 pp. References, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-226-73569-9.

Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain, 1880–1939. By Laura Ugolini. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. xiii + 292 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–0384–9.

Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions. By Deborah Cohen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xvii + 294 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-300-11213-0.

Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver. By Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii + 225 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–88554–9.

The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany. By Jonathan R. Zatlin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xviii + 377 pp. Figures, tables, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-86956-0.

From Physick to Pharmacology: Five Hundred Years of British Drug Retailing. Edited by Louise Hill Curth. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xiii + 174 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-63597-X.

Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840. By Richard Perren. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xi + 285 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3648-8.

The Offshore Imperative: Shell's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America. By Tyler Priest. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2007. xi + 317 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–1–585–44568–4.

British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration, 1945–1972. By Neil Rollings. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi + 278 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978–0–521–88811–0.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: U.S. Energy Security and Oil Politics, 1975–2005. By Bruce A. Beaubouef. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xiv + 334 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978–1–585–44600–1.

Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. By Harold J. Cook. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xiv + 562 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-11796-7.

Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age. By Anne Goldgar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xx + 425 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978–0–226–30125.

Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism. By Jonathan A. Grant. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xi + 288 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-02242-7.

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