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Volume 95 - Winter 2021

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The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era. By Ronald W. Schatz. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. 344 pp. Photographs, bibliography, index. Paperback, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-252-08559-8.

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company. By William Dalrymple. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. xxxv + 522 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Hardcover, £30.00. ISBN: 9781408864371.

Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic. By Ariel Ron. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 324 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-3932-7.

Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital. By Zach Sell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 352 pp. Halftones, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $95.00. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6045-5.

Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition. By Bronwen Everill. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 328 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 978-0-674-24098-8.

Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Historical Approach. Edited By Moses E. Ochonu. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. viii + 334 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps. Hardcover, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-253-03260-7.

Chicago's Industrial Decline: The Failure of Redevelopment, 1920–1975. By Robert Lewis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xi + 256 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-5262-9.

The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North. By Emily Pawley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 312 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-69383-5.

Engines of Redemption: Railroads and the Reconstruction of Capitalism in the New South. By Scott R. Huffard. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xviii + 324 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-4696-5280-1.

Ethnic Entrepreneurs, Crony Capitalism, and the Making of the Franco-Mexican Elite. By José Galindo. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021. xvi + 222 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 978-0-8173-2080-5.

Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America. By Brian P. Luskey. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 296 pp. Halftones, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-5432-4.

The Global History of Work: Critical Readings. Edited by Marcel van der Linden. 4 vols. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. Illustrations. Hardcover, $890.00. ISBN: 978-1-4742-9731-8.

Laid Waste! The Culture of Exploitation in Early America. By John Lauritz Larson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 312 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-5184-5.

Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. 272 pp. Hardcover, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-8071-7219-3.

Provincializing Global History: Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830. By James Livesay. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN 978-0-3002-3716-0.

Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow. By Tyrone McKinley Freeman. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2020. xvi + 278 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-04345-1.

Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata Reform. By Steven J. Ericson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 210 pp. Illustrations, index. Hardcover, $49.95. ISBN: 978-1-5017-4691-8.

Taking Flight: The Foundations of American Commercial Aviation, 1918–1938. By M. Houston Johnson V. Centennial of Flight Series, no. 21. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2019. x + 287 pp. Photographs, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-62349-721-7.

Capital in the Nineteenth Century. By Robert E. Gallman and Paul W. Rhode. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. xvi + 381 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, references, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-63311-4.

Money and Markets: Essays in Honour of Martin Daunton. Edited byJulian Hoppit, Duncan Needham, and Adrian Leonard. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell & Brewer, 2019. xiv + 294 pp. Illustrations. Paper, $25.95. ISBN: 978-1-78327-445-1.

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