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Volume 95 - Winter 2021

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Enterprise, Organization, and Technology in China: A Socialist Experiment, 1950–1971. By Philip Scranton. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. xv + 395 pp. Illustrations, index. Hardcover, $119.99. ISBN: 978-3-030-00397-5.

Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940. By Eugenia Lean. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 416 pp. Glossary, notes, references, index. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-19348-1.

Britain and the Growth of US Hegemony in Twentieth-Century Latin America: Competition, Cooperation and Coexistence. Edited by Thomas C. Mills and Rory M. Miller. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. xiv + 318 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $119.99. ISBN 978-3-030-48320-3.

The Underground Wealth of Nations: On the Capitalist Origins of Silver Mining, A.D. 1150–1450. By Jeannette Graulau. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. xvi + 373 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-21822-0.

Sameness in Diversity: Food and Globalization in Modern America. By Laresh Jayasanker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-520-34396-2.

Le Crédit agricole (1951–2001): De la banque des campagnes à la banque universelle. By Hubert Bonin. Geneva: Droz, 2020. 472 pp. Figures, tables, index. Cloth, €39.00. ISBN: 978-2-600-06068-4.

Venice's Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance. By Ioanna Iordanou. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiv + 263 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $41.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-879131-7.

Poppies, Politics, and Power: Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy. By James Tharin Bradford. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xii + 281 pp. Illustrations. Paperback, $30.95. ISBN: 978-1-5017-3976-7.

Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, ca. 1470–1493. By Lorenz Böninger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 224 pp. Appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-25113-7.

Spectacular Flops: Game-Changing Technologies That Failed. By Michael Brian Schiffer. Clinton Corners, NY: Eliot Werner, 2019. xii + 308 pp. Illustrations, references, index. Paper, $32.95. ISBN: 978-0-9898249-9-6.

Engineered to Sell: European Émigrés and the Making of Consumer Capitalism. By Jan L. Logemann. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2019. vii + 371 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $105.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-66001-1.

Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society. By Richard T. Lindholm. London: Anthem Press, 2017. 350 pp. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $115.00. ISBN: 978-1-78308-636-8.

Lost Glory: India's Capitalism Story. By Sumit K. Majumdar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xx + 308 pp. Appendices. Hardcover, $44.95. ISBN: 978-0-1996-4199-4.

The Huawei Model: The Rise of China's Technology Giant. By Yun Wen. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2020. 256 pp. Maps, charts, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-04343-7.

China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816–1980. By Robert Bickers. London: Bloomsbury Business, 2020. viii + 534 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, £30.00. ISBN: 978-1-4729-4994-3.

The Fabric of Empire: Material and Literary Cultures of the Global Atlantic, 1650–1850. By Danielle C. Skeehan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. xiii + 184 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Hardcover, $54.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-3968-6.

Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism. By Dinyar Patel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. ix + 355 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 9780674249080.

The Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media. By Catherine Turco. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 272 pp. Appendix, notes, references, index. Hardcover, $37.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-17898-3.

Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent. By Jason M. Kelly. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 320 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-98649-7.

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