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Volume 86 - Winter 2012

Review Essays

Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time. Edited byPaul W. Rhode, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and David F. Weiman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. xx + 461 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-804-77185-6.

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Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life. ByNicholas Phillipson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 368 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-16927-0.

Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory. Edited byUrsula Klein and E. C. Spary. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. vii + 398 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-43968-6.

Crises and Opportunities: The Shaping of Modern Finance. ByYoussef Cassis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xvi + 200 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-960086-1.

American Empire, 1945–2000: The Rise of a Global Power; the Democratic Revolution at Home. ByJoshua B. Freeman. New York: Viking Press, 2012. xiv + 527 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $36.00. ISBN: 978-0-670-02378-3.

The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change: North American Business Schools after the Second World War. ByMie Augier and James G. March. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. x + 364 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-7616-5.

So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism. ByJames R. Fichter. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. xii + 384 pp. Maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-05057-0.

When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors' Democracy. ByJulia C. Ott. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. 313 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-05065-5.

The Origins of Business, Money, and Markets. ByKeith Roberts. New York: Columbia Business School Publishing, 2011. xx + 357 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-231-15326-3.

The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good. ByJohn Lauritz Larson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiii + 208 pp. Maps, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $20.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-70989-7.

In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression. ByWendy A. Woloson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiii + 233 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-94664-1.

The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality. ByThomas Borstelmann. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. xiv + 401 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-14156-5.

Shipping and Economic Growth, 1350–1850. Edited byRichard W. Unger. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xix + 464 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $183.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-19439-7.

American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own. ByStuart Banner. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. vi + 355 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-058805-7.

Moneymakers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious Counterfeiters. ByBen Tarnoff. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 369 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-1-594-29287-2.

Making, Selling and Wearing Boys' Clothes in Late-Victorian England. ByClare Rose. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. 294 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $124.00. ISBN: 978-0-754-66444-4.

Milk: A Local and Global History. ByDeborah Valenze. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011. xv + 351 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-11724-0.

The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, 1450–1850. Edited byNicholas Canny and Philip Morgan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. vii + 671 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $150.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-21087-9.

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