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Volume 86 - Winter 2012

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Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829–1929. ByMolly W. Berger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 318 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89987-4.

Coins, Trade, and the State: Economic Growth in Early Medieval Japan. ByEthan Isaac Segal. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. xiv + 258 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-06068-5.

How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500–1850. Edited byGiorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy. Leiden: Brill, 2009. xxxiv + 489 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, glossary, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $188.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-17653-9.

The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age. ByRosanne Currarino. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xi + 210 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03570-8; paper, 978-0-252-07786-9.

Shaping Medieval Markets: The Organisation of Commodity Markets in Holland, c.1200–c.1450. ByJessica Dijkman. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xvi + 447 pp. Maps, tables, figures, appendix, references, notes, index. Cloth, $177.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-20148-4.

The Economy in Jewish History: New Perspectives on the Interrelationship between Ethnicity and Economic Life. Edited byGideon Reuveni and Sarah Wobick-Segev. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. x + 239 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-1-845-45774-7.

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective.ByRobert C. Allen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xi + 331 pp. Illustrations,figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $27.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-68785-0.

Hired Hands or Human Resources? Case Studies of HRM Programs and Practices in Early American History. ByBruce E. Kaufman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. xi + 254 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-44830-0.

Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes. ByNicholas A. Robins. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. xiv + 298 pp. Maps, glossary, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-253-35651-2.

The Business of Women: Marriage, Family, and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901–51. ByMelanie Buddle. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. xi + 208 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-774-81813-1.

Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s. Edited by Douglas A. Irwin and Richard Sylla. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. ix + 353 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00; paper, $35.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-226-38474-0; paper, 978-0-226-38475-7.

The Company State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India. ByPhilip J. Stern. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xiii + 300 pp. Illustrations, glossary, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-539373-6.

Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847–2006. ByTerry S. Reynold and Virginia P. Dawson. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011. viii + 351 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 978-0-814-33511-6.

Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways. ByChristine R. Yano. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. xv + 228 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-4836-8; paper, 978-0-8223-4850-4.

Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South. ByCalvin Schermerhorn. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. viii + 286 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $30.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4214-0035-8; paper, 978-1-4214-0036-5.

Gouverner une banque centrale: Du XVIIe siècle à nos jours [Governing a Central Bank: From the Seventeenth Century to Today]. Edited byOlivier Feiertag and Michel Margairaz. Paris: Albin Michel, 2010. 345 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €28.00. ISBN: 978-2-226-20882-8.

Before Porn Was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse. ByElizabeth Heineman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xi + 225 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-32521-7.

Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804–1867. ByIlya Vinkovetsky. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xiii + 258 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-539128-2.

Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry from 1812 to the Present. ByLeon Fink. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 278 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-807-83450-3.

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