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Karen Pastorello. A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xx + 273 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03230-1, $42.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 665-667
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Marie-Monique Robin. The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply. Translated by George Holoch. New York: The New Press, 2009. xii + 358 pp. ISBN 978-1-59558-426-7, $26.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 668-670
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Gabriela Soto Laveaga. Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. xiii + 332 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4587-9, $84.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-8223-4605-0, $23.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 670-672
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Jennifer Sherman. Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-5905-0, $19.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 672-674
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Daniel Samson. The Spirit of Industry and Improvement: Liberal Government and Rural-Industrial Society, Nova Scotia, 1790–1862. Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. 448 pp. ISBN 978-0-7735-3354-7, $85.00 (cloth), $34.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 674-677
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Sarah Hand Meacham. Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 2009. 208 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-9312-4, $48.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 677-678
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Christopher Harvie. A Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Culture, and Technology on Britain's Atlantic Coast, 1860–1930. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii+ 319 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-822783-0, $110.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 678-680
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John Heitmann. The Automobile and American Life. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Publishers, Inc., 2009. xi + 248 pp. ISBN 978-0-7864-4013-9, $39.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 680-682
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Douglas B. Ward. A New Brand of Business: Charles Coolidge Parlin, Curtis Publishing Company, and the Origins of Market Research. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2010. vii + 228 pp. ISBN 978-1-4399-0015-4, $54.50 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 682-685
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Maya Shatzmiller. Her Day in Court: Women's Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 230 pp. ISBN 978-06-7402-501-1, $28.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 685-686
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Kristin Mann. Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760–1900. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. xii + 473 pp. ISBN 978-0-225-322235-0, $29.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 686-688
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Dolores L. Augustine. Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945–1990. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. xxx + 381 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01236-2, $46.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 688-691
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Matthew Pratt Guterl. American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. xii + 237 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-02868-5, $41.50 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 691-693
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James Hunt. Relationship Banker: Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, and American Business, 1916–1959. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2009. 386 pp. ISBN 978-0-8655-4915-9, $35.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 693-696
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Miriam Forman-Brunell. Babysitter: An American History. New York: New York University Press, 2009. xi + 313 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-2759-1, $29.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 696-698
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Boris B. Gorshkov. Russia's Factory Children: State, Society, and the Law, 1800–1917. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. ix +216 pp. ISBN 978-0-8229-6048-5, $60.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-82296048-6, $25.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 698-701
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David A. Phillips. Reforming the World Bank. Twenty Years of Trial—and Error. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xx + 324 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-88305-4, $50.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 701-703
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Wendy A. Woloson. In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiii + 233 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-94664-1, $35.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 703-706
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Jeffrey Haydu. Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870–1916. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. ix + 261 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4641-2, $39.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 706-707
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Noelle Plack. Common Land, Wine and the French Revolution: Rural Society and Economy in Southern France, c. 1789–1820. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2009. xiv + 215 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-6728-5, $100 (hardcover).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 708-709
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