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José Camilo L. de Guevara, Carlos Dávila L. De Guevara, Lina Aceneth Grisales Rincón, David Schnarch González. Lo social y lo económico: ¿Dos caras de una misma moneda? La Fundación Social y sus empresas (1984–2010). Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, 2011. 275 pp. ISBN 978-958-695-687, $20 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 903-905
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Michele Alacevich. The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press and the World Bank, 2009. xiv + 197 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-6065-2 . $75.00 (cloth); ISBN: 978-0-8047-6066-9 $29.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 429-432
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Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Rohm and Haas: A Century of Innovation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 223 pp. ISBN 978-0-9749510-8-9, $49.95 (hardcover).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 197-199
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Clare Rose. Making, Selling and Wearing Boys' Clothes in Late-Victorian England. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010. 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-6444-4, $124.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 432-435
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Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood (eds.). Holiday in Mexico: Critical Reflections on Tourism and Tourist Encounters. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. ix + 393 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4554-1, $89.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8223-4571-8 Z, $24.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 199-202
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Jeffrey G. Williamson. Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. xi + 301 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01515-8, $35 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 906-908
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Ángel Calvo. Historia de Telefónica: 1924–1975. Primeras décadas: tecnología, economía y política. Barcelona and Madrid: Ariel-Fundación Telefónica, 2010. 569 pp. ISBN 978-84-08-09893-5, €18 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 908-911
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Geoffrey Clark, Gregory Anderson, Christian Thomann, and J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg, eds. The Appeal of Insurance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. x + 247 pp. ISBN 978-1-4426-4065-8, $50.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 202-204
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David L. Stearns, Electronic Value Exchange: Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System. London: Springer, 2011. 267 pp. ISBN 978-1849-9613-87, $99.00 (Hardback).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 435-438
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Preeti Chopra. A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. xxiv + 293 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-7037-6, $20.89 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 438-440
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Ann Smart Martin. Buying into a World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2008. 276 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8727-5, $38.88 (cloth), $15.20 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 911-913
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Gunja SenGupta. From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840–1918. New York: New York University Press, 2009. v + 333 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-4061-3, $48.00 (hardback).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 204-206
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Shireen Ally. From Servants to Workers: South African Domestic Workers and the Democratic State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 250 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4832-4, $55.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8014-7587-0, $22.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 207-209
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Martin Kornberger. Brand Society: How Brands Transform Management and Lifestyle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xx + 308 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-898263, $95.00 (cloth); 978-0-521-72690-0, $35.99 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 440-442
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Jerry Z. Muller. Capitalism and the Jews. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 272 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-14478-8, $24.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 914-916
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Mark Garrett Cooper. Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. ix + 230 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03522-7, $93.59 (cloth); 978-0-252-07700-5, $25.00 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 916-918
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Amy Mittelman. Brewing Battles: A History of American Beer. New York: Algora Publishing, 2008. 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-87586-572-0 (trade paper); 978-0-87586-573-7 (hard cover); 978-0-87586-574-4 (ebook).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 209-211
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Geoffrey Jones, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv + 412 pp., [16] pp. of plates. ISBN 0-1995-5649-0, $45.00 (cloth); 0-1996-3962-0, $27.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 442-444
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James Onley. The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth Century Gulf. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. viii and 352 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-922810-2, $165 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 918-920
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James R. Fichter, So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-05057-0, $35.00 (paper ).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 445-447
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