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Volume 77 - December 2017

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Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement. By Pearson Chad. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. viii, 303. $55.00, cloth.
Samuel K. Allen
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12 June 2017, pp. 617-618
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Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State. By Daniel Amsterdam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. 240. $45.00, cloth.
Allison Shertzer
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24 November 2017, pp. 1239-1241
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Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made A. Pacyga Dominic Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xvii, 233. $26.00, cloth; $18.00, e-book.
Marc T. Law
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12 June 2017, pp. 618-620
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The Heart of the Declaration: The Founders' Case for an Activist Government. By Steve Pincus. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 207. $26.00, hardcover.
Richard Sylla
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24 November 2017, pp. 1241-1243
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The Engine of Enterprise: Credit in America. By Olegario Rowena. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. xi, 312. $39.95, cloth.
Bradley A. Hansen
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12 June 2017, pp. 620-621
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The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. By Ned and Constance Sublette. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2016. 752 pages. $35.00, hardback.
Jonathan B. Pritchett
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24 November 2017, pp. 1243-1244
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Sovereign Sugar: Industry and Environment in Hawai‘i. By Carol A. MacLennan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. Pp. xi–378. $39.00, cloth.
Sumner La Croix
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24 November 2017, pp. 1244-1246
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Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850. By J. Torget Andrew. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Pp. xii, 353. $34.95.
Jeff Forret
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12 June 2017, pp. 622-623
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Old Wheelways: Traces of Bicycle History on the Land. By L. McCullough Robert. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 367. $34.95, cloth.
Brandon Dupont
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12 June 2017, pp. 623-625
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Selling Power: Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940. By John L. Neufeld. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 336. $60.00, cloth; $60.00, eBook.
David Gabel
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24 November 2017, pp. 1246-1248
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The Rise of the Military Welfare State. By Mittelstadt Jennifer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 344. $29.95, cloth.
Jessica L. Adler
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12 June 2017, pp. 625-627
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Ancient to Modern Europe

The Baltic: A History. By Michael North. Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 427. $39.95, cloth.

United States and Canada

The Second Bank of the United States: “Central” Banker in an Era of Nation-Building, 1816–1936. Jane Ellen Knodell. London: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2016. Pp. 202. $98.47, hardcover.

The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance. By Yardley Paul Kahan, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2015. Pp. xii, 187. $28.00, cloth.

Jumping the Abyss: Marriner S. Eccles and the New Deal, 1933–1940. By Mark Wayne Nelson. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017. Pp xxvi, 424. $39.00, hardcover.

General and Miscellaneous

Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies. By Calestous Juma. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xii+416. $29.95, hardcover.

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Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business. By: Susan V. Spellman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 226. $78.00, hardcover.

The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression. By Sumner Scott. Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2015. Pp. xv, 507. $37.95, hardcover.

Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

JEH volume 77 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

JEH volume 77 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

Reviews of Books

United States and Canada

Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement. By Pearson Chad. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. viii, 303. $55.00, cloth.

Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State. By Daniel Amsterdam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. 240. $45.00, cloth.

Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made A. Pacyga Dominic Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xvii, 233. $26.00, cloth; $18.00, e-book.

The Heart of the Declaration: The Founders' Case for an Activist Government. By Steve Pincus. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 207. $26.00, hardcover.

The Engine of Enterprise: Credit in America. By Olegario Rowena. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. xi, 312. $39.95, cloth.

The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. By Ned and Constance Sublette. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2016. 752 pages. $35.00, hardback.

Sovereign Sugar: Industry and Environment in Hawai‘i. By Carol A. MacLennan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. Pp. xi–378. $39.00, cloth.

Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850. By J. Torget Andrew. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Pp. xii, 353. $34.95.

Old Wheelways: Traces of Bicycle History on the Land. By L. McCullough Robert. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 367. $34.95, cloth.

Selling Power: Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940. By John L. Neufeld. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 336. $60.00, cloth; $60.00, eBook.

The Rise of the Military Welfare State. By Mittelstadt Jennifer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 344. $29.95, cloth.

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