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Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP. By Susan Schmidt Horning . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xi + 292 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1022-7.

From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store. ByVicki Howard. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 295 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4728-2.

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The Chinese Market Economy, 1000–1500. By William Guanglin Liu . Albany: SUNY Press, 2015. xviii + 374 pp. Maps, figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4384-5567-9; paper, 978-1-4384-5568-6.

Investment Management in Boston: A History. ByDavid Grayson Allen. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. x + 432 pp. Tables, photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-62534-102-0; paper, 978-1-62534-103-7.

The Cultural History of Money and Credit: A Global Perspective. Edited by Chia Yin Hsu , Thomas M. Luckett , and Erika Vause . Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2016. xxv + 171 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-1-4985-0592-5.

Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History. Edited by Rebecca Kobrin and Adam Teller . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. viii + 355 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4730-5.

Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1750–2010. ByMargaret E. Derry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. viii + 310 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $32.95. ISBN: 978-1-4426-2652-2.

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Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, The Cambridge History of Capitalism: Volume 1, The Rise of Capitalism: From Ancient Origins to 1848; Volume II, The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present.

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Land, Proto-Industry and Population in Catalonia, c. 1680–1829: An Alternative Transition to Capitalism?By Julie Marfany . Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. 208 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $124.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-4465-7.

Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism. ByTimothy E. W. Gloege. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xviii + 307 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-2101-2.

Mixed Fortunes: An Economic History of China, Russia, and the West. By Vladimir Popov . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xiii + 191 pp. Tables, references, figures, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-870363-1.

Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s. By Meg Jacobs . New York: Hill and Wang, 2016. viii + 373 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-8090-5847-1.

Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760–1820. By Jeremy Baskes . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013. xiv + 393 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-8542-6.

Kissinger, 1923–1968: The Idealist, volume I. By Niall Ferguson . New York: Penguin Press, 2015. xix + 986 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-59420-653-5.

Building the Empire State: Political Economy in the Early Republic. By Brian Phillips Murphy . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. xii + 286 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4716-9.

Embezzlement and High Treason in Louis XIV's France: The Trial of Nicolas Fouquet. By Vincent J. Pitts . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. ix + 223 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1824-7.

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