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Volume 91 - Winter 2017

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Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers. By Nancy Tomes . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. xviii + 538 pp. Bibliography, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-4696-2277-4.

Organizing Organic: Conflict and Compromise in an Emerging Market. By Michael A. Haedicke . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. xiv + 225 pp. Tables, references, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9590-6.

Second Shift: The Inside Story of the Keep GM Movement. By David Hollister , Ray Tadgerson , David Closs , and Tomas Hult . New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2016. xii + 243 pp. Photographs, figures, appendix, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-1-25-964382-8.

The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence. By S. Max Edelson . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. xiv + 464 pp. Maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-97211-7.

Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures Between 600 BCE and 2012. By Niv Horesh . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. xiv + 363 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-8719-2.

The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820. By Leslie Tomory . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. xvi + 314 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2204-6.

John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. By Kathleen Waters Sander . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 403 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-2220-6.

From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies. By Jennifer Le Zotte . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiv + 326 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $27.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4696-3189-9; paper, 978-1-4696-3190-5.

Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain. By Julian Glover . New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2017. xxv + 416 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-1-4088-3746-7.

Subsistence under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Edited by James Murton , Dean Bavington , and Carly Dokis . Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. xiv + 391 pp. Figures, table, notes, index. Paper, $37.95. ISBN: 978-0-7735-4700-1.

Policy Signals and Market Responses: A 50 Year History of Zambia's Relationship with Foreign Capital. By Stuart John Barton . Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 298 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $115.00. ISBN: 978-1-137-39097-4.

Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs: How One Banana-Exporting Country Achieved Worldwide Reach. By Douglas Southgate and Lois Roberts . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. viii + 219 pp. Maps, tables, references, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4807-4.

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Engines of Empire: Steamships and the Victorian Imagination. By Douglas R. Burgess Jr. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 342 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9806-8.

Banques et grande industrie: France, Grande-Bretagne, Allemagne (1880–1930) [Banks and big industry: France, Britain, Germany (1880–1930)]. By Philippe Marguerat . Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2015. 420 pp. Tables, bibliography, index. Paperback, €35. ISBN: 978-2-7246-1780-1.

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