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Volume 82 - Autumn 2008

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Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific. By Mansel G. Blackford. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. xi + 267 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $48.00. ISBN: 978–0–824–83073–1.

The Expert Consumer: Associations and Professionals in Consumer Society. Edited by Alain Chatriot, Maire-Emmanuelle Chessel, and Matthew Hilton. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. ix + 209 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $94.94. ISBN: 0-7546-5501-6.

The Origins of the Welfare State: Women, Work, and the French Revolution. By Lisa DiCaprio. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiii + 259 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978–0–252–032021–5.

L'oeuvre d'Ernest Labrousse: Genèse d'un modèle d'histoire économique [The Work of Ernest Labrousse: Genesis of a Model of Economic History]. By Maria Novella Borghetti. Paris: Éditions de l'EHESS, 2005. 299 pp. Bibliography, notes. Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 2–713–22019-X.

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Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America. By Giles Slade. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 330 pp. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0–674–02203–3.

The Industrialization of Rural China. By Chris Bramall. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 424 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 0-199-27593-9.

The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry. By Lawrence E. Mitchell. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2007. xiii + 395 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978–1–576–75400–9.

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China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads. Edited by Charles W. Calomiris. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. x + 420 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-231-14192-5.

The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy. By Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramsayer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii + 181 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 0-226-53270-4.

Dancing Around the Elephant: Creating a Prosperous Canada in an Era of American Dominance, 1957–1973. By Bruce Muirhead. University of Toronto Press, 2007. x + 323 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978–0–080–209016–4.

Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile. By Lewis H. Siegelbaum. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xi + 309 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–0–801–44638–2.

State or Merchant? Political Economy and Political Process in 1740s China. By Helen Dunstan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xv + 523 pp. Figures, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–02262–1.

The Spice Route: A History. By John Keay. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xv + 286 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN: 0-520-24896-1.

The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson. Edited by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, x + 417 pp. References, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978–0–262–08361–4.

Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. By Jeffry A. Frieden. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. xvii + 556 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $29.95; paper $17.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-393-05808-6; paper, 0-978-393-32981-0.

The British-Atlantic Trading Community, 1760–1810: Men, Women, and the Distribution of Goods. By Sheryllynne Haggerty. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xiv + 290 pp. Figures, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 90–0415018–8.

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