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Volume 81 - Issue 1 - Spring 2007

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How New York Became American, 1890-1924. By Angela M. Blake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 242 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-88293-1.

Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction. By David A. Zimmerman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii + 294 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-807-83023-2; paper, 0-807-85687-8.

Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s. By Inger L. Stole. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xviii + 290 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-03059-1; paper, 0-252-07299-5.

Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption. By Laura J. Miller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. x + 316 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-52590-2.

Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin. By Pamela Walker Laird. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiv + 439 PP. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01907-5.

America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941–2001. By Richard M. Abrams. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix + 345 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-521-86246-9.

The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century. By Christopher D. McKenna. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxi + 370 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-521-81039-6.

Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery. By David Warsh. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. xxii + 426 pp. Index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-393-05996-0.

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. By Deirdre N. McCloskey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xviii + 616 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 0-226-55663-8.

The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse. By Bryan Cowan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xii + 364 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-300-10666-1.

A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century. By Giorgio Riello. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii + 302 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 0-199-29225-6.

Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Greatest Business Families. By David S. Landes. New York: Viking, 2006. xx + 379 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 0-670-03338-3.

Da danske møbler blev moderne: Historien om dansk møbeldesigns storhedstid [Danish Modern: A History of the Golden Age of Danish Furniture Design]. By Per H. Hansen. Copenhagen: Aschehoug, 2006. 644 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, DKK399.00. ISBN: 8-711-23196-3.

Innovation + Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1973–2002. By John Singleton with Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke, and Frank Holmes. Auckland: University of Auckland Press, 2006. xii + 340 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index, plates. Cloth, $33.95. ISBN: 1-869-40364-9.

The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700–1845. By Paul A. Van Dyke. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xviii + 280 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 9-622-09749-9.

The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. By Madeleine Zelin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xxix + 404 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-231-13596-3.

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