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Volume 93 - Winter 2019

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Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide. ByLane Windham. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 295 pp. Photographs, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-3207-0.

Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race. ByShane Hamilton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. x + 277 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-23269-1.

Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba. ByLouis A. Pérez Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xiv + 249 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, index. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1469651422.

Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South. ByErin Stewart Mauldin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii + 244 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-086517-7.

Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America. ByElizabeth Zanoni. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. xii + 276 pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $32.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-04165-5; paper, 978-0-252-08329-7.

Tryst with Prosperity: Indian Business and the Bombay Plan of 1944. ByMedha M. Kudaisya. Haryana, India: Penguin Random House India, 2018. xxxviii + 231 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paper, INR 399.00. ISBN 978-0-143-44593-7.

Science and the State: From the Scientific Revolution to World War II. ByJohn Gascoigne. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiv + 250 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $89.99; paper, $29.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-107-15567-1; paper, 978-1-316-60938-5.

Controlling Credit: Central Banking and the Planned Economy in Postwar France, 1948–1973. ByEric Monnet. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxii + 327 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $120.00. ISBN: 978-1-108-41501-9.

World Market Transformation: Inside the German Fur Capital Leipzig, 1870–1939. ByRobrecht Declercq. New York: Routledge, 2017. xii + 235 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $155.00. ISBN: 978-1-138-66725-9.

Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement. ByDavid K. Johnson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xiv + 308 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-18910-1.

In Union There Is Strength: Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation. ByAndrew Heath. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. viii + 287 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 9780812251111.

Making Managers in Canada, 1945–1995: Companies, Community Colleges, and Universities. ByJason Russell. New York: Routledge, 2018. vii + 248 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $140.00. ISBN: 978-1-138-69131-5.

The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan. BySimon Partner. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xxi + 291 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-18292-8.

Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia. ByMichael Vatikiotis. London: Orion Publishing, 2017. xii + 336 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, £20.00. ISBN: 978-1-474-60200-6.

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Movable Markets: Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City. ByHelen Tangires. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. xiii + 292 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2747-8.

Industries and Global Competition: A History of Business beyond Borders. Edited byBram Bouwens, Pierre-Yves Donzé, andTakafumi Kurosawa. New York: Routledge, 2018. xvi + 273 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $155.00. ISBN: 978-1-138-68052-4.

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