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Volume 85 - Winter 2011

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Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste. By David Hancock. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xxix + 632 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-13605-0.

Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor. By David Witwer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. vii + 322 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $30.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03417-6; paper, 978-0-252-07666-4.

Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America. BySharon Ann Murphy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xii + 395 pp Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89624-8.

Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland. BySean D. Moore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xi + 268 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89507-4.

Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie. By Harvey K. Flad and Clyde Griffen. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. xiv + 451 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-1-438-42613-6.

Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery. Edited byDavid Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz, and Anthony Tibbles. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010. x + 315 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-846-31244-1.

West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783–1807. By David Beck Ryden. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xv + 332 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-48659-0.

Capitalism and the Jews. ByJerry Z. Muller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. 267 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-14478-8.

Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877–1917. By Paul Michel Taillon. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xiv + 266 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03485-5; paper, 978-0-252-07678-7.

Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India. ByRavi Raman. Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. xi + 273 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $130.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-55103-8.

Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800. ByRichard S. Grossman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. xx + 284 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 978-0-691-13905-0.

Financer les entreprises face aux mutations économiques du XXe siècle [Financing Businesses in an Era of Economic Change]. Edited by Laure Quennouëlle-Corre and André Straus. Paris: IGPDE, 2009. xx + 419 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, €35.00. ISBN: 978-211-097511-9.

Selling the Economic Miracle: Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany 1949–1957. By Mark E. Spicka. New York: Berghahn, 2007. xvi + 288 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-84545-223-0.

Representation and Rebellion: The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914–1942. By Jonathan H. Rees. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2010. xix + 325 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliographic essay, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 798-0-870-81964-3.

Race, Labor, and Civil Rights: Griggs versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity. By Robert Samuel Smith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. x + 234 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-807-13363-7.

Indonesian Exports, Peasant Agriculture, and the World Economy, 1850–2000: Economic Structures in a Southeast Asian State. ByHiroyoshi Kano. Singapore: NUS Press, 2008. xix + 421 pp. Figures, tables, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $27.00. ISBN: 978-0-896-80268-1.

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