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Volume 92 - Winter 2018

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Reisen til Bretton Woods: Begynnelsen på verden av i går [The journey to Bretton Woods: The beginning of the world of yesterday]. By Maria Berg Reinertsen. Oslo: Cappelen Damm, 2017. 224 pp. Illustrations, notes. Cloth, NOK 379. ISBN: 978-82-02-49779-8.

Corporate Spirit: Religion and the Rise of the Modern Corporation. ByAmanda Porterfield. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. viii + 204 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-937265-2.

The First World Oil War. By Timothy C. Winegard. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. xxii + 385 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, bibliography, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $36.95. ISBN: 978-1-4875-0073-3.

Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio. ByDerek W. Vaillant. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2017. xii + 239 pp. Photographs, maps, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-08293-1.

This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C.ByJessica Ziparo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xii + 339 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-3597-2.

Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism. ByGavin Benke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 272 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-5020-6.

One Nation under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries. By James Ledbetter. New York: Liveright Publishing, 2017. xvii + 380 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $28.95. ISBN: 978-0-87140-683-5.

Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era. By Michael R. Cohen. New York: New York University Press, 2017. xv + 259 pp. Figures, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-1-4798-7970-0.

Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America. ByJamie L. Pietruska. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. xiii + 280 pp. Illustrations, lists of archival collections and primary source databases, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-47500-4.

Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America. ByEmily E. LB. Twarog. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiv + 189 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-068559-1.

Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression. By George Robb. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. 264 pp. Photographs, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-04117-4.

A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950. By Fahad Ahmad Bishara. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ix + 279 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-15565-7.

All In: The Spread of Gambling in Twentieth-Century United States. Edited byJonathan D. Cohen andDavid G. Schwartz. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. xii + 284 pp. Tables, notes, index. Paper, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-943859-60-3.

Wires That Bind: Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854–1920. ByTorsten Kathke. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag, 2017. 289 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes. Paperback, $50.00. ISBN: 978-3-8376-3790-8.

China's Great Migration: How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation. By Bradley M. Gardner. Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, 2017. xii + 218 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-1-598-13222-9.

Economy and Culture in North-East England, 1500–1800. Edited byAdrian Green andBarbara Crosbie. Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2018. xxii + 293 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $115.00. ISBN: 978-1-78327-183-2.

The Kelloggs: Battling Brothers of Battle Creek. ByHoward Markel. New York: Pantheon Books, 2017. xxix + 506 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-307-90727-1.

Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy. By Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. xii + 265 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, references, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17503-4.

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