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Volume 87 - Winter 2013

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Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants. By Tijl Vanneste. London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2011. xi + 269 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-84893-087-2.

The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830–1910. ByGordon M. Winder. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. xiii + 257 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-2461-1.

Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820–1860. By Aileen Fyfe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xvi + 313 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-27651-9.

Sound Business: Newspapers, Radio, and the Politics of New Media. By Michael Stamm. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. viii + 256 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4311-6. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000962

Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History. By Brian Black. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. x + 276 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00; electronic, $34.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-7425-5654-6; electronic, 978-1-4422-1611-2.

The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention. By William Rosen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xxv + 370 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper, $17.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-72634-2.

Panic in the Loop: Chicago's Banking Crisis of 1932. By Raymond B. Vickers. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2011. xxiv + 345 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-0-7391-6640-6. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000986

The Digital Flood: The Diffusion of Information Technology across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. By James W. Cortada. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xix + 789 pp. Figures, maps, tables, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-992155-3.

The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in US History. ByDavid R. Roediger andElizabeth D. Esch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. x + 286 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-973975-2.

Uneasy Allies: Working for Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century Boston. By David A. Zonderman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. xii + 312 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-1-55849-865-5.

Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire. ByJulie Berebitsky. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. x + 359 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-11899-5.

The Political Construction of Business Interests: Coordination, Growth, and Equality. By Cathie Jo Martin and Duane Swank. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xv + 307 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $31.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-60364-6.

Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction. By John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. xi + 310 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-03683-5.

Direct Sales and Direct Faith in Latin America. ByPeter S. Cahn. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xiv + 191 pp. Illustrations, tables, references, bibliography, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-11249-0.

Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics. By Daniel Stedman Jones. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. xii + 418 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-15157-1.

American Showman: Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908–1935. By Ross Melnick. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xiv + 538 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-231-15904-3.

The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination. Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. vii + 419 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4414-4. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000883

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