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Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution. By Jane Humphries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii, 439. $99.00, hardback.
Joyce Burnette
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13 September 2011, pp. 794-796
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Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting
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06 June 2011, pp. 498-515
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Making Consumers Comfortable: The Early Decades of Air Conditioning in the United States
JEFF E. BIDDLE
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14 November 2011, pp. 1078-1094
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During the air conditioner industry's first four decades, most installations were “commercial comfort” air conditioning systems, purchased by retailers to increase demand for their products. Air conditioning spread unevenly through the commercial sector and across the country. Using data from a variety of sources, I offer a quantitative account of this diffusion, viewed through an interpretive framework that emphasizes differences across geographic markets and industries in the costs and benefits to retailers of installing air conditioning. Correlates of early adoption of commercial air conditioning include electricity rates and consumer income and education levels.

British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration, 1945–1973. By Neil Rollings. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 278. $91.00, hardcover.
PETER HOWLETT
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02 March 2011, pp. 235-236
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The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England. By Keith Thomas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi, 393. $34.95.
GREGORY CLARK
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02 March 2011, pp. 236-237
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Le marché financier français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2007. Volume 1 Récit. edited by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur 526pp, Volume 2 Aspects quantitatifs des acteurs et des instruments à la Bourse de Paris edited by Georges Gallais-Hamonno, 640pp + CD, each 40 €.
Clemens Jobst
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13 September 2011, pp. 796-797
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Editors' Notes
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14 November 2011, pp. 1095-1098
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Abstracts of Posters Presented at the Annual Meeting
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06 June 2011, pp. 516-522
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Fixed Ideas of Money: Small States and Exchange Rate Regimes in Twentieth-Century Europe. By Tobias Straumann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xix, 392. $90.00, hardback.
Lars Fredrik ⊘ksendal
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13 September 2011, pp. 797-799
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A Reading List for Economic Historians on the Great Recession of 2007–2009: Its Causes and Consequences
LARRY NEAL
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14 November 2011, pp. 1099-1106
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“Someday you guys are going to need to tell me how we ended up with a system like this….we're not doing something right if we're stuck with these miserable choices.” President Bush, to Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke, after his briefing on September 16, 20081

Irish Agriculture: A Price History from the Mid-Eighteenth Century to the Eve of the First World War. By Liam Kennedy and Peter M. Solar. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2007. Pp. 206. $45.00, hardcover.
ANDY BIELENBERG
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02 March 2011, pp. 238-240
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Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship: Networks and Private Protection During Mexico's Early Industrialization. By Armando Razo. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 236. $65.00, cloth.
LETICIA ARROYO ABAD
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02 March 2011, pp. 240-241
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The Bank of England: 1950s to 1979. By Forrest Capie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xxviii, 890. $150.00, hardcover.
YOUSSEF CASSIS
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14 November 2011, pp. 1107-1108
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The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation, and British Society at the End of Slavery. By Nicholas Draper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii, 401. $95.00, hardcover.
Stanley L. Engerman
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06 June 2011, pp. 528-529
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The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia: Health, Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943–1953. By Donald Filtzer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. Xxx, 379. $110.00, cloth.
Mark Harrison
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13 September 2011, pp. 799-801
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Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of Seventeenth-Century Italian Painters. By Richard E. Spear et al. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. xi, 384. $85.00, cloth..
Robert Jensen
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13 September 2011, pp. 801-802
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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe. By Stephen Broadberry and Kevin H. O'Rourke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 2 vols.; Pp. xiv, 329; xviii, 468. $110.00, cloth; $40.00, paper.
JAN DE VRIES
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14 November 2011, pp. 1108-1110
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Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607–1763. By Lorena S. Walsh. Williamsburg, VA and Chapel Hill, NC: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Pp. xviii, 704. $70.00.
BARBARA HAHN
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02 March 2011, pp. 242-243
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The Undevelopment of Capitalism: Sectors and Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany. By Rebecca Jean Emigh. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2009. Pp. xv, 271. $29.95, paper.
Steven A. Epstein
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06 June 2011, pp. 529-530
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