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Volume 68 - March 2008

UNITED STATES

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U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below. By Kim Moody. New York: Verso, 2007. Pp. xiii, 289. $29.95, paper.

The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865. By Mark R. Wilson. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 306. $45.

A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. By Stephen Mihm. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 457. $29.95.

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. By Amity Shlaes. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007. Pp. x, 464. $26.95.

Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation. By Peter Fearon. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 316. $44.95.

GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

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Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor. By Edward S. Miller. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 323. $23.

Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Capital Markets. By Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 11, 263. $27.95.

Emerging Markets and Financial Globalization: Sovereign Bond Spreads in 1870–1913 and Today. By Paolo Mauro, Nathan Sussman, and Yishay Yafeh. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 193. £20.

Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods: The Construction of an International Monetary Order. By Filippo Cesarano. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 248. GBP 51.00.

Market Services and the Productivity Race 1850–2000; British Performance in International Perspective. By Stephen Broadberry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 409. $101.

The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624. Edited by Peter C. Mancall. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. vi, 596, $65, cloth; $27.50, paper.

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