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Volume 78 - Issue 2 - Summer 2004

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Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective. Edited by Daniel E. Bender and Richard A. Greenwald. New York: Routledge, 2003. xii + 300 pp. Photographs, illustration, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-415-93560-1; paper 0-415-93561-X.

The Interwar Depression in an International Context. Edited by Harold James. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2002. xv + 192 pp. Figures, notes, references. Cloth, ∈44.80. ISBN 3-486-56610-5.

Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development. Edited by Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. vii + 350 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-521-82054-5.

Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930. By Julie A. Charlip. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. xiv + 288 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $28.00. ISBN 0-89680-227-2.

The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740–1914. By Margot C. Finn. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 362 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, £50.00. ISBN 0-521-82342-0.

Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition. By James H. Mills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 239 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-199-24938-5.

Operational Research in War and Peace: The British Experience from the 1930s to 1970. By Maurice W. Kirby. London: Imperial College Press, 2003. 444 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $97.25; paper, $35.00. ISBN: cloth 1-860-94297-0; paper 1-860-94366-7.

Vauxhall Motors and the Luton Economy, 1900–2002. By Len Holden. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2003. xviii + 249 pp. Tables, photographs, illustrations, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39-95- ISBN 0-851-55068-1.

Le Crédit lyonnais (1863–1986): Etudes historiques [The Crédit Lyonnais (1863–1986): Historical Studies]. Edited by Bernard Desjardins Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2003. 1020 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Paper, €43.90. ISBN 2-600-00807-1.

Lost Momentum: Austrian Economic Development, 1750S–1830s. By Herman Freudenberger. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2003. 301 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €45. ISBN 3-205-77061-7.

The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000. By Mark Cioc. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xiii + 252 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, bibliography, notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-295-98254-3.

August Thyssen und Hugo Stinnes: Ein Briefwechsel, 1898–1912 [August Thyssen and Hugo Stinnes: Correspondence, 1898–1912]. Edited by Manfred Rasch and Gerald D. Feldman, prepared and annotated by Vera Schmidt. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2003. 752 pp. Cloth, €39.90. ISBN 3-406-49637-7.

Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944–1947: From Liberation to the Truman Doctrine. By Athanasios Lykogiannis. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. ix + 287 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, appendix, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-826-21422-3.

Russia's Economic Transitions from Late Tsarism to the New Millennium. By Nicolas Spulber. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxiv + 420 pp. Maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 0-521-81699-8.

Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life. By Tim Rowse. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ix + 419 pp. Illustrations, references, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-521-81783-8.

China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation. By Karl Gerth. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. xv + 445 PP. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-674-01214-3.

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