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Volume 90 - Issue 1 - Spring 2016

Book Reviews

Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain. ByKatherine C. Epstein. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 305 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-72526-3.

Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War. ByPierpaolo Barbieri. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 349 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72885-1.

Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France. ByClare Haru Crowston. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. xx + 424 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $27.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-5513-7; paper, 978-0-8223-5528-1.

The Beautiful Country: Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy. ByStephanie Malia Hom. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. xiv + 313 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4872-2.

A Long Time in Making: The History of Smiths. ByJames Nye. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxvi + 375 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, appendixes, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-871725-6.

Pesos and Politics: Business, Elites, Foreigners, and Government in Mexico, 1854–1940. ByMark Wasserman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. ix + 257 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9154-0.

The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan. ByAdam Clulow. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xvi + 330 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-16428-3.

Sugar, Steam, and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830–1885. ByG. Roger Knight. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2014. xi + 242 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography. Paper, $44.00; electronic, free. ISBN: paper, 978-1-922064-98-1; electronic, 978-1-922064-99-8.

Empires of Coal: Fueling China's Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1920. ByShellen Xiao Wu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. xii + 266 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9284-4.

Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One. ByMeghnad Desai. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015. xii + 287 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-21607-3.

Mainstream Growth Economists and Capital Theorists: A Survey. ByMarin Muzhani. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. x + 558 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $120.00; paper, $44.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-7735-4365-2; paper, 978-0-7735-4366-9.

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