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Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs: Being a Story of the Nation's Most Famous (and Infamous) Detective Agency. By S. Paul O'Hara . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. vi + 194 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2056-1.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 842-845
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Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement. By Chad Pearson . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. viii + 303 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4776-3.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 845-847
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The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It. By David Weil . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014 (cloth) and 2017 (paper). viii + 410 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $31.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-674-725447-7; paper, 978-0-674-97544-6.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 848-850
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The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness. By Monica R. Gisolfi , with foreword by Paul S. Sutter . Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017. xvi + 104 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8203-3578-0; paper, 978-0-8203-4971-8.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 851-853
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Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America. By Tracy Neumann . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 270 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4827-2.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 853-855
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Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers. By Nancy Tomes . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. xviii + 538 pp. Bibliography, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-4696-2277-4.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 855-858
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John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. By Kathleen Waters Sander . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 403 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-2220-6.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 858-860
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Powering Up Canada: A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600. Edited by R. W. Sandwell . Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. xx + 482 pp. Map, figures, tables, bibliography, appendices, index. Cloth, $120.00; paper, $37.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-7735-4785-8; paper, 978-0-7735-4786-5.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 861-863
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Engines of Empire: Steamships and the Victorian Imagination. By Douglas R. Burgess Jr. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 342 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9806-8.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 863-866
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C&A: A Family Business in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, 1911–1961. By Mark Spoerer , with translation by Jefferson Chase , Patricia C. Sutcliffe , and Patricia Szobar . Munich: C.H. Beck, 2016. 480 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth, €34.95. ISBN: 978-34-0669-8262.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 866-869
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Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate. By Andrew Paxman . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 509 pp. Notes, illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-045574-3.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 869-872
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Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision. By Brett Sheehan . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 327 pp. Bibliography, figures, photographs, glossary, illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $46.50. ISBN: 978-0-674-96760-1.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 872-874
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China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay. By Minxin Pei . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. 376 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-73729-7.
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 875-877
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Index to Volume 91: Business History Review
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- 30 January 2018, pp. 879-887
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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter
BHR volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Front matter
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- 30 January 2018, pp. f1-f7
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BHR volume 91 issue 4 Cover and Back matter
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- 30 January 2018, pp. b1-b5
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