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Volume 88 - Issue 2 - Summer 2014

Book Reviews

Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920–1946. ByPatricia Clavin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 400 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-957793-4.

World Insurance: The Evolution of a Global Risk Network. Edited byPeter Borscheid andNiels Viggo Haueter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xvi + 729 pp. Tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $180.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-965796-4.

Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete?ByLoren Graham. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2013. 204 pp. Photographs, illustrations, glossary, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-01979-8.

Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food. ByTimothy D. Lytton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. viii + 232 pp. Figures, tables, glossary, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $28.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-07293-0.

Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease. ByMark Harrison. London: Yale University Press, 2012. xviii + 376 pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, references, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-12357-9.

The Holiday Makers: Magazines, Advertising, and Mass Tourism in Postwar America. ByRichard K. Popp. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. ix + 204 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95; e-book, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8071-4284-4; e-book, 978-0-8071-4287-5.

High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century. ByMatthew Gordon Lasner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. xii + 324 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-16408-4.

Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics. ByElizabeth Tandy Shermer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. viii + 424 pp. Photographs, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4470-0.

Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong. ByElizabeth Sinn. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013. xviii + 454 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, tables, glossary, appendices, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $163.65. ISBN: 978-988-8139-71-2.

Settled Strangers: Asian Business Elites in East Africa (1800–2000). ByGijsbert Oonk. New Delhi: SAGE, 2013. xix + 270 pp. Maps, photographs, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-81-321-1054-5.

The United States and the Global Economy: From Bretton Woods to the Current Crisis. ByFrederick S. Weaver. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011. xi + 175 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4422-0889-6.

Philanthropy in America: A History. ByOlivier Zunz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. x + 381 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-12836-8.

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