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Volume 88 - Winter 2014

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Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845–1893. ByJoshua D. Wolff. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xi + 305 pp. Index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-01228-8.

The Good Rich and What They Cost Us. ByRobert F. Dalzell Jr. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. 199 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-17559-2.

Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit. ByCharles W. Calomiris andStephen H. Haber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xi + 570 pp. Figures, references, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-15524-1.

Financing the Raj: The City of London and Colonial India, 1858–1940. ByDavid Sunderland. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2013. viii + 240 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth, $130.00. ISBN: 978-1-84383-795-4.

Remembering Inflation. ByBrigitte Granville. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. xvi + 272 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-14540-2.

Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry. ByTiffany M. Gill. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 192 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-07696-1.

Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India. ByHoward Spodek. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. xvi + 330 pp. Illustrations, maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-35587-4.

The People's Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age. ByRobert MacDougall. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 332 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4569-1.

Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life. ByAlexis McCrossen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xvi + 255 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-01486-9.

Dominion of Capital: The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914–1947. ByDon Nerbas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. 378 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $34.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4426-4545-5; paper, 978-1-4426-1352-2.

Biographies of the Financial World. Edited byAnders Perlinge andHans Sjögren. Möklinta, Sweden: Gidlunds Förlag, 2012. Illustrations, references, tables. Cloth, kr221. ISBN: 978-91-7844-852-4.

The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail. ByW. Jeffrey Bolster. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. xi + 378 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, glossary, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-04765-5.

The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations. ByJacob Soll. New York: Basic Books, 2014. viii + 276 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.99. ISBN: 978-465-03152-8.

Steel's: A Forgotten Stock Market Scandal from the 1920s. ByDave Dyer. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2013. xxx + 157 pp. Illustrations, photographs, references, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-8156-10120.

Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt. ByCharles R. Geisst. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. vi + 388 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4462-5.

Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy. ByJenifer Van Vleck. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. 370 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-05094-5.

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age. ByW. Bernard Carlson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xiii + 500 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-05776-7.

The Unwieldy American State: Administrative Politics since the New Deal. ByJoanna L. Grisinger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiii + 309 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-00432-0.

Money over Two Centuries: Selected Topics in British Monetary History. ByForrest Capie andGeoffrey Wood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. x + 367 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-965512-0.

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