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Volume 88 - Winter 2014

Book Reviews

Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution after 1700. ByPeter Temin andHans-Joachim Voth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. ix + 214 pp. Tables, figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-994427-9.

Henry Ford. ByVincent Curcio. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii + 306 pp. Index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-531692-6.

Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters. ByWalter A. Friedman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xi + 273 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-15911-9.

Car Country: An Environmental History. ByChristopher W. Wells. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. xxxiv + 427 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-295-99215-0.

Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II. ByCharles K. Hyde. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013. xvi + 248 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8143-3951-0.

Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930. ByBeatrix Hoffman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xxxv + 319 pp. Photographs, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-34803-2.

“Merely for Money”? Business Culture in the British Atlantic, 1750–1815. BySheryllynne Haggerty. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012. xiv + 287 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; £65.00. ISBN: 978-1-84631-817-7.

Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children. ByGerald Markowitz andDavid Rosner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. xxii + 298 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-27325-2.

British Lions and Mexican Eagles: Business, Politics, and Empire in the Career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1899–1919. ByPaul Garner. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. xi + 319 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-7445-1.

The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. ByAngus Deaton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xvi + 360 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-6911-5354-4.

Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina. ByShepherd W. McKinley. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. xii + 230 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN: 978-0-8130-4924-3.

The House of Rothschild in Spain, 1812–1941. ByMiguel A. López-Morell. Translated by Stephen P. Hasler. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2013. xviii + 449 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $144.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6800-8.

Salt and the Colombian State: Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyacá, 1821–1900. ByJoshua M. Rosenthal. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012. xii + 222 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6180-2.

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford. ByBeth Tompkins Bates. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xiii + 343 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3564-7.

In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region. BySeth Garfield. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. xiii + 343 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $93.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-5571-7; paper, 978-0-8223-5585-4.

An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions. ByJean Drèze andAmartya Sen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xiv + 434 pp. Maps, figures, tables, references, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16079-5.

Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground. ByMichael Kwass. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. ix + 457 pp. Illustrations, maps, references, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72683-3.

German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic. ByLars Maischak. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxii + 295 pp. Maps, figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-01729-0.

The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920. ByDavid Hochfelder. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. viii + 250 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-0747-0.

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