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Volume 88 - Winter 2014

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America's Economic Way of War: War and the U.S. Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War. ByHugh Rockoff. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xii + 357 pp. Tables, figures, appendices, references, index. Paper, $26.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-67673-1.

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.

Engineering Philadelphia: The Sellers Family and the Industrial Metropolis. ByDomenic Vitiello. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. xiv + 267 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5011-2.

Privateering, Piracy and British Policy in Spanish America, 1810–1830. ByMatthew McCarthy. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2013. x + 184 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $115.00. ISBN: 978-1-84383-861-6.

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.

The British Navy, Economy and Society in the Seven Years War. ByChristian Buchet. Translated by Anita Higgie and Michael Duffy. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2013. xiv + 302 pp. Index, bibliography, notes, appendices, figures, tables. Cloth, $115.00. ISBN: 978-1-84383-801-2.

Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America. ByJonathan Rees. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. x + 236 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1106-4.

The Political Economy of Pipelines: A Century of Comparative Institutional Development. ByJeff D. Makholm. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xii + 270 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-50210-6.

A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt. ByNancy T. Reynolds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. ix + 355 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-8126-8.

Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869–1929. ByHenry Knight. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. xii + 266 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.95. ISBN: 978-0-8130-4481-1.

The People's Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle. ByBernhard Rieger. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. 406 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $28.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05091-4.

Tropical Whites: The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas. ByCatherine Cocks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. ix + 275 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4499-1.

Chicago Business and Industry: From Fur Trade to E-Commerce. Edited byJanice L. Reiff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xii + 377 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. Paper, $22.50. ISBN: 978-0-226-70936-9.

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.

The Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present. Edited byPatrizia Battilani andHarm G. Schröter. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xi + 238 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-02898-2.

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.

Radio's Civic Ambition: American Broadcasting and Democracy in the 1930s. ByDavid Goodman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xx + 337 pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-539408-5.

Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter's Guide to the Postwar Japanese Miracle. ByMark Metzler. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. xviii + 295 pp. Appendix, notes, references, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5179-9.

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