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Volume 79 - Winter 2005

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The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble. By Richard Dale. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. viii + 198 pp. Illustrations, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-11971-6.

Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro. ByZephyr L. Frank. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. 230 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00; paper $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-8263-3410-5; paper 0-826-33411-3.

Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. By Geoffrey Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xi + 340 pp. Index, bibliography, appendix, figures, tables. Cloth, $124.50; paper, $44.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-199-27209-3; paper, 0-199-27210-7.

The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought. By Alessandro Roncaglia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 582 pp. Index, notes, references. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 0-521-84337-5.

The Equity Culture: The Story of the Global Stock Market. By B. Mark Smith. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003. 344 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 0-374-28175-0.

Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China. ByKai-Wing Chow. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xv + 397 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, tables. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN: 0-804-73367-8.

Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850. By Robin Pearson. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 434 PP. Tables, maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 0-754-63363-2.

Trade Unions and the State: The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890–2000. By Chris Howell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi + 243 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 0-691-12106-0.

Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement. By Matthew Hilton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii + 382 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $27.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-83129-6; paper, 0-521-53853-X.

Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900–1950: A Social History of Lancashire Cotton Operatives in the Twentieth Century. By Alan Fowler. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. xv + 236 pp. Photographs, tables, references, index. Cloth, $84.95. ISBN: 0-754-60116-1.

Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba. By Muriel McAvoy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 338 pages. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, photographs. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-813-02613-X.

Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment. ByGiuliano Pancaldi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xv + 381 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-09685-6.

The Strictures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century. By Jan Luiten van Zanden and Arthur van Riel, translated by Ian Cressie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi + 384 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-691-11438-2.

The European Linen Industry in Historical Perspective. Edited byBrenda Collins and Philip Ollerenshaw. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Illustrations, figures, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 0-199-25565-2.

Building Plants: Markets for Technology and Internal Capabilities in DSM's Fertiliser Business, 1925–1970. By Arjan van Rooij. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2004. 279 pp. Notes, bibliography, appendix, figures, tables. Paper, $34.95. ISBN: 90-526-0138-0.

Moda italiana: Storia di un'industria italiana dall'Ottocento a oggi. [Italian Fashion: The Story of an Italian Industry from the Eighteenth Century to Today]. ByElisabetta Merlo. Venice: Marsilio, 2003. 159 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Paper, €9.90. ISBN: 88-317-8273-8.

Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854–1913. By William R. Summerhill. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xv + 297 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, figures, maps, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-804-73224-8.

Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography. By Bruce Caldwell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xi + 489 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index, notes. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-226-09191-0.

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