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Volume 79 - Winter 2005

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Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687–1851. By Margaret C. Jacob and Larry Stewart. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 216 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-674-01497-9.

Léon Harmel: Entrepreneur as Catholic Social Reformer. ByJoan L. Coffey. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. x + 340 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $48.00. ISBN: 0-268-03360-9.

Les Entrepreneurs du Second Empire [The entrepreneurs of the Second Empire]. By Dominique Barjot , Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris–Sorbonne, 2003. 224 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, appendix, notes, Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 2-8405-0293-3.

Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850–1950. By John E. Pollard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xx + 265 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 0-521-81204-6.

Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management. By Jeffrey R. Fear. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xv + 956 pp. Index, notes, appendix, figures, photographs, tables. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 0-674-01492-8.

Ludwig Erhard: A Biography. ByAlfred C. Mierzejewski. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xv + 278 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-807-82863-7.

Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Industry, 1889–1939. By Anne Clendinning. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. xvii + 352 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $99.99. ISBN: 0-754-60692-9.

Banques locales et banques régionales en Europe au XXe siècle [Local and regional banks in Europe in the twentieth century]. Edited by Michel Lescure and Alain Plessis. Paris: Albin Michel, 2004. 430 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 2-226-14249-5.

Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics. By Kenneth R. Hoover. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. xv + 328 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Paper, $27.95. ISBN: 0-742-53113-9.

A Newspaper for China? Power, Identity, and Change in Shanghai's News Media, 1872–1912. ByBarbara Mittler. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004. xvi + 504 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-674-01217-8.

The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank. By Harold James. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 286 pp. Maps, illustration, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-521-83874-76.

British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957–70: Neo-colonialism or Disengagement?ByNicholas J. White. New York: Routledge, 2004. xv + 256 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, glossary, figures, maps, tables. Cloth, $100.00. ISBN: 0-415-32320-7.

Histoire de la qualité alimentaire, XIXe-XXe siècles [History of foodquality during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries]. By Alessandro Stanziani. Paris: Seuil, 2005. 440 pp. Index, notes, tables. €26.00. ISBN: 2-020-78841-1.

Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age. By Thomas C. Owen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiv + 275 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-01549-5.

From Complicity to Cooperation: Degussa in the Third Reich. By Peter Hayes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx + 373 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-521-78227-9.

The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. ByGrant Fleming, David Merrett, and Simon Ville. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 310 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 0-521-83311-6.

We'll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930. By Harvey Levenstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 382 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-47378-3.

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