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Volume 91 - Winter 2017

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Evolution of Family Business: Continuity and Change in Latin America and Spain. Edited by Paloma Fernández Pérez and Andrea Lluch . Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016. xvi + 295 pp. Maps, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $135.00. ISBN: 978-1-78536-314-6.

Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs: Being a Story of the Nation's Most Famous (and Infamous) Detective Agency. By S. Paul O'Hara . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. vi + 194 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2056-1.

Merchants and Ministers: A History of Businesspeople and Clergy in the United States. By Kevin Schmiesing . Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2017. ix + 249 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $105.00; e-book, $99.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4985-3924-1; e-book, 978-1-4985-3925-8.

Louis Bamberger: Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist. By Linda B. Forgosh . Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2016. xv + 258 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-61168-981-5.

Selling Power: Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940. By John L. Neufeld . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xiv + 327 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-39963-8.

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America. By Frances FitzGerald . New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017. 740 pp. Photographs, glossary, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-4391-3133-6.

Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization. By Branko Milanovic . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. ix + 299 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-73713-6.

Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement. By Chad Pearson . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. viii + 303 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4776-3.

City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles. By Jerald Podair . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. xviii + 366 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-12503-9.

Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy. By Jeffry A. Frieden . Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. x + 301 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $22.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17384-9

Post-War Business Planners in the United States, 1939–48: The Rise of the Corporate Moderates. By Charlie Whitham . New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xii + 289 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $114.00. ISBN: 978-1-4725-1172-0.

The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness. By Monica R. Gisolfi , with foreword by Paul S. Sutter . Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017. xvi + 104 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8203-3578-0; paper, 978-0-8203-4971-8.

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business. By Rana Foroohar . New York: Crown Business, 2016. xi + 388 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-553-44723-1.

Law and the Economy in Colonial India. By Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xii + 240 pp. Maps, references, glossary, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 978-0-226-38764-2.

Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World. By Juliet Johnson . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. xviii + 292 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-5017-0022-4.

Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America. By Peter Knight . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. xi + 313 pp. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2060-8.

Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America. By Tracy Neumann . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 270 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4827-2.

Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System. By John D. Wong . Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xii + 247 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-15066-9.

A Vision Greater than Themselves: The Making of the Bank of Montreal, 1817–2017. By Laurence B. Mussio . Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. xiv + 257 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-7735-4829-9.

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