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Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880–1920. ByAndrew P. Haley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. xiv + 356 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-807-83474-9.

The Judge: A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of a Fortune. ByJames Mellon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. xii + 575 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-16714-6.

Leadership in World Shipping: Greek Family Firms in International Business. ByIoannis Theotokas and Gelina Harlaftis. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xvii + 346 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $115.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-57642-1.

The Development of the Art Market in England: Money as Muse. ByThomas M. Bayer andJohn R. Page. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. xi + 267 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-84893-043-8.

The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation. ByMichael B. Boston. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. xv + 243 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN: 978-0-813-03473-7.

The Karimjee Jivanjee Family: Merchant Princes of East Africa, 1800–2000. By Gijsbert Oonk. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. 172 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes. Cloth, $46.70. ISBN: 978-9-085-55027-3.

Melting Shops: Une histoire des commerçants étrangers en France [Melting Shops: A History of Foreign Shopkeepers in France]. ByClaire Zalc. Paris: Perrin, 2010. 330 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography. Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 978-2-262-02471-0.

Health in the Marketplace: Professionalism, Therapeutic Desires, and Medical Commodification in Late-Victorian London. ByTakahiro Ueyama. Palo Alto, Calif.: Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 2010. 320 pp. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-930664-29-9.

France in the Age of Organization: Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy. ByJackie Clarke. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. x + 218 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-0-85745-080-7.

Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City. ByAntero Pietila. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010. xiii + 320 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $28.95. ISBN: 978-1-566-63843-2.

When Sugar Ruled: Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina: Tucumán, 1876–1916. ByPatricia Juárez-Dappe. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2010. xiii + 233 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $32.00. ISBN: 978-0-896-80274-2.

I Feltrinelli: Storia di una dinastia imprenditoriale (1854–1942) [The Feltrinelli: History of an Entrepreneurial Dynasty (1854–1942)]. ByLuciano Segreto. Milan: Feltrinelli, 2011. 487 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Paper, €28.00. ISBN: 978-88-07-11115-0.

Laws of Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life. ByAmy Chazkel. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011. xvii + 346 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-822-34988-4; paper, 978-0-822-34988-4.

Sold! Advertising and the Bourgeois Female Consumer in Munich, 1900–1914. ByMonica Neve. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2010. 257 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09343-9.

Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941–1964. ByOliver Dinius. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. xxiv + 325 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-804-77168-9.

Kienzle: Ein deutsches Industrieunternehmen im 20. Jahrhundert [Kienzle: A German Industrial Company during the Twentieth Century]. ByArmin Müller. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2011. 310 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes. Cloth, €29.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09845-8.

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