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The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America. ByJason M. Colby. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. xi + 274 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4915-4.

The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism. ByHarriet Ritvo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 237 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, $26.00; paper, $18.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-226-72082-1; paper, 978-0-226-72086-9.

Ducktown Smoke: The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters. By Duncan Maysilles. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. x + 333 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3459-6.

Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States–Mexico Borderlands. Edited byAlexis McCrossen. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xiii + 414 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-4460-5; paper, 978-0-8223-4475-9.

Murder of a Landscape: The California Farmer-Smelter War, 1897–1916. ByKhaled J. Bloom. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. 233 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-87062-396-7.

The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Thought. BySteven G. Medema. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. xiii + 199 pp. Figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-12296-0.

All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management. ByCarmel Finley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xii + 210 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-24966-7.

Central Banking in the Twentieth Century. ByJohn Singleton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xii + 337 pp. Tables, references, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-89909-3.

How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. BySarah S. Elkind. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 267 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3489-3.

A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth. ByAlexander J. Field. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. ix + 387 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-15109-1.

The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire. BySteven Bryan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xii + 273 pp. Tables, notes, references, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-15252-5.

La Suisse et l'Italie, 1923–1950: Commerce, finance et réseaux [Switzerland and Italy, 1923–1950: Trade, Finance, and Networks]. ByDario Gerardi. Neuchâtel: Editions Alphil, 2007. 612 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, indexes. Paper, CHF 54.00. ISBN: 978-2-940-23530-8.

High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg. ByNiall Ferguson. New York: Penguin Press, 2010. xxi + 548 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-594-20246-9.

War and Health Insurance Policy in Japan and the United States: World War II to Postwar Reconstruction. ByTakakazu Yamagishi. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. xviii + 189 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-0068-6.

Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State. By Janis Mimura. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. ix + 229 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4926-0.

Material Nation: A Consumer's History of Modern Italy. ByEmanuela Scarpellini. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xv + 343 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-58957-9.

The World of Private Banking. Edited by Youssef Cassis and Philip Cottrell, with Monika Pohle Fraser and Iain L. Fraser. 302 pp. Illustrations. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. Cloth, $134.95. ISBN: 978-1-859-28432-2.

Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich. ByS. Jonathan Wiesen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiv + 277 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $26.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-521-76253-3; paper, 978-0-521-74636-6.

Japan and the Global Automotive Industry. ByKoichi Shimokawa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xix + 327 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-86687-3.

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