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Volume 87 - Winter 2013

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The Pennsylvania Railroad. Volume 1, Building an Empire, 1846–1917. By Albert J. Churella. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. xviii + 945 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4348-2.

A Country Merchant, 1495–1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages. By Christopher Dyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xiii + 256 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-921424-2.

MP3: The Meaning of a Format. By Jonathan Sterne. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. xv + 341 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-5283-9; paper, 978-0-8223-5287-7. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000974

The Music Trade in Georgian London. Edited byMichael Kassler. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. xviii + 560 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $114.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6065-1.

Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929. By Barry Kernfeld. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xii + 273 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $97.00; paper, $29.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-226-43182-6; paper, 978-0-226-43183-3. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000846

The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression. By Angus Burgin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 303 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05813-2.

From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa. By Sebouh David Aslanian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xx + 363 pp. Maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-26687-2.

Objectifying China, Imagining America: Chinese Commodities in Early America. By Caroline Frank. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xiii + 257 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-26028-0.

Mining and the State in Brazilian Development. ByGail D. Triner. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. xvii + 253 pp. Tables, maps, figures, appendices, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-84893-068-1; electronic, 978-1-84893-069-8.

Making the European Monetary Union. By Harold James. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. xiv + 567 pp. Figures, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-06683-0.

Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790–1860. By Max Grivno. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xiii + 269 pp. Illustrations, map, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-03652-1. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000810

The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America. By Marc Levinson. New York: Hill and Wang, 2011. 337 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $27.00. ISBN: 978-0-8090-9543-8. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000871

The American National State and the Early West. By William H. Bergmann. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. x + 288 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-01528-9.

Merchants of Canton and Macao: Politics and Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade. By Paul A. Van Dyke. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. xxii + 545 pp. Tables, photographs, appendices, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-988-8028-91-7.

Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, 1796–1916. ByStefania Barca. Cambridge, UK: White Horse Press, 2010. xii + 180 pp. Maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00; paper $33.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-874267-56-0; paper, 978-1-874267-57-7.

The Einstein of Money: The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham. By Joe Carlen. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2012. 368 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 978-1-61614-557-6. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000779

A Genius for Money: Business, Art, and the Morrisons. By Caroline Dakers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. xiii + 326 pp. Photos, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-11220-7.

Building a Market: The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914–1960. By Richard Harris. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xii + 431 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-31766-3.

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