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Beatlemania: Technology, Business, and Teen Culture in Cold War America. By André Millard. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. viii + 223 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper, $22.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-0525-4.

Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America. ByJoseph A. McCartin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. x + 472 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-983678-9.

The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America. By Lawrence Culver. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. x + 317 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-538263-1.

Shopping in Ancient Rome: The Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate. By Claire Holleran. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xvi + 304 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-969821-9.

Information Technology Innovation and the Japanese Economy. ByKazunori Minetaki andKiyohiko G. Nishimura. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. 229 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-804-77389-8.

Wall Street Women. By Melissa S. Fisher. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. xii + 227 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-5330-0; paper, 978-0-8223-5345-4. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000792

Die Geschichte der National-Bank, 1921 bis 2011 [The History of National-Bank, 1921 to 2011]. By Joachim Scholtyseck. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. 423 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €44.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09831-1.

Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good. BySteven Fenberg. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2011. xiii + 611 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-60344-434-7.

Banquiers et diplomates suisses (1938–1946) [Swiss Banking and Diplomacy, 1938–1946]. By Marc Perrenoud. Lausanne: Editions Antipodes, 2011. 540 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €37.00. ISBN: 978-2-88901-030-1.

Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780–1820. By Leslie Tomory. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2012. xi + 348 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-01675-9.

The Listener's Voice: Early Radio and the American Public. ByElena Razlogova. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 216 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4320-8.

The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Emergence of the Modern World. By Douglas W. Allen. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. xiv + 267 pp. Bibliography, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-01474-6. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000767

Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem. By Daniel Schneider. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011. xxx + 338 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-01644-5. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000949

Entrepreneurial Families: Business, Marriage, and Life in the Early Nineteenth Century. By Andrew Popp. London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2012. viii + 188 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-84893-236-4.

Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow. ByKarl Hagstrom Miller. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. ix + 372 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $94.95; paper, $25.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-4689-0; paper, 978-0-8223-4700-2.

Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883–1945. By Daqing Yang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010. xix + 446 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-01091-8.

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