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Volume 81 - Autumn 2007

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Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970. By David Edgerton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv + 364 pp. Index, notes, appendix, tables. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $32.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-85636-1; paper, 0-521-67231-7.

The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture. By Mauro F. Guillén. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xii + 186 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-11520-6.

Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics, and Market Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris. By Sydney Watts. New York: University of Rochester Press, 2006. x + 232 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 1-580-46211-1.

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The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. By Deirdre N. McCloskey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xviii + 616 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 0-226-55663-8.

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Networking Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Shaping of Europe, 1850–2000. Edited by Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2006. vii + 335 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, figures. Cloth, $47.50. ISBN: 0-881-35394-9.

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The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse. By Bryan Cowan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xii + 364 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-300-10666-1.

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The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1830. By Jeff Horn. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. ix + 383 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-262-08352-3.

The Entrepreneurial Shift: Americanization in European High-Technology Management Education. By Robert R. Locke and Katja Schöne. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiii + 250 pp. Index, figures, references, tables. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 0-521-84010-4.

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A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century. By Giorgio Riello. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii + 302 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 0-199-29225-6.

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Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies. By Gary G. Hamilton. London: Routledge, 2006. xii + 309 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $135.00; paper, $37.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-415-15704-8; paper, 0-415-15705-6.

Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. By Mark Metzler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xxiv + 370 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-520-24420-6.

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Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Greatest Business Families. By David S. Landes. New York: Viking, 2006. xx + 379 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 0-670-03338-3.

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The Rise of Spanish Multinationals: European Business in the Global Economy. By Mauro F. Guillén. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ix + 268 pp. Index, notes, references, photographs, tables. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-521-84721-4.

Driving Germany: The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930–1970. By Thomas Zeller. New York: Berghahn, 2007. viii + 289 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 1-845-45309-3.

The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. By Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi + 216 pp. Figures, table, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-11999-6.

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