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Volume 76 - Issue 1 - March 2016

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Ancient to Modern Europe

Money Pits: British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s. By John Woodland. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014. Pp. xiii, 282. $102.17, hardcover.

For Peace and Money: French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars. By Jennifer Siegel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xv, 306. $45.00, hardcover.

Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV's Franc. By Guy Rowlands. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xiv + 265 pp. $115, hardcover.

United States and Canada

The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro. By Zachary M. Schrag. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, reprint 2014. Pp. xiii, 355. $29.95, paper.

Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina. By Shepherd W. McKinley. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. Pp. xii, 230. $69.95, cloth.

Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada. By Douglas McCalla. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 296. $100.00, cloth; $34.95, paper.

The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order. By Leon Fink. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 206. $45.00, cloth.

The Settlers' Empire: Colonialism and State Formation in America's Old Northwest. By Bethel Saler. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 382. $45.00, cloth.

The Merchants' Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South. By Scott P. Marler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 317. $95.00, hardcover; $32.99, paper.

Merchants of Independence: International Trade on the Santa Fe Trail, 1827–1860 By William Patrick O'Brien. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2014. Pp. xi, 211. $34.95, paper; $27.99, eBook.

The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause: Immigrants, Blacks, and States' Rights in Antebellum America. By Tony Allen Freyer. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2014. Pp. xii, 204. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.

The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II: Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany. By Talbot Imlay and Martin Horn. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 291. $110.00, hardcover.

Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective. By Eugene N. White, Kenneth Snowden and Price Fishback, editors. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. vii, 397. $110.00, cloth.

Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet. By Amy Bentley. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. Pp. ix, 223. $29.95, paper.

Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America. By Brian P. Luskey and Wendy A. Woloson, editors Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 328. $49.95, cloth.

Current Federal Reserve Policy Under the Lens of Economic History. By Owen F. Humpage editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xxi, 386. $110.00, cloth.

Henry Ford's Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit. By Heather B. Barrow. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2015. Pp. xii, 216. $38, cloth.

Strained Relations: US Foreign-Exchange Operations and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century By Michael D. Bordo, Owen F. Humpage, and Anna J. Schwartz. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. x, 442, $97.50, cloth.

Asia and Eurasia

Investing in Japan: Foreign Capital, Monetary Standards, and Economic Development, 1859–2011. By Simon James Bytheway. Harvard East Asian Monographs 370. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 286. $39.95, cloth.

Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 1100–1700. By Joseph R. Dennis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. Pp. 406. $49.95, hardcover.

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