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Volume 73 - June 2013

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United States and Canada

State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945–2011. By Paul A.C. Koistinen. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. 2012. Pp. ix, 313. $39.95, hardcover.

The American National State and the Early West. By William H. Bergmann. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. x, 288. $90.00, hardcover.

America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder After the Panic of 1837. By Alasdair Roberts. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press. 2012. Pp. 255. $26.00, hardcover; $18.95, paper.

Ancient to Modern Europe

Business in the Age of Extremes: Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History. Edited by Hartmut Berghoff, Jürgen Kocka and Dieter Ziegler. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 249. $90.00, cloth.

United States and Canada

The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy. By Thomas K. McCraw. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2012. Pp. ix, 485. $35.00, hardcover.

German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709–1920. By Farley Grubb. New York: Routledge Explorations in Economic History. 2011. Pp. xxvi, 433. $190.00, hardcover.

Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America. By Michael O'Malley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2012. Pp. 272. $75.00, hardcover.

Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South. By Gavin Wright. Cambridge: Belknap Press. 2013. Pp. 368. $35.00, hardcover.

The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression.. By Angus Burgin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2012. Pp. 303. $20.54, hardcover.

Bonanzas and Borrascas: Gold Lust and Silver Sharks, 1848–1884. By Richard E. Lingenfelter. Norman: Arthur H. Clark Company—University of Oklahoma Press. 2012. Pp. 13, 461. $40.00, cloth.

The United States and the Global Economy: From Bretton Woods to the Current Crisis.. By Frederick S. Weaver. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2011. Pp. 192. $34.95, hardcover.

Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America. By Peter Andreas. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. xiii, 454. $29.95, cloth.

Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America.. By Jonathan Levy. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press. 2012. Pp. 432. $35.00, hardcover.

Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870–1940. By Vanessa H. May. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2011. Pp. xi, 246. $65.00, cloth; $26.95, paper.

Trams or Tailfins? Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States.. By Jan L. Logemann. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2012. Pp. Xv, 300. $40.50, hardcover.

Management Innovation: Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. By William Lazonick and David J. Teece. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. x11, 378. $85.00, hardcover.

Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What It Means for Our Economic Well-Being. By Zoltan J. Acs. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2013. Pp. xv, 249. $29.95, hardcover.

Bonanzas and Borrascas: Copper Kings and Stock Frenzies. By Richard E. Lingenfelter. Norman: Arthur H. Clark Company—University of Oklahoma Press. 2012. Pp. 11, 586. $40.00, cloth.

The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937. By David Welky. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2011. Pp. xiv, 304. $27.50, hardcover.

Asia

Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan. By Martin Dusinberre. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2012. Pp. xiv, 247. $55.00, cloth.

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