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El Banco de Barcelona (1844–1874): Historia de un banco emisor [The Bank of Barcelona (1844–1874): History of an Issuing Bank]. ByYolanda Blasco andCarles Sudrià. Madrid: LID, 2011. 419 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index, appendix. Paper, €24.00. ISBN: 978-848-35611-02.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 602-604
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The Development of the Art Market in England: Money as Muse. ByThomas M. Bayer andJohn R. Page. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. xi + 267 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-84893-043-8.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 605-607
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Health in the Marketplace: Professionalism, Therapeutic Desires, and Medical Commodification in Late-Victorian London. ByTakahiro Ueyama. Palo Alto, Calif.: Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 2010. 320 pp. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-930664-29-9.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 607-610
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Sold! Advertising and the Bourgeois Female Consumer in Munich, 1900–1914. ByMonica Neve. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2010. 257 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09343-9.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 610-612
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Ökonomische Effizienz und gesellschaftlicher Ausgleich: Die industrielle Psychotechnik in der Weimarer Republik [Economic Efficiency and Social Balance: Industrial Psychology in the Weimar Republic]. ByKatja Patzel-Mattern. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2010. 312 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes. Cloth, €60.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09324-8.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 612-615
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Ducktown Smoke: The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters. By Duncan Maysilles. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. x + 333 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3459-6.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 615-617
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Murder of a Landscape: The California Farmer-Smelter War, 1897–1916. ByKhaled J. Bloom. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. 233 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-87062-396-7.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 617-619
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A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth. ByAlexander J. Field. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. ix + 387 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-15109-1.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 620-622
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Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State. By Janis Mimura. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. ix + 229 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4926-0.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 622-625
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Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich. ByS. Jonathan Wiesen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiv + 277 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $26.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-521-76253-3; paper, 978-0-521-74636-6.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 625-627
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Camille Gutt and Postwar International Finance. ByJean F. Crombois. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. xi + 192 pp. Glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $96.00. ISBN: 978-1-84893-058-2.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 627-629
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The Monetary Conservative: Jacques Rueff and Twentieth-Century Free Market Thought. ByChristopher S. Chivvis. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. xiv + 234 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-87580-417-0.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 630-632
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L'Économie faite homme: Hommage à Alain Plessis [The Economy Made Human: Homage to Alain Plessis]. Edited byOlivier Feiertag and Isabelle Lespinet-Moret. Geneva: Droz, 2011. Paper, $84.00. ISBN: 978-2-600-11459-2.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 632-635
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Industriegesellschaft und Kulturtransfer: Die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert [Industrial Society and Cultural Transfer: German-American Relations in the Twentieth Century]. ByVolker Berghahn. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2010. 314 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth €49.95. ISBN: 978-3-525-37013-1.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 635-637
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The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder: Decline of the German Model? By Jeremy Leaman. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. xix + 226 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-1-84545-601-6.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 637-639
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Contribution à une histoire des cartels en Suisse [Contributions to a History of Swiss Cartels]. Edited byAlain Cortat. Neuchâtel: Alphil, 2010. 259 pp. Notes, figures, tables. Paper, $49.00. ISBN: 978-2-940235-67-4.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 639-641
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All This Is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad after Stalin. By Anne E. Gorsuch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. x + 222 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-960994-9.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 641-643
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Sunshine Paradise: A History of Florida Tourism. ByTracy J. Revels. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. x + 192 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-8130-3542-0.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 643-645
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Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives. Edited byBernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, and Paul Thomes. London: Routledge, 2011. 319 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-88067-1.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 645-647
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Telecommunications Industry in India: State Business and Labour in a Global Economy. ByDilip Subramanian. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2011. xiii + 685 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-81-87358-42-8.
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- 30 November 2012, pp. 648-650
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