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Volume 85 - Winter 2011

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Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia, 1595–1660. ByRobert Parthesius. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. 217 pp. Maps, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $37.50. ISBN: 978-9-053-56517-9.

Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age. By Kurt Beyer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. xiii + 389 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-01310-9.

National Capitalisms, Global Production Networks: Fashioning the Value Chain in the U.K., U.S.A., and Germany. By Christel Lane and Jocelyn Probert. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii + 335 pp. Tables, references, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-21481-5.

Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City. ByJonathan Soffer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xi + 403 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-231-15032-3.

Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression. ByMoses E. Ochonu. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xii + 217 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8214-1889-5; paper, 978-0-8214-1890-1.

Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce. By Sarah Abrevaya Stein. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii + 244 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $20.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-16818-1.

Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800–1930. By Catherine Fisk. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. x + 360 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-807-83302-5.

Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940–1990. ByJennifer Delton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. vi + 313 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $87.00; paper, $24.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-521-51509-2; paper, 978-0-521-73080-8.

The Empire in One City? Liverpool's Inconvenient Imperial Past. Edited bySheryllynne Haggerty, Anthony Webster, and Nicholas J. White. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2008. xiv + 237 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 978-0-719-07887-3.

The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period. By Francesca Trivellato. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xiii + 470 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-13683-8.

Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America. ByLawrence B. Glickman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xix + 403 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-29865-8.

Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882–1950. By Aldo Musacchio. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxv + 298 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-51889-5.

Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. ByKaren Ho. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xii + 374 pp. References, notes, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-822-3-4599-2.

Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy. By Paul Cheney. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. xii + 305 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-04726-6.

Politics, Markets and Mexico's “London Debt,” 1823–1887. By Richard J. Salvucci. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiii + 326 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-48999-7.

Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era. ByClaude Markovits. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x + 292 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-20598-7.

Relationship Banker: Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, and American Business, 1916–1959. ByJames L. Hunt. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2009. xxvii + 386 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-865-54915-9.

Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York. BySerena R. Zabin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 205 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-812-24160-0.

From Windfall to Curse? Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present. By Jonathan Di John. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. xvii + 341 pp. Tables, references, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-271-03553-6.

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