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Volume 91 - Winter 2017

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Robert McNamara's Other War: The World Bank and International Development. By Patrick Allan Sharma . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 225 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4906-4.

Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire. Edited by Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Notes, index. Cloth, $105.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-998853-2.

Capitalism: A Short History. By Jürgen Kocka , trans. Jeremiah Riemer . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. viii + 198 pp. Bibliography, notes. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16522-6.

Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America. Edited by Richard R. John and Kim Phillips-Fein . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. viii + 301 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4882-1.

Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff. By Edward J. Balleisen . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. xiv + 479 pp. Figures, table, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-16455-7.

The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand Year History. By Philip E. Auerswald . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. vi + 298 pp. Figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-022676-3.

All the Facts: A History of Information in the United States since 1870. By James W. Cortada . New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xx + 636 pp. Figures, tables, bibliographic essay, notes, tables, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-1904-6067-9.

The Evolution of Money. By David Orrell and Roman Chlupatý . New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. x + 309 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-17372-8.

The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family. By Nina Sankovitch . New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. xii + 382 pp. Notes, bibliography, photographs, index. Cloth, $27.99. ISBN: 978-1-250-06920-7.

Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective. By Carl A. Zimring . Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2017. xii + 198 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2186-5.

Investment: A History. By Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing . New York: Columbia Business School Press, 2016. x + 436 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-16952-3.

Brand Luther: 1517, Printing, and the Making of the Reformation. By Andrew Pettegree . New York: Penguin Press, 2015. xvi + 383 pp. Maps, photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-59420-496-8.

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World. By Brad Stone . New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2017. 372 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-316-38839-9.

Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age. By Noam Maggor . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2017. xii + 284 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-97146-2.

Silent Partners: Women as Public Investors during Britain's Financial Revolution, 1690–1750. By Amy M. Froide . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. vi + 225 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-876798-5.

The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity. By Darren E. Grem . New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiii + 282 pp. Cloth, $34.95. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-992797-5.

Other People's Money: How Banking Worked in the Early Republic. By Sharon Ann Murphy . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. xii + 192 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4214-2174-2; paper, 978-1-4214-2175-9.

This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy. By Matthew Karp . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. 360 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-73725-9.

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