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Volume 84 - Winter 2010

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Money, Oil, and Empire in the Middle East: Sterling and Postwar Imperialism, 1944–1971. By Steven G. Galpern. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv + 331 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-76790-3.

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Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945. By Martin Chick. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2007. x + 205 pp. Bibliography, appendix, index. Cloth, $100.00. ISBN: 978-1-845-42111-3.

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Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820–1890. By Paul Lucier. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiii + 426 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89003-1.

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Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age. By John C. Burnham. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. viii + 336 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-08177-5.

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The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200–1850. Edited by Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xvi + 489 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, glossary, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $150.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-955944-2.

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The Inception of Modern Professional Education: C. C. Langdell, 1826–1906. By Bruce A. Kimball. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xv + 429 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-807-83257-8.

Inside IG Farben: Hoechst during the Third Reich. By Stephan H. Lindner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xx + 388 pp. Photographs, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978–0–521–88766–3.

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Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870–1945: Entrepreneurship, High Finance, Politics and Territorial Expansion. Edited by Raymond E. Dumett. Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. xv + 255 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $114.95. ISBN: 978-0-754-66303-4.

Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation. By John Majewski. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi + 240 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3251-6.

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Paul Silverberg (1876–1959): Ein Unternehmer [Paul Silverberg (1876–1959): A Businessman]. By Boris Gehlen. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. 605 pp. Appendix, notes, index. Paper, €78.00. ISBN: 978–3–515–09090–2.

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Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa. By Quentin van Doosselaere. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi + 262 pp. Figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-89792-1.

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Finmeccanica: Competenze che vengono da lontano [Finmeccanica: Competencies Acquired over the Long Term]. By Vera Zamagni. Bologna: Mulino, 2009. xi + 385 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €28.00. ISBN: 978-8-815-12754-9.

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Women and Their Money, 1700–1950: Essays on Women and Finance. Edited by Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby, and Janette Rutterford. London: Routledge, 2009. 336 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $160.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-41976-5.

Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power. By Gene Dattel. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009. xiv + 416 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.95. ISBN: 978-1-56663-747-3.

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