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Gustav Schachter and Saul Engelbourg. Cultural Continuity in Advanced Economies: Britain and the US versus Continental Europe. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005. 367 pp. ISBN 0-7546-4476-6, $134.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 964-966
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Norton Garfinkle. The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. ix + 230 pp. ISBN 0-300-10860-5, $22.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 196-198
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John F. Wilson and Andrew W. Thomson. The Making of Modern Management: British Management in Historical Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xvii + 297 pp. ISBN 0-19-926158-X, $90.00.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 439-441
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David M. Henkin. The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xv + 221 pp. ISBN 0-226-32720-5, $38.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 749-751
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Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely, and Paul F. Barrett. The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, 2006. xxvi + 318 pp. ISBN 0-8142-1036-8, $49.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 751-753
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Hubert Kiesewetter. Industrielle Revolution in Deutschland: Regionen als Wachstumsmotoren. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2005. 307 pp. ISBN 3-515-08613-7, €24.00 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 444-446
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George Feifer. Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853. New York: Smithsonian Books, 2006. xx + 389 pp. ISBN-10: 0-06-088432-0, $25.95 (Hardback).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 967-968
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Douglas Ambrose and Robert W. T. Martin, editors. The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founder Father. New York: New York University Press, 2006. x + 300 pp. ISBN 0-8147-0714-9, $45.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 199-200
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Marc J. de Vries, with contributions by F. Kees Boersma. 80 Years of Research at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium, 1914–1994. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. 325 pp. ISBN 90-8555-051-3, $40.00.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 441-444
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Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen. Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. 240 pp. ISBN 0-226-91068-7, $25.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 200-202
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Charles F. McGovern. Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890–1945. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xv + 536 pp. ISBN 0-8078-5676-2, $24.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 753-755
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Martin J. Iversen. GN Store Nord. A Company in Transition, 1939–1988. Copenhagen: Business School Press, 2005. 216 pp. ISBN 87-630-0133-0, $32.00.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 969-970
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Hermann-J. Rupieper, Friederike Sattler and Georg Wagner-Kyora, eds. Die mitteldeutsche Chemieindustrie und ihre Arbeiter im 20. Jahrhundert. Halle, Germany: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2005. 416 pp. ISBN 3-89812-246-8, €24.00.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 447-449
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Terry Gourvish. The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel. London: Routledge, 2006. xxi + 521 pp. ISBN10: 0-415-39183-0, $93.95 (Cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 970-972
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Mark R. Wilson. The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 306 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8348-2, $45.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 202-204
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Frank J. Byrne. Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820–1865. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. x + 297 pp. ISBN 0-8131-2404-2, $50.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 756-758
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Robert E. Wright. The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, & The Birth of American Finance. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. vii + 210 pp. ISBN 0-226-91026-1, $25.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 758-760
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Graeme J. Milne. North-East England, 1850–1914: The Dynamics of a Maritime-Industrial Region. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: The Boydell Press, 2006. ix + 230 pp. ISBN 1 84383 240 2, $90.00, £55.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 973-975
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Diane C. Vecchio. Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. X + 130 pp. ISBN 0-252-03039-7, $35.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 204-206
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Jeffrey J. Rossman. Worker Resistance under Stalin: Class and Revolution on the Shop Floor. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. 326 pp. ISBN 0-674-01926-1, $49.95.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 449-451
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