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Jochen Streb. Staatliche Technologiepolitik und branchenübergreifender Wissenstransfer: Über die Ursachen der internationalen Innovationserfolge der deutschen Kunststoffindustrie im 20. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2003. 242 pp. ISBN 3-05-003873-X, €69.80 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 533-534
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Pierre Boisard. Camembert: A National Myth. Translated by Richard Miller. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiii + 254 pp. ISBN 0-520-2250-3, $29.95.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 318-320
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Doreen Arnoldus. Family, Family Firm, and Strategy: Six Dutch Family Firms in the Food Industry, 1880–1970. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, 2002. 448 pp. ISBN 90-5260-024-4, $54.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 138-140
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Saadia M. Pekkanen. Picking Winners? From Technology Catch-up to the Space Race in Japan. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003. xvi + 283 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4732-6, $45.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 695-697
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John Benson and Laura Ugolini, eds. A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2003. x + 269 pp. ISBN 1-86064-709-X, $65.00 (cloth); 1-86064-708-1, $24.50 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 140-142
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William R. Summerhill. Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment and Railroads in Brazil, 1854–1913. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. xx + 297 pp. ISBN 0-8047-3224-8, $60.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 698-699
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Mario König. Interhandel: Die schweizerische Holding der IG Farben und ihre Metamorphosen – eine Affäre um Eigentum und Interessen (1910–1999). Zurich: Chronos, 2001. 412 pp. ISBN 3-0340-0602-0, €35.90 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 535-536
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Bob Hancké. Large Firms and Institutional Change: Industrial Renewal and Economic Restructuring in France. New York and Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii + 222 pp. ISBN 0-19-925205-X, $85.00, £50.00.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 320-323
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Lawrence A. Peskin. Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 294 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7324-X, $49.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 537-539
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Peter Saunders. The Ends and Means of Welfare: Coping with Economic and Social Change in Australia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii + 300 pp. ISBN 0-521-81892-3, $70.00 (cloth); 0-521-52443-1, $25.00 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 323-325
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Michael P. Costeloe. Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico’s Foreign Debt, 1824–1888. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2003. xxii + 384 pp. ISBN 0-275-97939-3, $69.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 699-701
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Georgina Ferry. A Computer Called LEO. Lyons Teashop and the World's First Office Computer. London: Fourth Estate, 2003. xi + 221 pp. ISBN 1-84115-185-8, £15.99.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 142-144
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Angela Lakwete. Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. viii + 232 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7394, $45.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 539-541
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Kolleen M. Guy. When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 245 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7164-6, $29.50.
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 144-145
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F. M. Scherer. Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. x + 264 pp. ISBN 0-691-11621-0, $35.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 701-703
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Simon Learmount. Corporate Governance: What Can Be Learned from Japan? Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2002. 179 pp. ISBN 0-19-925291-2, $70.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 325-327
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Philip Gura. C. F. Martin and His Guitars, 1796–1873. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 352 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2801-7, $45.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 541-543
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J. Forbes Munro. Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and his Business Empire, 1823–1893. Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2003. ix + 525 pp. ISBN 0-85115-935-4, $130 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 703-705
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Martin Bruegel. Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. xiii + 306 pp. ISBN 0-8223-2835-6, $64.95 (cloth); 0-8223-2849-6, $21.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 327-329
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Robert E. Wright. The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered: Integration and Expansion in American Financial Markets, 1780–1850. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xi + 240 pp. ISBN 0-521-81237-2, $55.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 146-147
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