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ANCIENT TO MODERN EUROPE
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From Warfare to Wealth: The Military Origins of Urban Prosperity in Europe. By Mark Dincecco and Massimiliano Onorata. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 210. $20.97, paper. - Empire of Guns. The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution. By Priya Satia. New York: Penguin Press, 2018. Pp. 544. $25.50, hardcover.
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- 14 March 2019, pp. 283-290
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IS INNOVATION BAD FOR US?
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The Technology Trap: Capital Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation. By Carl Benedikt Frey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 480. $29.95, hardcover.
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- 01 November 2019, pp. 1183-1189
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UNITED STATES AND CANADA
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Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century. By LaDale C. Winling. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 264. $39.95, hardcover.
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- 11 July 2019, pp. 574-576
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The Economic Consequences of the War. West Germany’s Growth Miracle after 1945. By Tamás Vonyó. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xx, 272, $99, cloth.
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- 05 September 2019, pp. 900-902
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The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain. By George R. Boyer. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii, 346. $45.00, hardcover.
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- 05 September 2019, pp. 902-904
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UNITED STATES AND CANADA
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Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism. By Gavin Benke. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 272. $29.92, hardcover.
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- 11 July 2019, pp. 576-578
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Botswana – A Modern Economic History: An African Diamond in the Rough. By Ellen Hillbom and Jutta Bolt. New York: Palgrave, 2018. Pp. v–xv, 235, hardcover.
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- 01 November 2019, pp. 1189-1190
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Urban Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World. Edited by Andrew Wilson and Miko Flohr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi, 408. $135, hardcover. - Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World. Edited by Andrew Wilson and Alan Bowman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi, 656. $145, hardcover.
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- 14 March 2019, pp. 290-294
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Post-War Business Planners in the United States, 1939–48: The Rise of the Corporate Moderates. By Charlie Whitham. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Pp. xii, 289. £81, hardcover.
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- 11 July 2019, pp. 578-580
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ASIA
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Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan. By Maren A. Ehlers. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. Pp xiv, 351. $49.95, hardcover.
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- 05 September 2019, pp. 904-905
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Migrating Merchants. Trade, Nation, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Hamburg and Portugal. By Jorun Poettering. Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. viii, 389. $68.99, hardcover.
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- 01 November 2019, pp. 1190-1192
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The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome. By J. G. Manning. Princeton, New Jersey and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi, 414. $35.00, hardcover.
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Dark Credit Matter. The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France. By Philipp T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 303. $39.95, hardcover.
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- 01 November 2019, pp. 1193-1194
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MIDDLE EAST
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Islam Instrumentalized: Religion and Politics in Historical Perspective. By Jean-Philippe Platteau. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xvii, 528. $34.99, softcover.
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- 05 September 2019, pp. 906-907
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The Experts’ War on Poverty: Social Research and the Welfare Agenda in Postwar America. By Romain D. Huret, translated by John Angell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. Pp. 246. $38.94, hardcover.
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- 11 July 2019, pp. 580-582
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The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome. By J. G. Manning. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xxiii, 414. $35, hardcover.
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- 14 March 2019, pp. 296-298
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Deconstructing the Monolith: The Microeconomics of the National Industrial Recovery Act. By Jason E. Taylor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 206. $55.00, cloth.
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- 01 November 2019, pp. 1195-1196
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Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era. By Michael R. Cohen. New York: New York University Press, 2017. Pp. xv, 259. $40.00, cloth.
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- 14 March 2019, pp. 298-299
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SOUTH AFRICA
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Twentieth Century South Africa: A Developmental History. By Bill Freund. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. x, 288. $86.52, hardcover; $29.99, paper.
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- 05 September 2019, pp. 908-909
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SOUTH AMERICA
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The Public Good and the Brazilian State: Municipal Finance and Public Services in São Paulo, 1822–1930. By Anne G. Hanley. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 288. $55.37, hardcover.
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- 11 July 2019, pp. 582-584
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