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Asia
India's Late, Late Industrial Revolution: Democratizing Entrepreneurship. By Sumit K. Majumdar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. xxv, 426. $99.00, hardcover; $29.99, paper.
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- 13 March 2013, pp. 303-304
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Middle East
The Economy of Israel from the Foundation of the State through the Twenty-First Century.. By Paul Rivlin. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2011. Pp. xvi, 288. $90.00, hardcover; $31.99, paper.
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- 23 May 2013, pp. 615-616
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United States and Canada
Art and Science in Breeding: Creating Better Chickens. By Margaret E. Derry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2012. Pp. 228. $65.00, hardcover.
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- 09 August 2013, pp. 892-893
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Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act. By Kevin Stainback and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2012. Pp. xxxiv, 378. $45.00, paper.
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- 15 November 2013, pp. 1186-1188
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Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia. Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang with a foreword by Wang Gungwu. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2011. Pp. xv, 534. $99.95, hardcover; $29.95, paper
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- 13 March 2013, pp. 305-306
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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. Pp. xv, 489. $55.00, paper.
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- 09 August 2013, pp. 893-894
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United States and Canada
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order. By Benn Steil. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2013. Pp. viii, 449. $29.95, cloth.
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- 15 November 2013, pp. 1188-1189
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Latin America
The Making of Law: The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875–1931. By William J. Suarez-Potts. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2012. Pp. x, 348. $60.00, hardcover.
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- 23 May 2013, pp. 616-618
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United States and Canada
Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream. By Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 2013. Pp. vii, 237. $34.95, paper; also available as an eBook.
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- 15 November 2013, pp. 1190-1191
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Latin America
Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850–1950. By Moramay Lopez-Alonso. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. Published in 2012. xvii, 276 pp., $65.00, hardcover.
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- 23 May 2013, pp. 618-619
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Middle East
Plague, Quarantines, and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire. By Birsen Bulmuş. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2012. Pp. vii, 195. $105.00, hardcover.
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- 09 August 2013, pp. 895-896
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Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capitalism (1600–1800). By Nelly Hanna. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. 2011. Pp. ix, 244. $34.95, hardcover.
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- 13 March 2013, pp. 306-308
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United States and Canada
Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics.. By Robert William Fogel, Enid M. Fogel, Mark Guglielmo, and Nathaniel Grotte. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. Pp. xiii, 168. $32.00, hardcover.
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- 15 November 2013, pp. 1191-1192
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Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America. By John Tutino. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2011. Pp. v, 698. $99.95, hardcover; $29.95, paper.
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- 23 May 2013, pp. 620-621
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Australia and New Zealand
Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth. By Ian W. McLean. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 281. $35.00, hardcover.
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- 09 August 2013, pp. 896-898
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General and Miscellaneous
Mobilizing Money: How the World's Richest Nations Financed Industrial Growth. By Caroline Fohlin. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. Xiv, 263. $99.00, hardcover.
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- 13 March 2013, pp. 308-309
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Reforming the World Monetary System: Fritz Machlup and the Bellagio Group. By Carol M. Connell. London: Pickering and Chatto, Ltd.2012. Pp. 271. $99.00, hardcover.
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- 23 May 2013, pp. 621-622
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The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70–1492.. By Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2012. Pp. xvii, 323. $39.50, cloth; $39.50, ebook.
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- 13 March 2013, pp. 310-311
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United States and Canada
The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty.. By Monica Prasad. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press. 2012. Pp. xiv, 327. $39.95, cloth.
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- 15 November 2013, pp. 1193-1195
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General and Miscellaneous
What's the Use of Economics? Teaching the Dismal Science After the Crisis. Edited by Diane Coyle. London: London Publishing Partnership. 2012. Pp. xx, 197. $27.99, paper.
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- 09 August 2013, pp. 898-899
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