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Volume 76 - June 2016

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United States and Canada

Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South. By Talitha L. LeFlouria ChapelHill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Pp. xi, 257. $39.95, cloth.

Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina. By Shepherd W. McKinley. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. Pp. xii, 230. $69.95, cloth.

Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery. By Margaret Ellen Newell. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. Pp. Xi, 316. $45.00, cloth.

The British Gentry, The Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America. By James L. Huston Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. Pp. Xvii, 345. $35.00, cloth.

Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada. By Douglas McCalla. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 296. $100.00, cloth; $34.95, paper.

The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order. By Leon Fink. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 206. $45.00, cloth.

Africa

Economic Growth and Measurement Reconsidered in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, 1965–1995. By Morten Jerven. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. vi, 215. $90.00.

South America

Inglorious Revolution: Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil. By William R. Summerhill Yale University Press, 2015. Pp. xiii, 342. $85.00, cloth.

United States and Canada

The Settlers' Empire: Colonialism and State Formation in America's Old Northwest. By Bethel Saler. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 382. $45.00, cloth.

General and Miscellaneous

Education Matters. Global Schooling Gains from the 19th to the 21st Century. By Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xi, 289. $34.95, hardcover.

United States and Canada

The Merchants' Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South. By Scott P. Marler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 317. $95.00, hardcover; $32.99, paper.

Merchants of Independence: International Trade on the Santa Fe Trail, 1827–1860 By William Patrick O'Brien. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2014. Pp. xi, 211. $34.95, paper; $27.99, eBook.

General and Miscellaneous

The Idea of History in Constructing Economics. By Michael H. Turk London: Routledge, 2015. Pp. viii, 242. $160.00, cloth.

The Economy of the Word: Language, History, and Economics. By Keith Tribe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 352. $74.00, hardcover.

United States and Canada

The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause: Immigrants, Blacks, and States' Rights in Antebellum America. By Tony Allen Freyer. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2014. Pp. xii, 204. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.

The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II: Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany. By Talbot Imlay and Martin Horn. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 291. $110.00, hardcover.

General and Miscellaneous

Political Order and Inequality: Their Foundations and Their Consequences for Human Welfare. By Carles Boix. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv, 311. $22.99, paper.

United States and Canada

Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective. By Eugene N. White, Kenneth Snowden and Price Fishback, editors. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. vii, 397. $110.00, cloth.

General and Miscellaneous

Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Learning from History. Edited by Marc Badia-Miro, Vicente Pinilla, and Henry Willebald. London: Routledge, 2015. Pp. xix, 374. $160.00, cloth.

United States and Canada

Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet. By Amy Bentley. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. Pp. ix, 223. $29.95, paper.

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