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New In Paperback: Fall Edition

A partial list of books of interest published or forthcoming in paperback from September through December (and a few we missed):
Richard Adelstein, The Rise of Planning in Industrial America, 1865-1914 (Routledge, December 2016 [2012])

Glenn J. Ames, Colbert, Mercantilism, and the French Quest for Asian Trade (Northern Illinois University Press, August 2016 [1996])

Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books, October 2016 [2014])

Nancy Cox, The Complete Tradesman: A  Study of Retailing, 1550-1820 (Routledge, August 2016 [2000])

Barry Eichengreen, Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses--and Misuses--of History (Oxford University Press, October 2016 [2015])

Robert E. Forrester, British Mail Steamers to South America, 1851-1965: A History of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and Royal Mail Lines (Routledge, September 2016 [2014])

Robert E. Gallamore and John R. Meyer, American Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, November 2016 [2014])

Louisa Iarocci, ed., Visual Merchandising The Image of Selling (Routledge, September 2016 [2013])

Ian Klaus, Forging Capitalism: Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance (Yale University Press, October 2016 [2014])

David Koistinen, Confronting Decline: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England (University Press of Florida, November 2016 [2013])

Jeremiah D. Lambert, The Power Brokers: The Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry (MIT Press, September 2016 [2015])

Thomas A. Lee and Stephen P. Walker, eds., Studies in Early Professionalism: Scottish Chartered Accountants, 1853-1918 (Routledge, September 2016 [1999])

Roger Lowenstein, America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve (Penguin Random House, October 2016 [2015])

Pedro Machado, Ocean of Trade: South Asian Merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c.1750–1850 (Cambridge University Press, November 2016 [2014])

Adam D. Mendelsohn, The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire (New York University Press, October 2016 [2014])

Ian Mitchell, Tradition and Innovation in English Retailing, 1700 to 1850: Narratives of Consumption (Routledge, September 2016 [2014])

Daniel K. Richter, Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America (University of Pennsylvania Press, December 2016 [2013])

Martin Ruef, Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the
American South (Princeton University Press, December 2016 [2014])

Michael Stamm, Sound Business: Newspapers, Radio, and the Politics of New Media (University of Pennsylvania Press, October 2016 [2011])

John E. Stealey, The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets (University of West Virginia Press, September 2016 [1993])


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