New in Paperback: Winter Edition

A selection of new and forthcoming paperback titles of interest, January-March, 2017:

Sally Denton, The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World (Simon and Schuster, February 2017 [2016])

Paolo Di Martino, Andrew Popp, and Peter Scott, eds., People, Places and Business Cultures: Essays in Honour of Francesca Carnevali (Boydell & Brewer, March 2017 [pb. original])

Allen Dieterich-Ward, Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America (University of Pennsylvania Press, March 2017 [2015])

Timothy Gloege, Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism (University of North Carolina Press, February 2017 [2015])

Philip T. Hoffman, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? (Princeton University Press, February 2017 [2015])

Meg Jacobs, Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s (Hill and Wang, March 2017[2016])

Walter Johnson, River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Harvard University Press, March 2017 [2013])

Robert Jones, Bread upon the Waters: The St. Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703–1811 (University of Pittsburgh Press, March 2017 [2013])

Devin Leonard, Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service (Grove Atlantic, February 2017 [2016])

Thomas C. Leonard, Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era (Princeton University Press, January 2017 [2016])

Mary Lindemann, The Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648–1790 (Cambridge University Press, February 2017 [2014])

Henry Petroski, The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure (Bloomsbury Publishing, February 2017 [2016])

Rebecca L. Spang, Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution (Harvard University Press, February 2017 [2015])

Jon Stobart, Sugar and Spice: Grocers and Groceries in Provincial England, 1650-1830 (Oxford University Press, January 2017 [2013])

David Vogel, Kindred Strangers: The Uneasy Relationship between Politics and Business in America (Princeton University Press, March 2017 [1996])

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In September, MIT Press published Regina Lee Blaszczyk 's book, The Color Revolution , in which she "traces the relationship of color and commerce, from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design, describing the often unrecognized role of the color profession in consumer culture." Readers can see some of the 121 color illustrations featured in the book at the MIT PressLog here and here . The author has recently written an essay on her research for the book in the Hagley Archives for the Hagley Library and Archives newsletter. Reviews can be found in the New York Times , The Atlantic , Leonardo , and Imprint ; one can listen to an audio interview with Reggie Blaszczyk, and read her posts, "How Auto Shows Sparked a Color Revolution" on the Echoes blog and "True Blue: DuPont and the Color Revolution" on the Chemical Heritage Foundation website . Also available is a CHF video of the author discussing another excerpt from her rese

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