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Adkinson, Kandie, “Tax Lists (1792–1840): An Overlooked Resource for Kentucky History and Land Titles,” Kentucky Ancestors, 44 (Summer 2009), 166–74. Heavily illustrated.

Asen, Robert, “Ideology, Materiality, and Counterpublicity: William E. Simon and the Rise of a Conservative Counterintelligentsia,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 95 (Aug. 2009), 263–88.

Austin, Ian, “The Treasury of the United States of America and the Asian Financial Crisis: A Decade in Review,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 28 (July 2009), 50–73.

Billington, Monroe Lee, and Cal M. Clark, “New Mexico Clergymen’s Perceptions of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal,” New Mexico Historical Review, 84 (Fall 2009), 521–44.

Blackford, Mansel G., “Fishers, Fishing, and Overfishing: American Experiences in Global Perspective, 1976–2006,” Business History Review, 83 (Summer 2009), 239–67.

Boustan, Leah Platt, “Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940–1970,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (Sept. 2009), 755–82.

Burgin, Angus, “The Radical Conservatism of Frank H. Knight,” Modern Intellectual History, 6 (Nov. 2009), 513–38.

Cheffins, Brian, and Steven Bank, “Is Berle and Means Really a Myth?,” Business History Review, 83 (Autumn 2009), 443–74.

Chorey, Nitsan, and Sarah Babb, “The Crisis of Neoliberalism and the Future of International Institutions: A Comparison of the imf and the wto,” Theory and Society (Dordrecht), 38 (Sept. 2009), 459–84.

Churella, Albert J., “Delivery to the Customer’s Door: Efficiency, Regulatory Policy, and Integrated Rail-Truck Operations, 1900–1938,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 98–136.

Cohen, Jim, “Divergent Paths, United States, and France: Capital Markets, the State, and Differentiation in Transportation Systems, 1840–1940,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 449–97.

Hamilton, Shane, “The Populist Appeal of Deregulation: Independent Truckers and the Politics of Free Enterprise, 1935–1980,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 137–77.

Harvey, Douglas S., “Learning the Hard Way: Early Water Control Projects at Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area,” Kansas History, 32 (Autumn 2009), 186–203. Heavily illustrated.

Hayes-Bautista, David E., Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Nancy Zuniga, “A Gold Rush Salvadoran in California’s Latino World, 1857,” Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Fall 2009), 257–94.

Hilt, Eric, and Katharine O’Banion, “The Limited Partnership in New York, 1822–1858: Partnerships without Kinship,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (Sept. 2009), 615–45.

Hughes, Henry, “Re-orienting Orientalism: American Narratives of the Early China Trade,” New England Journal of History, 66 (Fall 2009), 37–61.

Johnson, Val Marie, “‘Look for the Moral and Sex Sides of the Problem’: Investigating Jewishness, Desire, and Discipline at Macy’s Department Store, New York City, 1913,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18 (Sept. 2009), 457–85.

Kimball, Jeffrey P., “The Big Picture: William Applebaum Williams, the Vietnam War, and the Economic Interpretation of U.S. Foreign Relations,” New England Journal of History, 66 (Fall 2009), 79–102.

Kirshner, Jonathan, “Keynes, Legacies, and Inquiry,” Theory and Society (Dordrecht), 38 (Sept. 2009), 527–41.

Lange, Fabian, Alan L. Olmstead, and Paul W. Rhode, “The Impact of the Boll Weevil, 1892–1932,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (Sept. 2009), 685–718.

Lee, R. Alton, “William Ross Bigham: Great Plains Entrepreneur and Diplomat,” Heritage of the Great Plains, 41 (Winter 2009), 39–48.

Levinson, Marc, “Two Cheers for Discrimination: Deregulation and Efficiency in the Reform of U.S. Freight Transportation, 1976–1998,” Enterprise & Society, 10 (March 2009), 178–215.

McLear, Patrick, “Anslinger vs. Donnici: Narcotics Trafficking and Federal Justice in Kansas City, Missouri, 1939,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (Oct. 2009), 40–52.

Mendez, Jesus, “1892—A Year of Crucial Decisions in Florida,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Summer 2009), 83–106.

du Menil, Carley, “The Bank and the Community: Panhandle Banking in Various Markets,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 80 (2008), 45–62.

Morris, Larry E., “The Mysterious Charles Courtin and the Early Missouri Fur Trade,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (Oct. 2009), 21–39.

Muller, Edward K., “Was Pittsburgh’s Economic Destiny Set in 1815?,” Indiana Magazine of History, 105 (Sept. 2009), 203–18.

Paterson, David E., “Slavery, Slaves, and Cash in a Georgia Village, 1825–1865,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Nov. 2009), 879–930.

Pena-Velilla, Janice, and Sigmund R. Balka, “Krasdale Foods: One Hundred Years of Entrepreneurship, Technical Innovation, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Cultural Community Enhancement,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 45 (Spring–Fall 2008), 68–77.

Ruef, Martin, and Kelly Patterson, “Organizations and Local Development: Economic and Demographic Growth among Southern Counties during Reconstruction,” Social Forces, 87 (June 2009), 1743–71.

Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R., “‘None of Us Were Able to Give the Place the Personal Attention It Needed’: Absentee Owners and Bellagio Plantation, 1918–1948,” Louisiana History, 50 (Fall 2009), 437–60.

Schwadel, Philip, John D. McCarthy, and Hart M. Nelsen, “The Continuing Relevance of Family Income for Religious Participation: U.S. White Catholic Church Attendance in the Late 20th Century,” Social Forces, 87 (June 2009), 1997–2030.

Twomey, Janet, “The Role of Massachusetts Merchants in the Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave-Based Economies of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” New England Journal of History, 66 (Fall 2009), 5–25.

Wikstrom, Patrik, and Robert Burnett, “Same Songs, Different Wrapping: The Rise of the Compilation Album,” Popular Music and Society, 32 (Oct. 2009), 507–22.

Yagasaki, Noritaka, “Origin of Cities and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Southern California: Regional Changes in the Context of Three Economic-Cultural Regions of the Americas,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 19 (2008), 197–219.

 

Alter, Stewart, “Advertising and Corporate Mergers: An Examination of Editorial Coverage of the 1895–1904 Industrial ‘Trust’ Consolidation Movement in Contemporary Advertising-Trade Publications” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA3346257.

Cohen, Kenneth, “‘To Give Good Sport’: The Economic Culture of Public Sporting Events in Early America, 1750–1850” (University of Delaware, 2008). Order No. DA3337455.

Conley, John Evins, “Capital Cynicism: Literature and Production in the Post-Fordist Era” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3343547.

Ely, Glen Sample, “Riding the Butterfield Frontier: Life and Death along the Butterfield Overland Mail Road in Texas, 1858–1861” (Texas Christian University, 2008). Order No. DA3339475.

Gafford, Farrah D., “Life in the Park: Community Solidarity, Culture, and the Case of a Black Middle Class Neighborhood” (Tulane University, 2008). Order No. DA3338120.

Levy, Jonathan Ira, “The Ways of Providence: Capitalism, Risk, and Freedom in America, 1841–1935” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3338492.

McMahon, Stephanie, Hunter, “Money, Sex, and Tax Politics: Developments in Tax Avoidance and Marital Tax Returns, 1913–1948” (University of Virginia, 2009). Order No. DA3338628.

Miller, Melinda C., “Essays on Race and the Persistence of Economic Inequality” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3343164.

Parman, John, “The Private and Public Effects of School Reform: Educational Investment, Human Capital Spillovers, and Intergenerational Mobility during the Expansion of Public Schools in the United States” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3331145.

Rao, Gautham, “The Creation of the American State: Customhouses, Law, and Commerce in the Age of Revolution” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3338505.

Sherman, Geoffre Neil, “The ncaa as a Cartel: Ensuring Its Existence. A Revisionist History” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3331336.

Sieracki, Bernard H., “Order and Opportunity: The Development of the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3345493.

Vornovitsky, Stanislav E., “Internet-Driven Productivity Growth: The Case of Hospital Radiology Services” (American University, 2008). Order No. DA3338434.

 

Fox, Jon Hartley, King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxii, 234 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-252-03468-8.)

Hyde, Charles K., Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. xviii, 307 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8143-3446-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Pickens, Donald K., Leon H. Keyserling: A Progressive Economist. (Lanham: Lexington, 2009. x, 245 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-7391-4083-3.)

Rasmussen, Thomas, Ox Cart to Automobile: Social Change in Western New York. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2009. viii, 195 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4588-1.)

Schweikart, Larry, and Lynne Pierson Doti, American Entrepreneur: The Fascinating Stories of the People Who Defined Business in the United States. (New York: Amacom, 2009. viii, 535 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8144-1411-8.)

Smith, Duane A., The Trail of Gold and Silver: Mining in Colorado, 1859–2009. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. xiv, 282 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-87081-957-5.)

Sutô, Isao, Sengo Amerika tsûka kin’yû seisaku no keisei (Shaping of the postwar federal reserve policy: From the New Deal to the Accord). (Nagoya: University of Nagoya Press, 2008. 346 pp. ¥5,700, isbn 978-4-8158-0584-5.) In Japanese.

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