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Alexander, Alba, and Kurt Jacobsen, “Counter-Reform in the American Welfare State: Ideas, Institutions, and Progressive Taxation,” New Political Science, 30 (Sept. 2008), 285–306.

Barger, William J., “New Players at the Table: How Americans Came to Dominate Early Trade in the North Pacific,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Fall 2008), 227–57.

Bucheli, Marcelo, “Multinational Corporations, Totalitarian Regimes, and Economic Nationalism: United Fruit Company in Central America, 1899–1975,” Business History (Liverpool), 50 (July 2008), 433–54.

Calomiris, Charles W., and Joseph R. Mason, “Resolving the Puzzle of the Underissuance of National Bank Notes,” Explorations in Economic History, 45 (Sept. 2008), 327–55.

Darling, O. H., and Don C. Bragg, “The Early Mills, Railroads, and Logging Camps of the Crossett Lumber Company,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 107–40.

Deng, Xiaogang, and Lening Zhang, “The Historical Patterns of Occupational Attainment of Racial Minorities in Massachusetts: An Analysis of the 1974–2002 Current Population Survey Data,” Social Science Journal, 45 (Sept. 2008), 476–96.

Djelic, Marie-Laure, and Rolv Petter Amdam, “Americanization in Comparative Perspective: The Managerial Revolution in France and Norway, 1940–1990,” Business History (Liverpool), 49 (July 2007), 483–505.

Domitrovic, Brian, “A Time for Action: William F. Buckley, National Review, and the Defeat of Stagflation,” Intercollegiate Review, 43 (Fall 2008), 34–43.

Eggertsson, Gauti B., “Great Expectations and the End of the Depression,” American Economic Review, 98 (Sept. 2008), 1476–1516.

Geraghty, Thomas M., and Thomas Wiseman, “Wage Strikes in 1880s America: A Test of the War of Attrition Model,” Explorations in Economic History, 45 (Sept. 2008), 303–26.

Hagood, Taylor, “Taking ‘Money Right Out of an American’s Pockets’: Faulkner’s South and the International Cotton Market,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 2, 2007), 83–95.

Hashikawa, Kenryu, “Kinnen no kyowakokushokikenkyu ni okeru shijokankei no saiko” (Rethinking market relations in the northern United States in the early republic: A historiography), Jinbun Kenkyu (Chiba), 36 (2007), 181–200. In Japanese.

Hawkins, Richard A., “American Boomers and the Flotation of Shares in the City of London in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Business History (Liverpool), 49 (Nov. 2007), 802–22.

Hilt, Eric, “The Negative Trade-Off between Risk and Incentives: Evidence from the American Whaling Industry,” Explorations in Economic History, 45 (Sept. 2008), 424–44.

Hilt, Eric, “When Did Ownership Separate from Control? Corporate Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Sept. 2008), 645–85.

Hoffert, Sylvia D., “Female Self-Making in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 34–59.

Jensen-Eriksen, Niklas, “The First Wave of the Soviet Oil Offensive: The Anglo-American Alliance and the Flow of ‘Red Oil’ to Finland during the 1950s,” Business History (Liverpool), 49 (May 2007), 348–66.

John, Richard R., “Turner, Beard, Chandler: Progressive Historians,” Business History Review, 82 (Summer 2008), 227–40.

Logan, John, “Permanent Replacements and the End of Labor’s ‘Only True Weapon,’” International Labor and Working-Class History, 74 (Fall 2008), 171–92.

Maurer, Noel, and Carlos Yu, “What T. R. Took: The Economic Impact of the Panama Canal, 1903–1937,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Sept. 2008), 680–721.

McCraw, Thomas K., “Alfred Chandler: His Vision and Achievement,” Business History Review, 82 (Summer 2008), 207–26.

Mixon, Scott, “The Crisis of 1873: Perspectives from Multiple Asset Classes,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Sept. 2008), 722–57.

Natelson, Robert G., “Paper Money and the Original Understanding of the Coinage Clause,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 31 (Summer 2008), 1017–82.

Patmore, Greg, “Employee Representation Plans at the Minnequa Steelworks, Pueblo, Colorado, 1915–1942,” Business History (Liverpool), 49 (Nov. 2007), 844–67.

Quail, John, “Becoming Fully Functional: The Conceptual Struggle for a New Structure for the Giant Corporation in the U.S. and U.K. in the First Half of the Twentieth Century,” Business History (Liverpool), 50 (March 2008), 127–46.

Wang, Ta-Chen, “Paying Back to Borrow More: Reputation and Bank Credit Access in Early America,” Explorations in Economic History, 45 (Sept. 2008), 477–88.

Warner, Jonathan, “The Anaheim Scrip Plan,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Fall 2008), 307–25.

 

Cowie, Sarah E., “Industrial Capitalism and the Company Town: Structural Power, Bio-Power, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Fayette, Michigan” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3297834.

Glenn, Daniel Patrick, “Facing West from Niagara’s Shores: Competition, Commerce, and Expansionism on the U.S.-Canadian Border, 1810–1855” (University of Cincinnati, 2007). Order No. DA3292849.

Gloege, Timothy E. W., “Consumed: Reuben A. Torrey and the Construction of Corporate Fundamentalism” (University of Notre Dame, 2007). Order No. DA3299145.

Grbic, Douglas E., “Social Structure and the Dynamics of Interfirm Ties: The Audit Services Market, 1986 to 2002” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3301139.

Lepler, Jessica M., “1837: Anatomy of a Panic” (Brandeis University, 2007). Order No. DA3290956.

McKenna, Christine Anne, “Taxing Issues of Federal Child Care Subsidies in Postwar America, 1946–2006” (Syracuse University, 2007). Order No. DA3295532.

Schwartz, Michael, “A Matter for Experts: Broadway, 1900–1920, and the Rise of the Professional Managerial Class” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3300574.

Smith, Travis R., “Race and the Shifting Economy in California’s Northern Interior” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3296183.

 

Cole, Dermot, Fairbanks: A Gold Rush Town That Beat the Odds. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. 224 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-60223-030-9.)

Davis, Charles S., with J. Barto Arnold III, Colin J. McRae: Confederate Financial Agent; Blockade Running in the Trans-Mississippi South as Affected by the Confederate Government’s Direct European Procurement of Goods. (College Station: Institute of Nautical Archaeology, 2008. 222 pp. Paper, isbn 978-0-9795874-1-2.) Originally published 1961.

Walden, Michael L., North Carolina in the Connected Age: Challenges and Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xxiv, 333 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3221-9.)

Wall, James T., Wall Street and the Fruited Plain: Money, Expansion, and Politics in the Gilded Age. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. x,382 pp. Paper, $49.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4124-1.)

 

Malsberger, John W., and James N. Marshall, eds., The American Economic History Reader: Documents and Readings. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv, 556 pp. Cloth, $125.00, isbn 978-0-415-96266-7. Paper, $54.95, isbn 978-0-415-96267-4.)

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