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Abramitzky, Ran, and Fabio Braggion, “Migration and Human Capital: Self Selection of Indentured Servants to the Americas,” Journal of Economic History, 66 (Dec. 2006), 882–905.

Bezilla, Michael, “Battle over Coal,” Railroad History (no. 194, Spring–Summer 2006), 58–67.

Eltis, David, Frank D. Lewis, and David Richardson, “Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: A Reassessment,” Journal of Economic History, 66 (Dec. 2006), 1054–65.

Emery, John Charles Herbert, “From Defining Characteristic to Vitiation of Principle: The History of the Odd Fellows’ Stipulated Sick Benefit and Its Implications for Studying American Fraternalism,” Social Science History, 30 (Winter 2006), 479–500.

English, Linda, “Recording Race: General Stores and Race in the Late Nineteenth-Century Southwest,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 110 (Oct. 2006), 193–217.

Gragg, Larry, “Selling ‘Sin City’: Successfully Promoting Las Vegas during the Great Depression, 1935–1941,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 49 (Summer 2006), 83–106.

Hashikawa, Kenryu, “19 seiki zenhan no Amerika gasshukoku hokubu ni okeru nousongata jigyo no ichi” (Rural enterprise and the northern economy in the early republic), Jinbun Kenkyu (Chiba), 34 (2005), 133–51. In Japanese.

Hines, Elizabeth, and Michael Smith, “The Rush Started Here II: Hard Rock Gold Mining in North Carolina, 1825 to 1864,” Earth Sciences History, 25 (no. 1, 2006), 69–106.

Mancall, Peter C., Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and Thomas Weiss, “Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: A Reply,” Journal of Economic History, 66 (Dec. 2006), 1066–71.

Sutthiphisal, Dhanoos, “Learning-by-Producing and the Geographic Links between Invention and Production: Experience from the Second Industrial Revolution,” Journal of Economic History, 66 (Dec. 2006), 992–1025.

Sylla, Richard Eugene, “Political Economy of Financial Development: Canada and the United States in the Mirror of the Other, 1790–1840,” Enterprise & Society, 7 (Dec. 2006), 653–65.

Turner, Robert C., and Mark K. Cassell, “When Do States Pursue Targeted Economic Development Policies? The Adoption and Expansion of State Enterprise Zone Programs,” Social Science Quarterly, 88 (March 2007), 86–103.

 

Kleeb, Scott Michael, “The Atlantic West: Cowboys, Capitalists, and the Making of an American Myth” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214232.

Martin, Jessica E., “Corporate Cold Warriors: American Business Leaders and Foreign Relations in the Eisenhower Era” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006). Order No. DA3207693.

Neumann, Todd Christopher, “Automobiles, the Mass Market, and the Retail Revolution of the Early 20th Century: A Structural Analysis of Changes in American Retail Institutions, Market Power, and Labor Demand” (University of Arizona, 2006). Order No. DA3215365.

Treber, Jaret Scott, “From Lancets to Laboratories: Medical Schools, Physicians, and Healthcare in the United States from 1870 to 1940” (University of Arizona, 2005). Order No. DA3212697.

Yarrow, Andrew L., “The Measure of America: The Rise of Economic Thinking and Changing Ideas about American Identity, 1945–1965” (George Mason University, 2006). Order No. DA3206121.

 

Davis, Lance E., and Stanley L. Engerman, Naval Blockades in Peace and War: An Economic History since 1750. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. x, 453 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-85749-9.)

Dolata-Kreutzkamp, Petra, Die deutsche Kohlenkrise im nationalen und transatlantischen Kontext (The German coal crisis in national and transatlantic perspective). (Wiesbaden: vs, 2006. 287 pp. €34.90, isbn 978-3-8100-4156-2.) In German.

Field, Jacqueline, Marjorie Senechal, and Madelyn Shaw, American Silk, 1830–1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxiv, 326 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-89672-589-8.)

Maione, Giuseppe, Lo stato a una dimensione. George Bush e il nuovo corso della politica americana (The one-dimensional state. George Bush and the new course of American politics). (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2006. 287 pp. €16.00, isbn 8833916642.) In Italian.

Seavoy, Ronald E., An Economic History of the United States: From 1607 to the Present. (New York: Routledge, 2006. x, 357 pp. Cloth, $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-97980-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-415-97981-8.)

Skrabec, Quentin R., Jr., Michael Owens and the Glass Industry. (Gretna: Pelican, 2007. 320 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58980-385-5.)

 

“Corinth Deposit Bank, Grant County, Check Book No. 1, 1890, Part Nine,” Kentucky Ancestors, 41 (Spring 2006), 158–63.

Appleton, Thomas H., Jr., ed., “Transcriptions from the Wine and Spirit Bulletin, 1888–89, Part One,” Kentucky Ancestors, 41 (Spring 2006), 151–57.

Welge, William D., “The Andrew J. Reynolds Collection, 1880–1888,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Fall 2006), 336–42.

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