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Books of Interest: New in Paperback

Herewith a listing of books in economic and business history recently released or soon forthcoming in paperback:
 Gerald Berk, Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition, 1900-1932 (Cambridge University Press, July 2012)

Forest Capie, The Bank of England, 1950s to 1979 (Cambridge University Press, August 2012)

Tracey Deutsch, Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, August 2012)

Alexander J. Field, A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth (Yale University Press, July 2012)

Louis Hyman, Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Princeton University Press, November 2012)

Greta R. Krippner, Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance (Harvard University Press, August 2012)

Marc Levinson, The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America (Hill and Wang, September 2012)

Joel Mokyr, The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700-1850 (Yale University Press, October 2012)

Carolyn de la Pena, Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda (University of North Carolina Press, August 2012)

David Suisman, Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music (Harvard University Press, May 2012)

Diane Wenger, A Country Storekeeper in Pennsylvania: Creating Economic Networks in Early America, 1790-1807 (Penn State Press, October 2012)

Wendy Woloson, In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression (University of Chicago Press, May 2012)

Nuala Zahedieh, The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660-1700 (Cambridge University Press, July 2012)

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