A (belated) spring and early summer listing of books of interest newly published in paperback covering April through June (does not include books published simultaneously in hardcover and paper, but does include books published as paperback originals):
Mark Braude, Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle (Simon & Schuster, April 2017 [2016])
Francesa Bray, et al., eds., Rice: Global Networks and New Histories (Cambridge University Press, May 2017 [2015]
Gerald M. Carbone (with the Rhode Island Historical Society), Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry (McFarland, April 2017 [pb original])
Jefferson Cowie, The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Princeton University Press, April 2017 [2016])
Donald Creighton, The Empire of the St. Lawrence: A Study in Commerce and Politics (University of Toronto Press, May 2017 [1937]). [This book is part of the University of Toronto Press's Canada 150 Collection, a series of reprints in honor of the sesquicentennial of Canadian Confederation. See here for the complete list.]
Peter B. Doran, Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire (Penguin Random House, May 2017 [2016])
Jonathan Eacott, Selling Empire: India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830 (University of North Carolina Press, April 2017 [2016])
Xing Hang, Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia: The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c. 1620-1720 (Cambridge University Press, June 2017 [2016])
Douglas E. Haynes, Small Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870–1960 (Cambridge University Press, April 2017 [2012])
Louis Hyman and Edward E. Baptist, American Capitalism: A Reader (Simon & Schuster, May 2017 [2014, as ebook])
Robert Jones, Bread Upon the Waters: The St. Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703–1811 (University of Pittsburgh Press, May 2017 [2013])
Erik Loomis, Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests (Cambridge University Press, May 2017 [2015])
Kathryn S. Olmsted, Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism (The New Press, June 2017 [2015])
Marc-William Palen, The 'Conspiracy' of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalisation, 1846–1896 (Cambridge University Press, May 2017 [2016])
Roman Studer, The Great Divergence Reconsidered: Europe, India, and the Rise to Global Economic Power (Cambridge University Press, June 2017 [2015])
There is also a new crop of titles in Routledge's Modern Economic and Social History paperback reprint series.
