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New and Forthcoming Books of Interest, New Year's 2019 Edition

New and forthcoming books of interest for October through December 2018 and January-February 2019 (for bibliographic purposes, the list is divided between 2018 and 2019 titles):

October-December 2018
Stuart Aveyard, Paul Corthorn, and Sean O'Connell, The Politics of Consumer Credit in the UK, 1938-1992 (Oxford University Press, November 2018).

Matthias Blum and Christopher R. Colvin, eds., An Economist's Guide to Economic History (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2018).

Bradley J. Borougerdi, Commodifying Cannabis: A Cultural History of a Complex Plant in the Atlantic World (Lexington Books, November 2018).

Youssef Cassis and Giuseppe Telesca, eds., Financial Elites in European Banking: Historical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, October 2018).

Huw David, Trade, Politics, and Revolution: South Carolina and Britain's Atlantic Commerce, 1730-1790 (University of South Carolina Press, November 2018).

Hannah Catherine Davies, Transatlantic Speculations: Globalization and the Panics of 1873 (Columbia University Press, November 2018).

Nan Enstad, Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (University of Chicago Press, December 2018).

Desmond Fitz-Gibbon, Marketable Values: Inventing the Property Market in Modern Britain (University of Chicago Press, December 2018).

Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge, Capitalism in America: A History (Penguin Press, October 2018).

Eric Lomazoff, Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy: Politics and Law in the Early American Republic (University of Chicago Press, November 2018).

Hassan Malik, Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, November 2018).

Anne L. Murphy, The Worlds of the Jeake Family of Rye, 1640-1736 (Oxford University Press, November 2018).

Brian O'Sullivan, From Crisis to Crisis: The Transformation of Merchant Banking, 1914–1939 (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2018).

Daniel Peart, Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 1816-1861 (Johns Hopkins University Press, October 2018).
Sophus A. Reinert, The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy (Harvard University Press, December 2018).

Mark H. Rose, Market Rules: Bankers, Presidents, and the Origins of the Great Recession (University of Pennsylvania Press, November 2018).

Tirthankar Roy and Giorgio Riello, eds., Global Economic History (Bloomsbury Publishing, December 2018).

Thomas Max Safley, ed., Labor Before the Industrial Revolution: Work, Technology and Their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism (Routledge, November 2018).

Jon Stobart and Vicki Howard, eds., The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing (Routledge, November 2018).

Erika Vause, In the Red and in the Black: Debt, Dishonor, and the Law in France between Revolutions (University of Virginia Press, November 2018).

Jeffrey D. Wert, Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation (Da Capo Press, November 2018).

Ben Wubs, Neil Forbes, and Takafumi Kurosawa, eds., Multinational Enterprise, Political Risk and Organisational Change: From Total War to Cold War (Routledge, December 2018).
January-February 2019
Stephen W. Campbell, The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America (University Press of Kansas, January 2019).
Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, Bubbles and Crashes: The Boom and Bust of Technological Innovation (Stanford University Press, February 2019).
Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Dark Matter Credit: The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France (Princeton University Press, January 2019).

Katie Jarvis, Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France (Oxford University Press, January 2019).

David K. Johnson, Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement (Columbia University Press, February 2019).

M. Houston Johnson V, Taking Flight: The Foundations of American Commercial Aviation, 1918–1938 (Texas A&M University Press, February 2019).

Jack Kelly, The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America (St. Martin's Press, January 2019).

Elisabeth Köll, Railroads and the Transformation of China (Harvard University Press, January 2019).

Will B. Mackintosh, Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture (New York University Press, January 2019).

Sheilagh Ogilvie, The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis (Princeton University Press, January 2019).

Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan, Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic (NYU Press, January 2019)

John Oldland, The English Woollen Industry, c. 1200-c.1560 (Routledge, February 2019).

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776–1848 (Johns Hopkins University Press, February 2019)

Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange, and Bertrand Taithe, The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912 (Bloomsbury, January 2019).

Jason E. Taylor, Deconstructing the Monolith: The Microeconomics of the National Industrial Recovery Act (University of Chicago Press, January 2019).

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