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New and Forthcoming Books: Year-End Edition

A compilation of some of the recently published and forthcoming books of interest to business and economic historians:

Marcelo Bucheli and R. Daniel Wadhwani, eds., Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods (Oxford University Press, January 2014)
Adam Clulow, The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan (Columbia University Press, December 2013)
Katherine C. Epstein, Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain (Harvard University Press, January 2014)
Walter A. Friedman, Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters (Princeton University Press, December 2013)
Margaret C. Jacob, The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850 (Cambridge University Press, January 2014)
David Koistinen, Confronting Decline: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England (University Press of Florida, December 2013)
Robert MacDougall, The People's Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age (University of Pennsylvania Press, December 2013)
Quincy T. Mills, Cutting along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America (University of Pennsylvania Press, October 2013)
Robert W. Patch, Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670-1810 (University of Oklahoma Press, October 2013)
Edward J. Roach, The Wright Company: From Invention to Industry (Ohio University Press, January 2014)
Richard Roberts, Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 (Oxford University Press, January 2014)
Jeroen Salman, Pedlars and the Popular Press: Itinerant Distribution Networks in England and the Netherlands, 1600-1850 (Brill, October 2013)
James A. Schafer, Jr., The Business of Private Medical Practice: Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940 (Rutgers University Press, December 2013)
Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb, The International Distribution of News: The Associated Press, Press Association, and Reuters, 1848-1947 (Cambridge University Press, February 2014)
Kendra Smith-Howard, Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1910 (Oxford University Press, November 2013)
Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind, eds., Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire (Oxford University Press, November 2013)
Pamela E. Swett, Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany (Stanford University Press, December 2013) 
Gabriel Tortella and José Luis García Ruiz, Spanish Money and Banking: A History (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2013)
Jenifer Van Vleck, Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy (Harvard University Press, November 2013)
Benjamin C. Waterhouse, Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA (Princeton University Press, November 2013)
John F. Wilson, Anthony Webster, and Rachael Vorberg-Rugh, Building Co-operation: A Business History of The Co-operative Group, 1863-2013 (Oxford University Press, December, 2013)
Robert E. Wright, Corporation Nation (University of Pennsylvania Press, November 2013)

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