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New in Paperback: (Belated) Fall 2017 Edition

The last "new in paperback" listing covered publications through June 2017, so we are well behind. This listing covers books published from June through December 2017. A following post will cover books published from January through May 2018. The listing does not include books published simultaneously in hardcover and paper.

Pierpaolo Barbieri, Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War (Harvard University Press, November 2017 [2015])

Daina Ramey Berry, The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave in the Building of a Nation (Beacon Press: December 2017 [January 2017])

Mansel G. Blackford, Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change (Ohio State University Press, July 2017 [2016])

Christy Ford Chapin, Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System (Cambridge University Press, July 2017 [2015])

Wendy Gamber, The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age (August 2017 [2016])

William N. Goetzmann, Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible (Princeton University Press, August 2017 [2016])

Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (Princeton University Press, August 2017 [2016])

Barbara M. Hahn, Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937 (Johns Hopkins University Press, December 2017 [2011])

Jürgen Kocka, Capitalism: A Short History (Princeton University Press, November 2017 [2016])

Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700 (Princeton University Press, 2017 [2016])

Shepherd W. McKinley, Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina (University Press of Florida, October 2017 [2014])

Edward Morris, Wall Streeters: The Creators and Corruptors of American Finance (Columbia
University Press, November 2017 [2015])

Kathryn S. Olmsted, Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism (New Press, June 2017 [2015])

Thomas Pellechia, Over a Barrel: The Rise and Fall of New York's Taylor Wine Company (SUNY Press, January 2018 [2015])

Guillermo Perez Sarrion, The Emergence of a National Market in Spain, 1650-1800: Trade, Networks, Foreign Powers and the State (Bloomsbury Academic, December 2017 [2016])

John D. Wong, Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System (Cambridge University Press, December 2017 [2016])














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