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Book Reviews of Interest, Early Winter, 2018-2019

The latest group of on-line, freely available book reviews of interest:
Margot Finn and Kate Smith, eds., The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857reviewed by Rila Mukherjee for H-Asia.

James Freeman and Vern McKinley, Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Busts, and Bailouts at Citireviewed by Thomas L. Hogan for EH.Net.

Katherine Rye Jewell, Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century, reviewed by Gavin Wright for EH.Net.

Beverly Lemire, Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures: The Material World Remade, c.1500–1820reviewed by Shami Ghosh for Reviews in History.

Gregory May, Jefferson’s Treasure: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debtreviewed by Robert E. Wright for EH.Net; and Response from May.

Jamie L. Pietruska, Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern Americareviewed by Andy Seal for S-USIH.

Gautham Rao, National Duties: Custom Houses and the Making of the American State, reviewed by Kate Elizabeth Brown for EH.Net.

Daniel B. Rood, The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbeanreviewed by Lou Roper for H-LatAm.

David George Surdam and Michael G. Haupert, The Age of Ruth and Landis: The Economics of Baseball during the Roaring Twenties, reviewed by John Charles Bradbury for EH.Net.

Richard Sylla and David J. Cowen, Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debtreviewed by Peter McNamara for EH.Net.

Michael Zakim, Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Madereviewed by Andy Seal for S-USIH.
     And missed last summer, the S-USIH roundtable review series on Mike O'Connor, A Commercial Republic: America's Enduring Debate over Democratic Capitalism, starting here.