John Majewski . Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation. (Civil War America.)Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . 2009 . Pp. xiii, 240. $39.95.
JOHN LOUIS RECCHIUTI. Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. Pp. 311. $59.95.
John L. Brooke . Columbia Rising: Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. 2010. Pp. xiii, 629. $45.00.
John Darwin . The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World‐System, 1830–1970 . New York : Cambridge University Press . 2009 . Pp. xiii, 800. $38.00.