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Book reviewed Richard Perren, Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xi + 285 pp. ISBN: 0754636488. Hardback £55. Reviewed by Bernard Attard University of Leicester Brenda J. Buchanan (ed.), Gunpowder, Explosives, and the State. A Technological History. Ashgate: Aldershot, 2006. 425 pp. Illustrations, maps, and photographs. ISBN: 9780754652595. Hardback £55. Reviewed by Gordon Boyce The University of Newcastle, NSW Man‐Houng Lin, China Upside Down, Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808–1856. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. xxi + 362 pp. ISBN: 0 674 02268 8. Hardback US$49.95. Reviewed by Kent G. Deng London School of Economics Jari Ojala, Jari Eloranta, and Jukka Jalava (eds), The Road to Prosperity. An Economic History of Finland. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006. 434 pp. ISBN: 951 746 818 0. €40. Reviewed by Svante Larsson Göteborg University Hazel Petrie, Chiefs of Industry: Maori Tribal Enterprise in Early Colonial New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006. viii + 336 pp. ISBN: 9781869403768. Paperback NZ$50. Reviewed by Jim McAloon Lincoln University David Edgerton, The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. London: Profile Books, 2007. 270 + xviii pp., illustrations. ISBN‐13: 978 1861972965. Hardcover £18.99. Reviewed by Paul L. Robertson University of Tasmania Paola Lanaro (ed.), At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400–1800. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2006. 412 pp. ISBN: 0 7727 2031 2. Paperback C$32.00. Reviewed by Carolyn Sissoko Occidental College