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December 2014, Volume 15, Issue 4
- 791-819 Family Cohesion as a Longevity Factor of Business with Intergenerational Transmission
by Fernández-Roca, FCO. Javier & López-Manjón, Jesús D. & Gutiérrez-Hidalgo, Fernando - 820-848 Multinational Enterprises and the Globalization of Medicine: Siemens and the Business of X-ray Equipment in Non-Western Markets, 1900–1939
by Donzé, Pierre-Yves - 849-884 The Hybrid Variety: Lessons in Nonmarket Coordination from the Business System in the Netherlands, 1950–2010
by Touwen, Jeroen - 885-920 In the Shadow of Tragedy: The Evolution of Safety Coregulation on America’s Uninspected Towing Vessels
by Rust, Daniel L. - 921-923 Andrew Smith Dimitry Anastakis, Smart Globalization: The Canadian Business and Economic History Experience. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. xi + 239 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4426-1612-7, $28 (paperback)
by Urmetzer, Peter - 923-925 Sheryllynne Haggerty. ‘Merely for Money’? Business Culture in the British Atlantic, 1750–1815. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012. xiv + 287 pp. ISBN 978-1-84631-817-7, $99.95 (cloth)
by Morgan, Kenneth - 926-927 Walter A. Friedman. Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. xi + 273 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-15911-9, $29.95 (hardback)
by Goodwin, Craufurd - 928-930 Paul Gootenberg and Luis Reygadas, editors. Indelible Inequalities in Latin America: Insights from History, Politics, and Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. xvi +228 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4719-4, $79.95 (cloth); 978-0-8223-4734-7, $22.95 (paper)
by Bruhn, Kathleen - 931-933 Jamie K. McCallum. Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. xv + 159 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7862-8, $21.95 (paper)
by Srivastava, Priyanka - 933-935 Greg Urban. Corporations and Citizenship. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. vi+ 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4602-5, $59.95 (cloth)
by Magrass, Yale - 936-938 Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini. Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. viii + 309 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-72968-1, $55.00 (cloth)
by Ball, Molly - 938-941 Jean-Christian Vinel. The Employee: A Political History. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4524-0, $47.50 (cloth)
by Shermer, Elizabeth - 941-944 Niv Horesh. Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures between 600 BCE and 2012. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. 384 pp. ISBN 9780804787192, $65.00 (cloth)
by Bin Wong, Roy - 944-946 François Caron. Dynamics of Innovation the Expansion of Technology in Modern Times. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2013. 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-85745-723-3, $95.00 (cloth)
by Mroczkowski, Tomasz
September 2014, Volume 15, Issue 3
- 417-441 The M Yarn: Price and Social Imagination in Early Industrial Britain
by Custer, Paul Anthony - 442-471 Marketing the Hearth: Ornamental Embroidery and the Building of the Multinational Singer Sewing Machine Company
by De La Cruz-Fernández, Paula A. - 472-498 Clearing the Cupboard: The Role of Public Relations in London Clearing Banks’ Collective Legitimacy-Seeking, 1950–1980
by Reveley, James & Singleton, John - 499-533 Will the Real Businessman/Businesswoman Stand Up?: The Historical Implications of Regendering Business Success in the Early Twentieth Century
by Mandell, Nikki - 534-576 Adaptation Strategies of Multinational Corporations, State-Owned Enterprises, and Domestic Business Groups to Economic and Political Transitions: A Network Analysis of the Chilean Telecommunications Sector, 1958–2005
by Bucheli, Marcelo & Salvaj, Erica - 577-579 Noel Maurer. The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893–2013. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. ix + 558 pp. ISBN 978-0-6911-5582-1, $39.50 (cloth)
by Malanson, Jeffrey - 580-582 Steven B. Bunker. Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Dìaz. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2012. 352 pp. ISBN 978-0-8263-4454-0, $50.00 (cloth)
by Matthews, Michael - 582-583 Mark B. Smith. Property of Communists: The Urban Housing Program from Stalin to Khrushchev. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. xii + 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-87580-423-1, $40.00 (cloth)
by Josephson, Paul - 584-586 Friederike Fleischer. Suburban Beijing: Housing and Consumption in Contemporary China. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. xxxv + 219 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-6587-7, $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8166-4596-1, $75.00 (cloth)
by Lu, Hanchao - 586-588 Brent Ruswick. Almost Worthy: The Poor, Paupers, and the Science of Charity in America, 1877-1917. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-2530-0634-9, $37.00 (hardback)
by Minefee, Ishva - 588-590 Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein. Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-532911-7, $35.00 (cloth)
by Adler, Jessica L. - 591-593 Adrian Johns. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gate. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 640 pp. ISBN 9780226401188, $38.00 (paper)
by Mathew, Johan - 593-595 Michael Kwass. Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 457 pp. ISBN 978-0-67472683-3, $49.95 (cloth)
by Thai, Philip - 596-598 Michael Perry. The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 192 pp. ISBN 9780691143989, $35.00 (cloth)
by Øksendal, Lars Fredrik - 598-600 Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi. Fiscal Policy After the Financial Crisis. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013. ix + 585 pp. ISBN 0-226-01844-7, $110.00 (cloth)
by Santos, Joseph M.
June 2014, Volume 15, Issue 2
- 213-251 The Untold History of Transparency: Mercantile Agencies, the Law, and the Lawyers (1851–1916)
by Flandreau, Marc & Geisler Mesevage, Gabriel - 252-284 Women on Board: Female Board Membership as a Form of Elite Democratization
by Heemskerk, Eelke Michiel & Fennema, Meindert - 285-306 Embedding Big Business. The Political Economy of the 1938 Corporate Tax Reform in Sweden
by Eriksson, Martin - 307-336 Resistance of the Defeated: German and Italian Big Business and the American Antitrust Policy, 1945–1957
by Segreto, Luciano & Wubs, Ben - 380-382 Luis Bértola and José Antonio Ocampo. The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-966214-2, $45 (paperback)
by Llorca-Jaña, Manuel - 382-385 Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato. Industry & Revolution, Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. 362 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-07272-5, $49.95 (cloth)
by Gauss, Susan - 385-387 Richard S Grossman. Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World Since 1800. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 408 pp. ISBN 9781400835256, $46.95 (cloth)
by Hilt, Eric - 387-390 Wenkai He. Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. x + 313 pp. ISBN 978-0-6740-7278-7, $55.00 (cloth)
by Brownlee, Elliot W. - 390-392 Janice M. Traflet. A Nation of Small Shareholders: Marketing Wall Street after World War II. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xiv + 242 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0902-3, $45.00 (cloth)
by Taylor, James - 392-395 William A. Pettigrew. Freedom’s Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2013. 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-1181-5, $45.00 (cloth)
by Mitchell, Matthew David - 395-397 Mary E. Fredrickson. Looking South: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor From Reconstruction to Globalization. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. ix + 302 pp. ISBN 978-0-8130-3603-8, $69.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8130-4227-5, $27.95 (paper)
by McKiven, Henry M. - 397-399 David Ciarlo. Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. xvi + 419 pp. ISBN 978-0-67405006-8, $54.00 (cloth)
by Short, John Phillip - 400-402 Drew Keeling. The Business of Transatlantic Migration between Europe and the United States, 1900–1914. Zurich: Chronos, 2012. 352 pp. ISBN 978-3-0340-1152-5, $44.00 (cloth)
by Eiler, Evangeline - 403-405 Cyrus C. M. Mody. Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780262134941, $36.00 (cloth)
by Russell, Andrew L. - 405-407 Fred Inglis. A Short History of Celebrity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 328 pp. ISBN 9781400834396, $29.95 (cloth)
by Lippert, Amy - 407-409 Edmund Phelps. Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-691-15898-3, $29.95 (hardcover)
by Rao, Balkrishna C. - 410-411 Richard Vahrenkamp. The Logistics Revolution: The Rise of Logistics in the Mass Consumption Society. Lohmar/Köln: Josef Eul Verlag GmbH, 2012. viii + 281 pp. ISBN 978-3-8841-0118-8, € 59 (paper)
by Tenold, Stig - 412-414 William R Nester. From Mountain Man to Millionaire: The “Bold and Dashing Life†of Robert Campbell. University of Missouri Press, 2011. 360 pp. ISBN 978-0-8262-1926-8, $70.00 (cloth); ISBN, 978-0-8262-1929-9, $29.95 (paper)
by Luckett, Matthew - 414-416 Steven Fenberg. Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2011. xiii+611 pp. ISBN 978-1-60344-434-7, $35 (cloth); ISBN 978-1-62349-157-4, $24.95 (paper)
by Smith, Jason Scott
March 2014, Volume 15, Issue 2
- 337-379 Christianity Today, J. Howard Pew, and the Business of Conservative Evangelicalism
by Grem, Darren E.
March 2014, Volume 15, Issue 1
- 1-30 Information in the Mark and the Marketplace: A Multivocal Account
by Duguid, Paul - 31-67 Incentivizing Safety and Discrimination: Employment Risks under Workmen’s Compensation in the Early Twentieth Century United States
by Holdren, Nate - 68-102 When Knowledge Transfer Goes Global: How People and Organizations Learned About Information Technology, 1945–1970
by Cortada, James W. - 103-131 How the Future Shaped the Past: The Case of the Cashless Society
by Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo & Haigh, Thomas & Stearns, David L. - 132-165 Retailer–Supplier Relationships before and after the Resale Prices Act, 1964: A Turning Point in British Economic History?
by Mercer, Helen - 166-168 José Enrique Covarrubias and Matilde Souto Mantecón. EconomÃa, Ciencia y PolÃtica. Estudios Sobre Alexander von Humboldt a 200 Años del Ensayo PolÃtico Sobre el Reino de la Nueva España. Mexico: Instituto Mora, 2012. 291 pp. ISBN 978-607-7613-95-4, $19.00 (paper)
by Salvucci, Richard - 168-171 Julia C Ott. When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 313 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-05065-5, $35.00 (cloth)
by Billings, Mark - 171-173 Alexander J. Field. A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. 400 pp. ISBN 9780300151091, $25.00 (paper)
by Fergusson, Leopoldo - 174-176 Elizabeth Popp Berman. Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. 280 pp. ISBN 9780691147086, $35.00 (cloth)
by Adams, Stephen B. - 176-178 Jim Lacey. Keep from all Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011. 288 pp. ISBN 978-1-59114-491-5, $34.95 (cloth)
by Field, Alexander J. - 179-180 Nicholas A. Robins. Mercury Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-35651-2, $45.00 (cloth)
by RamÃrez, Susan Elizabeth - 180-183 Christopher J. Huggard & Terrence M. Humble. Santa Rita Del Cobre: A Copper Mining Community in New Mexico. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012. xvii + 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-60732-152-1, $26.95 (paper)
by Eklund, Erik - 183-185 Grey Osterud. Putting the Barn Before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012. xii + 277 pp. ISBN 0-8014-5028-4, $85.00 (cloth); 0-8014-7810-3, $26.95 (paper)
by Johnson, Colin R. - 185-187 Christine Adams. Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood: Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03547-0, $45.00 (cloth)
by Heywood, Colin - 187-190 Brodie Waddell. God, Duty, and Community in English Economic Life, 1660–1720. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer Press, 2012. xii + 273 pp. ISBN 978-1-84383-779-4, $99.00 (cloth)
by Kadane, Matthew - 190-192 Vaclav Smil. Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 261 pp. ISBN 978-0-262014434, $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0262518765, $15.95 (paper)
by Lucsko, David N. - 192-195 Bernhard Rieger. The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. 416 pp. ISBN 9780674050914, $28.95 (cloth)
by Anastakis, Dimitry - 195-197 Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis. Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4231-7, $49.95 (cloth)
by Mancall, Peter C. - 197-200 Catherine Higgs. Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa. Columbus, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012. 236 pp. ISBN 9780821420065, $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780821420744, $22.95 (paper)
by Walker, Ezekiel A. - 200-202 Olivier Zunz. Philanthropy in America: A History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. x + 382 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-12836-8, $29.95 (cloth)
by Witkowski, Greg - 202-204 Brian Schoen. The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. vii + 384 pp. ISBN 0-8018-9303-8, $57.00 (cloth); 1-4214-0404-4, $30 (paper)
by Fagal, Andrew J. B. - 204-206 John Laurence Busch. Steam Coffin. Captain Moses Rogers and the Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier. New Canaan, CT: Hodos Historia, 2010. vi +726vi +726 pp. ISBN 978-1-893616-00-4, $35.00 (cloth)
by Blume, Kenneth J. - 207-208 Luciano Segreto. I Feltrinelli: Storia di una dinastia imprenditoriale (1854–1942). Milan: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, 2011. 487 pp. ISBN 978-880-7111-15-0, €28.00 (paper)
by Zanini, Andrea - 209-212 Alessandro Fornazzari. Speculative Fictions: Chilean Culture, Economics, and the Neoliberal Transition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. 168 pp. ISBN 9780822962335, $24.95
by Buttes, Stephen
December 2013, Volume 14, Issue 4
- 683-685 Introduction
by Scranton, Philip - 705-716 Electronic Bits and Ten Gallon Hats
by Benke, Gavin - 717-731 Citizen Coke: An Environmental and Political History of the Coca-Cola Company
by Elmore, Bartow J. - 732-748 From Memory to Mastery: Accounting for Control in America, 1750–1880
by Rosenthal, Caitlin C. - 749-768 Revisiting the Niuzhuang Oil Mill (1868–1870): Transferring Western Technology into China
by Wang, Hsien-chun - 769-793 Chinese Business Practice in the Late Imperial Period
by Zelin, Madeleine - 794-828 The Economic Expansion of an Elite Business Family of French Origin in Central Mexico in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
by Galindo, Jose - 829-853 The Dynamics of Downsizing: The Swedish Tobacco Monopoly in the 1920s
by Karlsson, Tobias - 854-856 Reviews - Christopher W. Wells. Car Country: An Environmental History. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. xxxiv + 427 pp. ISBN 978-0-2959-9215-0, $40.00 (cloth)
by Loomis, Erik - 856-858 Dimitry Anastakis. Autonomous State: The Epic Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xvi + 549 pp. ISBN 978-1-4426-4504-2 (cloth); 978-1-4426-1297-6, $39.95 (paper)
by Lewchuk, Wayne - 858-860 John Murphy. A Decent Provision: Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2011. 294 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-0759-1, $124.95 (cloth)
by Borland, Jeff - 860-864 Philip Nord. France’s New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780691156118, $29.95 (paper)
by Friedman, Gerald - 864-866 Pushpa Sundar. Business and community: The Story of Corporate Social Responsibility in India. New Delhi, India: SAGE, 2013. xix + 392 pp. ISBN 978-81-321-0955-6, £45.00 (cloth)
by Venugopal, Srinivas - 866-868 Benjamin N. Lawrence and Richard L. Roberts, eds. Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake: Law and Experience of Women and Children in Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012. ix + 271 pp. ISBN 978-0-8214-2002-7, $32.95 (paper)
by Scarpa, Silvia - 868-870 David R. Roediger Elizabeth M. Esch. The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 286 pp. ISBN 9780199739752, $34.95 (cloth)
by Horne, Gerald - 870-872 Christian J. Koot. Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621–1713. New York and London: New York University Press, 2011. Xv + 293 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-4883 (cl alk paper), $39.00; 978-0-8147-4884-8 (e-book)
by Haggerty, Sheryllynne - 873-875 Michael B. Boston. The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2010. xxi + 243 pp. ISBN 978-0-8130-3473-7, $69.95 (cloth)
by Price, Gregory - 875-877 Aaron W. Marrs. Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2009. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-9130-4, $58.00 (cloth)
by Duran, Xavier - 877-879 Leslie Tomory. Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780–1820. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. xii + 348 pp. ISBN 978-0-01675-9, $28.00 (cloth)
by Friedel, Robert - 880-882 Béatrice Touchelay. L’État et l’entreprise: Une histoire de la normalisation comptable et fiscale à la française. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011. 383 pp. ISBN 978-2-7535-1357-0, € 22 (paper)
by McWatters, Cheryl Susan - 882-885 Thomas K. McCraw. The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy. Cambridge, MA, and London, UK: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. ix + 485 pp. ISBN 0-674-06692-2, $ 35.00 (cloth)
by Casson, Mark - 885-887 Mark Valeri. Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 354 pp. ISBN 9780691143590, $39.95 (cloth)
by Waddell, Brodie - 887-890 Marc Levinson. The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America. New York: Hill & Wang, 2011. 358 pp. ISBN 978-0-8090-9543-8, $27.95
by Dicke, Tom - 890-892 Martin Cohen. The Eclipse of ‘Elegant Economy’: The Impact of the Second World War on Attitudes to Personal Finance in Britain. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. xx + 235 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-3972-1, £65 (hardback)
by Rutterford, Janette - 892-894 Michael R. Adamson. A Better Way to Build: A History of the Pankow Companies. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2013. xxv + 470 pp. ISBN 978-1-55753-634-1, $45.00 (hardback)
by Bowen, Brian - 894-896 Corine Maitte, Philippe Minard, and Matthieu de Oliveira, eds. La gloire de l’industrie, XVIIe – XIXe siècle. Faire de l’histoire avec Gérard Gayot. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012. 341 pp. ISBN 978-2-7535-1800-1, €18 (paper)
by Jones, P. M. - 896-898 Mansel G. Blackford. Making Seafood Sustainable: American Experiences in Global Perspective. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4393-2,$45.00 (cloth)
by Nuwer, Deanne Stephens - 899-900 Sebastian Edwards. Left Behind. Latin America and the False Promise of Populism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xiv + 292 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-18478; 978-0-226-004662, $45.00 (cloth); $17.00 (paper)
by Botero, Felipe - 901-903 Sally Smith Hughes. Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 232 pp. ISBN 9780226045511, $16.00 (paper)
by Jones, Mark - 903-905 Louise A. Mozingo. Pastoral Capitalism: A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. xii + 315 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01543-1, $32.95 (hardcover)
by Stevens, Sara - 906-908 Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 424 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4470-0, $49.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8122-0760-6, $49.95 (e-book)
by Findlay, John M.
September 2013, Volume 14, Issue 3
- 433-434 Introduction
by Scranton, Philip - 435-466 How to Do Things with Time
by Raff, Daniel M. G. - 467-474 Making Choices in Time
by Popp, Andrew - 475-485 What Is Business History?
by Rosen, Christine Meisner - 486-497 Purposes and Practices in Firm-level History
by Usselman, Steven W. - 498-506 An Evolutionary Program for Business History?
by Winter, Sidney G. - 507-510 Rejoinder
by Raff, Daniel M. G. - 511-543 The Amsterdam Chamber of Insurance and Average: A New Phase in Formal Contract Enforcement (Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)
by Go, Sabine C. P. J. - 544-578 “Legitimate commerce†in the Eighteenth Century: The Royal African Company of England Under the Duke of Chandos, 1720–1726
by Mitchell, Matthew David - 579-605 The Functioning of Bankruptcy Law and Practices in European Perspective (ca.1880–1913)
by Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille & Di Martino, Paolo - 606-641 “Foreign Assistance to a ‘Closed Economy.’ The Case of French Firms in Spain, c. 1941–1963â€
by Sánchez, Esther & Castro, Rafael - 642-644 Reviews - Carol Benedict. Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. xiii + 334 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-26277-5, $55.00 (cloth)
by Baumler, Alan - 644-647 James Simpson. Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840–1914. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 344 pp. ISBN 9780691136035, $39.50 (cloth)
by Delacroix, Jacques - 647-649 Dominique A. Tobbell. Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press/Milbank Banks on Health and the Public, 2012. xv + 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-27113-5, $26.95 (paper); 978-0-520-27114-2, $65.00 (hardcover)
by Scheiding, Thomas David - 650-652 Regina Lee Blaszczyk. The Color Revolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. xi + 380 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01777-0, $34.95 (cloth)
by Gura, Judith - 652-654 Molly W. Berger. Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829–1929. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 318 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-9987-4, $60.00 (cloth)
by Stradling, David - 654-656 Richard K. Popp. The Holiday Makers: Magazines, Advertising and Mass Tourism in Postwar America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. Vii + 204 pp. ISBN 978-08071-4284-4, $37.50 (cloth); 978-0-8071-4286-7 (paper)
by Cross, Gary - 656-658 Zoltan J. Acs. Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What It Means for Our Economic Well-Being.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. xv + 249 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-14862-5, $29.95 (cloth)
by Badertscher, Kathi Coon - 659-660 Gordon M. Winder. The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830–1910. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2012. Xiii + 257 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-2461-1, $119.95 (hardcover); ISBN 978-1-4094-2462-8 (ebook)
by Johnson, Timothy - 661-662 Terry S. Reynolds and Virginia R. Dawson. Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847–2006. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2011. viii + 351 pp. ISBN 9780814335116, $44.95 (cloth)
by Grant, H. Roger - 662-664 Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll. The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor’s Southern Prophets in New Deal America. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011. Xii + 221 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-07840-8, $30.00 (paper)
by Heineman, Kenneth J. - 664-666 Claudia Agostoni and Andrés RÃos Molina. Las estadÃsticas de salud en México: Ideas, actores e instituciones, 1810–2010. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas/SecretarÃa de Salud, Dirección General de Información en Salud, 2010. 384 pp. ISBN: 978-607-02-1482-0, $30.00 (paper)
by Lurtz, Casey - 667-669 Carlos Dávila Ladrón de Guevara. Empresariado en Colombia: perspectiva histórica y regional. Bogotá, Colombia: Ediciones Uniandes, 2012. 340 pp. ISBN: 978-958-695-693-2, $24.75 (cloth)
by Fernández-Roca, Javier - 669-671 Natalia Milanesio. Workers Go Shopping in Argentina. The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2013. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-8263-5241-5,$55.00 (hardcover)
by Simonassi, Silvia - 671-673 Michael Miller. Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xvi + 435 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-02455-7, $99.00 (cloth)
by Heidbrink, Ingo - 673-675 Daniele Pozzi. Una sfida al capitalismo italiano: Giuseppe Luraghi. Venice, Italy: Marsilio Editori, 2012. 317 pp. ISBN 978-88-317-1290-3, €30.00 (paper)
by Rinaldi, Alberto - 675-678 Gianni Toniolo, ed. The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy since Unification. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013. 816 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-993669-4,$150 (cloth)
by Fauri, Francesca - 678-680 Hartmut Berghoff Jürgen Kocka and Dieter Ziegler, eds. Business in the Age of Extremes: Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013. x + 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-01695-8, £60.00 (cloth)
by Pearson, Robin - 680-682 Katja Girschik. Als die Kassen lesen lernten: Eine Technik- und Unternehmensgeschichte des Schweizer Einzelhandels 1950–1975. Munich, Germany: C. H. Beck, 2010. 253 pp. ISBN 978-3406-60828-5, €44.00 (cloth)
by Lubinski, Christina
June 2013, Volume 14, Issue 2
- 237-270 Capability Brown, the Aristocracy, and the Cultivation of the Eighteenth-Century British Landscaping Industry
by Wild, Andrew M. - 271-302 The Co-operative Movement in Britain: From Crisis to “Renaissance,†1950–20101
by Wilson, John & Webster, Anthony & Vorberg-Rugh, Rachael - 303-326 Selling Liberia: Moss H. Kendrix, the Liberian Centennial Commission, and the Post-World War II Trade in Black Progress
by Greer, Brenna W. - 327-359 Marshall in Iberia. Industrial Districts and Leading Firms in the Creation of Competitive Advantage in Fashion Products
by Catalan, Jordi & Ramon-Muñoz, Ramon - 360-394 The Soviet Enterprise: What Have We Learned from the Archives?
by Kragh, Martin - 395-397 Reviews - Moramay López-Alonso. Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850–1950. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-7316-4, $65.00 (cloth)
by Scott, John - 398-400 Ian Read. The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822–1888.Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. xv + 275 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-7414-7, $65.00 (cloth)
by Rosemberg, André - 400-402 MarÃa Vargas-Lobsinger. La Comarca: De la Revolución a la expropiación de las haciendas, 1910–1940. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1999 [2010 reprint]. 232 pp. ISBN 968-36-7630-8, $9.00 (paper)
by Caire-Pérez, Matthew - 402-404 Guillermo Guajardo Soto. Trabajo y tecnologÃa en los ferrocarriles de México: una vision histórica, 1850–1950. Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2010. xxxiii + 209 pp. ISBN 978-607-455-613-1, $56.00 (paper)
by Alegre, Robert F. - 404-406 Eduardo Elena. Dignifying Argentina. Peronism, Citizenship, and Mass Consumption. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011. 332 pp. ISBN 978-0822961703, $27.95
by Rougier, Marcelo - 407-410 R. Evan Ellis. China in Latin America: The Whats and Wherefores. New York: Lynne Rienner, 2009. 329 pp. ISBN 978-1-5882-6675-0, $26.50 (paper)
by Wise, Carol - 410-412 Claire Zalc. Melting Shops. Une histoire des commerçants étrangers en France. Paris: Perrin, 2010. 330 pp. ISBN 978-2262024710. €25.50 (paper)
by Paquier, Serge - 412-414 Daniel Sidorick. Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 300 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4726-6, $29.95
by Greenberg, Brian - 414-417 James Landers. The Improbable First Century of Cosmopolitan Magazine. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2010. 368 pp. ISBN: 978-0-82621-906-0, $34.95 (cloth)
by Bajc, Vida - 417-419 Martin Dean. Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933–1945. Cambridge University Press,2008. 437 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-88825-7, $68.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-5211-2905-3, $28.99 (paper)
by Banken, Ralf - 419-421 Elena Razlogova. The Listener’s Voice: Early Radio and the American Public. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4320-8, $39.95 (cloth)
by Mitchell, Jack - 421-424 Timothy Alborn. Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800–1914. Toronto, Buffalo, & London: University of Toronto Press, 2009. xi + 439 pp. ISBN 1-4426-3996-2, $80.00 (cloth)
by Deringer, William - 424-426 Martin Gilman. No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia’s 1998 Default. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010. 360 pp. ISBN 978-0262014656, $29.95 (Hardback)
by Kim, Jin Uk - 426-428 Jayeeta Sharma. Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011. xvi + 324 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-5032-3, $94.95 (cloth); 978-0-8223-5049-1, $25.95 (paper)
by Babb, Lawrence A. - 429-431 Leonardo MartÃnez-DÃaz. Globalizing in Hard Times: The Politics of Banking-Sector Opening in the Emerging World. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 231 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4755-6, $40.00 (cloth)
by Skousen, Bradley
March 2013, Volume 14, Issue 1
- 1-36 Managing US Defense Acquisition
by Alic, John A. - 37-70 Pianos for the People: From Producer to Consumer in Britain, 1851–1914
by Carnevali, Francesca & Newton, Lucy - 71-98 Selling Sexual Certainty? Advertising Lysol as a Contraceptive in the United States and Canada, 1919–1939
by Hall, Kristin - 99-143 Business as a Means of Foreign Policy or Politics as a Means of Production? The German Government and the Creation of Friedrich Flick’s Upper Silesian Industrial Empire (1921–1935)
by Reckendrees, Alfred - 144-181 From Porcelain to Plastic: Politics and Business in a Relocated False Teeth Company, 1880s–1950s1
by De Vries, David - 182-213 Forced Labor, Public Policies, and Business Strategies During Franco’s Dictatorship: An Interim Report
by Mendiola Gonzalo, Fernando - 214-216 Reviews - Junko Takeda. Between Crown and Commerce: Marseille and the Early Modern Mediterranean. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. xi + 258 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-9982-9, $65.00 (cloth)
by Smith, David - 216-219 Serena R. Zabin. Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 205 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4160-0, $19.95 (paper)
by Fichter, James - 219-221 Nancy Reynolds. A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt.Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. 376 pp. ISBN 978-0804781268, $45 (cloth)
by Shechter, Relli - 222-223 Ignacio del RÃo. Mercados en asedio: El comercio transfronterizo en el norte central de México (1821–1848). México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2010. 237 pp. ISBN 978-607-02-1824-8, $23.95 (paper)
by Diaz, George T. - 223-226 Eden Medina. Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. 312 pp, 24 illus. ISBN 978-0-262-01649-0, $32.00/£21.95 (cloth)
by Guajardo, Guillermo - 226-228 Alexander Russo. Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio Beyond the Networks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. xi + 278 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4517-6, $84.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8223-4532-9, $23.95 (paper)
by Fauteux, Brian - 228-231 Martijn Konings. The Development of American Finance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. viii + 199 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-19525-6, $90 (cloth)
by Miranti, Paul J. - 231-234 John A. Consiglio Juan C. Martinez Oliva Gabriel Tortella, eds. Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean: A Historical Perspective. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. 352 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-2984-5, $124.95 (hardcover); 978-1-4094-2985-2 (e-book)
by Pons, MarÃa A. - 234-236 Bruce E. Kaufman. Hired Hands or Human Resources? Case Studies of HRM Programs and Practices in Early American Industry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. xi + 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4830-0, $57.95 (cloth)
by Fones-Wolf, Ken
December 2012, Volume 13, Issue 4
- 707-709 Introduction
by Scranton, Philip - 710-728 Escape from Equilibrium: Thinking Historically about Firm Responses to Competition
by Levenstein, Margaret C. - 729-743 Ensuring America's Health: Publicly Constructing the Private Health Insurance Industry, 1945–1970
by Chapin, Christy Ford - 744-761 Accounting for Taste: Regulating Food Labeling in the “Affluent Society,†1945–1995
by Frohlich, Xaq - 762-772 Politics of Property: Urban Democracy in the Age of Global Capital, Boston 1865–1900
by Maggor, Noam - 773-789 Selling Paris: The Real Estate Market and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital
by Yates, Alexia - 790-831 Wishful Thinking: Retail Premiums in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America
by Woloson, Wendy A. - 832-861 Peeling Back the Layers: Vidalia Onions and the Making of a Global Agribusiness
by Olsson, Tore C. - 862-897 The Asbestos Litigation Master Narrative: Building Codes, Engineering Standards, and “Retroactive Inculpationâ€
by Maines, Rachel - 898-900 Joanne Hershfield. Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. ix + 200 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4238-0. $22.95 (paper)
by Berger, Dina - 900-903 Sharon Ann Murphy. Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 416 pp. ISBN: 978-0801896248, $67.00 (cloth)
by McFall, Liz - 903-905 José Camilo L. de Guevara, Carlos Dávila L. De Guevara, Lina Aceneth Grisales Rincón, David Schnarch González. Lo social y lo económico: ¿Dos caras de una misma moneda? La Fundación Social y sus empresas (1984–2010). Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, 2011. 275 pp. ISBN 978-958-695-687, $20 (paper)
by López, A. Ricardo - 906-908 Jeffrey G. Williamson. Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. xi + 301 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01515-8, $35 (cloth)
by Metzler, Mark - 908-911 à ngel Calvo. Historia de Telefónica: 1924–1975. Primeras décadas: tecnologÃa, economÃa y polÃtica. Barcelona and Madrid: Ariel-Fundación Telefónica, 2010. 569 pp. ISBN 978-84-08-09893-5, €18 (paper)
by à lvaro-Moya, Adoración - 911-913 Ann Smart Martin. Buying into a World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2008. 276 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8727-5, $38.88 (cloth), $15.20 (paper)
by Brandon, Jamie C. - 914-916 Jerry Z. Muller. Capitalism and the Jews. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 272 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-14478-8, $24.95 (cloth)
by Reuveni, Gideon - 916-918 Mark Garrett Cooper. Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. ix + 230 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03522-7, $93.59 (cloth); 978-0-252-07700-5, $25.00 (paper)
by Callahan, Vicki - 918-920 James Onley. The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth Century Gulf. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. viii and 352 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-922810-2, $165 (cloth)
by Fattah, Hala - 921-923 Quentin Van Doosselaere. Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 280 pp. ISBN 978-1107-40429-8, $34.99 (paper)
by Goldberg, Jessica L. - 923-926 Jonathan Soffer. Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 528 pp. ISBN: 978-0-2311-5033-0. $22.95 (paper)
by Bloom, Nicholas Dagen - 926-927 Sarah S. Elkind. How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 228 pp. ISBN 978-0-807-834893, $45 (cloth)
by Delton, Jennifer - 928-929 Philip F. Rubio. There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8078-5986-5, $24.95 (paper)
by Biondi, Martha - 930-932 Christoph Rosenmüller. Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues: The Court Society of Colonial Mexico, 1702–1710. Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press, 2008. x + 278 pp. ISBN 978-1-55238-234-9, $34.95 (paper)
by Bravo, Anita - 932-934 Matthew Restall. The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. xviii + 433 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-4983-1, $65.00 (cloth)
by Baskes, Jeremy
September 2012, Volume 13, Issue 3
- 455-503 Continental Divide: The Canadian Banking and Currency Laws of 1871 in the Mirror of the United States
by Smith, Andrew - 504-537 Boundless Competition: Subcontracting and the London Economy in the Late Nineteenth Century
by Riello, Giorgio - 538-587 The City of London as an International Commercial and Financial Center since 1900
by Mollan, Simon & Michie, Ranald - 588-633 What Happened to the Company That Dix Made?
by Mandell, Nikki - 634-671 Explanations for the Restrained Development of the Dutch Cinema Market in the 1930s
by Sedgwick, John & Pafort-Overduin, Clara & Boter, Jaap - 672-706 Making Sense of Financial Crisis and Scandal: A Danish Bank Failure in the First Era of Finance Capitalism
by Hansen, Per H.