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June 2024, Volume 98, Issue 2
- 359-387 British CEOs in the Twentieth Century: Aristocratic Amateurs to Fat Cats?
by Adams, Robin J. C. & Aldous, Michael & Fliers, Philip & Turner, John - 389-416 Housewives and the Growth of the Japanese Electrical Appliance Industry, 1950–1990
by Hirano, Takashi & Sakai, Ken & Donzé, Pierre-Yves - 417-446 Managing the Police Workforce: Sickness and Pensions in the Metropolitan Police in Late Nineteenth-Century London
by Green, David & Brown, Douglas & Smith, Harry & Chick, Joe & Preger, Natasha - 447-483 Leisure Jobs: Recreating Family and Social Life in Canadian Electric Utility Marketing, 1920–1970
by Foord, David - 485-516 The International Labour Organization and Management Development in Argentina
by Amdam, Rolv Petter & Lluch, Andrea - 521-534 Selected Abstracts from International Business History Journals
by Anonymous - 535-584 In the Zone: On Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism and the Spaces of Political Economy
by Fredona, Robert & Reinert, Sophus A. - 585-587 Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, from the Post Office to the Internet. By Dan Schiller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 832 pp. + 20 b/w illus. Hardcover, $58.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-763923-8
by Henkin, David M. - 587-590 Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic. By Michael Blaakman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2448-3
by Ron, Ariel - 590-593 Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic. By Joseph P. Slaughter. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 400 pp. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-19111-1
by Grem, Darren E. - 593-595 American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation. By Roberto Saba. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 373 pp. Hardcover, $39.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-19074-7
by El Youssef, Alain - 596-598 Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success. By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. New York: Public Affairs Press, 2022. Hardcover, $29.00. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5417-9783-3
by Anbinder, Tyler - 598-601 Onassis Business History, 1924-1975. Edited by Gelina Harlaftis. Leiden/Boston: Brill’s Studies in Maritime History, 2024. 415 pp. Hardcover, $216.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-53988-4
by Iversen, Martin J. - 601-604 The Federal Reserve: A New History. By Robert L. Hetzel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. xvii + 688pp. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-226-82165-8
by Wells, Wyatt - 604-606 Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action. By James W. Cortada. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 458 pp. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-21300-4
by Stebenne, David - 607-609 Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America. By Andrew C. McKevitt. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 336 pp. Paperback, $24.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-7724-8
by Schakenbach Regele, Lindsay
March 2024, Volume 98, Issue 1
- 3-35 Forms of Capitalism
by Fredona, Robert & Reinert, Sophus A. & da Silva Lopes, Teresa - 37-80 Sedentary Merchant Triumphant: The Transformation of Venetian Trading Patterns in the Long Twelfth Century
by Shadrina, Elena - 81-118 A Mercantilist Brand: The British East India Company and Madeira Wine, 1756–1834
by Câmara, Benedita & Lopes, Teresa da Silva & Fredona, Robert - 119-163 Ireland’s Role in British Colonial Capitalism: “Men of Capitals” and Pitt’s Irish Proposals, 1784–1785
by O’Sullivan, Mary - 165-202 Radical Mercantilism and Fascist Italy’s East African Empire
by Turtur, Noelle - 203-236 The Will to Chaos and Disorder: The Behemoth as a Model of Political Economy
by Harcourt, Bernard E. - 237-257 A Reappraisal of Albert Aftalion’s Theory of Structural Transformation in an Era of Decarbonization
by Coffman, D'Maris & Scazzieri, Roberto - 259-283 Growth Regimes
by Hall, Peter A. - 285-300 Reflection: Moral Firms and the Future of Capitalism
by Henderson, Rebecca M. - 301-324 Reflection: Corporate Capitalism's Moral Lack
by Bakan, Joel - 327-332 Reimagining Business: Virtue, Spirituality, Wisdom
by John, Richard R. - 333-341 The Corporation and the Twentieth Century
by Tedlow, Richard S. - 343-345 England’s Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century. By John Tolan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 264 pp. + 9 b/w illus. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2389-9
by Irwin, Dean A. - 345-347 Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England. By Anne L. Murphy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 288 pp. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-19474-5
by Yee, Robert - 348-350 Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism. By Philip J. Stern. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2023. 408 pp. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-98812-5
by Baillargeon, David - 350-353 Germany’s Colony in China: Colonialism, Protection and Economic Development in Qingdao and Shandong, 1898–1914. By Fion Wai Ling So. London: Routledge, 2020. 165 pp. Paperback, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-367-66267-7
by Yan, Dong - 353-355 Selling Europe to the World: The Rise of the Luxury Fashion Industry, 1980–2020. By Pierre-Yves Donzé. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 184 pp. + 44 b/w illus. Hardback, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-350-33577-6
by Pouillard, Véronique
December 2023, Volume 97, Issue 4
- 699-750 The Sugar Revolution in New England: Barbados, Massachusetts Bay, and the Atlantic Sugar Economy, 1600–1700
by Menzin, Marion - 751-778 Unfreedom and Slavery Under Sail: Intercolonial Trade in the British Atlantic, 1698–1766
by Tucker, Hannah Knox - 779-807 Configuring Cultural Emerging Industries: A Comparison of the French and Italian Fashion Industries
by Merlo, Elisabetta & Pinchera, Valeria - 809-838 Borrowing without Banks: Deposit-Taking by Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Firms (1920s–1930s)
by Ng, Michael - 845-902 What The Cambridge Economic History of China Teaches Us about China and Tells Us About Economic History
by Wong, R. Bin - 903-906 The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire. By Joseph Sassoon. New York: Pantheon Books, 2022. xviii + 412 pp. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-593-31659-7
by Hutková, Karolina - 906-909 Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States. By Sharon Ann Murphy. Chicago: The Chicago University Press, 2023. 432 pp., 17 halftones, 1 line drawing, 8 tables. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-82513-7
by Brennecke, Claire - 909-911 The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind. By Jan Lucassen. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. 544 pp., 18 color + 9b-w illus. + 3 figs. + 6 maps. Paperback, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26706-8
by Rötheli, Tobias F. - 911-914 Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic. By Jennifer Morgan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 296p. Cloth, $107.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-1323-5
by Payne, Samantha - 914-916 Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools. By Christopher Willoughby. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 282 pp., 9 halftones, notes, bibl., index. Hardcover, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-4696-7184-0
by Bowrey, Brice - 916-919 Courteous Capitalism: Public Relations and the Monopoly Problem, 1900–1930. By Daniel Robert. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. 336 pp., 38 halftones, 5 line drawings. Hardcover, $64.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-4734-6
by Kodres-O’Brien, Ben - 919-922 The Emergence of Brand-Name Capitalism in Late Colonial India: Advertising and the Making of Modern Conjugality. By Douglas E. Haynes. New York: Bloomsbury, 2023. 328 pp. Hardcover, $130. ISBN 978-93-54358-15-9
by Ghosh, Anwesha - 922-924 The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City. By Destin Jenkins. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. 320 pp., 26 halftones, 10 tables. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-81998-3
by Levy, Jessica Ann - 925-927 The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem. By Kristin A. Wintersteen. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 246 pp. Hardcover, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-520-37963-3
by Barton, Jonathan R. - 927-930 Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech. By Lee McGuigan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 348 pp., 6 × 9 in, 9 b&w illus. Paperback, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-54544-0
by Meyers, Cynthia B.
September 2023, Volume 97, Issue 3
- 459-479 Introduction: Capitalism and Global Governance in Business History
by Ballor, Grace & Pitteloud, Sabine - 481-511 Beyond Planetary Limits! The International Chamber of Commerce, the United Nations, and the Invention of Sustainable Development
by Bergquist, Ann-Kristin & David, Thomas - 513-546 Development, Inc.? The EEC, Britain, Post-Colonial Overseas Development Aid, and Business
by Dimier, Véronique & Stockwell, Sarah - 547-574 Governing Global Tax Dodgers: The “Group of Four” and the Taxation of Multinational Corporations, 1970s–1980s
by Ogle, Vanessa - 575-601 Liberal Environmentalism: The Public-Private Production of European Emissions Standards
by Ballor, Grace - 603-604 Introduction
by Ballor, Grace & Pitteloud, Sabine - 605-613 Histories and Futures of Business in a Turbulent World
by Clavin, Patricia - 614-620 Governing Global Capitalism: A Lawyer's Perspective
by Perrone, Nicolás M. - 620-626 Business and Global Capitalism: Continuities and Change
by Rollings, Neil - 626-631 Competing Projects in Global Governance
by Slobodian, Quinn - 633-644 Reflection: Firms, Rules, and Global Capitalism
by Abdelal, Rawi - 647-655 Revisiting Interwar Global Economic Governance: Technocrats, Sovereignty, and the Perennial Problem of Legitimacy in Global Governance
by Phillips-Sawyer, Laura - 657-659 Social Europe, the Road Not Taken: The Left and European Integration in the Long 1970s. By Aurélie Dianara Andry . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 336 pp. Hardcover, $105.00. ISBN: 978-019286-709-4
by Sheehan, Melanie - 659-662 Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy & Culture in Early Modern China. By He Bian. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 246 pp., appendices, Chinese character glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-20013-2
by Chao, Yüan-ling - 662-664 Business Lobbying in the European Union. By David Coen , Alexander Katsaitis , and Matia Vannoni . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 221 pp. Hardcover, £96.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-958975-3
by Laurens, Sylvain - 665-667 Plowshares into Swords: Weaponized Knowledge, Liberal Order, and the League of Nations. By David Ekbladh. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 320 pp., 22 halftones. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-82049-1
by Dungy, Madeleine Lynch - 667-670 The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960–1990. By Allison Elias. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 312 pp. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-18075-7
by Swinth, Kirsten - 670-672 The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era. By Gary Gerstle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 432 pp. Hardcover, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-751964-6
by Kaplan, Rami - 673-674 The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are. ByDavid M. Henkin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. 288 pp. + 8 b-w illus. Hardcover, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-25732-8
by Birth, Kevin K. - 675-677 The Postwar Economic Order: National Reconstruction and International Cooperation. By Albert O. Hirschman, ed. Michele Alacevich and Pier Francesco Asso. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 352 pp. Hardcover, $120.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-20058-5
by Morin, Johanna Gautier - 678-680 J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Crisis of Capitalism: From the Wall Street Crash to World War II. By Martin Horn. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 406 pp., bibl., index. Cloth, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-66356-4
by Link, Stefan - 680-683 Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank. By Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 354 pp. Hardcover, $37.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-21720-8
by Phillips-Fein, Kim - 683-685 Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization. By Harold James. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. 376 pp., 16 b-w illus. Hardcover, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-30-026339-8
by Kemmerer, Matthias - 686-688 Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession. By Ann Mari May . New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 256 pp. Hardcover, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-19290-3
by Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Cléo - 688-691 Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development. By Nikhil Menon . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 276 pp., illus, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $34.99. ISBN: 978-1-009-04458-5
by Haynes, Douglas E. - 691-693 A History of Business Cartels: International Politics, National Policies and Anti-Competitive Behaviour. Edited by Martin Shanahan and Susanna Fellman. New York: Routledge 2022. 344 pp., 11 b-w illus. Hardcover, $152.00. ISBN: 978-0-367-64918-0
by Sogner, Knut - 693-696 Capitalism & Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad. Edited by David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn . Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2022. 288 pp. Paperback, $33.00. ISBN: 978-1-77363-478-4
by Belisle, Donica
June 2023, Volume 97, Issue 2
- 199-223 Slavery, Coercion, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
by Gardner, Leigh - 225-246 Captivity's Commerce: The Theory and Methodology of Slaving and Capitalism
by Hicks, Mary E. - 247-281 (Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly
by Ruderman, Anne & van Waijenburg, Marlous - 283-305 Pharmaceutical Captivity, Epistemological Rupture, and the Business Archive of the British Slave Trade
by Roberts, Carolyn - 307-334 “This Slavery Business Is a Horrible Thing”: The Economy of American Slavery in the Lives of the Enslaved
by Edwards, Justene Hill - 335-361 Profiting from Slavery and Emancipation: Compensation, Capital, and Collateral in Nineteenth-Century Senegal
by Everill, Bronwen & Diedhiou, Khadidiatou - 363-384 The British Gunpowder Industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
by Radburn, Nicholas - 385-409 A Guide to the History of Industrial Slavery in the United States
by Cole, Isabel & Friedman, Walter A. - 415-419 Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and Its Abolition. By David Richardson. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2022. 384 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $38.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-25043-5. Envoys of Abolition: British Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade in West Africa. By Mary Wills. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. 256 pp. Illustrations. Paperback, $49.99. ISBN: 978-1-80207-771-1. Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System. By Maeve Ryan. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2022. 328 pp. Hardcover, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-25139-5
by Mitchell, Matthew David - 421-423 The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America. By Joshua D. Rothman. New York: Basic Books, 2021. 512 pp. Paperback, $19.99. ISBN: 978-1-5416-1660-8
by Gudmestad, Robert - 423-425 Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean. By Erin Woodruff Stone. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 288 pp. Hardcover, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-5310-8
by García-Montón, Alejandro - 426-428 The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600–1870. By Daniel R. Mandell. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 314 pp. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-3711-8
by Bouton, Terry - 428-430 Money in the Dutch Republic: Everyday Practice and Circuits of Exchange. By Sebastian Felten. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Hardcover, $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-00-909884-7
by Quinn, Stephen - 430-432 War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 1652–89. Edited by David Ormrod and Gijs Rommelse. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020. 344 pp., 49 b/w illus. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-78327-324-9
by Talbott, Siobhan - 432-434 Swansea Copper: A Global History. By Chris Evans and Louise Miskell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 242 pp. Hardcover, $57.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-3911-2
by Storli, Espen - 434-437 The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise. By Laura R. Sandy. New York: Routledge, 2020. 412 pp., 8 B/W illus. Paperback, $42.36. ISBN: 978-1-03-223707-7
by Oast, Jennifer - 437-439 Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery. By Bruce A. Ragsdale. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. x + 358 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-24638-6
by Leibiger, Stuart - 439-441 Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda. By Vanessa S. Oliveira. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. xii + 173 pp., figures, maps, tables, glossary, index. Cloth, $75.95. ISBN: 978-0-299-32580-0
by Domingues da Silva, Daniel B. - 442-444 Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Dale W. Tomich, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, and Carlos Venegas Fonias. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 176 pp., 10 x 9, 84 color plates, 1 map, 1 table, notes, bibl., index. Paperback, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6312-8
by Rothman, Adam - 444-447 The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal. By Joan Flores-Villalobos. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 296 pp. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2363-9
by Colby, Jason M. - 447-449 Exporting Capitalism: Private Enterprise and US Foreign Policy. By Ethan Kapstein. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 304 pp., 21 illus., 1 table. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-25163-2
by Zeiler, Thomas - 449-451 Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State. By Claire Dunning Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 336 pp. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-81990-7
by Babbitt, Colton - 452-454 Buying into Change: Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco's Spain, 1939–1982. By Alejandro J. Gómez del Moral. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 366 pp., 9 photos, 12 illus., 1 table, index. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN: 978-1-4962-0506-3
by Rosado Cubero, Ana - 454-456 Capitalism and the Senses. Edited by Regina Lee Blaszczyk and David Suisman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 312 pp., 21 b/w images. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2420-9
by Gordon-Fogelson, Robert
March 2023, Volume 97, Issue 1
- 3-31 Creating Value Out of Waste: The Transformation of the Swedish Waste and Recycling Sector, 1970s–2010s
by Bergquist, Ann-Kristin & Lindmark, Magnus & Petrusenko, Nadezda - 33-65 Business Accounting at Fengshengtai in Late Imperial China: Is There New Evidence of Double-Entry Bookkeeping?
by Lowenstein, Matthew & Cao, Shuji - 67-91 The Political Economy of American Businesses in British Central Africa, 1953–1963
by Gwande, Victor M. - 93-125 A State of Supervision: The Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Germany, 1900s–1930s
by Yee, Robert - 131-135 Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives. By Stephen Roach. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 448 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-25964-3. Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise. By Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 384 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26338-1
by Friedman, Jeremy S. - 137-143 Political Capitalism
by Levinson, Marc - 145-152 Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric. By Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. 384 pp. Paperback, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-358-25041-8. The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy. By David Gelles. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2022. 272 pp. Hardcover, $28.00. ISBN: 978-1-982-17644-0
by Tedlow, Richard S. - 153-155 The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage. By John Harris. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 312 pp. Illustrations, maps. Paperback, $22.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26149-3
by Ferraro, Marcelo Rosanova - 155-158 The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam. By Laurence Monnais. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 290 pp. Illustrations. Paperback, $32.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-46653-0
by Lincoln, Martha - 158-160 A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan. By Timothy M. Yang. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Notes, references, index. Cloth, $54.95. 354 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5017-5624-5
by Takayama, Emilie - 160-163 Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London. By Laura Gowing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 275 pp. Bibliography, index. Hardcover, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-48638-5
by Taverner, Charlie - 163-165 Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State. By Elisabeth Anderson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. xvi + 384 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-691-22090-1; paper, 978-0-691-22089-5
by Otori, Yukako - 166-168 Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union. By David K. Thomson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 288 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6661-7
by Nitschke, Christoph - 168-171 The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity. By Anat Rosenberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 432 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Hardcover, £70.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-285891-7
by Meyers, Cynthia B. - 171-173 Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa. By Holger Droessler. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 304 pp. Photographs, maps. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-26333-8
by Lahti, Janne - 173-177 Vendors’ Capitalism: A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City. By Ingrid Bleynat. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 264 pp. Bibliography, index. Hardcover, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-5036-1460-4
by Gómez-Galvarriato, Aurora - 177-180 The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province. By Ümit Kurt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 400 pp. Photographs, maps, tables. Hardcover, $46.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-24794-9
by Arbatlı, Cemal Eren - 180-183 Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification. By Richard F. Hirsh. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 400 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Hardcover, $60.00. ISBN: 978-1-42144-362-1
by Glaser, Leah S. - 183-186 Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas. By Amy Offner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xv + 381 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-19093-8
by Bucheli, Marcelo - 187-189 Making Social Spending Work. By Peter H. Lindert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 434 pp. Hardcover, $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-47816-8
by Paternesi Meloni, Walter - 189-192 The Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business. Edited by Pierre-Yves Donzé, Véronique Pouillard, and Joanne Roberts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xii + 634 pp. Illustrations, figures, index. Hardback, $150.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-093222-0
by Alexander, Nicholas - 192-194 The Behavioral Economics of Inflation Expectations: Macroeconomics Meets Psychology. By Tobias F. Rötheli. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 243 pp. Illustrations, references, index. ISBN: 978-1-108-44706-5
by Curtin, Richard
December 2022, Volume 96, Issue 4
- 709-739 Business Creation and Political Turmoil: Ireland versus Scotland before 1900
by Adams, Robin J. C. & Campbell, Gareth & Coyle, Christopher & Turner, John D. - 741-775 The Unsung Activists: UK Shareholder Investigation Committees, 1888–1940
by Rutterford, Janette & Hannah, Leslie - 777-803 From Defensive to Transformative Business Diplomacy: The British South Africa Company and the End of Chartered Company Rule in Rhodesia, 1910–1925
by Rönnbäck, Klas & Broberg, Oskar - 805-832 Methodological Openness in Business History Research: Looking Afresh at the British Interwar Management Movement
by Maclean, Mairi & Shaw, Gareth & Harvey, Charles & Stringer, Gary - 833-855 Ownership Matters: French Governments and Automotive Industrialists Facing the Japanese Challenge, 1974–1986
by Milor, Alice - 865-870 Merchants Revisited: Long-Distance Traders and the World they Made
by Tucker, Hannah Knox - 871-875 Rahul Bajaj: An Extraordinary Life
by Kudaisya, Medha - 877-879 Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina. By Justene Hill Edwards. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 269 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-2311-9113-5
by Rothman, Joshua D. - 879-882 They Were Her Property: White Slave-Owning Women in the American South. By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 320 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $18.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-25183-8
by Molloy, Marie S. - 882-884 The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300–525 CE. By Robin Fleming. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-81229-736-2
by Rogers, Adam - 884-886 Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands, 1000-1800. By Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 280 pp. Illustrations, tables, map, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-69122-987-4
by Dreijer, Gijs - 887-889 The Making of the Modern Corporation: The Casa di San Giorgio and Its Legacy (1446–1720). By Carlo Taviani. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 248 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index. Hardback, $160.00. ISBN: 978-1-032-19892-7
by Iodice, Antonio - 889-892 The Overseas Trade of British America: A Narrative History. By Thomas M. Truxes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 464 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-30015-988-2
by Sammons, Franklin - 892-894 To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities. By Sara T. Damiano. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. 312 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $55.95. ISBN: 978-1421440555
by Lewis, Susan Ingalls - 895-897 Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. By William Quinn and John D. Turner. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 288 pp. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN: 978-1-10842-125-6
by Françoise, Juliette - 897-899 Sustaining Empire: Venezuela's Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–1828. By Edward P. Pompeian. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 344 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Hardcover, $64.95. ISBN: 978-1-42144-338-6
by Regele, Lindsay Schakenbach - 900-901 Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism. By Dara Orenstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 352 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-66290-9
by Williams, Johnathan K. - 901-904 Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China. By C. Patterson Giersch. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. 304 pp. Maps, figures, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-150361-164-1
by Wang, Yi - 904-907 The Dead Pledge: The Origins of the Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913–1939. By Judge Glock. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 304 pp. Notes, references, index. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-23119-253-8
by Snowden, Kenneth - 907-910 From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia. By Dan Slater and Joseph Wong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 368 pp. Notes, references, index. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-69116-760-2
by Rithmire, Meg - 910-912 Saint-Gobain et ses banquiers (1914–2000): Enjeux et méthodes du financement d'une grande entreprise [Saint-Gobain and its bankers, 1914–2000: Issues and methods of financing a large company]. By Hubert Bonin. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2020. 192 pp. Hardcover, 39.00 CHF. ISBN: 978-2-600-06011-0
by Sage, Elizabeth - 912-915 Les multinationales suisses dans l'arène politique (1942–1993) [Swiss multinationals in the political arena, 1942–1993]. By Sabine Pitteloud. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2022. 424 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Hardcover, CHF 48.00. ISBN: 978-2-600-06328-9
by Wilhelm, Lola - 915-917 A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021. By Alan S. Blinder. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 432 pp. Illustrations, index. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-69123-838-8
by Williams, Olamide - 918-920 The History of Financial Technology and Regulation: From American Incorporation to Cryptocurrency and Crowdfunding. By Seth C. Oranburg. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 250 pp. Figures, index. Paper, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-316-60730-5
by Rötheli, Tobias F.
September 2022, Volume 96, Issue 3
- 487-524 Related Investing: Family Networks, Gender, and Shareholding in Antebellum New England Corporations
by Khan, B. Zorina - 525-558 The Rise and Fall of George Frederic Augustus II: The Central American, Caribbean, and Atlantic Life of a Miskitu King, 1805–1824
by Clavel, Damian - 559-588 Trademarks as “Global Merchants of Skill”: The Dynamics of the Japanese Match Industry, 1860s–1930s
by Lopes, Teresa da Silva & Tomita, Shin - 589-613 Plan Calcul: France's National Information Technology Ambition and Instrument of National Independence
by Kuo, Laureen - 615-642 Why Do Unsuccessful Companies Survive? U.S. Airlines, Aircraft Leasing, and GE, 2000–2008
by Dissanaike, Gishan & Jayasekera, Ranadeva & Meeks, Geoff - 647-652 Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States
by Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 653-655 Capitalism: The Story behind the Word. By Michael Sonenscher. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 248 pp. Illustrations, index. Hardcover, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-69123-720-6
by Cussen, Oliver - 655-658 Pliny's Roman Economy: Natural History, Innovation, and Growth. By Richard P. Saller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 216 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-69122-954-6
by Fredona, Robert - 658-661 Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy: Texts and Contexts. By Osvaldo Cavallar and Julius Kirshner. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 896 pp. Glossary, appendixes, index. Hardcover, $131.00. ISBN: 978-1-4875-0748-0
by Reinert, Sophus A. - 661-663 Englishmen at Sea: Labor and the Nation at the Dawn of Empire, 1570–1630. By Eleanor Hubbard. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. xiv + 349 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-24612-4
by Truxes, Thomas M. - 664-666 Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World. By Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 272 pp. Maps, references, index. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-69120-351-5
by Hutková, Karolina - 666-668 Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao: Banking, State, and Family, 1720–1910. By Luman Wang. London: Routledge, 2021. 208 pp. Hardcover, $160.00. ISBN: 9-780-36745-809-6
by Lowenstein, Matthew - 668-671 A Global History of Co-operative Business. By Greg Patmore and Nikola Balnave. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. x + 248 pp. References, index. Paperback, $46.95. ISBN: 978-1-13819-149-5
by Spinak, Abby - 672-674 Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads: Technological Change and the Future of Politics. By Carles Boix. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 272 pp. Notes, references, index. Hardcover, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-69119-098-3
by Steen, Kathryn - 675-677 Accounting for the Fall of Silver: Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870–1913. By Michael Schiltz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 224 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, references, index. Hardcover, $94.00. ISBN: 978-0-19886-502-5
by Dean, Austin - 677-680 Histoire de la Société générale: Volume I, 1864–1890: Naissance d'une banque [Birth of a Bank]. By Hubert Bonin. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2006. 723 pp. Index, notes, appendix, tables. Paper, €68.47. ISBN: 2-600-01038-6. - Histoire de la Société générale: Tome II:, 1890-1914: Une grande banque française [A Major French Bank], Volume I, La Société générale, banque de dépôts et d’épargne: une grande firme tertiaire [Deposit and Savings Bank: A Large Tertiary Firm], and Volume II, Puissance et risques de la banque d’entrerpise et d’investissement [Power and Risks of Corporate and Investment Banking]. By Hubert Bonin. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2019. 1,130 pp. Hardcover, €80.00. ISBN: 978-2-60005-872-8
by Godelier, Eric - 680-683 Historia empresarial en América Latina: Temas, debates y problemas [Business History in Latin America: Topics, Debates, and Problems]. Edited by Andrea Lluch, Martín Monsalve Zanatti, and Marcelo Bucheli. Lima: Universidad del Pacífico; Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, 2021. 335 pp + 30 photos. Hardcover, S/ 50.00. ISBN: 978-958-774-982-3
by Campuzano-Hoyos, Jairo - 683-685 Sovereign Entrepreneurs: Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty. By Courtney Lewis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 312 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-4696-4858-3
by Oakley, Christopher Arris - 686-688 Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway. By Mikiya Koyagi. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 296 pp. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN: 978-1-5036-131-33
by Köll, Elisabeth - 688-690 Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism. By Mircea Raianu. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 304 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, index. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-67498-451-6
by Tumbe, Chinmay - 690-693 London Couture and the Making of a Fashion Centre. By Michelle Jones. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022. 320 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Hardcover, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-04657-2
by Pouillard, Véronique - 693-695 Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties. By David de Jong. Boston: Mariner Books, 2022. 400 pp. Hardcover, $28.99. Maps, appendix, notes, index. ISBN: 978-1-32849-788-8
by Marx, Christian - 695-698 The Bretton Woods Agreements: Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents. Edited by Naomi Lamoreaux and Ian Shapiro. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 504 pp. Illustrations, glossary, index. Paperback, $29.50. ISBN: 978-0-30023-679-8
by Green, Jeremy - 698-701 The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era. By Margarita Fajardo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 296 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-67426-049-8
by Armijo, Leslie Elliott - 701-703 Havoc and Reform: Workplace Disasters in Modern America. By James P. Kraft. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. 272 pp. Notes, index. Hardcover, $54.95. ISBN: 978-1-42144-057-6
by Sheehan, Melanie - 704-706 Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train. By Jessamyn R. Abel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. 304 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-50361-038-5
by McDonald, Kate
June 2022, Volume 96, Issue 2
- 237-244 Introductory Note: Franco Amatori and Comparative Business History
by Colli, Andrea & Lluch, Andrea - 245-287 Reframing Chinese Business History
by Frost, Adam K. - 289-324 Mexico's Business and Entrepreneurship in the Era of Nationalism
by Gómez Galvarriato, Aurora & Recio Cavazos, Gabriela - 325-351 Recent Trends in the Business History of Russia: The Blurry Borders of the Discipline
by Fava, Valentina & Kulikov, Volodymyr - 353-372 The Emergence of the Swiss Tax Haven, 1816–1914
by Guex, Sébastien - 373-397 Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Female Entrepreneurs in Colombia since 1990
by Dávila, Carlos & Lluch, Andrea - 399-423 Globalization, Cities, and Firms in Twentieth-Century India
by Tumbe, Chinmay - 433-439 Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
by Fredona, Robert - 441-443 Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe. By Judith Herrin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. xxxvi + 537 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Paperback, $21.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-15343-8
by Caferro, William - 443-446 Transforming Inner Mongolia: Commerce, Migration, and Colonization on the Qing Frontier. By Yi Wang. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 354 pp. Figures, maps, tables, bibliography, glossary, index. Hardcover, $105. ISBN: 978-1-53814-607-1
by Lowenstein, Matthew - 446-448 Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe. By Suzanne L. Marchand. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 544 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-20423-9
by Casson, Catherine - 448-451 Transithandel. Geld- und Warenströme im globalen Kapitalismus [Merchanting Trade: Capital Flows and Commerce in Global Capitalism]. By Lea Haller. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2019. 512 pp. Notes, bibliography. Paperback, EUR 20.00. ISBN 978-3-518-12731-5
by Sigel, Sabrina - 451-453 Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941. By Jessica M. Kim. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xiii + 282 pp. Illustrations, map, table, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $27.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6624-2
by Culver, Lawrence - 453-456 The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire. Edited by Christof Dejung, David Motadel, and Jürgen Osterhammel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 400 pp. Illustrations, index. Paperback, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17734-2
by Zakim, Michael - 456-458 Hollywood's Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power around the World. By Ross Melnick. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 528 pp. Notes, index. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-20151-3
by Dodds, Klaus - 459-461 Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture. By Will B. Mackintosh. New York: NYU Press, 2019. 272 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-4798-8937-2
by Knight Lozano, Henry - 461-464 Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order. By Stefan J. Link. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 316 pp. Hardcover, $39.95. Notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0-691-17754-0
by Tompkins, Spencer - 464-466 Why the New Deal Matters. By Eric Rauchway. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 232 pp. Notes, index. Paperback, $16.00. ISBN 978-0-300-26483-8
by Patel, Kiran Klaus - 466-469 Monetary War and Peace: London, Washington, Paris, and the Tripartite Agreement of 1936. By Max Harris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xiii + 279 pp. Appendixes, index. Hardcover, C$126.95. ISBN: 978-1-108-48495-4
by Faudot, Adrien - 469-472 A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union. By Kristy Ironside. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 320 pp. Photographs, illustrations, glossary, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-67425-164-9
by Woodruff, David - 472-474 Designing One Nation: The Politics of Economic Culture and Trade in Divided Germany. By Katrin Schreiter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 289 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-19087-727-9
by Augustine, Dolores L. - 474-477 Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization. By Peter E. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. xv + 419 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $35.00, ISBN: 978-0-231-18485-4
by Roberts, Priscilla - 477-480 Undelivered: From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service. By Philip F. Rubio. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. xiv + 290 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-5546-8
by Blevins, Cameron - 480-482 Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn't. By Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero, and Francesco Giavazzi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 296 pp. Notes, references, index. Paperback, $22.95. ISBN: 978-0-69120-863-3
by Schui, Florian - 482-484 Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise. By Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 248 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN: 9-780-22673-952-6
by Meyer-Clement, Elena
March 2022, Volume 96, Issue 1
- 3-15 Introduction: Standards and the Global Economy
by Yates, JoAnne & Murphy, Craig N. - 17-45 Men of Science and Standards: Introducing the Metric System in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
by Hanley, Anne G. - 47-76 Inching toward Modernity: Industrial Standards and the Fate of the Metric System in the United States
by Mihm, Stephen