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July 2008, Volume 82, Issue 2
- 398-400 Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. By Tom McCarthy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xx + 347 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 978–0–300–11038–8
by Whisler, Timothy - 401-403 Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver. By Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii + 225 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–88554–9
by Hood, Clifton - 403-404 The Offshore Imperative: Shell's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America. By Tyler Priest. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2007. xi + 317 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–1–585–44568–4
by Goldberg, Ellis - 405-407 The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: U.S. Energy Security and Oil Politics, 1975–2005. By Bruce A. Beaubouef. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xiv + 334 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978–1–585–44600–1
by Gorman, Hugh - 407-410 Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific. By Mansel G. Blackford. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. xi + 267 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $48.00. ISBN: 978–0–824–83073–1
by Reiss, Suzanna - 410-412 Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America. By Giles Slade. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 330 pp. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0–674–02203–3
by Lucsko, David N. - 412-414 The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry. By Lawrence E. Mitchell. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2007. xiii + 395 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978–1–576–75400–9
by Klein, Maury - 415-417 Dancing Around the Elephant: Creating a Prosperous Canada in an Era of American Dominance, 1957–1973. By Bruce Muirhead. University of Toronto Press, 2007. x + 323 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978–0–080–209016–4
by Anastakis, Dimitry - 417-420 The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson. Edited by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, x + 417 pp. References, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978–0–262–08361–4
by Engerman, Stanley L. - 420-422 The British-Atlantic Trading Community, 1760–1810: Men, Women, and the Distribution of Goods. By Sheryllynne Haggerty. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xiv + 290 pp. Figures, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 90–0415018–8
by Marzagalli, Silvia - 422-424 Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648–1834. By S. D. Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv + 380 pp. Figures, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 0–521–86338–4
by Ryden, David B. - 424-426 Women in Business, 1700–1850. By Nicola Phillips. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2006. xi + 299 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978–1–84383–183–9
by Rutterford, Janette - 427-429 War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689–1900. By John V. C. Nye. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi + 174 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–691–12917–4
by Smith, Michael S. - 429-430 In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns. By Dario Gaggio. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi + 352 pp. Index, notes, tables. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–0–691–12697–5
by Carnevali, Francesca - 431-433 Work and Play: The Production and Consumption of Toys in Germany, 1870–1914. By David D. Hamlin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. x + 286 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, figures, tables. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 978–0–472–11588–4
by Cross, Gary - 433-435 The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. By Adam Tooze. New York: Viking, 2006. xvii + 799 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 978–0–670–03826–8
by Tilly, Richard - 436-438 Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in 18th-century Damascus. By James Grehan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xvi + 320 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978–0–295–98676–0
by Reilly, James A.
April 2008, Volume 82, Issue 1
- 1-30 Selecting Risks in an Anonymous World: The Agency System for Life Insurance in Antebellum America
by Ann Murphy, Sharon - 31-58 Quill-Driving: British Life-insurance Clerks and Occupational Mobility, 1800–1914
by Alborn, Timothy - 59-86 Regulatory Regimes and Multinational Insurers before 1914
by Pearson, Robin & Lönnborg, Mikael - 87-114 Multinational Enterprises and Institutional Regulation in the Life-Insurance Market in Spain, 1880–1935
by Pons Pons, Jerònia - 119-126 Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire - Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire. By Richard Bak. New York: Wiley, 2003. 320 pp. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-471-23487-6. - The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century. By Steven Watts. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 640 pp. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $16.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-375-40735-2; paper, 978-0-375-70725-4. - In the Shadow of Detroit: Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada, and Motoropolis. By David Roberts. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. 326 pp. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-814-33284-9
by Anastakis, Dimitry - 127-128 The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. By David Edgerton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xviii + 270 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $26.00. ISBN: 0-195-32283-5
by Hochfelder, David - 128-131 Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia. By Andrew M. Schocket. De Kalb: Northern Illinois Press, 2007. xiii + 274 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 978-0-87580-369-2
by Crothers, A. Glenn - 131-133 Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. By S. Max Edelson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiii + 383 pp. Figures, illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-02303-1
by Hart, Emma - 133-136 Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–1852. By Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2006. v + 202 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 1-851-96890-3
by Davis, Ronald L. F. - 136-138 The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. By Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xxii + 242 pp. Notes, index, photographs, illustrations. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-801-88600-7
by Kinney, Thomas A. - 138-141 Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930. By Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. xx + 429 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 0-822-33912-0
by Headrick, Daniel R. - 141-144 Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. By Davarian L. Baldwin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv + 363 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8078-3099-4; paper, 978-0-8078-5799-1
by Adams, Luther - 144-146 The Real Pepsi Challenge: The Inspirational Story of Breaking the Color Barrier in American Business. By Stephanie Capparell. New York: Free Press, 2007. xvii + 349 pp. Photographs, bibliography, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 0-743-26571-8
by Weems, Robert E. - 146-149 Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920–1975. By Susannah Walker. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2007. xiii + 250 pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-8131-2433-9
by Gill, Tiffany M. - 149-152 George Gallup in Hollywood. By Susan Ohmer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xiii + 281 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth. $69.50; paper, $24.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-231-12132-6; paper, 0-231-12133-4
by Igo, Sarah E. - 152-154 Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants. By Kathleen M. Barry. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. xv + 304 pp. Photo-graphs, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $22.95. ISBN: 0-822-33946-5
by Richter, Amy G. - 154-157 The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. By Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely, and Paul F. Barrett. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. xxvi + 318 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-814-21036-8
by Walsh, Margaret - 157-160 American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe. By John Krige. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. viii + 376 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-262-11297-3
by Servos, John W. - 160-162 A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750–1920. By Marie Eileen Francois. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xiii + 415 pp. Notes, illustrations, tables, index, appendixes. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8032-6923-1
by Beatty, Edward - 162-164 Empresas y grupos empresariales en América Latina, España y Portugal [Firms and Business Groups in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal]. Edited by Mario Cerutti. Monterrey: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León-Universidad de Alicante, 2006. 372 pp. Tables, figures, notes. Paper. ISBN: 970-694-224-6
by Valdaliso, Jesús M. - 164-166 The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660–1720. By Natasha Glaisyer. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2006. x + 220 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0-861-93281-1
by Neal, Larry - 166-169 The Business of Women: Female Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England, 1760–1830. By Hannah Barker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xi + 189 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 0-19-929971-4
by Humphries, Jane - 169-171 The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel. By Terry Gourvish. Research by Mike Anson. New York: Routledge, 2006. xxi + 521 pp. Figures, tables, maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $93.95. ISBN: 0-415-39183-0
by Wilson, John F. - 171-173 Ecrire, Compter, Mesurer: Vers une histoire des rationalités pratiques [Writing, Counting, Measuring: Toward a History of Practical Intelligence]. Edited by Natacha Coquery, François Menant, and Florence Weber. Paris: Editions rue d'Ulm/Presses de l'Ecole normale supérieure, 2006. 277 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, references, notes. Paper, €35.00. ISBN: 2-728-80372-2
by Murray, James M. - 174-176 Histoire de la Société générale: Volume I, 1864–1890: Naissance d'une banque [History of the Société générale: Volume I, 1864–1890: Birth of a Bank]. By Hubert Bonin. Geneva: Librarie Droz, 2006. 723 pp. Index, notes, appendix, tables. Paper, €68.47. ISBN: 2-600-01038-6
by Stoskopf, Nicolas - 176-179 La Compagnie genevoise des Colonies suisses de Sétif (1853–1956): Un cas de colonisation privée en Algérie [La Compagnie genevoise des Colonies suisses de Setif (1853–1956): A Case of Private Colonization in Algeria]. By Claude Lützelschwab. Bern: Peter Lang, 2006. xxii + 412 pp. Figures, tables, maps, glossary, appendix, bibliography, notes. Cloth, €43.20. ISBN: 3-039-11146-6
by Donzé, Pierre-Yves - 179-181 The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany. By Jonathan R. Zatlin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xviii + 377 pp. Figures, tables, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-86956-0
by Allen, Michael - 181-184 Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840. By Richard Perren. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xi + 285 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3648-8
by Watts, Sydney - 184-186 Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism. By Jonathan A. Grant. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xi + 288 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-02242-7
by Engel, Jeffrey A. - 186-188 The Expert Consumer: Associations and Professionals in Consumer Society. Edited by Alain Chatriot, Maire-Emmanuelle Chessel, and Matthew Hilton. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. ix + 209 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $94.94. ISBN: 0-7546-5501-6
by Judt, Matthias - 188-191 The Industrialization of Rural China. By Chris Bramall. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 424 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 0-199-27593-9
by Chen, Yixin - 191-193 China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads. Edited by Charles W. Calomiris. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. x + 420 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-231-14192-5
by Perkins, Dwight H. - 194-197 The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy. By Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramsayer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii + 181 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 0-226-53270-4
by Lincoln, James R. - 197-200 The Spice Route: A History. By John Keay. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xv + 286 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN: 0-520-24896-1
by Salvucci, Linda K. - 200-202 Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. By Jeffry A. Frieden. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. xvii + 556 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $29.95; paper $17.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-393-05808-6; paper, 0-978-393-32981-0
by Reagan, Patrick D.
January 2007, Volume 81, Issue 4
- 651-680 Entrepreneurship and the Development of Global Brands
by da Silva Lopes, Teresa & Casson, Mark - 681-708 Path Dependence in Ports: The Persistence of Cooperative Forms
by van Driel, Hugo & Devos, Greta - 709-734 The Fall and Rise of the Norwegian IT Industry in the Global Age, 1970–2005
by Sogner, Knut - 735-764 From Products to Services: The Software Industry in the Internet Era
by Campbell-Kelly, Martin & Garcia-Swartz, Daniel D. - 765-769 Abstracts from Articles in Other Business History Journals
by Anonymous - 777-782 Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. By Thomas K. McCraw. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. xi + 699 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-674-02523-7
by Abrams, Richard M. - 783-785 Major Problems in American Business History: Documents and Essays. Edited by Regina Lee Blaszczyk and Philip B. Scranton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. xix + 521 pp. Figures, illustrations, tables. Paper, $46.76. ISBN: 0-618-04426-4
by Hannah, Leslie - 785-787 Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783–1820. By Joshua M. Smith. Foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene A. Smith. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xv + 160 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-8130-2986-4
by Cohen, Andrew Wender - 788-790 Networked Machinists: High Technology Industries in Antebellum America. By David R. Meyer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xi + 311 pp. Figures, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-88471-3
by Brown, John K. - 790-793 After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley. By David Vaught. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiv + 310 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-801-88497-7
by Carey, Ryan J. - 793-795 The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wendy Gamber. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xii + 213 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8018-8571-6
by Spears, Timothy B. - 795-798 Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars. By Georg Leidenberger. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. viii + 202 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-875-80356-3
by John, Richard R. - 798-800 Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. By Eric Jay Dolin. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. 460 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-393-06057-7
by Smith, Joshua M. - 800-802 Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission. By Michael Adas. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 542 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01867-2
by Rydell, Robert W. - 802-805 Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law. By Alan D. Morrison and William J. Wilhelm Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiii + 341 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, figures. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-199-29657-X
by Michie, Ranald - 805-807 When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security. By Edwin Amenta. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. viii + 322 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-12473-6
by Brownlee, W. Elliot - 808-809 Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930. By Robert M. Fogelson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 264 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-300-10876-1
by Jackson, Kenneth T. - 809-812 Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market. By Sally H. Clarke. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv + 296 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-86878-5
by Cross, Gary - 812-814 From Submarines to Suburbs: Selling a Better America, 1939–1959. By Cynthia Lee Henthorn. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. xv + 368 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-821-41677-4; paper, 0-821-41678-2
by Jacobson, Lisa - 814-817 Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948–1961. By James H. Baughman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiii + 443 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-8018-7933-7
by Horowitz, Daniel - 817-819 Advertising Sin and Sickness: The Politics of Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing 1950–1990. By Pamela E. Pennock. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. vii + 282 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $36.00. ISBN: 0-875-80368-5
by Stole, Inger L. - 820-822 Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London. By Caitlin Zaloom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii + 224 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $29.00. ISBN: 0-226-97813-3
by Miranti, Paul J. - 822-825 The Global Securities Market: A History. By Ranald C. Michie. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 399 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 0-199-28061-4
by Roberts, Priscilla - 825-827 Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780–2005. By Youssef Cassis, translated by Jacqueline Collier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 385 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-84535-9
by Capie, Forrest - 827-829 The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond. By Barry Eichengreen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xx + 495 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, figures, tables. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-12710-7
by Smith, Michael S. - 830-831 The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860–1914. By Brent Shannon. Athens: Ohio University Press, xii + 252 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-821-41702-9; paper, 0-821-41703-7
by Merlo, Elisabetta - 832-834 Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800. By Peter Thorsheim. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. xii + 307 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-821-41680-4; paper, 0-821-41681-2
by Gorman, Hugh - 834-836 Alfred Herbert Ltd. and the British Machine Tool Industry, 1887–1983. By Roger Lloyd-Jones and M. J. Lewis. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xii + 352 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-60523-X
by Mazzoleni, Roberto - 837-838 The Dutch Slave Trade, 1500–1850. By P. C. Emmer, translated by Chris Emery. New York: Berghahn, 2006. ix + 166 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 1-845-45031-0
by Davids, Karel - 839-841 Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics, and Market Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris. By Sydney Watts. New York: University of Rochester Press, 2006. x + 232 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 1-580-46211-1
by Guy, Kolleen M. - 841-843 The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1830. By Jeff Horn. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. ix + 383 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-262-08352-3
by Spagnoli, Paul - 844-846 Les Banques du Grand Sud Ouest: Système bancaire et gestion des risques (des années 1900 à nos jours) [The Banks of the Grand South-West: The Banking System and Risk Management from 1900 to the Present]. Edited by Hubert Bonin and Christophe Lastécouères. Paris: P.L.A.G.E., 2006. 521 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, €40.00. ISBN: 2-914-36909-3
by Paulet, Elisabeth - 846-849 Die jüdischen Mitglieder der deutschen Wirtschaftselite, 1927–1955: Verdraenung—Emigration—Rueckkehr [Jewish Members of the German Business Elite, 1927–1955: Expulsion—Emigration—Remigration]. By Martin Münzel. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoeningh, 2006. 502 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, figures, tables. Cloth, €49.90. ISBN: 3-506-75625-7
by Ziegler, Dieter - 849-850 Driving Germany: The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930–1970. By Thomas Zeller. New York: Berghahn, 2007. viii + 289 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 1-845-45309-3
by Kopper, Christopher - 851-853 Making IT: The Rise of Asia in High Tech. Edited by Henry S. Rowen, Marguerite Gong Hancock, and William F. Miller. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xviii + 388 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $30.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-8047-5385-7; paper, 0-8047-5386-5
by Fruin, Mark - 853-856 America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier. By Robert Vitalis. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xxvii + 353 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-8047-5446-2
by Hertog, Steffen
October 2007, Volume 81, Issue 3
- 421-427 Women in the Service Industries: National Perspectives
by Kwolek-Folland, Angel & Walsh, Margaret - 429-450 Gender, the Service Sector, and U.S. Business History
by Kwolek-Folland, Angel - 451-470 In the Shadow of the Swedish Welfare State: Women and the Service Sector
by Andersson-Skog, Lena - 471-493 Doing Business with Gender: Service Industries and British Business History
by Honeyman, Katrina - 495-515 Female Entrepreneurship in Spain during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Muoz, Lina Glvez & Prez, Paloma Fernndez - 517-538 Women and Family Capitalism in Greece, c.17801940
by Minoglou, Ioanna Pepelasis - 545-562 Gender in the History of Transportation Services: A Historiographical Perspective
by Walsh, Margaret - 563-567 American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 378 pp. Index, notes, figures. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-812-23923-7
by French, Michael - 569-571 The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865. By Mark R. Wilson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 306 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-88348-2
by Green, Michael S. - 571-573 The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America. By David M. Henkin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xv + 221 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 0-226-32720-5
by MacDougall, Robert - 573-575 A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business. By Rowena Olegario. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2006. ix + 274 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-674-02340-4
by Wilson, Mark R. - 576-578 The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860–1914. By David O. Whitten and Bessie E. Whitten. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 0-313-32395-X
by Bucheli, Marcelo - 578-580 The Paradox of Democratic Capitalism: Politics and Economics in American Thought. By David Prindle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xv + 368 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $49-95. ISBN: 0-801-88411-X
by Furner, Mary - 581-583 The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster. By Werner Troesken. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. x + 318 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, figures, appendix. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-262-20167-4
by Aldrich, Mark - 584-586 Rails Through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad. By H. Roger Grant. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. xvi + 223 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $36.00. ISBN: 0-875-80365-2
by Adams, Sean Patrick - 586-588 When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy. By William L. Silber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xi + 217 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-691-12747-6
by Klein, Maury - 588-590 Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood. By Karen Ward Mahar. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. x + 291 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-88436-5
by Bender, Pennee - 591-593 A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis. By Alan Lawson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xv + 280 pp. Index, bibliography. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-88406-3
by Smith, Jason Scott - 593-596 Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics. By David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, iv + 369 pp. Cloth, $36.95. ISBN: 0-806-13795-9
by Adamson, Michael R. - 596-599 Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II. By Andrew E. Kersten. New York: New York University Press, 2006. xiii + 273 pp. Index, notes, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 0-814-748786-8
by Dubofsky, Melvyn - 599-601 Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955. By Adam Green. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv + 306 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-30641-0
by Weems, Robert E. - 601-603 Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948–92. By Xiaolan Bao. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xvi + 330 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $44.95; paper, $22.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-02631-4; paper, 0-252-07350-9
by Chen, Yong - 603-606 From Marriage to Market: The Transformation of Women's Lives and Work. By Susan Thistle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xiv + 296 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Paper, $19.95. ISBN: 0-520-24646-2
by Cohen, Miriam - 606-608 Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns that Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires. By Kristoffer A. Garin. New York: Viking Penguin, 2005. xvi + 366 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 0-670-023418-5
by de Goey, Ferry - 608-610 The Effortless Economy of Science? By Philip Mirowski. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. 462 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, figures. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33310-4; paper, 0-822-33322-8
by Porter, Theodore M. - 611-613 Discounted Labour: Women Workers in Canada, 1870–1939. By Ruth A. Frager and Carmela K. Patrias. ix + 289 pp. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Index, bibliography. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-802-00828-3; paper, 0-802-07818-4
by Nielson, Carmen - 613-616 The Politics of CANDU Exports. By Duane Bratt. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xv + 319 pp. Index, notes, figures, maps, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-802-09091-5
by Boothman, Barry E. C. - 616-618 Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology. By Duncan K. Foley. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xv + 265 pp. Index, figures. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 0-674-02309-9
by Tribe, Keith - 619-621 North East England, 1850–1914: The Dynamics of a Maritime-Industrial Region. By Graeme J. Milne. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2006. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, tables, xi + 230 pp. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 1-843-83240-2
by Kirby, Maurice - 621-623 Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970. By David Edgerton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv + 364 pp. Index, notes, appendix, tables. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $32.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-85636-1; paper, 0-521-67231-7
by Booth, Alan - 623-625 Networking Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Shaping of Europe, 1850–2000. Edited by Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2006. vii + 335 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, figures. Cloth, $47.50. ISBN: 0-881-35394-9
by Stadler, Christian - 626-628 The Entrepreneurial Shift: Americanization in European High-Technology Management Education. By Robert R. Locke and Katja Schöne. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiii + 250 pp. Index, figures, references, tables. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 0-521-84010-4
by Hilger, Susanne - 628-631 The Rise of Spanish Multinationals: European Business in the Global Economy. By Mauro F. Guillén. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ix + 268 pp. Index, notes, references, photographs, tables. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-521-84721-4
by Puig, Núria - 631-633 La Banque d'Amsterdam et le florin européen au temps de la République néerlandaise (1610–1820) [The Bank of Amsterdam and the European Florin under the Dutch Republic (1610–1820)]. By Lucien Gillard. Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2004. 420pp. Notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Paper, €36.00. ISBN: 2-713-22014-9
by Félix, Joël - 633-637 Der Anspruch auf das Glück des Tüchtigen: Beruf, Organisation und Selbstverständnis der Bankangestellten in der Weimarer Republik [A Claim on “Fortune Favors the Bold”: Business, Organization and Self-Conception of Bank Employees in the Weimar Republic]. By Imke Thamm. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. 298 pp. Notes, bibliography, tables. Paper, €59.00. ISBN: 3-515-08852-7
by Köhler, Ingo - 637-639 Ortsempfänger, Volksfernseher und Optaphon: Die Entwicklung der deutschen Radio- und Fernsehindustrie und das Unternehmen Loewe, 1923–1962 [“Ortsempfänger,” “Volksfernseher,” and “Optaphon”: The Development of German Radio and Television Industry and the Loewe Company, 1923–1962]. By Kilian J. L. Steiner. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2005. 381 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendices, maps, tables. Cloth, €29.90. ISBN: 3-898-61492-1
by Jelavich, Peter - 639-641 De gjorde Danmark større … De multinationale danske entreprenørfirmaer i krise og krig 1919–1947 [They Made Denmark Larger, but Did They Make Her Greater? Danish Construction Companies in Crisis and in War, 1919–1947]. By Steen Andersen. Copenhagen: Lindhardt and Ringhof, 2005. 573 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, tables, figures. Cloth, 349 kr. ISBN: 875-952496-0
by Knudsen, Knud - 642-644 Business Expansion and Structural Change in Pre-War China: Liu Hongsheng and His Enterprises, 1920–1937. By Kai Yiu Chan. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xv + 283 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, figures, tables. Cloth, $59.50. ISBN: 9-789-622097-643
by Bian, Morris L. - 644-647 Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia. By Sherman Cochran. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 242 pp. Index notes, bibliography, maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-674-02161-4
by McKeown, Adam - 647-649 The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization: Another Path to Industrialization. Edited by Masayuki Tanimoto. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xvii + 342 pp. Index, notes, maps, figures, tables. Cloth, $140.00. ISBN: 0-198-29274-0
by Wittner, David G.
July 2007, Volume 81, Issue 2
- 213-236 Sugar and Copper: Postcolonial Experiences of Australian Multinationals
by Merrett, David - 237-268 From Diaspora Traders to Shipping Tycoons: The Vagliano Bros
by Harlaftis, Gelina - 269-295 Before the EEOC: How Management Integrated the Workplace
by Delton, Jennifer - 297-321 Rent Seeking or Market Strengthening? Industry Associations in New Zealand Wool Broking
by Ville, Simon - 341-343 Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890–1945. By Charles McGovern. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, xv + 536 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. ISBN: Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. cloth, 0-807-83033-X; paper, 0-807-85676-2
by Phillips-Fein, Kimberly - 343-346 The Challenge of Affluence: Self Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950. By Avner Offer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xviii + 454 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-198-20853-7
by Kenny, Charles - 346-349 Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods: The Cairoli Lectures. By Barry Eichengreen. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007 xiv + 187 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $26.00. ISBN: 0-262-05084-6
by Abdelal, Rawi - 349-352 Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich. By Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 240 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 0-226-91068-7
by Shankman, Andrew - 352-354 Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820–1920. By William H. Thiesen. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. x + 302 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-8130-2940-6
by Kinney, Thomas A. - 355-357 Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons. By Edward J. Renehan Jr New York: Basic Books, 2005. xiii + 352 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $18.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-465-06885-5; paper, 0-465-06886-3
by Klein, Maury - 357-360 Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy. By Robert Higgs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xv + 221 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-195-18292-7
by Rosen, Elliot A. - 360-363 Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio. By Elizabeth Fones-Wolf. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii + 307 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-03119-9; paper, 0-252-07364-9
by Craig, Douglas - 363-365 House of Plenty: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Luby's Cafeterias. By Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. 277 pp. Photographs, index. Cloth, $21.00. ISBN: 0-292-70656-1
by Birkeland, Peter M. - 366-368 Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition. By Vicki Howard. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 306 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-8122-3945-8
by Jellison, Katherine - 368-370 L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement. By Ruth Milkman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. xiii + 244 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $27.50 ISBN: 0-871-54635-3
by Sides, Josh - 371-372 Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800–1920. By Margaret E. Derry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xvii + 302 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-802-09112-1
by Elofson, Warren M. - 373-375 The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and Identity. By Jarrett Rudy. McGill–Queen's University Press, 2006. xii + 232 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, CAN$27.95. ISBN: 0-773-52911-X
by Hahn, Barbara - 375-378 The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890–1917. By Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. x + 245 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 0-826-33796-1
by Schell, William - 378-380 Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua. By Elizabeth Dore. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. xii + 252 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74-955 paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33686-3; paper, 0-822-33674-X
by Woodward, Ralph Lee - 380-383 The Social Life of Money in the English Past. By Deborah Valenze. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi + 308 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-85242-0; paper, 0-521-61780-4
by Smith, Woodruff D. - 383-385 The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange: Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, c.1550–1630. By Clé Lesger, translated by J. C. Grayson. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. x + 326 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $114.95. ISBN: 0-745-65220-3
by van Driel, Hugo - 386-388 Building on Water: Venice, Holland and the Construction of the European Landscape in Early Modern Times. By Salvatore Ciriacono, translated by Jeremy Scott. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. x + 308 pp. Glossary, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 1-845-45065-5
by Cioc, Mark - 388-391 Itinéraires marchands du goût moderne: Produits alimentaires et modernisation rurale en France et en Allemagne (1870–1940) [Merchant Routes to Modern Taste: Food Products and Rural Modernization in France and Germany (1870–1940)]. By Thierry Nadau. Text assembled posthumously and edited by Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel and Sandrine Kott. Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2005. xxi + 300 pp. Photographs, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes. Paper, €22.00. ISBN: 2-735-11064-8
by Guy, Kolleen M. - 391-393 Les entreprises du secteur de l'énergie sous l'Occupation [The Energy Sector during the Occupation]. Edited by Varaschin Denis. Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2006. 447 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes. Paper, €30.00. ISBN: 2-848-32045-1
by Oosterlinck, Kim - 393-395 The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800–1930. By Michael Stephen Smith. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 575 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $59.05. ISBN: 0-674-01939-3
by Cailluet, Ludovic - 396-398 Unbegrenzte Möglichkeiten: “Amerikanisierung” in Deutschland und Frankreich (1900–1933) [Infinite Possibilities: “Americanization” in Germany and France (1900–1933)]. By Egbert Klautke. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 395 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €42.00. ISBN: 3-515-07941-6
by Fear, Jeffrey - 399-401 Il “discorso del maneggio”: Pratiche gestionali e contabili all'Arsenale di Venezia, 1580–1643 [The “Discourse on Management”: Accounting and Managerial Practices at Venice's State Shipyard, 1580–1643]. By Luca Zan, Franco Rossi, and Stefano Zambon. Bologna: Mulino, 2006. 466 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography. Paper, €33.00. ISBN: 8-815-10912-9
by Toninelli, PierAngelo - 401-403 Storia della Pininfarina, 1930–2005: Un'industria italiana nel mondo [A History of Pininfarina, 1930–2005: A Global Italian Industry]. Edited by Valerio Castronovo. Rome: Laterza, 2005. x + 636 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €45.00. ISBN: 8-842-07263-X
by Goldstein, Andrea E. - 404-405 The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture. By Mauro F. Guillén. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xii + 186 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-11520-6
by Hansen, Per - 406-409 Oil Titans: National Oil Companies in the Middle East. By Valerie Marcel, with John V. Mitchell, contributor. Washington, D.C.: Chatham House/Brookings Institution Press, 2006. x + 321 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $52.95; paper, $29.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-815-75474-4; paper, 0-815-75473-6
by Shechter, Relli - 409-411 Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies. By Gary G. Hamilton. London: Routledge, 2006. xii + 309 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $135.00; paper, $37.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-415-15704-8; paper, 0-415-15705-6
by Coble, Parks - 411-414 Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. By Mark Metzler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xxiv + 370 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-520-24420-6
by Kane, Robert G. - 414-417 The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. By Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi + 216 pp. Figures, table, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-11999-6
by Hoshi, Takeo - 417-419 Korea Under Siege, 1876–1945: Capital Formation and Economic Transformation. By Chung Young-Iob. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. x + 390 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN: 0-19-517830-2
by McNamara, Dennis
April 2007, Volume 81, Issue 1
- 1-26 Collusion and Competition in Colonial Economies: Banking in British West Africa, 1916–1960
by Austin, Gareth & Uche, Chibuike Ugochukwu - 27-57 International Management in a Free-Standing Company: The Penang Sugar Estates, Ltd., and the Malayan Sugar Industry, 1851–1914
by Lees, Lynn Hollen - 59-86 Corporate Legitimacy and Advertising: British Companies and the Rhetoric of Development in West Africa, 1950–1970
by Decker, Stephanie - 87-110 The Business Firm in Africa
by Tignor, Robert L. - 119-122 Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870–1930. By Angel Kwolek-Folland. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xiv + 256 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-801-84860-1; paper, 0-801-85948-4
by Strasser, Susan - 122-125 “Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire.” By Geoffrey G. Jones and Ingrid Vargas. Harvard Business School Case No. 9-804-078. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, December 15, 2005
by Kipping, Matthias - 125-128 The Rise of Silas Lapham. By William Dean Howells. New York: Signet Classic by New American Library, 1980. 350 pp. Paper. ISBN: 0-451-51400-9. First published in 1885 by Ticknor and Company
by Laird, Pamela Walker - 129-132 Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe. By Peter Spufford. London: Thames and Hudson, 2003. 432 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-500-25118-5; paper, 0-500-28594-2
by Graham, Margaret B. W. - 132-135 Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. Edited by Alfred D. ChandlerJr., Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 574 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $34.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-48123-6; paper, 0-521-66347-4
by Puig, Núria - 135-137 The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship. By Juliet E. K. Walker. Woodbridge, Conn.: Twayne, 1998. 482 pp. Cloth, $52.00. ISBN: 0-805-71650-5
by Dailey, Maceo Crenshaw - 138-140 Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation: How Companies Can Seize Opportunities in the Face of Technological Change. By James Utterback. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-875-84342-5
by Parsons, Mike & Rose, Mary B. - 140-142 Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions. Edited by Thomas K. McCraw. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xii + 711 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $35.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-674-17555-7; paper, 0-674-17556-5
by Blackford, Mansel G. - 142-145 Concept of the Corporation. By Peter Drucker. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1993. Third Edition. 329 pp. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 1-560-00625-0
by Wells, Wyatt - 147-149 Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790–1860. By Tom Downey. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 2006. xii + 262 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-807-13107-5
by West, Stephen A. - 149-151 Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837–1873. By Jay Sexton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ix + 287 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN: 0-199-28103-3
by Wilson, Mark - 151-154 Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828–1965. By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xvi + 466 pp. Appendices, tables, graphs, notes, illustrations, photographs, essay on sources. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 0-808-18236-2
by Stern, Marc J. - 154-157 John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier. By Albert Hurtado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xvii + 412 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-806-13772-X
by Carey, Ryan J. - 157-159 Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. By John Franch. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 374 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-252-03099-0
by Duis, Perry R. - 159-162 Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900–1950. By Rosemary Feurer. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xix + 320 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-03087-7; paper, 0-252-07319-3
by Friedman, Tami J. - 162-164 How New York Became American, 1890-1924. By Angela M. Blake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 242 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-88293-1
by Wilk, Daniel Levinson - 164-167 Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction. By David A. Zimmerman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii + 294 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-807-83023-2; paper, 0-807-85687-8
by Traflet, Janice M. - 167-170 Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s. By Inger L. Stole. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xviii + 290 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-03059-1; paper, 0-252-07299-5
by Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth - 170-172 Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption. By Laura J. Miller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. x + 316 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-52590-2
by Winship, Michael - 172-175 Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin. By Pamela Walker Laird. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiv + 439 PP. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01907-5
by Peiss, Kathy - 175-177 America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941–2001. By Richard M. Abrams. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix + 345 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-521-86246-9
by Brick, Howard - 178-180 The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century. By Christopher D. McKenna. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxi + 370 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-521-81039-6
by Fligstein, Neil - 180-183 Empresas y empresarios en la historia de Colombia, Siglos xix–xx: Una colección de estudios recientes. [Firms and Entrepreneurs in the History of Colombia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Collection of Recent Studies]. 2 vols. Edited by Carlos Dávila L. de Guevara. Bogotá: Editorial Norma, S.A., and Ediciones Uniandes, 2003. lxxviii + 1348 pp. Notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $165.00. ISBN: 9-580-47162-2 (for both volumes)
by Womack, John - 183-185 From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000. Edited by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. 377 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33753-3; paper, 0-822-33766-5
by Bulmer-Thomas, Victor - 185-188 Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery. By David Warsh. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. xxii + 426 pp. Index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-393-05996-0
by Bernstein, Michael A. - 188-191 The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. By Deirdre N. McCloskey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xviii + 616 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 0-226-55663-8
by Tilly, Charles - 191-194 The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse. By Bryan Cowan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xii + 364 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-300-10666-1
by McDonald, Michelle Craig - 194-196 A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century. By Giorgio Riello. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii + 302 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 0-199-29225-6
by Zakim, Michael - 196-198 Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Greatest Business Families. By David S. Landes. New York: Viking, 2006. xx + 379 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 0-670-03338-3
by James, Harold - 199-201 Les archives des entreprises sous l'Occupation: Conservation, accessibilité et apport [The Archives of Companies under the (German) Occupation: Conservation, Accessibility and Contribution]. Edited by Hervé Joly. Lille: IFRESI, 2005. 314 pp. Notes, figures, illustrations, tables. ∈40.00. ISBN: 2-911-97530-8
by Hachez-Leroy, Florence - 201-204 Da danske møbler blev moderne: Historien om dansk møbeldesigns storhedstid [Danish Modern: A History of the Golden Age of Danish Furniture Design]. By Per H. Hansen. Copenhagen: Aschehoug, 2006. 644 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, DKK399.00. ISBN: 8-711-23196-3
by Pedersen, Jan - 204-206 Innovation + Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1973–2002. By John Singleton with Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke, and Frank Holmes. Auckland: University of Auckland Press, 2006. xii + 340 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index, plates. Cloth, $33.95. ISBN: 1-869-40364-9
by Boyce, Gordon