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October 2005, Volume 79, Issue 3
- 658-661 Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba. By Muriel McAvoy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 338 pages. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, photographs. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-813-02613-X
by Dye, Alan - 661-665 Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas. Edited by Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. viii + 364 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33159-4; paper, 0-822-33196-9
by Harpelle, Ron - 665-668 Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854–1913. By William R. Summerhill. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xv + 297 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, figures, maps, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-804-73224-8
by Garfleld, Seth - 668-670 Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687–1851. By Margaret C. Jacob and Larry Stewart. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 216 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-674-01497-9
by Misa, Thomas J. - 670-673 Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Industry, 1889–1939. By Anne Clendinning. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. xvii + 352 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $99.99. ISBN: 0-754-60692-9
by Honeyman, Katrina - 673-675 Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics. By Kenneth R. Hoover. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. xv + 328 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Paper, $27.95. ISBN: 0-742-53113-9
by Muller, Jerry Z. - 676-679 Histoire de la qualité alimentaire, XIXe-XXe siècles [History of foodquality during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries]. By Alessandro Stanziani. Paris: Seuil, 2005. 440 pp. Index, notes, tables. €26.00. ISBN: 2-020-78841-1
by Chessel, Marie-Emmanuelle - 679-681 We'll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930. By Harvey Levenstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 382 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-47378-3
by Harp, Stephen L. - 682-683 Die Aussenbeziehungen der Europaeischen Gemeinschaft fuer Kohle und Stahl von 1952–1960: Die Anfaenge einer europaeischen Aussenpolitik? [The external relations of the European Coal and Steel Community from 1952 to 1960: The beginnings of a European foreign policy?] By Claudia Becker-Doering. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 387 pp. Notes, bibliography, tables. Paper, €68.00. ISBN: 3-515-08319-7
by Gillingham, John - 684-685 Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions. By Johann Peter Murmann. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxi + 294 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-521-81329-8
by Kleinschmidt, Christian - 686-688 L'impresa italiana nel novecento [Italian business in the twentieth century]. Edited by Renato Gianetti and Michelangelo Vasta. Bologna: II Mulino, 2003. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, tables. Paper, ξ30.00 ISBN: 88-150-9496-2
by Cohen, Jon S. - 689-691 Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500–2000. By James C. McCann. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii + 289 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-674-01718-8
by Tignor, Robert L. - 691-693 Australia's First Bank: Fifty Years from the Wales to Westpac. By L. Sharon Davidson and Steven Salisbury. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005. 407 pp. Index, notes, appendix, figures, photographs. Paper, $49.95. ISBN: 0-868-40791-7
by Merrett, David - 693-696 Japan's Network Economy: Structure, Persistence, and Change. By James R. Lincoln and Michael L. Gerlach. xx + 409 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 0-521-45304-6
by Fruin, W. Mark
July 2005, Volume 79, Issue 2
- 193-273 Dutch Multinational Enterprises in the United States: A Historical Summary
by Wilkins, Mira - 275-304 Commodity Chains and Networks in Emerging Markets: New Zealand, 1880–1910
by Hunter, Ian - 305-337 Reappraising Corporate Failure in Britain: Labor Management in the Tobacco Industry before 1939
by Fitzgerald, Robert & Hirao, Takashi - 353-363 The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
by Balleisen, Edward J. - 365-367 Les Origines de la revolution industrielle aux Etats-Unis: Entre économie marchande et capitalisme industriel, 1800–1850 [The origins of the Industrial Revolution in the United States: Between market economy and industrial capitalism, 1800–1850]. By Pierre Gervais. Paris: Editions EHESS, 2004. 347 pp. Tables, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €30.00. ISBN: 2-713-21825-X
by Furstenberg, François - 367-370 Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power. By Doron S. Ben-Atar. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xii + 281 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 0-300-10006-X
by Fisk, Catherine L. - 370-373 Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America. By Sean Patrick Adams. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiv + 305 pp. Figures, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-87968-X
by Day, James Sanders - 373-376 Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class, and Revolution, 1830-1890. By Andrew Dawson. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xii + 302 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-63396-9
by Galer, Greg - 376-379 The World's Richest Indian: The Scandal over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune. By Tanis C. Thorne. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi + 292 pp. Photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-195-16233-1
by Carey, Ryan J. - 380-382 Sales & Celebrations: Retailing and Regional Identity in Western New York State, 1920-1940. By Sarah Elvins. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. xxi + 222 pp. Photographs, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $42.95. ISBN: 0-821-41549-2
by Stanger, Howard R. - 382-385 An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune Magazine and Depression America. By Michael Augspurger. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. viii + 292 pp. Illustrations, index, notes. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-801-44204-4
by Nalbach, Alex - 385-387 Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community. By Jon Hunner. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. xi + 288 pp. Maps, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-806-13634-0
by Thorpe, Charles - 387-389 Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism. By Jonathan Cutler. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. xi + 236 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.50. ISBN: 1-592-13246-4
by Clark, Daniel - 390-393 Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin Jr. and the Creation of the American Financial System. By Robert P. Bremner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. vi + 357 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 0-300-10508-8
by Woolley, John T. - 393-395 John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. By Richard Parker. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. x + 820 pp. Photographs, index, notes. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-374-28168-8
by Samuels, Warren J. - 395-398 Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. By Meg Jacobs. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xii + 349 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-08664-8
by Cross, Gary - 398-400 The Politics of Air Pollution: Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and Symbolic Inclusion. By George A. Gonzalez. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. viii + 144 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-791-46335-4
by Stradling, David - 400-404 The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising. Edited by John McDonough and Karen Egolf. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. Three volumes, xxiii + 1873 pp. Illustrations, references, index. Cloth, $385.00. ISBN: 1-579-58172-2
by Pope, Daniel - 404-407 A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico. By Emilio Kourí. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xiii + 389 pp. Maps, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-804-73939-0
by Beatty, Edward - 407-409 Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680. Edited by Stuart B. Schwartz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii + 347 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82875-0; paper 0-807-85538-3
by Morgan, Kenneth - 409-412 British Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Business, Culture and Identity in Bahia, 1808-1850. By Louise H. Guenther. Oxford: Centre for Brazilian Studies, 2004. xi + 211 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paper, £20.00. ISBN: 0-954-40703-2
by Veeser, Cyrus - 412-414 Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture. By John D. French. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xviii + 233 pp. Photographs, illustration, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82857-2; paper 0-807-85527-8
by Hanley, Anne - 414-416 Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. By Richard W. Unger. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xvi + 319 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-8122-3795-1
by Wilson, Richard - 417-419 The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution. By Carla Gardina Pestana. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xi + 342 pp. Maps, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-01502-9
by Haefeli, Evan - 419-421 The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble. By Richard Dale. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. viii + 198 pp. Illustrations, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-11971-6
by Sylla, Richard - 422-424 Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850. By Robin Pearson. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 434 PP. Tables, maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 0-754-63363-2
by Alborn, Timothy - 424-426 Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900–1950: A Social History of Lancashire Cotton Operatives in the Twentieth Century. By Alan Fowler. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. xv + 236 pp. Photographs, tables, references, index. Cloth, $84.95. ISBN: 0-754-60116-1
by Timmins, Geoff - 426-429 The Englishness of English Dress. Edited by Christopher Breward, Beckey Conekin, and Caroline Cox. Oxford: Berg, 2002. xiv + 219 pp. Appendix, photographs, references. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $28.95. ISBN: cloth 1-859-73523-1; paper 1-859-73528-2. - Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis. By Christopher Breward. Oxford: Berg, 2004. 223 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $74.94; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 1-859-73787-0; paper 1-859-73792-7
by Blaszczyk, Regina Lee - 429-431 Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography. By Bruce Caldwell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xi + 489 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index, notes. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-226-09191-0
by Desai, Meghnad - 432-434 Les Entrepreneurs du Second Empire [The entrepreneurs of the Second Empire]. By Dominique Barjot , Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris–Sorbonne, 2003. 224 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, appendix, notes, Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 2-8405-0293-3
by Smith, Michael S. - 434-436 Entreprises et pouvoir économique dans la region Rhône-Alpes (1920–1954) [Firms and economic power in the Rhône-Alpes region (1920–1954)]. By Hervé Joly and François Robert. Lyon: Cahiers du Centre Pierre Léon d'histoire économique et sociale, 2003. 295 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography, index. Paper, €15.00. ISBN: 2-951-95543-X
by Cailluet, Ludovic - 436-439 Banques locales et banques régionales en Europe au XXe siècle [Local and regional banks in Europe in the twentieth century]. Edited by Michel Lescure and Alain Plessis. Paris: Albin Michel, 2004. 430 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 2-226-14249-5
by Horn, Martin - 439-441 The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank. By Harold James. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 286 pp. Maps, illustration, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-521-83874-76
by Kobrak, Christopher - 442-444 From Complicity to Cooperation: Degussa in the Third Reich. By Peter Hayes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx + 373 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-521-78227-9
by Lewis, Jeffrey - 444-446 Strength through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich. By Shelley Baranowski. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvii + 254 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 0-521-833-523
by Dienel, Hans-Liudger - 447-449 “Amerikanisierung” deutscher Unternehmen: Wettbewerbsstrategien und Unternehmenspolitik bei Henkel, Siemens und Daimler-Benz (1945/49–1975) [“Americanization” of German companies: The competitive strategies and corporate politics of Henkel, Siemens, and Daimler Benz (1945/49–1975)]. By Susanne Hilger. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2004. 314 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, notes. Cloth, €60.00. ISBN: 3-515-08283-2
by Stadler, Christian - 449-451 German Industry and Global Enterprise. BASF: The History of a Company. By Werner Abelshauser, Wolfgang von Hippel, Jeffrey Allan Johnson, and Raymond G. Stokes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ix + 677 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0-521-82726-4
by Leaman, Jeremy
April 2005, Volume 79, Issue 1
- 1-38 Recasting the Organizational Synthesis: Structure and Process in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
by Galambos, Louis - 39-72 Corporate Learning and Quality Control at the Bell System, 1877–1929
by Miranti, Paul J. - 73-96 Double-Entry Bookkeeping in Early-Twentieth-Century China
by Auyeung, Pak K. & Fu, Lei & Liu, Zhixiang - 109-112 Storia d'ltalia. Annali 15: L'Industria [History of Italy. Volume 15: Industry]. Edited byFranco Amatori, Duccio Bigazzi, Renato Giannetti, and Luciano Segreto. Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1999. xvii + 1332 pp. Bibliography, index. Paper, £82.63. ISBN: 88-06-14345-X. - L'Impresa italiana nel Novecento [Italian business in the twentieth century]. Edited byRenato Giannetti and Michelangelo Vasta. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2003. 488 pp. Paper, £30.00. ISBN: 88-15-09496-2
by Amatori, Franco - 112-115 INI: 50 años de industrialización en España [INI: Fifty years of industrialization in Spain]. ByPablo Martín Aceña and Francisco Comín. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1991. 684 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. £39.00. ISBN: 84-239-6238-5
by Puig, Núria - 115-118 Organisationskultur som læreproces og kommunikation: Svendborg Fingarveri, 1931–1990 [Organizational culture as learning process and communication: Svendborg Tannery, 1931–1990]. By Jørgen Gleerup. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 1998 (2nd ed., 2003). 207 pp. Illustrations, bibliography. Cloth, 225 kr. ISBN: 87-783-8353-6
by Hansen, Per H. - 118-120 Les logiques de l'entreprise: La rationalisation dans l'industrie française de l'entre-deux-guerres [Firm logic: Rationalization in French industry during the interwar period]. ByAimée Moutet. Paris: Editions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1997. 495 pp. Map, bibliography, index. Paper, €38.00. ISBN: 2-7132-1225-1
by Cailluet, Ludovic - 121-123 Ajia Kokusai Tsushochitsujo to Kindai Nippon [International trade orders in Asia and Modern Japan]. ByNaoto Kagotani. Nagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2000. 505 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. ¥ 6500. ISBN: 4-815-80376-5
by Yuzawa, Takeshi - 125-127 A History of the Federal Reserve. Volume 1: 1913–1951
by Wells, Wyatt - 129-131 Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present. ByThomas J. Misa. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xx + 324 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $56.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-801-87808-X; paper 0-801-87809-8
by MacDougall, Robert - 131-133 From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry. ByMartin Campbell-Kelly. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xiv + 372 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-262-03303-8
by Berlin, Leslie - 133-136 Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America. ByDavid Paul Nord. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii + 212 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-195-17311-2
by Wosh, Peter - 136-139 The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America. ByThomas Augst. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xii + 321 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $62.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth 0-226-03219-1; 0-226-03220-5
by Scott-Childress, Reynolds J. - 139-141 United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism. ByIleen A. DeVault. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 244 pp. Photographs, maps, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-801-42768-1; paper 0-801-48926-1
by Zieger, Robert H. - 141-142 Ponzi: The Man and His Legendary Scheme. ByMitchell Zuckoff. New York: Random House, 2005. xiii + 396 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 1-400-06039-7
by Perkins, Edwin J. - 143-145 The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer. ByDaniel Thomas Cook. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. x + 211 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth 0-822-33279-5; paper 0-822-33268-X
by Zakim, Michael - 145-147 Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girl Culture, 1920–1945. ByKelly Schrum. New York: Palgrave, 2004. xii + 209 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 1-4039-6176-X
by Enstad, Nan - 148-150 Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968. ByKevin Heffernan. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. viii + 323 pp. Illustrations, photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-822-33202-7; paper 0-822-33215-9
by Douglas, Andrew J. - 150-153 Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France. ByChristopher Endy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii + 286 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth: $49.95; paper: $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82871-8; paper 0-807-85548-0
by Furlough, Ellen - 153-156 Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act. ByDavid C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat, and Arvids A. Ziedonis. Palo Alto: Stanford Business Books, 2004. xiv + 242 pp. Index, notes, references, figures. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-804-74920-5
by Graham, Margaret B. W. - 156-159 Inside the Iron Works: How Grumman's Glory Days Faded. ByGeorge M. Skurla and William H. Gregory. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2004. xi + 225 pp. Illustrations, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 1-557-50329-X
by van der Linden, F. Robert - 159-161 Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization. Edited byJefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, xvi + 372 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-8014-3921-3
by Koistinen, David - 162-164 Mutually Beneficial: The Guardian and Life Insurance in America. ByRobert E. Wright and George David Smith. New York: New York University Press, 2004. xxiii + 501 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-8147-9397-5
by Clark, Geoffrey - 164-167 Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, Culture. Edited byKenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii + 369 pp. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, £55.00. ISBN: 0-199-25189-4
by Harris, Howell J. - 167-169 Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro. ByZephyr L. Frank. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. 230 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00; paper $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-8263-3410-5; paper 0-826-33411-3
by Marcondes, Renato Leite & Merlo, Edgard Monforte - 169-172 Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China. ByKai-Wing Chow. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xv + 397 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, tables. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN: 0-804-73367-8
by Mittler, Barbara - 172-175 Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment. ByGiuliano Pancaldi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xv + 381 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-09685-6
by Stewart, Larry - 175-177 The European Linen Industry in Historical Perspective. Edited byBrenda Collins and Philip Ollerenshaw. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Illustrations, figures, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 0-199-25565-2
by Honeyman, Katrina - 177-179 Moda italiana: Storia di un'industria italiana dall'Ottocento a oggi. [Italian Fashion: The Story of an Italian Industry from the Eighteenth Century to Today]. ByElisabetta Merlo. Venice: Marsilio, 2003. 159 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Paper, €9.90. ISBN: 88-317-8273-8
by Berta, Giuseppe - 179-181 Léon Harmel: Entrepreneur as Catholic Social Reformer. ByJoan L. Coffey. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. x + 340 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $48.00. ISBN: 0-268-03360-9
by Martin, Benjamin F. - 181-183 Ludwig Erhard: A Biography. ByAlfred C. Mierzejewski. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xv + 278 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-807-82863-7
by Van Hook, James C. - 184-186 A Newspaper for China? Power, Identity, and Change in Shanghai's News Media, 1872–1912. ByBarbara Mittler. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004. xvi + 504 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-674-01217-8
by Reed, Christopher A. - 187-190 British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957–70: Neo-colonialism or Disengagement?ByNicholas J. White. New York: Routledge, 2004. xv + 256 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, glossary, figures, maps, tables. Cloth, $100.00. ISBN: 0-415-32320-7
by Yacob, Shakila - 190-192 The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. ByGrant Fleming, David Merrett, and Simon Ville. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 310 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 0-521-83311-6
by Roberts, Evan
January 2004, Volume 78, Issue 4
- 595-606 Introduction: The Ambiguities of Risk in the Early Republic
by Matson, Cathy - 607-633 Commercial Risk and Capital Formation in Early America: Virginia Merchants and the Rise of American Marine Insurance, 1750–1815
by Crothers, A. Glenn - 635-663 Weathering the Storms: Hurricanes and Risk in the British Greater Caribbean
by Mulcahy, Matthew - 665-702 “What Is My Prospects?”: The Contours of Mercantile Apprenticeship, Ambition, and Advancement in the Early American Economy
by Luskey, Brian P. - 703-720 Vertical Restraints in the Spanish Steel Industry and Their Effects on Competition, 1906–1936
by Ruiz, José-Ignacio Martínez - 729-731 Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940–1945. ByPaul A. C. Koistinen. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xiii + 655 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-300-70060-8
by Wilson, Mark R. - 731-733 Steam: The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention. ByAndrea Sutcliffe. New York: Palgrave, 2004. x + 272 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 1-403-96261-8
by Reynolds, Terry S. - 734-735 The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development. ByDavid Carlton and Peter Coclanis. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. 234 pp. Figures, tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-813-92184-8
by Hackney, Sheldon - 735-738 The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876–1926. ByJohn Henry Hepp IV. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. ix + 278 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $36.50. ISBN: 0-8122-3723-4
by Miltenberger, Scott - 738-741 The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940. ByAndrew Wender Cohen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 333 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-521-83466-x
by Gorn, Elliott J. - 741-744 Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1919. ByTim Brooks. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004. x + 634 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 0-252-02850-3
by Ward, Brian - 744-747 Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. ByNeil Lanctot. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xi + 496 pp. Index, notes, photographs, tables. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-812-23807-9
by Alexander, Charles C. - 747-750 Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer. ByKathleen G. Donohue. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii + 326 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $45.95. ISBN: 0-8018-7426-2
by Furner, Mary O. - 751-753 Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929–1945. ByMichael Johnston Grant. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xi + 232 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-803-27105-0
by Kirkendall, Richard S. - 753-756 Suburban Steel: The Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945–1951. ByDouglass Knerr. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2004. x + 248 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 0-814-20961-0
by Stanger, Howard R. - 757-759 The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, USA. ByLisa M. Fine. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. xii + 239 pp. Index, notes, appendix, illustrations. Cloth, $69.50; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 1-592-13257-X; paper, 1-592-13258-8
by Rubenstein, James M. - 759-761 American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers during the Reuther Years, 1935–1970. ByJohn Barnard. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. xiv + 607 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-814-32947-0
by Freeman, Joshua B. - 762-764 The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924–1970. ByRobert F. Freeland. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvii + 364 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, figures, tables. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 0-521-63034-7
by Fear, Jeffrey - 765-767 The Bellwomen: The Story of the Landmark AT&T Sex Discrimination Case. ByMarjorie A. Stockford. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. xv + 247 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 0-813-53428-3
by Cobble, Dorothy Sue - 767-769 Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880–1980. ByChristopher Newfield. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 290 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 0-822-33201-9
by Servos, John - 770-772 Medicine, Science, and Merck. ByRoy Vagelos and Louis Galambos. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 301. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-521-66295-8
by Daemmrich, Arthur - 772-774 JSTOR: A History. ByRobert C. Schonfeld. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xxxiv + 412 pp. Index, appendix, figures, illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-11531-1
by Morton, David - 774-777 Waterfront Blues: Labour Strife in the Port of Montreal, 1960–1978. ByAlexander C. Pathy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xviii + 328 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-802-08980-1
by Armstrong, Christopher - 777-780 Reclaiming Church Wealth: The Recovery of Church Property after Expropriation in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1860–1911. ByJosé Roberto Juárez. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. ix + 251 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, tables. Cloth, $45.00 ISBN: 0-826-33162-9
by Bauer, Arnold J. - 780-784 Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present. ByJürgen Buchenau. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. xii + 268 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-9263-3087-8
by Schell, William - 784-786 Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of Modern Brazil, 1906–1930. ByTodd A. Diacon. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. xi + 228 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth 0-822-33210-8; paper 0-822-33249-3
by Triner, Gail D. - 787-789 The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer. ByJon Agar. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. viii + 554 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-262-01202-2
by Akera, Atsushi - 789-792 Des Barrages, des usines et des hommes: L'industrialisation des Alpes du Nord entre ressources locales et apports extérieurs [Dams, Factories, and Labor Force: The Industrialization of the Northern Alps: Local Resources and External Support]. Edited byHervé Joly Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2002. 387 pp. Tables, maps, illustrations, notes. Paper, &35. ISBN: 2-706-11063-5
by Hanagan, Michael P. - 792-794 Die Industrialisierung der Saarregion, 1815–1914. Band 2: Take-Off Phase und Hochindustrialisierung, 1850–1914 [The Industrialization of the Saar Region, 1815–1914. Vol. 2: Take-Off Phase and Intensive Industrialization, 1850–1914]. ByRalf Banken. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 653 pp. + CD-ROM disk. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €88. ISBN 3-515-07828-2
by Tipton, Frank B. - 795-797 Interhandel: Die schweizerische Holding der IG Farben und ihre Metamorphosen—eine Affäre um Eigentum und Interessen, 1910–1999 [Interhandel: The Swiss Holding Company of I. G. Farben and Its Metamorphoses: An Affair of Property and Interests, 1910–1999]. ByMario König. Zurich: Chronos, 2001. 412 pp. Appendix, notes. Paper, €36. ISBN: 3-034-00602-0
by Hayes, Peter - 797-798 Geld und Kredit in der Wirtschaftsgeschichte [Money and Credit in Economic History]. ByRichard Tilly. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 224 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes. Paper, €16. ISBN: 3-515-06785-X
by Werner, Welf - 799-802 Poverty, Progress, and Population. ByE. A. Wrigley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 463 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $28.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-82278-5; paper 0-521-52974-3
by Humphries, Jane - 802-805 Ford, 1903–2003: The European History. Edited byHubert Bonin, Yannick Lung, and Steven Tolliday. Paris: PLAGE, 2003. Vol. 1, 611 pp.; vol. 2, 630 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, €150. ISBN: 2-914-369-9
by Whisler, Tim - 806-808 African Economics and the Politics of Permanent Crisis. ByNicolas van de Walle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 291 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-80364-0; paper 0-521-00836-0
by Widner, Jennifer - 809-811 Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1835–1901: The Spirit of Enterprise in Modern Japan. ByNorio Tamaki. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. xxiii + 248 pp. Notes, index, bibliography, tables, maps, illustrations. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0-333-80121-0
by Bettcher, Kim Eric - 811-813 House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880–1930. ByJordan Sand. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xvii + 482 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photos. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 0-674-01218-6
by Teasley, Sarah - 813-817 Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin. ByBrett Sheehan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. xiii + 269 pp. Photographs, maps, glossary, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 0-674-01080-9
by Köll, Elisabeth
October 2004, Volume 78, Issue 3
- 381-421 Planting a Seed: The Nineteenth-Century Horticultural Boom in America
by Lyon-Jenness, Cheryl - 423-450 Counterpoint to Reform: Gilbert H. Montague and the Business of Regulation
by Wells, Wyatt - 451-487 The Philadelphia Stock Exchange: Adapting to Survive in Changing Markets
by Caskey, John P. - 501-506 Review Essay - Carnegie. By Peter Krass. Hoboken: John Wiley, 2002. ix + 612 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $35. ISBN: 0-471-38630-8
by Warren, Kenneth - 507-509 The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square. By James Traub. New York: Random House, 2004. xvii + 313 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 0-375-50788-4
by Snyder, Robert W. - 509-512 The Roots of American Industrialization. By David R. Meyer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 333 pp. Tables, figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-87141-7
by Crothers, A. Glenn - 512-514 Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. By Lawrence A. Peskin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 294 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-87324-X
by Kornblith, Gary J. - 514-517 Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England. By Michael J. Connolly. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. ix + 210 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 0-826-21499-1
by Keller, Vagel C. - 517-519 Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860. By Michael Zakim. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. x + 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $30. ISBN: 0-226-97793-5
by Gamber, Wendy - 520-522 Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. By Angela Lakwete. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 232 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45. ISBN: 0-801-87394-0
by Majewski, John - 522-524 A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. By Robert H. Gudmestad. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UniversityPress, 2003. xvi + 246 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-12884-8; paper 0-8071-2922-4
by Hickman, David - 524-526 “Origins of the New South” Fifty Years Later: The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic. Edited by John B. Boles and Bethany L. Johnson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. ix + 305 pp. Tables, notes. Cloth, $62.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-807-12905-4; paper, 0-8071-2920-8
by Beatty, Bess - 526-528 Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889–1909. By Jonathan W. Singer. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xiii + 344 pp. Illustrations, appendix, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 1-585-44160-0
by Gorman, Hugh - 528-531 Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West. By Claire Strom. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. x + 228 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35. ISBN: 0-295-98348-5
by Carey, Ryan J. - 531-532 The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad. By Robert E. Mohowski. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xix + 205 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN:0-801-87222-7
by Hofsommer, Don L. - 532-535 The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789–1880. By Candy Gunther Brown. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiv + 336 pp. Index, notes, appendix, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-807-82838-6; paper, 0-807-85511-1
by Wosh, Peter J. - 535-537 The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM's Founding Father and Son. By Richard S. Tedlow. New York: HarperBusiness, 2003. xi + 340 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 0-060-01405-9
by Brands, H. W. - 537-540 Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800–1950. By Mark Tebeau. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 425 pp. Index, notes, appendix, illustrations. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-86791-6
by Smith, Carl - 540-542 Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region. Edited by Joel A. Tarr. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. 312 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32. ISBN: 0-822-94156-2
by Uekoetter, Frank - 542-545 Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law. By John Fabian Witt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 311 pp. Index, notes, index, tables. Cloth, $49-95- ISBN: 0-674-01267-4
by Klein, Jennifer - 546-548 Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security. By Edward D. Berkowitz. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xvii + 455 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-299-18950-3
by Stebenne, David - 548-551 The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. By Gijs Mom. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 423 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 0-801-87138-7
by Schiffer, Michael Brian - 551-554 Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood. By Andrew Brodie Smith. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2003. 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-870-81746-9
by Schaefer, Eric - 554-556 Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World. Edited by Glenn Adamson. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xi + 219 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, appendices, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-262-01207-3
by de la Peña, Carolyn Thomas - 557-559 The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space. By Reinhold Martin. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xix + 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-262-13426-8
by Longstreth, Richard - 559-561 Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter and Gamble. By Davis Dyer, Frederick Dalzell, and Rowena Olegario. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004. x + 467 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 1-591-39147-4
by Miskell, Peter - 562-564 Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. By Walter A. Friedman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 368 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-674-01298-4
by Pope, Daniel - 564-566 Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers. By Pablo J. Boczkowski. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. xi + 243 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $30. ISBN: 0-262-02559-0
by Nalbach, Alex - 566-569 The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries. By James W. Cortada. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvii + 494 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-195-16588-8
by Campbell-Kelly, Martin - 569-571 The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War. By Jorma Ahvenainen. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2004. 427 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Paper, &35. ISBN: 951-41-O947-3
by Pedraja, René De La - 571-574 Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640–1845. By William J. Ashworth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiii + 396 pp. Notes, index, Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 0-199-25921-6
by Braddick, Michael J. - 574-576 The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester. By Stephen Mosley. Cambridge, U.K.: White Horse Press, 2001. x + 271 pp. Index, notes, maps, bibliography, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $65.00/£35. ISBN: 1-874-26749-9
by Osborn, Matthew - 576-578 Geiz und Gerechtigkeit: Ökonomisches Denken im frühen Mittelalter [Avarice and Justice: Economic Thought in the Early Middle Ages]. By Bettina Emmerich. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. 334 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €68. ISBN: 3-515-08041-4
by Masemann, Charlotte - 578-580 The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Preindustrial West. By John Landers, xiv + 440 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 0-199-24916-4
by Nicholas, David - 581-583 The Michelin Men: Driving an Empire. By Herbert R. Lottman. London: I. B. Tauris, 2003. ix + 310 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 1-860-64896-7
by Harp, Stephen L. - 583-586 The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development. By Isabella Mares. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvii + 319 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $65; paper, $24. ISBN:cloth 0-521-82741-8; paper 0-521-53477-1
by Hesse, Jan-Otmar - 586-588 Chemie und Politik: Die Geschichte der Chemischen Werke Hüls, 1938–1979 [Chemistry and Politics: The History of Hüls Chemical Works, 1938–1979]. By Bernhard Lorentz and Paul Erker. Munich: C. H. Beck Verlag, 2003. 461 pp. Photographs, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €34.90. ISBN: 3-406-590962-2
by Lewis, Jeffrey - 588-591 A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917–1953. By Julie Hessler. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi + 366 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, tables. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 0-691-11492-7
by Owen, Thomas C. - 591-594 From Cotton Mill to Business Enterprise: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China. By Elizabeth Köll. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xvi + 242 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, figures, photographs, tables. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN: 0-674-01394-8
by Zelin, Madeleine
July 2004, Volume 78, Issue 2
- 181-212 Enforcing Business Contracts in South America: The United Fruit Company and Colombian Banana Planters in the Twentieth Century
by Bucheli, Marcelo - 213-253 From Independence to Integration: The Corporate Evolution of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, 1904–2004
by Anastakis, Dimitry - 255-272 The Organization of Industrial Research as a Network Activity: Agricultural Research at Philips in the 1930s
by Boersma, F. Kees - 285-287 Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence. By Bruce H. Mann. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. viii + 344 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-674-00902-9
by Carruthers, Bruce G. - 287-289 Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. By Helen Tangires. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xx + 265 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-87133-6
by Gilje, Paul A. - 289-292 The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History. Edited by Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer. xiv + 422 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. References, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-691-11376-9; paper 0-691-11377-7
by Einhorn, Robin L. - 292-295 C. F. Martin and His Guitars, 1796–1873. By Philip F. Gura. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xix + 250 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-807-82801-7
by Spears, Timothy B. - 295-297 God's Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola. By Kathryn W. Kemp. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002. 312 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, appendix, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-865-54782-3
by Wills, Jocelyn - 298-300 Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903–2003. By Henry D. Fetter. New York: Norton, 2003. xi + 461 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN 0-393-05719-4
by Riess, Steven A. - 300-302 Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s. By Carolyn S. Loeb. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xvi + 273 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86618-9
by Wilson, Richard Guy - 302-305 Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America. By Tona J. Hangen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ix + 220 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $18.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82752-5; paper 0-807-85420-4
by Hayes, Joy Elizabeth - 305-307 The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation and the American Corporate State, 1877–1929. By R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. x + 168 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-87054-2
by Mehrotra, Ajay K. - 308-310 Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America. By Todd DePastino. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxv + 325 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN 0-226-14378-3
by Abelson, Elaine S. - 311-313 Territories of Profit: Communications, Capitalist Development, and the Innovative Enterprises of G. F. Swift and Dell Computer. By Gary Fields. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xviii + 281 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, references, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-804-74721-0; paper 0-804-74722-9
by Nelson, Richard R. - 313-316 Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century. By Glenna Matthews. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xvii + 313 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-8047-04154-9; paper 0-804-74796-2
by Baker, Allison - 316-318 The Second Information Revolution. By Gerald W. Brock. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. xiv + 322 pp. Index, references. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-674-01178-3
by Haigh, Thomas - 319-321 Arnold O. Beckman: One Hundred Years of Excellence. By Arnold Thackray and Minor Myers Jr. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2000. xvii + 379 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-941-90123-8
by Sicilia, David B. - 321-323 Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970–2002. By Richard Saunders Jr. De Kalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois Press, 2003. xxii + 436 pp. Tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-875-80316-4
by Stover, John F. - 324-326 Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946–61. By Colin J. Davis. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003. x + 246 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-252-02878-3
by Lunn, Kenneth - 326-328 Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective. Edited by Daniel E. Bender and Richard A. Greenwald. New York: Routledge, 2003. xii + 300 pp. Photographs, illustration, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-415-93560-1; paper 0-415-93561-X
by Argersinger, Jo Ann E. - 329-331 The Interwar Depression in an International Context. Edited by Harold James. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2002. xv + 192 pp. Figures, notes, references. Cloth, ∈44.80. ISBN 3-486-56610-5
by Garside, W. R. - 331-333 Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development. Edited by Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. vii + 350 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-521-82054-5
by Voth, Hans-Joachim - 334-336 The Silver King: The Remarkable Life of the Count of Regla in Colonial Mexico. By Edith Boorstein Couturier. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. x + 224 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-826-32873-3; paper 0-826-32874-1
by Salvucci, Richard - 336-338 Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930. By Julie A. Charlip. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. xiv + 288 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $28.00. ISBN 0-89680-227-2
by Bacca, Renzo Ramírez - 338-340 The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740–1914. By Margot C. Finn. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 362 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, £50.00. ISBN 0-521-82342-0
by Pearson, Robin - 341-343 Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition. By James H. Mills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 239 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-199-24938-5
by Mold, Alex - 343-345 Operational Research in War and Peace: The British Experience from the 1930s to 1970. By Maurice W. Kirby. London: Imperial College Press, 2003. 444 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $97.25; paper, $35.00. ISBN: cloth 1-860-94297-0; paper 1-860-94366-7
by McBride, William M. - 346-349 Vauxhall Motors and the Luton Economy, 1900–2002. By Len Holden. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2003. xviii + 249 pp. Tables, photographs, illustrations, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39-95- ISBN 0-851-55068-1
by Whisler, Timothy R. - 349-351 Le Crédit lyonnais (1863–1986): Etudes historiques [The Crédit Lyonnais (1863–1986): Historical Studies]. Edited by Bernard Desjardins Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2003. 1020 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Paper, €43.90. ISBN 2-600-00807-1
by Mouré, Kenneth - 352-354 La banque nationale de crédit: Histoire de la quatrième banque de dépôts française en 1913–1932 [The National Credit Bank: History of the Fourth French Deposit Bank, 1913–1932]. By Hubert Bonin. Paris: Éditions PLAGE, 2002. 237 pp. Index, notes, figures, illustrations. Paper, €70. ISBN 2-914-36904-2
by Paulet, Elisabeth - 354-356 Lost Momentum: Austrian Economic Development, 1750S–1830s. By Herman Freudenberger. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2003. 301 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €45. ISBN 3-205-77061-7
by Berend, Ivan T. - 356-359 The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000. By Mark Cioc. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xiii + 252 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, bibliography, notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-295-98254-3
by Bernhardt, Christoph - 359-362 August Thyssen und Hugo Stinnes: Ein Briefwechsel, 1898–1912 [August Thyssen and Hugo Stinnes: Correspondence, 1898–1912]. Edited by Manfred Rasch and Gerald D. Feldman, prepared and annotated by Vera Schmidt. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2003. 752 pp. Cloth, €39.90. ISBN 3-406-49637-7
by Fear, Jeffrey - 363-366 The Chemistry Must Be Right: The Privatization of Buna Sow Leuna Olefinverbund GmbH, 1990–2000. By Rainer Karlsch and Raymond Stokes. Berlin: Buna Sow Leuna Olefinverbund GmbH and Edition Leipzig, 2001. 252 pp. Tables, photographs, maps, illustrations, appendix, notes. Cloth, no price. ISBN 3-361-00508-6
by Gispen, Kees - 366-368 Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944–1947: From Liberation to the Truman Doctrine. By Athanasios Lykogiannis. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. ix + 287 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, appendix, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-826-21422-3
by Kostis, Kostas P. - 368-371 Russia's Economic Transitions from Late Tsarism to the New Millennium. By Nicolas Spulber. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxiv + 420 pp. Maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 0-521-81699-8
by Gatrell, Peter - 371-373 Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life. By Tim Rowse. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ix + 419 pp. Illustrations, references, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-521-81783-8
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