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June 2008, Volume 9, Issue 2
- 381-383 David L. Lightner. Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 228 pp. ISBN 0-300-11470-2, $ 45.00 (cloth)
by McKinney, Gordon B. - 383-385 Robert Shogan. Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Deer, 2006. xii + 275 pp. ISBN 1-56663-674-4, $26.95 (cloth)
by Dighe, Ranjit S. - 386-387 Jon C. Teaford. The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 306 pp. ISBN 0-231-13372-3, $74.50 (cloth); 0-231-13373-1, $27.50 (paper)
by Johnson, Marilynn S. - 388-389 Paul Mason Fotsch. Watching the Traffic Go By: Transportation and Isolation in Urban America. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007. xi + 240 pp. ISBN 0-292-71426-2, $22.95 (paper)
by Davidson, Janet F. - 390-391 James Hudnut-Beumler. In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xviii + 267 pp. ISBN 0-8078-3079-6, $29.95 (cloth)
by Davis, Morris L. - 392-394 Susannah Walker. Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920–1975. Lexington, KY The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xiii + 250 pp. ISBN 0-8131-2433-9, $40.00
by Weems, Robert E. - 394-396 Kathleen M. Barry. Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xiv + 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-3946-5 (paper)
by Kimmel, Julie - 396-398 David R. Meyer. Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xi + 311 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8471-3, $49.95 (cloth)
by Pascoe, Craig S. - 398-400 Atsushi Akera. Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers during the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. ix + 412 pp. ISBN 0-262-01231-6, $40.00 (cloth)
by Roland, Alex - 400-402 Alan P. Rudy et al Universities in the Age of Corporate Science: The UC Berkeley-Novartis Controversy. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2007. xiv + 236 pp. ISBN 1-59213-533-1, $54.50 (cloth)
by Hart, David M.
March 2008, Volume 9, Issue 1
- 1-5 Editor's Introduction
by Scranton, Philip - 6-43 “Many a Long Day”: HSBC and Its Note Issue in Republican China, 1912–1935
by Horesh, Niv - 44-69 Government Control, Transaction Costs and Commitment Between the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the Chinese Government
by Lu, Qing - 70-95 Market Power and Market Failure The Decline of the European Fertilizer Industry and the Expansion of Norsk Hydro
by Lie, Einar - 96-124 Global Knowledge Transfer and Telecommunications: The Bell System in Japan, 1945–1952
by Adams, Stephen B. & Miranti, Paul J. - 125-164 The Larkin Clubs of Ten: Consumer Buying Clubs and Mail-Order Commerce, 1890–1940
by Stanger, Howard R. - 165-202 Trajectories of Internationalization: Knowledge and National Business Styles in the Making of Two Dutch Publishing Multinationals, 1950–1990
by Lente, Dick Van & Goey, Ferry De - 203-205 Steve J. Wurtzler. Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. vii + 393 pp. ISBN 0-231-13676-5, $34.50 (cloth)
by Baughman, James L. - 205-207 Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan, eds. The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. x + 314 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4487-6, $59.95
by Gökçek, Güldem - 207-209 Henry S. Rowen, Marguerite Gong Hancock, and William F. Miller, editors. Making IT: The Rise of Asia in High Tech. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xviii + 388 pp. ISBN 978-0804753852, $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0804753869, $30.00 (paper)
by Geselowitz, Michael - 209-211 Ivan T. Berend. An Economic History of 20th Century Europe: Economic Regimes from Laissez-Faire to Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv + 356 pp. ISBN 0-521-67268-6, £19.00 (paper)
by Kobrak, Christopher - 211-213 Youseff Cassis. Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780–2005. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 385 pp. ISBN 13-978-0-521-84535-9, $40.00
by Toms, Steven - 213-215 Stephen Broadberry. Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850–2000: British Performance in International Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix + 409 pp. ISBN 13 978-0-521-86718-4, $95.00 (cloth)
by Boyce, Gordon - 215-217 Jeffrey A. Engel. Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ix + 351 pp. ISBN 13 978-0-674-02461-8, $35.00 (cloth)
by Launius, Roger D. - 218-219 B. Anne Wood. Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2006. xxix + 197 pp. ISBN 0-88920-500-0, $65.00 (cloth)
by Fingard, Judith - 220-222 Steven Deyle. Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. x + 398 pp. ISBN 019-5160401, $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 019-5310195, $19.95 (paper)
by Rael, Patrick - 222-224 Alan Lawson. A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xv + 280 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8407-1, $19.95 (paper)
by Mazzenga, Maria - 224-226 Carl Smith. The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xvii + 167 pp. ISBN 13 978-0-226-76471-9, $22.00 (cloth)
by Beauregard, Robert A. - 226-228 Robert M. Fogelson. Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 2005. x + 264 pp. ISBN 0-300-10876-1, $30.00 (cloth); 0-300-124170, $19.00 (paper)
by Hawes, Joseph - 228-231 Alison Isenberg. Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xviii + 441 pp. ISBN 0-226-38508-6, $22.50 (paper)
by Gogan, Tanya - 231-232 James Sullivan. Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon. New York: Gotham Books, 2006. ix + 303 pp. ISBN 1-592-40214-3, $26.00 (cloth)
by Fernandez, Nancy Page - 232-234 Richard T. Stillson. Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. viii + 274 pp. ISBN 0-8032-4325-1, $55.00
by Coopersmith, Jonathan - 234-236 Pamela E. Pennock. Advertising Sin and Sickness: The Politics of Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing, 1950–1990. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. vii + 282 pp. ISBN 13 978-0-87580-368-5, $36.00 (cloth)
by Schorman, Rob - 236-238 H. Roger Grant. Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia & Florida Railroad. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. xiv + 223 pp. ISBN 0-87580-365-2, $36.00 (cloth)
by G., Steven - 239-241 Kenneth Warren. Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. xiv + 285 pp. ISBN 0-8229-4326-3, $35.00 (cloth)
by Taylor, Christiane Diehl
December 2007, Volume 8, Issue 4
- 763-764 Editor's Introduction
by Lipartito, Kenneth - 777-783 The Soul of the Service Economy: Wal-Mart and the Making of Christian Free Enterprise, 1929–1994
by Moreton, Bethany - 784-789 The Iron Horse Turns South: A History of Antebellum Southern Railroads
by Marrs, Aaron W. - 790-798 Making Tobacco Bright: Institutions, Information, and Industrialization in the Creation of an Agricultural Commodity, 1617–1937
by Hahn, Barbara - 799-806 The New England Cod Fishing Industry and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution
by Magra, Christopher P. - 807-841 Converting Academic Expertize into Industrial Innovation: University-based Research at Solvay and Gevaert, 1900–1970
by Bertrams, Kenneth - 842-880 Bankers, Industrialists, and their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil during Early Industrialization
by Musacchio, Aldo & Read, Ian - 881-919 Jealous Monopolists? British Banks and Responses to the Macmillan Gap during the 1930s
by Scott, Peter & Newton, Newton - 920-953 Organizational Culture and Organizational Change: The Transformation of Savings Banks in Denmark, 1965–1990
by Hansen, Per H. - 954-956 Paul Jobling. Man Appeal: Advertising, Modernism, and Menswear. New York and London: Berg, 2005. xi + 161 pp. ISBN 1-84520-086-1, $89.95 (cloth); ISBN 1-84520-087-X, $29.95 (paper). - Linda Welters and Patricia Cunningham, eds. Twentieth-Century American Fashion. Dress, Body, Culture Series edited by Joanne B. Eicher. New York and London: Berg, 2005. xiv + 264 pp. ISBN: 1-84520-0782-1, $89.95 (cloth); ISBN 1-84520-073-X, $28.95 (paper)
by Blaszczyk, Regina Lee - 956-958 Jonathan A. Grant. Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xi + 288 pp. ISBN: 0-674-0244-27, $49.95
by Carlisle, Rodney - 958-960 David P. Billington and David P. Billington, Jr. Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. xxv + 270 pp. ISBN 0-691-10292-9, $29.95 (cloth)
by Hochfelder, David - 960-962 Warren Belasco. Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. xiii + 358 pp. ISBN 0-520-24151-0, $55.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-520-25035-4, $21.95 (paper)
by Miller, Jeffrey P. - 962-964 Mary Frank Fox, Deborah G. Johnson, and Sue V. Rosser, eds. Women, Gender, and Technology. Urbana and Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii + 204 pp. ISBN 0-252-07336-3 (paper), $20.00
by Cukier, Wendy - 964-966 Gustav Schachter and Saul Engelbourg. Cultural Continuity in Advanced Economies: Britain and the US versus Continental Europe. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005. 367 pp. ISBN 0-7546-4476-6, $134.95 (cloth)
by Selva, Simone - 967-968 George Feifer. Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853. New York: Smithsonian Books, 2006. xx + 389 pp. ISBN-10: 0-06-088432-0, $25.95 (Hardback)
by Sylla, Richard - 969-970 Martin J. Iversen. GN Store Nord. A Company in Transition, 1939–1988. Copenhagen: Business School Press, 2005. 216 pp. ISBN 87-630-0133-0, $32.00
by Bührer, Werner - 970-972 Terry Gourvish. The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel. London: Routledge, 2006. xxi + 521 pp. ISBN10: 0-415-39183-0, $93.95 (Cloth)
by Millward, Robert - 973-975 Graeme J. Milne. North-East England, 1850–1914: The Dynamics of a Maritime-Industrial Region. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: The Boydell Press, 2006. ix + 230 pp. ISBN 1 84383 240 2, $90.00, £55.00 (cloth)
by Salmon, M. Stephen - 975-977 Deborah A. Symonds. Notorious Murders, Black Lanterns, & Moveable Goods: The Transformation of Edinburgh's Underworld in the Early Nineteenth Century. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2006. xiv + 167 pp. ISBN 1-931968-27-6, $39.95 (cloth)
by Jackson, Louise A. - 977-979 S. Max Edelson. Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii + 383 pp. ISBN-10:0-674-02303-X (alk. Paper); ISBN 13: 978-0-674-02303-1 (alk. Paper), $45.00
by Downey, Tom - 979-981 Daniel W. Hamilton. The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. vii + 231 pp. ISBN 0-226-31482-0, $39.00
by Noll, Franklin - 981-983 Richard Abel. Richard Abel. Americanizing the Movies and “Movie-Mad” Audiences, 1910–1914. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. xvii + 373 pp. ISBN-13, 978-0-520-24742-0, $65.00 (hardcover); 978-0-520-24743-7, $29.95 (paper)
by Ross, J. Andrew - 984-986 Ruth Crocker. Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xx + 526 pp. ISBN 0-253-34712-2. $49.95 (cloth)
by McCarthy, Kathleen D. - 986-988 John Patrick Diggins. Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and Making of History. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. 512 pp. ISBN 0-393-06022-5, $27.95 (cloth)
by Phillips-Fein, Kim
September 2007, Volume 8, Issue 3
- 475-488 A New Wave in the History of Corporate Governance
by Herrigel, Gary - 489-542 The Expansion of the U.S. Stock Market, 1885–1930: Historical Facts and Theoretical Fashions
by O'Sullivan, Mary - 543-601 Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth
by Morck, Randall & Nakamura, Masao - 602-641 Does Civil Law Tradition and Universal Banking Crowd out Securities Markets? Pre-World War I Germany as Counter-Example
by Fohlin, Caroline - 642-686 Pioneering Modern Corporate Governance: A View from London in 1900
by Hannah, Leslie - 687-729 Putting the Corporation in its Place
by Guinnane, Timothy & Harris, Ron & Lamoreaux, Naomi R. & Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent - 730-732 Robert B. EkelundJr. , Robert F. Hébert, and Robert D. Tollison. The Marketplace of Christianity. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2006. x + 355 pp. ISBN 0-262-05082-X, $29.95 (cloth)
by Roell, Craig H. - 732-734 John H. Lienhard. How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of the Machines. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2006. ix + 277 pp. ISBN 0-19-530599-X, $30.00 (cloth)
by Friedel, Robert - 734-736 Frederick H. Smith. Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History. Gainesville, Fl.: University Press of Florida, 2005. xvi + 339 pp. ISBN 0-8130-2867-1; 978-0-8130-2867-5, $59.95 (cloth)
by McCusker, John J. - 736-738 Michael Redclift. Chewing Gum: The Fortunes of Taste. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. vii + 197 pp. ISBN 0-415-94418-X, $24.00 (cloth)
by Rodriguez, Victor J. - 738-740 Robert Beachy, Béatrice Craig, and Alastair Owens, eds. Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006. xii + 244 pp. ISBN 978-184520-184-5, £55/$99.95 (cloth); 978-184520-185-2, £17.99/$29.95 (paper)
by Greenlees, Janet - 741-742 Samuel Tilman. Les Grands Banquiers Belges: (1830–1935) Portrait Collectif d'une élite. Classe des Lettres. Bruxelles: Académie Royale de Belgique, 2005. 441 pp. ISBN 2-8031-0226-9, €40
by Cassis, Youssef - 743-744 Charles Loft. Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain: Beeching's Last Trains. British Politics and Society. London and New York: Routlege, 2006. xii + 214 pp. ISBN 0-714-65338-1, $125.00 (cloth)
by Gourvish, Terry - 745-747 James Delbourgo. A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. ix + 367 pp. ISBN 0-674-02299-8, $29.95 (cloth)
by Neufeld, John L. - 747-749 Rowena Olegario. A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. vii + 274 pp. ISBN 0-674-02340-4, $39.95 (cloth)
by Moulton, Lynne - 749-751 David M. Henkin. The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xv + 221 pp. ISBN 0-226-32720-5, $38.00 (cloth)
by Gerber, David A. - 751-753 Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely, and Paul F. Barrett. The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, 2006. xxvi + 318 pp. ISBN 0-8142-1036-8, $49.95 (cloth)
by Grant, H. Roger - 753-755 Charles F. McGovern. Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890–1945. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xv + 536 pp. ISBN 0-8078-5676-2, $24.95 (paper)
by Matt, Susan - 756-758 Frank J. Byrne. Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820–1865. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. x + 297 pp. ISBN 0-8131-2404-2, $50.00 (cloth)
by Green, Jennifer R. - 758-760 Robert E. Wright. The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, & The Birth of American Finance. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. vii + 210 pp. ISBN 0-226-91026-1, $25.00 (cloth)
by Holt, Daniel - 760-762 Elizabeth Alice Clement. Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900–1945. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiii + 321 pp. ISBN 0-8078-5690-8, $21.95 (paper)
by Kwolek-Folland, Angel
June 2007, Volume 8, Issue 2
- 221-226 Doing Business History in the Age of Global Climate Change
by Rosen, Christine Meisner - 227-267 Extraction Not Creation: The History of Offshore Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico
by Priest, Tyler - 268-296 Piercing the Corporate Veil: Cape Industries and Multinational Corporate Liability for a Toxic Hazard, 1950–2004
by Tweedale, Geoffrey & Flynn, Laurie - 297-347 The Role of Pollution Regulation and Litigation in the Development of the U.S. Meatpacking Industry, 1865–1880
by Rosen, Christine Meisner - 348-374 How did the Invisible Hand Handle Industrial Waste? By-product Development before the Modern Environmental Era
by Desrochers, Pierre - 375-412 Negotiating Innovation in a Market Economy: Foodstuffs and Beverages Adulteration in Nineteenth-Century France
by Stanziani, Alessandro - 413-420 David A. Hanks and Anne Hoy. American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow. Paris: Flammarion, 2005. 312 pp. ISBN 2-0803-0499-2, $75.00. - Christina Cogdell. Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xvii + 328 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3824-9, $42.50
by Porter, Glenn - 421-424 Youssef Cassis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, eds. Entrepreneurship in Theory and History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xiii + 211 pp. ISBN 1-4039-3947-0, $65.00 (cloth)
by Wadhwani, R. Daniel - 424-426 John Brewer and Frank Trentmann, eds. Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges. New York: Berg Publishing, 2006. ix + 317 pp. ISBN 1-845-2024-73, $29.95
by Jacobson, Lisa - 426-428 Richard Perren. Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. xi + 285 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3648-8, $99.95 (cloth)
by Horowitz, Roger - 428-430 Man-houng Lin. China Upside Down: Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808–1856. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. xxvi + 362 pp. ISBN 0-674-02268-8, $49.95
by Rowe, William T. - 431-433 Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal and Zephyr Frank, eds. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. 377 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3766-5, $23.95 (paper)
by McDonald, Michelle Craig - 433-435 Moisés Arce. Market Reform in Society: Post-Crisis Politics and Economic Change in Authoritarian Peru. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xiv + 169 pp. ISBN 0-271-02543-3, $25.00 (paper)
by Jones, Charles - 435-437 Giorgio Riello. A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century. Pasold Studies in Textile History 15. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiii + 320 pp. ISBN 0-19-929225-6, $110.00
by Packer, Nancy - 437-439 Martin Grosky and Sally Sheard, eds. Financing Medicine: The British Experience since 1750. London: Routledge, 2006. xiv + 258 pp. ISBN 0-415-35025-5, $125.00
by Levine, Deborah - 439-441 John F. Wilson and Andrew W. Thomson. The Making of Modern Management: British Management in Historical Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xvii + 297 pp. ISBN 0-19-926158-X, $90.00
by Booth, Alan - 441-444 Marc J. de Vries, with contributions by F. Kees Boersma. 80 Years of Research at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium, 1914–1994. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. 325 pp. ISBN 90-8555-051-3, $40.00
by Lassman, Thomas C. - 444-446 Hubert Kiesewetter. Industrielle Revolution in Deutschland: Regionen als Wachstumsmotoren. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2005. 307 pp. ISBN 3-515-08613-7, €24.00 (paper)
by Schröter, Harm G. - 447-449 Hermann-J. Rupieper, Friederike Sattler and Georg Wagner-Kyora, eds. Die mitteldeutsche Chemieindustrie und ihre Arbeiter im 20. Jahrhundert. Halle, Germany: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2005. 416 pp. ISBN 3-89812-246-8, €24.00
by Fear, Jeffrey - 449-451 Jeffrey J. Rossman. Worker Resistance under Stalin: Class and Revolution on the Shop Floor. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. 326 pp. ISBN 0-674-01926-1, $49.95
by Black, Clayton - 451-453 Dimitry Anastakis. Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960–1971. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xiv + 285 pp. ISBN 0-8020-3821-2, $30.00 (paper)
by Mordue, Greig - 453-455 Reed Hundt. In China's Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. viii + 200 pp. ISBN 0-300-10852-4, $26.00
by King, Brian - 455-457 Nicholas Onuf and Peter Onuf. Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006. xii + 362 pp. ISBN 0-813-9250-29, $45.00 (cloth)
by Friedman, Gerald - 457-459 Edith Sparks. Capital Intentions: Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850–1920. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xi + 329 pp. ISBN 0-8078-3061-5, $59.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8078-5775-0, $19.95 (paper)
by Wallis, Eileen - 459-461 Jason Scott Smith. Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 283 pp. ISBN 0-521-82805-8, $75.00 (cloth)
by Hausman, William J. - 461-463 Elizabeth Fones-Wolf. Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii + 367 pp. ISBN-10: 0252031199, $60.00 (cloth); 10–0252073649, $25.00 (paper)
by Stern, Marc J. - 463-465 Cynthia Lee Henthorn. From Submarines to Suburbs: Selling a Better America, 1939–1959. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006. xv + 368 pp. ISBN 0821416774 $59.95 (cloth); 0821416782 $26.95 (paper)
by Miller, Karen Russell - 465-467 Rachel Maines. Asbestos and Fire: Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk. Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xiv + 254 pp. ISBN 0-8135-3575-1, $34.95
by Tebeau, Mark - 467-469 Steven F. Wilson. Learning on the Job: When Business Takes on Public Schools. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 425 pp. ISBN 0-674-S01946-6, $29.95
by Jacoby, Dan - 470-472 Denise von Herrmann, ed.,. Resorting to Casinos: The Mississippi Gambling Industry. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. vi + 182 pp. ISBN 1-57806-790-1, $45.00 (Hardcover)
by Patton, Randall L. - 472-474 Fred Turner. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. x + 327 pp. ISBN 0-226-81741-5, $29.00 (Cloth)
by Bartholomew, Jennifer Pattison
March 2007, Volume 8, Issue 1
- 1-34 Red, White, and “Big Blue”: IBM and the Business-Government Interface in the United States, 1956–2000
by Hart, David - 35-67 Property Rights, Family, and Business Partnership in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brazil: The Case of the St. John d'el Rey Mining Company, 1834–1960
by Triner, Gail D. - 68-105 The Indispensable Service of Banks: Commercial Transactions, Industry, and Banking in Revolutionary Mexico
by Gómez-Galvarriato, Aurora & Recio, Gabriela - 106-135 The Next Best Thing to Getting Married: Partnerships among the Jewelry Manufacturers in the Providence/Attleboro Area during the Nineteenth Century
by Kim, Duol - 136-174 Model of Welfare Capitalism? The United States Rubber Company in Southeast Asia, 1910–1942
by Yacob, Shakila - 175-177 Mark Duckenfield, Stefan Altorfer, and Benedikt Koehler, eds. History of Financial Disasters, 1763-1995. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006. 3 Volumes. ISBN-10: 1851968253, $495.00 (cloth)
by Weidenmier, Marc D. - 177-179 Douglass C. North. Understanding the Process of Economic Change. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi + 187 pp. ISBN 0-691-11805-1, $29.95
by Neal, Larry - 180-182 Christopher McKenna. The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxi + 370 pp. ISBN 0-521-81039-6, $30.00 (cloth)
by Tassava, Christopher - 182-184 Madeleine Zelin. The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xxiv + 406 pp. ISBN 0-231-13596-3, $45.00 (Cloth)
by Pong, David - 184-186 Dwijendra Tripathi. The Oxford History of Indian Business. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. xi + 371 pp. ISBN 0-19-565968-6, $99.50 (cloth)
by Marwah, Sanjay - 186-188 Erik Benson. Aviator of Fortune: Lowell Yerex and the Anglo–American Commercial Rivalry, 1931–1946. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xii + 264 pp. ISBN 1-58544-500-2, $45.00 (cloth)
by Greenhill, Robert - 188-190 Robert Millward. Private and Public Enterprise in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830–1990. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xix + 351 pp. ISBN 0521835240, $90.00 (cloth)
by Leunig, Tim - 190-192 Daniel M. Abramson. Building the Bank of England: Money, Architecture, Society, 1694–1942. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. viii + 282 pp. ISBN 0-300-10924-5, $95.00 (cloth)
by Casto, Marilyn - 192-194 Harold James. The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 286 pp. ISBN 0-521-83874-6, $40.00
by Banken, Ralf - 194-196 Keetie E. Sluyterman. Dutch Enterprise in the Twentieth Century: Business strategies in a Small Open Economy. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. xii + 319 pp. ISBN 0-415-35027-1, $145.00 (cloth)
by Heide, Lars - 196-198 Norton Garfinkle. The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. ix + 230 pp. ISBN 0-300-10860-5, $22.00 (cloth)
by Smart, John - 199-200 Douglas Ambrose and Robert W. T. Martin, editors. The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founder Father. New York: New York University Press, 2006. x + 300 pp. ISBN 0-8147-0714-9, $45.00 (cloth)
by Perkins, Edwin J. - 200-202 Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen. Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. 240 pp. ISBN 0-226-91068-7, $25.00 (cloth)
by Michener, Ronald W. - 202-204 Mark R. Wilson. The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 306 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8348-2, $45.00 (cloth)
by Greene, Ann N. - 204-206 Diane C. Vecchio. Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. X + 130 pp. ISBN 0-252-03039-7, $35.00 (cloth)
by Sparks, Edie - 207-208 Justin Kaplan. When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age. New York: Viking, 2006. viii + 196 pp. ISBN 0-670-03769-9, $24.95 (cloth)
by Salzmann, Joshua A. T. - 209-211 Rosemary Feurer. Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900–1950. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xix + 320 pp. ISBN 0-252-03087-7, $65.00 (cloth); 0-252-07319-3, $25.00 (paper)
by Fones-Wolf, Ken - 211-213 Inger L. Stole. Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s. Urbana and Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xviii + 290 pp. ISBN 0-252-03059-1, $50.00 (cloth); 0-252-07299-5, $25.00 (paper)
by Pope, Daniel - 213-215 Tom Sito. Drawing The Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xiv + 414 pp. ISBN 0-8131-2407-7, $32.00 (cloth)
by Buhle, Paul - 215-217 Vicki Howard. Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 301 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3945-8, $34.95 (cloth)
by Sheumaker, Helen - 217-219 Joanna Demers: Steal This Music: How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity. Athens, Ga. and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2006. xiv + 178 pp. ISBN 0-8203-2777-8, $19.95 (paper)
by Horning, Susan Schmidt
December 2006, Volume 7, Issue 4
- 651-652 Editor’s Introduction
by Lipartito, Kenneth - 653-665 Political Economy of Financial Development: Canada and the United States in the Mirror of the Other, 1790–1840
by Sylla, Richard - 666-674 Trucking Country: Food Politics and the Transformation of Rural Life in Postwar America
by Hamilton, Shane - 675-685 Innovation and the State—Development Strategies for High Technology Industries in a World of Fragmented Production: Israel, Ireland, and Taiwan
by Breznitz, Dan - 686-694 Top-Down Revolution: Businessmen, Intellectuals, and Politicians Against the New Deal, 1945–1964
by Phillips-Fein, Kim - 695-704 Tales from the Elevator and Other Stories of Modern Service in New York City
by Wilk, Daniel Levinson - 705-739 From Artisans to “Factories”: The Interpenetration of Craft and Industry in English Cheese-Making, 1650–1950
by Blundel, Richard & Tregear, Angela - 740-776 “Selling America to the World”? The Rise and Fall of an International Film Distributor in its Largest Foreign Market: United Artists in Britain, 1927–1947
by Miskell, Peter - 777-811 Innovation and Corporate Failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. Textiles, 1945–1968
by Ollerenshaw, Philip - 812-814 Pamela Walker Laird. Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiv + 439 pp. ISBN 0-674-01907-5, $29.95 (paper)
by Taylor, Christiane Diehl - 814-816 Todd A. Knoop. Recessions and Depressions: Understanding Business Cycles. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. xv + 289 pp. ISBN 0-275-98162-2, $49.95
by Fuller, M. Elaine - 816-818 Richard Sennett. The Culture of the New Capitalism. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. 214 pp. ISBN 0-300-10782-X, $25.00 (paper)
by Newfield, Christopher - 819-820 AnnaLee Saxenian. The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 424 pp. ISBN 0‐674-02201-7, $27.95 (paper)
by Alexander, Nicholas - 821-822 Gerrit Knaap and Heather Sutherland. Monsoon Traders: Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-Century Makassar. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. xi + 269 pp. ISBN 90-6718-232-X, $30.00 (paper)
by Harrison, Pegram - 823-825 Jari Eloranta and Jari Ojala, eds. East-West Trade and the Cold War. Jyväskylä, Finland: Jyväskylä University Printing House, 2005. 237 pp. ISBN 951-39-2088-7, €26.00 (paper)
by de Goey, Ferry - 825-827 Kaoru Sugihara, ed. Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850–1949. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xv + 295 pp. ISBN 0-19-829271-6, $140.00
by Bian, Morris L. - 827-829 Anne G. Hanley. Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850–1920. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. xviii + 286 pp. ISBN 0-8047-5072-6, $55.00 (paper)
by Musacchio, Aldo - 829-832 Renato Giannetti and Michelangelo Vasta. L’impresa italiana nel Novecento. Bologna, Italy: Societá Editrice il Mulino, 2003. 486 pp. ISBN 88-15-09496-2, €30.00
by Colli, Andrea - 832-834 Harold James. Family Capitalism: Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii + 434 pp. ISBN 0-674-02181-9, $39.95 (paper)
by Jaffe, James A. - 834-836 Victoria de Grazia. Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. 586 pp. ISBN 0-674-01672-6, $29.95 (cloth)
by Gilbert, James - 837-838 Robin L. Einhorn. American Taxation, American Slavery. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xii + 337 pp. ISBN 0-226-19487-6, $35.00
by Egerton, Douglas R. - 839-840 Tom Downey. Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790–1860. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xiii + 262 pp. ISBN 0-8071-3107-5, $49.95
by Delfino, Susanna - 841-843 Simon Middleton. From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 320 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3915-6, $45.00 (paper)
by Schultz, Ronald - 843-845 Jerome P. Bjelopera. City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870–1920. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2005. ix + 208 pp. ISBN 0-252-02977-1, $45.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-252-07227-8, $22.00 (paper)
by Dicke, Tom - 845-847 Timothy Messer-Kruse. Banksters, Bosses, and Smart Money: A Social History of the Great Toledo Bank Crash of 1931. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, 2004. xii + 196 pp. ISBN 0-8142-0977-7, $44.95 (paper)
by McAvoy, Michael - 847-849 David M. Young. The Iron Horse and the Windy City: How Railroads Shaped Chicago. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. ix + 270 pp. ISBN 0-87580-334-2, $39.95 (cloth)
by White, W. Thomas - 849-851 Mark Aldrich. Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828–1965. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xvi + 446 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8236-2, $59.95 (paper)
by Jones, Russell D. - 851-853 John Franch. Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. vii + 374 pp. ISBN 0-252-03099-0, $45.00 (paper)
by Hirsch, Susan - 853-855 James W. Cortada. The Digital Hand, Volume 2: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xv + 629 pp. ISBN 0-19-516587-X, $59.50
by Geselowitz, Michael N. - 855-857 Arthur L. Norberg. Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946–1957. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. x + 347 pp. ISBN 0-262-14090-X, $40.00 (cloth)
by Akera, Atsushi
September 2006, Volume 7, Issue 3
- 421-421 Editor’s Introduction
by Lipartito, Kenneth - 422-455 How Business Enterprises Use Technology: Extending the Demand-Side Turn
by Yates, Joanne - 456-461 Comment: Exploring the Context of Use
by Graham, Margaret B. W. - 462-468 Comment: Extending the Demand-Side Turn Productively
by Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 469-476 Comment: Relevance and Representativeness
by Kirsch, David - 477-484 Comment: Mediating Innovation: Reflections on the Complex Relationships of User and Supplier
by Usselman, Steven W. - 485-519 Better Living: Toward a Cultural History of a Business Slogan
by Shanken, Andrew M. - 520-549 The World Is Watching: Polaroid and South Africa
by Morgan, Eric J. - 550-580 The Transformation of an Old Industrial District: Firms, Family, and Mutuality in the Zaanstreek between 1840 and 1920
by Davids, Karel - 581-591 Company, State, and Region: Three Approaches to Railroad History
by Churella, Albert - 592-595 Shop Talk: Liberalism, Consumerism, and the American Revolution
by John, Richard R. - 596-598 Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, eds. Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History. Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 2005. 411 pp. ISBN 2-600-00942-6, €41.61 (paper)
by Tortella, Gabriel - 598-600 James Aho. Confession and Bookkeeping: The Religious, Moral and Rhetorical Roots of Accounting. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005. xx + 131 pp. ISBN 0-7914-6545-4, $40.00
by Toms, Steven - 600-602 Om Prakash. Bullion for Goods: European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade, 1500–1800. New Delhi, India: Manohar Publishers, 2004. 426 pp. ISBN 81-7304-538-0, $48.95 (paper)
by Rao, Nagendra - 602-604 Alison Fleig Frank. Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xx + 343 pp. ISBN 0-674-01887-7, $49.95
by Freeze, Karen J. - 604-606 Thomas C. Owen. Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiv + 275 pp. ISBN 0-674-01549-5, $49.95
by Gordin, Michael D. - 606-608 Julia Adams. The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi + 235 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3308-8, $35.00 (paper)
by Pérez, Paloma Fernández - 608-610 François Caron, ed. Les grandes Compagnies de chemin de fer en France, 1823–1937. Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 2005. 411 pp. ISBN 2-600-00942-6, €41.61 (paper)
by Veenendaal, Augustus J. - 611-612 Jeffrey R. Fear. Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xv + 956 pp. ISBN 0-674-01492-8, $95.00
by Feldenkirchen, Wilfried - 612-614 Werner Abelshauser. The Dynamics of German Industry: Germany’s Path toward the New Economy and the American Challenge. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. vii + 168 pp. ISBN 1-84545-072-8, $45.00
by Todd, Edmund N. - 614-616 Henry Ashby TurnerJr. General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe’s Biggest Carmaker. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. viii + 200 pp. ISBN 0-300-10634-3, $38.00 (cloth)
by Spoerer, Mark - 616-618 Tuija Mikkonen. Corporate Architecture in Finland in the 1940s and 1950s: Factory Building as Architecture, Investment and Image. Helsinki, Finland: Bookstore Tiedekirja, 2005. 269 pp. ISBN 951-41-0982-1, €30.00
by Engwall, Lars - 618-620 Gordon Boyce. Over Half a Million Careful Owners: A 75-year history of PSIS, 1928–2003. Wellington, NZ: Dunmore Publishing, 2005. 326 pp. ISBN 0-476-0129-29, NZ$29.95 (paper)
by Roberts, Evan - 620-622 Mario Tiberi. The Accounts of the British Empire: Capital Flows from 1799 to 1914. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005. ix + 183 pp. ISBN 0 7546 3916 9, $99.95 (cloth)
by Pearson, Robin - 622-624 Geoffrey Jones. Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-926943-2, $64.50
by Blackford, Mansel G. - 624-626 Alfred D. ChandlerJr. Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. ix + 366 pp. ISBN 0-674-01720-x, $29.95 (Hardcover)
by van Rooij, Arjan - 626-628 Roger Horowitz. Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xiii + 170 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8240-0, $35.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-8018-8241-9, $19.00 (paper)
by Petrick, Gabriella M. - 628-630 Carl A. Zimring. Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xi + 220 pp. ISBN 0-8135-3686-3, $39.95
by Mendelsohn, Betsy - 631-632 Clifford J. Doerksen. American Babel: Rogue Radio Broadcasters of the Jazz Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xi + 157 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3871-0, $34.95 (cloth)
by Russo, Alexander T. - 633-635 JoAnne Yates. Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins Press, 2005. x + 351 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8086-6, $49.95
by Mertes, Thomas