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July 2009, Volume 83, Issue 2
- 267-290 Democratizing Luxury and the Contentious “Invention of the Technological Chicken†in Britain
by Godley, Andrew & Williams, Bridget - 291-315 Twentieth-Century Product Innovations in the German Food Industry
by Spiekermann, Uwe - 317-348 Bottles for Beer: The Business of Technological Innovation in Mexico, 1890–1920
by Beatty, Edward - 349-367 Innovation as Adaptation: The Digital Challenge in the Norwegian Fishing Industry, 1970–1985
by Sogner, Knut - 375-378 Review Essay - Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart. Edited by Warren Belasco and Roger Horowitz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 296 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-812-24128-0
by Lopes, Teresa da Silva - 379-381 Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee. By Bee Wilson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xiv + 384 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-13820-6
by Mihm, Stephen - 381-384 Brewing Battles: A History of American Beer. By Amy Mittelman. New York: Algora Publishing, 2008. 229 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-87586-573-7; paper, 978-0-87586-572-0
by Stanger, Howard R. - 384-386 International Business and National War Interests: Unilever between Reich and Empire, 1939–45. By Ben Wubs. New York: Routledge, 2008. xiv + 256 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $130.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-41667-2
by Scherner, Jonas - 386-388 Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia. By Ann Smart Martin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiv + 260 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-88727-7
by McDonald, Michelle Craig - 389-391 Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution. By Woody Holton. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. xii + 370 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $27.00. ISBN: 978-0-809-08061-8
by Crothers, A. Glenn - 391-394 One Nation, Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe. By Robert E. Wright. New York: McGraw Hill, 2008. ix + 419 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-071-54393-4
by Carruthers, Bruce G. - 394-396 Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860. By Paul Paskoff. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xvii + 324 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $48.00. ISBN: 978-0-807-13268-5
by Marrs, Aaron W. - 396-398 Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870–1916. By Jeffrey Haydu. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. x + 268 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-801-44641-2
by Brunsvold, Daniel - 399-400 The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York. By Gail Fenske. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, xii + 399 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-24141-8
by Eisenstadt, Peter - 400-402 A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. By Karen Pastorello. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xxii + 273 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-03230-1
by Soyer, Daniel - 403-405 Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing. Edited by Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 267 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-24973-8
by Bender, Pennee - 405-407 Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California. By Christopher R. Henke. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. xi + 226 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-08373-7
by Castaneda, Christopher J. - 407-410 Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System. By Daniel Pope. New York: Cambridge University Press: 2008. xviii + 282 pp. Tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-40253-8
by Rosen, Christine Meisner - 410-411 Raising Cain in the ’Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida. By Gail M. Hollander. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, xviii + 348 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, appendices, notes, index. Cloth $45.00. ISBN 978-0-226-34950-3
by Grant, H. Roger - 411-414 Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television. By Patrick R. Parsons. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. ix + 804 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 978-1-592-13287-4
by Eisenmann, Thomas R. - 414-416 Financial Reporting and Global Capital Markets: A History of the International Accounting Standards Committee, 1973–2000. By Kees Camfferman and Stephen A. Zeff. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xxviii + 676 pp. Bibliography, index, notes, photographs, tables. Cloth, $175.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-29629-3
by Miranti, Paul J. - 417-419 Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and Its Fight for Survival. By Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii + 325 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-199-53485-2
by Stern, Marc J. - 420-421 Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers. Edited by Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. vii + 363 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-812-24037-5
by Coopey, Richard - 422-423 Estates, Enterprise, and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of England, c.1700–1780. By David Oldroyd. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. xi + 217 pp. Figures, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-754-63455-3
by Cookson, Gillian - 423-425 A Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Culture, and Technology on Britain's Atlantic Coast, 1860–1930. By Christopher Harvie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xv + 319 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 978-0-198-22783-0
by Miller, Michael - 426-428 Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution. By Michael Sonenscher. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. x + 415 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-12499-5
by Kessler, Amalia D. - 428-431 La fabrique réactionnaire: Antisémitisme, spoliations et corporatisme dans le cuir (1930–1950) [The Reactionary Factory: Antisemitism, Plunder, and Corporatism in the Leather-Goods Industry (1930–1950)]. By Florent Le Bot. Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 2007. 399 pp. Paper, €24.00. ISBN: 978-2-724-61046-8
by Mouré, Kenneth - 431-433 The Power of Entrepreneurs: Politics and Economy in Contemporary Spain. By Mercedes Cabrera and Fernando del Rey. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. xii + 207 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75-00. ISBN: 978-1-84545-185-1
by Miranda, José Antonio - 433-435 Building a Global Bank: The Transformation of Banco Santander. By Mauro F. Guillén and Adrian Tschoegl. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. x + 266 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-13125-2
by Valdaliso, Jesús M. - 435-438 Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present. By Christopher Kobrak. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xx + 484 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-86325-4
by Leaman, Jeremy - 438-440 Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760–1900. By Kristin Mann. Bloomington: Indiana University Press2007. xii + 473 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-253-34884-5
by Bersselaar, Dmitri van den - 440-442 China Upside Down: Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808–1856. By Man-Houng Lin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. xxix + 362 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-02268-8
by Köll, Elisabeth
April 2009, Volume 83, Issue 1
- 1-7 Introduction
by Hansen, Per H. - 9-34 Scylla or Charybdis? Historical Reflections on Two Basic Problems of Corporate Governance
by Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 35-60 Business Failure and Civil Scandal in Early Modern Europe
by Safley, Thomas Max - 61-86 Alexander Hamilton, Central Banker: Crisis Management during the U.S. Financial Panic of 1792
by Sylla, Richard & Wright, Robert E & Cowen, David J - 87-112 Rogue Finance: The Life and Fire Insurance Company and the Panic of 1826
by Hilt, Eric - 113-160 Private Cops on the Fraud Beat: The Limits of American Business Self-Regulation, 1895-1932
by Balleisen, Edward J. - 173-177 Review Essays - Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse. By Malcolm S. Salter. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. viii + 525 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-02825-8
by Kobrak, Christopher - 177-181 Review Essays - The Microsoft Case: Antitrust, High Technology, and Consumer Welfare. By William H. Page and John E. Lopatka. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv + 347 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-64463-9
by Freyer, Tony A - 183-185 The New Spirit of Capitalism. By Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, translated from the French by Gregory Elliott. New York: Verso, 2005. xlvii + 601 pp. Appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $93.99; paper, $39.95. ISBN: cloth, 1-859-84554-1; paper, 978-1-844-67165-6
by McTavish, Duncan - 185-187 The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control. By Jennifer Karns Alexander. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvii + 233 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-801-88693-5
by Rohde, Joy - 188-190 Biracial Unions on Galveston's Waterfront, 1865–1925. By Clifford Farrington. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2007. ix + 253 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-876-11217-5
by Arnesen, Eric - 190-193 Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal. By Gabrielle Esperdy.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x + 307 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-21800-7
by Mennel, Timothy - 193-195 Inventing the “American Way†: The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement. By Wendy L. Wall. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xi + 378 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-195-32910-0
by Phillips-Fein, Kim - 195-197 Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers during the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research. By Atsushi Akera. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. ix + 427 pp. Photographs, figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-01231-7
by Johnson, Ann - 198-199 The Fishermen's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska. By David F. Arnold. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xvii + 267 pp. Maps, photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-295-98788-0
by Blackford, Mansel G. - 199-201 Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television. By Greg J. Downey. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. ix + 387 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $52.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-88710-9
by Silberstein-Loeb, Jonathan - 202-204 The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes. By Claiborne A. Skinner. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiv + 202 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-801-88837-3; paper, 978-0-801- 88838-0
by Choquette, Leslie - 204-207 Craft Capitalism: Craftworkers and Early Industrialization in Hamilton, Ontario, 1840–1872. By Robert B. Kristofferson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. x + 326 pp. Table, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-802-09172-7; paper, 978-0-802-09408-7
by Weaver, John - 207-208 Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007. By William J. Hausman, Peter Hertner, and Mira Wilkins. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxiv + 487 pp. Tables, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-88035-0
by Hughes, Tom - 208-210 Global Brands: The Evolution of Multinationals in Alcoholic Beverages. By Teresa da Silva Lopes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxii + 303 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-83397-4
by Decker, Stephanie - 211-213 The Middle Sort of People in Provincial England, 1600–1750. By H. R. French. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 305 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-29638-5
by Barker, Hannah - 213-215 Cultures of Selling: Perspectives on Consumption and Society since 1700. Edited by John Benson and Laura Ugolini. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xiv + 297 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 0-754-65046-4
by Popp, Andrew - 215-218 Travailler dans les entreprises sous l'Occupation [Working in Businesses under the Occupation]. Edited by Christian Chevandier and Jean-Claude Dalmas. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2007. 523 pp. Tables, notes. Paper, €15.00. ISBN: 978-2-848-67211-3
by Reid, Donald - 218-220 The Company That Changed Itself: R&D and the Transformations of DSM. By Arjan van Rooij. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007. 279 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography. Paper, $34.95. ISBN: 90-526-0138-0
by Boersma, Kees - 220-223 The Dachser Logistics Company: Global Competition and the Strength of the Family Business. By Paul Erker. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2008. 324 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €24.90. ISBN: 978-3-593-38542-6
by Herrigel, Gary - 223-224 GN Store Nord: A Company in Transition, 1939–1988. By Martin J. Iversen. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, 2005. 216 pp. Figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.00. ISBN: 87-630-0133-0
by Hochfelder, David - 225-227 China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929–1937. By Tomoko Shiroyama. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xvii + 325 pp. Figures, tables, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-02831-9
by Wright, Tim - 227-229 Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan. By Elyssa Faison. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xiv + 227 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-25296-7
by Hinz, Christienne L. - 229-232 Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization. By Jeremy Prestholdt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiv + 273 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-520-25424-4; paper, 978-0-520-25423-7
by Murillo, Bianca A.
January 2008, Volume 82, Issue 4
- 671-699 Selling the American Way: The Singer Sales System in Japan, 1900–1938
by Gordon, Andrew - 701-733 Inventing the U.S. Stove Industry, c.1815–1875: Making and Selling the First Universal Consumer Durable
by Harris, Howell J. - 735-759 Suchard and the Emergence of Traveling Salesmen in Switzerland, 1860–1920
by Rossfeld, Roman - 761-788 Managing Door-to-Door Sales of Vacuum Cleaners in Interwar Britain
by Scott, Peter - 789-814 “Ambassadors of Commerce“: The Commercial Traveler in British Culture, 1800–1939
by French, Michael & Popp, Andrew - 815-821 Abstracts from Articles in International Business History Journals
by Anonymous - 827-838 Milestones in Marketing
by Quelch, John A. & Jocz, Katherine E. - 839-843 A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. By Gregory Clark. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xii + 420. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–691–12135–2
by Sylla, Richard - 843-847 The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community. By Stephen A. Marglin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xvi + 359 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-02654-4
by Bernstein, Michael A. - 849-851 A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium. By Robert Friedel. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. x + 588 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–0–262–06262–6
by Usselman, Steven W. - 851-853 Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance. By Peter F. Austin. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007. xiii + 265 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978–1–851–96922–7
by Horn, Martin - 854-856 Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts. By James E. McWilliams. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xi + 201 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978–0–813–9–2636–0
by Clark, Christopher - 856-858 The Sunshine Economy: An Economic History of Florida since the Civil War. By William B. Stronge. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xxi + 334 pp. Figures, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth $34–95. ISBN: 978–0–813–03201–6
by Grant, H.Roger - 858-860 The Great Strikes of 1877. Edited by David O. Stowell. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. ix + 197 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 978–0; paper, 978–0–252–07477–6
by Boyle, Kevin - 860-862 Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds. By John E. Murray. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xiv + 313 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00 ISBN: 978–0–300–12091–2
by Opdycke, Sandra - 863-865 Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture. By Bruce Lenthall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xi + 261 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 978–0–226–47191–4; paper, 978–0–226–47192–1
by Napoli, Philip M. - 865-867 Motoring: The Highway Experience in America. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. xiii + 274 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978–0–820–33028–0
by Stanger, Howard R. - 868-870 Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine. By Paul R. Josephson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xv + 258 pp. Notes, appendix, index. Cloth, $22.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–88641–6
by Kehoe, Terence - 870-872 The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry. By Diane Pecknold. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. x + 294 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 978–0–8223–4059–1; paper, 978–0–8223–4080–5
by Hamilton, Shane - 873-875 Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital. BySpencer E. Ante. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2008. xix + 299 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978–1–422–10122–3
by Berlin, Leslie - 875-877 Telecommunications and Empire. By Jill Hills. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xii + 291 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978–0–252–03258–5
by Headrick, Daniel R. - 878-880 The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900–1938. By Myrna I. Santiago. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 411 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978–0–521–86324–7
by Bucheli, Marcelo - 880-882 Anton Rupert: A Biography. By Ebbe Dommisse in cooperation with Willie Esterhuyse; translated byLinde Dietrich. Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2005. 463 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, R269.00. ISBN: 0–624–04150–6
by Goldstein, Andrea - 883-885 The English Wool Market, c.1230–1327. By Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks, and Paul R. Dryburgh. Cambridge University Press, 2007. viii + 205 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978–0–521–85941–7
by Rigby, S. H. - 885-887 The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London. By Barbara A. Hanawalt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv + 317 pp. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN: 978–0–195–31175–4
by Beattie, Cordelia - 887-890 Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain, 1880–1939. By Laura Ugolini. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. xiii + 292 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–0384–9
by Shannon, Brent - 890-891 British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration, 1945–1972. By Neil Rollings. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi + 278 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978–0–521–88811–0
by Schröter, Harm G. - 891-894 Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age. By Anne Goldgar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xx + 425 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978–0–226–30125
by McCloskey, Deirdre - 894-896 The Origins of the Welfare State: Women, Work, and the French Revolution. By Lisa DiCaprio. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiii + 259 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978–0–252–032021–5
by Guy, Kolleen M. - 896-899 L'oeuvre d'Ernest Labrousse: Genèse d'un modèle d'histoire économique [The Work of Ernest Labrousse: Genesis of a Model of Economic History]. By Maria Novella Borghetti. Paris: Éditions de l'EHESS, 2005. 299 pp. Bibliography, notes. Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 2–713–22019-X
by Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille - 899-900 Von der Friedens- zur Kriegswirtschaft: Unternehmensstrategien derdeutschen Eisen- und Stahlindustrie vom Kaiserreich bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs [From the Peacetime to the Wartime Economy: Business Strategies of the German Iron and Steel Industries from the Empire to the End of the First World War]. By Stefanie van de Kerkhof. Essen: Klartext, 2006. 480 pp. Figures, maps, tables, notes, bibliography. Paper, €33.00. ISBN: 3–89861–516–2
by Köster, Roman - 901-903 Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile. By Lewis H. Siegelbaum. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xi + 309 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–0–801–44638–2
by Owen, Thomas C. - 903-905 State or Merchant? Political Economy and Political Process in 1740s China. By Helen Dunstan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xv + 523 pp. Figures, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–02262–1
by Puk, Wing-kin - 905-907 Jingji Xu: The History of the Introduction of Western Economic Ideas into China, 1850–1950. By Paul Trescott. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2007. xxiv + 442 pp. Photographs, tables, glossary, references, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978–962–996242–5
by Zanasi, Margherita - 908-910 Mao and the Economic Stalinization of China, 1948–1953. By Hua-yuLi. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. xiii + 250 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0–742–54053–7
by Cliver, Robert
October 2008, Volume 82, Issue 3
- 439-444 Introduction
by Dávila, Carlos - 445-473 Laws versus Contracts: Shareholder Protections and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950
by Musacchio, Aldo - 445-473 Laws versus Contracts: Shareholder Protections and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950
by Musacchio, Aldo - 475-502 Networks and Entrepreneurship: The Modernization of the Textile Business in Porfirian Mexico
by Gómez-Galvarriato, Aurora - 503-528 Foreign Investments in Electric Utilities: A Comparative Analysis of Belgian and American Companies in Argentina, 1890–1960
by Lanciotti, Norma S. - 529-553 Negotiating under the Monroe Doctrine: Weetman Pearson and the Origins of U.S. Control of Colombian Oil
by Bucheli, Marcelo - 555-575 Business History in Latin America: A Historiographical Perspective
by Barbero, MarÃa Inés - 585-602 Banking History and Archives in Latin America
by Marichal, Carlos - 603-605 História da Bolsa de Valores do Rio de Janeiro [History of the Rio de Janeiro Stock Exchange]. By Maria Bárbara Levy. Rio de Janeiro: IBMEC, 1977
by Triner, Gail D. - 605-608 The Industrialization of São Paulo. By Warren Dean. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969. 263 pp. Cloth, $23.00. ISBN: 0-292-70004-0
by Hanley, Anne G. - 608-611 A Century of Banking in Latin America: To Commemorate the Centenary in 1962 of the Bank of London & South America Limited. By David Joslin. London: Oxford University Press, 1963
by Miller, Rory - 611-613 Bunge & Born: Crecimiento y Diversificación de un grupo económico [Bunge & Born: Growth and Diversification of an Economic Group]. By Jorge Schvarzer. Buenos Aires: CISEA-GEL, 1989. 83 pp
by Jacob, Raúl - 615-618 The Decline of Latin American Economies: Growth, Institutions, and Crises. Edited by Sebastian Edwards, Gerardo Esquivel, and Graciela Marquez. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. viii + 418 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-18500-2
by Angel, Gustavo A. Del - 619-621 Chimneys in the Desert: Industrialization in Argentina during the Export Boom Years, 1870–1930. By Fernando Rocchi. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xviii + 394 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $73.00. ISBN: 0-804-75012-2
by Marquez, Graciela - 621-623 Empresarios Colombianos del Siglo XIX [Colombian Entrepreneurs of the Nineteenth Century]. By Luis Fernando Molina Londoño. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes, 2006. 434 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography, notes, index. ISBN: 978-958695-223-1
by Safford, Frank - 623-626 Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950. By Sterling Evans. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xxiii + 314 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables, maps, illustrations. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 978-1-585-44596-7
by Jackson, Donald C. - 626-628 Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice. By Gavin Fridell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. xix + 347 pp. Tables, figures, maps, notes, references, index. Cloth, $71.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8020-9238-0; paper, 978-0-8020-9590-9
by Narváez, Guillermo E. - 628-631 Favored Flowers: Culture and Economy in a Global System. By Catherine Ziegler. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. vii + 306 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-34007-2; paper, 0-822-34026-3
by Howard, Vicki - 631-634 Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class. By Aviva Chomsky. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xiii + 397 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-822-34173-4; paper, 978-0-8223-4190-1
by Bergquist, Charles - 634-636 City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871–1919. By Margaret Garb. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xv + 261 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-226-28209-0
by Henderson, Scott - 637-639 Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America. By David M. P. Freund. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xii + 514 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-26275-8
by Hochschild, Jennifer L. - 639-641 Hotel: An American Story. By A. K. Sandoval-Strausz. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 375 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-10616-9
by Hillyer, Reiko - 642-644 Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills. By David Stradling. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xxvii + 311 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-295-98747-7
by Barrish, Alan - 644-646 The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. By Sarah E. Igo. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2007. ix + 398 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-02321-5
by Mihm, Stephen - 646-648 Nylon and Bombs: DuPont and the March of Modern America. By Pap A. Ndiaye. Translated from the French by Elborg Forster. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 289 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, historiographical essay, index. Cloth $45.00. ISBN: 0-8018-8444-6
by Davids, Mila - 649-651 Selling Shaker: The Commodification of Shaker Design in the Twentieth Century. By Stephen Bowe and Peter Richmond. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007. x + 404 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $40.00. ISBN: 1-846-31009-1
by Hansen, Per - 651-653 The Natural Origins of Economics. By Margaret Schabas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi + 231 pp. References, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-226-73569-9
by Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton - 654-656 Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions. By Deborah Cohen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xvii + 294 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-300-11213-0
by Kriegel, Lara - 656-659 From Physick to Pharmacology: Five Hundred Years of British Drug Retailing. Edited by Louise Hill Curth. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xiii + 174 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-63597-X
by Tansey, E. M. - 659-661 Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. By Harold J. Cook. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xiv + 562 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-11796-7
by Davids, Karel - 661-663 Die Dresdner Bank 1945–1957: Konsequenzen und Kontinuitäten nach dem Ende des NS-Regimes [The Dresdner Bank, 1945–1957: Consequences and Continuities from the End of the Nazi Regime]. By Ralf Ahrens. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2007. 504 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, €49.80. ISBN: 978-3-486-58303-8
by Kopper, Christopher
July 2008, Volume 82, Issue 2
- 207-226 Alfred Chandler: His Vision and Achievement
by McCraw, Thomas K. - 227-240 Turner, Beard, Chandler: Progressive Historians
by John, Richard R. - 241-250 Chandler and the Sociology of Organizations
by Fligstein, Neil - 251-266 Chandler and Global Business History
by Wilkins, Mira - 267-277 Alfred Chandler, Founder of Strategy: Lost Tradition and Renewed Inspiration
by Whittington, Richard - 279-292 Measuring Chandler's Impact on European Business Studies since the 1960s
by Iversen, Martin Jes - 293-300 Chandler's Paths of Learning
by Miranti, Paul J. - 301-308 Chandler and Business History in Japan
by Anchordoguy, Marie - 309-315 Lessons from Al, Revisited
by Yeager, Mary A. - 329-358 Roundtable on Business Education
by Wilson, John F. & Locke, Robert R. & Amdam, Rolv Petter & Puig, Nuria & Nishizawa, Tamotsu - 359-366 Mellon: An American Life. By David Cannadine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. xvi + 784 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0–679–45032–7
by Smith, George - 367-369 Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930–2004. By Tony A. Freyer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 437 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 0–521–81788–9
by Thomas, William G. - 369-372 A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. By Stephen Mihm. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xii + 457 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–02657–5
by Balleisen, Edward - 372-374 Fraude, contrefaçon et contrebande de l'Antiquité à nos jours [Fraud, Counterfeiting, and Contraband from Antiquity to Today]. Edited byGérard Béaur, Hubert Bonin, and Claire Lemercier. Geneva: Droz, 2006. 829 pp. Figures, illustrations, notes, index. CHF80.00. ISBN: 978–2–600–1069–6
by Horn, Jeff - 374-377 Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War. By David L. Lightner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 228 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0–300–11470–2
by Green, Michael S. - 377-379 American Silk, 1830–1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts. By Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Seneschal, and Madelyn Shaw. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxiv + 326 pp. Tables, glossary, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978–0–896–72589–8
by Friedman, Tami J. - 380-382 William F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows. By Robert E. Bonner. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xxii + 318 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 978–0–806–13829–9
by Adamson, Michael R. - 382-385 Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking. By Wilson J. Warren. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xii + 317 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–1–587–29536–2
by Hamilton, Shane - 385-387 Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment on the Palouse. By Andrew P. Duffin. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xv + 240 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978–0–295–98743–9
by Phillips, Sarah T. - 387-390 Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890s-1930s. By Ken Fones-Wolf. University of Illinois Press, 2007. xxviii + 236 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0–252–03131–1; paper, 0–252–07371–7
by Stanger, Howard R. - 391-392 Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation. By Peter Fearon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xiv + 316 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 978–0–8262–1736–3
by Danbom, David - 393-395 For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865. By Robert Zieger. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2007. x + 276 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-8131-2460-5
by Delton, Jennifer - 395-397 Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America. By Kevin L. Borg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii + 249 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–88606–5
by Norton, Peter D. - 398-400 Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. By Tom McCarthy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xx + 347 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 978–0–300–11038–8
by Whisler, Timothy - 401-403 Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver. By Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii + 225 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–88554–9
by Hood, Clifton - 403-404 The Offshore Imperative: Shell's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America. By Tyler Priest. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2007. xi + 317 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–1–585–44568–4
by Goldberg, Ellis - 405-407 The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: U.S. Energy Security and Oil Politics, 1975–2005. By Bruce A. Beaubouef. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xiv + 334 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978–1–585–44600–1
by Gorman, Hugh - 407-410 Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific. By Mansel G. Blackford. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. xi + 267 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $48.00. ISBN: 978–0–824–83073–1
by Reiss, Suzanna - 410-412 Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America. By Giles Slade. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 330 pp. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0–674–02203–3
by Lucsko, David N. - 412-414 The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry. By Lawrence E. Mitchell. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2007. xiii + 395 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978–1–576–75400–9
by Klein, Maury - 415-417 Dancing Around the Elephant: Creating a Prosperous Canada in an Era of American Dominance, 1957–1973. By Bruce Muirhead. University of Toronto Press, 2007. x + 323 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978–0–080–209016–4
by Anastakis, Dimitry - 417-420 The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson. Edited by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, x + 417 pp. References, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978–0–262–08361–4
by Engerman, Stanley L. - 420-422 The British-Atlantic Trading Community, 1760–1810: Men, Women, and the Distribution of Goods. By Sheryllynne Haggerty. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xiv + 290 pp. Figures, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 90–0415018–8
by Marzagalli, Silvia - 422-424 Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648–1834. By S. D. Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv + 380 pp. Figures, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 0–521–86338–4
by Ryden, David B. - 424-426 Women in Business, 1700–1850. By Nicola Phillips. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2006. xi + 299 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978–1–84383–183–9
by Rutterford, Janette - 427-429 War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689–1900. By John V. C. Nye. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi + 174 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–691–12917–4
by Smith, Michael S. - 429-430 In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns. By Dario Gaggio. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi + 352 pp. Index, notes, tables. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–0–691–12697–5
by Carnevali, Francesca - 431-433 Work and Play: The Production and Consumption of Toys in Germany, 1870–1914. By David D. Hamlin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. x + 286 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, figures, tables. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 978–0–472–11588–4
by Cross, Gary - 433-435 The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. By Adam Tooze. New York: Viking, 2006. xvii + 799 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 978–0–670–03826–8
by Tilly, Richard - 436-438 Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in 18th-century Damascus. By James Grehan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xvi + 320 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978–0–295–98676–0
by Reilly, James A.
April 2008, Volume 82, Issue 1
- 1-30 Selecting Risks in an Anonymous World: The Agency System for Life Insurance in Antebellum America
by Ann Murphy, Sharon - 31-58 Quill-Driving: British Life-insurance Clerks and Occupational Mobility, 1800–1914
by Alborn, Timothy - 59-86 Regulatory Regimes and Multinational Insurers before 1914
by Pearson, Robin & Lönnborg, Mikael - 87-114 Multinational Enterprises and Institutional Regulation in the Life-Insurance Market in Spain, 1880–1935
by Pons Pons, Jerònia - 119-126 Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire - Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire. By Richard Bak. New York: Wiley, 2003. 320 pp. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-471-23487-6. - The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century. By Steven Watts. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 640 pp. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $16.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-375-40735-2; paper, 978-0-375-70725-4. - In the Shadow of Detroit: Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada, and Motoropolis. By David Roberts. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. 326 pp. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-814-33284-9
by Anastakis, Dimitry - 127-128 The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. By David Edgerton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xviii + 270 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $26.00. ISBN: 0-195-32283-5
by Hochfelder, David - 128-131 Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia. By Andrew M. Schocket. De Kalb: Northern Illinois Press, 2007. xiii + 274 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 978-0-87580-369-2
by Crothers, A. Glenn - 131-133 Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. By S. Max Edelson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiii + 383 pp. Figures, illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-02303-1
by Hart, Emma - 133-136 Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–1852. By Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2006. v + 202 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 1-851-96890-3
by Davis, Ronald L. F. - 136-138 The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. By Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xxii + 242 pp. Notes, index, photographs, illustrations. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-801-88600-7
by Kinney, Thomas A. - 138-141 Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930. By Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. xx + 429 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 0-822-33912-0
by Headrick, Daniel R. - 141-144 Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. By Davarian L. Baldwin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv + 363 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8078-3099-4; paper, 978-0-8078-5799-1
by Adams, Luther - 144-146 The Real Pepsi Challenge: The Inspirational Story of Breaking the Color Barrier in American Business. By Stephanie Capparell. New York: Free Press, 2007. xvii + 349 pp. Photographs, bibliography, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 0-743-26571-8
by Weems, Robert E. - 146-149 Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920–1975. By Susannah Walker. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2007. xiii + 250 pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-8131-2433-9
by Gill, Tiffany M. - 149-152 George Gallup in Hollywood. By Susan Ohmer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xiii + 281 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth. $69.50; paper, $24.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-231-12132-6; paper, 0-231-12133-4
by Igo, Sarah E. - 152-154 Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants. By Kathleen M. Barry. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. xv + 304 pp. Photo-graphs, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $22.95. ISBN: 0-822-33946-5
by Richter, Amy G. - 154-157 The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. By Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely, and Paul F. Barrett. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. xxvi + 318 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-814-21036-8
by Walsh, Margaret - 157-160 American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe. By John Krige. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. viii + 376 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-262-11297-3
by Servos, John W. - 160-162 A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750–1920. By Marie Eileen Francois. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xiii + 415 pp. Notes, illustrations, tables, index, appendixes. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8032-6923-1
by Beatty, Edward - 162-164 Empresas y grupos empresariales en América Latina, España y Portugal [Firms and Business Groups in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal]. Edited by Mario Cerutti. Monterrey: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León-Universidad de Alicante, 2006. 372 pp. Tables, figures, notes. Paper. ISBN: 970-694-224-6
by Valdaliso, Jesús M. - 164-166 The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660–1720. By Natasha Glaisyer. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2006. x + 220 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0-861-93281-1
by Neal, Larry - 166-169 The Business of Women: Female Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England, 1760–1830. By Hannah Barker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xi + 189 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 0-19-929971-4
by Humphries, Jane - 169-171 The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel. By Terry Gourvish. Research by Mike Anson. New York: Routledge, 2006. xxi + 521 pp. Figures, tables, maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $93.95. ISBN: 0-415-39183-0
by Wilson, John F. - 171-173 Ecrire, Compter, Mesurer: Vers une histoire des rationalités pratiques [Writing, Counting, Measuring: Toward a History of Practical Intelligence]. Edited by Natacha Coquery, François Menant, and Florence Weber. Paris: Editions rue d'Ulm/Presses de l'Ecole normale supérieure, 2006. 277 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, references, notes. Paper, €35.00. ISBN: 2-728-80372-2
by Murray, James M. - 174-176 Histoire de la Société générale: Volume I, 1864–1890: Naissance d'une banque [History of the Société générale: Volume I, 1864–1890: Birth of a Bank]. By Hubert Bonin. Geneva: Librarie Droz, 2006. 723 pp. Index, notes, appendix, tables. Paper, €68.47. ISBN: 2-600-01038-6
by Stoskopf, Nicolas - 176-179 La Compagnie genevoise des Colonies suisses de Sétif (1853–1956): Un cas de colonisation privée en Algérie [La Compagnie genevoise des Colonies suisses de Setif (1853–1956): A Case of Private Colonization in Algeria]. By Claude Lützelschwab. Bern: Peter Lang, 2006. xxii + 412 pp. Figures, tables, maps, glossary, appendix, bibliography, notes. Cloth, €43.20. ISBN: 3-039-11146-6
by Donzé, Pierre-Yves - 179-181 The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany. By Jonathan R. Zatlin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xviii + 377 pp. Figures, tables, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-86956-0
by Allen, Michael - 181-184 Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840. By Richard Perren. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xi + 285 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3648-8
by Watts, Sydney - 184-186 Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism. By Jonathan A. Grant. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xi + 288 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-02242-7
by Engel, Jeffrey A. - 186-188 The Expert Consumer: Associations and Professionals in Consumer Society. Edited by Alain Chatriot, Maire-Emmanuelle Chessel, and Matthew Hilton. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. ix + 209 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $94.94. ISBN: 0-7546-5501-6
by Judt, Matthias - 188-191 The Industrialization of Rural China. By Chris Bramall. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 424 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 0-199-27593-9
by Chen, Yixin