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December 2025, Volume 99, Issue 4
- 497-520 Lightning Strikes Back: Lightning Fire, Standard Oil, and Anti-monopoly in the Pennsylvanian Oil Fields, 1859–1897
by Jang, Minseok - 521-571 The Art of Distrust: Governance in Long-Distance Trade and the Making of Impersonal Power, 1400–1800
by Matringe, Nadia - 573-601 Black Life Insurance Companies, Mortgages, and African American Homeownership before 1964
by Michney, Todd M. - 603-625 Contested Cards and Banking Competition in the 1970s–1980s: From Exclusivity to Globalization in Spain and Europe
by Maixé-Altés, J. Carles - 627-650 Private Tools for Political Goals: The European Currency Unit Private Market and the Making of Economic and Monetary Union in the 1980s
by Drach, Alexis & Komornicka, Aleksandra - 663-667 Slave Ownership in the Western World
by Webster, Jane - 669-673 Russia’s Way of Building Mega Projects
by Harrison, Mark - 675-676 Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America. By Dael A. Norwood. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 312 pp. Clothbound, $49.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-81558-9
by Roberts, Priscilla - 677-678 The Making of a Status Symbol: A Business History of Rolex. By Pierre-Yves Donzé. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025. 272 pp. Hardcover, £85.00. ISBN: 978-1-5261-8326-2
by McCrossen, Alexis - 678-680 Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America. By Margot Canaday. Princeton, New Jersey, United States: Princeton University Press, 2023. 312 pp. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-20595-3
by Bronski, Michael - 680-682 Making an Industrial Revolution: Skill, Knowledge, Community and Innovation. By Gillian Cookson. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2025. 264 pp. 14 B/W illustrations, 1 map. Hardcover, £95.00. ISBN: 978-1-83765-222-8
by Clerx, Laura - 683-684 The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean. By Kim F. Hall. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. 392 pp. + 30 b-w illus. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2786-6
by Elias, Megan - 684-686 The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America. By Anthony C. Infanti. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2025. 328 pp. Hardback, $45.00 ISBN: 978-1-4798-2986-6
by McWatters, Cheryl Susan - 686-688 Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States. By Michelle Craig McDonald. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN 978-1-5128-2755-2
by Thurston, Robert - 688-689 Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight over Compensated Emancipation after the Civil War. By Amanda Laury Kleintop. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025. 272 pp. Hardback, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-4696-8864-0
by Green, Michael - 690-691 Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London. By Lee Jackson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 288 pp. Hardcover, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26620-7
by Lomas, Jessica - 691-693 The Debt of a Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820–73. By Angela C. Tozer. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2025. 276 pp. Paperback, $41.95. ISBN: 978-0-7748-7155-6
by Redish, Angela - 693-694 The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms. By Alison L. LaCroix. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2024. 576 pp. 24 B/W illustrations. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-22321-7
by Beermann, Jack M. - 695-696 The Scramble for the Teenage Dollar: Creating the Youth Market in Mid-century Canada. By Katharine Rollwagen. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2025. 224 pp. 12 B/W photos, 6 illustrations. Hardcover, $110.00. ISBN: 978-0-77-486988-1
by Elvins, Sarah - 696-698 Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism. By Danielle Wiggins. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. 312 pp. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2784-2
by Tonks, Henry - 698-700 Hospital City, Health Care Nation: Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care. By Guian A. McKee. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 392 pp. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2393-6
by Zhang, Han - 700-702 Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism. By Koji Hirata. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 370 pp. Hardcover, £80.00. ISBN: 978-1-00-938227-4
by Moazzin, Ghassan - 702-704 The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People. By Paul Seabright. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. pp. 504. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-13300-3
by Wosh, Peter - 705-705 Translating Emergent Technologies into Novel Therapeutics: Tracing Complementarity and Co-evolution in the Cambridge–Boston Innovation Ecosystem – CORRIGENDUM
by Umemura, Maki
September 2025, Volume 99, Issue 3
- 313-341 Continuity and Change in Turkey’s Largest Industrial Enterprises, 1970–2010
by Colpan, Asli M. & Üsdiken, Behlül - 343-363 From Oil Nation to Wind Power Nation? An Exploration of Norway’s Turn to Offshore Wind Power, 1998–2024
by Nissen, Ada - 365-390 The World War II US Rubber Famine
by Field, Alexander J. - 391-426 Equality of Agriculture: Robert L. Owen, Country Banks, and the Populist’s Federal Reserve
by Ferguson, R. Alexander & Mickelson, Nathanael L. - 427-457 Making Sense of the 1931 Financial Crisis and the Great Depression
by Hansen, Per H. - 461-464 One Day I’ll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America. By Benjamin C. Waterhouse. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. 274 pp. Hardcover, $29.99. ISBN: 978-0-393-86821-0
by Cespedes, Frank V. - 465-468 Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control. By Sean Vanatta. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. 416 pp. 6.12 × 9.25 in, 11 B/W illustrations. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-24734-3
by Glock, Judge - 469-473 False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947. By George Selgin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. 384 pp. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-22-683293-7
by Rauchway, Eric - 475-477 Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India. By Aditya Balasubramanian. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 352 pp. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-20524-3
by Nageswaran, Raghunath - 477-478 A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy From the Revolution to the Rise of China. By Dale C. Copeland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 504 pp. $38.00. Hardback, $27.95 paperback. ISBN: 978-0-691-17255-2
by Zeiler, Thomas W. - 479-481 Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse. By Colleen A. Dunlavy. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2024. 240 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-50-956173-5
by Nichols, Shaun S. - 481-482 Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform. By Yakov Feygin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. vii + 288 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-24099-5
by Hartwell, Christopher A. - 482-485 A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador. By Christopher Krupa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 328 pp. Paperback, $49.95. IBSN: 978-0-81-222512-9
by Monsalve Zanatti, Martín - 485-486 American Patent Law: A Business and Economic History. By Robert P. Merges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 450 pp. Paperback, $48.00. ISBN: 978-1-00-912920-6
by Coopersmith, Jonathan - 486-489 New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy. By Brian P. Owensby. Stanford University Press, 2021. 400 pp. Hardcover, $140. ISBN: 978-1-50-362751-2
by Clavel, Damian - 489-490 Bulls, Bears, Boers and Brits: Finance and the Coming of War in Southern Africa, 1894–1899. By Ian Phimister. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2025. 189 pp. Paperback, €56.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-69078-3
by Money, Duncan - 491-492 Ruins to Riches: The Economic Resurgence of Germany and Japan after 1945. By Raymond G. Stokes. Cambridge University Press, 2024. 345 pp. Hardback $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-31-651452-8
by Yee, Robert - 493-494 A History of the Aviation Industry in Latin America: Nationalism, Developmentalism and Neoliberalism in Chile. By Diego Barría Traverso. New York & London: Routledge, 2025. 198 pp. Hardcover, $180.00. ISBN: 978-1-03-228549-8
by Piglia, Melina
June 2025, Volume 99, Issue 2
- 185-209 Translating Emergent Technologies into Novel Therapeutics: Tracing Complementarity and Co-evolution in the Cambridge–Boston Innovation Ecosystem
by Umemura, Maki - 211-232 Examining the Impact of Legal Innovations: A Case Study of the Private Limited Liability Company in Vienna, 1900–1936
by Hödl, Michael - 233-255 The Peculiar, Diverse, and Vital Business of Personal Mortgages, 1890s–1950s
by Harris, Richard - 257-277 The Nivkh People’s Sustainable Bear Hunting Enterprise, Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries
by Maltsev, Vladimir - 281-283 Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America. By Kati Curts. New York: New York University Press, 2025. pp. 288. Hardcover $39.00. ISBN: 978-1-4798-3158-6
by Slaughter, Joseph - 285-288 Profits & Persecution: German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust. By Peter Hayes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 232 pp. Hardback, $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-139-04968-9
by Reinert, Sophus A. - 289-290 The Young Fed: The Banking Crises of the 1920s and the Making of a Lender of Last Resort. By Mark Carlson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. xii + 232 pp. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-83782-6
by Wells, Wyatt - 290-292 Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present. By Pierre-Yves Donzé and Julia S. Yongue. Oxford University Press, 2024. 304 pp. Hardcover, $161.00. ISBN 978-0-19-288747-4
by Ivings, Steven - 292-294 The Spread of the Modern Central Bank and Global Cooperation, 1919–1939. Edited by Barry Eichengreen and Andreas Kakridis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xx + 422 pp. Paperback, $34.99. ISBN: 978-1-009-36754-7
by Vanatta, Sean H. - 294-296 Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America. By Rachel S. Gross. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. 284 pp.+26 b/w illus. Hardback, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-27008-2
by Brosnan, Kathleen A. - 296-299 There Will Be the Devil to Pay: Central Bankers, Uncertainty and Sensemaking in the European Financial Crisis of 1931. By Per H. Hansen . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. pp. 522. Hardcover, $160.00. ISBN: 978-1-00-950531-4
by Nodari, Gianandrea - 299-301 Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia by Sven Kalmring. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 304 pp. Digital access $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-00-929807-0
by Skre, Dagfinn - 302-304 The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. By Alexander C Karp and Nicholas W Zamiska. New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2025. xii + 220 pp. Figures, preface, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $30.00. ISBN:978-0-593-79869-0
by Chitkara, Hirsh - 304-306 Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America. By Dean G. Lampros. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. 384 pp. Hardcover, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-4840-4
by Logemann, Jan - 306-308 The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society. By Thomas M. Larkin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. pp. 336. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-21067-6
by Su, Alastair - 308-310 Capital of Mind: The Idea of a Modern American University. By Adam R. Nelson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. 408 pp. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-82920-3
by Thelin, John R.
March 2025, Volume 99, Issue 1
- 3-38 The Problem of Sustaining a Successful Enterprise: Kodak’s Multiple Takes at Strategic Renewal that Culminated in Failure
by Vinokurova, Natalya & Kapoor, Rahul - 39-66 Business-Government Networks in Small States: The Emergence and Evolution of the Luxembourg Global Mutual Fund Industry, 1945–1988
by Calabrese, Matteo & Giacomin, Valeria - 67-95 Beyond Voluntary: The 1998 Automotive CO2 Agreement and the Limits of Corporate Influence on Environmental Regulation
by Milor, Alice - 97-119 Fox Trading and the Problem of Polar Bears in the Hudson’s Bay Company: Arctic Human Ecology and Fur in a Global Value Chain, 1900–1940
by Colpitts, George & Goodwin, Andrew - 121-146 Finding El Dorado: The Rise and Fall of the Jenks Business Group in Colombia, 1899–1929
by Primmer, Andrew - 149-151 The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment. By Charly Coleman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. xi + 376 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. Hardcover, $140.00. ISBN 9781503608436
by Olteanu, Mihai - 151-153 Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding. By Hannah Farber. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 352 pp. Hardcover, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6363-0
by Baranoff, Dalit - 153-155 Connecting a Nation: The Story of Telecommunications in Ireland. By Deryck Fay. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2022. 350 pp. + illus. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 1-910820-87-3
by Mohan, Gretta - 155-157 Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. By Benjamin M. Friedman. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021. Pp. xv, 534. Hardcover, $37.50. ISBN 978-0-59-331109-7
by Haglund, Kristine - 157-159 Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations. By Matt Garcia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. 280 pp. Hardcover, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-67-498080-8
by Marshall, Jonathan - 159-161 Tiny Engines of Abundance: A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression. By Jim Handy. Black Point, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 2022. 160 pp. Paperback, $22.00. ISBN: 978-1-77-363521-7
by Lorek, Timothy - 161-164 Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931. By A. G. Hopkins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 576 pp. Hardcover, $24.98. ISBN: 978-0-69-125884-3
by Simson, Rebecca - 164-165 Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830. By Trevor Jackson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiv + 314 pp. Hardcover, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-009-14937-2
by Valmori, Niccolò - 166-168 High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape. By Marc Masters. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 224 pp. Paperback, $20.00. ISBN: 978-1-4696-7598-5
by Suisman, David - 168-169 The Prince of Slavers: Humphry Morice and the Transformation of Britain’s Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1698–1732. By Matthew David Mitchell. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Hardcover, $129.99. ISBN: 978-3-030-33838-1
by Everill, Bronwen - 170-172 Karl Brunner and Monetarism. Edited by Thomas Moser and Marcel Savioz. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022. 384 pp. Hardback, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-04738-5
by Johnson, Nic - 172-173 Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier. By Bogdan G. Popescu. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Xi + 317 pp. B/W illustrations, 40 figs., 26 tables. Hardback, $110. ISBN: 978-1-009-36516-1
by Eysturlid, Lee - 174-176 Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom. By Kathryn Olivarius. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. x + 320 pp. Hardback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-24951-0
by Mitchell, Mary Niall - 176-177 Norway’s Pharmaceutical Revolution: Pursuing and Accomplishing Innovation in Nyegaard & Co., 1945–1997. By Knut Sogner. Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press, 2023. xii + 290 pp. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN: 978-82-304-0333-5
by Nyborg, Vibeke Narverud - 177-179 Atlas of Finance—Mapping the Global Story of Money. By Dariusz Wójcik, Panagiotis Iliopoulos, Stefanos Ioannou, Liam Keenan, Julien Migozzi, Timothy Monteath, Vladimir Pazitka, Morag Torrance, and Michael Urban, with maps and graphics by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024. Xvi + 224 pp. Hardcover, $40.00. ISBN 978-0-300-25305-4
by Sylla, Richard - 181-181 A Reappraisal of Albert Aftalion’s Theory of Structural Transformation in an Era of Decarbonization – CORRIGENDUM
by Coffman, D’Maris & Scazzieri, Roberto
December 2024, Volume 98, Issue 4
- 793-819 Pioneering the Circular Economy: Small and Medium-Sized Recycling Enterprises in Finland, 1945–1995
by Toivanen, Kati & Jensen-Eriksen, Niklas - 821-853 China’s Outward Investment in Europe during the “Go Out” Policy Years: Trends, Drivers, and Strategies in the Automotive Industry, 2000–2018
by Jia-Zheng, Yuan & Binda, Veronica - 855-889 The Rise of Minimill Steel Producers in Italy and Spain, 1950–1990
by Díaz-Morlán, Pablo & Sáez-García, Miguel Á. & Semeraro, Riccardo - 891-919 Visions of Indian Economic Unity On the Eve of Partition: A Tale of Two Companies
by Hussain, Atiya - 921-952 From Sugar to Shop: the Organic Rise of Indian Shopkeepers in Colonial Trinidad
by Persaud, Alexander - 959-971 Reconsidering the Commercial Revolution
by Reinert, Sophus A. & Fredona, Robert - 973-975 The Power of Persuasion: Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century. By Lucas Haasis. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2022. 660 pp. Hardcover, $75.00. ISBN: 978-3-8376-5652-7
by Deschanel, Boris - 975-977 Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India. By Sudev Sheth. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 353 pp. Digital Copy $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-00-933021-3
by Roy, Tirthankar - 977-979 The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750–1850. By David Gwyn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 416 pp. 32 color illustrations, 30 B/W illustrations, 6 maps. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26789-1
by Casson, Mark - 979-981 The Raging Erie: Life and Labor along the Erie Canal. By Mark S. Ferrara. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 259 pp. Paperback, $24.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-21638-8
by Stanger, Howard R. - 981-983 Paths of Fire, The Gun and the World It Made. By Andrew Nahum. London: Reaktion Books, Ltd, 2021. 253 pp. Hardcover, £25. ISBN: 978-1-78914-397-3
by Grant, Jonathan A. - 983-986 Capitalism in Chaos: How the Business Elites in Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War. By Máté Rigó. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022. 378 pp. + 34 b/w illus. Hardcover, $47.95. ISBN: 978-1-5017-6465-3
by Sogner, Knut - 986-989 Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State. By Katherine C. Epstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 368 pp. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-83122-0
by Oh, Seokju - 989-991 Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling. By Ryan Tucker Jones. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 304 pp + 30 hf. Hardcover $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-62885-1
by Kullaa, Rinna - 992-994 Financial Liberalization and Economic Development in Korea, 1980–2020. By Yung Chul Park, Joon Kyung Kim, and Hail Park. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 336 pp. Hardcover $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-25128-1
by Woo Kim, Seung
September 2024, Volume 98, Issue 3
- 613-635 Fishery Collapse and the American Fertilizer Industry: A Case Study of the Pacific Guano Company
by Rude, Emelyn - 637-655 Industrial Consumers Versus Cartelized Producers: The French Carmaker Louis Renault and the Aluminium Cartel, 1911–1944
by Fridenson, Patrick - 657-684 A Disrupting Strategic Metal: The Norwegian Aluminium Industry Meets World War II
by Sogner, Knut - 685-725 Fertilizer for Victory: The Chilean–US Nitrate Trade in the Second World War
by Sicotte, Richard - 727-755 Losing the “Lager War:” International Entrepreneurship and Business Failure in the United Kingdom Brewing Industry, 1975–1995
by Bellamy, Matthew J. - 759-764 The Chicago Monetary Tradition: The Origin of the Modern Approach to Monetary Policy Rules
by Clerc, Pierrick - 765-767 Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain. By Amy Edwards. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. 364 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN: 9780520385467
by Taylor, James - 767-769 From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age. By Xaq Frolich. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 312 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-29881-1
by Elias, Megan J. - 770-772 Trading Power: West Germany’s Rise to Global Influence, 1963-1975. By William Glenn Gray. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 498 pp. Hardback, $44.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-34119-6
by Kleinschmidt, Christian - 772-774 The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945. By Alistair Kefford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 340 pp. Online Access, $34.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-87450-2
by Longstreth, Richard - 774-777 White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation. By Naa Oyo A. Kwate. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 472 pp. 80 b/w illus. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-5179-1109-6
by Boyd, Kendra D. - 778-780 The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade. By Simone M. Müller. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2023. 266 pp. Paperback, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-295-75183-2
by Hatton-Proulx, Clarence - 780-782 Flemish Textile Workers in England, 1331–1400: Immigration, Integration and Economic Development. By Milan Pajic. Cambridge University Press, 2023. xvii + 368 pp. $130 hardback. ISBN: 978-1-108-77421-5
by Casson, Catherine - 783-785 The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past. By Mike Savage. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 448 pp. Hardcover, $37.00. ISBN. 978-0-674-98807-1
by Soener, Matthew - 785-787 Wage-Earning Slaves: Coartación in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. By Claudia Varella and Manuel Barcia. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. 236 pp. Hardcover, $85.00. ISBN: 978-1-68340-165-0
by Veeser, Cyrus - 788-790 International Business in Australia before World War One: Shaping a Multinational Economy. By Simon Ville and David Merrett. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 203 pp. Hardcover, $109.99. ISBN: 978-981-19-0480-6
by Seltzer, Andrew
June 2024, Volume 98, Issue 2
- 359-387 British CEOs in the Twentieth Century: Aristocratic Amateurs to Fat Cats?
by Adams, Robin J. C. & Aldous, Michael & Fliers, Philip & Turner, John - 389-416 Housewives and the Growth of the Japanese Electrical Appliance Industry, 1950–1990
by Hirano, Takashi & Sakai, Ken & Donzé, Pierre-Yves - 417-446 Managing the Police Workforce: Sickness and Pensions in the Metropolitan Police in Late Nineteenth-Century London
by Green, David & Brown, Douglas & Smith, Harry & Chick, Joe & Preger, Natasha - 447-483 Leisure Jobs: Recreating Family and Social Life in Canadian Electric Utility Marketing, 1920–1970
by Foord, David - 485-516 The International Labour Organization and Management Development in Argentina
by Amdam, Rolv Petter & Lluch, Andrea - 521-534 Selected Abstracts from International Business History Journals
by Anonymous - 535-584 In the Zone: On Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism and the Spaces of Political Economy
by Fredona, Robert & Reinert, Sophus A. - 585-587 Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, from the Post Office to the Internet. By Dan Schiller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 832 pp. + 20 b/w illus. Hardcover, $58.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-763923-8
by Henkin, David M. - 587-590 Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic. By Michael Blaakman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2448-3
by Ron, Ariel - 590-593 Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic. By Joseph P. Slaughter. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 400 pp. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-19111-1
by Grem, Darren E. - 593-595 American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation. By Roberto Saba. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 373 pp. Hardcover, $39.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-19074-7
by El Youssef, Alain - 596-598 Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success. By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. New York: Public Affairs Press, 2022. Hardcover, $29.00. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5417-9783-3
by Anbinder, Tyler - 598-601 Onassis Business History, 1924-1975. Edited by Gelina Harlaftis. Leiden/Boston: Brill’s Studies in Maritime History, 2024. 415 pp. Hardcover, $216.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-53988-4
by Iversen, Martin J. - 601-604 The Federal Reserve: A New History. By Robert L. Hetzel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. xvii + 688pp. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-226-82165-8
by Wells, Wyatt - 604-606 Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action. By James W. Cortada. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 458 pp. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-21300-4
by Stebenne, David - 607-609 Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America. By Andrew C. McKevitt. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 336 pp. Paperback, $24.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-7724-8
by Schakenbach Regele, Lindsay
March 2024, Volume 98, Issue 1
- 3-35 Forms of Capitalism
by Fredona, Robert & Reinert, Sophus A. & da Silva Lopes, Teresa - 37-80 Sedentary Merchant Triumphant: The Transformation of Venetian Trading Patterns in the Long Twelfth Century
by Shadrina, Elena - 81-118 A Mercantilist Brand: The British East India Company and Madeira Wine, 1756–1834
by Câmara, Benedita & Lopes, Teresa da Silva & Fredona, Robert - 119-163 Ireland’s Role in British Colonial Capitalism: “Men of Capitals” and Pitt’s Irish Proposals, 1784–1785
by O’Sullivan, Mary - 165-202 Radical Mercantilism and Fascist Italy’s East African Empire
by Turtur, Noelle - 203-236 The Will to Chaos and Disorder: The Behemoth as a Model of Political Economy
by Harcourt, Bernard E. - 237-257 A Reappraisal of Albert Aftalion’s Theory of Structural Transformation in an Era of Decarbonization
by Coffman, D'Maris & Scazzieri, Roberto - 259-283 Growth Regimes
by Hall, Peter A. - 285-300 Reflection: Moral Firms and the Future of Capitalism
by Henderson, Rebecca M. - 301-324 Reflection: Corporate Capitalism's Moral Lack
by Bakan, Joel - 327-332 Reimagining Business: Virtue, Spirituality, Wisdom
by John, Richard R. - 333-341 The Corporation and the Twentieth Century
by Tedlow, Richard S. - 343-345 England’s Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century. By John Tolan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 264 pp. + 9 b/w illus. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2389-9
by Irwin, Dean A. - 345-347 Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England. By Anne L. Murphy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 288 pp. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-19474-5
by Yee, Robert - 348-350 Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism. By Philip J. Stern. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2023. 408 pp. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-98812-5
by Baillargeon, David - 350-353 Germany’s Colony in China: Colonialism, Protection and Economic Development in Qingdao and Shandong, 1898–1914. By Fion Wai Ling So. London: Routledge, 2020. 165 pp. Paperback, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-367-66267-7
by Yan, Dong - 353-355 Selling Europe to the World: The Rise of the Luxury Fashion Industry, 1980–2020. By Pierre-Yves Donzé. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 184 pp. + 44 b/w illus. Hardback, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-350-33577-6
by Pouillard, Véronique
December 2023, Volume 97, Issue 4
- 699-750 The Sugar Revolution in New England: Barbados, Massachusetts Bay, and the Atlantic Sugar Economy, 1600–1700
by Menzin, Marion - 751-778 Unfreedom and Slavery Under Sail: Intercolonial Trade in the British Atlantic, 1698–1766
by Tucker, Hannah Knox - 779-807 Configuring Cultural Emerging Industries: A Comparison of the French and Italian Fashion Industries
by Merlo, Elisabetta & Pinchera, Valeria - 809-838 Borrowing without Banks: Deposit-Taking by Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Firms (1920s–1930s)
by Ng, Michael - 845-902 What The Cambridge Economic History of China Teaches Us about China and Tells Us About Economic History
by Wong, R. Bin - 903-906 The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire. By Joseph Sassoon. New York: Pantheon Books, 2022. xviii + 412 pp. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-593-31659-7
by Hutková, Karolina - 906-909 Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States. By Sharon Ann Murphy. Chicago: The Chicago University Press, 2023. 432 pp., 17 halftones, 1 line drawing, 8 tables. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-82513-7
by Brennecke, Claire - 909-911 The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind. By Jan Lucassen. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. 544 pp., 18 color + 9b-w illus. + 3 figs. + 6 maps. Paperback, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26706-8
by Rötheli, Tobias F. - 911-914 Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic. By Jennifer Morgan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 296p. Cloth, $107.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-1323-5
by Payne, Samantha - 914-916 Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools. By Christopher Willoughby. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 282 pp., 9 halftones, notes, bibl., index. Hardcover, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-4696-7184-0
by Bowrey, Brice - 916-919 Courteous Capitalism: Public Relations and the Monopoly Problem, 1900–1930. By Daniel Robert. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. 336 pp., 38 halftones, 5 line drawings. Hardcover, $64.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-4734-6
by Kodres-O’Brien, Ben - 919-922 The Emergence of Brand-Name Capitalism in Late Colonial India: Advertising and the Making of Modern Conjugality. By Douglas E. Haynes. New York: Bloomsbury, 2023. 328 pp. Hardcover, $130. ISBN 978-93-54358-15-9
by Ghosh, Anwesha - 922-924 The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City. By Destin Jenkins. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. 320 pp., 26 halftones, 10 tables. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-81998-3
by Levy, Jessica Ann - 925-927 The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem. By Kristin A. Wintersteen. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 246 pp. Hardcover, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-520-37963-3
by Barton, Jonathan R. - 927-930 Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech. By Lee McGuigan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 348 pp., 6 × 9 in, 9 b&w illus. Paperback, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-54544-0
by Meyers, Cynthia B.
September 2023, Volume 97, Issue 3
- 459-479 Introduction: Capitalism and Global Governance in Business History
by Ballor, Grace & Pitteloud, Sabine - 481-511 Beyond Planetary Limits! The International Chamber of Commerce, the United Nations, and the Invention of Sustainable Development
by Bergquist, Ann-Kristin & David, Thomas - 513-546 Development, Inc.? The EEC, Britain, Post-Colonial Overseas Development Aid, and Business
by Dimier, Véronique & Stockwell, Sarah - 547-574 Governing Global Tax Dodgers: The “Group of Four” and the Taxation of Multinational Corporations, 1970s–1980s
by Ogle, Vanessa - 575-601 Liberal Environmentalism: The Public-Private Production of European Emissions Standards
by Ballor, Grace - 603-604 Introduction
by Ballor, Grace & Pitteloud, Sabine - 605-613 Histories and Futures of Business in a Turbulent World
by Clavin, Patricia - 614-620 Governing Global Capitalism: A Lawyer's Perspective
by Perrone, Nicolás M. - 620-626 Business and Global Capitalism: Continuities and Change
by Rollings, Neil - 626-631 Competing Projects in Global Governance
by Slobodian, Quinn - 633-644 Reflection: Firms, Rules, and Global Capitalism
by Abdelal, Rawi - 647-655 Revisiting Interwar Global Economic Governance: Technocrats, Sovereignty, and the Perennial Problem of Legitimacy in Global Governance
by Phillips-Sawyer, Laura - 657-659 Social Europe, the Road Not Taken: The Left and European Integration in the Long 1970s. By Aurélie Dianara Andry . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 336 pp. Hardcover, $105.00. ISBN: 978-019286-709-4
by Sheehan, Melanie - 659-662 Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy & Culture in Early Modern China. By He Bian. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 246 pp., appendices, Chinese character glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-20013-2
by Chao, Yüan-ling - 662-664 Business Lobbying in the European Union. By David Coen , Alexander Katsaitis , and Matia Vannoni . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 221 pp. Hardcover, £96.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-958975-3
by Laurens, Sylvain - 665-667 Plowshares into Swords: Weaponized Knowledge, Liberal Order, and the League of Nations. By David Ekbladh. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 320 pp., 22 halftones. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-82049-1
by Dungy, Madeleine Lynch - 667-670 The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960–1990. By Allison Elias. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 312 pp. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-18075-7
by Swinth, Kirsten - 670-672 The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era. By Gary Gerstle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 432 pp. Hardcover, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-751964-6
by Kaplan, Rami - 673-674 The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are. ByDavid M. Henkin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. 288 pp. + 8 b-w illus. Hardcover, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-25732-8
by Birth, Kevin K. - 675-677 The Postwar Economic Order: National Reconstruction and International Cooperation. By Albert O. Hirschman, ed. Michele Alacevich and Pier Francesco Asso. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 352 pp. Hardcover, $120.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-20058-5
by Morin, Johanna Gautier - 678-680 J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Crisis of Capitalism: From the Wall Street Crash to World War II. By Martin Horn. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 406 pp., bibl., index. Cloth, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-66356-4
by Link, Stefan - 680-683 Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank. By Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 354 pp. Hardcover, $37.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-21720-8
by Phillips-Fein, Kim - 683-685 Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization. By Harold James. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. 376 pp., 16 b-w illus. Hardcover, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-30-026339-8
by Kemmerer, Matthias - 686-688 Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession. By Ann Mari May . New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 256 pp. Hardcover, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-19290-3
by Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Cléo - 688-691 Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development. By Nikhil Menon . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 276 pp., illus, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $34.99. ISBN: 978-1-009-04458-5
by Haynes, Douglas E. - 691-693 A History of Business Cartels: International Politics, National Policies and Anti-Competitive Behaviour. Edited by Martin Shanahan and Susanna Fellman. New York: Routledge 2022. 344 pp., 11 b-w illus. Hardcover, $152.00. ISBN: 978-0-367-64918-0
by Sogner, Knut - 693-696 Capitalism & Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad. Edited by David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn . Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2022. 288 pp. Paperback, $33.00. ISBN: 978-1-77363-478-4
by Belisle, Donica
June 2023, Volume 97, Issue 2
- 199-223 Slavery, Coercion, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
by Gardner, Leigh - 225-246 Captivity's Commerce: The Theory and Methodology of Slaving and Capitalism
by Hicks, Mary E. - 247-281 (Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly
by Ruderman, Anne & van Waijenburg, Marlous - 283-305 Pharmaceutical Captivity, Epistemological Rupture, and the Business Archive of the British Slave Trade
by Roberts, Carolyn - 307-334 “This Slavery Business Is a Horrible Thing”: The Economy of American Slavery in the Lives of the Enslaved
by Edwards, Justene Hill - 335-361 Profiting from Slavery and Emancipation: Compensation, Capital, and Collateral in Nineteenth-Century Senegal
by Everill, Bronwen & Diedhiou, Khadidiatou - 363-384 The British Gunpowder Industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
by Radburn, Nicholas - 385-409 A Guide to the History of Industrial Slavery in the United States
by Cole, Isabel & Friedman, Walter A. - 415-419 Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and Its Abolition. By David Richardson. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2022. 384 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $38.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-25043-5. Envoys of Abolition: British Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade in West Africa. By Mary Wills. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. 256 pp. Illustrations. Paperback, $49.99. ISBN: 978-1-80207-771-1. Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System. By Maeve Ryan. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2022. 328 pp. Hardcover, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-25139-5
by Mitchell, Matthew David - 421-423 The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America. By Joshua D. Rothman. New York: Basic Books, 2021. 512 pp. Paperback, $19.99. ISBN: 978-1-5416-1660-8
by Gudmestad, Robert - 423-425 Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean. By Erin Woodruff Stone. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 288 pp. Hardcover, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-5310-8
by García-Montón, Alejandro - 426-428 The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600–1870. By Daniel R. Mandell. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 314 pp. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-3711-8
by Bouton, Terry - 428-430 Money in the Dutch Republic: Everyday Practice and Circuits of Exchange. By Sebastian Felten. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Hardcover, $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-00-909884-7
by Quinn, Stephen - 430-432 War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 1652–89. Edited by David Ormrod and Gijs Rommelse. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020. 344 pp., 49 b/w illus. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-78327-324-9
by Talbott, Siobhan