Content
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 - 432-434 Swansea Copper: A Global History. By Chris Evans and Louise Miskell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 242 pp. Hardcover, $57.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-3911-2
by Storli, Espen - 434-437 The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise. By Laura R. Sandy. New York: Routledge, 2020. 412 pp., 8 B/W illus. Paperback, $42.36. ISBN: 978-1-03-223707-7
by Oast, Jennifer - 437-439 Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery. By Bruce A. Ragsdale. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. x + 358 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-24638-6
by Leibiger, Stuart - 439-441 Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda. By Vanessa S. Oliveira. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. xii + 173 pp., figures, maps, tables, glossary, index. Cloth, $75.95. ISBN: 978-0-299-32580-0
by Domingues da Silva, Daniel B. - 442-444 Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Dale W. Tomich, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, and Carlos Venegas Fonias. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 176 pp., 10 x 9, 84 color plates, 1 map, 1 table, notes, bibl., index. Paperback, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6312-8
by Rothman, Adam - 444-447 The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal. By Joan Flores-Villalobos. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 296 pp. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2363-9
by Colby, Jason M. - 447-449 Exporting Capitalism: Private Enterprise and US Foreign Policy. By Ethan Kapstein. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 304 pp., 21 illus., 1 table. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-25163-2
by Zeiler, Thomas - 449-451 Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State. By Claire Dunning Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 336 pp. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-81990-7
by Babbitt, Colton - 452-454 Buying into Change: Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco's Spain, 1939–1982. By Alejandro J. Gómez del Moral. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 366 pp., 9 photos, 12 illus., 1 table, index. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN: 978-1-4962-0506-3
by Rosado Cubero, Ana - 454-456 Capitalism and the Senses. Edited by Regina Lee Blaszczyk and David Suisman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 312 pp., 21 b/w images. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2420-9
by Gordon-Fogelson, Robert
March 2023, Volume 97, Issue 1
- 3-31 Creating Value Out of Waste: The Transformation of the Swedish Waste and Recycling Sector, 1970s–2010s
by Bergquist, Ann-Kristin & Lindmark, Magnus & Petrusenko, Nadezda - 33-65 Business Accounting at Fengshengtai in Late Imperial China: Is There New Evidence of Double-Entry Bookkeeping?
by Lowenstein, Matthew & Cao, Shuji - 67-91 The Political Economy of American Businesses in British Central Africa, 1953–1963
by Gwande, Victor M. - 93-125 A State of Supervision: The Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Germany, 1900s–1930s
by Yee, Robert - 131-135 Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives. By Stephen Roach. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 448 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-25964-3. Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise. By Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 384 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26338-1
by Friedman, Jeremy S. - 137-143 Political Capitalism
by Levinson, Marc - 145-152 Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric. By Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. 384 pp. Paperback, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-358-25041-8. The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy. By David Gelles. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2022. 272 pp. Hardcover, $28.00. ISBN: 978-1-982-17644-0
by Tedlow, Richard S. - 153-155 The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage. By John Harris. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 312 pp. Illustrations, maps. Paperback, $22.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26149-3
by Ferraro, Marcelo Rosanova - 155-158 The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam. By Laurence Monnais. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 290 pp. Illustrations. Paperback, $32.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-46653-0
by Lincoln, Martha - 158-160 A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan. By Timothy M. Yang. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Notes, references, index. Cloth, $54.95. 354 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5017-5624-5
by Takayama, Emilie - 160-163 Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London. By Laura Gowing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 275 pp. Bibliography, index. Hardcover, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-48638-5
by Taverner, Charlie - 163-165 Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State. By Elisabeth Anderson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. xvi + 384 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-691-22090-1; paper, 978-0-691-22089-5
by Otori, Yukako - 166-168 Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union. By David K. Thomson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 288 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6661-7
by Nitschke, Christoph - 168-171 The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity. By Anat Rosenberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 432 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Hardcover, £70.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-285891-7
by Meyers, Cynthia B. - 171-173 Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa. By Holger Droessler. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 304 pp. Photographs, maps. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-26333-8
by Lahti, Janne - 173-177 Vendors’ Capitalism: A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City. By Ingrid Bleynat. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 264 pp. Bibliography, index. Hardcover, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-5036-1460-4
by Gómez-Galvarriato, Aurora - 177-180 The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province. By Ümit Kurt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 400 pp. Photographs, maps, tables. Hardcover, $46.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-24794-9
by Arbatlı, Cemal Eren - 180-183 Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification. By Richard F. Hirsh. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 400 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Hardcover, $60.00. ISBN: 978-1-42144-362-1
by Glaser, Leah S. - 183-186 Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas. By Amy Offner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xv + 381 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-19093-8
by Bucheli, Marcelo - 187-189 Making Social Spending Work. By Peter H. Lindert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 434 pp. Hardcover, $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-47816-8
by Paternesi Meloni, Walter - 189-192 The Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business. Edited by Pierre-Yves Donzé, Véronique Pouillard, and Joanne Roberts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xii + 634 pp. Illustrations, figures, index. Hardback, $150.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-093222-0
by Alexander, Nicholas - 192-194 The Behavioral Economics of Inflation Expectations: Macroeconomics Meets Psychology. By Tobias F. Rötheli. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 243 pp. Illustrations, references, index. ISBN: 978-1-108-44706-5
by Curtin, Richard
December 2022, Volume 96, Issue 4
- 709-739 Business Creation and Political Turmoil: Ireland versus Scotland before 1900
by Adams, Robin J. C. & Campbell, Gareth & Coyle, Christopher & Turner, John D. - 741-775 The Unsung Activists: UK Shareholder Investigation Committees, 1888–1940
by Rutterford, Janette & Hannah, Leslie - 777-803 From Defensive to Transformative Business Diplomacy: The British South Africa Company and the End of Chartered Company Rule in Rhodesia, 1910–1925
by Rönnbäck, Klas & Broberg, Oskar - 805-832 Methodological Openness in Business History Research: Looking Afresh at the British Interwar Management Movement
by Maclean, Mairi & Shaw, Gareth & Harvey, Charles & Stringer, Gary - 833-855 Ownership Matters: French Governments and Automotive Industrialists Facing the Japanese Challenge, 1974–1986
by Milor, Alice - 865-870 Merchants Revisited: Long-Distance Traders and the World they Made
by Tucker, Hannah Knox - 871-875 Rahul Bajaj: An Extraordinary Life
by Kudaisya, Medha - 877-879 Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina. By Justene Hill Edwards. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 269 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-2311-9113-5
by Rothman, Joshua D. - 879-882 They Were Her Property: White Slave-Owning Women in the American South. By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 320 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $18.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-25183-8
by Molloy, Marie S. - 882-884 The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300–525 CE. By Robin Fleming. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-81229-736-2
by Rogers, Adam - 884-886 Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands, 1000-1800. By Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 280 pp. Illustrations, tables, map, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-69122-987-4
by Dreijer, Gijs - 887-889 The Making of the Modern Corporation: The Casa di San Giorgio and Its Legacy (1446–1720). By Carlo Taviani. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 248 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index. Hardback, $160.00. ISBN: 978-1-032-19892-7
by Iodice, Antonio - 889-892 The Overseas Trade of British America: A Narrative History. By Thomas M. Truxes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 464 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-30015-988-2
by Sammons, Franklin - 892-894 To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities. By Sara T. Damiano. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. 312 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $55.95. ISBN: 978-1421440555
by Lewis, Susan Ingalls - 895-897 Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. By William Quinn and John D. Turner. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 288 pp. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN: 978-1-10842-125-6
by Françoise, Juliette - 897-899 Sustaining Empire: Venezuela's Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–1828. By Edward P. Pompeian. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 344 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Hardcover, $64.95. ISBN: 978-1-42144-338-6
by Regele, Lindsay Schakenbach - 900-901 Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism. By Dara Orenstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 352 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-66290-9
by Williams, Johnathan K. - 901-904 Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China. By C. Patterson Giersch. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. 304 pp. Maps, figures, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-150361-164-1
by Wang, Yi - 904-907 The Dead Pledge: The Origins of the Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913–1939. By Judge Glock. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 304 pp. Notes, references, index. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-23119-253-8
by Snowden, Kenneth - 907-910 From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia. By Dan Slater and Joseph Wong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 368 pp. Notes, references, index. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-69116-760-2
by Rithmire, Meg - 910-912 Saint-Gobain et ses banquiers (1914–2000): Enjeux et méthodes du financement d'une grande entreprise [Saint-Gobain and its bankers, 1914–2000: Issues and methods of financing a large company]. By Hubert Bonin. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2020. 192 pp. Hardcover, 39.00 CHF. ISBN: 978-2-600-06011-0
by Sage, Elizabeth - 912-915 Les multinationales suisses dans l'arène politique (1942–1993) [Swiss multinationals in the political arena, 1942–1993]. By Sabine Pitteloud. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2022. 424 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Hardcover, CHF 48.00. ISBN: 978-2-600-06328-9
by Wilhelm, Lola - 915-917 A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021. By Alan S. Blinder. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 432 pp. Illustrations, index. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-69123-838-8
by Williams, Olamide - 918-920 The History of Financial Technology and Regulation: From American Incorporation to Cryptocurrency and Crowdfunding. By Seth C. Oranburg. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 250 pp. Figures, index. Paper, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-316-60730-5
by Rötheli, Tobias F.