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March 2006, Volume 7, Issue 1
- 177-179 Kathleen Thelen. How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan.Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xv + 333 pp. ISBN 0-521-83768-5, $75.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-521-54674-5, $29.99 (paper)
by Friel, Daniel - 179-181 David Mitch, John Brown, and Marco H. D. van Leeuwen, eds. Origins of the Modern Career. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 342 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3496-5, $99.95
by Jacoby, Daniel - 181-183 Sanford Jacoby. The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xi + 216 pp. ISBN 0-691-11999-6, $35.00
by Herrigel, Gary - 183-185 Clement M. Henry and Rodney Wilson, eds. The Politics of Islamic Finance. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. vi + 307 pp. ISBN 0-7486-1837-6, $30.00 (paper)
by Clawson, Patrick - 185-187 Stuart B. Schwartz. Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450–1680. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii + 347 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2875-0, $59.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8078-5538-3, $22.50 (paper)
by Benjamin, Jules R. - 187-189 Daniel Lederman. The Political Economy of Protection: Theory and the Chilean Experience. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. ix + 191 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4917-5, $55.00
by de Melo, Jaime - 189-191 Julie Hessler. A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917–1953. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi + 366 pp. ISBN 0-691-11492-7, $39.50
by Gronow, Jukka - 191-193 Paul J. Kubicek. Organized Labor in Postcommunist States: From Solidarity to Infirmity. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. xiv + 256 pp. ISBN 0-8229-5856-2, $29.95 (paper)
by Crowley, Stephen - 193-195 Kevin Binfield. Writings of the Luddites. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xxviii + 279 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7612-5, $49.95 (cloth)
by Steinberg, Marc W. - 195-197 Anne Clendinning. Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Industry, 1889–1939. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xvii + 352 pp. ISBN 0-7546-0692-9, $109.95 (cloth)
by Jenkins, Andrew - 197-199 Richard Coopey, Sean O’Connell, and Dilwyn Porter. Mail Order Retailing in Britain: A Business and Social History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 248 pp. ISBN 0-19-829650-9, $95.00 (cloth)
by Alexander, Nicholas - 199-201 Arjan van Rooij. Building Plants: Markets for Technology and Internal Capabilities in DSM’s Fertiliser Business, 1925–1970.Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Aksant Academic Publishers, 2004. 279 pp. ISBN 90-5260-138-0, $34.95 (paper)
by Puig, Nuria - 201-203 Harm G. Schröter. Americanization of the European Economy: A Compact Survey of American Economic Influence in Europe since the 1880s. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2005. xii + 268 pp. ISBN 1-4020-2884-9, €.84.53
by Amatori, Franco - 203-205 Thomas A. Kinney. The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xi + 381 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7946-9, $49.95 (cloth)
by Greene, Anne N. - 205-208 Andrew Dawson. Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class, and Revolution, 1830–1890. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 302 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3396-9, $94.95 (cloth)
by Sinclair, Bruce - 208-210 William Faricy Condee. Coal and Culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xii + 210 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1588-3, $34.95 (cloth)
by Casto, Marilyn - 210-212 Robert G. Angevine. The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xvii + 351 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4239-1, $65.00 (cloth)
by Marrs, Aaron W. - 212-214 Amy G. Richter. Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii + 272 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2926-9, $49.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8078-5591-X, $19.95 (paper)
by Gogan, Tanya - 214-216 David Leverenz. Paternalism Incorporated: Fables of American Fatherhood, 1865–1940. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. x + 254 pp. ISBN 0-8014-4167-6, $39.95 (cloth)
by Sparks, Edie - 216-218 Douglas Cazaux Sackman. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 401 pp. ISBN 0-520-23886-9, $45.00 (cloth)
by Wallis, Eileen V. - 218-220 Paul Sabin. Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900–1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xx + 307 pp. ISBN 0-520-24198-3, $39.95 (cloth)
by Priest, Tyler - 221-223 Steve Lerner. Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. xiv + 344 pp. ISBN 0-262-12273-1, $27.95 (cloth)
by Rosen, Christine - 223-225 Jarol B. Manheim. Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004. xii + 216 pp. ISBN 0-8058-5068-6, $34.50 (cloth)
by Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth
December 2005, Volume 6, Issue 4
- 559-560 Editor’s Introduction
by Lipartito, Kenneth - 561-570 Shaped by Risk: The American Fire Insurance Industry, 1790–1920
by Baranoff, Dalit - 571-580 State Subsidies and the Sources of Company Finance in Italian Industrial Districts, 1951–1991
by Spadavecchia, Anna - 581-587 The People’s Telephone: The Politics of Telephony in the United States and Canada, 1876–1926
by MacDougall, Robert - 588-600 Launching a Thousand Ships: Entrepreneurs, War Workers, and the State in American Shipbuilding, 1940–1945
by Tassava, Christopher James - 601-645 Competing Research Traditions in American Industry: Uncertain Alliances between Engineering and Science at Westinghouse Electric, 1886–1935
by Kline, Ronald R. & Lassman, Thomas C. - 646-681 Solomon Huebner and the Development of Life Insurance Sales Professionalism, 1905–1927
by Creek, Drew Vande - 682-709 The Neglected Legacy of Lancashire Cotton: Industrial Clusters and the U.K. Outdoor Trade, 1960–1990
by Parsons, Mike & Rose, Mary B. - 710-712 Gijs Mom. The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 423 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7138-7, $54.95
by Schrag, Zachary M. - 712-714 Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella, eds. Contract and Property in Early Modern China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. vii + 398 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4639-7, $65.00
by Rowe, William T. - 714-716 Christopher A. Reed. Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876–1937. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. xvii + 391 pp. ISBN 0-7748-1040-8, $85.00
by Shiao, Ling A. - 716-718 Laura Hein. Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan. Washington, D.C., and Berkeley, Calif.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and University of California Press, 2004. xvii + 328 pp. ISBN 0-520-24347-1, $45.00
by Metzler, Mark - 718-720 Todd A. Diacon. Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906–1930. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. xi + 228 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3210-8, $74.95 (cloth); 0-8223-3249-3, $21.95 (paper)
by Szmrecsányi, Tamás - 720-724 Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson, eds. The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Volume I: Industrialization, 1700–1860. xix + 536 pp. ISBN 0-521-82036, $100.00 (cloth); 0-521-52736, $40.00 (paper). Volume II: Economic Maturity, 1860–1939. xix + 552 pp. ISBN 0-521-82037, $100.00 (cloth); 0-521-52737, $40.00 (paper). Volume III: Structural Change and Growth, 1939–2000, xix + 573 pp. ISBN 0-521-82038, $100.00 (cloth); 0-521-52738, $40.00 (paper)
by Lampe, John R. - 724-726 Richard Dale. The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. vi + 192 pp. ISBN 0-691-11971-6, $29.95
by Quinn, Stephen - 726-728 Søren Mentz. The English Gentleman Merchant at Work: Madras and the City of London, 1660–1740. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005. 304 pp. ISBN 87-7289-909-3, $25.00 (paper)
by Carlos, Ann M. - 728-730 Robin Pearson. Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700–1850. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 434 pp. ISBN 0-7546-336302, $99.95 (cloth)
by Baranoff, Dalit - 730-732 Guus Veenendaal. Spoorwegen in Nederland. Van 1834 tot nu. Amsterdam: Boom, 2004. 604 pp. ISBN 90-5352-980-2, €49.50
by van Driel, Hugo - 732-735 Marc Flandreau. The Glitter of Gold: France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848–1873. Translated by Owen Leeming. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xix + 319 pp. ISBN 0-19-925786-8, $95.00. - Youssef Cassis and Eric Bussiere, eds. London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii + 325 pp. ISBN 0-19-92649-1, $95.00
by Kobrak, Christopher - 736-737 Peter Hayes. From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx + 373 pp. ISBN 0-521-78227-9, $40.00
by Mierzejewski, Alfred C. - 738-740 Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia, eds. Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii + 369 pp. ISBN 0-19-925189-4, $99.50 (cloth); 0-19-925190-8, $29.95 (paper).
by Laird, Pamela W. - 740-742 Stephen P. Rice. Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 230 pp. ISBN 0-520-22781-6, $49.95
by Rock, Howard B. - 743-744 John Landers. The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-industrial West. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiii + 440 pp. ISBN 0-19-924916-4, £60.00 (cloth); 0-19-927957-8, £22.50 (paper)
by Sturdy, David J. - 745-746 Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill. The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xii + 263 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4854-3, $24.95 (cloth)
by Robbins, William G. - 747-748 Victor J. Tremblay and Carol Horton Tremblay. The U.S. Brewing Industry: Data and Economic Analysis. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. xiv + 379 pp. ISBN 0-262-20151-8, $40.00 (cloth)
by Gourvish, Terence R. - 749-751 Andrew Wender Cohen. The Racketeer’s Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-521-83466-X, $60.00 (cloth)
by Hirsch, Susan E. - 751-753 Neil Dahlstrom and Jeremy Dahlstrom. The John Deere Story: A Biography of Plowmakers John and Charles Deere. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. xix + 204 pp. ISBN 0-87580-336-9, $24.00
by Anderson, J. L. - 753-755 Richard J. Orsi. Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii + 615 pp. ISBN 0-520-20019-5, $29.95
by Klein, Maury - 755-758 Douglas Brinkley. Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903–2003. New York: Viking, 2003. xxii + 858 pp. ISBN 0-670-03181-X, $34.95. - Max Wallace. The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003. 465 pp. ISBN 0-312-29022-5, $27.95
by Woeste, Vicky Saker - 758-760 Lisa Jacobson. Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xvi + 299 pp. ISBN 0-231-11388-9, $35.00 (cloth)
by Hawes, Joseph M. - 760-762 Janelle S. Taylor, Linda L. Layne, and Danielle F. Wozniak, eds. Consuming Motherhood. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. ix + 323 pp. ISBN 0-8135-3429-1, $62.00 (cloth); 0-8135-3430-5, $22.95 (paper)
by Sheumaker, Helen - 762-764 Jennifer Mittelstadt. From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945–1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii + 267 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2922-6, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8078-5587-1, $19.95 (paper)
by Levenstein, Lisa - 765-766 Marina Moskowitz. Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii + 300 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7947-7, $45.00
by Elvins, Sarah - 767-768 Brett Williams. Debt for Sale: A Social History of the Credit Trap. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 154 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3817-6, $24.95 (cloth)
by Flesher, Dale L. - 769-771 Ernesto R. Gantman. Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005. viii + 185 pp. ISBN 0-7546-4186-4, $99.95
by Friedman, Gerald - 771-773 Kent H. Hughes. Building the Next American Century: The Past and Future of American Economic Competitiveness. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2005. xxiii + 542 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8204-4, $55.00 (cloth); 0-8018-8203-6, $24.95 (paper)
by Krywulak, Tim
September 2005, Volume 6, Issue 3
- 357-363 Guest Editor’s Introduction
by Zelin, Madeleine - 364-394 The Business of Survival: Competition and Cooperation in the Shanghai Flour Milling Industry
by Meissner, Daniel J. - 395-418 Managing Market, Hierarchy, and Network: The Jiuda Salt Industries, Ltd., 1917–1937
by Bun, Kwan Man - 419-451 Vertical Integration, Business Diversification, and Firm Architecture: The Case of the China Egg Produce Company in Shanghai, 1923–1950
by Chang, Ning Jennifer - 452-491 Myth and Reality in Chinese Financial Cliques in 1936
by Sheehan, Brett - 492-495 Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business History around the World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xv + 425 pp. ISBN 0-521-82107-X, $65.00
by Scranton, Philip - 495-497 Frank Dobbin, ed. The New Economic Sociology: A Reader. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. vii + 565 pp. ISBN 0-691-04905-X, $65.00 (cloth); 0-691-04906-8, $27.95 (paper)
by Hart, David M. - 497-499 Jack Goody. Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2004. vii + 200 pp. ISBN 0-7456-3190-8, $56.95 (cloth); 0-7456-3191-6, $21.95 (paper)
by D’Amato, Michael - 499-501 Richard Coopey, ed. Information and Technology Policy: An International History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvi + 346 pp. ISBN 0-19-924105-8, $99.50 (cloth)
by Morton, David - 501-504 John Storey, ed. The Management of Innovation. 2 vols. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004. xxxi + 734 pp. (vol. 1); ix + 570 pp. (vol. 2). ISBN 1-84376-429-6, $495.00 (cloth)
by Tassava, Christopher - 504-506 Erik Gilbert. Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860–1970. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. xiii + 176 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1557-3, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8214-1558-1, $26.95 (paper)
by Myers, Garth A. - 506-508 Elisabeth Köll. From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xvi + 422 pp. ISBN 0-674-01394-8, $49.50 (cloth)
by Morgan, Stephen L. - 508-510 Jorma Ahvenainen. The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War. Helsinki, Finland: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2004. 427 pp. ISBN 951-41-0947-3, €35.00
by Bucheli, Marcelo - 510-512 Ben Ross Schneider. Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xix + 312 pp. ISBN 0-521-83651-4, $70.00 (cloth); 0-521-54500-5, $26.99 (paper)
by Dávila, Carlos - 512-514 Marcelo Bucheli. Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899–2000. New York: New York University Press, 2005. xi + 241 pp. ISBN 0-8147-9934-5, $45.00 (cloth)
by Read, Ian William - 514-516 Robert C. Allen. Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. xv + 301 pp. ISBN 0-691-00696-2, $45.00 (cloth)
by Kuromiya, Hiroaki - 516-518 Jan Luiten van Zanden and Arthur van Riel. The Strictures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xv + 377 pp. ISBN 0-691-11438-2, $55.00 (cloth)
by de Goey, Ferry - 519-520 Gabriel Tortella, Alfonso Ballestero, and José Luis DÃaz Fernández. Del monopolio al libre mercado: La historia de la industria petrolera española [From Monopoly to the Free Market: A History of the Spanish Oil Industry]. Madrid, Spain: LID Editorial Empresarial S.L., 2003. 632 pp. ISBN 8-488-71732-6, €23.08
by Toninelli, Pier Angelo - 521-522 Christopher Kobrak and Per H. Hansen, eds. European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920–1945. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004. xiv + 261 pp. ISBN 1-57181-629-1, $60.00
by Hawkins, Richard A. - 523-525 Paul Erker. Vom nationalen zum globalen Wettbewerb: Die deutsche und amerikanische Reifenindustrie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert [From National to Global Competition: The German and American Tire Industry during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries]. 710 pp. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2005. ISBN 3-506-71788-X, €98.00
by Schröter, Harm G. - 525-527 Robert H. Gudmestad. A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xii + 246 pp. ISBN 0-8071-2884-8, $59.95 (cloth); 0-8071-2922-4, $21.95 (paper)
by Egerton, Douglas R. - 527-529 John BezÃs-Selfa. Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 279 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3993-0, $39.95 (cloth)
by Peskin, Lawrence A. - 529-531 Helen Tangires. Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 263 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7133-6, $45.00 (cloth)
by Grimsted, David - 531-533 Scott A. Sandage. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. x + 362 pp. ISBN 0-674-01510-X, $35.00 (cloth)
by Bean, Jonathan - 533-535 Michael Zakim. Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. x + 296 pp. ISBN 0-226-97793-5, $30.00 (cloth)
by Schorman, Rob - 536-538 Rob Schorman. Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 224 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3728-5, $35.00 (cloth)
by Schweitzer, Marlis - 538-540 Barry Shank. A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xvii + 328 pp. ISBN 0-231-11878-3, $50.00 (cloth)
by Farber, David - 540-541 Sarah Elvins. Sales and Celebrations: Retailing and Regional Identity in Western New York State, 1920–1940. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. 222 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1549-2, $42.95 (cloth)
by Dyer, Stephanie - 542-544 Michael Augspurger. An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune Magazine and Depression America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. viii + 292 pp. ISBN 0-8014-4204-4, $34.95 (cloth)
by Phelan, Brian - 544-546 H. Roger Grant. “Follow the Flag†: A History of the Wabash Railroad Company. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. xii + 291 pp. ISBN 0-87580-328-8, $49.95 (cloth)
by Churella, Albert - 546-548 Donald D. Stull and Michael J. Broadway. Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America. Belmont, Calif.: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004. xviii + 172 pp. ISBN 0-534-61303-9, $25.95 (paper)
by Horowitz, Roger - 548-550 Glenn Adamson. Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. xi + 219 pp. ISBN 0-262-01207-3, $45.00 (cloth); 0-944110-81, $25.00 (paper)
by Bradley, Betsy Hunter - 550-552 André Millard, ed. The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. x + 215 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7862-4, $45.00 (cloth)
by Magoun, Alexer - 552-554 Frank P. Jozsa, Jr. Sports Capitalism: The Foreign Business of American Professional Leagues. Aldershot, Hants, U.K., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004. xiv + 316 pp. ISBN 0-7546-4185-6, $99.95 (cloth)
by Cain, Louis P. - 555-556 Peter H. Spitz, ed. The Chemical Industry at the Millennium: Maturity, Restructuring, and Globalization. Philadelphia, Pa.: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2003. x + 387 pp. ISBN 0-941901-34-3, $45.00 (cloth)
by O’Reilly, Declan - 557-558 Roger Lowenstein. Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing. New York: Penguin, 2004. ix + 270 pp. ISBN 1-59420-003-3, $24.95 (cloth); 0-14-303-467-7, $15.00 (paper)
by Perkins, Edwin J.
June 2005, Volume 6, Issue 2
- 197-223 From “Ward of the State†to “Revolutionary Without a Movement†: The Political Development of William C. Norris and Control Data Corporation, 1957–1986
by Hart, David M. - 224-253 Continuity and Change in the Employment and Promotion of Japanese White-Collar Employees: The Case of the House of Mitsui
by Kasuya, Makoto - 254-277 “The Right Man†: James A. Jackson and the Origins of U.S. Government Interest in Black Business
by Weems, Robert E. & Randolph, Lewis A. - 278-304 An Efficient Pursuit? Independent Shopkeeping in 1930s Britain
by Phillips, Simon & Alexander, Andrew - 305-308 Linsun Cheng. Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897–1937. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 277 pp. ISBN 0-521-81142-2, $65.00 (cloth). - Zhaojin Ji. A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China’s Finance Capitalism. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. viii + 325 pp. ISBN 0-7656-1002-7, $69.95 (cloth); 0-7656-1003-5, $25.95 (paper)
by Bian, Morris L. - 305-308 Zhaojin Ji. A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China’s Finance Capitalism. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. viii + 325 pp. ISBN 0-7656-1002-7, $69.95 (cloth); 0-7656-1003-5, $25.95 (paper)
by Bian, Morris L. - 309-311 Joseph Tobin, ed. Pikachu’s Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 299 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3250-7, $75.95 (cloth); 0-8223-3287-6, $21.95 (paper)
by Phelan, Brian C. - 311-313 Richard Weiner. Race, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico. Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xi + 167 pp. ISBN 0-8165-2326-6, $39.95 (cloth)
by Jones, Charles - 313-315 George E. Brooks. Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2003. xxii + 335 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1485-2, $65.00 (cloth); 0-8214-1486-0, $26.95 (paper)
by Tignor, Robert L. - 315-317 George Pagoulatos. Greece’s New Political Economy: State, Finance, and Growth from Postwar to EMU. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xvi + 271 pp. ISBN 0-333-75277-5, $69.95 (cloth)
by Minoglou, Ioanna Pepelasis - 317-319 William J. Ashworth. Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640–1845. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 396 pp. ISBN 0-19-925921-6, $85.00 (cloth)
by Smail, John - 320-321 Michael Dawson. Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890–1970. Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. xiv + 274 pp. ISBN 0-7748-1054-8, $85.00 (cloth); 0-7748-1055-6, $39.95 (paper)
by Jones, Russell Douglass - 322-324 Doron S. Ben-Atar. Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xxi + 281 pp. ISBN 030010006X, $38.00 (cloth)
by Childs, William R. - 324-326 Harold S. Wilson. Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. xxii + 412 pp. ISBN 1-57806-462-7, $46.00 (cloth)
by McKinley, Shepherd W. - 326-328 Edward J. Kamholz, Jim Blain, and Gregory Kamholz. The Oregon-American Lumber Company: Ain’t No More. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2003. xix + 362 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4481-5, $65.00 (cloth)
by Doti, Lynne Pierson - 328-330 Jane Lancaster. Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth—A Life Beyond “Cheaper by the Dozen.†Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004. xii + 415 pp. ISBN 1-55553-612-3, $36.00 (cloth)
by Greenlees, Janet - 330-332 Daniel Thomas Cook. The Commodification of Childhood: The Children’s Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. x + 211 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3279-5, $74.95 (cloth); 0-8223-3268-X, $21.95 (paper)
by Roberts, Evan - 332-334 Bruce Sinclair, ed. Technology and the African American Experience: Needs and Opportunities for Study. Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2004. ix + 237 pp. ISBN 0-262-19504-6, $35.00 (cloth)
by Fouché, Rayvon - 334-339 Mira Wilkins. The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–1945. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xxi + 980 pp. ISBN 0-674-0138-5, $95.00 (cloth)
by McGlade, Jacqueline - 339-341 Sharon Zukin. Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. 325 pp. ISBN 0-415-94597-6, $27.95 (cloth); 0-415-95034-0, $18.95 (paper)
by Blaszczyk, Regina Lee - 341-343 Catherine Gudis. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-415-93454-0, $90.00 (cloth); 0-415-93455-9, $22.00 (paper)
by Pope, Daniel - 343-345 Kathy M. Newman. Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935–1947. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 237 pp. ISBN 0-520-22372-1, $55.00 (cloth); 0-520-23590-8, $21.95 (paper)
by Cukier, Wendy - 346-348 James W. Cortada. The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. 512 pp. ISBN 0-19-516588-8, $24.95 (cloth)
by Yates, JoAnne - 348-350 David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat, and Arvids A. Ziedonis. Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford Business Books, 2004. xiv + 241 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4920-5, $39.95 (cloth)
by Newfield, Christopher - 350-353 Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott, eds. Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xvi + 372 pp. ISBN 0-8014-8871-0, $24.95 (paper)
by Lassman, Thomas - 353-355 Doug Henwood. After the New Economy. New York: New Press, 2003. ix + 269 pp. ISBN 1-56584-770-9, $24.95 (cloth)
by Guthey, Eric
March 2005, Volume 6, Issue 1
- 1-44 The Surly Bonds: American Cold War Constraints on British Aviation
by Engel, Jeffrey A. - 45-75 Thomas J. Watson and the Business-Government Relationship, 1933–1956
by Stebenne, David L. - 76-97 Postwar Japanese Cotton Textile Investment in Brazil, 1955–1980
by Delanghe, Henri - 98-133 An Early Global Business in a Colonial Context: The Strategies, Management, and Failure of John Palmer and Company of Calcutta, 1780–1830
by Webster, Tony - 134-137 Response to the Symposium: Framing Business History
by Chandler, Alfred D. - 144-146 David Jenkins. The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, Volumes I and II. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi + 1191 pp. ISBN 0-521-34107-8, $375.00 (cloth)
by Riello, Giorgio - 147-149 Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, eds. Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ix + 350 pp. ISBN 0-521-82054-5, $70.00
by Pearson, Robin - 149-151 Francis J. Gavin. Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958–1971. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii + 263 pp. ISBN 0–8078–2823–8, $45.00
by Selva, Simone - 151-152 B. Mark Smith. The Equity Culture: The Story of the Global Stock Market. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. xiii + 344 pp. ISBN 0-374-28175-0, $25.00 (cloth)
by Smith, George David - 152-154 G. Balachandran, ed. India and the World Economy, 1850–1950. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. xi + 319 pp. ISBN 0-19-565982-1, $39.95
by Rao, Nagendra - 154-156 Brett Sheehan. Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. xiii + 269 pp. ISBN 0-674-01080-9, $59.95
by Morgan, Stephen L. - 156-158 Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein. Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750–1850. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xii + 273 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4465-3, $60.00 (cloth); 0-8047-4859-4, $24.95 (paper)
by Holten, Birgitte - 158-160 Muriel McAvoy. Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 337 pp. ISBN 0-8130-2613-X, $27.95 (cloth)
by Eakin, Marshall C. - 160-162 Julio Moreno. Yankee Don’t Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920–1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xi + 321 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2802-5, $59.95 (cloth); 0-8078-5478-6, $21.95 (paper)
by Demers, Maurice - 162-165 Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg, eds. Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. viii + 364 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3159-4, $79.95 (cloth); 0-8223-3196-9, $22.95 (paper)
by Read, Ian - 165-168 Hubert Bonin, Yannick Lung, and Steven Tolliday, eds. Ford, 1903–2003: The European History. 2 vols. Paris: Editions P.L.A.G.E., 2003. 611 + 630 pp. ISBN 2-914369-06-9, €175
by Veenendaal, Augustus J. - 169-171 Nancy J. Troy. Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2004. xi + 438 pp. ISBN 0-262-20140-2, $62.00 (cloth); 0-262-70103-0, $24.95 (paper)
by Schweitzer, Marlis - 171-172 Jon Agar. The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2003. viii + 554 pp. ISBN 0-262-01202-2, $50.00 (€32.95)
by Kirby, Maurice - 173-174 Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen. The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. ix + 200 pp. ISBN 0-19-925699-3, $35.00
by Mau, Mark - 175-177 David R. Meyer. The Roots of American Industrialization. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7141-7, $45.00
by Adams, Sean Patrick - 177-179 Robert E. Wright and George David Smith. Mutually Beneficial: The Guardian and Life Insurance in America. New York: New York University Press, 2004. xxii + 501 pp. ISBN 0-8147-9397-5, $50.00 (cloth)
by Flesher, Dale L. - 179-181 David Dyer, Frederick Dalzell, and Rowena Olegario. Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 2004. x + 467 pp. ISBN 1-59139-147-4, $29.95
by Laird, Pamela - 181-183 Kathleen G. Donohue. Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii + 326 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7426-2, $45.95 (cloth)
by Bix, Amy S. - 184-189 Richard S. Tedlow. The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM’s Founding Father and Son. New York: Harper Business, 2003. x + 340 pp. ISBN 0-06-001405-9, $26.95 (cloth); 0-06-001406-7, $15.95 (paper). - Kevin Maney. The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr., and the Making of IBM. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003. xxv + 485 pp. ISBN 0-471-41463-8, $29.95 (cloth); 0-471-67925-9, $16.95 (paper)
by Usselman, Steven W. - 184-189 Kevin Maney. The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr., and the Making of IBM. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003. xxv + 485 pp. ISBN 0-471-41463-8, $29.95 (cloth); 0-471-67925-9, $16.95 (paper)
by Usselman, Steven W. - 189-191 Neil Lanctot. Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xi + 496 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3807-9, $34.95
by Weems, Robert E. - 192-194 Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines. Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire. New York: One World (Ballantine Book), 2004. xv + 320 pp. ISBN 0-345-45347-6, $24.95
by White, W. Thomas - 194-196 Carlos Rufin. The Political Economy of Institutional Change in the Electricity Supply Industry: Shifting Currents. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2003. xiii + 226 pp. ISBN 1-84376-203-X, $90.00
by Nelles, H. V.
December 2004, Volume 5, Issue 4
- 562-582 Business Failure and the Agenda of Business History
by Fridenson, Patrick - 583-593 Civic Beauty: Beauty Culturists and the Politics of African American Female Entrepreneurship, 1900–1965
by Gill, Tiffany M. - 594-606 From Outposts to Enclaves: A Social History of Black Barbers from 1750 to 1915
by Bristol, Douglas - 607-616 Making Change at the Grocery Store: Government, Grocers, and the Problem of Women’s Autonomy in the Creation of Chicago’s Supermarkets, 1920–1950
by Deutsch, Tracey - 617-624 Citizen Savers: Family Economy, Financial Institutions, and Public Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Northeast
by Wadhwani, R. Daniel - 625-668 Shopping American-Style: The Arrival of the Supermarket in Postwar Italy
by Scarpellini, Emanuela - 669-690 Governments, Firms, and National Wealth: A New Pulp and Paper Industry in Postwar New Zealand
by Baker, Astrid - 691-693 Johann Peter Murmann. Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxi + 294 pp. ISBN 0-521-81329-8, $60.00 (cloth)
by Graham, Margaret B. W. - 693-695 Gerald W. Brock. The Second Information Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xiv + 322 pp. ISBN 0-674-01178-3, $39.95 (cloth)
by Abrahamson, Eric John - 695-697 Saadia M. Pekkanen. Picking Winners? From Technology Catch-up to the Space Race in Japan. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003. xvi + 283 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4732-6, $45.00 (cloth)
by Wittner, David G. - 698-699 William R. Summerhill. Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment and Railroads in Brazil, 1854–1913. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. xx + 297 pp. ISBN 0-8047-3224-8, $60.00 (cloth)
by Szmrecsányi, Tamás - 699-701 Michael P. Costeloe. Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico’s Foreign Debt, 1824–1888. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2003. xxii + 384 pp. ISBN 0-275-97939-3, $69.95 (cloth)
by Rodriguez, Victor J. - 701-703 F. M. Scherer. Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. x + 264 pp. ISBN 0-691-11621-0, $35.00 (cloth)
by Kraft, James P. - 703-705 J. Forbes Munro. Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and his Business Empire, 1823–1893. Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2003. ix + 525 pp. ISBN 0-85115-935-4, $130 (cloth)
by Roland, Alex - 706-708 John F. Wilson and Andrew Popp, eds. Industrial Clusters and Regional Business Networks in England, 1750–1970. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. x + 288 pp. ISBN 0-7546-0761-5, $84.95 (cloth)
by Jaffe, James - 708-710 Dieter Helm. Energy, the State, and the Market: British Energy Policy since 1979. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi + 457 pp. ISBN 0-19-926203-9, $45.00 (cloth); 0-19-927074-0, $35.00 (paper)
by Jenkins, Andrew - 710-712 Werner Abelshauser, Wolfgang von Hippel, Jeffrey Allan Johnson, and Raymond G. Stokes. German Industry and Global Enterprise, BASF: The History of a Company. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ix + 677 pp. ISBN 0-521-82726-4, $75.00 (cloth)
by Smith, John K. - 712-714 Arthur A. Daemmrich. Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii + 203. ISBN 0-8078-2844-0, $34.95 (cloth)
by Amdam, Rolv Petter - 714-717 Robert E. Wright, ed. The History of Corporate Finance: Development of Anglo-American Securities Markets, Financial Practices, Theories and Laws. Six volumes. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003. iii + 2,497 pp. ISBN: 1-85196-749-4, $950.00 (cloth)
by Perkins, Edwin J. - 717-719 Jonathan Crystal. Unwanted Company: Foreign Investment in American Industries. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 230 pp. ISBN 0-8014-4123-4, $30.45 (cloth)
by Wilkins, Mira - 719-721 Dan Rottenberg. In the Kingdom of Coal: An American Family and the Rock that Changed the World. New York: Routledge, 2003. xvii + 327 pp. ISBN 0-415-93522-9, $29.95 (cloth)
by Palmer, David - 721-724 Geoffrey L. Buckley. Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910–1945. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. xxii + 215 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1555-7, $46.95 (cloth); 0-8214-1556-5, $22.95 (paper). - Eve S. Weinbaum. To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia. New York: New Press, 2004. 340 pp. ISBN 1-56584-784-9, $25.00 (cloth)
by McKinney, Gordon B. - 721-724 Eve S. Weinbaum. To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia. New York: New Press, 2004. 340 pp. ISBN 1-56584-784-9, $25.00 (cloth)
by McKinney, Gordon B. - 725-727 Susan Eleanor Hirsch. After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2003. x + 292 pp. ISBN 0-252-02791-4, $44.95 (cloth)
by Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth - 727-729 R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson. The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 to 1929. Baltimore, Md.: The John Hopkins University Press, 2003. x + 168 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7054-2, $39.95 (cloth)
by Krywulak, Tim - 729-731 Daniel Horowitz. The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939–1979. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. ix + 376 pp. ISBN 1-55849-432-4, $29.95 (cloth)
by Gilbert, James B. - 731-733 Susan R. Schrepfer and Philip Scranton, eds. Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History. New York: Routledge, 2004. ix + 275 pp. ISBN 0-415-94548-8, $24.95 (paper)
by Zimring, Carl - 733-735 Kevin Heffernan. Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. viii + 323 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3215-9, $22.95 (paper)
by Giovacchini, Saverio - 735-737 J. Samuel Walker. Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xi + 303 pp. ISBN 0-520-23940-7, $24.95 (cloth)
by Hausman, William J. - 737-739 Alfred Yee. Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xi + 193 pp. ISBN 0-295-98304-3, $35.00 (cloth)
by Mar, Lisa R. - 739-741 Joseph E. Stiglitz. The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World’s Most Prosperous Decade. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. xxiii + 379 pp. ISBN 0-393-05852-2, $25.95 (cloth); 0-513-3457-2, $22.95 (paper)
by Mertes, Thomas
September 2004, Volume 5, Issue 3
- 355-375 Chandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History
by Langlois, Richard N. - 376-387 Against Whig History
by Lamoreaux, Naomi R. & Raff, Daniel M. G. & Temin, Peter - 388-403 Neither Modularity nor Relational Contracting: Inter-Firm Collaboration in the New Economy
by Sabel, Charles F. & Zeitlin, Jonathan - 404-450 The End of Managerial Ideology: From Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Social Indifference
by Englander, Ernie & Kaufman, Allen - 451-489 The German Octopus: The British Metal Corporation and the Next War, 1914–1939
by Ball, Simon - 490-526 Corporate Governance and the Eclectic Paradigm: The Investment Motives of Philips in Taiwan in the 1960s
by van der Putten, Frans-Paul - 527-528 Carmen Erro, ed. Historia Empresarial. Pasado, Presente y Retos de Futuro. Barcelona: Ariel Empresa, 2003. 403 pp. ISBN 84-344-4839-4, €20 (paper)
by GarcÃa-Ruiz, José L. - 529-530 Karl Gerth. China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2003. xvi + 445 pp. ISBN 0-674-01214-3, $50.00/£32.95 (cloth)
by Pollard, David - 531-532 Barbara Harriss-White. India Working: Essays on Society and Economy. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xx + 316 pp. ISBN 0-521-80979-7, €45.00 (cloth); 0-521-00763-1, €16.99 (paper)
by Kumar, Prakash - 533-534 Jochen Streb. Staatliche Technologiepolitik und branchenübergreifender Wissenstransfer: Über die Ursachen der internationalen Innovationserfolge der deutschen Kunststoffindustrie im 20. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2003. 242 pp. ISBN 3-05-003873-X, €69.80 (cloth)
by Wieland, Thomas - 535-536 Mario König. Interhandel: Die schweizerische Holding der IG Farben und ihre Metamorphosen – eine Affäre um Eigentum und Interessen (1910–1999). Zurich: Chronos, 2001. 412 pp. ISBN 3-0340-0602-0, €35.90 (paper)
by Schröter, Harm G. - 537-539 Lawrence A. Peskin. Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 294 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7324-X, $49.95 (cloth)
by Coombs, John - 539-541 Angela Lakwete. Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. viii + 232 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7394, $45.00 (cloth)
by Nader, John S. - 541-543 Philip Gura. C. F. Martin and His Guitars, 1796–1873. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 352 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2801-7, $45.00 (cloth)
by Cohen, Harvey - 543-545 Richard SaundersJr., Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970–2002. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. xxiv + 436 pp. ISBN 0-87580-316-4, $49.95 (cloth)
by Divall, Colin - 545-547 Robert E. Mohowski. The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xix + 205 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7222-7, $34.95 (cloth)
by Churella, Albert - 548-549 John Alberti. The Working Life. New York: Pearson Longman, 2004. xxii + 501 pp. ISBN 0-321-09422-0, $44.33 (paper)
by Kimmel, Julie - 550-551 Guy Stuart. Discriminating Risk: The U.S. Mortgage Lending Industry in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xi + 248 pp. ISBN 0-8014-4066-1, $39.95 (cloth)
by Baranoff, Dalit