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June 2020, Volume 21, Issue 2
March 2020, Volume 21, Issue 1
- 1-1 Introduction
by Popp, Andrew - 2-37 Energizing Finance: The Energy Crisis, Oil Futures, and Neoliberal Narratives
by Wellum, Caleb - 38-78 Reorganization of Multinational Companies in the Western European Chemical Industry: Transformations in Industrial Management and Labor, 1960s to 1990s
by Marx, Christian - 79-109 Trends in the Fashion Business: Spain and Italy in Comparison, 1973–2013
by Binda, Veronica & Merlo, Elisabetta - 110-133 Who Tells Your Story: Contested History at the NAM
by Delton, Jennifer - 134-169 Western Debates About Chinese Entrepreneurship in the Treaty Port Period, 1842–1911
by Kaminishi, Miriam & Smith, Andrew David - 170-209 Black Power in the Boardroom: Corporate America, the Sullivan Principles, and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
by Levy, Jessica Ann - 210-238 The Insurance of Mass Murder: The Development of Slave Life Insurance Policies of Dutch Private Slave Ships, 1720–1780
by Lurvink, Karin - 239-270 An Incomplete Revolution: Corporate Governance Challenges of the London Assurance Company and the Limitations of the Joint-Stock Form, 1720–1725
by Aldous, Michael & Condorelli, Stefano - 271-273 Marc Flandreau. Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 416 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-22636-030-0, $105.00 (cloth); 978-0-22636-044-7, $35.00 (paper)
by Chambers, David - 273-275 Sophia Z. Lee. The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right .New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 401 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-03872-1, $29.99 (cloth)
by Romney, Charles - 275-278 Noam Maggor. Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-97146-2, $39.95 (cloth)
by Amsterdam, Daniel - 278-280 Brett Sheehan. Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. 344 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-96760-1, $46.50 (cloth)
by Rognes, Åsa Malmström - 280-282 Laura Phillips Sawyer. American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the “New Competition,†1890–1940 .New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 390 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-07682-2, £49.99 (cloth)
by Tarbert, Jesse - 283-285 Justin V. Hastings. A Most Enterprising Country: North Korea in the Global Economy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. xviii + 216 pp. ISBN 978-1-501-70490-1, $29.95 (cloth)
by Chung, Patrick - 285-288 Roger Horowitz. Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food .New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-15832-9, $35 (cloth), 978-0-231-15833-6, $26 (paper)
by Hoff, Derek - 288-291 Francesca Russello Ammon. Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape .New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 400 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-20068-3, $45.00 (cloth)
by Speller, Morris - 291-293 Marc Levinson. An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Book and the Return of the Ordinary Economy. New York: Basic Books, 2016. 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-465-06198-3, $27.99 (cloth)
by Cook, Eli - 293-296 Nancy H. Kwak. A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-0-226-28235-0, $45.00 (cloth)
by Michney, Todd M. - 296-298 Chloe E. Taft. From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 325 pp. ISBN: 978-0-674-66049-6, $39.95 (cloth)
by Vitale, Patrick - 298-300 Adam Mendelsohn. The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed their Way to Success in America and the British Empire. New York: New York University Press, 2014. 320 pp. ISBN 978-1-479-84718-1, $75 (cloth)
by Kranson, Rachel - 301-303 Paolo DiMartino, Andrew Popp, and Peter Scott, eds. People, Places, and Business Cultures: Essays in Honour of Francesca Carnevali. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2017. xiv + 266 pp. ISBN 978-1-78327-212-9, $25.95 (paper)
by Scranton, Philip - 304-306 Barbara Bridgman Perkins. Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market .New York: Routledge, 2017. vi + 243 pp. ISBN 1-138-28524-2, $149.95 (hardcover)
by Scheffler, Robin - 306-308 Michael Fritsch and Michael Wyrwich. Regional Trajectories of Entrepreneurship, Knowledge, and Growth: The Role of History and Culture. Basel: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019. 144 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-97781-2, €74.96 (paper)
by Oncioiu, Ionica - 309-311 Deborah A. Harris and Patti Giuffre. Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen .New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015. 246 pp. ISBN 978-0-8135-7125-6, $28.95 (paperback)
by Amerian, Stephanie - 311-313 Gavin Benke. Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism. Philadelphia, P.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 272 pp. ISBN 9780812250206, $34.95 (cloth)
by Arcadi, Teal - 313-316 Lane Windham. Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 312 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-3207-0, $32.95 (hardcover)
by Flowe, Douglas - 316-318 Emily Remus. A Shoppers’ Paradise: How the Ladies of Chicago Claimed Power and Pleasure in the New Downtown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-6749-8727-2, $39.95 (cloth)
by Le Zotte, Jennifer
December 2019, Volume 20, Issue 4
- 749-751 Introduction
by Popp, Andrew - 777-785 A New Utopia: A Political History of the Silicon Valley, 1945 to 1995
by Estruth, J. A. - 786-795 Visionary Calculations: Inventing the Mathematical Economy in Nineteenth-Century America
by Knecht, Rachel - 796-808 Networks of Capital: German Bankers and the Financial Internationalisation of China (1885–1919)
by Moazzin, Ghassan - 809-825 Steel and Sovereignty
by Fertik, Ted - 826-860 Quotidian Routines: The Cooperative Practices of a Business Elite
by Wright, Claire & Ville, Simon & Merrett, David - 861-906 Secrets for Sale? Innovation and the Nature of Knowledge in an Early Industrial District: The Potteries, 1750–1851
by Lane, Joe - 907-938 “Breaking New Ground†: The National Enterprise Board, Ferranti, and Britain’s Prehistory of Privatization
by Billings, Mark & Wilson, John - 939-977 Adulterated Intermediaries: Peddlers, Pharmacists, and the Patent Medicine Industry in Colonial Korea (1910–1945)
by Kim, Hoi-Eun - 978-1006 Public Venture Capital in a Regional Economy: The Welsh Development Agency, 1976–1994
by Gooberman, Leon & Boyns, Trevor - 1007-1043 Battling Giants: Spanish Publishing Multinationals in the First Global Economy
by Fernã Ndez-Moya, Marã A - 1044-1083 This Thing Called Goodwill: The Reynolds Metals Company and Political Networking in Wartime America
by Perchard, Andrew - 1084-1087 Joshua Clark Davis. From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. 314 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-17158-8, $35 (cloth)
by Hill, Laura Warren - 1087-1090 Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson. Reimagining Business History. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. x + 260 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0862-0, $25 (paper)
by Sawyer, Laura Phillips - 1090-1092 Ross Bassett. The Technological Indian. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 386 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-50471-4, $39.95 (cloth)
by Lubinski, Christina - 1092-1094 Kim Oosterlinck. Hope Springs Eternal: French Bondholders and the Repudiation of Russian Debt. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. xiv + 244 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-19091-5, $85.00 (cloth)
by Sawyer, Benjamin - 1094-1096 Genevieve Carlton. Worldy Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. v + 237 pp. ISBN 0-226-25531-6, $45.00 (cloth); 0-226-25545-3, $45.00 (e-book)
by Petto, Christine - 1097-1099 Christy Clark-Pujara. Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island. New York: New York University Press, 2016. xiv + 205 pp. ISBN 978-1-479-87042-4, $40 (cloth)
by Schermerhorn, Calvin - 1099-1102 Emily Westkaemper. Selling Women’s History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017. ix + 257 pp. ISBN 978-0-813-57633-6, $27.95 (paper), 978-0-813-57634-3 (e-book)
by Hall, Kristin - 1103-1105 Yukiko Koga. Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire .Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 328 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-41194-1, $85 (cloth), 978-0-226-41213-9, $27.50 (paper)
by Thai, Philip - 1105-1108 Robert DuPlessis. The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650–1800 .New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 351 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-10591-1, $29.99 (cloth)
by Van Horn, Jennifer - 1108-1112 John L. Neufeld. Selling Power: Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities before 1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-39963-8, $60 (cloth)
by Spinak, Abby - 1113-1115 Dan Bouk. How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xi + 328 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-56486-9, $30 (paper)
by Holdren, Nate - 1115-1117 Gergely Baics. Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790–1860. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. xv + 347 pp. ISBN: 978-0-6911-6879-1. $39.95 (cloth)
by Spellman, Susan
September 2019, Volume 20, Issue 3
- 533-574 Becoming a Correspondent: The Foundations of New Merchant Relationships in Early Modern French Trade (1730–1820)
by Bartolomei, Arnaud & Lemercier, Claire & Rebolledo-Dhuin, Viera & Sougy, Nadãˆge - 575-612 Medieval Property Investors, ca. 1300–1500
by Bell, Adrian R. & Brooks, Chris & Killick, Helen - 613-651 Technology Transfer in the Interwar U.S. Pharmaceutical Sector: The Case of E. Merck of Darmstadt and Merck & Co., Rahway, New Jersey
by Godley, Andrew & Joseph, Marrisa & Leslie-Hughes, David - 652-683 Queuing as a Changing Shopper Experience: The Case of Grocery Shopping in Britain, 1945–1975
by Bailey, Adrian R. & Alexander, Andrew & Shaw, Gareth - 684-718 Policy Entrepreneurs and FDI Attraction: Canada’s Auto Industry
by Mordue, Greig - 719-721 Alexia Yates. Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. 368 Pages. ISBN 9780674088214, $51.50 (cloth)
by Glotzer, Paige - 721-723 Mary Lindemann. The Merchant Republics—Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648–1790. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xv + 356 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-07443-9, $99 (cloth)
by Stapelbroek, Koen - 724-726 Talitha LeFlouria. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-3000-7, $24.95 (paper)
by Mishler, Max - 726-728 Hartmut Berghoff and Adam Rome, eds. Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. xi + 312 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4901-9, $65.00 (cloth)
by Duncan, Sam - 728-730 Jonathan Coopersmith. Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xi + 308 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-1591-8, $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-421-42123-0, $29.95 (paper)
by Heide, Lars - 730-733 Christopher Beauchamp. Invented by Law: Alexander Graham Bell and the Patent That Changed America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-36806-4, $35.00 (cloth)
by Carlat, Louis - 733-735 Josh Lauer. Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. 368 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-16808-3, $35 (cloth)
by Trainor, Sean - 735-738 Hasia R. Diner. Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2015. 247 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-17864-7, $35 (cloth)
by Pitock, Toni - 738-740 Chantal Norrgard. Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 216 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-1729-9, $29.95 (paper)
by Rosenthal, Nicolas G. - 740-743 Macarena Gómez-Barris. The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. 208 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-6875-5, $84.95 (cloth); 978-0-8223-6897-7, $23.95 (paper)
by Shutzer, Matthew - 743-746 Mehrsa Baradaran. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-97095-3, $29.95 (cloth)
by Winford, Brandon Kyron Lenzie - 746-748 Jesse LeCavalier. The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-9331-3, $105.00 (cloth); 978-0-8166-9332-0, $30.00 (paper)
by Orenstein, Dara
June 2019, Volume 20, Issue 2
- 281-327 Translating the Blueprint for Financial Deregulation: The American Bank Lobby’s Unyielding Quest for Legislative Profits, 1968–1982
by Douglas, Justin - 328-365 Selling Printed Cottons in Mid-Nineteenth-Century India: John Matheson of Glasgow and Scottish Turkey Red
by Nenadic, Stana - 366-400 From Henley to Harvard at Hyderabad? (Post and Neo-) Colonialism in Management Education in India
by Kumar, Arun - 401-444 Between Order and Justice: Investments in Africa and Corporate International Responsibility in Swedish Media in the 1960s
by Glover, Nikolas - 445-474 Du Pont Turns 150: Corporate Culture as Public Culture
by Currie, Taylor Alexandra - 475-506 Bankruptcy, Discharge, and the Emergence of Debtor Rights in Eighteenth-Century England
by Carlos, Ann M. & Kosack, Edward & Penarrieta, Luis Castro - 507-510 Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA
by Phillips-Fein, Kimberly - 511-513 Darren E. Grem. The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. vii + 282 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-19-992797-5, $34.95 (hardcover)
by Young, Kyla Morgan - 513-515 Pamela Haag. The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture. New York: Basic Books, 2016. 528 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-465-04895-3, $29.99 (cloth)
by Wilson, Mark R. - 515-518 Peter Knight. Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. xi + 315 pp. ISBN-13 978-1-4214-2521-4, $24.95 (paper)
by Kopec, Andrew - 519-521 Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz. From Mainframes to Smartphones: A History of the International Computer Industry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 240 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-674-72906-3, $45.00 (cloth)
by Kennedy, Devin - 521-523 Paul Lerner. The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015. 280 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-80145-286-4, $39.95 (cloth)
by Wiesen, S. Jonathan - 523-525 Marc-William Palen. The “Conspiracy†of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalization, 1846–1896. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xxxviii + 295 pp. ISBN-13 978-1-107-10912-4, $99.00 (cloth); 978-1-107-52133-9, $37.99 (paper)
by Seal, Andrew - 526-528 Philip Balsiger. The Fight for Ethical Fashion: The Origins and Interactions of the Clean Clothes Campaign. London: Routledge, 2014. 200 pp. ISBN 978-1-409-45805-0, $160 (cloth)
by Le Zotte, Jennifer - 528-531 Todd Cleveland. Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015. 289 pp. ISBN 978-0-8214-2134-5, $32.95 (paper)
by Vos, Jelmer
March 2019, Volume 20, Issue 1
- 1-3 Introduction
by Popp, Andrew - 4-18 Cousins Once Removed? Revisiting the Relationship between Oral History and Business History
by Crawford, Robert & Bailey, Matthew - 19-32 Oral History and the Business History of Emerging Markets
by Jones, Geoffrey & Comunale, Rachael - 33-46 A Life at the Company: Oral History and Sense Making
by Kroeze, Ronald & Vervloet, Jasmijn - 47-59 Off the Books: Oral History and Transnational Advertising Agencies in Southeast Asia
by Crawford, Robert - 60-73 The Narrative Turn, Corporate Storytelling, and Oral History: Canada’s Petroleum Oral History Project and Truth and Reconciliation Commission Call to Action No. 92
by Thiessen, Janis - 74-88 Snowball Sampling in Business Oral History: Accessing and Analyzing Professional Networks in the Australian Property Industry
by Bailey, Matthew - 89-131 Crises and Responses: Government Policies and the Machine-Building Cartels in Hungary, 1919–1949
by Hidvã‰Gi, Mã Ria - 132-158 A Nation of Investors or a Procession of Fools? Reevaluating the Behavior of Britain’s Shareholding Population through the Prism of the Interwar Sharepushing Crime Wave
by Hollow, Matthew - 159-198 The Digitalization of Banking: A New Perspective from the European Savings Banks Industry before the Internet
by Maixã‰-Altã‰S, J. Carles - 199-228 The Market for Films in Postwar Italy: Evidence for Both National and Regional Patterns of Taste
by Sedgwick, John & Miskell, Peter & Nicoli, Marina - 229-252 The Economic Institutions of Construction in London after the Great Fire
by Stephenson, Judy Z. - 253-255 Review Essay
by Schuster, David G. - 256-257 Brian P. Luskey and Wendy A. Woloson. Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 328 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-812-24689-6, $49.95 (cloth)
by Zakim, Michael - 257-259 Jerry Prout. Coxey’s Crusade for Jobs: Unemployment in the Gilded Age. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2016. 152 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-87580-498-9, $25.00 (paper)
by Carter, Greg - 260-262 Linda Civitello. The Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight That Revolutionized Cooking. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2017. 272 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-252-04108-2, $95.00 (cloth); 978-0-252-08259-7, $19.95 (paper)
by Elias, Megan - 262-264 Peter James Hudson. Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 368 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-226-45911-0, $45.00 (cloth)
by Bunker, Rachel - 264-267 Daniel M.G. Raff and Philip Scranton, eds. The Emergence of Routines: Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Business History. London: Oxford University Press, 2017. 400 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-198-78776-1, $90.00 (cloth)
by Lipartito, Kenneth - 267-270 Andrea Colli. Dynamics of International Business: Comparative Perspectives of Firms, Markets and Entrepreneurship. London: Routledge, 2016. xiii + 210 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-415-55916-4, $38 (paper), $37 (e-book)
by Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo
December 2018, Volume 19, Issue 4
- 803-815 Outsourcing Government: Boston and the Rise of Public–Private Partnerships
by Dunning, Claire - 816-825 The Incorporation of India: The Tata Business Firm Between Empire and Nation, ca. 1860–1970
by Raianu, Mircea - 826-835 From Buckskin to Gore-Tex: Consumption as a Path to Mastery in Twentieth-Century American Wilderness Recreation
by Gross, Rachel - 836-863 Public Relations, Issue Management, and the Transformation of American Environmentalism, 1948–1992
by Aronczyk, Melissa - 864-902 “Delectable North Wales†and Stakeholders: The London & North Western Railway’s Marketing of North Wales, c.1904–1914
by Turner, David A. - 903-945 Large Industrial Firms and the Rise of Finance in Late Twentieth-Century America
by Ki, Youn - 946-978 Rising of the Phoenix: Mitigating Political Risk through Knowledge Management—Behn, Meyer & Co., 1840–1959
by Yacob, Shakila - 979-1013 The Professionalization of Cryptology in Sixteenth-Century Venice
by Iordanou, Ioanna - 1014-1016 Sarah F. Rose. No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiii + 398 pp. ISBN-13 978-1-4696-2489-1, $39.95 (paper)
by Trent, James W. - 1016-1018 Herbert Gintis. Individuality and Entanglement: The Moral and Material Bases of Social Life. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2016. xxii + 357 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-691-17291-0, $33.98 (paper)
by Oncioiu, Ionica - 1018-1020 Susan V. Spellman. Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 183 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-1993-8427-3. $78.00 (cloth)
by Carter, Gregory - 1020-1022 Peter Maguire and Mark Ritter. Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xxxiv + 272 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-231-16135-0, $19.95 (paper)
by Bradford, James - 1023-1025 Bruce E. Baker and Barbara Hahn. The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 232 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-190-21165-3, $31.95 (cloth)
by Baker, Andrew - 1025-1028 Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis, Edda L. Fields-Black, and Dagmar Schafer, eds. Rice: Global Networks and New Histories. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 445 pp. ISBN-13 978-1-107-62237-1, $34.99 (paper)
by Long, Lucy M. - 1028-1031 Sherene Seikaly. Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. xii + 258 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-8047-9288-2, $85.00 (cloth); 978-0-8047-9661-3, $24.95 (paper)
by Bishara, Fahad Ahmad - 1031-1033 Johan Mathew. Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016. 272 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-52028-855-3, $29.95 (paper)
by Regele, Lindsay Schakenbach
September 2018, Volume 19, Issue 3
- 491-491 Introduction
by Popp, Andrew - 578-609 The Managerial Ideal and Business Magazines in the Great Depression
by Mata, Tiago - 610-660 How Mortgage-Backed Securities Became Bonds: The Emergence, Evolution, and Acceptance of Mortgage-Backed Securities in the United States, 1960–1987
by Vinokurova, Natalya - 661-701 “Imagined Outcomes†: Contrasting Patterns of Opportunity, Capability, and Innovation in British Musical Instrument Manufacturing, 1930–1985
by Blundel, Richard K. & Smith, David J. - 702-732 The Anywhere, Anytime Market: The 800-Number, Direct Marketing, and the New Networks of Consumption
by Popp, Richard K. - 733-737 The Home of Capital
by Harris, Richard - 738-740 Scott Peters. Making Waves: Michigan’s Boat-Building Industry 1865–2000. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. viii + 316 pp. ISBN 9780472052578, $28.95 (paper)
by Blouin, Francis X. - 740-742 Jonathan Schlesinger. A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. xii + 270 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9996-6, $65.00 (cloth)
by Deng, Kent - 742-745 Shalini Shankar. Advertising Diversity: Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian-American Consumers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. 316 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-8223-5877-0, $26.95 (paper)
by Arciniega, Luzilda Carrillo - 745-747 Tim Bartley, Sebastian Koos, Hiram Samel, Gustavo Setrini, and Nik Summers. Looking Behind the Label: Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. x + 286 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-253-01656-0, $28.00 (paper)
by Dixon, Patrick - 747-750 Ruth Milkman and Ed Ott. New Labor in New York: Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014. 368 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-801-45283-3, $77.95 (cloth)
by Tarbert, Jesse
June 2018, Volume 19, Issue 2
- 241-271 Trust Company Failures and Institutional Change in New York, 1875–1925
by Hansen, Bradley A. - 272-308 The Emergence of an Export Cluster: Traders and Palm Oil in Early Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia
by Giacomin, Valeria - 309-351 The Mills of Liberty: Foreign Capital, Government Contracts, and the Establishment of DuPont, 1790–1820
by Fagal, Andrew J. B. - 352-390 Charge Account Banking: A Study of Financial Innovation in the 1950s
by Vanatta, Sean H. - 391-429 Bank Identity: Banks, ID Cards, and the Emergence of a Financial Identification Society in Sweden
by Husz, Orsi - 430-468 “A Bull in Our China Shop:†Japanese Imports and the American Pottery Industry
by Vincent, Stephanie - 469-471 Review Essay
by Hall, Kristin - 472-474 Morten Jerven. Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong. London: Zed Books, 2015. 160 pp. ISBN 978-1-78360-132-5, $21.95 (paper)
by McKeever, Matthew - 474-478 Andrew Paxman. Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 509 pp. ISBN 9780190455743 0190455748, $35 (cloth), $18 (paper), $23 (e-book)
by Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo - 478-480 George Robb. Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. x + 248 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-04117-4, $95.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-252-08271-9, $24.95 (paper); ISBN 978-0-252-09974-8, $22.46 (e-book)
by Taylor, James - 480-483 Timothy J. Minchin. Labor Under Fire: A History of the AFL-CIO Since 1979. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiii + 414 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-3298-8, $39.95 (cloth)
by Alter, Thomas - 484-486 William Thomas Okie. The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South. Cambridge Studies on the American South. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xvi + 303 pp. ISBN: 978-1-107-07172-8, $34.99, (cloth)
by Evans, Sterling - 486-489 Sharon Ann Murphy. Other People’s Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. xii + 192 pp. ISBN 978142421742, $55.00, (cloth); ISBN 987142421759, $19.95, (paper)
by Knodell, Jane
March 2018, Volume 19, Issue 1
- 1-2 Introduction
by Popp, Andrew - 3-11 Chris Kobrak (January 21, 1950–January 8, 2017): A Tribute
by Wilkins, Mira - 12-23 Lessons to be Learned from Business Historical Studies of the National Socialist Period: Chris Kobrak (January 21, 1950–January 8, 2017)
by Schneider-Braunberger, Andrea - 24-30 Chris Kobrak
by Martin, Joe - 31-57 The Pitfalls of Internationalization: The Experience of American Life Insurers in Australia, 1885–1905
by Keneley, Monica J. - 58-87 “Bank-Wreckers, Defaulters, and Embezzlers†: America’s Popular Fear and Fascination with the Misappropriation of Bank Deposits during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
by Mackay, Thomas A. - 88-123 Managing a “People Business†in Times of Uncertainty: Human Resources Strategy at Ocean Transport & Trading in the 1970s
by Petersson, Niels P. - 124-152 The Moral Economy of the Scottish Coalfields: Managing Deindustrialization under Nationalization c.1947–1983
by Gibbs, Ewan - 153-178 The Commercial Ecology of Scavenger Capitalism: Monsanto, Fossil Fuels, and the Remaking of a Chemical Giant
by Elmore, Bartow J. - 179-207 Turning Adversity into Opportunity: Philips in Australia, 1945-1980
by Van Der Eng, Pierre - 208-210 Beatrice Moring and Richard Wall. Widows in European Economy and Society 1600–1920. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2017. xiii+327 pp. ISBN 978-1-78237-177-1, £75.00 (cloth)
by Rosenhaft, Eve - 211-215 Seeking the Consumer in American Politics - Joanna Cohen. Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 284 pp. ISBN 9780812248920, $45.00 (cloth); ISBN 9780812293777, $45.00 (e-book). - Emily Westkaemper. Selling Women’s History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017. 257 pp. ISBN 978-0-8135-7633-6, $90.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8135-7632-9, $27.95 (paper); ISBN 978-0-8135-7634-3, $27.95 (e-book)
by Rappaport, Erika - 216-225 In Print and On Screen: Film Columns, Criticism, and Culture in Early Hollywood - Richard Abel. Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913–1916. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. 424 pp. ISBN 9780520286788, $34.95 (paperback). - David Bordwell. The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 176 pp. ISBN 9780226352206, $20.00 (paperback)
by Ringle, Carter - 226-228 Aeron Hunt. Personal Business: Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. x + 225 pp. ISBN 978-0-8139-3631-4, $39.50 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8139-3632-1, $39.50 (e-book)
by Henry, Nancy - 229-231 Rebecca L. Sprang. Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. viii + 350 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-04703-7, $41.00 (cloth)
by Heller, Henry - 231-234 Daniel Amsterdam. Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 230 pp. ISBN 9780812248104, $45.00 (paper)
by Phillips Sawyer, Laura - 235-237 Eric Reed. Selling the Yellow Jersey: The Tour de France in the Global Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xvii + 251 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-20653-0, $45.00 (cloth)
by Ferbrache, Fiona - 237-239 Jane Ellen Knodell. The Second Bank of the United States: “Central†Banker in an Era of Nation-Building, 1816–1836. London: Routledge, 2017. xiv + 188 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-78662-2, $105.00 (cloth)
by Murphy, Sharon Ann
December 2017, Volume 18, Issue 4
- 745-747 Introduction
by Popp, Andrew - 772-783 Felonious Transactions: Legal Culture and Business Practices of Slave Economies in South Carolina, 1787–1860
by Edwards, Justene Hill - 784-794 Intangible Inventions: A History of Software Patenting in the United States, 1945–1985
by Con Diaz, Gerardo - 795-809 Crisis Capital: Industrial Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1865–Present
by Nichols, Shaun S. - 810-845 Cathedrals of Consumption? Provincial Department Stores in England, c.1880–1930
by Stobart, Jon - 846-892 Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights: International Intangible Assets in Spain over the Long Term
by Sã Iz, Patricio & Castro, Rafael - 893-920 Customer Stock Ownership as Monopoly Utility Political Strategy in the 1910s and 1920s
by Robert, Daniel - 921-951 Technology Transfers and Organization: The English East India Company and the Transfer of Piedmontese Silk Reeling Technology to Bengal, 1750s–1790s
by Hutkovã , Karolina - 952-970 Electrifying Kyoto: Business and Politics in Light and Power, 1887–1915
by Xia, Chenxiao - 971-973 Dennis Romano. Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy, c. 1100 to c. 1400. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. viii + 271 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-16907-2, $65.00 (cloth)
by Dijkman, Jessica - 973-975 Barbara I. Floyd. The Glass City: Toledo and the Industry That Built It. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. 266 pp. ISBN 978-0-472-11945-5, $50 (cloth)
by Skrabec, Quentin - 975-977 Calvin Schermerhorn. The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. xi + 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-19200-1, $65.00 (cloth)
by Clark-Pujara, Christy - 977-980 Scott Sumner. The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression. Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2015. xv + 507 pp. ISBN 9-781598-131505, $37.95 (cloth)
by Payne, Phillip G. - 980-983 Catherine Cangany. Frontier Seaport: Detroit’s Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. xi + 288 pp. ISBN 978–0226096704, $48.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0226096841, $48.00 (e-book)
by Hatter, Lawrence - 983-985 Douglas McCalla. Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. xv + 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-7735-4500-7, $34.95 (paper)
by MacLachlan, Ian - 985-988 Rachel Weber. From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 296 pp. ISBN 9780226294483, $45.00 (cloth)
by Ringle, Carter - 988-991 Jennifer L. Anderson. Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 432 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-04871-3, $34.00 (cloth)
by Cohen, Joanna - 992-992 Customer Stock Ownership as Monopoly Utility Political Strategy in the 1910s and 1920s–ERRATUM
by Robert, Daniel
September 2017, Volume 18, Issue 3
- 485-535 The Rise of the Small Investor in the United States and United Kingdom, 1895 to 1970
by Rutterford, Janette & Sotiropoulos, Dimitris P. - 536-565 Law, Design, and Market Value: Lessons from the Cantilever Chair, 1929–1936
by Vogelgsang, Tobias - 566-590 Networking with a Network: The Liverpool African Committee 1750–1810
by Haggerty, John & Haggerty, Sheryllynne - 591-631 “Spinning a Yarn†: Institutions, Law, and Standards c.1880–1914
by Higgins, David M. & Velkar, Aashish - 632-677 Del Norte Meets Little Saigon: Ethnic Entrepreneurship on Broadway Avenue in Wichita, Kansas, 1970–2015
by Price, Jay M. & Abdinnour, Sue & Hughes, David T. - 678-720 Constructing Corporate Identity before the Corporation: Fashioning the Face of the First English Joint Stock Banking Companies through Portraiture
by Barnes, Victoria & Newton, Lucy - 721-723 Kathryn Steen. The American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry: War and Politics, 1910–1930. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xxi + 403 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-1290-4, $39.95 (paperback); 978-1-4696-1291-1, $34.99 (e-book)
by van Rooij, Arjan - 723-725 Richard Follett, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, and Barbara Hahn. Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 165 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-1939-8 $49.95 (cloth); 978-1-4214-1940-4, $19.95 (paper)
by Whayne, Jeannie - 725-728 David Koistinen. Confronting Decline: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. xii +331 pp. ISBN 978-0-8130-4907-6, $74.95 (cloth); 978-0-8130-5408-7, $29.95 (paper)
by Dieterich-Ward, Allen - 728-730 Barbara L. Solow. The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. 140 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-9246-7, $79.00 (cloth)
by Lewis, Frank D. - 731-733 G. Roger Knight. Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia: Gillian Maclaine and His Business Network. Roydon, UK: Boydell Press, 2015. xiv + 193 pp. ISBN 978-1-78327-069-9, £65 (cloth)
by Reid, Anthony - 733-736 R. W. Sandwell (ed.). Powering Up Canada: A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. x + 482 pp. ISBN 978-0773547858, $120. (cloth); ISBN 978-0-7735-4786-5, $37.95 (paper)
by Dolata, Petra - 737-739 Mansel G. Blackford. Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change. Columbus: Trillium, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, 2016. xii + 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-8142-1314-8, $69.95 (cloth)
by Kern, Kevin F. - 740-741 Hermione Giffard. Making Jet Engines in World War II: Britain, Germany, and the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xii + 336 pp. ISBN 9780226388595, $45.00 (cloth); 9780226388625, $45.00 (e-book)
by Wilson, Mark R. - 742-744 Domenic Vitiello. Engineering Philadelphia: The Sellers Family and the Industrial Metropolis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. xiv + 267 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-5011-2, $35.00 (cloth)
by Wolfinger, James
June 2017, Volume 18, Issue 2
- 282-323 Assessing the Impact of Field-of-Use Restrictions in Patent Licensing Agreements: The Ethical Pharmaceutical Industry in the United States, 1950–1962
by Cebriã N Villar, Mar & Lã“Pez Garcã A, Santiago - 324-359 Something Brewing in Boston: A Study of Forward Integration in American Breweries at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
by Nowak, Zachary - 360-399 Will It Be Wine or Cocktails? The Quest to Build a Mass Market for California Wine after Prohibition
by Jacobson, Lisa