Business History Review

1926 - 2025

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Volume 99, issue 3, 2025

Continuity and Change in Turkey’s Largest Industrial Enterprises, 1970–2010 pp. 313-341

Asli M. Colpan and Behlül Üsdiken

From Oil Nation to Wind Power Nation? An Exploration of Norway’s Turn to Offshore Wind Power, 1998–2024 pp. 343-363

Ada Nissen

The World War II US Rubber Famine pp. 365-390

Alexander J. Field

Equality of Agriculture: Robert L. Owen, Country Banks, and the Populist’s Federal Reserve pp. 391-426

R. Alexander Ferguson and Nathanael L. Mickelson

Making Sense of the 1931 Financial Crisis and the Great Depression pp. 427-457

Per H. Hansen

One Day I’ll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America. By Benjamin C. Waterhouse. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. 274 pp. Hardcover, $29.99. ISBN: 978-0-393-86821-0 pp. 461-464

Frank V. Cespedes

Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control. By Sean Vanatta. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. 416 pp. 6.12 × 9.25 in, 11 B/W illustrations. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-24734-3 pp. 465-468

Judge Glock

False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947. By George Selgin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. 384 pp. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-22-683293-7 pp. 469-473

Eric Rauchway

Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India. By Aditya Balasubramanian. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 352 pp. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-20524-3 pp. 475-477

Raghunath Nageswaran

A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy From the Revolution to the Rise of China. By Dale C. Copeland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 504 pp. $38.00. Hardback, $27.95 paperback. ISBN: 978-0-691-17255-2 pp. 477-478

Thomas W. Zeiler

Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse. By Colleen A. Dunlavy. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2024. 240 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-50-956173-5 pp. 479-481

Shaun S. Nichols

Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform. By Yakov Feygin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. vii + 288 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-24099-5 pp. 481-482

Christopher A. Hartwell

A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador. By Christopher Krupa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 328 pp. Paperback, $49.95. IBSN: 978-0-81-222512-9 pp. 482-485

Martín Monsalve Zanatti

American Patent Law: A Business and Economic History. By Robert P. Merges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 450 pp. Paperback, $48.00. ISBN: 978-1-00-912920-6 pp. 485-486

Jonathan Coopersmith

New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy. By Brian P. Owensby. Stanford University Press, 2021. 400 pp. Hardcover, $140. ISBN: 978-1-50-362751-2 pp. 486-489

Damian Clavel

Bulls, Bears, Boers and Brits: Finance and the Coming of War in Southern Africa, 1894–1899. By Ian Phimister. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2025. 189 pp. Paperback, €56.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-69078-3 pp. 489-490

Duncan Money

Ruins to Riches: The Economic Resurgence of Germany and Japan after 1945. By Raymond G. Stokes. Cambridge University Press, 2024. 345 pp. Hardback $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-31-651452-8 pp. 491-492

Robert Yee

A History of the Aviation Industry in Latin America: Nationalism, Developmentalism and Neoliberalism in Chile. By Diego Barría Traverso. New York & London: Routledge, 2025. 198 pp. Hardcover, $180.00. ISBN: 978-1-03-228549-8 pp. 493-494

Melina Piglia

Volume 99, issue 2, 2025

Translating Emergent Technologies into Novel Therapeutics: Tracing Complementarity and Co-evolution in the Cambridge–Boston Innovation Ecosystem pp. 185-209

Maki Umemura

Examining the Impact of Legal Innovations: A Case Study of the Private Limited Liability Company in Vienna, 1900–1936 pp. 211-232

Michael Hödl

The Peculiar, Diverse, and Vital Business of Personal Mortgages, 1890s–1950s pp. 233-255

Richard Harris

The Nivkh People’s Sustainable Bear Hunting Enterprise, Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries pp. 257-277

Vladimir Maltsev

Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America. By Kati Curts. New York: New York University Press, 2025. pp. 288. Hardcover $39.00. ISBN: 978-1-4798-3158-6 pp. 281-283

Joseph Slaughter

Profits & Persecution: German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust. By Peter Hayes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 232 pp. Hardback, $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-139-04968-9 pp. 285-288

Sophus A. Reinert

The Young Fed: The Banking Crises of the 1920s and the Making of a Lender of Last Resort. By Mark Carlson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. xii + 232 pp. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-83782-6 pp. 289-290

Wyatt Wells

Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present. By Pierre-Yves Donzé and Julia S. Yongue. Oxford University Press, 2024. 304 pp. Hardcover, $161.00. ISBN 978-0-19-288747-4 pp. 290-292

Steven Ivings

The Spread of the Modern Central Bank and Global Cooperation, 1919–1939. Edited by Barry Eichengreen and Andreas Kakridis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xx + 422 pp. Paperback, $34.99. ISBN: 978-1-009-36754-7 pp. 292-294

Sean H. Vanatta

Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America. By Rachel S. Gross. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. 284 pp.+26 b/w illus. Hardback, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-27008-2 pp. 294-296

Kathleen A. Brosnan

There Will Be the Devil to Pay: Central Bankers, Uncertainty and Sensemaking in the European Financial Crisis of 1931. By Per H. Hansen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. pp. 522. Hardcover, $160.00. ISBN: 978-1-00-950531-4 pp. 296-299

Gianandrea Nodari

Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia by Sven Kalmring. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 304 pp. Digital access $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-00-929807-0 pp. 299-301

Dagfinn Skre

The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. By Alexander C Karp and Nicholas W Zamiska. New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2025. xii + 220 pp. Figures, preface, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $30.00. ISBN:978-0-593-79869-0 pp. 302-304

Hirsh Chitkara

Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America. By Dean G. Lampros. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. 384 pp. Hardcover, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-4840-4 pp. 304-306

Jan Logemann

The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society. By Thomas M. Larkin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. pp. 336. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-21067-6 pp. 306-308

Alastair Su

Capital of Mind: The Idea of a Modern American University. By Adam R. Nelson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. 408 pp. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-82920-3 pp. 308-310

John R. Thelin

Volume 99, issue 1, 2025

The Problem of Sustaining a Successful Enterprise: Kodak’s Multiple Takes at Strategic Renewal that Culminated in Failure pp. 3-38

Natalya Vinokurova and Rahul Kapoor

Business-Government Networks in Small States: The Emergence and Evolution of the Luxembourg Global Mutual Fund Industry, 1945–1988 pp. 39-66

Matteo Calabrese and Valeria Giacomin

Beyond Voluntary: The 1998 Automotive CO2 Agreement and the Limits of Corporate Influence on Environmental Regulation pp. 67-95

Alice Milor

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 pp. 97-119

George Colpitts and Andrew Goodwin

Finding El Dorado: The Rise and Fall of the Jenks Business Group in Colombia, 1899–1929 pp. 121-146

Andrew Primmer

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 pp. 149-151

Mihai Olteanu

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 pp. 151-153

Dalit Baranoff

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 pp. 153-155

Gretta Mohan

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 pp. 155-157

Kristine Haglund

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 pp. 157-159

Jonathan Marshall

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 pp. 159-161

Timothy Lorek

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 pp. 161-164

Rebecca Simson

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 pp. 164-165

Niccolò Valmori

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 pp. 166-168

David Suisman

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 pp. 168-169

Bronwen Everill

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 pp. 170-172

Nic Johnson

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 pp. 172-173

Lee Eysturlid

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 pp. 174-176

Mary Niall Mitchell

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 pp. 176-177

Vibeke Narverud Nyborg

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 pp. 177-179

Richard Sylla

A Reappraisal of Albert Aftalion’s Theory of Structural Transformation in an Era of Decarbonization – CORRIGENDUM pp. 181-181

Coffman, D’Maris and Roberto Scazzieri