Business History Review

1926 - 2025

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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

Volume 98, issue 4, 2024

Pioneering the Circular Economy: Small and Medium-Sized Recycling Enterprises in Finland, 1945–1995 pp. 793-819

Kati Toivanen and Niklas Jensen-Eriksen

China’s Outward Investment in Europe during the “Go Out” Policy Years: Trends, Drivers, and Strategies in the Automotive Industry, 2000–2018 pp. 821-853

Yuan Jia-Zheng and Veronica Binda

The Rise of Minimill Steel Producers in Italy and Spain, 1950–1990 pp. 855-889

Pablo Díaz-Morlán, Miguel Á. Sáez-García and Riccardo Semeraro

Visions of Indian Economic Unity On the Eve of Partition: A Tale of Two Companies pp. 891-919

Atiya Hussain

From Sugar to Shop: the Organic Rise of Indian Shopkeepers in Colonial Trinidad pp. 921-952

Alexander Persaud

Reconsidering the Commercial Revolution pp. 959-971

Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona

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 pp. 973-975

Boris Deschanel

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 pp. 975-977

Tirthankar Roy

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 pp. 977-979

Mark Casson

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 pp. 979-981

Howard R. Stanger

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 pp. 981-983

Jonathan A. Grant

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 pp. 983-986

Knut Sogner

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 pp. 986-989

Seokju Oh

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 pp. 989-991

Rinna Kullaa

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 pp. 992-994

Seung Woo Kim

Volume 98, issue 3, 2024

Fishery Collapse and the American Fertilizer Industry: A Case Study of the Pacific Guano Company pp. 613-635

Emelyn Rude

Industrial Consumers Versus Cartelized Producers: The French Carmaker Louis Renault and the Aluminium Cartel, 1911–1944 pp. 637-655

Patrick Fridenson

A Disrupting Strategic Metal: The Norwegian Aluminium Industry Meets World War II pp. 657-684

Knut Sogner

Fertilizer for Victory: The Chilean–US Nitrate Trade in the Second World War pp. 685-725

Richard Sicotte

Losing the “Lager War:” International Entrepreneurship and Business Failure in the United Kingdom Brewing Industry, 1975–1995 pp. 727-755

Matthew J. Bellamy

The Chicago Monetary Tradition: The Origin of the Modern Approach to Monetary Policy Rules pp. 759-764

Pierrick Clerc

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 pp. 765-767

James Taylor

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 pp. 767-769

Megan J. Elias

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 pp. 770-772

Christian Kleinschmidt

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 pp. 772-774

Richard Longstreth

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 pp. 774-777

Kendra D. Boyd

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 pp. 778-780

Clarence Hatton-Proulx

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 pp. 780-782

Catherine Casson

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 pp. 783-785

Matthew Soener

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 pp. 785-787

Cyrus Veeser

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 pp. 788-790

Andrew Seltzer

Volume 98, issue 2, 2024

British CEOs in the Twentieth Century: Aristocratic Amateurs to Fat Cats? pp. 359-387

Robin J. C. Adams, Michael Aldous, Philip Fliers and John Turner

Housewives and the Growth of the Japanese Electrical Appliance Industry, 1950–1990 pp. 389-416

Takashi Hirano, Ken Sakai and Pierre-Yves Donzé

Managing the Police Workforce: Sickness and Pensions in the Metropolitan Police in Late Nineteenth-Century London pp. 417-446

David Green, Douglas Brown, Harry Smith, Joe Chick and Natasha Preger

Leisure Jobs: Recreating Family and Social Life in Canadian Electric Utility Marketing, 1920–1970 pp. 447-483

David Foord

The International Labour Organization and Management Development in Argentina pp. 485-516

Rolv Petter Amdam and Andrea Lluch

Selected Abstracts from International Business History Journals pp. 521-534

Anonymous

In the Zone: On Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism and the Spaces of Political Economy pp. 535-584

Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert

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 pp. 585-587

David M. Henkin

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 pp. 587-590

Ariel Ron

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 pp. 590-593

Darren E. Grem

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 pp. 593-595

Alain El Youssef

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 pp. 596-598

Tyler Anbinder

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 pp. 598-601

Martin J. Iversen

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 pp. 601-604

Wyatt Wells

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 pp. 604-606

David Stebenne

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 pp. 607-609

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

Volume 98, issue 1, 2024

Forms of Capitalism pp. 3-35

Robert Fredona, Sophus A. Reinert and Teresa da Silva Lopes

Sedentary Merchant Triumphant: The Transformation of Venetian Trading Patterns in the Long Twelfth Century pp. 37-80

Elena Shadrina

A Mercantilist Brand: The British East India Company and Madeira Wine, 1756–1834 pp. 81-118

Benedita Câmara, Teresa da Silva Lopes and Robert Fredona

Ireland’s Role in British Colonial Capitalism: “Men of Capitals” and Pitt’s Irish Proposals, 1784–1785 pp. 119-163

O’Sullivan, Mary

Radical Mercantilism and Fascist Italy’s East African Empire pp. 165-202

Noelle Turtur

The Will to Chaos and Disorder: The Behemoth as a Model of Political Economy pp. 203-236

Bernard E. Harcourt

A Reappraisal of Albert Aftalion’s Theory of Structural Transformation in an Era of Decarbonization pp. 237-257

D'Maris Coffman and Roberto Scazzieri

Growth Regimes pp. 259-283

Peter A. Hall

Reflection: Moral Firms and the Future of Capitalism pp. 285-300

Rebecca M. Henderson

Reflection: Corporate Capitalism's Moral Lack pp. 301-324

Joel Bakan

Reimagining Business: Virtue, Spirituality, Wisdom pp. 327-332

Richard R. John

The Corporation and the Twentieth Century pp. 333-341

Richard S. Tedlow

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 pp. 343-345

Dean A. Irwin

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 pp. 345-347

Robert Yee

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 pp. 348-350

David Baillargeon

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 pp. 350-353

Dong Yan

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 pp. 353-355

Véronique Pouillard