Business History Review

1926 - 2024

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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

Volume 97, issue 4, 2023

The Sugar Revolution in New England: Barbados, Massachusetts Bay, and the Atlantic Sugar Economy, 1600–1700 pp. 699-750

Marion Menzin

Unfreedom and Slavery Under Sail: Intercolonial Trade in the British Atlantic, 1698–1766 pp. 751-778

Hannah Knox Tucker

Configuring Cultural Emerging Industries: A Comparison of the French and Italian Fashion Industries pp. 779-807

Elisabetta Merlo and Valeria Pinchera

Borrowing without Banks: Deposit-Taking by Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Firms (1920s–1930s) pp. 809-838

Michael Ng

What The Cambridge Economic History of China Teaches Us about China and Tells Us About Economic History pp. 845-902

R. Bin Wong

The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire. By Joseph Sassoon. New York: Pantheon Books, 2022. xviii + 412 pp. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-593-31659-7 pp. 903-906

Karolina Hutková

Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States. By Sharon Ann Murphy. Chicago: The Chicago University Press, 2023. 432 pp., 17 halftones, 1 line drawing, 8 tables. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-82513-7 pp. 906-909

Claire Brennecke

The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind. By Jan Lucassen. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. 544 pp., 18 color + 9b-w illus. + 3 figs. + 6 maps. Paperback, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26706-8 pp. 909-911

Tobias F. Rötheli

Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic. By Jennifer Morgan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 296p. Cloth, $107.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-1323-5 pp. 911-914

Samantha Payne

Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools. By Christopher Willoughby. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 282 pp., 9 halftones, notes, bibl., index. Hardcover, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-4696-7184-0 pp. 914-916

Brice Bowrey

Courteous Capitalism: Public Relations and the Monopoly Problem, 1900–1930. By Daniel Robert. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. 336 pp., 38 halftones, 5 line drawings. Hardcover, $64.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-4734-6 pp. 916-919

Kodres-O’Brien, Ben

The Emergence of Brand-Name Capitalism in Late Colonial India: Advertising and the Making of Modern Conjugality. By Douglas E. Haynes. New York: Bloomsbury, 2023. 328 pp. Hardcover, $130. ISBN 978-93-54358-15-9 pp. 919-922

Anwesha Ghosh

The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City. By Destin Jenkins. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. 320 pp., 26 halftones, 10 tables. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-81998-3 pp. 922-924

Jessica Ann Levy

The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem. By Kristin A. Wintersteen. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 246 pp. Hardcover, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-520-37963-3 pp. 925-927

Jonathan R. Barton

Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech. By Lee McGuigan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 348 pp., 6 × 9 in, 9 b&w illus. Paperback, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-54544-0 pp. 927-930

Cynthia B. Meyers

Volume 97, issue 3, 2023

Introduction: Capitalism and Global Governance in Business History pp. 459-479

Grace Ballor and Sabine Pitteloud

Beyond Planetary Limits! The International Chamber of Commerce, the United Nations, and the Invention of Sustainable Development pp. 481-511

Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Thomas David

Development, Inc.? The EEC, Britain, Post-Colonial Overseas Development Aid, and Business pp. 513-546

Véronique Dimier and Sarah Stockwell

Governing Global Tax Dodgers: The “Group of Four” and the Taxation of Multinational Corporations, 1970s–1980s pp. 547-574

Vanessa Ogle

Liberal Environmentalism: The Public-Private Production of European Emissions Standards pp. 575-601

Grace Ballor

Introduction pp. 603-604

Grace Ballor and Sabine Pitteloud

Histories and Futures of Business in a Turbulent World pp. 605-613

Patricia Clavin

Governing Global Capitalism: A Lawyer's Perspective pp. 614-620

Nicolás M. Perrone

Business and Global Capitalism: Continuities and Change pp. 620-626

Neil Rollings

Competing Projects in Global Governance pp. 626-631

Quinn Slobodian

Reflection: Firms, Rules, and Global Capitalism pp. 633-644

Rawi Abdelal

Revisiting Interwar Global Economic Governance: Technocrats, Sovereignty, and the Perennial Problem of Legitimacy in Global Governance pp. 647-655

Laura Phillips-Sawyer

Social Europe, the Road Not Taken: The Left and European Integration in the Long 1970s. By Aurélie Dianara Andry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 336 pp. Hardcover, $105.00. ISBN: 978-019286-709-4 pp. 657-659

Melanie Sheehan

Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy & Culture in Early Modern China. By He Bian. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 246 pp., appendices, Chinese character glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-20013-2 pp. 659-662

Yüan-ling Chao

Business Lobbying in the European Union. By David Coen, Alexander Katsaitis, and Matia Vannoni. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 221 pp. Hardcover, £96.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-958975-3 pp. 662-664

Sylvain Laurens

Plowshares into Swords: Weaponized Knowledge, Liberal Order, and the League of Nations. By David Ekbladh. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 320 pp., 22 halftones. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-82049-1 pp. 665-667

Madeleine Lynch Dungy

The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960–1990. By Allison Elias. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 312 pp. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-18075-7 pp. 667-670

Kirsten Swinth

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era. By Gary Gerstle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 432 pp. Hardcover, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-751964-6 pp. 670-672

Rami Kaplan

The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are. ByDavid M. Henkin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. 288 pp. + 8 b-w illus. Hardcover, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-25732-8 pp. 673-674

Kevin K. Birth

The Postwar Economic Order: National Reconstruction and International Cooperation. By Albert O. Hirschman, ed. Michele Alacevich and Pier Francesco Asso. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 352 pp. Hardcover, $120.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-20058-5 pp. 675-677

Johanna Gautier Morin

J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Crisis of Capitalism: From the Wall Street Crash to World War II. By Martin Horn. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 406 pp., bibl., index. Cloth, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-66356-4 pp. 678-680

Stefan Link

Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank. By Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 354 pp. Hardcover, $37.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-21720-8 pp. 680-683

Kim Phillips-Fein

Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization. By Harold James. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. 376 pp., 16 b-w illus. Hardcover, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-30-026339-8 pp. 683-685

Matthias Kemmerer

Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession. By Ann Mari May. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 256 pp. Hardcover, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-19290-3 pp. 686-688

Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche

Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development. By Nikhil Menon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 276 pp., illus, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $34.99. ISBN: 978-1-009-04458-5 pp. 688-691

Douglas E. Haynes

A History of Business Cartels: International Politics, National Policies and Anti-Competitive Behaviour. Edited by Martin Shanahan and Susanna Fellman. New York: Routledge 2022. 344 pp., 11 b-w illus. Hardcover, $152.00. ISBN: 978-0-367-64918-0 pp. 691-693

Knut Sogner

Capitalism & Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad. Edited by David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2022. 288 pp. Paperback, $33.00. ISBN: 978-1-77363-478-4 pp. 693-696

Donica Belisle

Volume 97, issue 2, 2023

Slavery, Coercion, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 199-223

Leigh Gardner

Captivity's Commerce: The Theory and Methodology of Slaving and Capitalism pp. 225-246

Mary E. Hicks

(Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly pp. 247-281

Anne Ruderman and Marlous van Waijenburg

Pharmaceutical Captivity, Epistemological Rupture, and the Business Archive of the British Slave Trade pp. 283-305

Carolyn Roberts

“This Slavery Business Is a Horrible Thing”: The Economy of American Slavery in the Lives of the Enslaved pp. 307-334

Justene Hill Edwards

Profiting from Slavery and Emancipation: Compensation, Capital, and Collateral in Nineteenth-Century Senegal pp. 335-361

Bronwen Everill and Khadidiatou Diedhiou

The British Gunpowder Industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade pp. 363-384

Nicholas Radburn

A Guide to the History of Industrial Slavery in the United States pp. 385-409

Isabel Cole and Walter A. Friedman

Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and Its Abolition. By David Richardson. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2022. 384 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $38.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-25043-5. Envoys of Abolition: British Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade in West Africa. By Mary Wills. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. 256 pp. Illustrations. Paperback, $49.99. ISBN: 978-1-80207-771-1. Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System. By Maeve Ryan. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2022. 328 pp. Hardcover, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-25139-5 pp. 415-419

Matthew David Mitchell

The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America. By Joshua D. Rothman. New York: Basic Books, 2021. 512 pp. Paperback, $19.99. ISBN: 978-1-5416-1660-8 pp. 421-423

Robert Gudmestad

Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean. By Erin Woodruff Stone. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 288 pp. Hardcover, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-5310-8 pp. 423-425

Alejandro García-Montón

The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600–1870. By Daniel R. Mandell. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 314 pp. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-3711-8 pp. 426-428

Terry Bouton

Money in the Dutch Republic: Everyday Practice and Circuits of Exchange. By Sebastian Felten. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Hardcover, $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-00-909884-7 pp. 428-430

Stephen Quinn

War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 1652–89. Edited by David Ormrod and Gijs Rommelse. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020. 344 pp., 49 b/w illus. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-78327-324-9 pp. 430-432

Siobhan Talbott

Swansea Copper: A Global History. By Chris Evans and Louise Miskell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 242 pp. Hardcover, $57.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-3911-2 pp. 432-434

Espen Storli

The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise. By Laura R. Sandy. New York: Routledge, 2020. 412 pp., 8 B/W illus. Paperback, $42.36. ISBN: 978-1-03-223707-7 pp. 434-437

Jennifer Oast

Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery. By Bruce A. Ragsdale. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. x + 358 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-24638-6 pp. 437-439

Stuart Leibiger

Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda. By Vanessa S. Oliveira. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. xii + 173 pp., figures, maps, tables, glossary, index. Cloth, $75.95. ISBN: 978-0-299-32580-0 pp. 439-441

Daniel B. Domingues da Silva

Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Dale W. Tomich, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, and Carlos Venegas Fonias. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 176 pp., 10 x 9, 84 color plates, 1 map, 1 table, notes, bibl., index. Paperback, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6312-8 pp. 442-444

Adam Rothman

The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal. By Joan Flores-Villalobos. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 296 pp. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2363-9 pp. 444-447

Jason M. Colby

Exporting Capitalism: Private Enterprise and US Foreign Policy. By Ethan Kapstein. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 304 pp., 21 illus., 1 table. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-25163-2 pp. 447-449

Thomas Zeiler

Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State. By Claire Dunning Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 336 pp. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-81990-7 pp. 449-451

Colton Babbitt

Buying into Change: Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco's Spain, 1939–1982. By Alejandro J. Gómez del Moral. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 366 pp., 9 photos, 12 illus., 1 table, index. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN: 978-1-4962-0506-3 pp. 452-454

Ana Rosado Cubero

Capitalism and the Senses. Edited by Regina Lee Blaszczyk and David Suisman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 312 pp., 21 b/w images. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2420-9 pp. 454-456

Robert Gordon-Fogelson

Volume 97, issue 1, 2023

Creating Value Out of Waste: The Transformation of the Swedish Waste and Recycling Sector, 1970s–2010s pp. 3-31

Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Magnus Lindmark and Nadezda Petrusenko

Business Accounting at Fengshengtai in Late Imperial China: Is There New Evidence of Double-Entry Bookkeeping? pp. 33-65

Matthew Lowenstein and Shuji Cao

The Political Economy of American Businesses in British Central Africa, 1953–1963 pp. 67-91

Victor M. Gwande

A State of Supervision: The Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Germany, 1900s–1930s pp. 93-125

Robert Yee

Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives. By Stephen Roach. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 448 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-25964-3. Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise. By Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 384 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26338-1 pp. 131-135

Jeremy S. Friedman

Political Capitalism pp. 137-143

Marc Levinson

Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric. By Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. 384 pp. Paperback, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-358-25041-8. The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy. By David Gelles. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2022. 272 pp. Hardcover, $28.00. ISBN: 978-1-982-17644-0 pp. 145-152

Richard S. Tedlow

The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage. By John Harris. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 312 pp. Illustrations, maps. Paperback, $22.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26149-3 pp. 153-155

Marcelo Rosanova Ferraro

The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam. By Laurence Monnais. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 290 pp. Illustrations. Paperback, $32.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-46653-0 pp. 155-158

Martha Lincoln

A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan. By Timothy M. Yang. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Notes, references, index. Cloth, $54.95. 354 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5017-5624-5 pp. 158-160

Emilie Takayama

Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London. By Laura Gowing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 275 pp. Bibliography, index. Hardcover, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-48638-5 pp. 160-163

Charlie Taverner

Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State. By Elisabeth Anderson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. xvi + 384 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-691-22090-1; paper, 978-0-691-22089-5 pp. 163-165

Yukako Otori

Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union. By David K. Thomson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 288 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6661-7 pp. 166-168

Christoph Nitschke

The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity. By Anat Rosenberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 432 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Hardcover, £70.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-285891-7 pp. 168-171

Cynthia B. Meyers

Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa. By Holger Droessler. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 304 pp. Photographs, maps. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-26333-8 pp. 171-173

Janne Lahti

Vendors’ Capitalism: A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City. By Ingrid Bleynat. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 264 pp. Bibliography, index. Hardcover, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-5036-1460-4 pp. 173-177

Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato

The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province. By Ümit Kurt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 400 pp. Photographs, maps, tables. Hardcover, $46.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-24794-9 pp. 177-180

Cemal Eren Arbatlı

Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification. By Richard F. Hirsh. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 400 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Hardcover, $60.00. ISBN: 978-1-42144-362-1 pp. 180-183

Leah S. Glaser

Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas. By Amy Offner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xv + 381 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-19093-8 pp. 183-186

Marcelo Bucheli

Making Social Spending Work. By Peter H. Lindert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 434 pp. Hardcover, $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-47816-8 pp. 187-189

Walter Paternesi Meloni

The Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business. Edited by Pierre-Yves Donzé, Véronique Pouillard, and Joanne Roberts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xii + 634 pp. Illustrations, figures, index. Hardback, $150.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-093222-0 pp. 189-192

Nicholas Alexander

The Behavioral Economics of Inflation Expectations: Macroeconomics Meets Psychology. By Tobias F. Rötheli. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 243 pp. Illustrations, references, index. ISBN: 978-1-108-44706-5 pp. 192-194

Richard Curtin