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Volume 86, issue 4, 2012

Coping with Competition: Cooperation and Collusion in the US Stove Industry, c.1870–1930 pp. 657-692

Howell Harris

Business History: A Cultural and Narrative Approach pp. 693-717

Per H. Hansen

Entrepreneurs and Their Businesses during the Mexican Revolution pp. 719-744

María del Carmen Collado

British Government, British Businesses, and the Indigenization Exercise in Post-Independence Nigeria pp. 745-771

Chibuike U. Uche

Interfirm Cooperation in Japan's Integrated Circuit Industry, 1960s–1970s pp. 773-792

Yongdo Kim

Review Essay pp. 805-807

William R. Childs

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600–1850. ByPrasannan Parthasarathi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xviii + 365 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $29.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-107-00030-8; paper, 978-0-521-16824-3 pp. 809-811

Larry Neal

Historia Económica de la Empresa [An Economic History of the Firm]. ByJesús María Valdaliso and Santiago López. Barcelona: Crítica, 2009. xvi + 573 pp. Paper, €33.00. ISBN: 978-84-8432-935-0 pp. 811-813

Adoración Álvaro-Moya

Crises and Opportunities: The Shaping of Modern Finance. ByYoussef Cassis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xvi + 200 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-960086-1 pp. 813-815

Anders Ravn Sørensen

The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change: North American Business Schools after the Second World War. ByMie Augier and James G. March. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. x + 364 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-7616-5 pp. 816-818

Lars Engwall

The Origins of Business, Money, and Markets. ByKeith Roberts. New York: Columbia Business School Publishing, 2011. xx + 357 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-231-15326-3 pp. 818-820

Matthew Trundle

Shipping and Economic Growth, 1350–1850. Edited byRichard W. Unger. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xix + 464 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $183.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-19439-7 pp. 820-823

Gelina Harlaftis

Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia. Edited byEric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang, foreword byWang Gungwu. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. xiii + 534 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $27.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-4881-8; paper, 978-0-8223-4903-7 pp. 823-825

Geoffrey C. Gunn

Coins, Trade, and the State: Economic Growth in Early Medieval Japan. ByEthan Isaac Segal. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. xiv + 258 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-06068-5 pp. 825-827

David L. Howell

Shaping Medieval Markets: The Organisation of Commodity Markets in Holland, c.1200–c.1450. ByJessica Dijkman. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xvi + 447 pp. Maps, tables, figures, appendix, references, notes, index. Cloth, $177.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-20148-4 pp. 827-829

Steven A. Epstein

Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes. ByNicholas A. Robins. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. xiv + 298 pp. Maps, glossary, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-253-35651-2 pp. 830-831

Kendall W. Brown

The Company State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India. ByPhilip J. Stern. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xiii + 300 pp. Illustrations, glossary, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-539373-6 pp. 832-834

Claude Markovits

Gouverner une banque centrale: Du XVIIe siècle à nos jours [Governing a Central Bank: From the Seventeenth Century to Today]. Edited byOlivier Feiertag and Michel Margairaz. Paris: Albin Michel, 2010. 345 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €28.00. ISBN: 978-2-226-20882-8 pp. 834-836

Bertram M. Gordon

The Judge: A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of a Fortune. ByJames Mellon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. xii + 575 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-16714-6 pp. 836-838

Quentin R. Skrabec

Melting Shops: Une histoire des commerçants étrangers en France [Melting Shops: A History of Foreign Shopkeepers in France]. ByClaire Zalc. Paris: Perrin, 2010. 330 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography. Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 978-2-262-02471-0 pp. 839-841

Natacha Coquery

France in the Age of Organization: Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy. ByJackie Clarke. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. x + 218 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-0-85745-080-7 pp. 841-843

Kenneth Mouré

I Feltrinelli: Storia di una dinastia imprenditoriale (1854–1942) [The Feltrinelli: History of an Entrepreneurial Dynasty (1854–1942)]. ByLuciano Segreto. Milan: Feltrinelli, 2011. 487 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Paper, €28.00. ISBN: 978-88-07-11115-0 pp. 844-846

Andrea Colli

Kienzle: Ein deutsches Industrieunternehmen im 20. Jahrhundert [Kienzle: A German Industrial Company during the Twentieth Century]. ByArmin Müller. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2011. 310 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes. Cloth, €29.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09845-8 pp. 846-848

Christina Lubinski

The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America. ByJason M. Colby. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. xi + 274 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4915-4 pp. 848-850

Ian Read

Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States–Mexico Borderlands. Edited byAlexis McCrossen. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xiii + 414 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-4460-5; paper, 978-0-8223-4475-9 pp. 851-853

Julio Moreno

How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. BySarah S. Elkind. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 267 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3489-3 pp. 853-855

Steven P. Erie

War and Health Insurance Policy in Japan and the United States: World War II to Postwar Reconstruction. ByTakakazu Yamagishi. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. xviii + 189 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-0068-6 pp. 856-858

John E. Murray

Japan and the Global Automotive Industry. ByKoichi Shimokawa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xix + 327 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-86687-3 pp. 858-860

Kazuo Wada

The Politics of National Capitalism: Peronism and the Argentine Bourgeoisie, 1946–1976. ByJames P. Brennan and Marcelo Rougier. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2009. xxiii + 221 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-271-03571-0 pp. 860-862

Norma Lanciotti

Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War. ByKristin Roth-Ey. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. ix + 315 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4874-4 pp. 863-865

Amy Randall

Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience. ByBassam Haddad. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. xix + 255 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-80477332-4 pp. 865-868

Raymond Hinnebusch

Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry. ByPeter Benson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. xiv + 323 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, references, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $27.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-06-91-14919-6; paper, 978-0691-14920-2 pp. 868-870

Drew A. Swanson

The Modern American Wine Industry: Market Formation and Growth in North Carolina. ByIan M. Taplin. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. xi + 204 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-84893-136-7 pp. 870-873

Lisa Jacobson

From Sun Cities to the Villages: A History of Active Adult, Age-Restricted Communities. ByJudith Ann Trolander. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. xiii + 352 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $65.95. ISBN: 978-0-8130-3604-5 pp. 873-875

Lawrence Culver

Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech. BySally Smith Hughes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xv + 213 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-35918-2 pp. 875-877

John K. Smith

Volume 86, issue 3, 2012

The Transformation of Swedish Shipping, 1970–2010 pp. 417-445

Hans Sjögren, Thomas Taro Lennerfors and René Taudal Poulsen

Corporate Insurers in Antebellum America pp. 447-476

Robert E. Wright and Christopher Kingston

The American Beverage Industry and the Development of Curbside Recycling Programs, 1950–2000 pp. 477-501

Bartow J. Elmore

Strategy and Structure in Large Italian and Spanish Firms, 1950–2002 pp. 503-525

Veronica Binda

Western Union's Failed Reinvention: The Role of Momentum in Resisting Strategic Change, 1965–1993 pp. 527-549

Christopher McDonald

Review Essay pp. 569-574

Kim Priemel

The New Multinationals: Spanish Firms in a Global Context. By Mauro F. Guillén and Esteban García-Canal. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. ix + 226 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $59.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-51614-3 pp. 575-577

Núria Puig

Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life. ByNicholas Phillipson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 368 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-16927-0 pp. 577-580

Robert Prasch

When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors' Democracy. ByJulia C. Ott. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. 313 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-05065-5 pp. 580-582

Maury Klein

The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality. ByThomas Borstelmann. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. xiv + 401 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-14156-5 pp. 582-584

Kim Phillips-Fein

El impacto histórico de la globalización en Argentina y Chile: Empresas y empresarios [The Historical Impact of Globalization in Argentina and Chile: Firms and Entrepreneurs]. Edited by Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch. Buenos Aires: Temas, 2011. xvi + 280 pp. Figures, tables, notes. Paper, $100.00. ISBN: 978-950-9445-90-1 pp. 584-587

Graciela Márquez

Milk: A Local and Global History. ByDeborah Valenze. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011. xv + 351 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-11724-0 pp. 587-589

Kendra Smith-Howard

How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500–1850. Edited byGiorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy. Leiden: Brill, 2009. xxxiv + 489 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, glossary, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $188.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-17653-9 pp. 589-592

Susan Wolcott

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective.ByRobert C. Allen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xi + 331 pp. Illustrations,figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $27.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-68785-0 pp. 592-594

Gary S. Shea

Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s. Edited by Douglas A. Irwin and Richard Sylla. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. ix + 353 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00; paper, $35.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-226-38474-0; paper, 978-0-226-38475-7 pp. 595-597

Andrew Shankman

Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South. ByCalvin Schermerhorn. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. viii + 286 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $30.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4214-0035-8; paper, 978-1-4214-0036-5 pp. 597-599

Caitlin C. Rosenthal

Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804–1867. ByIlya Vinkovetsky. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xiii + 258 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-539128-2 pp. 600-602

Thomas C. Owen

El Banco de Barcelona (1844–1874): Historia de un banco emisor [The Bank of Barcelona (1844–1874): History of an Issuing Bank]. ByYolanda Blasco andCarles Sudrià. Madrid: LID, 2011. 419 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index, appendix. Paper, €24.00. ISBN: 978-848-35611-02 pp. 602-604

José Miranda

The Development of the Art Market in England: Money as Muse. ByThomas M. Bayer andJohn R. Page. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. xi + 267 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-84893-043-8 pp. 605-607

Charles Harvey

Health in the Marketplace: Professionalism, Therapeutic Desires, and Medical Commodification in Late-Victorian London. ByTakahiro Ueyama. Palo Alto, Calif.: Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 2010. 320 pp. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-930664-29-9 pp. 607-610

Stuart Anderson

Sold! Advertising and the Bourgeois Female Consumer in Munich, 1900–1914. ByMonica Neve. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2010. 257 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09343-9 pp. 610-612

Anke Ortlepp

Ökonomische Effizienz und gesellschaftlicher Ausgleich: Die industrielle Psychotechnik in der Weimarer Republik [Economic Efficiency and Social Balance: Industrial Psychology in the Weimar Republic]. ByKatja Patzel-Mattern. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2010. 312 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes. Cloth, €60.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09324-8 pp. 612-615

Boris Gehlen

Ducktown Smoke: The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters. By Duncan Maysilles. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. x + 333 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3459-6 pp. 615-617

Noga Morag-Levine

Murder of a Landscape: The California Farmer-Smelter War, 1897–1916. ByKhaled J. Bloom. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. 233 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-87062-396-7 pp. 617-619

Paul J. P. Sandul

A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth. ByAlexander J. Field. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. ix + 387 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-15109-1 pp. 620-622

Howard Bodenhorn

Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State. By Janis Mimura. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. ix + 229 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4926-0 pp. 622-625

Mark Metzler

Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich. ByS. Jonathan Wiesen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiv + 277 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $26.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-521-76253-3; paper, 978-0-521-74636-6 pp. 625-627

Christian Kleinschmidt

Camille Gutt and Postwar International Finance. ByJean F. Crombois. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. xi + 192 pp. Glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $96.00. ISBN: 978-1-84893-058-2 pp. 627-629

Wyatt Wells

The Monetary Conservative: Jacques Rueff and Twentieth-Century Free Market Thought. ByChristopher S. Chivvis. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. xiv + 234 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-87580-417-0 pp. 630-632

Laure Quennouëlle-Corre

L'Économie faite homme: Hommage à Alain Plessis [The Economy Made Human: Homage to Alain Plessis]. Edited byOlivier Feiertag and Isabelle Lespinet-Moret. Geneva: Droz, 2011. Paper, $84.00. ISBN: 978-2-600-11459-2 pp. 632-635

Christine Haynes

Industriegesellschaft und Kulturtransfer: Die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert [Industrial Society and Cultural Transfer: German-American Relations in the Twentieth Century]. ByVolker Berghahn. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2010. 314 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth €49.95. ISBN: 978-3-525-37013-1 pp. 635-637

Christina Lubinski

The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder: Decline of the German Model? By Jeremy Leaman. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. xix + 226 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-1-84545-601-6 pp. 637-639

Jan-Otmar Hesse

Contribution à une histoire des cartels en Suisse [Contributions to a History of Swiss Cartels]. Edited byAlain Cortat. Neuchâtel: Alphil, 2010. 259 pp. Notes, figures, tables. Paper, $49.00. ISBN: 978-2-940235-67-4 pp. 639-641

Espen Storli

All This Is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad after Stalin. By Anne E. Gorsuch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. x + 222 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-960994-9 pp. 641-643

David C. Engerman

Sunshine Paradise: A History of Florida Tourism. ByTracy J. Revels. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. x + 192 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-8130-3542-0 pp. 643-645

Mansel G. Blackford

Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives. Edited byBernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, and Paul Thomes. London: Routledge, 2011. 319 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-88067-1 pp. 645-647

David Hochfelder

Telecommunications Industry in India: State Business and Labour in a Global Economy. ByDilip Subramanian. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2011. xiii + 685 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-81-87358-42-8 pp. 648-650

Tomlinson, B. R. (Tom)

Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science. ByPhilip Mirowski. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. 454 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-04646-7 pp. 650-653

Lee Vinsel

Volume 86, issue 2, 2012

Overcoming Discrimination by Consumers during the Age of Segregation: The Example of Garrett Morgan pp. 211-234

Lisa D. Cook

Introduction: Behind the Brand pp. 235-238

Teresa Lopes and Paul Duguid

Catalonian Trademarks and the Development of Marketing Knowledge in Spain, 1850–1946 pp. 239-260

Patricio Sáiz and Paloma Fernández Pérez

“Forgotten Heroes and Forgotten Issues”: Business and Trademark History during the Nineteenth Century pp. 261-285

David Higgins

Brand Protection and the Globalization of British Business pp. 287-310

Teresa Lopes and Mark Casson

A Case of Prejudice? The Uncertain Development of Collective and Certification Marks pp. 311-333

Paul Duguid

Dictionnaire historique des patrons français. Directed byJean-Claude Daumas, in collaboration withAlain Chatriot, Danièle Fraboulet, Patrick Fridenson, and Hervé Joly. Paris: Flammarion, 2010. 1614 pp. Sources and references, table of authors, index. €29.50. ISBN: 978-2-081-22834-4 pp. 343-348

Michael S. Smith

The Creative Society—and the Price Americans Paid for It. ByLouis Galambos. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiv + 322 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $27.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-107-01317-9; paper, 978-1-107-60099-7 pp. 348-351

Mark H. Rose

Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time. Edited byPaul W. Rhode, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and David F. Weiman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. xx + 461 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-804-77185-6 pp. 351-356

John Parman

American Empire, 1945–2000: The Rise of a Global Power; the Democratic Revolution at Home. ByJoshua B. Freeman. New York: Viking Press, 2012. xiv + 527 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $36.00. ISBN: 978-0-670-02378-3 pp. 357-359

Maury Klein

The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good. ByJohn Lauritz Larson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiii + 208 pp. Maps, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $20.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-70989-7 pp. 359-361

Joshua R. Greenberg

American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own. ByStuart Banner. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. vi + 355 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-058805-7 pp. 361-364

Victoria Saker Woeste

The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, 1450–1850. Edited byNicholas Canny and Philip Morgan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. vii + 671 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $150.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-21087-9 pp. 364-366

Michelle Craig McDonald

Netzwerkökonomie im frühen 19. Jahrhundert: Das Beispiel der Schoeller-Häuser [Economic Networks in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Example of the Schoeller Firms]. By Adelheid von Saldern. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2009. 363 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes. Paper, €50.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09369-9 pp. 366-368

Richard Tilly

The Economy in Jewish History: New Perspectives on the Interrelationship between Ethnicity and Economic Life. Edited byGideon Reuveni and Sarah Wobick-Segev. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. x + 239 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-1-845-45774-7 pp. 368-370

Jerry Z. Muller

The Business of Women: Marriage, Family, and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901–51. ByMelanie Buddle. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. xi + 208 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-774-81813-1 pp. 371-373

Carmen Nielson

Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways. ByChristine R. Yano. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. xv + 228 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-4836-8; paper, 978-0-8223-4850-4 pp. 373-375

Shiho Imai

Before Porn Was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse. ByElizabeth Heineman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xi + 225 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-32521-7 pp. 376-378

Kathy Peiss

Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880–1920. ByAndrew P. Haley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. xiv + 356 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-807-83474-9 pp. 378-380

Katherine Leonard Turner

The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation. ByMichael B. Boston. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. xv + 243 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN: 978-0-813-03473-7 pp. 381-383

Alexa Benson Henderson

Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City. ByAntero Pietila. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010. xiii + 320 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $28.95. ISBN: 978-1-566-63843-2 pp. 383-385

Peter Eisenstadt

Laws of Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life. ByAmy Chazkel. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011. xvii + 346 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-822-34988-4; paper, 978-0-822-34988-4 pp. 385-387

Gail Triner

Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941–1964. ByOliver Dinius. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. xxiv + 325 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-804-77168-9 pp. 388-390

Anne Hanley

The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism. ByHarriet Ritvo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 237 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, $26.00; paper, $18.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-226-72082-1; paper, 978-0-226-72086-9 pp. 390-392

Andrew P. Duffin

All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management. ByCarmel Finley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xii + 210 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-24966-7 pp. 392-394

Mansel Blackford

Central Banking in the Twentieth Century. ByJohn Singleton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xii + 337 pp. Tables, references, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-89909-3 pp. 395-397

James M. Boughton

La Suisse et l'Italie, 1923–1950: Commerce, finance et réseaux [Switzerland and Italy, 1923–1950: Trade, Finance, and Networks]. ByDario Gerardi. Neuchâtel: Editions Alphil, 2007. 612 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, indexes. Paper, CHF 54.00. ISBN: 978-2-940-23530-8 pp. 397-399

Carlo Brambilla

Material Nation: A Consumer's History of Modern Italy. ByEmanuela Scarpellini. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xv + 343 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-58957-9 pp. 399-401

Francesca Polese

Unternehmen im Nationalsozialismus: Zur Historisierung einer Forschungskonjunktur [Business in National Socialism: Historicizing a Research Trend]. Edited byNorbert Frei and Tim Schanetzky. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2010. 222 pp. Bibliography, index. Paper, €15.00. ISBN: 978-3-835-30755-1 pp. 401-404

Joachim Lund

175 Years of Bertelsmann: The Legacy for Our Future. Edited byHartmut Berghoff. Guetersloh: Bertelsmann, 2010. 406 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, appendix, index. Cloth. ISBN: 978-3-570-10176-6 pp. 404-406

Kim C. Priemel

Vom Familienunternehmen zur Unternehmensfamilie: Die Zumtobel-Konzerngruppe von 1950–2000 [From Family Enterprise to a Family of Enterprises: The Zumtobel Corporation, 1950–2000]. ByChristian Feurstein. Vienna: LIT, 2009. 494 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, appendix, notes. Paper, €28.80. ISBN: 978-3-643-50032-8 pp. 407-409

Jeremy Leaman

Familienunternehmen in Westdeutschland: Corporate Governance und Gesellschaftskultur seit den 1960er Jahren [Family Business in West Germany: Corporate Governance and Company Culture since the 1960s]. ByChristina Lubinski. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2010. 316 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €48.00. ISBN: 978-3-406-60807-0 pp. 409-411

Volker R. Berghahn

The Economic Diplomacy of Ostpolitik: Origins of NATO's Energy Dilemma. ByWerner D. Lippert. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. xviii + 238 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 9-78-1-845-45750-1 pp. 411-413

James C. Van Hook

Volume 86, issue 1, 2012

Dispelling the Myth of the Naive Investor during the British Railway Mania, 1845–1846 pp. 3-41

Gareth Campbell and John Turner

How Scottish & Newcastle Became the U.K.'s Largest Brewer: A Case of Regulatory Capture? pp. 43-68

Julie Bower and Howard Cox

Creating Knowledge Networks: Spanish Multinational Publishers in Mexico pp. 69-98

María Fernández-Moya

Operations Research vis-à-vis Management at Arthur D. Little and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1950s pp. 99-122

William Thomas

The Culture of Capitalism - The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism. ByJoyce Appleby. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2010. xii + 494 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-393-06894-8 pp. 129-137

Richard R. John

The Bank of England: 1950s to 1979. ByForrest Capie. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xxviii + 890 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $150.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-19282-8 pp. 139-142

Catherine Schenk

Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America. ByMark Valeri. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. xiii + 337 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-14359-0 pp. 143-145

James E. McWilliams

Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise. ByRobert Martello. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 421 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89757-3 pp. 146-148

Andrew M. Schocket

Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory. Edited byUrsula Klein and E. C. Spary. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. vii + 398 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-43968-6 pp. 148-151

Alexandra Bamji

So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism. ByJames R. Fichter. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. xii + 384 pp. Maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-05057-0 pp. 151-153

Thomas M. Truxes

In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression. ByWendy A. Woloson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiii + 233 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-94664-1 pp. 153-156

Jan Logemann

Moneymakers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious Counterfeiters. ByBen Tarnoff. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 369 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-1-594-29287-2 pp. 156-158

Howard Bodenhorn

Making, Selling and Wearing Boys' Clothes in Late-Victorian England. ByClare Rose. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. 294 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $124.00. ISBN: 978-0-754-66444-4 pp. 158-160

Brent Shannon

Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829–1929. ByMolly W. Berger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 318 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89987-4 pp. 161-163

Reiko Hillyer

The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age. ByRosanne Currarino. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xi + 210 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03570-8; paper, 978-0-252-07786-9 pp. 163-165

Daniel Opler

Hired Hands or Human Resources? Case Studies of HRM Programs and Practices in Early American History. ByBruce E. Kaufman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. xi + 254 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-44830-0 pp. 165-168

Howard R. Stanger

Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847–2006. ByTerry S. Reynold and Virginia P. Dawson. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011. viii + 351 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 978-0-814-33511-6 pp. 168-170

W. Bruce Bowlus

Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry from 1812 to the Present. ByLeon Fink. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 278 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-807-83450-3 pp. 171-173

Melvyn Dubofsky

Leadership in World Shipping: Greek Family Firms in International Business. ByIoannis Theotokas and Gelina Harlaftis. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xvii + 346 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $115.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-57642-1 pp. 173-175

Michael Miller

The Karimjee Jivanjee Family: Merchant Princes of East Africa, 1800–2000. By Gijsbert Oonk. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. 172 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes. Cloth, $46.70. ISBN: 978-9-085-55027-3 pp. 176-177

Alusine Jalloh

La familia Aznar y sus negocios (1830–1983): Cuatro generaciones de empresarios en la España contemporánea [The Aznar Family and Its Business (1830–1983): Four Generations of Entrepreneurs in Modern Spain]. ByJesús Ma Valdaliso. Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2006. 379 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 978-8-496-46721-7 pp. 177-179

Eugenio Torres

When Sugar Ruled: Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina: Tucumán, 1876–1916. ByPatricia Juárez-Dappe. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2010. xiii + 233 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $32.00. ISBN: 978-0-896-80274-2 pp. 180-182

Daniel J. Greenberg

Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise. ByJessica B. Teisch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 272 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, 27.50. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-807-83443-5; paper, 978-0-807-87176-8 pp. 182-185

Peter Shulman

Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse. ByDean Bavington. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. xxxii + 186 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $94.00; paper, $35.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-774-81747-9; paper, 978-0-774-81748-6 pp. 185-187

Mansel G. Blackford

The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Thought. BySteven G. Medema. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. xiii + 199 pp. Figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-12296-0 pp. 187-190

Robert Prasch

The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire. BySteven Bryan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xii + 273 pp. Tables, notes, references, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-15252-5 pp. 190-193

Wyatt Wells

High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg. ByNiall Ferguson. New York: Penguin Press, 2010. xxi + 548 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-594-20246-9 pp. 193-195

Per H. Hansen

The World of Private Banking. Edited by Youssef Cassis and Philip Cottrell, with Monika Pohle Fraser and Iain L. Fraser. 302 pp. Illustrations. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. Cloth, $134.95. ISBN: 978-1-859-28432-2 pp. 195-198

Christopher Kobrak

The Plans that Failed: An Economic History of the GDR. ByAndré Steiner, translated by Ewald Osers. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. viii + 227 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-1-8-84545-748-8 pp. 198-200

Peter C. Caldwell

The Soviet Dream World of Retail Trade and Consumption in the 1930s. ByAmy E. Randall. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xi + 251 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-1-403-99984-9 pp. 201-203

Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York. BySamuel Zipp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xi + 469 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-195-32874-5 pp. 203-205

Kenneth T. Jackson

Book Makers: British Publishing in the Twentieth Century. ByIain Stevenson. London: British Library, 2010. xviii + 314 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-712-309610-5 pp. 205-207

Michael Winship