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Volume 87, issue 4, 2013

Introduction: Corporate Reputation in Historical Perspective pp. 643-654

Rowena Olegario and Christopher McKenna

Mediating Reputation: Credit Reporting Systems in American History pp. 655-677

Kenneth Lipartito

Privacy, Publicity, and Reputation: How the Press Regulated the Market in Nineteenth-Century England pp. 679-701

James Taylor

Reputation and Social Ties: J. P. Morgan & Co. and Private Investment Banking pp. 703-728

Susie J. Pak

Reputation and Political Legitimacy: ITT in Chile, 1927–1972 pp. 729-756

Marcelo Bucheli and Erica Salvaj Carrera

The Concept of Reputation in Business History pp. 763-786

Christopher Kobrak

The Railroading of American Business pp. 787-795

Stephen Mihm

The Pennsylvania Railroad. Volume 1, Building an Empire, 1846–1917. By Albert J. Churella. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. xviii + 945 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4348-2 pp. 797-800

John K. Jack Brown

The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression. By Angus Burgin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 303 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05813-2 pp. 800-802

Philip Mirowski

Making the European Monetary Union. By Harold James. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. xiv + 567 pp. Figures, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-06683-0 pp. 803-805

Allan Meltzer

The American National State and the Early West. By William H. Bergmann. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. x + 288 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-01528-9 pp. 805-807

Ethan R. Bennett

Building a Market: The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914–1960. By Richard Harris. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xii + 431 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-31766-3 pp. 807-810

Elizabeth Blackmar

Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants. By Tijl Vanneste. London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2011. xi + 269 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-84893-087-2 pp. 810-813

Hilde Greefs

Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History. By Brian Black. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. x + 276 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00; electronic, $34.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-7425-5654-6; electronic, 978-1-4422-1611-2 pp. 813-815

Hugh Gorman

The Digital Flood: The Diffusion of Information Technology across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. By James W. Cortada. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xix + 789 pp. Figures, maps, tables, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-992155-3 pp. 815-817

Martin Campbell-Kelly

The Political Construction of Business Interests: Coordination, Growth, and Equality. By Cathie Jo Martin and Duane Swank. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xv + 307 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $31.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-60364-6 pp. 817-819

Chris Howell

Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics. By Daniel Stedman Jones. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. xii + 418 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-15157-1 pp. 820-822

Michael Kimmage

Beatlemania: Technology, Business, and Teen Culture in Cold War America. By André Millard. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. viii + 223 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper, $22.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-0525-4 pp. 822-824

Joshua Clark Davis

Shopping in Ancient Rome: The Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate. By Claire Holleran. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xvi + 304 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-969821-9 pp. 825-827

Derek Keene

La gloire de l'industrie, XVIIe–XIXe siècle: Faire de l'histoire avec Gérard Gayot [Splendors of Industry, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries: A Tribute to Gérard Gayot]. Edited by Corine Maitte, Philippe Minard, and Matthieu de Oliveira. Rennes: Presses Universitaire de Rennes, 2013. 341 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes. Paper, €18.00. ISBN: 978-2-7535-1800-1 pp. 827-829

Claire Lemercier

Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780–1820. By Leslie Tomory. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2012. xi + 348 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-01675-9 pp. 829-831

Paul Lucier

Entrepreneurial Families: Business, Marriage, and Life in the Early Nineteenth Century. By Andrew Popp. London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2012. viii + 188 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-84893-236-4 pp. 832-834

Niall G. MacKenzie

The Color Revolution. By Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2012. xiv + 380 pp. Illustrations, photos, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-01777-0 pp. 834-836

Jeffrey L. Meikle

Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia. By Patrick Hyder Patterson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. xvii + 351 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5004-4 pp. 837-839

Julie Hessler

Lo social y lo económico: ¿Dos Caras de una Misma Moneda? La Fundación Social y sus empresas (1984–2010) [The Social and the Economic: Two Sides of the Same Coin? The Fundación Social and Its Companies, (1984–2010)]. By José Camilo Dávila L. de Guevara, et al.Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, 2011. 275 pp. Figures, appendix, bibliography, notes. Paper, $57.00. ISBN: 978-958-695-687-1 pp. 839-841

Joshua M. Rosenthal

East Asian Capitalism: Diversity, Continuity, and Change. Edited by Andrew Walter and Xiaoke Zhang. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xiv + 331 pp. Tables, figures, references, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-1996-4309-7 pp. 841-843

Parks M. Coble

Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa. By Catherine Higgs. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2012. xv + 230 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2006-5 pp. 844-845

Malyn Newitt

Volume 87, issue 3, 2013

The Australian Bank Crashes of the 1890s Revisited pp. 407-429

David Tolmie Merrett

Party Politics and the Default Move from Coordination to Liberalism pp. 431-459

Cathie Jo Martin

Marketing for Socialism: Soviet Cosmetics in the 1930s pp. 461-487

Olga Kravets and Özlem Sandıkçı

Beyond Marshallian Agglomeration Economies: The Roles of Trade Associations in Meiji Japan pp. 489-513

Tomoko Hashino and Takafumi Kurosawa

James D. Mooney and General Motors' Multinational Operations, 1922–1940 pp. 515-543

Daniel A. Wren

Trade and Finance before the Imposition of the Western Order of Business pp. 553-557

John Wong

Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History. By Michael B. Miller. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xv + 435 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-02455-7. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000913 pp. 559-561

Gordon Boyce

The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala. By J. T. Way. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. x + 310 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 978-0-8223-5120-7. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000998 pp. 561-563

Cyrus Veeser

MP3: The Meaning of a Format. By Jonathan Sterne. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. xv + 341 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-5283-9; paper, 978-0-8223-5287-7. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000974 pp. 564-566

JoAnne Yates

Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929. By Barry Kernfeld. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xii + 273 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $97.00; paper, $29.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-226-43182-6; paper, 978-0-226-43183-3. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000846 pp. 566-569

Marc J. Stern

Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790–1860. By Max Grivno. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xiii + 269 pp. Illustrations, map, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-03652-1. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000810 pp. 569-572

Joshua Rothman

The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America. By Marc Levinson. New York: Hill and Wang, 2011. 337 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $27.00. ISBN: 978-0-8090-9543-8. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000871 pp. 572-574

Susan V. Spellman

The Einstein of Money: The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham. By Joe Carlen. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2012. 368 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 978-1-61614-557-6. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000779 pp. 574-576

David Snowball

Sound Business: Newspapers, Radio, and the Politics of New Media. By Michael Stamm. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. viii + 256 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4311-6. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000962 pp. 577-579

David Goodman

Panic in the Loop: Chicago's Banking Crisis of 1932. By Raymond B. Vickers. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2011. xxiv + 345 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-0-7391-6640-6. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000986 pp. 579-581

Elliott J. Gorn

DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World. By David Kinkela. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. xiv + 256 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3509-8. doi:10.1017/S000768051300086X pp. 581-583

Dominique Tobbell

The Store in the Hood: A Century of Ethnic Business and Conflict. By Steven J. Gold. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2010. x + 315 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4422-0623-6; paper, 978-1-4422-0624-3. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000809 pp. 584-586

Robert E. Weems

The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination. Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. vii + 419 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4414-4. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000883 pp. 586-589

Shaun S. Nichols

Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance. By Robert R. Locke and J.-C. Spender. London: Zed, 2011. xix+ 217 pp. Tables, references, index. Cloth, $107.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-78032-072-4; paper, 978-1-78032-071-7. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000895 pp. 589-591

Lars Engwall

Wall Street Women. By Melissa S. Fisher. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. xii + 227 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-5330-0; paper, 978-0-8223-5345-4. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000792 pp. 591-594

Janette Rutterford

Hybrid: The History & Science of Plant Breeding. By Noel Kingsbury. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv + 493 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-226-43704-0; paper, 978-0-226-43713-2; electronic, 978-0-226-43705-7. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000858 pp. 594-596

Bartow Elmore

The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Emergence of the Modern World. By Douglas W. Allen. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. xiv + 267 pp. Bibliography, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-01474-6. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000767 pp. 596-599

Thomas A. Stapleford

Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem. By Daniel Schneider. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011. xxx + 338 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-01644-5. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000949 pp. 599-602

Jonathan Wlasiuk

Dieselautos in Deutschland und den USA: Zum Verhältnis von Technologie, Konsum und Politik, 1949–2005 [Diesel Cars in Germany and the US: Their Relation to Technology, Consumption, and Politics, 1949–2005]. By Christopher Neumaier. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 298 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €46.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09694-2. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000925 pp. 602-604

Paul Thomes

Company Towns: Corporate Order and Community. By Neil White. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xiv + 242 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4327-7. doi:10.1017/S0007680513001013 pp. 604-606

Laurie Mercier

Le tourisme Suisse et son rayonnement international: “Switzerland, the Playground of the World” [Swiss Tourism and Its International Influence: “Switzerland, the Playground of the World”]. Edited by Cédric Humair and Laurent Tissot. Lausanne: Antipodes, 2011. 222 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes. Paper, €23.00. ISBN: 978-2-88901-057-8. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000834 pp. 606-609

Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl

Selling to the Masses: Retailing in Russia, 1880–1930. By Marjorie L. Hilton. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012. x + 339 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6167-3. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000822 pp. 609-611

Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild

Intervention in the Modern UK Brewing Industry. By John Spicer, Chris Thurman, John Walters, and Simon Ward. New York: Palgrave, 2012. xviii + 315 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, figures, tables, appendix, glossary, notes, index. Cloth, $105.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-29857-6. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000950 pp. 611-613

Terence Gourvish

Empresariado en Colombia: Perspectiva histórica y regional [Business in Colombia: An Historical and Regional Perspective]. By de Guevara Carlos Dávila L.. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, 2012. 338 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes. Paper, $45.00. ISBN 978-958-695-693-2. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000780 pp. 614-616

Frank Safford

Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile. By Eden Medina. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011. xv + 326 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-01649-0. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000901 pp. 616-618

Martín Monsalve-Zanatti

The Money Doctors from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895–1937. By Michael Schiltz. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. xix + 268 pp. Tables, maps, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-06249-8. doi:10.1017/S0007680513000937 pp. 618-620

Eric Helleiner

From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea. By Paige West. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. xvii + 315 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $94.95; paper, $25.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-5136-8; paper, 978-0-8223-5150-4. doi:10.1017/S0007680513001001 pp. 621-623

John M. Talbot

Volume 87, issue 2, 2013

Siemens and the Business of Medicine in Japan, 1900–1945 pp. 203-228

Pierre-Yves Donzé

Modernizing Electric Utilities in Brazil: National vs. Foreign Capital, 1889–1930 pp. 229-253

Alexandre Macchione Saes

Does Organizational Heritage Matter in the Development of Offshore Markets? The Case of Australian Life Insurers pp. 255-277

Monica Keneley

Greek Family Firms in the Azov Sea Region, 1850–1917 pp. 279-308

Evrydiki Sifneos

Innovations in US Banking Practices and the Credit Boom of the 1920s pp. 309-327

Tobias Rötheli

Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850. By Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson, and James Taylor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xiv + 339 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-26187-4 pp. 337-339

Leslie Hannah

States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities. By David Stasavage. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. xi + 192 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-14057-7 pp. 339-341

Tony Moore

Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan. By Andrew Gordon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xiii + 285 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-26785-5 pp. 341-344

Helen Macnaughtan

A Country Merchant, 1495–1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages. By Christopher Dyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xiii + 256 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-921424-2 pp. 344-346

Steven A. Epstein

From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa. By Sebouh David Aslanian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xx + 363 pp. Maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-26687-2 pp. 346-348

Gijsbert Oonk

Objectifying China, Imagining America: Chinese Commodities in Early America. By Caroline Frank. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xiii + 257 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-26028-0 pp. 348-351

Serena Zabin

Merchants of Canton and Macao: Politics and Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade. By Paul A. Van Dyke. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. xxii + 545 pp. Tables, photographs, appendices, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-988-8028-91-7 pp. 351-353

Anne Reinhardt

A Genius for Money: Business, Art, and the Morrisons. By Caroline Dakers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. xiii + 326 pp. Photos, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-11220-7 pp. 353-355

Andrew Popp

Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820–1860. By Aileen Fyfe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xvi + 313 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-27651-9 pp. 355-357

Terry S. Reynolds

The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention. By William Rosen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xxv + 370 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper, $17.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-72634-2 pp. 357-359

Maury Klein

Uneasy Allies: Working for Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century Boston. By David A. Zonderman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. xii + 312 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-1-55849-865-5 pp. 360-362

Tom Juravich

Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction. By John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. xi + 310 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-03683-5 pp. 362-364

Timothy B. Spears

American Showman: Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908–1935. By Ross Melnick. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xiv + 538 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-231-15904-3 pp. 364-367

Josh Glick

The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America. By Lawrence Culver. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. x + 317 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-538263-1 pp. 367-369

Eliza Martin

Die Geschichte der National-Bank, 1921 bis 2011 [The History of National-Bank, 1921 to 2011]. By Joachim Scholtyseck. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. 423 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €44.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09831-1 pp. 369-372

Chris Kobrak

Historia del Banco Popular: La lucha por la independencia [History of Banco Popular: The Fight for Independence]. By Gabriel Tortella, José María Ortiz-Villajos, and José Luís García Ruiz. Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2011. 431 pp. Illustrations, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes. Paper, €38.00. ISBN: 978-84-9768-917-5 pp. 372-373

Miguel A. Lopez-Morell

Banquiers et diplomates suisses (1938–1946) [Swiss Banking and Diplomacy, 1938–1946]. By Marc Perrenoud. Lausanne: Editions Antipodes, 2011. 540 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €37.00. ISBN: 978-2-88901-030-1 pp. 374-376

Matthieu Leimgruber

Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883–1945. By Daqing Yang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010. xix + 446 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-01091-8 pp. 376-378

Yongdo Kim

Technology and the Making of the Netherlands: The Age of Contested Modernization, 1890–1970. Edited by Johan Schot, Harry Lintsen, and Arie Rip. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. 635 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-26-201362-8 pp. 378-381

Joost Dankers

Creating Consumers: Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America. By Carolyn M. Goldstein. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xi + 412 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3553-1 pp. 381-384

Ai Hisano

The Voice of the Citizen Consumer: A History of Market Research, Consumer Movements, and the Public Sphere. Edited by Kerstin Brückweh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xv + 304 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $150.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-960402-9 pp. 384-386

Jan Logemann

Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840–1914. By James Simpson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. xli + 318 pp. Tables, maps, glossary, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.50; electronic, $39.50. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-691-13603-5; electronic, 978-1-400-83888-2 pp. 386-389

Teresa Lopes

American Tuna: The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food. By Andrew F. Smith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xiv + 242 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-26184-6 pp. 389-391

Mansel Blackford

Sweet Stuff: An American History of Sweeteners from Sugar to Sucralose. By Deborah Jean Warner. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2011. viii + 289 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-935623-05-2 pp. 391-393

Wendy A. Woloson

Art and Science in Breeding: Creating Better Chickens. By Margaret E. Derry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. 281 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4395-6 pp. 393-394

Andrew Godley

They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California. By Don Mitchell. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. xii + 529 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8203-4175-0; paper, 978-0-8203-4176-7 pp. 394-397

Paul J. P. Sandul

Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences. By Dominique A. Tobbell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xv + 294 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-520-27113-5; paper, 978-0-520-27114-2 pp. 397-399

Anne Pollock

Oil Producing Countries and Oil Companies: From the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Alain Beltran. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. 294 pp. Figures and tables. Paper, $61.95 ISBN: 978-90-5201-711-2 pp. 399-401

Mark Seddon

The Wealth and Poverty of Regions: Why Cities Matter. By Mario Polèse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv + 254 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, index. Paper, $22.50. ISBN: 978-0-226-67316-5 pp. 402-404

Robert Forrant

Volume 87, issue 1, 2013

Patent Alchemy: The Market for Technology in US History pp. 3-38

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth Sokoloff and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal

Selling Ideas: An International Perspective on Patenting and Markets for Technological Innovations, 1790–1930 pp. 39-68

B. Zorina Khan

The German Market for Patents during the “Second Industrialization,” 1884–1913: A Gravity Approach pp. 69-93

Carsten Burhop and Nikolaus Wolf

Inventors, Patents, and Inventive Activities in the English Brewing Industry, 1634–1850 pp. 95-120

Alessandro Nuvolari and James Sumner

Intermediary Functions and the Market for Innovation in Meiji and Taishō Japan pp. 121-149

Tom Nicholas and Hiroshi Shimizu

Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620–1720. ByCarl Wennerlind. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 348 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-04738-9 pp. 157-159

Forrest Capie

“I Am Not Master of Events”: The Speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles. ByLarry Neal. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. xiv + 214 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, appendix, references, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-15316-3 pp. 159-161

Anne L. Murphy

America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837. ByAlasdair Roberts. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012. 255 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $26.00. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5033-4 pp. 161-163

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The Music Trade in Georgian London. Edited byMichael Kassler. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. xviii + 560 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $114.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6065-1 pp. 163-165

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Workshop of Revolution: Plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776–1810. ByLyman L. Johnson. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. xiv + 410 pp. Tables, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $27.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-4966-2; paper, 978-0-8223-4981-5 pp. 165-167

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Mining and the State in Brazilian Development. ByGail D. Triner. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. xvii + 253 pp. Tables, maps, figures, appendices, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-84893-068-1; electronic, 978-1-84893-069-8 pp. 168-170

Anne Hanley

Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, 1796–1916. ByStefania Barca. Cambridge, UK: White Horse Press, 2010. xii + 180 pp. Maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00; paper $33.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-874267-56-0; paper, 978-1-874267-57-7 pp. 170-172

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Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World. Edited byChristopher Sellers andJoseph Melling. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. x + 218 pp. Tables, maps, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $85.50; paper, $29.95; electronic, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-43990-468-8; paper, 978-1-43990-469-5; electronic, 978-1-43990-470-1 pp. 173-175

Hugh S. Gorman

The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830–1910. ByGordon M. Winder. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. xiii + 257 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-2461-1 pp. 175-177

J. L. Anderson

Siemens im Sowjetgeschäft: Eine Institutionengeschichte der deutschsowjetischen Beziehungen, 1917–1933. [Siemens's Business Enterprise in the Soviet Union: An Institutional History of German-Soviet Relations, 1917–1933] ByMartin Lutz. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. 391 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €59.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09802-1 pp. 177-179

Susanne Hilger

The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in US History. ByDavid R. Roediger andElizabeth D. Esch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. x + 286 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-973975-2 pp. 179-182

Jennifer Delton

Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire. ByJulie Berebitsky. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. x + 359 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-11899-5 pp. 182-184

Pamela W. Laird

Direct Sales and Direct Faith in Latin America. ByPeter S. Cahn. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xiv + 191 pp. Illustrations, tables, references, bibliography, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-11249-0 pp. 185-187

Ana Maria Bidegain and Michael Brasher

Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America. ByJoseph A. McCartin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. x + 472 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-983678-9 pp. 187-189

William R. Childs

Information Technology Innovation and the Japanese Economy. ByKazunori Minetaki andKiyohiko G. Nishimura. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. 229 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-804-77389-8 pp. 190-191

Yongdo Kim

Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good. BySteven Fenberg. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2011. xiii + 611 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-60344-434-7 pp. 191-193

Chris Castaneda

The Listener's Voice: Early Radio and the American Public. ByElena Razlogova. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 216 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4320-8 pp. 194-196

David Goodman

Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow. ByKarl Hagstrom Miller. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. ix + 372 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $94.95; paper, $25.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-4689-0; paper, 978-0-8223-4700-2 pp. 196-198

Joshua Clark Davis

One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television. ByMurray Forman. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. xiii + 405 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $27.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-4998-3; paper, 978-0-8223-5011-8 pp. 199-200

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