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1926 - 2024

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Volume 85, issue 4, 2011

Green Innovation Systems in Swedish Industry, 1960–1989 pp. 677-698

Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Kristina Söderholm

Path Dependency and Governance in German Family Firms pp. 699-724

Christina Lubinski

Tracing Burma's Economic Failure to Its Colonial Inheritance pp. 725-747

Ian Brown

Corporate Profit and Race in Central African Copper Mining, 1946–1958 pp. 749-774

Ian Phimister

Entrepreneurs and the State in the Italian Film Industry, 1919–1935 pp. 775-798

Marina Nicoli

The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America. ByMaury Klein. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008. xiii + 543 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $18.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-596-91412-4; paper, 978-1-596-91677-7 pp. 807-812

Eric S. Hintz

The HP Phenomenon: Innovation and Business Transformation. ByCharles H. House and Raymond L. Price. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. xv + 638 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-804-75286-2 pp. 813-815

Andrew L. Russell

The Origins of English Financial Markets: Investment and Speculation before the South Sea Bubble. ByAnne L. Murphy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiii + 283 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-51994-6 pp. 815-817

Ann Carlos

Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia, 1595–1660. ByRobert Parthesius. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. 217 pp. Maps, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $37.50. ISBN: 978-9-053-56517-9 pp. 818-820

Jan de Vries

Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression. ByMoses E. Ochonu. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xii + 217 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8214-1889-5; paper, 978-0-8214-1890-1 pp. 820-823

Tokunbo A. Ayoola

The Empire in One City? Liverpool's Inconvenient Imperial Past. Edited bySheryllynne Haggerty, Anthony Webster, and Nicholas J. White. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2008. xiv + 237 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 978-0-719-07887-3 pp. 823-825

Paul Ashmore

Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era. ByClaude Markovits. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x + 292 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-20598-7 pp. 825-828

Tirthankar Roy

Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York. BySerena R. Zabin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 205 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-812-24160-0 pp. 828-830

Thomas M. Truxes

Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland. BySean D. Moore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xi + 268 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89507-4 pp. 831-833

L. M. Cullen

Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery. Edited byDavid Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz, and Anthony Tibbles. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010. x + 315 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-846-31244-1 pp. 833-835

Renaud Hourcade

Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India. ByRavi Raman. Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. xi + 273 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $130.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-55103-8 pp. 836-838

Susan Wolcott

The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil. ByThomas D. Rogers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. xvi + 302 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $25.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-807-83433-6; paper, 978-0-807-87167-6 pp. 838-840

Angus Wright

Indonesian Exports, Peasant Agriculture, and the World Economy, 1850–2000: Economic Structures in a Southeast Asian State. ByHiroyoshi Kano. Singapore: NUS Press, 2008. xix + 421 pp. Figures, tables, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $27.00. ISBN: 978-0-896-80268-1 pp. 841-842

Kian Thee

Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany. ByDavid Ciarlo. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. xvi + 419 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05006-8 pp. 843-845

Lora Wildenthal

Diamonds and War: State, Capital and Labor in British Ruled Palestine. ByDavid De Vries. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. vii + 351 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-1-845-45633-7 pp. 845-846

Ray E. Dumett

A Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War: Money, Finance and Occupation (Belgium, its Enemies, its Friends, 1939–1945). ByHerman Van der Wee and Monique Verbreyt, translated byFrank Parker. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2010. 494 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-9-058-67759-4 pp. 847-849

Kenneth Mouré

Dressing Modern Frenchwomen: Marketing Haute Couture, 1919–1939. ByMary Lynn Stewart. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvii + 305 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-88803-8 pp. 849-851

Véronique Pouillard

Svenskornas företagsamma historia [The Enterprising History of Swedish Women]. ByAnita Lignell Du Rietz. Stockholm: Timbro, 2009. 184 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes. Paper, 198.00 kr. ISBN: 978-9-175-66710-2 pp. 852-854

Kersti Ullenhag

After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy. ByMurray Milgate and Shannon C. Stimson. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2009. x + 306 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-14037-7 pp. 854-857

Robert Prasch

Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800–1914. ByTimothy Alborn. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. xi + 439 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, appendices, notes, references, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-1-442-63996-6 pp. 857-859

Peter Scott

From Telegrapher to Titan: The Life of William C. Van Horne. ByValerie Knowles. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. 501 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-22250-3 pp. 859-861

Albert J. Churella

The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy. ByHardy Green. New York: Basic Books, 2010. 248 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-465-01826-0 pp. 862-864

Howard R. Stanger

Gary, the Most American of All American Cities. ByS. Paul O'Hara. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. x + 195 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $19.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-22288-6 pp. 864-866

Edward K. Muller

Finders Keepers? How the Law of Capture Shaped the World Oil Industry. ByTerence Daintith. Washington, D.C.: Earthscan, 2010. xvii + 500 pp. Figures, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $59.95. ISBN: 978-1-933-11583-2 pp. 867-869

Diana Davids Hinton

Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development. ByAlan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii + 467 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $73.99; paper, $23.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-521-85711-6; paper, 978-0-521-67387-7 pp. 869-871

Sara M. Gregg

Hitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge. ByAnn Johnson. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xviii + 207 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN: 978-0-822-34541-1 pp. 872-873

Mark Casson

Histories of Computing. ByMichael Sean Mahoney, edited byThomas Haigh. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. ix + 246 pp. Illustrations, table, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05568-1 pp. 873-875

James W. Cortada

The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal. ByNoel Maurer and Carlos Yu. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. xi + 419 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-14738-3 pp. 875-877

Frank Safford

Una mirada a la historia del mercadeo en Colombia: Testimonio de Enrique Luque Carulla, 1930–2006 [A Brief Survey of the History of Marketing in Colombia: The Testimony of Enrique Luque Carulla, 1930–2006]. ByCarlos L. Dávila, Luis Fernando Molina, José Miguel Ospina, and Gabriel Pérez. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, 2008. 268 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes. Paper, COL$42,000.00. ISBN: 978-958- 695-334-4 pp. 877-879

Julio Moreno

Volume 85, issue 3, 2011

A Brief Postwar History of U.S. Consumer Finance pp. 461-498

Andrea Ryan, Gunnar Trumbull and Peter Tufano

The Institutional Foundations of Personal Finance: Innovation in U.S. Savings Banks, 1880s–1920s pp. 499-528

R. Daniel Wadhwani

Americanization through Credit? Consumer Credit in Germany, 1860s–1960s pp. 529-550

Jan Logemann

The “Everything Card” and Consumer Credit in the United States in the 1960s pp. 551-575

Christine Zumello

Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications. ByRichard R. John. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. viii + 520 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-02429-8 pp. 603-610

Steven W. Usselman

A History of the Federal Reserve, volume 2, book 1: 1951–1970. ByAllan H. Meltzer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2009. 683 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-52001-8. - A History of the Federal Reserve, volume 2, book 2: 1970–1986. ByAllan H. Meltzer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2009. 628 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-51994-4 pp. 611-615

Wyatt Wells

The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century. ByAlan Brinkley. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. xii + 531 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-679-41444-5 pp. 617-619

Jason Scott Smith

Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City. ByJonathan Soffer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xi + 403 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-231-15032-3 pp. 619-621

Clifton Hood

Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940–1990. ByJennifer Delton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. vi + 313 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $87.00; paper, $24.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-521-51509-2; paper, 978-0-521-73080-8 pp. 622-624

Sophia Z. Lee

Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America. ByLawrence B. Glickman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xix + 403 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-29865-8 pp. 624-627

Martha Olney

Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. ByKaren Ho. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xii + 374 pp. References, notes, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-822-3-4599-2 pp. 627-629

Mansel G. Blackford

Relationship Banker: Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, and American Business, 1916–1959. ByJames L. Hunt. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2009. xxvii + 386 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-865-54915-9 pp. 629-630

Edwin J. Perkins

Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America. BySharon Ann Murphy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xii + 395 pp Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89624-8 pp. 631-633

Timothy Alborn

Capitalism and the Jews. ByJerry Z. Muller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. 267 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-14478-8 pp. 633-636

Hasia Diner

Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800. ByRichard S. Grossman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. xx + 284 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 978-0-691-13905-0 pp. 636-638

Ranald Michie

La France et la Suisse ou la force du petit: Évasion fiscale, relations commerciales et financières (1940–1954) [France and Switzerland or the Power of Smallness: Financial Evasion, Commercial and Financial Relations (1940–1954)]. ByJanick Marina Schaufelbuehl. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2009. 444 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €32.00. ISBN: 978-2-724-61136-6 pp. 638-640

Hubert Bonin

La “recherche en développement” en horlogerie: Acteurs, stratégies et choix technologiques dans l'arc jurassien suisse (1900–1970) [Research and Development in Watchmaking: Actors, Strategies, and Choices in the Jurassian Swiss Alps (1900–1970)]. ByHélène Pasquier. Neuchâtel: Éditions Alphil, 2008. 503 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €34.00. ISBN: 978-2-940-23541-4 pp. 641-643

Eric Godelier

Schweitzer Aluminium für Hitlers Krieg? Zur Geschichte der “Alusuisse,” 1918–1950 [Swiss Aluminum for Hitler's War? Toward a History of “Alusuisse,” 1918–1950]. ByCornelia Rauh. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2009. 384 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €58.00. ISBN: 978-3-406-52201-7 pp. 643-645

Ben Wubs

The International Tin Cartel. By John Hillman. New York: Routledge, 2010. xii + 484 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $190.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-55412-1 pp. 646-648

Ian Phimister

Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800–1914. By Catherine Mills. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2010. xxv + 284 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $114.95. ISBN: 978-0-754-66087-3 pp. 648-650

Mike Esbester

Financial Fraud and Guerilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861–1865. By Mark W. Geiger. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. ix + 306 pp. Illustrations, appendices, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-15151-0 pp. 651-653

Stephen Mihm

The Baltimore Bank Riot: Political Upheaval in Antebellum Maryland. By Robert E. Shalhope. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. x + 196 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-03480-0 pp. 653-655

Seth Rockman

Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century. By Derek Heng. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xxiii + 286 pp. Maps, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-896-80271-1 pp. 655-657

Geoff Wade

Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century. By Tracey Deutsch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 337 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-807-83327-8 pp. 658-659

Wendy Gamber

Hollowed Ground: Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840s-1990s. By Larry Lankton. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010. xii + 375 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $34.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-814-33458-4; paper, 978-0-814-33490-4 pp. 660-662

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

Selling Beauty: Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750–1830. By Morag Martin. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2009. viii + 228 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89309-4 pp. 662-664

Eugénie Briot

It's Our Day: America's Love Affair with the White Wedding, 1945–2005. By Katherine Jellison. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xi + 297 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-700-61559-9 pp. 664-666

Francesca Polese

Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood. By Mark Garrett Cooper. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xxix + 230 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03522-7; paper, 978-0-252-07700-5 pp. 666-668

Pennee Bender

Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks. By Alexander Russo. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. xi + 278 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-822-34517-6; paper, 978-0-822-34532-9 pp. 669-670

Douglas B. Craig

Negotiating Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America. By Dennis Merrill. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi + 327 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-807-83288-2; paper, 978-0-807-85904-9 pp. 671-673

Ian Read

Erratum pp. 674-674

Anonymous

Volume 85, issue 2, 2011

William Morris, Cultural Leadership, and the Dynamics of Taste pp. 245-271

Charles Harvey, Jon Press and Mairi Maclean

From Industry to Luxury: French Perfume in the Nineteenth Century pp. 273-294

Eugénie Briot

Fashioning Luxury for Factory Girls: American Jewelry, 1860–1914 pp. 295-317

Francesca Carnevali

Design Piracy in the Fashion Industries of Paris and New York in the Interwar Years pp. 319-344

Véronique Pouillard

The Indian Fashion Industry and Traditional Indian Crafts pp. 345-366

Mukti Khaire

The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700–1850. By Joel Mokyr. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. x + 564 pp. Maps, tables, references, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-12455-2 pp. 375-379

Pat Hudson

Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. By Adrian Johns. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 626 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-40118-8 pp. 381-383

Paul Duguid

Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry. By Geoffrey Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv + 412 pp. Illustrations, photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-55649-6 pp. 384-386

Kenneth Lipartito

National Capitalisms, Global Production Networks: Fashioning the Value Chain in the U.K., U.S.A., and Germany. By Christel Lane and Jocelyn Probert. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii + 335 pp. Tables, references, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-21481-5 pp. 386-388

Kristoffer Jensen

Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce. By Sarah Abrevaya Stein. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii + 244 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $20.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-16818-1 pp. 389-391

Hasia Diner

The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period. By Francesca Trivellato. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xiii + 470 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-13683-8 pp. 391-393

Miriam Bodian

Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy. By Paul Cheney. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. xii + 305 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-04726-6 pp. 393-395

Jeff Horn

La République des inventeurs: Propriété et organisation de l'innovation en France (1791–1922) [The Republic of Inventors: Intellectual Property and the Organization of Innovation in France (1791–1922)]. By Gabriel Galvez-Behar. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008. 352 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €19.00. ISBN: 978-2-753-50695-4 pp. 396-398

Eric Godelier

Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste. By David Hancock. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xxix + 632 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-13605-0 pp. 398-401

James Simpson

West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783–1807. By David Beck Ryden. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xv + 332 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-48659-0 pp. 401-403

Veront M. Satchell

Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877–1917. By Paul Michel Taillon. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xiv + 266 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03485-5; paper, 978-0-252-07678-7 pp. 403-406

Jeffrey Helgeson

Representation and Rebellion: The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914–1942. By Jonathan H. Rees. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2010. xix + 325 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliographic essay, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 798-0-870-81964-3 pp. 406-408

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

Race, Labor, and Civil Rights: Griggs versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity. By Robert Samuel Smith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. x + 234 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-807-13363-7 pp. 408-411

Eric Arnesen

To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death. By Suzanne E. Smith. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. viii + 257 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-03621-5 pp. 411-413

Susannah Walker

Early FM Radio: Incremental Technology in Twentieth-Century America. By Gary L. Frost. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xi + 191 pp. Illustrations, figures, glossary, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89440-4 pp. 413-415

Christopher H. Sterling

Restless Giant: The Life and Times of Jean Aberbach and Hill and Range Songs. By Bar Biszick-Lockwood. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xiv + 304 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03507-4; paper, 978-0-252-07694-7 pp. 416-418

David Suisman

Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century. By Daniel Sidorick. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. 300 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-801-44726-6 pp. 418-421

Howard R. Stanger

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. By Bethany Moreton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 372 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-03322-1 pp. 421-423

Alexis McCrossen

For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933. By Mara L. Keire. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xiv + 231 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89413-8 pp. 424-426

Thomas R. Pegram

Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America. By Elizabeth Fraterrigo. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. vii + 295 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-195-38610-3 pp. 426-429

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Vegas at Odds: Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960–1985. By Joseph P. Kraft. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. x + 273 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89375-5 pp. 429-431

Marc Stern

Reno's Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City. By Alicia Barber. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. x + 319 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-700-61594-0 pp. 432-434

Timothy R. Mahoney

Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France. By Daniel S. Pierce. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 348 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-807-83384-1 pp. 434-436

David N. Lucsko

Tobacco in Russian History and Culture: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present. Edited by Matthew P. Romaniello and Tricia Starks. New York: Routledge, 2009. x + 295 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-99655-6 pp. 436-439

Christine D. Worobec

Histoire de l'industrie horlogère Suisse: De Jacques David à Nicolas Hayek (1850–2000) [History of the Swiss Watch Industry: From Jacques David to Nicholas Hayek (1850–2000)]. By Pierre-Yves Donzé. Neuchâtel: Editions Alphil, 2009. 206 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes. Paper, $39.00. ISBN: 978-2-940-23551-3 pp. 439-441

Margrit Müller

Entre glorification et abandon: L'État et les artisans en France (1938–1970) [Between Glorification and Abandonment: The State and Artisans in France (1938–1970)]. By Cédric Perrin. Paris: Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière de la France, 2007. 519 pp. Paper, €35.00. ISBN: 978-2-110-94790-1 pp. 441-443

Kenneth Mouré

Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill. By Gabriela Soto Laveaga. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xiii + 331 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-822-34587-9; paper, 978-0-822-34605-0 pp. 444-446

Myrna Santiago

Dictatorship, Democracy, and Globalization: Argentina and the Cost of Paralysis, 1973–2001. By Klaus Friedrich Veigel. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. xiv + 234 pp. Bibliography, index, notes. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-271-03464-5 pp. 446-448

Norma Lanciotti

Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth-Century Germany. Edited by Pamela E. Swett, S. Jonathan Wiesen, and Jonathan R. Zatlin. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. xx + 364 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-4047-8; paper, 978-0-8223-4069-0 pp. 449-452

Jeffrey Fear

Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology and European Users. Edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009. viii + 415 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $36.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-15119-1 pp. 452-455

Claire Leymonerie

When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America. By David E. Nye. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. x + 292 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-01374-1 pp. 455-457

William Hausman

Volume 85, issue 1, 2011

The Origin and Development of Markets: A Business History Perspective pp. 9-37

Mark Casson and John S. Lee

Economics, History, and Causation pp. 39-63

Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

Globalization, Development, and History in the Work of Edith Penrose pp. 65-84

Christos Pitelis

Economic Theory and the Rise of Big Business in America, 1870–1910 pp. 85-112

Jack High

J. P. Morgan in London and New York before 1914 pp. 113-150

Leslie Hannah

Entrepreneurial Typologies in the History of Industrial Italy: Reconsiderations pp. 151-180

Franco Amatori

Business Historians and the Challenge of Innovation pp. 185-201

Richard R. John

Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy? Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States. By William Lazonick. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Upjohn Institute, 2009. xvii + 357 pp pp. 203-207

Michael Bernstein

Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age. By Kurt Beyer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. xiii + 389 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-01310-9 pp. 209-211

Margaret B. W. Graham

Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800–1930. By Catherine Fisk. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. x + 360 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-807-83302-5 pp. 211-214

Paul Duguid

Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882–1950. By Aldo Musacchio. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxv + 298 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-51889-5 pp. 214-216

Christopher Kobrak

Politics, Markets and Mexico's “London Debt,” 1823–1887. By Richard J. Salvucci. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiii + 326 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-48999-7 pp. 217-219

Juan Flores Zendejas

From Windfall to Curse? Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present. By Jonathan Di John. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. xvii + 341 pp. Tables, references, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-271-03553-6 pp. 219-221

Marcelo Bucheli

Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor. By David Witwer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. vii + 322 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $30.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03417-6; paper, 978-0-252-07666-4 pp. 221-224

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie. By Harvey K. Flad and Clyde Griffen. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. xiv + 451 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-1-438-42613-6 pp. 224-226

Sarah Elvins

Financer les entreprises face aux mutations économiques du XXe siècle [Financing Businesses in an Era of Economic Change]. Edited by Laure Quennouëlle-Corre and André Straus. Paris: IGPDE, 2009. xx + 419 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, €35.00. ISBN: 978-211-097511-9 pp. 226-229

Clotilde Druelle-Korn

Selling the Economic Miracle: Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany 1949–1957. By Mark E. Spicka. New York: Berghahn, 2007. xvi + 288 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-84545-223-0 pp. 229-231

Bernhard Löffler

Un cartel parfait: Réseaux, R&D et profits dans l'industrie suisse des cables [A Perfect Cartel: Networks, R&D, and Profits in the Swiss Cable Industry]. By Alain Cortat. Neuchâtel: Alphil, 2009. 623 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €39.00. ISBN: 978-2-940-23546-9 pp. 231-233

Sébastien Guex

Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880–1945. By Lars Heide. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 369 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89143-4 pp. 233-236

Pierre-E. Mounier-Kuhn