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Volume 84, issue 4, 2010

“Varieties of Capitalism” Roundtable pp. 637-674

Mira Wilkins, Kathleen Thelen, Richard Whitley, Rory M. Miller, Cathie Jo Martin, V. R. Berghahn, Martin Jes Iversen, Gary Herrigel and Jonathan Zeitlin

Innovative Business Models and Varieties of Capitalism: Financialization of the U.S. Corporation pp. 675-702

William Lazonick

Banks on Board: German and American Corporate Governance, 1870–1914 pp. 703-736

Jeffrey Fear and Christopher Kobrak

Introduction: Changing Business Systems in the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century pp. 737-750

Keetie Sluyterman

The Invisible Handshake:Cartelization in the Netherlands, 1930–2000 pp. 751-771

Bram Bouwens and Joost Dankers

Changing National Business Systems: Corporate Governance and Financing in the Netherlands, 1945–2005 pp. 773-798

Abe de Jong, Ailsa Röell and Gerarda Westerhuis

Multinationals and the Dutch Business System: The Cases of Royal Dutch Shell and Sara Lee pp. 799-822

Keetie Sluyterman and Ben Wubs

Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective. By William I. Robinson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xv + 412 pp. Illustrations, tables, references, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89039-0 pp. 829-831

Carlos Dávila

Prosperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization. By Matthew Hilton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,2009. xi + 315 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8014-4644-3; paper, 978-0-801-47507-8 pp. 831-834

Nelson Lichtenstein

Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and the United States since 1945. By Martin Chick. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2007. x + 205 pp. Bibliography, appendix, index. Cloth, $100.00. ISBN: 978-1-845-42111-3 pp. 834-836

William Hausman

Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age. By John C. Burnham. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. viii + 336 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-08177-5 pp. 836-838

Mark Aldrich

The Inception of Modern Professional Education: C. C. Langdell, 1826–1906. By Bruce A. Kimball. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xv + 429 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-807-83257-8 pp. 839-841

Robert R. Locke

Markteintritt und -bearbeitung in der Automobilindustrie: Volkswagen in den USA–Eine empirische Untersuchung auf Basis von Dunnings Eklektischem Paradigma [Market Entry and Cultivation in the Automobile Industry: The Volkswagen Company in the USA–An Empirical Investigation Based on Dunning's Eclectic Paradigm]. By Andreas Fricke. Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. 333 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, €59.70. ISBN: 978-3-631-56779-1 pp. 841-843

Stephanie Tilly

Finmeccanica: Competenze che vengono da lontano [Finmeccanica: Competencies Acquired over the Long Term]. By Vera Zamagni. Bologna: Mulino, 2009. xi + 385 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €28.00. ISBN: 978-8-815-12754-9 pp. 844-846

Andrea Goldstein

Histoire managériale du Bazar Bonne-Nouvelle: Galeries marchandes à Paris, 1835–1863 [Managerial History of Bazar Bonne Nouvelle: Shopping Arcades in Paris, 1835–1863]. By Luc Marco. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009. 334 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €31.50. ISBN: 978-2-296-09288-4 pp. 846-848

Eugénie Briot

Shanghai's Bund and Beyond: British Banks, Banknote Issuance, and Monetary Policy in China, 1842–1937. By Niv Horesh. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xiv + 240 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $48.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-14356-0 pp. 849-851

Linsun Cheng

Depression to Decolonization: Barclays Bank (DCO) in the West Indies, 1926–1962. By Kathleen E. A. Monteith. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2008. xvi + 355 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $30.00. ISBN: 879-976-640-198-6 pp. 851-852

Stephanie Decker

The International Economy in the “Age of the Discoveries,” 1470–1570: Antwerp and the English Merchants' World. By Ian Blanchard. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. 288 pp. Tables, fi gures, maps, bibliograpy, notes. Paper, €45.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09329-3 pp. 853-855

Jeroen Puttevils

Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. By Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xxvi + 473 pp. Tables, references, appendix, index. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-13596-0 pp. 855-857

Juan Echeverry

Volume 84, issue 3, 2010

The Corporate Pyramid Fable pp. 435-458

Steven A. Bank and Brian R. Cheffins

Notaries and Credit Markets in Nineteenth-Century Mexico pp. 459-478

Juliette Levy

Building Hitler's Europe: Forced Labor in the Danish Construction Business during World War II pp. 479-499

Joachim Lund

On the Track of Efficiency: Scientific Management Comes to Railroad Shops, 1900–1930 pp. 501-526

Mark Aldrich

Improving Workplace Safety in the Ontario Manufacturing Industry, 1914–1939 pp. 527-550

Javier Silvestre

Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790–1865. By Ross Thomson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xiv + 432 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $68.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89141-0 pp. 567-570

Zorina Khan

The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought. By Donald R. Stabile. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2008. viii + 163 pp. References, index. Cloth, $100.00. ISBN: 978-1-84844-197-2 pp. 571-573

Jack High

La croissance en économie ouverte (XVIIIe–XXIe siécles): Hommage à Jean-Charles Asselain [The Growth of Economic Openness (Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries): Essays in Honor of Jean-Charles Asselain]. Edited byBertrand Blancheton and Hubert Bonin. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2009. 464 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes. Paper, ϵ53.90. ISBN: 978-90-5201-498-2 pp. 573-576

Michael S. Smith

Die Professionalisierung des Bankbetriebs: Studien zur institutionellen Struktur deutscher Banken im Kaiserreich, 1871–1914 [The Professionalization of Bank Management: Studies in the Institutional Structure of German Banks in Imperial Germany, 1871–1914]. By Markus Dahlem. Essen: Klartext, 2009. 361 pp. Figures, appendix, bibliography, notes. Paper, ϵ38.00. ISBN: 978-3-8375-0011-0 pp. 576-578

Christopher Kobrak

L'Esprit économique impérial (1830–1970): Groupes de pression et réseaux du patronat colonial en France et dans l'empire [The Imperial Economic Spirit (1830–1970): Advocacy and Colonial Management Networks in France and the Empire]. Edited by Hubert Bonin, Catherine Hodeir, and Jean-François Klein. Paris: SFHOM, 2008. 844 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Paper, ϵ70.00. ISBN: 978-2-85970-037-9 pp. 579-581

George R. Trumbull

The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200–1850. Edited by Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xvi + 489 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, glossary, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $150.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-955944-2 pp. 581-583

David J. Jeremy

Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation. By John Majewski. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi + 240 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3251-6 pp. 584-586

Mark R. Wilson

Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power. By Gene Dattel. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009. xiv + 416 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.95. ISBN: 978-1-56663-747-3 pp. 586-588

Barbara Hahn

Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic. By Thomas H. Cox. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xv + 260 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $44.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8214-1845-1; paper, 978-0-8214-1846-8 pp. 588-590

Robert Gudmestad

Waterpower in Lowell: Engineering and Industry in Nineteenth-Century America. By Patrick M. Malone. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xii + 254 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, i ndex. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8018-9305-6; paper, 978-0-8018-9306-3 pp. 590-592

Robert Forrant

Paradoxes of Prosperity: Wealth-Seeking versus Christian Values in Pre–Civil War America. By Lorman A. Ratner, Paula T. Kaufman, and Dwight L. TeeterJr. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xiii + 147 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-03453-4 pp. 592-595

Stewart Davenport

Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom. By Douglas Walter BristolJr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. x + 216 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-8018-9283-7 pp. 595-597

Alexa Benson Henderson

On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America. By Brian Luskey. New York: New York University Press, 2010. ix + 277 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $48.00. ISBN: 978-0-8147-5228-9 pp. 597-599

Thomas Augst

Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880–1920: From Caste to Class. By Eli Lederhendler. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxiii + 224 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-51360-9 pp. 600-602

Hasia R. Diner

“Make It Yourself”: Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890–1930. By Sarah A. Gordon. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xxi + 164 pp. Glossary, appendix, bibliography, notes. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-14244-1. Web site: http://www.gutenberg-e.org/gordon/ pp. 602-604

Alexis McCrossen

Lost Illusions: The Politics of Publishing in Nineteenth-Century France. By Christine Haynes. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. xvi + 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-03576-8 pp. 604-606

Stephen L. Harp

The World's First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition, and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain. By Mark Casson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xvi + 523 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-76790-3 pp. 607-608

Chris Wrigley

Engineering Invention: Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. Electrical Industry. By Frederick Dalzell. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. xii + 288 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-04256-7 pp. 609-611

Louis Carlat

“Wir sind Bayer”: Eine Mentalitätsgeschichte der deutschen Industriegesellschaft am Beispiel des rheinischen Dormagen (1917–1997) [“We are Bayer”: A History of the Mentality of German Industrial Society through the Example of the Rhenish Town of Dormagen (1917–1997)]. By Markus Raasch. Essen: Klartext, 2007. 652 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes. Cloth, ϵ49.90. ISBN: 978-3-89861-762-8 pp. 611-613

Susanne Hilger

The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880–1970. By Frank Uekoetter. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. viii + 350 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6012-6 pp. 613-615

James Longhurst

On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry. By Liesl Miller Orenic. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xiv + 281 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03433-6; paper, 978-0-252-07627-5 pp. 616-618

Joseph A. McCartin

The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia. By Guian A. McKee. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. ix + 384 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-56012-0 pp. 618-620

Tami J. Friedman

Fresh: A Perishable History. By Susanne Freidberg. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 408 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-03291-0 pp. 621-622

Mansel G. Blackford

Communications under the Seas: The Evolving Cable Network and Its Implications. Edited by Bernard Finn and Daqing Yang. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. vii + 303 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-01286-7 pp. 623-625

David Hochfelder

Global Experience Industries: The Business of the Experience Economy. By Jens Christensen. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2009. 454 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, $64.00. ISBN: 978-87-7934-432-7 pp. 625-626

Gerben Bakker

American Entrepreneur: The Fascinating Stories of the People Who Defined Business in the United States. By Larry Schweikart and Lynne Pierson Doti. New York: American Management Association, 2009. viii + 535 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8144-1411-8 pp. 627-628

Maury Klein

From Predators to Icons: Exposing the Myth of the Business Hero. By Michel Villette and Catherine Vuillermot, translated from theFrench by George Holoch. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2009. xvi + 249 pp. Figures, appendix, bibliography, notes. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8014-4700-6; paper, 978-0-8014-7566-5 pp. 629-631

Edwin J. Perkins

Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors. By Charles K. Hyde. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. xiii + 307 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-8143-3446-1 pp. 631-633

Peter M. Birkeland

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City. By Greg Grandin. New York: Henry Holt, 2009. 416 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN: 978-0-8050-8236-4 pp. 633-635

Dimitry Anastakis

Volume 84, issue 2, 2010

Introduction pp. 195-201

Diana Davids Hinton

Royal Dutch Shell: Company Strategies for Dealing with Environmental Issues pp. 203-226

Keetie Sluyterman

Internationalist Oilmen, the Middle East, and the Remaking of American Liberalism, 1945–1953 pp. 227-251

Nathan J. Citino

Entrepreneurship and Capabilities in a “Beginner” Oil Multinational: The Case of ENI pp. 253-274

Daniele Pozzi

Weetman Pearson in Mexico and the Emergence of a British Oil Major, 1901–1919 pp. 275-300

Lisa Bud-Frierman, Andrew Godley and Judith Wale

The Role of the Independent: Ralph B. Lloyd and the Development of California's Coastal Oil Region, 1900-1940 pp. 301-328

Michael R. Adamson

Major Trends in the Historiography of the Latin American Oil Industry pp. 339-362

Marcelo Bucheli

History of Royal Dutch Shell. Volume 1, From Challenger to Joint Industry Leader, 1890–1939. By Joost Jonker and Jan Luiten van Zanden. 570 pp. ISBN: 978-0-199-29878-5. Volume 2, Powering the Hydro-carbon Revolution, 1939–1973. By Stephen Howarth and Joost Jonker. 514 pp. ISBN: 978-0-199-29879-2. Volume 3, Keeping Competitive in Turbulent Markets, 1973–2007. By Keetie Sluyterman. 514 pp. ISBN: 978-0-199-29880-8. Vol. 4, Appendices, Figures and Explanations, Collective Bibliography, and Index. By Jan Luiten van Zanden. 144 pp. ISBN: 978-0-199-23440-0. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Figures, tables, notes, illustrations, bibliography, index, DVDs. Cloth, $250.00 for 4 vols pp. 363-367

Anonymous

Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia. By Steffen Hertog. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. xii + 297 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-44781-5 pp. 369-370

Hugh S. Gorman

Money, Oil, and Empire in the Middle East: Sterling and Postwar Imperialism, 1944–1971. By Steven G. Galpern. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv + 331 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-76790-3 pp. 371-373

Robert Vitalis

Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820–1890. By Paul Lucier. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiii + 426 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89003-1 pp. 373-375

Robert D. Lifset

Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870–1945: Entrepreneurship, High Finance, Politics and Territorial Expansion. Edited by Raymond E. Dumett. Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. xv + 255 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $114.95. ISBN: 978-0-754-66303-4 pp. 375-377

Maury Klein

Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa. By Quentin van Doosselaere. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi + 262 pp. Figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-89792-1 pp. 378-380

Luisa Piccinno

Women and Their Money, 1700–1950: Essays on Women and Finance. Edited by Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby, and Janette Rutterford. London: Routledge, 2009. 336 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $160.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-41976-5 pp. 380-382

Amy Froide

“Union is Strength”: W. L. MacKenzie, the Children of Peace, and the Emergence of Joint Stock Democracy in Upper Canada. By Albert Schrauwers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. viii + 320 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 978-0-802-09927-3 pp. 383-385

Douglas McCalla

Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship: Networks and Private Protection during Mexico's Early Industrialization. By Armando Razo. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. 264 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, references, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-804-75661-7 pp. 385-387

Edward Beatty

Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Culture. Edited by Nancy Henry and Cannon Schmitt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. 250 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-22027-1 pp. 388-390

Janette Rutterford

Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics. By Kathleen Mapes. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xi + 307 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-07667-1 pp. 390-392

Edward D. Melillo

The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror. By Beverly Gage. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 400 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-195-14824-4 pp. 393-395

Jonathan M. Soffer

To Live to Work: Factory Women in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945. By Janice C. H. Kim. Stanford University Press, 2009. xvi + 252 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-804-75909-0 pp. 395-398

Elyssa Faison

Revolution within the Revolution: Cotton Textile Workers and the Mexican Labor Regime, 1910–1923. By Jeffrey Bortz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. xi + 247 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-804-75806-2 pp. 398-400

William Schell

Hedonizing Technologies: Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure. By Rachel P. Maines. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xi + 211 pp. Illustrations, tables, glossary, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89146-5 pp. 400-402

Steven M. Gelber

Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, and Nation. By Antonia Finnane. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xvii + 359 pp. Photographs, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-14350-9 pp. 403-405

Elisabeth Köll

Entertainment Industrialised: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890–1940. By Gerben Bakker. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xvii + 449 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-89854-6 pp. 405-407

Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb

Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music. By David Suisman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 356 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-03337-5 pp. 407-410

Marc Stern

Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century. By Robert E. WeemsJr. with Lewis A. Randolph. New York: New York University Press, 2009. x + 311 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-814-77517-2 pp. 410-412

Alexa Benson Henderson

The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941–1972. By Anthony S. Chen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. xxiii + 395 pp. Notes, illustrations, tables, appendices, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-13953-1 pp. 412-415

Robert H. Zieger

American Firms in Europe, 1880–1980: Strategy, Identity, Perception, and Performance. Edited by Hubert Bonin and Ferry de Goey. Geneva: Droz, 2009. 699 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, $80.00. ISBN: 978-2-600-01259-1 pp. 415-417

Martin Jes Iversen

Flick: Eine Konzerngeschichte vom Kaiserreich bis zur Bundesrepublik [Flick: A Corporate History from Empire to Federal Republic]. By Kim Christian Priemel. Goettingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2007. 864 pp. Photographs, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, ϵ48.00. ISBN: 978-3-835-30219-8 pp. 418-420

Adam Tooze

Gaps in the Iron Curtain: Economic Relations between Neutral and Socialist Countries in Cold War Europe. Edited by Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Piotr Franaszek, Dieter Stiefel, and Alice Teichova. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-8-323-32532-1 pp. 420-423

Christopher Kobrak

The Origins of Europe's New Stock Markets. By Elliot Posner. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. xvi + 242 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-03171-5 pp. 423-425

Ranald Michie

A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929. By Paul K. Conkin. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xiv + 223 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-813-12519-0 pp. 425-426

Sarah Phillips

Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital. By George A. Gonzalez. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. vii +162 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-791-49389-2 pp. 427-429

Christine Meisner Rosen

Eighty Years of Research at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (1914–1994): The Role of the Nat.Lab. at Philips. By Marc J. de Vries, with contributions by F. Kees Boersma. Amsterdam: Pallas Publications, 2005. 325 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, ϵ29.50. ISBN: 90-855-5051-3 pp. 429-432

Mila Davids

Powers of Persuasion: The Insider Story of British Advertising, 1951–2000. By Winston Fletcher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. vii + 288 pp. Photographs, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-22801-0 pp. 432-434

Peter Scott

Volume 84, issue 1, 2010

Language and Culture in a Liverpool Merchant Family Firm, 1870–1950 pp. 1-26

Gordon Boyce

The Birth of Joint-Stock Banking: England and New England Compared pp. 27-52

Lucy Newton

Overcoming Stagnation: Product Policy and Marketing in the German Automobile Industry of the 1970s pp. 53-78

Ingo Koehler

Mintzberg's Emergent and Deliberate Strategies: Tracking Alcan's Activities in Europe, 1928–2007 pp. 79-104

Matthias Kipping and Ludovic Cailluet

Comparative Consumer Product Testing in Germany pp. 105-124

Christian Kleinschmidt

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. By T. J. Stiles. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 719 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978–0–375–41542–5 pp. 129-132

Michael McGerr

Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India. By Ritu Birla. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xi + 346 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, 978–0–822–34245–8; paper, 978–0–822–34268–7 pp. 133-135

B. R. Tomlinson

Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s. By Marion Fourcade. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. xxi + 388 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978–0–691–11760–7 pp. 135-137

E. Roy Weintraub

A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression. By Richard A. Posner. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. xviii + 346 pp. Index. Cloth, $23.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–03514–0 pp. 137-139

Mark H. Rose

Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770–1850. By Richard T. Gray. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. vii + 476 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $70; paper, $30.00. ISBN: cloth, 978–0–295–98836–8; paper, 978–0–295–98837–5–5 pp. 140-142

Kevin Repp

Renault und Daimler-Benz in der Zwischenkriegszeit (1919–1938): Eine vergleichende Unternehmensgeschichte zweier europaischer Automobilhersteller [Renault and Daimler-Benz in the Interwar Period: A Comparative Business History of Two European Automobile Manufacturers]. By Caroline Schulenburg. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. 294 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography, notes. Paper, €47.00. ISBN: 978–3–515–09200–5 pp. 142-144

Paul Thomes

Inside IG Farben: Hoechst during the Third Reich. By Stephan H. Lindner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xx + 388 pp. Photographs, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978–0–521–88766–3 pp. 144-146

Jeffrey Lewis

Paul Silverberg (1876–1959): Ein Unternehmer [Paul Silverberg (1876–1959): A Businessman]. By Boris Gehlen. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. 605 pp. Appendix, notes, index. Paper, €78.00. ISBN: 978–3–515–09090–2 pp. 146-149

Peter Hayes

Die Internationalisierung eines Konzerns: Daimler-Benz, 1890–1997 [The Internationalization of a Corporation: Daimler-Benz, 1890–1997]. By Elfriede Grunow-Osswald. Vaihingen: DaimlerChrysler, 2006. 480 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, notes. Cloth, €24.95. ISBN: 3–898–80702–9 pp. 149-151

Susanne Hilger

The Evolution of Resource Property Rights. By Anthony Scott. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii + 557 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $130.00. ISBN: 978–0–198–28603–5 pp. 151-153

Mansel Blackford

Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650–1750. By Rosalind J. Beiler. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xii + 208 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978–0–271–03372–3 pp. 153-155

Katherine Carté Engel

A Russian Merchant's Tale: The Life and Adventures of Ivan Alekseevich Tolchenov, Based on His Diary. By David L. Ransel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xxx + 320 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978–0–253–35236–1; paper, 978–0–253–22020–2 pp. 156-158

Thomas C. Owen

Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada. By Béatrice Craig. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. viii + 349 pp. Photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978–0–802–09317–2 pp. 158-161

Leslie Choquette

Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society. By Aaron W. Marrs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xi + 268 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–89130–4 pp. 161-163

Eric J. Morser

Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War. By Marc Egnal. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009. xiii + 416 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978–0–809–09536–0 pp. 163-165

Mark R. Wilson

Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington. By Robert J. Norrell. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. xi + 508 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978–0–674–03211–8 pp. 166-168

Lisa D. Cook

The Zoning of America: Euclid v. Ambler. By Michael Allan Wolf. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xiv + 188 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $15.95. ISBN: cloth, 978–0–700–61620–6; paper, 978–0–700–61621–3 pp. 168-169

Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Indian-Made: Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1868–1940. By Erika Marie Bsumek. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. x + 292 pp. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–700–61595–7 pp. 170-172

Clyde Ellis

Networks of Entertainment: Early Film Distribution, 1895–1915. Edited by Frank Kessler and Nanna Verhoejf. Eastleigh: John Libbey, 2007. viii + 344 pp. Illustrations, notes. Paper, $27.95. ISBN: 0–861–96681–3 pp. 172-174

Gerben Bakker

Managing the Human Factor: The Early Years of Human Resource Management in American Industry. By Bruce E. Kaufman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xii + 376 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978–0–801–44227–8 pp. 174-176

William Thomas

Visionary Railroader: Jervis Langdon Jr. and the Transportation Revolution. By H. Roger Grant. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xii + 258 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $24.94. ISBN: 978–0–253–35216–3 pp. 177-179

Albert J. Churella

Horse Trading in the Age of Cars: Men in the Marketplace. By Steven M. Gelber. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii + 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–88997–4 pp. 179-181

Thomas A. Kinney

Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations. By Susan Sessions Rugh. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. 240 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–700–61588–9 pp. 181-184

Howard R. Stanger

Global TV: New Media and the Cold War, 1946–69. By James Schwoch. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xv + 220 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 978–0–252–07569–8 pp. 184-186

Stephen Vaughn

Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt. By Sean Safford. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 212 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, references, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–03179–0 pp. 186-189

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

America's Waterfront Revival: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment. By Peter Hendee Brown. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 228 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 978–0–812–24122–8 pp. 189-191

Ann L. Buttenwieser

The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela. By Miguel Tinker Salas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xvi + 325 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, 978–0–822–34400–1; paper, 978–0–822–34419–3 pp. 192-194

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