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Volume 83, issue 4, 2009

To the Tap: Public versus Private Water Provision at the Turn of the Twentieth Century pp. 675-702

Debora Spar and Krzysztof Bebenek

Victorian Pioneers of Corporate Sustainability pp. 703-729

Pierre Desrochers

Concessions as a Modernizing Strategy in the Dominican Republic pp. 731-758

Cyrus Veeser

The Structure of the News Market in Britain, 1870–1914 pp. 759-788

Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb

Ford's Investment in Colonial Malaya, 1926–1957 pp. 789-812

Shakila Yacob

Taxation in Colonial America. By Alvin Rabushka. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xx + 946 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978–0–691–13345–4 pp. 831-834

Anonymous

Bethlehem Steel: Builder and Arsenal of America. By Kenneth Warren. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. xix + 322 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-O-822–94323–5 pp. 835-837

Edward K. Muller

Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity before Edison. By Michael Brian Schiffer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. xii + 420 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 978–0–262–19582–9 pp. 837-839

Paul Israel

Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War. By Thomas G. Andrews. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. ix + 386 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–03101–2 pp. 840-842

Carl Weinberg

Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910–30. By Lawrence M. Lipin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xv + 213 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978–0–252–03125–0; paper, 978–0–252–07370–0 pp. 842-844

Ryan J. Carey

Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I. By Jonathan Reed Winkler. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. 347 pp. Figures, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978–0–674–02839–5 pp. 845-846

Mark R. Wilson

Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture. By Lawrence Richards. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. x + 245 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-03271-4 pp. 847-849

Kenyon Zimmer

Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830–1885. By Susan Ingalls Lewis. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009. 203 pp. Illustrations, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 978-0-814-20398-9 pp. 849-851

Sarah Elvins

Crosley: Two Brothers and a Business Empire That Transformed the Nation. By Rusty McClure, with David Stern and Michael A. Banks. Cincinnati: Clerisy Press, 2006. 502 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $24.00. ISBN: 978-1-578-60291-9 pp. 851-853

Timothy Whisler

The Big Tent: The Traveling Circus in Georgia, 1820–1930. By Gregory J. Renoff. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2008. x + 235 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-820-32892-8 pp. 854-856

Robert W. Snyder

The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology. By J. P. Telote. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. vii + 221 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03327-8; paper, 978-0-252-07540-7 pp. 856-858

Bruce E. Seely

Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac. By David Herzberg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. x + 279 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89030-7 pp. 858-860

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

American Consumer Society, 1865–2005: From Hearth to HDTV. By Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2009. viii + 330 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-882-95264-2 pp. 861-863

Gary Cross

Capitalizing on Change: A Social History of American Business. By Stanley Buder. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xi + 541 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-807-83231-8 pp. 863-864

Kenneth Lipartito

Corrupt Circles: A History of Unbound Graft in Peru. By Alfonso W. Quiroz. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2008. xxii + 514 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $30.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-801-89076-5; paper, 978-0-801-89218-1 pp. 865-867

Catherine Conaghan

Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948. By Karen E. Flint. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xiv + 274 pp. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-821-41850-5 pp. 867-869

Preston Bakshi

East Meets West—Banking, Commerce and Investment in the Ottoman Empire. Edited by Philip L. Cottrell, Ian L. Fraser, and Monika Pohle Fraser. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2008. xx + 193 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 978-O-7546-6443-7 pp. 870-872

Priscilla Roberts

History of Insolvency and Bankruptcy from an International Perspective. Edited by Karl Gratzer and Dieter Stiefel. Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2008. 334 pp. Tables, figures, references, notes. Paper, kr300. ISBN: 978-918-931594-5 pp. 872-875

Fahad A. Bishara

Historical Perspectives on Corporate Governance. Edited by Susanna Fellman, Antti Kuustera, and Eero Vaara. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2008. 280 pp. Tables, figures, notes. Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 978-9-516-53365-3 pp. 875-877

Dan Hirschman

Corporate Ownership and Control: British Business Transformed. By Brian R. Cheffins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xviii + 423 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, £60.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-23697-8 pp. 877-879

Leslie Hannah

The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560–1660. By Alison Games. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. ix + 381 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-195-33554-5 pp. 879-882

Michelle Craig McDonald

Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1815–1914. By Ranald C. Michie. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009. x + 278 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-851-96892-3 pp. 882-884

Andrew Popp

Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop Inside Out. By Gordon Thompson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. viii + 340 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-195-33325-1 pp. 885-887

Richard Coopey

Decline to Fall: The Making of British Macro-economic Policy and the 1976 IMF Crisis. By Douglas Wass. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxv + 374 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-53474-6 pp. 887-889

Neil Rollings

Ferranti: A History—Volume 2: From Family Firm to Multinational, 1974–1987. By John F. Wilson. Lancaster: Crucible, 2007. xviii + 445 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, maps, appendix, notes, index. £24.00. ISBN: 978-1-905-47201-7 pp. 889-891

Judy Slinn

Volume 83, issue 3, 2009

Is Berle and Means Really a Myth? pp. 443-474

Brian Cheffins and Steven Bank

Pharmaceutical Research in Wilhelmine Germany: The Case of E. Merck pp. 475-503

Carsten Burhop

Patterns of International Investment in Spain, 1850–2005 pp. 505-537

Núria Puig and Rafael Castro

Financing Manufacturing Innovation in Argentina, 1890–1930 pp. 539-562

Yovanna Pineda

Financing Growth: New Issues by Australian Firms, 1920–1939 pp. 563-589

David T. Merrett and Simon Ville

Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab. By Kenneth Warren. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. xiv + 285 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-822-94326-6 pp. 599-603

Mark R. Wilson

Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy. By Shane Hamilton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. x + 305 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-13582-3 pp. 605-607

Matthew N. Eisler

Britain's Railways, 1997–2005: Labour's Strategic Experiment. By Terry Gourvish. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xix + 309. Figures, tables, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, £30.00. ISBN 978-0-199-23660-2 pp. 607-609

Chris Wrigley

Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York. By Thomas M. Truxes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xv + 288 pp. Maps, glossary, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-11840-7 pp. 610-612

Gautham Rao

Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820–1865. By L. Diane Barnes. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xi + 253 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-807-13313-2 pp. 612-614

Stephen A. West

Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border. By Casey Walsh. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. ix + 234 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $47.50. ISBN: 978-1-603-44013-4 pp. 615-617

Geraldo Cadava

Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast. By Connie Y. Chiang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xviii + 282 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-295-98831-3 pp. 617-619

Mansel G. Blackford

Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America. By Ann Norton Greene. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. xiv + 322 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-03129-6 pp. 620-621

Thomas A. Kinney

Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis. By Robert Lewis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii + 351 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-47701-5 pp. 622-624

James M. Rubenstein

The 1933 World's Fair: A Century of Progress. By Cheryl R. Ganz. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xi + 206 pp. Photographs, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-252-03357-5 pp. 624-626

Timothy B. Spears

Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South. By Leslie Brown. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiii + 451 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-807-83138-0; paper, 978-0-807-85835-6 pp. 626-629

Luther Adams

The Liability Century: Insurance and Tort Law from the Progressive Era to 9/11. By Kenneth S. Abraham. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press2008. ix + 274 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-02768-8 pp. 629-631

Tom Baker

The Rise of Mutual Funds: An Insider's View. By Matthew P. Fink. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 308 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-195-33645-0 pp. 631-633

Edwin J. Perkins

Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On. By Stuart Banner. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. 353 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-03082-4 pp. 633-635

Tom D. Crouch

Mass Motorization + Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis. By David W. Jones. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xiii + 268 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-35152-4 pp. 635-638

Clifton Hood

Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005. By Paul Ceruzzi. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. ix + 242 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-03374-9 pp. 638-640

Nathan Ensmenger

The Internet and American Business. Edited by William Aspray and Paul E. Ceruzzi. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. viii + 596 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-01240-9 pp. 640-642

Joseph November

Creating Player Appeal: Management of Technological Innovation and Changing Patterns of Industrial Leadership in the U.S. Gaming Machine Manufacturing Industry, 1965–2005. By Mirko Ernkvist. Göteborg, Sweden: University of Gothenburg, 2009. 317 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes. Paper. ISBN: 978-91-86217-01-3 pp. 643-644

Atsushi Akera

Pathbreakers: Small European Countries Responding to Globalisation and Deglobalisation. Edited by Margrit Müller and Timo Myllyntaus. Bern: Peter Lang, 2008. 544 pp. Tables, fi gures, notes. Paper, $93.95. ISBN: 978-3-039-11214-2 pp. 645-647

Martin Jes Iversen

The United States and the Malaysian Economy. By Shakila Yacob. New York: Routledge, 2008. xxii + 245 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $150.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-43118-7 pp. 647-649

Lynn Hollen Lees

Institutions and Economic Performance. Edited by Helpman Elhanan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN: vii + 611 pp. Tables, figures, references, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-03077-0 pp. 649-651

Gary D. Libecap

The Atlantic World, 1450–2000. Edited by Toyin Falola and Kevin D. Roberts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xv + 385 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-253-34970-5; paper, 978-0-253-21943-5 pp. 652-654

Mariana P. Candido

The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present. By Jan de Vries. New York: Cambridge University Press: 2008. 327 + xii pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $22.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-521-89502-6; paper, 978-0-521-71925-4 pp. 654-657

Paul Cheney

Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Britain. By Mary Poovey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x + 511 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.00; paper, $24.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-226-67532-9; paper, 978-0-226-67533-6 pp. 657-659

Amy Froide

Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775–1821. By George Selgin. Ann Arbor: Independent Institute, 2008. xvii + 345 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-472-11631-7 pp. 660-661

Ranald Michie

Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750–1914. By Christine MacLeod. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv + 458 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $105.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-87370-3 pp. 662-663

Pat Hudson

William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science. By William H. Brock. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2008. viii + 556 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes. Cloth, $124.95. ISBN: 978-0-754-66322-5 pp. 664-666

Graeme J. N. Gooday

The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives. Edited by Sarah Stockwell. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2008. xxi + 355 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $94.95; paper, $34.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-405-12534-5; paper, 978-1-405-12535-2. - Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s–1930s. Edited by Sebastian Conrad and Dominic Sachsenmaier. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. x + 266 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN: 978-1-403-97988-9 pp. 667-669

Paul Ashmore

La France du marché noir (1940–1949) [The Black Market in France 1940–1949)]. By Fabrice Grenard. Paris: Payot, 2008. 352 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €23.00. ISBN: 978-2-228-90284-7 pp. 669-672

Bertram M. Gordon

CFAO (1887–2007): La réinvention permanente du commerce outre-mer [CFAO (1887–2007): The Permanent Reinvention of Overseas Commerce]. By Hubert Bonin. Paris, Édition de la SFHOM, 2008. 765 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Paper, €50.00. ISBN: 2-859-70038-2 pp. 672-674

Eric Godelier

Volume 83, issue 2, 2009

Introduction pp. 233-238

Shane Hamilton

Fishers, Fishing, and Overfishing: American Experiences in Global Perspective, 1976–2006 pp. 239-266

Mansel G. Blackford

Democratizing Luxury and the Contentious “Invention of the Technological Chicken” in Britain pp. 267-290

Andrew Godley and Bridget Williams

Twentieth-Century Product Innovations in the German Food Industry pp. 291-315

Uwe Spiekermann

Bottles for Beer: The Business of Technological Innovation in Mexico, 1890–1920 pp. 317-348

Edward Beatty

Innovation as Adaptation: The Digital Challenge in the Norwegian Fishing Industry, 1970–1985 pp. 349-367

Knut Sogner

Review Essay - Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart. Edited by Warren Belasco and Roger Horowitz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 296 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-812-24128-0 pp. 375-378

Teresa Lopes

Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee. By Bee Wilson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xiv + 384 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-13820-6 pp. 379-381

Stephen Mihm

Brewing Battles: A History of American Beer. By Amy Mittelman. New York: Algora Publishing, 2008. 229 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-87586-573-7; paper, 978-0-87586-572-0 pp. 381-384

Howard R. Stanger

International Business and National War Interests: Unilever between Reich and Empire, 1939–45. By Ben Wubs. New York: Routledge, 2008. xiv + 256 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $130.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-41667-2 pp. 384-386

Jonas Scherner

Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia. By Ann Smart Martin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiv + 260 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-88727-7 pp. 386-388

Michelle Craig McDonald

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution. By Woody Holton. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. xii + 370 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $27.00. ISBN: 978-0-809-08061-8 pp. 389-391

A. Glenn Crothers

One Nation, Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe. By Robert E. Wright. New York: McGraw Hill, 2008. ix + 419 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-071-54393-4 pp. 391-394

Bruce G. Carruthers

Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860. By Paul Paskoff. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xvii + 324 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $48.00. ISBN: 978-0-807-13268-5 pp. 394-396

Aaron W. Marrs

Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870–1916. By Jeffrey Haydu. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. x + 268 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-801-44641-2 pp. 396-398

Daniel Brunsvold

The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York. By Gail Fenske. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, xii + 399 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-24141-8 pp. 399-400

Peter Eisenstadt

A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. By Karen Pastorello. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xxii + 273 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-03230-1 pp. 400-402

Daniel Soyer

Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing. Edited by Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 267 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-24973-8 pp. 403-405

Pennee Bender

Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California. By Christopher R. Henke. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. xi + 226 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-08373-7 pp. 405-407

Christopher J. Castaneda

Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System. By Daniel Pope. New York: Cambridge University Press: 2008. xviii + 282 pp. Tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-40253-8 pp. 407-410

Christine Meisner Rosen

Raising Cain in the ’Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida. By Gail M. Hollander. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, xviii + 348 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, appendices, notes, index. Cloth $45.00. ISBN 978-0-226-34950-3 pp. 410-411

H. Roger Grant

Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television. By Patrick R. Parsons. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. ix + 804 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 978-1-592-13287-4 pp. 411-414

Thomas R. Eisenmann

Financial Reporting and Global Capital Markets: A History of the International Accounting Standards Committee, 1973–2000. By Kees Camfferman and Stephen A. Zeff. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xxviii + 676 pp. Bibliography, index, notes, photographs, tables. Cloth, $175.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-29629-3 pp. 414-416

Paul J. Miranti

Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and Its Fight for Survival. By Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii + 325 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-199-53485-2 pp. 417-419

Marc J. Stern

Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers. Edited by Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. vii + 363 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-812-24037-5 pp. 420-421

Richard Coopey

Estates, Enterprise, and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of England, c.1700–1780. By David Oldroyd. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. xi + 217 pp. Figures, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-754-63455-3 pp. 422-423

Gillian Cookson

A Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Culture, and Technology on Britain's Atlantic Coast, 1860–1930. By Christopher Harvie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xv + 319 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 978-0-198-22783-0 pp. 423-425

Michael Miller

Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution. By Michael Sonenscher. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. x + 415 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-12499-5 pp. 426-428

Amalia D. Kessler

La fabrique réactionnaire: Antisémitisme, spoliations et corporatisme dans le cuir (1930–1950) [The Reactionary Factory: Antisemitism, Plunder, and Corporatism in the Leather-Goods Industry (1930–1950)]. By Florent Le Bot. Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 2007. 399 pp. Paper, €24.00. ISBN: 978-2-724-61046-8 pp. 428-431

Kenneth Mouré

The Power of Entrepreneurs: Politics and Economy in Contemporary Spain. By Mercedes Cabrera and Fernando del Rey. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. xii + 207 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75-00. ISBN: 978-1-84545-185-1 pp. 431-433

José Miranda

Building a Global Bank: The Transformation of Banco Santander. By Mauro F. Guillén and Adrian Tschoegl. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. x + 266 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-13125-2 pp. 433-435

Jesús M. Valdaliso

Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present. By Christopher Kobrak. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xx + 484 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-86325-4 pp. 435-438

Jeremy Leaman

Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760–1900. By Kristin Mann. Bloomington: Indiana University Press2007. xii + 473 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-253-34884-5 pp. 438-440

Dmitri van den Bersselaar

China Upside Down: Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808–1856. By Man-Houng Lin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. xxix + 362 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-02268-8 pp. 440-442

Elisabeth Köll

Volume 83, issue 1, 2009

Introduction pp. 1-7

Per H. Hansen

Scylla or Charybdis? Historical Reflections on Two Basic Problems of Corporate Governance pp. 9-34

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Business Failure and Civil Scandal in Early Modern Europe pp. 35-60

Thomas Max Safley

Alexander Hamilton, Central Banker: Crisis Management during the U.S. Financial Panic of 1792 pp. 61-86

Richard Sylla, Robert E Wright and David J Cowen

Rogue Finance: The Life and Fire Insurance Company and the Panic of 1826 pp. 87-112

Eric Hilt

Private Cops on the Fraud Beat: The Limits of American Business Self-Regulation, 1895-1932 pp. 113-160

Edward J. Balleisen

Review Essays - Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse. By Malcolm S. Salter. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. viii + 525 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-02825-8 pp. 173-177

Christopher Kobrak

Review Essays - The Microsoft Case: Antitrust, High Technology, and Consumer Welfare. By William H. Page and John E. Lopatka. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv + 347 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-64463-9 pp. 177-181

Tony A Freyer

The New Spirit of Capitalism. By Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, translated from the French by Gregory Elliott. New York: Verso, 2005. xlvii + 601 pp. Appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $93.99; paper, $39.95. ISBN: cloth, 1-859-84554-1; paper, 978-1-844-67165-6 pp. 183-185

Duncan McTavish

The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control. By Jennifer Karns Alexander. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvii + 233 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-801-88693-5 pp. 185-187

Joy Rohde

Biracial Unions on Galveston's Waterfront, 1865–1925. By Clifford Farrington. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2007. ix + 253 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-876-11217-5 pp. 188-190

Eric Arnesen

Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal. By Gabrielle Esperdy.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x + 307 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-21800-7 pp. 190-193

Timothy Mennel

Inventing the “American Way”: The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement. By Wendy L. Wall. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xi + 378 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-195-32910-0 pp. 193-195

Kim Phillips-Fein

Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers during the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research. By Atsushi Akera. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. ix + 427 pp. Photographs, figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-01231-7 pp. 195-197

Ann Johnson

The Fishermen's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska. By David F. Arnold. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xvii + 267 pp. Maps, photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-295-98788-0 pp. 198-199

Mansel G. Blackford

Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television. By Greg J. Downey. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. ix + 387 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $52.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-88710-9 pp. 199-201

Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb

The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes. By Claiborne A. Skinner. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiv + 202 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-801-88837-3; paper, 978-0-801- 88838-0 pp. 202-204

Leslie Choquette

Craft Capitalism: Craftworkers and Early Industrialization in Hamilton, Ontario, 1840–1872. By Robert B. Kristofferson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. x + 326 pp. Table, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-802-09172-7; paper, 978-0-802-09408-7 pp. 204-207

John Weaver

Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007. By William J. Hausman, Peter Hertner, and Mira Wilkins. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxiv + 487 pp. Tables, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-88035-0 pp. 207-208

Tom Hughes

Global Brands: The Evolution of Multinationals in Alcoholic Beverages. By Teresa da Silva Lopes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxii + 303 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-83397-4 pp. 208-210

Stephanie Decker

The Middle Sort of People in Provincial England, 1600–1750. By H. R. French. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 305 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-29638-5 pp. 211-213

Hannah Barker

Cultures of Selling: Perspectives on Consumption and Society since 1700. Edited by John Benson and Laura Ugolini. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xiv + 297 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 0-754-65046-4 pp. 213-215

Andrew Popp

Travailler dans les entreprises sous l'Occupation [Working in Businesses under the Occupation]. Edited by Christian Chevandier and Jean-Claude Dalmas. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2007. 523 pp. Tables, notes. Paper, €15.00. ISBN: 978-2-848-67211-3 pp. 215-218

Donald Reid

The Company That Changed Itself: R&D and the Transformations of DSM. By Arjan van Rooij. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007. 279 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography. Paper, $34.95. ISBN: 90-526-0138-0 pp. 218-220

Kees Boersma

The Dachser Logistics Company: Global Competition and the Strength of the Family Business. By Paul Erker. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2008. 324 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €24.90. ISBN: 978-3-593-38542-6 pp. 220-223

Gary Herrigel

GN Store Nord: A Company in Transition, 1939–1988. By Martin J. Iversen. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, 2005. 216 pp. Figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.00. ISBN: 87-630-0133-0 pp. 223-224

David Hochfelder

China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929–1937. By Tomoko Shiroyama. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xvii + 325 pp. Figures, tables, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-02831-9 pp. 225-227

Tim Wright

Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan. By Elyssa Faison. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xiv + 227 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-25296-7 pp. 227-229

Christienne L. Hinz

Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization. By Jeremy Prestholdt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiv + 273 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-520-25424-4; paper, 978-0-520-25423-7 pp. 229-232

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