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Volume 82, issue 4, 2008

Selling the American Way: The Singer Sales System in Japan, 1900–1938 pp. 671-699

Andrew Gordon

Inventing the U.S. Stove Industry, c.1815–1875: Making and Selling the First Universal Consumer Durable pp. 701-733

Howell J. Harris

Suchard and the Emergence of Traveling Salesmen in Switzerland, 1860–1920 pp. 735-759

Roman Rossfeld

Managing Door-to-Door Sales of Vacuum Cleaners in Interwar Britain pp. 761-788

Peter Scott

“Ambassadors of Commerce“: The Commercial Traveler in British Culture, 1800–1939 pp. 789-814

Michael French and Andrew Popp

Abstracts from Articles in International Business History Journals pp. 815-821

Anonymous

Milestones in Marketing pp. 827-838

John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. By Gregory Clark. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xii + 420. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–691–12135–2 pp. 839-843

Richard Sylla

The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community. By Stephen A. Marglin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xvi + 359 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-02654-4 pp. 843-847

Michael A. Bernstein

A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium. By Robert Friedel. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. x + 588 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–0–262–06262–6 pp. 849-851

Steven W. Usselman

Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance. By Peter F. Austin. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007. xiii + 265 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978–1–851–96922–7 pp. 851-853

Martin Horn

Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts. By James E. McWilliams. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xi + 201 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978–0–813–9–2636–0 pp. 854-856

Christopher Clark

The Sunshine Economy: An Economic History of Florida since the Civil War. By William B. Stronge. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xxi + 334 pp. Figures, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth $34–95. ISBN: 978–0–813–03201–6 pp. 856-858

H.Roger Grant

The Great Strikes of 1877. Edited by David O. Stowell. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. ix + 197 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 978–0; paper, 978–0–252–07477–6 pp. 858-860

Kevin Boyle

Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds. By John E. Murray. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xiv + 313 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00 ISBN: 978–0–300–12091–2 pp. 860-862

Sandra Opdycke

Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture. By Bruce Lenthall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xi + 261 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 978–0–226–47191–4; paper, 978–0–226–47192–1 pp. 863-865

Philip M. Napoli

Motoring: The Highway Experience in America. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. xiii + 274 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978–0–820–33028–0 pp. 865-867

Howard R. Stanger

Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine. By Paul R. Josephson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xv + 258 pp. Notes, appendix, index. Cloth, $22.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–88641–6 pp. 868-870

Terence Kehoe

The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry. By Diane Pecknold. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. x + 294 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 978–0–8223–4059–1; paper, 978–0–8223–4080–5 pp. 870-872

Shane Hamilton

Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital. BySpencer E. Ante. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2008. xix + 299 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978–1–422–10122–3 pp. 873-875

Leslie Berlin

Telecommunications and Empire. By Jill Hills. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xii + 291 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978–0–252–03258–5 pp. 875-877

Daniel R. Headrick

The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900–1938. By Myrna I. Santiago. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 411 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978–0–521–86324–7 pp. 878-880

Marcelo Bucheli

Anton Rupert: A Biography. By Ebbe Dommisse in cooperation with Willie Esterhuyse; translated byLinde Dietrich. Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2005. 463 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, R269.00. ISBN: 0–624–04150–6 pp. 880-882

Andrea Goldstein

The English Wool Market, c.1230–1327. By Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks, and Paul R. Dryburgh. Cambridge University Press, 2007. viii + 205 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978–0–521–85941–7 pp. 883-885

S. H. Rigby

The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London. By Barbara A. Hanawalt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv + 317 pp. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN: 978–0–195–31175–4 pp. 885-887

Cordelia Beattie

Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain, 1880–1939. By Laura Ugolini. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. xiii + 292 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–0384–9 pp. 887-890

Brent Shannon

British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration, 1945–1972. By Neil Rollings. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi + 278 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978–0–521–88811–0 pp. 890-891

Harm G. Schröter

Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age. By Anne Goldgar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xx + 425 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978–0–226–30125 pp. 891-894

Deirdre McCloskey

The Origins of the Welfare State: Women, Work, and the French Revolution. By Lisa DiCaprio. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiii + 259 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978–0–252–032021–5 pp. 894-896

Kolleen M. Guy

L'oeuvre d'Ernest Labrousse: Genèse d'un modèle d'histoire économique [The Work of Ernest Labrousse: Genesis of a Model of Economic History]. By Maria Novella Borghetti. Paris: Éditions de l'EHESS, 2005. 299 pp. Bibliography, notes. Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 2–713–22019-X pp. 896-899

Pierre Hautcoeur

Von der Friedens- zur Kriegswirtschaft: Unternehmensstrategien derdeutschen Eisen- und Stahlindustrie vom Kaiserreich bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs [From the Peacetime to the Wartime Economy: Business Strategies of the German Iron and Steel Industries from the Empire to the End of the First World War]. By Stefanie van de Kerkhof. Essen: Klartext, 2006. 480 pp. Figures, maps, tables, notes, bibliography. Paper, €33.00. ISBN: 3–89861–516–2 pp. 899-900

Roman Köster

Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile. By Lewis H. Siegelbaum. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xi + 309 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–0–801–44638–2 pp. 901-903

Thomas C. Owen

State or Merchant? Political Economy and Political Process in 1740s China. By Helen Dunstan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xv + 523 pp. Figures, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–02262–1 pp. 903-905

Wing-kin Puk

Jingji Xu: The History of the Introduction of Western Economic Ideas into China, 1850–1950. By Paul Trescott. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2007. xxiv + 442 pp. Photographs, tables, glossary, references, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978–962–996242–5 pp. 905-907

Margherita Zanasi

Mao and the Economic Stalinization of China, 1948–1953. By Hua-yuLi. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. xiii + 250 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0–742–54053–7 pp. 908-910

Robert Cliver

Volume 82, issue 3, 2008

Introduction pp. 439-444

Carlos Dávila

Laws versus Contracts: Shareholder Protections and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950 pp. 445-473

Aldo Musacchio

Networks and Entrepreneurship: The Modernization of the Textile Business in Porfirian Mexico pp. 475-502

Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato

Foreign Investments in Electric Utilities: A Comparative Analysis of Belgian and American Companies in Argentina, 1890–1960 pp. 503-528

Norma S. Lanciotti

Negotiating under the Monroe Doctrine: Weetman Pearson and the Origins of U.S. Control of Colombian Oil pp. 529-553

Marcelo Bucheli

Business History in Latin America: A Historiographical Perspective pp. 555-575

María Inés Barbero

Banking History and Archives in Latin America pp. 585-602

Carlos Marichal

História da Bolsa de Valores do Rio de Janeiro [History of the Rio de Janeiro Stock Exchange]. By Maria Bárbara Levy. Rio de Janeiro: IBMEC, 1977 pp. 603-605

Gail D. Triner

The Industrialization of São Paulo. By Warren Dean. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969. 263 pp. Cloth, $23.00. ISBN: 0-292-70004-0 pp. 605-608

Anne G. Hanley

A Century of Banking in Latin America: To Commemorate the Centenary in 1962 of the Bank of London & South America Limited. By David Joslin. London: Oxford University Press, 1963 pp. 608-611

Rory Miller

Bunge & Born: Crecimiento y Diversificación de un grupo económico [Bunge & Born: Growth and Diversification of an Economic Group]. By Jorge Schvarzer. Buenos Aires: CISEA-GEL, 1989. 83 pp pp. 611-613

Raúl Jacob

The Decline of Latin American Economies: Growth, Institutions, and Crises. Edited by Sebastian Edwards, Gerardo Esquivel, and Graciela Marquez. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. viii + 418 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-18500-2 pp. 615-618

Gustavo A. Del Angel

Chimneys in the Desert: Industrialization in Argentina during the Export Boom Years, 1870–1930. By Fernando Rocchi. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xviii + 394 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $73.00. ISBN: 0-804-75012-2 pp. 619-621

Graciela Marquez

Empresarios Colombianos del Siglo XIX [Colombian Entrepreneurs of the Nineteenth Century]. By Luis Fernando Molina Londoño. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes, 2006. 434 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography, notes, index. ISBN: 978-958695-223-1 pp. 621-623

Frank Safford

Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950. By Sterling Evans. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xxiii + 314 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables, maps, illustrations. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 978-1-585-44596-7 pp. 623-626

Donald C. Jackson

Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice. By Gavin Fridell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. xix + 347 pp. Tables, figures, maps, notes, references, index. Cloth, $71.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8020-9238-0; paper, 978-0-8020-9590-9 pp. 626-628

Guillermo E. Narváez

Favored Flowers: Culture and Economy in a Global System. By Catherine Ziegler. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. vii + 306 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-34007-2; paper, 0-822-34026-3 pp. 628-631

Vicki Howard

Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class. By Aviva Chomsky. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xiii + 397 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-822-34173-4; paper, 978-0-8223-4190-1 pp. 631-634

Charles Bergquist

City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871–1919. By Margaret Garb. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xv + 261 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-226-28209-0 pp. 634-636

Scott Henderson

Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America. By David M. P. Freund. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xii + 514 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-26275-8 pp. 637-639

Jennifer L. Hochschild

Hotel: An American Story. By A. K. Sandoval-Strausz. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 375 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-10616-9 pp. 639-641

Reiko Hillyer

Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills. By David Stradling. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xxvii + 311 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-295-98747-7 pp. 642-644

Alan Barrish

The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. By Sarah E. Igo. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2007. ix + 398 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-02321-5 pp. 644-646

Stephen Mihm

Nylon and Bombs: DuPont and the March of Modern America. By Pap A. Ndiaye. Translated from the French by Elborg Forster. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 289 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, historiographical essay, index. Cloth $45.00. ISBN: 0-8018-8444-6 pp. 646-648

Mila Davids

Selling Shaker: The Commodification of Shaker Design in the Twentieth Century. By Stephen Bowe and Peter Richmond. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007. x + 404 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $40.00. ISBN: 1-846-31009-1 pp. 649-651

Per Hansen

The Natural Origins of Economics. By Margaret Schabas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi + 231 pp. References, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-226-73569-9 pp. 651-653

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions. By Deborah Cohen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xvii + 294 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-300-11213-0 pp. 654-656

Lara Kriegel

From Physick to Pharmacology: Five Hundred Years of British Drug Retailing. Edited by Louise Hill Curth. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xiii + 174 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-63597-X pp. 656-659

E. M. Tansey

Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. By Harold J. Cook. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xiv + 562 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-11796-7 pp. 659-661

Karel Davids

Die Dresdner Bank 1945–1957: Konsequenzen und Kontinuitäten nach dem Ende des NS-Regimes [The Dresdner Bank, 1945–1957: Consequences and Continuities from the End of the Nazi Regime]. By Ralf Ahrens. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2007. 504 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, €49.80. ISBN: 978-3-486-58303-8 pp. 661-663

Christopher Kopper

Volume 82, issue 2, 2008

Alfred Chandler: His Vision and Achievement pp. 207-226

Thomas K. McCraw

Turner, Beard, Chandler: Progressive Historians pp. 227-240

Richard R. John

Chandler and the Sociology of Organizations pp. 241-250

Neil Fligstein

Chandler and Global Business History pp. 251-266

Mira Wilkins

Alfred Chandler, Founder of Strategy: Lost Tradition and Renewed Inspiration pp. 267-277

Richard Whittington

Measuring Chandler's Impact on European Business Studies since the 1960s pp. 279-292

Martin Jes Iversen

Chandler's Paths of Learning pp. 293-300

Paul J. Miranti

Chandler and Business History in Japan pp. 301-308

Marie Anchordoguy

Lessons from Al, Revisited pp. 309-315

Mary A. Yeager

Roundtable on Business Education pp. 329-358

John F. Wilson, Robert R. Locke, Rolv Petter Amdam, Nuria Puig and Tamotsu Nishizawa

Mellon: An American Life. By David Cannadine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. xvi + 784 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0–679–45032–7 pp. 359-366

George Smith

Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930–2004. By Tony A. Freyer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 437 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 0–521–81788–9 pp. 367-369

William G. Thomas

A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. By Stephen Mihm. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xii + 457 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–02657–5 pp. 369-372

Edward Balleisen

Fraude, contrefaçon et contrebande de l'Antiquité à nos jours [Fraud, Counterfeiting, and Contraband from Antiquity to Today]. Edited byGérard Béaur, Hubert Bonin, and Claire Lemercier. Geneva: Droz, 2006. 829 pp. Figures, illustrations, notes, index. CHF80.00. ISBN: 978–2–600–1069–6 pp. 372-374

Jeff Horn

Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War. By David L. Lightner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 228 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0–300–11470–2 pp. 374-377

Michael S. Green

American Silk, 1830–1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts. By Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Seneschal, and Madelyn Shaw. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxiv + 326 pp. Tables, glossary, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978–0–896–72589–8 pp. 377-379

Tami J. Friedman

William F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows. By Robert E. Bonner. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xxii + 318 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 978–0–806–13829–9 pp. 380-382

Michael R. Adamson

Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking. By Wilson J. Warren. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xii + 317 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–1–587–29536–2 pp. 382-385

Shane Hamilton

Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment on the Palouse. By Andrew P. Duffin. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xv + 240 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978–0–295–98743–9 pp. 385-387

Sarah T. Phillips

Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890s-1930s. By Ken Fones-Wolf. University of Illinois Press, 2007. xxviii + 236 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0–252–03131–1; paper, 0–252–07371–7 pp. 387-390

Howard R. Stanger

Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation. By Peter Fearon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xiv + 316 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 978–0–8262–1736–3 pp. 391-392

David Danbom

For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865. By Robert Zieger. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2007. x + 276 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-8131-2460-5 pp. 393-395

Jennifer Delton

Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America. By Kevin L. Borg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii + 249 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–88606–5 pp. 395-397

Peter D. Norton

Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. By Tom McCarthy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xx + 347 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 978–0–300–11038–8 pp. 398-400

Timothy Whisler

Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver. By Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii + 225 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–88554–9 pp. 401-403

Clifton Hood

The Offshore Imperative: Shell's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America. By Tyler Priest. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2007. xi + 317 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–1–585–44568–4 pp. 403-404

Ellis Goldberg

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: U.S. Energy Security and Oil Politics, 1975–2005. By Bruce A. Beaubouef. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xiv + 334 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978–1–585–44600–1 pp. 405-407

Hugh Gorman

Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific. By Mansel G. Blackford. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. xi + 267 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $48.00. ISBN: 978–0–824–83073–1 pp. 407-410

Suzanna Reiss

Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America. By Giles Slade. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 330 pp. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0–674–02203–3 pp. 410-412

David N. Lucsko

The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry. By Lawrence E. Mitchell. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2007. xiii + 395 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978–1–576–75400–9 pp. 412-414

Maury Klein

Dancing Around the Elephant: Creating a Prosperous Canada in an Era of American Dominance, 1957–1973. By Bruce Muirhead. University of Toronto Press, 2007. x + 323 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978–0–080–209016–4 pp. 415-417

Dimitry Anastakis

The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson. Edited by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, x + 417 pp. References, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978–0–262–08361–4 pp. 417-420

Stanley L. Engerman

The British-Atlantic Trading Community, 1760–1810: Men, Women, and the Distribution of Goods. By Sheryllynne Haggerty. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xiv + 290 pp. Figures, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 90–0415018–8 pp. 420-422

Silvia Marzagalli

Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648–1834. By S. D. Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv + 380 pp. Figures, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 0–521–86338–4 pp. 422-424

David B. Ryden

Women in Business, 1700–1850. By Nicola Phillips. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2006. xi + 299 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978–1–84383–183–9 pp. 424-426

Janette Rutterford

War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689–1900. By John V. C. Nye. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi + 174 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–691–12917–4 pp. 427-429

Michael S. Smith

In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns. By Dario Gaggio. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi + 352 pp. Index, notes, tables. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978–0–691–12697–5 pp. 429-430

Francesca Carnevali

Work and Play: The Production and Consumption of Toys in Germany, 1870–1914. By David D. Hamlin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. x + 286 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, figures, tables. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 978–0–472–11588–4 pp. 431-433

Gary Cross

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. By Adam Tooze. New York: Viking, 2006. xvii + 799 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 978–0–670–03826–8 pp. 433-435

Richard Tilly

Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in 18th-century Damascus. By James Grehan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xvi + 320 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978–0–295–98676–0 pp. 436-438

James A. Reilly

Volume 82, issue 1, 2008

Selecting Risks in an Anonymous World: The Agency System for Life Insurance in Antebellum America pp. 1-30

Sharon Ann Murphy

Quill-Driving: British Life-insurance Clerks and Occupational Mobility, 1800–1914 pp. 31-58

Timothy Alborn

Regulatory Regimes and Multinational Insurers before 1914 pp. 59-86

Robin Pearson and Mikael Lönnborg

Multinational Enterprises and Institutional Regulation in the Life-Insurance Market in Spain, 1880–1935 pp. 87-114

Jerònia Pons Pons

Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire - Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire. By Richard Bak. New York: Wiley, 2003. 320 pp. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-471-23487-6. - The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century. By Steven Watts. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 640 pp. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $16.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-375-40735-2; paper, 978-0-375-70725-4. - In the Shadow of Detroit: Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada, and Motoropolis. By David Roberts. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. 326 pp. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-814-33284-9 pp. 119-126

Dimitry Anastakis

The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. By David Edgerton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xviii + 270 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $26.00. ISBN: 0-195-32283-5 pp. 127-128

David Hochfelder

Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia. By Andrew M. Schocket. De Kalb: Northern Illinois Press, 2007. xiii + 274 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 978-0-87580-369-2 pp. 128-131

A. Glenn Crothers

Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. By S. Max Edelson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiii + 383 pp. Figures, illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-02303-1 pp. 131-133

Emma Hart

Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–1852. By Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2006. v + 202 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 1-851-96890-3 pp. 133-136

Ronald L. F. Davis

The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. By Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xxii + 242 pp. Notes, index, photographs, illustrations. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-801-88600-7 pp. 136-138

Thomas A. Kinney

Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930. By Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. xx + 429 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 0-822-33912-0 pp. 138-141

Daniel R. Headrick

Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. By Davarian L. Baldwin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv + 363 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8078-3099-4; paper, 978-0-8078-5799-1 pp. 141-144

Luther Adams

The Real Pepsi Challenge: The Inspirational Story of Breaking the Color Barrier in American Business. By Stephanie Capparell. New York: Free Press, 2007. xvii + 349 pp. Photographs, bibliography, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 0-743-26571-8 pp. 144-146

Robert E. Weems

Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920–1975. By Susannah Walker. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2007. xiii + 250 pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-8131-2433-9 pp. 146-149

Tiffany M. Gill

George Gallup in Hollywood. By Susan Ohmer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xiii + 281 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth. $69.50; paper, $24.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-231-12132-6; paper, 0-231-12133-4 pp. 149-152

Sarah E. Igo

Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants. By Kathleen M. Barry. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. xv + 304 pp. Photo-graphs, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $22.95. ISBN: 0-822-33946-5 pp. 152-154

Amy G. Richter

The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. By Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely, and Paul F. Barrett. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. xxvi + 318 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-814-21036-8 pp. 154-157

Margaret Walsh

American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe. By John Krige. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. viii + 376 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-262-11297-3 pp. 157-160

John W. Servos

A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750–1920. By Marie Eileen Francois. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xiii + 415 pp. Notes, illustrations, tables, index, appendixes. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8032-6923-1 pp. 160-162

Edward Beatty

Empresas y grupos empresariales en América Latina, España y Portugal [Firms and Business Groups in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal]. Edited by Mario Cerutti. Monterrey: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León-Universidad de Alicante, 2006. 372 pp. Tables, figures, notes. Paper. ISBN: 970-694-224-6 pp. 162-164

Jesús M. Valdaliso

The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660–1720. By Natasha Glaisyer. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2006. x + 220 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0-861-93281-1 pp. 164-166

Larry Neal

The Business of Women: Female Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England, 1760–1830. By Hannah Barker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xi + 189 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 0-19-929971-4 pp. 166-169

Jane Humphries

The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel. By Terry Gourvish. Research by Mike Anson. New York: Routledge, 2006. xxi + 521 pp. Figures, tables, maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $93.95. ISBN: 0-415-39183-0 pp. 169-171

John F. Wilson

Ecrire, Compter, Mesurer: Vers une histoire des rationalités pratiques [Writing, Counting, Measuring: Toward a History of Practical Intelligence]. Edited by Natacha Coquery, François Menant, and Florence Weber. Paris: Editions rue d'Ulm/Presses de l'Ecole normale supérieure, 2006. 277 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, references, notes. Paper, €35.00. ISBN: 2-728-80372-2 pp. 171-173

James M. Murray

Histoire de la Société générale: Volume I, 1864–1890: Naissance d'une banque [History of the Société générale: Volume I, 1864–1890: Birth of a Bank]. By Hubert Bonin. Geneva: Librarie Droz, 2006. 723 pp. Index, notes, appendix, tables. Paper, €68.47. ISBN: 2-600-01038-6 pp. 174-176

Nicolas Stoskopf

La Compagnie genevoise des Colonies suisses de Sétif (1853–1956): Un cas de colonisation privée en Algérie [La Compagnie genevoise des Colonies suisses de Setif (1853–1956): A Case of Private Colonization in Algeria]. By Claude Lützelschwab. Bern: Peter Lang, 2006. xxii + 412 pp. Figures, tables, maps, glossary, appendix, bibliography, notes. Cloth, €43.20. ISBN: 3-039-11146-6 pp. 176-179

Pierre-Yves Donzé

The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany. By Jonathan R. Zatlin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xviii + 377 pp. Figures, tables, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-86956-0 pp. 179-181

Michael Allen

Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840. By Richard Perren. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xi + 285 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3648-8 pp. 181-184

Sydney Watts

Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism. By Jonathan A. Grant. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xi + 288 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-02242-7 pp. 184-186

Jeffrey A. Engel

The Expert Consumer: Associations and Professionals in Consumer Society. Edited by Alain Chatriot, Maire-Emmanuelle Chessel, and Matthew Hilton. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. ix + 209 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $94.94. ISBN: 0-7546-5501-6 pp. 186-188

Matthias Judt

The Industrialization of Rural China. By Chris Bramall. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 424 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 0-199-27593-9 pp. 188-191

Yixin Chen

China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads. Edited by Charles W. Calomiris. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. x + 420 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-231-14192-5 pp. 191-193

Dwight Perkins

The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy. By Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramsayer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii + 181 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 0-226-53270-4 pp. 194-197

James R. Lincoln

The Spice Route: A History. By John Keay. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xv + 286 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN: 0-520-24896-1 pp. 197-200

Linda K. Salvucci

Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. By Jeffry A. Frieden. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. xvii + 556 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $29.95; paper $17.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-393-05808-6; paper, 0-978-393-32981-0 pp. 200-202

Patrick Reagan