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Volume 81, issue 4, 2007

Entrepreneurship and the Development of Global Brands pp. 651-680

Teresa Lopes and Mark Casson

Path Dependence in Ports: The Persistence of Cooperative Forms pp. 681-708

Hugo van Driel and Greta Devos

The Fall and Rise of the Norwegian IT Industry in the Global Age, 1970–2005 pp. 709-734

Knut Sogner

From Products to Services: The Software Industry in the Internet Era pp. 735-764

Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz

Abstracts from Articles in Other Business History Journals pp. 765-769

Anonymous

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. By Thomas K. McCraw. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. xi + 699 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-674-02523-7 pp. 777-782

Richard M. Abrams

Major Problems in American Business History: Documents and Essays. Edited by Regina Lee Blaszczyk and Philip B. Scranton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. xix + 521 pp. Figures, illustrations, tables. Paper, $46.76. ISBN: 0-618-04426-4 pp. 783-785

Leslie Hannah

Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783–1820. By Joshua M. Smith. Foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene A. Smith. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xv + 160 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-8130-2986-4 pp. 785-787

Andrew Wender Cohen

Networked Machinists: High Technology Industries in Antebellum America. By David R. Meyer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xi + 311 pp. Figures, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-88471-3 pp. 788-790

John K. Brown

After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley. By David Vaught. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiv + 310 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-801-88497-7 pp. 790-793

Ryan J. Carey

The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wendy Gamber. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xii + 213 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8018-8571-6 pp. 793-795

Timothy B. Spears

Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars. By Georg Leidenberger. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. viii + 202 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-875-80356-3 pp. 795-798

Richard R. John

Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. By Eric Jay Dolin. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. 460 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-393-06057-7 pp. 798-800

Joshua M. Smith

Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission. By Michael Adas. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 542 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01867-2 pp. 800-802

Robert W. Rydell

Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law. By Alan D. Morrison and William J. Wilhelm Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiii + 341 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, figures. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-199-29657-X pp. 802-805

Ranald Michie

When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security. By Edwin Amenta. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. viii + 322 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-12473-6 pp. 805-807

W. Elliot Brownlee

Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930. By Robert M. Fogelson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 264 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-300-10876-1 pp. 808-809

Kenneth T. Jackson

Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market. By Sally H. Clarke. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv + 296 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-86878-5 pp. 809-812

Gary Cross

From Submarines to Suburbs: Selling a Better America, 1939–1959. By Cynthia Lee Henthorn. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. xv + 368 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-821-41677-4; paper, 0-821-41678-2 pp. 812-814

Lisa Jacobson

Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948–1961. By James H. Baughman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xiii + 443 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-8018-7933-7 pp. 814-817

Daniel Horowitz

Advertising Sin and Sickness: The Politics of Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing 1950–1990. By Pamela E. Pennock. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. vii + 282 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $36.00. ISBN: 0-875-80368-5 pp. 817-819

Inger L. Stole

Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London. By Caitlin Zaloom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii + 224 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $29.00. ISBN: 0-226-97813-3 pp. 820-822

Paul J. Miranti

The Global Securities Market: A History. By Ranald C. Michie. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 399 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 0-199-28061-4 pp. 822-825

Priscilla Roberts

Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780–2005. By Youssef Cassis, translated by Jacqueline Collier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 385 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-84535-9 pp. 825-827

Forrest Capie

The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond. By Barry Eichengreen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xx + 495 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, figures, tables. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-12710-7 pp. 827-829

Michael S. Smith

The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860–1914. By Brent Shannon. Athens: Ohio University Press, xii + 252 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-821-41702-9; paper, 0-821-41703-7 pp. 830-831

Elisabetta Merlo

Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800. By Peter Thorsheim. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. xii + 307 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-821-41680-4; paper, 0-821-41681-2 pp. 832-834

Hugh Gorman

Alfred Herbert Ltd. and the British Machine Tool Industry, 1887–1983. By Roger Lloyd-Jones and M. J. Lewis. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xii + 352 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-60523-X pp. 834-836

Roberto Mazzoleni

The Dutch Slave Trade, 1500–1850. By P. C. Emmer, translated by Chris Emery. New York: Berghahn, 2006. ix + 166 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 1-845-45031-0 pp. 837-838

Karel Davids

Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics, and Market Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris. By Sydney Watts. New York: University of Rochester Press, 2006. x + 232 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 1-580-46211-1 pp. 839-841

Kolleen M. Guy

The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1830. By Jeff Horn. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. ix + 383 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-262-08352-3 pp. 841-843

Paul Spagnoli

Les Banques du Grand Sud Ouest: Système bancaire et gestion des risques (des années 1900 à nos jours) [The Banks of the Grand South-West: The Banking System and Risk Management from 1900 to the Present]. Edited by Hubert Bonin and Christophe Lastécouères. Paris: P.L.A.G.E., 2006. 521 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, €40.00. ISBN: 2-914-36909-3 pp. 844-846

Elisabeth Paulet

Die jüdischen Mitglieder der deutschen Wirtschaftselite, 1927–1955: Verdraenung—Emigration—Rueckkehr [Jewish Members of the German Business Elite, 1927–1955: Expulsion—Emigration—Remigration]. By Martin Münzel. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoeningh, 2006. 502 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, figures, tables. Cloth, €49.90. ISBN: 3-506-75625-7 pp. 846-849

Dieter Ziegler

Driving Germany: The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930–1970. By Thomas Zeller. New York: Berghahn, 2007. viii + 289 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 1-845-45309-3 pp. 849-850

Christopher Kopper

Making IT: The Rise of Asia in High Tech. Edited by Henry S. Rowen, Marguerite Gong Hancock, and William F. Miller. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xviii + 388 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $30.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-8047-5385-7; paper, 0-8047-5386-5 pp. 851-853

Mark Fruin

America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier. By Robert Vitalis. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xxvii + 353 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-8047-5446-2 pp. 853-856

Steffen Hertog

Volume 81, issue 3, 2007

Women in the Service Industries: National Perspectives pp. 421-427

Angel Kwolek-Folland and Margaret Walsh

Gender, the Service Sector, and U.S. Business History pp. 429-450

Angel Kwolek-Folland

In the Shadow of the Swedish Welfare State: Women and the Service Sector pp. 451-470

Lena Andersson-Skog

Doing Business with Gender: Service Industries and British Business History pp. 471-493

Katrina Honeyman

Female Entrepreneurship in Spain during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries pp. 495-515

Lina Glvez Muoz and Paloma Fernndez Prez

Women and Family Capitalism in Greece, c.17801940 pp. 517-538

Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou

Gender in the History of Transportation Services: A Historiographical Perspective pp. 545-562

Margaret Walsh

American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 378 pp. Index, notes, figures. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-812-23923-7 pp. 563-567

Michael French

The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865. By Mark R. Wilson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 306 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-88348-2 pp. 569-571

Michael S. Green

The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America. By David M. Henkin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xv + 221 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 0-226-32720-5 pp. 571-573

Robert MacDougall

A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business. By Rowena Olegario. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2006. ix + 274 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-674-02340-4 pp. 573-575

Mark R. Wilson

The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860–1914. By David O. Whitten and Bessie E. Whitten. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 0-313-32395-X pp. 576-578

Marcelo Bucheli

The Paradox of Democratic Capitalism: Politics and Economics in American Thought. By David Prindle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xv + 368 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $49-95. ISBN: 0-801-88411-X pp. 578-580

Mary Furner

The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster. By Werner Troesken. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. x + 318 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, figures, appendix. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-262-20167-4 pp. 581-583

Mark Aldrich

Rails Through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad. By H. Roger Grant. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. xvi + 223 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $36.00. ISBN: 0-875-80365-2 pp. 584-586

Sean Patrick Adams

When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy. By William L. Silber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xi + 217 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-691-12747-6 pp. 586-588

Maury Klein

Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood. By Karen Ward Mahar. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. x + 291 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-88436-5 pp. 588-590

Pennee Bender

A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis. By Alan Lawson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xv + 280 pp. Index, bibliography. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-88406-3 pp. 591-593

Jason Scott Smith

Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics. By David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, iv + 369 pp. Cloth, $36.95. ISBN: 0-806-13795-9 pp. 593-596

Michael R. Adamson

Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II. By Andrew E. Kersten. New York: New York University Press, 2006. xiii + 273 pp. Index, notes, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 0-814-748786-8 pp. 596-599

Melvyn Dubofsky

Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955. By Adam Green. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv + 306 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-30641-0 pp. 599-601

Robert E. Weems

Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948–92. By Xiaolan Bao. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xvi + 330 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $44.95; paper, $22.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-02631-4; paper, 0-252-07350-9 pp. 601-603

Yong Chen

From Marriage to Market: The Transformation of Women's Lives and Work. By Susan Thistle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xiv + 296 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Paper, $19.95. ISBN: 0-520-24646-2 pp. 603-606

Miriam Cohen

Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns that Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires. By Kristoffer A. Garin. New York: Viking Penguin, 2005. xvi + 366 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 0-670-023418-5 pp. 606-608

Ferry de Goey

The Effortless Economy of Science? By Philip Mirowski. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. 462 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, figures. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33310-4; paper, 0-822-33322-8 pp. 608-610

Theodore M. Porter

Discounted Labour: Women Workers in Canada, 1870–1939. By Ruth A. Frager and Carmela K. Patrias. ix + 289 pp. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Index, bibliography. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-802-00828-3; paper, 0-802-07818-4 pp. 611-613

Carmen Nielson

The Politics of CANDU Exports. By Duane Bratt. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xv + 319 pp. Index, notes, figures, maps, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-802-09091-5 pp. 613-616

Barry E. C. Boothman

Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology. By Duncan K. Foley. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xv + 265 pp. Index, figures. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 0-674-02309-9 pp. 616-618

Keith Tribe

North East England, 1850–1914: The Dynamics of a Maritime-Industrial Region. By Graeme J. Milne. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2006. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, tables, xi + 230 pp. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 1-843-83240-2 pp. 619-621

Maurice Kirby

Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970. By David Edgerton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv + 364 pp. Index, notes, appendix, tables. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $32.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-85636-1; paper, 0-521-67231-7 pp. 621-623

Alan Booth

Networking Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Shaping of Europe, 1850–2000. Edited by Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2006. vii + 335 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, figures. Cloth, $47.50. ISBN: 0-881-35394-9 pp. 623-625

Christian Stadler

The Entrepreneurial Shift: Americanization in European High-Technology Management Education. By Robert R. Locke and Katja Schöne. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiii + 250 pp. Index, figures, references, tables. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 0-521-84010-4 pp. 626-628

Susanne Hilger

The Rise of Spanish Multinationals: European Business in the Global Economy. By Mauro F. Guillén. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ix + 268 pp. Index, notes, references, photographs, tables. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-521-84721-4 pp. 628-631

Núria Puig

La Banque d'Amsterdam et le florin européen au temps de la République néerlandaise (1610–1820) [The Bank of Amsterdam and the European Florin under the Dutch Republic (1610–1820)]. By Lucien Gillard. Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2004. 420pp. Notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Paper, €36.00. ISBN: 2-713-22014-9 pp. 631-633

Joël Félix

Der Anspruch auf das Glück des Tüchtigen: Beruf, Organisation und Selbstverständnis der Bankangestellten in der Weimarer Republik [A Claim on “Fortune Favors the Bold”: Business, Organization and Self-Conception of Bank Employees in the Weimar Republic]. By Imke Thamm. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. 298 pp. Notes, bibliography, tables. Paper, €59.00. ISBN: 3-515-08852-7 pp. 633-637

Ingo Köhler

Ortsempfänger, Volksfernseher und Optaphon: Die Entwicklung der deutschen Radio- und Fernsehindustrie und das Unternehmen Loewe, 1923–1962 [“Ortsempfänger,” “Volksfernseher,” and “Optaphon”: The Development of German Radio and Television Industry and the Loewe Company, 1923–1962]. By Kilian J. L. Steiner. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2005. 381 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendices, maps, tables. Cloth, €29.90. ISBN: 3-898-61492-1 pp. 637-639

Peter Jelavich

De gjorde Danmark større … De multinationale danske entreprenørfirmaer i krise og krig 1919–1947 [They Made Denmark Larger, but Did They Make Her Greater? Danish Construction Companies in Crisis and in War, 1919–1947]. By Steen Andersen. Copenhagen: Lindhardt and Ringhof, 2005. 573 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, tables, figures. Cloth, 349 kr. ISBN: 875-952496-0 pp. 639-641

Knud Knudsen

Business Expansion and Structural Change in Pre-War China: Liu Hongsheng and His Enterprises, 1920–1937. By Kai Yiu Chan. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xv + 283 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, figures, tables. Cloth, $59.50. ISBN: 9-789-622097-643 pp. 642-644

Morris L. Bian

Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia. By Sherman Cochran. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 242 pp. Index notes, bibliography, maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-674-02161-4 pp. 644-647

Adam McKeown

The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization: Another Path to Industrialization. Edited by Masayuki Tanimoto. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xvii + 342 pp. Index, notes, maps, figures, tables. Cloth, $140.00. ISBN: 0-198-29274-0 pp. 647-649

David G. Wittner

Volume 81, issue 2, 2007

Sugar and Copper: Postcolonial Experiences of Australian Multinationals pp. 213-236

David Merrett

From Diaspora Traders to Shipping Tycoons: The Vagliano Bros pp. 237-268

Gelina Harlaftis

Before the EEOC: How Management Integrated the Workplace pp. 269-295

Jennifer Delton

Rent Seeking or Market Strengthening? Industry Associations in New Zealand Wool Broking pp. 297-321

Simon Ville

Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890–1945. By Charles McGovern. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, xv + 536 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. ISBN: Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. cloth, 0-807-83033-X; paper, 0-807-85676-2 pp. 341-343

Kimberly Phillips-Fein

The Challenge of Affluence: Self Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950. By Avner Offer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xviii + 454 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-198-20853-7 pp. 343-346

Charles Kenny

Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods: The Cairoli Lectures. By Barry Eichengreen. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007 xiv + 187 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $26.00. ISBN: 0-262-05084-6 pp. 346-349

Rawi Abdelal

Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich. By Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 240 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 0-226-91068-7 pp. 349-352

Andrew Shankman

Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820–1920. By William H. Thiesen. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. x + 302 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-8130-2940-6 pp. 352-354

Thomas A. Kinney

Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons. By Edward J. Renehan Jr New York: Basic Books, 2005. xiii + 352 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $18.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-465-06885-5; paper, 0-465-06886-3 pp. 355-357

Maury Klein

Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy. By Robert Higgs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xv + 221 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-195-18292-7 pp. 357-360

Elliot A. Rosen

Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio. By Elizabeth Fones-Wolf. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii + 307 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-03119-9; paper, 0-252-07364-9 pp. 360-363

Douglas Craig

House of Plenty: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Luby's Cafeterias. By Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. 277 pp. Photographs, index. Cloth, $21.00. ISBN: 0-292-70656-1 pp. 363-365

Peter M. Birkeland

Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition. By Vicki Howard. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 306 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-8122-3945-8 pp. 366-368

Katherine Jellison

L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement. By Ruth Milkman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. xiii + 244 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $27.50 ISBN: 0-871-54635-3 pp. 368-370

Josh Sides

Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800–1920. By Margaret E. Derry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xvii + 302 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-802-09112-1 pp. 371-372

Warren M. Elofson

The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and Identity. By Jarrett Rudy. McGill–Queen's University Press, 2006. xii + 232 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, CAN$27.95. ISBN: 0-773-52911-X pp. 373-375

Barbara Hahn

The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890–1917. By Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. x + 245 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 0-826-33796-1 pp. 375-378

William Schell

Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua. By Elizabeth Dore. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. xii + 252 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74-955 paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33686-3; paper, 0-822-33674-X pp. 378-380

Ralph Lee Woodward

The Social Life of Money in the English Past. By Deborah Valenze. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi + 308 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-85242-0; paper, 0-521-61780-4 pp. 380-383

Woodruff D. Smith

The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange: Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, c.1550–1630. By Clé Lesger, translated by J. C. Grayson. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. x + 326 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $114.95. ISBN: 0-745-65220-3 pp. 383-385

Hugo van Driel

Building on Water: Venice, Holland and the Construction of the European Landscape in Early Modern Times. By Salvatore Ciriacono, translated by Jeremy Scott. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. x + 308 pp. Glossary, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 1-845-45065-5 pp. 386-388

Mark Cioc

Itinéraires marchands du goût moderne: Produits alimentaires et modernisation rurale en France et en Allemagne (1870–1940) [Merchant Routes to Modern Taste: Food Products and Rural Modernization in France and Germany (1870–1940)]. By Thierry Nadau. Text assembled posthumously and edited by Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel and Sandrine Kott. Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2005. xxi + 300 pp. Photographs, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes. Paper, €22.00. ISBN: 2-735-11064-8 pp. 388-391

Kolleen M. Guy

Les entreprises du secteur de l'énergie sous l'Occupation [The Energy Sector during the Occupation]. Edited by Varaschin Denis. Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2006. 447 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes. Paper, €30.00. ISBN: 2-848-32045-1 pp. 391-393

Kim Oosterlinck

The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800–1930. By Michael Stephen Smith. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 575 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $59.05. ISBN: 0-674-01939-3 pp. 393-395

Ludovic Cailluet

Unbegrenzte Möglichkeiten: “Amerikanisierung” in Deutschland und Frankreich (1900–1933) [Infinite Possibilities: “Americanization” in Germany and France (1900–1933)]. By Egbert Klautke. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 395 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €42.00. ISBN: 3-515-07941-6 pp. 396-398

Jeffrey Fear

Il “discorso del maneggio”: Pratiche gestionali e contabili all'Arsenale di Venezia, 1580–1643 [The “Discourse on Management”: Accounting and Managerial Practices at Venice's State Shipyard, 1580–1643]. By Luca Zan, Franco Rossi, and Stefano Zambon. Bologna: Mulino, 2006. 466 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography. Paper, €33.00. ISBN: 8-815-10912-9 pp. 399-401

PierAngelo Toninelli

Storia della Pininfarina, 1930–2005: Un'industria italiana nel mondo [A History of Pininfarina, 1930–2005: A Global Italian Industry]. Edited by Valerio Castronovo. Rome: Laterza, 2005. x + 636 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €45.00. ISBN: 8-842-07263-X pp. 401-403

Andrea E. Goldstein

The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture. By Mauro F. Guillén. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xii + 186 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-11520-6 pp. 404-405

Per Hansen

Oil Titans: National Oil Companies in the Middle East. By Valerie Marcel, with John V. Mitchell, contributor. Washington, D.C.: Chatham House/Brookings Institution Press, 2006. x + 321 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $52.95; paper, $29.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-815-75474-4; paper, 0-815-75473-6 pp. 406-409

Relli Shechter

Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies. By Gary G. Hamilton. London: Routledge, 2006. xii + 309 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $135.00; paper, $37.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-415-15704-8; paper, 0-415-15705-6 pp. 409-411

Parks Coble

Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. By Mark Metzler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xxiv + 370 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-520-24420-6 pp. 411-414

Robert G. Kane

The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. By Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi + 216 pp. Figures, table, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-11999-6 pp. 414-417

Takeo Hoshi

Korea Under Siege, 1876–1945: Capital Formation and Economic Transformation. By Chung Young-Iob. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. x + 390 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN: 0-19-517830-2 pp. 417-419

Dennis McNamara

Volume 81, issue 1, 2007

Collusion and Competition in Colonial Economies: Banking in British West Africa, 1916–1960 pp. 1-26

Gareth Austin and Chibuike Ugochukwu Uche

International Management in a Free-Standing Company: The Penang Sugar Estates, Ltd., and the Malayan Sugar Industry, 1851–1914 pp. 27-57

Lynn Hollen Lees

Corporate Legitimacy and Advertising: British Companies and the Rhetoric of Development in West Africa, 1950–1970 pp. 59-86

Stephanie Decker

The Business Firm in Africa pp. 87-110

Robert L. Tignor

Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870–1930. By Angel Kwolek-Folland. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xiv + 256 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-801-84860-1; paper, 0-801-85948-4 pp. 119-122

Susan Strasser

“Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire.” By Geoffrey G. Jones and Ingrid Vargas. Harvard Business School Case No. 9-804-078. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, December 15, 2005 pp. 122-125

Matthias Kipping

The Rise of Silas Lapham. By William Dean Howells. New York: Signet Classic by New American Library, 1980. 350 pp. Paper. ISBN: 0-451-51400-9. First published in 1885 by Ticknor and Company pp. 125-128

Pamela Walker Laird

Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe. By Peter Spufford. London: Thames and Hudson, 2003. 432 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-500-25118-5; paper, 0-500-28594-2 pp. 129-132

Margaret B. W. Graham

Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. Edited by Alfred D. ChandlerJr., Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 574 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $34.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-48123-6; paper, 0-521-66347-4 pp. 132-135

Núria Puig

The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship. By Juliet E. K. Walker. Woodbridge, Conn.: Twayne, 1998. 482 pp. Cloth, $52.00. ISBN: 0-805-71650-5 pp. 135-137

Maceo Crenshaw Dailey

Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation: How Companies Can Seize Opportunities in the Face of Technological Change. By James Utterback. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-875-84342-5 pp. 138-140

Mike Parsons and Mary B. Rose

Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions. Edited by Thomas K. McCraw. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xii + 711 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $35.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-674-17555-7; paper, 0-674-17556-5 pp. 140-142

Mansel G. Blackford

Concept of the Corporation. By Peter Drucker. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1993. Third Edition. 329 pp. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 1-560-00625-0 pp. 142-145

Wyatt Wells

Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790–1860. By Tom Downey. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 2006. xii + 262 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-807-13107-5 pp. 147-149

Stephen A. West

Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837–1873. By Jay Sexton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ix + 287 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN: 0-199-28103-3 pp. 149-151

Mark Wilson

Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828–1965. By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xvi + 466 pp. Appendices, tables, graphs, notes, illustrations, photographs, essay on sources. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 0-808-18236-2 pp. 151-154

Marc J. Stern

John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier. By Albert Hurtado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xvii + 412 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-806-13772-X pp. 154-157

Ryan J. Carey

Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. By John Franch. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 374 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-252-03099-0 pp. 157-159

Perry R. Duis

Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900–1950. By Rosemary Feurer. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xix + 320 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-03087-7; paper, 0-252-07319-3 pp. 159-162

Tami J. Friedman

How New York Became American, 1890-1924. By Angela M. Blake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 242 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-88293-1 pp. 162-164

Daniel Levinson Wilk

Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction. By David A. Zimmerman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii + 294 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-807-83023-2; paper, 0-807-85687-8 pp. 164-167

Janice M. Traflet

Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s. By Inger L. Stole. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xviii + 290 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-03059-1; paper, 0-252-07299-5 pp. 167-170

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption. By Laura J. Miller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. x + 316 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-52590-2 pp. 170-172

Michael Winship

Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin. By Pamela Walker Laird. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiv + 439 PP. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01907-5 pp. 172-175

Kathy Peiss

America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941–2001. By Richard M. Abrams. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix + 345 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-521-86246-9 pp. 175-177

Howard Brick

The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century. By Christopher D. McKenna. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxi + 370 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-521-81039-6 pp. 178-180

Neil Fligstein

Empresas y empresarios en la historia de Colombia, Siglos xix–xx: Una colección de estudios recientes. [Firms and Entrepreneurs in the History of Colombia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Collection of Recent Studies]. 2 vols. Edited by Carlos Dávila L. de Guevara. Bogotá: Editorial Norma, S.A., and Ediciones Uniandes, 2003. lxxviii + 1348 pp. Notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $165.00. ISBN: 9-580-47162-2 (for both volumes) pp. 180-183

John Womack

From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000. Edited by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. 377 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33753-3; paper, 0-822-33766-5 pp. 183-185

Victor Bulmer-Thomas

Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery. By David Warsh. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. xxii + 426 pp. Index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-393-05996-0 pp. 185-188

Michael A. Bernstein

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. By Deirdre N. McCloskey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xviii + 616 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 0-226-55663-8 pp. 188-191

Charles Tilly

The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse. By Bryan Cowan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xii + 364 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-300-10666-1 pp. 191-194

Michelle Craig McDonald

A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century. By Giorgio Riello. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii + 302 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 0-199-29225-6 pp. 194-196

Michael Zakim

Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Greatest Business Families. By David S. Landes. New York: Viking, 2006. xx + 379 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 0-670-03338-3 pp. 196-198

Harold James

Les archives des entreprises sous l'Occupation: Conservation, accessibilité et apport [The Archives of Companies under the (German) Occupation: Conservation, Accessibility and Contribution]. Edited by Hervé Joly. Lille: IFRESI, 2005. 314 pp. Notes, figures, illustrations, tables. ∈40.00. ISBN: 2-911-97530-8 pp. 199-201

Florence Hachez-Leroy

Da danske møbler blev moderne: Historien om dansk møbeldesigns storhedstid [Danish Modern: A History of the Golden Age of Danish Furniture Design]. By Per H. Hansen. Copenhagen: Aschehoug, 2006. 644 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, DKK399.00. ISBN: 8-711-23196-3 pp. 201-204

Jan Pedersen

Innovation + Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1973–2002. By John Singleton with Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke, and Frank Holmes. Auckland: University of Auckland Press, 2006. xii + 340 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index, plates. Cloth, $33.95. ISBN: 1-869-40364-9 pp. 204-206

Gordon Boyce

The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700–1845. By Paul A. Van Dyke. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xviii + 280 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 9-622-09749-9 pp. 207-209

Madeleine Zelin

The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. By Madeleine Zelin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xxix + 404 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-231-13596-3 pp. 209-212

Christopher A. Reed