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Volume 80, issue 4, 2006

Living with the U.S. Financial System: The Experiences of General Electric and Westinghouse Electric in the Last Century pp. 621-655

Mary A. O'Sullivan

Living with the U.S. Financial System: The Experiences of General Electric and Westinghouse Electric in the Last Century pp. 621-655

Mary A. O'Sullivan

Intraorganizational Alignment and Innovation Processes: Philips and Transistor Technology pp. 657-688

Mila Davids and Geert Verbong

The Locus of Corporate Entrepreneurship: Kirin Brewery's Diversification into Biopharmaceuticals pp. 689-723

Michael J. Lynskey

Trends and Patterns in Interfirm R&D Networks in the Global Computer Industry: An Analysis of Major Developments, 1970–1999 pp. 725-746

Myriam Cloodt, John Hagedoorn and Nadine Roijakkers

The Digital Hand: How Information Technology Changed the Way Industries Worked in the United States pp. 755-766

James W. Cortada

Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe. By Victoria De Grazia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. 586 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01672-6 pp. 767-772

Michael French

The Digital Hand, Volume 2: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries. By James W. Cortada. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiii + 629 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $59.50. ISBN 0-195-16587-X pp. 773-775

Atsushi Akera

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. By Marc Levinson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. xii + 376 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 0-691-12324-1 pp. 775-778

Shane Hamilton

Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History. By Ian Baucom. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. x + 387 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33558-1; paper, 0-822-33596-4 pp. 778-780

W. Fitzhugh Brundage

The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel. Edited by Peter A. Coclanis. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. xix + 377 pp. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 1-570-03554-7 pp. 780-783

Michelle Craig McDonald

The Hudson: A History. By Tom Lewis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 340 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, photographs. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-300-10424-3 pp. 783-785

Evan Cornog

Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America. By Diane C. Vecchio. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x + 130 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-252-03039-7 pp. 785-787

Hasia Diner

The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement. By Robert D. Parmet. New York: New York University Press, 2005. xii + 346 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-814-76711-7 pp. 787-790

Nancy L. Green

Hollywood's Road to Riches. By David Waterman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xvi + 393 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01945-8 pp. 790-792

Douglas Gomery

Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800–2000. By Giovanni Federico. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiv + 388 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables, appendix. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN: 0-691-12051-X pp. 792-794

Andrew Duffin

Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies. By Ernesto R. Gantman. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. viii + 185 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-64186-4 pp. 794-796

Daniel A. Wren

Plantation Jamaica, 1750–1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy. By B. W. Higman. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2005. xiv + 386 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 9-766-40165-9 pp. 796-799

Kathleen E. A. Monteith

Building the King's Highway: Labor, Society and Family on Mexico's Caminos Reales, 1757–1804. By Bruce A. Castleman. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. xii + 163 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-816-52439-4 pp. 799-801

Sergio Silva-Castañeda

Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry. By Dimitry Anastakis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xiv + 285 pp. Index, notes, photographs, figures, appendices. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-802-03903-0; paper, 0-802-03821-2 pp. 801-803

Barry E. C. Boothman

The Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People, 1130–1578. By Anne F. Sutton. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. xvii + 670 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $144.95. ISBN: 0-754-65331-5 pp. 804-806

Richard Goddard

Turning Houses into Homes: A History of the Retailing and Consumption of Domestic Furnishings. By Clive Edwards. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. viii + 294 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-60906-5 pp. 806-808

Erika Rappaport

Business and Public Management in the U.K., 1900–2003. By Duncan McTavish. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. viii + 274 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-64335-2 pp. 809-810

Robert Millward

Britain and the Economic Problem of the Cold War: The Political Economy and the Economic Impact of the British Defence Effort, 1945–1955. By Till Geiger. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 357 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-60287-7 pp. 811-813

Peter Howlett

Bruges, Cradle of Capitalism, 1280–1390. By James M. Murray. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xi + 409 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $100.00. ISBN: 0-521-81921-0 pp. 813-816

Kathryn Reyerson

Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400–1600. By Evelyn Welch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. ix + 403 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-300-10752-8 pp. 816-818

Francesca Polese

Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684. By Thomas Allison Kirk. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xv + 276 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-88083-1 pp. 818-820

Luisa Piccinno

Développement économique et état central (1815–1914): Un siècle de politique douanière suisse au service des élites [Economic Development and the Centralized State (1815–1914): A Century of Swiss Customs Policy at the Service of the Elites]. By Cédric Humair. Bern: Peter Lang, 2004. xxiv + 870 pp. Maps, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $53.95. ISBN: 3-039-10390-3 pp. 820-823

Pierre-Yues Donzé

Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany, 1820–1914. By Jonathan Sperber. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 287 pp. Maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 0-199-28475-X pp. 823-824

Mark Spoerer

Dictatorship and Demand: The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany. By Mark Landsman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xii + 296 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-674-01698-X pp. 824-826

James C. Van Hook

Volume 80, issue 3, 2006

Turning Fashion into Business: The Emergence of Milan as an International Fashion Hub pp. 415-447

Elisabetta Merlo and Francesca Polese

Networks, Narratives, and New Markets: The Rise and Decline of Danish Modern Furniture Design, 1930–1970 pp. 449-483

Per H. Hansen

Styling Synthetics: DuPont's Marketing of Fabrics and Fashions in Postwar America pp. 485-528

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change pp. 537-542

Man Bun Kwan

The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939–1979. By Daniel Horowitz. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. ix + 339 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 1-558-49432-4; paper, 1-558-49504-5 pp. 543-545

Gary Cross

Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815–1835. By Rafe Blaufarb. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. xix + 302 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, figures, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-817-31487-3 pp. 545-547

Benjamin F. Martin

Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia. By Chad Morgan. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xii + 163 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-813-02872-8 pp. 548-550

Joseph P. Reidy

Idaho's Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of a Great Mining Company, 1885–1981. By Katherine G. Aiken. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2005. xix + 284. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photos. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-806-13682-0 pp. 550-552

Vagel C. Keller

Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I. By Carl R. Weinberg. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. xiii + 246 pp. Photographs, maps, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $27.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-809-32634-5; paper, 0-809-32635-3 pp. 553-555

John H. M. Laslett

The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century. By Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 275 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-801-43469-6; paper, 0-801-48473-1 pp. 555-557

Perry K. Blatz

The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century. By William R. Childs. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. x + 323 pp. Index, notes, maps, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 1-585-44452-9 pp. 557-560

Andrew W. Foshee

Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union. By David Witwer. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003. viii + 298 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-252-02825-2 pp. 560-562

Aaron Max Berkowitz

Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation. By Roger Horowitz. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xiii + 170 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $19.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-801-88240-0; paper, 0-801-88241-9 pp. 562-564

Timothy B. Spears

The Man Everybody Knew: Bruce Barton and the Making of Modern America. By Richard M. Fried. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005. xv + 286 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN: 1-566-63663-9 pp. 564-566

Susan V. Spellman

Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery. By Elliot A. Rosen. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. x + 308 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 0-813-92368-9 pp. 567-569

Jason Scott Smith

From the Boardroom to the War Room: America's Corporate Liberals and FDR's Preparedness Program. By Richard E. Holl. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005. x + 191 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 1-580-46192-1 pp. 569-571

Larry G. Gerber

Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. By Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xix + 366 pp. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01720-X pp. 572-574

John K. Smith

Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946–1957. By Arthur L. Norberg. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. x + 347 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-262-14090-X pp. 574-577

Thomas Haigh

Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama's Catfish Industry. By Karni R. Perez. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xv + 263 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index. Paper, $22.95. ISBN: 0-817-35344-5 pp. 577-579

Robert S. Davis

Design in the USA. By Jeffrey L. Meikle. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 252 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, bibliography, timeline. Paper, $22.50. ISBN: 0-192-84219-6 pp. 579-581

Merritt Roe Smith

The Hollywood Studio System: A History. By Douglas Gomery. London: British Film Institute, 2006. vii + 333 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 1-844-57064-9 pp. 582-584

Eric Schaefer

Nixon's Business: Authority and Power in Presidential Politics. By Nigel Bowles. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. x + 305 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 1-585-44454-5 pp. 584-587

Dean J. Kotlowski

Chronic Politics: Health Care Security from FDR to George W. Bush. By Philip J. Funigiello. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2006. xii + 395 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-700-61399-4 pp. 587-589

Rick Mayes

Lords of the Rinks: The Emergence of the National Hockey League, 1875–1936. By John Chi-Kit Wong. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. viii + 235 pp. Index, notes, appendix, photographs. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $32.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-802-03725-9; paper, 0-802-08520-2 pp. 590-592

Steven A. Riess

Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783. By Matthew Mulcahy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ix + 257 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-8018-8223-0 pp. 592-595

James Alexander Dun

Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History. By Frederick H. Smith. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xvi + 339 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 0-813-02867-1 pp. 595-597

David B. Ryden

Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule. By Michel Gobat. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. xiii + 373 PP. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $23.95. ISBN: 0-822-33647-2 pp. 598-600

Ralph Lee Woodward

Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850–1920. By Anne Hanley. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. xviii + 286 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-804-75072-6 pp. 600-602

Zephyr Frank

Immigrants and the Industries of London, 1500–1700. By Lien Bich Luu. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. xiii + 366 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-60330-X pp. 602-605

Beverly Lemire

Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years, 1806–1816. By Herbert H. Kaplan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xxiv + 194 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-804-75165-X pp. 605-607

Priscilla Roberts

Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia. By Alison Fleig Frank. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xx + 343 pp. Maps, photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-01887-7 pp. 608-610

Holly Case

Europe's Advantage: Banks and Small Firms in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy since 1918. By Francesca Carnevali. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xi + 228 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, £50.00. ISBN: 0-199-25739-6 pp. 610-612

Forrest Capie

The Dynamics of German Industry: Germany's Path toward the New Economy and the American Challenge. By Werner Abelshauser, translated by David R. Antal. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. vii + 168 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 1-845-45072-8 pp. 612-615

Gary Herrigel

Entrepreneurship in Theory and History. Edited by Youssef Cassis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xiii + 211 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, £55.00. ISBN: 1-403-93947-0 pp. 615-617

Franco Amatori

W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics. By Robert L. Tignor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xi + 315 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-12141-9 pp. 617-619

Ranald Michie

Volume 80, issue 2, 2006

Schumpeter's Business Cycles as Business History pp. 231-261

Thomas K. McCraw

The End of Family Business? The Mittelstand and German Capitalism in Transition, 1949–2000 pp. 263-295

Hartmut Berghoff

Long Lines: AT&T's Long-Distance Network as an Organizational and Political Strategy pp. 297-327

Robert MacDougall

Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century. By JoAnne Yates. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. x + 351 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-88086-6 pp. 335-340

Paul Miranti

Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956. By Jason Scott Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 283 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0-521-82805-8 pp. 341-343

Ellis W. Hawley

From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945–1965. By Jennifer Mittelstadt. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii + 267 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-807-82922-6; paper, 0-8078-5587-1 pp. 343-346

Rhonda Y. Williams

The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial Relations Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1914–1939. By Larry G. Gerber. Dekalb: Northern Illinois Press, 2005. vii + 212 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-875-80347-4 pp. 346-348

William R. Childs

The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. By Robert G. Angevine. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xvii + 351 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 0-804-74239-1 pp. 348-351

Paul C. Jussel

Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910–1945. By Geoffrey L. Buckley. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. xxiii + 215 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $46.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-821-41555-7; paper, 0-821-41556-5 pp. 351-353

Paul Rakes

From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture. By Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xvi + 356 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 0-253-34571-5 pp. 353-355

Claire Strom

Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community. By Mark A. Lause. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005. viii + 240 pp. Appendix, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $42.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-02980-1; paper, 0-252-07230-8 pp. 355-357

Michael Green

Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South. Edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005. 240 pp. Tables, notes, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 0-826-21583-1 pp. 358-359

Stephen A. West

City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870–1920. By Jerome P. Bjelopera. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005. ix + 208 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $22.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-02977-1; paper, 0-252-07227-8 pp. 360-362

Cindy Aron

Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871–1919. By Timothy B. Spears. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxiii + 322 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-226-76873-2; paper, 0-226-76874-0 pp. 362-364

Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898–1938. By Keith D. Revell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. x + 327 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-801-87073-9; paper, 0-801-88206-0 pp. 364-367

Clifton Hood

Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth-Century New York. By Thomas Summerhill. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005. xi + 287 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 0-252-02976-3 pp. 367-370

Martin Bruegel

Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile. By Kathleen Franz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-812-23881-8 pp. 370-373

Timothy Whisler

Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries. By Howard Segal. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. xv + 244 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 1-558-49481-2 pp. 373-376

Judith Sealander

The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas WatsonSr., and the Making of IBM. By Kevin Maney. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley, 2003. xxv + 485 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-471-41463-8 pp. 376-378

Nathan Ensmenger

Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–1970. By Christophe Lécuyer. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. x + 393 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, photographs. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-262-12281-2 pp. 378-380

Leslie Berlin

McKinsey's Marvin Bower: Vision, Leadership and the Creation of Management Consulting. By Elizabeth Haas Edersheim. New York: John Wiley, 2004. xiii + 305 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-471-65285-7 pp. 381-383

Christopher D. McKenna

Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion. By Nancy J. Troy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. xi + 438 pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $62.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-262-20140-2; paper, 0-262-7010-0. - Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century. By Rob Schorman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 212 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-812-23728-5 pp. 383-386

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Working Women in English Society, 1300–1620. By Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 291 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $32.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-84616-1; paper, 0-521-60858-9 pp. 386-388

Katherine L. French

Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business. By Lowell J. Satre. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. ix + 308 pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-821-41625-1; paper, 0-821-41626-X pp. 388-390

Gail Cooper

Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History. Edited by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis, and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou. Oxford: Berg, 2005. xxii + 440 pp. Maps, tables, references, index. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $28.95. ISBN: cloth, 1-859-73875-3; paper, 1-859-73880-X pp. 391-392

Claude Markovits

Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements, 1930–1973. By Gianni Toniolo, with the assistance of Piet Clement. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxii + 729 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 0-521-84551-3 pp. 393-396

James M. Boughton

Private and Public Enterprise in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830–1990. By Robert Millward. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xix + 351 pp. Maps, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 0-521-83524-0 pp. 396-398

Jim Tomlinson

Information Technology Policy: An International History. Edited by Richard Coopey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xv + 346 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-199-24105-8 pp. 398-401

Margaret B. W. Graham

Export um jeden Preis: Die Deutsche Exportfoerderung von 1932–1938 [Export at any price: German promotion of exports from 1932–1938]. By Michael Ebi. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2004. 268 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €48.00. ISBN: 3-515-08597-1 pp. 401-403

Adam Tooze

Die “Arisierung” der Privatbanken im Dritten Reich: Verdrängung, Ausschaltung und die Frage der Wiedergutmachung [The “Aryanization” of private banks during the Third Reich: repression, exclusion, and the question of restitution]. By Ingo Köhler. Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2005. 602 pp. Appendix, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €78.88. ISBN: 3-406-53200-4 pp. 404-406

Gerald D. Feldman

Dutch Enterprise in the Twentieth Century: Business Strategies in a Small Open Economy. By Keetie E. Sluyterman. New York: Routledge, 2005. xiii + 319 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0-415-35027-1 pp. 407-410

Mira Wilkins

Villum Kann Rasmussen: Inventor and Entrepreneur, 1909–1993. By Per Boje. Søberg, Denmark: VKR Holding, 2004. 443 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, notes. Cloth, 299 kr. ISBN: 8-798-98362-8 pp. 410-412

Flemming Just

Over Half a Million Careful Owners: A 75-year History of PSIS, 1928–2003. By Gordon Boyce. Wellington, N.Z.: Dunmore Publishing, 2005. 326 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, figures, appendix, notes, index. Paper, $29.95NZ. ISBN: 0-476-0129-29 pp. 412-414

David Merrett

Volume 80, issue 1, 2006

Diverging Paths: Accounting for Corporate Governance in America and Germany pp. 1-48

Jeffrey Fear and Christopher Kobrak

Container Shipping and the Decline of New York, 1955–1975 pp. 49-80

Marc Levinson

The Making of a Music Multinational: PolyGram's International Businesses, 1945–1998 pp. 81-123

Gerben Bakker

On the Theory of Social Change: How Economic Growth Begins. ByEverett Hagen. Homewood: Dorsey Press, 1962. xvii + 557 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth. Library of Congress Card No. 62-16517 pp. 131-134

Carlos Dávila

How Institutions Think. ByMary Douglas. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986. 146 pp. Paper, $19.95. ISBN: 0-815-60206-5 pp. 135-140

Kenneth Lipartito

The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. ByAndrew Abbott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. 452 pp. Notes, references, index. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 0-226-00069-9 pp. 141-144

Christopher D. McKenna

The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Edited byWiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, andTrevor Pinch. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987; paper ed., 1989. xi + 405 pp. References, index. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 0-262-52137-7. - How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technologies. Edited byNelly Oudshoorn andTrevor Pinch. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. ix + 340 pp. References, index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-262-15107-3; paper, 0-262-65109-2 pp. 144-147

JoAnne Yates

Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change. ByCynthia Cockburn. London: Pluto Press, 1983; 2nd ed., 1991. 285 pp. Paper, $23.95. ISBN: 0-745-30583-0 pp. 147-150

Katrina Honeyman

Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. ByDouglass C. North. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 159 pp. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 0-521-39416-3 pp. 151-155

Kurt Jacobsen

Ist Deutschland noch zu retten? [Can Germany still be saved?]ByHans-Werner Sinn. Munich: Econ-Verlag, 2003. 499 pp. Cloth, €25.00. ISBN: 3-430-18533-5 pp. 155-157

Toni Pierenkemper

Oware-yuku Kofu-tachi [The plight of the Chikuho miners]. ByHidenobu Ueno. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1960; reprinted 1994. vii + 184 pp. LCCN: 72-807784 pp. 157-158

Kazuo Wada

“Coase Revisited: Business Groups in the Modern Economy.” ByMark Granovetter. In Giovanni Dosi, David J. Teece, and Josef Chytry, editors, Technology, Organization and Competitiveness: Perspectives on Industrial and Corporate Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 360 pages. Index, notes. Cloth, $175.62; paper, $54.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-198-29098-5; paper, 0-198-29096-9 pp. 159-161

Vera Negri Zamagni

Review Essay - The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–45. ByMira Wilkins. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xxvi + 980 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 0-674-01308-5 pp. 163-169

Steven Tolliday

Atlantic History: Concept and Contours. ByBernard Bailyn. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2005. ix + 149 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $18.95. IBSN: 0-674-01688-2 pp. 171-173

Peter A. Coclanis

The Creation of the British Atlantic World. Edited byCarole Shammas and Elizabeth Mancke. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. vi + 400 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $52.00. ISBN: 0-801-88039-4 pp. 173-176

Matthew Mulcahy

Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850–1930. ByRichard J. Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii + 615 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-520-20019-5 pp. 176-177

Don L. Hofsommer

The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy. ByCharles K. Hyde. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. xvi + 251 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-814-33246-3 pp. 177-179

James M. Rubenstein

A Nation of Realtors: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class. ByJeffrey M. Hornstein. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. x + 252 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $79-95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33528-X; paper, 0-822-33540-9 pp. 180-182

Merry Ovnick

Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe. Edited byRobert Lewis. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. viii + 294 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $68.50; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 1-592-13085-2; paper, 1-592-13086-0 pp. 183-185

Andrew Wiese

Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America. ByZaragosa Vargas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xvi + 375 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-11546-X pp. 185-188

Clete Daniel

Asbestos and Fire: Technological Trade-offs and the Body at Risk. ByRachel Maines. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xiv + 254 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. IBSN: 0-8135-3575-1 pp. 188-190

Dalit Baranoff

Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America. ByHunter Crowther-Heyck. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. x + 420 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-88025-4 pp. 190-193

Mary O. Furner

Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History. Edited byAlfred D. ChandlerJr. andBruce Mazlish. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii + 249 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-84061-9; paper, 0-521-54993-0 pp. 194-195

Leslie Hannah

Yankee Don't Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920–1950. ByJulio Moreno. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xi + 321 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 0-807-82802-5 pp. 195-197

Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato

Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899–2000. ByMarcelo Bucheli. New York: New York University Press, 2005. xi + 239 pp. Figures, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-814-79934-5 pp. 198-200

María Inés Barbero

A New Economic History of Argentina. Edited byGerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xviii + 397 pp. + CD-ROM. Figures, tables, appendix, references, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-521-82247-5 pp. 201-203

Vera Blinn Reber

European Integration, 1950–2003: Superstate or New Market Economy?ByJohn Gillingham. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xx + 588 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $25.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-81317-4; paper, 0-521-01262-7 pp. 203-207

Bruce Kogut

Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890–1945. ByBernhard Rieger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. x + 319 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 0-521-84528-9 pp. 207-210

Michael Thad Allen

General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe's Biggest Carmaker. ByHenry Ashby TurnerJr. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. viii + 200 pp. Photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 0-300-10634-3 pp. 210-212

S. Jonathan Wiesen

Die deutsche Textilindustrie zwischen 1933 und 1939: Staatsinterventionismus und ökonomische Rationalität [The German textile industry between 1933 and 1939: Government intervention and economic rationality]. ByGerd Höschle. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2004. 369 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes. Paper, €64.00. ISBN: 3-515-08531-9 pp. 212-214

Jonas Scherner

Die institutionelle Revolution: Eine Einführung in die deutsche Wirtschaftsgeschichte des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts [The institutional revolution: An introduction to German economic history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries]. ByClemens Wischermann andAnne Nieberding. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. 309 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes. Paper, €24.00. ISBN: 3-515-08477-0 pp. 215-217

Werner Plumpe

Industrielle Revolution in Deutschland: Regionen als Wachstumsmotoren [Industrial revolution in Germany: Regions as motors of growth]. ByHubert Kiesewetter. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. 307 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €24.00. ISBN: 3-515-08613-7 pp. 217-219

Frank B. Tipton

Courage and Change: The Life of Kiichiro Toyoda. ByKazuo Wada and Tsunehiko Yui, translated byEdmund R. Skrzypczak. Tokyo: Toyota Motor Corporation, 2002. xiii + 330 pp. Photographs, illustrations, appendix, notes. Cloth. ISBN: 4-990-10301-7 pp. 219-221

David Farber

A Political Explanation of Economic Growth: State Survival, Bureaucratic Politics, and Private Enterprises in the Making of Taiwan's Economy, 1950–1985. ByYongping Wu. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. x + 410 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-01779-X pp. 222-224

J. Megan Greene

Water Frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750–1880. Edited byNola Cooke andTana Li. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. xiii + 202 pp. Tables, maps, glossary, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-742-53082-5; paper, 0-742-53083-3 pp. 224-227

Wei Leng Loh

Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865–1915. ByEric Tagliacozzo. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xiv + 437 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-300-08968-6 pp. 227-230

Priscilla Roberts