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Volume 79, issue 4, 2005

Introduction pp. 697-713

John McCusker

Remittance Procedures in the Eighteenth-Century British Slave Trade pp. 715-749

Kenneth Morgan

Transnational Trade in the Wartime North Atlantic: The Voyage of the Snow Recovery pp. 751-780

Thomas M. Truxes

Atlantic Intersections: Early American Commerce and the Rise of the Spanish West Indies (Cuba) pp. 781-809

Linda K. Salvucci

Establishing Transatlantic Trade Networks in Time of War: Bordeaux and the United States, 1793–1815 pp. 811-844

Silvia Marzagalli

Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life. By Steven Fraser. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. xxiii + 752 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-066-62048-1 pp. 853-857

Bruce J. Schulman

Understanding the Process of Economic Change. By Douglass C. North. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi + 187 pp. Index, references, figures. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-11805-1 pp. 859-861

Stanley L. Engerman

An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. By Craig E. Colten. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xv + 245 pp. Index, notes, maps, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-807-12977-1 pp. 861-863

Ann L. Buttenwieser

The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas. Edited by Walter Johnson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. x + 389 pp. Index, notes, maps. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 0-300-10355-7 pp. 863-866

David Eltis

Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South. By Robert B. OutlandIII. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xii + 352 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, maps, photographs. Cloth, $47.95. ISBN: 0-8071-2981-X pp. 866-868

Mark R. Wilson

The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South. By William P. Jones. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005. xv + 235 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, photographs, tables. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-02979-8; paper, 0-252-07229-4 pp. 868-870

Eric Arnesen

Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity. By Amy G. Richter. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii + 272 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $49-95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-8078-2926-9; paper, 0-8078-5591-X pp. 871-873

Margaret Walsh

The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City. By Sharon E. Wood. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii + 321 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-807-82939-0; paper, 0-807-85601-0 pp. 873-875

Margaret Garb

Boosters, Hustlers, and Speculators: Entrepreneurial Culture and the Rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1849–1883. By Jocelyn Wills. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005. xi + 290 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-873-51510-2 pp. 876-878

George D. Green

Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890–1919. By Robin F. Bachin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. ix + 434 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-03393-7 pp. 878-880

Timothy B. Spears

The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884–1929. By Elspeth H. Brown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. viii + 334 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-88099-8 pp. 881-883

Michael Kammen

Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century. By Lisa Jacobson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xiii + 299 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-231-11388-9 pp. 883-886

Daniel Thomas Cook

It's One O'Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride: A Radio Biography. By Susan Ware. New York: New York University Press, 2005. xii + 304 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-814-79401-7 pp. 886-888

Susan Smulyan

For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State. By Jennifer Klein. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xi + 354 pp. Index, notes, references, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-07056-3 pp. 888-890

Kim McQuaid

Housing Segregation in Suburban America since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics. By Charles M. Lamb. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii + 302 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, photographs, tables. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $24.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-83944-0; paper, 0-521-54827-6 pp. 891-893

Nicholas Dagen Bloom

The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley. By Leslie Berlin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xi + 402 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, photographs. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-195-16343-5 pp. 893-895

Jeffrey R. Yost

Cuba's Agricultural Sector. By José Alvarez. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xxvi + 306 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0-8130-2754-3 pp. 896-898

Ariel Ortiz Bobea

Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí. By Jane E. Mangan. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. xiii + 277 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33458-5; paper, 0-822-33470-4 pp. 899-901

Jeremy Baskes

Politics and Urban Growth in Santiago, Chile, 1891–1941. By Richard J. Walter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. xvii + 319 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 0-804-74982-5 pp. 901-903

J. Pablo Silva

The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought. By Alessandro Roncaglia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 582 pp. Index, notes, references. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 0-521-84337-5 pp. 903-906

Geoffrey Hodgson

Trade Unions and the State: The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890–2000. By Chris Howell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi + 243 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 0-691-12106-0 pp. 906-909

Andrew Taylor

Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement. By Matthew Hilton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii + 382 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $27.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-83129-6; paper, 0-521-53853-X pp. 909-911

John Benson

The Strictures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century. By Jan Luiten van Zanden and Arthur van Riel, translated by Ian Cressie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi + 384 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-691-11438-2 pp. 911-913

Karel Davids

Building Plants: Markets for Technology and Internal Capabilities in DSM's Fertiliser Business, 1925–1970. By Arjan van Rooij. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2004. 279 pp. Notes, bibliography, appendix, figures, tables. Paper, $34.95. ISBN: 90-526-0138-0 pp. 913-915

Kees Boersma

Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850–1950. By John E. Pollard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xx + 265 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 0-521-81204-6 pp. 915-918

Peter J. Wosh

Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management. By Jeffrey R. Fear. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xv + 956 pp. Index, notes, appendix, figures, photographs, tables. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 0-674-01492-8 pp. 918-923

Roman Köster

Unternehmensstrategien zwischen Weltwirtschaftskrise und Kriegswirtschaft: Chemnitzer Maschinenbauindustrie in der NS-Zeit 1933–1945 [Business strategy between the depression and the war economy: The machine-building industry of Chemnitz in the Nazi period, 1933–1945]. By Michael C. Schneider. Essen: Klartext, 2005. 543 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, figures, tables. Paper, €39.90. ISBN: 3-898-61372-0 pp. 923-926

Peter Hayes

Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age. By Thomas C. Owen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiv + 275 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-01549-5 pp. 926-929

Susan P. McCaffray

Un Outre-Mer bancaire méditerranéen: Histoire du Crédit foncier d'Algérie et de Tunisie, 1880–1997 [An overseas Mediterranean banking concern: History of the Land Bank of Algeria and Tunisia, 1880–1997]. By Hubert Bonin. Paris: Publications de la Société Françhise d'Histoire d'Outre-Mer, 2004. 369 pp. Tables, figures, photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €24.00. ISBN: 2-85970-030-7 pp. 929-931

Laure Quennouëlle-Corre

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China. By Frank Dikötter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. vii + 319 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, glossary, illustrations, photo-graphs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-14905-6 pp. 931-933

Kristin Stapleton

Workers at War: Labor in China's Arsenals, 1937–1950. By Joshua H. Howard. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xix + 452 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 0-8047-4896-9 pp. 934-936

Parks M. Coble

Volume 79, issue 3, 2005

Introduction: The Changing Organization of Industry pp. 453-466

Paul Duguid

The Trouble with Networks: Managing the Scots' Early-Modern Madeira Trade pp. 467-491

David Hancock

Networks and Knowledge: The Beginning and End of the Port Commodity Chain, 1703–1860 pp. 493-526

Paul Duguid

Cooperation and Conflicts: Institutional Innovation in France's Wine Markets, 1870–1911 pp. 527-558

James Simpson

Competing with Multinationals: Strategies of the Portuguese Alcohol Industry pp. 559-585

Teresa Lopes

From Firm to Networked Systems pp. 587-593

Thomas P. Hughes

Commercializing High-Technology Industries pp. 595-604

Alfred Chandler

A History of Wine in America: From Prohibition to the Present. By Thomas Pinney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xvi + 532 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-520-24176-2 pp. 613-614

Mansel G. Blackford

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. By Scott A. Sandage. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. x + 362 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-674-01510-X pp. 614-617

Jean-Christophe Agnew

America As Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings. By David E. Nye. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. x + 371 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-262-14081-0 pp. 617-619

Scott Gabriel Knowles

The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. By Kathryn Morse. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xvii + 290 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-295-98329-9 pp. 620-622

Joseph Cullon

The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America. By Thomas A. Kinney. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xi + 381 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-87946-9 pp. 622-625

Domenic Vitiello

America's Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels. By J'Nell L. Pate. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2005. xiv + 225 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, glossary, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-875-65304-9 pp. 625-627

Louis P. Cain

That Toddlin' Town: Chicago's White Dance Bands and Orchestras, 1900–1950. By Charles A. SengstockJr. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004. xv + 244 pp. Index, notes, appendices, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-252-02954-2 pp. 627-629

Kenneth J. Bindas

Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935–1947. By Kathy M. Newman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 237 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-520-22372-1; paper, 0-520-23590-8 pp. 630-632

Douglas B. Craig

Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America. By Marina Moskowitz. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii + 300 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-87947-7 pp. 632-635

Tracey Deutsch

Kotex, Kleenex, Huggies: Kimberly-Clark and the Consumer Revolution in American Business. By Thomas Heinrich and Bob Batchelor. Columbus: University of Ohio Press, 2005. xiv + 263 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $48.95. ISBN: 0-814-20976-9 pp. 635-638

Rowena Olegario

Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal. By Keith J. Voltano. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2005. xv + 194 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 1-585-44402-2 pp. 638-640

Sara M. Gregg

Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900–1940. By Paul Sabin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii + 307 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, maps, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-520-24198-3 pp. 640-642

Hugh S. Gorman

Architects of Globalism: Building a New World Order during World War II. By Patrick J. Hearden. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2002. xv + 418 pp. Notes, index, and bibliography of primary sources, published papers, and diaries. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 1-557-28730-9 pp. 642-645

Patrick Reagan

On Hollywood: The Place, The Industry. By Allen J. Scott. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii + 2000 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 0-691-11683-0 pp. 645-647

Douglas Gomery

Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From. By David Skeel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 250 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 0-195-17471-2 pp. 647-649

Sanford M. Jacoby

Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s. By Yanek Mieczkowski. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2005. xi + 455 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-813-12349-6 pp. 649-651

Edward D. Berkowitz

On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences, 1948–2000. By Julian E. Zelizer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi + 359 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-521-80161-3 pp. 651-653

Allan J. Lichtman

Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. By Geoffrey Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xi + 340 pp. Index, bibliography, appendix, figures, tables. Cloth, $124.50; paper, $44.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-199-27209-3; paper, 0-199-27210-7 pp. 654-656

Franco Amatori

The Equity Culture: The Story of the Global Stock Market. By B. Mark Smith. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003. 344 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 0-374-28175-0 pp. 656-658

Wyatt Wells

Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba. By Muriel McAvoy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 338 pages. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, photographs. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-813-02613-X pp. 658-661

Alan Dye

Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas. Edited by Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. viii + 364 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-822-33159-4; paper, 0-822-33196-9 pp. 661-665

Ron Harpelle

Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854–1913. By William R. Summerhill. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xv + 297 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, figures, maps, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-804-73224-8 pp. 665-668

Seth Garfleld

Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687–1851. By Margaret C. Jacob and Larry Stewart. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 216 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-674-01497-9 pp. 668-670

Thomas J. Misa

Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Industry, 1889–1939. By Anne Clendinning. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. xvii + 352 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $99.99. ISBN: 0-754-60692-9 pp. 670-673

Katrina Honeyman

Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics. By Kenneth R. Hoover. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. xv + 328 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Paper, $27.95. ISBN: 0-742-53113-9 pp. 673-675

Jerry Z. Muller

Histoire de la qualité alimentaire, XIXe-XXe siècles [History of foodquality during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries]. By Alessandro Stanziani. Paris: Seuil, 2005. 440 pp. Index, notes, tables. €26.00. ISBN: 2-020-78841-1 pp. 676-679

Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel

We'll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930. By Harvey Levenstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 382 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-47378-3 pp. 679-681

Stephen L. Harp

Die Aussenbeziehungen der Europaeischen Gemeinschaft fuer Kohle und Stahl von 1952–1960: Die Anfaenge einer europaeischen Aussenpolitik? [The external relations of the European Coal and Steel Community from 1952 to 1960: The beginnings of a European foreign policy?] By Claudia Becker-Doering. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 387 pp. Notes, bibliography, tables. Paper, €68.00. ISBN: 3-515-08319-7 pp. 682-683

John Gillingham

Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions. By Johann Peter Murmann. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxi + 294 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-521-81329-8 pp. 684-685

Christian Kleinschmidt

L'impresa italiana nel novecento [Italian business in the twentieth century]. Edited by Renato Gianetti and Michelangelo Vasta. Bologna: II Mulino, 2003. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, tables. Paper, ξ30.00 ISBN: 88-150-9496-2 pp. 686-688

Jon S. Cohen

Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500–2000. By James C. McCann. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii + 289 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-674-01718-8 pp. 689-691

Robert L. Tignor

Australia's First Bank: Fifty Years from the Wales to Westpac. By L. Sharon Davidson and Steven Salisbury. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005. 407 pp. Index, notes, appendix, figures, photographs. Paper, $49.95. ISBN: 0-868-40791-7 pp. 691-693

David Merrett

Japan's Network Economy: Structure, Persistence, and Change. By James R. Lincoln and Michael L. Gerlach. xx + 409 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 0-521-45304-6 pp. 693-696

W. Mark Fruin

Volume 79, issue 2, 2005

Dutch Multinational Enterprises in the United States: A Historical Summary pp. 193-273

Mira Wilkins

Commodity Chains and Networks in Emerging Markets: New Zealand, 1880–1910 pp. 275-304

Ian Hunter

Reappraising Corporate Failure in Britain: Labor Management in the Tobacco Industry before 1939 pp. 305-337

Robert Fitzgerald and Takashi Hirao

The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence pp. 353-363

Edward J. Balleisen

Les Origines de la revolution industrielle aux Etats-Unis: Entre économie marchande et capitalisme industriel, 1800–1850 [The origins of the Industrial Revolution in the United States: Between market economy and industrial capitalism, 1800–1850]. By Pierre Gervais. Paris: Editions EHESS, 2004. 347 pp. Tables, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €30.00. ISBN: 2-713-21825-X pp. 365-367

François Furstenberg

Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power. By Doron S. Ben-Atar. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xii + 281 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 0-300-10006-X pp. 367-370

Catherine L. Fisk

Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America. By Sean Patrick Adams. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiv + 305 pp. Figures, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-87968-X pp. 370-373

James Sanders Day

Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class, and Revolution, 1830-1890. By Andrew Dawson. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xii + 302 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-63396-9 pp. 373-376

Greg Galer

The World's Richest Indian: The Scandal over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune. By Tanis C. Thorne. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi + 292 pp. Photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-195-16233-1 pp. 376-379

Ryan J. Carey

Sales & Celebrations: Retailing and Regional Identity in Western New York State, 1920-1940. By Sarah Elvins. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. xxi + 222 pp. Photographs, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $42.95. ISBN: 0-821-41549-2 pp. 380-382

Howard R. Stanger

An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune Magazine and Depression America. By Michael Augspurger. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. viii + 292 pp. Illustrations, index, notes. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-801-44204-4 pp. 382-385

Alex Nalbach

Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community. By Jon Hunner. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. xi + 288 pp. Maps, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-806-13634-0 pp. 385-387

Charles Thorpe

Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism. By Jonathan Cutler. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. xi + 236 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.50. ISBN: 1-592-13246-4 pp. 387-389

Daniel Clark

Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin Jr. and the Creation of the American Financial System. By Robert P. Bremner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. vi + 357 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 0-300-10508-8 pp. 390-393

John T. Woolley

John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. By Richard Parker. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. x + 820 pp. Photographs, index, notes. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-374-28168-8 pp. 393-395

Warren Samuels

Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. By Meg Jacobs. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xii + 349 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-08664-8 pp. 395-398

Gary Cross

The Politics of Air Pollution: Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and Symbolic Inclusion. By George A. Gonzalez. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. viii + 144 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-791-46335-4 pp. 398-400

David Stradling

The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising. Edited by John McDonough and Karen Egolf. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. Three volumes, xxiii + 1873 pp. Illustrations, references, index. Cloth, $385.00. ISBN: 1-579-58172-2 pp. 400-404

Daniel Pope

A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico. By Emilio Kourí. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xiii + 389 pp. Maps, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-804-73939-0 pp. 404-407

Edward Beatty

Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680. Edited by Stuart B. Schwartz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii + 347 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82875-0; paper 0-807-85538-3 pp. 407-409

Kenneth Morgan

British Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Business, Culture and Identity in Bahia, 1808-1850. By Louise H. Guenther. Oxford: Centre for Brazilian Studies, 2004. xi + 211 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paper, £20.00. ISBN: 0-954-40703-2 pp. 409-412

Cyrus Veeser

Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture. By John D. French. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xviii + 233 pp. Photographs, illustration, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82857-2; paper 0-807-85527-8 pp. 412-414

Anne Hanley

Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. By Richard W. Unger. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xvi + 319 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-8122-3795-1 pp. 414-416

Richard Wilson

The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution. By Carla Gardina Pestana. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xi + 342 pp. Maps, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-01502-9 pp. 417-419

Evan Haefeli

The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble. By Richard Dale. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. viii + 198 pp. Illustrations, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-11971-6 pp. 419-421

Richard Sylla

Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850. By Robin Pearson. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 434 PP. Tables, maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 0-754-63363-2 pp. 422-424

Timothy Alborn

Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900–1950: A Social History of Lancashire Cotton Operatives in the Twentieth Century. By Alan Fowler. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. xv + 236 pp. Photographs, tables, references, index. Cloth, $84.95. ISBN: 0-754-60116-1 pp. 424-426

Geoff Timmins

The Englishness of English Dress. Edited by Christopher Breward, Beckey Conekin, and Caroline Cox. Oxford: Berg, 2002. xiv + 219 pp. Appendix, photographs, references. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $28.95. ISBN: cloth 1-859-73523-1; paper 1-859-73528-2. - Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis. By Christopher Breward. Oxford: Berg, 2004. 223 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $74.94; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 1-859-73787-0; paper 1-859-73792-7 pp. 426-429

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography. By Bruce Caldwell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xi + 489 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index, notes. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 0-226-09191-0 pp. 429-431

Meghnad Desai

Les Entrepreneurs du Second Empire [The entrepreneurs of the Second Empire]. By Dominique Barjot, Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris–Sorbonne, 2003. 224 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, appendix, notes, Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 2-8405-0293-3 pp. 432-434

Michael S. Smith

Entreprises et pouvoir économique dans la region Rhône-Alpes (1920–1954) [Firms and economic power in the Rhône-Alpes region (1920–1954)]. By Hervé Joly and François Robert. Lyon: Cahiers du Centre Pierre Léon d'histoire économique et sociale, 2003. 295 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography, index. Paper, €15.00. ISBN: 2-951-95543-X pp. 434-436

Ludovic Cailluet

Banques locales et banques régionales en Europe au XXe siècle [Local and regional banks in Europe in the twentieth century]. Edited by Michel Lescure and Alain Plessis. Paris: Albin Michel, 2004. 430 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 2-226-14249-5 pp. 436-439

Martin Horn

The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank. By Harold James. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 286 pp. Maps, illustration, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-521-83874-76 pp. 439-441

Christopher Kobrak

From Complicity to Cooperation: Degussa in the Third Reich. By Peter Hayes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx + 373 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-521-78227-9 pp. 442-444

Jeffrey Lewis

Strength through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich. By Shelley Baranowski. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvii + 254 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 0-521-833-523 pp. 444-446

Hans-Liudger Dienel

“Amerikanisierung” deutscher Unternehmen: Wettbewerbsstrategien und Unternehmenspolitik bei Henkel, Siemens und Daimler-Benz (1945/49–1975) [“Americanization” of German companies: The competitive strategies and corporate politics of Henkel, Siemens, and Daimler Benz (1945/49–1975)]. By Susanne Hilger. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2004. 314 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, notes. Cloth, €60.00. ISBN: 3-515-08283-2 pp. 447-449

Christian Stadler

German Industry and Global Enterprise. BASF: The History of a Company. By Werner Abelshauser, Wolfgang von Hippel, Jeffrey Allan Johnson, and Raymond G. Stokes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ix + 677 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 0-521-82726-4 pp. 449-451

Jeremy Leaman

Volume 79, issue 1, 2005

Recasting the Organizational Synthesis: Structure and Process in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries pp. 1-38

Louis Galambos

Corporate Learning and Quality Control at the Bell System, 1877–1929 pp. 39-72

Paul J. Miranti

Double-Entry Bookkeeping in Early-Twentieth-Century China pp. 73-96

Pak K. Auyeung, Lei Fu and Zhixiang Liu

Storia d'ltalia. Annali 15: L'Industria [History of Italy. Volume 15: Industry]. Edited byFranco Amatori, Duccio Bigazzi, Renato Giannetti, and Luciano Segreto. Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1999. xvii + 1332 pp. Bibliography, index. Paper, £82.63. ISBN: 88-06-14345-X. - L'Impresa italiana nel Novecento [Italian business in the twentieth century]. Edited byRenato Giannetti and Michelangelo Vasta. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2003. 488 pp. Paper, £30.00. ISBN: 88-15-09496-2 pp. 109-112

Franco Amatori

INI: 50 años de industrialización en España [INI: Fifty years of industrialization in Spain]. ByPablo Martín Aceña and Francisco Comín. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1991. 684 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. £39.00. ISBN: 84-239-6238-5 pp. 112-115

Núria Puig

Organisationskultur som læreproces og kommunikation: Svendborg Fingarveri, 1931–1990 [Organizational culture as learning process and communication: Svendborg Tannery, 1931–1990]. By Jørgen Gleerup. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 1998 (2nd ed., 2003). 207 pp. Illustrations, bibliography. Cloth, 225 kr. ISBN: 87-783-8353-6 pp. 115-118

Per H. Hansen

Les logiques de l'entreprise: La rationalisation dans l'industrie française de l'entre-deux-guerres [Firm logic: Rationalization in French industry during the interwar period]. ByAimée Moutet. Paris: Editions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1997. 495 pp. Map, bibliography, index. Paper, €38.00. ISBN: 2-7132-1225-1 pp. 118-120

Ludovic Cailluet

Ajia Kokusai Tsushochitsujo to Kindai Nippon [International trade orders in Asia and Modern Japan]. ByNaoto Kagotani. Nagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2000. 505 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. ¥ 6500. ISBN: 4-815-80376-5 pp. 121-123

Takeshi Yuzawa

A History of the Federal Reserve. Volume 1: 1913–1951 pp. 125-127

Wyatt Wells

Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present. ByThomas J. Misa. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xx + 324 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $56.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-801-87808-X; paper 0-801-87809-8 pp. 129-131

Robert MacDougall

From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry. ByMartin Campbell-Kelly. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xiv + 372 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-262-03303-8 pp. 131-133

Leslie Berlin

Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America. ByDavid Paul Nord. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii + 212 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-195-17311-2 pp. 133-136

Peter Wosh

The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America. ByThomas Augst. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xii + 321 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $62.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth 0-226-03219-1; 0-226-03220-5 pp. 136-139

Reynolds J. Scott-Childress

United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism. ByIleen A. DeVault. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 244 pp. Photographs, maps, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-801-42768-1; paper 0-801-48926-1 pp. 139-141

Robert H. Zieger

Ponzi: The Man and His Legendary Scheme. ByMitchell Zuckoff. New York: Random House, 2005. xiii + 396 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 1-400-06039-7 pp. 141-142

Edwin J. Perkins

The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer. ByDaniel Thomas Cook. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. x + 211 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth 0-822-33279-5; paper 0-822-33268-X pp. 143-145

Michael Zakim

Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girl Culture, 1920–1945. ByKelly Schrum. New York: Palgrave, 2004. xii + 209 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 1-4039-6176-X pp. 145-147

Nan Enstad

Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968. ByKevin Heffernan. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. viii + 323 pp. Illustrations, photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-822-33202-7; paper 0-822-33215-9 pp. 148-150

Andrew J. Douglas

Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France. ByChristopher Endy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii + 286 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth: $49.95; paper: $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82871-8; paper 0-807-85548-0 pp. 150-153

Ellen Furlough

Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act. ByDavid C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat, and Arvids A. Ziedonis. Palo Alto: Stanford Business Books, 2004. xiv + 242 pp. Index, notes, references, figures. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-804-74920-5 pp. 153-156

Margaret B. W. Graham

Inside the Iron Works: How Grumman's Glory Days Faded. ByGeorge M. Skurla and William H. Gregory. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2004. xi + 225 pp. Illustrations, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 1-557-50329-X pp. 156-159

F. Robert van der Linden

Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization. Edited byJefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, xvi + 372 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-8014-3921-3 pp. 159-161

David Koistinen

Mutually Beneficial: The Guardian and Life Insurance in America. ByRobert E. Wright and George David Smith. New York: New York University Press, 2004. xxiii + 501 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 0-8147-9397-5 pp. 162-164

Geoffrey Clark

Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, Culture. Edited byKenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii + 369 pp. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, £55.00. ISBN: 0-199-25189-4 pp. 164-167

Howell J. Harris

Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro. ByZephyr L. Frank. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. 230 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00; paper $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-8263-3410-5; paper 0-826-33411-3 pp. 167-169

Renato Leite Marcondes and Edgard Monforte Merlo

Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China. ByKai-Wing Chow. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xv + 397 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, tables. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN: 0-804-73367-8 pp. 169-172

Barbara Mittler

Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment. ByGiuliano Pancaldi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xv + 381 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-691-09685-6 pp. 172-175

Larry Stewart

The European Linen Industry in Historical Perspective. Edited byBrenda Collins and Philip Ollerenshaw. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Illustrations, figures, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 0-199-25565-2 pp. 175-177

Katrina Honeyman

Moda italiana: Storia di un'industria italiana dall'Ottocento a oggi. [Italian Fashion: The Story of an Italian Industry from the Eighteenth Century to Today]. ByElisabetta Merlo. Venice: Marsilio, 2003. 159 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Paper, €9.90. ISBN: 88-317-8273-8 pp. 177-179

Giuseppe Berta

Léon Harmel: Entrepreneur as Catholic Social Reformer. ByJoan L. Coffey. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. x + 340 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $48.00. ISBN: 0-268-03360-9 pp. 179-181

Benjamin F. Martin

Ludwig Erhard: A Biography. ByAlfred C. Mierzejewski. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xv + 278 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-807-82863-7 pp. 181-183

James C. Van Hook

A Newspaper for China? Power, Identity, and Change in Shanghai's News Media, 1872–1912. ByBarbara Mittler. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004. xvi + 504 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 0-674-01217-8 pp. 184-186

Christopher A. Reed

British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957–70: Neo-colonialism or Disengagement?ByNicholas J. White. New York: Routledge, 2004. xv + 256 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, glossary, figures, maps, tables. Cloth, $100.00. ISBN: 0-415-32320-7 pp. 187-190

Shakila Yacob

The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. ByGrant Fleming, David Merrett, and Simon Ville. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 310 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 0-521-83311-6 pp. 190-192

Evan Roberts