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Volume 77, issue 4, 2003

“Poisoned at the Source”? Telegraphic News Services and Big Business in the Nineteenth Century pp. 577-610

Alex Nalbach

Local Production Practices and Chicago's Automotive Industry, 1900–1930 pp. 611-638

Robert Lewis

Building Businesses, Creating Communities: Residential Segregation and the Growth of African American Business in Southern Cities, 1880–1915 pp. 639-665

John N. Ingham

The Business Life of Emmett Jay Scott pp. 667-686

Maceo Crenshaw Dailey

The Chief Executive Officer of the Large American Industrial Corporation in 1917 pp. 687-701

Richard S. Tedlow, Kim Eric Bettcher and Courtney A. Purrington

A Survey of Business Historians on America's Greatest Entrepreneurs pp. 703-716

Blaine McCormick and Burton W. Folsom

Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903–2003. By Douglas Brinkley. New York: Viking, 2003. xxii + 858 pp. Photographs, index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-670-03181-X pp. 725-730

Mira Wilkins

A History of the United States: Inventing America. By Pauline Maier, Merritt Roe Smith, Alexander Keyssar, and Daniel K. Kevles. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. Illustrations. Cloth, $95.15; paper, $150.60 (2 volumes). ISBN cloth: 0-393-97434-0; paper (vol. 1): 0-393-97435-9, (vol. 2): 0-393-97762-5 pp. 731-737

Steven W. Usselman

Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799–1914. By Martin Daunton. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 452 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-521-80372-1. - Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914–79. By Martin Daunton. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 406 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81400-6 pp. 737-741

Forrest Capie

A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America's Rise to Global Power. By Cyrus Veeser. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xiv + 247 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN 0-231-12586-0 pp. 743-745

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

American Capitalism, 1945–2000: Continuity and Change from Mass Production to the Information Society. By Wyatt Wells. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. ix + 210 pp. Index, bibliography. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 1-566-63537-3 pp. 745-747

Michael French

The Soul's Economy: Market and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820–1920. By Jeffrey Sklansky. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiii + 313 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82725-8; paper 0-807-85398-4 pp. 747-749

Mark Pittenger

A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States. By Robert L. Clark, Lee A. Craig, and Jack W. Wilson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. ix + 259 pp. Index, appendix, references, figures, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-812-23714-5 pp. 750-752

Joanna Short

Street of Dreams—Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century. By Howard Wachtel. London: Pluto Press, 2003. xv + 224 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN 0-745-31925-4 pp. 752-755

Janice Traflet

Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wayne E. Fuller. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xiii + 264 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-252-02812 pp. 755-757

Gaines M. Foster

Politics and the American Press: The Rise of Objectivity, 1865–1920. By Richard L. Kaplan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. vii + 224 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, tables, graphs. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-62151-8; paper 0-521-00602-3 pp. 757-760

Thorin Tritter

From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strike-breaking and Unionbusting in the United States. By Robert Michael Smith. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. xviii + 179 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $44.95; paper, $16.95. ISBN: cloth 0-821-41465-8; paper 0-821-41466-6 pp. 761-763

Richard Oestreicher

After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman. By Susan Eleanor Hirsch. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. x + 292. Index, notes, appendix, photographs. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN 0-252-02791-4 pp. 763-766

Judith Sealander

The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States. By Jacob S. Hacker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 447 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $23.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-81288-7; paper 0-521-01328-3 pp. 766-768

Mark J. Stern

Before the World Series: Pride, Profits, and Baseball's First Championships. By Larry G. Bowman. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. x + 252 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $32.00. ISBN 0-875-80307-5 pp. 768-770

George B. Kirsch

The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. By Jonathan Sterne. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xvi + 450 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Paper, $22.95. ISBN 0-822-33013-X pp. 770-772

David Hochfelder

Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation. By Charles K. Hyde. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. xix + 385 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-814-33091-6 pp. 772-774

K. Austin Kerr

On the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in World War II. By Stephanie A. Carpenter. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. viii + 214 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, tables. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 0-875-80314-8 pp. 774-776

Anna R. Igra

Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California. By Alfred Yee. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xi + 193 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-295-98304-3 pp. 776-778

Yong Chen

Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam. By Thomas Alan Schwartz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. 352 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, tables. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01074-4 pp. 779-780

Charles E. Neu

Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of Small-Scale Industry in Britain, c.1589–2000. By Stanley L. Chapman. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv + 328 pp. Index, notes, photographs, illustrations, tables. Cloth, £55.00. ISBN 0-199-25567-9 pp. 780-782

Giorgio Riello

Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age. Edited by John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson. Stroud, U.K.: Tempus, 2002. 192 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Paper, $26.99. ISBN 0-752-42766-0 pp. 782-785

Christine MacLeod

Railways in Britain and the United States, 1830–1940. By Geoffrey Channon. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2001. xi + 341 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $84.95. ISBN 1-840-14253-7 pp. 785-787

John K. Brown

Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823–1893. By J. Forbes Munro. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2003. ix + 525 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, references, tables. Cloth, $130.00. ISBN 0-851-15935-4 pp. 787-790

Michael Miller

The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in New-market. By Rebecca Cassidy. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. x + 186 pp. Index, notes, references. Cloth, $58.00; paper, $21.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-80877-4; paper 0-521-00487-X pp. 790-793

Jeffrey Hill

A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing. Edited by John Benson and Laura Ugolini. London: I. B. Tauris, 2003. x + 270 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.50. ISBN: cloth 1-860-64709-X; paper 1-860-64708-1 pp. 793-795

Christine M. Clark

The Rise of Management Consulting in Britain. By Michael Ferguson. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2002. x + 289. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $84.95. ISBN 0-754-60561-2 pp. 795-798

David J. Jeremy

International Financial History in the Twentieth Century: System and Anarchy. Edited by Marc Flandreau, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, and Harold James. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. x + 278 pp. Index, notes, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81995-4 pp. 798-803

Priscilla Roberts

Sir Henri Deterding and Royal Dutch–Shell: Changing Control of World Oil, 1900–1940. By Paul Hendrix. Bristol, U.K.: Bristol Academic Press, 2002. xviii + 275. Notes, index. Cloth, £45.00. ISBN 0-951-37628-4 pp. 803-805

Hugh S. Gorman

Der Producktive Blick: Wahrnemung amerikanischer und japanischer Management- und Producktionmethoden durch deutsche Unternehmer, 1950–1985 [The Productive Gaze: Perceptions of American and Japanese Management and Production Methods by German Businessmen, 1950–1985]. By Christian Kleinschmidt. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, €64.80. ISBN 3-050-O3657-5 pp. 805-808

Mary Nolan

Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism: Labour and the Restoration of the Stalinist System after World War II. By Donald Filtzer. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xviii + 276 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81503-7 pp. 808-811

Wendy Goldman

Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897–1937. By Linsun Cheng. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 277 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-521-81142-2 pp. 811-813

Brett Sheehan

Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937–1945. By Parks M. Coble. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xvi + 296 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-520-23268-2 pp. 814-816

Hanchao Lu

Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change. By Bruce J. Dickson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. x + 187 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-81817-6; paper 0-521-52143-2 pp. 816-818

Mark W. Frazier

Volume 77, issue 3, 2003

Mediators in the International Marketplace: U.S. Advertising in Latin America in the Early Twentieth Century pp. 387-415

Jennifer Scanlon

Industrial Structure and Occupational Health: The American Pottery Industry, 1897–1929 pp. 417-445

Marc J. Stern

Selling Elegant Glassware During the Great Depression: A. H. Heisey & Company and the New Deal pp. 447-478

P. Bradley Nutting

A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. By Lizabeth Cohen. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. 567 pp. Index, notes, photographs, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-375-40750-2 pp. 487-489

Colin Gordon

Something For Nothing: Luck in America. By T. J. Jackson Lears. New York: Viking, 2003. xi + 392 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photo-graphs. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN 0-670-03173-9 pp. 490-492

Timothy B. Spears

When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager. By David A. Moss. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. viii + 456 pp. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-674-00757-3 pp. 492-495

William J. Novak

The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States. By Jacob S. Hacker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 447 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $23.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-81288-7; paper 0-521-01328-3 pp. 495-497

Marc J. Stern

Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution. By Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. Berkeley: University of California Press/Milbank Memorial Fund, 2002. xx + 408 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-520-21749-7 pp. 498-500

David Stradling

The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered: Integration and Expansion in American Financial Markets, 1780–1850. By Robert E. Wright. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 240 pp. Index, notes, references, tables. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-521-81237-2 pp. 500-501

Lance Davis

State Banking in Early America: A New Economic History. By Howard Bodenhorn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. ix + 355 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-195-14776-6 pp. 501-503

Benjamin J. Klebaner

Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape. By David M. Scobey. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. xi + 340 pp. Index, notes, appendix, illustrations. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 1-566-39950-5 pp. 504-505

Matthew Gandy

A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. By Ari Kelman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiii + 283 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photos. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-520-23432-4 pp. 506-508

Ann L. Buttenwieser

Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South. Edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xix + 324 pp. Index, notes, tables. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82735-5; paper 0-807-85410-7 pp. 508-510

Nancy Bercaw

Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847–1918. By Jeffrey Nichols. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. viii + 247 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-252-02768-X pp. 511-512

Thomas C. Mackey

The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top. By Janet M. Davis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiii + 329 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photos. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82724-X; paper 0-807-85399-2 pp. 512-514

Bluford Adams

Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature. By Mark Daniel Barringer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. viii + 238 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-700-61167-3 pp. 515-517

Marguerite S. Shaffer

High Altitude Energy: A History of Fossil Fuels in Colorado. By Lee Scamehorn. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2002. xvi + 244 pp. Index, bibliography, figures, maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN 0-870-81661-6 pp. 517-518

Joseph A. Pratt

Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West. By Michael A. Amundson. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, xvix + 204 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, photographs. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-870-81662-4 pp. 519-521

Michael A. Church

Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture. By Deborah Fitzgerald. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 242 pp. Index, notes, appendix, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-300-08813-2 pp. 521-524

R. Douglas Hurt

Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea. By Andrew F. Smith. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xx + 234 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-252-02553-9 pp. 524-526

David Gerard Hogan

A Breed So Rare: The Life of J. R. Parten, Liberal Texas Oil Man. By Don E. Carleton. Austin: Texas State History Association, 1998. 560 pp. Index, illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-876-11166-5 pp. 526-528

Paul H. Carlson

Benjamin V. Cohen: Architect of the New Deal. By William Lasser. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xvi + 385 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-300-08879-5 pp. 528-531

Jason Scott Smith

The Market, the State, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1934–2000. By William H. Becker and William M. McClenahan Jr New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 340 pp. Index, notes, appendix, tables. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 0-521-81143-0 pp. 531-533

Michael R. Adamson

Confronting American Labor: The New Left Dilemma. By Jeffrey W. Coker. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xiv + 211 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN 0-826-21420-7 pp. 533-535

Kevin Boyle

Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980. By Venus Green. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. xv + 370 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $59-95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-822-32554-3; paper 0-822-32573-X pp. 535-538

Alex Lichtenstein

Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics. By David A. Mindell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv + 440 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $46.00. ISBN 0-801-86895-5 pp. 538-541

Thomas Haigh

Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983–1993. By Alex Roland and Philip Shiman. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. xxvi + 427 pp. Index, notes, figures, photographs, glossary. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-262-18226-2 pp. 541-543

James W. Cortada

False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today. By James Hoopes. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, 2003. xxxiv + 308 pp. Index, notes, figures, photographs. Paper, $27.50. ISBN 0-738-20798-5 pp. 544-546

Daniel A. Wren

Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits. By W. Carl Biven. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv + 346 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN 0-807-82738-X pp. 546-548

Wyatt Wells

The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870–1960. By Laura Putnam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 303 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82732-0; paper 0-807-85406-9 pp. 548-550

Ron Harpelle

Credit and Debt in Medieval England c. 1180–c. 1350. Edited by P. R. Schofield and N. J. Mayhew. Oxford, U.K.: Oxbow Books, 2002. x + 164 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Paper, $39.95. ISBN 1-842-17073-2 pp. 550-552

Maryanne Kowaleski

The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and The Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650–1770. By David Ormrod. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvii + 400 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 0-521-81926-1 pp. 552-555

Martine Julia van Ittersum

The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation. By Seymour Drescher. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ix + 307 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-195-09346-1 pp. 555-558

Pamela Scully

Chronicles of British Business in Asia, 1850–1960: A Bibliography of Printed Company Histories with Short Accounts of the Concerns. By Lionel Carter. New Delhi: Manohar, 2002. 227 pp. Index, appendix. Cloth, 500 Rs./25 BPS. ISBN 8-173-04470-8 pp. 558-559

Catherine R. Schenk

The Great Train Race. Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815–1914. By Allan Mitchell. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000. xv + 328 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, tables. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 1-571-8166-4 pp. 560-561

Boris Barth

“Multinationalität hat verschiedene Gesichter": Formen internationaler Unternehmenstätigkeit der Société Anonyme des Mines et Fondries de Zinc de la Vielle Montagne und der Metallgesellschaft vor 1914 [“Multinationality Has Different Faces”: Aspects of International Business Transactions of the Anonymous Society of Mines and the Zinc Foundries of Vielle Montagne and the Metal-Trading Company before 1914]. By Susan Becker. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2002. 326 pp. Notes, bibliography, appendix, tables. Paper, €58. ISBN 3-515-07685-9 pp. 562-564

Christian Kleinschmidt

National Cultures and International Competition: The Experience of Schering AG, 1851–1950. By Christopher Kobrak. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xv + 394 pp. Index, notes, appendix, maps, photographs. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-521-81481-2 pp. 564-566

S. Jonathan Wiesen

Il Quarto Capitalismo: Un profilo italiano [The Fourth Capitalism: An Italian Profile]. By Andrea Colli. Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2002. 117 pp. Index, notes, appendix, figures. Paper, €9. ISBN 8-831-78001-8 pp. 566-568

David LoRomer

Commerce in Russian Urban Culture, 1861–1914. Edited by William Craft Brumfield, Boris V. Anan'ich, and Yuri A. Petrov. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xvi + 239 pp. Index, notes, illustration, photographs. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN 0-801-86750-9 pp. 569-571

William Tompson

Consuming Hong Kong. Edited by Gordon B. Mathews and Tai-lok Lui. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2002. xiii + 340 pp. Index, references, maps, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 9-622-09546-1 pp. 571-573

Yin-wah Chu

Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period. Edited by Makoto Kasuya. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xiv + 235 pp. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-199-25931-3 pp. 573-575

Barry Eichengreen

Volume 77, issue 2, 2003

Gentlemanly Price-Fixing and Its Limits: Collusion and Competition in the U.S. Explosives Industry during the Civil War Era pp. 207-234

Mark R. Wilson

A “Friend and Advisor”: External Auditing and Confidence in Germany's Credit Cooperatives, 1889–1914 pp. 235-264

Timothy Guinnane

“Don't Sell Things, Sell Effects”: Overseas Influences in New Zealand Department Stores, 1909–1956 pp. 265-289

Evan Roberts

Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840–1920. By Steven W. Usselman. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xv + 398 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, photographs. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-80636-4; paper 0-521-00106-4 pp. 297-300

Thomas J. Misa

River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790–1850. By Kim M. Gruenwald. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xvi + 214 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-253-34132-9 pp. 300-302

John L. Brooke

Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade. By Barton H. Barbour. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. xvi + 304 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliographic essay, index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-8061-3295-7; paper 0-8061-3498-4 pp. 302-304

Clark C. Spence

Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization. By Joshua L. Rosenbloom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 208 pp. Index, figures, tables, references. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-80780-8; paper 0-521-00287-7 pp. 304-307

Ken Fones-Wolf

Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism. By Charles Perrow. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. xi + 259 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-691-08954-X pp. 307-309

Neil Fligstein

Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890–1930. By Susan J. Matt. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-812-23686-6 pp. 309-311

Gary Cross

The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900–1933. By Emily Thompson. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. ix + 500 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN 0-262-20138-0 pp. 312-314

Gail Cooper

Uncle Sam's Locomotives: The USRA and the Nation's Railroads. By Eugene L. Huddleston. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xii + 215 pp. Index, bibliography, photographs, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-254-34086-1 pp. 314-316

Vagel C. Keller

John Nolen and Mariemont: Building a New Town in Ohio. By Millard F. Rogers Jr Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiv + 260 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86619-7 pp. 316-319

John Hancock

Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929. By Maury Klein. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xx + 345 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $27.50; paper, $17.95. ISBN: cloth 0-195-13516-4; paper 0-195-15801-6 pp. 319-321

Robert S. McElvaine

The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama. By John A. Salmond. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xii + 295 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN 0-826-21395-2 pp. 321-323

Nelson Lichtenstein

Days of Discontent: American Women and Right-Wing Politics, 1933–1945. By June Melby Benowitz. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. x + 230 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 0-875-80294-X pp. 324-328

Lisa McGirr

Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920–1950. By John Trumpbour. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 378 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, tables. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 0-521-65156-5 pp. 329-331

Eric Schaefer

Disaster in Dearborn: The Story of the Edsel. By Thomas E. Bonsall. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. 230 pp. Photographs, notes, index, bibliography. Cloth, $35.95. ISBN 0-804-74654-0 pp. 331-333

Tom Dicke

Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry. By James M. Rubenstein. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. ix + 401 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, illustrations, tables, maps. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86714-2 pp. 333-336

Timothy R. Whisler

Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique. By Jack Boozer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. 292 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-292-70911-0; paper 0-292-70912-9 pp. 336-339

Robert Brent Toplin

In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. By Alice Kessler-Harris. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xi + 374 pp. Photographs, index, notes. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $18.95. ISBN: cloth 0-195-03835-5; paper 0-195-15802-4 pp. 339-342

Miriam Cohen

A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America. By Michael A. Bernstein. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. xi + 358 pp. Photographs, notes, index, bibliography. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN 0-691-04292-6 pp. 342-344

Bradley W. Bateman

Globalization and Its Discontents. By Joseph E. Stiglitz. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. xx + 282 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $15.95. ISBN: cloth 0-393-05124-2; paper 0-393-32439-7 pp. 344-347

Randall D. Germain

The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression. By Harold James. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. vi + 260 pp. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-674-00474-4 pp. 347-350

Geoffrey E. Wood

Monetary Regimes of the Twentieth Century. By Andrew Britton. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 244 pp. Index, references, figures, tables. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-521-80169-9 pp. 350-351

Ranald Michie

Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Edited by Peter Hall and David Soskice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xvi + 540 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $74.00; paper, $32.50. ISBN: cloth 0-199-24774-9; paper 0-199-24775-7 pp. 352-355

Stephan Haggard

The Development of Modern Business. By Gordon Boyce and Simon Ville. New York: Palgrave, 2002. xvi + 376 pp. Index, bibliography, references, figures, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 0-333-59877-6 pp. 355-356

Mansel G. Blackford

Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process. Edited by John Ziman. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 379 pp. Index, bibliography, notes, figures, photos. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN 0-521-62361-8 pp. 357-359

Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire. By Peter N. Stearns. New York: Routledge, 2002. x + 147 pp. Index, references. Paper, $17.95. ISBN 0-415-24409-9 pp. 359-362

Lawrence B. Glickman

Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia. By Mike Gasher. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002. viii + 176 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-774-80967-1; paper 0-774-80968-X pp. 362-364

John Trumpbour

The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century. By Richard Rodger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xix + 540 pp. Index, notes, photographs, maps, figures, tables. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 0-521-78024-1 pp. 365-367

Mark Freeman

Villes et districts industriels en Europe occidentale, XVIIe–XXe siècles [Cities and Industrial Districts in Western Europe from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries]. Edited by Jean-Frangois Eck and Michel Lescure. Tours: Universite Francois Rabelais, 2002. 356 pp. Notes, maps, tables. Cloth, €26. ISBN 2-869-06159-5 pp. 367-369

W. Brian Newsome

La dactylographe et l'expéditionnaire. Histoire des employés de bureau, 1890–1930 [The Typist and the Dispatcher: A History of Office Workers, 1890–1930]. By Delphine Gardey. Paris: Editions Belin, 2001. 336 pp. Notes, appendix, figures, maps, photos, tables. Paper, €19. ISBN 2-701-13045-X pp. 370-371

James F. McMillan

Der Handel im Kurfürstentum/Königreich Hannover (1780–1850): Gegenstand und Methode [Commerce in the Royal Electorate of Hanover (1780–1850): Subject and Methods]. Edited by Karl Heinrich Kaufhold and Markus A. Denzel. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. 266 pp. Notes, figures, maps, tables. DM 88. ISBN 3-515-07630-1 pp. 371-373

Robert Lee

Deutsche Investitionen in Spanien 1870–1920 [German Investment in Spain, 1870–1920]. By Javier Loscertales. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. 344 pp. Notes, appendix, figures, maps, and tables. Cloth, €69. ISBN 3-515-07900-9 pp. 373-375

Harm Schröter

Poems in Steel: National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn. By Kees Gispen. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002. xvi + 356 pp. Figures, notes, index, bibliography. Cloth, $75; paper, $27.50. ISBN: cloth 1-57181-242-3; paper 1-57181-303-9 pp. 375-378

Jeffrey Fear

Management Consulting: Emergence and Dynamics of a Knowledge Industry. Edited by Matthias Kipping and Lars Engwall. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiv + 267 pp. Index, notes, figures, references, tables. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 0-199-24285-2 pp. 379-384

Priscilla Roberts

A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire. By Sevket Pamuk. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxvi + 276 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, graphs, map, photographs. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-521-44197-8 pp. 384-386

Rodney Wilson

Volume 77, issue 1, 2003

The Business Trip: Maritime Networks in the Twentieth Century pp. 1-32

Michael B. Miller

The Economies and Conveniences of Modern-Day Living: Frozen Foods and Mass Marketing, 1945–1965 pp. 33-60

Shane Hamilton

Cold War Americanism: Business, Pageantry, and Antiunionism in Weirton, West Virginia pp. 61-91

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf

How Economics Became What It Is - How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science. ByGeoffrey M. Hodgson. New York: Routledge, 2001. xix + 422 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, references. Cloth, $120.00; paper, $36.95. ISBN: cloth 0-415-25716-6; paper 0-415-25717-4. - How Economics Became a Mathematical Science. ByE. Roy Weintraub. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. xiii + 313 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95. ISBN: cloth 0-822-32856-9; paper 0-822-32871-2 pp. 99-106

Michael Bernstein

Otto Kahn: Art, Money, & Modern Time. ByTheresa M. Collins. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 383 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-807-82696-0 pp. 107-110

Michael Kammen

Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. ByEmma Rothschild. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. x + 358 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $18.95. ISBN: cloth 0-674-00489-2; paper 0-674-00837-5 pp. 110-112

Robert Prasch

The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478–1776: From Commercial Arithmetic to Life Annuities and Joint Stocks. ByGeoffrey Poitras. Cheltenham, U.K.: Elgar, 2000. x + 522 pp. Index, figures, illustrations, references, tables. Cloth, $120.00. ISBN 1-840-64455-9 pp. 112-115

R. H. Parker

The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865–1914. ByNancy Cohen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 318 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, illustrations. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82670-7; paper 0-807-85354-2 pp. 115-117

Heather Cox Richardson

Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States. ByClete Daniel. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, x + 327. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-43853-5 pp. 117-120

Randall L. Patton

Strike-Breaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America. ByStephen H. Norwood. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, xii + 328 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-807-82705-3 pp. 121-123

Melvyn Dubofsky

Selling the Old-Time Religion: Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920–1940. ByDouglas Carl Abrams. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. xiv + 168 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-820-322946 pp. 123-126

Peter Wosh

A White-Collar Profession: African American Public Accountants Since 1921. ByTheresa A. Hammond. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 216. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82708-8; paper 0-807-85377-1 pp. 126-129

Alexa Benson Henderson

Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry. F. Robert van der Linden. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. xv + 349 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-813-12219-8 pp. 129-132

David D. Lee

My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920–1965. ByBecky M. Nicolaides. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xviii + 412 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.00. ISBN 0-226-58300-7; paper 0-226-58301-5 pp. 132-134

Merry Ovnick

Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929–1979. ByChristopher MacGregor Scribner. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002. xii + 188 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 0-820-32328-4 pp. 135-136

Harvey K. Newman

The Cotton Dust Papers: Science, Politics, and Power in the “Discovery” of Byssinosis in the U.S.ByCharles Levenstein andGregory F. DeLaurier, withMary Lee Dunn. Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood, 2002. xi + 160 pp. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN 0-895-03265-1 pp. 136-138

Christian Warren

Cotton's Renaissance: A Study in Market Innovation. ByTimothy Curtis Jacobson andGeorge David Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvi + 346 pp. Index, notes, figures, illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-521-80827-8 pp. 139-141

Sven Beckert

Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council. ByJoseph A. Pratt, William H. Becker, andWilliam M. McClenahan Jr College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xvii + 292 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 1-585-44185-6 pp. 141-143

Hugh S. Gorman

Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. ByDavid Naguib Pellow. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. ix + 234 pp. Bibliography, index, photographs. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-262-16212-1 pp. 143-145

Louis P. Cain

To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology. ByRoss Knox Bassett. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xii + 421 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN 0-801-86809-2 pp. 145-147

James W. Cortada

Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World. ByLouis Galambos andEric John Abrahamson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. x + 310 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $29.00. ISBN 0-521-81616-5 pp. 147-150

Thomas Haigh

The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements. By Woody Register. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xi + 400 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-195-14493-7 pp. 150-153

Robert W. Snyder

Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century. ByHal Rothman. New York: Routledge, 2002. xxviii + 340 pp. Photographs, bibliography, index. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN 0-415-92612-2 pp. 153-155

Michael S. Green

Before They Were Cardinals: Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis. ByJon David Cash. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xiv + 279 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-826-21401-0 pp. 156-158

Steven A. Riess

The End of Baseball As We Knew It: The Players' Union, 1960–81. ByCharles Korr. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xviii + 336 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-252-02752-3 pp. 158-160

Andrew Zimbalist

Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies. Edited byWarren Belasco andPhilip Scranton. New York: Routledge, 2002. viii + 288 pp. Index, notes, figures, illustrations, tables. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 0-415-93077-4 pp. 161-163

David G. Hogan

Uplift: The Bra in America. ByJane Farrell-Beck andColleen Gau. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. xv + 243 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-812-23643-2 pp. 163-165

Gabriella M. Petrick

Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War. ByJohn Mason Hart. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xi + 677 pp. Index, notes, maps, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-520-22324-1 pp. 166-168

John E. Kicza

States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760–1940. ByStuart McCook. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. xiv + 201 pp. Tables, illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-292-75256-3; paper 0-292-7257-1 pp. 168-171

Juan Carlos Santamarina

Capitalizing Knowledge: Essays on the History of Business Education in Canada. Edited byBarbara Austin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. xiii + 371 pp. Index, figures, tables. Cloth, $60. ISBN 0-8020-4234-1 pp. 171-173

Ben Forster

Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought. ByAndrea Finkelstein. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. xix + 381 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-472-11143-4 pp. 174-177

Martine Julia van Ittersum

Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England. ByTimothy Alborn. New York: Routledge, 1998. ix + 297 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $90. ISBN 0-415-18079-1 pp. 177-179

Bruce G. Carruthers

The Lancashire Working Classes, c.1880–1930. ByTrevor Griffiths. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2001. xi + 390 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 0-199-24738-2 pp. 179-181

Jane Humphries

An Economic History of London, 1800–1914. ByMichael Ball andDavid Sutherland. New York: Routledge, 2001. x + 470 pp. Index, figures, tables. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN 0-415-24691-1 pp. 182-184

Patricia L. Garside

Le Démon Moderne: La Pollution dans les sociétés urbaines et industrielles d'Europe [The Modern Demon: Pollution in Urban and Industrial European Societies]. Edited byChristoph Bernhardt andGeneviève Massard-Guilbaud. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2002. 465 pp. Figures, illustration, maps, tables. Cloth, €29. ISBN 2-84516-180-8 pp. 184-188

Christopher Hamlin

Britain, France and the Financing of the First World War. ByMartin Horn. Montreal: McGill–Queen's University Press, 2001. vi + 262 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-198-20871-1 pp. 188-191

Hew Strachan

Bankkredit oder Kapitalmarkt: Alternativen der Industriefinanzierung in Deutschland [Bank Credit or Capital Markets: Alternative Methods of Industrial Financing in Germany]. Wissenschaftliche Beirat des Instituts für bankhistorische Forschung e.V. Bankhistorisches Archiv: Zeitschrift zur Bankengeschichte, Beiheft 40. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. 101 pp. €20. ISBN 3515080627 pp. 191-195

Jeffrey Fear

Mao's Crusade: Politics and Policy Implementation in China's Great Leap Forward. ByAlfred L. Chan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xiii + 321 pp. Index, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-199-24406-5 pp. 195-197

Elisabeth Köll

Capitalist Development and Economism in East Asia: The Rise of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea. ByKu-wai Li. New York: Routledge, 2002. xviii + 300 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $100.00. ISBN 0-415-26873-7 pp. 197-200

Richard Lufrano

APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism. ByJohn Ravenhill. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, figures, xii + 294 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-66094-7; paper 0-521-66797-6 pp. 200-203

Richard Feinberg

Market and Society in Korea: Interest, Institution and the Textile Industry. ByDennis McNamara. New York: Routledge, 2002. x + 254 pp. Index, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN 0-415-27481-8 pp. 203-205

David C. Kang