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Volume 73, issue 4, 1999

The Nature of the Firm: Towards an Ecocultural History of Business pp. 577-600

Christine Meisner Rosen and Christopher C. Sellers

Efficiency, Environmental Quality, and Oil Field Brines: The Success and Failure of Pollution Control by Self-Regulation pp. 601-640

Hugh S. Gorman

Divergent Responses to Identical Problems: Businessmen and the Smoke Nuisance in Germany and the United States, 1880–1917 pp. 641-676

Frank Uekoetter

Environmental Activism, Locomotive Smoke, and the Corporate Response: The Case of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Chicago Smoke Control pp. 677-704

David Stradling and Joel A. Tarr

Toxic Purity: The Progressive Era Origins of America' s Lead Paint Poisoning Epidemic pp. 705-736

Christian Warren

Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. By Lendol Calder. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xv + 377 pp. Figures, index, and notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 069105827X pp. 743-747

Rowena Olegario

Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899–1939. By Jo Ann E. Argersinger. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 248 pp. Illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0801859891 pp. 747-750

Holly Allen

Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor. By Tom Juravich and Kate Bronfenbrenner. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xi + 245 pp. Illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0801436338 pp. 750-752

James D. Rose

The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914–1941. By Richard Longstreth. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. xviii + 248 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0262122146 pp. 752-754

David Gerard Hogan

Better Living: Advertising, Media, and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership. By William L. BirdJr Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1999. x + 288. Bibliography, figures, index, and notes. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN 0810115859 pp. 754-756

Daniel Horowitz

Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975. By Julian E. Zelizer. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xv + 384 pp. Notes, references, and index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0521621666 pp. 756-758

W. Elliot Brownlee

Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. By Jefferson Cowie. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. x + 273 pp. Bibliography, figures, illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0801435250 pp. 759-761

Tami J. Friedman

Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer. By I. Bernard Cohen. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. xx + 329 pp. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0262032627. - Makin' Numbers: Howard Aiken and the Computer. By I. Bernard Cohen, Gregory W. Welch, and Robert V. D. Campbell, eds. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. xvii + 279 pp. Appendices, figures, index, and tables. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 0262032635 pp. 761-764

Nathan L. Ensmenger

Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric. By Stephen B. Adams and Orville R. Butler. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi + 270 pp. Appendices, index, notes, and photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0521651182 pp. 764-767

Richard S. Rosenbloom

Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience. By Susan G. Davis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii + 313 pp. Figures, index, and notes. Paper, $18.95. ISBN 0520209818 pp. 767-769

Thomas R. Dunlap

A Business History of Britain. By David J. Jeremy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxviii + 610 pp. Appendices, figures, index, and tables. Cloth, $82.00. ISBN 0198773765 pp. 769-771

Duncan M. Ross

Guinness 1886–1939: From Incorporation to the Second World War. By S. R. Dennison and Oliver MacDonagh. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press, 1998. xiv + 282 pp. Appendices, index, and tables. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 1859181759 pp. 771-773

Teresa Lopes

Gentlemen Engineers: The Working Lives of Frank and Walter Shanly. By Richard White. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. xx + 262 pp. Illustrations, index, maps, and notes. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0802008879 pp. 773-775

Desmond Morton

Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Regime France. By Robert Fox and Anthony John Turner, eds. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998. xviii + 307 pp. Illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $86.95. ISBN 0860786641 pp. 775-777

Cissie Fairchilds

La industria del calzado en España, 1860–1959. By José Antonio Miranda Encarnación. Alicante, Spain: Institut de Cultura “Juan Gil-Albert,” 1998. 380 pp. Charts, graphs, index, notes, and tables. Paper, $17.30. ISBN 8477842949 pp. 777-779

Stefan Houpt

The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America. By Thomas O'Brien. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. vi + 199 pp. Figures, photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, glossary, and index. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 0826319963 pp. 779-782

Katherine Elaine Bliss

Business History in Latin America: The Experience of Seven Countries. By Carlos Dávila and Rory Miller, eds. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999. xiv + 241 pp. Bibliography and index. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 0853237239 pp. 782-784

Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato

Tra fabbrica e società. Mondi operai nell'Italia del Novecento. By Stefano Musso. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1999. xlvi + 798 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Cloth, L.it. 150.000. ISBN 8807990547 pp. 784-786

Giovanni Gozzini

Oil and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948–63. By Uri Bialer. New York: Saint Martin's Press, 1999. vii + 282 pp. Index, notes, and tables. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 0312212844 pp. 787-788

Rodney Wilson

The State, the Financial System, and Economic Modernization. Edited by Richard Sylla; Richard Tilly; and Gabriel Tortella. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv + 295 pp. Figures, index, and notes. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN 0521591236 pp. 789-792

Priscilla Roberts

Volume 73, issue 3, 1999

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century: Making Markets for Processed Food pp. 349-393

Nancy F. Koehn

Pioneering Foreign Direct Investment in British Manufacturing pp. 394-429

Andrew C. Godley

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution pp. 430-464

Donald N. Sull

Putting Foreign Consumers on the Map: J. Walter Thompson's Struggle with General Motors' International Advertising Account in the 1920s pp. 465-502

Jeff Merron

The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneuriship. By Juliet E. K. Walker · New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998. xxvi + 482 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0805716505 pp. 517-519

Robert C. Kenzer

Why the American Century? By Olivier Zunz · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi + 254 pp. Index and notes. Cloth, $24.00. ISBN 0226994619 pp. 519-521

Sven Beckert

A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871–1896. By Karin A. Shapiro · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi + 333 pp. Maps, notes, and index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0807824232 pp. 522-524

Stephen V. Ash

Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893. By Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. x + 261 pp. Bibliography, index, notes, and tables. Paper, $59.95. ISBN 0313279438 pp. 524-526

Peter H. Argersinger

The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy: 1830–1996. Edited by Mira Wilkins and Harm Schroeter · Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxi + 480 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $66.50. ISBN 0198290322 pp. 526-530

Louis T. Wells

The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement. By Barbara H. Fried · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. x + 338 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0674775279 pp. 530-532

James R. Hackney

E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers. By Gerald J. Baldasty · Urbana: The Universtiy of Illinois Press, 1999. xii + 217 pp. Appendices, bibliography, illustrations, index, notes and tables. Paper, $16.95. ISBN 0252067509 pp. 532-533

Edward E. Adams

Curtiss-Wright: Greatness and Decline. By Louis R. Eltscher and Edward M. Young · New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998. xiii + 213 pp. Tables, photos, and appendices. Paper, $33.00. ISBN 0805798293 pp. 533-535

Loyd E. Lee

Builders: Herman and George Brown. By Joseph A. Pratt and Christopher J. Castaneda · College Station: Texas A & M University Press: 1999. xxi + 326 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $36.95. ISBN 0890968403 pp. 535-537

Victoria Buenger

Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900–1960. By Gail Cooper · Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. x + 228 pp. Essay on sources and index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0801857163 pp. 537-539

Amy Sue Bix

Selling 'em by the Sack: White Castle and the Creation of American Food. By David G. Hogan · New York: New York University Press, 1998. x + 199 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0814735665 pp. 540-541

Tom Dicke

The Filenes. By George E. Berkley · Boston: Branden Publishing Co., 1998. 291 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $18.95. ISBN 0828320357 pp. 542-544

Christopher T. Martin

The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations. By Karen S. Miller · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii + 261 pp. Illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0807824399 pp. 544-546

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism. By Judith Stein · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi + 410 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0807824143 pp. 546-548

Jefferson Cowie

Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession. Edited by Sarah Stage and Virginia B. Vincenti · Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. xii + 347 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $52.50. ISBN 0801429714; paper, $19.95. ISBN 0801481759 pp. 548-550

Nancy Page Fernandez

Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes. By Allen J. Matusow · Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xii + 323 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0700608885 pp. 550-552

Dean J. Kotlowski

Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and the Labor Movement. By Richard Magat · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. x + 242 pp. Index, notes and photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0801435528 pp. 553-555

Judith Sealander

Medieval Merchants: York, Beverley and Hull in the Later Middle Ages. By Jennifer Kermode · Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvii + 381 pp. Maps, index, charts, and tables. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 052149737 pp. 555-556

Steven A. Epstein

Les Draps de Sedan, 1646–1870. By Gérard Gayot · Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1998. 579 pp. Bibliography, charts, figures, graphs, illustrations, index, and tables. 300 FF. ISBN 2713212413 pp. 557-559

Benjamin F. Martin

Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793–1843. By Richard S. Mackie · Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997. xiv + 420 pp. Figures, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 0774805595 pp. 559-561

Jean Barman and Roderick J. Barman

London, Hub of the Industrial Revolution: A Revisionary History 1775–1825. By David Barnett · New York: St. Martins Press, 1999. 276 pp. Tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $59.50. ISBN 1860641962 pp. 561-563

Margot C. Finn

Made in Lancashire: A History of Regional Industrialisation. By Geoffrey Timmins · Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. 365 pp. Illustrations, endnotes, tables, and bibliography. Cloth, £50. ISBN 0719045398 pp. 563-565

Geoffrey Tweedale

Managing the Business of Empire: Essays in Honour of David Fieldhouse. Edited by Peter Burroughs and A. J. Stockwell · Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 1998. 262 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0714648264 pp. 565-568

John Darwin

A Sense of Security: 150 Years of Prudential. By Laurie Dennett · Cambridge, U.K.: Granta Editions, 1998. ix + 438 pp. References, pictures, bibliography, and index. ISBN 185757060X pp. 568-570

Timothy Alborn

Management Education in Historical Perspective. Edited by Lars Engwall and Vera Zamagni · Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. xiii + 177 pp. Figures, index, references, and tables. Cloth, $59.95 ISBN 0719051835 pp. 570-572

Carter A. Daniel

Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960–1990. By Eun Mee Kim · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. xvii + 280 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $59.50. ISBN 0791432092 pp. 572-574

Dennis McNamara

Economics: The Culture of a Controversial Science. By Melvin W. Reder · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xi + 384 pp. Bibliography, figures, and index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0226706095 pp. 574-576

Philip Mirowski

Volume 73, issue 2, 1999

“That Mysterious People”: Jewish Merchants, Transparency, and Community in Mid-Nineteenth Century America pp. 161-189

Rowena Olegario

American Management Consulting Companies in Western Europe, 1920 to 1990: Products, Reputation, and Relationships pp. 190-220

Matthias Kipping

Creating a Favorable Business Climate: Corporations and Radio Broadcasting, 1934 to 1954 pp. 221-255

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

Locating Australian Corporate Memory pp. 256-264

Simon Ville and Grant Fleming

Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765–1900. ByJames L. Huston · Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. 576 pp. Appendices, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0807122068 pp. 275-277

Michael S. Green

Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865–1896. ByGretchen Ritter · Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 312 pp. Appendices, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0521561671; paper, $19.95. ISBN 0521653924 pp. 277-279

Howard Bodenhorn

Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. ByKevin Kenny · New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xii + 336 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $18.95. ISBN 0195116313 pp. 280-282

Perry K. Blatz

Cotton, Fire, and Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works and Heavy Industry in Macon, Georgia, 1839–1912. ByRobert S. DavisJr · Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1998. 304 pp. Appendices, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0865545987 pp. 282-285

Paul F. Paskoff

Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894–1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance. Edited byKevin Boyle · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. x + 274 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $71.50. ISBN 0791439518; paper $23.95. ISBN 0791439526 pp. 285-287

Aaron Brenner

The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact. ByTimothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson · New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xi + 301 pp. Charts, graphs, tables, bibliography, notes, and index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0195116518 pp. 288-290

Raymond L. Cohn

Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States. ByAngel Kwolek-Folland · New York: Twayne, 1998. xv + 275 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, and index. Cloth, $33.00. ISBN 080574519X pp. 290-294

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. ByMelinda Chateauvert · Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, xiv + 269 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, appendix, notes, and index. Cloth, $46.95. ISBN 0252023404; paper, $17.95. ISBN 0252066367 pp. 294-296

Tami J. Friedman

Desegregating the Dollar. ByRobert E. WeemsJr · New York: New York University Press, 1998. 320 pp. Tables, appendices, bibliography, notes, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0814792901; paper, $18.95. ISBN 0814793274 pp. 297-298

Timothy Bates

Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima. ByM. M. Manring · Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998. xi + 210 pp. Bibliography and index. Cloth, $47.50. ISBN 0813917824; paper, $14.95. ISBN 0813918111 pp. 298-300

Robert E. Weems

Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal. BySanford M. Jacoby · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. xii + 345 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0691015708 pp. 300-306

Sven Beckert

Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution. ByBarry Cushman · New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xi + 320 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0195115325; paper $24.95. ISBN 0195120434 pp. 306-309

Keith E. Whittington

World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization. Edited byCharles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. x + 510. Tables, notes, appendices, and index. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN 0521495555 pp. 309-313

William Lazonick

The Invisible Industrialist: Manufacturers and the Production of Scientific Knowledge (Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History). Edited byJean Paul Gaudillière and liana Lowy · New York: St. Martins Press, 1998. Cloth $69.95. ISBN 0312212542 pp. 313-315

Alfonso Gambardella

Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors. ByEdwin J. Perkins · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 320 pp. Tables, photographs, notes, appendices, and bibliography. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0521630290 pp. 315-318

Larry Schweikart

Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism: The Memoirs of Richard S. Salant. Edited byBill Buzenberg and Susan Buzenberg · Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. 275 pp. Index and photographs. Cloth $27.00. ISBN 0813390915 pp. 318-320

Richard S. Rosenbloom

Two Lucky People: Memoirs. ByMilton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 656 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0226264149; paper, $20.00. ISBN 0226264157 pp. 320-323

Elmus Wicker

The Land Between: Northwestern Ontario Resource Development, 1800 to the 1900s. ByRobert Wightman and Nancy M. Wightman · Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xiv + 566 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 0802009379 pp. 323-324

Christopher Armstrong

The Lancashire Cotton Industry: A History since 1700. Edited byMary B. Rose · Lancashire: Lancashire County Books, 1996. xi + 404 pp. Figures, tables, photographs, glossary, index, maps, and notes. Cloth, ISBN 187123638X; paper, ISBN 1871236398 pp. 325-326

Peter L. Payne

City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution. ByBruce G. Carruthers · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996. xiv + 303 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index, and bibliography. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0691044554 pp. 326-328

David Harris Sacks

Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690–1860. ByStuart Banner · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xviii + 318 pp. Bibliography, index, and tables. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 052162231X pp. 329-331

Lance E. Davis

An Economic History of the Silk Industry, 1830–1930. By Giovanni Federico · Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xv + 259 pp. Tables, figures, maps, appendices, notes, references, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0521581982 pp. 331-332

David Jenkins

Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria and Kenya, 1945–1963. By Robert L. Tignor · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. 419 pp. Bibliography and index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0691015848 pp. 333-334

Alice H. Amsden

Dangerous Commerce: Insurance and the Management of International Risk. By Virginia Haufler · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. xiii + 205 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0801432316 pp. 335-336

Oran R. Young

Finance in the Age of the Corporate Economy: The Third Anglo-Japanese Business History Conference. Edited by P. L. Cottrell, Alice Teichova, and Takeshi Yuzawa · Brookfield, Vt: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1997. Figures, index, notes, and tables. Cloth, $76.35. ISBN 185928342X pp. 337-339

Caroline Fohlin

How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800–1941. Edited byStephen Haber · Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. xiii + 316 pp. Tables, figures, notes, references, and index. Cloth, $59.00. ISBN 0804727376; paper, $18.95. ISBN 0804727384 pp. 339-341

Colin M. Lewis

Latin America and the World Economy since 1800. Edited byJohn H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv + 484 pp. Tables, notes, references, and index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0674512804; paper, $24.95. ISBN 0674512812 pp. 341-344

Stanley L. Engerman

Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries. Edited byNaomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, and Peter Temin · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. viii + 347 pp. Figures, tables, references, and index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0226468348; paper, $22.50. ISBN 0226468348 pp. 344-347

Mira Wilkins

Volume 73, issue 1, 1999

Banks and Economic Development in Post-Revolutionary Northern Virginia, 1790–1812 pp. 1-39

A. Glenn Crothers

Bank Ownership and Lending Patterns in New York and Pennsylvania, 1781–1831 pp. 40-60

Robert E. Wright

A Ready-Made Business: The Birth of the Clothing Industry in America pp. 61-90

Michael Zakim

Bürgerliche Gesellschaft and Consumer Interests: The Berlin Public Market Hall Reform, 1867–1891 pp. 91-113

Andrew Lohmeier

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. ByRon Chernow · New York, Random House, 1998. xxii + 774 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, index, notes, and photographs. $30.00. ISBN 0679438084 pp. 117-119

Kenneth Warren

Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s. ByCharles K. Hyde · Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xvii + 267 pp. Bibliography, glossary, index, maps, notes, and tables. $40.00. ISBN 0816518173 pp. 120-121

Janet Finn

Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience. Edited byEric Arnesen, Julie Greene, andBruce Laurie · Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiii + 382 pp. Index and bibliography. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0252024079; paper, $19.95. ISBN 025206710X pp. 122-123

Melvyn Dubofsky

Power at Odds: The 1922 National Shopmen's Strike. ByColin J. Davis · Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xii + 244 pp. Tables, photographs, notes, and index. $19.95. ISBN 025206612X pp. 124-126

Shelton Stromquist

Business History and Business Culture. Edited byAndrew Godley andOliver M. Westall · Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. xiii + 258 pp. Figures, tables, and index. $79.95. ISBN 0719041449 pp. 126-128

Kenneth Lipartito

A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire. ByJanice A. Radway · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiii + 424 pp. Photographs, notes, list of sources, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0807823570 pp. 129-130

Jeffrey L. Meikle

A History of Popular Women's Magazines in the United States, 1792–1995. ByMary Ellen Zuckerman · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. xvii + 272 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0313306753 pp. 131-133

Elizabeth D. Leonard

Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. ByKathy Peiss · New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 1998. xii + 334 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $25.00. ISBN 0805055509 pp. 133-136

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century. ByG. Pascal Zachary · New York: The Free Press, 1997. viii + 518 pp. Photographs, notes, and index. $32.50. ISBN 0684828219 pp. 136-137

Michael A. Dennis

Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation. ByMargaret Levenstein · Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998. xiv + 277 pp. Figures, appendicies, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50. ISBN 0804730032 pp. 137-139

William J. Bruns

The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880–1990. ByDora L. Costa · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiii + 234 pp. Figures, tables, notes, appendix, references, name and subject indices. $40.00. ISBN 0226116085. - The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years. BySteven A. Sass · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. viii + 332 pp. Tables, figures, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0674945204 pp. 139-142

Jon Moen

The Americanisation of European Business: The Marshall Plan and the Transfer of US Management Models. Edited byMatthias Kipping and Ove Bjarnar · New York: Routledge, 1998. xv + 235 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $85.00. ISBN 0415171911 pp. 142-144

Robert R. Locke

Market Dominance: How Firms Gain, Hold, or Lose It and the Impact on Economic Performance. Edited byDavid I. Rosenbaum · Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1998. viii + 274 pp. Bibliography and index. $69.50. ISBN 0275956040 pp. 144-146

Kathryn Rudie Harrigan

Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms: Buying and Selling Securities in Canada, 1870–1940. ByChristopher Armstrong · Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xxvii + 390 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0802041841 pp. 146-148

David Monod

“In Order Not to Fall into Poverty”: Production and Reproduction in the Transition from Proto-industry to Factory Industry in Borne and, 1800–1900. ByF. M. M. Hendrickx · Amsterdam: International Institute voor Sociale Geschiedenis, 1997. 255 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, appendices, and bibliography. ISBN 9068611437 pp. 148-150

Julienne M. Laureyssens

Davidsons of Mugiemoss: A History of C. Davidson & Sons, Makers of Wrapping Papers, Paper Bags, Paperboard and Plasterboard Liner. ByJ. N. Bartlett · Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: The Athalone Press, 1977. xii + 208 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00. ISBN 048511514X pp. 151-152

Jorma Ahvenainen

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