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Volume 72, issue 4, 1998

The British Multinational Enterprise in the United States before 1914: The Case of J. & P. Coats pp. 523-551

Dong-Woon Kim

John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922 pp. 552-584

Walter A. Friedman

“Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?” The Federal Reserve System's Founding Fathers and Allied Finances in the First World War pp. 585-620

Priscilla Roberts

Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1606-1865. By Paul A. C. Koistinen · Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. xix + 432 pp. Index, notes, and references. $45.00. ISBN 0700608907 pp. 627-629

Robert Higgs

Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919. By Paul A. C. Koistinen · University Press of Kansas, 1997. xiii + 391 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0700608575 pp. 629-630

Kurt Hackemer

Planning War, Pursuing Peace: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1920–1939. By Paul A. C. Koistinen · Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1998. xi + 432 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 070060890 pp. 631-633

William M. McBride

The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915. By John K. Brown · Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xxxii + 328 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.95. ISBN 0801850479 pp. 633-635

David R. Meyer

Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865-1915. By Robert C. Kenzer · Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. xvi + 178 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00. ISBN 0813917336 pp. 635-636

Walter B. Weare

Budgeting Democracy: State Building and Citizenship in America, 1890-1928. By Jonathan Kahn • Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. xi + 222 pp. Photographs, notes, and index. $42.50. ISBN 0801429501 pp. 637-638

Robert M. Collins

Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995. By Julia Kirk Blackwelder · College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. xv + 308 pp. Tables, illustrations, photographs, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0890967768; paper, $17.95. ISBN 0890967989 pp. 638-642

Mary A. Yeager

Labors Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921. By Joseph A. McCartin · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi + 303 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0807823724; paper, $18.95. ISBN 0807846791. - Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War I. By Jeffrey Haydu · Urbana: University of Illinois Press, x + 261 pp. Notes, references, and index. Paper, $21.95. ISBN 0252066286 pp. 642-645

Warren Van Tine

Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economies of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929. By Alan Dye · Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. xiii + 344 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00. ISBN 0804728194 pp. 645-647

David Denslow

Cargill: Going Global. By Wayne G. BroehlJr., · Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1998. xvi + 419 pp. Figures, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0874518547 pp. 647-647

Morton Rothstein

The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America. By A. A. Den Otter · Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xi + 292 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0802041612 pp. 648-649

Don L. Hofsommer

Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Prussia, 1830-1870. By James M. Brophy • Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. xi + 273 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00. ISBN 0814207510 pp. 649-651

Elaine Spencer

The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500, Vol. II of Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice. By Reinhold C. Mueller · Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xxvi + 711 pp. Figures, graphs, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $65.00. ISBN 0801854377 pp. 651-653

Akira Motomura

Zwischen Kleinstadt und Weltmarkt: Hohner und die Harmonika 1857-1961: Unternehmensgeschichte als Gesellschaftsgeschichte. By Hartmut Berghoff · Paderborn: Schöningh, 1997. 670 pp. Graphs, illustrations, photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $58.00. ISBN 350670785X pp. 653-655

Jeffrey Fear

Fokker: A Transatlantic Biography. By Marc Dierikx · Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. xi + 250 pp. Illustrations, references, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 1560987359 pp. 656-657

Richard Overy

Redefining the State: Privatization and Welfare Reform in Industrial and Transitional Economies. By Nicolas Spulber • New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi + 254 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0521594251 pp. 657-659

Ravi Ramamurti

Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation. By Terence Kehoe · Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. xi + 250 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.00. ISBN 0875802257 pp. 660-662

Christine Meisner Rosen

Japanese Success? British Failure?: Comparisons in Business Performance since 1945. Edited by Etsuo Abe and Terry Gourvish • New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xii + 288 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and index. $77.00. ISBN 0198290586 pp. 662-663

Ronald Dore

Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba. By W. Mark Fruin · New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. ix + 267 pp. Figures, photographs, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 019508195 pp. 663-665

Robert E. Cole

Volume 72, issue 3, 1998

Merchants as Business Groups: British Trading Companies in Asia before 1945 pp. 367-408

Geoffrey Jones and Judith Wale

Black Power—Nixon Style: The Nixon Administration and Minority Business Enterprise pp. 409-445

Dean Kotlowski

The Struggle over Management Rights at US Steel, 1946-1960: A Reassessment of Section 2-B of the Collective Bargaining Contract pp. 446-477

James D. Rose

Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925. ByPhilip Scranton · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. xiv + 415 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $39.50. ISBN 0691029733 pp. 483-485

Richard R. John

Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies. ByDavid E. Nye · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. xii + 331 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $25.00. ISBN 0262140632 pp. 485-488

Nancy F. Koehn

Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood. ByGary Cross · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. vii + 283 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0674898303 pp. 488-490

Susan Strasser

Ready-to-Wear, Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York. ByNancy L. Green · Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. xi + 428. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0822318849; paper, $19.95. ISBN 0822318741 pp. 490-492

Isadora A. Helfgott

“Negro and White, Unite and Fight!”: A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90. ByRoger Horowitz · Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xvi + 373 pp. Tables, illustrations, photographs, notes, list of primary sources, and index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN 025202320X; paper, $17.95. ISBN 0679404937 pp. 493-495

Daniel Letwin

Pavilions of Plenty: Exhibiting American Culture Abroad in the 1950s. ByRobert H. Haddow · Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. x + 260 pp. Bibliographical references, notes, and index. $37.50. ISBN 1560987057 pp. 495-497

Jacqueline McGlade

Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp & Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995. By Louis Galambos with Jane Eliot Sewell · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xii + 274 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0521563089 pp. 497-499

Andrea Tone

Asian Dragons and Green Trade: Environment, Economics and International Law. Edited byDaniel C. Esty and Simon S. C. Tay · Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1997. x + 206 pp. Tables, notes, and bibliography. $25.00. ISBN 9812100970 pp. 499-502

Forest Reinhardt

The Dynamics of the International Brewing Industry Since 1800. EditedT. R. Gourvish and R. G. Wilson · New York: Routledge, 1998 xv + 294 pp. Figures, tables, maps, bibliography, and index. $75.00. ISBN 0415147050 pp. 502-503

Anita M. McGahan

Mester to Masters: A History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire. Edited byClyde Binfield and David Hey · Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. xvii + 341 pp. Photographs, illustrations, figures, tables, maps, notes, appendix, and index. $65.00. ISBN 0198289979 pp. 504-505

Lars Magnusson

Cutting Edge: Gillette's Journey to Global Leadership. ByGordon McKibben · Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998. xi + 429 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0875847350 pp. 505-507

David Sicilia

Industrial Policy in Britain 1945-1951: Economic Planning, Nationalisation and the Labour Governments. ByMartin Chick · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi + 221 pp. Tables, bibliographical references, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0521482917 pp. 507-509

Neil Rollings

Business, Government, and the End of Empire: Malaya, 1942-1957. ByNicholas J. White · New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xxii + 331 pp. Maps, tables, graphs, figures, photographs, glossary, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $60.00. ISBN 9835600082 pp. 509-511

Donald Snodgrass

Small Firms in the Japanese Economy. ByD. H. Whittaker · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii + 238 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0521581524 pp. 511-512

Minoru Sawai

El crédito de la monarquía hispánica en el reinado de Felipe IV. ByCarlos Alvarez Nogal · Avila: Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de Educación y Cultura, 1997. 398 pp. Tables, graphs, notes, and bibliography pp. 513-514

Carla Rahn Phillips

¿Quéinventen ellos? Tecnología, empresa y cambio económico en la España contemporánea. Edited bySantiago López García and Jesús Ma Valdaliso · Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1997. 373 pp. Bibliographical references. ISBN 8420628808 pp. 515-516

Núria Puig

Bilbao's Modern Business Elite. ByEduardo Jorge Glas · Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1997. Tables, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95. ISBN 0874172691 pp. 516-519

David Ringrose

The Records of American Business. Edited by James M. O'Toole · Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1997. xvii + 411 pp. Notes, figures, photographs, map, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0931828457 pp. 519-521

Albert F. Bartovics

Volume 72, issue 2, 1998

Introduction: Gender and Business History pp. 185-187

Philip Scranton

A Gendered Enterprise: Placing Nineteenth-Century Businesswomen in History pp. 188-218

Wendy Gamber

“Vital Industry” and Women's Ventures: Conceptualizing Gender in Twentieth Century Business History pp. 219-241

Kathy Peiss

Comment: Conceptualizing Gender in American Business History pp. 242-249

Joan W. Scott

Pharmaceutical Firms and the Transition to Biotechnology: A Study in Strategic Innovation pp. 250-278

Louis Galambos and Jeffrey L. Sturchio

Manufacturing Power: The Organizational Revival of the National Association of Manufacturers, 1941–1945 pp. 279-317

Andrew A. Workman

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor. ByDavid S. Landes · W W. Norton & Company, 1998. xxi + 650 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00. ISBN 0393040178 pp. 326-328

Rondo Cameron

A History of Corporate Finance. ByJonathon Barron Baskin andPaul J. MirantiJr. · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. x + 350 pp. Tables and index. $29.95. ISBN 0521555140 pp. 328-330

George David Smith

From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism: Essays in Business and Industrial History in Honour of Peter Mathias. Edited byKristine Bruland andPatrick O'Brien · Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. xxv + 362 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, figures, notes, references, and index. $85.00. ISBN 0198290462 pp. 331-332

Timothy L. Alborn

Business Enterprise in Modern Britain. Edited byMaurice W. Kirby andMary B. Rose · New York: Routledge, 1994. xii + 378 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $79.95. ISBN 0415075742 pp. 332-335

T. A. B. Corley

Juan Fermín de Aycinena: Central American Colonial Entrepreneur, 1729–1796. ByRichmond F. Brown · Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. xvii + 298 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0806129484 pp. 335-336

Richard Salvucci

Merchants & Empire: Trading in Colonial New York. ByCathy Matson · Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. x + 458 pp. Figures, maps, tables, graphs, appendices, notes, essay on sources, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0801856027 pp. 337-338

Wim Klooster

Servants of the Honourable Company: Work, Discipline, and Conflict in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1770–1879. ByEdith I. Burley · Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997. v + 319 pp. Maps, photographs, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 0195412966 pp. 338-340

James Muir

Slow Train to Paradise: How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads. ByAugustus J. VeenendaalJr. · Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996. xiv + 350 pp. Photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0804725179 pp. 340-341

John F. Stover

Railroad Mergers and the Language of Unification. ByJames B. Burns · Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1998. ix + 221 pp. Maps, figures, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 1567201660 pp. 342-343

H. Roger Grant

Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870–1930. ByHal S. Barron · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiv + 301 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0807823546; paper, $18.95. ISBN 0807846597 pp. 343-344

Daniel Nelson

The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century. Edited byMichael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, andEugene N. White · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvii + 474 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and indices. $60.00. ISBN 0226065898 pp. 345-347

Rick Szostak

Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Civil Rights, Women's Rights, and the Regulation of Business, 1865–1932. ByRoss Evans Paulson · Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. vii + 361 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0822319829; paper, $18.95. ISBN 0822319918 pp. 347-349

Angel Kwolek-Folland

The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America. ByAndrea Tone · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. xii + 264 pp. Notes, tables, photographs, figures, illustrations, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0801430283 pp. 349-351

Jonathan Rees

Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Policy From the Progressive Era to the New Deal. ByJudith Sealander · Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xii + 349 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0801854601 pp. 351-353

Isadora A. Helfgott

Mr Kaiser Goes to Washington: The Rise of a Government Entrepreneur. ByStephen B. Adams · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiii + 329 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0807823589 pp. 353-355

Brian Balogh

Texas Oil, American Dreams: A Study of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners AssociationByLawrence Goodwyn · Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996. xiii + 284 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0876111584 pp. 355-357

Walter L. Buenger

Power and Ideas: North-South Politics of Intellectual Property and Antitrust. BySusan K. Sell · Albany: State University Press of New York, 1998. xi + 289 pp. Figures, tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 0791435768 pp. 357-359

Wyatt Wells

The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City. ByKyeyoung Park · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. xvii + 228 pp. Figures, photographs, notes, tables, maps, glossary, appendix, references, and index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0801433436; paper, $15.95. ISBN 0801483913 pp. 359-360

Roger Daniels

Resisting Hostile Takeovers: The Case of Gillette. ByRita Ricardo-Campbell · Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1997. x + 254 pp. Bibliography and index. $65.00 ISBN 0275958302 pp. 360-362

Charles W. Cheape

Les logiques de l'entreprise: La rationalisation dans l'industrie française de l'entre-deux-guerres. ByAimée Moutet · Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Scoiales, 1997. 495 pp. Map, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 2713212251 pp. 362-364

Michael S. Smith

The Collapse of the American Management Mystique. ByRichard R. Locke · New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xiv + 351 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0198774060 pp. 364-366

Mauro F. Guillén

Volume 72, issue 1, 1998

Democrats' 1916 Tariff Commission: Responding to Dumping Fears and Illustrating the Consumer Costs of Protectionism pp. 1-45

Karen Schnietz

Putting France in the Chandlerian Framework: France's 100 Largest Industrial Firms in 1913 pp. 46-85

Michael S. Smith

Commercial Associations and the Creation of a National Economy: The Demand for Federal Bankruptcy Law pp. 86-113

Bradley Hansen

Remembering Roland Marchand 1933–1997 - Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business. ByRoland Marchand · Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1998. ii + 440 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical references, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0520087194. - Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920–1940. ByRoland Marchand · Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1985. xxii + 448 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50. ISBN 0520055236 pp. 114-122

Richard S. Tedlow

To Compare or Not To Compare: Two Books That Look at Capitalist Systems Across Centuries, Countries & Industries - Big Business and the Wealth Of Nations. Edited byAlfred D. ChandlerJr., Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino · Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii + 596 pp. Tables, figures, notes, and indices. $59.95. ISBN 0521481236. - Creating Modern Capitalism. Edited byThomas K. McCraw · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. xii + 711 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0674175557; paper, $29.95. ISBN 0674175565 pp. 123-136

W. Mark Fruin

Big Business: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century. ByYoussef Cassis · Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. xiv + 277 pp. Tables, notes, appendix, and index. $68.00. ISBN 0198289650 pp. 144-147

Jeffrey Fear

Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York. ByDeborah A. Rosen · Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997. 233 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0814207367; paper, $17.95. ISBN 0814207375 pp. 147-150

Winifred B. Rothenberg

Early American Railroads. ByFranz Anton Ritter Von Gerstner · Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. vi + 844 pp. Maps, tables, plates, notes, appendix, glossary, and index. $95.00. ISBN 0804724237 pp. 150-152

John Lauritz Larson

The Greatest Nation on Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War. ByHeather Cox Richardson · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. xiii + 342 pp. Bibliography and index. $35.00. ISBN 0674362136 pp. 152-153

Jeremy Atack

Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America. BySteven J. Ross · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. xviii + 369 pp. Illustrations, photographs, appendices, notes, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0691032343 pp. 153-155

Marc Jeffrey Stern

The American Aerospace Industry: From Workshop to Global Enterprise. ByRoger E. Bilstein · New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. xvii + 280 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0805798382 pp. 156-157

Glenn E. Bugos

Technology and American History: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture. Edited byStephen Cutcliffe and Terry Reynolds · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 448 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $37.95. ISBN 0226710270; paper, $18.95. ISBN 0226710289 pp. 157-159

Leonard S. Reich

The American Country Club: Its Origins and Development. ByJames M. Mayo · New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xi + 245 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, and index. $25.00. ISBN 0813524857 pp. 159-161

John A. Jakle

Capitalism in Contention: Business Leaders and Political Economy in Modern Britain. ByJonathan Boswell andJames Peters · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiii + 251 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0521582253; paper, $22.95. ISBN 0521588049. - Understanding Decline: Perceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance. Edited byPeter Clarke andClive Trebilcock · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xv + 313 pp. Notes and index. $64.95. ISBN 0521563178 pp. 162-165

David J. Jeremy

The Productivity Race: British Manufacturing in International Perspective, 1850–1990. ByS. N. Broadberry · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxv + 451 pp. Figures, tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $74.95. ISBN 052158440X pp. 166-167

Sidney Pollard

Merchants, Bankers, and Middlemen: The Amsterdam Money Market During the First Half of the 19th Century. ByJoost Jonker · Amsterdam: NEHA, 1996. 383 pp. Index and bibliography. 59.90 Dutch Guilders. ISBN 9057120015 pp. 168-169

Larry Neal

The UFA Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company 1918–1945. ByKlause Kreimeier · New York: Hill and Wang Publishers, 1996. viii + 451 pp. Photographs, notes, and index. $35.00 ISBN 0809094835 pp. 170-171

Clemens Verenkotte

Airbus Industrie: Conflict and Cooperation in US-EC Trade Relations. BySteven McGuire · New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. viii + 224 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00. ISBN 0312175329 pp. 172-173

Kenneth Owen

Burgundy to Champagne: The Wine Trade in Early Modern France. ByThomas Brennan · Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xxi + 350 pp. Tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0801855675 pp. 174-175

Norman R. Bennett

The Balkan Economies c. 1800–1914: Evolution without Development. ByMichael Palairet · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi + 415 pp. Tables, maps, photographs, figures, graphs, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $69.95. ISBN 052158051X pp. 175-177

Ivan T. Berend

Crisis Banking in the East: The History of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China, 1853–93. ByStuart Muirhead · Aldershot, U.K.: Scolar Press, 1996. xvi + 379 pp. Tables, figures, plates, appendices, references, and index. $75.95. ISBN 185928244X pp. 178-180

Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth. ByJ. Mark Ramseyer · Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvii + 189 pages. Tables, references, and index. $54.95. ISBN 0521563860 pp. 180-183

John O. Haley

Coordinating Technology: Studies in the International Standardization of Telecommunications. BySusanne K. Schmidt andRaymund Werle · Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1998. viii + 365 pp. Figures, tables, photographs, notes, references, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0262193930 pp. 183-184

Yumio Saneyoshi