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Volume 70, issue 4, 1996

Selling Silicon Valley: Frederick Terman's Model for Regional Advantage pp. 435-472

Stuart W. Leslie and Robert H. Kargon

Vulture Capitalism in Antebellum America: The 1841 Federal Bankruptcy Act and the Exploitation of Financial Distress pp. 473-516

Edward J. Balleisen

The Comptoir Sidérurgique de France, 1930–1939 pp. 517-540

Daniel Barbezat

The Changing Genderization of Bookkeeping in the United States, 1870–1930 pp. 541-586

Charles W. Wootton and Barbara E. Kemmerer

Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation. By Donald T. Critchlow · Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. ix + 273 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. ISBN 0-253-33065-3. - The Fall of the Packard Motor Car Company. By James A. Ward · Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995. vii + 309 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-8047-2457-1 pp. 590-594

Richard S. Tedlow

The Mechanisms of Governance. By Oliver E. Williamson · New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii + 429 pp. Prologue, figures, glossary and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-507824-1 pp. 594-596

Richard Adelstein

Gas Pipelines and the Emergence of America's Regulatory State: A History of Panhandle Eastern Corporation, 1928–1993. By Christopher Castaneda and Clarance Smith · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xx + 296 pp. Maps, figures, tables, notes, appendices, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-521-56166-3 pp. 596-598

Gerald D. Nash

Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle: William Henry Bush. By Paul H. Carlson · College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1996. xv + 186 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography and index. $19.95. ISBN 89096-712-1. - King of the Wildcatters: The Life and Times of Tom Slick, 1883–1930. By Ray Miles · College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1996. xiii + 166 pp. Illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography and index. $29.95. ISBN 89096-715-6 pp. 598-600

Wyatt Wells

American Plastic: A Cultural History. By Jeffrey L. Meikle · New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995. 500 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography and Index. $49.95. ISBN 0-8135-2234-x pp. 600-602

Shelley K. Nickles

Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920–1934. By Susan Smulyan · Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. viii + 223 pp. Illustrations, index, and bibliography. Paper, $14.95. ISBN 1-56098-686-7 pp. 602-604

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Crusading for Chemistry: The Professional Career of Charles Holmes Herty. By Germaine M. Reed · Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995. xi + 474 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8203-1671-7 pp. 605-607

Tami J. Friedman

Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality. By Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz · New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. xvii + 176 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, references, and index. $28.95. ISBN 0-8057-9120–-5 pp. 607-609

Bruce Fehn

State and Party in America's New Deal. By Kenneth Finegold and Theda Skocpol · Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xiii + 342 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and index. $54.00 cloth; ISBN 0-299-14760-6. $19.95, paper; ISBN 0-299-14764-9 pp. 610-611

Andy Workman

American Trade Policy, 1923–1995. By Edward S. Kaplan · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. 192 pp. Bibliography and index. $55.00. ISBN 0-313-29480-1 pp. 612-614

William M. McClenahan

Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth. By Marc Egnal · New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xvi + 304 pp. Figures, illustrations, biographical references, and index. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-509866-8; paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-19-510906-6 pp. 614-616

Morris Altman

The Fall of the U.S. Consumer Electronics Industry: An American Trade Tragedy. By Philip J. Curtis · Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1994. xv + 337 pp. Notes, figures, appendices, bibliography, and index. $55.00. ISBN 0-89930-880-5. - The Japanese Television Cartel: A Study Based on Matsushita v. Zenith. By David Schwartzman · Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1993. xiii + 197 pp. Bibliography and index. $39.50. ISBN 0-472-10454-3 pp. 616-620

Takashi Hikino

Japanese Business Success: The Evolution of a Strategy. Edited byTakeshi Yuzawa · New York: Routledge, 1994. xiv + 236 pp. Tables, figures, notes, and index. $39.00. ISBN 0-415-05561-X pp. 620-622

Mark Fruin

Loans & Legitimacy: Evolution of Soviet-American Relations, 1919–1933. By Katherine Siegel · Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. x + 211 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-8131-1962-6 pp. 622-623

Odd Arne Westad

Ferranti-Packard: Pioneers in Canadian Electrical Manufacturing. By Norman R. Ball and John N. Vardalas · Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. xvi + 336 pp. Illustrations and index. $55.00. ISBN 0-7735-0983-6 pp. 624-625

Ken Cruikshank

Organised Capital: Employers' Associations and Industrial Relations in Northern England, 1880–1939. By Arthur J. Mclvor · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvii + 305 pp. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-55094-7 pp. 625-627

Peter Weiler

The Art of Cloaking Ownership: The Case of Sweden. By Gerard Aalders and Cees Wiebe · Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1996. vii + 210 pp. Notes, sources and index. $27.95. ISBN 90-5356-179-x pp. 627-629

Mark Harrison

Volume 70, issue 3, 1996

“Air Power Is Peace Power” The Aircraft Industry's Campaign for Public and Political Support, 1943–1949 pp. 297-327

Karen Miller

“You are the Company:” The Demands of Employment in the Emerging Corporate Culture, Los Angeles, 1900–1930 pp. 328-362

Clark Davis

Antitrust and Business Activity: The First Quarter Century pp. 363-401

George Bittlingmayer

Mary Parker Follett—Prophet of Management: A Celebration of Writings from the 1920s. Edited byPauline Graham · Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1995. xix + 309 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-87584-563-0; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-87584-736-6 pp. 405-406

Jonathan S. Russ

Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, No. 1 (March 1996). Staffordshire, England: Keele University Press. 199 pp. Notes. One year subscription—individual, £18.00 for U.K. and Europe; £25.00 for rest of world. Institutional subscription, £35.00 for U.K. and Europe; £42.00 for rest of world. ISSN 1362 1572 pp. 406-407

Daniel Nelson

The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought. By Scott Bowman · University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. xii + 436 pp. Bibliography and index. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-271-01472-5; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-271-01473-3 pp. 408-410

Sheldon L. Leader

A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865–1925. By Thomas J. Misa · Baltimore, Md: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xxvi + 367 pp. Photos, graphs, tables, figures, notes, and index. Paper, $49.95, ISBN 0-8018-4967-5 pp. 410-412

John Kenly Smith

Reaping the Bounty: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Turns Abroad, 1878–1902. By Esko Heikkonen · Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society, 1995. ISBN 951-710-022-1 pp. 412-414

Fred Carstensen

Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925–1985. By Robert WeemsJr, · Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. xvii + 158 pp. Tables, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-253-330-25-4 pp. 414-416

Mark Higbee

Telecommunications, Mass Media, & Democracy: The Battle for Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928–1935. By Robert W. McChesney · New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xvi + 393 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-507174-3; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-509394-1 pp. 416-418

William R. Childs

Trade and the American Dream: A Social History of Postwar Trade Policy. By Susan Ariel Aaronson · Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. 264 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8131-1955-3; paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-8131-0874-8 pp. 418-420

Wyatt Wells

Hybrid Factory: Japanese Production Systems in the United States. Edited byTetsuo Abo · New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xxii + 318 pp. Forward, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-507974-4 pp. 420-421

Susan Helper

A Concise History of Business in Canada. By Graham D. Taylor and Peter A. Baskerville · Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1994. xvii + 491 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $28.95, ISBN 0-19-540978-7 pp. 422-423

Christopher Armstrong

The First Industrial Woman. By Deborah Valenze · New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 251 pp. Charts, figures, notes, index, and bibliography. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-19-508981-2; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-19-508982-0 pp. 424-425

Jane Humphries

Victorian Insolvency: Bankruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and Company Winding-Up in Nineteenth-Century England. By V. Markham Lester · New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 354 pp. Table, charts, appendix, index, notes, and bibliography. $69.00, ISBN 0-19-820518-X pp. 426-428

Edward J. Balleisen

True and Fair: A History of Price Waterhouse. By Edgar Jones · London: Hamish Hamilton, 1995. v + 444 pp. Photos, figures, notes, bibliography, appendix, tables, index. $60.00. ISBN 0-241-00172–-2 pp. 428-429

Kathleen McDermott

The European Economy 1750–1914: A Thematic Approach. Edited byDerek H. Aldcroft and Simon P. Ville · New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. x + 323 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-7190-3599-6 pp. 429-431

Lynne Kiesling

Harvesting Mountains: Fujian and the China Free Trade, 1757–1937. By Robert Gardella · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xiv + 259 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, tables, notes, glossary, and index. $40.00. ISBN 0-520-08414-4 pp. 431-433

Karl G. Gerth

Volume 70, issue 2, 1996

Personal Styles, Cultural Values and Management: The Sincere and Wing on Companies in Shanghai and Hong Kong, 1900–1941 pp. 141-166

Wellington K. K. Chan

The Role of Fiat in the Development of the Italian Car Industry in the 1950's pp. 167-206

Francesca Fauri

U.S. Multinationals in British Manufacturing before 1962 pp. 207-256

Geoffrey Jones and Frances Bostock

The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes: A Study of the Origins of Angio-American Commercial Law. Cambridge Studies in English Legal History. By James Steven Rogers · Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xxv + 267 pp. Tables, index, and bibliography. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-44212-5 pp. 260-262

Fred Carstensen

Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics. By Donald N. McCloskey · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xviii + 445 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-521-43475-0; paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-521-43603-6 pp. 262-267

Jack High

American Artisans: Crafting Social Identity, 1750–1850. Edited byHoward B. Rock, Paul A. Gilje, and Robert Asher · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xx + 251 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-5029-0; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8018-5030-4 pp. 267-269

Donna J. Rilling

Sugar Dynasty: M. A. Patout & Son, Ltd., 1791–1993. By Michael G. Wade · Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1995. xv + 405 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-940984-96-2 pp. 269-271

David O. Whitten

Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735–1785. By David Hancock · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xxiii + 477 pp. Illustrations, photographs, appendices, notes and index. $59.95. ISBN 0-5214-7430-2 pp. 271-273

Edwin J. Perkins

Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse. By Richard R. John · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995. xiii + 369 pp. Notes, tables, sources, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0-674-83338-4 pp. 273-275

Rowena Olegario

The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology. By Carroll Pursell · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. vxi + 358 pp. Pictures, photos, figures, and index. $15.95. ISBN 0-8018-4818-0 pp. 275-277

Steven Lubar

A. P. Giannini and the Bank of America. By Gerald D. Nash · Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. xi + 162 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $26.95. ISBN 080612461X pp. 277-278

Thomas F. Cargill

The Genie Out of the Bottle: World Oil Since 1970. By M. A. Adelman · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995. xxiii + 350 pp. Illustrations, biographical references, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-262-01151-4 pp. 279-280

Richard H. K. Vietor

Inventing the Nonprofit Sector, and Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations. By Peter Dobkin Hall · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xiv + 349 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $39.50. ISBN 0-8018-42727 pp. 280-282

Guy Alchon

Capitalism in Context: Essays on Economic Development and Cultural Change in Honor of R. M. Hartwell. Edited byJohn A. James and Mark Thomas · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1994. x + 355 pp. Tables, charts, notes, index, and bibliography. $31.00. ISBN 0-226-39198-1 pp. 282-283

John McCusker

Patterns of European Industrialization: The Nineteenth Century. Edited byRichard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo · London: Routledge, 1991. xii + 276 pp. Figures, tables, contributors, and index. $22.50. ISBN 0-415-08156-4 pp. 284-286

Lynne Kiesling

Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter. By Maryanne Kowaleski · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xvi + 442 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, bibliography and index. ISBN 0-521-33371-7 pp. 286-287

Martha Carlin

European Women and Preindustrial Craft. By Darryl M. Hafter · Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. xv + 204 pp. Photos, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-253-32755-5; paper, $14.94, ISBN 0-253-20943-9 pp. 288-288

Sarah Lowengard

Steel City: Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Technology in Sheffield, 1743–1993. By Geoffrey Tweedale · Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1995. xiii + 436 pp. Tables, photographs, sources, and index. $75.00. ISBN 0-19-828866-2 pp. 289-290

Myrddin J. Lewis

At the End of the Road: The Rise and Fall of Austin-Healey, MG, and Triumph Sports Cars. By Timothy R. Whisler · Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1995. xix + 308 pp. Graphs, photographs, pictures, charts, tables, bibliography, and index. $73.25. ISBN 1-55938-906-0 pp. 291-294

Steven Tolliday

The Japanese Automobile Industry: A Business History. By Koichi Shimokawa · Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Athlone Press, 1994. xi + 189 pp. Tables, charts, figures, graphs, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00. ISBN 0-485-11270-1 pp. 294-296

Jeffrey R. Bernstein

Volume 70, issue 1, 1996

Chain Building: The Consolidation of the American Newspaper Industry, 1953–1980 pp. 1-42

Elizabeth MacIver Neiva

Testing for Aptitude and Motivation in South African Industry: The Work of the National Institute for Personnel Research, 1946–1973 pp. 43-68

Stuart Coupe

Founding Dates of the 1994 Fortune 500 U.S. Companies pp. 69-90

Anonymous

Business History Holdings at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania pp. 91-107

Cynthia J. Little

Coordination and Information: Historical Perspectives on the Organization of Enterprise. Edited byNaomi R. Lamoreaux andDaniel M. G. Raff · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1995. vii + 338 pp. Drawings, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $68.00, ISBN 0-226-46820-8; paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-226-46821-6 pp. 111-112

K. Austin Kerr

Debt, Investment, Slaves: Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825–1885. ByRichard Holcombe KilbourneJr. · Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995. xx + 204 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $36.95. ISBN 0-8173-0730-3 pp. 112-114

John A. Heitmann

Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850. Edited byJudith A. McGaw · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. x + 482 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2173-X; paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4484-5 pp. 114-116

Steven Lubar

Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America. ByMark H. Rose · University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. xviii + 229 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliographic essay, and index. $34.50. ISBN 0-271-01349-4 pp. 116-118

William Hausman

Strictly Business: Walter Carpenter at Du Pont and General Motors. ByCharles W. Cheape. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xix + 309 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical references, and index. $48.50. ISBN 0-8018-4941-1 pp. 118-121

Stephen Salsbury

Done in Oil: An Autobiography. ByJ. Howard MarshallII; edited, with an introduction by Robert L. BradleyJr. · College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994. xxi + 282 pp. Photos, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-89096-533-1 pp. 121-122

Roger M. Olien

Cold War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers. ByRonald L. Filippelli andMark D. McColloch · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xii + 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. Cloth, $59.50, ISBN 0-7914-2181-3; paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7914-2182-1 pp. 123-124

Melvyn Dubofsky

Hidden in the Home: The Role of Waged Homework in the Modern World-Economy. ByJamie Faricellia Dangler · Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. xvi + 225 pp. Bibliography and index. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-7914-2129-5; paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-7914-2130-9 pp. 125-126

Cynthia R. Daniels

The Banana Men: American Mercenaries & Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880–1930. ByLester D. Langley andThomas Schoonover · Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995. 219 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical note, and index. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-8131-1891-3; paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8131-0836-5 pp. 126-128

David McCreery

On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War. ByAngela Woollacott · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xiv + 241 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $38.00, ISBN 0-520-08397-0; paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-520-08502-7 pp. 128-130

John Horne

Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862–1969. ByRobert Fitzgerald · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xix + 737 pp. Notes, illustrations, figures, charts, index, and bibliography. $150.00. ISBN 0-521-43512-9 pp. 130-131

Leigh Sparks

Information, Mediation, and Institutional Development: The Rise of Large-Scale Enterprise in British Shipping, 1870–1919. ByGordon D. Boyce · Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995. xi + 346 pp. Notes, tables, bibliographical references, and index. $79.95. ISBN 0-7190-3847-2 pp. 131-133

Arthur Donovan

The City of London, Volume II: Golden Years, 1890–1914. ByDavid Kynaston · London: Chatto & Windus Publishers, 1995. 678 pp. Figures, pictures, photos, notes, and index. £25. ISBN 0-7011-3385-6 pp. 133-135

Ranald Michie

The Brothers: The Hidden World of Japan's Richest Family. ByLesley Downer · New York: Random House Press, 1995. xxvii + 418 pp. Charts, maps, index, and bibliography. $25.00. ISBN 0-679-42554-3. - Architects of Affluence: The Tsutsumi Family and the Seibu-Saison Enterprises in Twentieth-Century Japan. ByThomas R. H. Havens · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994. xv + 335 pp. Photos, pictures, notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-674-04360-X pp. 135-137

Jeffrey R. Bernstein

Wealth of Contrasts: Nyegaard & Co.—A Norwegian Pharmaceutical Company, 1874–1985. ByRolv Petter Amdam andKnut Sogner · Oslo: Ad Notam Gyldendal, 1994. 257 pp. Pictures, notes, charts, figures, index, and bibliography. NOK 330. ISBN 0-82-417-0405-4 pp. 137-139

Geoffrey Tweedale