Business History Review

1926 - 2024

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Volume 94, issue 4, 2020

Partners, Servants, or Entrepreneurs? Banians in the Nineteenth-Century Bengal Economy pp. 675-697

Michael Aldous

Multinational Companies and the Cultural Industries: W.H. Smith in Canada, 1950–1989 pp. 699-727

Thomas R. Buckley

Ghost in a Shell: The Scenario Tool and the World Making of Royal Dutch Shell pp. 729-751

Jenny Andersson

Politics, International Banking, and the Debt Crisis of 1982 pp. 753-778

Carlo Edoardo Altamura and Juan Flores Zendejas

Public Policy, Industrial Innovation, and the Zero-Emission Vehicle pp. 779-802

Matthew N. Eisler

Training Leaders to Win Wars and Forge Peace: Lessons from History pp. 807-833

Peter Tufano

The Sky above and the Mud below: Two Books about Steve Jobs pp. 835-852

Richard S. Tedlow

The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire. By Robert E. Weems Jr. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. 224 pp. Photographs, tables, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-04306-2; paper, 978-0-252-08493-5 pp. 853-855

Keith Hollingsworth

Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets. By Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xvi + 357 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-49642-1 pp. 855-858

Sean H. Vanatta

Darkness by Design: The Hidden Power in Global Capital Markets. By Walter Mattli. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. x + 248 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-18066-3 pp. 858-859

Leslie Hannah

Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat. By Ai Hisano. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 336 pp. Photographs, illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 9780674983892 pp. 859-861

Bartow J. Elmore

Savannah's Midnight Hour: Boosterism, Growth, and Commerce in a Nineteenth-Century American City. By Lisa L. Denmark. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019. xvi + 247 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8203-5632-7 pp. 861-864

Justene Hill Edwards

The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism. By Jennifer A. Delton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 358 pp. Photographs, figures, table, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-16786-2 pp. 864-867

Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl

The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas. By Janek Wasserman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. xii + 354 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-22822-9 pp. 867-869

Christopher Coyne

Volume 94, issue 3, 2020

The True Revolution of 1968: Mineral Water Trade and the Early Proliferation of Plastic, 1960s–1970s pp. 483-505

Nicolas Marty

Investing in the New Republic: Multinational Banks, Political Risk, and the Chinese Revolution of 1911 pp. 507-534

Ghassan Moazzin

British Fire Insurers in Australia, 1860–1920: A Story of Enterprise, Luck, and Resilience pp. 535-568

Monica Keneley

Trade, Finance, and Industry in the Development of Indian Capitalism: The Case of Tata pp. 569-592

Mircea Raianu

Adapting to Crisis: Accounting Information Systems during the Weimar Hyperinflation pp. 593-625

Sebastian Hoffmann and Stephen P. Walker

The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865 pp. 631-636

Noam Maggor

The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society pp. 637-652

Robert Fredona

Global Economic History. Edited by Tirthankar Roy and Giorgio Riello. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xiv + 370 pp. Tables, figures, references, notes, index. Paper, $54.99. ISBN: 978-1-4725-8843-2 pp. 653-655

Chinmay Tumbe

Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875–1919. By Erik Grimmer-Solem. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiv + 654 pp. Maps, photographs, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $44.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-48382-7 pp. 655-658

Heidi Tworek

Animal City: The Domestication of America. By Andrew A. Robichaud. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 352 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 9780674919365 pp. 658-660

Joshua Specht

Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763–1789. By Joseph M. Adelman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 280 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 9781421428604 pp. 660-664

Steven Carl Smith

Creating Global Shipping: Aristotle Onassis, the Vagliano Brothers, and the Business of Shipping, c. 1820–1970. By Gelina Harlaftis. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xxiv + 375 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, appendices, index. Cloth, $120.00. ISBN: 978-1-108-47539-6 pp. 664-666

Richard Sicotte

Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940. By Eugenia Lean. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 416 pp. Notes, references, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-19348-1 pp. 666-669

Emilie Takayama

Whom Fortune Favours: The Bank of Montreal and the Rise of North American Finance, vols. 1 and 2. By Laurence B. Mussio. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. 752 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-2280-0068-6 pp. 669-672

Robert E. Wright

Volume 94, issue 2, 2020

Shorting the Future? Capital Markets and the Launch of the British Electrical Industry, 1882–1892 pp. 287-320

William P. Kennedy and P. J. R. Delargy

Investing in a Wealthy Resource-Based Colonial Economy: International Business in Australia before World War I pp. 321-346

Simon Ville and David Tolmie Merrett

The Changing and Flexible Nature of Imitation and Adulteration: The Case of the Global Wine Industry, 1850–1914 pp. 347-371

Teresa Lopes, Andrea Lluch and Gaspar Martins Pereira

The Advantage of Being Swiss: Nestlé and Political Risk in Asia during the Early Cold War, 1945–1970 pp. 373-397

Pierre-Yves Donzé

Building Industrial Districts: Do Subsidies Help? Evidence from Postwar Italy pp. 399-423

Anna Spadavecchia

Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World. By Andrew Lambert. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. xvii + 399 pp. Maps, illustrations, glossary, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 9780300230048 pp. 429-431

Nicholas J. White

The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, c. 1550–1750. Edited by William A. Pettigrew and David Veevers. Leiden: Brill, 2019. x + 393 pp. Index. Cloth, $157.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-38781-2 pp. 432-434

Corey Tazzara

Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880. By JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. xiv + 421 pp. Photographs, illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2889-5 pp. 434-436

David Hochfelder

Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution. By Priya Satia. New York: Penguin Press, 2018. 544 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-735-22186-4 pp. 436-439

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. By Eugene McCarraher. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. xii + 799 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-98461-5 pp. 439-442

Stefan Schwarzkopf

Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America. By Daniel Vaca. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 329 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 9780674980112 pp. 442-445

Peter J. Wosh

Free Enterprise: An American History. By Lawrence B. Glickman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 360 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-23825-9 pp. 445-448

Peter Eisenstadt

The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society. By Binyamin Appelbaum. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. 448 pp. Photographs, table, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-316-51232-9 pp. 448-451

William R. Childs

American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation. By Sarah L. Quinn. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xiv + 288 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-15675-0 pp. 451-453

Jamieson Gordon Myles

The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets. By Thomas Philippon. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. xii + 343 pp. Figures, tables, glossary, appendix, references, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 9780674237544 pp. 453-456

Marc Levinson

Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America. By Joshua Specht. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xv + 339 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-18231-5 pp. 456-458

Michael S. Kideckel

India Moving: A History of Migration. By Chinmay Tumbe. Haryana: Penguin Random House India, 2018. xv + 285 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, INR599.00. ISBN: 978-0-670-08983-3 pp. 458-461

Shashank Shah

Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860–1937. By Anne Reinhardt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. xii + 381 pp. Maps, figures, table, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-98384-7 pp. 461-464

Lane J. Harris

Africapitalism: Rethinking the Role of Business in Africa. Edited by Kenneth Amaeshi, Adun Okupe, and Uwafiokun Idemudia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xv + 295 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $89.99; paper, $29.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-107-16070-5; paper, 978-1-316-61370-2 pp. 464-467

Chambi Chachage

Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed. By Olivier van Beemen. Translated by Bram Posthumus. London: Hurst & Company, 2019. xvi + 307 pp. Photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-849-04902-3 pp. 467-470

Louis T. Wells

Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry from 1880. By Graham D. Taylor. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2019. xii + 368 pp. Photographs, maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-77385-035-1 pp. 470-472

Tyler Priest

Londres en Caracas y la Haya en Maracaibo: Retos empresariales de Royal Dutch Shell en la industria petrolera venezolana entre 1943–1958 [London in Caracas and The Hague in Maracaibo: Business challenges of Royal Dutch Shell in the Venezuelan oil industry, 1943–1958]. By Alejandro E. Cáceres. Caracas: Fundación Bancaribe para la Ciencia y la Cultura, 2019. 130 pp. Figures, bibliography, references, tables. Paper. ISBN: 978-980-7125-25-3 pp. 472-475

Marcelo Bucheli

Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed. By David Farber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. x + 214 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 978-1-108-42527-8. - Coca Yes, Cocaine No: How Bolivia's Coca Growers Reshaped Democracy. By Thomas Grisaffi. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. ix + 261 pp. Photographs, maps, references, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; paper $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4780-0171-3; paper, 978-1-4780-0297-0 pp. 475-479

Xavier Duran

Volume 94, issue 1, 2020

Italy and the Origins of Capitalism pp. 5-38

Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert

Premodern European Capitalism, Christianity, and Florence pp. 39-72

William Caferro

Profit and Patrimony: Property, Markets, and Public Debt in Late Medieval Genoa pp. 73-94

Jeffrey Miner

Big Business for Firms and States: Silk Manufacturing in Renaissance Italy pp. 95-123

Franco Franceschi

Political Economy and the Medici pp. 125-177

Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona

The Burden of Risk: Early Modern Maritime Enterprise and Varieties of Capitalism pp. 179-200

Maria Fusaro

Port of Trade or Commodity Market? Livorno and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Mediterranean pp. 201-228

Corey Tazzara

Renaissance Florence and the Origins of Capitalism: A Business History Perspective pp. 229-251

Francesca Trivellato

Robert Skidelsky Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics pp. 257-261

Hugh Rockoff

Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance before the New Deal. ByShennette Garrett-Scott. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xi + 273 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $105.00; paper, $35.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-231-18390-1; paper, 978-0-231-18391-8 pp. 263-266

Janice Traflet

From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico. ByCasey Marina Lurtz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. xiv + 280 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, appendixes, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 9781503603899 pp. 266-269

Susan Gauss

The Wealth of Religions: The Political Economy of Believing and Belonging. ByRachel M. McCleary andRobert J. Barro. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. viii + 199 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17895-0 pp. 269-271

David E. Campbell

Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean: Private Order and Public Institutions. ByTaco Terpstra. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. x + 274 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17208-8 pp. 271-274

Kostas Vlassopoulos

The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America. ByPeter John Brownlee. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 264 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 9780812250428 pp. 274-276

Martin L. Johnson

Does America Need More Innovators? Edited byMatthew Wisnioski, Eric S. Hintz, andMarie Stettler Kleine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. ix + 397 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, index. Paper, $45.00. ISBN: 9780262536738 pp. 276-279

Marc Levinson

The Power of Your Life: The Sanlam Century of Insurance Empowerment, 1918–2018. ByGrietjie Verhoef. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xxv + 409 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-881775-8 pp. 279-281

Geoffrey Clark

Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War. ByDouglas M. O'Reagan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. xi + 281 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2887-1 pp. 281-283

Michael C. Schneider