Business History Review

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Volume 91, issue 4, 2017

Transnational Indian Business in the Twentieth Century pp. 651-679

Chinmay Tumbe

Squabbling Sisters: Multinational Companies and Middle East Oil Prices pp. 681-706

Nuno Luís Madureira

Corporate Strategies and Global Competition: Odense Steel Shipyard, 1918–2012 pp. 707-734

René Taudal Poulsen, Kristoffer Jensen, René Schrøder Christensen and Liping Jiang

The Hundred Largest Employers in the Russian Empire, circa 1913 pp. 735-765

Volodymyr Kulikov

Reinventing Entrepreneurial History pp. 767-799

R. Daniel Wadhwani and Christina Lubinski

Selected Abstracts from International Business History Journals pp. 803-807

Anonymous

Ellen Fitzpatrick, The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency pp. 809-813

Mary A. Yeager

Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean. By Peter James Hudson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 361 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-45911-0 pp. 815-817

Cyrus Veeser

Robert McNamara's Other War: The World Bank and International Development. By Patrick Allan Sharma. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 225 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4906-4 pp. 817-820

David Stebenne

Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America. Edited by Richard R. John and Kim Phillips-Fein. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. viii + 301 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4882-1 pp. 820-822

Meg Jacobs

The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family. By Nina Sankovitch. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. xii + 382 pp. Notes, bibliography, photographs, index. Cloth, $27.99. ISBN: 978-1-250-06920-7 pp. 822-825

Shaun S. Nichols

Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age. By Noam Maggor. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2017. xii + 284 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-97146-2 pp. 825-827

Sharon Ann Murphy

This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy. By Matthew Karp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. 360 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-73725-9 pp. 827-830

David Prior

A History of British National Audit: The Pursuit of Accountability. By David Dewar and Warwick Funnell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. x + 303 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-879031-0 pp. 830-832

Ranald Michie

El Banco de Barcelona, 1874–1920: Decadencia y quiebra [Bank of Barcelona, 1874–1920: Decadence and bankruptcy]. By Yolanda Blasco-Martel and Carles Sudrià i Triay. Madrid: Marcial Pons Historia, 2016. 412 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, addendum, appendices, bibliography, index. Paperback, €30.00. ISBN: 978-84-15963-89-9 pp. 832-834

Sergio Castellanos-Gamboa

Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective. Edited by Patrick Fridenson and Kikkawa Takeo. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. xvi + 273 pp. Notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-1-4875-0106-8 pp. 834-837

Timothy Yang

Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893. By Yasuhiro Makimura. New York: Lexington Books, 2017. xx + 255 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $105.00. ISBN: 978-1-4985-5559-3 pp. 837-840

W. Miles Fletcher

The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age. By Wendy Gamber. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. xi + 305 pp. Photographs, maps, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2020-2 pp. 840-842

Tamara Plakins Thornton

Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs: Being a Story of the Nation's Most Famous (and Infamous) Detective Agency. By S. Paul O'Hara. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. vi + 194 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2056-1 pp. 842-845

Stephen E. Towne

Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement. By Chad Pearson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. viii + 303 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4776-3 pp. 845-847

Mark W. Robbins

The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It. By David Weil. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014 (cloth) and 2017 (paper). viii + 410 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $31.95; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-674-725447-7; paper, 978-0-674-97544-6 pp. 848-850

Marc Stern

The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness. By Monica R. Gisolfi, with foreword by Paul S. Sutter. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017. xvi + 104 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8203-3578-0; paper, 978-0-8203-4971-8 pp. 851-853

Drew Swanson

Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America. By Tracy Neumann. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 270 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4827-2 pp. 853-855

Lachlan MacKinnon

Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers. By Nancy Tomes. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. xviii + 538 pp. Bibliography, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-4696-2277-4 pp. 855-858

Christy Ford Chapin

John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. By Kathleen Waters Sander. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 403 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-2220-6 pp. 858-860

Albert J. Churella

Powering Up Canada: A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600. Edited by R. W. Sandwell. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. xx + 482 pp. Map, figures, tables, bibliography, appendices, index. Cloth, $120.00; paper, $37.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-7735-4785-8; paper, 978-0-7735-4786-5 pp. 861-863

Matthew N. Eisler

Engines of Empire: Steamships and the Victorian Imagination. By Douglas R. Burgess Jr. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 342 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9806-8 pp. 863-866

Susan Barton

C&A: A Family Business in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, 1911–1961. By Mark Spoerer, with translation by Jefferson Chase, Patricia C. Sutcliffe, and Patricia Szobar. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2016. 480 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth, €34.95. ISBN: 978-34-0669-8262 pp. 866-869

Jan-Otmar Hesse

Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate. By Andrew Paxman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 509 pp. Notes, illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-045574-3 pp. 869-872

Susan Gauss

Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision. By Brett Sheehan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 327 pp. Bibliography, figures, photographs, glossary, illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $46.50. ISBN: 978-0-674-96760-1 pp. 872-874

Christopher Leighton

China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay. By Minxin Pei. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. 376 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-73729-7 pp. 875-877

Adam K. Frost

Volume 91, issue 3, 2017

Debating Methodology in Business History pp. 443-455

Anonymous

Organization Theory in Business and Management History: Present Status and Future Prospects pp. 457-481

Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey and Stewart R. Clegg

Capital as Process and the History of Capitalism pp. 483-510

Jonathan Levy

Business Enterprise and Globalization: Towards a Transnational Business History pp. 511-535

Marten Boon

The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets pp. 537-569

Gareth Austin, Carlos Dávila and Geoffrey Jones

Madison, Hamilton, and Jefferson: Reinterpreting America's Founding Fathers pp. 575-587

Peter A. Coclanis

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century pp. 589-592

Sarah Wilson

Endangered Economies: How the Neglect of Nature Threatens Our Prosperity. By Geoffrey Heal. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xii + 227 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-18084-9 pp. 593-595

Kurk Dorsey

Oil Shock: The 1973 Crisis and Its Economic Legacy. Edited by Elisabetta Bini, Giuliano Garavini, and Federico Romero. London: I. B. Tauris, 2016. 336 pp. Illustrations, notes. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 978-1-78453-556-8 pp. 595-598

Michael Franczak

The Chinese and Indian Corporate Economies: A Comparative History of Their Search for Economic Renaissance and Globalization. By Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. xviii + 471 pp. Map, figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $215.00 ISBN: 978-1-138-92988-3 pp. 598-601

Tirthankar Roy

The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand Year History. By Philip E. Auerswald. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. vi + 298 pp. Figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-022676-3 pp. 601-603

Karl Moore

Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective. By Carl A. Zimring. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2017. xii + 198 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2186-5 pp. 603-606

Andrew Perchard

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World. By Brad Stone. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2017. 372 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-316-38839-9 pp. 606-608

Jonathan Coopersmith

Other People's Money: How Banking Worked in the Early Republic. By Sharon Ann Murphy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. xii + 192 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4214-2174-2; paper, 978-1-4214-2175-9 pp. 609-611

Hugh Rockoff

Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life. By Tamara Plakins Thornton. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. xiv + 402 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-4696-2693-2 pp. 611-613

Lee Vinsel

Middle Class Union: Organizing the “Consuming Public” in Post–World War I America. By Mark W. Robbins. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. viii + 219 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 978-0-472-13033-7 pp. 613-616

Jennifer Scanlon

The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life. By Margaret Guroff. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. 287 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-292-74362-5 pp. 616-618

Clifton Hood

The Capitalist and the Critic: J. P. Morgan, Roger Fry, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Charles Molesworth. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. xii + 244 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4773-0840-0 pp. 618-620

David C. Hammack

A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau. By Rosemary Stevens. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. xviii + 376 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2130-8 pp. 620-622

Michael W. Flamm

Merchants and Ministers: A History of Businesspeople and Clergy in the United States. By Kevin Schmiesing. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2017. ix + 249 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $105.00; e-book, $99.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4985-3924-1; e-book, 978-1-4985-3925-8 pp. 622-625

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America. By Frances FitzGerald. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017. 740 pp. Photographs, glossary, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-4391-3133-6 pp. 625-627

Peter J. Wosh

City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles. By Jerald Podair. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. xviii + 366 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-12503-9 pp. 628-630

J. Philip Gruen

Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World. By Juliet Johnson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. xviii + 292 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-5017-0022-4 pp. 630-633

Emily Buchnea

A Vision Greater than Themselves: The Making of the Bank of Montreal, 1817–2017. By Laurence B. Mussio. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. xiv + 257 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-7735-4829-9 pp. 633-635

Joe Martin

The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence. By S. Max Edelson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. xiv + 464 pp. Maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-97211-7 pp. 635-638

Rachael Comunale

The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820. By Leslie Tomory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. xvi + 314 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2204-6 pp. 638-640

Nicola Tynan

Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain. By Julian Glover. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2017. xxv + 416 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-1-4088-3746-7 pp. 641-643

Jerry White

Banques et grande industrie: France, Grande-Bretagne, Allemagne (1880–1930) [Banks and big industry: France, Britain, Germany (1880–1930)]. By Philippe Marguerat. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2015. 420 pp. Tables, bibliography, index. Paperback, €35. ISBN: 978-2-7246-1780-1 pp. 643-645

Hubert Bonin

Mercado, ganado y territorio: Haciendas y hacendados en el Oriente y el Magdalena Medio antioqueños (1920–1960) [Market, livestock, and territory: Haciendas and hacendados in Oriente and Magdalena Medio (Antioquía, Colombia), 1920–1960]. By José Roberto Álvarez Múnera. Medellín, Colombia: Universidad de Antioquía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Fondo Editorial FCSH, 2016. 392 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $20.30. ISBN: 978-958-8947-58-7 pp. 645-648

Maria-Aparecida Lopes

Volume 91, issue 2, 2017

Contractual Freedom and Corporate Governance in Britain in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries pp. 227-277

Timothy Guinnane, Ron Harris and Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Diversification and Internationalization in the European Single Market: The British Exception pp. 279-299

Michael Mayer, Julia Hautz, Christian Stadler and Richard Whittington

The Origins of American International Retailing: Tiffany of New York in London and Paris, 1837–1914 pp. 301-328

Nicholas Alexander and Anne Marie Doherty

Arc of Empire: The Federal Telegraph Company, the U.S. Navy, and the Beginnings of Silicon Valley pp. 329-359

Stephen B. Adams

Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741–1860 pp. 377-381

Catherine O'Donnell

Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America pp. 383-388

Michael S. Green

A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. By Joel Mokyr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. xiv + 403 pp. References, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-16888-3 pp. 389-391

Simon Ville

Capitalism: A Short History. By Jürgen Kocka, trans. Jeremiah Riemer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. viii + 198 pp. Bibliography, notes. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16522-6 pp. 391-394

Scott A. Sandage

Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff. By Edward J. Balleisen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. xiv + 479 pp. Figures, table, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-16455-7 pp. 394-396

Eugene Soltes

The Evolution of Money. By David Orrell and Roman Chlupatý. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. x + 309 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-17372-8 pp. 397-399

James Angel

Investment: A History. By Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing. New York: Columbia Business School Press, 2016. x + 436 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-16952-3 pp. 399-401

Douglas Cumming

Silent Partners: Women as Public Investors during Britain's Financial Revolution, 1690–1750. By Amy M. Froide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. vi + 225 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-876798-5 pp. 401-403

Janette Rutterford

British Banking: Continuity and Change from 1694 to the Present. By Ranald C. Michie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xi + 334 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth, $105.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-872736-1 pp. 403-406

Leslie Hannah

The Rise of the Global Company: Multinationals and the Making of the Modern World. By Robert Fitzgerald. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 622 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $99.99; paper, $29.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-521-84974-6; paper, 978-0-521-61496-2 pp. 406-409

Adam K. Frost

Mutual Insurance 1550–2015: From Guild Welfare and Friendly Societies to Contemporary Micro-Insurers. By Marco H. D. van Leeuwen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xiii + 321 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $120.00. ISBN: 978-1-137-53109-4 pp. 409-411

Robin Pearson

Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790–1860. By Gergely Baics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. xv + 347 pp. Maps, figures, tables, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16879-1 pp. 411-414

Marc Levinson

Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America. By Joanna Cohen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 296 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4892-0 pp. 414-416

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

Louis Bamberger: Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist. By Linda B. Forgosh. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2016. xv + 258 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-61168-981-5 pp. 417-419

Howard R. Stanger

Selling Power: Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940. By John L. Neufeld. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xiv + 327 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-39963-8 pp. 420-422

Taylor Jaworski

Post-War Business Planners in the United States, 1939–48: The Rise of the Corporate Moderates. By Charlie Whitham. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xii + 289 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $114.00. ISBN: 978-1-4725-1172-0 pp. 422-424

Mark R. Wilson

Law and the Economy in Colonial India. By Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xii + 240 pp. Maps, references, glossary, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 978-0-226-38764-2 pp. 424-428

Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System. By John D. Wong. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xii + 247 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-15066-9 pp. 428-430

Weiwei Luo

Organizing Organic: Conflict and Compromise in an Emerging Market. By Michael A. Haedicke. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. xiv + 225 pp. Tables, references, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9590-6 pp. 431-433

Ai Hisano

From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies. By Jennifer Le Zotte. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiv + 326 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $27.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4696-3189-9; paper, 978-1-4696-3190-5 pp. 433-436

Véronique Pouillard

Subsistence under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Edited by James Murton, Dean Bavington, and Carly Dokis. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. xiv + 391 pp. Figures, table, notes, index. Paper, $37.95. ISBN: 978-0-7735-4700-1 pp. 436-439

Mansel G. Blackford

Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs: How One Banana-Exporting Country Achieved Worldwide Reach. By Douglas Southgate and Lois Roberts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. viii + 219 pp. Maps, tables, references, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4807-4 pp. 439-441

Casey Marina Lurtz

Volume 91, issue 1, 2017

Transfer of Economic Power in Corporate Calcutta, 1950–1970 pp. 3-29

Tirthankar Roy

International Business and the Development of British Electrical Manufacturing, 1886–1929 pp. 31-70

Robert Fitzgerald

“The Only Way Is Up”: Overoptimism and the Demise of the American Five-and-Dime Store, 1914–1941 pp. 71-103

Peter Scott and James Walker

Rogue Trading at Lloyds Bank International, 1974: Operational Risk in Volatile Markets pp. 105-128

Catherine Schenk

Improving French Competitiveness through American Investment following World War II pp. 129-155

Laureen Kuo

William N. Goetzmann, Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible pp. 161-168

Peter Eisenstadt

Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War pp. 169-173

Gary Cross

Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II. By Mark R. Wilson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 379 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4833-3 pp. 175-177

Eric Rauchway

Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire. Edited by Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Notes, index. Cloth, $105.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-998853-2 pp. 177-180

Christine Zabel

The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century: The Piketty Opportunity. Edited by Pat Hudson and Keith Tribe. New York: Columbia University Press, Agenda Publishing, 2017. xii + 256 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $30.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-911-11610-3; paper, 978-1-911-11611-0 pp. 180-183

Alexander Field

All the Facts: A History of Information in the United States since 1870. By James W. Cortada. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xx + 636 pp. Figures, tables, bibliographic essay, notes, tables, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-1904-6067-9 pp. 183-186

Paul Miranti

Brand Luther: 1517, Printing, and the Making of the Reformation. By Andrew Pettegree. New York: Penguin Press, 2015. xvi + 383 pp. Maps, photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-59420-496-8 pp. 186-188

Bruce Gordon

The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity. By Darren E. Grem. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiii + 282 pp. Cloth, $34.95. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-992797-5 pp. 189-191

Darren Dochuk

Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century: The Golden Age of Antwerp. By Jeroen Puttevils. New York: Routledge, 2015. xii + 312 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $150.00. ISBN: 978-1-84893-576-1 pp. 191-193

Donald J. Harreld

Carl Duisberg, 1861–1935: Anatomie eines Industriellen [Carl Duisberg, 1861–1935: Anatomy of an Industrialist]. By Werner Plumpe. Munich, Germany: C. H. Beck Press, 2016. 992 pp. Photographs, bibliography, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $42.35. ISBN: 978-3-406-69637-4 pp. 193-196

Carsten Reinhardt

Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon's Willamette Valley. By Peter A. Kopp. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. xv + 306 pp. Photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-27748-9 pp. 196-198

Steven M. Schnell

Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest. By Andrew Needham. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. ix + 321 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-13906-7 pp. 198-201

Leah S. Glaser

The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World. By Sally Denton. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016. viii + 436 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-1-4767-0646-7 pp. 201-203

Stephen B. Adams

Evolution of Family Business: Continuity and Change in Latin America and Spain. Edited by Paloma Fernández Pérez and Andrea Lluch. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016. xvi + 295 pp. Maps, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $135.00. ISBN: 978-1-78536-314-6 pp. 204-206

Marcelo Bucheli

Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization. By Branko Milanovic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. ix + 299 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-73713-6 pp. 206-209

Roni Hirsch

Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy. By Jeffry A. Frieden. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. x + 301 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $22.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17384-9 pp. 209-211

Ron Michener

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Second Shift: The Inside Story of the Keep GM Movement. By David Hollister, Ray Tadgerson, David Closs, and Tomas Hult. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2016. xii + 243 pp. Photographs, figures, appendix, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-1-25-964382-8 pp. 216-218

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Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures Between 600 BCE and 2012. By Niv Horesh. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. xiv + 363 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-8719-2 pp. 218-221

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Policy Signals and Market Responses: A 50 Year History of Zambia's Relationship with Foreign Capital. By Stuart John Barton. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 298 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $115.00. ISBN: 978-1-137-39097-4 pp. 221-223

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