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Volume 90, issue 4, 2016

The Rise and Fall of the First Government-Sponsored Enterprise: The Federal Land Banks, 1916–1932 pp. 623-645

Judge Glock

The Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility in American Health Care and Home Loans pp. 647-670

Christy Ford Chapin

Executive Education and the Managerial Revolution: The Birth of Executive Education at Harvard Business School pp. 671-690

Rolv Petter Amdam

Introduction: From Management Consultant to Psychological Counsel pp. 691-694

Christopher McKenna

Evolving Ideas about Business Strategy pp. 727-749

Pankaj Ghemawat

Selected Abstracts from International Business History Journals pp. 755-762

Anonymous

Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, The Cambridge History of Capitalism: Volume 1, The Rise of Capitalism: From Ancient Origins to 1848; Volume II, The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present pp. 763-768

Angus Burgin

Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s. By Meg Jacobs. New York: Hill and Wang, 2016. viii + 373 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-8090-5847-1 pp. 769-771

Benjamin C. Waterhouse

Kissinger, 1923–1968: The Idealist, volume I. By Niall Ferguson. New York: Penguin Press, 2015. xix + 986 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-59420-653-5 pp. 771-774

Michael Franczak

Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700. By Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. xx + 398 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, references, appendixes, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-17049-7 pp. 774-777

Gavin Wright

Postcard America: Curt Teich and the Imaging of a Nation, 1931–1950. By Jeffrey L. Meikle. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. viii + 508 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-292-72661-1 pp. 777-779

Leigh Gleason

Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business. By Susan V. Spellman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xii + 226 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-938427-3 pp. 780-783

Howard Stanger

How the Post Office Created America: A History. By Winifred Gallagher. New York: Penguin Press, 2016. 326 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-1-59420-500-2 pp. 783-785

Joseph M. Adelman

The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans. By Bruce E. Baker and Barbara Hahn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xi + 214 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-021165-3 pp. 785-788

Eli Cook

The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture. By Pamela Haag. New York: Basic Books, 2016. xxv + 496 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.99. ISBN: 978-0-465-04895-3 pp. 788-790

Laura Browder

Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State. By Daniel Amsterdam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 230 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4810-4 pp. 790-793

Mason B. Williams

American Surveillance: Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment. By Anthony Gregory. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. xiii + 263 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 978-0-299-30880-3 pp. 793-796

Josh Lauer

America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve. By Roger Lowenstein. New York: Penguin Press, 2015. 355 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth $29.95. ISBN: 978-159420-549-1 pp. 796-798

Wyatt Wells

Sugar and Civilization: American Empire and the Cultural Politics of Sweetness. By April Merleaux. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xviii + 302 pp. Photographs, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-2251-4 pp. 798-801

Michael S. Kideckel

Drive! Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age. By Lawrence Goldstone. New York: Ballantine Books, 2016. 372 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-553-39418-4 pp. 801-803

Dimitry Anastakis

Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe. By Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. xvi + 265 pp. Notes, references, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16545-5 pp. 803-805

Jacob S. Hacker

The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle. By Peter Baldwin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014. 535 pp. Notes, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16909-5 pp. 806-808

Paul Duguid

Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772. By Tyler Beck Goodspeed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. xii + 298 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-08888-7 pp. 808-810

John Shovlin

A History of Fair Trade in Contemporary Britain: From Civil Society Campaigns to Corporate Compliance. By Matthew Anderson. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. x + 230 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-30381-2 pp. 810-813

Teresa Lopes

Austrian Banks in the Period of National Socialism. By Gerald D. Feldman with introduction by Peter Hayes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. x + 581 pp. Tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $140.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-00165-7 pp. 813-815

Ralf Banken

Kooperation statt Klassenkampf? Zur Bedeutung kooperativer wirtschaftlicher Leitbilder für die Arbeitszeitsenkung in Kaiserreich und Bundesrepublik [Cooperation Instead of Class Conflict? The Significance of Cooperative Images for the Reduction in Working Hours during Kaiserreich and Bundesrepublik]. By Albrecht Franz. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. 280 pp. Appendix, references. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-10818-8 pp. 815-817

Roman Köster

Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana: Trade in the French Atlantic World. By Erin M. Greenwald. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016. xiii + 224 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8071-6285-9 pp. 817-819

Elisabeth Heijmans

Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia: Gillian Maclaine and His Business Network. By G. Roger Knight. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2015. xiv + 193 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, $115.00. ISBN: 978-1-78327-069-9 pp. 819-822

Donna Brunero

Forging Capitalism in Nehru's India: Neocolonialism and the State, c. 1940–1970. By Nasir Tyabji. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015. 202 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 9780199457595 pp. 822-824

Rohit Chandra

The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. Edited by Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015. x + 290 pp. Figures, tables, index. Cloth, $130.00. ISBN: 978-1-78347-363-2 pp. 824-827

Carlos Dávila

Corporate Forms and Organizational Choice in International Insurance. Edited by Robin Pearson and Takau Yoneyama. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2016. xviii + 330 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-873900-5 pp. 827-829

Niels Viggo Haueter

Volume 90, issue 3, 2016

Cataloging Nature: Standardizing Fruit Varieties in the United States, 1800–1860 pp. 405-429

Emily Pawley

Developing the Mexican Countryside: The Department of Fomento's Social Project of Modernization pp. 431-455

Casey Marina Lurtz

Building Brand Reputation through Third-Party Endorsement: Fair Trade in British Chocolate pp. 457-482

Teresa Lopes

The Rise of Synthetic Colors in the American Food Industry, 1870–1940 pp. 483-504

Ai Hisano

Promoting Agriculture: Farmers, the State, and Checkoff Marketing, 1935–2005 pp. 505-536

Sarah Milov

Revisiting the History of Agribusiness pp. 541-545

Shane Hamilton

A Concise History of International Finance: From Babylon to Bernanke. By Larry Neal. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv + 361 pp. Tables, figures, references, index. Paper, $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-62121-3 pp. 547-549

Richard Sylla

The Rise and Fall of Corporate Social Responsibility. By Douglas M. Eichar. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2015. xii + 382 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN: 978-1-4128-5690-4 pp. 549-552

Rowena Olegario

Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA. By Benjamin C. Waterhouse. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xiv + 345 pp. Illustrations, photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $27.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-691-14916-5; paper, 978-0-691-16801-2 pp. 552-555

Marc Stern

The Cultural History of Money and Credit: A Global Perspective. Edited by Chia Yin Hsu, Thomas M. Luckett, and Erika Vause. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2016. xxv + 171 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-1-4985-0592-5 pp. 555-558

C. Edoardo Altamura

Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History. Edited by Rebecca Kobrin and Adam Teller. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. viii + 355 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4730-5 pp. 558-560

Peter Eisenstadt

Mixed Fortunes: An Economic History of China, Russia, and the West. By Vladimir Popov. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xiii + 191 pp. Tables, references, figures, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-870363-1 pp. 560-563

Sergey Radchenko

Embezzlement and High Treason in Louis XIV's France: The Trial of Nicolas Fouquet. By Vincent J. Pitts. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. ix + 223 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1824-7 pp. 563-566

Jeff Horn

Bordeaux et les Etats-Unis, 1776–1815: Politique et stratégies négociantes dans la genèse d'un réseau commercial [Bordeaux and the United States, 1776–1815: Politics and Negotiating Strategies at the Birth of a Commercial Network]. By Silvia Marzagalli. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2015. iv + 560 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $60.78. ISBN: 978-2-600-01807-4 pp. 566-568

Corey Tazzara

Unternehmenskultur im Industriedorf: Die Papierfabriken Kübler & Niethammer in Sachsen (1856–1956) [Corporate Culture in the Industrial Village: The Paper Factories of Kübler & Niethammer in Saxony (1856–1956)]. By Swen Steinberg. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2015. 580 pp. Photographs, references, figures, illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $69.00. ISBN: 978-3-86583-746-2 pp. 569-571

Martin Lutz

Smokestacks in the Hills: Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia. By Lou Martin. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 264 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $28.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03945-4; paper, 978-0-252-08102-6 pp. 572-574

Beth English

Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade since 1750. Edited by Ulbe Bosma and Anthony Webster. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xv + 318 pp. Photographs, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-137-46391-3 pp. 574-577

Chris Nierstrasz

French Banks and the Greek “Niche Market,” mid-1880s–1950s. By Hubert Bonin. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2013. 379 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, tables. Paper, $52.48. ISBN: 978-2-600-01700-8 pp. 577-579

Michael S. Smith

Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights in the War of 1812. By Paul A. Gilje. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xii + 425 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper, $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-60782-8 pp. 579-582

Andrew J. B. Fagal

The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South. By William Boyd. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xvii + 350 pp. Photographs, maps, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1878-0 pp. 582-584

Sarah T. Phillips

Forestry in the U.S. South: A History. By Mason C. Carter, Robert C. Kellison, and R. Scott Wallinger. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. xx + 386 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, figures, references, appendixes, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-8071-6054-1 pp. 584-587

Erik Loomis

The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve. By Peter Conti-Brown. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. xiv + 347 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-16400-7 pp. 587-591

Wyatt Wells

Crash! How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked. By Phillip G. Payne. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. viii + 142 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4214-1885-1; paper, 978-1-4214-1856-8 pp. 591-593

Howard Bodenhorn

Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line. By Gregory L. Schneider. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. xx + 380 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-7006-1918-4 pp. 594-596

Jeff Schramm

Inglorious Revolution: Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil. By William R. Summerhill. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. xiv + 342 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, appendixes, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-13927-3 pp. 596-598

Zephyr Frank

La France, l'Allemagne et l'Europe monétaire de 1974 à 1981: La persévérance récompensée [France, Germany and Monetary Europe from 1974 to 1981: Perseverance Rewarded]. By Amaury de Saint Périer. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2013. 357 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index. Paper, $34.36. ISBN: 978-2-7246-1325-4 pp. 599-601

Laure Quennouëlle-Corre

Waste into Weapons: Recycling in Britain during the Second World War. By Peter Thorsheim. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv + 289 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-09935-7 pp. 601-603

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape. By Francesca Russello Ammon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. xvi + 383 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-20068-3 pp. 603-605

Jeffrey K. Stine

Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-Siècle Capital. By Alexia M. Yates. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 353 pp. Maps, tables, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 978-0-674-08821-4 pp. 606-609

Eric Godelier

Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity. By David Arnold. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 223 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, bibliographic essay, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-92202-7 pp. 609-611

Rohit Chandra

The Technological Indian. By Ross Bassett. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. 386 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-50471-4 pp. 611-613

Nikhil Menon

From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play. By Carroll Pursell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. ix + 216 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $28.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1650-2 pp. 613-615

Rachel Maines

The Lock and Key of Medicine: Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare. By Lara V. Marks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. xxviii + 316 pp. Photographs, illustrations, glossary, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-16773-3 pp. 615-617

Arthur Daemmrich

Making News: The Political Economy of Journalism in Britain and America from the Glorious Revolution to the Internet. Edited by Richard R. John and Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ix + 263 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0199676187 pp. 618-620

David Abrahamson and Callie Leone

Volume 90, issue 2, 2016

Sustainability and Shared Value in the Interwar Swedish Copper Industry pp. 197-225

Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Magnus Lindmark

Creating the Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada: The Use of Legal Flexibility in Spanish Company Law, 1869–1953 pp. 227-249

Susana Martinez-Rodriguez

Bringing Radio into America's Homes: Marketing New Technology in the Great Depression pp. 251-276

Peter Scott and James Walker

Innovation's Golden Triangle: Finance, Regulation, and Science at the Bell System, 1877–1940 pp. 277-299

Paul J. Miranti

Keynes and Wall Street pp. 301-328

David Chambers and Ali Kabiri

Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods pp. 333-337

Stephanie Decker

Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine. By Jonathan Coopersmith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xii + 308 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1591-8 pp. 339-341

Paul Israel

Eureka: How Invention Happens. By Gavin Weightman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. xi + 266 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-19208-7 pp. 342-343

David Hochfelder

Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP. By Susan Schmidt Horning. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xi + 292 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1022-7 pp. 343-346

Trevor Pinch

The Chinese Market Economy, 1000–1500. By William Guanglin Liu. Albany: SUNY Press, 2015. xviii + 374 pp. Maps, figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4384-5567-9; paper, 978-1-4384-5568-6 pp. 346-348

Geoffrey C. Gunn

Land, Proto-Industry and Population in Catalonia, c. 1680–1829: An Alternative Transition to Capitalism? By Julie Marfany. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. 208 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $124.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-4465-7 pp. 348-350

José Miranda

Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760–1820. By Jeremy Baskes. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013. xiv + 393 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-8542-6 pp. 350-353

Kendall W. Brown

Building the Empire State: Political Economy in the Early Republic. By Brian Phillips Murphy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. xii + 286 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4716-9 pp. 353-355

Andrew M. Schocket

The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860. By Calvin Schermerhorn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. xi + 336 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-19200-1 pp. 355-357

Ian Beamish

The Urban Department Store in America, 1850–1930. By Louisa Iarocci. Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. xvi + 241 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $114.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-4743-6 pp. 357-360

Emily A. Remus

Golden Rules: The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush. By Mark Kanazawa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xviii + 350 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, figures, tables, appendices, notes, references, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-25867-6 pp. 360-362

David Schorr

Little Business on the Prairie: Entrepreneurship, Prosperity, and Challenge in South Dakota. By Robert E. Wright. Sioux Falls, S.Dak.: Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, 2015. x + 340 pp. Map, photographs, figures, tables, sources, index. Paper, $16.95. ISBN: 978-0-931170-68-3 pp. 362-364

Nick Estes

Sovereign Debt and International Financial Control: The Middle East and the Balkans, 1870–1914. By Ali Coşkun Tunçer. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xvii + 243 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $105.00. ISBN: 978-1-137-37853-8 pp. 364-367

Priscilla Roberts

How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual. By Dan Bouk. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xxx + 294 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-25917-8 pp. 367-370

Timothy Alborn

Aluminum Ore: The Political Economy of the Global Bauxite Industry. Edited by Robin S. Gendron, Mats Ingulstad, and Espen Storli. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2013. xii + 387 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-7748-2532-0 pp. 370-372

Mimi Sheller

Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age. By Benjamin F. Alexander. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. 158 pp. Maps, illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4214-1620-5; paper, 978-1-4214-1621-2 pp. 372-374

Connie L. Lester

American Labor and Economic Citizenship: New Capitalism from World War I to the Great Depression. By Mark Hendrickson. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xvi + 320 pp. Illustrations, table, index. Cloth, $110.00; paper, $31.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-107-02860-9; paper, 978-1-107-55967-7 pp. 375-377

Derek S. Hoff

Blood on Steel: Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937. By Michael Dennis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. xii + 140 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4214-1017-3; paper, 978-1-4214-1018-0 pp. 377-380

Shaun S. Nichols

The Other Welfare: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy. By Edward D. Berkowitz and Larry DeWitt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. xi + 279 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5173-7 pp. 380-382

Rachel Louise Moran

The Power Brokers: The Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry. By Jeremiah D. Lambert. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2015. xiv + 379 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-02950-6 pp. 382-385

Casey Cater

Corporate Governance, Employee Voice, and Work Organization: Sustaining High-Road Jobs in the Automotive Supply Industry. By Inge Lippert, Tony Huzzard, Ulrich Jürgens, and William Lazonick. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xviii + 285 pp. Tables, figures, references, appendix, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-968107-5 pp. 385-387

Jessica Garrick

Economic Growth and Measurement Reconsidered in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, 1965–1995. By Morten Jerven. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii + 215 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-968991-0 pp. 387-390

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

Economies under Occupation: The Hegemony of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in World War II. Edited by Marcel Boldorf and Tetsuji Okazaki. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. xiv + 335 pp. Map, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $168.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-83533-6 pp. 390-393

Kenneth Mouré

Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina. By Elana Shever. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. xvi + 231 pp. Photographs, illustrations, map, references, notes, index. Paper, $22.95. ISBN: 978-0-8047-7840-4 pp. 393-396

Norma Lanciotti

Betriebliche Sozialpolitik im historischen Systemvergleich: Das Volkswagenwerk und der VEB Sachsenring von den 1950er bis in den 1980er Jahre. [Occupational Social Policies in Historical Comparison: The Volkswagen Company and VEB Sachsenring from the 1950s to the 1980s]. By Rüdiger Gerlach. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. 457 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €69. ISBN: 978-3-515-10664-1 pp. 396-399

Luminita Gatejel

Smart Globalization: The Canadian Business and Economic History Experience. Edited by Andrew Smith and Dimitry Anastakis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. x + 239 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $67.00; paper, $27.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4426-4804-3; paper, 978-1-4426-1612-7 pp. 399-401

Jason Russell

Volume 90, issue 1, 2016

Marks & Spencer and the Decline of the British Textile Industry, 1950–2000 pp. 3-30

Steven Toms and Qi Zhang

California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of “Fairness” in U.S. Competition Policy pp. 31-56

Laura Phillips Sawyer

Citibank, Credit Cards, and the Local Politics of National Consumer Finance, 1968–1991 pp. 57-80

Sean H. Vanatta

Varieties of Financialization? Evidence from German Industry in the 1990s pp. 81-108

Hartmut Berghoff

Genealogy of American Finance pp. 113-117

Peter Eisenstadt

Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland pp. 119-129

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War. ByRonald K. Fierstein. Chicago: Ankerwycke Publications, 2015. ix + 630 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-62722-769-8 pp. 131-133

Eric S. Hintz

Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism. ByBartow J. Elmore. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. 416 pp. Photographs, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-393-24112-9 pp. 134-136

Christopher W. Wells

From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store. ByVicki Howard. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 295 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4728-2 pp. 136-139

Alexis McCrossen

Investment Management in Boston: A History. ByDavid Grayson Allen. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. x + 432 pp. Tables, photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-62534-102-0; paper, 978-1-62534-103-7 pp. 139-142

Janette Rutterford

Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1750–2010. ByMargaret E. Derry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. viii + 310 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $32.95. ISBN: 978-1-4426-2652-2 pp. 142-144

Anna Thompson Hajdik

Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism. ByTimothy E. W. Gloege. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xviii + 307 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-2101-2 pp. 144-146

Peter J. Wosh

Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie. ByElizabeth Fones-Wolf andKen Fones-Wolf. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. xii + 264 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03903-4; paper, 978-0-252-08066-1 pp. 147-149

Joseph E. Hower

Century of the Leisured Masses: Entertainment and the Transformation of Twentieth-Century America. ByDavid George Surdam with Preface byKen McCormick. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xviii + 305 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-021157-8 pp. 149-151

Gary Cross

Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern Environmentalism. ByRobert D. Lifset. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. xvi + 309 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $25.95. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6305-9 pp. 152-154

Emily Pawley

Digital State: The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry. ByThomas J. Misa. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. xv + 299 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8166-8331-4; paper, 978-0-8166-8332-1 pp. 154-156

Martin Kenney

Advertising Diversity: Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers. ByShalini Shankar. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015. xii + 314 pp. Illustrations, glossary, appendixes, references, notes, index. Cloth, $94.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-5864-0; paper, 978-0-8223-5877-0 pp. 156-158

Christine R. Yano

In the Power of the Government: The Rise and Fall of Newsprint in Ontario, 1894–1932. ByMark Kuhlberg. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. xv + 404 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $35.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4426-4663-6; paper, 978-1-4426-1453-6 pp. 159-161

Alex Nalbach

Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain. ByKatherine C. Epstein. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 305 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-72526-3 pp. 161-164

Michael Carew

Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War. ByPierpaolo Barbieri. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 349 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72885-1 pp. 164-167

Jesús M. Valdaliso

Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France. ByClare Haru Crowston. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. xx + 424 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $27.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-5513-7; paper, 978-0-8223-5528-1 pp. 167-170

Deborah Simonton

The Beautiful Country: Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy. ByStephanie Malia Hom. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. xiv + 313 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4872-2 pp. 170-172

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

A Long Time in Making: The History of Smiths. ByJames Nye. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxvi + 375 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, appendixes, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-871725-6 pp. 172-175

Stephen Sambrook

Banque et identité commerciale: La Société générale, 1864–2014 [Bank and Commercial Identity: La Société générale, 1864–2014]. ByHubert Bonin. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2014. 290 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, tables, index. Paper, €24. ISBN: 978-2-7574-0597-0 pp. 175-177

Fabien Bonnet

Pesos and Politics: Business, Elites, Foreigners, and Government in Mexico, 1854–1940. ByMark Wasserman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. ix + 257 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9154-0 pp. 177-179

Casey Lurtz

Historia de la investigación de mercados en Colombia: Trayectoria empresarial de Napoleón Franco [The History of Market Research in Colombia: Napoleón Franco's Business Career]. ByJosé Miguel Ospina Silva, Luis Fernando Molina Londoño, Gabriel Pérez Cifuentes, andCarlos Dávila L. de Guevara. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, 2014. 505 pp. Photographs, notes, references. Paper, $23.00. ISBN: 978-958-695-990-2 pp. 179-181

Joshua M. Rosenthal

The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan. ByAdam Clulow. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xvi + 330 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-16428-3 pp. 181-184

John Tang

Sugar, Steam, and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830–1885. ByG. Roger Knight. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2014. xi + 242 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography. Paper, $44.00; electronic, free. ISBN: paper, 978-1-922064-98-1; electronic, 978-1-922064-99-8 pp. 184-186

Geoffrey C. Gunn

Empires of Coal: Fueling China's Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1920. ByShellen Xiao Wu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. xii + 266 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9284-4 pp. 186-188

Judd C. Kinzley

Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One. ByMeghnad Desai. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015. xii + 287 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-21607-3 pp. 188-191

Marcel Boumans

Mainstream Growth Economists and Capital Theorists: A Survey. ByMarin Muzhani. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. x + 558 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $120.00; paper, $44.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-7735-4365-2; paper, 978-0-7735-4366-9 pp. 191-193

Geoffrey Hodgson