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Volume 89, issue 4, 2015

Inventing Prizes: A Historical Perspective on Innovation Awards and Technology Policy pp. 631-660

B. Zorina Khan

Active Controllers or Wealthy Rentiers? Large Shareholders in Victorian Public Companies pp. 661-691

Graeme G. Acheson, Gareth Campbell and John Turner

Globalization and the Development of Industrial Clusters: Comparing Two Norwegian Clusters, 1900–2010 pp. 693-716

Rolv Petter Amdam and Ove Bjarnar

Corporate Governance since the Managerial Capitalism Era pp. 717-744

Brian R. Cheffins

Selected Abstracts from International Business History Journals pp. 749-759

Anonymous

Exxon: Transforming Energy, 1973–2005 pp. 761-766

Mira Wilkins

From Mainframes to Smartphones: A History of the International Computer Industry. ByMartin Campbell-Kelly andDaniel D. Garcia-Swartz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. vi + 240 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-72906-3 pp. 767-769

Paul E. Ceruzzi

The Cambridge Economic History of Australia. Edited bySimon Ville andGlenn Withers. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxi + 668 pp. Tables, photographs, figures, appendix, index. Cloth, $180.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-02949-1 pp. 769-771

Lola Sharon Davidson

Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America. ByErica Hannickel. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 298 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth: $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4559-2 pp. 771-774

Cheryl Lyon-Jenness

Management Innovation: Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Edited byWilliam Lazonick andDavid J. Teece. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xii + 378 pp. Tables, figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 978-0-19-969568-3 pp. 774-776

Lars Engwall

Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600–1757. ByEmily Erikson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xiii + 252 pp. Map, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth: $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-15906 pp. 776-778

William A. Pettigrew

Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500–1900. ByAndrew Sluyter. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. xii + 308 pp. Tables, photographs, maps, illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-17992-7 pp. 779-781

Alex Borucki

Matthew Boulton: Enterprising Industrialist of the Enlightenment. Edited byKenneth Quickenden, Sally Baggott, andMalcolm Dick. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2013. xviii + 294 pp. Tables, illustrations, figures, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $149.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-2218-1 pp. 781-784

Leslie Tomory

Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way. ByHasia R. Diner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. xix + 247 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-17864-7 pp. 784-786

Peter Eisenstadt

Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America. ByQuincy T. Mills. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. xii + 319 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth: $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4541-7 pp. 787-789

Davarian L. Baldwin

The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order. ByLeon Fink. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 206 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4688-9 pp. 789-792

Rosanne Currarino

The Workplace Constitution: From the New Deal to the New Right. BySophia Z. Lee. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xiii + 401 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $42.92; paper, $29.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-107-03872-1; paper, 978-1-107-61321-8 pp. 792-794

Kevin Boyle

The Republican Party in the Age of Roosevelt: Sources of Anti-Government Conservatism in the United States. ByElliot A. Rosen. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. xiv + 229 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth: $39.50. ISBN: 978-0-8139-3554-6 pp. 794-796

Michael S. Green

Transforming the South: Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1915–1960. ByMatthew L. Downs. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. 331 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $47.50. ISBN: 978-0-8071-5714-5 pp. 796-799

Craig S. Pascoe

The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier. ByDavid Schorr. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. xiv + 235 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-13447-6 pp. 799-800

Todd Holmes

A Better Way to Build: A History of the Pankow Companies. ByMichael R. Adamson. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2013. xxv + 470 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-55753-634-1 pp. 801-803

Walter L. Buenger

Making National News: A History of Canadian Press. ByGene Allen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xi + 443 pp. Photographs, maps, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, Can$80.00; paper, Can$36.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4426-4716-9; paper, 978-1-4426-1532-8 pp. 803-805

Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb

Brewery, Brand, and Family: 150 Years of Heineken. ByKeetie E. Sluyterman andBram Bouwens. Translated byDavid McKay. Amsterdam: Boom, 2014. 602 pp. Tables, photographs, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €49.90. ISBN: 978-90-8953-429-3 pp. 805-808

Karel Davids

Risikokultur und Störfallverhalten der chemischen Industrie: Gesellschaftliche Einflüsse auf das unternehmerische Handeln von Bayer und Henkel seit der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts [Risk Culture and Accident Behavior of the Chemical Industry: Social Influences on the Entrepreneurial Activities of Bayer and Henkel since the Second Half of the Twentieth Century]. ByThilo Jungkind. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. 332 pp. Notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $63.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-10345-9 pp. 808-810

Frederic Steinfeld

The Politics of Giving in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata: Donors, Lenders, Subjects, and Citizens. ByViviana L. Grieco. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014. ix + 298 pp. Tables, map, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-8263-5446-4 pp. 810-813

Daniel J. Greenberg

Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java: Colonial Relationships in Trade and Finance, 1800–1942. ByAlexander Claver. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014. xxiv + 442 pp. Tables, maps, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $190.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-25657-6 pp. 813-815

Hiroyoshi Kano

Asian Imperial Banking History. Edited byHubert Bonin, Nuno Valério, andKazuhiko Yago. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2015. xv + 224 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $120.00. ISBN: 978-1-84893-551-8 pp. 815-818

Priscilla Roberts

The Lius of Shanghai. BySherman Cochran andAndrew Hsieh. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. xvii + 431 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-07259-6 pp. 818-821

Morris L. Bian

Volume 89, issue 3, 2015

The History of Multinationals: A 2015 View pp. 405-414

Mira Wilkins

The New Internalization Theory and Multinational Enterprises from Emerging Economies: A Business History Perspective pp. 415-445

Alain Verbeke and Liena Kano

Political and Economic News in the Age of Multinationals pp. 447-474

Heidi J. S. Tworek

Siemens and the Construction of Hospitals in Latin America, 1949–1964 pp. 475-502

Pierre-Yves Donzé

Global Trade and Indian Politics: The German Dye Business in India before 1947 pp. 503-530

Christina Lubinski

Multinationals and Gender: Singer Sewing Machine and Marketing in Mexico, 1890–1930 pp. 531-549

Paula A. de la Cruz-Fernández

Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses—and Misuses—of History pp. 557-569

Per H. Hansen

Invented by Law: Alexander Graham Bell and the Patent That Changed America. ByChristopher Beauchamp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 272 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-36806-4 pp. 571-573

Benjamin Schwantes

Defending the History of Economic Thought. BySteven Kates. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013. x + 140 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-84844-820-9 pp. 573-575

Bruce Caldwell

Banking in Crisis: The Rise and Fall of British Banking Stability, 1800 to the Present. ByJohn D. Turner. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xi + 253 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $32.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-60986-0 pp. 575-578

John Singleton

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World. ByGeoffrey Jones. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2013. ix + 225 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $115.00. ISBN: 978-1-7819-5194-1 pp. 578-580

Marcelo Bucheli

Forging Capitalism: Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance. ByIan Klaus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. viii + 287 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-18833-2 pp. 580-583

Jamie Pietruska

Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Geniza Merchants and Their Business World. ByJessica L. Goldberg. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxi + 426 pp. Figures, maps, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes. Cloth, $120.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-00547-1 pp. 583-586

Jessica Dijkman

Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II. ByMauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xiii + 310 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-15149-6 pp. 586-588

José Antonio Espín Sánchez

The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire. ByAdam D. Mendelsohn. New York: New York University Press, 2015. vii + 297 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-4798-4718-1 pp. 588-590

Sean Trainor

Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life. ByAndrea Feeser. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013. 140 pp. Illustrations, map, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8203-3817-0; paper, 978-0-8203-4553-6 pp. 590-593

Michelle Craig McDonald

Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South. ByMartin Ruef. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. x + 285 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, appendix, notes, references, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-16277-5 pp. 593-595

Caitlin C. Rosenthal

Histoire économique et sociale de la Savoie de 1860 à nos jours [Economic and social history of Savoy from 1860 to the present]. Edited byDenis Varaschin with Hubert Bonin and Yves Bouvier. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. 652 pp. Tables, maps, notes, index. Paper, €49.90. ISBN: 978-2-600-01828-9 pp. 595-597

Stephen L. Harp

Building Co-operation: A Business History of the Co-operative Group, 1863–2013. ByJohn F. Wilson, Anthony Webster, and Rachael Vorberg-Rugh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xv + 440 pp. Figures, tables, illustrations, photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-965511-3 pp. 598-600

Anne Meis Knupfer

Cables, Crises, and the Press: The Geopolitics of the New International Information System in the Americas, 1866–1903. ByJohn A. Britton. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013. xiii + 473 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-8263-5397-9 pp. 600-602

Alex Nalbach

Ruin and Redemption: The Struggle for Canadian Bankruptcy Law, 1867–1919. ByThomas G. W. Telfer. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. xviii + 297 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9343-1 pp. 603-604

Christopher Armstrong

Harriman vs. Hill: Wall Street's Great Railroad War. ByLarry Haeg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. xvi + 375 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8166-8364-2 pp. 605-607

Brown, John K. (Jack)

The Merchants’ Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South. ByScott P. Marler. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xv + 317 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-89764-8 pp. 607-609

Marise Bachand

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the Religion of Biologic Living. ByBrian C. Wilson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. xix + 240 pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-253-01447-4 pp. 609-612

Mookie Kideckel

The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II: Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany. ByTalbot Imlay and Martin Horn. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2014. x + 291 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-01636-1 pp. 612-615

Timothy Whisler

Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China. ByWenkai He. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. x + 313 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-07278-7 pp. 615-617

Simon James Bytheway

Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream. ByDiane P. Koenker. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013. x + 307 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5153-9 pp. 617-620

Amy E. Randall

Reforming the World Monetary System: Fritz Machlup and the Bellagio Group. ByCarol M. Connell. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. xi + 271 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $120.00. ISBN: 978-1-848-93360-6 pp. 620-623

Wyatt Wells

Toxic Aid: Economic Collapse and Recovery in Tanzania. BySebastian Edwards. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxiv + 290 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $56.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-870442-3 pp. 623-626

Arrigo Pallotti

Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective. Edited byEugene N. White, Kenneth Snowden, and Price Fishback. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. ix + 397 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-07384-2 pp. 626-628

Matthew Gordon Lasner

Volume 89, issue 2, 2015

Institutional Transfer: The Beginnings of Insurance in Southeast Asia pp. 207-228

Peter Borscheid and Niels-Viggo Haueter

Accounting for Nonconvergence in Global Wool Marketing before 1939 pp. 229-253

David Tolmie Merrett and Simon Ville

The International Mercury Cartel, 1928–1954: Controlling Global Supply pp. 255-280

Miguel A. Lopez-Morell and Luciano Segreto

“Cult of Equity”: Actuaries and the Transformation of Pension Fund Investing, 1948–1960 pp. 281-304

Yally Avrahampour

Corporate Defaults, Workouts, and the Rise of the Distressed Asset Investment Industry pp. 305-330

Douglas Cumming and Grant Fleming

Blaming Wilbur and Orville pp. 339-343

Tom D. Crouch

American Big Business in Britain and Germany: A Comparative History of Two “Special Relationships” in the Twentieth Century. ByVolker R. Berghahn. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. ix + 375 pp. Index. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN: 978-0-691-16109-9 pp. 345-347

Gary Herrigel

Keynes: Useful Economics for the World Economy. ByPeter Temin andDavid Vines. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2014. xiii + 117 pp. Figures, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-02831-8 pp. 347-350

David Chambers

Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie, and the Problem of Scientific Credit. ByTill Düppe andE. Roy Weintraub. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xxv + 276 pp. Photographs, references, index. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 978-0-691-15664-4 pp. 350-352

Tobias F. Rötheli

Walter Lippmann: Public Economist. ByCraufurd D. Goodwin. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2014. x + 414 pp. References, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-36813-2 pp. 352-354

Maury Klein

Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare. ByGunnar Trumbull. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xi + 228 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-01565-4 pp. 355-357

Howard Bodenhorn

Open Standards and the Internet Age: History, Ideology, and Networks. ByAndrew L. Russell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvii + 306 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, index. Paper, $32.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-61204-4 pp. 357-360

Paul Duguid

Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250–1650. ByOscar Gelderblom. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xii + 293 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-14288-3 pp. 360-362

Anne McCants

Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619–1807. ByGregory E. O'Malley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ix + 394 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 9-781469-615349 pp. 362-364

Robert Gudmestad

Design by IKEA: A Cultural History. BySara Kristoffersson. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. viii + 148 pp. Illustrations, figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8578-5814-6 pp. 364-367

Hans Sjögren

A Business History of the Swatch Group: The Rebirth of Swiss Watchmaking and the Globalization of the Luxury Industry. ByPierre-Yves Donzé. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave, 2014. xiii + 152 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $91.89. ISBN: 978-1-137-38906-0 pp. 367-368

Teresa Lopes

Electric City: General Electric in Schenectady. ByJulia Kirk Blackwelder. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2014. x + 259 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-62349-186-4 pp. 369-371

Howard Stanger

Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus. BySusan Nance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. viii + 294 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-0829-3 pp. 371-374

Brett Mizelle

Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England. ByJames Raven. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell & Brewer, 2014. xiv + 334 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-84383-910-1 pp. 374-376

Noah Moxham

Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s. ByInger L. Stole. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. viii + 265 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-03712-2 pp. 376-378

Ferdinando Fasce

Business Goals and Social Commitment: Shaping Organizational Capabilities—Colombia's Fundación Social, 1984–2011. ByJosé Camilo Dávila, Carlos Dávila, Lina Grisales, andDavid Schnarch. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes, 2014. xxxiii + 208 pp. Figures, references, appendix. Paper, $40.00. ISBN: 978-958-695-930-8 pp. 379-380

Frank Safford

Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz. BySteven B. Bunker. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012. xiii + 333 pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-8263-4454-0 pp. 381-383

Edward Beatty

Making Seafood Sustainable: American Experiences in Global Perspective. ByMansel Blackford. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. xii + 273 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4393-2 pp. 383-386

David Kinkela

The Great Rent Wars: New York, 1917–1929. ByRobert M. Fogelson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. viii + 495 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-19172-1 pp. 386-388

Benjamin Holtzman

American Energy Policy in the 1970s. Edited byRobert Lifset. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. x + 322 pp. Notes, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-8061-4450-4 pp. 389-391

Fredric L. Quivik

Opium and Empire: The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson. ByRichard J. Grace. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. xviii + 453 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-7735-4452-9 pp. 391-393

John D. Wong

Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence. ByPer Högselius. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xiii + 279 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.33; paper, $30.36. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-13728614-7; paper, 978-1-137-29371-8 pp. 393-396

Thomas C. Owen

Diriger une grande entreprise au XXe siècle: L’élite industrielle française [Running a Large Business in the Twentieth Century: The French Industrial Elite]. ByHervé Joly. Tours, France: Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais, 2013. 425 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €22.00. ISBN: 978-2-86906-298-6 pp. 396-398

Michael S. Smith

Malaysia@50: Economic Development, Distribution, Disparities. ByJomo Kwame Sundaram andWee Chong Hui. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2014. xvi + 198 pp. Tables, figures, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-981-4571-38-8 pp. 399-401

Nicholas J. White

Volume 89, issue 1, 2015

A Short History of the Norwegian Oil Industry: From Protected National Champions to Internationally Competitive Multinationals pp. 3-41

Helge Ryggvik

Building the “World's Pharmacy”: The Rise of the German Pharmaceutical Industry, 1871–1914 pp. 43-73

Tobias Cramer

Transatlantic Influence in the Shaping of Business Education: The Origins of IMD, 1946–1990 pp. 75-97

Thomas David and Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl

Managers and Ministers: Instilling Christian Free Enterprise in the Postwar Workplace pp. 99-124

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf

Prophet of Perspective: Thomas K. McCraw pp. 129-153

Richard R. John

Reimagining Business History. ByPhilip Scranton andPatrick Fridenson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. x + 260 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4214-0861-3; paper, 978-1-4214-0862-0 pp. 155-157

Noam Maggor

Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond. ByAldo Musacchio andSergio G. Lazzarini. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. viii + 347 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-72968-1 pp. 158-160

Robert Millward

Food Co-ops in America: Communities, Consumption, and Economic Democracy. ByAnne Meis Knupfer. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. xi + 273 pp. Photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5114-0 pp. 160-162

Michael A. Haedicke

Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America. ByKara W. Swanson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 333 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-28143-1 pp. 162-165

Marc Stern

Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism. Edited byRebecca Kobrin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2012. viii + 311 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8135-5307-8; paper, 978-0-8135-5308-5 pp. 165-168

Peter Eisenstadt

Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness. ByAlan Derickson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. xiii + 224 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4553-0 pp. 168-170

Patricia A. Reeve

American Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century. ByRobert E. Gallamore andJohn R. Meyer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. xiii + 506 pp. Tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-72564-5 pp. 170-173

Albert J. Churella

The Garage: Automobility and Building Innovation in America's Early Auto Age. ByJohn A. Jakle andKeith A. Sculle. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2013. xvii + 263 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, figures, notes, index. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-57233-958-3 pp. 173-175

Howard R. Stanger

The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve: A Return to Jekyll Island. Edited byMichael D. Bordo andWilliam Roberds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xix + 431 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-01372-8 pp. 175-177

Wyatt Wells

The Role of Central Banks in Financial Stability: How Has It Changed?Edited byDouglas D. Evanoff, Cornelia Holthausen, George G. Kaufman, and Manfred Kremer. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2014. xi + 455 pp. Figures, tables. Cloth, $138.00. ISBN: 978-981-4449-91-5 pp. 178-179

Forrest Capie

Les Banques centrales à l'échelle du monde [Central Banks at World Scale]. Edited byOlivier Feiertag andMichel Margairaz. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2012. 288 pp. Figures, illustrations, tables, references. Paper, €33.00. ISBN: 978-2-7246-1178-6 pp. 179-181

Martin Horn

The World's First Stock Exchange. ByLodewijk Petram. Translated by Lynne Richards. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. vi + 296 pp. Tables, figures, maps, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-231-16378-1 pp. 181-184

Jeroen Puttevils

Patently Contestable: Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Trial in Britain. ByStathis Arapostathis andGraeme Gooday. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2013. xv + 294 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-01903-3 pp. 184-186

Steven Wilf

The International Distribution of News: The Associated Press, Press Association, and Reuters, 1848–1947. ByJonathan Silberstein-Loeb. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xiv + 256 pp. Tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $29.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-107-03364-1; paper, 978-1-107-65783-0 pp. 187-189

David Hochfelder

Confronting Decline: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England. ByDavid Koistinen. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. xii + 331 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.95. ISBN: 978-0-8130-4907-6 pp. 189-192

Tami J. Friedman

Lo sviluppo sospeso: Il Mezzogiorno e l'impresa pubblica, 1948–1973 [Suspended Development: The Italian South and Public Enterprises, 1948–1973]. ByAugusto De Benedetti. Soveria Mannelli: Rubettino, 2013. 265 pp. Index. Paper, €17.00. ISBN: 978-88-498-3692-9 pp. 192-194

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“Rattraper et dépasser la Suisse”: Histoire de l'industrie horlogère japonaise de 1850 à nos jours [“Catch Up and Surpass Switzerland”: History of the Japanese Watch Industry from 1850 to the Present Day]. ByPierre-Yves Donzé. Neuchâtel: Éditions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses, 2014. 504 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, CHF 39.00. ISBN: 978-2-940489-98-5 pp. 194-197

Eric Godelier

Commodities and Colonialism: The Story of Big Sugar in Indonesia, 1880–1942. ByG. Roger Knight. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2013. xi + 291 pp. Photographs, map, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $146.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-25051-2 pp. 197-200

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Stones of Contention: A History of Africa's Diamonds. ByTodd Cleveland. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. xii + 225 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2100-0 pp. 200-202

Andrew Cohen

Taxing Colonial Africa: The Political Economy of British Imperialism. ByLeigh A. Gardner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xvi + 271 pp. Figures, tables, maps, references, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-966152-7 pp. 202-204

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