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Volume 88, issue 4, 2014

A Fine Failure: Relationship Lending, Moses Taylor, and the Joliet Iron & Steel Company, 1869–1888 pp. 647-679

Mary O'Sullivan

The Globalization of Knowledge-Based Services: Engineering Consulting in Spain, 1953–1975 pp. 681-707

Adoración Álvaro-Moya

Organizational Innovation in Nineteenth-Century Railway Investment: Peripheral Countries in a Global Economy pp. 709-736

Álvaro Silva

Britain and the Breakdown of the Colonial Environment: The Struggle over the Tanzam Oil Pipeline in Zambia pp. 737-759

Andrew Cohen

The Political Economy of Commercial Associations: Building the National Board of Trade, 1840–1868 pp. 761-783

Cory Davis

Mira Wilkins and Frank Ernest Hill, American Business Abroad: Ford on Six Continents pp. 791-797

Patrick Fridenson

GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History. ByDiane Coyle. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. 159 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $19.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-15679-8 pp. 799-801

Marcel Boumans

Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South. ByGavin Wright. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2013. xii + 353 pp. Tables, figures, maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-04933-8 pp. 801-803

Jennifer Delton

Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit. ByCharles W. Calomiris andStephen H. Haber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xi + 570 pp. Figures, references, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-15524-1 pp. 804-806

Robert E. Wright

Remembering Inflation. ByBrigitte Granville. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. xvi + 272 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-14540-2 pp. 806-808

Barry Eichengreen

Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life. ByAlexis McCrossen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xvi + 255 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-01486-9 pp. 808-811

Lee Jared Vinsel

Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt. ByCharles R. Geisst. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. vi + 388 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4462-5 pp. 811-813

Louis Hyman

Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy. ByJenifer Van Vleck. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. 370 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-05094-5 pp. 814-816

Christopher Endy

Car Country: An Environmental History. ByChristopher W. Wells. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. xxxiv + 427 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-295-99215-0 pp. 816-818

Sarah T. Phillips

Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children. ByGerald Markowitz andDavid Rosner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. xxii + 298 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-27325-2 pp. 818-820

Werner Troesken

Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina. ByShepherd W. McKinley. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. xii + 230 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN: 978-0-8130-4924-3 pp. 820-822

Tom Downey

In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region. BySeth Garfield. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. xiii + 343 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $93.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-5571-7; paper, 978-0-8223-5585-4 pp. 822-825

Anne Hanley

Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground. ByMichael Kwass. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. ix + 457 pp. Illustrations, maps, references, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72683-3 pp. 825-828

Sophus A. Reinert

Privateering, Piracy and British Policy in Spanish America, 1810–1830. ByMatthew McCarthy. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2013. x + 184 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $115.00. ISBN: 978-1-84383-861-6 pp. 828-830

Michelle Craig McDonald

The British Navy, Economy and Society in the Seven Years War. ByChristian Buchet. Translated by Anita Higgie and Michael Duffy. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2013. xiv + 302 pp. Index, bibliography, notes, appendices, figures, tables. Cloth, $115.00. ISBN: 978-1-84383-801-2 pp. 830-833

Thomas M. Truxes

Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869–1929. ByHenry Knight. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. xii + 266 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.95. ISBN: 978-0-8130-4481-1 pp. 833-836

Reiko Hillyer

Tropical Whites: The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas. ByCatherine Cocks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. ix + 275 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4499-1 pp. 836-838

Dennis Merrill

The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture. ByTimothy D. Taylor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xx + 345 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-226-79115-9; paper, 978-0-2261-5162-5 pp. 838-842

Sumanth Gopinath

Transformations of Retailing in Europe after 1945. Edited byRalph Jessen andLydia Langer. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. xvi + 234 pp. Figures, illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $124.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-2444-4 pp. 842-844

Andrew Godley

The Origins of International Banking in Asia: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited byShizuya Nishimura, Toshio Suzuki, andRanald Michie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xii + 251 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. £60.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-964632-6 pp. 844-846

Linsun Cheng

Rules of Exchange: French Capitalism in Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries. ByAlessandro Stanziani. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ix + 313 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN 978-1-107-00386-6 pp. 847-849

Eric Godelier

The Employee: A Political History. ByJean-Christian Vinel. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 293 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $47.50. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4524-0 pp. 849-851

Elizabeth Faue

Volume 88, issue 3, 2014

Cartel Theory and Cartel Practice: The Case of the International Aluminum Cartels, 1901–1940 pp. 445-467

Espen Storli

Shaping Globalization: London's Merchant Bankers in the Early Nineteenth Century pp. 469-495

Manuel Llorca-Jaña

When Innovation Becomes Inefficient: Reexamining Britain's Radio Industry pp. 497-521

Peter Scott

A Tomato for All Seasons: Innovation in American Agricultural Production, 1900–1945 pp. 523-544

John Hoenig

A Failure of Regulation? Reinterpreting the Panic of 1907 pp. 545-569

Bradley A. Hansen

Selected Abstracts from International Business History Journals pp. 575-581

Anonymous

Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer pp. 583-591

Per H. Hansen

Business in the Age of Extremes: Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History. Edited byHartmut Berghoff, Jürgen Kocka, andDieter Ziegler. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ix + 249 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-01695-8 pp. 593-595

Christopher Kobrak

The Good Rich and What They Cost Us. ByRobert F. Dalzell Jr. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. 199 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-17559-2 pp. 595-597

Maury Klein

The People's Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age. ByRobert MacDougall. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 332 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4569-1 pp. 598-600

Michael Stamm

Dominion of Capital: The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914–1947. ByDon Nerbas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. 378 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $34.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4426-4545-5; paper, 978-1-4426-1352-2 pp. 600-602

Christopher Armstrong

The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations. ByJacob Soll. New York: Basic Books, 2014. viii + 276 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.99. ISBN: 978-465-03152-8 pp. 602-605

Sophus A. Reinert

The Unwieldy American State: Administrative Politics since the New Deal. ByJoanna L. Grisinger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiii + 309 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-00432-0 pp. 605-608

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters. ByWalter A. Friedman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xi + 273 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-15911-9 pp. 608-610

Mark Casson

Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930. ByBeatrix Hoffman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xxxv + 319 pp. Photographs, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-34803-2 pp. 610-612

Christy Ford Chapin

The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. ByAngus Deaton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xvi + 360 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-6911-5354-4 pp. 612-614

Marc Egnal

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford. ByBeth Tompkins Bates. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xiii + 343 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3564-7 pp. 615-617

Luther Adams

German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic. ByLars Maischak. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxii + 295 pp. Maps, figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-01729-0 pp. 617-619

Margrit Schulte Beerbühl

Engineering Philadelphia: The Sellers Family and the Industrial Metropolis. ByDomenic Vitiello. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. xiv + 267 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5011-2 pp. 620-622

John Hepp

Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America. ByJonathan Rees. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. x + 236 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1106-4 pp. 622-624

Terje Finstad

A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt. ByNancy T. Reynolds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. ix + 355 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-8126-8 pp. 624-627

Robert L. Tignor

Chicago Business and Industry: From Fur Trade to E-Commerce. Edited byJanice L. Reiff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xii + 377 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. Paper, $22.50. ISBN: 978-0-226-70936-9 pp. 627-629

Timothy B. Spears

Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter's Guide to the Postwar Japanese Miracle. ByMark Metzler. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. xviii + 295 pp. Appendix, notes, references, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5179-9 pp. 629-632

James R. Lincoln

Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek across the Pacific. ByChristine R. Yano. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. xiv + 322 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, appendix, references, notes, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN: 978-0-8223-5351-5 pp. 632-634

Helen Macnaughtan

Derivate und Finanzstabilität: Erfahrung aus vier Jahrhunderten [Derivatives and Financial Stability: Experience from Four Centuries]. Edited byHanna Floto-Degener. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. Institut für Bankhistorische Forschung, Bankhistorisches Archiv, Beiheft 48. 97 pp. Figures, tables. Paper, €27.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-10334-3 pp. 634-637

Boris Gehlen

Les banques et les mutations des entreprises: Le cas de Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing aux XIXe et XXe siècles [Banks and Business Change: The Case of Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries]. Edited byHubert Bonin andJean-François Eck. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2012. 323 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, figures, tables, index. Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 978-2-7574-0412-6 pp. 637-639

Michael S. Smith

Le siècle des chefs: Une histoire transnationale du commandement et de l'autorité (1890–1940) [The Century of Leaders: A Transnational History of Command and Authority (1890–1940)]. ByYves Cohen. Paris: Éditions Amsterdam, 2013. 872 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, tables, index. Paper, €25.00. ISBN: 978-2-35480-120-5 pp. 640-642

Ludovic Cailluet

L'Histoire économique en mouvement: Entre héritages et renouvellements [Economic History in Motion: Between Heritage and Renewal]. Edited byJean-Claude Daumas. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2012. 405 pp. Figures, tables. Paper, €30.00. ISBN: 978-2-7574-0376-1 pp. 642-644

Jeff Horn

Volume 88, issue 2, 2014

The Onassis Global Shipping Business, 1920s–1950s pp. 241-271

Gelina Harlaftis

Fighting Ships that Require Knowledge and Experience: Industrial Mobilization in American Naval Shipbuilding, 1940–1945 pp. 273-301

Thomas Heinrich

Multinationals and Economic Development in Italy during the Twentieth Century pp. 303-327

Andrea Colli

Taiwan's PC Industry, 1976–2010: The Evolution of Organizational Capabilities pp. 329-357

Howard H. Yu and Willy C. Shih

The BNP Paribas Experience in Oral History Sources pp. 367-371

Pierre de Longuemar

The First Asian Business History Conference in Bangkok, Thailand pp. 373-377

Julia S. Yongue

Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America. ByJennifer L. Anderson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. x + 398 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-04871-3 pp. 379-381

Michelle Craig McDonald

Transition to an Industrial South: Athens, Georgia, 1830–1870. ByMichael J. Gagnon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. xvii + 290 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $48.95. ISBN: 978-0-8071-4508-1 pp. 381-384

Tom Downey

Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845–1893. ByJoshua D. Wolff. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xi + 305 pp. Index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-01228-8 pp. 384-386

Robert MacDougall

Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry. ByTiffany M. Gill. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 192 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-07696-1 pp. 386-389

Susan Ingalls Lewis

The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail. ByW. Jeffrey Bolster. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. xi + 378 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, glossary, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-04765-5 pp. 389-391

Mansel G. Blackford

Steel's: A Forgotten Stock Market Scandal from the 1920s. ByDave Dyer. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2013. xxx + 157 pp. Illustrations, photographs, references, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-8156-10120 pp. 391-394

Jessica Lepler

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age. ByW. Bernard Carlson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xiii + 500 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-05776-7 pp. 394-396

Eric S. Hintz

Henry Ford. ByVincent Curcio. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii + 306 pp. Index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-531692-6 pp. 397-399

Stefan Link

Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II. ByCharles K. Hyde. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013. xvi + 248 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8143-3951-0 pp. 399-401

Mark R. Wilson

Autonomous State: The Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade. ByDimitry Anastakis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xviii + 549 pp. Photographs, map, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $39.95. ISBN: Cloth, 978-1-4426-4504-2; paper, 978-1-4426-1297-6 pp. 401-404

J. Andrew Ross

The House of Rothschild in Spain, 1812–1941. ByMiguel A. López-Morell. Translated by Stephen P. Hasler. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2013. xviii + 449 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $144.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6800-8 pp. 404-406

Priscilla Roberts

An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions. ByJean Drèze andAmartya Sen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xiv + 434 pp. Maps, figures, tables, references, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16079-5 pp. 406-409

Tirthankar Roy

Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920–1946. ByPatricia Clavin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 400 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-957793-4 pp. 409-411

Kenneth Mouré

World Insurance: The Evolution of a Global Risk Network. Edited byPeter Borscheid andNiels Viggo Haueter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xvi + 729 pp. Tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $180.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-965796-4 pp. 412-414

C. Edoardo Altamura

Der Bankbetrieb in Krieg und Inflation: Deutsche Großbanken in den Jahren 1914 bis 1923 [Banking during War and Inflation: Large German Banks from 1914 to 1923]. ByWinfried Lampe. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. 440 pp. Figures, bibliography, appendix, glossary, tables, notes. Paper, €52.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-10100-4 pp. 414-416

Christopher Kobrak

Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete?ByLoren Graham. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2013. 204 pp. Photographs, illustrations, glossary, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-01979-8 pp. 416-418

Thomas C. Owen

Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food. ByTimothy D. Lytton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. viii + 232 pp. Figures, tables, glossary, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $28.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-07293-0 pp. 419-421

Hasia R. Diner

Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease. ByMark Harrison. London: Yale University Press, 2012. xviii + 376 pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, references, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-12357-9 pp. 421-423

David Rosner

The Holiday Makers: Magazines, Advertising, and Mass Tourism in Postwar America. ByRichard K. Popp. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. ix + 204 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95; e-book, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8071-4284-4; e-book, 978-0-8071-4287-5 pp. 424-426

Molly W. Berger

High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century. ByMatthew Gordon Lasner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. xii + 324 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-16408-4 pp. 426-428

Eric Firley

Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics. ByElizabeth Tandy Shermer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. viii + 424 pp. Photographs, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4470-0 pp. 428-431

David Koistinen

Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong. ByElizabeth Sinn. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013. xviii + 454 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, tables, glossary, appendices, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $163.65. ISBN: 978-988-8139-71-2 pp. 431-433

Kristin Stapleton

Settled Strangers: Asian Business Elites in East Africa (1800–2000). ByGijsbert Oonk. New Delhi: SAGE, 2013. xix + 270 pp. Maps, photographs, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-81-321-1054-5 pp. 434-435

Gerold Krozewski

The United States and the Global Economy: From Bretton Woods to the Current Crisis. ByFrederick S. Weaver. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011. xi + 175 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4422-0889-6 pp. 436-437

Mike French

Philanthropy in America: A History. ByOlivier Zunz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. x + 381 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-12836-8 pp. 437-440

Peter Dobkin Hall

Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience. ByArchie B. Carroll, Kenneth J. Lipartito, James E. Post, and Patricia H. Werhane. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxi + 543 pp. References, photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $125.00; paper, $49.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-107-02094-8; paper, 978-1-107-60525-1 pp. 440-441

Jennifer Delton

Volume 88, issue 1, 2014

Introduction pp. 3-8

Dwijendra Tripathi

Trading Firms in Colonial India pp. 9-42

Tirthankar Roy

The Emergence of Indigenous Industrialists in Calcutta, Bombay, and Ahmedabad, 1850–1947 pp. 43-71

Gijsbert Oonk

Business, Ethnicity, Politics, and Imperial Interests: The United Planters' Association of Southern India, 1893–1950 pp. 73-95

K. Ravi Raman

“The Promise of Partnership”: Indian Business, the State, and the Bombay Plan of 1944 pp. 97-131

Medha Kudaisya

Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Enterprises in India pp. 133-169

Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna

Beyond Racism: The Story of Prakash Tandon and Unilever India pp. 177-185

Jaithirth Rao

David R. Farber, Everybody Ought to Be Rich: The Life and Times of John J. Raskob, Capitalist; and Susie Pak, Gentlemen Bankers: The World of J. P. Morgan pp. 187-194

Noam Maggor

Financing the Raj: The City of London and Colonial India, 1858–1940. ByDavid Sunderland. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2013. viii + 240 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth, $130.00. ISBN: 978-1-84383-795-4 pp. 195-197

Ranald Michie

Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India. ByHoward Spodek. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. xvi + 330 pp. Illustrations, maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-253-35587-4 pp. 197-199

Douglas E. Haynes

Biographies of the Financial World. Edited byAnders Perlinge andHans Sjögren. Möklinta, Sweden: Gidlunds Förlag, 2012. Illustrations, references, tables. Cloth, kr221. ISBN: 978-91-7844-852-4 pp. 200-202

Maury Klein

Men, Women, and Money: Perspectives on Gender, Wealth, and Investment, 1850–1930. Edited byDavid R. Green, Alastair Owens, Josephine Maltby, and Janette Rutterford. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xvi + 308 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-959376-7 pp. 202-205

Janice Traflet

Money over Two Centuries: Selected Topics in British Monetary History. ByForrest Capie andGeoffrey Wood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. x + 367 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-965512-0 pp. 205-207

John James

Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution after 1700. ByPeter Temin andHans-Joachim Voth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. ix + 214 pp. Tables, figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-994427-9 pp. 207-209

Robert E. Wright

“Merely for Money”? Business Culture in the British Atlantic, 1750–1815. BySheryllynne Haggerty. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012. xiv + 287 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; £65.00. ISBN: 978-1-84631-817-7 pp. 210-212

Simon D. Smith

British Lions and Mexican Eagles: Business, Politics, and Empire in the Career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1899–1919. ByPaul Garner. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. xi + 319 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-7445-1 pp. 212-215

Marcelo Bucheli

Salt and the Colombian State: Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyacá, 1821–1900. ByJoshua M. Rosenthal. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012. xii + 222 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6180-2 pp. 215-217

Carlos Dávila

The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920. ByDavid Hochfelder. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. viii + 250 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-0747-0 pp. 217-220

Benjamin Schwantes

America's Economic Way of War: War and the U.S. Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War. ByHugh Rockoff. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xii + 357 pp. Tables, figures, appendices, references, index. Paper, $26.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-67673-1 pp. 220-222

Mark R. Wilson

The Political Economy of Pipelines: A Century of Comparative Institutional Development. ByJeff D. Makholm. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xii + 270 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-50210-6 pp. 222-225

Ray Stokes

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