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Volume 14, issue 4, 2013

Introduction pp. 683-685

Philip Scranton

Electronic Bits and Ten Gallon Hats pp. 705-716

Gavin Benke

Citizen Coke: An Environmental and Political History of the Coca-Cola Company pp. 717-731

Bartow J. Elmore

From Memory to Mastery: Accounting for Control in America, 1750–1880 pp. 732-748

Caitlin C. Rosenthal

Revisiting the Niuzhuang Oil Mill (1868–1870): Transferring Western Technology into China pp. 749-768

Hsien-chun Wang

Chinese Business Practice in the Late Imperial Period pp. 769-793

Madeleine Zelin

The Economic Expansion of an Elite Business Family of French Origin in Central Mexico in the First Half of the Twentieth Century pp. 794-828

Jose Galindo

The Dynamics of Downsizing: The Swedish Tobacco Monopoly in the 1920s pp. 829-853

Tobias Karlsson

Reviews - Christopher W. Wells. Car Country: An Environmental History. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. xxxiv + 427 pp. ISBN 978-0-2959-9215-0, $40.00 (cloth) pp. 854-856

Erik Loomis

Dimitry Anastakis. Autonomous State: The Epic Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xvi + 549 pp. ISBN 978-1-4426-4504-2 (cloth); 978-1-4426-1297-6, $39.95 (paper) pp. 856-858

Wayne Lewchuk

John Murphy. A Decent Provision: Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2011. 294 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-0759-1, $124.95 (cloth) pp. 858-860

Jeff Borland

Philip Nord. France’s New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780691156118, $29.95 (paper) pp. 860-864

Gerald Friedman

Pushpa Sundar. Business and community: The Story of Corporate Social Responsibility in India. New Delhi, India: SAGE, 2013. xix + 392 pp. ISBN 978-81-321-0955-6, £45.00 (cloth) pp. 864-866

Srinivas Venugopal

Benjamin N. Lawrence and Richard L. Roberts, eds. Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake: Law and Experience of Women and Children in Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012. ix + 271 pp. ISBN 978-0-8214-2002-7, $32.95 (paper) pp. 866-868

Silvia Scarpa

David R. Roediger Elizabeth M. Esch. The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 286 pp. ISBN 9780199739752, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 868-870

Gerald Horne

Christian J. Koot. Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621–1713. New York and London: New York University Press, 2011. Xv + 293 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-4883 (cl alk paper), $39.00; 978-0-8147-4884-8 (e-book) pp. 870-872

Sheryllynne Haggerty

Michael B. Boston. The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2010. xxi + 243 pp. ISBN 978-0-8130-3473-7, $69.95 (cloth) pp. 873-875

Gregory Price

Aaron W. Marrs. Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2009. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-9130-4, $58.00 (cloth) pp. 875-877

Xavier Duran

Leslie Tomory. Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780–1820. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. xii + 348 pp. ISBN 978-0-01675-9, $28.00 (cloth) pp. 877-879

Robert Friedel

Béatrice Touchelay. L’État et l’entreprise: Une histoire de la normalisation comptable et fiscale à la française. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011. 383 pp. ISBN 978-2-7535-1357-0, € 22 (paper) pp. 880-882

Cheryl Susan McWatters

Thomas K. McCraw. The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy. Cambridge, MA, and London, UK: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. ix + 485 pp. ISBN 0-674-06692-2, $ 35.00 (cloth) pp. 882-885

Mark Casson

Mark Valeri. Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 354 pp. ISBN 9780691143590, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 885-887

Brodie Waddell

Marc Levinson. The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America. New York: Hill & Wang, 2011. 358 pp. ISBN 978-0-8090-9543-8, $27.95 pp. 887-890

Tom Dicke

Martin Cohen. The Eclipse of ‘Elegant Economy’: The Impact of the Second World War on Attitudes to Personal Finance in Britain. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. xx + 235 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-3972-1, £65 (hardback) pp. 890-892

Janette Rutterford

Michael R. Adamson. A Better Way to Build: A History of the Pankow Companies. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2013. xxv + 470 pp. ISBN 978-1-55753-634-1, $45.00 (hardback) pp. 892-894

Brian Bowen

Corine Maitte, Philippe Minard, and Matthieu de Oliveira, eds. La gloire de l’industrie, XVIIe – XIXe siècle. Faire de l’histoire avec Gérard Gayot. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012. 341 pp. ISBN 978-2-7535-1800-1, €18 (paper) pp. 894-896

P. M. Jones

Mansel G. Blackford. Making Seafood Sustainable: American Experiences in Global Perspective. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4393-2, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 896-898

Deanne Stephens Nuwer

Sebastian Edwards. Left Behind. Latin America and the False Promise of Populism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xiv + 292 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-18478; 978-0-226-004662, $45.00 (cloth); $17.00 (paper) pp. 899-900

Felipe Botero

Sally Smith Hughes. Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 232 pp. ISBN 9780226045511, $16.00 (paper) pp. 901-903

Mark Jones

Louise A. Mozingo. Pastoral Capitalism: A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. xii + 315 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01543-1, $32.95 (hardcover) pp. 903-905

Sara Stevens

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 424 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4470-0, $49.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8122-0760-6, $49.95 (e-book) pp. 906-908

John M. Findlay

Volume 14, issue 3, 2013

Introduction pp. 433-434

Philip Scranton

How to Do Things with Time pp. 435-466

Daniel M. G. Raff

Making Choices in Time pp. 467-474

Andrew Popp

What Is Business History? pp. 475-485

Christine Meisner Rosen

Purposes and Practices in Firm-level History pp. 486-497

Steven W. Usselman

An Evolutionary Program for Business History? pp. 498-506

Sidney Winter

Rejoinder pp. 507-510

Daniel M. G. Raff

The Amsterdam Chamber of Insurance and Average: A New Phase in Formal Contract Enforcement (Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) pp. 511-543

Sabine C. P. J. Go

“Legitimate commerce” in the Eighteenth Century: The Royal African Company of England Under the Duke of Chandos, 1720–1726 pp. 544-578

Matthew David Mitchell

The Functioning of Bankruptcy Law and Practices in European Perspective (ca.1880–1913) pp. 579-605

Pierre Hautcoeur and Paolo Di Martino

Foreign Assistance to a ‘Closed Economy.’ The Case of French Firms in Spain, c. 1941–1963 pp. 606-641

Esther Sánchez and Rafael Castro

Reviews - Carol Benedict. Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. xiii + 334 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-26277-5, $55.00 (cloth) pp. 642-644

Alan Baumler

James Simpson. Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840–1914. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 344 pp. ISBN 9780691136035, $39.50 (cloth) pp. 644-647

Jacques Delacroix

Dominique A. Tobbell. Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press/Milbank Banks on Health and the Public, 2012. xv + 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-27113-5, $26.95 (paper); 978-0-520-27114-2, $65.00 (hardcover) pp. 647-649

Thomas David Scheiding

Regina Lee Blaszczyk. The Color Revolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. xi + 380 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01777-0, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 650-652

Judith Gura

Molly W. Berger. Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829–1929. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 318 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-9987-4, $60.00 (cloth) pp. 652-654

David Stradling

Richard K. Popp. The Holiday Makers: Magazines, Advertising and Mass Tourism in Postwar America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. Vii + 204 pp. ISBN 978-08071-4284-4, $37.50 (cloth); 978-0-8071-4286-7 (paper) pp. 654-656

Gary Cross

Zoltan J. Acs. Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What It Means for Our Economic Well-Being. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. xv + 249 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-14862-5, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 656-658

Kathi Coon Badertscher

Gordon M. Winder. The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830–1910. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2012. Xiii + 257 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-2461-1, $119.95 (hardcover); ISBN 978-1-4094-2462-8 (ebook) pp. 659-660

Timothy Johnson

Terry S. Reynolds and Virginia R. Dawson. Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847–2006. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2011. viii + 351 pp. ISBN 9780814335116, $44.95 (cloth) pp. 661-662

H. Roger Grant

Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll. The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor’s Southern Prophets in New Deal America. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011. Xii + 221 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-07840-8, $30.00 (paper) pp. 662-664

Kenneth J. Heineman

Claudia Agostoni and Andrés Ríos Molina. Las estadísticas de salud en México: Ideas, actores e instituciones, 1810–2010. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas/Secretaría de Salud, Dirección General de Información en Salud, 2010. 384 pp. ISBN: 978-607-02-1482-0, $30.00 (paper) pp. 664-666

Casey Lurtz

Carlos Dávila Ladrón de Guevara. Empresariado en Colombia: perspectiva histórica y regional. Bogotá, Colombia: Ediciones Uniandes, 2012. 340 pp. ISBN: 978-958-695-693-2, $24.75 (cloth) pp. 667-669

Javier Fernández-Roca

Natalia Milanesio. Workers Go Shopping in Argentina. The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2013. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-8263-5241-5, $55.00 (hardcover) pp. 669-671

Silvia Simonassi

Michael Miller. Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xvi + 435 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-02455-7, $99.00 (cloth) pp. 671-673

Ingo Heidbrink

Daniele Pozzi. Una sfida al capitalismo italiano: Giuseppe Luraghi. Venice, Italy: Marsilio Editori, 2012. 317 pp. ISBN 978-88-317-1290-3, €30.00 (paper) pp. 673-675

Alberto Rinaldi

Gianni Toniolo, ed. The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy since Unification. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013. 816 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-993669-4, $150 (cloth) pp. 675-678

Francesca Fauri

Hartmut Berghoff Jürgen Kocka and Dieter Ziegler, eds. Business in the Age of Extremes: Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013. x + 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-01695-8, £60.00 (cloth) pp. 678-680

Robin Pearson

Katja Girschik. Als die Kassen lesen lernten: Eine Technik- und Unternehmensgeschichte des Schweizer Einzelhandels 1950–1975. Munich, Germany: C. H. Beck, 2010. 253 pp. ISBN 978-3406-60828-5, €44.00 (cloth) pp. 680-682

Christina Lubinski

Volume 14, issue 2, 2013

Capability Brown, the Aristocracy, and the Cultivation of the Eighteenth-Century British Landscaping Industry pp. 237-270

Andrew M. Wild

The Co-operative Movement in Britain: From Crisis to “Renaissance,” 1950–2010 1 pp. 271-302

John Wilson, Anthony Webster and Rachael Vorberg-Rugh

Selling Liberia: Moss H. Kendrix, the Liberian Centennial Commission, and the Post-World War II Trade in Black Progress pp. 303-326

Brenna W. Greer

Marshall in Iberia. Industrial Districts and Leading Firms in the Creation of Competitive Advantage in Fashion Products pp. 327-359

Jordi Catalan and Ramon Ramon-Muñoz

The Soviet Enterprise: What Have We Learned from the Archives? pp. 360-394

Martin Kragh

Reviews - Moramay López-Alonso. Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850–1950. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-7316-4, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 395-397

John Scott

Ian Read. The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822–1888. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. xv + 275 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-7414-7, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 398-400

André Rosemberg

María Vargas-Lobsinger. La Comarca: De la Revolución a la expropiación de las haciendas, 1910–1940. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1999 [2010 reprint]. 232 pp. ISBN 968-36-7630-8, $9.00 (paper) pp. 400-402

Matthew Caire-Pérez

Guillermo Guajardo Soto. Trabajo y tecnología en los ferrocarriles de México: una vision histórica, 1850–1950. Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2010. xxxiii + 209 pp. ISBN 978-607-455-613-1, $56.00 (paper) pp. 402-404

Robert F. Alegre

Eduardo Elena. Dignifying Argentina. Peronism, Citizenship, and Mass Consumption. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011. 332 pp. ISBN 978-0822961703, $27.95 pp. 404-406

Marcelo Rougier

R. Evan Ellis. China in Latin America: The Whats and Wherefores. New York: Lynne Rienner, 2009. 329 pp. ISBN 978-1-5882-6675-0, $26.50 (paper) pp. 407-410

Carol Wise

Claire Zalc. Melting Shops. Une histoire des commerçants étrangers en France. Paris: Perrin, 2010. 330 pp. ISBN 978-2262024710. €25.50 (paper) pp. 410-412

Serge Paquier

Daniel Sidorick. Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 300 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4726-6, $29.95 pp. 412-414

Brian Greenberg

James Landers. The Improbable First Century of Cosmopolitan Magazine. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2010. 368 pp. ISBN: 978-0-82621-906-0, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 414-417

Vida Bajc

Martin Dean. Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933–1945. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 437 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-88825-7, $68.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-5211-2905-3, $28.99 (paper) pp. 417-419

Ralf Banken

Elena Razlogova. The Listener’s Voice: Early Radio and the American Public. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4320-8, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 419-421

Jack Mitchell

Timothy Alborn. Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800–1914. Toronto, Buffalo, & London: University of Toronto Press, 2009. xi + 439 pp. ISBN 1-4426-3996-2, $80.00 (cloth) pp. 421-424

William Deringer

Martin Gilman. No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia’s 1998 Default. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010. 360 pp. ISBN 978-0262014656, $29.95 (Hardback) pp. 424-426

Jin Uk Kim

Jayeeta Sharma. Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011. xvi + 324 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-5032-3, $94.95 (cloth); 978-0-8223-5049-1, $25.95 (paper) pp. 426-428

Lawrence A. Babb

Leonardo Martínez-Díaz. Globalizing in Hard Times: The Politics of Banking-Sector Opening in the Emerging World. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 231 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4755-6, $40.00 (cloth) pp. 429-431

Bradley Skousen

Volume 14, issue 1, 2013

Managing US Defense Acquisition pp. 1-36

John A. Alic

Pianos for the People: From Producer to Consumer in Britain, 1851–1914 pp. 37-70

Francesca Carnevali and Lucy Newton

Selling Sexual Certainty? Advertising Lysol as a Contraceptive in the United States and Canada, 1919–1939 pp. 71-98

Kristin Hall

Business as a Means of Foreign Policy or Politics as a Means of Production? The German Government and the Creation of Friedrich Flick’s Upper Silesian Industrial Empire (1921–1935) pp. 99-143

Alfred Reckendrees

From Porcelain to Plastic: Politics and Business in a Relocated False Teeth Company, 1880s–1950s 1 pp. 144-181

David De Vries

Forced Labor, Public Policies, and Business Strategies During Franco’s Dictatorship: An Interim Report pp. 182-213

Fernando Mendiola Gonzalo

Reviews - Junko Takeda. Between Crown and Commerce: Marseille and the Early Modern Mediterranean. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. xi + 258 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-9982-9, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 214-216

David Smith

Serena R. Zabin. Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 205 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4160-0, $19.95 (paper) pp. 216-219

James Fichter

Nancy Reynolds. A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. 376 pp. ISBN 978-0804781268, $45 (cloth) pp. 219-221

Relli Shechter

Ignacio del Río. Mercados en asedio: El comercio transfronterizo en el norte central de México (1821–1848). México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2010. 237 pp. ISBN 978-607-02-1824-8, $23.95 (paper) pp. 222-223

George T. Diaz

Eden Medina. Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. 312 pp, 24 illus. ISBN 978-0-262-01649-0, $32.00/£21.95 (cloth) pp. 223-226

Guillermo Guajardo Soto

Alexander Russo. Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio Beyond the Networks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. xi + 278 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4517-6, $84.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8223-4532-9, $23.95 (paper) pp. 226-228

Brian Fauteux

Martijn Konings. The Development of American Finance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. viii + 199 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-19525-6, $90 (cloth) pp. 228-231

Paul J. Miranti

John A. Consiglio Juan C. Martinez Oliva Gabriel Tortella, eds. Banking and Finance in the Mediterranean: A Historical Perspective. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. 352 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-2984-5, $124.95 (hardcover); 978-1-4094-2985-2 (e-book) pp. 231-234

María A. Pons

Bruce E. Kaufman. Hired Hands or Human Resources? Case Studies of HRM Programs and Practices in Early American Industry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. xi + 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4830-0, $57.95 (cloth) pp. 234-236

Ken Fones-Wolf