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Volume 13, issue 4, 2012

Introduction pp. 707-709

Philip Scranton

Escape from Equilibrium: Thinking Historically about Firm Responses to Competition pp. 710-728

Margaret Levenstein

Ensuring America's Health: Publicly Constructing the Private Health Insurance Industry, 1945–1970 pp. 729-743

Christy Ford Chapin

Accounting for Taste: Regulating Food Labeling in the “Affluent Society,” 1945–1995 pp. 744-761

Xaq Frohlich

Politics of Property: Urban Democracy in the Age of Global Capital, Boston 1865–1900 pp. 762-772

Noam Maggor

Selling Paris: The Real Estate Market and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital pp. 773-789

Alexia Yates

Wishful Thinking: Retail Premiums in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America pp. 790-831

Wendy A. Woloson

Peeling Back the Layers: Vidalia Onions and the Making of a Global Agribusiness pp. 832-861

Tore C. Olsson

The Asbestos Litigation Master Narrative: Building Codes, Engineering Standards, and “Retroactive Inculpation” pp. 862-897

Rachel Maines

Joanne Hershfield. Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. ix + 200 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4238-0. $22.95 (paper) pp. 898-900

Dina Berger

Sharon Ann Murphy. Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 416 pp. ISBN: 978-0801896248, $67.00 (cloth) pp. 900-903

Liz McFall

José Camilo L. de Guevara, Carlos Dávila L. De Guevara, Lina Aceneth Grisales Rincón, David Schnarch González. Lo social y lo económico: ¿Dos caras de una misma moneda? La Fundación Social y sus empresas (1984–2010). Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, 2011. 275 pp. ISBN 978-958-695-687, $20 (paper) pp. 903-905

A. Ricardo López

Jeffrey G. Williamson. Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. xi + 301 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01515-8, $35 (cloth) pp. 906-908

Mark Metzler

Ángel Calvo. Historia de Telefónica: 1924–1975. Primeras décadas: tecnología, economía y política. Barcelona and Madrid: Ariel-Fundación Telefónica, 2010. 569 pp. ISBN 978-84-08-09893-5, €18 (paper) pp. 908-911

Adoración Álvaro-Moya

Ann Smart Martin. Buying into a World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2008. 276 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8727-5, $38.88 (cloth), $15.20 (paper) pp. 911-913

Jamie C. Brandon

Jerry Z. Muller. Capitalism and the Jews. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 272 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-14478-8, $24.95 (cloth) pp. 914-916

Gideon Reuveni

Mark Garrett Cooper. Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. ix + 230 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03522-7, $93.59 (cloth); 978-0-252-07700-5, $25.00 (paper) pp. 916-918

Vicki Callahan

James Onley. The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth Century Gulf. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. viii and 352 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-922810-2, $165 (cloth) pp. 918-920

Hala Fattah

Quentin Van Doosselaere. Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 280 pp. ISBN 978-1107-40429-8, $34.99 (paper) pp. 921-923

Jessica L. Goldberg

Jonathan Soffer. Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 528 pp. ISBN: 978-0-2311-5033-0. $22.95 (paper) pp. 923-926

Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Sarah S. Elkind. How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 228 pp. ISBN 978-0-807-834893, $45 (cloth) pp. 926-927

Jennifer Delton

Philip F. Rubio. There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8078-5986-5, $24.95 (paper) pp. 928-929

Martha Biondi

Christoph Rosenmüller. Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues: The Court Society of Colonial Mexico, 1702–1710. Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press, 2008. x + 278 pp. ISBN 978-1-55238-234-9, $34.95 (paper) pp. 930-932

Anita Bravo

Matthew Restall. The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. xviii + 433 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-4983-1, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 932-934

Jeremy Baskes

Volume 13, issue 3, 2012

Continental Divide: The Canadian Banking and Currency Laws of 1871 in the Mirror of the United States pp. 455-503

Andrew Smith

Boundless Competition: Subcontracting and the London Economy in the Late Nineteenth Century pp. 504-537

Giorgio Riello

The City of London as an International Commercial and Financial Center since 1900 pp. 538-587

Simon Mollan and Ranald Michie

What Happened to the Company That Dix Made? pp. 588-633

Nikki Mandell

Explanations for the Restrained Development of the Dutch Cinema Market in the 1930s pp. 634-671

John Sedgwick, Clara Pafort-Overduin and Jaap Boter

Making Sense of Financial Crisis and Scandal: A Danish Bank Failure in the First Era of Finance Capitalism pp. 672-706

Per H. Hansen

Volume 13, issue 2, 2012

The Creative Destruction of the Chicago River Harbor: Spatial and Environmental Dimensions of Industrial Capitalism, 1881–1909 pp. 235-275

Joshua A. T. Salzmann

Trust Brokers: Traveling Grocery Salesmen and Confidence in Nineteenth-Century Trade pp. 276-312

Susan V. Spellman

Corporate Social Responsibility of Dutch Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century pp. 313-349

Keetie Sluyterman

Under the Counter, Under the Radar? The Business and Regulation of the Pornographic Press in Sweden 1950–1971 pp. 350-377

Klara Arnberg

The Italian Corporate Network After the “Golden Age” (1972–1983): From Centrality to Marginalization of State-Owned Enterprises pp. 378-413

Alberto Rinaldi and Michelangelo Vasta

Donica Belisle. Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011. xii + 308 pp. ISBN 978-0-7748-1947-3, $94.00 (hardcover); 978-0-7748-1948-0, $35.95 (paper) pp. 414-416

Tyson Stewart

Alessandro Stanziani, ed. Le travail contraint en Asie et en Europe XVIIe–XXe siécles. Paris, France: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 2010. 337 pp. ISBN: 978-2-7351-1270-8. €27 (paper) pp. 416-419

Benedicte Reynaud

Christine R. Yano. Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. xv + 228 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4836-8, $79.95 (cloth); 978-0-8223-4850-4, $22.95 (paper) pp. 419-421

Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci

Myrddin John Lewis, Roger Lloyd-Jones, Josephine Maltby, Mark David Matthews. Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance: British Manufacturing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2011. xii + 231 pp. ISBN 9780754655879, £65.00 (cloth); 9781409417583 (ebook) pp. 421-424

Robin Pearson

Alison K. Hoagland. Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. xxvi + 307 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-6566-2, $75.00 (cloth); 978-0-8166-6567-9, $25.00 (paper) pp. 424-427

Chris Post

Oliver J. Dinius. Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941–1964. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. xxiv + 325 pp. ISBN-10: 0-8047-7168-5, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 427-429

Joseph L. Love

Michele Alacevich. The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press and the World Bank, 2009. xiv + 197 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-6065-2. $75.00 (cloth); ISBN: 978-0-8047-6066-9 $29.95 (paper) pp. 429-432

Robert H. Wade

Clare Rose. Making, Selling and Wearing Boys' Clothes in Late-Victorian England. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010. 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-6444-4, $124.95 (cloth) pp. 432-435

Annebella Pollen

David L. Stearns, Electronic Value Exchange: Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System. London: Springer, 2011. 267 pp. ISBN 978-1849-9613-87, $99.00 (Hardback) pp. 435-438

Joline Zepcevski

Preeti Chopra. A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. xxiv + 293 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-7037-6, $20.89 (paper) pp. 438-440

Ghulam A. Nadri

Martin Kornberger. Brand Society: How Brands Transform Management and Lifestyle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xx + 308 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-898263, $95.00 (cloth); 978-0-521-72690-0, $35.99 (paper) pp. 440-442

David Higgins

Geoffrey Jones, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv + 412 pp., [16] pp. of plates. ISBN 0-1995-5649-0, $45.00 (cloth); 0-1996-3962-0, $27.95 (paper) pp. 442-444

Jill Fields

James R. Fichter, So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-05057-0, $35.00 (paper ) pp. 445-447

Timothy Davies

Dennis Merrill, Negotiating Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi + 327 pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-3288-2, $69.95 (hardcover); ISBN 978-0-8078-5904-9, $23.95 (paper) pp. 447-449

Andrea Boardman

William J. Hausman, Peter Hertner, and Mira Wilkins. Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxiv + 487 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-88035-0, $80 (hardcover) pp. 449-451

Stephanie Decker

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal and R. Bin Wong. Before and beyond Divergence, the Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. xi + 276 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-05791-3, $45.00 (hardcover) pp. 451-454

Kent G. Deng

Volume 13, issue 1, 2012

Robber Barons Redux: Antimonopoly Reconsidered pp. 1-38

Richard R. John

Labor Makes the News: Newspapers, Journalism, and Organized Labor, 1933–1955 pp. 39-52

Philip M. Glende

The Proliferation of Brands: The Case of Food in Belgium, 1890-1940 pp. 53-84

Patricia Van Den Eeckhout and Peter Scholliers

Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914–1990 pp. 85-119

Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski

The Shareholder Voice: British and American Accents, 1890–1965 pp. 120-153

Janette Rutterford

Religion, Human Relations, and Union Avoidance in the 1950s: The Electrical Industry's Southern Strategy and Its Limits pp. 154-185

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf

Donald W. Rogers. Making Capitalism Safe: Work Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880–1940. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-2520-3482-4, $55.00 (cloth) pp. 186-188

Meghan Crnic

Ann Johnson. Hitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. xviii + 205 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4526-8 (cloth); 978-0-8223-4541-1 (paper) pp. 188-190

John A. Heitmann

Janette Thomas Greenwood. First Fruits of Freedom: The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality In Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862–1900. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-7104-1. $55.00 (cloth) pp. 191-192

Rhonda Ragsdale

David J. Bricknell. Float: Pilkingtons' Glass Revolution. Carnegie House, Lancaster, UK: Crucible Books, 2009. vii + 248 pp. ISBN 978-1-905472-11-6, £20.00 (hardcover) pp. 193-194

Paula Diogo

Louis Hyman. Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 378 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-14068-1, $35.00 (cloth); 978-1-400-83840-0, $35.00 (e-book) pp. 195-197

Robert Wright

Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Rohm and Haas: A Century of Innovation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 223 pp. ISBN 978-0-9749510-8-9, $49.95 (hardcover) pp. 197-199

Lorna Wallace

Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood (eds.). Holiday in Mexico: Critical Reflections on Tourism and Tourist Encounters. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. ix + 393 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4554-1, $89.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8223-4571-8 Z, $24.95 (paper) pp. 199-202

Michelle Madsen Camacho

Geoffrey Clark, Gregory Anderson, Christian Thomann, and J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg, eds. The Appeal of Insurance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. x + 247 pp. ISBN 978-1-4426-4065-8, $50.00 (cloth) pp. 202-204

Dan Bouk

Gunja SenGupta. From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840–1918. New York: New York University Press, 2009. v + 333 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-4061-3, $48.00 (hardback) pp. 204-206

Alisha M. Cromwell

Shireen Ally. From Servants to Workers: South African Domestic Workers and the Democratic State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 250 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4832-4, $55.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8014-7587-0, $22.95 (paper) pp. 207-209

T. J. Tallie

Amy Mittelman. Brewing Battles: A History of American Beer. New York: Algora Publishing, 2008. 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-87586-572-0 (trade paper); 978-0-87586-573-7 (hard cover); 978-0-87586-574-4 (ebook) pp. 209-211

Joseph Bohling

David R. Green. Pauper Capital: London and the Poor Law, 1790–1870. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010. 300 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-3008-1, £60 (cloth) pp. 212-214

Anne Crowther

Robert Martello. Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. vi + 421 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-9757-3, $65.00 (hardcover); 978-0-8018-9758-0, $30.00 (paper) pp. 214-216

Edward Gray

Anthony Kaye. Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. x + 365 pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-3103-8, $36.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8078-6179-0, $22.95 (paper) pp. 216-218

Jayne Ptolemy

Karl Gerth. As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything. New York: Hill and Wang, 2010. 258 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8090-34291-1. $17.16 (cloth) pp. 219-221

Wenxin Guo

André Burguière. The Annales School. An Intellectual History. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. xiv + 309 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4665-8, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 221-224

Georg G. Iggers

A. L. Beier and Paul Ocobock, ed. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. 396 pp. ISBN 978-0-89680-262-9,$24.90 (paper) pp. 224-225

Craig Dionne

Elena San Román. Ildefonso Fierro: la aventura de un emprendedor. Madrid: LID, 2011. 320 pp. ISBN 978-84-8356-042-6, €29.90 (paper) pp. 226-228

Paula A. De la Cruz-Fernández

Laura Jarnagin. A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks: Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. 448 pp. ISBN 978-0-8173-1624-2, $49.75 (cloth) pp. 228-229

Matthew Karp

Andrew Smith. British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation: Constitution-Making in an Era of Anglo-Globalization. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. viii + 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-7735-3405-6, $95.00 (cloth) pp. 230-231

Ken Cruikshank

Thomas Wheatland. The Frankfurt School in Exile. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 415 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-5367-6, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 231-234

Jeffrey Fear