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Volume 11, issue 4, 2010

Institutions, Geography, and Market Power: The Political Economy of Rubber in the Brazilian Amazon, c. 1870–1910 1 pp. 675-685

Felipe Tamega Fernandes

The Good Consumer: Credit Reporting and the Invention of Financial Identity in the United States, 1840–1940 pp. 686-694

Josh Lauer

Alchemy in Eden: Entrepreneurialism, Branding, and Food Marketing in the United States, 1880–1920 pp. 695-708

Terri Lonier

“A Constitutional Conveyance of Intelligence, Public and Private”: The Post Office, the Business of Printing, and the American Revolution pp. 709-752

Joseph M. Adelman

“Regenten” (Gentlemanly) Capitalism: Saint-Simonian Technocracy and the Emergence of the “Industrialist Great Club” in the Mid-nineteenth Century Netherlands pp. 753-783

Albert Schrauwers

A Twentieth-Century Triangle Trade: Selling Black Beauty at Home and Abroad, 1945–1965 pp. 784-810

Malia McAndrew

Labeling the Good: Alternative Visions and Organic Branding in Sweden in the Late Twentieth Century pp. 811-838

Oskar Broberg

Gerald Berk. Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition, 1900–1932. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xi + 282 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-42596-4 (cloth), $85.00. Adobe eBook Reader, ISBN 9780511577604, $68.00 pp. 839-841

William R. Childs

Anthony S. Chen. The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States 1941–1972. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. xxii + 395 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-13457, $65.00 (cloth); 978-0-691-13953-1, $24.95 (paper) pp. 841-844

Thomas Maloney

Michael Oriard. Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 352 pp. ISBN 978-08078-3329-2, $30 (cloth) pp. 844-846

David G. Surdam

William Lazonick. Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy? Business Organization and High-Tech Unemployment in the United States. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2009. xviii + 357 pp. ISBN 978-0-88099-351-7, $45.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-88099-350-0, $25.00 (paper) pp. 846-849

Andrew Russell

Steven G. Medema. The Hesitant Hand. Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. xi + 230 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-12296-0, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 849-851

Jimena Hurtado Prieto

Jens Christensen. Global Experience Industries. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 2009, 456 pp. ISBN 978 87 7934 432 7, €47.30 (paper) pp. 851-853

Mirko Ernkvist

Patrick R. Parsons. Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2008. ix + 805 pp. ISBN 978-1-59213-287-4, $61.95 (cloth) pp. 853-855

Christopher H. Sterling

Robert W. Duffner. The Adaptive Optics Revolution: A History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. ix + 457 pp. ISBN 978-0-8263-4691-9, $45.00 (hardcover); 0-826-3469-1X pp. 855-857

Emily Hamilton

Jordynn Jack. Science on the Home Front: American Women Scientists in World War II. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. x + 165 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03470-1, $60.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-252-07659-6, $20.00 (paper) pp. 857-860

Caitjan Gainty

J. Samuel Walker. The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009. 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-26045-0, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 860-862

Megan Barnhart

Robert B. Kristofferson. Craft Capitalism: Craftworkers and Early Industrialization in Hamilton, Ontario, 1840–1872. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8020-9408-7, $31.95 pp. 862-864

Robert C.H. Sweeny

Richard H.K. Vietor. How Countries Compete. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2007. 305 pp. ISBN 978-1-4221-1035-5, $35.00 (hardcover) pp. 865-866

Balkrishna C. Rao

Nirmalaya Kumar, with Pradipta K. Mohapatra and Suj Chandrasekhar. India's Global Powerhouses: How They Are Taking On the World. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2009. xiii + 250 pp. ISBN 978-1-4221-4762-7, $27.95 (cloth) pp. 867-869

Surajit Mazumdar

Louise Nelson Dyble. Paying the Toll: Local Power, Regional Politics, and the Golden Gate Bridge. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4147-1, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 869-871

Sally H. Clarke

Volume 11, issue 3, 2010

“Practically the Uniform of the Tribe”: Dress Codes Among Commercial Travelers pp. 437-467

Andrew Popp and Michael French

“This Astounding Car for $1,500”: The Year Automobile Advertising Came of Age pp. 468-523

Rob Schorman

Fashion as a System: Changes in Demand as the Basis for the Establishment of the Italian Fashion System (1960–1970) pp. 524-559

Ivan Paris

Reconsidering Japan's Underperformance in Pharmaceuticals: Evidence from Japan's Anticancer Drug Sector pp. 560-593

Maki Umemura

State Ownership and International Competitiveness: The Italian Finmeccanica from Alfa Romeo to Aerospace and Defense (1947–2007) pp. 594-635

Emanuele Felice

Susanna Fellman, Martin Jes Iversen, Hans Sjögren, and Lars Thue, eds. Creating Nordic Capitalism: The Business History of a Competitive Periphery. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xix + 636 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-54553-3, $45.00 (paper) pp. 636-638

Eiriin Larsen

Karen Ho. Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xiii + 374 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4580-0 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8223-4599-2 (paper) pp. 638-641

Vicki Smith

Robert E. Wright. One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0071-54393-4, $27.95 (cloth) pp. 641-642

Monica Prasad

Aldo Musacchio. Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882–1950. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxv + 298 pp. ISBN 9780521518895, $85.00 (cloth) pp. 643-645

Robert E. Wright

Yener Altunbas, Alper Kara, and Özlem Olgu. Turkish Banking. Banking under Political Instability and Chronic High Inflation. Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. xix + 217 pp. ISBN 9781403997111, $85.00 (cloth) pp. 645-648

Gustavo A. Del Angel-Mobarak

Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim, and Sérgio Pinheiro, eds. Brazil: A Century of Change. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 364 pp. ISBN: 978-0807-83130-4, $24.95 (paper) pp. 648-650

Felipe Tâmega Fernandes

Ulbe Bosma, Juan Giusti-Cordero, and G. Roger Knight, eds. Sugarlandia Revisited: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800 to 1940. International Studies in Social History, vol. 9. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. 233 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84545-316-9 $75.00 (hardcover) pp. 651-653

Brandon Reilly

James Robinson and Miguel Urrutia, eds. Economía Colombiana del Siglo XX. Un análisis cuantitativo. Bogota, Colombia: Banco de la República and Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007. 678 pp. ISBN: 978-958-38-0139-6 $22.00 (paper) pp. 653-656

Jorge Tovar

Guillermo Guajardo Soto, ed. Innovación y empresa: estudios históricos de México, España y América Latina. Mexico City: Solar Servicios Editoriales, 2008. 395 pp. ISBN 970-32-4095-X, $36.00 (cloth) pp. 656-658

Lino Camprubi

Joseph Contreras. In the Shadow of the Giant: The Americanization of Modern Mexico. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xii + 276 pp. ISBN 978-0-8135-4482-3, $24.95 (hardcover) pp. 659-661

Julio Moreno

Gabriela Martínez. Latin American Telecommunications: Telefónica's Conquest. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008. 152 pp. ISBN 978-0739-1247-4, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 661-664

Erica Salvaj Carrera

Toake Endoh. Exporting Japan: Politics of Emigration to Latin America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 267 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03402-2, $50.00 (cloth) pp. 664-667

Keiko Yamanaka

Ferguson Evans. The Rise of the Japanese Specialist Manufacturer. Leading Medium-Sized Enterprises. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xiv + 241 p. ISBN 0-230-21842-0, $95.00 (hardcover) pp. 667-669

Pierre-Yves Donzé

Minqi Li. The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2009. 208 pp. ISBN 978-1583671825, $11.53 (paper) pp. 669-672

Susan Mays

William Hurst. The Chinese Worker after Socialism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-521-89887-4. 208 pp. $99.00 (cloth) pp. 672-674

Eli Friedman

Volume 11, issue 2, 2010

“Trick or Treat?” The Misrepresentation of American Beef Exports in Britain during the Late Nineteenth Century pp. 203-241

David Higgins and Dev Gangjee

Monks and Businessmen in Catalonia: The Benedictines of Montserrat (1900–1936) pp. 242-274

Javier Fernández Roca

Jack of All Trades: Cramp Shipbuilding, Mixed Production, and the Limits of Flexible Specialization in American Warship Construction, 1940–1945 pp. 275-315

Thomas B Heinrich

Military Industry versus Military-Related Firms in Socialist Hungary: Disintegration and Integration of Military Production during the 1950s and Early 1960s pp. 316-349

Pál Germuska

Multinational Corporations, Business Groups, and Economic Nationalism: Standard Oil (New Jersey), Royal Dutch-Shell, and Energy Politics in Chile 1913–2005 pp. 350-399

Marcelo Bucheli

François Crouzet. La guerre économique franco-anglaise au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Fayard, 2008. 424 pp. ISBN 978-2213636016, €29.00 (cloth) pp. 400-402

Alessandro Stanziani

Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke. Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xxviii + 620 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-11854-3, $39.50 (cloth); $29.95 (paper, 2009); e-book ISBN 978-1-4008-3188-3, $39.50, 2009 pp. 402-404

Larry Neal

Wim Klooster. Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History. New York: New York University Press, 2009. vii + 239 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-4788-9, $65.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8147-4789-6, $22.00 (paper) pp. 405-406

Timothy J. Coates

P.C. Emmer, Chris Emery, trans. The Dutch Slave Trade, 1500–1850. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. ix + 166 pp. ISBN 1-84545-031-0, $75.00 (hardcover) pp. 406-408

Diana Raesner

Joe Jackson. The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire. New York: Penguin Books, 2008. xxi + 414 pp. ISBN 978-0-14-311461-1, $16.00 (paper) pp. 409-411

Shakila Yacob

Paride Rugafiori and Ferdinando Fasce. Dal petrolio all'energia: ERG 1938–2008. Storia e cultura d'impresa [From Oil to Energy: ERG 1938–2008, Enterprise History and Corporate Culture]. Rome-Bari: Laterza, 2008. xvi + 575 pp. ISBN 978-88-420-8810-3, €38.00 (paper) pp. 411-413

Daniele Pozzi

Daniele Pozzi. Dai gatti selvaggi al cane a sei zampe. Tecnologia, conoscenza e organizzazione nell'Agip e nell'Eni di Enrico Mattei. Venice: Marsilio, 2009. xii + 546 pp. ISBN 978-88-317-9712-2, €45 (paper) pp. 414-416

Ferdinando Fasce

Elizabeth B. Jones. Gender and Rural Modernity: Farm Women and the Politics of Labor in Germany, 1871–1933. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. xvi + 238 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-6499-4, $99.95 (hardback) pp. 416-418

Matthew Stibbe

Thomas Zeller. Driving Germany. The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930–1970. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. viii + 289 pp. ISBN 978-1-84545-309-1, $85.00 (cloth) pp. 419-421

Jeffrey K. Wilson

Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann. Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009. 424 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-15119-1, $36.00 (cloth) pp. 421-424

Dolores Augustine

Andrew M. Shanken. 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. x + 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-5365-2, $75.00 (cloth); 978-0-8166-5366-9, $24.95 (paper) pp. 425-427

Catherine McNeur

Nina Bandelj. From Communists to Foreign Capitalists. The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Socialist Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 324 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-12912-9, $28.00 (cloth) pp. 427-429

Joshua Sears

Angel Smith. Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction: Catalan Labor and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898–1923. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. ISBN 978-1845451769, $89.95 (cloth) pp. 430-431

Nathan Jun

Enrique Badía. Zara and her Sisters: The Story of the World's Largest Clothing Retailer. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. ISBN 978-0-230-22991-4, $31.16 (hardcover) pp. 432-433

Ricardo Flores

Mauro Guillén and Adrian Tschoegl. Building a Global Bank: The Transformation of Banco Santander. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. 280 pp. ISBN: 978-0691131252, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 434-435

Clara Cardone-Riportella

Volume 11, issue 1, 2010

Visual Analytics of an Eighteenth-Century Business Network pp. 1-25

John Haggerty and Sheryllynne Haggerty

Economic Information on International Markets: French Strategies in the Italian Mirror (Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Centuries) pp. 26-64

Alessandro Stanziani

English Commercial Banks and Organizational Inertia: The Financing of SMEs, 1944–1960 pp. 65-97

Mae Baker and Michael Collins

Cooperative Networks in the Italian Economy pp. 98-127

Tito Menzani and Vera Negri Zamagni

The Continuity of Innovation: The Civil War Experience pp. 128-165

Ross Thomson

Teresa da Silva Lopes. Global Brands: The Evolution of Multinationals in Alcoholic Beverages. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0521-83397-4, $53.99 (cloth) pp. 166-168

Paloma Fernández de Pino

Miguel Tinker Salas. The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. xvi + 324 pp. ISBN 978-0822344193, $23.95 (paperback) pp. 168-170

Myrna Santiago

Bethany Moreton. To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. 372 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-03322-1, $27.95 (cloth) pp. 171-173

Angus Burgin

Giovanni Federico. Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800–2000. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiv + 388 pp. ISBN 0-691-12051-5, $55.00 (cloth); 0-691-13853-4, $24.95 (paper, 2008) pp. 173-174

Peter A. Coclanis

Cameron McNeil, ed. Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao. Maya Studies Series, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8130-3382-2, $34.95 (paperback) pp. 175-177

Mary Ann Mahony

Carolina Bank Muñoz. Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xi + 202 pp. ISBN 080144649, $49.95 (cloth); 978-0-8014-7422-4, $18.95 (paper) pp. 177-179

Julio César Pino

Mary E. Odem and Elaine Lacy, eds. Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. vii + 175 pp. ISBN 978-0-8203-2968-0, $59.95 (cloth); 978-0-8203-3212-3, $24.95 (paper) pp. 180-182

Marilyn Halter

Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven. Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. ix + 283 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-14148-0. $29.95 (paper) pp. 182-185

Werner Baer

Seppo Honkapohja, Erkki A. Koskela, Willi Leibfritz, and Roope Uusitalo. Economic Prosperity Recaptured: The Finnish Path from Crisis to Rapid Growth. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009. x + 145 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01269-0, $35.00 (hardcover) pp. 185-186

Jukka Jalava

Javier Vidal Olivares. Las Alas de España: Iberia, Líneas Aéreas (1940–2005). Valencia, Spain: Universidad de Valencia, 2008. 268 pp. ISBN 978-84-370-7084-1. €22 (paper) pp. 187-188

Veronica Binda

Dan Hagedorn. Conquistadors of the Sky. A History of Aviation in Latin America. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xiv + 587 pp. ISBN 978-0-8130-3249-8, $39.95 (hardcover) pp. 189-190

Marc Dierikx

Marc Levinson. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. ix + 376 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-12324-0, $24.95 (hardcover) pp. 191-193

Mark Jacobs

Brent Shannon. The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860–1914. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. vii + 252 pp. ISBN 978-0-8214-1703-4, $24.95 (paper) pp. 193-195

Stephanie Amerian

Gabriel Tortella, José Luis García Ruiz, José María Ortiz-Villajos López, and María Gloria Quiroga Valle, eds. Educación, instituciones y empresa: los determinantes del espíritu empresarial. Madrid: Academia Europea de Ciencias y Artes, 2009. 261 pp. ISBN 978-84-612-8173-2, €14.89 (paperback) pp. 196-198

Javier Vidal Olivares

Jeremy Bernstein. Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. xii + 194 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7517-7, $17.95 (paper) pp. 198-200

Sean L. Malloy

Alison C. Kay. The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship: Enterprise, Home, and Household in London, 1800–1870. New York: Routledge, 2009. xv + 185 pp. ISBN 0-415-43174-3, 978-0-415-43174, $130.00 (hardback) pp. 200-201

Judy K. Miler