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Volume 10, issue 4, 2009

United States Bank Rescue Politics, 2008–2009: A Business Historian's View* pp. 612-650

Mark H. Rose

Your Job Is Your Credit: Creating a Market for Loans to Salaried Employees in New York City, 1885–1920 pp. 651-660

Michael Easterly

“Industrial Legislatures”: Consensus Standardization in the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions pp. 661-674

Andrew L. Russell

Pharmaceutical Networks: The Political Economy of Drug Development in the United States, 1945–1980 pp. 675-686

Dominique A. Tobbell

The Birth of the North American Home Improvement Store, 1905–1929 pp. 687-728

Richard Harris

Parading as Millionaires: Montana Bankers and the Panic of 1893 pp. 729-762

Paula Petrik

The Ups and Downs of Family Life: Det Norske Nitridaktieselskap, 1912–1976 pp. 763-790

Espen Storli and David Brégaint

History, a Useful “Science” for Management? From Polemics to Controversies 1 pp. 791-807

Eric Godelier

The Use and Abuse of History as a Management Tool: Comments on Eric Godelier's View of the French Connection 1 pp. 808-815

Christopher Kobrak

Does History Matter in Business? pp. 816-830

Paul Tiffany

History, a Useful “Science” for Management? A Response pp. 831-836

Andrew Popp

Comments on Comments, or the Richness of Dialogue pp. 837-846

Eric Godelier

Dan Immergluck. Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America's Mortgage Market. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. x + 251 pp. ISBN 978-00-8014-4772-3, $29.95 pp. 847-850

John Quigley

John Majewski. Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiii + 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-3251-6, $31.96 (cloth) pp. 851-853

Gavin Wright

Adam C. Stanley. Modernizing Tradition. Gender and Consumerism in Interwar France and Germany. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. 261 pp. ISBN 978-0807133620, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 853-856

Veronique Poulliard

Gabrielle Esperdy. Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. x + 307 pp. ISBN 0-226-21800-7, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 856-859

Howard R. Stanger

Susan Ingalls Lewis. Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth Century Albany, New York, 1830–1885. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009. xx + 203 pp. ISBN 978-0-8142-0398-9, $44.95 (cloth) pp. 859-861

Peter Baskerville

Sarah A. Gordon. “Make It Yourself”: Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890–1930. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xxi + 164 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-14244-1, $60.00 (cloth) pp. 861-864

Eileen Boris

Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray, eds. Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. xii + 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4624-5, $69.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8014-7559-7, $24.95 (paper) pp. 864-866

Marjorie E. Wood

Nelson Lichtenstein, ed. Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First Century Capitalism. London: The New Press, 2006. xv + 249 pp. ISBN 1-59558-021-2, $21.95 (paper) pp. 866-868

Adrian R. Bailey

Tonio Andrade. How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xix + 300 pp. ISBN 978-0-12855-1, $60.00 (cloth); 978-0-231-50368-6 (e-book) pp. 868-870

Winifred Chang

Stanley Buder. Capitalizing on Change: A Social History of American Business. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 578 pp. ISBN 978-0807832318, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 871-873

R. Daniel Wadhwani

James T. Wall. Wall Street and the Fruited Plain: Money, Expansion and Politics in the Gilded Age. Latham, MD: University Press of America, 2008. 394 pp. ISBN 978-0761841241, $ 49.00 (cloth) pp. 873-874

Stanley Buder

Alvin Rabushka. Taxation in Colonial America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. xx + 946 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-13345-4, $60 (hardback) pp. 875-876

William J. Ashworth

Volume 10, issue 3, 2009

“Making Connections”: Insights into Relationship Marketing from the Australasian Stock and Station Agent Industry pp. 423-448

Simon Ville

Divergent Paths, United States and France: Capital Markets, the State, and Differentiation in Transportation Systems, 1840–1940 pp. 449-497

Jim Cohen

The Workplace and Economic Crisis: Canadian Textile Firms, 1929–1935 pp. 498-528

Robert Lewis

The Co-Creation of a Retail Innovation: Shoppers and the Early Supermarket in Britain pp. 529-558

Andrew Alexander, Dawn Nell, Adrian R. Bailey and Gareth Shaw

The Realpolitik of the Artificial: Strategic Design at Figgjo Fajanse Facing International Free Trade in the 1960s pp. 559-589

Kjetil Fallan

Terry Gourvish. Britain's Railways 1997–2005: Labour's Strategic Experiment. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008. xix + 309 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-923660-2, $60.00 (hardcover) pp. 590-591

Marc Levinson

Regina Lee Blaszczyk. American Consumer Society, 1865–2005: From Hearth to HDTV. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2009. xiii + 330 pp. ISBN 0882952641, $24.95 (paper) pp. 592-594

Daniel Pope

Raymond E. Dumett, ed. Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870–1945. Entrepreneurship, High Finance, Politics and Territorial Expansion. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2009. xiii + 255 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-6303-4, £60.00 (cloth) pp. 594-596

Larry J. Butler

Aims McGuinness. Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. xiii + 249 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4521-7, $35.00 (cloth); 978-0-8014-7538-2, $19.95 (paper) pp. 596-598

Frank Safford

Laura Ugolini. Men and Menswear: Sartorial Consumption in Britain, 1880–1939. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. xiii + 292 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-0384-9, $124.95 (hardcover) pp. 598-600

Adam Stanley

John Iceland. Where We Live Now: Immigration and Race in the United States. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009. xix + 209 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-25762-7, $50.00 (cloth); 978-0-520-25763-4, $19.95 (paper) pp. 601-603

James R. Barrett

Richard H. Gassan. The Birth of American Tourism: New York, the Hudson Valley, and American Culture, 1790–1830. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xii + 213 pp. ISBN 978-1-55849-664-4, $80.00 (cloth); 978-1-55849-665-1, $29.95 (paper) pp. 603-605

David Stradling

João Pedro Marques. 2006. The Sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, trans. Richard Wall. European Expansion and Global Interaction Series. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. 304 pp. ISBN 978-1571814470, $80.00 (cloth) pp. 605-607

Ian Read

Volume 10, issue 2, 2009

How Reciprocal was the Business–Government Relationship? The Wedge of Competition in Early Industrializing Japan pp. 237-264

Peter von Staden

Pensions and Providence: Dutch Employers and the Creation of Funded Pension Schemes pp. 265-303

Erik Nijhof

Looking for “Industrial Confraternity” Small-Scale Industries and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Paris pp. 304-334

Claire Lemercier

Between Agnelli and Mussolini: Ford's Unsuccessful Attempt to Penetrate the Italian Automobile Market in the Interwar Period pp. 335-375

PierAngelo Toninelli

Hinterland Dreams and Midwestern Rails: Public Power and Railroading in Nineteenth-Century La Crosse, Wisconsin pp. 376-410

Eric John Morser

Jeffrey Haydu. Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870–1916. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. x + 268 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4641-2, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 411-413

Chad Pearson

Kristin L. Hoganson. Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865–1920. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv + 402 pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-5793-9, $24.95 (paper) pp. 413-415

Helen Sheumaker

Andrew M. Schocket. Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. xiii + 274 pp. ISBN 0-87580-369-5, $42.00 (cloth) pp. 415-417

Paula K. Gajewski

Edward J. RenehanJr. Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. New York: Basic Books, 2007. xx + 364 pp. ISBN 0-465-00255-2, $27.50 (cloth) pp. 417-419

M. Stephen Salmon

Deirdre N. McCloskey. The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xviii + 616 pp. ISBN 0-226-55663-8, $32.50 pp. 419-422

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

Volume 10, issue 1, 2009

French Connections: The International Propagation of Trademarks in the Nineteenth Century pp. 3-37

Paul Duguid

Family Finance: Value Creation and the Democratization of Cross-Border Governance pp. 38-89

Christopher Kobrak

The Political Economy of American Transportation pp. 90-97

Mark Rose

Delivery to the Customer's Door: Efficiency, Regulatory Policy, and Integrated Rail-Truck Operations, 1900–1938 pp. 98-136

Albert J. Churella

The Populist Appeal of Deregulation: Independent Truckers and the Politics of Free Enterprise, 1935–1980 pp. 137-177

Shane Hamilton

Two Cheers for Discrimination: Deregulation and Efficiency in the Reform of U.S. Freight Transportation, 1976–1998 pp. 178-215

Marc Levinson

Jennifer Karns Alexander. The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvii + 231 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8693-5, $49.95 (cloth) pp. 216-218

Eric S. Hintz

Philip Scranton and Janet F. Davidson, eds. The Business of Tourism: Place, Faith, and History. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. x + 288 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3968-7, $55.00 pp. 218-220

Wolfgang Koenig

Peter von Staden. Business-Government Relations in Prewar Japan. Routledge Series in the Modern History of Asia. London: Routledge, 2008. xiii + 181 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-39903-6, $135.00 pp. 220-222

Etsuo Abe

Lara Kriegel. Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xviii + 305 pp. ISBN 978-8223-4072-0, $23.95 (paper) pp. 223-225

Marilyn Casto

Laura J. Miller. Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. x + 316 pp. ISBN 0-226-52590-0, $35.00 (cloth); 0-226-52591-0, $20.00 (paper) pp. 225-227

Simon Eliot

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, eds. Financing Innovation: In the United States, 1870 to the Present. xii + 503 pp. ISBN 0-262-12289-8, $45.00 pp. 227-230

Brian L. King

John E. Murray. Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. xi + 312 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-12091-2, $40.00 (cloth) pp. 230-232

Dalit Baranoff

Warren J. Belasco. Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry, 2nd ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. xi + 327 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7329-6, $21.95 (paper) pp. 232-234

Jeffrey Charles

Steven High and David W. Lewis. Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. viii + 193 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7401-9, $18.95 (paper) pp. 234-236

Susan E. Hirsch