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Volume 9, issue 4, 2008

The Telephone Patents: Intellectual Property, Business, and the Law in the United States and Britain, 1876—1900 pp. 591-601

Christopher Beauchamp

Building Up Goodwill: British Business, Development and Economic Nationalism in Ghana and Nigeria, 1945–1977 pp. 602-613

Stephanie Decker

Debtor Nation: How Consumer Credit Built Postwar America pp. 614-618

Louis Hyman

When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors' Democracy and the Emergence of the Retail Investor in the United States, 1890–1930 pp. 619-630

Julia Cathleen Ott

Editors' Introduction: Business History and the Middle East: Local Contexts, Multinational Responses—A Special Section of Enterprise & Society pp. 631-636

Andrew Godley and Relli Shechter

Building for the Shah: Market Entry, Political Reality and Risks on the Iranian Market, 1933–1939 pp. 637-669

Steen Andersen

Synthetics for the Shah: DuPont and the Challenges to Multinationals in 1970s Iran pp. 670-723

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Nestlé in the Ottoman Empire: Global Marketing with Local Flavor 1870–1927 pp. 724-761

Yavuz Koese

Glocal Mediators: Marketing in Egypt during the Open-Door Era (infitah) pp. 762-787

Relli Shechter

Did the Protestant Ethic Disappear? The Virtue of Thrift on the Cusp of Postwar Affluence pp. 788-815

David Steigerwald

The New York Yankees Cope with the Great Depression pp. 816-840

David G. Surdam

Paul F. Paskoff. Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xvii + 324 pp. ISBN 978-0-8071-3268-5, $48.00 (cloth) pp. 841-843

Mark Aldrich

Sarah T. Phillips. This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 289 pp. ISBN 978-0521-852708, $75.00 (cloth); 978-0-521-61796-3, $23.99 (paper) pp. 843-845

J.L. Anderson

Tom McCarthy. Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. xx + 347 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-11038-8, $32.50 (cloth) pp. 845-847

Brian Black

Kevin L. Borg. Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth Century America. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii + 249 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-8018-8606-5, $50.00 pp. 847-849

Thomas A. Castillo

James Taylor. Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800–1870. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2006. x + 256 pp. ISBN 0-861932846, $80.00 pp. 850-851

Gillian Cookson

Stephen Mihm. A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. ix + 457 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-02657-5, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 852-854

C. Wyatt Evans

Gregory Clark. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xii + 420 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-12135-2, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 854-856

James Jaffe

Duane C.S. Stoltzfus. Freedom from Advertising: E.W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xii, 187 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03115-1, $40.00 pp. 856-858

Anne F. MacLennan

Rebecca Edwards. New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865–1905. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-514729-2, $29.95 (paper) pp. 858-860

David Mason

Edward S. Miller. Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2007. xvi + 325 pp. ISBN 978-1-59114-520-2 pp. 860-862

Mark Metzler

Robin Archer. Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvii + 348 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-12701-9, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 862-864

Timothy Minchin

Laura Croghan Kamoie. Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700–1860. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. x + 222 pp. ISBN 978-0-8139-2637-7, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 864-866

Ronald Schultz

Pamela E. Swett, S. Jonathan Wiesen, and Jonathan R. Zatlin, eds. Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth-Century Germany. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xx + 364 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4047-8, $89.95 (cloth); 978-0-8223-4069-8, $24.95 (paper) pp. 866-868

Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb

A.D. Morrison-Low. Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. xvi + 408 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-5758-3, $99.95 (cloth) pp. 868-870

John Singleton

Chaim M. Rosenberg. Goods for Sale: Products and Advertising in the Massachusetts Industrial Age. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. xii + 242 pp. ISBN 1-55849-580-0, $24.95 (paper) pp. 870-872

Howard Stanger

A.K. Sandoval-Strausz. Hotel: An American History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. 375 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-10616-9, $37.50 (cloth). - Rachel Sherman. Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xii + 366 pp. ISBN 0-520-24782-5, $21.95 (paper). - Wayne Koestenbaum. Hotel Theory. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2007. ix + 174 pp. ISBN 978-1-933368-69-6 (paper) pp. 873-877

Daniel Levinson Wilk

Volume 9, issue 3, 2008

Editor's Introduction pp. 403-404

Philip Scranton

Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr., 1918–2007: An Introduction pp. 405-410

Mark H. Rose

Chandler: A Retrospect pp. 411-414

Mira Wilkins

Reflections on Alfred D. Chandler, Jr pp. 415-418

Louis Galambos

Alfred Chandler and the Importance of Organization pp. 419-421

Geoffrey Jones

Beyond Chandler? pp. 426-429

Philip Scranton

The Future of Alfred Chandler pp. 430-432

Kenneth J. Lipartito

Railroads and Time Consciousness in the Antebellum South pp. 433-456

Aaron W. Marrs

“The Biggest Small-Town Store in America”: Independent Retailers and the Rise of Consumer Culture pp. 457-486

Vicki Howard

Bringing Political Economy Back in pp. 487-490

Richard R. John

Slavery pp. 491-506

Robin L. Einhorn

Telecommunications pp. 507-520

Richard R. John

The New Deal Order pp. 521-534

Jason Scott Smith

Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike. Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xv + 345 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-3912-0, $89.95 (cloth); 9-780-8223-3928-1, $24.95 (paper) pp. 535-537

Benjamin Schwantes

Thomas Metcalf. Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860–1920. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. xv + 221 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-24946-2, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 537-539

Pegram Harrison

Dina Berger. The Development of Mexico's Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xvii + 164 pp. ISBN 10 1-4039-6635-4, ISBN 13 978-1403966353, $69.95 (cloth) pp. 539-541

Victor Rodriguez

John V. C. Nye. War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689–1900. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi + 174 pp. ISBN 13 978-0-691-12917-4 (cloth) pp. 541-543

Nicholas Alexander

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston. Miner's Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007. xviii + 355 pp. ISBN 13:978-0-7546-3673-1, $99.95 (cloth) pp. 543-545

Gerald E. Markowitz

Konrad H. Jarausch. After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945–1995. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiii + 379 pp. ISBN 0-19-512779-X, $35.00 pp. 546-547

Daniel Friel

Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert. A Nation upon the Ocean Sea: Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492–1640. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. x + 242 pp. ISBN 0-19-517569-7, $22.95 (paper) pp. 548-549

Nagendra Rao

Price V. Fishback et al Government and the American Economy: A New History. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xix + 560 pp. ISBN 0-226-25125-6, $85.00 (cloth); 0-226-25125-4, $35.00 (paper) pp. 550-552

Joseph Santos

Robert M. Collins. Transforming America: Politics and Culture during the Reagan Years. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 310 pp. ISBN 0-231-12400-7, $29.50 pp. 552-554

Richard M. Abrams

Wendy Gamber. The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xii + 213 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8571-X, $45.00 pp. 554-556

Eric J. Morser

Garret Epps. Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America. New York: Henry Holt, 2006. xii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-8050-7130-X, $27.50 (cloth) pp. 556-558

Marie Basile

Richard E. Holl. From the Boardroom to the War Room: America's Corporate Liberals and FDR's Preparedness Program. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005. x + 191 pp. ISBN 1-58046-192-1, $75.00 (cloth) pp. 558-560

Tim Krywulak

David Vaught. After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xi + 310 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8497-7, $55.00 pp. 561-563

Gerald Ronning

Richard Follett. The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820–1860. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. ix + 290 pp. ISBN 0-8071-3038-4, $54.95 (cloth); 0-8071-3247-0, $18.95 (paper) pp. 563-565

Douglas R. Egerton

Chad Morgan. Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005. xii + 163 pp. ISBN 0-8130-2872-8, $55.00 (cloth) pp. 565-567

Michael W. Fitzgerald

C. L. Bragg, Charles D. Ross, Gordon A. Blaker, Stephanie A. T. Jacobe, and Theodore P. Savas. Never for Want of Powder: The Confederate Powder Works in Augusta, Georgia. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xvi + 318 pp. ISBN-13 978-1-57003-657-6 (cloth: alkaline paper); ISBN-101-57003-657-8 (cloth: alkaline paper), $44.95 pp. 567-569

Annette Cox

Lawrence M. Lipin. Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910–30. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xv + 213 pp. ISBN 0-252-03125-3 (cloth); 0-252-07370-3 (paper) pp. 569-571

Robert E. Walls

Sally H. Clarke. Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-86878-5, $50.00 pp. 571-573

Dimitry Anastakis

Volume 9, issue 2, 2008

Strategies and Boundaries: Subcontracting and the London Trades in the Long Eighteenth Century pp. 243-280

Giorgio Riello

Caveat Emptor: Abolishing Public Measurements, Standardizing Quantities, and Enhancing Market Transparency in the London Coal Trade c1830 pp. 281-313

Aashish Velkar

“Business Responsibilities in a Divided World”: The Cold War Roots of the Corporate Social Responsibility Movement pp. 314-336

Bert Spector

“You know we are not an Employment Agency”: Manpower, Government, and the Development of the Temporary Help Industry in Britain pp. 337-365

Chris Forde

David G. Schwartz. Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling. New York: Gotham Books, 2006. xix + 570 pp. ISBN 1-592-40208-9, $30.00 (hardcover) pp. 366-368

William R. Childs

Massimo Montanari. Food is Culture. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2006. xii + 149 pp. ISBN 0-231-13790-7, $22.50 (hardcover) pp. 368-370

Sydney Watts

Espen Moe. Governance, Growth and Global Leadership: The Role of the State in Technological Progress, 1750–2000. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. xii + 308 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-5743-9, $99.95 pp. 370-372

Renato Giannetti

Robert Friedel. A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007. x + 588 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-06262-6, $39.95 pp. 372-374

David J. Sturdy

Dario Gaggio. In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi + 352 pp. ISBN 0-691-12697-6, $39.50 (cloth) pp. 374-377

Franco Amatori

Louise Hill Curth, ed. From Physick to Pharmacology: Five Hundred Years of British Drug Retailing. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006. xiii + 174 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3597-X, $99.95 (cloth) pp. 377-379

Declan O'Reilly

Richard A Rajala. Up-Coast: Forests and Industry on British Columbia's North Coast, 1870–2005. Victoria, Canada: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. viii + 294 pp. ISBN 0-7726-5460-3, $49.95 (cloth) pp. 379-381

Scott Prudham

David L. Lightner. Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 228 pp. ISBN 0-300-11470-2, $ 45.00 (cloth) pp. 381-383

Gordon B. McKinney

Robert Shogan. Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Deer, 2006. xii + 275 pp. ISBN 1-56663-674-4, $26.95 (cloth) pp. 383-385

Ranjit S. Dighe

Jon C. Teaford. The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 306 pp. ISBN 0-231-13372-3, $74.50 (cloth); 0-231-13373-1, $27.50 (paper) pp. 386-387

Marilynn S. Johnson

Paul Mason Fotsch. Watching the Traffic Go By: Transportation and Isolation in Urban America. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007. xi + 240 pp. ISBN 0-292-71426-2, $22.95 (paper) pp. 388-389

Janet F. Davidson

James Hudnut-Beumler. In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xviii + 267 pp. ISBN 0-8078-3079-6, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 390-391

Morris L. Davis

Susannah Walker. Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920–1975. Lexington, KY The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xiii + 250 pp. ISBN 0-8131-2433-9, $40.00 pp. 392-394

Robert E. Weems

Kathleen M. Barry. Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xiv + 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-3946-5 (paper) pp. 394-396

Julie Kimmel

David R. Meyer. Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xi + 311 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8471-3, $49.95 (cloth) pp. 396-398

Craig S. Pascoe

Atsushi Akera. Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers during the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. ix + 412 pp. ISBN 0-262-01231-6, $40.00 (cloth) pp. 398-400

Alex Roland

Alan P. Rudy et al Universities in the Age of Corporate Science: The UC Berkeley-Novartis Controversy. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2007. xiv + 236 pp. ISBN 1-59213-533-1, $54.50 (cloth) pp. 400-402

David M. Hart

Volume 9, issue 1, 2008

Editor's Introduction pp. 1-5

Philip Scranton

“Many a Long Day”: HSBC and Its Note Issue in Republican China, 1912–1935 pp. 6-43

Niv Horesh

Government Control, Transaction Costs and Commitment Between the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the Chinese Government pp. 44-69

Qing Lu

Market Power and Market Failure The Decline of the European Fertilizer Industry and the Expansion of Norsk Hydro pp. 70-95

Einar Lie

Global Knowledge Transfer and Telecommunications: The Bell System in Japan, 1945–1952 pp. 96-124

Stephen B. Adams and Paul J. Miranti

The Larkin Clubs of Ten: Consumer Buying Clubs and Mail-Order Commerce, 1890–1940 pp. 125-164

Howard R. Stanger

Trajectories of Internationalization: Knowledge and National Business Styles in the Making of Two Dutch Publishing Multinationals, 1950–1990 pp. 165-202

Dick Van Lente and Ferry De Goey

Steve J. Wurtzler. Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. vii + 393 pp. ISBN 0-231-13676-5, $34.50 (cloth) pp. 203-205

James L. Baughman

Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan, eds. The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. x + 314 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4487-6, $59.95 pp. 205-207

Güldem Gökçek

Henry S. Rowen, Marguerite Gong Hancock, and William F. Miller, editors. Making IT: The Rise of Asia in High Tech. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xviii + 388 pp. ISBN 978-0804753852, $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0804753869, $30.00 (paper) pp. 207-209

Michael Geselowitz

Ivan T. Berend. An Economic History of 20th Century Europe: Economic Regimes from Laissez-Faire to Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv + 356 pp. ISBN 0-521-67268-6, £19.00 (paper) pp. 209-211

Christopher Kobrak

Youseff Cassis. Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780–2005. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 385 pp. ISBN 13-978-0-521-84535-9, $40.00 pp. 211-213

Steven Toms

Stephen Broadberry. Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850–2000: British Performance in International Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix + 409 pp. ISBN 13 978-0-521-86718-4, $95.00 (cloth) pp. 213-215

Gordon Boyce

Jeffrey A. Engel. Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ix + 351 pp. ISBN 13 978-0-674-02461-8, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 215-217

Roger D. Launius

B. Anne Wood. Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2006. xxix + 197 pp. ISBN 0-88920-500-0, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 218-219

Judith Fingard

Steven Deyle. Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. x + 398 pp. ISBN 019-5160401, $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 019-5310195, $19.95 (paper) pp. 220-222

Patrick Rael

Alan Lawson. A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xv + 280 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8407-1, $19.95 (paper) pp. 222-224

Maria Mazzenga

Carl Smith. The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xvii + 167 pp. ISBN 13 978-0-226-76471-9, $22.00 (cloth) pp. 224-226

Robert A. Beauregard

Robert M. Fogelson. Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 2005. x + 264 pp. ISBN 0-300-10876-1, $30.00 (cloth); 0-300-124170, $19.00 (paper) pp. 226-228

Joseph Hawes

Alison Isenberg. Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xviii + 441 pp. ISBN 0-226-38508-6, $22.50 (paper) pp. 228-231

Tanya Gogan

James Sullivan. Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon. New York: Gotham Books, 2006. ix + 303 pp. ISBN 1-592-40214-3, $26.00 (cloth) pp. 231-232

Nancy Page Fernandez

Richard T. Stillson. Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. viii + 274 pp. ISBN 0-8032-4325-1, $55.00 pp. 232-234

Jonathan Coopersmith

Pamela E. Pennock. Advertising Sin and Sickness: The Politics of Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing, 1950–1990. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. vii + 282 pp. ISBN 13 978-0-87580-368-5, $36.00 (cloth) pp. 234-236

Rob Schorman

H. Roger Grant. Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia & Florida Railroad. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. xiv + 223 pp. ISBN 0-87580-365-2, $36.00 (cloth) pp. 236-238

Steven G.

Kenneth Warren. Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. xiv + 285 pp. ISBN 0-8229-4326-3, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 239-241

Christiane Diehl Taylor