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Volume 7, issue 4, 2006

Editor’s Introduction pp. 651-652

Kenneth Lipartito

Political Economy of Financial Development: Canada and the United States in the Mirror of the Other, 1790–1840 pp. 653-665

Richard Sylla

Trucking Country: Food Politics and the Transformation of Rural Life in Postwar America pp. 666-674

Shane Hamilton

Innovation and the State—Development Strategies for High Technology Industries in a World of Fragmented Production: Israel, Ireland, and Taiwan pp. 675-685

Dan Breznitz

Top-Down Revolution: Businessmen, Intellectuals, and Politicians Against the New Deal, 1945–1964 pp. 686-694

Kim Phillips-Fein

Tales from the Elevator and Other Stories of Modern Service in New York City pp. 695-704

Daniel Levinson Wilk

From Artisans to “Factories”: The Interpenetration of Craft and Industry in English Cheese-Making, 1650–1950 pp. 705-739

Richard Blundel and Angela Tregear

“Selling America to the World”? The Rise and Fall of an International Film Distributor in its Largest Foreign Market: United Artists in Britain, 1927–1947 pp. 740-776

Peter Miskell

Innovation and Corporate Failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. Textiles, 1945–1968 pp. 777-811

Philip Ollerenshaw

Pamela Walker Laird. Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiv + 439 pp. ISBN 0-674-01907-5, $29.95 (paper) pp. 812-814

Christiane Diehl Taylor

Todd A. Knoop. Recessions and Depressions: Understanding Business Cycles. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. xv + 289 pp. ISBN 0-275-98162-2, $49.95 pp. 814-816

M. Elaine Fuller

Richard Sennett. The Culture of the New Capitalism. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. 214 pp. ISBN 0-300-10782-X, $25.00 (paper) pp. 816-818

Christopher Newfield

AnnaLee Saxenian. The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 424 pp. ISBN 0‐674-02201-7, $27.95 (paper) pp. 819-820

Nicholas Alexander

Gerrit Knaap and Heather Sutherland. Monsoon Traders: Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-Century Makassar. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. xi + 269 pp. ISBN 90-6718-232-X, $30.00 (paper) pp. 821-822

Pegram Harrison

Jari Eloranta and Jari Ojala, eds. East-West Trade and the Cold War. Jyväskylä, Finland: Jyväskylä University Printing House, 2005. 237 pp. ISBN 951-39-2088-7, €26.00 (paper) pp. 823-825

Ferry de Goey

Kaoru Sugihara, ed. Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850–1949. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xv + 295 pp. ISBN 0-19-829271-6, $140.00 pp. 825-827

Morris L. Bian

Anne G. Hanley. Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850–1920. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. xviii + 286 pp. ISBN 0-8047-5072-6, $55.00 (paper) pp. 827-829

Aldo Musacchio

Renato Giannetti and Michelangelo Vasta. L’impresa italiana nel Novecento. Bologna, Italy: Societá Editrice il Mulino, 2003. 486 pp. ISBN 88-15-09496-2, €30.00 pp. 829-832

Andrea Colli

Harold James. Family Capitalism: Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii + 434 pp. ISBN 0-674-02181-9, $39.95 (paper) pp. 832-834

James A. Jaffe

Victoria de Grazia. Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. 586 pp. ISBN 0-674-01672-6, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 834-836

James Gilbert

Robin L. Einhorn. American Taxation, American Slavery. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xii + 337 pp. ISBN 0-226-19487-6, $35.00 pp. 837-838

Douglas R. Egerton

Tom Downey. Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790–1860. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xiii + 262 pp. ISBN 0-8071-3107-5, $49.95 pp. 839-840

Susanna Delfino

Simon Middleton. From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 320 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3915-6, $45.00 (paper) pp. 841-843

Ronald Schultz

Jerome P. Bjelopera. City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870–1920. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2005. ix + 208 pp. ISBN 0-252-02977-1, $45.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-252-07227-8, $22.00 (paper) pp. 843-845

Tom Dicke

Timothy Messer-Kruse. Banksters, Bosses, and Smart Money: A Social History of the Great Toledo Bank Crash of 1931. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, 2004. xii + 196 pp. ISBN 0-8142-0977-7, $44.95 (paper) pp. 845-847

Michael McAvoy

David M. Young. The Iron Horse and the Windy City: How Railroads Shaped Chicago. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. ix + 270 pp. ISBN 0-87580-334-2, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 847-849

W. Thomas White

Mark Aldrich. Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828–1965. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xvi + 446 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8236-2, $59.95 (paper) pp. 849-851

Russell D. Jones

John Franch. Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2006. vii + 374 pp. ISBN 0-252-03099-0, $45.00 (paper) pp. 851-853

Susan Hirsch

James W. Cortada. The Digital Hand, Volume 2: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xv + 629 pp. ISBN 0-19-516587-X, $59.50 pp. 853-855

Michael N. Geselowitz

Arthur L. Norberg. Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946–1957. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. x + 347 pp. ISBN 0-262-14090-X, $40.00 (cloth) pp. 855-857

Atsushi Akera

Volume 7, issue 3, 2006

Editor’s Introduction pp. 421-421

Kenneth Lipartito

How Business Enterprises Use Technology: Extending the Demand-Side Turn pp. 422-455

Joanne Yates

Comment: Exploring the Context of Use pp. 456-461

Margaret B. W. Graham

Comment: Extending the Demand-Side Turn Productively pp. 462-468

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Comment: Relevance and Representativeness pp. 469-476

David Kirsch

Comment: Mediating Innovation: Reflections on the Complex Relationships of User and Supplier pp. 477-484

Steven W. Usselman

Better Living: Toward a Cultural History of a Business Slogan pp. 485-519

Andrew M. Shanken

The World Is Watching: Polaroid and South Africa pp. 520-549

Eric J. Morgan

The Transformation of an Old Industrial District: Firms, Family, and Mutuality in the Zaanstreek between 1840 and 1920 pp. 550-580

Karel Davids

Company, State, and Region: Three Approaches to Railroad History pp. 581-591

Albert Churella

Shop Talk: Liberalism, Consumerism, and the American Revolution pp. 592-595

Richard R. John

Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, eds. Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History. Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 2005. 411 pp. ISBN 2-600-00942-6, €41.61 (paper) pp. 596-598

Gabriel Tortella

James Aho. Confession and Bookkeeping: The Religious, Moral and Rhetorical Roots of Accounting. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005. xx + 131 pp. ISBN 0-7914-6545-4, $40.00 pp. 598-600

Steven Toms

Om Prakash. Bullion for Goods: European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade, 1500–1800. New Delhi, India: Manohar Publishers, 2004. 426 pp. ISBN 81-7304-538-0, $48.95 (paper) pp. 600-602

Nagendra Rao

Alison Fleig Frank. Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xx + 343 pp. ISBN 0-674-01887-7, $49.95 pp. 602-604

Karen J. Freeze

Thomas C. Owen. Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiv + 275 pp. ISBN 0-674-01549-5, $49.95 pp. 604-606

Michael D. Gordin

Julia Adams. The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi + 235 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3308-8, $35.00 (paper) pp. 606-608

Paloma Fernández Pérez

François Caron, ed. Les grandes Compagnies de chemin de fer en France, 1823–1937. Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 2005. 411 pp. ISBN 2-600-00942-6, €41.61 (paper) pp. 608-610

Augustus J. Veenendaal

Jeffrey R. Fear. Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xv + 956 pp. ISBN 0-674-01492-8, $95.00 pp. 611-612

Wilfried Feldenkirchen

Werner Abelshauser. The Dynamics of German Industry: Germany’s Path toward the New Economy and the American Challenge. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. vii + 168 pp. ISBN 1-84545-072-8, $45.00 pp. 612-614

Edmund N. Todd

Henry Ashby TurnerJr. General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe’s Biggest Carmaker. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. viii + 200 pp. ISBN 0-300-10634-3, $38.00 (cloth) pp. 614-616

Mark Spoerer

Tuija Mikkonen. Corporate Architecture in Finland in the 1940s and 1950s: Factory Building as Architecture, Investment and Image. Helsinki, Finland: Bookstore Tiedekirja, 2005. 269 pp. ISBN 951-41-0982-1, €30.00 pp. 616-618

Lars Engwall

Gordon Boyce. Over Half a Million Careful Owners: A 75-year history of PSIS, 1928–2003. Wellington, NZ: Dunmore Publishing, 2005. 326 pp. ISBN 0-476-0129-29, NZ$29.95 (paper) pp. 618-620

Evan Roberts

Mario Tiberi. The Accounts of the British Empire: Capital Flows from 1799 to 1914. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005. ix + 183 pp. ISBN 0 7546 3916 9, $99.95 (cloth) pp. 620-622

Robin Pearson

Geoffrey Jones. Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-926943-2, $64.50 pp. 622-624

Mansel G. Blackford

Alfred D. ChandlerJr. Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. ix + 366 pp. ISBN 0-674-01720-x, $29.95 (Hardcover) pp. 624-626

Arjan van Rooij

Roger Horowitz. Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xiii + 170 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8240-0, $35.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-8018-8241-9, $19.00 (paper) pp. 626-628

Gabriella M. Petrick

Carl A. Zimring. Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xi + 220 pp. ISBN 0-8135-3686-3, $39.95 pp. 628-630

Betsy Mendelsohn

Clifford J. Doerksen. American Babel: Rogue Radio Broadcasters of the Jazz Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xi + 157 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3871-0, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 631-632

Alexander T. Russo

JoAnne Yates. Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins Press, 2005. x + 351 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8086-6, $49.95 pp. 633-635

Thomas Mertes

Richard E. Caves. Switching Channels: Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. ix + 360 pp. ISBN: 0-674-01878-8, $39.95 (paper) pp. 635-637

David Morton

Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht. The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 277 pp. ISBN 0-8014-8473-1, $24.95 (paper) pp. 637-639

Michael R. Adamson

William R. Childs. The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. x + 323 pp. ISBN 1-58544-452-9, $35.00 pp. 639-641

Eric John Abrahamson

Sterling D. Sessions and Gene A. Sessions A History of Utah International: From Construction to Mining. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2005. xx + 243 pp. ISBN 0-87480-836-7, $29.95 pp. 641-643

Eric J. Morser

Victoria E. Dye. All Aboard for Santa Fe: Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xi + 163 pp. ISBN 0-8263-3657-4, $24.95 (cloth) pp. 643-645

Lynne Pierson Doti

Philip Lawrence and David Thornton. Deep Stall: The Turbulent Story of Boeing Commercial Airlines. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. xii + 160 pp. ISBN 0-7546-4626-2, $79.95 pp. 645-647

Roger D. Launius

Leslie Berlin. The Man behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xi + 402 pp. ISBN 0-19-516343-5, $30.00 pp. 647-649

Christophe Lécuyer

Volume 7, issue 2, 2006

Hybridizing the Emerging European Corporation: Danone, Hachette, and the Divisionalization Process in France during the 1970s pp. 227-265

Pierre-Antoine Dessaux and Jean-Philippe Mazaud

Selling the Sewing Machine Around the World: Singer’s International Marketing Strategies, 1850–1920 pp. 266-314

Andrew Godley

Governance at Points of Corporate Transition: Networks and the Formation of the United Alkali Company, 1890–1895 pp. 315-352

Andrew Popp

Allied Breweries and the Development of the Area Manager in British Brewing, 1950–1984 pp. 353-379

Alistair Mutch

Morris L. Bian. The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xi + 331 pp. ISBN 0-674-01717-X, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 380-382

David Pollard

Brenda Collins and Philip Ollerenshaw, eds. The European Linen Industry in Historical Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xxv + 334 pp. ISBN 0-19-925565-2, $95.00 (cloth) pp. 382-383

John Singleton

Jean-Claude Daumas. Les territoires de la laine: Histoire de l’industrie lainière en France au XIXe siècle. Villeneuve D’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2004. 419 pp. ISBN 2-85939-812-0, €26.00 pp. 384-385

Daryl M. Hafter

Serge Jaumain and Kenneth Bertrams, eds. Patrons, gens d’affaires et banquiers: Hommages à Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk. Brussels, Belgium: Le Livre Timperman, 2004. 481 pp. ISBN 90-77723-03-X, €45.00 pp. 386-388

Ludovic Cailluet

Hartmut Berghoff. Moderne Unternehmensgeschichte: Eine themen- und theorieorientierte Einführung. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2004. 380 pp. ISBN 3-8252-2483-X, €17.90 pp. 388-390

Stephan H. Lindner

Herbert R. Lottman. The Michelin Men: Driving an Empire. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2003. ix + 310 pp. ISBN 1-86064-896-7, $27.50 pp. 390-392

Michael French

Lowell J. Satre. Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xi + 308 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1625-1, $55.00 (cloth); 0-8214-1626-X, $24.95 (paper) pp. 392-393

Richard M. Shain

Sean Patrick Adams. Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiv + 305 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7968-X, $45.00 pp. 394-396

John Majewski

Adrienne D. Hood. The Weaver’s Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. ix + 230 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3735-8, $35.00 pp. 396-398

Marie Basile

Timothy Cuff. The Hidden Cost of Economic Development: The Biological Standard of Living in Antebellum Pennsylvania. Aldershot, U.K., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. xvii + 277 pp. ISBN 0-7546-4119-8, $99.95 (cloth) pp. 398-400

Sean Patrick Adams

Ileen A. DeVault. United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 244 pp. ISBN 0-8014-2768-1, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8014-8926-1, $19.95 (paper) pp. 400-402

Richard A. Greenwald

Karen Olson. Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. x + 216 pp. ISBN 0-271-02685-5, $40.00 pp. 402-404

Julie Kimmel

Larry G. Gerber. The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial Relations Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1914–1939. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. viii + 212 pp. ISBN 0-87580-347-4, $40.00 pp. 404-406

M. W. Kirby

Steve Fraser. Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. xxiii + 721 pp. ISBN 0-06-662048-1, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 406-408

Maury Klein

Walter A. Friedman. Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. 356 pp. ISBN 0-674-01298-4, $27.95 pp. 408-410

Andrew Godley

Jeffrey M. Hornstein. A Nation of Realtors®: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. xi + 252 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3528-X, $79.95 (cloth); 0-8223-3540-9, $22.95 (paper) pp. 410-412

Marina Moskowitz

David L. Mason. From Buildings and Loans to Bail-Outs: A History of the American Savings and Loan Industry, 1831–1995. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 349 pp. ISBN 0-521-82754-X, $50.00 pp. 412-414

Richard Coopey

Robert P. Bremner. Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin, Jr., and the Creation of the Modern Federal Reserve System. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. vi + 357 pp. ISBN 0-300-10508-8, $38.00 pp. 414-416

Richard Sylla

Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi. The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. 387 pp. ISBN 0-674-01714-5, $26.95 pp. 416-418

Rodney Carlisle

Richard K. Lester and Michael J. Piore Innovation: The Missing Dimension. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. ix + 223 pp. ISBN 0-674-01581-9, $24.95 pp. 418-420

Glenn Bugos

Volume 7, issue 1, 2006

Theoretical Introduction to the Special Issue on the Embedded Enterprise pp. 1-18

Kathryn Ibata-Arens, Julian Dierkes and Dirk Zorn

Pyramids of Trust: Social Embeddedness and Political Culture in Two Italian Gold Jewelry Districts pp. 19-58

Dario Gaggio

Disembedding Socialist Firms as a Statist Project: Restructuring the Chinese Oil Industry, 1997–2002 pp. 59-97

Kun-Chin Lin

Rescuing Businesses through Transnationalism: Embedded Chinese Enterprise and Nationalist Activities in Singapore in the 1930s Great Depression pp. 98-127

Huei-Ying Kuo

Escaping the Japanese Pyramid: The Association of Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Entrepreneurs (SME Doyukai), 1947–1999 pp. 128-163

Kathryn Ibata-Arens and Hiromichi Obayashi

Ronald Seavoy. Origins and Growth of the Global Economy: From the Fifteenth Century Onward. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. 275 pp. ISBN 0-275-97912-1, $70.95 pp. 164-166

Susan Aaronson

Douglas A. Farnie and David J. Jeremy, eds. The Fibre That Changed the World: The Cotton Industry in International Perspective, 1600–1990s. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2004. xxxiv + 614 pp. ISBN 0-19-925566-0, $185.00 (cloth) pp. 166-168

Michael Huberman

Geoffrey Jones. Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xi + 340 pp. ISBN 0-19-927209-3, $144.50 (cloth); ISBN 0-19-927210-7, $44.50 (paper) pp. 168-170

Peter Wardley

Alfred D. ChandlerJr., and Bruce Mazlish, eds. Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii + 249 pp. ISBN 0-521-84061-9, $65.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-521-54993-0, $22.99 (paper) pp. 170-172

Michael J. Twomey

David Reisman. Schumpeter’s Market: Enterprise and Evolution. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2004. vii + 294 pp. ISBN 1-84376-164-5, $120.00 pp. 172-174

Roger Middleton

Peter Z. Grossman, ed. How Cartels Endure and How They Fail: Studies of Industrial Collusion. Cheltenham, U.K., and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2004. vi + 324 pp. ISBN 1-85898-830-6, $115.00 pp. 174-176

Kwan Man Bun

Kathleen Thelen. How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xv + 333 pp. ISBN 0-521-83768-5, $75.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-521-54674-5, $29.99 (paper) pp. 177-179

Daniel Friel

David Mitch, John Brown, and Marco H. D. van Leeuwen, eds. Origins of the Modern Career. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 342 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3496-5, $99.95 pp. 179-181

Daniel Jacoby

Sanford Jacoby. The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xi + 216 pp. ISBN 0-691-11999-6, $35.00 pp. 181-183

Gary Herrigel

Clement M. Henry and Rodney Wilson, eds. The Politics of Islamic Finance. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. vi + 307 pp. ISBN 0-7486-1837-6, $30.00 (paper) pp. 183-185

Patrick Clawson

Stuart B. Schwartz. Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450–1680. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii + 347 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2875-0, $59.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8078-5538-3, $22.50 (paper) pp. 185-187

Jules R. Benjamin

Daniel Lederman. The Political Economy of Protection: Theory and the Chilean Experience. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. ix + 191 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4917-5, $55.00 pp. 187-189

Jaime de Melo

Julie Hessler. A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917–1953. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi + 366 pp. ISBN 0-691-11492-7, $39.50 pp. 189-191

Jukka Gronow

Paul J. Kubicek. Organized Labor in Postcommunist States: From Solidarity to Infirmity. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. xiv + 256 pp. ISBN 0-8229-5856-2, $29.95 (paper) pp. 191-193

Stephen Crowley

Kevin Binfield. Writings of the Luddites. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xxviii + 279 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7612-5, $49.95 (cloth) pp. 193-195

Marc W. Steinberg

Anne Clendinning. Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Industry, 1889–1939. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xvii + 352 pp. ISBN 0-7546-0692-9, $109.95 (cloth) pp. 195-197

Andrew Jenkins

Richard Coopey, Sean O’Connell, and Dilwyn Porter. Mail Order Retailing in Britain: A Business and Social History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 248 pp. ISBN 0-19-829650-9, $95.00 (cloth) pp. 197-199

Nicholas Alexander

Arjan van Rooij. Building Plants: Markets for Technology and Internal Capabilities in DSM’s Fertiliser Business, 1925–1970. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Aksant Academic Publishers, 2004. 279 pp. ISBN 90-5260-138-0, $34.95 (paper) pp. 199-201

Nuria Puig

Harm G. Schröter. Americanization of the European Economy: A Compact Survey of American Economic Influence in Europe since the 1880s. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2005. xii + 268 pp. ISBN 1-4020-2884-9, €.84.53 pp. 201-203

Franco Amatori

Thomas A. Kinney. The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xi + 381 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7946-9, $49.95 (cloth) pp. 203-205

Anne N. Greene

Andrew Dawson. Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class, and Revolution, 1830–1890. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 302 pp. ISBN 0-7546-3396-9, $94.95 (cloth) pp. 205-208

Bruce Sinclair

William Faricy Condee. Coal and Culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xii + 210 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1588-3, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 208-210

Marilyn Casto

Robert G. Angevine. The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xvii + 351 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4239-1, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 210-212

Aaron W. Marrs

Amy G. Richter. Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii + 272 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2926-9, $49.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-8078-5591-X, $19.95 (paper) pp. 212-214

Tanya Gogan

David Leverenz. Paternalism Incorporated: Fables of American Fatherhood, 1865–1940. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. x + 254 pp. ISBN 0-8014-4167-6, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 214-216

Edie Sparks

Douglas Cazaux Sackman. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 401 pp. ISBN 0-520-23886-9, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 216-218

Eileen V. Wallis

Paul Sabin. Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900–1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xx + 307 pp. ISBN 0-520-24198-3, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 218-220

Tyler Priest

Steve Lerner. Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. xiv + 344 pp. ISBN 0-262-12273-1, $27.95 (cloth) pp. 221-223

Christine Rosen

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