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Volume 6, issue 4, 2005

Editor’s Introduction pp. 559-560

Kenneth Lipartito

Shaped by Risk: The American Fire Insurance Industry, 1790–1920 pp. 561-570

Dalit Baranoff

State Subsidies and the Sources of Company Finance in Italian Industrial Districts, 1951–1991 pp. 571-580

Anna Spadavecchia

The People’s Telephone: The Politics of Telephony in the United States and Canada, 1876–1926 pp. 581-587

Robert MacDougall

Launching a Thousand Ships: Entrepreneurs, War Workers, and the State in American Shipbuilding, 1940–1945 pp. 588-600

Christopher James Tassava

Competing Research Traditions in American Industry: Uncertain Alliances between Engineering and Science at Westinghouse Electric, 1886–1935 pp. 601-645

Ronald R. Kline and Thomas C. Lassman

Solomon Huebner and the Development of Life Insurance Sales Professionalism, 1905–1927 pp. 646-681

Drew Vande Creek

The Neglected Legacy of Lancashire Cotton: Industrial Clusters and the U.K. Outdoor Trade, 1960–1990 pp. 682-709

Mike Parsons and Mary B. Rose

Gijs Mom. The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 423 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7138-7, $54.95 pp. 710-712

Zachary M. Schrag

Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella, eds. Contract and Property in Early Modern China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. vii + 398 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4639-7, $65.00 pp. 712-714

William T. Rowe

Christopher A. Reed. Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876–1937. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. xvii + 391 pp. ISBN 0-7748-1040-8, $85.00 pp. 714-716

Ling A. Shiao

Laura Hein. Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan. Washington, D.C., and Berkeley, Calif.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and University of California Press, 2004. xvii + 328 pp. ISBN 0-520-24347-1, $45.00 pp. 716-718

Mark Metzler

Todd A. Diacon. Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906–1930. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. xi + 228 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3210-8, $74.95 (cloth); 0-8223-3249-3, $21.95 (paper) pp. 718-720

Tamás Szmrecsányi

Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson, eds. The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Volume I: Industrialization, 1700–1860. xix + 536 pp. ISBN 0-521-82036, $100.00 (cloth); 0-521-52736, $40.00 (paper). Volume II: Economic Maturity, 1860–1939. xix + 552 pp. ISBN 0-521-82037, $100.00 (cloth); 0-521-52737, $40.00 (paper). Volume III: Structural Change and Growth, 1939–2000, xix + 573 pp. ISBN 0-521-82038, $100.00 (cloth); 0-521-52738, $40.00 (paper) pp. 720-724

John R. Lampe

Richard Dale. The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. vi + 192 pp. ISBN 0-691-11971-6, $29.95 pp. 724-726

Stephen Quinn

Søren Mentz. The English Gentleman Merchant at Work: Madras and the City of London, 1660–1740. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005. 304 pp. ISBN 87-7289-909-3, $25.00 (paper) pp. 726-728

Ann Carlos

Robin Pearson. Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700–1850. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 434 pp. ISBN 0-7546-336302, $99.95 (cloth) pp. 728-730

Dalit Baranoff

Guus Veenendaal. Spoorwegen in Nederland. Van 1834 tot nu. Amsterdam: Boom, 2004. 604 pp. ISBN 90-5352-980-2, €49.50 pp. 730-732

Hugo van Driel

Marc Flandreau. The Glitter of Gold: France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848–1873. Translated by Owen Leeming. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xix + 319 pp. ISBN 0-19-925786-8, $95.00. - Youssef Cassis and Eric Bussiere, eds. London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii + 325 pp. ISBN 0-19-92649-1, $95.00 pp. 732-735

Christopher Kobrak

Peter Hayes. From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx + 373 pp. ISBN 0-521-78227-9, $40.00 pp. 736-737

Alfred C. Mierzejewski

Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia, eds. Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii + 369 pp. ISBN 0-19-925189-4, $99.50 (cloth); 0-19-925190-8, $29.95 (paper).* pp. 738-740

Pamela W. Laird

Stephen P. Rice. Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 230 pp. ISBN 0-520-22781-6, $49.95 pp. 740-742

Howard B. Rock

John Landers. The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-industrial West. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiii + 440 pp. ISBN 0-19-924916-4, £60.00 (cloth); 0-19-927957-8, £22.50 (paper) pp. 743-744

David J. Sturdy

Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill. The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xii + 263 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4854-3, $24.95 (cloth) pp. 745-746

William G. Robbins

Victor J. Tremblay and Carol Horton Tremblay. The U.S. Brewing Industry: Data and Economic Analysis. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. xiv + 379 pp. ISBN 0-262-20151-8, $40.00 (cloth) pp. 747-748

Terence R. Gourvish

Andrew Wender Cohen. The Racketeer’s Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-521-83466-X, $60.00 (cloth) pp. 749-751

Susan E. Hirsch

Neil Dahlstrom and Jeremy Dahlstrom. The John Deere Story: A Biography of Plowmakers John and Charles Deere. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. xix + 204 pp. ISBN 0-87580-336-9, $24.00 pp. 751-753

J. L. Anderson

Richard J. Orsi. Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii + 615 pp. ISBN 0-520-20019-5, $29.95 pp. 753-755

Maury Klein

Douglas Brinkley. Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903–2003. New York: Viking, 2003. xxii + 858 pp. ISBN 0-670-03181-X, $34.95. - Max Wallace. The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003. 465 pp. ISBN 0-312-29022-5, $27.95 pp. 755-758

Vicky Saker Woeste

Lisa Jacobson. Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xvi + 299 pp. ISBN 0-231-11388-9, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 758-760

Joseph M. Hawes

Janelle S. Taylor, Linda L. Layne, and Danielle F. Wozniak, eds. Consuming Motherhood. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. ix + 323 pp. ISBN 0-8135-3429-1, $62.00 (cloth); 0-8135-3430-5, $22.95 (paper) pp. 760-762

Helen Sheumaker

Jennifer Mittelstadt. From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945–1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiii + 267 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2922-6, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8078-5587-1, $19.95 (paper) pp. 762-764

Lisa Levenstein

Marina Moskowitz. Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii + 300 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7947-7, $45.00 pp. 765-766

Sarah Elvins

Brett Williams. Debt for Sale: A Social History of the Credit Trap. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 154 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3817-6, $24.95 (cloth) pp. 767-768

Dale L. Flesher

Ernesto R. Gantman. Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005. viii + 185 pp. ISBN 0-7546-4186-4, $99.95 pp. 769-771

Gerald Friedman

Kent H. Hughes. Building the Next American Century: The Past and Future of American Economic Competitiveness. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2005. xxiii + 542 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8204-4, $55.00 (cloth); 0-8018-8203-6, $24.95 (paper) pp. 771-773

Tim Krywulak

Volume 6, issue 3, 2005

Guest Editor’s Introduction pp. 357-363

Madeleine Zelin

The Business of Survival: Competition and Cooperation in the Shanghai Flour Milling Industry pp. 364-394

Daniel J. Meissner

Managing Market, Hierarchy, and Network: The Jiuda Salt Industries, Ltd., 1917–1937 pp. 395-418

Kwan Man Bun

Vertical Integration, Business Diversification, and Firm Architecture: The Case of the China Egg Produce Company in Shanghai, 1923–1950 pp. 419-451

Ning Jennifer Chang

Myth and Reality in Chinese Financial Cliques in 1936 pp. 452-491

Brett Sheehan

Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business History around the World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xv + 425 pp. ISBN 0-521-82107-X, $65.00 pp. 492-495

Philip Scranton

Frank Dobbin, ed. The New Economic Sociology: A Reader. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. vii + 565 pp. ISBN 0-691-04905-X, $65.00 (cloth); 0-691-04906-8, $27.95 (paper) pp. 495-497

David M. Hart

Jack Goody. Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2004. vii + 200 pp. ISBN 0-7456-3190-8, $56.95 (cloth); 0-7456-3191-6, $21.95 (paper) pp. 497-499

D’Amato, Michael

Richard Coopey, ed. Information and Technology Policy: An International History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvi + 346 pp. ISBN 0-19-924105-8, $99.50 (cloth) pp. 499-501

David Morton

John Storey, ed. The Management of Innovation. 2 vols. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004. xxxi + 734 pp. (vol. 1); ix + 570 pp. (vol. 2). ISBN 1-84376-429-6, $495.00 (cloth) pp. 501-504

Christopher Tassava

Erik Gilbert. Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860–1970. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. xiii + 176 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1557-3, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8214-1558-1, $26.95 (paper) pp. 504-506

Garth A. Myers

Elisabeth Köll. From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xvi + 422 pp. ISBN 0-674-01394-8, $49.50 (cloth) pp. 506-508

Stephen Morgan

Jorma Ahvenainen. The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War. Helsinki, Finland: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2004. 427 pp. ISBN 951-41-0947-3, €35.00 pp. 508-510

Marcelo Bucheli

Ben Ross Schneider. Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xix + 312 pp. ISBN 0-521-83651-4, $70.00 (cloth); 0-521-54500-5, $26.99 (paper) pp. 510-512

Carlos Dávila

Marcelo Bucheli. Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899–2000. New York: New York University Press, 2005. xi + 241 pp. ISBN 0-8147-9934-5, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 512-514

Ian William Read

Robert C. Allen. Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. xv + 301 pp. ISBN 0-691-00696-2, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 514-516

Hiroaki Kuromiya

Jan Luiten van Zanden and Arthur van Riel. The Strictures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xv + 377 pp. ISBN 0-691-11438-2, $55.00 (cloth) pp. 516-518

Ferry de Goey

Gabriel Tortella, Alfonso Ballestero, and José Luis Díaz Fernández. Del monopolio al libre mercado: La historia de la industria petrolera española [From Monopoly to the Free Market: A History of the Spanish Oil Industry]. Madrid, Spain: LID Editorial Empresarial S.L., 2003. 632 pp. ISBN 8-488-71732-6, €23.08 pp. 519-520

PierAngelo Toninelli

Christopher Kobrak and Per H. Hansen, eds. European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920–1945. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004. xiv + 261 pp. ISBN 1-57181-629-1, $60.00 pp. 521-522

Richard A. Hawkins

Paul Erker. Vom nationalen zum globalen Wettbewerb: Die deutsche und amerikanische Reifenindustrie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert [From National to Global Competition: The German and American Tire Industry during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries]. 710 pp. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2005. ISBN 3-506-71788-X, €98.00 pp. 523-525

Harm G. Schröter

Robert H. Gudmestad. A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xii + 246 pp. ISBN 0-8071-2884-8, $59.95 (cloth); 0-8071-2922-4, $21.95 (paper) pp. 525-527

Douglas R. Egerton

John Bezís-Selfa. Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 279 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3993-0, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 527-529

Lawrence A. Peskin

Helen Tangires. Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 263 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7133-6, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 529-531

David Grimsted

Scott A. Sandage. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. x + 362 pp. ISBN 0-674-01510-X, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 531-533

Jonathan Bean

Michael Zakim. Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. x + 296 pp. ISBN 0-226-97793-5, $30.00 (cloth) pp. 533-535

Rob Schorman

Rob Schorman. Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 224 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3728-5, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 536-538

Marlis Schweitzer

Barry Shank. A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xvii + 328 pp. ISBN 0-231-11878-3, $50.00 (cloth) pp. 538-540

David Farber

Sarah Elvins. Sales and Celebrations: Retailing and Regional Identity in Western New York State, 1920–1940. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. 222 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1549-2, $42.95 (cloth) pp. 540-541

Stephanie Dyer

Michael Augspurger. An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune Magazine and Depression America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. viii + 292 pp. ISBN 0-8014-4204-4, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 542-544

Brian Phelan

H. Roger Grant. “Follow the Flag”: A History of the Wabash Railroad Company. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. xii + 291 pp. ISBN 0-87580-328-8, $49.95 (cloth) pp. 544-546

Albert Churella

Donald D. Stull and Michael J. Broadway. Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America. Belmont, Calif.: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004. xviii + 172 pp. ISBN 0-534-61303-9, $25.95 (paper) pp. 546-548

Roger Horowitz

Glenn Adamson. Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. xi + 219 pp. ISBN 0-262-01207-3, $45.00 (cloth); 0-944110-81, $25.00 (paper) pp. 548-550

Betsy Hunter Bradley

André Millard, ed. The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. x + 215 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7862-4, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 550-552

Alexander Magoun

Frank P. JozsaJr. Sports Capitalism: The Foreign Business of American Professional Leagues. Aldershot, Hants, U.K., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004. xiv + 316 pp. ISBN 0-7546-4185-6, $99.95 (cloth) pp. 552-554

Louis P. Cain

Peter H. Spitz, ed. The Chemical Industry at the Millennium: Maturity, Restructuring, and Globalization. Philadelphia, Pa.: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2003. x + 387 pp. ISBN 0-941901-34-3, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 555-556

O’Reilly, Declan

Roger Lowenstein. Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing. New York: Penguin, 2004. ix + 270 pp. ISBN 1-59420-003-3, $24.95 (cloth); 0-14-303-467-7, $15.00 (paper) pp. 557-558

Edwin J. Perkins

Volume 6, issue 2, 2005

From “Ward of the State” to “Revolutionary Without a Movement”: The Political Development of William C. Norris and Control Data Corporation, 1957–1986 pp. 197-223

David M. Hart

Continuity and Change in the Employment and Promotion of Japanese White-Collar Employees: The Case of the House of Mitsui pp. 224-253

Makoto Kasuya

“The Right Man”: James A. Jackson and the Origins of U.S. Government Interest in Black Business pp. 254-277

Robert E. Weems and Lewis A. Randolph

An Efficient Pursuit? Independent Shopkeeping in 1930s Britain pp. 278-304

Simon Phillips and Andrew Alexander

Linsun Cheng. Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897–1937. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 277 pp. ISBN 0-521-81142-2, $65.00 (cloth). - Zhaojin Ji. A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China’s Finance Capitalism. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. viii + 325 pp. ISBN 0-7656-1002-7, $69.95 (cloth); 0-7656-1003-5, $25.95 (paper) pp. 305-308

Morris L. Bian

Zhaojin Ji. A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China’s Finance Capitalism. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. viii + 325 pp. ISBN 0-7656-1002-7, $69.95 (cloth); 0-7656-1003-5, $25.95 (paper) pp. 305-308

Morris L. Bian

Joseph Tobin, ed. Pikachu’s Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 299 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3250-7, $75.95 (cloth); 0-8223-3287-6, $21.95 (paper) pp. 309-311

Brian C. Phelan

Richard Weiner. Race, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico. Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xi + 167 pp. ISBN 0-8165-2326-6, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 311-313

Charles Jones

George E. Brooks. Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2003. xxii + 335 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1485-2, $65.00 (cloth); 0-8214-1486-0, $26.95 (paper) pp. 313-315

Robert L. Tignor

George Pagoulatos. Greece’s New Political Economy: State, Finance, and Growth from Postwar to EMU. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xvi + 271 pp. ISBN 0-333-75277-5, $69.95 (cloth) pp. 315-317

Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou

William J. Ashworth. Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640–1845. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 396 pp. ISBN 0-19-925921-6, $85.00 (cloth) pp. 317-319

John Smail

Michael Dawson. Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890–1970. Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. xiv + 274 pp. ISBN 0-7748-1054-8, $85.00 (cloth); 0-7748-1055-6, $39.95 (paper) pp. 320-321

Russell Douglass Jones

Doron S. Ben-Atar. Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xxi + 281 pp. ISBN 030010006X, $38.00 (cloth) pp. 322-324

William R. Childs

Harold S. Wilson. Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. xxii + 412 pp. ISBN 1-57806-462-7, $46.00 (cloth) pp. 324-326

Shepherd W. McKinley

Edward J. Kamholz, Jim Blain, and Gregory Kamholz. The Oregon-American Lumber Company: Ain’t No More. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2003. xix + 362 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4481-5, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 326-328

Lynne Pierson Doti

Jane Lancaster. Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth—A Life Beyond “Cheaper by the Dozen.” Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004. xii + 415 pp. ISBN 1-55553-612-3, $36.00 (cloth) pp. 328-330

Janet Greenlees

Daniel Thomas Cook. The Commodification of Childhood: The Children’s Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. x + 211 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3279-5, $74.95 (cloth); 0-8223-3268-X, $21.95 (paper) pp. 330-332

Evan Roberts

Bruce Sinclair, ed. Technology and the African American Experience: Needs and Opportunities for Study. Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2004. ix + 237 pp. ISBN 0-262-19504-6, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 332-334

Rayvon Fouché

Mira Wilkins. The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–1945. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xxi + 980 pp. ISBN 0-674-0138-5, $95.00 (cloth) pp. 334-339

Jacqueline McGlade

Sharon Zukin. Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture. New York and London: Routledge, 2004. 325 pp. ISBN 0-415-94597-6, $27.95 (cloth); 0-415-95034-0, $18.95 (paper) pp. 339-341

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Catherine Gudis. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-415-93454-0, $90.00 (cloth); 0-415-93455-9, $22.00 (paper) pp. 341-343

Daniel Pope

Kathy M. Newman. Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935–1947. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 237 pp. ISBN 0-520-22372-1, $55.00 (cloth); 0-520-23590-8, $21.95 (paper) pp. 343-345

Wendy Cukier

James W. Cortada. The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. 512 pp. ISBN 0-19-516588-8, $24.95 (cloth) pp. 346-348

JoAnne Yates

David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat, and Arvids A. Ziedonis. Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford Business Books, 2004. xiv + 241 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4920-5, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 348-350

Christopher Newfield

Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott, eds. Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xvi + 372 pp. ISBN 0-8014-8871-0, $24.95 (paper) pp. 350-353

Thomas Lassman

Doug Henwood. After the New Economy. New York: New Press, 2003. ix + 269 pp. ISBN 1-56584-770-9, $24.95 (cloth) pp. 353-355

Eric Guthey

Volume 6, issue 1, 2005

The Surly Bonds: American Cold War Constraints on British Aviation pp. 1-44

Jeffrey A. Engel

Thomas J. Watson and the Business-Government Relationship, 1933–1956 pp. 45-75

David L. Stebenne

Postwar Japanese Cotton Textile Investment in Brazil, 1955–1980 pp. 76-97

Henri Delanghe

An Early Global Business in a Colonial Context: The Strategies, Management, and Failure of John Palmer and Company of Calcutta, 1780–1830 pp. 98-133

Tony Webster

Response to the Symposium: Framing Business History pp. 134-137

Alfred Chandler

David Jenkins. The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, Volumes I and II. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi + 1191 pp. ISBN 0-521-34107-8, $375.00 (cloth) pp. 144-146

Giorgio Riello

Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, eds. Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ix + 350 pp. ISBN 0-521-82054-5, $70.00 pp. 147-149

Robin Pearson

Francis J. Gavin. Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958–1971. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii + 263 pp. ISBN 0–8078–2823–8, $45.00 pp. 149-151

Simone Selva

B. Mark Smith. The Equity Culture: The Story of the Global Stock Market. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. xiii + 344 pp. ISBN 0-374-28175-0, $25.00 (cloth) pp. 151-152

George David Smith

G. Balachandran, ed. India and the World Economy, 1850–1950. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. xi + 319 pp. ISBN 0-19-565982-1, $39.95 pp. 152-154

Nagendra Rao

Brett Sheehan. Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. xiii + 269 pp. ISBN 0-674-01080-9, $59.95 pp. 154-156

Stephen Morgan

Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein. Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750–1850. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xii + 273 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4465-3, $60.00 (cloth); 0-8047-4859-4, $24.95 (paper) pp. 156-158

Birgitte Holten

Muriel McAvoy. Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 337 pp. ISBN 0-8130-2613-X, $27.95 (cloth) pp. 158-160

Marshall C. Eakin

Julio Moreno. Yankee Don’t Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920–1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xi + 321 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2802-5, $59.95 (cloth); 0-8078-5478-6, $21.95 (paper) pp. 160-162

Maurice Demers

Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg, eds. Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. viii + 364 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3159-4, $79.95 (cloth); 0-8223-3196-9, $22.95 (paper) pp. 162-165

Ian Read

Hubert Bonin, Yannick Lung, and Steven Tolliday, eds. Ford, 1903–2003: The European History. 2 vols. Paris: Editions P.L.A.G.E., 2003. 611 + 630 pp. ISBN 2-914369-06-9, €175 pp. 165-168

Augustus J. Veenendaal

Nancy J. Troy. Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2004. xi + 438 pp. ISBN 0-262-20140-2, $62.00 (cloth); 0-262-70103-0, $24.95 (paper) pp. 169-171

Marlis Schweitzer

Jon Agar. The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2003. viii + 554 pp. ISBN 0-262-01202-2, $50.00 (€32.95) pp. 171-172

Maurice Kirby

Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen. The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. ix + 200 pp. ISBN 0-19-925699-3, $35.00 pp. 173-174

Mark Mau

David R. Meyer. The Roots of American Industrialization. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7141-7, $45.00 pp. 175-177

Sean Patrick Adams

Robert E. Wright and George David Smith. Mutually Beneficial: The Guardian and Life Insurance in America. New York: New York University Press, 2004. xxii + 501 pp. ISBN 0-8147-9397-5, $50.00 (cloth) pp. 177-179

Dale L. Flesher

David Dyer, Frederick Dalzell, and Rowena Olegario. Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 2004. x + 467 pp. ISBN 1-59139-147-4, $29.95 pp. 179-181

Pamela Laird

Kathleen G. Donohue. Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii + 326 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7426-2, $45.95 (cloth) pp. 181-183

Amy S. Bix

Richard S. Tedlow. The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM’s Founding Father and Son. New York: Harper Business, 2003. x + 340 pp. ISBN 0-06-001405-9, $26.95 (cloth); 0-06-001406-7, $15.95 (paper). - Kevin Maney. The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr., and the Making of IBM. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003. xxv + 485 pp. ISBN 0-471-41463-8, $29.95 (cloth); 0-471-67925-9, $16.95 (paper) pp. 184-189

Steven W. Usselman

Kevin Maney. The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr., and the Making of IBM. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003. xxv + 485 pp. ISBN 0-471-41463-8, $29.95 (cloth); 0-471-67925-9, $16.95 (paper) pp. 184-189

Steven W. Usselman

Neil Lanctot. Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xi + 496 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3807-9, $34.95 pp. 189-191

Robert E. Weems

Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines. Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire. New York: One World (Ballantine Book), 2004. xv + 320 pp. ISBN 0-345-45347-6, $24.95 pp. 192-194

W. Thomas White

Carlos Rufin. The Political Economy of Institutional Change in the Electricity Supply Industry: Shifting Currents. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2003. xiii + 226 pp. ISBN 1-84376-203-X, $90.00 pp. 194-196

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