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Volume 22, issue 4, 2021

“The Vast and Unsolved Enigma of Power”: Business History and Business Power pp. 893-920

Neil Rollings

The Fox Guarding the Henhouse: Coregulation and Consumer Protection in Food Safety, 1946–2002 pp. 921-929

Ashton W. Merck

Branching Out: Banking, Credit, and the Globalizing US Economy, 1900s–1930s pp. 930-938

Mary Bridges

Work and Sexuality in the Sunbelt: Homophobic Workplace Discrimination in the U.S. South and Southwest, 1970 to the Present pp. 939-949

Joshua Hollands

When A Handshake Meant Something: Lawyers, Deal Making, and the Emergence of New Hollywood pp. 950-961

Peter Labuza

Yuppies: Young Urban Professionals and the Making of Postindustrial New York pp. 962-969

Dylan Gottlieb

The Crumble in the Jungle: The London Financial Press and the Boom-and-Bust Cycles of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, 1895–1914 pp. 970-996

Klas Rönnbäck and Oskar Broberg

What’s in a Fraud? The Many Worlds of Gregor MacGregor, 1817–1824 pp. 997-1036

Damian Clavel

Escaping from the State? Historical Paths to Public and Private Insurance pp. 1037-1066

Robin Pearson

Logos on Everest: Commercial Sponsorship of American Expeditions, 1950–2000 pp. 1067-1102

Rachel S. Gross

The Mid-Victorian Reform of Britain’s Company Laws and the Moral Economy of Fair Competition pp. 1103-1139

David Chan Smith

Amy Offner. Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. 400 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-19093-8, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 1140-1142

Tore Olsson

Emanuela Scarpellini. Italian Fashion since 1945: A Cultural History. Cham, UK: Springer International Publishing, 2019. 265 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-17811-6, $109.99 (cloth) pp. 1142-1144

Daniela Pirani

Brendan Goff. Rotary Internationalism and the Selling of American Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 456 pp. ISBN 9780674989795, $45 (cloth) pp. 1144-1146

Jennifer Delton

Volume 22, issue 3, 2021

The Cult of Convenience: Marketing and Food in Postwar America pp. 605-634

Margaret Weber

The Entrepreneurial Culture and Bureaucracy in Twentieth-Century America pp. 635-662

Louis Galambos

Stress and Struggle inside International Harvester pp. 663-695

Sally H. Clarke

An Abstract Thing We Call “Intellectual Atmosphere”: Science, Urban Development, and Business/Government Relations in Dallas, 1956–1969 pp. 696-738

Andrew M. Busch

A Fragile Network: Effecting Hail Insurance in Britain, 1840–1900 pp. 739-769

Samuel Randalls and James Kneale

“If competition has any virtue, we ought not to have a system that stifles it”: Competition in London Clearing Banking, 1946–1971 pp. 770-807

Linda Arch

Sound Speculators: Public Debates about Futures Trading in British India and Germany, 1880–1930 pp. 808-841

Christina Lubinski and Laura Julia Rischbieter

Inside and Outside the London Stock Exchange: Stockbrokers and Speculation in Late Victorian Britain pp. 842-877

James Taylor

Jessica Kim. Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xiii + 304 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-5134-7, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 878-880

Kevan Q. Malone

Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Fashionability: Abraham Moon and the Creation of British Cloth for the Global Market. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. 368 pp. ISBN 978-1-526-11931-5, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 880-883

Vicki Howard

Jim Powell. Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. xvii + 231 pp. ISBN 978-1-78962-249-2, £90.00 (cloth) pp. 883-885

Bruce E. Baker

Margaret Pugh O’Mara. The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. New York: Penguin Press, 2019. 512 pp. ISBN 978-0-399-56218-1, $30.00 (cloth), 978-0-399-56220-4, $20.00 (paper) pp. 885-887

J. A. Estruth

James P. Woodard. Brazil’s Revolution in Commerce: Creating Consumer Capitalism in the American Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. xvi + 524 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4696-5643-4, $37.50 (paperback); 978-1-4696-5637-3, $29.99 (e-book) pp. 888-890

Rami Stucky

Jessica Borge. Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business. London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. 306 pp. ISBN 9780228003335, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 890-892

Jennifer Le Zotte

Volume 22, issue 2, 2021

Introduction pp. 303-303

Andrew Popp

International Transfer of Tacit Knowledge: The Transmission of Shipbuilding Skills from Scotland to South Korea in the Early 1970s pp. 335-367

Stig Tenold, J. Y. Kang, Song Kim and Hugh Murphy

“A Country of Hair”: A Global Story of South Korean Wigs, Korean American Entrepreneurs, African American Hairstyles, and Cold War Industrialization pp. 368-408

Jason Petrulis

Beyond Compliance: The Origins of Corporate Interest in Sustainability pp. 409-437

Adam Rome

The Formation of a Technology-Based Fashion System, 1945–1990: The Sources of the Lost Competitiveness of Japanese Apparel Companies pp. 438-474

Pierre-Yves Donzé and Rika Fujioka

The Peruvian Amazon Co.: Credit and Debt in the Putumayo “Wild Rubber” Business pp. 475-501

Margarita Serje

“Deceptions Have Been Practiced”: Food Standards as Intellectual Property in the Missouri and Ohio Wine Industries (1906–1920) pp. 502-537

Andrew Ventimiglia

Corporate Profitability and Economic Policy During Argentina’s Great Depression, 1929–1934 pp. 538-565

Joseph Francis and Carlos Newland

Hegemony and Protectionism in Bologna’s Meat Trade:The Role of Visual Imagery in Reputation Management pp. 566-592

Paul Freathy and Iris Thomas

Sarah Milov. The Cigarette: A Political History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. 400 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-24121-3, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 593-595

Shane Hamilton

Daniel Vaca. Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. 329 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-98011-2, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 595-597

Emily Suzanne Johnson

Diana Lemberg. Barriers Down: How American Power and Free-Flow Policies Shaped Global Media. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-18217-1, $26.00 (paper); ISBN 978-0-231-18216-4, $60.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-231-54403-0, $25.99 (e-book) pp. 598-599

Kristen Wilson

Anne Fleming. City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. 367 pp. ISBN 978-0674976238, $46.50 (cloth) pp. 600-601

Sean Delehanty

Shane Hamilton. Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-23269-1 (cloth), $38.00 pp. 602-604

Megan Elias

Volume 22, issue 1, 2021

Foreign Direct Investment in China’s Electrification: Between Colonialism and Nationalism, 1882–1952 pp. 1-43

Chenxiao Xia

Fashion and Institutions: The AIIA and the Ready-to-Wear Industry in Italy (1945–1975) pp. 44-77

Ivan Paris

Defining and Defending Valid Citizenship During War: Jewish Immigrant Businesses in World War I Britain pp. 78-116

Stephanie Seketa

Loss of Department Stores’ Dominant Status in China’s Apparel Retail Industry pp. 117-155

Rui Shi

Control Without Responsibility: The Legal Creation of Franchising, 1960–1980 pp. 156-182

Brian Callaci

Who Runs the Firm? A Long-Term Analysis of Gender Inequality on Swiss Corporate Boards pp. 183-211

Stephanie Ginalski

The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Termination of Keynesian Policies: A Multilevel Governance Analysis of the Closure of the Amsterdam Shipyards, 1968–1986 pp. 212-246

Sjoerd Keulen and Ronald Kroeze

Expropriations of Foreign Property and Political Alliances: A Business Historical Approach pp. 247-284

Marcelo Bucheli and Stephanie Decker

Emma Hart. Trading Spaces: The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 296 pp. ISBN: 9780226659817, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 285-288

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

Keeanga-Yamattha Taylor. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 368 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-5366-2, $30.00 (cloth) pp. 288-291

Destin Jenkins

Brian Rosenwald. Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 368 pp. ISBN 978-0-67-418-5012, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 291-294

Darren E. Grem

Quinn Slobodian. Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. 400 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-97952-9, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 294-296

Andrew Seal

Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino, eds. Business Groups in the West: Origins, Evolution and Resilience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 592 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-87197-3, $120.00 (cloth) pp. 296-298

Leslie Hannah

Laura J. Miller. Building Nature’s Market: The Business and Politics of Natural Foods. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-50137-6, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 299-301

Emily Remus