Enterprise & Society

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Volume 4, issue 4, 2003

Entertainment Industrialized: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890–1940 pp. 579-585

Gerben Bakker

Entrepreneurship and the Rise of Silicon Valley: The Career of Robert Noyce, 1956–1990 pp. 586-591

Leslie Berlin

The Growth and Survival of Multinationals in the Global Alcoholic Beverages Industry pp. 592-598

Teresa Lopes

The Business of Civil War: Military Enterprise, the State, and Political Economy in the United States, 1850–1880 pp. 599-605

Mark R. Wilson

The Governance of Early Modern Trade: The Case of Hans Thijs, 1556–1611 pp. 606-639

Oscar Gelderblom

Environmental Decision Making and DDT Production at Montrose Chemical Corporation of California pp. 640-675

Terence Kehoe and Charles Jacobson

The Irrational Escalation of Commitment and the Ironic Labor Politics of the Rust Belt pp. 676-706

Glenn Beamer and David E. Lewis

Makoto Kasuya, ed. Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv + 235 pp. ISBN 0-19-925931-3, $64.50 pp. 707-708

Mansel G. Blackford

Selwyn H. H. Carrington The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775–1810. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xvii + 362 pp. ISBN 0-8130-2557-5, $59.95 pp. 709-710

Emma J. Lapsansky

Jeffrey L. Bortz and Stephen Haber, eds. The Mexican Economy, 1870–1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. xvii + 348 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4207-3, $60.00 (cloth); 0-8047-4208-1, $24.95 (paper) pp. 711-712

Charles Jones

Steve Striffler. In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. xi + 242 pp. ISBN 0-8223-2836-4, $54.95 (cloth); 0-8223-2863-1, $18.95 (paper) pp. 713-714

Stuart McCook

Parks M. Coble. Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 0-520-23268-2, $60.00 pp. 715-716

Morris L. Bian

Daniel Cohen. Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age. Translated by Susan Clay and Daniel Cohen. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. 126 pp. ISBN 0-262-03302-X, $24.95 pp. 717-718

Judith Stein

Paul Hendrix. Sir Henri Deterding and Royal Dutch–Shell: Changing Control of World Oil, 1900–1940. Bristol, U.K.: Bristol Academic Press, 2002. viii + 275 pp. ISBN 0-9513762-8-4, £45.00 pp. 719-720

David Palmer

Howard Bodenhorn. State Banking in Early America: A New Economic History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. ix + 355 pp. ISBN 0-19-514776-6, $45.00. - Bruce H. Mann. Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. viii + 344 pp. ISBN 0-674-00902-9, $29.95 pp. 721-725

Sean Patrick Adams

Kim M. Gruenwald. River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790–1850. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xvi + 214 pp. ISBN 0-253-34132-9, $39.95 pp. 725-727

Jocelyn Wills

Mark A. Eifler. Gold Rush Capitalists: Greed and Growth in Sacramento. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. 280 pp. ISBN 0-8263-2821-0, $39.95 (cloth); 0-8263-2822-9, $22.95 (paper) pp. 727-729

James P. Kraft

Theresa M. Collins. Otto Kahn: Art, Money, & Modern Time. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 383 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2696-0, $34.95 pp. 729-731

August W. Giebelhaus

Wendy A. Woloson. Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xi + 277 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6876-9, $44.95 pp. 731-733

Cindy Ott

Robert D. Johnston. The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. xxiii + 394 pp. ISBN 0-691-09668-6, $35.00 pp. 733-735

Ken Fones-Wolf

David Farber. Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xii + 292 pp. ISBN 0-226-23804-0, $27.50 pp. 735-737

Robert F. Freeland

Charles D. Chamberlain. Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xi + 288 pp. ISBN 0-8203-2429-9, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8203-2443-4, $19.95 (paper) pp. 738-739

Robert Whaples

Ross Knox Bassett. To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xii + 421 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6809-2, $44.95 pp. 740-741

Andrew Weiss

Glenna Matthews. Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xvii + 313 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4154-9, $55.00 (cloth); 0-8047-4796-2, $22.95 (paper) pp. 742-743

Angel Kwolek-Folland

Hal Rothman. Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century. New York: Routledge, 2002. xxviii + 340 pp. ISBN 0-415-92612-2, $27.50 (cloth); 0-415-92613-0, $18.95 (paper) pp. 743-745

Christine Skwiot

Costas Spirou and Larry Bennett. It's Hardly Sportin': Stadiums, Neighborhoods, and the New Chicago. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. xi + 212 pp. ISBN 0-87580-305-9, $28.50 (paper) pp. 746-747

Louis P. Cain

Volume 4, issue 3, 2003

Developing the Brand: The Case of Alcohol, 1800–1880 pp. 405-441

Paul Duguid

Sophisticates or Dupes? Attitudes toward Food Consumers in Edwardian Britain pp. 442-470

Michael French and Jim Phillips

Americans in Paris: The J. Walter Thompson Company in France, 1927–1968 pp. 471-501

Clark Eric Hultquist

High-Tech Corporatism: Management–Employee Relations in U.S. Electronics Firms, 1920s–1960s pp. 502-520

Christophe Lécuyer

Regionalism in Stanford's Contribution to the Rise of Silicon Valley pp. 521-543

Stephen B. Adams

Stefano Battilossi and Youssef Cassis, eds. European Banks and the American Challenge: Competition and Cooperation in International Banking under Bretton Woods. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 228 pp. ISBN 0-19-925027-8, $75.00 pp. 544-546

Steven Toms

Cyrus Veeser. A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America's Rise to Global Power. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xviii + 250 pp. ISBN 0-231-12586-0, $27.50 pp. 546-548

William R. Childs

Sara Schoonmaker. High-Tech Trade Wars: U.S.-Brazilian Conflicts in the Global Economy. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. x + 220 pp. ISBN 0-8229-4179-1, $34.95 pp. 548-550

Marshall Eakin

Arturo Warman. Corn and Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance. Translated by Nancy L. Westrate. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xiii + 270 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2766-5, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8078-5437-9, $24.95 (paper) pp. 550-551

Terence Kehoe

Kellee S. Tsai. Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. xvi + 316 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3928-0, $35.00 pp. 552-553

Christopher A. Reed

Stanley D. Chapman. Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of Small-Scale Industry in Britain, c. 1589–2000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xxiv + 328 pp. ISBN 0-19-925567-9, $90.00 pp. 554-555

Roy Church

Paul Rosen. Framing Production: Technology, Culture, and Change in the British Bicycle Industry. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. xi + 224 pp. ISBN 0-262-18225-4, $29.95 pp. 556-557

Ulrich Wengenroth

Clare Haru Crowston. Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. xviii + 510 pp. ISBN 0-8223-2662-0, $69.95 (cloth); 0-8223-2666-3, $23.95 (paper) pp. 557-559

James B. Collins

Dominique Veillon. Fashion under the Occupation. Translated by Miriam Kochan. New York: Berg, 2002. xi + 205 pp. ISBN 1-85973-543-6, $68.00 (cloth); 1-85973-548-7, $22.50 (paper) pp. 559-561

Steve Zdatny

Christopher Kobrak. National Cultures and International Competition: The Experience of Schering AG, 1851–1950. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii + 394 pp. ISBN 0-521-81481-2, $50.00 pp. 561-563

Declan O'Reilly

Andrea Colli. I Volti di Proteo: Storia della piccola impresa in Italia nel novecento. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2002. 313 pp. ISBN 88-339-1405-4, €27.50 pp. 563-565

Giorgio Riello

Charles Perrow, Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of American Capitalism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. ix + 259 pp. ISBN 0-691-08954-X, $34.95 pp. 565-566

K. Austin Kerr

Maria E. Montoya. Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840–1900. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xvi + 299 pp. ISBN 0-520-22744-1, $50.00 pp. 567-569

Greg Hise

Patrick J. McGrath. Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890–1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. x + 248 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2655-3, $39.95 pp. 569-571

Albert J. Churella

Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xx + 408 pp. ISBN 0-520-21748-7, $34.95 pp. 571-573

Brian Black

Ellen Israel Rosen. Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xi + 336 pp. ISBN 0-520-23336-0, $55.00 (cloth); 0-520-23337-9, $21.95 (paper) pp. 573-575

Sanjay Marwah

Volume 4, issue 2, 2003

Truth Half Told: Finding the Perfect Pitch for Advertising and Marketing in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950–1991 pp. 179-225

Patrick Hyder Patterson

Symbolic Culture and Technological Change: The Cultural History of Aluminum as an Industrial Material pp. 226-271

Eric Schatzberg

Golden Opportunities: Jewelry Making in Birmingham between Mass Production and Specialty pp. 272-298

Francesca Carnevali

The Culture of Credit in Eighteenth-Century Commerce: The English Textile Industry pp. 299-325

John Smail

The Diversity of Industrial Experience: Cabinet and Furniture Manufacture in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario pp. 326-371

Ben Forster and Kris Inwood

Stephen B. Johnson. The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xvii + 290 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6898-X, $41.50 pp. 372-374

Erik P. Rau

Kenneth L. Shropshire and Timothy Davis. The Business of Sports Agents. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. viii + 216 pp. ISBN 0-8122-3682-3, $29.95 pp. 374-376

Louis P. Cain

Charles P. Korr. The End of Baseball as We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960–1981. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xviii + 336 pp. ISBN 0-252-02752-3, $34.95 pp. 376-378

Robert Whaples

John Fraser Hart, Michelle J. Rhodes, and John T. Morgan. The Unknown World of the Mobile Home. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ix + 142 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6899-8, $39.95 pp. 378-379

Jan Davidson

Karen R. Merrill. Public Lands and Political Meanings: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property between Them. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xix + 274 pp. ISBN 0-520-22862-6, $50.00 pp. 379-381

Kent Curtis

James M. Rubenstein. Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. ix + 401 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6714-2, $45.00 pp. 381-383

Daniel Pope

Joseph A. Pratt, William H. Becker, and William M. McClenahanJr. Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xvii + 292 pp. ISBN 1-58544-185-6, $39.95. - Jonathan W. Singer. Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889–1909. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xiii + 344 pp. ISBN 1-58544-160-0, $49.95 pp. 383-386

James B. McSwain

David N. Pellow. Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. ix + 234 pp. ISBN 0-262-16212-1, $24.95 pp. 387-388

Carl Zimring

Michael A. Amundson. Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. xxiv + 208 pp. ISBN 0-87081-662-4, $24.95 pp. 389-390

Mark Reutter

Bruce L. Gardner. American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. xii + 388 pp. ISBN 0-674-00748-4, $49.95 pp. 390-392

J. L. Anderson

Shu Guang Zhang. Economic Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949–1963. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xvi + 375 pp. ISBN 0-8047-3930-7, $49.50. - Peter Nolan. China and the Global Economy: National Champions, Industrial Policy, and the Big Business Revolution. New York: Palgrave, 2001. xi + 244 pp. ISBN 0-333-94565-4, $35.00 pp. 392-395

David Pollard

Mary B. Rose. Firms, Networks and Business Values: The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii + 352 pp. ISBN 0-521-78255-4, $70.00 pp. 395-397

Laurence Gross

James L. A. WebbJr. Tropical Pioneers: Human Agency and Ecological Change in the Highlands of Sri Lanka, 1800–1900. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. xviii + 243 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1427-5, $55.00 (cloth); 0-8214-1428-3, $24.95 (paper) pp. 397-399

Paul S. Sutter

Stuart George McCook. States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760–1940. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. xiv + 201 pp. ISBN 0-292-75256-3, $50.00 (cloth); 0-292-75257-1, $22.95 (paper) pp. 399-401

Colin M. Lewis

Alexandra Palmer. Couture and Commerce: The Transatlantic Fashion Trade in the 1950s. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2001. viii + 352 pp. ISBN 0-7748-0826-8, $60.00 pp. 401-403

Alison Clarke

Volume 4, issue 1, 2003

Multiples of Six: The Six Companies and West Coast Industrialization, 1930–1945 pp. 1-27

Christopher James Tassava

National Determinants of Family Firm Development? Family Firms in Britain, Spain, and Italy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries pp. 28-64

Andrea Colli, Paloma Fernández Pérez and Mary B. Rose

Tensions within an Industrial Research Laboratory: The Philips Laboratory's X-Ray Department between the Wars pp. 65-98

Kees Boersma

Jardine Matheson & Company: The Role of External Organization in a Nineteenth-Century Trading Firm pp. 99-138

Carol Matheson Connell

John Ravenhill. APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 294 pp. ISBN 0-521-66094-7, $70.00 (cloth); 0-521-66797-6, $25.00 (paper) pp. 139-141

Roger Middleton

George Symeonidis. The Effects of Competition: Cartel Policy and the Evolution of Strategy and Structure in British Industry. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. x + 542 pp. ISBN 0-262-19468-6, $55.00 pp. 141-143

Michael French

T. R. Gourvish. British Rail 1974–97: From Integration to Privatisation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xxiv + 705 pp. ISBN 0-19-925005-7, $60.00 pp. 143-145

Alfred C. Mierzejewski

Delphine Gardey. La dactylographe et l'expéditionnaire: Histoire des employés de bureau, 1890–1930. Paris: Editions Belin, 2001. 335 pp. ISBN 2-7011-3045-X, €19.00. - Yves Cohen. Organiser à l'aube du taylorisme: La pratique d'Ernest Mattern chez Peugeot, 1906–1919. Besançon, France: Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises, 2001. 490 pp. ISBN 2-84627-041-4, €29.00 pp. 145-147

Ludovic Cailluet

Stephen L. Harp. Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France. Baltimore, Md.: John Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiii + 356 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6651-0, $39.95 pp. 148-149

Roy Church

Christian Kleinschmidt. Der produktive Blick: Wahrnehmung amerikanischer und japanischer Management- und Produktionsmethoden durch deutsche Unternehmer, 1950–1985. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002. 453 pp. ISBN 3-05-003657-5, €64.80 pp. 150-151

Werner Bührer

Michael T. Allen. The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 377 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2677-4, $39.95 pp. 152-153

Mark Spoerer

David Igler. Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850–1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xiv + 267 pp. ISBN 0-520-22658-5, $37.50 pp. 154-156

Jocelyn Wills

Lee Scamehorn. High Altitude Energy: A History of Fossil Fuels in Colorado. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. xvi + 232 pp. ISBN 0-87081-661-6, $27.50 pp. 156-157

Michael R. Adamson

Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross. The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xx + 507 pp. ISBN 0-19-514095-8, $25.00 pp. 158-160

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Diana Davids Olien and Roger M. Olien. Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895–1945. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. xi + 307 pp. ISBN 0-292-76056-6, $39.95 pp. 160-162

Craig H. Roell

Nikki Mandell. The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890–1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. x + 208 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2685-5, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8078-5351-8, $19.95 (paper) pp. 162-164

Julie Kimmel

Samuel P. BlackJr., and John Paul Rossi. Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Sam P. Black, Jr., and the Rise of Erie Insurance, 1923–1961. New York: Routledge, 2001. xv + 358 pp. ISBN 0-8153-2915-6, $70.00 pp. 164-166

Christiane Diehl Taylor

Stephen H. Norwood. Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 328 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2705-3, $59.95 (cloth); 0-8078-5373-9, $19.95 (paper) pp. 166-169

Peter Rachleff

Michael H. Best. The New Competitive Advantage: The Renewal of American Industry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xvii + 286 pp. ISBN 0-19-829744-0, $65.00 (cloth); 0-19-829745-9, $21.95 (paper) pp. 169-171

Louis P. Cain

Ann Satterthwaite. Going Shopping: Consumer Choices and Community Consequences. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001. 386 pp. ISBN 0-300-08421-8, $39.95 pp. 171-173

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Theresa A. Hammond. A White-Collar Profession: African American Certified Public Accountants since 1921. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 216 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2708-8, $39.95 (cloth); 0-8078-5377-1, $16.95 (paper) pp. 173-175

Maceo Dailey

Robert J. Bricker and Gary J. Previts, eds. The Murphy-Kirk-Beresford Correspondence, 1982–1996: Commentary on the Development of Financial Standards. New York: JAI Press, 2001. x + 223 pp. ISBN 0-7623-0834-6, $85.00 pp. 175-177

Paul J. Miranti