Enterprise & Society

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Volume 1, issue 4, 2000

The Money Pitt: Lord Londonderry and the South Sea Bubble; or, How to Manage Risk in an Emerging Market pp. 659-674

Larry Neal

Old Dominions and Industrial Commonwealths: The Political Economy of Coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1810–1875 pp. 675-682

Sean Patrick Adams

Marketing in Mexico: Sears, Roebuck Company, J. Walter Thompson, and the Culture of North American Commerce in Mexico City during the 1940s pp. 683-692

Julio E. Moreno

Standard Bearers: Material Culture and Middle-Class Communities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century pp. 693-698

Marina Moskowitz

Knowledge and Competitive Advantage in the Synthetic Dye Industry, 1850–1914: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions in Great Britain, Germany, and the United States pp. 699-704

Johann Peter Murmann

Plumbers of the Internet: The Creation and Evolution of the LAN Industry pp. 705-714

Urs Von Burg

Rationalizing Consumption: Lejaren à Hiller and the Origins of American Advertising Photography, 1913–1924 pp. 715-738

Elspeth H. Brown

A Comparison of the Postal Telegraph Movement in Great Britain and the United States, 1866–1900 pp. 739-761

David Hochfelder

Brightening Country Lives: Selling Electrical Goods in the Japanese Countryside, 1950–1970 pp. 762-784

Simon Partner

Turning Silk Purses into Sows' Ears: Environmental History and the Chemical Industry pp. 785-812

John K. Smith

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Hagley Museum and Library, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society. “The Corporation as a Social and Political Institution.” February 12–13,2000,Wilmington, Del pp. 841-844

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Jean Strouse.Morgan: American Financier.New York:Random House,1999. xv +796 pp. ISBN 0-375-50166-5, $34.95 (cloth); 0-0609-5589-9, $18.00 (paper). - Ron Chernow.Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.New York:Random House,1998. xxii +774 pp. ISBN 0-679-43808-4, $30.00 (cloth); 0-679-75793-1, $16.00 (paper) pp. 845-848

August W. Giebelhaus

Carlos Dávila andRory Miller, eds.Business History in Latin America: The Experience of Seven Countries.Liverpool, U.K.:Liverpool University Press,1999. xiv +241 pp. ISBN 0-85323-723-9, $19.95 pp. 848-850

Sergio de Oliveira Birchal

René De La Pedraja.Latin American Merchant Shipping in the Age of Global Competition.Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press,1999. x +188 pp. ISBN 0-313-30840-3, $59.95 pp. 850-852

Håkon W. Andersen

Deborah S. Davis, ed.The Consumer Revolution in Urban China. Berkeley:University of California Press,2000. xiii +366 pp. ISBN 0-520-21639-3, $55.00 (cloth); 0-520-21640-7, $22.00 (paper). - Doug Guthrie.Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China.Princeton, N.J.:Princeton University Press,1999. xiv +304 pp. ISBN 0-691-00492-7, $39.50 pp. 852-855

Christopher A. Reed

Youngil Lim.Technology and Productivity—The Korean Way of Learning and Catching Up..Cambridge, Mass.:MIT Press,1999. xx +241 pp. ISBN 0-262-12221-9, $45.00 pp. 855-857

Arnold Kransdorff

Simon Partner.Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer.Berkeley:University of California Press,1999. xiv +303 pp. ISBN 0-520-21792-6, $55.00 (cloth); 0-520-21939-2, $19.95 (paper) pp. 857-859

William M. Tsutsui

Aaron Forsberg.America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival, 1950–1960. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press,2000. xix +332 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2528-X, $45.00 pp. 859-860

Mansel G. Blackford

Anthony Heywood.Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways.Cambridge, U.K.:Cambridge University Press,1999. xviii + 328. ISBN 0-521-62178-X, $69.95 pp. 861-862

Alfred C. Mierzejewski

Erika Diane Rappaport.Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End.Princeton, N.J.:Princeton University Press,2000. xiii +323 pp. ISBN 0-691-04477-5, $35.00 pp. 863-864

Pamela Walker Laird

Barbara Burman, ed.The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Home Dressmaking.Oxford:Berg Publishers,1999. vi +350 pp. ISBN 1-85973-203-8, $65.00 (cloth); 1-85973-208-9, $19.50 (paper) pp. 865-866

Wendy Gamber

Maury Klein.The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman.Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press,2000. xvi +521 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2517-4, $34.95 pp. 867-869

Christiane Diehl Taylor

Scott Reynolds Nelson.Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction.Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press,1999. x + 257 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2476-3, $39.95 (cloth); 0-8078-4803-4, $18.95 (paper) pp. 869-871

Mark Wilson

W. David Lewis, ed.Airline Executives and Federal Regulation: Case Studies in American Enterprise from the Airmail Era to the Dawn of the Jet Age.Columbus:Ohio State University Press,2000. xi + 288 pp. ISBN 0-8142-0833-9, $60.00 pp. 871-873

Richard H. K. Vietor

Bess Beatty.Alamance: The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County, 1837–1900.Baton Rouge:Louisiana State University Press,1999. xx +247 pp. ISBN 0-8071-2373-0, $45.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-8071-2449-4, $19.95 (paper) pp. 873-875

Annette C. Wright

Randall L. Patton.Carpet Capital: The Rise of a New South Industry.Athens:University of Georgia Press,1999. xvii +341 pp. ISBN 0-8203-2110-9, $35.00 pp. 875-876

Elaine Fuller

Brian C. Hosmer.American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870–1920.Lawrence:University of Kansas Press,1999. xvi +309 pp. ISBN 0-7006-0983-0, $35.00 pp. 876-877

Gordon Bronitsky

Myra B. Young Armstead.“Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August”: African Americans in Newport and Saratoga Springs, 1870–1930.Urbana:University of Illinois Press,1999. xviii +176 pp. ISBN 0-252-02485-0, $39.95 (cloth); 0-252-06801-7, $16.95 (paper) pp. 878-879

Emma Lapsansky

William R. Haycraft.Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry.Urbana:University of Illinois Press,2000. xvi +465 pp. ISBN 0-252-02497-4, $34.95 pp. 880-881

Albert Churella

Silvano A. Wueschner.Charting Twentieth-Century Monetary Policy: Herbert Hoover and Benjamin Strong, 1917–1927.Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press,1999. xxii +171 pp. ISBN 0-313-30978-7, $59.95 pp. 881-882

Edwin J. Perkins

Michael Perelman.The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation.Durham, N.C.:Duke University Press,2000.412 pp. ISBN 0-8223-2454-7, $64.95 (cloth); 0-8223-2491-1, $22.95 (paper) pp. 882-884

Ben Fine

David Felix.Keynes: A Critical Life.Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press,1999. xxvii +323 pp. ISBN 0-313-28827-5, $69.50 pp. 884-885

Louis P. Cain

Volume 1, issue 3, 2000

On Beauty … and the History of Business pp. 485-506

Kathy Peiss

Collars and Consumers: Changing Images of American Manliness and Business pp. 507-535

Carole Turbin

Black Is Profitable: The Commodification of the Afro, 1960–1975 pp. 536-564

Susannah Walker

Hiding the Scars: A History of Post-Mastectomy Breast Prostheses, 1945–2000 pp. 565-590

Kirsten E. Gardner

“At the Curve Exchange”: Postwar Beauty Culture and Working Women at Maidenform pp. 591-618

Vicki Howard

Orvar Löfgren. On Holiday: A History of Vacationing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xiv + 320 pp. ISBN 0-520-21767-5, $29.95 pp. 619-620

Christine Skwiot

Giovanni Dosi, David J. Teece, and Josef Chytry, eds. Technology, Organization, and Competitiveness: Perspectives on Industrial and Corporate Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ix + 345 pp. ISBN 0-19-829098-5, $85.00 (cloth); 0-19-289096-9, $24.95 (paper) pp. 620-622

Renato Giannetti

David J. Jeremy, ed. Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain. London: Routledge, 1998. vii + 195 pp. ISBN 0-415-16898-8, $85.00 pp. 622-624

Andrew C. Godley

Stefan Blaschke. Unternehmen und Gemeinde: Das Bayerwerk im Raum Leverkusen, 1891–1914. Cologne: SH-Verlag, 1999. 192 pp. ISBN 3-89498-068-0, DM 29.80 pp. 624-625

Mark Spoerer

Alessandro Arrighetti and Gilberto Seravalli, eds. Istituzioni intermedie e sviluppo locale. Rome: Donzelli, 1999. xxvii + 272 pp. ISBN 88-7989-474-9, 38,000 ITL pp. 625-628

Jonathan Zeitlin

Tetsuji Okazaki and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara, eds. The Japanese Economic System and Its Historical Origins. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x + 294 pp. ISBN 0-19-828901-4, $78.00 pp. 628-629

Pui-Tak Lee

Q. Y. Yu. The Implementation of China's Science and Technology Policy. Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1999. xv + 233 pp. ISBN 1-56720-332-9, $60.00 pp. 629-630

Brett Sheehan

Edmund Terence Gomez. Chinese Business in Malaysia: Accumulation, Accommodation and Ascendance. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. xxi + 234 pp. ISBN 0-8248-2165-3, $42.00 pp. 631-632

Brett Sheehan

Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson, eds. Colonial Modernity in Korea. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. xiii + 466 pp. ISBN 0-674-14255-1, $49.50 pp. 632-634

David Pollard

Gordon T. Stewart. Jute and Empire: The Calcutta Jute Wallahs and the Landscapes of Empire. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1998. xiv + 258 pp. ISBN 0-7190-5439-7, $79.95 pp. 634-635

Mushtaq Husain Khan

Angel Kwolek-Folland. Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998. xv + 275 pp. ISBN 0-8057-4519-X, $34.00 pp. 636-638

Howell John Harris

David Evans and Richard Schmalensee. Paying with Plastic: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. xii + 373 pp. ISBN 0-262-05062-5, $29.95 pp. 638-640

Daniel Pope

George L. Henderson. California and the Fictions of Capital. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxvii + 265 pp. ISBN 0-19-510890-6, $55.00 pp. 640-642

Greg Hise

Susan Strasser. Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999. 355 pp. ISBN 0-8050-4830-8, $27.50 pp. 642-644

Jonathan Coopersmith

Jerold J. Duquette. Regulating the National Pastime: Baseball and Antitrust. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. xviii + 162 pp. ISBN 0-275-96535-X, $59.95 pp. 645-646

Robert Whaples

Emily S. Rosenberg. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. x + 334 pp. ISBN 0-674-00059-5, $45.00 pp. 646-648

Mira Wilkins

Masayo Umezawa Duus. The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xi + 375 pp. ISBN 0-520- 20484-0, $55.00 (cloth); 0-520-20485-9, $18.95 (paper) pp. 649-650

James P. Kraft

David Haward Bain. Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. New York: Viking, 1999. xiii + 797 pp. ISBN 0-670-80889-X, $34.95 pp. 650-652

W. Thomas White

Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias. Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999. x + 478 pp. ISBN 0-87745-670-4, $32.95 (cloth); 0-87745-714-X, $21.95 (paper) pp. 652-654

Graham Russell Hodges

Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie. Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865–1965. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999. xii + 170 pp. ISBN 0-521-62210-7, $49.95 pp. 654-656

Randall L. Patton

Volume 1, issue 2, 2000

Introduction: Enterprise and State in the Italian “Economic Miracle” pp. 241-248

Steven W. Tolliday

State Enterprise and Italy's ‘Economic Miracle’: The Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi, 1945-1962 pp. 249-278

Francesca Carnevali

The “Economic Miracle” and Italy’s Chemical Industry, 1950-1965: A Missed Opportunity pp. 279-314

Francesca Fauri

‘Carry Your Credit in Your Pocket’: The Early History of the Credit Card at Bank of America and Chase Manhattan pp. 315-354

Timothy Wolters

Masculine Guidance: Boys, Men, and Newspapers, 1930–1939 pp. 355-390

Todd Alexander Postol

The Rocky Road to Mass Production: Change and Continuity in the U.S. Foundry Industry, 1890–1940 pp. 391-437

Howell John Harris

Konosuke Odaka and Minoru Sawai, eds. Small Firms, Large Concerns: The Development of Small Business in Comparative Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xiii + 314 pp. ISBN 0-19-829379-8, $70.00 pp. 438-440

Jonathan Bean

Lena Andersson-Skog and Olle Krantz, eds. Institutions in the Transport and Communications Industries: State and Private Actors in the Making of Institutional Patterns, 1850-1990 Canton, Mass pp. 440-442

Thomas Heinrich

Anthony P. D'Costa. The Global Restructuring of the Steel Industry: Innovations, Institutions and Industrial Change. New York: Routledge, 1999. xx + 220 pp. ISBN 0-415-14827-8, $99.00 pp. 442-444

Owen Darbishire

Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. xi + 343 pp. ISBN 0-262-15049-2, $45.00 pp. 444-445

Roy Church

Thomas W. Zeiler. Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv + 280 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2458-5, $39.95 pp. 445-447

Susan Aaronson

Lilach Nachum. The Origins of the International Competitiveness of Firms: The Impact of Location and Ownership in the Professional Service Industries. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 1999. xiv + 242 pp. ISBN 1-84064-012-X, $95.00 pp. 447-448

John Perkins

Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford, eds. Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe, 1650–1850. New York: Manchester University Press, 1999. xii + 260 pp. ISBN 0-7190-5273-4, $79.95 (cloth); 0-7190-5274-2, $29.95 (paper) pp. 449-450

John Smail

Peter J. Hugill. Global Communications since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology. Baltimore, Md.: John Hopkins University Press, 1999. xvii + 277 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6039-3, $55.00 (cloth); 0-8018-6074-1, $24.95 (paper) pp. 451-452

Harm G. Schröter

Philip Cooke and Kevin Morgan. The Associational Economy: Firms, Regions, and Innovation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ix + 247 pp. ISBN 0-19-829018-7, $65.00 pp. 453-455

Gary Herrigel

Andrew M. McLaughlin and William A. Maloney. The European Automobile Industry: Multi-Level Governance, Policy and Politics. New York: Routledge, 1999. xiii + 256 pp. ISBN 0-415-11329-6, $85.00 pp. 455-456

Ulrich Wengenroth

Jürgen Kocka. Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany, 1800-1918. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. xviii + 325 pp. ISBN 1-57181-158-3 $59.95 (cloth); 1-57181-198-2, $19.95 (paper) pp. 456-458

James M. Brophy

Jonah D. Levy. Tocqueville's Revenge: State, Society, and Economy in Contemporary France. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. xi + 371 pp. ISBN 0-674-89432-4,, $55.00 pp. 458-460

Robert L. Frost

T. J. Pempel. Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. xi + 263 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3532-3, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8014-8529-0, $17.95 (paper) pp. 461-462

Leslie Hannah

Bob Johnstone. We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs and the Forging of the Electronic Age. New York: Basic Books, 1999. xxiii + 422 pp. ISBN 0-465-09117-2, $27.50 pp. 462-464

Janet Hunter

Oscar Zanetti and Alejandro García, Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837–1959. Translated by Franklin W. Knight and Mary Todd. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xxviii + 496 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2385-6, $59.95 (cloth); 0-8078-4692-9, $29.95 (paper) pp. 464-465

Colin M. Lewis

Sérgio de Oliveira Birchal. Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: The Formation of a Business Environment. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xvii + 233 pp. ISBN 0-312-21716-1, $65.00 pp. 466-467

Marshall Eakin

Janet Abbate. Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. viii + 264 pp. ISBN 0-262-01172-7, $27.50 pp. 467-469

Wendy Cukier

Lendol Calder. Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. Princeton, N.J.:, Princeton University Press, 1999. xv + 377 pp. ISBN 0-691-05827-X, $29.95 pp. 469-471

Stephanie Dyer

Joan Lisa Bromberg. NASA and the Space Industry. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 247 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6050-4, $38.50 pp. 471-472

Erik P. Rau

Pamela H. Simpson. Cheap, Quick, & Easy: Imitative Architectural Materials, 1870–1930. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. xii + 215 pp. ISBN 1-57233-037-6, $39.00 pp. 473-474

Robert Friedel

Barbara McMartin. The Glove Cities: How a People and Their Craft Built Two Cities. Caroga, N.Y.: Lake View Press, 1999. x + 294 pp. ISBN 1-888374-13-6, $45.00 pp. 475-477

Reed Geiger

Jo Ann E. Argersinger. Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899–1939. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 229 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5989-1, $39.95 pp. 477-478

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

Steve Love and David Giffels. Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 1999. xiv + 359 pp. ISBN 1-884836-37-2, $49.95 (cloth); 1-884836-38-0, $22.95 (paper) pp. 478-480

K. Austin Kerr

Jonathan A. Grant. Big Business in Russia: The Putilov Company in Late Imperial Russia, 1868–1917. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. viii + 203 pp. ISBN 0-8229-4110-4, $45.00 pp. 480-482

John K. Brown

Volume 1, issue 1, 2000

Flexibility in the “Age of Fordism”: Technology and Production in the International Automobile Industry pp. 4-8

Jonathan Zeitlin

Reconciling Automation and Flexibility? Technology and Production in the Postwar British Motor Vehicle Industry pp. 9-62

Jonathan Zeitlin

Markets, Networks, and the Rise of Chrysler in Old Detroit, 1920–1940 pp. 63-99

Michael Schwartz

Automation, Transfer Machinery, and Mass Production in the U.S. Automobile Industry in the Post–World War II Era pp. 100-138

David A. Hounshell

Automation and the Organization of Production in the Japanese Automobile Industry: Nissan and Toyota in the 1950s pp. 139-178

Eisuke Daito

Revisiting Business Historians and the Internet pp. 179-181

K. Austin Kerr

Remembering Robert Sobel (1931–1999) pp. 182-187

David B. Sicilia