Enterprise & Society

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Volume 21, issue 4, 2020

Introduction pp. 819-823

Andrew Popp

The Business of Property: Levantine Joint-stock Companies and Nineteenth-Century Global Capitalism pp. 853-865

Kristen Alff

Black Power, Inc.: Global American Business and the Post-Apartheid City pp. 866-874

Jessica Ann Levy

Steel Metropolis: Industrial Manchuria and the Making of Chinese Socialism pp. 875-885

Koji Hirata

Agents of Integration: Multinational Firms and the European Union pp. 886-892

Grace Ballor

The American Institute and the Problem of Interest Group Mobilization in Antebellum United States pp. 893-935

Martin Öhman

Bankruptcy Laws Around Europe (1850–2015): Institutional Change and Institutional Features pp. 936-990

Paolo Di Martino, Mark Latham and Michelangelo Vasta

Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant. Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xi + 335 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-18970-5, $105.00 (cloth); 978-0-231-18971-2, $35.00 (paper) pp. 991-993

Kelly Kean Sharp

David Johnson. Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 328 pp. ISBN 978-0-2311-8910-1, $32.00 (cloth) pp. 993-997

Christopher Adam Mitchell

Grant Madsen. Sovereign Soldiers: How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 344 pp. ISBN 978-0-81225-036-7, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 997-999

A. J. Murphy

Volume 21, issue 3, 2020

Crop Insurance and the New Deal Roots of Agricultural Financialization in the United States pp. 648-680

Shane Hamilton

The China United Assurance Society and the Making of Chinese Life Insurance, 1912–1949 pp. 681-715

Matthew Lowenstein

Harmony in Business: Christian Communal Capitalism in the Early Republic pp. 716-767

Joseph P. Slaughter

Reluctant Europeans? British and French Commercial Banks and the Common Market in Banking (1977–1992) pp. 768-798

Alexis Drach

Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism pp. 799-805

Alex Allison

Courtney Fullilove. The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 280 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-45486-3 (cloth); 978-0-226-45505-1 (e-book) pp. 806-808

Camden Burd

Peter J. Yearwood. Nigeria and the Death of Liberal England, Palm Nuts and Prime Ministers 1914–1916. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 302 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-90565-5, €93.59 (cloth) pp. 808-810

O’Reilly, Declan

Jocelyn Wills. Tug of War: Surveillance Capitalism, Military Contracting, and the Rise of the Security State. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. 500 pp. ISBN 978-0-7735-5047-6, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 810-813

Katharine Hall

Shani Orgad. Heading Home: Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0231184724, $30.00 (cloth) pp. 813-815

Lauren Jae Gutterman

William Deringer. Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 440 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-97187-5, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 816-818

James Fowler

Volume 21, issue 2, 2020

Introduction pp. 319-319

Andrew Popp

Gales, Streams, and Multipliers: Conceptual Metaphors and Theory Development in Business History pp. 320-339

R. Daniel Wadhwani

Entrepreneurial History in Motion: A Reply to R. Daniel Wadhwani’s Comment pp. 340-342

Louis Galambos and Franco Amatori

Hierarchical Clusters: Emergence and Success of the Automotive Districts of Barcelona and São Paulo pp. 343-379

Jordi Catalan and Tomàs Fernández-de-Sevilla

Control and Suppression in Sarnia’s Chemical Valley during the 1960s pp. 380-412

Owen Temby

Mother Nature as Brand Strategy: Gender and Creativity in Tampax Advertising 2007–2009 pp. 413-452

Camilla Mørk Røstvik

Bridges and Bonds: The Role of British Merchant Bank Intermediaries in Latin American Trade and Finance Networks, 1825–1850 pp. 453-493

Emily Buchnea

Lending a Hand: Black Business Owners’ Complex Role in the Civil Rights Movement pp. 494-515

Louis A. Ferleger and Matthew Lavallee

Advertising for the People: The History of the Social Democratic Party of Sweden’s Own Advertising Company—Folkreklam and Förenade ARE-Bolagen, 1947–1997 pp. 516-546

Erik Lakomaa

Nicolette Makovicky, ed. Neoliberalism, Personhood, and Postsocialism: Enterprising Selves in Changing Economies. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2014. xi +209 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-6787-8, $165 (cloth) pp. 547-549

Emily Curtin

Shennette Garrett-Scott. Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance before the New Deal. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xi + 273 pp. ISBN 0-231-18390-9, $105.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-231-18391-8, $35.00 (paper) pp. 550-552

George Robb

Rowena Olegario. The Engine of Enterprise: Credit in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 312 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-05114-0, $42 (cloth) pp. 552-555

Josh Lauer

Nan Enstad. Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xiii + 333 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-53328-5, $75.00 (cloth); 978-0-226-53331-5, $25.00 (paper) pp. 555-557

Jessica Ann Levy

Volume 21, issue 1, 2020

Introduction pp. 1-1

Andrew Popp

Energizing Finance: The Energy Crisis, Oil Futures, and Neoliberal Narratives pp. 2-37

Caleb Wellum

Reorganization of Multinational Companies in the Western European Chemical Industry: Transformations in Industrial Management and Labor, 1960s to 1990s pp. 38-78

Christian Marx

Trends in the Fashion Business: Spain and Italy in Comparison, 1973–2013 pp. 79-109

Veronica Binda and Elisabetta Merlo

Who Tells Your Story: Contested History at the NAM pp. 110-133

Jennifer Delton

Western Debates About Chinese Entrepreneurship in the Treaty Port Period, 1842–1911 pp. 134-169

Miriam Kaminishi and Andrew David Smith

Black Power in the Boardroom: Corporate America, the Sullivan Principles, and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle pp. 170-209

Jessica Ann Levy

The Insurance of Mass Murder: The Development of Slave Life Insurance Policies of Dutch Private Slave Ships, 1720–1780 pp. 210-238

Karin Lurvink

An Incomplete Revolution: Corporate Governance Challenges of the London Assurance Company and the Limitations of the Joint-Stock Form, 1720–1725 pp. 239-270

Michael Aldous and Stefano Condorelli

Marc Flandreau. Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 416 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-22636-030-0, $105.00 (cloth); 978-0-22636-044-7, $35.00 (paper) pp. 271-273

David Chambers

Sophia Z. Lee. The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 401 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-03872-1, $29.99 (cloth) pp. 273-275

Charles Romney

Noam Maggor. Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-97146-2, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 275-278

Daniel Amsterdam

Brett Sheehan. Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. 344 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-96760-1, $46.50 (cloth) pp. 278-280

Åsa Malmström Rognes

Laura Phillips Sawyer. American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the “New Competition,” 1890–1940.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 390 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-07682-2, £49.99 (cloth) pp. 280-282

Jesse Tarbert

Justin V. Hastings. A Most Enterprising Country: North Korea in the Global Economy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. xviii + 216 pp. ISBN 978-1-501-70490-1, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 283-285

Patrick Chung

Roger Horowitz. Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food.New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-15832-9, $35 (cloth), 978-0-231-15833-6, $26 (paper) pp. 285-288

Derek Hoff

Francesca Russello Ammon. Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape.New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 400 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-20068-3, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 288-291

Morris Speller

Marc Levinson. An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Book and the Return of the Ordinary Economy. New York: Basic Books, 2016. 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-465-06198-3, $27.99 (cloth) pp. 291-293

Eli Cook

Nancy H. Kwak. A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-0-226-28235-0, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 293-296

Todd M. Michney

Chloe E. Taft. From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 325 pp. ISBN: 978-0-674-66049-6, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 296-298

Patrick Vitale

Adam Mendelsohn. The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed their Way to Success in America and the British Empire. New York: New York University Press, 2014. 320 pp. ISBN 978-1-479-84718-1, $75 (cloth) pp. 298-300

Rachel Kranson

Paolo DiMartino, Andrew Popp, and Peter Scott, eds. People, Places, and Business Cultures: Essays in Honour of Francesca Carnevali. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2017. xiv + 266 pp. ISBN 978-1-78327-212-9, $25.95 (paper) pp. 301-303

Philip Scranton

Barbara Bridgman Perkins. Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market.New York: Routledge, 2017. vi + 243 pp. ISBN 1-138-28524-2, $149.95 (hardcover) pp. 304-306

Robin Scheffler

Michael Fritsch and Michael Wyrwich. Regional Trajectories of Entrepreneurship, Knowledge, and Growth: The Role of History and Culture. Basel: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019. 144 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-97781-2, €74.96 (paper) pp. 306-308

Ionica Oncioiu

Deborah A. Harris and Patti Giuffre. Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen.New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015. 246 pp. ISBN 978-0-8135-7125-6, $28.95 (paperback) pp. 309-311

Stephanie Amerian

Gavin Benke. Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism. Philadelphia, P.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 272 pp. ISBN 9780812250206, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 311-313

Teal Arcadi

Lane Windham. Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 312 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-3207-0, $32.95 (hardcover) pp. 313-316

Douglas Flowe

Emily Remus. A Shoppers’ Paradise: How the Ladies of Chicago Claimed Power and Pleasure in the New Downtown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-6749-8727-2, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 316-318

Jennifer Le Zotte