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Volume 20, issue 4, 2019

Introduction pp. 749-751

Andrew Popp

A New Utopia: A Political History of the Silicon Valley, 1945 to 1995 pp. 777-785

J. A. Estruth

Visionary Calculations: Inventing the Mathematical Economy in Nineteenth-Century America pp. 786-795

Rachel Knecht

Networks of Capital: German Bankers and the Financial Internationalisation of China (1885–1919) pp. 796-808

Ghassan Moazzin

Steel and Sovereignty pp. 809-825

Ted Fertik

Quotidian Routines: The Cooperative Practices of a Business Elite pp. 826-860

Claire Wright, Simon Ville and David Merrett

Secrets for Sale? Innovation and the Nature of Knowledge in an Early Industrial District: The Potteries, 1750–1851 pp. 861-906

Joe Lane

“Breaking New Ground”: The National Enterprise Board, Ferranti, and Britain’s Prehistory of Privatization pp. 907-938

Mark Billings and John Wilson

Adulterated Intermediaries: Peddlers, Pharmacists, and the Patent Medicine Industry in Colonial Korea (1910–1945) pp. 939-977

Hoi-Eun Kim

Public Venture Capital in a Regional Economy: The Welsh Development Agency, 1976–1994 pp. 978-1006

Leon Gooberman and Trevor Boyns

Battling Giants: Spanish Publishing Multinationals in the First Global Economy pp. 1007-1043

María Fernández-Moya

This Thing Called Goodwill: The Reynolds Metals Company and Political Networking in Wartime America pp. 1044-1083

Andrew Perchard

Joshua Clark Davis. From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. 314 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-17158-8, $35 (cloth) pp. 1084-1087

Laura Warren Hill

Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson. Reimagining Business History. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. x + 260 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0862-0, $25 (paper) pp. 1087-1090

Laura Phillips Sawyer

Ross Bassett. The Technological Indian. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 386 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-50471-4, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 1090-1092

Christina Lubinski

Kim Oosterlinck. Hope Springs Eternal: French Bondholders and the Repudiation of Russian Debt. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. xiv + 244 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-19091-5, $85.00 (cloth) pp. 1092-1094

Benjamin Sawyer

Genevieve Carlton. Worldy Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. v + 237 pp. ISBN 0-226-25531-6, $45.00 (cloth); 0-226-25545-3, $45.00 (e-book) pp. 1094-1096

Christine Petto

Christy Clark-Pujara. Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island. New York: New York University Press, 2016. xiv + 205 pp. ISBN 978-1-479-87042-4, $40 (cloth) pp. 1097-1099

Calvin Schermerhorn

Emily Westkaemper. Selling Women’s History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017. ix + 257 pp. ISBN 978-0-813-57633-6, $27.95 (paper), 978-0-813-57634-3 (e-book) pp. 1099-1102

Kristin Hall

Yukiko Koga. Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 328 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-41194-1, $85 (cloth), 978-0-226-41213-9, $27.50 (paper) pp. 1103-1105

Philip Thai

Robert DuPlessis. The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650–1800.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 351 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-10591-1, $29.99 (cloth) pp. 1105-1108

Jennifer Van Horn

John L. Neufeld. Selling Power: Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities before 1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-39963-8, $60 (cloth) pp. 1108-1112

Abby Spinak

Dan Bouk. How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xi + 328 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-56486-9, $30 (paper) pp. 1113-1115

Nate Holdren

Gergely Baics. Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790–1860. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. xv + 347 pp. ISBN: 978-0-6911-6879-1. $39.95 (cloth) pp. 1115-1117

Susan Spellman

Volume 20, issue 3, 2019

Becoming a Correspondent: The Foundations of New Merchant Relationships in Early Modern French Trade (1730–1820) pp. 533-574

Arnaud Bartolomei, Claire Lemercier, Viera Rebolledo-Dhuin and Nadège Sougy

Medieval Property Investors, ca. 1300–1500 pp. 575-612

Adrian Bell, Chris Brooks and Helen Killick

Technology Transfer in the Interwar U.S. Pharmaceutical Sector: The Case of E. Merck of Darmstadt and Merck & Co., Rahway, New Jersey pp. 613-651

Andrew Godley, Marrisa Joseph and David Leslie-Hughes

Queuing as a Changing Shopper Experience: The Case of Grocery Shopping in Britain, 1945–1975 pp. 652-683

Adrian R. Bailey, Andrew Alexander and Gareth Shaw

Policy Entrepreneurs and FDI Attraction: Canada’s Auto Industry pp. 684-718

Greig Mordue

Alexia Yates. Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. 368 Pages. ISBN 9780674088214, $51.50 (cloth) pp. 719-721

Paige Glotzer

Mary Lindemann. The Merchant Republics—Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648–1790. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xv + 356 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-07443-9, $99 (cloth) pp. 721-723

Koen Stapelbroek

Talitha LeFlouria. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-3000-7, $24.95 (paper) pp. 724-726

Max Mishler

Hartmut Berghoff and Adam Rome, eds. Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. xi + 312 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4901-9, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 726-728

Sam Duncan

Jonathan Coopersmith. Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xi + 308 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-1591-8, $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-421-42123-0, $29.95 (paper) pp. 728-730

Lars Heide

Christopher Beauchamp. Invented by Law: Alexander Graham Bell and the Patent That Changed America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-36806-4, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 730-733

Louis Carlat

Josh Lauer. Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. 368 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-16808-3, $35 (cloth) pp. 733-735

Sean Trainor

Hasia R. Diner. Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2015. 247 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-17864-7, $35 (cloth) pp. 735-738

Toni Pitock

Chantal Norrgard. Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 216 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-1729-9, $29.95 (paper) pp. 738-740

Nicolas G. Rosenthal

Macarena Gómez-Barris. The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. 208 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-6875-5, $84.95 (cloth); 978-0-8223-6897-7, $23.95 (paper) pp. 740-743

Matthew Shutzer

Mehrsa Baradaran. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-97095-3, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 743-746

Brandon Kyron Lenzie Winford

Jesse LeCavalier. The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-9331-3, $105.00 (cloth); 978-0-8166-9332-0, $30.00 (paper) pp. 746-748

Dara Orenstein

Volume 20, issue 2, 2019

Translating the Blueprint for Financial Deregulation: The American Bank Lobby’s Unyielding Quest for Legislative Profits, 1968–1982 pp. 281-327

Justin Douglas

Selling Printed Cottons in Mid-Nineteenth-Century India: John Matheson of Glasgow and Scottish Turkey Red pp. 328-365

Stana Nenadic

From Henley to Harvard at Hyderabad? (Post and Neo-) Colonialism in Management Education in India pp. 366-400

Arun Kumar

Between Order and Justice: Investments in Africa and Corporate International Responsibility in Swedish Media in the 1960s pp. 401-444

Nikolas Glover

Du Pont Turns 150: Corporate Culture as Public Culture pp. 445-474

Taylor Alexandra Currie

Bankruptcy, Discharge, and the Emergence of Debtor Rights in Eighteenth-Century England pp. 475-506

Ann Carlos, Edward Kosack and Luis Castro Peñarrieta

Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA pp. 507-510

Kimberly Phillips-Fein

Darren E. Grem. The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. vii + 282 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-19-992797-5, $34.95 (hardcover) pp. 511-513

Kyla Morgan Young

Pamela Haag. The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture. New York: Basic Books, 2016. 528 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-465-04895-3, $29.99 (cloth) pp. 513-515

Mark R. Wilson

Peter Knight. Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. xi + 315 pp. ISBN-13 978-1-4214-2521-4, $24.95 (paper) pp. 515-518

Andrew Kopec

Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz. From Mainframes to Smartphones: A History of the International Computer Industry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 240 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-674-72906-3, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 519-521

Devin Kennedy

Paul Lerner. The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015. 280 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-80145-286-4, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 521-523

S. Jonathan Wiesen

Marc-William Palen. The “Conspiracy” of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalization, 1846–1896. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xxxviii + 295 pp. ISBN-13 978-1-107-10912-4, $99.00 (cloth); 978-1-107-52133-9, $37.99 (paper) pp. 523-525

Andrew Seal

Philip Balsiger. The Fight for Ethical Fashion: The Origins and Interactions of the Clean Clothes Campaign. London: Routledge, 2014. 200 pp. ISBN 978-1-409-45805-0, $160 (cloth) pp. 526-528

Jennifer Le Zotte

Todd Cleveland. Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015. 289 pp. ISBN 978-0-8214-2134-5, $32.95 (paper) pp. 528-531

Jelmer Vos

Volume 20, issue 1, 2019

Introduction pp. 1-3

Andrew Popp

Cousins Once Removed? Revisiting the Relationship between Oral History and Business History pp. 4-18

Robert Crawford and Matthew Bailey

Oral History and the Business History of Emerging Markets pp. 19-32

Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale

A Life at the Company: Oral History and Sense Making pp. 33-46

Ronald Kroeze and Jasmijn Vervloet

Off the Books: Oral History and Transnational Advertising Agencies in Southeast Asia pp. 47-59

Robert Crawford

The Narrative Turn, Corporate Storytelling, and Oral History: Canada’s Petroleum Oral History Project and Truth and Reconciliation Commission Call to Action No. 92 pp. 60-73

Janis Thiessen

Snowball Sampling in Business Oral History: Accessing and Analyzing Professional Networks in the Australian Property Industry pp. 74-88

Matthew Bailey

Crises and Responses: Government Policies and the Machine-Building Cartels in Hungary, 1919–1949 pp. 89-131

Mária Hidvégi

A Nation of Investors or a Procession of Fools? Reevaluating the Behavior of Britain’s Shareholding Population through the Prism of the Interwar Sharepushing Crime Wave pp. 132-158

Matthew Hollow

The Digitalization of Banking: A New Perspective from the European Savings Banks Industry before the Internet pp. 159-198

J. Carles Maixé-Altés

The Market for Films in Postwar Italy: Evidence for Both National and Regional Patterns of Taste pp. 199-228

John Sedgwick, Peter Miskell and Marina Nicoli

The Economic Institutions of Construction in London after the Great Fire pp. 229-252

Judy Stephenson

Review Essay pp. 253-255

David G. Schuster

Brian P. Luskey and Wendy A. Woloson. Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 328 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-812-24689-6, $49.95 (cloth) pp. 256-257

Michael Zakim

Jerry Prout. Coxey’s Crusade for Jobs: Unemployment in the Gilded Age. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2016. 152 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-87580-498-9, $25.00 (paper) pp. 257-259

Greg Carter

Linda Civitello. The Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight That Revolutionized Cooking. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2017. 272 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-252-04108-2, $95.00 (cloth); 978-0-252-08259-7, $19.95 (paper) pp. 260-262

Megan Elias

Peter James Hudson. Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 368 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-226-45911-0, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 262-264

Rachel Bunker

Daniel M.G. Raff and Philip Scranton, eds. The Emergence of Routines: Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Business History. London: Oxford University Press, 2017. 400 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-198-78776-1, $90.00 (cloth) pp. 264-267

Kenneth Lipartito

Andrea Colli. Dynamics of International Business: Comparative Perspectives of Firms, Markets and Entrepreneurship. London: Routledge, 2016. xiii + 210 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-415-55916-4, $38 (paper), $37 (e-book) pp. 267-270

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo