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Volume 19, issue 4, 2018

Outsourcing Government: Boston and the Rise of Public–Private Partnerships pp. 803-815

Claire Dunning

The Incorporation of India: The Tata Business Firm Between Empire and Nation, ca. 1860–1970 pp. 816-825

Mircea Raianu

From Buckskin to Gore-Tex: Consumption as a Path to Mastery in Twentieth-Century American Wilderness Recreation pp. 826-835

Rachel Gross

Public Relations, Issue Management, and the Transformation of American Environmentalism, 1948–1992 pp. 836-863

Melissa Aronczyk

“Delectable North Wales” and Stakeholders: The London & North Western Railway’s Marketing of North Wales, c.1904–1914 pp. 864-902

David A. Turner

Large Industrial Firms and the Rise of Finance in Late Twentieth-Century America pp. 903-945

Youn Ki

Rising of the Phoenix: Mitigating Political Risk through Knowledge Management—Behn, Meyer & Co., 1840–1959 pp. 946-978

Shakila Yacob

The Professionalization of Cryptology in Sixteenth-Century Venice pp. 979-1013

Ioanna Iordanou

Sarah F. Rose. No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiii + 398 pp. ISBN-13 978-1-4696-2489-1, $39.95 (paper) pp. 1014-1016

James W. Trent

Herbert Gintis. Individuality and Entanglement: The Moral and Material Bases of Social Life. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2016. xxii + 357 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-691-17291-0, $33.98 (paper) pp. 1016-1018

Ionica Oncioiu

Susan V. Spellman. Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 183 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-1993-8427-3. $78.00 (cloth) pp. 1018-1020

Gregory Carter

Peter Maguire and Mark Ritter. Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xxxiv + 272 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-231-16135-0, $19.95 (paper) pp. 1020-1022

James Bradford

Bruce E. Baker and Barbara Hahn. The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 232 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-190-21165-3, $31.95 (cloth) pp. 1023-1025

Andrew Baker

Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis, Edda L. Fields-Black, and Dagmar Schafer, eds. Rice: Global Networks and New Histories. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 445 pp. ISBN-13 978-1-107-62237-1, $34.99 (paper) pp. 1025-1028

Lucy M. Long

Sherene Seikaly. Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. xii + 258 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-8047-9288-2, $85.00 (cloth); 978-0-8047-9661-3, $24.95 (paper) pp. 1028-1031

Fahad Ahmad Bishara

Johan Mathew. Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016. 272 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-52028-855-3, $29.95 (paper) pp. 1031-1033

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

Volume 19, issue 3, 2018

Introduction pp. 491-491

Andrew Popp

The Managerial Ideal and Business Magazines in the Great Depression pp. 578-609

Tiago Mata

How Mortgage-Backed Securities Became Bonds: The Emergence, Evolution, and Acceptance of Mortgage-Backed Securities in the United States, 1960–1987 pp. 610-660

Natalya Vinokurova

“Imagined Outcomes”: Contrasting Patterns of Opportunity, Capability, and Innovation in British Musical Instrument Manufacturing, 1930–1985 pp. 661-701

Richard K. Blundel and David J. Smith

The Anywhere, Anytime Market: The 800-Number, Direct Marketing, and the New Networks of Consumption pp. 702-732

Richard K. Popp

The Home of Capital pp. 733-737

Richard Harris

Scott Peters. Making Waves: Michigan’s Boat-Building Industry 1865–2000. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. viii + 316 pp. ISBN 9780472052578, $28.95 (paper) pp. 738-740

Francis X. Blouin

Jonathan Schlesinger. A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. xii + 270 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9996-6, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 740-742

Kent Deng

Shalini Shankar. Advertising Diversity: Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian-American Consumers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. 316 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-8223-5877-0, $26.95 (paper) pp. 742-745

Luzilda Carrillo Arciniega

Tim Bartley, Sebastian Koos, Hiram Samel, Gustavo Setrini, and Nik Summers. Looking Behind the Label: Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. x + 286 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-253-01656-0, $28.00 (paper) pp. 745-747

Patrick Dixon

Ruth Milkman and Ed Ott. New Labor in New York: Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014. 368 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-801-45283-3, $77.95 (cloth) pp. 747-750

Jesse Tarbert

Volume 19, issue 2, 2018

Trust Company Failures and Institutional Change in New York, 1875–1925 pp. 241-271

Bradley A. Hansen

The Emergence of an Export Cluster: Traders and Palm Oil in Early Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia pp. 272-308

Valeria Giacomin

The Mills of Liberty: Foreign Capital, Government Contracts, and the Establishment of DuPont, 1790–1820 pp. 309-351

Andrew J. B. Fagal

Charge Account Banking: A Study of Financial Innovation in the 1950s pp. 352-390

Sean H. Vanatta

Bank Identity: Banks, ID Cards, and the Emergence of a Financial Identification Society in Sweden pp. 391-429

Orsi Husz

“A Bull in Our China Shop:” Japanese Imports and the American Pottery Industry pp. 430-468

Stephanie Vincent

Review Essay pp. 469-471

Kristin Hall

Morten Jerven. Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong. London: Zed Books, 2015. 160 pp. ISBN 978-1-78360-132-5, $21.95 (paper) pp. 472-474

Matthew McKeever

Andrew Paxman. Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 509 pp. ISBN 9780190455743 0190455748, $35 (cloth), $18 (paper), $23 (e-book) pp. 474-478

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo

George Robb. Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. x + 248 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-04117-4, $95.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-252-08271-9, $24.95 (paper); ISBN 978-0-252-09974-8, $22.46 (e-book) pp. 478-480

James Taylor

Timothy J. Minchin. Labor Under Fire: A History of the AFL-CIO Since 1979. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiii + 414 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-3298-8, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 480-483

Thomas Alter

William Thomas Okie. The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South. Cambridge Studies on the American South. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xvi + 303 pp. ISBN: 978-1-107-07172-8, $34.99, (cloth) pp. 484-486

Sterling Evans

Sharon Ann Murphy. Other People’s Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. xii + 192 pp. ISBN 978142421742, $55.00, (cloth); ISBN 987142421759, $19.95, (paper) pp. 486-489

Jane Knodell

Volume 19, issue 1, 2018

Introduction pp. 1-2

Andrew Popp

Chris Kobrak (January 21, 1950–January 8, 2017): A Tribute pp. 3-11

Mira Wilkins

Lessons to be Learned from Business Historical Studies of the National Socialist Period: Chris Kobrak (January 21, 1950–January 8, 2017) pp. 12-23

Andrea Schneider-Braunberger

Chris Kobrak pp. 24-30

Joe Martin

The Pitfalls of Internationalization: The Experience of American Life Insurers in Australia, 1885–1905 pp. 31-57

Monica J. Keneley

“Bank-Wreckers, Defaulters, and Embezzlers”: America’s Popular Fear and Fascination with the Misappropriation of Bank Deposits during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era pp. 58-87

Thomas A. Mackay

Managing a “People Business” in Times of Uncertainty: Human Resources Strategy at Ocean Transport & Trading in the 1970s pp. 88-123

Niels P. Petersson

The Moral Economy of the Scottish Coalfields: Managing Deindustrialization under Nationalization c.1947–1983 pp. 124-152

Ewan Gibbs

The Commercial Ecology of Scavenger Capitalism: Monsanto, Fossil Fuels, and the Remaking of a Chemical Giant pp. 153-178

Bartow J. Elmore

Turning Adversity into Opportunity: Philips in Australia, 1945-1980 pp. 179-207

Pierre van der Eng

Beatrice Moring and Richard Wall. Widows in European Economy and Society 1600–1920. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2017. xiii+327 pp. ISBN 978-1-78237-177-1, £75.00 (cloth) pp. 208-210

Eve Rosenhaft

Seeking the Consumer in American Politics - Joanna Cohen. Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 284 pp. ISBN 9780812248920, $45.00 (cloth); ISBN 9780812293777, $45.00 (e-book). - Emily Westkaemper. Selling Women’s History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017. 257 pp. ISBN 978-0-8135-7633-6, $90.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8135-7632-9, $27.95 (paper); ISBN 978-0-8135-7634-3, $27.95 (e-book) pp. 211-215

Erika Rappaport

In Print and On Screen: Film Columns, Criticism, and Culture in Early Hollywood - Richard Abel. Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913–1916. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. 424 pp. ISBN 9780520286788, $34.95 (paperback). - David Bordwell. The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 176 pp. ISBN 9780226352206, $20.00 (paperback) pp. 216-225

Carter Ringle

Aeron Hunt. Personal Business: Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. x + 225 pp. ISBN 978-0-8139-3631-4, $39.50 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8139-3632-1, $39.50 (e-book) pp. 226-228

Nancy Henry

Rebecca L. Sprang. Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. viii + 350 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-04703-7, $41.00 (cloth) pp. 229-231

Henry Heller

Daniel Amsterdam. Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 230 pp. ISBN 9780812248104, $45.00 (paper) pp. 231-234

Laura Phillips Sawyer

Eric Reed. Selling the Yellow Jersey: The Tour de France in the Global Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xvii + 251 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-20653-0, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 235-237

Fiona Ferbrache

Jane Ellen Knodell. The Second Bank of the United States: “Central” Banker in an Era of Nation-Building, 1816–1836. London: Routledge, 2017. xiv + 188 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-78662-2, $105.00 (cloth) pp. 237-239

Sharon Ann Murphy