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Volume 18, issue 4, 2017

Introduction pp. 745-747

Andrew Popp

Felonious Transactions: Legal Culture and Business Practices of Slave Economies in South Carolina, 1787–1860 pp. 772-783

Justene Hill Edwards

Intangible Inventions: A History of Software Patenting in the United States, 1945–1985 pp. 784-794

Gerardo Con Diaz

Crisis Capital: Industrial Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1865–Present pp. 795-809

Shaun S. Nichols

Cathedrals of Consumption? Provincial Department Stores in England, c.1880–1930 pp. 810-845

Jon Stobart

Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights: International Intangible Assets in Spain over the Long Term pp. 846-892

Patricio Sáiz and Rafael Castro

Customer Stock Ownership as Monopoly Utility Political Strategy in the 1910s and 1920s pp. 893-920

Daniel Robert

Technology Transfers and Organization: The English East India Company and the Transfer of Piedmontese Silk Reeling Technology to Bengal, 1750s–1790s pp. 921-951

Karolina Hutková

Electrifying Kyoto: Business and Politics in Light and Power, 1887–1915 pp. 952-970

Chenxiao Xia

Dennis Romano. Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy, c. 1100 to c. 1400. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. viii + 271 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-16907-2, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 971-973

Jessica Dijkman

Barbara I. Floyd. The Glass City: Toledo and the Industry That Built It. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. 266 pp. ISBN 978-0-472-11945-5, $50 (cloth) pp. 973-975

Quentin Skrabec

Calvin Schermerhorn. The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. xi + 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-19200-1, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 975-977

Christy Clark-Pujara

Scott Sumner. The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression. Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2015. xv + 507 pp. ISBN 9-781598-131505, $37.95 (cloth) pp. 977-980

Phillip G. Payne

Catherine Cangany. Frontier Seaport: Detroit’s Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. xi + 288 pp. ISBN 978–0226096704, $48.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0226096841, $48.00 (e-book) pp. 980-983

Lawrence Hatter

Douglas McCalla. Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. xv + 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-7735-4500-7, $34.95 (paper) pp. 983-985

Ian MacLachlan

Rachel Weber. From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 296 pp. ISBN 9780226294483, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 985-988

Carter Ringle

Jennifer L. Anderson. Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 432 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-04871-3, $34.00 (cloth) pp. 988-991

Joanna Cohen

Customer Stock Ownership as Monopoly Utility Political Strategy in the 1910s and 1920s–ERRATUM pp. 992-992

Daniel Robert

Volume 18, issue 3, 2017

The Rise of the Small Investor in the United States and United Kingdom, 1895 to 1970 pp. 485-535

Janette Rutterford and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos

Law, Design, and Market Value: Lessons from the Cantilever Chair, 1929–1936 pp. 536-565

Tobias Vogelgsang

Networking with a Network: The Liverpool African Committee 1750–1810 pp. 566-590

John Haggerty and Sheryllynne Haggerty

“Spinning a Yarn”: Institutions, Law, and Standards c.1880–1914 pp. 591-631

David Higgins and Aashish Velkar

Del Norte Meets Little Saigon: Ethnic Entrepreneurship on Broadway Avenue in Wichita, Kansas, 1970–2015 pp. 632-677

Jay M. Price, Sue Abdinnour and David T. Hughes

Constructing Corporate Identity before the Corporation: Fashioning the Face of the First English Joint Stock Banking Companies through Portraiture pp. 678-720

Victoria Barnes and Lucy Newton

Kathryn Steen. The American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry: War and Politics, 1910–1930. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xxi + 403 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-1290-4, $39.95 (paperback); 978-1-4696-1291-1, $34.99 (e-book) pp. 721-723

Arjan van Rooij

Richard Follett, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, and Barbara Hahn. Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 165 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-1939-8 $49.95 (cloth); 978-1-4214-1940-4, $19.95 (paper) pp. 723-725

Jeannie Whayne

David Koistinen. Confronting Decline: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. xii +331 pp. ISBN 978-0-8130-4907-6, $74.95 (cloth); 978-0-8130-5408-7, $29.95 (paper) pp. 725-728

Allen Dieterich-Ward

Barbara L. Solow. The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. 140 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-9246-7, $79.00 (cloth) pp. 728-730

Frank Lewis

G. Roger Knight. Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia: Gillian Maclaine and His Business Network. Roydon, UK: Boydell Press, 2015. xiv + 193 pp. ISBN 978-1-78327-069-9, £65 (cloth) pp. 731-733

Anthony Reid

R. W. Sandwell (ed.). Powering Up Canada: A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. x + 482 pp. ISBN 978-0773547858, $120. (cloth); ISBN 978-0-7735-4786-5, $37.95 (paper) pp. 733-736

Petra Dolata

Mansel G. Blackford. Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change. Columbus: Trillium, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, 2016. xii + 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-8142-1314-8, $69.95 (cloth) pp. 737-739

Kevin F. Kern

Hermione Giffard. Making Jet Engines in World War II: Britain, Germany, and the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xii + 336 pp. ISBN 9780226388595, $45.00 (cloth); 9780226388625, $45.00 (e-book) pp. 740-741

Mark R. Wilson

Domenic Vitiello. Engineering Philadelphia: The Sellers Family and the Industrial Metropolis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. xiv + 267 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-5011-2, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 742-744

James Wolfinger

Volume 18, issue 2, 2017

Assessing the Impact of Field-of-Use Restrictions in Patent Licensing Agreements: The Ethical Pharmaceutical Industry in the United States, 1950–1962 pp. 282-323

Mar Cebrián Villar and Santiago López García

Something Brewing in Boston: A Study of Forward Integration in American Breweries at the Turn of the Twentieth Century pp. 324-359

Zachary Nowak

Will It Be Wine or Cocktails? The Quest to Build a Mass Market for California Wine after Prohibition pp. 360-399

Lisa Jacobson

Marketing Shareholder Democracy in the Regions: Bell Telephone Securities, 1921–1935 pp. 400-446

Deirdre Collier, Nandini Chandar and Paul Miranti

What about Global History? Recent Research on Tobacco Production in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 18th to 20th Century - Barbara Hahn. Making Tobacco Bright. Creating an American Commodity, 1617–1937. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press 2011. x + 236 pp. ISBN 978-1-421-40286-4, $63 (cloth). - Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff. Colonising Plants in Bihar (1760–1950): Tobacco Betwixt Indigo and Sugar. Gurgaon, India: Penguin Random House 2014. xvii + 464 pp. ISBN 978-1-4828-3912-8, $56.88 (paperback) pp. 447-452

Alexander van Wickeren

Timothy E. W. Gloege. Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xv + 307 pp. ISBN 978-2-4696-2101-2, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 453-455

Aaron L. Griffith

John Woodland. Money Pits: British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. xiii + 282 pp. ISBN 9781472442796, $124.95 (cloth) pp. 455-457

Emily Buchnea

Jan Stievermann, Philip Goff, and Detlef Junker, eds. Religion and the Marketplace in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xii + 295 pp. ISBN 9780199361793, $99.00 (cloth); 9780199361809, $35.00 (paper) pp. 458-460

Timothy Gloege

Diane Frost. From the Pit to the Market: Politics and the Diamond Economy in Sierra Leone. Suffolk, UK: James Currey, 2012. xxi + 226 pp. ISBN 978-1-84701-060-5, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 460-462

Todd Cleveland

Vicki Howard. From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 1 + 295 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4728-2, $34.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8122-9148-3, $34.95 (e-book) pp. 462-465

Stephanie Amerian

Anne Meis Knupfer. Food Co-ops in America: Communities, Consumption, and Economic Democracy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. xiv +273 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-5114-0, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 465-467

R. Douglas Hurt

Guillermo Guajardo and Alejandro Labrador, eds. La empresa pública en México y en América Latina: Entre el mercado y el estado. México DF, Mexico: UNAM/INAP, 2015. 372 pp. ISBN 978–607–02–5854-1, $16 (Spanish, paper) pp. 467-469

Cristián Ducoing

Jonathan Healey. The First Century of Welfare: Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620–1730. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2014. xvi + 319 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84383-956-9, $29.95 (paper) pp. 470-472

David Smith

Matthew Hollow. Rogue Banking: A History of Financial Fraud in Interwar Britain. Houndsmill, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. vii + 105 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-36053-3, £47.00 (cloth); 978-1-349-47191-1, £45.00 (paper) pp. 472-474

James Taylor

Amrita Pande. Wombs in Labor: Translational Commercial Surrogacy in India. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 255 pp. ISBN: 9780231169912, $30 (paperback) pp. 474-476

Debjani Bhattacharyya

Robert R. Ebert. Champion of the Lark: Harold Churchill and the Presidency of Studebaker-Packard, 1956–1961. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company Publishers, 2013. 196 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7864-7420-2, $39.95 (paper) pp. 476-479

John Mohr

Mischa Suter. Rechtstrieb: Schulden und Vollstreckung im liberalen Kapitalismus 1800–1900 [Rechtstrieb: Debts and their enforcement in liberal capitalism 1800–1900]. Konstanz, Germany: Konstanz University Press, 2016. 328 pp. ISBN 978-3-86253-077-9, € 32.90 / CHF 39.90 (cloth) pp. 479-481

Eve Rosenhaft

Lou Martin. Smokestacks in the Hills: Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. xi + 239 pp. ISBN 0-252-03945-4, $95.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-252-08102-6 $28.00 (paper) pp. 481-484

William Gorby

Volume 18, issue 1, 2017

The Revolutionary Transformation of American Merchant Networks: Carter and Wadsworth and Their World, 1775–1800 pp. 1-31

Tom Cutterham

Co-operative Wineries in Italy and Spain in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Success or Failure of the Co-operative Business Model? pp. 32-71

Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo and Tito Menzani

Fugitive Leverage: Commercial Banks, Sovereign Debt, and Cold War Crisis in Poland, 1980–1982 pp. 72-107

Fritz Bartel

Another Perspective on the Coca-Cola Affair in Postwar France pp. 108-145

Laureen Kuo

Creating Ecotourism in Costa Rica, 1970–2000 pp. 146-183

Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora

Doing It for Themselves: The Steel Company of Wales and the Study of American Industrial Productivity, 1945–1955 pp. 184-213

Louise Miskell

Love Between the Covers (film). Dir. by Laurie Kahn. Prod. by Laurie Kahn. Blueberry Hill Productions, 2015. 95 mins. $12.99, available on Amazon and iTunes pp. 214-216

Carter Ringle

Mukesh Eswaran. Why Gender Matters in Economics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. 408 pp. ISBN 9780691121734, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 216-220

Mary A. Yeager

Naiem A. Sherbiny and Omaima Hatem. State and Entrepreneurs in Egypt: Economic Development since 1805. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xviii + 195 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-56129-9, $110 (hardcover) pp. 220-223

Zeinab Abul-Magd

R. Douglas Hurt. Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xi + 349 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-2000-8, $45.00 (paper); 978-1-4696-2001-5, $17.50 (e-book) pp. 223-226

David K. Thomson

Chad Pearson. Reform or Repression: Organizing America’s Anti-Union Movement. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. viii + 303 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4776-3, $55.00 (cloth) pp. 226-229

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

Christopher Adam, Paul Collier, Michael Gondwe, eds. Zambia: Building Prosperity from Resource Wealth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 457 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-966060-5, $110.00 (cloth) pp. 229-231

Grieve Chelwa

Erik Lars Myrup. Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. 241 pp. ISBN 978-0-8071-5980-4, $42.50 (cloth) pp. 232-234

Catarina Fouto

Rory Naismith, Martin Allen, and Elina Screen, eds. Early Medieval Monetary History: Studies in Memory of Mark Blackburn. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014. xxxiii + 646 pp. ISBN 9781409456881, $154.00 (cloth) pp. 234-237

Alan Stahl

Simon James Bytheway. Investing Japan: Foreign Capital, Monetary Standards, and Economic Development, 1859–2011. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asian Center, 2014. xvii + 286 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-41713-7, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 237-239

Michael Smitka

Dominic A. Pacyga. Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xvii + 233 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-226-12309-7, $26 (cloth) pp. 239-242

Thomas Alter

William Boyd. The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xvii + 350 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-1878-0, (cloth) $55.00 pp. 242-244

Aaron Shapiro