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Volume 17, issue 4, 2016

Introduction pp. 717-720

Andrew Popp

Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1790–1840 pp. 721-733

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

City of Debtors: Law, Loan Sharks, and the Shadow Economy of Urban Poverty, 1900–1970 pp. 734-740

Anne Fleming

“Soap and Hope”: Direct Sales and the Culture of Work and Capitalism in Postwar America pp. 741-751

Jessica K. Burch

Avoiding “Negligence and Profusion”: The Ownership and Organization of Anglo–Indian Trading Firms, 1813–1870 pp. 752-762

Michael Aldous

The Entrepreneurial Multiplier Effect pp. 763-808

Louis Galambos and Franco Amatori

Virtue via Association: The National Bureau of Standards, Automobiles, and Political Economy, 1919–1940 pp. 809-838

Lee Vinsel

Material Incentives, Market Relations, and Historical Change: Selling Television Sets in West Germany and the United States pp. 839-873

Sebastian Teupe

The Whitbread Umbrella: A Structural Response to Shareholder Activism pp. 874-903

Julie Bower

Context and Contingency: Explaining State Ownership in Norway pp. 904-930

Einar Lie

Robert E. Wright and Richard Sylla. Genealogy of American Finance. New York: Museum of American Finance and Columbus Business School Publishing, 2015. ix + 324 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-17026-0, $60.00 (cloth) pp. 931-933

Paul J. Miranti

April Merleaux. Sugar and Civilization: American Empire and the Cultural Politics of Sweetness. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xi + 302 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-2251-4, $32.95 (paper) pp. 933-936

Philip A. Howard

James Davis. Medieval Market Morality: Life, Law and Ethics in the English Marketplace, 1200–1500. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xvii + 514 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-00343-9, $59.99 (cloth) pp. 936-937

Matthieu Scherman

Koenraad Donker van Heel. Djekhy & Son: Doing Business in Ancient Egypt. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2013. xvii + 193 pp. ISBN 9789774165696, $17.95 (paper) pp. 938-940

Jeremy Pope

Brett Christophers. The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 348 pp. ISBN 9780674504912, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 940-943

Benjamin C. Waterhouse

Martin Ruef. Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xxviii + 285 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-16277-5, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 943-945

Scott P. Marler

Peter Buckley. The Multinational Enterprise and the Emergence of the Global Factory. Houndsmill, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xvi + 404 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-40236-3, $120.00 (cloth) pp. 945-947

Mira Wilkins

Matthew L. Downs. Transforming the South: Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1915–1960. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. 331 pp. ISBN 978-0-8071-5714-5, $47.50 (cloth) pp. 948-950

Connie L. Lester

Céline Dauverd. Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Genoese Merchants and the Spanish Crown. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 299 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-06236-8, $110.00 (cloth) pp. 950-953

Adela Fábregas

Philip A. Howard. Black Labor, White Sugar: Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. xii + 303 pp. ISBN 978-0-8071-5952-1, $47.50 (cloth) pp. 953-956

Franklin W. Knight

G. Ugo Nwokeji. The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra: An African Society in the Atlantic World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xxiv + 279 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-88347-4, $110.00 (hardback); 978-1-107-66220-9, $40.78 (paperback) pp. 956-959

Daniel B. Domingues da Silva

Louise E. Walker. Waking from the Dream: Mexico’s Middle Classes after 1968. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. xv + 321 pp. ISBN 978-0-08047-8151-0 $65.00 (cloth) pp. 959-962

Moramay López-Alonso

Volume 17, issue 3, 2016

To Do a Work that Would Be Very Far Reaching: Minnie Geddings Cox, the Mississippi Life Insurance Company, and the Challenges of Black Women’s Business Leadership in the Early Twentieth-Century United States pp. 473-514

Shennette Garrett-Scott

Canadian Entrepreneurs and the Preservation of the Capitalist Peace in the North Atlantic Triangle in the Civil War Era, 1861–1871 pp. 515-545

Andrew D. Smith and Laurence B. Mussio

From Outsiders to Insiders? Strategies and Practices of American Film Distributors in Postwar Italy pp. 546-590

Peter Miskell and Marina Nicoli

Hollywood Works: How Creativity Became Labor in the Studio System pp. 591-617

Ronny Regev

“We Must Deflate”: The Crime of 1920 Revisited pp. 618-650

Christopher W. Shaw

Foucault, Discourse, and the Birth of British Public Relations pp. 651-677

Michael Heller

Reiko Hillyer. Designing Dixie: Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space in the New South. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. 280 pp. ISBN 9780813936703, $45.00 (cloth). - Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl. Hotel Life: The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press Books, 2015. 224 pp. ISBN 9781469621128, $29.95 (cloth). - Joanna Walsh. Hotel. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. 176 pp. ISBN 9781628924770, $14.99 (paper). - Rick Moody, Hotels of North America. New York: Little, Brown, 2015. 198 pp. ISBN 978-0-316-17855-6. $25.00 (cloth). - Joseph Roth. The Hotel Years. New York: New Directions, 2015. 192 pp. ISBN 978081122487, $14.95 (paper) pp. 678-685

Daniel Levinson-Wilk

Arwen Mohun. Risk: Negotiating Safety in American Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 329 pp. ISBN 9781421407906, $55.00 (cloth) pp. 685-688

Lee Vinsel

Christy Ford Chapin. Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xi + 358 pp. ISBN 9781107044883, $110 (cloth) pp. 688-690

David G. Schuster

Heather B. Barrow. Henry Ford’s Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2015. xii + 216 pp. ISBN 978-087580-490-3, $38.00 (cloth) pp. 690-693

Paige Glotzer

Edward Beatty. Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. vii + 342 pp. ISBN 9780520284906, $34.95 (paper) pp. 693-696

Paul Gootenberg

Anne Balay. Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xi + 172 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-1400-7, $34.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-1-4696-1401-4, $16.19 (e-book) pp. 696-699

Raul A. Galoppe

Nancy Shoemaker. Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. x + 303 pp. ISBN 9781469622576, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 699-701

Robert Deal

Hartmut Berghoff and Cornelia Rauh; translated by Casey Butterfield. The Respectable Career of Fritz K: The Making and Remaking of a Provincial Nazi Leader. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. xv + 360 pp. ISBN 978-1-78238-593-6, $120.00 (cloth) pp. 701-704

Peter Gengler

Edward Peter Stringham. Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. x + 283 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-936516-6, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 704-707

Joshua Barkan

N. D. B. Connolly. A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xiii + 389 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-11514-6, $45.00 (cloth); 978-0-226-37842-8, $27.00 (paper); 978-0-226-13525-0, $7 to $45 (e-book) pp. 707-710

LeeAnn Lands

Guy Rowlands. Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Financiers of Louis XIV’s France. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xvi + 265 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-38178-1, $115 (cloth) pp. 710-713

Vincent J. Pitts

Sean Patrick Adams, ed. The American Coal Industry, 1790–1902, 3 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. 1,200 pp. ISBN 9781138757646, 9781138757653, 9781138757660, $545.00 (cloth) pp. 713-716

Peter A. Shulman

Volume 17, issue 2, 2016

The Actuarial Practices of British Insurance Companies in Peripheral Markets: The Case of Spain (1890–1936) pp. 237-264

Jerònia Pons Pons and Pablo Gutiérrez González

IBM Rebuilds Europe: The Curious Case of the Transnational Typewriter pp. 265-300

Petri Paju and Thomas Haigh

Manufacturing Germans: Singer Manufacturing Company and American Capitalism in the Russian Imagination during World War I pp. 301-323

Benjamin Sawyer

The Monsoon and the Market for Money in Late-colonial India pp. 324-357

Tirthankar Roy

Redefining the Farmer-Processor Relationship: The Story of Organic Cow pp. 358-392

Olivia R. Saucier, Robert L. Parsons and Shoshanah Inwood

Selling Sex Toys: Marketing and the Meaning of Vibrators in Early Twentieth-Century America pp. 393-433

Hallie Lieberman

Talbot Imlay and Martin Horn. The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II: Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. x + 291 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-0-1636-1, $99.00 (cloth) pp. 434-435

Edmund N. Todd

John H. WhiteJr. Wet Britches and Muddy Boots: A History of Travel in Victorian America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xxvi + 512 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-35696-3, $55.00 (cloth); 978-0-253-00558-8, $45.99 (ebook) pp. 436-439

Will Mackintosh

Roman Studer. The Great Divergence Reconsidered. Europe, India, and the Rise to Global Economic Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 231 pp. ISBN 9781107020542, $99.00 (cloth) pp. 439-441

Tirthankar Roy

Ian Mitchell. Tradition and Innovation in English Retailing, 1700 to 1850: Narratives of Consumption. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xvi + 223 pp. ISBN 9781–409443209, $154.50 (hardback) pp. 442-443

Nicholas Alexander

Miguel Carter. Challenging Social Inequality: The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil. Raleigh-Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. xxix+ 494 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-5172-6, $109.95 (cloth); 978-0-8223-5186-3, $31.95 (paper) pp. 444-446

William Mello

Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel. Consommateurs engagés à la Belle Époque. La ligue sociale d’acheteurs. Paris: Les Presses de Sciences Po, 2012. 344 pp. ISBN 978-2724612561, €28.00 (paper) pp. 447-450

Franck Cochoy

Toby Green. The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxvi + 333 pp. ISBN 9781107014367, $109.99 (hardback); ISBN 9781107634718, $32.99 (paper); ISBN 9781139154086, $26.00 (ebook) pp. 450-452

Angela Sutton

Jeff Horn. Economic Development in Early Modern France: The Privilege of Liberty, 1650–1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. viii + 319 pp. ISBN 9781107046283, $105.00 (cloth) pp. 452-455

Lauren R. Clay

Manuel Llorca-Jaña. The British Textile Trade in South America in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxiii + 380 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-02129-7, $109.99 (cloth) pp. 455-457

Richard J. Salvucci

Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, eds. The Cambridge History of Capitalism. Volume I: The Rise of Capitalism from Ancient Origins to 1848; and Volume II: The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xii + 616 pp. (Vol. I), x + 567 pp. (Vol. II). ISBN 9781107019638 (Vol. I), 9781107019645 (Vol. II), $230 (cloth) pp. 457-463

Geoffrey Hodgson

John Turner. Banking in Crisis. The Rise and Fall of British Banking Stability, 1800 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xi + 253 pp. ISBN 9781107609860 NP, $34.99 (paper) pp. 464-465

Forrest Capie

Angus Burgin. The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 303 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-05813-2, $17.85 (paper) pp. 466-468

Joseph Santos

Pedro Machado. Ocean of Trade: South Asian Merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c. 1750–1850. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xv + 314 pp. ISBN: 978-1-107-07026-4, $99.00 (cloth) pp. 468-471

Johan Mathew

Volume 17, issue 1, 2016

Career Paths in Institutional Business Elites: Finnish Family Firms from 1762–2010 pp. 1-38

Juha Kansikas

“Slowly Becoming Sales Promotion Men?”: Negotiating the Career of the Sales Representative in Britain, 1920s–1970s pp. 39-79

Mike French

Twentieth-Century Enterprise Forms: Japan in Comparative Perspective pp. 80-115

Leslie Hannah and Makoto Kasuya

Changing Hegemonic Strategies of Business in Turkey before and after the Neoliberal Turn: from Defense to Counter-Attack pp. 116-150

Meli̇h Yeşi̇lbağ

Keeping Children Safe is Good Business: The Enterprise of Child Safety in the Age of Reagan pp. 151-187

Paul Mokrzycki Renfro

Leon Fink. The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 206 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4688-9, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 188-192

Mary O. Furner

Shellen Xiao Wu. Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1920. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015. xii +266 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9284-4, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 192-195

Joyman Lee

E.C. Spary. Feeding France: New Sciences of Food, 1760–1815. Cambridge University Press, 2014. xi +418 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-03105-0, $99.00 (cloth) pp. 195-197

Ken Albala

Gregory Clark. The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press: 2014: xxi + 384 pp. ISBN 978-0691162546, $29.95 (cloth); 978-0691168371, $19.95 (paper) pp. 197-200

Timothy Koechlin

Daryl M. Hafter, Nina Kushner, eds. Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. 250 pp. ISBN 978-0807158319, $36.95 (paper) pp. 200-203

Deborah Bauer

Barbara H. Stein and Stanley J. Stein. Crisis in an Atlantic Empire: Spain and New Spain, 1808–1810. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 808 pp. ISBN: 978-1421414249, $89.95 (cloth) pp. 204-207

Richard Salvucci

Gunnar Trumbull. Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xxii + 228 pp. ISBN 978-1107693906, $34.99 (paper) pp. 207-210

Jan Logemann

Christopher F. Jones. Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 320 pp. ISBN 0674728890, $39.95 (cloth). - Andrew Needham. Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. 336 pp. ISBN 0691139067, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 210-214

Paul W. Hirt

Abigail L. Swingen. Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. xv + 271 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-18754-0, $85.00 (cloth) pp. 214-217

Daniel Livesay

David E. Nye. America’s Assembly Line. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013. xii + 338 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01871-5, $33.00 (hardcover); 978-0-262-52759-0, $16.95 (paper) pp. 217-220

John L. Conant

Marilyn L. Taylor, Robert J. Strom, and David O. Renz, eds. Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurs’ Engagement in Philanthropy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2014. xviii + 378 pp. ISBN 978-1-783-47100-3, $210.00 (cloth) pp. 220-222

Zoltan Acs

Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shang-Jin Wei, and Xiaobo Zhang (eds.). The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxi + 622 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-967820-4, $140.00 (cloth) pp. 223-225

Kent Deng

Gregory L. Schneider. Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. xx + 380 pp. ISBN 978-0-7006-1918-4, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 225-227

Simon Cordery

Katherine C. Epstein. Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 328 pp. ISBN 9780674725263, $47.50 (cloth) pp. 227-229

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

Mark Metzler. Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter’s Guide to the Postwar Japanese Miracle. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. xvii + 295 pp. ISBN 9780801451799, $49.95 (cloth) pp. 230-232

Penelope Francks

Mark Wasserman. Pesos and Politics: Business, Elites, and Government in Mexico, 1854–1940. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. xv + 257 pp. ISBN 9780804791540, $55.00 (cloth) pp. 233-235

Ted Beatty