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Volume 16, issue 4, 2015

Introduction pp. 741-743

Andrew Popp

Margins of the Market: Trafficking and the Framing of Free Trade in the Arabian Sea, 1870s–1960s pp. 770-779

Johan Mathew

Inventing Purity in the Atlantic Sugar World, 1860–1930 pp. 780-791

David Roth Singerman

Buying into Change: Consumer Culture and the Department Store in the Transformation(s) of Spain, 1939–1982 pp. 792-810

Alejandro J. Gomez-Del-Moral

Barcelona and SEAT, a History of Lost Opportunity: Corporate Marketing, Nation Branding, and Consumer Nationalism in the Automotive Industry pp. 811-846

Joaquim Rius-Ulldemolins

A Common Brotherhood for Their Mutual Benefit: Sir Charles Macara and Internationalism in the Cotton Industry, 1904–1914 pp. 847-888

Jonathan E. Robins

The Business of Daguerreotypy: Strategies for a New Medium pp. 889-928

Anne Verplanck

Marketing the Message: The Making of the Market for Life Insurance in Australia, 1850–1940 pp. 929-956

Monica J. Keneley

Monetary Heterodoxies - Edward Castronova. Wildcat Currency: How the Virtual Money Revolution is Transforming the Economy. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2014. xxii + 265 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-18613-0, $30.00 (cloth). - Felix Martin. Money: The Unauthorized Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-307-96243-0, $27.95 (cloth); 978-0-307-96244-7, $10.99 (e-book) pp. 957-963

Rebecca Spang

Sébastien Lechevalier, ed. The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism. Translated by J.A.A. Stockwin. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. xxxv + 198 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-71766-3, $140.00 (cloth) pp. 964-966

Walter Skya

Judith A. Layzer. Open for Business: Conservatives’ Opposition to Environmental Regulation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. xviii + 499 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01827-2, $37.00 (cloth) pp. 967-969

Linda Bui

Stephen J. Silvia. Holding the Shop Together: German Industrial Relations in the Postwar Era. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2013. xvi + 280 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5221-5, $79.95 (cloth); 978-0-8014-7897-0, $27.95 (paper) pp. 970-972

Armin Grünbacher

Lyman L. Johnson. Workshop of Revolution: Plebian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776–1810. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2011. xiv + 410 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4996-2, $94.95 (cloth); 978-0-8223-4891-5, $27.95 (paper) pp. 972-974

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Salvatore Basile. Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. ix + 278 pp. ISBN 978-0-8232-6176-5, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 974-976

Gail Cooper

Jason M. Colby. The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2011. xi + 274 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4915-4 (cloth) $45.00; 978-0-8014-7899-4 (paper); $24.95 pp. 976-978

Marcelo Bucheli

Claire L. Jones. The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. xii + 264 pp. ISBN 978-1-84893-443-6, $99.00 (cloth) pp. 978-980

Alun Withey

Peter Temin. The Roman Market Economy.Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. xiv + 299 pp. ISBN 978-0-6911-4768-0, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 980-982

David B. Hollander

Tammy Ingram. Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xiv + 255 pp. ISBN 978-1469612980, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 983-985

Matthew L. Downs

Carolyn M. Goldstein. Creating Consumers: Home-Economists in Twentieth-Century America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xi + 412 pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-3553-1, $52.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-2214-9, $36.95 (paper) pp. 985-988

Thomas Stapleford

Sue Fawn Chung. In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xxxii + 258 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03628-6, $55 (cloth) pp. 988-990

Fang He

Sven Beckert. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. xxii + 615 pp. ISBN 978-0-375-41414-5, $35 (cloth) pp. 991-993

Jonathan E. Robins

Volume 16, issue 3, 2015

Fun and Facts about American Business: Economic Education and Business Propaganda in an Early Cold War Cartoon Series pp. 491-520

Caroline Jack

Tackling Market Failure or Building a Cartel? Creation of an Investment Regulation System in Finnish Forest Industries pp. 521-555

Niklas Jensen-Eriksen and Jari Ojala

A Golden Combination: The Formation of Monetary Policy in Sweden after World War I pp. 556-579

Martin Eriksson

Gendering Access to Credit: Business Legitimacy in Mandate Palestine pp. 580-610

Talia Pfefferman and David de Vries

The Practice and Culture of Accounting in Renaissance Florence pp. 611-647

Richard Goldthwaite

Avoiding Negligence and Profusion: The Failure of the Joint-Stock Form in the Anglo-Indian Tea Trade, 1840–1870 pp. 648-685

Michael Aldous

Nobody Panic: The Emerging Worlds of Economics and History in America - Jonathan Levy. Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. 414 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-04748-8, $35.00 (cloth). - Jessica M. Lepler. The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xvii + 337 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-11653-4, $85.00 (hardback); 978-1-107-64086-3, $29.99 (paper) pp. 686-695

Hannah Farber

James T. Sparrow. Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-979101-9, $36.95 (cloth); 978-0-199930357, $21.95 (paper) pp. 696-697

Mark R. Wilson

Paul A. C. Koistinen. State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945–2011. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012. xiii + 313 pp. ISBN 978-0-7006-1874-3, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 698-700

Adrian R. Lewis

Simone Cinotto. Soft Soil, Black Grapes: The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 280 pp. ISBN 9780814717387, $70.00 (cloth); 9781479832361, $23.00 (paper) pp. 700-702

Tommaso Caiazza

Miranda Joseph. Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. xxii + 218 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-8744-2, $22.50 (paper); 978-0-8166-8741-1, $67.50 (hardcover) pp. 703-705

Dale L. Flesher

Naomi Klein. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. 566 pp. ISBN 978-1-4516-9738-4, $30.00 (hardcover) pp. 705-709

Sherrie Steiner

Robert E. Gallamore and John R. Meyer. American Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. xiii + 506 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-72564-5, $55 (cloth) pp. 709-711

Richard Saunders

Patrizia Battilani and Harm G. Schröter (eds.). The Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 283 p. ISBN 978-1-107-02898-2, $104.99 (hardback) pp. 711-713

Panu Kalmi

Susanah Shaw Romney. New Netherland Connections. Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xviii + 318 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-1425-0, $45.00 (cloth); 978-1-1496-1426-7, $44.99 (e-book) pp. 714-716

Robert S. DuPlessis

Piet Clement, Harold James, and Herman Van der Wee, eds. Financial Innovation, Regulation and Crises in History. Brookfield, VT: Pickering and Chatto, 2014. xiii + 176 pp. ISBN-13 9781848935044, $114.00 (hardcover) pp. 716-719

Douglas J. Forsyth

James Taylor. Boardroom Scandal: The Criminalization of Company Fraud in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 300 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-969579-9, £62.00 (cloth) pp. 719-721

David Higgins

Michael Heller, London Clerical Workers, 1880–1914. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010. xi + 262 pp. 16 tables. ISBN: 978-1-84893-054, £60/$99 (cloth) pp. 722-724

Tom Dicke

Richard Roberts. Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-964654-8, $29.45 (cloth) pp. 724-726

Nicola Tynan

Robert E. Wright, Corporation Nation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4564-6, $69.95 (cloth) pp. 726-729

William H. Becker

Mary C. Neuburger. Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. x + 307 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-5084-6, $39.95 (cloth) pp. 729-731

Matthew P. Romaniello

Damien Cahill. The End of Laissez-Faire? On the Durability of Embedded Neoliberalism. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2014. xii +197 pages. ISBN: 978-1781000274, $110.00 (cloth) pp. 732-733

Monica Prasad

Jacob Soll. The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations. New York: Basic Books, 2014. xvii + 276 pp. ISBN 978-0-465-03152-8, $28.99 (cloth) pp. 733-735

James Caton

George Bryan Souza. Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c. 1585–1800: Merchants, Commodities and Commerce. Farnham, Surrey, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. xx + 326 pp. ISBN 978-1-4724-1700-8, $165.00 (cloth) pp. 735-737

Claudia Rei

Andrew B. Arnold. Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country. New York: New York University Press, 2014. x + 277 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-6498-5, $49.00 (cloth) pp. 738-740

Laura Phillips Sawyer

Volume 16, issue 2, 2015

Wealthy by Accident? Firm Structure, Institutions, and Economic Performance in 150 (+4) Years of Italian History: Introduction to the Special Forum pp. 215-224

Paolo Di Martino and Michelangelo Vasta

Italy’s Modern Economic Growth, 1861–2011 pp. 225-248

Emanuele Felice and Giovanni Vecchi

Institutions, Politics, and the Corporate Economy pp. 249-269

Andrea Colli and Alberto Rinaldi

The Ghost in the Attic? The Italian National Innovation System in Historical Perspective, 1861–2011 pp. 270-290

Alessandro Nuvolari and Michelangelo Vasta

Happy 150th Anniversary, Italy? Institutions and Economic Performance Since 1861 pp. 291-312

Paolo Di Martino and Michelangelo Vasta

When Economics Met Antitrust: The Second Chicago School and the Economization of Antitrust Law pp. 313-353

Patrice Bougette, Marc Deschamps and Frédéric Marty

Lonrho in Africa: The Unacceptable Face of Capitalism or the Ugly Face of Neo-Colonialism? pp. 354-380

Chibuike Uche

Rothschilds’ “Delicate and Difficult Task”: Reputation, Political Instability, and the Brazilian Rescue Loans of the 1890s pp. 381-412

Leonardo Weller

Working-Class Households and Savings in England, 1850–1880 pp. 413-445

Linda Perriton and Josephine Maltby

Mind, Music, and Motion Pictures: The Making and Remaking of the Sensuous Consumer - Joshua Yumibe. Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012. 230 pp. ISBN 9780813552965, $72.00 (cloth). - Lauren Rabinovitz. Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 256 pp. ISBN 9780231156608, $82.50 (cloth). - Neil Verma. Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. 296 pp. ISBN 9780226853505, $90.00 (cloth). - Timothy D. Taylor. The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. 368 pp. ISBN 9780226791159, $40.00 (cloth) pp. 446-463

Carter Ringle

David Hamilton Golland. Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2011. xiv + 248 pp. ISBN 978-0-8131-2997-6, $50.00 (cloth); 978-0-8131-2998-3, $50.00 (epub) pp. 464-466

James C. Foster

Susan M. Gauss. Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism. 1920s–1940s. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. xii+ 292 pp. ISBN 978-0-271-03759-2, $64.95(cloth); 978-0-271-03760-8, $24.05(paper) pp. 467-469

Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato

Jeremy Baskes, Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760–1820. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. 408 pp. 25 tables, 13 figures. ISBN: 9780804785426, $70.00 (cloth); ISBN: 9780804786355, $70.00 (E-book) pp. 469-472

Richard Salvucci

Robert Fogel, Enid Fogel, Mark Guglielmo, and Nathaniel Grotte. Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xiii + 148 pp. ISBN 13-978-0-226-25661-0, $32.00 (cloth); 978-0-226-02072-3, $30.00 (ebook) pp. 472-475

Steven Medema

Andor Skotnes. A New Deal for All? Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimore. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. xv + 318 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-535911, $26.95 (paper) pp. 475-477

Ranjit S. Dighe

Michel Anteby. Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 248 pp. ISBN-13-978-0-09247-8, $25.00 (cloth); 13-978-0-09250-8, $18.00 (e-book) pp. 477-480

David Colander

Hans van de Ven. Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 396 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-13738-6, $50.00 (cloth) pp. 481-484

Benjamin A. Elman

Larry Haeg, Harriman vs. Hill: Wall Street’s Great Railroad War. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. xiv + 375 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-8364-2, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 484-486

R. Scott Huffard

Quincy T. Mills, Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-8112-4541-7, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 487-489

N. D. B. Connolly

Volume 16, issue 1, 2015

Editor’s Introduction pp. 1-4

Andrew Popp

The Red Cap’s Gift: How Tipping Tempers the Rational Power of Money pp. 5-50

Daniel Levinson Wilk

Relocating Centers and Peripheries: Transnational Advertising Agencies and Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s pp. 51-73

Robert Crawford

Turkey’s Small Capital, A Player from the Start: Relations with the State and Big Capital pp. 74-108

Emre Balikçi

“Green Pastures of Plenty from Dry Desert Ground”: Nature, Labor, and the Growth and Structure of a California Grape Company pp. 109-140

Gabriel Winant

Bringing Home the “Danish” Bacon: Food Chains, National Branding and Danish Supremacy over the British Bacon Market, c. 1900–1938 pp. 141-185

David Higgins and Mads Mordhorst

Thomas Jundt. Greening the Red, White, and Blue: The Bomb, Big Business, and Consumer Resistance in Postwar America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 306 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-979120-0, $34.95 (cloth). - Joe Dobrow. Natural Prophets: From Health Foods to Whole Foods—How the Pioneers of the Industry Changed the Way We Eat and Reshaped American Business. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books, 2014. 320 pp. ISBN 918-1623361792, $27.95 (cloth) pp. 186-191

Joshua Clark Davis

Robert Gudmestad. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. xii + 280 pp. ISBN 978-0-8071-3839-7, $42.50 (cloth) pp. 191-194

Jeremy Zallen

Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick and Richard Hyman. Trade Unions in Western Europe: Hard Times, Hard Choices. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-964441-4, £55 (cloth) pp. 194-196

Alison Johnston

David Parrott. The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xvii + 429 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-51483-5, $64.77 (cloth) pp. 197-199

Tryntje Helfferich

George J. Borjas. Immigration Economics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 284 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-04977-2, $49.95 (cloth) pp. 199-201

Eve Eiler

Oliver F. Williams, ed. Sustainable Development: The UN Millennium Development Goals, the UN Global Compact, and the Common Good. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. ix + 421 pp. ISBN-10:0-268-04429-5, $47.00 (paper) pp. 202-204

Joanne Bauer

Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen. An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions. Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2013. xiii + 433 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-16079-5, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 204-207

Devashish Mitra

Ericka Beckman. Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 272 pp. ISBN: 0816679207. $22.50 (paper) pp. 207-210

Stephen Buttes

Steven C. Topik and Allen Wells. Global Markets Transformed, 1870–1945. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 330 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-28134-9, $19.95 (paper) pp. 210-213

Rory M. Miller