Enterprise & Society

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Volume 15, issue 4, 2014

Introduction pp. 601-604

Philip Scranton

Where Imperialism Could Not Reach: Chinese Industrial Policy and Japan, 1900–1940 pp. 655-671

Joyman Lee

Magic Connections: German News Agencies and Global News Networks, 1905–1945 pp. 672-686

Heidi Tworek

Transatlantic Transformations: Visualizing Change Over Time in the Liverpool–New York Trade Network, 1763–1833 pp. 687-721

Emily Buchnea

Liability of Foreignness in Historical Context: German Business in Preindependence India (1880–1940) pp. 722-758

Christina Lubinski

Chops and Trademarks: Asian Trading Ports and Textile Branding, 1840–1920 pp. 759-790

Andreas P. Zangger

Family Cohesion as a Longevity Factor of Business with Intergenerational Transmission pp. 791-819

FCO. Javier Fernández-Roca, Jesús D. López-Manjón and Fernando Gutiérrez-Hidalgo

Multinational Enterprises and the Globalization of Medicine: Siemens and the Business of X-ray Equipment in Non-Western Markets, 1900–1939 pp. 820-848

Pierre-Yves Donzé

The Hybrid Variety: Lessons in Nonmarket Coordination from the Business System in the Netherlands, 1950–2010 pp. 849-884

Jeroen Touwen

In the Shadow of Tragedy: The Evolution of Safety Coregulation on America’s Uninspected Towing Vessels pp. 885-920

Daniel L. Rust

Andrew Smith Dimitry Anastakis, Smart Globalization: The Canadian Business and Economic History Experience. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. xi + 239 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4426-1612-7, $28 (paperback) pp. 921-923

Peter Urmetzer

Sheryllynne Haggerty. ‘Merely for Money’? Business Culture in the British Atlantic, 1750–1815. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012. xiv + 287 pp. ISBN 978-1-84631-817-7, $99.95 (cloth) pp. 923-925

Kenneth Morgan

Walter A. Friedman. Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. xi + 273 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-15911-9, $29.95 (hardback) pp. 926-927

Craufurd Goodwin

Paul Gootenberg and Luis Reygadas, editors. Indelible Inequalities in Latin America: Insights from History, Politics, and Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. xvi +228 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4719-4, $79.95 (cloth); 978-0-8223-4734-7, $22.95 (paper) pp. 928-930

Kathleen Bruhn

Jamie K. McCallum. Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. xv + 159 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7862-8, $21.95 (paper) pp. 931-933

Priyanka Srivastava

Greg Urban. Corporations and Citizenship. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. vi+ 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4602-5, $59.95 (cloth) pp. 933-935

Yale Magrass

Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini. Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. viii + 309 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-72968-1, $55.00 (cloth) pp. 936-938

Molly Ball

Jean-Christian Vinel. The Employee: A Political History. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4524-0, $47.50 (cloth) pp. 938-941

Elizabeth Shermer

Niv Horesh. Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures between 600 BCE and 2012. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. 384 pp. ISBN 9780804787192, $65.00 (cloth) pp. 941-944

Roy Bin Wong

François Caron. Dynamics of Innovation the Expansion of Technology in Modern Times. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2013. 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-85745-723-3, $95.00 (cloth) pp. 944-946

Tomasz Mroczkowski

Volume 15, issue 3, 2014

The M Yarn: Price and Social Imagination in Early Industrial Britain pp. 417-441

Paul Anthony Custer

Marketing the Hearth: Ornamental Embroidery and the Building of the Multinational Singer Sewing Machine Company pp. 442-471

Paula A. De La Cruz-Fernández

Clearing the Cupboard: The Role of Public Relations in London Clearing Banks’ Collective Legitimacy-Seeking, 1950–1980 pp. 472-498

James Reveley and John Singleton

Will the Real Businessman/Businesswoman Stand Up?: The Historical Implications of Regendering Business Success in the Early Twentieth Century pp. 499-533

Nikki Mandell

Adaptation Strategies of Multinational Corporations, State-Owned Enterprises, and Domestic Business Groups to Economic and Political Transitions: A Network Analysis of the Chilean Telecommunications Sector, 1958–2005 pp. 534-576

Marcelo Bucheli and Erica Salvaj Carrera

Noel Maurer. The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893–2013. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. ix + 558 pp. ISBN 978-0-6911-5582-1, $39.50 (cloth) pp. 577-579

Jeffrey Malanson

Steven B. Bunker. Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Dìaz. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2012. 352 pp. ISBN 978-0-8263-4454-0, $50.00 (cloth) pp. 580-582

Michael Matthews

Mark B. Smith. Property of Communists: The Urban Housing Program from Stalin to Khrushchev. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. xii + 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-87580-423-1, $40.00 (cloth) pp. 582-583

Paul Josephson

Friederike Fleischer. Suburban Beijing: Housing and Consumption in Contemporary China. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. xxxv + 219 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-6587-7, $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8166-4596-1, $75.00 (cloth) pp. 584-586

Hanchao Lu

Brent Ruswick. Almost Worthy: The Poor, Paupers, and the Science of Charity in America, 1877-1917. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-2530-0634-9, $37.00 (hardback) pp. 586-588

Ishva Minefee

Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein. Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-532911-7, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 588-590

Jessica L. Adler

Adrian Johns. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gate. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 640 pp. ISBN 9780226401188, $38.00 (paper) pp. 591-593

Johan Mathew

Michael Kwass. Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 457 pp. ISBN 978-0-67472683-3, $49.95 (cloth) pp. 593-595

Philip Thai

Michael Perry. The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 192 pp. ISBN 9780691143989, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 596-598

Lars Fredrik Øksendal

Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi. Fiscal Policy After the Financial Crisis. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013. ix + 585 pp. ISBN 0-226-01844-7, $110.00 (cloth) pp. 598-600

Joseph Santos

Volume 15, issue 2, 2014

The Untold History of Transparency: Mercantile Agencies, the Law, and the Lawyers (1851–1916) pp. 213-251

Marc Flandreau and Gabriel Geisler Mesevage

Women on Board: Female Board Membership as a Form of Elite Democratization pp. 252-284

Eelke Michiel Heemskerk and Meindert Fennema

Embedding Big Business. The Political Economy of the 1938 Corporate Tax Reform in Sweden pp. 285-306

Martin Eriksson

Resistance of the Defeated: German and Italian Big Business and the American Antitrust Policy, 1945–1957 pp. 307-336

Luciano Segreto and Ben Wubs

Christianity Today, J. Howard Pew, and the Business of Conservative Evangelicalism pp. 337-379

Darren E. Grem

Luis Bértola and José Antonio Ocampo. The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-966214-2, $45 (paperback) pp. 380-382

Manuel Llorca-Jaña

Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato. Industry & Revolution, Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. 362 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-07272-5, $49.95 (cloth) pp. 382-385

Susan Gauss

Richard S Grossman. Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World Since 1800. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 408 pp. ISBN 9781400835256, $46.95 (cloth) pp. 385-387

Eric Hilt

Wenkai He. Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. x + 313 pp. ISBN 978-0-6740-7278-7, $55.00 (cloth) pp. 387-390

Elliot W. Brownlee

Janice M. Traflet. A Nation of Small Shareholders: Marketing Wall Street after World War II. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xiv + 242 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0902-3, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 390-392

James Taylor

William A. Pettigrew. Freedom’s Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2013. 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-1181-5, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 392-395

Matthew David Mitchell

Mary E. Fredrickson. Looking South: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor From Reconstruction to Globalization. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. ix + 302 pp. ISBN 978-0-8130-3603-8, $69.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8130-4227-5, $27.95 (paper) pp. 395-397

Henry M. McKiven

David Ciarlo. Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. xvi + 419 pp. ISBN 978-0-67405006-8, $54.00 (cloth) pp. 397-399

John Phillip Short

Drew Keeling. The Business of Transatlantic Migration between Europe and the United States, 1900–1914. Zurich: Chronos, 2012. 352 pp. ISBN 978-3-0340-1152-5, $44.00 (cloth) pp. 400-402

Evangeline Eiler

Cyrus C. M. Mody. Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780262134941, $36.00 (cloth) pp. 403-405

Andrew L. Russell

Fred Inglis. A Short History of Celebrity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 328 pp. ISBN 9781400834396, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 405-407

Amy Lippert

Edmund Phelps. Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-691-15898-3, $29.95 (hardcover) pp. 407-409

Balkrishna C. Rao

Richard Vahrenkamp. The Logistics Revolution: The Rise of Logistics in the Mass Consumption Society. Lohmar/Köln: Josef Eul Verlag GmbH, 2012. viii + 281 pp. ISBN 978-3-8841-0118-8, € 59 (paper) pp. 410-411

Stig Tenold

William R Nester. From Mountain Man to Millionaire: The “Bold and Dashing Life” of Robert Campbell. University of Missouri Press, 2011. 360 pp. ISBN 978-0-8262-1926-8, $70.00 (cloth); ISBN, 978-0-8262-1929-9, $29.95 (paper) pp. 412-414

Matthew Luckett

Steven Fenberg. Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2011. xiii+611 pp. ISBN 978-1-60344-434-7, $35 (cloth); ISBN 978-1-62349-157-4, $24.95 (paper) pp. 414-416

Jason Scott Smith

Volume 15, issue 1, 2014

Information in the Mark and the Marketplace: A Multivocal Account pp. 1-30

Paul Duguid

Incentivizing Safety and Discrimination: Employment Risks under Workmen’s Compensation in the Early Twentieth Century United States pp. 31-67

Nate Holdren

When Knowledge Transfer Goes Global: How People and Organizations Learned About Information Technology, 1945–1970 pp. 68-102

James W. Cortada

How the Future Shaped the Past: The Case of the Cashless Society pp. 103-131

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Thomas Haigh and David L. Stearns

Retailer–Supplier Relationships before and after the Resale Prices Act, 1964: A Turning Point in British Economic History? pp. 132-165

Helen Mercer

José Enrique Covarrubias and Matilde Souto Mantecón. Economía, Ciencia y Política. Estudios Sobre Alexander von Humboldt a 200 Años del Ensayo Político Sobre el Reino de la Nueva España. Mexico: Instituto Mora, 2012. 291 pp. ISBN 978-607-7613-95-4, $19.00 (paper) pp. 166-168

Richard Salvucci

Julia C Ott. When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 313 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-05065-5, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 168-171

Mark Billings

Alexander J. Field. A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. 400 pp. ISBN 9780300151091, $25.00 (paper) pp. 171-173

Leopoldo Fergusson

Elizabeth Popp Berman. Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. 280 pp. ISBN 9780691147086, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 174-176

Stephen B. Adams

Jim Lacey. Keep from all Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011. 288 pp. ISBN 978-1-59114-491-5, $34.95 (cloth) pp. 176-178

Alexander Field

Nicholas A. Robins. Mercury Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-35651-2, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 179-180

Susan Elizabeth Ramírez

Christopher J. Huggard & Terrence M. Humble. Santa Rita Del Cobre: A Copper Mining Community in New Mexico. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012. xvii + 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-60732-152-1, $26.95 (paper) pp. 180-183

Erik Eklund

Grey Osterud. Putting the Barn Before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012. xii + 277 pp. ISBN 0-8014-5028-4, $85.00 (cloth); 0-8014-7810-3, $26.95 (paper) pp. 183-185

Colin R. Johnson

Christine Adams. Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood: Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03547-0, $45.00 (cloth) pp. 185-187

Colin Heywood

Brodie Waddell. God, Duty, and Community in English Economic Life, 1660–1720. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer Press, 2012. xii + 273 pp. ISBN 978-1-84383-779-4, $99.00 (cloth) pp. 187-190

Matthew Kadane

Vaclav Smil. Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 261 pp. ISBN 978-0-262014434, $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0262518765, $15.95 (paper) pp. 190-192

David N. Lucsko

Bernhard Rieger. The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. 416 pp. ISBN 9780674050914, $28.95 (cloth) pp. 192-195

Dimitry Anastakis

Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis. Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4231-7, $49.95 (cloth) pp. 195-197

Peter C. Mancall

Catherine Higgs. Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa. Columbus, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012. 236 pp. ISBN 9780821420065, $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780821420744, $22.95 (paper) pp. 197-200

Ezekiel A. Walker

Olivier Zunz. Philanthropy in America: A History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. x + 382 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-12836-8, $29.95 (cloth) pp. 200-202

Greg Witkowski

Brian Schoen. The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. vii + 384 pp. ISBN 0-8018-9303-8, $57.00 (cloth); 1-4214-0404-4, $30 (paper) pp. 202-204

Andrew J. B. Fagal

John Laurence Busch. Steam Coffin. Captain Moses Rogers and the Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier. New Canaan, CT: Hodos Historia, 2010. vi +726 vi +726 pp. ISBN 978-1-893616-00-4, $35.00 (cloth) pp. 204-206

Kenneth J. Blume

Luciano Segreto. I Feltrinelli: Storia di una dinastia imprenditoriale (1854–1942). Milan: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, 2011. 487 pp. ISBN 978-880-7111-15-0, €28.00 (paper) pp. 207-208

Andrea Zanini

Alessandro Fornazzari. Speculative Fictions: Chilean Culture, Economics, and the Neoliberal Transition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. 168 pp. ISBN 9780822962335, $24.95 pp. 209-212

Stephen Buttes