Business History Review

Kenneth Warren. Review Essay: Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab

Reviewed by Mark R. Wilson

Cheryl R. Ganz. The 1933 World's Fair: A Century of Progress

Reviewed by Timothy B. Spears

Ann Norton Greene. Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America

Reviewed by Thomas A. Kinney

Shane Hamilton. Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy

Reviewed by Matthew N. Eisler

David W. Jones. Mass Motorization + Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis

Reviewed by Clifton Hood

Christine MacLeod. Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750–1914

Reviewed by Pat Hudson

George Selgin. Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775–1821

Reviewed by Ranald Michie

Kenneth S. Abraham. The Liability Century: Insurance and Tort Law from the Progressive Era to 9/11

Reviewed by Tom Baker

William Aspray and Paul E. Ceruzzi, editors. The Internet and American Business

Reviewed by Joseph November

Stuart Banner. Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On

Reviewed by Tom D. Crouch

L. Diane Barnes. Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820–1865

Reviewed by Stephen A. West

Hubert Bonin. CFAO (1887–2007): La réinvention permanente du commerce outre-mer [CFAO (1887–2007): The Permanent Reinvention of Overseas Commerce]

Reviewed by Eric Godelier

William H. Brock. William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science

Reviewed by Graeme J. N. Gooday

Leslie Brown. Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South

Reviewed by Luther Adams

Paul Ceruzzi. Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005

Reviewed by Nathan Ensmenger

Connie Y. Chiang. Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast

Reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford

Mirko Ernkvist. Creating Player Appeal: Management of Technological Innovation and Changing Patterns of Industrial Leadership in the U.S. Gaming Machine Manufacturing Industry, 1965–2005

Reviewed by Atsushi Akera

Toyin Falola and Kevin D. Roberts, editors. The Atlantic World, 1450–2000

Reviewed by Mariana P. Candido

Matthew P. Fink. The Rise of Mutual Funds: An Insider’s View

Reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins

Terry Gourvish. Britain’s Railways 1997–2005: Labour’s Strategic Experiment

Reviewed by Chris Wrigley

Fabrice Grenard. La France du marché noir (1940–1949) [The Black Market in France (1940–1949)]

Reviewed by Bertram M. Gordon

Elhanan Helpman, editor. Institutions and Economic Performance

Reviewed by Gary D. Libecap

Robert Lewis. Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis

Reviewed by James M. Rubenstein

Margrit Müller and Tino Myllyntaus, editors. Pathbreakers: Small European Countries Responding to Globalisation and Deglobalisation

Reviewed by Martin Jes Iversen

. Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab A Review Essay

Reviewed by Mark R. Wilson

Mary Poovey. Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

Reviewed by Amy Froide

Sarah Stockwell, editor. The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives

Reviewed by Paul Ashmore

Jan de Vries. The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present

Reviewed by Paul Cheney

Sebastian Conrad and Dominic Sachsenmaier, editors. Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s–1930s

Reviewed by Paul Ashmore

Thomas M. Truxes. Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York

Reviewed by Gautham Rao

Casey Walsh. Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border

Reviewed by Geraldo Cadava

Shakila Yacob. The United States and the Malaysian Economy

Reviewed by Lynn Hollen Lees

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