Business History Review

Alvin Rabushka. Review Essay: Taxation in Colonial America.

Reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee

Thomas G. Andrews. Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War.

Reviewed by Carl Weinberg

Regina Lee Blaszczyk. American Consumer Society, 1865–2005

Reviewed by Gary Cross

Stanley Buder. Capitalizing on Change: A Social History of American Business.

Reviewed by Kenneth Lipartito

Brian R. Cheffins. Corporate Ownership and Control: British Business Transformed.

Reviewed by Leslie Hannah

Philip L. Cottrell, Ian L. Fraser, and Monika Pohle Fraser, editors. East Meets West—Banking, Commerce and Investment in the Ottoman Empire.

Reviewed by Priscilla Roberts

Susanna Fellman, Antti Kuustera, and Eero Vaara, editors. Historical Perspectives on Corporate Governance.

Reviewed by Dan Hirschman

Karen E. Flint. Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948.

Reviewed by Preston Bakshi

Alison Games. The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560–1660.

Reviewed by Michelle Craig McDonald

Karl Gratzer and Dieter Stiefel, editors. History of Insolvency and Bankruptcy from an International Perspective.

Reviewed by Fahad A. Bishara

David Herzberg. Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac.

Reviewed by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Susan Ingalls Lewis. Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830–1885.

Reviewed by Sarah Elvins

Lawrence M. Lipin. Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910–30.

Reviewed by Ryan J. Carey

Rusty McClure, with David Stern and Michael A. Banks. Crosley: Two Brothers and a Business Empire That Transformed the Nation.

Reviewed by Timothy Whisler

Ranald C. Michie. Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1815–1914.

Reviewed by Andrew Popp

Alfonso W. Quiroz. Corrupt Circles: A History of Unbound Graft in Peru.

Reviewed by Catherine Conaghan

Gregory J. Renoff. The Big Tent: The Traveling Circus in Georgia, 1820–1930.

Reviewed by Robert W. Snyder

Lawrence Richards. Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture.

Reviewed by Kenyon Zimmer

Michael Brian Schiffer. Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity before Edison.

Reviewed by Paul Israel

J. P. Telote. The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology.

Reviewed by Bruce E. Seely

Gordon Thompson. Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop Inside Out.

Reviewed by Richard Coopey

Kenneth Warren. Bethlehem Steel: Builder and Arsenal of America.

Reviewed by Edward K. Muller

Douglas Wass. Decline to Fall: The Making of British Macro-economic Policy and the 1976 IMF Crisis.

Reviewed by Neil Rollings

John F. Wilson. Ferranti: A History—Volume 2: From Family Firm to Multinational, 1974–1987.

Reviewed by Judy Slinn

Jonathan Reed Winkler. Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I.

Reviewed by Mark R. Wilson

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