Index to Volume 78

Articles

Anastakis, Dimitry. "From Independence to Integration: The Corporate Evolution of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, 1904-2004" 213

Boersma, Kees. "The Organization of Industrial Research as a Network Activity: Agricultural Research at Philips in the 1930s" 255

Britton, John A., and Jorma Ahvenainen. "Showdown in South America: James Scrymser, John Pender, and United States-British Cable Competition" 1

Bucheli, Marcelo. "Enforcing Business Contracts in South America: The United Fruit Company and Colombian Banana Planters in the Twentieth Century" 181

Caskey, John P. "The Philadelphia Stock Exchange: Adapting to Survive in Changing Markets" 451

Crothers, A. Glenn. "Commercial Risk and Capital Formation in Early America: Virginia Merchants and the Rise of American Marine Insurance, 1750-1815" 607

Luskey, Brian P. "'What Is My Prospects?': The Contours of Mercantile Apprenticeship, Ambition, and Advancement in the Early American Economy" 665

Lyon-Jenness, Cheryl. "Planting a Seed: The Nineteenth-Century Horticultural Boom in America" 381

Matson, Cathy. "The Ambiguities of Risk in the Early Republic" (Introduction to Special Forum: "Reputation and Uncertainty in Early America") 595

Miskell, Peter. "Cavity Protection or Cosmetic Perfection? Innovation and Marketing of Toothpaste Brands in the United States and Western Europe, 1955-1985" 29

Mulcahy, Matthew. "Weathering the Storms: Hurricanes and Risk in the British Greater Caribbean" 635

Podeh, Elie. "Making a Short Story Long: The Construction of the Suez-Mediterranean Oil Pipeline in Egypt, 1967-1977" 61

Ruiz, José-Ignacio Martínez. "Vertical Restraints in the Spanish Steel Industry and Their Effects on Competition, 1906-1936" 703

Wells, Wyatt. "Counterpoint to Reform: Gilbert H. Montague and the Business of Regulation" 423

Review Essays

Warren, Kenneth. Carnegie. A review by Peter Krass 501

Book Reviews

Adamson, Glenn, ed. Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World . Reviewed by Carolyn Thomas de la Peña 554

Agar, Jon. The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer. Reviewed by Atsushi Akera 787

Ahvenainen, Jorma. The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War. Reviewed by René De La Pedraja 569

Allen, Michael Thad. The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps. Reviewed by Jeffrey Fear 163

Amadae, S. M. Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism. Reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman 139

Arax, Mark, and Rick Wartzman. The King of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire. Reviewed by David Vaught 119

Ashworth, William J. Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640–1845. Reviewed by Michael J. Braddick 571

Banken, Ralf. Die Industrialisierung der Saarregion, 1815–1914. Band 2: Take-Off Phase und Hochindustrialisierung, 1850–1914 [The Industrialization of the Saar Region, 1815–1914. Vol.2: Take-Off Phase and Intensive Industrialization, 1850–1914]. Reviewed by Frank B. Tipton 792

Barnard, John. American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers during the Reuther Years, 1935–1970. Reviewed by Joshua B. Freeman 759

Bender, Daniel E., and Richard A. Greenwald, eds. Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective. Reviewed by Jo Ann E. Argersinger 326

Berkowitz, Edward D. Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security. Reviewed by David Stebenne 546

Boczkowski, Pablo J. Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers. Reviewed by Alex Nalbach 564

Boles, John B., and Bethany L. Johnson, eds. “Origins of the New South” Fifty Years Later: The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic. Reviewed by Bess Beatty 524

Bonin, Hubert. La banque nationale de crédit: Histoire de la quatrième banque de dépôts française en 1913–1932 [The National Credit Bank: History of the Fourth French Deposit Bank, 1913–1932]. Reviewed by Elisabeth Paulet 352

Bonin, Hubert, Yannick Lung, and Steven Tolliday, eds. Ford, 1903–2003: The European History. Reviewed by Tim Whisler 802

Bortz, Jeffrey L., and Stephen Haber, eds. The Mexican Economy, 1870–1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth. Reviewed by William Schell Jr. 178

Brock , Gerald W. The Second Information Revolution. Reviewed by Thomas Haigh 316

Brooks, Tim. Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1919. Reviewed by Brian Ward 741

Brown, Candy Gunther. The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789–1880. Reviewed by Peter J. Wosh 532

Buchenau, Jürgen. Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865–Present. Reviewed by William Schell Jr. 780

Carlson, Linda. Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest. Reviewed by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf 126

Carlton, David, and Peter Coclanis. The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development. Reviewed by Sheldon Hackney 734

Charlip , Julie A. Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930. Reviewed by Renzo Ramírez Bacca 336

Cioc , Mark. The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000. Reviewed by Christoph Bernhardt 356

Clarence-Smith, William Gervase, and Steven Topik, eds. The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500–1989. Reviewed by Cyrus Veeser 153

Cohen, Andrew Wender. The Racketeer’s Progress: Chicago and the struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940. Reviewed by Elliott J. Gorn 738

Colli, Andrea. The History of Family Business, 1850–2000. Reviewed by Giandomenico Piluso 172

Connolly, Michael J. Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England. Reviewed by Vagel C. Keller Jr. 514

Cortada, James W. The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries. Reviewed by Martin Campbell-Kelly 566

Couturier , Edith Boorstein. The Silver King: The Remarkable Life of the Count of Regla in Colonial Mexico. Reviewed by Richard Salvucci 334

Davis , Colin J. Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946–61 . Reviewed by Kenneth Lunn 324

DePastino, Todd. Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America. Reviewed by Elaine S. Abelson 308

Desjardins, Bernard, et al., eds. Le Crédit lyonnais (1863–1986): Etudes historiques [The Crédit Lyonnais (1863–1986): Historical Studies]. Reviewed by Kenneth Mouré 349

Diacon, Todd A. Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of Modern Brazil, 1906–1930. Reviewed by Gail D. Triner 784

Donohue, Kathleen G. Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer. Reviewed by Mary O. Furner 747

Dyer, Davis, Frederick Dalzell, and Rowena Olegario. Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter and Gamble. Reviewed by Peter Miskell 559

Edling, Max M. A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State. Reviewed by Pauline Maier 99

Emmerich, Bettina. Geiz und Gerechtigkeit: Ökonomisches Denken im frühen Mittelalter [Avarice and Justice: Economic Thought in the Early Middle Ages]. Reviewed by Charlotte Masemann 576

Engerman, Stanley L., Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, eds. Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development. Reviewed by Hans-Joachim Voth 331

Farber, David. Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors. Reviewed by Steven Tolliday 137

Fetter , Henry D. Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903–2003. Reviewed by Steven A. Riess 298

Fields , Gary. Territories of Profit: Communications, Capitalist Development, and the Innovative Enterprises of G. F. Swift and Dell Computer. Reviewed by Richard R. Nelson 311

Fine, Lisa M. The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, USA. Reviewed by James M. Rubenstein 757

Finn , Margot C. The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740–1914. Reviewed by Robin Pearson 338

Fischer, Albert. Luftverkehr zwischen Markt und Macht (1919–1937): Lufthansa, Verkehrsflug und der Kampf ums Monopol [Air Transportation between Market and Power: Lufthansa, Aviation and the Struggle for a Monopoly]. Reviewed by Christopher Kopper 161

Freeland, Robert F. The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924–1970. Reviewed by Jeffrey Fear 762

Freudenberger , Herman. Lost Momentum: Austrian Economic Development, 1750s–1830s. Reviewed by Ivan T. Berend 354

Friedman, Walter A. Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. Reviewed by Daniel Pope 562

Gerth , Karl. China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation. Reviewed by Arif Dirlik 373

Gó mez-Ibáñ ez, José A. Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion . Reviewed by Tony A. Freyer 156

Gordon, Colin. Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth Century America . Reviewed by David Rosner 148

Grant, Michael Johnston. Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929–1945. Reviewed by Richard S. Kirkendall 751

Gudmestad, Robert H. A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. Reviewed by David Hickman 522

Gura, Philip F. C. F. Martin and His Guitars, 1796–1873. Reviewed by Timothy B. Spears 292

Hangen , Tona J. Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America. Reviewed by Joy Elizabeth Hayes 302

Hardwick, M. Jeffrey. Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream. Reviewed by Richard Longstreth 142

Helleiner, Eric. The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective. Reviewed by Stephen Mihm 101

Hepp, John Henry IV. The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876–1926. Reviewed by Scott Miltenberger 735

Hessler, Julie. A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917–1953. Reviewed by Thomas C. Owen 589

Higgens-Evenson , R. Rudy. The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation and the American Corporate State, 1877–1929. Reviewed by Ajay K. Mehrotra 305

Holden , Len. Vauxhall Motors and the Luton Economy, 1900–2002. Reviewed by Timothy R. Whisler 346

Jacobs, Meg, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer, eds. The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History. Reviewed by Robin L. Einhorn 289

James, Harold, ed. The Interwar Depression in an International Context. Reviewed by W. R. Garside 329

Johnston, Robert D. The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. Reviewed by Nancy Cohen 131

Joly, Hervé et al., eds. Des Barrages, des usines et des hommes: L’industrialisation des Alpes du Nord entre ressources locales et apports extérieurs [Dams, Factories and Labor: The Industrialization of the Northern Alps with Local Resources and External Support]. Reviewed by Michael P. Hanagan 789

Jones, Janna. The Southern Movie Palace: Rise, Fall, and Resurrection. Reviewed by Tom Hanchett 144

Juárez, José Roberto. Reclaiming Church Wealth: The Recovery of Church Property after Expropriation in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1860–1911. Reviewed by Arnold J. Bauer 777

Karlsch, Rainer, and Raymond Stokes. The Chemistry Must Be Right: The Privatization of Buna Sow Leuna Olefinverbund GmbH, 1990–2000. Reviewed by Kees Gispen 363

Kemp , Kathryn W. God’s Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola. Reviewed by Jocelyn Wills 295

Kirby , Maurice W. Operational Research in War and Peace: The British Experience from the 1930s to 1970. Reviewed by William M. McBride 343

Klassen, Henry C. Eye on the Future: Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870–1900. Reviewed by H. V. Nelles 151

Knerr, Douglass. Suburban Steel: The Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945–1951. Reviewed by Howard R. Stanger 753

Koistinen, Paul A. C. Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940–1945. Reviewed by Mark R. Wilson 729

Köll, Elizabeth. From Cotton Mill to Business Enterprise: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China. Reviewed by Madeleine Zelin 591

König, Mario. Interhandel: Die schweizerische Holding der IG Farben und ihre Metamorphosen–eine Affäre um Eigentum und Interessen, 1910–1999 [Interhandel: The Swiss Holding Company of I. G. Farben and Its Metamorphoses—An Affair of Property and Interests, 1910–1999]. Reviewed by Peter Hayes 795

Lakwete, Angela. Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. Reviewed by John Majewski 520

Lanctot, Neil. Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. Reviewed by Charles C. Alexander 744

Landers, John. The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-industrial West. Reviewed by David Nicholas 578

Lisboa, Manuel. A Indústria Portuguesa e os Seus Dirigentes [The Portuguese Manufacturing Industry and Its Leaders]. Reviewed by Teresa da Silva Lopes 170

Loeb , Carolyn S. Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers’ Subdivisions in the 1920s. Reviewed by Richard Guy Wilson 300

Löffler, Bernhard. Soziale Marktwirtschaft und administrative Praxis. Das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium unter Ludwig Erhard [Social Market Economy and Administrative Practice: The Federal Ministry of Economics under Ludwig Erhard]. Reviewed by Alfred C. Mierzejewski 168

Lorentz, Bernhard, and Paul Erker. Chemie und Politik: Die Geschichte der Chemischen Werke Hüls, 1938–1979 [Chemistry and Politics: The History of Hüls Chemical Works, 1938–1979]. Reviewed by Jeffrey Lewis 586

Lottman, Herbert R. The Michelin Men: Driving an Empire. Reviewed by Stephen L. Harp 581

Lykogiannis , Athanasios. Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944–1947: From Liberation to the Truman Doctrine. Reviewed by Kostas P. Kostis 366

Mahar, Maggie. Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982–1999: What Drove the Breakneck Market—and What Every Investor Needs to Know about Financial Cycles. Reviewed by Maury Klein 104

Mann , Bruce H. Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence . Reviewed by Bruce G. Carruthers 285

Mares, Isabella. The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development. Reviewed by Jan-Otmar Hesse 583

Martin, Reinhold. The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space. Reviewed by Richard Longstreth 557

Matthews, Glenna. Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century. Reviewed by Allison Baker 313

Mattingly, Paul H. Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community . Reviewed by Michael J. Birkner 128

Maza, Sarah. The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750–1850. Reviewed by Cissie Fairchilds 159

Meyer, David R. The Roots of American Industrialization. Reviewed by A. Glenn Crothers 509

Mills, James H. Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition. Reviewed by Alex Mold 341

Mohowski, Robert E. The New York, Susqehanna & Western Railroad. Reviewed by Don L. Hofsommer 531

Mom, Gijs. The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Reviewed by Michael Brian Schiffer 548

Moran, Richard. Executioner’s Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair. Reviewed by Paul Israel 116

Mosley. Stephen. The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester. Reviewed by Matthew Osborn 574

Mullen, Megan. The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States. Reviewed by James A. Von Schilling 146

Newfield, Christopher. Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880–1980. Reviewed by John Servos 767

Olien, Diana Davids, and Roger M. Olien. Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895–1945. Reviewed by Linda B. Hall 121

Pathy, Alexander C. Waterfront Blues: Labour Strife in the Port of Montreal, 1960–1978. Reviewed by Christopher Armstrong 774

de la Pena, Carolyn Thomas. The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American. Reviewed by Karen Halttunen 114

Peskin, Lawrence A. Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. Reviewed by Gary J. Kornblith 512

Rasch, Manfred, and Gerald D. Feldman, eds. August Thyssen und Hugo Stinnes: Ein Briefwechsel, 1898–1912 [August Thyssen and Hugo Stinnes: Correspondence, 1898–1912] . Reviewed by Jeffrey Fear 359

Roberts , William H. Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization. Reviewed by Heather Cox Richardson 111

Rowse , Tim. Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life. Reviewed by Simon Ville 371

Salinger, Sharon V. Taverns and Drinking in Early America. Reviewed by Madelon Powers 106

Sand, Jordan. House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880–1930. Reviewed by Sarah Teasley 811

Saunders, Richard Jr .Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970–2002. Reviewed by John F. Stover 321

Schonfeld, Robert C. JSTOR: A History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.Reviewed by David Morton 772

Sheehan, Brett. Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin. Reviewed by Elisabeth Köll 813

Singer, Jonathan W. Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889–1909. Reviewed by Hugh Gorman 526

Smiley, Gene. Rethinking the Great Depression: A New View of Its Causes and Consequences. Reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn 134

Smith, Andrew Brodie. Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood. Reviewed by Eric Schaefer 551

Spulber , Nicolas. Russia’s Economic Transitions from Late Tsarism to the New Millennium . Reviewed by Peter Gatrell 368

Stockford, Marjorie A. The Bellwomen: The Story of the Landmark AT&T Sex Discrimination Case. Reviewed by Dorothy Sue Cobble 765

Strom, Claire. Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West. Reviewed by Ryan J. Carey 528

Sutcliffe, Andrea. Steam: The Untold Story of America’s First Great Invention. Reviewed by Terry S. Reynolds 731

Tamaki, Norio. Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1835–1901: The Spirit of Enterprise in Modern Japan. Reviewed by Kim Eric Bettcher 809

Tangires, Helen. Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. Reviewed by Paul A. Gilje 287

Tarr, Joel A., ed. Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region. Reviewed by Frank Uekoetter 540

Tebeau, Mark. Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800–1950. Reviewed by Carl Smith 537

Tedlow, Richard S. The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM’s Founding Father and Son. Reviewed by H. W. Brands 535

Teichova, Alice, and Herbert Matis, eds. Nation, State, and the Economy in History. Reviewed by Christopher Kobrak 175

Thackray, Arnold, and Minor Myers Jr. Arnold O. Beckman: One Hundred Years of Excellence. Reviewed by David B. Sicilia 319

Tilly, Richard. Geld und Kredit in der Wirtschaftsgeschichte [Money and Credit in Economic History]. Reviewed by Welf Werner 797

Traub, James. The Devil’s Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square. Reviewed by Robert W. Snyder 507

Tyler, Daniel, foreword by Donald J. Pisani. Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts. Reviewed by Ryan J. Carey 123

Vagelos, Roy, and Louis Galambos. Medicine, Science, and Merck. Reviewed by Arthur Daemmrich 770

de Walle, Nicolas van. African Economics and the Politics of Permanent Crisis. Reviewed by Jennifer Widner 806

Witt, John Fabian. Accidental Republic : Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law. Reviewed by Jennifer Klein 542

Woloson, Wendy A. Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America. Reviewed by Gail Cooper 109

Wrigley, E. A. Poverty, Progress, and Population. Reviewed by Jane Humphries 799

Zakim, Michael. Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860. Reviewed by Wendy Gamber 517

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