Index to Volume 80
Articles
Bakker, Gerben. “The Making of a Music Multinational: PolyGram’s International Businesses, 1945–1998” 81
Berghoff, Hartmut. “The End of Family Business? The Mittelstand and German Capitalism in Transition, 1949–2000” 263
Blaszczyk, Regina Lee. “Styling Synthetics: DuPont’s Marketing of Fabrics and Fashions in Postwar America” 485
Davids, Mila, and Geert Verbong. “Intraorganizational Alignment and Innovation Processes: Philips and Transistor Technology” 657
Fear, Jeffrey, and Christopher Kobrak. “Diverging Paths: Accounting for Corporate Governance in America and Germany” 1
Hansen, Per H. “Narratives, Networks, and New Markets: The Rise and Decline of Danish Modern Furniture Design, 1930–1970” 449
Levinson, Marc. “Container Shipping and the Decline of New York, 1955–1975” 49
Lynskey, Michael J. “The Locus of Corporate Entrepreneurship: Kirin Brewery’s Diversification into Biopharmaceuticals” 689
MacDougall, Robert. “Long Lines: AT&T’s Long-Distance Network as an Organizational and Political Strategy” 297
McCraw, Thomas K. “Schumpeter’s Business Cycles as Business History” 231
Merlo, Elisabetta, and Francesca Polese. “Turning Fashion into Business: The Emergence of Milan as an International Fashion Hub” 415
O’Sullivan, Mary A., “Living with the U.S. Financial System: The Experiences of General Electric and Westinghouse Electric in the Last Century” 621
Research Note
Cloodt, Myriam, John Hagedoorn, and Nadine Roijakkers. “Trends and Patterns in Interfirm R&D Networks in the Global Computer Industry: An Analysis of Major Developments, 1970–1999” 725
Author’s Note
Cortada, James W. “The Digital Hand: How Information Technology Changed the Way Industries Worked in the United States” 755
Special Section:
Books That Made a Difference
Abbott, Andrew. The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. Reviewed by Christopher D. McKenna 141
Bijker, Wiebe E., Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch, editors. The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology, and Nelly Oudshoorn and Trevor Pinch, editors, How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technologies. Reviewed by JoAnne Yates 144
Cockburn, Cynthia. Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change. Reviewed by Katrina Honeyman 147
Douglas, Mary. How Institutions Think. Reviewed by Kenneth Lipartito 135
Granovetter, Mark. “Coase Revisited: Business Groups in the Modern Economy,” in Giovanni Dosi, David J. Teece, and Josef Chytry, editors, Technology, Organization and Competitiveness: Perspectives on Industrial and Corporate Change. Reviewed by Vera Zamagni 159
Hagen, Everett. On the Theory of Social Change: How Economic Growth Begins. Reviewed by Carlos Dávila 131
North, Douglass C. Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. Reviewed by Kurt Jacobsen 151
Sinn, Hans-Werner. Ist Deutschland noch zu retten? [Can Germany Still Be Saved?] Reviewed by Toni Pierenkemper 155
Ueno, Hidenobu. Oware-yuku Kofu-tachi [The Plight of the Chikuho Miners]. Reviewed by Kazuo Wada 157
Review Essays
Bian, Morris L. The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change. A review by Man Bun Kwan 537
De Grazia, Victoria. Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe. A review by Michael French 767
Wilkins, Mira. The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–45. A review by Steven Tolliday 163
Yates, JoAnne. Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century. A review by Paul Miranti 335
Book Reviews
Abelshauser, Werner, translated by David R. Antal. The Dynamics of German Industry: Germany’s Path toward the New Economy and the American Challenge. Reviewed by Gary Herrigel 612
Aiken, Katherine G. Idaho’s Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of a Great Mining Company, 1885–1981. Reviewed by Vagel C. Keller Jr. 550
Anastakis, Dimitry. Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry. Reviewed by Barry E. C. Boothman 801
Angevine, Robert G. The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. Reviewed by Paul C. Jussel 348
Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours. Reviewed by Peter A. Coclanis 171
Baucom, Ian. Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History. Reviewed by W. Fitzhugh Brundage 778
Bjelopera, Jerome P. City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870–1920. Reviewed by Cindy Aron 360
Blaufarb, Rafe. Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815–1835. Reviewed by Benjamin F. Martin 545
Boje, Per. Villum Kann Rasmussen: Inventor and Entrepreneur, 1909–1993. Reviewed by Flemming Just 410
Bowles, Nigel. Nixon’s Business: Authority and Power in Presidential Politics. Reviewed by Dean J. Kotlowski 584
Boyce, Gordon. Over Half a Million Careful Owners: A 75-year History of PSIS, 1928–2003.
Reviewed by David Merrett 412
Bucheli, Marcelo. Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899–2000. Reviewed by María Inés Barbero 198
Buckley, Geoffrey L. Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910–1945. Reviewed by Paul Rakes 351
Carnevali, Francesca. Europe’s Advantage: Banks and Small Firms in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy since 1918. Reviewed by Forrest Capie 610
Cassis, Youssef, and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, editors. Entrepreneurship in Theory and History. Reviewed by Franco Amatori 615
Castleman, Bruce A. Building the King’s Highway: Labor, Society and Family on Mexico’s Caminos Reales, 1757–1804. Reviewed by Sergio Silva-Castañeda 799
Chandler, Alfred D. Jr. Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. Reviewed by John K. Smith Jr. 572
Chandler, Alfred D. Jr., and Bruce Mazlish, editors. Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History. Reviewed by Leslie Hannah 194
Childs, William R. The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century. Reviewed by Andrew W. Foshee 557
Coclanis, Peter A. editor. The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel. Reviewed by Michelle Craig McDonald 780
Cooke, Nola, and Tana Li, editors. Water Frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750–1880. Reviewed by Wei Leng Loh 224
Coopey, Richard, editor. Information Technology Policy: An International History. Reviewed by Margaret B. W. Graham 398
Cortada, James W. The Digital Hand, Volume 2: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries. Reviewed by Atsushi Akera 773
Crowther-Heyck, Hunter. Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reasonin Modern America. Reviewed by Mary O. Furner 190
Delfino, Susanna, and Michele Gillespie, editors. Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South. Reviewed by Stephen A. West 358
Della Paolera, Gerardo, and Alan M. Taylor, editors. A New Economic History of Argentina. Reviewed by Vera Blinn Reber 201
Dublin, Thomas, and Walter Licht. The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century. Reviewed by Perry K. Blatz 555
Ebi, Michael. Export um jeden Preis: Die Deutsche Exportfoerderung von 1932–1938 [Export at Any Price: German Promotion of Exports from 1932–1938]. Reviewed by Adam Tooze 401
Edersheim, Elizabeth Haas. McKinsey’s Marvin Bower: Vision, Leadership and the Creation of Management Consulting. Reviewed by Christopher D. McKenna 381
Edwards, Clive. Turning Houses into Homes: A History of the Retailing and Consumption of Domestic Furnishings. Reviewed by Erika Rappaport 806
Federico, Giovanni. Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800–2000. Reviewed by Andrew Duffin 792
Frank, Alison Fleig. Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia. Reviewed by Holly Case 608
Franz, Kathleen. Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile. Reviewed by Timothy Whisler 370
Fried, Richard M. The Man Everybody Knew: Bruce Barton and the Making of Modern America. Reviewed by Susan V. Spellman 564
Funigiello, Philip J. Chronic Politics: Health Care Security from FDR to George W. Bush.
Reviewed by Rick Mayes 587
Gantman, Ernesto R. Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies. Reviewed by Daniel A. Wren 794
Geiger, Till. Britain and the Economic Problem of the Cold War: The Political Economy and the Economic Impact of the British Defence Effort, 1945–1955. Reviewed by Peter Howlett 811
Gerber, Larry G. The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial Relations Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1914–1939. Reviewed by William R. Childs 346
Gillingham, John. European Integration, 1950–2003: Superstate or New Market Economy? Reviewed by Bruce Kogut 203
Gobat, Michel. Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule. Reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. 598
Gomery, Douglas. The Hollywood Studio System: A History. Reviewed by Eric Schaefer 582
Hanley, Anne. Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850–1920. Reviewed by Zephyr Frank 600
Higman, B. W. Plantation Jamaica, 1750–1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy. Reviewed by Kathleen E. A. Monteith 796
Holl, Richard E. From the Boardroom to the War Room: America’s Corporate Liberals and
FDR’s Preparedness Program. Reviewed by Larry G. Gerber 569
Hornstein, Jeffrey M. A Nation of Realtors: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class. Reviewed by Merry Ovnick 180
Horowitz, Daniel. The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939–1979. Reviewed by Gary Cross 543
Horowitz, Roger. Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation. Reviewed by Timothy B. Spears 562
Höschle, Gerd. Die deutsche Textilindustrie zwischen 1933 und 1939: Staatsinterventionismus und ökonomische Rationalität [The German Textile Industry between 1933 and 1939: Government Intervention and Economic Rationality]. Reviewed by Jonas Scherner 212
Humair, Cédric. Développement économique et état central (1815–1914): Un siècle de politique douanière suisse au service des élites [Economic Development and the Centralized State (1815–1914):A Century of Swiss Customs Policy at the Service of the Elites]. Reviewed by Pierre-Yves Donzé 820
Hyde, Charles K. The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy. Reviewed by James M. Rubenstein 177
Kaplan, Herbert H. Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years, 1806–1816. Reviewed by Priscilla Roberts 605
Kiesewetter, Hubert. Industrielle Revolution in Deutschland: Regionen als Wachstumsmotoren [Industrial Revolutionin Germany: Regions as Motors of Growth]. Reviewed by Frank B. Tipton 217
Kirk, Thomas Allison. Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684. Reviewed by Luisa Piccinno 818
Köhler, Ingo. Die “Arisierung” der Privatbanken im Dritten Reich: Verdrängung, Ausschaltung und die Frage der Wiedergutmachung [The “Aryanization” of Private Banks during the Third Reich: Repression, Exclusion, and the Question of Restitution]. Reviewed by Gerald D. Feldman 404
Landsman, Mark. Dictatorship and Demand: The Politics of Consumerismin East Germany. Reviewed by James C. Van Hook 824
Lause, Mark A. Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community. Reviewed by Michael Green 355
Lécuyer, Christophe. Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–1970. Reviewed by Leslie Berlin 378
Levinson, Marc. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Reviewed by Shane Hamilton 775
Lewis, Robert, editor. Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe. Reviewed by Andrew Wiese 183
Lewis, Tom. The Hudson: A History. Reviewed by Evan Cornog 783
Luu, Lien Bich. Immigrants and the Industries of London, 1500–1700. Reviewed by Beverly Lemire 602
Maines, Rachel. Asbestos and Fire: Technological Trade-offs and the Body at Risk. Reviewed by Dalit Baranoff 188
Maney, Kevin. The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr., and the Making of IBM. Reviewed by Nathan Ensmenger 376
McCabe, Ina Baghdiantz, Gelina Harlaftis, and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, editors. Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History. Reviewed by Claude Markovits 391
McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston. Working Women in English Society, 1300–1620. Reviewed by Katherine L. French 386
McTavish, Duncan. Business and Public Management in the U.K., 1900–2003. Reviewed by Robert Millward 809
Meikle, Jeffrey L. Design in the USA. Reviewed by Merritt Roe Smith 579
Millward, Robert. Private and Public Enterprise in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830–1990. Reviewed by Jim Tomlinson 396
Mittelstadt, Jennifer. From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945–1965. Reviewed by Rhonda Y. Williams 343
Moreno, Julio. Yankee Don’t Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920–1950. Reviewed by Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato 195
Morgan, Chad. Planters’ Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia. Reviewed by Joseph P. Reidy 548
Mulcahy, Matthew. Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783. Reviewed by James Alexander Dun 592
Murray, James M. Bruges, Cradle of Capitalism, 1280–1390. Reviewed by Kathryn Reyerson 813
Norberg, Arthur L. Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946–1957. Reviewed by Thomas Haigh 574
Nordin, Dennis S., and Roy V. Scott. From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture. Reviewed by Claire Strom 353
Orsi, Richard J. Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850–1930. Reviewed by Don L. Hofsommer 176
Parmet, Robert D. The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement. Reviewed by Nancy L. Green 787
Perez, Karni R. Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama’s Catfish Industry. Reviewed by Robert S. Davis 577
Revell, Keith D. Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898–1938. Reviewed by Clifton Hood 364
Rieger, Bernhard. Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890–1945. Reviewed by Michael Thad Allen 207
Rosen, Elliot A. Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery. Reviewed by Jason Scott Smith 567
Satre, Lowell J. Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business. Reviewed by Gail Cooper 388
Schorman, Rob. Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century. Reviewed by Regina Lee Blaszczyk 383
Segal, Howard. Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford’s Village Industries. Reviewed by Judith Sealander 373
Shammas, Carole, and Elizabeth Mancke, editors. The Creation of the British Atlantic World. Reviewed by Matthew Mulcahy 173
Sluyterman, Keetie E. Dutch Enterprise in the Twentieth Century: Business Strategies in a Small Open Economy. Reviewed by Mira Wilkins 407
Smith, Frederick H. Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History. Reviewed by David B. Ryden 595
Smith, Jason Scott. Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956. Reviewed by Ellis W. Hawley 341
Spears, Timothy B. Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871–1919. Reviewed by Timothy J. Gilfoyle 362
Sperber, Jonathan. Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany, 1820–1914. Reviewed by Mark Spoerer 823
Summerhill, Thomas. Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth-Century New York. Reviewed by Martin Bruegel 367
Sutton, Anne F. The Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People, 1130–1578. Reviewed by Richard Goddard 804
Tagliacozzo, Eric. Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865–1915. Reviewed by Priscilla Roberts 227
Tignor, Robert L. W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics. Reviewed by Ranald Michie 617
Toniolo, Gianni, with the assistance of Piet Clement. Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements, 1930–1973. Reviewed by James M. Boughton 393
Troy, Nancy J. Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion. Reviewed by Regina Lee Blaszczyk 383
Turner, Henry Ashby Jr. General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe’s Biggest Carmaker. Reviewed by S. Jonathan Wiesen 210
Vargas, Zaragosa. Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America. Reviewed by Clete Daniel 185
Vecchio, Diane C. Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America. Reviewed by Hasia Diner 785
Wada, Kazuo, and Tsunehiko Yui, translated by Edmund R. Skrzypcak. Courage and Change: The Life of Kiichiro Toyoda. Reviewed by David Farber 219
Waterman, David. Hollywood’s Road to Riches. Reviewed by Douglas Gomery 790
Weinberg, Carl R. Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I. Reviewed by John H. M. Laslett 553
Welch, Evelyn. Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400–1600. Reviewed by Francesca Polese 816
Wischermann, Clemens, and Anne Nieberding. Die institutionelle Revolution: Eine Einführung in die deutsche Wirtschaftsgeschichte des 19 und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts [The Institutional Revolution: An Introduction to German Economic History in the Nineteenth andEarly Twentieth Centuries]. Reviewed by Werner Plumpe 215
Witwer, David. Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union. Reviewed by Aaron Max Berkowitz 560
Wong, John Chi-Kit. Lords of the Rinks: The Emergence of the National Hockey League, 1875–1936. Reviewed by Steven Riess 590
Wu, Yongping. A Political Explanation of Economic Growth: State Survival, Bureaucratic Politics, and Private Enterprises in the Making of Taiwan’s Economy, 1950–1985. Reviewed by J. Megan Greene 222
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