Index to Volume 81

Articles

Andersson-Skog, Lena, “In the Shadow of the Swedish Welfare State: Women and the Service Sector” 451

Austin, Gareth, and Chibuike Ugochukwu Uche, “Collusion and Competition in Colonial Economies:Banking in British West Africa, 1916–1960” 1

Campbell-Kelly, Martin, and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz, “From Products to Services: The Software Industry in the Internet Era” 735

Decker, Stephanie, “Corporate Legitimacy and Advertising: British Companies and the Rhetoric of Development in West Africa, 1950–1970” 59

Delton, Jennifer, “Before the EEOC: How Management Integrated the Workplace” 269

van Driel, Hugo, and Greta Devos, “Path Dependence in Ports: The Persistence of Cooperative Forms” 681

Gálvez Muñoz, Lina, and Paloma Fernández Pérez, “Female Entrepreneurship in Spain during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” 495

Harlaftis, Gelina, “From Diaspora Traders to Shipping Tycoons:The Vagliano Bros.” 237

Honeyman, Katrina, “Doing Business with Gender:Service Industries and BritishBusiness History” 471

Kwolek-Folland, Angel, “Gender, the Service Sector, and U.S. Business History” 429

Kwolek-Folland, Angel, and Margaret Walsh, “Women in the Service Industries: National Perspectives” 421

Lees, Lynn Hollen, “International Management in a Free-Standing Company: The Penang Sugar Estates, Ltd., and the Malayan Sugar Industry, 1851–1914” 27

Lopes, Teresa da Silva, and Mark Casson, “Entrepreneurship and the Development of Global Brands” 651

Merrett, David, “Sugar and Copper: Postcolonial Experiences of Australian Multinationals” 213

Minoglou, Ioanna Pepelasis, “Women and Family Capitalism in Greece, c.1780–1940” 517

Sogner, Knut, “The Fall and Rise of the Norwegian IT Industry in the Global Age, 1970–2005” 709

Ville, Simon, “Rent Seeking or Market Strengthening? Industry Associations in New Zealand Wool Broking” 297

 

Tributes to Alfred D. Chandler Jr., 1918–2007 23

Literature Reviews

Tignor, Robert L., “The Business Firm in Africa” 87

Walsh,Margaret, “Gender in the History of Transportation Services” 545

Special Section:
Books That Made a Difference

Chandler, Alfred D. Jr., Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino, editors. Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. Reviewed by Nuria Puig 132

Drucker, Peter. Concept of the Corporation. Reviewed by Wyatt Wells 142

Howells, William Dean. The Rise of Silas Lapham. Reviewed by Pamela Walker Laird 125

Jones, Geoffrey G., and Ingrid Vargas. “Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire.” Reviewed by Matthias Kipping 122

Kwolek-Folland, Angel. Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870–1930. Reviewed by Susan Strasser 119

McCraw, Thomas K., editor. Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions. Reviewed by Mansel G. Blackford 140

Spufford, Peter. Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe. Reviewed by Margaret Graham 129

Utterback, James. Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation: How Companies Can Seize Opportunities in the Face of Technological Change. Reviewed by Mike Parsons and Mary B. Rose 138

Walker, Juliet E. K. The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship. Reviewed by Maceo Crenshaw Dailey Jr. 135

Review Essays

Lichtenstein, Nelson, editor. American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century. A review by Michael French 563

McCraw, Thomas K. Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. A review by Richard M. Abrams 777

Review Essays

American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein. Reviewed by Michael French.

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. By Thomas K. McCraw. Reviewed by Richard M. Abrams

Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Abrams, Richard M. America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941–2001. Reviewed by Howard Brick 175

Adas, Michael. Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America’s Civilizing Mission. Reviewed by Robert W. Rydell 800

Aldrich, Mark. Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828–1965. Reviewed by Marc J. Stern 151

Amenta, Edwin. When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security. Reviewed by W. Elliot Brownlee 805

Andersen, Steen. De gjorde Danmark større … De multinationale danske entreprenørfirmaer i krise og krig 1919–1947 [They Made Denmark Larger, but Did They Make Her Greater? Danish Construction Companies in Crisis and in War, 1919–1947]. Reviewed by Knud Knudsen 639

Bao, Xiaolan. Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948–92. Reviewed by Yong Chen 601

Baughman, James H. Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948–1961. Reviewed by Daniel Horowitz 814

Billington, David P., and Donald C. Jackson. Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics. Reviewed by Michael R. Adamson 593

Blake, Angela M. How New York Became American, 1890–1924. Reviewed by Daniel Levinson Wilk 162

Blaszczyk, Regina Lee, and Philip B. Scranton, editors. Major Problems in American Business History: Documents and Essays. Reviewed by Leslie Hannah 783

Bonin, Hubert, and Christophe Lastécouères, editors. Les Banques du Grand Sud Ouest: Système bancaire et gestion des risques (des années 1900 à nos jours) [The Banks of the Grand South-West: The Banking System and Risk Management from 1900 to the Present]. Reviewed by Elisabeth Paulet 844

Bratt, Duane. The Politics of CANDU Exports. Reviewed by Barry E. C. Boothman 13

Cassis, Youssef, translated by Jacqueline Collier. Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780–2005. Reviewed by Forrest Capie 825

Castronovo, Valerio, editor. Storia della Pininfarina, 1930–2005: Un’industria italiana nel mondo [A History of Pininfarina, 1930–2005: A Global Italian Industry]. Reviewed by Andrea E. Goldstein 401

Chan, Kai Yiu. Business Expansion and Structural Change in Pre-War China: Liu Hongsheng and His Enterprises, 1920–1937. Reviewed by Morris L. Bian 642

Ciriacono, Salvatore, translated by Jeremy Scott. Building on Water: Venice, Holland and the Construction of the European Landscape in Early Modern Times. Reviewed by Mark Cioc 386

Clarke, Sally H. Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market. Reviewed by Gary Cross 809

Cochran, Sherman. Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia. Reviewed by Adam McKeown 644

Cowan, Bryan. The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse. Reviewed by Michelle Craig McDonald 191

Dávila L. de Guevara, Carlos, editor. Empresas y empresarios en la historia de Colombia. Siglos xix–xx: Una colecciónde estudios recientes. [Firms and Entrepreneurs in the History of Colombia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Collection of Recent Studies]. 2 vols. Reviewed by John Womack Jr. 180

Dawson, Carol, and Carol Johnston. House of Plenty: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Luby’s Cafeterias. Reviewed by Peter M. Birkeland 363

Denis, Varaschin, editor. Les entreprises du secteur de l’énergie sous l’Occupation [The Energy Sector during the Occupation]. Reviewed by Kim Oosterlinck 391

Derry, Margaret E. Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800–1920. Reviewed by Warren M. Elofson 371

Dolin, Eric Jay. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. Reviewed by Joshua M. Smith 798

Dore, Elizabeth. Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua. Reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. 378

Downey, Tom. Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790–1860. Reviewed by Stephen A. West 147

Edgerton, David. Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970. Reviewed by Alan Booth 621

Eichengreen, Barry. The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond. Reviewed by Michael S. Smith 827

Eichengreen, Barry. Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods: The Cairoli Lectures. Reviewed by Rawi Abdelal 346

Emmer, P. C., translated by Chris Emery. The Dutch Slave Trade, 1500–1850. Reviewed by Karel Davids 837

Feurer, Rosemary. Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900–1950. Reviewed by Tami J. Friedman 159

Fogelson, Robert M. Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930. Reviewed by Kenneth T. Jackson 808

Foley, Duncan K. Adam’s Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology. Reviewed by Keith Tribe 616

Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth. Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio. Reviewed by Douglas Craig 360

Frager Ruth A., and Carmela K. Patrias. Discounted Labour: Women Workers in Canada, 1870–1939. Reviewed by Carmen Nielson 611

Franch, John. Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. Reviewed by Perry R. Duis 157

Gamber, Wendy. The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America. Reviewed by Timothy B. Spears 793

Garin, Kristoffer A. Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns that Built America’s Cruise-Ship Empires. Reviewed by Ferry de Goey 606

Gillard, Lucien. La Banque d’Amsterdam et le florin européen au temps de la République néerlandaise (1610–1820) [The Bank of Amsterdam and the European Florin under the Dutch Republic (1610–1820)]. Reviewed by Joël Félix 631

Grant, H. Roger. Rails Through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad. Reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams 584

Green, Adam. Selling the Race: Culture, Community,and Black Chicago, 1940–1955. Reviewed by Robert E. Weems Jr. 599

Guillén, Mauro F. The Rise of Spanish Multinationals: European Business in the Global Economy. Reviewed by Núria Puig 628

Guillén, Mauro F. The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture. Reviewed by Per Hansen 404

Hamilton, Gary G. Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies. Reviewed by Parks Coble 409

Hansen, Per H. Da danske møbler blev moderne: Historien om dansk møbeldesigns storhedstid [Danish Modern: A History of the Golden Age of Danish Furniture Design]. Reviewed by Jan Pedersen 201

Henkin, David M. The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America. Reviewed by Robert MacDougall 571

Henthorn, Cynthia Lee. From Submarines to Suburbs: Selling a Better America, 1939–1959. Reviewed by Lisa Jacobson 812

Higgs, Robert. Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy. Reviewed by Elliot A. Rosen 357

Horn, Jeff. The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1830. Reviewed by Paul Spagnoli 841

Howard, Vicki. Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition. Reviewed by Katherine Jellison 366

Hurtado, Albert. John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier . Reviewed by Ryan J. Carey 154

Jacoby, Sanford M. The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. Reviewed by Takeo Hoshi 414

Joly, Hervé, editor. Les archives des entreprises sous l’Occupation: Conservation, accessibilité et apport [The Archives of Companies under the (German) Occupation: Conservation, Accessibility and Contribution]. Reviewed by Florence Hachez-Leroy 199

Kersten, Andrew E. Labor’s Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II. Reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky 596

Klautke, Egbert. Unbegrenzte Möglichkeiten: "Amerikanisierung" in Deutschland und Frankreich (1900–1933) [Infinite Possibilities: "Americanization" in Germany and France (1900–1933)]. Reviewed by Jeffrey Fear 396

Laird, Pamela Walker. Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin. Reviewed by Kathy Peiss 172

Landes, David S. Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World’s Greatest Business Families. Reviewed by Harold James   196

Lawson, Alan. A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis. Reviewed by Jason Scott Smith 591

Leidenberger, Georg. Chicago ’s Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars. Reviewed by Richard R. John 795

Lesger, Clé, translated by J. C. Grayson. The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange: Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, c.1550–1630. Reviewed by Hugo van Driel 383

Lloyd-Jones, Roger, and M. J. Lewis. Alfred Herbert Ltd. and the British Machine Tool Industry, 1887–1983 . Reviewed by Roberto Mazzoleni 834

Locke, Robert R., and Katja Schöne. The Entrepreneurial Shift: Americanization in European High-Technology Management Education. Reviewed by Susanne Hilger 626

Mahar, Karen Ward. Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood. Reviewed by Pennee Bender 588

Marcel, Valerie, with John V. Mitchell, contributor. Oil Titans: National Oil Companies in the Middle East. Reviewed by Relli Schechter 406

McCloskey, Deirdre N.  The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. Reviewed by Charles Tilly 188

McGovern, Charles. Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890–1945. Reviewed by Kimberly Phillips-Fein 341

McKenna, Christopher D. The World’s Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century. Reviewed by Neil Fligstein 178

Metzler, Mark. Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. Reviewed by Robert G. Kane 411

Meyer, David R. Networked Machinists: High Technology Industries in Antebellum America. Reviewed by John K. Brown 788

Michie, Ranald C. The Global Securities Market: A History. Reviewed by Priscilla Roberts 822

Milkman, Ruth. L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement. Reviewed by Josh Sides 368

Miller, Laura J. Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption. Reviewed by Michael Winship 170

Milne, Graeme J. North East England, 1850–1914: The Dynamics of a Maritime-Industrial Region. Reviewed by Maurice Kirby 619

Mirowski, Philip. The Effortless Economy of Science? Reviewed by Theodore M. Porter 608

Morrison, Alan D., and William J. Wilhelm Jr. Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law. Reviewed by Ranald Michie 802

Münzel, Martin. Die jüdischen Mitglieder der deutschen Wirtschaftselite, 1927–1955: Verdraenung—Emigration—Rueckkehr [Jewish Members of the German Business Elite, 1927–1955: Expulsion—Emigration—Remigration]. Reviewed by Dieter Ziegler 846

Nadau, Thierry. Itinéraires marchands du goût moderne: Produits alimentaires et modernisation rurale en France et en Allemagne (1870–1940) [Merchant Routes to Modern Taste: Food Products and Rural Modernization in France and Germany (1870–1940)]. Reviewed by Kolleen M. Guy 388

Offer, Avner. The Challenge of Affluence: Self Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950. Reviewed by Charles Kenny 343

Olegario, Rowena. A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business. Reviewed by Mark R. Wilson 573

Pennock, Pamela E. Advertising Sin and Sickness: The Politics of Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing, 1950–1990. Reviewed by Inger L. Stole 817

Pilcher, Jeffrey M. The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890–1917. Reviewed by William Schell Jr. 375

Prindle, David. The Paradox of Democratic Capitalism: Politics and Economics in American Thought. Reviewed by Mary Furne 578

Renehan, Edward J. Jr. Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons. Reviewed by Maury Klein 355

Riello, Giorgio. A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century. Reviewed by Michael Zakim 194

Rowen, Henry S., Marguerite Gong Hancock, and William F. Miller, editors. Making IT: The Rise of Asia in High Tech. Reviewed by Mark Fruin 851

Rudy, Jarrett. The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and Identity. Reviewed by Barbara Hahn 373

Sexton, Jay. Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837–1873.             Reviewed by Mark Wilson 149

Shannon, Brent. The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860–1914. Reviewed by Elisabetta Merlo 830

Silber, William L. When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America’s Monetary Supremacy. Reviewed by Maury Klein 586

Singleton, John, with Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke, and Frank Holmes. Innovation + Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1973–2002. Reviewed by Gordon Boyce 204

Smith, Joshua M. Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783–1820. Reviewed by Andrew Wender Cohen 785

Smith, Michael Stephen. The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800–1930. Reviewed by Ludovic Cailluet 393

Steiner, Kilian J. L. Ortsempfänger, Volksfernseher und Optaphon: Die Entwicklung der deutschen Radio- und Fernsehindustrie und das Unternehmen Loewe, 1923–1962 Ortsempfänger," Volksfernseher," and "Optaphon": The Development of German Radio and Television Industry and the Loewe Company, 1923–1962]. Reviewed by Peter Jelavich 637

Stole, Inger L. Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s. Reviewed by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf 167

Tanimoto, Masayuki, editor. The Role of Tradition in Japan’s Industrialization: Another Path to Industrialization. Reviewed by David G. Wittner 647

Thamm, Imke. Der Anspruch auf das Glück des Tüchtigen: Beruf, Organisation und Selbstverständnis der Bankangestellten in der Weimarer Republik [A Claim on "Fortune Favors the Bold&rquo;: Business, Organization and Self-Conception of Bank Employees in the Weimar Republic]. Reviewed by Ingo Köhler 633

Thiesen, William H. Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820–1920. Reviewed by Thomas A. Kinney 352

Thistle, Susan. From Marriage to Market: The Transformation of Women’s Lives and Work. Reviewed by Miriam Cohen 603

Thorsheim, Peter. Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800. Reviewed by Hugh Gorman 832

Topik, Steven, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, editors. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000. Reviewed by Victor Bulmer-Thomas 183

Troesken, Werner. The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster. Reviewed by Mark Aldrich 581

Valenze, Deborah. The Social Life of Money in the English Past. Reviewed by Woodruff D. Smith 380

Van Dyke, Paul A. The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700–1845. Reviewed by Madeleine Zelin 207

Vaught, David. After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley. Reviewed by Ryan J. Carey 790

Vitalis, Robert. America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier. Reviewed by Steffen Hertog 853

van der Vleuten, Erik, and Arne Kaijser, editors. Networking Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Shaping of Europe, 1850–2000. Reviewed by Christian Stadler 623

Warsh, David. Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery. Reviewed by Michael A. Bernstein 185

Watts, Sydney. Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics, and Market Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Reviewed by Kolleen M. Guy 839

Whitten, David O., and Bessie E. Whitten. The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860–1914. Reviewed by Marcelo Bucheli 576

Wilson, Mark R. The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865. Reviewed by Michael S. Green 569

Wright, Robert E., and David J. Cowen. Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich. Reviewed by Andrew Shankman 349

Young-Iob, Chung. Korea Under Siege, 1876–1945: Capital Formation and Economic Transformation. Reviewed by Dennis McNamara 417

Zaloom, Caitlin. Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London. Reviewed by Paul J. Miranti 820

Zan, Luca, Franco Rossi, and Stefano Zambon. Il "discorso del maneggio": Pratiche gestionali e contabili all’Arsenale di Venezia, 1580–1643 [The “Discourse on Management”: Accounting and Managerial Practices at Venice’s State Shipyard, 1580–1643]. Reviewed by PierAngelo Toninelli 399

Zelin, Madeleine. The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. Reviewed by Christopher A. Reed 209

Zeller, Thomas. Driving Germany: The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930–1970. Reviewed by Christopher Kopper 849

Zimmerman, David A. Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction. Reviewed by Janice M. Traflet 164