Business History Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Business History Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600–1870. By Daniel R. Mandell. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 314 pp. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-3711-815
Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union. By David K. Thomson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 288 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, b10
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Equality of Agriculture: Robert L. Owen, Country Banks, and the Populist’s Federal Reserve7
A History of the Aviation Industry in Latin America: Nationalism, Developmentalism and Neoliberalism in Chile. By Diego Barría Traverso. New York & L6
The World War II US Rubber Famine5
Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier. By Bogdan G. Popescu. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024.5
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Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931. By A. G. Hopkins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 576 pp. Hardcover, 4
Atlas of Finance—Mapping the Global Story of Money. By Dariusz Wójcik, Panagiotis Iliopoulos, Stefanos Ioannou, Liam Keenan, Julien Migozzi, Timothy Monteath, Vladimir Pazitka, Morag Torrance, and Mic4
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From Sugar to Shop: the Organic Rise of Indian Shopkeepers in Colonial Trinidad3
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Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain. By Amy Edwards. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. 364 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN: 9780520385467.3
Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism. By Danielle Wiggins. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. 312 p2
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Leisure Jobs: Recreating Family and Social Life in Canadian Electric Utility Marketing, 1920–19702
Reconsidering the Commercial Revolution2
Bulls, Bears, Boers and Brits: Finance and the Coming of War in Southern Africa, 1894–1899. By Ian Phimister. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2025. 189 pp. P2
Competing Projects in Global Governance2
Contested Cards and Banking Competition in the 1970s–1980s: From Exclusivity to Globalization in Spain and Europe2
Ruins to Riches: The Economic Resurgence of Germany and Japan after 1945. By Raymond G. Stokes. Cambridge University Press, 2024. 345 pp. Hardback $39.992
Finding El Dorado: The Rise and Fall of the Jenks Business Group in Colombia, 1899–19292
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China’s Outward Investment in Europe during the “Go Out” Policy Years: Trends, Drivers, and Strategies in the Automotive Industry, 2000–20182
Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London. By Lee Jackson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 288 pp. Hardcover, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-2
The Spread of the Modern Central Bank and Global Cooperation, 1919–1939. Edited by Barry Eichengreen and Andreas Kakridis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xx + 422 pp. Paperback, $34.99. 2
Making Sense of the 1931 Financial Crisis and the Great Depression1
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Tiny Engines of Abundance: A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression. By Jim Handy. Black Point, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 2022. 160 pp. P1
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Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling. By Ryan Tucker Jones. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 304 pp + 30 hf. Hardcover $30.1
Trading Power: West Germany’s Rise to Global Influence, 1963-1975. By William Glenn Gray. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 498 pp. Hardback, $44.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-34119-6.1
Capitalism and the Senses. Edited by Regina Lee Blaszczyk and David Suisman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 312 pp., 21 b/w images. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN: 978-1-5128-241
Profiting from Slavery and Emancipation: Compensation, Capital, and Collateral in Nineteenth-Century Senegal1
Karl Brunner and Monetarism. Edited by Thomas Moser and Marcel Savioz. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022. 384 pp. Hardback, $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-04738-5.1
Governing Global Capitalism: A Lawyer's Perspective1
A State of Supervision: The Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Germany, 1900s–1930s1
From Oil Nation to Wind Power Nation? An Exploration of Norway’s Turn to Offshore Wind Power, 1998–20241
Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations. By Matt Garcia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,1
Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech. By Lee McGuigan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 348 pp., 6 × 9 in, 9 b&w illus. Paperback, $50.00. ISBN: 1
Private Tools for Political Goals: The European Currency Unit Private Market and the Making of Economic and Monetary Union in the 1980s1
Making an Industrial Revolution: Skill, Knowledge, Community and Innovation. By Gillian Cookson. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2025. 264 pp. 14 B/W illustrations, 1 map. Hardcover, £95.00. ISBN: 978-1
Norway’s Pharmaceutical Revolution: Pursuing and Accomplishing Innovation in Nyegaard & Co., 1945–1997. By Knut Sogner. Oxford: Oxford University Pre0
The Prince of Slavers: Humphry Morice and the Transformation of Britain’s Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1698–1732. By Matthew David Mitchell. Switzerland: P0
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One Day I’ll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America. By Benjamin C. Waterhouse . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. 274 p0
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The Postwar Economic Order: National Reconstruction and International Cooperation. By Albert O. Hirschman, ed. Michele Alacevich and Pier Francesco Asso. New York: Columbia Univer0
Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession. By Ann Mari May . New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 256 pp. Hardcover, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-1920
The Young Fed: The Banking Crises of the 1920s and the Making of a Lender of Last Resort. By Mark Carlson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. xi0
Business Lobbying in the European Union. By David Coen , Alexander Katsaitis , and Matia Vannoni . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 221 pp. Hardcover, £96.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-9589750
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Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean. By Erin Woodruff Stone. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 288 pp. Hardcover, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-530
Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State. By Claire Dunning Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 336 pp. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-81990-7.0
Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic. By Joseph P. Slaughter. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 400 pp. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-19111-1.0
The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are. ByDavid M. Henkin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. 288 pp. + 8 b-w illus. Hardcover, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-250
Financial Politics in the United States in the 1890s: The Golden Web. By Wyatt Wells. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. xii + 330 pp. ISBN 978-3-03-186760
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Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia by Sven Kalmring. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 304 pp. Digital access $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-000
Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India. By Aditya Balasubramanian. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 3520
British CEOs in the Twentieth Century: Aristocratic Amateurs to Fat Cats?0
Development, Inc.? The EEC, Britain, Post-Colonial Overseas Development Aid, and Business0
Ireland’s Role in British Colonial Capitalism: “Men of Capitals” and Pitt’s Irish Proposals, 1784–17850
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The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage. By John Harris. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 312 pp. Illustrations, maps. Paperback, $22.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26149-30
Remembering Shakila Yacob (1962–2025)0
A Guide to the History of Industrial Slavery in the United States0
Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas. By Amy Offner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xv + 381 pp. Figures, notes, in0
Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Dale W. Tomich, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, and C0
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America. By Margot Canaday. Princeton, New Jersey, United States: Princeton University Press, 2023. 312 pp. Ha0
Swansea Copper: A Global History. By Chris Evans and Louise Miskell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 242 pp. Hardcover, $57.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-3911-2.0
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The Art of Distrust: Governance in Long-Distance Trade and the Making of Impersonal Power, 1400–18000
A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan. By Timothy M. Yang. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Notes, references, index. Cloth, $54.95. 354 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5017-50
The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750–1850. By David Gwyn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 416 pp. 32 color illustrations, 30 B/W0
Sovereign Skies: The Origins of American Civil Aviation Policy. By Sean Seyer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. 312 pp. + 15 b&w illu0
Managing the Police Workforce: Sickness and Pensions in the Metropolitan Police in Late Nineteenth-Century London0
An Introduction to Thoughts of Elites on Currency and Finance in Imperial China [传统中国货币金融思想导论]. By Ping He. Beijing: China Financial Publishing House, 200
The Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business. Edited by Pierre-Yves Donzé, Véronique Pouillard, and Joanne Roberts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xii + 634 pp. Illustrations, figures, index.0
High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape. By Marc Masters. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 224 pp. Paperback, $200
Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and Its Abolition. By David Richardson. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2022. 384 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $38.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-20
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Financial Liberalization and Economic Development in Korea, 1980–2020. By Yung Chul Park, Joon Kyung Kim, and Hail Park. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Universit0
The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem. By Kristin A. Wintersteen. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 246 pp. Hardcover, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0
Slave Ownership in the Western World0
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic. By Jennifer Morgan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 296p. Cloth, $107.95. ISBN: 978-1-4780-1323-5.0
Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America. By Andrew C. McKevitt. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 336 pp. Paperback, $24.95. ISBN: 978-1-40
Business-Government Networks in Small States: The Emergence and Evolution of the Luxembourg Global Mutual Fund Industry, 1945–19880
Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present. By Pierre-Yves Donzé and Julia S. Yongue. Oxford Un0
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Capitalism in Chaos: How the Business Elites in Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War. By Máté Rigó. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 0
The Behavioral Economics of Inflation Expectations: Macroeconomics Meets Psychology. By Tobias F. Rötheli. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 243 pp. Illustrations, references, index. 0
Liberty, Solidarity and Community: Capitalism and European Integration, 1945 to the Present. By Laurent Warlouzet . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026. 404 pp. Paperback, $35.00, ISBN: 970
Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric. By Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. 384 pp. Paperback, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-358-25041-8. The Man Who Br0
Business Accounting at Fengshengtai in Late Imperial China: Is There New Evidence of Double-Entry Bookkeeping?0
Paths of Fire, The Gun and the World It Made. By Andrew Nahum. London: Reaktion Books, Ltd, 2021. 253 pp. Hardcover, £25. ISBN: 978-1-78914-397-3.0
The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment. By Charly Coleman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. xi + 376 pp0
The Problem of Sustaining a Successful Enterprise: Kodak’s Multiple Takes at Strategic Renewal that Culminated in Failure0
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Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America. By Rachel S. Gross. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. 284 pp.+20
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The Roots of Portuguese Domination over the Transatlantic Slave Trade0
Capital of Mind: The Idea of a Modern American University. By Adam R. Nelson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. 408 pp. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-82920-3.0
J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Crisis of Capitalism: From the Wall Street Crash to World War II. By Martin Horn. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 406 pp., bibl., index. Cloth, $0
The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945. By Alistair Kefford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 340 pp. Online Access0
Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy & Culture in Early Modern China. By He Bian. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 246 pp., appendices, Chinese character glossary, notes, bibliograp0
Liberal Environmentalism: The Public-Private Production of European Emissions Standards0
England’s Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century. By John Tolan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 264 pp. + 9 b/w illus. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 0
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The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960–1990. By Allison Elias. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 312 pp. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-18075-7.0
Slavery, Coercion, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa0
Political Capitalism0
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Assessing the Costs and Benefits of King Coal0
A Mercantilist Brand: The British East India Company and Madeira Wine, 1756–18340
Buying into Change: Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco's Spain, 1939–1982. By Alejandro J. Gómez del Moral. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 366 pp., 9 ph0
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Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda. By Vanessa S. Oliveira. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. xii + 173 pp., figures, maps, tables, g0
American Patent Law: A Business and Economic History. By Robert P. Merges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 450 pp. Paperback, $48.00. ISBN: 0
The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade. By Simone M. Müller. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2023. 266 pp. Paperback, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-295-75183-0
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Borrowing without Banks: Deposit-Taking by Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Firms (1920s–1930s)0
Unfreedom and Slavery Under Sail: Intercolonial Trade in the British Atlantic, 1698–17660
Flemish Textile Workers in England, 1331–1400: Immigration, Integration and Economic Development. By Milan Pajic. Cambridge University Press, 2023. xvii + 368 pp. $130 hardback. ISBN: 978-1-108-77421-0
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The Rise of Minimill Steel Producers in Italy and Spain, 1950–19900
Continuity and Change in Turkey’s Largest Industrial Enterprises, 1970–20100
White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation. By Naa Oyo A. Kwate. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 472 pp. 80 b/w illus. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN: 0
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Radical Mercantilism and Fascist Italy’s East African Empire0
Housewives and the Growth of the Japanese Electrical Appliance Industry, 1950–19900
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. By Alexander C Karp and Nicholas W Zamiska. New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2025. xii + 220 pp. Figures, preface, not0
Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization. By Harold James. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. 376 pp., 16 b-w illus. Hardcover, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-30-026339-80
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Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa. By Holger Droessler. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 304 pp. Photographs, maps. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-26333-0
In the Zone: On Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism and the Spaces of Political Economy0
The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past. By Mike Savage. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 448 pp. Hardcover, $37.00. ISBN. 978-0-674-98807-1.0
Pioneering the Circular Economy: Small and Medium-Sized Recycling Enterprises in Finland, 1945–19950
The Making of a Status Symbol: A Business History of Rolex. By Pierre-Yves Donzé. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025. 272 pp. Hardcover, £85.00
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Captivity's Commerce: The Theory and Methodology of Slaving and Capitalism0
Reflection: Firms, Rules, and Global Capitalism0
The Raging Erie: Life and Labor along the Erie Canal. By Mark S. Ferrara. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 259 pp. Paperback, $24.00. ISBN: 9780
Russia’s Way of Building Mega Projects0
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Governing Global Tax Dodgers: The “Group of Four” and the Taxation of Multinational Corporations, 1970s–1980s0
Plowshares into Swords: Weaponized Knowledge, Liberal Order, and the League of Nations. By David Ekbladh. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 320 pp., 22 halftones. Cloth, $40.00. I0
Translating Emergent Technologies into Novel Therapeutics: Tracing Complementarity and Co-evolution in the Cambridge–Boston Innovation Ecosystem – CORRIGENDUM0
Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London. By Laura Gowing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 275 pp. Bibliography, index. Hardcover, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-0
Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools. By Christopher Willoughby. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 282 pp., 9 halftones, notes, bibl., inde0
A History of Business Cartels: International Politics, National Policies and Anti-Competitive Behaviour. Edited by Martin Shanahan and Susanna Fellman. New York: Routledge 2022. 344 pp.,0
The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province. By Ümit Kurt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 400 pp. Photographs, maps, tables. Hardcover, $46.00. ISB0
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Hospital City, Health Care Nation: Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care. By Guian A. McKee. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania 0
New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy. By Brian P. Owensby. Stanford University Press, 2021. 400 pp. Hardcover,0
The Peculiar, Diverse, and Vital Business of Personal Mortgages, 1890s–1950s0
Connecting a Nation: The Story of Telecommunications in Ireland. By Deryck Fay. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2022. 350 pp. + illus. Paperback0
Sedentary Merchant Triumphant: The Transformation of Venetian Trading Patterns in the Long Twelfth Century0
Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State. By Katherine C. Epstein . Chicago: University of Chicago Pr0
A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy From the Revolution to the Rise of China. By Dale C. Copeland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 0
A Reappraisal of Albert Aftalion’s Theory of Structural Transformation in an Era of Decarbonization0
Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State. By Elisabeth Anderson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. xvi + 384 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $95.00; 0
Translating Emergent Technologies into Novel Therapeutics: Tracing Complementarity and Co-evolution in the Cambridge–Boston Innovation Ecosystem0
Making Social Spending Work. By Peter H. Lindert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 434 pp. Hardcover, $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-47816-8.0
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Exporting Capitalism: Private Enterprise and US Foreign Policy. By Ethan Kapstein. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 304 pp., 21 illus., 1 table. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-6740
Reimagining Business: Virtue, Spirituality, Wisdom0
“This Slavery Business Is a Horrible Thing”: The Economy of American Slavery in the Lives of the Enslaved0
Forms of Capitalism0
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From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age. By Xaq Frolich. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 312 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-29881-1.0
A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador. By Christopher Krupa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 328 0
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Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank. By Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 354 pp. Hardcove0
Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse. By Colleen A. Dunlavy. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2024. 240 pp. Hardcover0
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. By Benjamin M. Friedman. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021. Pp. xv, 534. Hardcover, $37.50. ISBN 978-0-59-331109-0
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Social Europe, the Road Not Taken: The Left and European Integration in the Long 1970s. By Aurélie Dianara Andry . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 336 pp. Hardcover, $105.00. ISBN: 978-00
Wage-Earning Slaves: Coartación in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. By Claudia Varella and Manuel Barcia. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. 236 pp. Hardcover, $85.00. ISBN: 978-1-68340-160
Introduction: Capitalism and Global Governance in Business History0
Fishery Collapse and the American Fertilizer Industry: A Case Study of the Pacific Guano Company0
Industrial Consumers Versus Cartelized Producers: The French Carmaker Louis Renault and the Aluminium Cartel, 1911–19440
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism. By Philip J. Stern. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2023. 408 pp. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-98812-5.0
The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America. By Anthony C. Infanti. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2025. 328 pp. Hardback, $45.00 0
Profits & Persecution: German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust. By Peter Hayes . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 232 p0
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Money in the Dutch Republic: Everyday Practice and Circuits of Exchange. By Sebastian Felten. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Hardcover, $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-00-909884-7.0
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation. By Roberto Saba. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 373 pp. Hardcover, $39.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-19074-7.0
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Fertilizer for Victory: The Chilean–US Nitrate Trade in the Second World War0
The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society. By Thomas M. Larkin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. pp. 336. Pape0
The Nivkh People’s Sustainable Bear Hunting Enterprise, Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries0
The British Gunpowder Industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade0
Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform. By Yakov Feygin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. vii + 288 pp. Figures, 0
A Global Firm in a Small Town: Harrisons and Crosfield’s Quilon Operations Between the Wars0
Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action. By James W. Cortada. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 458 pp. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-21300-4.0
Beyond Planetary Limits! The International Chamber of Commerce, the United Nations, and the Invention of Sustainable Development0
The Will to Chaos and Disorder: The Behemoth as a Model of Political Economy0
Onassis Business History, 1924-1975. Edited by Gelina Harlaftis. Leiden/Boston: Brill’s Studies in Maritime History, 2024. 415 pp. Hardcover, $216.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-53988-4.0
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era. By Gary Gerstle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 432 pp. Hardcover, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-7519640
The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise. By Laura R. Sandy. New York: Routledge, 2020. 412 pp., 8 B/W illus. Paperback, $42.36. I0
Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control. By Sean Vanatta . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. 416 pp. 6.12 × 9.25 0
Revisiting Interwar Global Economic Governance: Technocrats, Sovereignty, and the Perennial Problem of Legitimacy in Global Governance0
Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives. By Stephen Roach. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 448 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-25964-3. Mao0
War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 1652–89. Edited by David Ormrod and Gijs Rommelse. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020. 344 pp., 49 b/w illus. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-7830
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The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind. By Jan Lucassen. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. 544 pp., 18 color + 9b-w illus. + 3 figs. + 6 maps. Paperback, $25.00. ISBN: 90
The Debt of a Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820–73. By Angela C. Tozer. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2025. 276 pp. Paperback, $0
The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal. By Joan Flores-Villalobos. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 296 pp. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2360
Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, from the Post Office to the Internet. By Dan Schiller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 832 pp. + 20 b/w illus. Hardcover, 0
A Reappraisal of Albert Aftalion’s Theory of Structural Transformation in an Era of Decarbonization – CORRIGENDUM0
Selling Europe to the World: The Rise of the Luxury Fashion Industry, 1980–2020. By Pierre-Yves Donzé. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 184 pp. + 44 b/w illus. Hardback, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-350-33577-0
Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States. By Michelle Craig McDonald. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. H0
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom. By Kathryn Olivarius. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States. By Sharon Ann Murphy. Chicago: The Chicago University Press, 2023. 432 pp., 17 halftones, 1 line drawing, 8 tab0
The Emergence of Brand-Name Capitalism in Late Colonial India: Advertising and the Making of Modern Conjugality. By Douglas E. Haynes. New York: Bloomsbury, 2023. 328 pp. Hardcover, $130. ISBN 0
Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830. By Trevor Jackson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiv 0
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