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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Ownership Matters: French Governments and Automotive Industrialists Facing the Japanese Challenge, 1974–198615
Editors’ Note11
Fertilizer for Victory: The Chilean–US Nitrate Trade in the Second World War8
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: 6
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Losing the “Lager War:” International Entrepreneurship and Business Failure in the United Kingdom Brewing Industry, 1975–19955
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: 978-0-295-75183-4
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, b4
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. ISB3
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. Mao3
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: 978-0-300-26149-33
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: 978-0-674-26333-3
Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands, 1000-1800. By Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 280 pp. Illustrations, tables, map, notes, bibliograp2
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021. By Alan S. Blinder. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 432 pp. Illustrations, index. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-69122
The History of Financial Technology and Regulation: From American Incorporation to Cryptocurrency and Crowdfunding. By Seth C. Oranburg. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 250 pp.2
Introduction: Standards and the Global Economy2
Saint-Gobain et ses banquiers (1914–2000): Enjeux et méthodes du financement d'une grande entreprise [Saint-Gobain and its bankers, 1914–2000: Issues and methods of financing a large company]. By2
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Female Entrepreneurs in Colombia since 19901
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe. By Judith Herrin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. xxxvi + 537 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Paperback, $21.95. ISBN: 978-0-1
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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, 1
Captivity's Commerce: The Theory and Methodology of Slaving and Capitalism1
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: 978-1-7831
Borrowing without Banks: Deposit-Taking by Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Firms (1920s–1930s)1
The British Gunpowder Industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade1
A History of the British Lubricants Industry. By Timothy J. Hill. Chesterfield: Merton Priory Press, 2018. 527 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, £50.00. ISBN: 978-1-898-93781-4.1
Capitalism: The Story behind the Word. By Michael Sonenscher. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 248 pp. Illustrations, index. Hardcover, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-69123-720-6.1
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. I1
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: 978-1-5128-2361
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: 978-0-19-9589751
Monetary War and Peace: London, Washington, Paris, and the Tripartite Agreement of 1936. By Max Harris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xiii + 279 pp. Appendixes, index. Hardcover,1
Making Food Standard: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Standards of Identity, 1930s–1960s1
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Englishmen at Sea: Labor and the Nation at the Dawn of Empire, 1570–1630. By Eleanor Hubbard. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. xiv + 349 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $38.00. IS1
Managing the Police Workforce: Sickness and Pensions in the Metropolitan Police in Late Nineteenth-Century London1
The Unsung Activists: UK Shareholder Investigation Committees, 1888–19401
Revisiting Interwar Global Economic Governance: Technocrats, Sovereignty, and the Perennial Problem of Legitimacy in Global Governance1
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 1
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Reframing Chinese Business History1
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: 978-0-300-251
Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism. By Mircea Raianu. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 304 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, index. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN:1
Introduction: Capitalism and Global Governance in Business History1
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. Hardcove1
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Configuring Cultural Emerging Industries: A Comparison of the French and Italian Fashion Industries1
A Mercantilist Brand: The British East India Company and Madeira Wine, 1756–18341
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Onassis Business History, 1924-1975. Edited by Gelina Harlaftis. Leiden/Boston: Brill’s Studies in Maritime History, 2024. 415 pp. Hardcover, $216.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-53988-4.1
Swansea Copper: A Global History. By Chris Evans and Louise Miskell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 242 pp. Hardcover, $57.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-3911-2.1
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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: 978-1-4214-3711-81
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. By Gabriel Winant. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 368 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps1
The Bretton Woods Agreements: Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents. Edited by Naomi Lamoreaux and Ian Shapiro. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 504 pp.1
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: 978-0-19-7519641
Historia empresarial en América Latina: Temas, debates y problemas [Business History in Latin America: Topics, Debates, and Problems]. Edited by Andrea Lluch, Martín Monsalve Zanatti, and Marce1
Hollywood's Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power around the World. By Ross Melnick. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 528 pp. Notes, index. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 91
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Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America. By Samuel Evan Milner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. xi + 329 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. I0
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Radical Mercantilism and Fascist Italy’s East African Empire0
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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
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Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World. By Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 272 pp. Maps, references, index. Hardcove0
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway.By Mikiya Koyagi. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 296 pp. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN: 978-1-5036-131-33.0
From Defensive to Transformative Business Diplomacy: The British South Africa Company and the End of Chartered Company Rule in Rhodesia, 1910–19250
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
Rahul Bajaj: An Extraordinary Life0
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
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
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
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Profiting from Slavery and Emancipation: Compensation, Capital, and Collateral in Nineteenth-Century Senegal0
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Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941. By Jessica M. Kim. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xiii + 282 pp. Illustratio0
Remembering Paul Miranti0
City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York. Edited by Joshua B. Freeman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. x + 248 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $40.00. IS0
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties. By David de Jong. Boston: Mariner Books, 2022. 400 pp. Hardcover, $28.99. Maps, appendix, notes, index. ISBN: 978-1-32849-0
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
Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism. By Dara Orenstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 352 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-66290
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
Courteous Capitalism: Public Relations and the Monopoly Problem, 1900–1930. By Daniel Robert. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. 336 pp., 38 halftones, 5 line drawings. Hardcover,0
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
To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities. By Sara T. Damiano. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. 312 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, appe0
Transforming Inner Mongolia: Commerce, Migration, and Colonization on the Qing Frontier.By Yi Wang. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 354 pp. Figures, maps, tables, bibliography, glos0
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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A Disrupting Strategic Metal: The Norwegian Aluminium Industry Meets World War II0
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
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International Business in Australia before World War One: Shaping a Multinational Economy. By Simon Ville and David Merrett. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 203 pp. Hardcover, $109.99. ISB0
Industrial Consumers Versus Cartelized Producers: The French Carmaker Louis Renault and the Aluminium Cartel, 1911–19440
Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe. By Suzanne L. Marchand. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 544 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $24.95.0
London Couture and the Making of a Fashion Centre. By Michelle Jones. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022. 320 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Hardcover, $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-04657-2.0
Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture. By Will B. Mackintosh. New York: NYU Press, 2019. 272 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-4798-0
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Plan Calcul: France's National Information Technology Ambition and Instrument of National Independence0
More: A History of the World Economy from the Iron Age to the Information Age. By Philip Coggan. New York: PublicAffairs, 2020. 496 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, $34.00. ISBN: 978-1-6103-9983-80
Inching toward Modernity: Industrial Standards and the Fate of the Metric System in the United States0
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
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Sustaining Empire: Venezuela's Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–1828. By Edward P. Pompeian. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 344 pp. Illustratio0
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
They Were Her Property: White Slave-Owning Women in the American South. By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 320 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 0
Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic. By Michael Blaakman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2448-3.0
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 Political Economy of American Businesses in British Central Africa, 1953–19630
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Merchants Revisited: Long-Distance Traders and the World they Made0
The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire. Edited by Christof Dejung, David Motadel, and Jürgen Osterhammel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 400 p0
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City. By Destin Jenkins. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. 320 pp., 26 halftones, 10 tables. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0
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Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China. By C. Patterson Giersch. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. 304 pp. Maps, figures, tab0
Selected Abstracts from International Business History Journals0
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
Come l'acqua e il sangue: Le origini medievali del pensiero economico. By Giacomo Todeschini. Rome: Caricci editore, 2021. 336 pp. Paperback, Price, €27,55 ISBN: 978-8-82900-500-0.0
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Beyond Planetary Limits! The International Chamber of Commerce, the United Nations, and the Invention of Sustainable Development0
Men of Science and Standards: Introducing the Metric System in Nineteenth-Century Brazil0
In the Zone: On Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism and the Spaces of Political Economy0
Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads: Technological Change and the Future of Politics. By Carles Boix. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 272 pp. Notes, references, index. Hardcove0
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
Why Do Unsuccessful Companies Survive? U.S. Airlines, Aircraft Leasing, and GE, 2000–20080
A Reappraisal of Albert Aftalion’s Theory of Structural Transformation in an Era of Decarbonization – CORRIGENDUM0
Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy: Texts and Contexts. By Osvaldo Cavallar and Julius Kirshner. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 896 pp. Glossary, appendixes, index. Hardco0
Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success. By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. New York: Public Affairs Press, 2022. Hardcover, $29.00. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5417-9783-30
A State of Supervision: The Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Germany, 1900s–1930s0
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
The Business of Internetworking: Standards, Start-Ups, and Network Effects0
Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification. By Richard F. Hirsh. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 400 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Hardcover, $0
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Reflection: Moral Firms and the Future of Capitalism0
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
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
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: 978-1-5128-240
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century0
Undelivered: From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service. By Philip F. Rubio. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. xiv + 290 pp.0
Vendors’ Capitalism: A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City. By Ingrid Bleynat. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 264 pp. Bibliography, index. Hardcover, $90.00. ISBN: 970
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: 0
The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite under the Ancien Régime. By Henning Hillmann. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. xii + 322 pp. Figures, tables, note0
A Global History of Co-operative Business. By Greg Patmore and Nikola Balnave. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. x + 248 pp. References, index. Paperback, $46.95. ISBN: 978-1-13819-10
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
The Overseas Trade of British America: A Narrative History. By Thomas M. Truxes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 464 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN:0
Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order. By Stefan J. Link. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 316 pp. Hardcover, $39.95. Notes,0
The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire. By Joseph Sassoon. New York: Pantheon Books, 2022. xviii + 412 pp. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-593-31659-7.0
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
Sovereign Entrepreneurs: Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty. By Courtney Lewis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 312 pp. Illustrations, 0
Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn't. By Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero, and Francesco Giavazzi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 296 pp. Notes, references, index. Paperback,0
Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development. By Nikhil Menon . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 276 pp., illus, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $34.99. ISBN: 9780
Leisure Jobs: Recreating Family and Social Life in Canadian Electric Utility Marketing, 1920–19700
The Chicago Monetary Tradition: The Origin of the Modern Approach to Monetary Policy Rules0
Accounting for the Fall of Silver: Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870–1913. By Michael Schiltz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 224 pp. Figures, tables, appendi0
Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization. By Peter E. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. xv + 419 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $35.000
Histories and Futures of Business in a Turbulent World0
Unfreedom and Slavery Under Sail: Intercolonial Trade in the British Atlantic, 1698–17660
Fishery Collapse and the American Fertilizer Industry: A Case Study of the Pacific Guano Company0
Sedentary Merchant Triumphant: The Transformation of Venetian Trading Patterns in the Long Twelfth Century0
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
Visions of Indian Economic Unity On the Eve of Partition: A Tale of Two Companies0
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
Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train. By Jessamyn R. Abel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. 304 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $90.00.0
Germany’s Colony in China: Colonialism, Protection and Economic Development in Qingdao and Shandong, 1898–1914. By Fion Wai Ling So. London: Routledge, 2020. 165 pp. Paperback, $65.00. ISBN: 970
The Rise and Fall of George Frederic Augustus II: The Central American, Caribbean, and Atlantic Life of a Miskitu King, 1805–18240
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Methodological Openness in Business History Research: Looking Afresh at the British Interwar Management Movement0
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America. By Joshua D. Rothman. New York: Basic Books, 2021. 512 pp. Paperback, $19.99. ISBN: 978-1-5416-1660-8.0
Ireland’s Role in British Colonial Capitalism: “Men of Capitals” and Pitt’s Irish Proposals, 1784–17850
The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity. By Anat Rosenberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 432 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, 0
Housewives and the Growth of the Japanese Electrical Appliance Industry, 1950–19900
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. By William Quinn and John D. Turner. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 288 pp. Hardcover, $24.95. ISBN: 978-1-10842-125-6.0
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy0
What The Cambridge Economic History of China Teaches Us about China and Tells Us About Economic History0
The Will to Chaos and Disorder: The Behemoth as a Model of Political Economy0
The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300–525 CE. By Robin Fleming. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-812290
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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
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xiv + 349 pp. Illustra0
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 International Labour Organization and Management Development in Argentina0
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
From Taverns to Gastropubs: Food, Drink, and Sociality in England. By Christel Lane. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 229 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes. Cloth $47.95. ISBN: 978-0-198-82610
Trademarks as “Global Merchants of Skill”: The Dynamics of the Japanese Match Industry, 1860s–1930s0
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
Related Investing: Family Networks, Gender, and Shareholding in Antebellum New England Corporations0
Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao: Banking, State, and Family, 1720–1910. By Luman Wang. London: Routledge, 2021. 208 pp. Hardcover, $160.00. ISBN: 9-780-36745-809-6.0
China’s Outward Investment in Europe during the “Go Out” Policy Years: Trends, Drivers, and Strategies in the Automotive Industry, 2000–20180
The Sugar Revolution in New England: Barbados, Massachusetts Bay, and the Atlantic Sugar Economy, 1600–17000
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The Federal Reserve: A New History. By Robert L. Hetzel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. xvii + 688pp. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-226-82165-8.0
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
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
The Emergence of the Swiss Tax Haven, 1816–19140
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
Business Creation and Political Turmoil: Ireland versus Scotland before 19000
Governing Global Capitalism: A Lawyer's Perspective0
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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
A Guide to the History of Industrial Slavery in the United States0
Reflection: Firms, Rules, and Global Capitalism0
Slavery, Coercion, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa0
The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam.By Laurence Monnais. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 290 pp. Illustrations. Paperback, $32.99. ISBN: 978-1-10
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
Havoc and Reform: Workplace Disasters in Modern America. By James P. Kraft. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. 272 pp. Notes, index. Hardcover, $54.95. ISBN: 978-1-42144-057-6.0
Pharmaceutical Captivity, Epistemological Rupture, and the Business Archive of the British Slave Trade0
Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina. By Justene Hill Edwards. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 269 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, index. Pa0
Remembering Takashi Hikino0
The English East India Company's Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750–1850: Economy, Empire and Business. By Karolina Hutková. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2019. xii + 257 pp. Illustrations, map0
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
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: 978-1-108-34119-6.0
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
Globalization, Cities, and Firms in Twentieth-Century India0
The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era.By Margarita Fajardo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 296 pp0
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: 9780520385467.0
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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
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. By Marcia Chatelain. New York: Liveright, 2020. 336 pp. Hardcover, $28.95. ISBN: 978-1-63149-394-2.0
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
Business Accounting at Fengshengtai in Late Imperial China: Is There New Evidence of Double-Entry Bookkeeping?0
BHR volume 97 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
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
Transithandel. Geld- und Warenströme im globalen Kapitalismus [Merchanting Trade: Capital Flows and Commerce in Global Capitalism]. By Lea Haller. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2019. 512 pp. Notes, 0
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Les multinationales suisses dans l'arène politique (1942–1993) [Swiss multinationals in the political arena, 1942–1993]. By Sabine Pitteloud. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2022. 424 pp. Illustrations0
A Reappraisal of Albert Aftalion’s Theory of Structural Transformation in an Era of Decarbonization0
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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
Governing Global Tax Dodgers: The “Group of Four” and the Taxation of Multinational Corporations, 1970s–1980s0
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Capitalism & Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad. Edited by David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn . Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2022. 288 pp. Paperback, $30
The Making of the Modern Corporation: The Casa di San Giorgio and Its Legacy (1446–1720). By Carlo Taviani. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 248 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index. Hardback0
A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union. By Kristy Ironside. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 320 pp. Photographs, illustrations, glossary, appen0
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
Reflection: Corporate Capitalism's Moral Lack0
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British CEOs in the Twentieth Century: Aristocratic Amateurs to Fat Cats?0
From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia. By Dan Slater and Joseph Wong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 368 pp. Notes, references, index. Hardcover, $35.00
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise. By Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 248 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, inde0
Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States0
Development, Inc.? The EEC, Britain, Post-Colonial Overseas Development Aid, and Business0
The Dead Pledge: The Origins of the Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913–1939. By Judge Glock. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 304 pp. Notes, references, index. Paperback, $35.0
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