Business History Review

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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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: 978-1-4214-3711-813
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
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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 Famine6
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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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: 9780520385467.2
Finding El Dorado: The Rise and Fall of the Jenks Business Group in Colombia, 1899–19292
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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
China’s Outward Investment in Europe during the “Go Out” Policy Years: Trends, Drivers, and Strategies in the Automotive Industry, 2000–20182
Competing Projects in Global Governance2
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From Sugar to Shop: the Organic Rise of Indian Shopkeepers in Colonial Trinidad2
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Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism. By Danielle Wiggins. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. 312 p2
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. 1
Ruins to Riches: The Economic Resurgence of Germany and Japan after 1945. By Raymond G. Stokes. Cambridge University Press, 2024. 345 pp. Hardback $39.991
Contested Cards and Banking Competition in the 1970s–1980s: From Exclusivity to Globalization in Spain and Europe1
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
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
Tiny Engines of Abundance: A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression. By Jim Handy. Black Point, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 2022. 160 pp. P1
Profiting from Slavery and Emancipation: Compensation, Capital, and Collateral in Nineteenth-Century Senegal1
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Making Sense of the 1931 Financial Crisis and the Great Depression1
Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London. By Lee Jackson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 288 pp. Hardcover, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-1
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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
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
Leisure Jobs: Recreating Family and Social Life in Canadian Electric Utility Marketing, 1920–19701
From Oil Nation to Wind Power Nation? An Exploration of Norway’s Turn to Offshore Wind Power, 1998–20241
Reconsidering the Commercial Revolution1
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
A State of Supervision: The Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Germany, 1900s–1930s1
Private Tools for Political Goals: The European Currency Unit Private Market and the Making of Economic and Monetary Union in the 1980s1
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom. By Kathryn Olivarius. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020
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
Connecting a Nation: The Story of Telecommunications in Ireland. By Deryck Fay. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2022. 350 pp. + illus. Paperback0
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
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
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
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
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
Business-Government Networks in Small States: The Emergence and Evolution of the Luxembourg Global Mutual Fund Industry, 1945–19880
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
Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State. By Katherine C. Epstein . Chicago: University of Chicago Pr0
“This Slavery Business Is a Horrible Thing”: The Economy of American Slavery in the Lives of the Enslaved0
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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
Reflection: Corporate Capitalism's Moral Lack0
Business Accounting at Fengshengtai in Late Imperial China: Is There New Evidence of Double-Entry Bookkeeping?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
Governing Global Capitalism: A Lawyer's Perspective0
Hospital City, Health Care Nation: Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care. By Guian A. McKee. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania 0
Fox Trading and the Problem of Polar Bears in the Hudson’s Bay Company: Arctic Human Ecology and Fur in a Global Value Chain, 1900–19400
Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America. By Dael A. Norwood. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 312 pp. Clothbound, $49.0
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
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
Norway’s Pharmaceutical Revolution: Pursuing and Accomplishing Innovation in Nyegaard & Co., 1945–1997. By Knut Sogner. Oxford: Oxford University Pre0
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
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
Reimagining Business: Virtue, Spirituality, Wisdom0
Remembering Shakila Yacob (1962–2025)0
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
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Introduction: Capitalism and Global Governance in Business History0
The Peculiar, Diverse, and Vital Business of Personal Mortgages, 1890s–1950s0
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
Black Life Insurance Companies, Mortgages, and African American Homeownership before 19640
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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
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
Visions of Indian Economic Unity On the Eve of Partition: A Tale of Two Companies0
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The Prince of Slavers: Humphry Morice and the Transformation of Britain’s Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1698–1732. By Matthew David Mitchell. Switzerland: P0
The Rise of Minimill Steel Producers in Italy and Spain, 1950–19900
The Will to Chaos and Disorder: The Behemoth as a Model of Political Economy0
Losing the “Lager War:” International Entrepreneurship and Business Failure in the United Kingdom Brewing Industry, 1975–19950
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Radical Mercantilism and Fascist Italy’s East African Empire0
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
Financial Liberalization and Economic Development in Korea, 1980–2020. By Yung Chul Park, Joon Kyung Kim, and Hail Park. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Universit0
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
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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
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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
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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
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Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England. By Anne L. Murphy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 288 pp. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-19474-50
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
Lightning Strikes Back: Lightning Fire, Standard Oil, and Anti-monopoly in the Pennsylvanian Oil Fields, 1859–18970
Captivity's Commerce: The Theory and Methodology of Slaving and Capitalism0
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
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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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
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
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
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
Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery. By Bruce A. Ragsdale. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. x + 358 pp. Hardcover, $29.95.0
Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States. By Michelle Craig McDonald. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. H0
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
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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
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: 978-0
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
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
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
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
Sedentary Merchant Triumphant: The Transformation of Venetian Trading Patterns in the Long Twelfth Century0
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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 $30.0
The Problem of Sustaining a Successful Enterprise: Kodak’s Multiple Takes at Strategic Renewal that Culminated in Failure0
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A Disrupting Strategic Metal: The Norwegian Aluminium Industry Meets World War II0
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
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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
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
Beyond Planetary Limits! The International Chamber of Commerce, the United Nations, and the Invention of Sustainable Development0
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
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
Fishery Collapse and the American Fertilizer Industry: A Case Study of the Pacific Guano Company0
Political Capitalism0
A Reappraisal of Albert Aftalion’s Theory of Structural Transformation in an Era of Decarbonization – CORRIGENDUM0
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Russia’s Way of Building Mega Projects0
What The Cambridge Economic History of China Teaches Us about China and Tells Us About Economic History0
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
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
Translating Emergent Technologies into Novel Therapeutics: Tracing Complementarity and Co-evolution in the Cambridge–Boston Innovation Ecosystem0
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
American Patent Law: A Business and Economic History. By Robert P. Merges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 450 pp. Paperback, $48.00. ISBN: 0
Revisiting Interwar Global Economic Governance: Technocrats, Sovereignty, and the Perennial Problem of Legitimacy in Global Governance0
Fertilizer for Victory: The Chilean–US Nitrate Trade in the Second World War0
Continuity and Change in Turkey’s Largest Industrial Enterprises, 1970–20100
Configuring Cultural Emerging Industries: A Comparison of the French and Italian Fashion Industries0
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
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
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Development, Inc.? The EEC, Britain, Post-Colonial Overseas Development Aid, and Business0
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
There Will Be the Devil to Pay: Central Bankers, Uncertainty and Sensemaking in the European Financial Crisis of 1931. By Per H. Hansen . Cambridge: Camb0
The British Gunpowder Industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade0
Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India. By Aditya Balasubramanian. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 3520
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Housewives and the Growth of the Japanese Electrical Appliance Industry, 1950–19900
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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
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
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
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
A Guide to the History of Industrial Slavery in the United States0
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
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
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Liberal Environmentalism: The Public-Private Production of European Emissions Standards0
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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
Managing the Police Workforce: Sickness and Pensions in the Metropolitan Police in Late Nineteenth-Century London0
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
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
Slavery, Coercion, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa0
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
A Mercantilist Brand: The British East India Company and Madeira Wine, 1756–18340
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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
Translating Emergent Technologies into Novel Therapeutics: Tracing Complementarity and Co-evolution in the Cambridge–Boston Innovation Ecosystem – CORRIGENDUM0
Slave Ownership in the Western World0
Examining the Impact of Legal Innovations: A Case Study of the Private Limited Liability Company in Vienna, 1900–19360
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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
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
A Reappraisal of Albert Aftalion’s Theory of Structural Transformation in an Era of Decarbonization0
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
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
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 Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms. By Alison L. LaCroix. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2024. 50
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Pharmaceutical Captivity, Epistemological Rupture, and the Business Archive of the British Slave Trade0
Creating Value Out of Waste: The Transformation of the Swedish Waste and Recycling Sector, 1970s–2010s0
False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947. By George Selgin . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. 384 pp. Cloth, $35.000
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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
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
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
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
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
The International Labour Organization and Management Development in Argentina0
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
The Art of Distrust: Governance in Long-Distance Trade and the Making of Impersonal Power, 1400–18000
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Profits & Persecution: German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust. By Peter Hayes . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 232 p0
The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment. By Charly Coleman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. xi + 376 pp0
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
Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding. By Hannah Farber. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 30
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
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
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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
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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
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
Ireland’s Role in British Colonial Capitalism: “Men of Capitals” and Pitt’s Irish Proposals, 1784–17850
Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism. By Koji Hirata. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 370 pp. Hardcover, £80.00. ISBN: 978-0
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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
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
Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse. By Colleen A. Dunlavy. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2024. 240 pp. Hardcover0
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 Nivkh People’s Sustainable Bear Hunting Enterprise, Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries0
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