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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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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: 978-1-4214-3711-810
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
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, maps10
Ownership Matters: French Governments and Automotive Industrialists Facing the Japanese Challenge, 1974–19868
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 Marce7
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. IS6
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Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier. By Bogdan G. Popescu. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Xi + 317 pp. B/W illustrations, 40 figs5
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, 5
Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931. By A. G. Hopkins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 576 pp. Hardcover, $24.98. ISBN: 978-0-69-125884-3.5
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 Mic5
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: 978-0-226-66294
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:4
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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: 9780520385467.4
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. Pa4
From Sugar to Shop: the Organic Rise of Indian Shopkeepers in Colonial Trinidad3
Plan Calcul: France's National Information Technology Ambition and Instrument of National Independence3
China’s Outward Investment in Europe during the “Go Out” Policy Years: Trends, Drivers, and Strategies in the Automotive Industry, 2000–20183
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: 978-0-812292
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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, 2
Leisure Jobs: Recreating Family and Social Life in Canadian Electric Utility Marketing, 1920–19702
Reconsidering the Commercial Revolution2
Competing Projects in Global Governance2
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: 978-0-198-82612
Finding El Dorado: The Rise and Fall of the Jenks Business Group in Colombia, 1899–19292
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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
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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. I1
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, 2023. 280 pp. Hardcover, $27.95. ISBN: 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
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Political Capitalism1
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, bibliograp1
The Postwar Economic Order: National Reconstruction and International Cooperation. By Albert O. Hirschman, ed. Michele Alacevich and Pier Francesco Asso. New York: Columbia Univer1
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: 978-0-69121
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Pharmaceutical Captivity, Epistemological Rupture, and the Business Archive of the British Slave Trade1
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
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]. By1
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
A State of Supervision: The Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Germany, 1900s–1930s1
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, appe1
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
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Making Food Standard: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Standards of Identity, 1930s–1960s1
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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
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. ISB1
Forms of Capitalism1
Trademarks as “Global Merchants of Skill”: The Dynamics of the Japanese Match Industry, 1860s–1930s1
Pliny's Roman Economy: Natural History, Innovation, and Growth. By Richard P. Saller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 216 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 91
Money in the Dutch Republic: Everyday Practice and Circuits of Exchange. By Sebastian Felten. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Hardcover, $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-00-909884-7.1
Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling. By Ryan Tucker Jones. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 304 pp + 30 hf. Hardcover $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-62885-1.1
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, $35.1
Merchants Revisited: Long-Distance Traders and the World they Made1
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
Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present. By Pierre-Yves Donzé and Julia S. Yongue. Oxford Un1
Captivity's Commerce: The Theory and Methodology of Slaving and Capitalism1
Tiny Engines of Abundance: A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression. By Jim Handy. Black Point, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 2022. 160 pp. Paperback, $22.00. ISBN: 978-1-77-363521-1
In the Zone: On Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism and the Spaces of Political Economy1
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,1
Profiting from Slavery and Emancipation: Compensation, Capital, and Collateral in Nineteenth-Century Senegal1
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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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: 978-0-691-19474-51
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway.By Mikiya Koyagi. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 296 pp. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN: 978-1-5036-131-33.1
Industrial Consumers Versus Cartelized Producers: The French Carmaker Louis Renault and the Aluminium Cartel, 1911–19441
Men of Science and Standards: Introducing the Metric System in Nineteenth-Century Brazil1
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: 978-0-262-04657-2.1
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: 978-0-8122-531
Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State. By Katherine C. Epstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 368 pp. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 91
Radical Mercantilism and Fascist Italy’s East African Empire1
Governing Global Capitalism: A Lawyer's Perspective1
Unfreedom and Slavery Under Sail: Intercolonial Trade in the British Atlantic, 1698–17661
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
Managing the Police Workforce: Sickness and Pensions in the Metropolitan Police in Late Nineteenth-Century London1
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
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
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
Borrowing without Banks: Deposit-Taking by Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Firms (1920s–1930s)0
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
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
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
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
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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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Pioneering the Circular Economy: Small and Medium-Sized Recycling Enterprises in Finland, 1945–19950
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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
British CEOs in the Twentieth Century: Aristocratic Amateurs to Fat Cats?0
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
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
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Ireland’s Role in British Colonial Capitalism: “Men of Capitals” and Pitt’s Irish Proposals, 1784–17850
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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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
Business Creation and Political Turmoil: Ireland versus Scotland before 19000
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fertilizer for Victory: The Chilean–US Nitrate Trade in the Second World War0
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
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
Liberal Environmentalism: The Public-Private Production of European Emissions Standards0
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
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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
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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
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 Political Economy of American Businesses in British Central Africa, 1953–19630
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Business and Global Capitalism: Continuities and Change0
Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830. By Trevor Jackson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiv + 314 pp. Hardcover, $39.99. ISBN: 978-10
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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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
The Power of Persuasion: Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century. By Lucas Haasis. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2022. 660 pp. Hardcover, $75.00. ISBN: 978-3-8376-5652-7.0
Business Accounting at Fengshengtai in Late Imperial China: Is There New Evidence of Double-Entry Bookkeeping?0
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The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment. By Charly Coleman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. xi + 376 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and inde0
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century0
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A Reappraisal of Albert Aftalion’s Theory of Structural Transformation in an Era of Decarbonization0
Related Investing: Family Networks, Gender, and Shareholding in Antebellum New England Corporations0
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
Reflection: Moral Firms and the Future of Capitalism0
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
A History of the British Lubricants Industry. By Timothy J. Hill. Chesterfield: Merton Priory Press, 2018. 527 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, £50.00. ISBN: 978-1-898-93781-4.0
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
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
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
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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Introduction: Capitalism and Global Governance in Business History0
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
The British Gunpowder Industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade0
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
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
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
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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
Connecting a Nation: The Story of Telecommunications in Ireland. By Deryck Fay. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2022. 350 pp. + illus. Paperback, $35.00. ISBN: 1-910820-87-3.0
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
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 Unsung Activists: UK Shareholder Investigation Committees, 1888–19400
A Reappraisal of Albert Aftalion’s Theory of Structural Transformation in an Era of Decarbonization – CORRIGENDUM0
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
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
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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
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
What The Cambridge Economic History of China Teaches Us about China and Tells Us About Economic History0
Selected Abstracts from International Business History Journals0
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
CE Marking, Business, and European Market Integration0
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
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, 2022. 378 pp. + 34 b/w illus. Hardcover,0
The Problem of Sustaining a Successful Enterprise: Kodak’s Multiple Takes at Strategic Renewal that Culminated in Failure0
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
Beyond Voluntary: The 1998 Automotive CO2 Agreement and the Limits of Corporate Influence on Environmental Regulation0
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
Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700–950). By Fanny Bessard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 400 pp. Illustrations, maps. Hardcover, $115.00. ISBN: 0
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Mexico's Business and Entrepreneurship in the Era of Nationalism0
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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
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From Defensive to Transformative Business Diplomacy: The British South Africa Company and the End of Chartered Company Rule in Rhodesia, 1910–19250
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
Why Do Unsuccessful Companies Survive? U.S. Airlines, Aircraft Leasing, and GE, 2000–20080
Varieties of Family Business: Germany and the United States, Past and Present. By Hartmut Berghoff and Ingo Köhler. Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag, 2021. 312 pp. Illustrations, tables, f0
Inching toward Modernity: Industrial Standards and the Fate of the Metric System in the United States0
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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
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
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
A Disrupting Strategic Metal: The Norwegian Aluminium Industry Meets World War II0
Remembering Paul Miranti0
Methodological Openness in Business History Research: Looking Afresh at the British Interwar Management Movement0
Revisiting Interwar Global Economic Governance: Technocrats, Sovereignty, and the Perennial Problem of Legitimacy in Global Governance0
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
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
Creating Value Out of Waste: The Transformation of the Swedish Waste and Recycling Sector, 1970s–2010s0
A Mercantilist Brand: The British East India Company and Madeira Wine, 1756–18340
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
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
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
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: 978-0-231-21638-8.0
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Female Entrepreneurs in Colombia since 19900
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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
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
Editors’ Note0
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy0
Reflection: Firms, Rules, and Global Capitalism0
BHR volume 96 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
A Guide to the History of Industrial Slavery in the United States0
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
Intellectual Property and National Economies0
The Will to Chaos and Disorder: The Behemoth as a Model of Political Economy0
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
Housewives and the Growth of the Japanese Electrical Appliance Industry, 1950–19900
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
Rahul Bajaj: An Extraordinary Life0
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
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
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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 University Press, 2021. 336 pp. Hardcover $49.95.0
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
Recent Trends in the Business History of Russia: The Blurry Borders of the Discipline0
Histories and Futures of Business in a Turbulent World0
“This Slavery Business Is a Horrible Thing”: The Economy of American Slavery in the Lives of the Enslaved0
BHR volume 98 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Governing Global Tax Dodgers: The “Group of Four” and the Taxation of Multinational Corporations, 1970s–1980s0
(Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly0
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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Reimagining Business: Virtue, Spirituality, Wisdom0
Designing One Nation: The Politics of Economic Culture and Trade in Divided Germany. By Katrin Schreiter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 289 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, in0
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 Business of Internetworking: Standards, Start-Ups, and Network Effects0
The Prince of Slavers: Humphry Morice and the Transformation of Britain’s Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1698–1732. By Matthew David Mitchell. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Hardcover, $1290
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Sedentary Merchant Triumphant: The Transformation of Venetian Trading Patterns in the Long Twelfth Century0
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
The Rise and Fall of George Frederic Augustus II: The Central American, Caribbean, and Atlantic Life of a Miskitu King, 1805–18240
The International Labour Organization and Management Development in Argentina0
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: 90
Business-Government Networks in Small States: The Emergence and Evolution of the Luxembourg Global Mutual Fund Industry, 1945–19880
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
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
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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