Business History Review

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(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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Ownership Matters: French Governments and Automotive Industrialists Facing the Japanese Challenge, 1974–198615
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, 11
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, b7
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. ISB4
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. Mao4
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: 978-0-300-26149-34
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: 978-0-674-26333-4
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: 978-0-69123
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]. By3
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.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
Making Food Standard: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Standards of Identity, 1930s–1960s2
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Introduction: Standards and the Global Economy2
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,2
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: 978-0-2
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: 92
Fertilizer for Victory: The Chilean–US Nitrate Trade in the Second World War1
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
Revisiting Interwar Global Economic Governance: Technocrats, Sovereignty, and the Perennial Problem of Legitimacy in Global Governance1
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 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
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
Introduction: Capitalism and Global Governance in Business History1
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Configuring Cultural Emerging Industries: A Comparison of the French and Italian Fashion Industries1
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
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 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: 978-0-295-75183-1
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
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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: 978-1-7831
Captivity's Commerce: The Theory and Methodology of Slaving and Capitalism1
The British Gunpowder Industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade1
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
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
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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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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
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
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
Losing the “Lager War:” International Entrepreneurship and Business Failure in the United Kingdom Brewing Industry, 1975–19951
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: 1
A Mercantilist Brand: The British East India Company and Madeira Wine, 1756–18341
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
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
Reframing Chinese Business History1
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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
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Borrowing without Banks: Deposit-Taking by Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Firms (1920s–1930s)1
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Female Entrepreneurs in Colombia since 19901
The Unsung Activists: UK Shareholder Investigation Committees, 1888–19401
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
Managing the Police Workforce: Sickness and Pensions in the Metropolitan Police in Late Nineteenth-Century London1
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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
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
“This Slavery Business Is a Horrible Thing”: The Economy of American Slavery in the Lives of the Enslaved0
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
Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America. By Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 112 pp. Photographs. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-2267-8648-0
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
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Sedentary Merchant Triumphant: The Transformation of Venetian Trading Patterns in the Long Twelfth Century0
Pharmaceutical Captivity, Epistemological Rupture, and the Business Archive of the British Slave Trade0
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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
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
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
Business Accounting at Fengshengtai in Late Imperial China: Is There New Evidence of Double-Entry Bookkeeping?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
The Chicago Monetary Tradition: The Origin of the Modern Approach to Monetary Policy Rules0
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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
Why Do Unsuccessful Companies Survive? U.S. Airlines, Aircraft Leasing, and GE, 2000–20080
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
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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Rahul Bajaj: An Extraordinary Life0
Plan Calcul: France's National Information Technology Ambition and Instrument of National Independence0
Why the New Deal Matters. By Eric Rauchway. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 232 pp. Notes, index. Paperback, $16.00. ISBN 978-0-300-26483-8.0
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
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
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 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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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
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 Rise and Fall of George Frederic Augustus II: The Central American, Caribbean, and Atlantic Life of a Miskitu King, 1805–18240
British CEOs in the Twentieth Century: Aristocratic Amateurs to Fat Cats?0
Related Investing: Family Networks, Gender, and Shareholding in Antebellum New England Corporations0
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Governing Global Capitalism: A Lawyer's Perspective0
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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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
Leisure Jobs: Recreating Family and Social Life in Canadian Electric Utility Marketing, 1920–19700
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
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
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
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Industrial Consumers Versus Cartelized Producers: The French Carmaker Louis Renault and the Aluminium Cartel, 1911–19440
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Merchants Revisited: Long-Distance Traders and the World they Made0
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Beyond Planetary Limits! The International Chamber of Commerce, the United Nations, and the Invention of Sustainable Development0
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
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 Political Economy of American Businesses in British Central Africa, 1953–19630
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
Ireland’s Role in British Colonial Capitalism: “Men of Capitals” and Pitt’s Irish Proposals, 1784–17850
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
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
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: 90
Development, Inc.? The EEC, Britain, Post-Colonial Overseas Development Aid, and Business0
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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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(Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly0
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
Intellectual Property and National Economies0
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
From Defensive to Transformative Business Diplomacy: The British South Africa Company and the End of Chartered Company Rule in Rhodesia, 1910–19250
Inching toward Modernity: Industrial Standards and the Fate of the Metric System in the United States0
A Disrupting Strategic Metal: The Norwegian Aluminium Industry Meets World War II0
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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
Reflection: Moral Firms and the Future of Capitalism0
Men of Science and Standards: Introducing the Metric System in Nineteenth-Century Brazil0
Methodological Openness in Business History Research: Looking Afresh at the British Interwar Management Movement0
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
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
Remembering Paul Miranti0
Radical Mercantilism and Fascist Italy’s East African Empire0
The International Labour Organization and Management Development in Argentina0
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
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
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The Business of Internetworking: Standards, Start-Ups, and Network Effects0
A Guide to the History of Industrial Slavery in the United States0
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
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What The Cambridge Economic History of China Teaches Us about China and Tells Us About Economic History0
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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
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
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
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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
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
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
A History of Business Cartels: International Politics, National Policies and Anti-Competitive Behaviour. Edited by Martin Shanahan and Susanna Fellman. New York: Routledge 2022. 344 pp.,0
The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind. By Jan Lucassen. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. 544 pp., 18 color + 9b-w illus. + 3 figs. + 6 maps. Paperback, $25.00. ISBN: 90
The 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
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
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
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
A Reappraisal of Albert Aftalion’s Theory of Structural Transformation in an Era of Decarbonization – CORRIGENDUM0
Making Social Spending Work. By Peter H. Lindert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 434 pp. Hardcover, $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-47816-8.0
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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
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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
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
Fishery Collapse and the American Fertilizer Industry: A Case Study of the Pacific Guano Company0
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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
The Will to Chaos and Disorder: The Behemoth as a Model of Political Economy0
Profiting from Slavery and Emancipation: Compensation, Capital, and Collateral in Nineteenth-Century Senegal0
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 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
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
Trademarks as “Global Merchants of Skill”: The Dynamics of the Japanese Match Industry, 1860s–1930s0
Reflection: Corporate Capitalism's Moral Lack0
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
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
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
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
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
Remembering Takashi Hikino0
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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
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
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy0
In the Zone: On Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism and the Spaces of Political Economy0
Unfreedom and Slavery Under Sail: Intercolonial Trade in the British Atlantic, 1698–17660
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
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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
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
The Emergence of the Swiss Tax Haven, 1816–19140
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
Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States0
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
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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
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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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
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
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
Business Creation and Political Turmoil: Ireland versus Scotland before 19000
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 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
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Housewives and the Growth of the Japanese Electrical Appliance Industry, 1950–19900
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
Reflection: Firms, Rules, and Global Capitalism0
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
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
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
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
A State of Supervision: The Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Germany, 1900s–1930s0
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
Histories and Futures of Business in a Turbulent World0
Slavery, Coercion, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa0
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
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
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
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
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 Sugar Revolution in New England: Barbados, Massachusetts Bay, and the Atlantic Sugar Economy, 1600–17000
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
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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 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
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
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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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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
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
Globalization, Cities, and Firms in Twentieth-Century India0
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Histoire de la Société générale: Volume I, 1864–1890: Naissance d'une banque [Birth of a Bank]. By Hubert Bonin. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2006. 723 pp. Index, notes, appendix, tables. Paper, €680
Governing Global Tax Dodgers: The “Group of Four” and the Taxation of Multinational Corporations, 1970s–1980s0
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