Business History Review 2006: Vol 80 Index & Table of Contents

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Index to Volume 8o
Business History Review
Articles
Bakker, Gerben, “The Making of a Music Multinational:
PolyGram’s International Businesses, 1945-1998”. 81
Berghoff, Hartmut, “The End of Family Business?
The Mittelstand and German Capitalism
in Transition, 1949-2000”. 263
Blaszczyk, Regina I-ee, “Styling Synthetics:
DuPont’s Marketing of Fabrics and Fashions in
Postwar America”. 485
Davids, Mila, and Geert Verbong, “Intraorganizational
Alignment and Innovation Processes: Philips and
Transistor Technology”. 657
Fear, Jeffrey, and Christopher Kobrak, “Diverging Paths:
Accounting for Corporate Governance in
America and Germany”. 1
Hansen, Per H., “Networks, Narratives, and
New Markets: Tiic Rise and Decline of
Danish Modern Furniture Design, 1930-1970”.449
Levinson, Marc, “Container Shipping and the Decline of
New York, 1955-1975”. 49
Lynskey, Michael J., “The Locus of Corporate
Entrepreneurship: Kirin Brewery’s Diversification
into Biopharmaceuticals ”. 689
MacDougall, Robert, “Long Lines: AT&T’s Long-Distance
Network as an Organizational and Political Strategy” .... 297
McCraw, Thomas K., “Schumpeter’s Business Cycles
as Business History”. 231
Merlo, Elisabetta, and Francesca Polese, “Turning Fashion
into Business: The Emergence of Milan as
an International Fashion Hub”. 415
O’Sullivan, Mary A., “Living with the U.S. Financial System:
The Experiences of General Electric and
Westinghouse Electric in the Last Century ”. 621
Index to Volume 8o / 828
Research Note
Cloodt, Myriam, John Hagedoorn, and Nadine Roijakkers,
“Trends and Patterns in Interfirm R&D Networks
in the Global Computer Industry: An Analysis of
Major Developments, 1970-1999”. 725
Author’s Note
Cortada, James W., “The Digital Hand: How Information
Technology Changed the Way Industries Worked
in the United States”. 755
Special Section:
Books that Made a Difference
Abbott, Andrew. The System of Professions: An Essay on
the Division of Expert Labor.
Reviewed by Christopher D. McKenna . 141
Bijker, Wiebe E., Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch, editors.
The Social Construction of Technological Systems:
New Directions in the Sociology and History of
Technology, and Nelly Oudshoorn and
Trevor Pinch, editors. How Users Matter:
The Co-Construction of Users and Technologies.
Reviewed by JoAnne Yates. 144
Cockburn, Cynthia. Brothers: Male Dominance and
Technological Change.
Reviewed by Katrina Honeyman . 147
Douglas, Mary. How Institutions Think.
Reviewed by Kenneth Lipartito . 135
Granovetter, Mark. “Coase Revisited: Business Groups in
the Modern Economy,” in Giovanni Dosi,
David J. Teece, and Josef Chytry, editors,
Technology, Organization and Competitiveness:
Perspectives on Industrial and Corporate Change.
Reviewed by Vera Zamagni. 159
Hagen, Everett. On the Theory of Social Change:
How Economic Growth Begins.
Reviewed by Carlos Davila . 131
North, Douglass C. Institutions, Institutional Change,
and Economic Performance.
Reviewed by Kurt Jacobsen . 151
Index to Volume 8o / 829
Sinn, Hans-Werner. 1st Deutschland noch zu retten?
[Can Germany Still Be Saved?]
Reviewed by Toni Pierenkemper . 155
Ueno, Hidenobu. Oware-yuku Kofu-tachi [The Plight of
the Chikuho Miners]. Reviewed by Kazuo Wada. 157
Review Essays
Bian, Morris L. The Making of the State Enterprise System
in Modern China: The Dynamics of
Institutional Change. A review by Man Bun Kwan . 537
De Grazia, Victoria. Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance
through Twentieth-Century Europe.
A review by Michael French . 767
Wilkins, Mira. The History of Foreign Investment in
the United States, 1914-45.
A review by Steven Tolliday. 163
Yates, JoAnne. Structuring the Information Age:
Life Insurance and Technology in the
Twentieth Century. A review by Paul Miranti . 335
Book Reviews
Abelshauser, Werner, translated by David R. Antal.
The Dynamics of German Industry:
Germany’s Path toward the New Economy
and the American Challenge.
Reviewed by Gary Herrigel. 612
Aiken, Katherine G. Idaho’s Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall
of a Great Mining Company, 1885-1981.
Reviewed by Vagel C. Keller Jr. 550
Anastakis, Dimitry. Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless
North American Auto Industry.
Reviewed by Barry E. C. Boothman. 801
Angevine, Robert G. The Railroad and the State: War, Politics,
and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America.
Reviewed by Paul C. Jussel. 348
Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours.
Reviewed by Peter A. Coclanis . 171
Baucom, Ian. Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital,
Slavery, and the Philosophy of History.
Reviewed by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. 778
Index to Volume 8o / 830
Bjelopera, Jerome P. City of Clerks: Office and
Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920.
Reviewed by Cindy Aron.360
Blaufarb, Rafe. Bonapartists in the Borderlands:
French Exiles and Refugees on the
Gulf Coast, 1815-1835.
Reviewed by Benjamin F. Martin. 545
Boje, Per. Villum Kann Rasmussen: Inventor and
Entrepreneur, 1909-1993.
Reviewed by Flemming Just. 410
Bowles, Nigel. Nixon’s Business: Authority and Power in
Presidential Politics. Reviewed by Dean J. Kotlowski .... 584
Boyce, Gordon. Over Haifa Million Careful Owners:
A 75-year History ofPSIS, 1928-2003.
Reviewed by David Merrett. 412
Bucheli, Marcelo. Bananas and Business: The United
Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000.
Reviewed by Maria Ines Barbero. 198
Buckley, Geoffrey L. Extracting Appalachia: Images of the
Consolidation Coal Company, 1910-1945.
Reviewed by Paul Rakes. 351
Carnevali, Francesca. Europe’s Advantage: Banks and
Small Firms in Britain, France, Germany,
and Italy since 1918. Reviewed by Forrest Capie. 610
Cassis, Youssef, and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, editors.
Entrepreneurship in Theory and History.
Reviewed by Franco Amatori . 615
Castleman, Bruce A. Building the King’s Highway:
Labor, Society and Family on Mexico’s
Caminos Reales, 1757-1804.
Reviewed by Sergio Silva-Castaiieda. 799
Chandler, Alfred D. Jr. Shaping the Industrial Century:
The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the
Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries.
Reviewed by John K. Smith Jr... 572
Chandler, Alfred D. Jr., and Bruce Mazlish, editors.
Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and
the New Global History.
Reviewed by Leslie Hannah. 194
Childs, William R. The Texas Railroad Commission:
Understanding Regulation in America to
the Mid-Twentieth Century.
Reviewed by Andrew W. Foshee. 557
Index to Volume 8o / 831
Coclanis, Peter A. editor. The Atlantic Economy during
the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries:
Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel.
Reviewed by Michelle Craig McDonald.780
Cooke, Nola, and Tana Li, editors. Water Frontier:
Commerce and the Chinese in the
Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880.
Reviewed by Wei Leng Lob. 224
Coopey, Richard, editor. Information Technology Policy:
An International History.
Reviewed by Margaret B. W. Graham .398
Cortada, James W. The Digital Hand, Volume 2:
How Computers Changed the Work of
American Financial, Telecommunications,
Media, and Entertainment Industries.
Reviewed by Atsushi Akera. 773
Crowther-Heyck, Hunter. Herbert A. Simon:
The Bounds of Reason in Modern America.
Reviewed by Mary O. Furner . 190
Delfino, Susanna, and Michele Gillespie, editors.
Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation
in the American South.
Reviewed by Stephen A. West. 358
Della Paolera, Gerardo, and Alan M. Taylor, editors.
A New Economic History of Argentina.
Reviewed by Vera Blinn Reber. 201
Dublin, Thomas, and Walter Licht. The Face of Decline:
The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the
Twentieth Century. Reviewed by Perry K. Blatz . 555
Ebi, Michael. Export umjeden Preis: Die Deutsche
Exportfoerderung von 1932-1938
[Export at Any Price: German Promotion of Exports
from 1932-1938]. Reviewed by Adam Tooze. 401
Edersheim, Elizabeth Haas. McKinsey’s Marvin Bower:
Vision, Leadership and the Creation of Management
Consulting. Reviewed by Christopher D. McKenna. 381
Edwards, Clive. Turning Houses into Homes: A History of
the Retailing and Consumption of
Domestic Furnishings.
Reviewed by Erika Rappaport .806
Federico, Giovanni. Feeding the World: An Economic
History of Agriculture, 1800-2000.
Reviewed by Andrew Duffin 792
Index to Volume 8o / 832
Frank, Alison Fleig. Oil Empire: Visions of
Prosperity in Austrian Galicia.
Reviewed by Holly Case.608
Franz, Kathleen. Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the
Early Automobile. Reviewed by Timothy Whisler. 370
Fried, Richard M. The Man Everybody Knew:
Bruce Barton and the Making of Modern America.
Reviewed by Susan V. Spellman. 564
Funigiello, Philip J. Chronic Politics: Health Care Security
from FDR to George W. Bush.
Reviewed by Rick Mayes. 587
Gantman, Ernesto R. Capitalism, Social Privilege and
Managerial Ideologies.
Reviewed by Daniel A. Wren. 794
Geiger, Till. Britain and the Economic Problem of
the Cold War: The Political Economy and the
Economic Impact of the British Defence Effort,
1945-1955- Reviewed by Peter Hewlett.811
Gerber, Larry G. The Irony of State Intervention:
American Industrial Relations Policy in
Comparative Perspective, 1914-1939.
Reviewed by William R. Childs. 346
Gillingham, John. European Integration, 1950-2003:
Superstate or New Market Economy?
Reviewed by Bruce Kogut. 203
Gobat, Michel. Confronting the American Dream:
Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule.
Reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward Jr.598
Gomery, Douglas. The Hollywood Studio System:
A History. Reviewed by Eric Schaefer. 582
Hanley, Anne. Native Capital: Financial Institutions
and Economic Development in Sao Paulo, Brazil,
1850-1920. Reviewed by Zephyr Frank .600
Higman, B. W. Plantation Jamaica, 1750-1850:
Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy.
Reviewed by Kathleen E. A. Monteith. 796
Holl, Richard E. From the Boardroom to the War Room:
America’s Corporate Liberals and
FDR’s Preparedness Program.
Reviewed by Larry G. Gerber. 569
Hornstein, Jeffrey M. A Nation of Realtors:
A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century
American Middle Class. Reviewed by Merry Ovnick. 180
Index to Volume 8o / 833
Horowitz, Daniel. The Anxieties of Affluence:
Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979.
Reviewed by Gary Cross . 543
Horowitz, Roger. Putting Meat on the American Table:
Taste, Technology, Transformation.
Reviewed by Timothy B. Spears. 562
Hoschle, Gerd. Die deutsche Textilindustrie zwischen
1933 und 1939: Staatsinterventionismus und
okonomische Rationalitdt [The German
Textile Industry between 1933 and 1939:
Government Intervention and Economic Rationality].
Reviewed by Jonas Schemer. 212
Humair, Cedric. Developpement economique et etat central
(1815-1914): Un siecle de politique douaniere
suisse au service des elites [Economic Development
and the Centralized State (1815-1914): A Century of
Swiss Customs Policy at the Service of the Elites].
Reviewed by Pierre-Yves Donze.820
Hyde, Charles K. The Dodge Brothers: The Men,
the Motor Cars, and the Legacy.
Reviewed by James M. Rubenstein . 177
Kaplan, Herbert H. Nathan Mayer Rothschild and
the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years,
1806-1816. Reviewed by Priscilla Roberts. 605
Kiesewetter, Hubert. Industrielle Revolution in Deutschland:
Regionen als Wachstumsmotoren [Industrial
Revolution in Germany: Regions as Motors of Growth].
Reviewed by Frank B. Tipton . 217
Kirk, Thomas Allison. Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power
in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559-1684.
Reviewed by Luisa Piccinno . 818
Kohler, Ingo. Die “Arisierung”der Privatbanken im
Dritten Reich: Verdrdngung, Ausschaltung und die
Frage der Wiedergutmachung [The “Aryanization”
of Private Banks during the Third Reich:
Repression, Exclusion, and the Question of
Restitution]. Reviewed by Gerald D. Feldman.404
Landsman, Mark. Dictatorship and Demand:
The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany.
Reviewed by James C. Van Hook. 824
Lause, Mark A. Young America: Land, Labor,
and the Republican Community.
Reviewed by Michael Green . 355
Index to Volume 8o / 834
Lecuyer, Christophe. Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and
the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970.
Reviewed by Leslie Berlin. 378
Levinson, Marc. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made
the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.
Reviewed by Shane Hamilton.775
Lewis, Robert, editor. Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work
and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe.
Reviewed by Andrew Wiese. 183
Lewis, Tom. The Hudson: A History.
Reviewed by Evan Cornog. 783
Luu, Lien Bich. Immigrants and the Industries of London,
1500-1700. Reviewed by Beverly Lemire.602
Maines, Rachel. Asbestos and Fire: Technological Trade-offs
and the Body at Risk. Reviewed by Dalit Baranoff. 188
Maney, Kevin. The Maverick and His Machine:
Thomas Watson, Sr., and the Making of IBM.
Reviewed by Nathan Ensmenger. 376
McCabe, Ina Baghdiantz, Gelina Harlaftis, and
Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, editors.
Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks:
Four Centuries of History.
Reviewed by Claude Markovits. 391
McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston. Working Women in
English Society, 1300-1620.
Reviewed by Katherine L. French.386
McTavish, Duncan. Business and Public Management
in the U.K., 1900-2003.
Reviewed by Robert Millward.809
Meikle, Jeffrey L. Design in the USA.
Reviewed by Merritt Roe Smith. 579
Millward, Robert. Private and Public Enterprise in Europe:
Energy, Telecommunications and Transport,
1830-1990. Reviewed by Jim Tomlinson. 396
Mittelstadt, Jennifer. From Welfare to Workfare:
The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform,
1945-1965. Reviewed by Rhonda Y. Williams. 343
Moreno, Julio. Yankee Don’t Go Home! Mexican Nationalism,
American Business Culture, and the Shaping of
Modern Mexico, 1920-1950.
Reviewed by Aurora Gomez-Galvarriato. 195
Morgan, Chad. Planters’ Progress: Modernizing
Confederate Georgia. Reviewed by Joseph P. Reidy.548
Index to Volume 8o / 835
Mulcahy, Matthew. Hurricanes and Society in the
British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783.
Reviewed by James Alexander Dun. 592
Murray, James M. Bruges, Cradle of Capitalism, 1280-1390.
Reviewed by Kathryn Reyerson . 813
Norberg, Arthur L. Computers and Commerce:
A Study of Technology and Management at
Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering
Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946-1957.
Reviewed by Thomas Haigh . 574
Nordin, Dennis S., and Roy V. Scott. From Prairie Farmer
to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of
Midwestern Agriculture. Reviewed by Claire Strom. 353
Orsi, Richard J. Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad
and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930.
Reviewed by Don L. Hofsommer. 176
Parmet, Robert D. The Master of Seventh Avenue:
David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement.
Reviewed by Nancy L. Green. 787
Perez, Kami R. Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama’s
Catfish Industry. Reviewed by Robert S. Davis. 577
Revell, Keith D. Building Gotham: Civic Culture and
Public Policy in New York City, 1898-1938.
Reviewed by Clifton Hood. 364
Rieger, Bernhard. Technology and the Culture of Modernity
in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945.
Reviewed by Michael Thad Allen. 207
Rosen, Elliot A. Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the
Economics of Recovery.
Reviewed by Jason Scott Smith . 567
Satre, Lowell J. Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the
Ethics of Business. Reviewed by Gail Cooper. 388
Schorman, Rob. Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change
at the Turn of the Century.
Reviewed by Regina Lee Blaszczyk. 383
Segal, Howard. Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford’s
Village Industries. Reviewed by Judith Sealander. 373
Shammas, Carole, and Elizabeth Mancke, editors.
The Creation of the British Atlantic World.
Reviewed by Matthew Mulcahy . 173
Sluyterman, Keetie E. Dutch Enterprise in the
Twentieth Century: Business Strategies in a
Small Open Economy. Reviewed by Mira Wilkins. 407
Index to Volume 8o / 836
Smith, Frederick H. Caribbean Rum: A Social and
Economic History. Reviewed by Da\dd B. Ryden. 595
Smith, Jason Scott. Building New Deal Liberalism:
The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956.
Reviewed by Ellis W. Hawley. 341
Spears, Timothy B. Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and
the City, 1871-1919. Reviewed by Timothy J. Gilfoyle .... 362
Sperber, Jonathan. Property and Civil Society in
South-Western Germany, 1820-1914.
Reviewed by Mark Spoerer. 823
Summerhill, Thomas. Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in
Nineteenth-Century New York.
Reviewed by Martin Bruegel. 367
Sutton, Anne F. The Mercery of London: Trade,
Goods and People, 1130-1578.
Reviewed by Richard Goddard.804
Tagliacozzo, Eric. Secret Trades, Porous Borders:
Smuggling and States along a
Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915.
Reviewed by Priscilla Roberts. 227
Tignor, Robert L. W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of
Development Economics. Reviewed by Ranald Michie ... 617
Toniolo, Gianni, with the assistance of Piet Clement.
Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for
International Settlements, 1930-1973.
Reviewed by James M. Bough ton. 393
Troy, Nancy J. Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art
and Fashion. Reviewed by Regina Lee Blaszczyk.383
Turner, Henry Ashby Jr. General Motors and the Nazis:
The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe’s
Biggest Carmaker. Reviewed by S. Jonathan Wiesen .... 210
Vargas, Zaragosa. Labor Rights Are Civil Rights:
Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century
America. Reviewed by Clete Daniel. 185
Vecchio, Diane C. Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women:
Italian Migrants in Urban America.
Reviewed by Hasia Diner. 785
Wada, Kazuo, and Tsunehiko Yui, translated by
Edmund R. Skrzypeak. Courage and Change:
The Life of Kiichiro Toyoda.
Reviewed by David Farber. 219
Waterman, David. Hollywood’s Road to Riches.
Reviewed by Douglas Gomery. 790