The pioneering journal in its field, Business History Review, began publication in 1926 as the Bulletin of the Business Historical Society. BHR seeks to publish articles based on rigorous primary research that address major topics of debate, offer comparative perspectives, and broaden consideration of the subject. We are interested in the history of entrepreneurs, firms, and business systems, and in the subjects of innovation, globalization, and regulation. We also explore the relation of businesses to political regimes and to the environment.
Editorial
Editors' Note Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 1 – 1 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000076 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Research Articles
Marks & Spencer and the Decline of the British Textile Industry, 1950–2000 Steven Toms and Qi Zhang Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 3 – 30 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000027 (About DOI), Published online: 16 März 2016
California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of “Fairness” in U.S. Competition Policy Laura Phillips Sawyer Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 31 – 56 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515001063 (About DOI), Published online: 21 Dezember 2015
Citibank, Credit Cards, and the Local Politics of National Consumer Finance, 1968–1991 Sean H. Vanatta Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 57 – 80 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515001038 (About DOI), Published online: 26 Oktober 2015
Varieties of Financialization? Evidence from German Industry in the 1990s Hartmut Berghoff Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 81 – 108 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000039 (About DOI), Published online: 04 April 2016
AnnouncementBusiness History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 109 – 111 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000088 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Review Essays
Genealogy of American Finance Peter Eisenstadt Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 113 – 117 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000040 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 119 – 129 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000015 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Book Reviews
A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War. By Ronald K. Fierstein. Chicago: Ankerwycke Publications, 2015. ix + 630 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-62722-769-8. Eric S. Hintz Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 131 – 133 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000768051600009X (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism. By Bartow J. Elmore. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. 416 pp. Photographs, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-393-24112-9. Christopher W. Wells Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 134 – 136 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000106 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store. By Vicki Howard. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 295 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4728-2. Alexis McCrossen Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 136 – 139 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000118 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Investment Management in Boston: A History. By David Grayson Allen. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. x + 432 pp. Tables, photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-62534-102-0; paper, 978-1-62534-103-7. Janette Rutterford Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 139 – 142 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000768051600012X (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals, 1750–2010. By Margaret E. Derry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. viii + 310 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $32.95. ISBN: 978-1-4426-2652-2. Anna Thompson Hajdik Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 142 – 144 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000131 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism. By Timothy E. W. Gloege. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xviii + 307 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-2101-2. Peter J. Wosh Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 144 – 146 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000143 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie. By Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. xii + 264 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-03903-4; paper, 978-0-252-08066-1. Joseph E. Hower Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 147 – 149 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000155 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Century of the Leisured Masses: Entertainment and the Transformation of Twentieth-Century America. By David George Surdam with Preface by Ken McCormick. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xviii + 305 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-021157-8. Gary Cross Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 149 – 151 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000167 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern Environmentalism. By Robert D. Lifset. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. xvi + 309 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $25.95. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6305-9. Emily Pawley Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 152 – 154 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000179 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Digital State: The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry. By Thomas J. Misa. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. xv + 299 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8166-8331-4; paper, 978-0-8166-8332-1. Martin Kenney Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 154 – 156 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000180 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Advertising Diversity: Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers. By Shalini Shankar. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015. xii + 314 pp. Illustrations, glossary, appendixes, references, notes, index. Cloth, $94.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-5864-0; paper, 978-0-8223-5877-0. Christine R. Yano Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 156 – 158 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000192 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
In the Power of the Government: The Rise and Fall of Newsprint in Ontario, 1894–1932. By Mark Kuhlberg. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. xv + 404 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $35.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4426-4663-6; paper, 978-1-4426-1453-6. Alex Nalbach Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 159 – 161 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000209 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain. By Katherine C. Epstein. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 305 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-72526-3. Michael Carew Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 161 – 164 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000210 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War. By Pierpaolo Barbieri. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 349 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72885-1. Jesús M. Valdaliso Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 164 – 167 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000222 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France. By Clare Haru Crowston. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. xx + 424 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $27.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8223-5513-7; paper, 978-0-8223-5528-1. Deborah Simonton Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 167 – 170 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000234 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
The Beautiful Country: Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy. By Stephanie Malia Hom. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. xiv + 313 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4872-2. Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 170 – 172 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000246 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
A Long Time in Making: The History of Smiths. By James Nye. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxvi + 375 pp. Photographs, figures, tables, appendixes, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-871725-6. Stephen Sambrook Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 172 – 175 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000258 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Banque et identité commerciale: La Société générale, 1864–2014 [Bank and Commercial Identity: La Société générale, 1864–2014]. By Hubert Bonin. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2014. 290 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, tables, index. Paper, €24. ISBN: 978-2-7574-0597-0. Fabien Bonnet Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 175 – 177 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000768051600026X (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Pesos and Politics: Business, Elites, Foreigners, and Government in Mexico, 1854–1940. By Mark Wasserman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. ix + 257 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9154-0. Casey Lurtz Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 177 – 179 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000271 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Historia de la investigación de mercados en Colombia: Trayectoria empresarial de Napoleón Franco [The History of Market Research in Colombia: Napoleón Franco's Business Career]. By José Miguel Ospina Silva, Luis Fernando Molina Londoño, Gabriel Pérez Cifuentes, and Carlos Dávila L. de Guevara. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, 2014. 505 pp. Photographs, notes, references. Paper, $23.00. ISBN: 978-958-695-990-2. Joshua M. Rosenthal Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 179 – 181 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000283 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan. By Adam Clulow. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xvi + 330 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-16428-3. John P. Tang Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 181 – 184 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000295 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Sugar, Steam, and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830–1885. By G. Roger Knight. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2014. xi + 242 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography. Paper, $44.00; electronic, free. ISBN: paper, 978-1-922064-98-1; electronic, 978-1-922064-99-8. Geoffrey C. Gunn Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 184 – 186 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000301 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Empires of Coal: Fueling China's Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1920. By Shellen Xiao Wu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. xii + 266 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9284-4. Judd C. Kinzley Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 186 – 188 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000313 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One. By Meghnad Desai. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015. xii + 287 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-21607-3. Marcel Boumans Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 188 – 191 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000325 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016
Mainstream Growth Economists and Capital Theorists: A Survey. By Marin Muzhani. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. x + 558 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $120.00; paper, $44.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-7735-4365-2; paper, 978-0-7735-4366-9. Geoffrey M. Hodgson Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 01 / Spring 2016, pp 191 – 193 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680516000337 (About DOI), Published online: 29 April 2016