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 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 205 – 205
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000768051500032X (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Research Articles
Institutional Transfer: The Beginnings of Insurance in Southeast Asia Peter Borscheid and Niels-Viggo Haueter Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 207 – 228 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000331 (About DOI), Published online: 29 Mai 2015
Accounting for Nonconvergence in Global Wool Marketing before 1939 David Tolmie Merrett and Simon Ville Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 229 – 253 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000641 (About DOI), Published online: 05 Juni 2015
The International Mercury Cartel, 1928–1954: Controlling Global Supply Miguel A. López-Morell and Luciano Segreto Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 255 – 280 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000355 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
“Cult of Equity”: Actuaries and the Transformation of Pension Fund Investing, 1948–1960 Yally Avrahampour Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 281 – 304 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000367 (About DOI), Published online: 15 Juni 2015
Corporate Defaults, Workouts, and the Rise of the Distressed Asset Investment Industry Douglas Cumming and Grant Fleming Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 305 – 330 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000768051500029X (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2015
AnnouncementsBusiness History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 331 – 338 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000380 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Review Essay
Blaming Wilbur and Orville Tom D. Crouch Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 339 – 343 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000392 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Book Reviews
American Big Business in Britain and Germany: A Comparative History of Two “Special Relationships” in the Twentieth Century. By Volker R. Berghahn. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. ix + 375 pp. Index. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN: 978-0-691-16109-9. Gary Herrigel Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 345 – 347 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000409 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Keynes: Useful Economics for the World Economy. By Peter Temin and David Vines. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2014. xiii + 117 pp. Figures, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-02831-8. David Chambers Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 347 – 350 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000410 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie, and the Problem of Scientific Credit. By Till Düppe and E. Roy Weintraub. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xxv + 276 pp. Photographs, references, index. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 978-0-691-15664-4. Tobias F. Rötheli Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 350 – 352 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000422 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Walter Lippmann: Public Economist. By Craufurd D. Goodwin. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2014. x + 414 pp. References, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-36813-2. Maury Klein Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 352 – 354 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000434 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare. By Gunnar Trumbull. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xi + 228 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-01565-4. Howard Bodenhorn Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 355 – 357 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000446 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Open Standards and the Internet Age: History, Ideology, and Networks. By Andrew L. Russell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvii + 306 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, tables, bibliography, index. Paper, $32.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-61204-4. Paul Duguid Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 357 – 360 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000458 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250–1650. By Oscar Gelderblom. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xii + 293 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-14288-3. Anne McCants Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 360 – 362 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000768051500046X (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619–1807. By Gregory E. O'Malley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ix + 394 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 9-781469-615349. Robert Gudmestad Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 362 – 364 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000471 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Design by IKEA: A Cultural History. By Sara Kristoffersson. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. viii + 148 pp. Illustrations, figures, references, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8578-5814-6. Hans Sjögren Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 364 – 367 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000483 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
A Business History of the Swatch Group: The Rebirth of Swiss Watchmaking and the Globalization of the Luxury Industry. By Pierre-Yves Donzé. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave, 2014. xiii + 152 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $91.89. ISBN: 978-1-137-38906-0. Teresa da Silva Lopes Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 367 – 368 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000495 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Electric City: General Electric in Schenectady. By Julia Kirk Blackwelder. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2014. x + 259 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-62349-186-4. Howard Stanger Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 369 – 371 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000501 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus. By Susan Nance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. viii + 294 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-0829-3. Brett Mizelle Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 371 – 374 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000513 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England. By James Raven. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell & Brewer, 2014. xiv + 334 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-84383-910-1. Noah Moxham Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 374 – 376 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000525 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s. By Inger L. Stole. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. viii + 265 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-03712-2. Ferdinando Fasce Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 376 – 378 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000537 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Business Goals and Social Commitment: Shaping Organizational Capabilities—Colombia's Fundación Social, 1984–2011. By José Camilo Dávila, Carlos Dávila, Lina Grisales, and David Schnarch. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes, 2014. xxxiii + 208 pp. Figures, references, appendix. Paper, $40.00. ISBN: 978-958-695-930-8. Frank Safford Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 379 – 380 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000549 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz. By Steven B. Bunker. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012. xiii + 333 pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-8263-4454-0. Edward Beatty Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 381 – 383 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000550 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Making Seafood Sustainable: American Experiences in Global Perspective. By Mansel Blackford. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. xii + 273 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4393-2. David Kinkela Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 383 – 386 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000562 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
The Great Rent Wars: New York, 1917–1929. By Robert M. Fogelson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. viii + 495 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-19172-1. Benjamin Holtzman Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 386 – 388 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000574 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
American Energy Policy in the 1970s. Edited by Robert Lifset. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. x + 322 pp. Notes, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-8061-4450-4. Fredric L. Quivik Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 389 – 391 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000586 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Opium and Empire: The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson. By Richard J. Grace. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. xviii + 453 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-7735-4452-9. John D. Wong Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 391 – 393 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000598 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence. By Per Högselius. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xiii + 279 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.33; paper, $30.36. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-13728614-7; paper, 978-1-137-29371-8. Thomas C. Owen Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 393 – 396 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000604 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Diriger une grande entreprise au XXe siècle: L’élite industrielle française [Running a Large Business in the Twentieth Century: The French Industrial Elite]. By Hervé Joly. Tours, France: Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais, 2013. 425 pp. Tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €22.00. ISBN: 978-2-86906-298-6. Michael S. Smith Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 396 – 398 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000616 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015
Malaysia@50: Economic Development, Distribution, Disparities. By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Wee Chong Hui. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2014. xvi + 198 pp. Tables, figures, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 978-981-4571-38-8. Nicholas J. White Business History Review / Volume 89 / Issue 02 / Summer 2015, pp 399 – 401 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515000628 (About DOI), Published online: 08 Juli 2015