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 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 673–673 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000859 Published Online on 3 February 2021
Research Articles
Partners, Servants, or Entrepreneurs? Banians in the Nineteenth-Century Bengal Economy Michael Aldous Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 675–697 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000689 Published Online on 3 February 2021
Multinational Companies and the Cultural Industries: W.H. Smith in Canada, 1950–1989 Thomas R. Buckley Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 699–727 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000744 Published Online on 3 February 2021
Ghost in a Shell: The Scenario Tool and the World Making of Royal Dutch Shell Jenny Andersson Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 729–751 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000483 Published Online on 3 February 2021
Politics, International Banking, and the Debt Crisis of 1982 Carlo Edoardo Altamura, Juan Flores Zendejas Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 753–778 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000653 Published Online on 3 February 2021
Public Policy, Industrial Innovation, and the Zero-Emission Vehicle Matthew N. Eisler Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 779–802 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000719 Published Online on 3 February 2021
Announcement
Announcements Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 803–805 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000860 Published Online on 3 February 2021
Perspectives
Training Leaders to Win Wars and Forge Peace: Lessons from History Peter Tufano Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 807–833 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000768 Published Online on 3 February 2021
Review Essay
The Sky above and the Mud below: Two Books about Steve Jobs Richard S. Tedlow Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 835–852 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000756 Published Online on 3 February 2021
Book Reviews
The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire. By Robert E. Weems Jr. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. 224 pp. Photographs, tables, appendices, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-04306-2; paper, 978-0-252-08493-5. Keith Hollingsworth Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 853–855 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000811 Published Online on 3 February 2021
Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets. By Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xvi + 357 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-49642-1. Sean H. Vanatta Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 855–858 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000835 Published Online on 3 February 2021
Darkness by Design: The Hidden Power in Global Capital Markets. By Walter Mattli. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. x + 248 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-18066-3. Leslie Hannah Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 858–859 doi: 10.1017/S000768052000080X Published Online on 3 February 2021
Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat. By Ai Hisano. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 336 pp. Photographs, illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 9780674983892. Bartow J. Elmore Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 859–861 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000793 Published Online on 3 February 2021
Savannah's Midnight Hour: Boosterism, Growth, and Commerce in a Nineteenth-Century American City. By Lisa L. Denmark. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019. xvi + 247 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8203-5632-7. Justene Hill Edwards Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 861–864 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000847 Published Online on 3 February 2021
The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism. By Jennifer A. Delton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 358 pp. Photographs, figures, table, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-16786-2. Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 864–867 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000823 Published Online on 3 February 2021
The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas. By Janek Wasserman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. xii + 354 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-22822-9. Christopher J. Coyne Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 4, Winter 2020, pp 867–869 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000781 Published Online on 3 February 2021