Forthcoming Book Reviews in Business History


March 31, 2008


Author: Peter E. Austin
Title: Baring Brothers and the Birth of Global Finance
Publisher: Pickering and Chatto

Author: Morris L. Bian
Title: The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Author: Sally Clarke
Title: Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Author: Alison Fleig Frank
Title: Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Author: Natasha Glaisyer
Title: The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660-1720
Publisher: Boydell

Author: H. Roger Grant
Title: Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press

Author: Janet Greenlees
Title: Female Labour Power: Women Workers’ Influence on Business Practice in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Stan Hoig
Title: The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Author: Chris Howell
Title: Trade Unions and the State: The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Author: Christopher Kobrak
Title: Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Author: Anita McConnell
Title: Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800): London’s Leading Scientific Instrument Maker
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Christopher D. McKenna
Title: The World’s Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Author: Jan McTavish
Title: Pain and Profits: The History of the Headache and Its Remedies in the United States
Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Author: Randall K. Morck, editor
Title: A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Authors: Bert De Munck, Steven L. Kaplan and Hugo Soly, editors
Title: Learning on the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeships
Publisher: Berghahn

Author: David Oldroyd
Title: Estates, Enterprise and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of England, c. 1700-1780
Publisher: Ashgate

Author: Rowena Olegario
Title: A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Authors: Sterling D. Sessions and Gene A. Sessions
Title: A History of Utah International: From Construction to Mining
Publisher: University of Utah Press

Author: Carl Zimring
Title: Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America
Publisher: Rutgers University Press