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Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business History around the World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xv + 425 pp. ISBN 0-521-82107-X, $65.00.
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This important cluster of perspectives on practice and prospect in business history derives from a fall 1998 colloquium held at Bocconi University in Milan, sponsored jointly by the Institute for Economic History, the Italian Association of Business Historians (ASSI), Reading University, and Johns Hopkins University. The collection echoes its support team’s transnational diversity, presenting an opening set of conceptualizing essays, eleven concise national/regional overviews, and four closing chapters that identify themes for comparative business history. Both a snapshot of the discipline’s preoccupations in the late 1990s and a handbook of historiography and work then in progress, Business History around the World is a volume every reference library should own. For practicing historians and graduate students, in my view, parts one and
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