Enterprise and Society -- Table of Contents (December 2004, 5 [4])

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Contents: December 2004, Volume 5, Number 4   [Index by Author]

       Editor's Introduction

       Presidential Address

       Dissertation Summaries

       Articles

       Reviews

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Editor's Introduction:

Kenneth Lipartito: Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 559-561; doi:10.1093/es/khh076 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Presidential Address:

Patrick Fridenson: Business Failure and the Agenda of Business History
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 562-582; doi:10.1093/es/khh077 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Dissertation Summaries:

Tiffany M. Gill: Civic Beauty: Beauty Culturists and the Politics of African American Female Entrepreneurship, 1900–1965
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 583-593; doi:10.1093/es/khh078 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Douglas Bristol, Jr.: From Outposts to Enclaves: A Social History of Black Barbers from 1750 to 1915
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 594-606; doi:10.1093/es/khh079 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tracey Deutsch: Making Change at the Grocery Store: Government, Grocers, and the Problem of Women’s Autonomy in the Creation of Chicago’s Supermarkets, 1920–1950
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 607-616; doi:10.1093/es/khh080 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

R. Daniel Wadhwani: Citizen Savers: Family Economy, Financial Institutions, and Public Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Northeast
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 617-624; doi:10.1093/es/khh081 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Articles:

Emanuela Scarpellini: Shopping American-Style: The Arrival of the Supermarket in Postwar Italy
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 625-668; doi:10.1093/es/khh082 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Astrid Baker: Governments, Firms, and National Wealth: A New Pulp and Paper Industry in Postwar New Zealand
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 669-690; doi:10.1093/es/khh083 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews:

Margaret B. W. Graham: Johann Peter Murmann. Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxi + 294 pp. ISBN 0-521-81329-8, $60.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 691-693; doi:10.1093/es/khh084 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Eric John Abrahamson: Gerald W. Brock. The Second Information Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xiv + 322 pp. ISBN 0-674-01178-3, $39.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 693-695; doi:10.1093/es/khh085 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

David G. Wittner: Saadia M. Pekkanen. Picking Winners? From Technology Catch-up to the Space Race in Japan. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003. xvi + 283 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4732-6, $45.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 695-697; doi:10.1093/es/khh087 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tamás Szmrecsányi: William R. Summerhill. Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment and Railroads in Brazil, 1854–1913. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. xx + 297 pp. ISBN 0-8047-3224-8, $60.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 698-699; doi:10.1093/es/khh088 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Victor J. Rodriguez: Michael P. Costeloe. Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico’s Foreign Debt, 1824–1888. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2003. xxii + 384 pp. ISBN 0-275-97939-3, $69.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 699-701; doi:10.1093/es/khh089 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

James P. Kraft: F. M. Scherer. Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. x + 264 pp. ISBN 0-691-11621-0, $35.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 701-703; doi:10.1093/es/khh090 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Alex Roland: J. Forbes Munro. Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and his Business Empire, 1823–1893. Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2003. ix + 525 pp. ISBN 0-85115-935-4, $130 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 703-705; doi:10.1093/es/khh091 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

James Jaffe: John F. Wilson and Andrew Popp, eds. Industrial Clusters and Regional Business Networks in England, 1750–1970. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. x + 288 pp. ISBN 0-7546-0761-5, $84.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 706-708; doi:10.1093/es/khh092 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Andrew Jenkins: Dieter Helm. Energy, the State, and the Market: British Energy Policy since 1979. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi + 457 pp. ISBN 0-19-926203-9, $45.00 (cloth); 0-19-927074-0, $35.00 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 708-710; doi:10.1093/es/khh093 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

John K. Smith: Werner Abelshauser, Wolfgang von Hippel, Jeffrey Allan Johnson, and Raymond G. Stokes. German Industry and Global Enterprise, BASF: The History of a Company. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ix + 677 pp. ISBN 0-521-82726-4, $75.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 710-712; doi:10.1093/es/khh094 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Rolv Petter Amdam: Arthur A. Daemmrich. Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii + 203. ISBN 0-8078-2844-0, $34.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 712-714; doi:10.1093/es/khh095 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Edwin J. Perkins: Robert E. Wright, ed. The History of Corporate Finance: Development of Anglo-American Securities Markets, Financial Practices, Theories and Laws. Six volumes. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003. iii + 2,497 pp. ISBN: 1-85196-749-4, $950.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 714-717; doi:10.1093/es/khh096 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Mira Wilkins: Jonathan Crystal. Unwanted Company: Foreign Investment in American Industries. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 230 pp. ISBN 0-8014-4123-4, $30.45 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 717-719; doi:10.1093/es/khh097 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

David Palmer: Dan Rottenberg. In the Kingdom of Coal: An American Family and the Rock that Changed the World. New York: Routledge, 2003. xvii + 327 pp. ISBN 0-415-93522-9, $29.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 719-721; doi:10.1093/es/khh098 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Gordon B. McKinney: Geoffrey L. Buckley. Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910–1945. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. xxii + 215 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1555-7, $46.95 (cloth); 0-8214-1556-5, $22.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 721-724; doi:10.1093/es/khh099 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Gordon B. McKinney: Eve S. Weinbaum. To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia. New York: New Press, 2004. 340 pp. ISBN 1-56584-784-9, $25.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 721-724; doi:10.1093/es/khh099a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf: Susan Eleanor Hirsch. After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2003. x + 292 pp. ISBN 0-252-02791-4, $44.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 725-727; doi:10.1093/es/khh100 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Tim Krywulak: R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson. The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 to 1929. Baltimore, Md.: The John Hopkins University Press, 2003. x + 168 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7054-2, $39.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 727-729; doi:10.1093/es/khh101 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

James B. Gilbert: Daniel Horowitz. The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939–1979. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. ix + 376 pp. ISBN 1-55849-432-4, $29.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 729-731; doi:10.1093/es/khh102 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Carl Zimring: Susan R. Schrepfer and Philip Scranton, eds. Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History. New York: Routledge, 2004. ix + 275 pp. ISBN 0-415-94548-8, $24.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 731-733; doi:10.1093/es/khh103 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Saverio Giovacchini: Kevin Heffernan. Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. viii + 323 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3215-9, $22.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 733-735; doi:10.1093/es/khh104 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

William J. Hausman: J. Samuel Walker. Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xi + 303 pp. ISBN 0-520-23940-7, $24.95 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 735-737; doi:10.1093/es/khh105 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Lisa R. Mar: Alfred Yee. Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xi + 193 pp. ISBN 0-295-98304-3, $35.00 (cloth)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 737-739; doi:10.1093/es/khh106 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Thomas Mertes: Joseph E. Stiglitz. The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World’s Most Prosperous Decade. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. xxiii + 379 pp. ISBN 0-393-05852-2, $25.95 (cloth); 0-513-3457-2, $22.95 (paper)
Enterprise Soc 2004 5: 739-741; doi:10.1093/es/khh107 [PDF] [Request Permissions]