Business History Review

Table of Contents - Volume  87  - Issue 02 - Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 2013

Editorial

Editors' Note

 
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Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 201 - 201

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Articles

Siemens and the Business of Medicine in Japan, 1900–1945

 
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Pierre-Yves Donzé

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 203 - 228

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Modernizing Electric Utilities in Brazil: National vs. Foreign Capital, 1889–1930

 
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Alexandre Macchione Saes

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 229 - 253

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Does Organizational Heritage Matter in the Development of Offshore Markets? The Case of Australian Life Insurers

 
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Monica Keneley

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 255 - 277

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Greek Family Firms in the Azov Sea Region, 1850–1917

 
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Evrydiki Sifneos

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 279 - 308

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Innovations in US Banking Practices and the Credit Boom of the 1920s

 
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Tobias Rötheli

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 309 - 327

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Announcements

Announcements

 
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Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 329 - 336

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Book Reviews

Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850. By Freeman Mark, Pearson Robin, and Taylor James. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xiv + 339 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-26187-4.

 
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Leslie Hannah

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 337 - 339

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States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities. By Stasavage David. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. xi + 192 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-14057-7.

 
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Tony Moore

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 339 - 341

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Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan. By Gordon Andrew. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xiii + 285 pp. Illustrations, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-26785-5.

 
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Helen Macnaughtan

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 341 - 344

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A Country Merchant, 1495–1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages. By Dyer Christopher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xiii + 256 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-921424-2.

 
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Steven A. Epstein

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 344 - 346

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From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa. By Aslanian Sebouh David. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xx + 363 pp. Maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-26687-2.

 
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Gijsbert Oonk

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 346 - 348

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Objectifying China, Imagining America: Chinese Commodities in Early America. By Frank Caroline. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xiii + 257 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-26028-0.

 
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Serena Zabin

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 348 - 351

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Merchants of Canton and Macao: Politics and Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade. By Van Dyke Paul A.. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. xxii + 545 pp. Tables, photographs, appendices, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-988-8028-91-7.

 
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Anne Reinhardt

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 351 - 353

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A Genius for Money: Business, Art, and the Morrisons. By Dakers Caroline. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. xiii + 326 pp. Photos, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-11220-7.

 
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Andrew Popp

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 353 - 355

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Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820–1860. By Fyfe Aileen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xvi + 313 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-27651-9.

 
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Terry S. Reynolds

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 355 - 357

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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention. By Rosen William. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xxv + 370 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Paper, $17.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-72634-2.

 
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Maury Klein

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 357 - 359

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Uneasy Allies: Working for Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century Boston. By Zonderman David A.. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. xii + 312 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 978-1-55849-865-5.

 
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Tom Juravich

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 360 - 362

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Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction. By Jentz John B. and Schneirov Richard. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. xi + 310 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-03683-5.

 
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Timothy B. Spears

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 362 - 364

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American Showman: Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908–1935. By Melnick Ross. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xiv + 538 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN: 978-0-231-15904-3.

 
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Josh Glick

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 364 - 367

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The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America. By Culver Lawrence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. x + 317 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-538263-1.

 
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Eliza Martin

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 367 - 369

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Die Geschichte der National-Bank, 1921 bis 2011 [The History of National-Bank, 1921 to 2011]. By Scholtyseck Joachim. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. 423 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, €44.00. ISBN: 978-3-515-09831-1.

 
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Chris Kobrak

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 369 - 372

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Historia del Banco Popular: La lucha por la independencia [History of Banco Popular: The Fight for Independence]. By Tortella Gabriel, Ortiz-Villajos José María, and Ruiz José Luís García. Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2011. 431 pp. Illustrations, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes. Paper, €38.00. ISBN: 978-84-9768-917-5.

 
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Miguel A. López-Morell

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 372 - 373

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Banquiers et diplomates suisses (1938–1946) [Swiss Banking and Diplomacy, 1938–1946]. By Perrenoud Marc. Lausanne: Editions Antipodes, 2011. 540 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €37.00. ISBN: 978-2-88901-030-1.

 
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Matthieu Leimgruber

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 374 - 376

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Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883–1945. By Yang Daqing. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010. xix + 446 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-01091-8.

 
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Yongdo Kim

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 376 - 378

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Technology and the Making of the Netherlands: The Age of Contested Modernization, 1890–1970. Edited by Schot Johan, Lintsen Harry, and Rip Arie. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. 635 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-26-201362-8.

 
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Joost Dankers

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 378 - 381

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Creating Consumers: Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America. By Goldstein Carolyn M.. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xi + 412 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3553-1.

 
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Ai Hisano

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 381 - 384

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The Voice of the Citizen Consumer: A History of Market Research, Consumer Movements, and the Public Sphere. Edited by Brückweh Kerstin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xv + 304 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $150.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-960402-9.

 
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Jan Logemann

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 384 - 386

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Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840–1914. By Simpson James. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. xli + 318 pp. Tables, maps, glossary, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.50; electronic, $39.50. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-691-13603-5; electronic, 978-1-400-83888-2.

 
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Teresa da Silva Lopes

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 386 - 389

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American Tuna: The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food. By Smith Andrew F.. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xiv + 242 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-26184-6.

 
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Mansel Blackford

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 389 - 391

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Sweet Stuff: An American History of Sweeteners from Sugar to Sucralose. By Warner Deborah Jean. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2011. viii + 289 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-935623-05-2.

 
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Wendy A. Woloson

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 391 - 393

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Art and Science in Breeding: Creating Better Chickens. By Derry Margaret E.. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. 281 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4395-6.

 
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Andrew Godley

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 393 - 394

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They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California. By Mitchell Don. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. xii + 529 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8203-4175-0; paper, 978-0-8203-4176-7.

 
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Paul J. P. Sandul

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 394 - 397

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Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences. By Tobbell Dominique A.. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xv + 294 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-520-27113-5; paper, 978-0-520-27114-2.

 
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Anne Pollock

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 397 - 399

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Oil Producing Countries and Oil Companies: From the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Beltran Alain. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. 294 pp. Figures and tables. Paper, $61.95 ISBN: 978-90-5201-711-2.

 
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Mark Seddon

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 399 - 401

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The Wealth and Poverty of Regions: Why Cities Matter. By Polèse Mario. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv + 254 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, index. Paper, $22.50. ISBN: 978-0-226-67316-5.

 
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Robert Forrant

Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp 402 - 404

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Front matter

BHR volume 87 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

 
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Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp f1 - f5

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Back matter

BHR volume 87 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

 
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Business History Review / Volume  87 / Issue 02 / Summer 2013, pp b1 - b2

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