Forthcoming Book Reviews in Business History

Updated August 1, 2008



Coming This Month:

Author: Anita McConnell
Title: Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800): London’s Leading Scientific Instrument Maker
Publisher: Ashgate
Reviewer: Christine MacLeod, University of Bristol

Author: Stan Hoig
Title: The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Reviewer: Ann Harper Fender, Gettysburg College

Author: Marcelo Bucheli
Title: Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000
Publisher: New York University Press
Reviewer: Alan Dye, Barnard College

Coming Later:

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: Paul Ceruzzi
Title: Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005
Publisher: MIT 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: Wendy Gamber
Title: The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Authors: Mauro F. Guillen and Adrian Tschoegl
Title: Building a Global Bank: The Transformation of Banco Santander
Publisher: Princeton University 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: Stephan H. Lindner
Title: Inside IG Farben: Hoechst during the Third Reich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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

Authors: Joseph Melling and Alan Booth, editors
Title: Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics and Workplace Culture in Postwar Britain
Publisher: Ashgate

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