Reviews

Author:

Walter Johnson

Reviewer:

Caitlin Rosenthal

Rosenthal on Johnson, 'River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom'

Walter Johnson. River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. 560 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04555-2.

Reviewed by Caitlin Rosenthal (Department of History, University of California-Berkeley) Published on H-Business (February, 2015) Commissioned by Tracey Deutsch

Slavery, Capitalism, and Empire in the Global Mississippi Valley

Author:

Philip J. Stern

Reviewer:

Aaron Windel

Windel on Fichter, 'So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism' and Stern, 'The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India'

James R. Fichter. So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. 384 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-05057-0.Philip J. Stern. The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India.

Author:

Andrew Gordon

Reviewer:

Anna Johns

Johns on Gordon, 'Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan'

Andrew Gordon. Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 304 pp. $57.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-26785-5.

Reviewed by Anna Johns (Duke University) Published on H-Business (December, 2014) Commissioned by Tracey Deutsch

Restitching the Patterns of Global Capitalism

Author:

Laura Warren Hill, Julia Rabig, eds.

Reviewer:

Shennette Garrett-Scott

Garrett-Scott on Hill and Rabig, 'The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America'

Laura Warren Hill, Julia Rabig, eds. The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2012. 354 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-58046-440-6.

Reviewed by Shennette Garrett-Scott (Case-Western Reserve University) Published on H-Business (March, 2013) Commissioned by Tracey Deutsch

Author:

Julia C. Ott

Reviewer:

Natascha van der Zwan

van der Zwan on Hyman, 'Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink' and Krippner, 'Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance' and Ott, 'When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors' Democracy'

Louis Hyman. Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. 392 S. ISBN 978-0-691-15616-3.Greta R. Krippner. Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. xv + 222 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-06619-9.Julia C. Ott. When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors' Democracy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. 313 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-05065-5.

Author:

Woodruff D. Smith

Reviewer:

Jason M. Kelly

Kelly on Smith, 'Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800'

Woodruff D. Smith. Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800. New York: Routledge, 2002. x + 339 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-415-93329-2; $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-93328-5.

Reviewed by Jason M. Kelly (Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara) Published on H-Business (January, 2004)

Author:

Wendy A. Woloson

Reviewer:

Bryan Wuthrich

Wuthrich on Woloson, 'Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumerism in Nineteenth-Century America'

Wendy A. Woloson. Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumerism in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xi + 277 pp. $46.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-6876-4.

Reviewed by Bryan Wuthrich (Department of History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) Published on H-Business (September, 2003)

Author:

Stephen D. Cohen, Joel R. Paul, Robert A. Blecker

Reviewer:

Alfred E. Eckes

Eckes on Cohen and Paul and Blecker, 'Fundamentals of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy, Second Edition: Economics, Politics, Laws, and Issues'

Stephen D. Cohen, Joel R. Paul, Robert A. Blecker. Fundamentals of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy, Second Edition: Economics, Politics, Laws, and Issues. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2003. xiv + 360 pp. $42.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8133-9845-7; $89.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8133-4027-2.

Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes (Department of History, Ohio University) Published on H-Business (September, 2003)

Author:

Jerry W. Markham

Reviewer:

Edwin J. Perkins

Perkins on Markham, 'A Financial History of the United States'

Jerry W. Markham. A Financial History of the United States. Armonk, NY, and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. Three volumes -- I) xxi + 437 pp.p; II) xx + 412. $349.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7656-0730-0.

Reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins (Department of History, University of Southern California) Published on H-Business (July, 2003)

Author:

Simon Coleman, Mike Crang, eds.

Reviewer:

John C. Ehrhardt

Ehrhardt on Coleman and Crang, 'Tourism: Between Place and Performance'

Simon Coleman, Mike Crang, eds. Tourism: Between Place and Performance. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2002. x + 246 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-57181-746-4; $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57181-745-7.

Reviewed by John C. Ehrhardt (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Business (July, 2003)

Reevaluating Tourism, Reinventing Tourism Studies

Author:

Richard Whittington, Michael Mayer

Reviewer:

Michael Rowlinson

Rowlinson on Whittington and Mayer, 'The European Corporation: Strategy, Structure, and Social Science'

Richard Whittington, Michael Mayer. The European Corporation: Strategy, Structure, and Social Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiv + 271 pp. $85.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-925104-9; $161.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-924208-5.

Reviewed by Michael Rowlinson (London Metropolitan University) Published on H-Business (June, 2003)

Author:

Theresa A. Hammond

Reviewer:

Dale L. Flesher

Flesher on Hammond, 'A White-Collar Profession: African American Certified Public Accountants Since 1921'

Theresa A. Hammond. A White-Collar Profession: African American Certified Public Accountants Since 1921. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 211 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-5377-1; $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2708-6.

Reviewed by Dale L. Flesher (Patterson School of Accountancy, University of Mississippi) Published on H-Business (September, 2002)

Author:

Cassandra Tate

Reviewer:

Kay Kiefer

Kiefer on Tate, 'Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of the Little White Slaver'

Cassandra Tate. Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of the Little White Slaver. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. vi + 204 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-511851-3.

Reviewed by Kay Kiefer (Department of History, Southern Illinois University Carbondale) Published on H-Business (October, 1999)

Author:

Ellen Furlough, Carl Strikwerda, eds.

Reviewer:

Gerd-Rainer Horn

Horn on Furlough and Strikwerda, 'Consumers Against Capitalism? Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan 1840-1990'

Ellen Furlough, Carl Strikwerda, eds. Consumers Against Capitalism? Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan 1840-1990. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. 377 pp. $52.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8476-8649-0; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8476-8648-3.

Reviewed by Gerd-Rainer Horn (Department of History, Western Oregon University) Published on H-Business (September, 1999)

Author:

Karen S. Miller

Reviewer:

Pamela Laird

Laird on Miller, 'The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations'

Karen S. Miller. The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiii + 261 pp. $ 39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2439-9.

Reviewed by Pamela Laird (University of Colorado at Denver) Published on H-Business (September, 1999)

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Rosenthal on Johnson, 'River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom'

Windel on Fichter, 'So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism' and Stern, 'The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India'

Johns on Gordon, 'Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan'

Garrett-Scott on Hill and Rabig, 'The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America'

van der Zwan on Hyman, 'Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink' and Krippner, 'Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance' and Ott, 'When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors' Democracy'

Kelly on Smith, 'Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800'

Wuthrich on Woloson, 'Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumerism in Nineteenth-Century America'

Eckes on Cohen and Paul and Blecker, 'Fundamentals of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy, Second Edition: Economics, Politics, Laws, and Issues'

Perkins on Markham, 'A Financial History of the United States'

Ehrhardt on Coleman and Crang, 'Tourism: Between Place and Performance'

Rowlinson on Whittington and Mayer, 'The European Corporation: Strategy, Structure, and Social Science'

Flesher on Hammond, 'A White-Collar Profession: African American Certified Public Accountants Since 1921'

Kiefer on Tate, 'Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of the Little White Slaver'

Horn on Furlough and Strikwerda, 'Consumers Against Capitalism? Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan 1840-1990'

Laird on Miller, 'The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations'

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