The pioneering journal in its field, Business History Review, began publication in 1926 as the Bulletin of the Business Historical Society. BHR seeks to publish articles based on rigorous primary research that address major topics of debate, offer comparative perspectives, and broaden consideration of the subject. We are interested in the history of entrepreneurs, firms, and business systems, and in the subjects of innovation, globalization, and regulation. We also explore the relation of businesses to political regimes and to the environment.
Editorial
Editors' Note Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 285 – 285 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000501 Published Online on 20 August 2020
Research article
Shorting the Future? Capital Markets and the Launch of the British Electrical Industry, 1882–1892 William P. Kennedy, P. J. R. Delargy Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 287 – 320 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000318 Published Online on 20 August 2020
Investing in a Wealthy Resource-Based Colonial Economy: International Business in Australia before World War I Simon Ville, David Tolmie Merrett Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 321 – 346 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000264 Published Online on 21 July 2020
The Changing and Flexible Nature of Imitation and Adulteration: The Case of the Global Wine Industry, 1850–1914 Teresa da Silva Lopes, Andrea Lluch, Gaspar Martins Pereira Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 347 – 371 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000306 Published Online on 20 August 2020
The Advantage of Being Swiss: Nestlé and Political Risk in Asia during the Early Cold War, 1945–1970 Pierre-Yves Donzé Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 373 – 397 doi: 10.1017/S000768052000029X Published Online on 4 August 2020
Building Industrial Districts: Do Subsidies Help? Evidence from Postwar Italy Anna Spadavecchia Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 399 – 423 doi: 10.1017/S000768051900117X Published Online on 20 April 2020
Announcement
Announcements Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 425 – 428 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000495 Published Online on 20 August 2020
Book Reviews
Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World. ByAndrew Lambert. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. xvii + 399 pp. Maps, illustrations, glossary, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 9780300230048. Nicholas J. White Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 429 – 431 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000124 Published Online on 20 August 2020
The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, c. 1550–1750. Edited byWilliam A. Pettigrew andDavid Veevers. Leiden: Brill, 2019. x + 393 pp. Index. Cloth, $157.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-38781-2. Corey Tazzara Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 432 – 434 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000458 Published Online on 20 August 2020
Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880. ByJoAnne Yates andCraig N. Murphy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. xiv + 421 pp. Photographs, illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-2889-5. David Hochfelder Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 434 – 436 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000380 Published Online on 20 August 2020
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution. ByPriya Satia. New York: Penguin Press, 2018. 544 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-735-22186-4. Lindsay Schakenbach Regele Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 436 – 439 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000434 Published Online on 20 August 2020
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. ByEugene McCarraher. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. xii + 799 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-98461-5. Stefan Schwarzkopf Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 439 – 442 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000446 Published Online on 20 August 2020
Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America. ByDaniel Vaca. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 329 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 9780674980112. Peter J. Wosh Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 442 – 445 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000471 Published Online on 20 August 2020
Free Enterprise: An American History. ByLawrence B. Glickman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 360 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 978-0-300-23825-9. Peter Eisenstadt Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 445 – 448 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000367 Published Online on 20 August 2020
The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society. ByBinyamin Appelbaum. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. 448 pp. Photographs, table, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-316-51232-9. William R. Childs Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 448 – 451 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000343 Published Online on 20 August 2020
American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation. BySarah L. Quinn. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xiv + 288 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-15675-0. Jamieson Gordon Myles Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 451 – 453 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000410 Published Online on 20 August 2020
The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets. ByThomas Philippon. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. xii + 343 pp. Figures, tables, glossary, appendix, references, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 9780674237544. Marc Levinson Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 453 – 456 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000409 Published Online on 20 August 2020
Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America. ByJoshua Specht. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xv + 339 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-18231-5. Michael S. Kideckel Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 456 – 458 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000392 Published Online on 20 August 2020
India Moving: A History of Migration. ByChinmay Tumbe. Haryana: Penguin Random House India, 2018. xv + 285 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, INR599.00. ISBN: 978-0-670-08983-3. Shashank Shah Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 458 – 461 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000161 Published Online on 20 August 2020
Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860–1937. ByAnne Reinhardt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. xii + 381 pp. Maps, figures, table, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-98384-7. Lane J. Harris Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 461 – 464 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000379 Published Online on 20 August 2020
Africapitalism: Rethinking the Role of Business in Africa. Edited byKenneth Amaeshi, Adun Okupe, andUwafiokun Idemudia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xv + 295 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $89.99; paper, $29.99. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-107-16070-5; paper, 978-1-316-61370-2. Chambi Chachage Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 464 – 467 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000331 Published Online on 20 August 2020
Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed. ByOlivier van Beemen. Translated by Bram Posthumus. London: Hurst & Company, 2019. xvi + 307 pp. Photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-849-04902-3. Louis T. Wells Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 467 – 470 doi: 10.1017/S000768052000046X Published Online on 20 August 2020
Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry from 1880. ByGraham D. Taylor. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2019. xii + 368 pp. Photographs, maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-77385-035-1. Tyler Priest Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 470 – 472 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000422 Published Online on 20 August 2020
Londres en Caracas y la Haya en Maracaibo: Retos empresariales de Royal Dutch Shell en la industria petrolera venezolana entre 1943–1958 [London in Caracas and The Hague in Maracaibo: Business challenges of Royal Dutch Shell in the Venezuelan oil industry, 1943–1958]. ByAlejandro E. Cáceres. Caracas: Fundación Bancaribe para la Ciencia y la Cultura, 2019. 130 pp. Figures, bibliography, references, tables. Paper. ISBN: 978-980-7125-25-3. Marcelo Bucheli Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 472 – 475 doi: 10.1017/S000768052000032X Published Online on 20 August 2020
Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed. ByDavid Farber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. x + 214 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 978-1-108-42527-8. – Coca Yes, Cocaine No: How Bolivia's Coca Growers Reshaped Democracy. ByThomas Grisaffi. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. ix + 261 pp. Photographs, maps, references, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95; paper $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-1-4780-0171-3; paper, 978-1-4780-0297-0. Xavier Duran Business History Review, Volume 94 / Issue 2, Summer 2020, pp 475 – 479 doi: 10.1017/S0007680520000355 Published Online on 20 August 2020