2004 - 4 (December)

Editor's Introduction

Business Failure and the Agenda of Business History

Civic Beauty: Beauty Culturists and the Politics of African American Female Entrepreneurship, 1900-1965

From Outpost to Enclaves: A Social History of Black Barbers from 1750 to 1915

Making Change at the Grocery Store: Government, Grocers, and the Problem of Women's Autonomy in the Creation of Chicago's Supermarkets, 1920-1950

Citizen Saver: Family Economy, Financial Institutions, and Public Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Northeast

Shopping American-Style: The Arrival of the Supermarket in Postwar Italy

Governments, Firms, and National Wealth: A New Pulp and Paper Industry in Postwar New Zealand

Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions

The Second Information Revolution

Picking Winners? From Technology Cath-up to the Space Race in Japan

Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913

Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824-1888

Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and his Business Empire, 1823-1893

Industrial Clusters and Regional Business Networks in England, 1750-1970

Energy, the State, and the Market: British Energy Policy since 1979

German Industry and Global Enterprise: BASF The History of a Company

Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany

The History of Corporate Finance: Development of Anglo-American Securities Markets, Financial Practices, Theories and Laws

Unwanted Company: Foreign Investment in American Industries

In the Kingdom of Coal: An American Family and the Rock That Changed the World

Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910-1945

To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia

After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman

The Prise of Progress: Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877-1929

The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979

Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History

Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968

Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective

Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California

The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade