2008 - 1 (March)

Articles in this issue

Editor's Introduction

Pages: 1 - 5

'Many a Long Day': HSBC and Its Note Issue in Republican China, 1912–1935

Pages: 6 - 43

Government Control, Transaction Costs, and Commitment Between the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the Chinese Government

Pages: 44 - 69

Market Power and Market Failure The Decline of the European Fertilizer Industry and the Expansion of Norsk Hydro

Pages: 70 - 95

Global Knowledge Transfer and Telecommunications: The Bell System in Japan, 1945-1952

Pages: 96 - 124

The Larkin Clubs of Ten: Consumer Buying Clubs and Mail-Order Commerce, 1890-1940

Pages: 125 - 164

Trajectories of Internationalization: Knowledge and National Business Styles in the Making of Two Dutch Publishing Multinationals, 1950–1990

Pages: 165 - 202

Book Review by James L. Baughman

Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media

Pages: 203 - 205

Book Review by Güldem Gökçek

The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West

Pages: 205 - 207

Book Review by Michael Geselowitz

Making It: The Rise of Asia in High Tech

Pages: 207 - 209

Book Review by Christopher Kobrak

An Economic History of 20th Century Europe: Economic Regimes from Lassez-Faire to Globalization

Pages: 209 - 211

Book Review by Steven Toms

Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005

Pages: 211 - 213

Book Review by Gordon Boyce

Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000: British Perfprmance in International Perspective

Pages: 213 - 215

Book Review by Roger D. Launius

Cold War at 30.000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy

Pages: 215 - 217

Book Review by Judith Fingard

Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia

Pages: 218 - 219

Book Review by Patrick Rael

Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life

Pages: 220 - 222

Book Review by Maria Mazzenga

A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis

Pages: 222 - 224

Book Review by Robert A. Beauregard

The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City

Pages: 224 - 226

Book Review by Joseph Hawes

Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930

Pages: 226 - 228

Book Review by Tanya Gogan

Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It

Pages: 228 - 231

Book Review by Nancy Page Fernandez

Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon

Pages: 231 - 232

Book Review by Jonathan Coppersmith

Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush

Pages: 232 - 234

Book Review by Rob Schorman

Advertising Sin and Sickness: The Politics of Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing, 1950-1990

Pages: 234 - 236

Book Review by Steven Collins

Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Geoergia and Florida Railroad

Pages: 236 - 238

Book Review by Christiane Diehl Taylor

Industrial Genius: The working Life of Charles Michael Schwab

Pages: 239 - 240