{"title":"Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State. By Elisabeth Anderson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. xvi + 384 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-691-22090-1; paper, 978-0-691-22089-5.","authors":"Yukako Otori","doi":"10.1017/S000768052300017X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S000768052300017X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9503,"journal":{"name":"Business History Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"163 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41444587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam.By Laurence Monnais. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 290 pp. Illustrations. Paperback, $32.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-46653-0.","authors":"Martha Lincoln","doi":"10.1017/S0007680523000107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680523000107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9503,"journal":{"name":"Business History Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"155 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42015196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union. By David K. Thomson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 288 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6661-7.","authors":"Christoph Nitschke","doi":"10.1017/s0007680523000193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007680523000193","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9503,"journal":{"name":"Business History Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"166 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41585862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A State of Supervision: The Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Germany, 1900s–1930s","authors":"R. Yee","doi":"10.1017/S000768052300003X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S000768052300003X","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines debates over banking regulation in Germany that culminated in the 1934 Reich Banking Law. Existing accounts have traced its origins to the 1931 banking crisis or the 1933 Nazi seizure of power. Yet, rather than the outcome of a single financial or political crisis, banking regulation was the product of longer-term discussions on national security, legal rationale, and financial globalization. Prior to World War I, officials expressed concerns over Germany's dependence on foreign capital, while later efforts to improve liquidity in the banking sector continued in the 1920s. The construction of a regulatory policy thus arose from a series of investigations into how to protect the German economy from foreign crises, thereby reflecting the interdependence of politics and finance.","PeriodicalId":9503,"journal":{"name":"Business History Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"93 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41791548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province. By Ümit Kurt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 400 pp. Photographs, maps, tables. Hardcover, $46.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-24794-9.","authors":"Cemal Eren Arbatlı","doi":"10.1017/S000768052300020X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S000768052300020X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9503,"journal":{"name":"Business History Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"177 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44943814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric. By Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. 384 pp. Paperback, 28.00. ISBN: 978-1-982-17644-0.","authors":"Richard S. Tedlow","doi":"10.1017/s0007680523000077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007680523000077","url":null,"abstract":"<p>General Electric and Jack Welch are dead. Now they belong to the ages, which means they are the property of historians. What are we to make of them?</p>\u0000<p>Journalism has been called the first draft of history, and under review here are two books by journalists: <span>Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric</span> by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann and <span>The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy</span> by David Gelles.</p>","PeriodicalId":9503,"journal":{"name":"Business History Review","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage. By John Harris. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 312 pp. Illustrations, maps. Paperback, $22.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-26149-3.","authors":"Marcelo Rosanova Ferraro","doi":"10.1017/s0007680523000235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007680523000235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9503,"journal":{"name":"Business History Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"153 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43844343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification. By Richard F. Hirsh. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 400 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Hardcover, $60.00. ISBN: 978-1-42144-362-1.","authors":"L. Glaser","doi":"10.1017/S0007680523000181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680523000181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9503,"journal":{"name":"Business History Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"180 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46693570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating Value Out of Waste: The Transformation of the Swedish Waste and Recycling Sector, 1970s–2010s","authors":"A. Bergquist, M. Lindmark, N. Petrusenko","doi":"10.1017/S0007680522000745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680522000745","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the growth of the waste and recycling sector in Sweden since the 1970s and seeks to identify the conditions for market growth and underlying business dynamics. The article identifies a slow growth pattern at aggregate level in the 1970s, while a major shift toward higher growth rates took place only in the mid-1990s. Resembling the findings of existing studies of German and US industry counterparts, Swedish recycling companies grew larger in the 1970s and more knowledge-intensive from the 1980s. Our study concludes that the growth of the Swedish recycling industry has been driven not only by government policies addressing household waste but even more so by large manufacturing firms that have increasingly demanded more complex recycling services over time.","PeriodicalId":9503,"journal":{"name":"Business History Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"3 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45331807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political Capitalism","authors":"M. Levinson","doi":"10.1017/S0007680523000090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680523000090","url":null,"abstract":"“Capitalism,” etymologists say, is rooted neither in Adam Smith nor in Karl Marx but in The Newcomes, a long-forgotten novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, in which a fallen French nobleman regains his dignity when the rising price of railway shares restores his “sense of capitalism” (Project Gutenberg ebook edition, p. 1016). It's one of those you-know-it-when-you-see-it kinds of words, meaningful mainly when set against “socialism,” a word first used in the 1820s to describe collective ownership of property. Capitalism has taken on all sorts of meanings since Thackeray coined the term in 1854, describing everything from the repression of miners by late-nineteenth-century robber barons to the venture-capital-fertilized blossoming of Silicon Valley. The three histories discussed in this essay all address its meaning in the modern world economy. None believes that future capitalism will be like capitalisms past.","PeriodicalId":9503,"journal":{"name":"Business History Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"137 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46719813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}