Business History book reviews in Volume 66 2024
📚 Volume 66 of Business History includes 19 book reviews of key texts published in the field since 2019
Here’s the full lineup of reviewed works published in Business History Volume 66 2024. A huge thank you to all reviewers who contributed to the journal!
Industrial Clusters: Knowledge, Innovation Systems and Sustainability in the UK, John F. Wilson, Chris Corker, Joe Lane
Reviewer: Emily Buchnea
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.1000079
Deutsche Bank: The Global Bank, 1870-2020, Werner Plumpe, Alexander Nützenadel, Catherine Schenk
Reviewer: Hubert Bonin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.990006
Against Entrepreneurship: A Critical Examination, Anders Ortenblad
Reviewer: Gerald Hanlon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001234
Business History: A Research Overview, John F. Wilson, Ian G. Jones, Steven Toms, Anna Tilba, Emily Buchnea, Nicholas Wong
Reviewer: Adam Nix
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001235
The Blacketts: A Northern Dynasty’s Rise, Crisis and Redemption, Greg Finch
Reviewer: John F. Wilson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001236
Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870–1919, Ghassan Moazzin
Reviewer: Mary Bridges
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001237
The Rise and Decline of England’s Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930, Alun C. Davies
Reviewer: Chris Wrigley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001238
Richard Potter: Beatrice Webb’s Father and Corporate Capitalist, Geoffrey Channon
Reviewer: Tehreem Husain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001239
Companies and Entrepreneurs in the History of Spain: Centuries-Long Evolution in Business Since the 15th Century, Pedro Váquez-Fariñas, Pablo Ortúñez-Goicolea, Mariano Castro-Valdivia
Reviewer: Mar Cebrián
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001240
Role of Reinsurance in the World: Case Studies of Eight Countries, Robin Pearson
Reviewer: Beyza Oba
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001241
Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain, Amy Edwards
Reviewer: Gavin Benke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001242
Capitalism Since Luther: Rediscovering the Moral Economy, Ivan Light, Léo-Paul Dana
Reviewer: Prescott C. Ensign
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001243
Business, Ethics, and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives, Asli M. Colpan, Geoffrey Jones
Reviewer: Beyza Oba
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001244
The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance, Jamie Martin
Reviewer: Dan Smith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001245
A Dissimulated Trade: Northern European Timber Merchants in Seville (1574–1598), Germán Jiménez-Montes
Reviewer: Iván Valdez-Bubnov
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001246
Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700, Alejandro GarcÃa-Montón
Reviewer: Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001247
Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age, Ashley Sweetman
Reviewer: Jeffrey Yost
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001248
The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity, Anat Rosenberg
Reviewer: Astrid Van den Bossche
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001249
Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s–1998, John D. Wong
Reviewer: Peter E. Hamilton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.1001250
Explorer les archives et écrire l’Histoire, Roger Nougaret, Hubert Bonin, Laure Quennouëlle-Corre (Eds.)
Reviewer: Béatrice Touchelay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2178208
Navigating Nationalism in Global Enterprise: A Century of Indo-German Business Relations, Christina Lubinski
Reviewer: Michael Aldous
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2179792
Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History: British Multinational Companies in Ghana and Nigeria
Stephanie Decker
Reviewer: Christina Lubinski
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2189795