2005 - 4 (December)

Editor's Introduction

Shaped by Risk: The American Fire Insurance Industry, 1790-1920

State Subsidies and the Sources of Company Finance in Italian Industrial Districts, 1951-1991

The People's Telephone: The Politics of Telephony in the United States and Canaca, 1876-1926

Launching a Thousand Ships: Entrepreneurs, War Workers, and the State in American Shipbuilding, 1940-1945

Competing Research Traditions in American Industry: Uncertain Alliances between Engineering and Science at Westinghouse Electric, 1886-1935

Solomon Huebner and the Development of Life Insurance Sales Professionalism, 1905-1927

The Neglected Legacy of Lancashire cotton: Industrial Clusters and the U.K. Outdoor trade, 1960-1990

The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age

Contract and Property in Early Modern China

Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937

Reasonable men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan

Stringing Together a Nation: Cándido mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906-1930

Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume I:Industrialization, 1700-1860; Volume II: Economic Maturity, 1860-1939; Volume III: Structural change and Growth, 1939-2000

The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble

The English Gentlemen Merchant at Work: Madras and the City of London, 1660-1740

Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850

Spoorwegen in Nederland: Van 1834 tot nu

The Glitter of Gold: France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848-1873

London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century

From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich

Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, and Culture

Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America

The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-industrial West

The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier

The U.S. Brewing Industry: Data and Economic Analysis

The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940

The John Deere Story: A Biography of Plowmakers John and Charles Deere

Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930

Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003

The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich

Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century

Consuming Motherhood

From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform

Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America

Debt for Sale: A Social History of the Credit Trap

Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies

Building the Next American Century: The Past and Future of American Economic Competitiveness