Editor’s Introduction
William J. Hausman
Introduction
On Beauty . . . and the History of Business
Kathy Peiss
Articles
Collars and Consumers: Changing Images of American Manliness and Business
Carole Turbin
Black Is Profitable: The Commodification of the Afro, 1960-1975
Susannah Walker
Hiding the Scars: A History of Post-Mastectomy Breast Prostheses, 1945-2000
Kirsten E. Gardner
"At the Curve Exchange": Postwar Beauty Culture and Working Women at Maidenform
Vicki Howard
Reviews
Orvar Löfgren. On Holiday: A History of Vacationing
Reviewed by Christine Skwiot
Giovanni Dosi, David J. Teece, and Josef Chytry, eds. Technology, Organization, and Competitiveness: Perspectives on Industrial and Corporate Change
Reviewed by Renato Giannetti
David J. Jeremy, ed. Religion, Business, and Wealth in Modern Britain
Reviewed by Andrew C. Godley
Stefan Blaschke. Unternehmen und Gemeinde: Das Bayerwerk im Raum Leverkusen, 1891-1914
Reviewed by Mark Spoerer
Alessandro Arrighetti and Gilberto Seravalli, eds. Istituzioni intermedie e sviluppo locale
Reviewed by Jonathan Zeitlin
Tetsuji Okazaki and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara, eds. The Japanese Economic System and Its Historical Origins
Reviewed by Pui-Tak Lee
Q. Y. Yu. The Implementation of China’s Science and Technology Policy
Reviewed by Brett Sheehan
Edmund Terence Gomez. Chinese Business in Malaysia: Accumulation, Accommodation and Ascendance
Reviewed by Brett Sheehan
Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson, eds. Colonial Modernity in Korea
Reviewed by David Pollard
Gordon T. Stewart. Jute and Empire: The Calcutta Jute Wallahs and the Landscapes of Empire
Reviewed by Mushtaq Husain Khan
Angel Kwolek-Folland. Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States
Reviewed by Howell John Harris
David Evans and Richard Schmalensee. Paying with Plastic: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing
Reviewed by Daniel Pope
George L. Henderson. California and the Fictions of Capital
Reviewed by Greg Hise
Susan Strasser. Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
Reviewed by Jonathan Coopersmith
Jerold J. Duquette. Regulating the National Pastime: Baseball and Antitrust
Reviewed by Robert Whaples
Emily S. Rosenberg. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy
Reviewed by Mira Wilkins
Masayo Umezawa Duus. The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920
Reviewed by James P. Kraft
David Haward Bain. Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
Reviewed by W. Thomas White
Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias. Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn
Reviewed by Graham Russell Hodges
Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie. Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965
Reviewed by Randall L. Patton