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Business History Review
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.347

Citation Impact (citeScore): 1
Number of Followers: 16

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ISSN (Print) 0007-6805 - ISSN (Online) 2044-768X
Published by Cambridge University Press

[353 journals]

BHR volume 95 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
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  Pages: 1 - 7
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000982
BHR volume 95 issue 3 Cover and Back matter
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  Pages: 1 - 2
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000994
Editors’ Note
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  Pages: 373 - 374
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000775
“Carl Laemmle Presents”: A Story of Political and Cultural Risk in
Germany, 1917–1934
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  Authors: Fear; Jeffrey, Stanca-Mustea, Cristina
  Pages: 375 - 421
  Abstract: Led by German-born Carl Laemmle, Universal Pictures devoted itself to winning over the German market in the interwar period. Yet the German market proved difficult to crack, owing to political risk and cultural distance. We argue that cultural differences kept most American films from becoming more successful, even those that were shown in German theaters and prior to the advent of sound film. Universal Pictures resorted to a film strategy of localization using German actors and directors, which proved a winning formula just as the Nazis came to power.
  PubDate: 2021-05-20
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680520000902
The Informational Economy of Vaudeville and the Business of American
Entertainment
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  Authors: Backer; Samuel E.
  Pages: 423 - 446
  Abstract: In the early twentieth century, vaudeville was the most popular theatrical form in the United States. Operating before the rise of mechanically reproduced entertainment, its centralized booking offices moved tens of thousands of performers across hundreds of stages to an audience of millions. Designed to gather and analyze data about both audiences and performers, these offices created a complex informational economy that defined the genre—an internal market that sought to transform culture into a commodity. By reconstructing the concrete details of these business practices, it is possible to develop a new understanding of both the success of the vaudeville industry and its influence on the evolution of American mass culture.
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000489
Advertisers and American Broadcasting: From Institutional Sponsorship to
the Creative Revolution
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  Authors: Meyers; Cynthia B.
  Pages: 447 - 481
  Abstract: American broadcasting, unique among media industries, relied on sponsors and their ad agencies for program content from the 1920s through the 1950s. Some sponsors broadcast educational or culturally uplifting programs to burnish their corporate images. By the mid-1960s, however, commercial broadcasting had transformed, and advertisers could only buy interstitial minutes for interrupting commercials, during which they wooed cynical consumers with entertaining soft-sell appeals. The midcentury shifts in institutional power in US broadcasting among corporate sponsors, advertising agencies, and radio/television networks reflected a fundamental shift in beliefs about how to use broadcasting as an advertising medium.
  PubDate: 2021-08-23
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000222
Emboldening and Contesting Gender and Skin Color Stereotypes in the Film
Industry in India, 1947–1991
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  Authors: Sheth; Sudev, Jones, Geoffrey, Spencer, Morgan
  Pages: 483 - 515
  Abstract: This article examines how the film industry influenced prevailing gender and skin color stereotypes in India during the first four decades after Independence in 1947. It shows that Bollywood, the mainstream cinema in India, shared Hollywood's privileging of paler skin over darker skin, and its preference for presenting women in stereotypical ways lacking agency. The influence of film content was especially significant in India as audiences often lacked alternative sources of entertainment and information. It was left to parallel, and often regional, cinemas in India to contest skin color and gender stereotypes entrenched in mainstream media. As conventional archival sources for this history are lacking, the article employs new evidence from oral histories of producers and actors.
  PubDate: 2021-05-12
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000118
The Development of the Casino Industry in Chile
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  Authors: Nazer; Juan Ricardo, Llorca-Jaña, Manuel
  Pages: 517 - 541
  Abstract: This article provides an account of the development of the casino industry in Chile. For most of the 1930s up to the 1980s the industry remained stagnant and restricted to a few locations. From 1990 the industry grew, but in particular after 2005 following a new law that permitted the creation of new casinos in all regions, with the main aim of promoting tourism. The new casinos had to operate as part of an “integral project,” which included sizable investments in the tourism sector. This was a novel business development strategy. The new industry attracted old and new investors, including foreign operators, who often associated with Chilean business groups, providing the resources needed to finance these developments and enjoying healthy profits for most of the period.
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000209
Innovation in the British Video Game Industry since 1978
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  Authors: Tsang; Denise
  Pages: 543 - 567
  Abstract: This article examines the evolution of the video game industry in Britain from its start in 1978. The industry originated with passionate hobbyists and amateurs who benefited from the national broadcaster's campaign to expand computer literacy. Unlike the regional clustering of the industry in the United States and Japan, the British industry was dispersed geographically, consisting of mini-clusters with porous boundaries. During the 2000s, the fragmented British industry was largely acquired by U.S. and Japanese multinational companies and became part of global value chains, but the development of mobile gaming and digital distribution provided opportunities for a new generation of start-ups to emerge in Britain.
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000398
Announcements
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  Pages: 569 - 570
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000738
The Authorized Version: The Recent Installment in the History of the Bank
of England
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  Authors: Michie; Ranald
  Pages: 571 - 574
  Abstract: This book is a worthy successor to those commissioned by the Bank of England that cover its history from its foundation in 1694. It is written by an expert, is thoroughly researched, and provides a wealth of evidence to support the judicious conclusions that are drawn. The discussion ranges from the highly technical to the narrative, indicating the command that Harold James has over his subject. For the period it covers it will become the authorized version of what the Bank of England did and why, covering the details of how it operated as a complex organization and the decisions it made that affected both the domestic and international financial systems. What emerges is how difficult decision making was after the 1970s, following the breakdown of the postwar certainties of the 1950s and 1960s. Though the title suggests that the coverage of the book extends to 2003, it largely ends in 1997. The years that followed are treated with much less depth. That is understandable, as the elephant in the room for any recent history of the Bank of England is the banking crisis of 2007–2008. As it is, the dates chosen are those between which Eddie George, governor of the Bank of England between 1993 and 2003, exerted his greatest influence, having joined in 1962. Increasingly after 1997 Mervyn King took a leading role, becoming deputy governor in 1998 and then governor in 2003. We will have to wait for another commissioned history to discover what part the Bank of England played in the first major banking crisis to hit Britain since that of Overend and Gurney in 1866. Judging from a comment made in this book (p. 432) it is possible that a full understanding of those years will never emerge. When the Monetary Policy Committee, located in the Bank of England, was set up in 1997 it was agreed that the meetings would be recorded and a full transcript of the discussion made. Subsequently, it was decided to delete the recording and destroy the transcript, leaving only the published official record of what took place. This mirrors the Bank of England's destruction of the papers relating to its role in the secondary banking crisis of 1974.
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000702
Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United
States. By Lee Vinsel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
424 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $64.95.
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2965-6.
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  Authors: Frohardt-Lane; Sarah
  Pages: 575 - 577
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000532
The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor
to the Reagan Era. By Ronald W. Schatz. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 2021. 344 pp. Photographs, bibliography, index. Paperback, $29.95.
ISBN: 978-0-252-08559-8.
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  Authors: Sonti; Samir
  Pages: 577 - 580
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000647
Chicago's Industrial Decline: The Failure of Redevelopment, 1920–1975.
By Robert Lewis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xi + 256 pp.
Figures, tables, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-5262-9.
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  Authors: McDonald; John F.
  Pages: 580 - 582
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S000768052100057X
Engines of Redemption: Railroads and the Reconstruction of Capitalism in
the New South. By Scott R. Huffard. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2019. xviii + 324 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN:
978-1-4696-5280-1.
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  Authors: Schakenbach Regele; Lindsay
  Pages: 582 - 584
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000623
Provincializing Global History: Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc,
1680-1830. By James Livesay. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 224
pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, $45.00. ISBN
978-0-3002-3716-0.
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  Authors: Smaldone; Gregory
  Pages: 585 - 587
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000635
Taking Flight: The Foundations of American Commercial Aviation,
1918–1938. By M. Houston Johnson V. Centennial of Flight Series, no. 21.
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2019. x + 287 pp.
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  Authors: Byers; Richard
  Pages: 587 - 590
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000490
Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated
Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940. By Eugenia
Lean. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 416 pp. Glossary, notes,
references, index. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-19348-1.
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  Authors: Wang; Fei-Hsien
  Pages: 590 - 593
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000672
Le Crédit agricole (1951–2001): De la banque des campagnes à la banque
universelle. By Hubert Bonin. Geneva: Droz, 2020. 472 pp. Figures, tables,
index. Cloth, €39.00. ISBN: 978-2-600-06068-4.
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  Authors: Godelier; Eric
  Pages: 593 - 596
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000544
Poppies, Politics, and Power: Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs
and Diplomacy. By James Tharin Bradford. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2019. xii + 281 pp. Illustrations. Paperback, $30.95. ISBN:
978-1-5017-3976-7.
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  Authors: Drephal; Maximilian
  Pages: 596 - 599
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000507
Lost Glory: India's Capitalism Story. By Sumit K. Majumdar. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2018. xx + 308 pp. Appendices. Hardcover, $44.95. ISBN:
978-0-1996-4199-4.
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  Authors: Roy; Tirthankar
  Pages: 599 - 601
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000611
Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent. By
Jason M. Kelly. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 320 pp.
Illustrations, map, notes, index. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN:
978-0-674-98649-7.
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  Authors: Thai; Philip
  Pages: 601 - 604
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000660
Bankrupt in America: A History of Debtors, Their Creditors, and the Law in
the Twentieth Century. By Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Bradley A. Hansen.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 224 pp. Drawings, tables,
notes, index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-67956-3.
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  Authors: Foster; Nicholas
  Pages: 604 - 606
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000520
Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion. By Steve
Fraser. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 304 pp. Hardcover, $25.00.
ISBN: 978-0-300-22150-3.
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  Authors: Fine; Lisa M.
  Pages: 606 - 608
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000519
Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America. By Wendy A. Woloson. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2020. 416 pages. Illustrations, notes, index.
Cloth, $29.99. ISBN: 978-0-226-66435-4.
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  Authors: Logemann; Jan
  Pages: 609 - 611
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000568
Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption. By
Stephen D. Rosenberg. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 368
pp. Illustrations, tables. Hardcover, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-97951-2.
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  Authors: Rojek; Chris
  Pages: 611 - 613
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000593
First Responders: Inside the U.S. Strategy for Fighting the 2007–2009
Global Financial Crisis. Edited by Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner,
and Henry M. Paulson Jr., New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. xxi +
596 pp. Illustrations, tables, index. Hardcover, $37.50. ISBN
978-0-300-24444-1.
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  Authors: Wells; Wyatt
  Pages: 614 - 616
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000684
After the Crash: Financial Crises and Regulatory Responses. Edited by
Sharyn O'Halloran and Thomas Groll. New York: Columbia University Press,
2019. xiv + 415 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, references, notes, index.
Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-19284-2.
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  Authors: Rose; Mark H.
  Pages: 616 - 619
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S000768052100060X
The Banks Did It: An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis. By Neil Fligstein.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. xvi + 315 pp.
Illustrations, tables, notes, references, index. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN:
978-0-674-24935-6.
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  Authors: Hansen; Per H.
  Pages: 620 - 622
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000556
Big Business in America: The Corporate Century, 1900–2000. By Thomas J.
Dorich. New York: Lexington Books, 2021. 346 pp. Hardcover, $120.00. ISBN:
978-1-4985-9597-1.
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  Authors: Specht; Joshua
  Pages: 622 - 624
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000659
Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How Foreign Investors Play
by Their Own Rules. By Nicolás M. Perrone. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2021. xv + 242 pp. Hardcover, $99.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-886214-7.
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  Authors: Pitteloud; Sabine
  Pages: 624 - 627
  PubDate: 2021-11-17
  DOI: 10.1017/S0007680521000581