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INI: 50 años de industrialización en España [INI: Fifty years of industrialization in Spain]. ByPablo Martín Aceña and Francisco Comín. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1991. 684 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. £39.00. ISBN: 84-239-6238-5.
Núria Puig
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13 December 2011, pp. 112-115
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From Firm to Networked Systems
Thomas P. Hughes
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13 December 2011, pp. 587-593
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Because of Alfred D. Chandler Jr.'s widely influential books and articles, historians of management and of business have often taken a firm, especially a manufacturing firm, as their unit of analysis. Despite its usefulness as an organizing concept, the firm-based approach does not take into consideration the management of networked systems, which have spread widely and posed major managerial challenges in recent decades. In the following essay, I shall compare the firm and the networked-systems approaches, but first I should stress that I am not dealing with networked systems in general, which are numerous and vary greatly in form. My attention, instead, is focused upon networked electric-power systems.

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Les Origines de la revolution industrielle aux Etats-Unis: Entre économie marchande et capitalisme industriel, 1800–1850 [The origins of the Industrial Revolution in the United States: Between market economy and industrial capitalism, 1800–1850]. By Pierre Gervais. Paris: Editions EHESS, 2004. 347 pp. Tables, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, €30.00. ISBN: 2-713-21825-X.
François Furstenberg
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13 December 2011, pp. 365-367
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Organisationskultur som læreproces og kommunikation: Svendborg Fingarveri, 1931–1990 [Organizational culture as learning process and communication: Svendborg Tannery, 1931–1990]. By Jørgen Gleerup. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 1998 (2nd ed., 2003). 207 pp. Illustrations, bibliography. Cloth, 225 kr. ISBN: 87-783-8353-6.
Per H. Hansen
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13 December 2011, pp. 115-118
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Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life. By Steven Fraser. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. xxiii + 752 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-066-62048-1.
Bruce J. Schulman
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13 December 2011, pp. 853-857
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Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power. By Doron S. Ben-Atar. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xii + 281 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 0-300-10006-X.
Catherine L. Fisk
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13 December 2011, pp. 367-370
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Commercializing High-Technology Industries
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr
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13 December 2011, pp. 595-604
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In his article “From Firm to Networked Systems,” Thomas Hughes introduces concepts, such as “infrastructure” and “networking,” that are critical to today's managerial system, but, by focusing on electric utilities, the story he tells does not go beyond the arrival of the new science of electronics in the early twentieth century. Professor Hughes, therefore, does not consider the critical role of high-technology industries–that is, those that commercialized and brought to market new products based on new scientific learning—in exploring the evolution of managerial systems.

Les logiques de l'entreprise: La rationalisation dans l'industrie française de l'entre-deux-guerres [Firm logic: Rationalization in French industry during the interwar period]. ByAimée Moutet. Paris: Editions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1997. 495 pp. Map, bibliography, index. Paper, €38.00. ISBN: 2-7132-1225-1.
Ludovic Cailluet
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13 December 2011, pp. 118-120
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13 December 2011, pp. 605-611
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Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America. By Sean Patrick Adams. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiv + 305 pp. Figures, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-87968-X.
James Sanders Day
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13 December 2011, pp. 370-373
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Understanding the Process of Economic Change. By Douglass C. North. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi + 187 pp. Index, references, figures. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-11805-1.
Stanley L. Engerman
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13 December 2011, pp. 859-861
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Ajia Kokusai Tsushochitsujo to Kindai Nippon [International trade orders in Asia and Modern Japan]. ByNaoto Kagotani. Nagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2000. 505 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. ¥ 6500. ISBN: 4-815-80376-5.
Takeshi Yuzawa
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13 December 2011, pp. 121-123
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Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class, and Revolution, 1830-1890. By Andrew Dawson. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xii + 302 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-63396-9.
Greg Galer
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13 December 2011, pp. 373-376
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An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. By Craig E. Colten. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xv + 245 pp. Index, notes, maps, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-807-12977-1.
Ann L. Buttenwieser
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13 December 2011, pp. 861-863
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A History of Wine in America: From Prohibition to the Present. By Thomas Pinney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xvi + 532 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-520-24176-2.
Mansel G. Blackford
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13 December 2011, pp. 613-614
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The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas. Edited by Walter Johnson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. x + 389 pp. Index, notes, maps. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 0-300-10355-7.
David Eltis
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13 December 2011, pp. 863-866
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The World's Richest Indian: The Scandal over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune. By Tanis C. Thorne. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi + 292 pp. Photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-195-16233-1.
Ryan J. Carey
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13 December 2011, pp. 376-379
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Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. By Scott A. Sandage. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. x + 362 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-674-01510-X.
Jean-Christophe Agnew
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13 December 2011, pp. 614-617
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A History of the Federal Reserve. Volume 1: 1913–1951
Wyatt Wells
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13 December 2011, pp. 125-127
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INI: 50 años de industrialización en España [INI: Fifty years of industrialization in Spain]. ByPablo Martín Aceña and Francisco Comín. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1991. 684 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. £39.00. ISBN: 84-239-6238-5.

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Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life. By Steven Fraser. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. xxiii + 752 pp. Index, notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-066-62048-1.

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Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power. By Doron S. Ben-Atar. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xii + 281 pp. Maps, notes, index. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN: 0-300-10006-X.

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Commercializing High-Technology Industries

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Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America. By Sean Patrick Adams. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiv + 305 pp. Figures, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-87968-X.

Understanding the Process of Economic Change. By Douglass C. North. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi + 187 pp. Index, references, figures. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-11805-1.

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Ajia Kokusai Tsushochitsujo to Kindai Nippon [International trade orders in Asia and Modern Japan]. ByNaoto Kagotani. Nagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2000. 505 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. ¥ 6500. ISBN: 4-815-80376-5.

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Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class, and Revolution, 1830-1890. By Andrew Dawson. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xii + 302 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-63396-9.

An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. By Craig E. Colten. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xv + 245 pp. Index, notes, maps, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-807-12977-1.

A History of Wine in America: From Prohibition to the Present. By Thomas Pinney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xvi + 532 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-520-24176-2.

The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas. Edited by Walter Johnson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. x + 389 pp. Index, notes, maps. Paper, $35.00. ISBN: 0-300-10355-7.

The World's Richest Indian: The Scandal over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune. By Tanis C. Thorne. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi + 292 pp. Photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-195-16233-1.

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. By Scott A. Sandage. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. x + 362 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-674-01510-X.

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