Project MUSE - Enterprise & Society-Volume 13, Number 4, December 2012

Introduction

Philip Scranton

pp. 707-709

Escape from Equilibrium: Thinking Historically about Firm Responses to Competition

Margaret C. Levenstein

pp. 710-728

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Ensuring America’s Health: Publicly Constructing the Private Health Insurance Industry, 1945–1970

Christy Ford Chapin

pp. 729-743

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Accounting for Taste: Regulating Food Labeling in the “Affluent Society,” 1945–1995

Xaq Frohlich

pp. 744-761

Politics of Property: Urban Democracy in the Age of Global Capital, Boston 1865–1900

Noam Maggor

pp. 762-772

Selling Paris: The Real Estate Market and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital

Alexia Yates

pp. 773-789

Wishful Thinking: Retail Premiums in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America

Wendy A. Woloson

pp. 790-831

Peeling Back the Layers: Vidalia Onions and the Making of a Global Agribusiness

Tore C. Olsson

pp. 832-861

The Asbestos Litigation Master Narrative: Building Codes, Engineering Standards, and “Retroactive Inculpation”

Rachel Maines

pp. 862-897

Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936 (review)

Dina Berger

pp. 898-900

Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America (review)

Liz McFall

pp. 900-903

Lo social y lo económico: ¿Dos caras de una misma moneda? La Fundación Social y sus empresas (1984– 2010) (review)

A. Ricardo López

pp. 903-905

Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind (review)

Mark Metzler

pp. 906-908

Historia de Telefónica: 1924–1975. Primeras décadas: tecnología, economía y política (review)

Adoración Álvaro-Moya

pp. 908-911

Buying into a World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia (review)

Jamie C. Brandon

pp. 911-913

Capitalism and the Jews (review)

Gideon Reuveni

pp. 914-916

Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood (review)

Vicki Callahan

pp. 916-918

The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth Century Gulf (review)

Hala Fattah

pp. 918-920

Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa (review)

Jessica L. Goldberg

pp. 921-923

Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York (review)

Nicholas Dagen Bloom

pp. 923-926

How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (review)

Jennifer Delton

pp. 926-927

There’s Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality (review)

Martha Biondi

pp. 928-929

Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues: The Court Society of Colonial Mexico, 1702–1710 (review)

Anita Bravo

pp. 930-932

The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan (review)

Jeremy Baskes

pp. 932-934

ISSN	1467-2235
Print ISSN	1467-2227
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Table of Contents

Introduction

Introduction

Presidential Address

Escape from Equilibrium: Thinking Historically about Firm Responses to Competition

Dissertation Summaries

Ensuring America’s Health: Publicly Constructing the Private Health Insurance Industry, 1945–1970

Accounting for Taste: Regulating Food Labeling in the “Affluent Society,” 1945–1995

Politics of Property: Urban Democracy in the Age of Global Capital, Boston 1865–1900

Selling Paris: The Real Estate Market and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital

Articles

Wishful Thinking: Retail Premiums in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America

Peeling Back the Layers: Vidalia Onions and the Making of a Global Agribusiness

The Asbestos Litigation Master Narrative: Building Codes, Engineering Standards, and “Retroactive Inculpation”

Book Reviews

Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936 (review)

Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America (review)

Lo social y lo económico: ¿Dos caras de una misma moneda? La Fundación Social y sus empresas (1984– 2010) (review)

Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind (review)

Historia de Telefónica: 1924–1975. Primeras décadas: tecnología, economía y política (review)

Buying into a World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia (review)

Capitalism and the Jews (review)

Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood (review)

The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth Century Gulf (review)

Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa (review)

Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York (review)

How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (review)

There’s Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality (review)

Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues: The Court Society of Colonial Mexico, 1702–1710 (review)

The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan (review)

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