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Articles in January, 2004 issue of Business History

• A. Jalloh and T. Falola (eds.), Black Business and Economic Power.(Book Review)
  by Basu, Anuradha
• Ceri Sullivan, The Rhetoric of Credit: Merchants in Early Modern Writing.(Book Review)
  by Giraldez, Arturo
• Stanley Chapman, Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of Small-Scale Industry in Britain, c. 1589-2000.(Book Review)
  by Marrison, Andrew
• Books received.
• Government intervention in the British gas industry.
  by Jenkins, Andrew
• Harrison C. White, Markets from Networks: Socioeconomic Models of Production.(Book Review)
  by Mowatt, Simon
• David Farber, Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors.(Book Review)
  by Kirby, M.W.
• Matthias Kipping and Lars Engwall (eds.), Management Consulting: Emergence and Dynamics of a Knowledge Industry.(Book Review)
  by McKenna, Christopher
• Wu Xiao An, Chinese Business in the Making of the Malay State, 1882-1941 Kedah and Penang.(Book Review)
  by Metcalfe, Stuart
• J. Cattell, S. Ely and B. Jones, The Birmingham Jewellery Quarter: an Architectural Survey of the Manufactories.(Book Review)
  by Carnevali, Francesca
• Defence and the decline of UK mechanical engineering: the case of Vickers at Barrow.
  by Mort, Maggie; Spinardi, Graham
• Aida Hozic, Hollyworld: Space, Power and Fantasy in the American Economy.(Book Review)
  by Miskell, Peter
• Peter J. Buckley (ed.), International Business.(Book Review)
  by Jones, Geoffrey G.
• Georgina Ferry, A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Teashops and the World's First Office Computer.(Book Review)
  by Yost, Jeffrey R.
• Tribute to Geoffrey Jones.(Biography)
  by Harvey, Charles
• Nelly Hanna, Money, Land and Trade: an Economic History of the Muslim Mediterranean.(Book Review)
  by Clay, Christopher
• Angus Maddison, D.S. Prasada Rao and William Shepherd (eds.), The Asian Economies in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
  by Clayton, David
• J. Cantrell and G. Cookson (eds.), Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age.(Book Review)
  by Miskell, Louise
• Strategic alliances and competitive edge: insights from Spanish and UK banking histories.
  by Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo
• Dominique Barjot (ed.), Catching Up with America: Productivity Missions and the Diffusion of American Economic and Technological Influence after the Second World War.(Book Review)
  by Booth, Alan
• John Benson and Laura Ugolini, A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing.(Book Review)
  by Godley, Andrew
• Alan L. Heberman (ed.), Twenty Five Years Behind Bars.(Book Review)
  by Mowatt, Simon
• Parks M. Coble, Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: the Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945.(Book Review)
  by Jones, Eric
• Andrea Colli, The History of Family Business, 1850-2000.(Book Review)
  by Corley, T.A.B.
• Rosalind H. Williams, Retooling: a Historian Confronts Technological Change.(Book Review)
  by Bakker, Gerben
• David S. Landes, The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
  by Edgerton, David
• John H. Dunning and Gavin Boyd (eds.), Alliance Capitalism and Corporate Management.(Book Review)
  by Lopes, Teresa Da Silva
• Alan Fowler, Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900-1950: a Social History of Lancashire Cotton Operatives in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
  by Toms, Steven
• Corporate venturing: the origins of Unilever's pregnancy test.(Company Profile)
  by Jones, Geoffrey; Kraft, Alison
• Knowledge and training in family firms of the European periphery: Spain in the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.
  by Perez, Paloma Fernandez; Puig, Nuria
• Martin Campbell-Kelly, From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: a History of the Software Industry.(Book Review)
  by Lynskey, Michael J.
• Susan J. Matt, Keeping up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930.(Book Review)
  by O'Connell, Sean