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Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia. By Andrew M. Schocket. De Kalb: Northern Illinois Press, 2007. xiii + 274 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 978-0-87580-369-2

users; it has also engendered a degree of technological engagement and creativity no longer found in the West. Edgerton concludes by urging historians to broaden our focus, to ask questions about "the place of technology within wider historical processes," in order to "wean us off the idea that invention, 'technological change,' and the 'shaping of technology' need to be the central questions for the history of technology." Adopting his approach, instead, "can help us rethink history." After all, given the technological nature of modern life, "to rethink the history of technology is necessarily to rethink the history of the world. . . . The historical study of things in use, and the uses of things, matters" (pp. 211-12). Edgerton's book deserves, and will no doubt reach, a wide audience. Historians of technology will find a great deal to reflect upon, as Edgerton calls on us to question our assumptions about technology, innovation, and use; the methods and predispositions we use to study it; and the objects and techniques we regard (and reject) as "technology." Global and transnational historians will also profit from his discussions of global transfers of knowledge and goods, particularly his concept of "creole technologies." Although business historians will find this book of less direct use, it will no doubt stimulate reflection, creativity, and new subjects of study for us as well.