Business History articles from April 2004

Business History archives from April 2004

British business history: a review of the periodical literature for 2002.
April 1, 2004... Past authors of this review of the periodical literature in British business history have adopted a range of approaches to structuring their surveys, but the most common has been to segment along broad sectoral lines. However, given a number of...

Retailing revolution in the eighteenth century? Evidence from North-West England.
April 1, 2004... The changing spaces and practices of retailing have received an increasing amount of attention in recent years. (1) Reflecting broader analyses of production and consumption, much of this work has emphasised the transformation of retailing from...

American machinery and European footwear: technology transfer and international trade, 1860-1939.(footwear industry)
April 1, 2004... The footwear industry underwent a tremendous growth in the United States during the nineteenth century. The increase in production was noted mainly on the home market but was also accompanied, as from around 1880, by a heightened presence of...

European family firms in international business: British and Greek tramp-shipping firms.
April 1, 2004... Then there is the tramp, the never-tiring tramp, which continually scours the Seven Seas in search of charters, loading from one port to another, and never knowing where she may have to sail for next, picking up a cargo here and running light...

Mergers and the evolution of patterns of corporate ownership and control: the British experience.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Throughout the twentieth century, the United Kingdom experienced a series of 'merger waves' which helped to foster what Leslie Hannah characterised in his 1976 book as 'The Rise of the Corporate Economy'.(1) Hannah, in this book and in other...

Robert C.B. Miller, Railways.com: Parallels between the Early British Railways and the ICT revolution.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... ROBERT C.B. MILLER, Railways.com: Parallels between the Early British Railways and the ICT Revolution (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2003. Pp. 196. ISBN 0 255 36534 9, 12.50 [pounds sterling]). This is an interesting and...

Simon Cordery, British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... SIMON CORDERY, British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003. Pp. 248. H/back ISBN 0 3339 90315, 45.00 [pound sterling]). It is over 40 years since P.H.J.H. Gosden published the last comprehensive study of friendly...

John Armstrong, John M. Aldridge, Grahame Boyes, Gordon Mustoe and Richard A. Story (eds.), Companion to British Road Haulage History.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... JOHN ARMSTRONG, JOHN M. ALDRIDGE, GRAHAME BOYES, GORDON MUSTOE and RICHARD A. STORY (eds.), Companion to British Road Haulage History (London: Science Museum, 2003. Pp. 544 (incl. illus); illus. H/back ISBN 1 900747 46 4, 39.50 [pounds...

Alan G. Jamieson, Ebb Tide in the British Maritime Industries: Change and Adaptation, 1918-1990.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... ALAN G. JAMIESON, Ebb Tide in the British Maritime Industries: Change and Adaptation, 1918-1990 (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2003. Pp. xiii + 239; illus.; maps. H/back ISBN 0 85989 728 1, 37.50 [pounds sterling]). Although British...

Gerhard Adelmann, Die Baumwollgewerbe Nordwestdeutschlands und der Westlichen Nachbarlander beim Ubergang von der Vorindustriellen zur Fruhindustriellen Zeit 1750-1815: Verflechtung und Regionale Differenzierung.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... GERHARD ADELMANN, Die Baumwollgewerbe Nordwestdeutschlands und der Westlichen Nachbarlander beim Ubergang von der Vorindustriellen zur Fruhindustriellen Zeit 1750-1815: Verflechtung und Regionale Differenzierung. Beitrage zur...

Sandra Markus, Bilanzieren und Sinn stiften.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... SANDRA MARKUS, Bilanzieren und Sinn stiften. Erinnerungen yon Unternehmern im 20. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2002. Pp.385. H/back ISBN 3 515 08055 4, 70.00 [euro]). At the centre of Sandra Markus's book stands the...

Harold James and Jakob Tanner (eds.), Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... HAROLD JAMES and JAKOB TANNER (eds.), Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe (Aldershot Ashgate, 2002. Pp.xv + 283; figures. ISBN 0 7546 0077 7, 42.50 [pound sterling]). Enterprise in the Period of Fascism is a collection of essays...

Michael Thad Allen, The Business of Genocide: the SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... MICHAEL THAD ALLEN, The Business of Genocide.: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp.xii + 377; illus. H/back ISBN 0 8078 2677 4, 31.50 [pound sterling]). Michael...

Bruce H. Mann, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... BRUCE H. MANN, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp.viii + 344. ISBN 0 674 00902 9, $29.95/19.95 [pound sterling]). The past decade has seen an efflorescence...

Jonathan A. Glickstein, American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... JONATHAN A. GLICKSTEIN, American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States (Charlottesville, VA, and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp.x + 361. ISBN 0 8139 2115 5,...

Howard M. Wachtel, Street of Dreams--Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... HOWARD M. WACHTEL, Street of Dreams--Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century (London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2003. Pp.xv + 239; illus. H/back ISBN 0 7453 1925 4,19.99 [pound sterling). Wall Street was so christened...

Mansel Blackford, A History of Small Business in America.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... MANSEL BLACKFORD, A History of Small Business in America (Chapel University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp.xii + 216. H/back ISBN 0 8078 2780 0, 34.50 [pound sterling]; p/back ISBN 0 8078 5453 0, 14.50 [pound sterling]). Looking to...

Steven High, Industrial Sunset: the Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... STEVEN HIGH, Industrial Sunset. The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 c. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp.xi + 306; illus.; maps; charts. H/back ISBN 0 8020 3738 0, C$55.00; p/back ISBN 0 8020 8528 8, C$27.95). ...

Susan Eleanor Hirsch, After the Strike: a Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... SUSAN ELEANOR HIRSCH, After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp.x + 292; illus. H/back ISBN 0 252 02791 4, $44.95). The railroads hold a special place in the collective...

David Witwer, Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... DAVID WITWER, Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp.viii + 298. ISBN 0 252 02825 2, $39.95). In the middle of the twentieth century, organised labour was a potent force in the...

Janet Hunter, Women and the Labour market in Japan's Industrializing Economy: the Textile Industry before the Pacific War (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Janet Hunter, Women and the Labour market in Japan's industrializing Economy: The Textile Industry before the Pacific War (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Pp. iiiv + 326; illus. H/back ISBN 0 415 29731 1, 55.00 [pounds sterling])....

Theo Balderston (ed.), The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2003.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... THEO BALDERSTON (ed.), The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xii + 226. H/back ISBN 0 333 73864 0, 55.00 [pounds sterling]). This excellent book concerns the apparent deflationary...

Makoto Kasuya (ed.), Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... MAKOTO KASUYA (ed.), Coping with Crisis." International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi + 235. H/back ISBN 0 19 925931 3, 40.00 [pounds sterling]). This edited volume is a...

Nigel Harris, The return of Cosmopolitan Capital: Globalization, the State and War (London: I.B. Tauris, 2003.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... NIGEL HARRIS, The return of Cosmopolitan Capital: Globalization, the State and War (London: I.B. Tauris, 2003. Pp. xi + 292. H/back ISBN 1 86064 786 3, 24.50 [pounds sterling]) The vast growth of capital flows in the closing two decades of...

H. Peter Gray (ed.), Extending the Eclectic Paradigm in International Business (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... H. PETER GRAY (ed.), Extending the Eclectic Paradigm in International Business (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003, Pp.xii + 271; figures; tables; map. H/back ISBN 1 84064 888 0 59.95 [pounds sterling]). John Dunning held a visiting...

B. R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia and Oceania, 1750-2000 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 4th edn. 2003.(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... B. R. MITCHELL, International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia and Oceania, 1750-2000 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 4th edn. 2003.Pp.xix + 1113. H/back ISBN 0 333 99412 4, 250.00 [pounds sterling]). Historians of...

Mike Parsons and MARY B. ROSE, Invisible on EverestL Innovation and the Gear Makers (Philadelphia: Northern Liberties Press 2003.(book review )(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... MIKE PARSONS and MARY B. ROSE, Invisible on Everest; Innovation and the Gear Makers (Philadelphia: Northern Liberties Press 2003. Pp.xiii + 292; illus. ISBN 0 9704143 5 8, 24.99 [pounds sterling]/$36.00). Invisible on Everest is the story...

Patrick Dunleavy, Authoring a PhD: How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).(book review )(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... PATRICK DUNLEAVY, Authoring a PhD: How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp.xiii + 297. H/back ISBN 1 4039 1191 6, 49.50 [pounds sterling]; p/back ISBN 1 4039 0584 3, 16.99 [pounds...

Anshuman Prasad (ed.), Postcolonial Theory and Organisational Analysis. A Critical Engagement (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... ANSHUMAN PRASAD (ed.), Postcolonial Theory and Organisational Analysis. A Critical Engagement (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp.xv + 309. H/back ISBN 0 312 29495 0, 42.50 [pounds sterling]). Business historians and management...

Wolfgang Streeck and Kozo Yamamura (eds.), The Origins of Nonliberal Capitalism: Germany and Japan in Comparison (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001).(book review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... WOLFGANG STREECK and KOZO YAMAMURA (eds.), The Origins of Nonliberal 4Capitalism: Germany and Japan in Comparison (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 200l. Pp.xii + 261. ISBN 0 8014 3817 5, 29.50 [pounds sterling]). During much of the...