Business History articles from January 2001

Business History archives from January 2001

The Balancing Act of German Universal Banks and English Deposit Banks, 1880-1913.
January 1, 2001... Many economists and economic historians believe that certain types of financial systems allocate an economy's resources more efficiently than others; and there is a widespread sense in the US and the UK that the universal relationship banking...

Interlocking Directorates between Banks and Industrial Companies in Hungary at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.
January 1, 2001... The extent and impact of the interlocking of the boards of banks and industrial companies in central Europe has been a subject of debate and controversy for generations. The first comprehensive research on interlocking directorates was carried...

Bank Regulation in Denmark from 1880 to World War Two: Public Interests and Private Interests.
January 1, 2001... During the last 20 years or so, supply-side economics has taken over where demand management had to give up. Closely related to this development deregulation has become a force to be reckoned with. Economists and politicians alike have embarked...

The Emergence of New Competitor Nations in the European Steel Industry: Italy and the Netherlands, 1945-65.
January 1, 2001... In the first decades after the Second World War, there were considerable changes in the competitive position of the different steel producing nations. At an international level, the United States were increasingly challenged as the market...

Competition and Innovation in 1950s Britain.
January 1, 2001... There has been a revival of interest in competition policy as a means of promoting productivity performance. Thus, the present government's first competitiveness White Paper asserts that 'competition keeps businesses on their toes and makes...

Engendering Enterprise.
January 1, 2001... MARY A. YEAGER (ed.), Women in Business (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999. 3 Volumes, ISBN 1 85278 811 9, [pound]365). Despite the considerable progress of the last 20 years in recovering the lost history of women, their neglect in historical...

The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
January 1, 2001... PAUL BAINES, The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 1999. Pp.viii + 196. H/back ISBN 1 84014 601 X, [pound]49.95). This is an interdisciplinary study, seeking to examine a particular parallel...

A Thing of the Past? Child Labour in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
January 1, 2001... MICHAEL LAVALETTE (ed.), A Thing of the Past? Child Labour in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999. Pp.x + 278. H/back ISBN 085323 634 8, [pound]30; p/back ISBN 085323 6445,...

Region and Strategy in Britain and Japan: Business in Lancashire and Kansai, 1890-1990.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... DOUGLAS A. FARNIE, TETSURO NAKAOKA, DAVID J. JEREMY, JOHN F. WILSON and TAKESHI ABE (eds.), Region and Strategy in Britain and Japan: Business in Lancashire and Kansai, 1890-1990 (London: Routledge, 2000. Pp.xxviii + 322; illus.; maps. H/back...

Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London 's West End.
January 1, 2001... ERIKA DIANE RAPPAPORT, Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London 's West End (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp.xiii + 323; illus. H/back ISBN 0 691 044775, [pound]21.95). Shopping for Pleasure recounts a...

Kegan Paul, a Victorian Imprint: Publishers, Books and Cultural History.
January 1, 2001... LESLIE HOWSAM, Kegan Paul, a Victorian Imprint: Publishers, Books and Cultural History (London: Kegan Paul International and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xxvi + 218; illus. ISBN 071030605 9, [pound]35). This book traces...

From Empire to Europe: The Decline and Revival of British Industry since the Second World War.
January 1, 2001... GEOFFREY OWEN, From Empire to Europe: The Decline and Revival of British Industry since the Second World War (London: HarperCollins, 1999. Pp.vii + 517. ISBN 0 000 255682 0, [pound]19.99). This history of (parts of) British manufacturing...

Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard.
January 1, 2001... GEOFFREY TWEEDALE, Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.xx + 314. ISBN 019 829690 8, [pound]40). By the end of the twentieth century, Western corporate capitalism...

The London Stock Exchange: A History.
January 1, 2001... RANALD MICHIE, The London Stock Exchange: A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, Pp.xiii + 672; H/back ISBN 0 19 829508 1, [pound]65). There was a market in stocks and shares in England from as early as the 1600s. In fact in the...

Europe in the International Economy, 1500 to 2000.
January 1, 2001... DEREK H. ALDCROFT and ANTHONY SUTCLIFFE (eds.), Europe in the International Economy, 1500 to 2000 (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999. Pp.xi + 278. H/back ISBN 1 85898 670 2, [pound]55). It is a very ambitious project to portray the economic...

Corsairing to Commerce: Maltese Merchants in XVIII Century Spain.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... CARMEL VASSALLO, Corsairing to Commerce: Maltese Merchants in XVIII Century Spain (Valletta: Malta University Publishers, 1997. Pp.xxvii + 378. ISBN 99909 45 04 7, $30). During the early eighteenth century, Maltese merchants continued to...

Banques locales et banques regionales en France au XIXe siecle.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... MICHEL LESCURE and ALAIN PLESSIS (eds.), Banques locales et banques regionales en France au XIXe siecle (Paris: Albin Michel, 1999. Pp.343. ISBN 2 226 10883 1, 140FF). This is the third volume from the Mission historique de Ia Banque de...

Modern Banking in the Balkans and West-European Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... KOSTAS P. KOSTIS (ed.), Modern Banking in the Balkans and West-European Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1999. Pp.x + 255. ISBN 1 84014 269 3, [pound]49.50). This volume, part of the...

Ramon de la Sota, 1857-1936. Un empresario vasco.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... EUGENIO TORRES VILLANUEVA, Ramon de la Sota, 1857-1936. Un empresario vasco (Madrid: Lid Editorial, 1998. Pp.471. Prologue by Fernando Garcia de Cortazar. ISBN 84 88717 16 4, 4,000 pesetas, 24 euros). It is said that, in Spain, business...

Bargaining on Europe: Britain and the First Common Market 1860-1892.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... PETER T. MARSH, Bargaining on Europe: Britain and the First Common Market 1860-1892 (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp.ix + 246. ISBN 0 300 08103 0, [pound]22.50). The focus of this book is on British commercial...

The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway, Vol. 1, 1920-1932.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... ALFRED C. MIERZEJEWSKI, The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway, Vol. 1, 1920-1932 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp.xx + 482; illus.; maps. H/back ISBN 0 8078 2496 8,...

Deutsche Unternehmer zwischen Kriegswirtschaft und Wiederaufbau: Studien zur Erfahrungsbildung von Industrie-Eliten.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... PAUL ERKER and TONI PIERENKEMPER (eds.), Deutsche Unternehmer zwischen Kriegswirtschaft und Wiederaufbau: Studien zur Erfahrungsbildung von Industrie-Eliten (Munchen: R. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH, 1999. Pp.viii + 331. ISBN 3 486 56363...

De AA Als Accountant voor het MKB: Onstaan en Ontwikkenling van een Beroep.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... FERRY DE GOEY, De AA Als Accountant voor het MKB: Onstaan en Ontwikkenling van een Beroep (Deventer, Netherlands: Kluwer, 1999. Pp.268, illus.; pictures and tables. ISBN 90 267 30012, no price given). Ferry de Goey's book offers an...

Phases of a Network: From a Breakthrough to a National System.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... TIMO MYLLYNTAUS, Phases of a Network: From a Breakthrough to a National System (Helsinki: Fingrid Oyj, 1999. Pp.64. ISBN 952 911703 5, 80 FIM). Timo Myllyntaus is one of the most prolific writers on nineteenth and twenteeth century Finnish...

Ireland's Shannon Story: Leaders, Visions and Networks - A Case Study of Local and Regional Development.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... BRIAN CALLANAN, Ireland's Shannon Story: Leaders, Visions and Networks - A Case Study of Local and Regional Development (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2000. Pp.xviii + 204. ISBN 0 7165 2710 3, IR[pound]35). In the early 1940s, Shannon was...

European Yearbook of Business History, Number 2.(Review)
January 1, 2001... WILFRIED FELDENKIRCHEN and TERRY GOURVISH (eds.), European Yearbook of Business History, Number 2 (Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, for the Society for European Business History, 1999. Pp.250. H/back ISBN 0 7546 0090 4, [pound]50). ...

The Voyage of the Frolic. New England Merchants and the Opium Trade.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... THOMAS N. LAYTON, The Voyage of the Frolic. New England Merchants and the Opium Trade (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp.xi + 227; illus.; maps. H/back ISBN 08047 2909 3, [pound]27.50, US$45; p/back ISBN 0847 3849 1,...

Their Fathers' Daughters: Silk Mill Workers in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1960.(Review)
January 1, 2001... BONNIE STEPHENOFF, Their Fathers' Daughters: Silk Mill Workers in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1960 (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press and London: Associated University Presses, 1999. Pp. 198; illus.; map. H/back ISBN 1 57591 028 4,...

Corporate Power, American Democracy, and the Automobile Industry.(Review)
January 1, 2001... STAN LUGER, Corporate Power, American Democracy, and the Automobile industry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.viii + 208; H/back ISBN 0 521 63173 4, [pound]35). Luger, a political scientist, examines the US automobile...

Gentlemen Engineers: The Working Lives of Frank and Walter Shanly.(Review)
January 1, 2001... RICHARD WHITE, Gentlemen Engineers: The Working Lives of Frank and Walter Shanly (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp.xix + 262; illus.; maps. H/back ISBN 0 8020 0887 9, $60). Frank and Walter Shanly were civil engineers and...

Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmnoving Equipment Industry.(Review)
January 1, 2001... WILLIAM R. HAYCRAFT, Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmnoving Equipment Industry (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp.xvi + 465; illus. ISBN 0 252 02497 4, $34.95). This large yellow-covered book was written by a...

Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry.(Review)
January 1, 2001... ROGER M. OLIEN and DIANA DAVIDS OLIEN, Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry (Chapel Hill, NC and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp.xviii + 305. H/back ISBN 0 8078 2523 9, [pound]37.50;...

Challenging Professions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Women's Professional Work.(Review)
January 1, 2001... ELIZABETH SMYTH, SANDRA ACKER, PAULA BOURNE and ALISON PRENTICE (eds.), Challenging Professions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Women's Professional Work (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp.vii + 334; illus. H/back ISBN...

Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral, and the Economic in the Postwar Years.(Review)
January 1, 2001... JOY PARR, Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral, and the Economic in the Postwar Years (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp.x + 368; illus. H/back ISBN 0 8020 4097 7, [pound]45; p/back ISBN 0 8020 7947 4,...

The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving image.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... WHEELER WINSTON DIXON, The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving image (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. Pp.xiv + 286; illus. P/back ISBN 0 7914 4516 X, $17.95). In a collation of interviews, short...

Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... YEHOUDA SHENHAV, Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 247. ISBN 0 19 829630 4, [pound]30). This book is original and refreshing. Whereas most...

Australia in the Global Economy: Continuity and Change.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... DAVID MEREDITH and BARRIE DYSTER, Australia in the Global Economy: Continuity and Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xii + 388; tables, figures. ISBN 0 521 63730 9, [pound]15.95). This is a new version of the authors'...

Beside the Seaside: Victorian Resorts in the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
January 1, 2001... ANDREA INGLIS, Beside the Seaside: Victorian Resorts in the Nineteenth Century (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999. Pp.x + 116; illus. ISBN 0 522 84865 6, A$34.95). Seaside studies are very much in vogue at present with those...

The Japanese Economic System and its Historical Origins.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... TETSUJI OKAZAKI and MASAHIRO OKUNO-FUJIWARA (eds.), The Japanese Economic System and its Historical Origins (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp.x + 294. H/back ISBN 0 19 828901 4, [pound]40). This book is a translated version of the...

The Japanese Economy.(Review)
January 1, 2001... DAVID FLATH, The Japanese Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.xv + 368; illus. ISBN 0 19 877504 0, [pound]40). Despite the importance of Japan's economy, there is a peculiar shortage of books aimed at undergraduate and...

Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer.(Review)
January 1, 2001... SIMON PARTNER, Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. Pp.xiv + 303; illus.; tables. H/back ISBN 0 520 21792 6, [pound]34; p/back ISBN 0 520 21939 2,...

International Capital Flows.(Review)
January 1, 2001... MARTIN FELDMAN (ed.), International Capital Flows (Chicago: NBER/University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp.x + 487. ISBN 0 226 24104 1, $25). This is one of the regular multi-author volumes produced by the National Bureau of Economic Research...

World Investment Report 1999: Foreign Direct Investment and the Challenge of Development.(Review)
January 1, 2001... UNITED NATIONS, World Investment Report 1999: Foreign Direct Investment and the Challenge of Development (New York and Geneva: United Nations, 1999. Pp.xxxiv + 541. ISBN 92 1112440 9, $25). The World Investment Report has now been widely...

Institutions and the Evolution of Capitalism: Implications of Evolutionary Economics.(Review)
January 1, 2001... JOHN GROENEWEGEN and JACK VROOMEN (eds.), Institutions and the Evolution of Capitalism: Implications of Evolutionary Economics (Cheltenham and Northampton, Edward Elgar. Pp.205. H/back ISBN 184064 160 6, [pound]49.95). Taking Schumpeter's...

The Demography of Corporations and Industries.(Review)
January 1, 2001... GLENN R. CARROLL and MICHAEL T. HANNAN, The Demography of Corporations and Industries (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp.vii + 490. H/back ISBN 0 6910103 0 7, [pound]31). Carroll and Hannan set out to describe the subject...

Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765-1914.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... WILLIAM GERVASE CLARENCE-SMITH, Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765-1914 (London: Routledge, 2000. Pp.xiv + 319; maps. H/back ISBN 0 415 21576 5, [pound]55). Cocoa was one of the major primary products in international trade by the late nineteenth...