Business History articles from July 1992

Business History archives from July 1992

Canadian multinationals and international finance: past and present. (Special Issue on: Canadian Multinationals and International Finance)
July 1, 1992... Globalisation is a term increasingly used to describe the internationally competitive environment in which a significant portion of contemporary business must operate. In the contemporary literature, globalisation is assumed to be a very recent...

The rise and fall of a free-standing company in Nova Scotia: the General Mining Association. (Special Issue on: Canadian Multinationals and International Finance)
July 1, 1992... developing new deposits or engaging in other activities. The investors may have had their initial high hopes for the industry dashed when within a few years of the company's founding they discovered that development of American anthracite left...

From branch operation to integrated subsidiary: the reorganisation of Imperial Oil under Walter Teagle, 1911-17. (Special Issue on: Canadian Multinationals and International Finance)
July 1, 1992... Few countries have had as long or as varied an experience with foreign direct investment as Canada, and not coincidentally few have featured as vigorous a debate over the social and political as well as economic consequences of foreign direct...

'Hands across the water': Canadian industrial financiers in the City of London, 1905-20. (Special Issue on: Canadian Multinationals and International Finance)
July 1, 1992... between C. Meredith & Co. and the Dominion Glass Co. Ltd., 12 June 1913. 31. Monetary Times, 19 May 1905, p. 1546; 15 April 1911, p. 1514. 32. LSE, MS 18000/132B/446, Amalgamated Asbestos Corporation, Limited, application for quotation of...

Canadian promoters and American markets: regulating the irregular, 1945-55. (Special Issue on: Canadian Multinationals and International Finance)
July 1, 1992... 18. Canada, House of Commons, Debates (hereafter Can., H. of C., Deb.), 29 Jan. 1943, p. 8. 19.McTague had been a judge of the Ontario Supreme Court and was appointed to chair the National War Labour Board in 1943. 20. OA, Justice Committee,...

The role of Canadian chartered banks in US banking crises: 1870-1914. (Special Issue on: Canadian Multinationals and International Finance)
July 1, 1992... 37. Rich, Cross of Gold, Appendix B. 38. The reported deposit figures for member banks of the New York Clearing House are actually 'net deposits': the sum of deposits held by nonbank individuals and the net amount of bankers' balances (i.e....

Global competitiveness and public policy: the case of Canadian multinational banks. (Special Issue on: Canadian Multinationals and International Finance) (Industry Overview)
July 1, 1992... systems, see G.F. Boreham, 'The Contemporary Banking Scene', Canadian Banker, May-June 1987; idem, 'No Natural Separation', Canadian Banker, July-Aug. 1987, idem, 'The Central Banks', Canadian Banker, Sept.-Oct. 1987. 77. Federal Reserve Bank...

Fin de siecle: Canadian business in the 1990s. (Special Issue on: Canadian Multinationals and International Finance)
July 1, 1992... Canadian businessmen greeted the turn of this present century in an ebullient mood. Like Prime Minister Laurier, they believed that the twentieth century would 'belong' to Canada. The captain of Canadian industry was seen as the self-assured...

Merchants and Markets of the Late Seventeenth Century: The Marescoe-David Letters, 1668-1680.
July 1, 1992... In studying English overseas trade in the late seventeenth century, historian's have largely relied until now on official trade statistics and the records of the chartered trading companies. Vital though these sources are, they provide an...

The Fuller Letters, 1728-1755: Guns, Slaves and Finance.
July 1, 1992... The originals of the Fuller letters are to be found in a Letter Book now on permanent loan in the East Sussex Record Office in Lewes. The first 597 are believed to have been written by John Fuller senior, who lived between 1680 and 1745, and the...

Before the Luddites: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776-1809.
July 1, 1992... Adrian Randall's series of articles in the 1980s has provided an encouraging preview for this book. The culmination of his work, which arose out of a Ph.D. thesis, has been well worth waiting for. The volume will be widely recognised as a very...

The Struggle for Market Power: Industrial Relations in the British Coal Industry, 1800-1840.
July 1, 1992... It is not easy to say anything new about industrial relations in the nineteenth-century British coal industry. No industry has been studied more intensively than coalmining, and no aspect of coalmining has been examined with more interest than...

A Traditional Grocer: T.D. Smith's of Lancaster, 1858-1981.
July 1, 1992... Reading this book brings back memories of traditional grocery shops. It is almost possible to smell the aroma of roasted coffee, bacon and floor polish, and picture the marble-topped counters and the assistants in their aprons and ties. These...

New Perspectives on the Victorian Economy.
July 1, 1992... This is a selective compilation of papers first presented to the ESRC-sponsored Quantitative Economic History Conferences of 1986 and 1987. The volume covers a wide range of topics, some of which will probably have little interest to most...

William Morris: Design and Enterprise in Victorian Britain.
July 1, 1992... William Morris was a man of many parts, but comparatively little has been written about his activities as a businessman. Harvey and press set out to show that many of Morris's greatest achievement were as an entrepreneur. Morris had an...

Lancashire on the Scrapheap: The Cotton Industry, 1945-1970.
July 1, 1992... Where books already exist upon the history of the cotton industry more tend to be written and, conversely, where such books do not exist they tend not to be written: hence the large, familiar and continuing 'gaps' in the literature of the...

Deciphering the Enterprise Culture: Entrepreneurship, Petty Capitalism and the Restructuring of Britain.
July 1, 1992... In this collection of nine articles, the editor presents a catholic analysis of 'enterprise culture' and its development in contemporary Britain. The collection tends towards a more liberal interpretation of entrepreneurship and the rise of the...

The Management of Labor: The British and French iron and Steel Industries, 1860-1918.
July 1, 1992... Starting with the claim that existing explanations for differences in systems of industrial relations between countries are inadequate, Judith Vichniac compares the strategies used by employers in the iron and steel industries in France and...

The German Experience of Professionalisation: Modern learned Professions and Their Organizations from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Hitler Era.
July 1, 1992... Both the term and the concept of the 'professions' are peculiarly Anglo-American and cannot be directly applied to other countries such as Germany, just like the Russian 'intelligentsia', which must always remain a puzzle to English-speaking...

Coal, Steel and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945-1955: The Germans and French from Ruhr Conflict to Economic Community.
July 1, 1992... The collapse of the political and economic order in eastern Europe highlights the durability of the post-war settlement in western Europe. John Gillingham, drawing from a wide range of public archives, demonstrates that this settlement, which...

Capitalism Since 1945.
July 1, 1992... This is a revised edition of Capitalism since World War II, which was originally published in 1984. The book provides a Marxist interpretation of post-war developments in the major industrialised economies. The cover notes suggest that account...

The North Carolina Railroad, 1849-1871, and the Modernization of North Carolina.
July 1, 1992... This detailed monograph tells the story of the North Carolina Railroad, running a distance of 223 miles from Goldsboro, west to Raleigh, Greensboro and Charlotte, from its organisation in 1849 until its leasing by the Richmond & Danville Railroad...

The US Tire Industry: A History.
July 1, 1992... Tyres are important but unglamorous things, and rather like motorists who all too often ignore their condition, historians are guilty of having done little to chart the development of the tyre industry. Whilst there has been a deluge of...

Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology.
July 1, 1992... This interesting book is difficult to describe and pigeonhole. It is not a technological history like Thomas Hughes's Networks of Power; and, though there is a lot in it about the strategies of the major electrical power generating and equipment...

The Future of Banking.
July 1, 1992... In the past decade banking around the world has taken a buffeting; and US banking in particular has suffered. What brought this about? Is it the nature of the sector; is it the state of the economy; or is it the fault of government? Professor...

Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: The Invention of a Tradition.
July 1, 1992... During the past couple of decades the Japanese model of industrial relations has attracted intense international interest. Japan's industrial success has often been attributed to corporate paternalism, the lifetime employment system and other...

Australia in the International Economy in the Twentieth Century.
July 1, 1992... Dyster and Meredith have produced a well-packaged economic history of Australia since the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1901. The book is divided into four chronological sections, each of which is prefaced by a 10-15 page introduction to...

Changing Patterns of International Rivalry: Some Lessons from the Steel Industry.
July 1, 1992... This presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Business History 17 (The Fuji Conference) held in January 1990. There are nine substantive chapters dealing with case studies in Britain before 1914, the USA in the late nineteenth...

The Role of Banks in the Interwar Economy.
July 1, 1992... The articles appearing in this volume were first presented at a session bearing the same title during the Tenth International Economic History Congress, held in Leuven in August 1990. The principle aim of the book is to examine how the financial...

Wine and the Vine: An Historical Geography of Viticulture and the Wine Trade.
July 1, 1992... It is not entirely clear whether writing a history that spans the years 8000 BC to 1990 AD in a single volume of 11 chapters, and which crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries of scholarship, is an act of great courage or total foolhardiness....

Atlas of the World Economy.
July 1, 1992... Eight aspects of the post-war world economy are highlighted in this study in separate chapters on population, agriculture, energy, industry, national income, transport and trade, labour, and multinationals. Drawing primarily upon data collected...

International Directory of Company Histories, vol. 3.
July 1, 1992... This is the third volume in a series which continues to provide a valuable reference source on international big business. The general format is maintained: each entry provides basic factual information on the history of the company and a survey...

Industrial Dislocation: The Case of Global Shipbuilding.
July 1, 1992... Daniel Todd has made an ambitious attempt to chart the development and contemporary experience of the world shipbuilding industry. The volume opens with an excellent review of current shipbuilding, with a description of the changing balance of...

Unregulated Banking: Chaos or Order?
July 1, 1992... This book contains the papers and prepared discussions of a conference hosted by the Midland Montagu Centre for Financial Markets of the City University Business School. In their introduction the editors pose two questions: 'Is there a role for...