Business History articles from October 1998

Business History archives from October 1998

Death of Sheila Marriner, editor of 'Business History,' 1976-82.(Obituary)
October 1, 1998... The recent death of Sheila Marriner marked the end of a 55-year association with the University of Liverpool. She died at the age of 72 on 7 August 1998. Sheila was born and educated in Southport and joined the then Department of Economics in...

Consumer-owned community flour and bread societies in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.(Special Issue: The Emergence of Modern Retailing, 1750-1950)
October 1, 1998... In the period from 1759 until 1820, at least 46 flour and bread societies were established in parts of England and Scotland to provide bread and flour at retail to the public below the local 'market price'. These societies were owned directly...

Changes in provincial retail practice during the eighteenth century, with particular reference to central-southern England.(Special Issue: The Emergence of Modern Retailing, 1750-1950)
October 1, 1998... In 1954, Jeffreys opened his seminal volume on retailing with the words, 'The study by the British, a nation of shopkeepers, of the art of shopkeeping has been surprisingly neglected'.(1) In many respects, certainly as far as the...

Stocking the store: co-operative retailers in North-East England and systems of wholesale supply, circa 1860-77.(Special Issue: The Emergence of Modern Retailing, 1750-1950)
October 1, 1998... The evolution of retail systems in nineteenth-century Britain and the record of co-operative development are strongly interconnected. Consumers' societies as the most popular form of co-operative association in Britain were widespread if only...

Structural and spatial trends in British retailing: the importance of firm-level studies.(Special Issue: The Emergence of Modern Retailing, 1750-1950)
October 1, 1998... The historiography of retailing is a kaleidoscope of unrelated perspectives, with cultural and social historians, students of marketing and business history, together with economic historians and historical geographers very often tending to...

'The municipal store': adaptation and development in the retail markets of nineteenth-century urban Lancashire.(Special Issue: The Emergence of Modern Retailing, 1750-1950)(England)
October 1, 1998... Markets have been accorded neither great attention nor great significance in the retail historiography of the nineteenth century. A numerically small group of studies conducted on individual towns represent the only form of detailed research to...

Retailing history as economic and cultural history: strategies of survival by specialist tobacconists in the mass market.(Special Issue: The Emergence of Modern Retailing, 1750-1950)
October 1, 1998... The trading methods and ideology of nineteenth-century specialist tobacconists were fundamentally different from those of their counterparts in the twentieth century. Almost all the trade in the nineteenth century was in loose tobaccos, cigars,...

The fascist 'disciplining' of the Italian retail sector, 1922-40.(Special Issue: The Emergence of Modern Retailing, 1750-1950)
October 1, 1998... The Fascist era left Italian retailing with a distinctive legacy that has continued to shape the sector throughout the post-war era. Three features of this stand out in particular - the creation of a very strong interest lobby amongst...

Biography Database: 1680-1830.(Review)
October 1, 1998... [CD-ROM)] (Newcastle: Romulus Press Ltd., in co-operation with the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1996. Distributed by Avero Publications Ltd. Personal Research Edition of Disk No. 1, [pounds]91.38). Information technology has...

Civil Engineers and Engineering in Britain: 1600-1830.(Review)
October 1, 1998... A.W. SKEMPTON, (Aldershot: Variorum, 1997. Pp.xxiv + 338. H/back ISBN 0 86078 578 1, [pounds]59.50). This book is part of Variorum's Collected Studies Series. Rooted in the history of science and technology, each volume brings together a...

Sport, Economy and Society in Britain: 1750-1914.(Review)
October 1, 1998... NElL TRANTER, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998: New Studies in Economic and Social History. Pp.112. H/back ISBN 0 52157217 7, [pounds]19.95; p/back ISBN 9 521 57655 5, [pounds]5.95). It was, perhaps, the author's misfortune that...

British Industrial Capitalism Since the Industrial Revolution.(Review)
October 1, 1998... ROGER LLOYD-JONES and M.J. LEWIS, (London: UCL Press, 1955, Pp.xiii + 275. P/back ISBN 057284097, [pounds]12.95). Economic historians have long recognised that the process of growth is seldom smooth and never stable for very long....

Sure as the Sunrise: A History of Albion Motors.(Review)
October 1, 1998... SAM McKINSTRY, (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1997. Pp. xiii + 222; illus. H/back ISBN 0 85976460 5, [pounds]25). For anyone interested in the development of the British motor industry and who, like me, can remember standing on street corners bus...

Capitalism in Contention: Business Leaders and Political Economy in Modern Britain.(Review)
October 1, 1998... JONATHAN BOSWELL and JAMES PETERS, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xiii + 251. H/back ISBN 0521 582253, [pounds]45; p/back ISBN 0521 588049, [pounds]15.95). This book analyses the content and development of the social ideas...

Eagle Star: A Guide to Its History and Archives.(Review)
October 1, 1998... ISABEL SYED, (Cheltenham: Eagle Star Holdings, 1997. Pp.xxii + 221; illus.; p/back ISBN 0 9529217 0 7, [pounds]10). Eagle Star has long been recognised as an innovator in insurance. Founded in 1904 as the British Dominions Marine Insurance...

The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815.(Review)
October 1, 1998... JAN DE VRIES and AD VAN DER WOUDE, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xx + 767; maps. H/back ISBN 0 521 57061, [pounds]70; p/back ISBN 0 521 57825, [pounds]22.95). The rise of the Dutch Republic of the United Provinces to...

Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe.(Review)
October 1, 1998... ROBERT DUPLESSIS, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 329; illus.; maps. H/back ISBN 0 521 39465 1, [pounds]40 (US$59.95); p/back ISBN 0521 39773 1, [pounds]14.95 (US$18.95)). In this book, published in the series 'New...

A Comparative Evolution of Business Partnership. The Islamic World and Europe, with the Specific Reference to the Ottoman Archives.(Review)
October 1, 1998... MURAT CIZAKCA, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996. Pp.xxv + 232; map. H/back ISBN 90 04 10601 4, Nlg. 125/US$80.75). This is a well-researched book whose main strength lies in the new information it brings on the evolution of business partnerships...

El rostro familiar de la metropoli: redes de parentesco y lazos mercantiles en Cadiz, 1700-1812.(Review)
October 1, 1998... PALOMA FERNANDEZ PEREZ, (Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1997. Pp.xxi + 311. ISBN 84 323 0961 3, no price given). The once bustling port of Cadiz, on Spain's south Atlantic coast, reached its apogee in the late eighteenth century thanks to that city's...

Pionier und Nachzugler? Vergleichende Studien zur Geschichte GroBritanniens und Deutschlands im Zeitalter der Industrialisierung:.(Review)
October 1, 1998... HARTMUT BERGHOFF and DIETER ZIEGLER (eds.), Festschrift fur Sidney Pollard zum 70. Geburtstag (Bochum: Universitatsverlag Dr N. Brockmeyer, 1996. Pp.315. ISBN 3819603352, DM54.80). In 1980 Sidney Pollard took up the newly created chair in...

'In Order Not to Fall into Poverty': Production and Reproduction in the Transition from Photo Industry to Factory Industry in Borne and Wierden (the Netherlands), 1800-1900.(Review)
October 1, 1998... F.M.M. HENDRICKX, (Amsterdam: Stichting beheer IISC, 1997. Pp.255. ISBN 90 6861143 7. f58). The conceptualisation of protoindustrialisation as well as its concrete specification have both been refined by recent research. Our understanding...

Mataxourgeion: The Athens Silkmil.(Review)
October 1, 1998... CHRISTINA AGRIANTONI and MARIA CHRISTINA CHATZIIOANNOU (Athens: Institute of Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 1997. Pp.171; illus. ISBN 960 7094 97 2, no price given). Metaxourgelon: The Athens Silkmill is a...

Russian Industrialist in an Era of Revolution: The Association of Industry and Trade, 1906-1917.(Review)
October 1, 1998... RUTH AMENDE ROOSA, edited by THOMAS C. OWEN, (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997. Pp.xii + 274; ISBN 0 7656 0154 0, [pounds]53.50). Ruth Amende Roosa (1919-93) completed a dissertation in 1967 at Columbia University on the Association of Trade...

The Economic History of the Netherlands, 1914-1995: A Small Open Economy in the 'Long' Twentieth Century.(Review)
October 1, 1998... JAN L. VAN ZANDEN, (London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp.xvii + 200; illus. H/back ISBN 0 415 15003 5, [pounds]45). Those who are interested in the economic history of twentieth-century Netherlands will find an attractive synthesis in...

An Economic and Social History of Western EuropeSince 1945.(Review)
October 1, 1998... ANTHONY SUTCLIFFE, (Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman Ltd., 1996, pp.xxiii + 376; illus.; maps. P/back ISBN 1 582 23645 2, [pounds]15.99). It is no easy task to write a book on the socio-economic history of western Europe from 1945 in less...

Die Bundesbank im westeuropaischen Wiederafbau. Die Internationale Wahrungspolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1948 bis 1958.(Review)
October 1, 1998... MONIKA DICKHAUS, (Munchen: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1996. Pp.286. ISBN 3 486 64572 2, DM 35). While a lot of literature exists on central banking in general and on the reconstruction of western Europe after World War II, not that much has...

Courts and Commerce; Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York.(Review)
October 1, 1998... DEBORAH A. ROSEN, (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 232; illus.; maps. H/back $45; p/back ISBN 081420737 5, $17.95). 'Historians', writes Deborah Rosen, should stop searching for the rise of capitalism, an...

Trade and Gunboats: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Empire.(Review)
October 1, 1998... STEVEN C. TOPIK, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp.x + 301; maps. H/back ISBN 0 8047 2602 7, [pounds]37.50). The central question posed in this meticulous and wide-ranging study concerns the extent to which the behaviour of...

In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906.(Review)
October 1, 1998... LANCE E. DAVIS, ROBERT E. GALLMAN and KARIN GLEITER, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1997. Pp.xii + 550; illus; maps. H/back ISBN 0 226 13789 9, $80 ([pounds]63.95)). The Americans were the largest and most successful whaling nation...

The Welland Canals and their Communities: Engineering, Industrial, and Urban Transformation.(Review)
October 1, 1998... JOHN N. JACKSON, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 535; illus.; maps. ISBN 0 8020 0933 6, [pounds]45). When thinking of canals, Canada would not be the first country to come to mind, yet an old and still important...

Mr Kaiser Goes to Washington: The Rise of a Government Entrepreneur.(Review)
October 1, 1998... STEPHEN B. ADAMS, (Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 239; illus. H/back ISBN 0 8078 2358 9, $39.95). Adams's study provides a detailed and thoughtful assessment of Henry J. Kaiser's capacity to do business so...

Shopfloor Matters: Labor-Management Relations in Twentieth Century American Manufacturing.(Review)
October 1, 1998... DAVID FAIRRIS, (London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp.xiii + 234. H/back ISBN 0 415 12123 X, [pounds]45). Over the last two decades or so, numerous studies of various advanced industrial societies have indicated that labour strategy...

'Negro and White Unite and Fight!' A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-1990.(Review)
October 1, 1998... ROGER HOROWITZ, (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 373. H/back ISBN 0 252 0230 X, $44.95; p/back ISBN 0 252 06621 9, $17.95). This is an interesting and important book about labour relations in one of America's...

Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography.(Review)
October 1, 1998... PATRICIA JOHNSTON, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997, Pp.xxii + 351; illus. H/back ISBN 0 520 07020 8, $55). The relevance of the American photographer Edward Steichen to Business History is not at first apparent. He began...

A Passage to China: Colin Campbell's Diary of the First Swedish East India Company Expedition To Canton.(Review)
October 1, 1998... PAUL HALLBERG and CHRISTIAN KONINCKX (eds.), (Coteborg: Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, 1996. Pp.liv + 260; illus. H/back ISBN 91 85252 55 7, SEK 350). A Passage to China presents the diary Colin Campbell, the supercargo for the...

Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Civil Rights, Women's Rights and the regulation of Business, 1865-1932.(Review)
October 1, 1998... ROSS EVANS PAULSON, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. Pp.vii + 361. H/back ISBN 0 8223 1982 9, [pounds]56.95; p/back ISBN 0 8223 1981 8, [pounds]17.95). The title and subtitle of this ambitious book aptly describe its contents....

Quality Bakers New Zealand: The First 25 Years.(Review)
October 1, 1998... SUSAN M. BUTTERWORTH, (Auckland: Quality Bakers New Zealand Ltd, 1997. Pp.265; illus. ISBN 0 473 03570 7, $NZ49.95). Quality Bakers was formed in 1968, initially as a purchasing and advertising cooperative, by eight medium-sized baking...

Business, Government and the End of Empire: Malaya: 1942-1957.(Review)
October 1, 1998... NICHOLAS J. WHITE, (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press/OUP South East Asia, 1996. Pp.xxii + 331; illus; maps. H/back ISBN 983 56 0008 2, [pounds]25). 'The function of the white man in tropical countries', according to the official organ...

Japanese Success? British Failure? Comparison in Business Performance Since 1945.(Review)
October 1, 1998... TERENCE R. GOURVISH and ETSUO ABE (eds.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 288. ISBN 0 19 8290586, [pounds]40). Revised versions of conference papers presented at the Business History Unit of the London School of Economics...

The Mind of African Strategists: A Study of Kalabari Management Practice.(Review)
October 1, 1998... NIMI WARIBOKO, (Madison, Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. Pp.151; illus. H/back ISBN 0 8386 3706 X, [pounds]23.50) This insightful and admirably accessible book explores the trading achievements of the Kalabari people...