Business History articles from October 2000

Business History archives from October 2000

Corporate Strategy or Individual Priority? Land Management, Income and Tenure on Oxbridge Agricultural Land in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.(England)
October 1, 2000... The nineteenth- and early twentieth-century finances of Oxford and Cambridge Universities and their constituent colleges and halls have attracted the attentions of modern scholars investigating the ways the universities adjusted their finances,...

Free-Standing Companies in the Oil Sector in Romania and Poland before 1948: Typologies and Competencies.
October 1, 2000... The concept of the 'free-standing' company was first introduced by Wilkins to define a company set up in one country for the purpose of doing business outside that country. [1] Such companies had only tiny headquarters in their country of...

The Decline and Fall of the North British Locomotive Company, 1940-62: Technological and Financial Mismanagement or Institutional Failure?
October 1, 2000... The purpose of this article is to provide a detailed business history of the final decades of the North British Locomotive Company (NBL), as a contribution to the many debates which surround the reasons for the decline of the British industrial...

Reluctant Europeans? The Federation of British Industries and European Integration, 1945-63.
October 1, 2000... Since 1945 Britain's relationship with the rest of Europe has been tortured. Britain is often regarded as the reluctant, or grudging, European. [1] At the end of the Second World War Britain saw itself, as Winston Churchill famously put it, at...

The United States Technical Assistance Programme in Japan, 1955-62.
October 1, 2000... In the two decades after 1945, the United States supplied its major industrialised allies with over $300 million-worth of technical assistance. Recent scholarship in Europe has been impressed by the scale of this initiative, but less certain...

The Development of an Organisational Innovation: Management Buy-Outs in the UK, 1980-97.(England)
October 1, 2000... Researchers and commentators have charted the development of several takeover or merger waves in the UK during the twentieth century. Starting with a first upsurge in merger activity at the turn of the century, subsequent waves have been...

Merchants. Markets and Manufacture: The English Wool Textile Industry in the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
October 1, 2000... JOHN SMAIL, Merchants. Markets and Manufacture: The English Wool Textile Industry in the Eighteenth Century (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999. Pp.x + 198. ISBN 0 33372077 6, [pound]42.50). Smail's exhaustive archival research in England and the...

The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth-Century Britain.(Review)
October 1, 2000... ELLEN JORDAN, The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth-Century Britain (London: Routledge, 1999. Pp.ix + 221. H/back ISBN 0 415 18951 9, [pound]50). Ellen Jordan's discussion of women's employment and the 'Women's...

The Great Exhibition.(Review)
October 1, 2000... JOHN R. DAVIS, The Great Exhibition (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1999. Pp.238. ISBN 0 7509 1614 1, [pound]20). JEFFREY A. AUERBACH, The Great Exhibition of 1851 (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1999....

Burning to Serve: Selling Gas in Competitive Markets.(Review)
October 1, 2000... FRANCIS GOODALL, Burning to Serve: Selling Gas in Competitive Markets (Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 1999. Pp.256. ISBN 1901522 65 2, [pound]20). Arising out of a doctoral thesis assessing the evolution and performance of the British gas...

A Victorian Film Enterprise: The History of the British Mutascope & Biograph Company.(Review)
October 1, 2000... RICHARD BROWN and BARRY ANTHONY, A Victorian Film Enterprise: The History of the British Mutascope & Biograph Company, 1897-1915 (Trowbridge: Flicks Books, 1999 Pp.xiv + 345. ISBN 0 948911 271, [pound]45). In 1899 there were 300 Mutascopes...

In the Public Interest: Competition Policy and the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.(Review)
October 1, 2000... STEPHEN WILKS, In the Public Interest: Competition Policy and the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999, Pp.382 + xv. H/back ISBN 0 7190 5574 1, [pound]40). It was in the spring of...

Rethinking British Decline.(Review)
October 1, 2000... RICHARD ENGLISH and MICHAEL KENNY (eds.), Rethinking British Decline (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000. Pp.xiv + 315. H/back ISBN 0 333 97965 2, [pound]45). On offer here is a reprise of the debate on British decline together with some...

The Grocers: The Rise and Rise of the Supermarket Chains.(Review)
October 1, 2000... ANDREW SETH and GEOFFREY RANDALL, The Grocers: The Rise and Rise of the Supermarket Chains (London: Kogan Page, 1999, Pp.xvii + 331; illus. H/back ISBN 0 7494 2191 6, [pound]25). This is initially a series of racy adventure stories, but...

Les Patrons du Second Empire, Bordeaux et la Gironde.(Review)
October 1, 2000... HUBERT BONIN, Les Patrons du Second Empire, Bordeaux et la Gironde (Paris: editions Picard-Cenomane, 1999. Pp.223. ISBN 27084 0560 8, 200FF). This book is the sixth one in a series of regional studies on French entrepreneurs during the...

Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight.(Review)
October 1, 2000... ADRIAN SHUBERT, Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp.ix + 270. H/back ISBN 0 19 509524 3, [pound]15.99). One may smile at the title of this book, but this will...

Big Business in Russia: The Putilov Company in Late Imperial Russia.(Review)
October 1, 2000... JONATHAN A. GRANT, Big Business in Russia: The Putilov Company in Late Imperial Russia, 1868-1917 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. Pp.vii + 203. ISBN 0 8229 4110 4, [pound]35.95). There are so few studies of business...

Siemens, 1918-1945.(Review)
October 1, 2000... WILFRIED FELDENKIRCHEN, Siemens, 1918-1945 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1999. Pp.xvi + 714; illus; appendix. H/back ISBN 0 8142 0723 5, $75). In recent years the business history of the Weimar and Nazi eras has blossomed....

Flugzeugindustrie und Luftrustung in Deutschland, 1918-1945.(Review)
October 1, 2000... LUTZ BUDRASS, Flugzeugindustrie und Luftrustung in Deutschland, 1918-1945 (Dusseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1998. Schriften Bundesarchivs, Nr. 50. Pp.xi + 976. ISBN 3 7700 1604 1, DM128). This history of the German aircraft industry and air...