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Business History Review archives from December 1988
The decline of U.S. whaling: was the stock of whales running out?
December 22, 1988... Re-emerging from the disruption caused by the Revolution and the War of 1812, the American whaling industry grew to dominate the seas between 1820 and 1860, only to suffer a severe decline during and after the Civil War. in the following...
Bound for America: the Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775.
December 22, 1988... Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775. By A. Roger Ekirch. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xvii + 277 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00....
The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War.
December 22, 1988... The Panic of 185 7 and the Coming of the Civil War. By james L. Huston. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xviii + 315 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.50.
Reviewed by Peter Temin
This...
A Great and Shining Road: the Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad.
December 22, 1988... A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad. By John Hoyt Williams. New York: Times Books, 1988. 341 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50.
Reviewed by Philip L. Merkel
The second...
The Forested Land: a History of Lumbering in Western Washington.
December 22, 1988... The Forested Land: A History of Lumbering in Western Washington. By Robert E. Ficken. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. xv + 324 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.
Reviewed by William G. Robbins
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The Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840-1875.
December 22, 1988... The Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840-1875. By Elliott Ashkenazi. University: University of Alabama Press, 1988. x + 219 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.95.
Reviewed by Leonard Dinnerstein...
New Orleans Dockworkers: Race, Labor, and Unionism, 1892-1923.
December 22, 1988... New Orleans Dockworkers: Race, Labor, and Unionism, 1892-1923. By Daniel Rosenberg. Albany: SUNY Press, 1988. x + 233 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $44.50; paper, $14.95.
Reviewed by Melton A. MeLaurin
Daniel Rosenberg has...
John L. Lewis: Labor Leader.
December 22, 1988... John L. Lewis: Labor Leader. By Robert H. Zieger. Boston: Twayne Publishers. 1988. xviii + 220 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $24.95.
Reviewed by Steven Fraser
John L. Lewis was a larger-than-life figure who...
Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism: the Shoeworkers and Tanners of Endicott Johnson, 1890-1950.
December 22, 1988... Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism: The Shoeworkers and Tanners of Endicott johnson, 1890-1950. By Gerald Zahavi. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xiii + 261 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and...
The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: the Market, the Law, and Politics.
December 22, 1988... The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics. By Martin J. Sklar. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xiv + 484 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $15.95.
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The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears.
December 22, 1988... The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears. By Donald R. Katz. New York: Viking Press, 1987. xiv + 604 pp. Illustrations and index. $22.95.
Reviewed by Carl Ryant
Few American retail institutions have the historical or...
The Woodlands: New Community Development, 1964-1983.
December 22, 1988... The Woodlands: New Community Development, 1964-1983. By George T. Morgan, Jr., and John O. King. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. xii + 162 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, bibliography, notes, and index. $27.50.
Reviewed...
The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War.
December 22, 1988... The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War. By John Lewis Gaddis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xi + 332 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 24.95.'
Reviewed by Frederick C. Adams
John Gaddis has written...
The Automobile Industry and Its Workers: Between Fordism and Flexibility.
December 22, 1988... The Automobile industry and its Workers: Between Fordism and Flexibility. Edited by Steven Tolliday and jonathan Zeitlin. Oxford: Polity Press, 1987. viii + 335 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. E35.
Reviewed by Wolfgang Streeck
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Saving the fisherman as well as the fish: conservation and commercial rivalry in Maine's lobster industry, 1872-1933.
December 22, 1988... Historians of Progressive Era conservation measures have focused on the efforts of government resource experts to free environmental management decisions from special-interest groups. Professor Judd argues that this emphasis has obscured the...
The rationality of mechanization in the Pacific salmon-canning industry before the Second World War.
December 22, 1988... OMI
An industry may fail to adopt or to extend new technology for many reasons
other than lack of entrepreneurial vision. In the following article, Professons
Newell considers the halting and incomplete diffusion of mechanization...
"On the dump heap": employee medical screening in the tri-state zinc-lead industry, 1924-1932.
December 22, 1988... "On the Dump Heap": Employee Medical Screening in the Tri-State Zinc-Lead Industry, 1924-1932 ALAN DERICKSON
I In the following article, Professor Derickson examines the motivation for
and the results of employee medical screening of...
Voyagers to the West: a Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution.
December 22, 1988... Rarely has a book informed me more-or left me less satisfied iD my new knowledge. Voyagers to the West is a landmark in the scholarship of early British America. My discomfiture stems largely from a sense that such an impressive work misses too...
Voyagers to the West: a Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution.
December 22, 1988... HENRY A. GEMERY, JAMES T. LEMON, JOHN J. McCUSKER, and E. A. WRIGLEY
I Occasionally books appear that are broad enough in subject or methodology
to afford scholars in various specialties a useful opportunity to look at
the same...
Voyagers to the West: a Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution.
December 22, 1988... Despite its length this volume is, to take Bernard Bailyn's subtitle, only A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution' " As a set of episodes, occurring mostly between 1773 and 1775, Voyagers to the West is a scattered...
Voyagers to the West: a Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution.
December 22, 1988... Though this segment of the review colloquium is addressed to the quantitative aspects of Voyagers to the West, the structure of the book requires this discussion necessarily to overspread those bounds into the expositional and analytical. The...
Restructuring the Automobile Industry: s Study of Firms and States in Modern Capitalism.
December 22, 1988... Restructuring the Automobile Industry: A Study of Firms and States in Modern Capitalism. By Dennis Patrick Quinn, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. xv + 395 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00.
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The Firm and the Market: Studies on Multinational Enterprise and the Scope of the Firm.
December 22, 1988... The Firm and the Market: Studies on Multinational Enterprise and the Scope of the Firm. By Mark Casson. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987. 240 pp. Charts, tables, bibliography, and index. $27.50.
Reviewed by Jean-Frangois Hennart
Until...
International Capital Movements.
December 22, 1988... International Capital Movements. By Charles R Kindleberger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. vii + 99 pp. Charts, references, and index. $24.95.
Reviewed by Milivoje Panic
A strong interest in the major economic issues of his...
Phases of Economic Growth, 1850-1973: Kondratieff Waves and Kuznets Swings.
December 22, 1988... Phases of Economic Growth, 1850-1973: Kondratieff Waves and Kuznets Swings. By Solomos Solomou. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ix + 197 pp. Charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.50.
Reviewed by Stefano Fenoaltea
J. A....
Rivalry: in Business, Science, Among Nations.
December 22, 1988... Rivalry: In Business, Science, among Nations. By Reuven Brenner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. d + 244 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, references, and indexes. $27.95.
Reviewed by Edward H. Lorenz
The quest for a...
Research in Economic History, vol. 10.
December 22, 1988... Research in Economic History. Vol. 10. Edited by Paul Uselding. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1986. x + 308 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and references. Institutions, $54.50; individuals, $27.25.
Reviewed by Sally Clarke To celebrate the tenth...
Empire of Dust: Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt.
December 22, 1988... Empire of Dust: Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt. By David C. jones. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1987. xiv + 316 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, notes on sources, and index. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $14.95....
Women in the Administrative Revolution: the Feminization of Clerical Work.
December 22, 1988... Women in the Administrative Revolution: The Feminization of Clerical work. By Graham S. Lowe. Cheektowaga, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1987. xiii + 234 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, notes, and index. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $16.95.
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Textiles and Capitalism in Mexico: an Economic History of the Obrajes, 1539-1840.
December 22, 1988... Textiles and Capitalism in Mexico: An Economic History of the Obrajes, 1539-1840. By Richard J. Salvucci. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988. xiv + 249 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00....
British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: the Legacy of Eric Williams.
December 22, 1988... British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams. Edited by Barbara L. Solow and Stanley L. Engerman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. x + 345 pp. Tables and notes. $29.95.
Reviewed by Ralph A. Austen
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The Professions in Early Modern England.
December 22, 1988... The Professions in Early Modern England. Edited by Wilfrid Prest. London: Croom Helm, 1987. 231 pp. Tables, notes, and index. [Br pound]30.
Reviewed by Julian Hoppit
in the 1980s our understanding of the professions in early modern...
Norfolk Beers from English Barley: a History of Steward and Patteson, 1793-1963.
December 22, 1988... Norfolk Beers from English Barley: A History of Steward & Patteson, 1793-1963. By Terry Gourvish. Research by Pam Barnes. Norwich: Centre of East Anglian Studies, 1987. 206 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index.
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The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940.
December 22, 1988... The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of imperialism, 1850-1940. By Daniel R. Headrick. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. x + 405 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth, $32.50; paper, 11.95....
Richard Cantillon: Entrepreneur and Economist.
December 22, 1988... Richard Cantillon: Entrepreneur and Economist. By Antoin E. Murphy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xx + 336 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $48.00.
Reviewed by Michael Sonenscher
If Richard...
Wettbewerbsbeschrankungen auf Internationalen Markten.
December 22, 1988... Wetthewerbsbeschriinkungen auf internationalen Markten. Volume 46 of Zeitschrift fur Unternehmensgeschichte. Edited by Hans Pohl. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1988. 297 pp. Tables and notes. 58DM.
Reviewed by David B. Audretsch
This edited...
Imitation and Innovation: the Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns to Meiji Japan.
December 22, 1988... Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns to Meiji Japan. By D. Eleanor Westney. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. viii + 252 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $25.00.
Reviewed by Gary D....
China's Continuous Revolution: the Post-Liberation Epoch, 1949-1981.
December 22, 1988... China's Continuous Revolution: The Post-Liberation Epoch, 1949-1981. By Lowell Dittmer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xv + 320 pp. Appendixes, glossary, bibliography, notes, and index. $35.00.
Reviewed by Jean C. Oi
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