Business History Review articles from December 1998

Business History Review archives from December 1998

Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1606-1865.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By Paul A. C. Koistinen * Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. xix + 432 pp. Index, notes, and references. $45.00. ISBN 0700608907. Reviewed by Robert Higgs This book is the first volume of a projected five-volume work by Paul...

Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By Paul A. C. Koistinen * University Press of Kansas, 1997. xiii + 391 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0700608575. Reviewed by Kurt Hackemer Long recognized as a leading scholar in his field, Paul A. C. Koistinen has...

Planning War, Pursuing Peace: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1920-1939.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By Paul A. C. Koistinen * Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1998. xi + 432 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 070060890. Reviewed by William M. McBride In this third book of a projected five-volume study, Paul A.C....

The Baldwin Locomotive Works: 1831-1915.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By John K. Brown * Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xxxii + 328 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.95. ISBN 0801850479. Reviewed by David R. Meyer As one of America's largest industrial corporations in...

Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865-1915.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By Robert C. Kenzer * Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997, xvi + 178 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00. ISBN 0813917336. Reviewed by Walter B. Weare This small, significant...

Budgeting Democracy: State Building and Citizenship in America, 1890-1928.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By Jonathan Kahn * Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. xi + 222 pp. Photographs, notes, and index. $42.50. ISBN 0801429501. Reviewed by Robert M. Collins Even in an age when the federal deficit (or, at the moment, surplus)...

Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By Julia Kirk Blackwelder * College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. xv + 308 pp. Tables, illustrations, photographs, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0890967768; paper, $17.95. ISBN 0890967989. ...

Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By Joseph A. McCartin * Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi + 303 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0807823724; paper, $18.95. ISBN 0807846791. Reviewed by...

Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War I.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By Jeffrey Haydu * Urbana: University of Illinois Press. x + 261 pp. Notes, references, and index. Paper, $21.95. ISBN 0252066286. Reviewed by Warren Van Tine The significance of the First World War on labor-management relations has...

Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economies of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By Alan Dye * Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. xiii + 344 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00. ISBN 0804728194. Reviewed by David Denslow By 1899 small sugar mills in Cuba had been superseded...

Cargill: Going Global.(Review)(Brief Article)
December 22, 1998... By Wayne G. Broehl, Jr. * Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1998. xvi + 419 pp. Figures, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0874518547. Reviewed by Morton Rothstein This volume is a...

The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America.(Review)(Brief Article)
December 22, 1998... By A. A. Den Otter * Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xi + 292 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0802041612. Reviewed by Don L. Hofsommer Railroad fever struck north of the St. Lawrence River...

Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Prussia: 1830-1870.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By James M. Brophy * Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998, xi + 273 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00. ISBN 0814207510. Reviewed by Elaine Spencer For adherents of the critical school of West German historiography which...

The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500, vol. 2. of Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By Reinhold C. Mueller * Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xxvi + 711 pp. Figures, graphs, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $65.00. ISBN 0801854377. Reviewed by Akira Motomura Reinhold C. Mueller's The...

Zwischen Kleinstadt und Weltmarkt: Hohner und die Harmonika 1857-1961: Unternehmensgeschichte als Gesellschaftsgeschichte.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Unternehmensgeschichte als Gesellschaftsgeschichte. By Hartmut Berghoff * Paderborn: Schoningh, 1997. 670 pp. Graphs, illustrations, photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $58.00. ISBN 350670785X. Reviewed by Jeffrey Fear ...

Fokker: A Transatlantic Biography.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By Marc Dierikx * Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. xi + 250 pp. Illustrations, references, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 1560987359. Reviewed by Richard Overy Antony Fokker was one of the great...

Redefining the State: Privatization and Welfare Reform in Industrial and Transitional Economies.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By Nicolas Spulber * New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi + 254 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0521594251. Reviewed by Ravi Ramamurti If you're looking for a crisp overview of the role of the state in...

Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By Terence Kehoe * Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. xi + 250 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.00. ISBN 0875802257. Reviewed by Christine Meisner Rosen In the 1960s, reports about the "death"...

Japanese Success? British Failure?: Comparisons in Business Performance since 1945.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Edited by Etsuo Abe and Terry Gourvish * New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xii + 288 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and index. $77.00. ISBN 0198290586. Reviewed by Ronald Dore The essays gathered under this splendidly nostalgic...

Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba.(Review)
December 22, 1998... By W. Mark Fruin * New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. ix + 267 pp. Figures, photographs, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 019508195. Reviewed by Robert E. Cole Mark Fruin has written an engaging...

The British multinational enterprise in the United States before 1914: the case of J. & P. Coats.
December 22, 1998... The United States had accumulated the largest inward stock of foreign direct investment in the world by 1914.(1) A number of European countries contributed to this, but the greatest single source of investment was Britain.(2) While foreign...

John H. Patterson and the sales strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922.
December 22, 1998... In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, the invention of the typewriter, cash register, and adding machine changed the daily routine of the secretary, shop clerk, accountant, and bank teller. With their speed and accuracy, these and...

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" The Federal Reserve System's founding fathers and allied finances in the First World War.
December 22, 1998... Within weeks of the establishment of the Federal Reserve System in the summer of 1914, the First World War began. It was a conflict in which the ability to tap United States financial, industrial, and eventually manpower resources proved...