Business History Review articles from December 1999

Business History Review archives from December 1999

A Business History of Britain.(Review)
December 22, 1999... A Business History of Britain. By David J. Jeremy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxviii + 610 pp. Appendices, figures, index, and tables. Cloth, $82.00. ISBN 0198773765. This textbook is a welcome addition to the teaching...

The Nature of the Firm: Towards an Ecocultural History of Business.
December 22, 1999... Business history has never paid much attention to the environment. Brushing aside the firm's reliance and impact on the natural world, early business historians zeroed in on the role of the entrepreneur in big business's rise. They found it...

Efficiency, Environmental Quality, and Oil Field Brines: The Success and Failure of Pollution Control by Self-Regulation.
December 22, 1999... In the first half of the twentieth century, most firms sought to reduce emissions, effluents, and other pollution-causing discharges only when it resulted in the recovery of valuable material or decreased the amount of money spent on damage and...

Divergent Responses to Identical Problems: Businessmen and the Smoke Nuisance in Germany and the United States, 1880-1917.
December 22, 1999... This article counters a common misconception that business was universally opposed to air pollution control at the beginning of the twentieth century. In comparing the reaction of German and American businessmen to smoke abatement efforts...

Environmental Activism, Locomotive Smoke, and the Corporate Response: The Case of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Chicago Smoke Control.
December 22, 1999... In the early 1900s, a powerful antismoke movement in Chicago forced the Pennsylvania Railroad to develop strategies for reducing public protest against the company, limiting fines, and blocking legislation forcing railroads to electrify. The...

Toxic Purity: The Progressive Era Origins of America's Lead Paint Poisoning Epidemic.
December 22, 1999... This paper examines a pivotal moment in the history of the built environment in America. At the beginning of the twentieth century, factions within the American paint industry fought in state and federal legislatures over the definition of...

Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. By Lendol Calder. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Xv + 377 pp. Figures, index, and notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 069105827X. Today a middle-class American family...

Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899-1939.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899-1939. By Jo Ann E. Argersinger. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 248 pp. Illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN...

Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor. By Tom Juravich and Kate Bronfenbrenner. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xi + 245 PP. Illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth $29.95. ISBN 0801436338. In...

The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941.(Review)
December 22, 1999... The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941. By Richard Longstreth. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. xviii + 248 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN...

Better Living: Advertising, Media, and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Better Living: Advertising, Media, and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership. By William L. Bird, Jr. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1999. x + 288. Bibliography, figures, index, and notes. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN 081011859. ...

Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975. By Julian E. Zelizer. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xv + 384 pp. Notes, references, and index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0521621666. Between World War II...

Capital Moves: RCA'S 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Capital Moves: RCA'S 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. By Jefferson Cowie. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. x + 273 pp. Bibliography, figures, illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0801435250. In Capital Moves, Jefferson...

Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer. By I. Bernard Cohen. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. xx + 329 pp. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0262032627. Makin' Numbers: Howard Aiken and the Computer. By I. Bernard Cohen, Gregory W. Welch, and...

Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric. By Stephen B. Adams and Orville R. Butler. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi + 270 pp. Appendices, index, notes, and photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0521651182. Western...

Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience. By Susan G. Davis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii + 313 pp. Figures, index, and notes. Paper, $18.95. ISBN 0520209818. This is a study of Sea World and...

Guinness 1886-1939: From Incorporation to the Second World War.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Guinness 1886-1939: From Incorporation to the Second World War. By S. R. Dennison and Oliver MacDonagh. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press, 1998. xiv + 282 pp. Appendices, index, and tables. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 1859181759. In this book,...

Gentlemen Engineers: The Working Lives of Frank and Walter Shanly.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Gentlemen Engineers: The Working Lives of Frank and Walter Shanly. By Richard White. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. xx + 262 pp. Illustrations, index, maps, and notes. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0802008879. The Shanly brothers,...

Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Regime France.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Regime France. By Robert Fox and Anthony John Turner, eds. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998. xviii + 307 pp. Illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $86.95. ISBN 0860786641. Ever since cheap cottons...

La industria del caizado en Espana, 1860-1959.(Review)
December 22, 1999... La industria del caizado en Espana, 1860-1959. By Jos[acute{e}] Antonio Miranda Encarnaci[acute{o}n. Alicante, Spain: Institut de Cultura "Juan Gil-Albert," 1998. 380 pp. Charts, graphs, index, notes, and tables. Paper, $17.30. ISBN 8477842949....

The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America.(Review)
December 22, 1999... The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America. By Thomas O'Brien. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. vi + 199 pp. Figures, photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, glossary, and index. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 0826319963. ...

Business History in Latin America: The Experience of Seven Countries.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Business History in Latin America: The Experience of Seven Countries. By Carlos Davila and Rory Miller; eds. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999. xiv + 241 pp. Bibliography and index. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 0853237239. Business...

Tra fabbrica e societa. Mondi operai nell'Italia del Novecento.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Tra fabbrica e societ[grave{a}]. Mondi operai nell'Italia del Novecento. By Stefano Musso. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1999. xlvi + 798 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Cloth, L.it.150.000. ISBN 8807990547. In the 1960s the history of the Italian...

Oil and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-63.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Oil and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-63. By Uri Bialer. New York: Saint Martin's Press, 1999. vii + 282 pp. Index, notes, and tables. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 0312212844. The need to ensure secure oil supplies was a priority for the new...

The State, the Financial System, and Economic Modernization.(Review)
December 22, 1999... The State, the Financial System, and Economic Modernization. Edited by Richard Sylla; Richard Tilly; and Gabriel Tortella. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv + 295 pp. Figures, index, and notes. Cloth, $64.95. ISBN 0521591236. ...