Business History Review articles from June 1986

Business History Review archives from June 1986

Rivers of empire: water, aridity and the growth of the American West.
June 22, 1986... Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West. By Donald Worster. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. xi 402 pp. $24.95.) When Americans look at the American West, nostalgia always stands ready to place its...

Commerce and culture: the maritime communities of colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750.
June 22, 1986... Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750. By Christine Leigh Heyrman. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1984. 431 pp. $25.00.) Christine Heyrman's book is about two of the maritime...

The web of progress: private values and public styles in Boston and Charleston, 1828-1843.
June 22, 1986... The Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Styles in Boston and Charleston, 1828-1843. By William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. xiv 334 pp. $29.95.) William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease...

Black masters: a free family of color in the old South.
June 22, 1986... Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South. By Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1984. xvi 422 pp. $22.50.) William Ellison's life, under ordinary circumstances, could be...

Sharps rifles and Spanish mules: the San Antonio-El Paso mail, 1851-1881.
June 22, 1986... Sharps Rifles and Spanish Mules: The San Antonio-El Paso Mail, 1851-1881. By Wayne R. Austerman. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1985. xiv 367 pp. $29.50.) Like most postal histories, this account of an important...

Railroad development programs in the twentieth century.
June 22, 1986... Railroad Development Programs in the Twentieth Century. By Roy V. Scott. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1985. xi 231 pp. $22.50.) Most students of American history are well aware of the large and important literature dealing with...

A guide to Thomas A. Edison papers: a selective microfilm edition: Part 1 (1850-1878).
June 22, 1986... A Guide to Thomas A. Edison Papers: A Selective Microfilm Edition. Part 1 (1850-1878). Edited by Thomas E. Jeffrey. (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1985. With microfilm, 28 reels, $1,650.00. Guide published...

The Civil Works Administration, 1933-1934: the business of emergency employment in the New Deal.
June 22, 1986... The Civil Works Administration, 1933-1934: The Business of Emergency Employment in the New Deal. By Bonnie Fox Schwartz. (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. xviii 300 pp. $27.50.) When scholars begin to wonder what...

Image worlds: corporate identities at General Electric, 1890-1930.
June 22, 1986... Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930. By David E. Nye. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. xiv 188 pp. $20.00.) This book interprets a single source, the photographic archives of the General Electric...

Shaping an American institution: Robert E. Wood and Sears, Roebuck.
June 22, 1986... Shaping an American Institution: Robert E. Wood and Sears, Roebuck. By James C. Worthy. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1984. xx 299 pp. $18.95.) This is a study by a former Sears executive who, throughout his...

The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
June 22, 1986... The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. By Nannie M. Tilley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. xxi 706 pp. $35.00.) In the fall of 1985 R. J. Reynolds Industries, today a large diversified conglomerate, announced...

The Bowery Saving Bank of New York: a social and financial history.
June 22, 1986... The Bowery Savings Bank of New York: A Social and Financial History. By Oscar Schisgall. (New York: American Management Associations, 1984. xi 402 pp. $19.95.) This is the type of book that gives business history a bad name in...

Roadside empires: how the chains franchised America.
June 22, 1986... Roadside Empires: How the Chains Franchised America. By Stan Luxenberg. (New York: Viking Penguin, 1985. viii 313 pp. $17.95.) The growth of franchising in the postwar period is an economic phenomenon with broad implications for...

The labor of words: literary professionalism in the Progressive era.
June 22, 1986... The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era. By Christopher P. Wilson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. xviii 239 pp. $24.00.) This ambitious social and cultural history of the mass literary...

Television's guardians: the FCC and the politics of programming, 1958-1967.
June 22, 1986... Television's Guardians: The FCC and the Politics of Programming, 1958-1967. By James L. Baughman. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. xvi 311 pp. $27.50.) Happily, historians of American business have within the...

Advertising, the uneasy persuasion: its dubious impact on American society.
June 22, 1986... Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impact on American Society. By Michael Schudson. (New York: Basic Books, 1984. vii 288 pp. $17.95.) Seldom has a book come equipped with a better title than Advertising, the Uneasy...

Foundations of business economics: the contributions of Joel Dean.
June 22, 1986... Foundations of Business Economics: The Contributions of Joel Dean. By Walter J. Primeaux, Jr. (Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1984. xiii 225 pp. Paper, $14.00.) Joel Dean (1906-79) was an economist and business...

All the world's a fair: visions of empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916.
June 22, 1986... All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916. By Robert W. Rydell. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. x 328 pp. $27.50.) Did we really need another book propounding the hardly...

Essays from the Lowell Conference on Industrial History: 1982: the arts and industrialism; 1983: the industrial city.
June 22, 1986... Essays from the Lowell Conference on Industrial History. 1982: The Arts and Industrialism; 1983: The Industrial City. Edited by Robert Weible. (North Andover, Mass: Museum of American Textile History, 1985. 329 pp. $16.50.) Each...

Views on U.S. economic and business history: molding the mixed enterprise economy.
June 22, 1986... Views on U.S. Economic and Business History: Molding the Mixed Enterprise Economy. Edited by Jack Blicksilver. (Atlanta: Georgia State University, Business Publishing Division, 1985. xii 559 pp. $18.95.) This book is a collection...

Working-class experience: the rise and reconstitution of Canadian labour, 1800-1980.
June 22, 1986... Working-Class Experience: The Rise and Reconstitution of Canadian Labour, 1800-1980. By Bryan D. Palmer. (Toronto: Butterworth & Co., 1983. 298 pp. $23.00.) In this ambitious book Bryan Palmer takes on a formidable task: a history...

Merchants and Jews: the struggle for British West Indian commerce, 1650-1750.
June 22, 1986... Merchants and Jews: The Struggle for British West Indian Commerce, 1650-1750. Stephen Alexander Fortune. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1984. xiii 244 pp. $18.00.) Most recent work on the seventeenth- and...

Economic expansion and social change: England, 1500-1700: Volume 1: people, land, and towns.
June 22, 1986... Economic Expansion and Social Change: England, 1500-1700. By C. G. A. Clay. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Volume 1: People, Land, and Towns: xiv 268 pp.; volume 2: Industry, Trade, and Government: xii 324 pp. Cloth,...

The first industrialists: the problem of origins.
June 22, 1986... The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins. By Francois Crouzet. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. ix 229 pp. $37.50.) This is a model synthesis on the issue of the origins of the more substantial early British...

Economic development of the British coal industry, 1800-1914.
June 22, 1986... Economic Development of the British Coal Industry, 1800-1914. By B.R. Mitchell. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xv 381 pp. $59.50.) Between 1800 and 1914 Britain's coal industry expanded its production by roughly...

Austrian banking and financial policy: creditanstalt at a turning point, 1913-1923.
June 22, 1986... The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union: Economic Development in Austria-Hungary in the Nineteenth Century. By John Komlos. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983. xix 347 pp. $35.00.) Austrian Banking and Financial Policy:...

Business history of shipping: strategy and structure.
June 22, 1986... Business History of Shipping: Strategy and Structure. Edited by Tsunehiko Yui and Keiichiro Nakagawa. (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1985. xxix 330 pp. 6000 yen.) This collection of essays constitutes the proceedings of the...

Mitsubishi and the N.Y.K., 1870-1914: business strategy in the Japanese shipping industry.
June 22, 1986... Mitsubishi and the N.Y.K., 1870-1914: Business Strategy in the Japanese Shipping Industry. By William D. Wray. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984. xx 516 pp. $25.00.) Given the economic importance of Japan, there...

The naval aircraft factory, the American aviation industry, and government competition, 1919-1928.
June 22, 1986... The Naval Aircraft Factory, the American Aviation Industry, and Government Competition, 1919-1928 For those who joined in the spontaneous celebration at the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia on 11 November 1918, the victory of the...

Japanese multinational enterprise before 1914.
June 22, 1986... Japanese Multinational Enterprise before 1914 Just as American and European multinational enterprises have a history preceding recent times, so Japanese multinational enterprises have existed since well before the Second World War--indeed,...

Industrial recreation, the Second World War, and the revival of welfare capitalism, 1934-1960.
June 22, 1986... Industrial Recreation, the Second World War, and the Revival of Welfare Capitalism, 1934-1960 In 1932, the American Mercury pronounced the death of welfare capitalism, the programs utilized by progressive employers through the 1920s to...

The courts and the development of trade in upper Canada, 1830-1860.
June 22, 1986... The Courts and the Development of Trade in Upper Canada, 1830-1860 Economic historians readily acknowledge the importance of social overhead capital in providing a framework within which directly productive investments can take place. They...

The Kress Library of Business and Economics.
June 22, 1986... The Kress Library of Business and Economics When the Harvard Business School's Kress Library of Business and Economics opened its doors in 1938, it stood as testimony to the efforts of Dean Wallace Donham and his colleagues, who believed that...