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Business History Review is a journal covering business and economic history. It was founded in 1926 and is published quarterly by the Harvard Business School.Subjects include business, economics, history and genealogy. The editor is Geoffrey Jones.
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Business History Review archives from June 1988
The development of corporate financial markets in Britain and the United States, 1600-1914: overcoming asymmetric information.
June 22, 1988... A number of influential twentieth-century scholars have tried to derive a theory of finance solely on the basis of a priori principles.' Although these efforts have provided many useful insights, in several areas practice has stubbornly...
Business cycles and the sense of time in medieval Genoa.
June 22, 1988... A great deal has been written about the perception of time before the invention of mechanical timepieces, but the nature of the evidence has led much of this literature to take on an impressionistic, even metaphysical, cast. In the...
R&D and competition in England and the United States: the case of the aluminum dirigible.
June 22, 1988... This historical comparison of the Vickers and Alcoa experiences with "borrowed" German airship technology highlights the importance of studying the way industrial R&D has been organized, both within industres and inside individual companies....
Wiley and the whiskey industry: strategic behavior in the passage of the Pure Food Act. (Harvey Washington Wiley)
June 22, 1988... In discussions of the fight for the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906, Harvey Washington Wiley is usually portrayed as the consumers' champion, the Whiskey Trust as their adversary. Messrs. High and Coppin argue otherwise Wiley's...
Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business.
June 22, 1988... Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business. By Michael Bliss. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987. 640 pp. Charts, tables, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $39.95 Can.
Northern Enterprise is an unusual kind of...
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750.
June 22, 1988... Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750. By Marcus Rediker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xv + 322 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes,...
Liberty and Property: Political Economy and Policymaking in the New Nation, 1789-1812.
June 22, 1988... Liberty and Property: Political Economy and Policymaking in the New Nation, 1789-1812. By John R. Nelson, jn Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xv + 222 pp. Graphs, appendixes, and index. $25.00.
Reviewed by...
To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North.
June 22, 1988... To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. By Jeremy Atack and
Fred Bateman. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987. xi + 322 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.
Reviewed by Gregory...
Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885.
June 22, 1988... Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885. By Judith A. McGaw. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987. xv + 439 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes,...
The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry, 1830-1910.
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The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry, 1830-1910, By John Alfred Heitmann. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xii + 298 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00.
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Why the South Lost the Civil War.
June 22, 1988... Why the South Lost the Civil Wan By Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William N. Still, jn Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. xi'+ 582 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and...
Land Fever: Dispossession and the Frontier Myth.
June 22, 1988... Land Fever: Dispossession and the Frontier Myth. By James M. Marshall. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. viii + 238 pp. Appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $21.00.
Reviewed by Patricia Nelson Limerick
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A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America.
June 22, 1988... A Generation of Booners: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in MneteenthCentury America, By Shelton Stromquist. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xix + 353 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes,...
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925.
June 22, 1988... The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism,]865-1925. By David Montgomery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xii + 494 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $27.95.
Reviewed by Daniel...
Middle-Class Providence, 1820-1940.
June 22, 1988... Middle-Class Providence, 1820-1940. By John H. Gilkeson, Jr. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. ix + 380 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $29.95.
Reviewed by Richard Oestreicher
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Leadership at the Fed.
June 22, 1988... Leadership at the Fed. By Donald E Kettl. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986. xiii + 218 pp.Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. $22.50.
Reviewed by James Livingston
Refugees from the new social history...
New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy.
June 22, 1988... New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy. By Stanley Vittoz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. ix + 241 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95.
Reviewed by Christopher L. Tomlins
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Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped. A Twentieth-Century Fund Report.
June 22, 1988... Disabled Policy: America W Programs for the Handicapped. A Twentieth-Century Fund Report. By Edward D. Berkowitz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 280 pp. Notes and index. $24.95.
Reviewed by Gerald N. Grob
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The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology.
June 22, 1988... The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P Hughes, and Trevor Pinch. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987. 405 pp. Illustrations, charts,...
Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the American News Media.
June 22, 1988... Henry R. Luce and the Rise ofthe American News Media. By James L. Baughman. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1987. x + 264 pp. illustrations, notes and references, and index. $24.95.
Reviewed by Donald A. Ritchie
When the first...
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government.
June 22, 1988... Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. By Robert Higgs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xx + 350 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, select bibliography, and index. $24.95.
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Made in the U.S.A.: The History of American Business.
June 22, 1988... Made in the U.S.A.: The History Of American Business. By Thomas V. DiBacco. New York: Harper & Row, 1987. xii + 290 pp. Bibliography and index. $19.95.
Reviewed by K. Austin Kerr
This volume is written for the general reader...
The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning.
June 22, 1988... The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning. By Mare A. Weiss. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. xii + 228 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $27.50.
Reviewed by Mark...
Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835.
June 22, 1988... Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835. By Stuart B. Schwartz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xxiii + 616 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, glossary, selected...
Economic Development: The History of an Idea.
June 22, 1988... Economic Development: The History of an Idea. By H. W Arndt. Chicago, 111. : University of Chicago Press, 1987. viii + 217. Notes and partial index. $20.95.
Reviewed by Alice H. Amsden
H. W Arndt has provided us with an...
The London and New York Stock Exchanges, 1850-1914.
June 22, 1988... The London and New York Stock Exchanges, 1850-1914. By R. C. Michie. Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1987. xv + 312 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95.
Reviewed by Robert Sobel
R. C. Michie, the author of...
Royal Mail: The Post Office Since 1840.
June 22, 1988... Royal Mail: The Post Office since 1840. By M. J. Daunton. London: Athlone Press, 1985. xviii + 388 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $36.50.
Reviewed by Richard R. John, jn
M. J. Daunton's Royal Mail, a history...
The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill: The Rise and Decline of a Family Firm, 1750-1914.
June 22, 1988... The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill: The Rise and Decline of a Family Firm, 1750-1914. By Mary B. Rose. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xv + 169 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.50.
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Werken aan Zekerheid: Een Terugblik Over de Schouder van AEGON op Twee Eeuwen Verzekeringsgeschiedenis.
June 22, 1988... Werken aan Zekerheid: Een terugblik over de schouder van AEGON 0p twee eeuwen verzekeringsgeschie,denis. By B. P A. Gales. The Hague: Uitgave Aegon Verzekeringen, 1986. 390 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. With...
The Hatters of Eighteenth-Century France.
June 22, 1988... The Hatters of Eighteenth-Century France. By Michael Sonenscher. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xiv + 187 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, notes on sources, and index. $28.00.
Reviewed by Whitney Walton
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Education for the Industrial World: The Ecole d'Arts et Metiers and the Rise of French Industrial Engineering.
June 22, 1988... Education for the Industrial World: The Ecole d Arts et Metiers and the Rise of French Industrial Engineering, By Charles R. Day. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987. ix + 293 pp. Tables, notes, bibliograpby, and index. $30.00.
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South Africa's City of Diamonds: Mine Workers and Monopoly Capitalism in Kimberley, 1867-1895.
June 22, 1988... South Africa's City of Diamonds: Mine Worker and Monopoly Capitalism in Kimberley,1867-1895. By William H. Worgen New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1987. ,xiii + 330 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index....
Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921-29.
June 22, 1988... Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921-29, By Alan M. Ball. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xvii + 226 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. $32.50.
Reviewed by Diane R Koenker
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Business History of General Trading Companies. The International Conference on Business History 13: Proceedings of the Fuji Conference.
June 22, 1988... Business History of General Trading Companies. The International Conference on Business History 13: Proceedings of the Fuji Conference Edited by Shin'ichi Yonekawa and Hideki Yoshihara. New York: University of Tokyo Press, 1987. xviii +...
