Business History Review articles from June 1989

Business History Review archives from June 1989

Forging a Union of Steel.(Book Review)
June 22, 1989... Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, & the United Steelworkers. Edited by Paul F. Clark, Peter Gottlieb, and Donald Kennedy * Itahaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987. 168 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $22.50;...

The Commerce in Rubber.(Book Review)
June 22, 1989... The Commerce in Rubber: The First 250 Years. By Austin Coates * New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xv + 380 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.50. This informative and well-illustrated book was commissioned by...

Trade Wars.(Book Review)
June 22, 1989... Trade Wars: The Theory and Practice of International Commercial Rivalry. By John A. C. Conybeare * New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. xv + 319 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. Over the past twenty-five years...

The United States in the World Economy.(Book Review)
June 22, 1989... The United States in the World Economy. Edited by Martin Feldstein * Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. x + 693 pp. Charts, tables, notes, list of contributors, and index. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $24.95. For the first thirty years after...

Oil and Mexican Foreign Policy.(Book Review)
June 22, 1989... Oil and Mexican Foreign Policy. By George W. Grayson * Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. xiv + 207 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95. With his second book on the subject, George Grayson is making...

The Decline of Authority.(Book Review)
June 22, 1989... The Decline of Authority: Public Economic Policy and Political Development in New York, 1800-1860. By L. Ray Gunn * Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988. xiii + 284 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. The Decline of...

Banking and Business in South Africa.(Book Review)
June 22, 1989... Banking and Business in South Africa. Edited by Stuart Jones * New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. xii + 190 pp. Tables, notes, references, and index. $39.95. On beginning to read this book I was quickly puzzled by the question of to whom it...

Essays on the Economy of the Old Northwest.(Book Review)
June 22, 1989... Essays on the Economy of the Old Northwest. Edited by David C. Klingaman and Richard K. Vedder * Athens: Ohio University Press, 1987. xii + 318 pp. Maps, charts, tables, and notes. $32.95. Commemorating the bicentennial of the Northwest...

Making and Marketing Arms.(Book Review)
June 22, 1989... Banque et investissement industriel: Paribas, le petrole roumain et la politique francaise, 1919-1939. By Philippe Marguerat with L. Jilek * Neuchatel: Universite de Neuchatel, 1987. 145 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and sources. No...

A Law unto Itself.(Book Review)
June 22, 1989... A Law Unto Itself: The Untold Story of the Law Firm Sullivan & Cromwell. By Nancy Lisagor and Frank Lipsius * New York: William Morrow and Company, 1998. 360 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. $19.95. Increasingly since the 1960s...

Intercity Bus Lines of the Southwest.(Book Review)
June 22, 1989... Intercity Bus Lines of the Southwest: A Photographic History. By Jack Rhodes * College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1988. xv + 158 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibiliography, and index. $22.50. This brief pictorial volume sketching the...

Entrepreneurial Historians and History.(Book Review)
June 22, 1989... Entrepreneurial Historians and History: Leadership and Rationality in American Economic Historiography, 1940-1960. By Steven A. Sass * New York: Garland Publishing, 1986. vi + 301 pp. Notes and sources. $45.00. Behind its rather pretentious...

American Reparations to Germany 1919-33.(Book Review)
June 22, 1989... American "Reparations" to Germany, 1919-33: Implications for the Third-World Debt Crisis. By Stephen A. Schuker * Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Department of Economics, 1988. iv + 170 pp. Tables, notes, references, and index. $6.50. An...

Trade Associations in Business History.(Book Review)
June 22, 1989... Trade Associations in Business History: The International Conference on Business History 14; Proceedings of the Full Conference. Edited by Hiroaki Yamazaki and Matao Miyamoto * New York: University of Tokyo Press, 1988. xxiii + 326 pp....

A metropolitan entrepreneur par excellence: Henry E. Huntington and the growth of southern California, 1898-1927.
June 22, 1989... Henry E. Huntington, according to the following article, placed his imprint on the development of his region, the Los Angeles basin, to an extent unique among urban entrepreneurs. His great wealth and foresight, and especially...

Terminating building societies in Quebec City, 1850-1864.
June 22, 1989... In discussions of the history of real estate markets a key role clearly must be assigned to financial institutions, yet our knowledge of their various structures, particularly before the late nineteenth century, remains sketchy....

The Mills of Manayunk: Industrialization and Social Conflicts in the Philadelphia Region: 1787-1837.
June 22, 1989... The Mills of Manayunk: Industrialization and Social Conflict in the Philadelphia Region, 1787-1837. By Cynthia J. Shelton * Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. xii + 227 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, tables, bibliography, essay....

The American Telegrapher: a Social History, 1860-1900.
June 22, 1989... The American Telegrapher: A Social History, 1860-1900. By Edwin Gabler * New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1988. viii + 264 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $20.00. Edwin Gabler's American...

New Deal Labor Policy and the Southern Textile Industry: 1933-1941.
June 22, 1989... New Deal Labor Policy and the Southern Textile Industry, 1933-1941. By James A. Hodges * Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. xii + 252 pp. Notes and index. $24.95. In this diligent and authoritative stud), of the New Deal's impact...

Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers.
June 22, 1989... Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers. By Bruce E. Seely * Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1988. xv + 315 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, notes on sources, and index. $32.95. Bruce Seely has...

The Airway to Everywhere: a History of All American Aviation, 1837-1953.
June 22, 1989... The Airway to Everywhere: A History of All American Aviation, 1937-1953. By W. David Lewis and William F. Trimble. * Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. ix + 230 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index....

Balanced Budgets and American Politics.
June 22, 1989... Balanced Budgets and American Politics. By James D. Savage * Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988. xiii + 350 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $27.95. The main argument of this solid, well-written, and...

The Light: Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Company Limited, 1899-1945.
June 22, 1989... The Light: Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Company Limited, 1899-1945. By Duncan McDowall * Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. xxxvi + 459 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, glossary and index. $39.95. Under various...

Foreign Trade and the National Economy: Mercantilist and Classical Perspectives.
June 22, 1989... Foreign Trade and the National Economy: Mercantilist and Classical Perspectives. By Leonard Gomes * New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. viii + 323 pp. Notes, references, and index. $45.00. Given the growing general concern with international...

The Sources of Innovation.
June 22, 1989... The Sources of Innovation. By Eric von Hippel * New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xi + 218 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $27.00. Eric von Hippel presents an easily understood, straightforward, and useful...

Business in the Age of Reason.
June 22, 1989... Business in the Age of Reason. Edited by R.P.T. Davenport-Hines and Jonathan Liebenau * Totowa, N.J.: Frank Cass, 1987. 224 pp. Notes and index. $29.50. Ideally, an edited collection such as this should bring together path-breaking studies and...

A History of the Burmah Oil Company, vol. 2: 1924-1966.
June 22, 1989... A History of the Burmah Oil Company. Volume 2: 1924-1966. By T.A.B. Corley * London: William Heinemann, 1988. xvi + 416 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. 20.00 [pounds sterling]. The first volume of Tony Corley's History of...

Banque et investissement industriel: Paribas, le petrole roumain et la politique francaise, 1919-1939.
June 22, 1989... Making and Marketing Arms: The French Experience and Its Implications for me International System. By Edward A. Kolodziej * Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987. xxv + 518 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $55.00....

The History of the Hongkon and Shanghai Banking Corporation. vol. 1: the Hongkong Bank in Late Imperial China, 1864-1902: on an Even Keel.
June 22, 1989... The History of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Volume 1: The Hongkong Bank in Late Imperial China, 1864-1902: On an Even Keel. By Frank H. H. King, with Catherine E. King and David J. S. King * New York: Cambridge University Press,...