Business History Review articles from June 1993

Business History Review archives from June 1993

Business diplomacy: Walter Teagle, Jersey Standard, and the Anglo-French pipeline conflict in the Middle East, 1930-1931. (Standard Oil of New Jersey)
June 22, 1993... American correspondence from the French diplomatic files suggests that Teagle also did not believe Washington's involvement would be useful. 21 See Eric Bussiere, Paribas, 1872-1992: l'Europe et le monde (Antwerp, 1992), 106-9. 22 See...

Structure, personality, and business strategy in the U.S. tire industry: the Seiberling Rubber Company, 1922-1964.
June 22, 1993... 54 H. P. Schrank to J. Penfield Seiberling, April 1960, box 36, file 14, and box 36, file 21, both JPS Papers. 55 J. Penfield Seiberling to F. D. Stewart, 10 May 1960, box 36, file 13, JPS Papers. 56 Michael French, The U.S. Tire Industry: A...

The Prairies and the Pampas: Agrarian Policy in Canada and Argentina, 1880-1930.
June 22, 1993... Editor's Introduction The Business History Review began publishing review colloquia in 1988, when the first set of essays examined Bernard Bailyn's Voyagers to the West; the second, which appeared in 1990, focused on Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.'s...

From Market-Places to a Market Economy: The Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750-1850.
June 22, 1993... Winifred Rothenberg's new book is an important contribution to the agricultural history of Massachusetts and to the history (and theory) of American economic development generally. Unfortunately, her most telling arguments are buried within a...

The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism.
June 22, 1993... For fifteen years, "new rural historians" of America have emphasized the broad historical significance of the countryside in the evolution of early American society. In this important book, Allan Kulikoff presents several of his own essays (some...

American Economic Growth and Standards of Living Before the Civil War.
June 22, 1993... This volume contains papers presented at a conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in July 1990 on the subject implied by the title: quantitative measures of economic growth and changing standards of living in the United States, with a primary...

"The king of the alley": William Duer - Politician, Entrepreneur, and Speculator, 1768-1799.
June 22, 1993... "We will have Mr. Duer, he has gotten our money," cried the crowd outside New York City jail on the evening of 18 April 1792. The problem, however, was that Duer was one of the most elusive characters in the Revolutionary era. New Yorkers had as...

Industry and Technology in Antebellum Tennessee: The Archaeology of Bluff Furnace.
June 22, 1993... If the vision of a backhoe scooping out fill so that shovel-wielding archaeologists can uncover the buried skeleton of a nineteenth-century blast furnace seems intriguing, this book is for you. I must confess my prejudice from the start; I love...

The Men and the Vision of the Southern Commercial Conventions: 1845-1871.
June 22, 1993... The commercial convention movement of the antebellum American South has long attracted historical attention. Students of the sectional conflict have traced the conventions' increasing identification with secession; economic historians have looked...

Capitalism on the Frontier: Billings and the Yellowstone Valley in the Nineteenth Century.
June 22, 1993... Capitalism on the Frontier offers a good illustration of the ability of local history to throw light on large themes. The book explores economic change during the nineteenth century along the Yellowstone River in and near Billings, Montana. In...

The Wheeling Bridge Case: its Significance in American Law and Technology.
June 22, 1993... A number of historians have argued that the American legal framework has been very conducive to the nation's growth. In particular, it has been suggested that the courts consistently interpreted the law in a way that favored the forces of...

The Commercialization of News in the Nineteenth Century.
June 22, 1993... In this path-breaking work, Gerald Baldasty documents the transformation of America newspapers from political advocates to commercial enterprises. Whereas previous historians have focused on the personalities and newspapers that pioneered this...

Capital Mobilization and Regional Financial Markets: The Pacific Coast States, 1850-1920.
June 22, 1993... Kerry Odell's work, her 1987 dissertation, is an addition to the literature on financial flows within regions of the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lance Davis first raised the issue of capital mobility in the...

Most Favored Nation: The Republican Revisionists and U.S. Tariff Policy, 1897-1912.
June 22, 1993... Most Favored Nation, which traces the evolution of Republican policy from domestic market protectionism to a more flexible policy as political and economic realities changed, is a timely and well-conceived and -executed addition to the history of...

The Strategy and Consistency of Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1924-1933.
June 22, 1993... This book is an impressive work on an important topic. Was the mishandling of monetary policy by the Federal Reserve during the Great Depression a result of a change in policies from the early 1920s? Had Benjamin Strong lived and remained in...

Prophesying Upon the Bones: J. Reuben Clark and the Foreign Debt Crisis, 1933-39.
June 22, 1993... Most people read history because someone told them that they could avoid mistakes by "learning the lessons of history." Such people study the past the way football coaches study game films to prepare for an opponent. Students of history study the...

Alexanderson: Pioneer in American Electrical Engineering. (Ernst Alexanderson)
June 22, 1993... Ernst Alexanderson's life coincided with the electrochemical revolution and with the rise of corporate capitalism in the United States. His career as an inventing electrical engineer took the form that it did because of the conjunction of these...

Harold F. Silver: Western Inventor, Businessman, and Civic Leader.
June 22, 1993... This volume is an important contribution to the history of invention, business, and urban leadership in the American West. Relying on extensive business and family records, and drawing on insights derived from numerous interviews, Leonard J....

Black Women and White Women in the Professions: Occupational Segregation by Race and Gender, 1960-1980.
June 22, 1993... "It is both inaccurate and divisive to blame black women", argues Natalie J. Sokoloff in this study, which investigates controversial claims that the advancement of women in the professions--particularly black women--has worked to the detriment...

The Manchester Experiment: A History of Manchester Business School, 1965-1990.
June 22, 1993... The Manchester Experiment: A History of Manchester Business School, 1965-1990. By John F. Wilson * London: Paul Chapmam Publishing, 1992. xi + 153 pp. Photographs, tables, charts, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN...

Lehigh University: A History of Education in Engineering, Business, and the Human Condition.
June 22, 1993... Business schools are peculiar academic animals. They do not really resemble either of their parents--the business world or the ivory tower. Their faculty must find a delicate balance between research that advances learning and knowledge and...

The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford.
June 22, 1993... This is a book very much worth reading. Stuart Leslie has written what may be the best account available of science and the university during the Cold War: an important narrative of the postwar rise to prominence of two institutions that became...

Power at Cost: Ontario Hydro and Rural Electrification, 1911-1958.
June 22, 1993... Since its organization in 1906, the influence of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (HEPC, or, Ontario Hydro) has reached well beyond its most far-flung power lines. Across Canada and in the United States as well, various political...

Argentine Workers: Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness.
June 22, 1993... This is an attempt to bring Argentine workers' attitudes to politics, economics, and themselves to the attention of social scientists. Few other labor movements in the world have the clout of Argentina's Peronist unions. Historically they have...

Domestic and Foreign Finance in Modern Peru, 1850-1950: Financing Visions of Development.
June 22, 1993... Alfonso Quiroz expresses "a desire to bring the often neglected importance of private finance to the attention of the reader", challenging the notion that such capital, internally mobilized by local elite groups, has been of little significance...

The Social Construction of an Industry: A World of Chemical Fibres.
June 22, 1993... This book examines an industry in deep crisis, the chemical fiber industry in Italy, the United Kingdom, and West Germany from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. The theoretical focus of the study is on economic governance by producers through...

The Oil Market in the 1980s: A Decade of Decline.
June 22, 1993... This collection of essays provides a rather eclectic overview of major developments in international off prices and markets in the 1980s, with some consideration given to the consequences of the severe decline in revenues experienced by major off...

The Emergence of Technopolis: Knowledge-Intensive Technologies and Regional Development.
June 22, 1993... Robert Preer's The Emergence of Technopolis is one of several books to appear in recent years reflecting the surge in interest in regional development through the promotion of high-technology industries. The stated goal of the book is to link...

Political Economy, Growth, and Business Cycles.
June 22, 1993... This book is a collection of essays presented at a conference on "The Political Economy of Business Cycles and Growth" in Tel Aviv, Israel, in June 1991. Economic growth is treated "within politico-economic frameworks" in part 1 and "within...

Beyond Free Trade: Firms, Governments, and Global Competition.
June 22, 1993... This is an important, exciting book with nine contributors, the majority of whom teach at the Harvard Business School. It deals with international industries--trade and investment--in the 1980s and 1990s. The authors argue that traditional...

The New World Merchants of Rouen, 1559-1630.
June 22, 1993... The New World Merchants of Rouen, 1559-1630 can be divided into business and social histories. Gayle Brunelle's first chapters describe the development of Rouennais commerce from the beginning of the sixteenth century through the early...

A Distinctive Industrialization: Cotton in Barcelona, 1728-1832.
June 22, 1993... The widespread interest in the early stages of European industrialization has generated a formidable bibliography of published research, but much of it has been undertaken in countries where there is a long and strong interest in economic...

The Political Economy of Shopkeeping in Milan, 1886-1922.
June 22, 1993... To what extent is the petite bourgeoisie a class in Marxist terms? Do shopkeepers share an identity based on their relationship to self-employing small business? Historically, how did shopkeepers come to be supporters of Fascist or radical...

European Industry and Banking Between the Wars: A Review of Bank-Industry Relations.
June 22, 1993... This volume brings together an important collection of conference papers based on primary research into the relationship between industry and finance between the wars. The results for the most part are presented in a country-specific manner, but...

The Electrification of Russia: 1880-1926.
June 22, 1993... The dramatic peak of this book occurs in December 1920 when Communist leaders, especially V. I. Lenin, linked up with a number of Russian electrical engineers, most notably Gleb Krzhizhanovskii, to bring into being GOELRO, the State Commission...

Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan.
June 22, 1993... This volume provides a valuable and sometimes highly schematized introduction to the social and economic changes occurring in Tokugawa Japan (roughly 1600-1867). As the editors point out, the Tokugawa period was important both because it was "the...

American Multinationals and Japan: The Political Economy of Japanese Capital Controls, 1899-1980.
June 22, 1993... Mark Mason's book should be added to the short list of essential works on Japanese business history and Japanese business, especially in the area of U.S.-Japanese relations. Its unique contribution is its analysis of American direct investment,...

The King of the Alley.(Book Review)
June 22, 1993... "The king of the Alley": William Duer--Politician, Entrepreneur, and Speculator, 1768-1799. By Robert F. Jones * Philadelphia, Pa.: American Philosophical Society, 1992. x + 236 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $25.00. ISBN...