Business History Review articles from June 1996

Business History Review archives from June 1996

Personal styles, cultural values and management: the Sincere and Wing On companies in Shanghai and Hong Kong, 1900-1941.
June 22, 1996... I The opening of the Sincere Company in 1900 and the Wing On Company in 1907 in Hong Kong, followed by their expansion into Shanghai and Guangzhou during the 1910s, ushered in a new type of marketing to consumers living in the urban areas of...

The role of Fiat in the development of the Italian car industry in the 1950's. (Fiat S.p.A.)
June 22, 1996... This article situates Fiat's growth in an analysis of Italy's long history of state intervention in the automobile industry. At first, government policies protected a domestic industry against the threats posed by American automobile...

U.S. multinationals in British manufacturing before 1962.
June 22, 1996... U.S. companies began to establish both distribution and production facilities in Britain in the 1850s, and by the 1900s U.S.-owned companies were already important in a number of sectors. The role of U.S. affiliates in British manufacturing grew...

The Early History of the Law of Bills and notes: A Study of the Origins of Anglo-American Commercial Law. Cambridge Studies in English Legal History.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Fred V. Carstensen Markets are socially constructed arenas within which discretionary exchange develops; in Anglo-American history, that social construction takes the form largely of law, developed through a complex evolutionary...

Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Jack High Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics is vintage McCloskey - witty, learned, inventive, disputatious, stylish, and aimed at the heart of economics as a discipline. In this book as in his earlier ones, such as The Rhetoric...

American Artisans: Crafting Social Identity, 1750-1850.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Donna J. Rilling A critical transformation in craft production occurred between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Historians have focused on the urban northeast to sketch the outlines of his change. Communal values and...

Sugar Dynasty: M.A. Patout and Son, Ltd.: 1791-1993.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by David O. Whitten Michael G. Wade's Sugar Dynasty chronicles two centuries of the history of the Patout family, from its eighteenth-century origins in France to the twentieth-century operations of M. A. Patout & Son, Ltd.,...

Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins In his first published monograph, David Hancock tackles a wildly ambitious topic - and succeeds brilliantly. Citizens of the World focuses on a select group of London merchants, twenty-three in all, who were...

Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Rowena Olegario When professors of history want to impress upon their students an image of the federal government's insignificance prior to the Civil War, they invariably conjure up the Post Office. This institution was the only...

The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Steven Lubar For years, historians of technology have bemoaned the lack of a single-volume history of American technology. Until the last few years, no one had synthesized a general history from the flowering of scholarly work that...

A.P. Giannini and the Bank of America.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Thomas F. Cargill A. P. Giannini exemplified the entrepreneurial spirit that Joseph Schumpeter described so memorably in his analysis of the high growth period of capitalism. Like Schumpeter's entrepreneur, Giannini saw the market...

The Genie Out of the Bottle: World Oil Since 1970.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Richard H. K. Vietor This is a rather strange book. It is apparently written for economists, or at least for readers familiar with the terminology and concepts of economics. It is a blow by blow description and analysis of oil...

Inventing the Nonprofit Sector, and Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Guy Alchon For several years Peter Hall has been writing provocatively on the nature and history of American philanthropy. Inventing the Nonprofit Sector pulls together some of his previously published essays into a collection that...

Capitalism in Context: Essays on Economic Development and Cultural Change in Honor of R.M. Hartwell.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by John J. McCusker Max Hartwell, to whose considerable honor these essays are dedicated, once lamented that an article he thought well of had been too much neglected because of "the obscurity of its place of publication, embedded in...

Patterns of European Industrialization: The Nineteenth Century.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Lynne Kiesling Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo have collected twelve insightful essays on Alexander Gerschenkron's contributions to our understanding of European economic development. Gerschenkron's research interests covered...

Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Martha Carlin Maryanne Kowaleski's powerful study of the commerce of the medieval English town of Exeter challenges Fernand Braudel's model of the origins of modern capitalism. Braudel identified these origins in the long-distance...

European Women and Preindustrial Craft.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Sarah Lowengard European Women and Preindustrial Craft shows how much we still have to learn about women in craft occupations. The ten papers included in this edited volume explore the role of female craft workers, mostly in the...

Steel City: Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Technology in Sheffield, 1743-1993.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Myrddin J. Lewis In this excellent book, Geoffrey Tweedale provides a comprehensive assessment of the development of businesses in the 'steel city' of Sheffield from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. The commercial and...

At the End of the Road: The Rise and Fall of Austin-Healey, MG, and Triumph Sports Cars.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Steven Tolliday In 1977, British Leyland (BL) sports car sales in the United States reached a postwar peak. Four years later BL closed all its sports car factories and withdrew from the market and the postwar "success story" of...

The Japanese Automobile Industry: A Business History.
June 22, 1996... Reviewed by Jeffrey R. Bernstein In writing an English-language business history of the Japanese automobile industry, Koichi Shimokawa has taken on a difficult task. The first-mover advantage has been seized by Michael Cusumano, whose Japanese...