Business History Review articles from June 1998

Business History Review archives from June 1998

A gendered enterprise: placing nineteenth-century businesswomen in history.(Special Section: Gender and Business)
June 22, 1998... Readers who perused a 1904 issue of the Atlantic Monthly encountered an article with the intriguing title of "The Small Business as a School of Manhood." Largely a diatribe against the growing dominance of large corporations, it lamented the...

"Vital industry" and women's ventures: conceptualizing gender in twentieth century business history.(Special Section: Gender and Business)
June 22, 1998... In 1935 Fortune magazine published a series of articles on "Women in Business" whose true subject was the absence of women in business. Published anonymously but written by Archibald MacLeish, the articles distinguished between the relatively few...

Comment: conceptualizing gender in American business history. (response to articles by Wendy Gamber and Kathy Peiss in this issue, p. 188 and p. 219)(Special Section: Gender and Business)
June 22, 1998... Business history is not a field whose problematic I know, although these papers and one I read by Angel Kwolek-Folland, which was given here last spring, provide a helpful introduction. Instead, I come from exactly those fields, as the papers...

Pharmaceutical firms and the transition to biotechnology: a study in strategic innovation.
June 22, 1998... The transition to a new technology, science, market or political regime is difficult for any organization, public or private, to manage. In the twentieth century, the pace of these transformations appears to be accelerating and the resulting...

Manufacturing power: the organizational revival of the National Association of Manufacturers, 1941-1945.
June 22, 1998... Unlike nearly everyone else, Ira Mosher considered the recently completed Labor-Management Conference of December 1945 a grand success. Why was Mosher, president of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), so upbeat about an event that...

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor.
June 22, 1998... By David S. Landes. W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. xxi + 650 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00. ISBN 0393040178. Reviewed by Rondo Cameron David Landes' new book is a whopper: over 650 pages, world-wide...

A History of Corporate Finance.
June 22, 1998... By Jonathon Barron Baskin and Paul J. Miranti, Jr. . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. x + 350 pp. Tables and index. $29.95. ISBN 0521555140. Reviewed by George David Smith Finance has been generally neglected by historians,...

From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism: Essays in Business and Industrial History in Honour of Peter Mathias.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Kristine Bruland and Patrick O'Brien. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. xxv + 362 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, figures, notes, references, and index. $85.00. ISBN 0198290462. Reviewed by Timothy L. Alborn Peter Mathias has...

Business Enterprise in Modern Britain.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Maurice W. Kirby and Mary B. Rose New York: Routledge, 1994. xii + 378 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $79.95. ISBN 0415075742. Reviewed by T. A. B. Corley The publication of Business Enterprise in Modern Britain marks the appearance...

Juan Fermin de Aycinena: Central American Colonial Entrepreneur, 1729-1796.
June 22, 1998... By Richmond F. Brown . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. xvii + 298 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0806129484. Reviewed by Richard Salvucci One of the striking successes of...

Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York.
June 22, 1998... By Cathy Matson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. x + 458 pp. Figures, maps, tables, graphs, appendices, notes, essay on sources, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0801856027. Reviewed by Wire Klooster More than sixty years after the...

Servants of the Honourable Company: Work, Discipline, and Conflict in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1770-1879.
June 22, 1998... By Edith I. Burley Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997. v + 319 pp. Maps, photographs, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 0195412966. Reviewed by James Muir The fur trade brought what was to become Northern and...

Slow Train to Paradise: How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads.
June 22, 1998... By Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996. xiv + 350 pp. Photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0804725179. Reviewed by John F. Stover In the early nineteenth century the...

Railroad Mergers and the Language of Unification.
June 22, 1998... By James B. Burns Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1998. ix + 221 pp. Maps, figures, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 1567201660. Reviewed by H. Roger Grant James B. Burns has written a detailed overview of railroad...

Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930.
June 22, 1998... By Hal S. Barron Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiv + 301 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0807823546; paper, $18.95. ISBN 0807846597. Reviewed by Daniel Nelson Historians...

The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century.
June 22, 1998... Edited by Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvii + 474 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and indices. $60.00. ISBN 0226065898. Reviewed by Rick Szostak This book explores the...

Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Civil Rights, Women's Rights, and the Regulation of Business, 1865-1932.
June 22, 1998... By Ross Evans Paulson Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. vii + 361 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0822319829; paper, $18.95. ISBN 0822319918. Reviewed by Angel Kwolek-Folland In this synthetic treatment of...

The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America.
June 22, 1998... By Andrea Tone Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. xii + 264 pp. Notes, tables, photographs, figures, illustrations, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0801430283. Reviewed by Jonathan Rees The Business of Benevolence would be a welcome...

Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Policy from the Progressive Era to the New Deal.
June 22, 1998... By Judith Sealander. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xii + 349 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0801854601. Reviewed by Isadora A. Helfgott In this well-researched and informative study, Judith Sealander...

Mr. Kaiser Goes to Washington: The Rise of a Government Entrepreneur.
June 22, 1998... By Stephen B. Adams Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiii + 329 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0807823589. Reviewed by Brian Balogh "Find a need and fill it" (p. 5). That...

Texas Oil, American Dreams: A Study of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association.
June 22, 1998... By Lawrence Goodwyn Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996. xiii + 284 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0876111584. Reviewed by Walter L. Buenger Lawrence Goodwyn's Texas Oil, American Dreams does three...

Power and Ideas: North-South Politics of Intellectual Property and Antitrust.
June 22, 1998... By Susan K Sell Albany: State University Press of New York, 1998. xi + 289 pp. Figures, tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 0791435768. Reviewed by Wyatt Wells In her new book Power and Ideas, Susan K. Sell...

The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in new York City.
June 22, 1998... By Kyeyoung Park Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. xvii + 228 pp. Figures, photographs, notes, tables, maps, glossary, appendix, references, and index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0801433436; paper, $15.95. ISBN 0801483913. Reviewed by...

Resisting Hostile Takeovers: The Case of Gillette.
June 22, 1998... By Rita Ricardo-Campbell Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1997. x + 254 pp. Bibliography and index. $65.00 ISBN 0275958302. Reviewed by Charles W. Cheape As an outside director of the Gillette Company and a Ph.D. economist, Rita...

Les logiques de l'enterprise: La rationalisation dans l'industrie francaise de l'entre-deux-guerres.
June 22, 1998... By Aimee Moutet Paris: Editions de l'Eeole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Scoiales, 1997. 495 pp. Map, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 2713212251. Reviewed by Michael S. Smith More than any other European country, France embraced...

The Collapse of the American Management Mystique.
June 22, 1998... By Richard R. Locke New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xiv + 351 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0198774060 Reviewed by Mauro F. Guillen In The Collapse of the American Management Mystique Richard Locke offers...