Business History Review articles from June 1999

Business History Review archives from June 1999

"That mysterious people": Jewish merchants, transparency, and community in mid-nineteenth century America.
June 22, 1999... Mid-nineteenth century Americans found much to respect about Jewish ways of doing business. Jewish merchants were perceived to be thrifty, orderly, "wide-awake" go-getters in a country that had come to embrace the values of the market and the...

American management consulting companies in western Europe, 1920 to 1990: products, reputation, and relationships.
June 22, 1999... Service industries have become a major focus of research in international business. This is not surprising given that they now account for more than half of the world's accumulated foreign direct investment (FDI), compared to about one quarter...

Creating a favorable business climate: corporations and radio broadcasting, 1934 to 1954.
June 22, 1999... During the Great Depression, business faced new challenges to its prestige and power in American society. Several corporations and business organizations, like the National Association of Manufacturers, responded by dramatically expanding their...

Locating Australian corporate memory.(business records)
June 22, 1999... This research note reports on the quantity of business records available in Australia as indicated by a recent survey of the top one hundred firms operating during the twentieth century.(1) The archival work was undertaken as part of a large...

Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765-1900.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By James L. Huston * Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. 576 pp. Appendices, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0807122068. Reviewed by Michael S. Green As Mark Twain might have said about this subject,...

Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865-1896.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Gretchen Flitter * Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 312 pp. Appendices, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0521561671; paper, $19.95. ISBN 0521653924. Reviewed by Howard Bodenhorn In Goldbugs and...

Making Sense of the Molly Maguires.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Kevin Kenny * New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xii + 336 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $18.95. ISBN 0195116313. Reviewed by Perry K. Blatz Since the appearance of Alfred D....

Cotton, Fires, and Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works and Heavy Industry in Macon, Georgia, 1839-1912.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Robert S. Davis, Jr. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1998. 304 pp. Appendices, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0865545987. Reviewed by Paul F. Paskoff Antebellum advocates of southern industrial development...

Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by Kevin Boyle * Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. x + 274 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $71.50. ISBN 0791439518; paper $23.95. ISBN 0791439526. Reviewed by Aaron Brenner Having witnessed...

The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson * New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xi + 301 pp. Charts, graphs, tables, bibliography, notes, and index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0195116518. Reviewed by Raymond L. Cohn This book is a...

Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Angel Kwolek-Folland * New York: Twayne, 1998. xv + 275 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, and index. Cloth, $33.00. ISBN 080574519X. Reviewed by Regina Lee Blaszczyk Whether on the nineteenth-century frontier or in the boardrooms of...

Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Melinda Chateauvert * Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press. xiv + 269 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, appendix, notes, and index. Cloth, $46.95. ISBN 0252023404; paper, $17.95. ISBN 0252066367. Reviewed by Tami J. Friedman...

Desegrating the Dollar.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Robert E. Weems, Jr. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 320 pp. Tables, appendices, bibliography, notes, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0814792901; paper, $18.95. ISBN 0814793274. Reviewed by Timothy Bates "Don't picture...

Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By M. M. Manring. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998. xi + 210 pp. Bibliography and index. Cloth, $47.50. ISBN 0813917824; paper, $14.95. ISBN 0813918111. Reviewed by Robert E. Weems, Jr. M. M. Manring's depletion of...

Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Cince the New Deal.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. xii + 345 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0691015708. Reviewed by Sven Beckert Sanford Jacoby has written a terrific book. Modern Manors:...

Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Barry Cushman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xi + 320 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0195115325; paper $24.95. ISBN 0195120434. Reviewed by Keith E. Whittington This book is an effort to explain the U.S. Supreme...

World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. x + 510. Tables, notes, appendices, and index. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN 0521495555. Reviewed by William Lazonick The eleven case studies that form...

The Invisible Industrialist: Manufacturers and the Production of Scientific Knowledge (Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History).(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by Jean Paul Gaudilliere and Ilana Lowy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Cloth $69.95. ISBN 0312212542. Reviewed by Alfonso Gambardella Historians, economists, and other social scientists have typically looked at the...

Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Edwin J. Perkins New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 320 pp. Tables, photographs, notes, appendices, and bibliography. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0521630290. Reviewed by Larry Schweikart For some people, life has a certain...

Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism: The Memoirs of Richard S. Salant.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by Bill Buzenberg and Susan Buzenberg Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. 275 pp. Index and photographs. Cloth $27.00. ISBN 0813390915. Reviewed by Richard S. Rosenbloom The 1960s and 70s were tumultuous decades in American life,...

Two Lucky People: Memoirs.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.656 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0226264149; paper, $20.00. ISBN 0226264157. Reviewed by Elmus Wicker There are a...

The Land Between: Northwestern Ontario Resource Development, 1800 to the 1900s.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Robert Wightman and Nancy M. Wightman Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 19977. xiv + 566 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 0802009379. Reviewed by Christopher Armstrong The Land Between is a...

The Lancashire Cotton Industry: A History Since 1700.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by Mary B. Rose Lancashire: Lancashire County Books, 1996. xi + 404 pp. Figures, tables, photographs, glossary, index, maps, and notes. Cloth, ISBN 187123638X; paper, ISBN 1871236398. Reviewed by Peter L. Payne This collection...

City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Bruce G. Carruthers Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996. xiv + 303 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index, and bibliography. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0691044554. Reviewed by David Harris Sacks Early modern London was a capital...

Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Stuart Banner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xviii + 318 pp. Bibliography, index, and tables. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 052162231X. Reviewed by Lance E. Davis Stuart Banner has written a fascinating book - a book that is...

An Economic History of the Silk Industry: 1830-1930.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Giovanni Federico Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xv + 259 pp. Tables, figures, maps, appendices, notes, references, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0521581982. Reviewed by David Jenkins This detailed analysis of...

Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria and Kenya, 1945-1963.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Robert L. Tignor. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998.419 pp. Bibliography and index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0691015848. Reviewed by Alice H. Amsden This is a pioneering work insofar as it examines decolonization in three...

Dangerous Commerce: Insurance and the Management of International Risk.(Review)
June 22, 1999... By Virginia Haufler. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. xiii + 205 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0801432316. Reviewed by Oran R. Young This book presents a well-documented and largely...

Finance in the Age of Corporate Economy: The Third Anglo-Japanese Business History Conference.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by P. L. Cottrell, Alice Teichova, and Takeshi Yuzawa. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1997. Figures, index, notes, and tables. Cloth, $76.35. ISBN 185928342X. Reviewed by Caroline Fohlin The interplay between...

How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1941.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by Stephen Haber. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. xiii + 316 pp. Tables, figures, notes, references, and index. Cloth, $59.00. ISBN 0804727376; paper, $18.95. ISBN 0804727384. Reviewed by Colin M. Lewis In...

Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv + 484 pp. Tables, notes, references, and index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0674512804; paper, $24.95. ISBN 0674512812. Reviewed by Stanley L....

Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, and Peter Temin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. viii + 347 pp. Figures, tables, references, and index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0226468348; paper, $22.50. ISBN 0226468348. Reviewed...