Business History Review articles from March 1988

Business History Review archives from March 1988

Entrepreneurial failure reconsidered: the case of the interwar British coal industry.
March 22, 1988... In this article, Professor Dintenfass reexamines entrepreneurial efficiency in the interwar British coal industry. Using previously neglected company documents, he shows that cost-reducing and price-enhancing innovations in coal...

The Canadian securities market, 1850-1914.
March 22, 1988... In this article Dr Michie examines the origins and development of the Canadian securities market from its appearance in the mid-nineteenth century until the First World War He traces the growth of Canadian-based and Canadian-owned joint-stock...

Railway pooling in Britain before 1900: the Anglo-Scottish traffic.
March 22, 1988... In this study of a neglected topic, Dr Channon examines the attempts of British railway leaders to regulate competition among routes. Drawing illustrative material from the management of Anglo-Scottish traffic and making comparisons with the...

Corporatism in comparative perspective: the impact of the First World War on American and British labor relations.
March 22, 1988... Historians and social scientists have often described modern America as a uniquely pluralist society in which a collective bargaining model of industrial relations won an early triumph over other conceptions of labor relations. Professor...

German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler.
March 22, 1988... German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler By Henry Ashby Turner, Jr New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. xxi + 504 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00, Among the numerous controversies that have swirled around...

Toward a national collecting policy for business history: the view from Baker Library.
March 22, 1988... In this article, the curator of manuscripts and archives at the Harvard Business School's Baker Library discusses the opportunities and difficulties confronting present-day archivists as they seek to establish rational collecting policies for...

Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800.
March 22, 1988... Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800. By Allan Kulikoff. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1986. xviii + 449 pp. Maps,...

Coming Over: Migration and Communication Between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century.
March 22, 1988... Coming Over: Migration and Communication between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century. By David Cressy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 324 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, bibliography, notes, and...

The English Atlantic, 1675-1740: An Exploration of Communication and Community.
March 22, 1988... The English Atlantic, 1675-1740: An Exploration of Communication and community. By Ian K. Steele. New York-. Oxford University Press, 1986. xi + 400 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $34.00. Reviewed by Peter...

The Cycles of American History.
March 22, 1988... The Cycles of American History. By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. xiv + 498 pp. Bibliography and index. $22.95. Reviewed by John A. Garraty Unlike so many collections of occasional essays...

The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America.
March 22, 1988... The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America, Edited by Steven Hahn and Jonathan Prude. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. xii + 355 pp. Notes and index. Cloth,...

Trails South: The Wagon-Road Economy in the Dodge City-Panhandle Region.
March 22, 1988... Trails South: The Wagon-Road Economy in the Dodge City-Panhandle Region. By C. Robert Haywood. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986, xv + 312 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95. Reviewed by Robert...

Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts.
March 22, 1988... Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts. By Alexander Keyssar New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xviii + 469 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index, Cloth, $49.50; paper $14.95. Reviewed...

Southern Capitalists: The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832-1885.
March 22, 1988... Southern Capitalists. The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832-1885. By Laurence Shore. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xii + 282 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00. Reviewed by Lacy Ford In...

Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985.
March 22, 1988... Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985. By Robert C. McMath, Jr, Ronald H. Bayor, James E. Brittain, Lawrence Foster, August W Giebelhaus, and Germaine M. Reed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. xii + 560 pp....

Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League.
March 22, 1988... A Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League. By K. Austin Kerr. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985. xvii + 293 pp. Illustrations, notes, note on sources, and index, $25.00. Reviewed by...

The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster.
March 22, 1988... The Hawk s Nest Incident- . America's Worst Industrial Disaster By Martin Cherniak. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986. x + 193 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95. ...

White Collar Hobo: The Travels of Whiting Williams.
March 22, 1988... White Collar Hobo: The Travels of Whiting William. By Daniel A. Wren. Ames: Iowa State University, Press, 1987. .xii + 165 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $16.95. Reviewed by Daniel Nelson Whiting...

American Steel Makers and the Coming of the Second World War.
March 22, 1988... American Steel Makers and the Coming of the Second World War By Richard A. Lauderbaugh. Ann Arbor Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1980. viii + 266 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. $34.95. Reviewed by Paul A. Tiffany The broader...

The U.S. Economy in World War II.
March 22, 1988... The U.S. Economy in World War II. By Harold G. Vatter Irvington, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1985. x + 198 pp. charts, tables, notes, and index. $26.50. Reviewed by Robert Cuff The US. Economy in World War II is a...

More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave.
March 22, 1988... More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. By Ruth Schwartz Cowan. New York: Basic Books, 1983. xiv + 257 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth, $17.95;...

Management and Managed: Fifty Years of Crisis at Chrysler.
March 22, 1988... Management and Managed: Fifty Years of Crisis at Chrysler. By Steve Jefferys. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiv + 290 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. Reviewed by Alan M. Webber ...

IBM's Early Computers.
March 22, 1988... IBM's Early Computer. By Charles J. Bashe, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, and Emerson W Pugh. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986. xviii + 716 pp. Charts, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50. Reviewed by W Bernard...

Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting.
March 22, 1988... Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting. By H. Thomas Johnson and Robert S. Kaplan. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987. xv + 269 pp. Notes and index, $24.95. Reviewed by David Grayson Allen Relevance...

Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Ford Pinto Case and Beyond.
March 22, 1988... Corporate Crime under Attack: The Ford Pinto Case and Beyond. By Francis T Cullen, William J. Maakestad, and Gray Cavender Cincinnati, Ohio: Anderson Publishing Company, 1987, xii + 398 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $16.95, ...

How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World.
March 22, 1988... How the West Grew Rich; The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World. By Nathan Rosenberg and L. E. Birdzell, Jn New York: Basic Books, 1986. xii + 353 pp. Notes and index. $19.95. Reviewed by Charles W Cheape As the...

Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective.
March 22, 1988... Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective. Edited by Alice Teichova, Maurice Levy-Leboyer, and Helga Nussbaum. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. x + 396 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, and index. $49.50. Reviewed...

Financial Crisis and the World Banking System.
March 22, 1988... Financial Crisis and the World Banking System. Edited by Forrest Capie and Geoffrey E. Wood. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986, x + 270 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. Reviewed by Emily S. Rosenberg ...

Miners and Mining in the Americas.
March 22, 1988... Miners and Mining in the Americas. Edited by William W Culver and Thomas C. Greaves. Dover, N.H.: Manchester University Press, 1985. vi + 358 pp. Charts, tables, notes, annotated bibliography, and index. $50.00. Reviewed by Donald...

Grace: W.R. Grace and Company: The Formative Years, 1850-1930.
March 22, 1988... Grace: WR. Grace and Company: The Formative Years, 1850-1930. By Lawrence A. Clayton. Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1985. xiii + 403 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and bibliography. $22.50. Reviewed by Thomas E O'Brien The...

Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance, vol. 1: 1782-1870.
March 22, 1988... Phoenix Assurance and the -Development of British Insurance. Volume 1: 1782-1870. By Clive Trebilcock. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xx + 792 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.50....

The Stock Exchanges of Ireland.
March 22, 1988... The Stock Exchanges of Ireland. By William Arthur Thomas. Liverpool: Francis Cairns Publications, 1986. xii + 273 pp. Charts, tables, illustrations, appendixes, notes, and index. $42.00. Reviewed by Stephen Salsbury William Arthur...

Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912.
March 22, 1988... Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912. By Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. x + 394 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography,...

The History of the British Bank of the Middle East, 2 vols.
March 22, 1988... The History of the British Bank of the Middle East. By Geoffrey Jones. New York: Cambridge University Press. Volume 1: Banking and Empire in Iran. 1986. xxiv + 418 pp. Volume 2: Banking and Oil. 1987. xxi + 359 pp. Maps, illustrations,...

Civil Servants and the Politics of Inflation in Germany, 1914-1924.
March 22, 1988... Civil Servants and the Politics of Inflation in Germany, 1914-1924. By Andrea Kunz. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1986. xxii + 427 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $58.00. Reviewed by Raymond G. Stokes Studies...

Poland, the United States and the Stabilization of Europe, 1919-1933.
March 22, 1988... Poland, the United States and the Stabilization of Europe, 1919-1933. By a Pease. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. vii + 1919-1933. By Neal bibliography, and index. $24.95. Reviewed by Teresa Mafecka This book by Neal...