Business History Review articles from March 1998

Business History Review archives from March 1998

Democrat's 1916 Tariff Commission: responding to dumping fears and illustrating the consumer costs of protectionism.
March 22, 1998... For more than a century, U.S. federal trade policy was regulated almost exclusively by Congress via tariff acts. In 1916, Congress created the Tariff Commission, mandating that it collect expert and impartial information on the "administrative,...

Putting France in the Chandlerian framework: France's 100 largest industrial firms in 1913. (business historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr.)
March 22, 1998... In recent years business historians have been devoting more and more time and effort to comparing entrepreneurial and industrial performance across national borders. No one has done more to set the agenda and to define the conceptual framework...

Commercial associations and the creation of a national economy: the demand for federal bankruptcy law.
March 22, 1998... In the late nineteenth century, the expansion of communication and transportation networks transformed the American economy and made possible a truly national economy. The transformation of the American legal system in response to these changes...

Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business.
March 22, 1998... Roland Marchand. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1998. ii + 440 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical references, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0520087194. In 1985, Roland Marchand published Advertising the American Dream: Making...

Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940.
March 22, 1998... Roland Marchand. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1985. xxii + 448 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50. ISBN 0520055236. In 1985, Roland Marchand published Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for...

Remembering Roland Marchand: 1933-1997. (review of two of Roland Marchand's books on business history)
March 22, 1998... In 1985, Roland Marchand published Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940; and every knowledgeable person who read it immediately knew that at last a genuinely masterful historian had turned his attention to one of...

Big Business and the Wealth of Nations.
March 22, 1998... Edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii + 596 pp. Tables, figures, notes, and indices. $59.95. ISBN 0521481236. These are big and important books, offering...

Creating Modern Capitalism.
March 22, 1998... Edited by Thomas K. McCraw. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997 xii + 711 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0674175557; paper, $29295. ISBN 0674175565. These are big and important books, offering...

To compare or not to compare: two books that look at capitalist systems across centuries, countries & industries.
March 22, 1998... These are big and important books, offering many things for many people in their fact-filled 1,300 pages. Big Business and the Wealth of Nations chronicles the rise of global enterprises in thirteen countries from the nineteenth to twentieth...

Big Business: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century.
March 22, 1998... By Youssef Cassis * Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. xiv + 277 pp. Tables, notes, appendix, and index. $68.00. ISBN 0198289650. Reviewed by Jeffrey Fear Building on his earlier editorial work, Youssef Cassis has written an excellent,...

Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York.
March 22, 1998... By Deborah A. Rosen * Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997. 233 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0814207367; paper, $17.95. ISBN 0814207375. Reviewed by Winifred B....

Early American Railroads.
March 22, 1998... By Franz Anton Ritter Von Gerstner * Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. vi + 844 pp. Maps, tables, plates, notes, appendix, glossary, and index. $95.00. ISBN 0804724237. Reviewed by John Lauritz Larson The Railway and...

The Greatest Nation on Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War.
March 22, 1998... By Heather Cox Richardson * Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. xiii + 342 pp. Bibliography and index. $35.00. ISBN 0674362136. Reviewed by Jeremy Atack The title of this book gives no clue as to its content. However, its...

Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America.
March 22, 1998... By Steven J. Ross * Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. xviii + 369 pp. Illustrations, photographs, appendices, notes, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0691032343. Reviewed by Marc Jeffrey Stern While few modern films examine the world...

The American Aerospace Industry: From Workshop to Global Enterprise.
March 22, 1998... By Roger E. Bilstein * New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. xvii + 280 pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0805798382. Reviewed by Glenn E. Bugos Roger Bilstein's goal is a concise, synthetic narrative of...

Technology and American History: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture.
March 22, 1998... Edited by Stephen Cutcliffe and Terry Reynolds * Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 448 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $37.95. ISBN 0226710270; paper, $18.95. ISBN 0226710289. Reviewed by Leonard S. Reich By now, most...

The American Country Club: Its Origins and Development.
March 22, 1998... By James M. Mayo * New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xi + 245 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, and index. $25.00. ISBN 0813524857. Reviewed by John A. Jakle The country club looms large in America as a context for...

Capitalism in Contention: Business Leaders and Political Economy in Modern Britain.
March 22, 1998... By Jonathan Boswell and James Peters * New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiii + 251 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0521582253; paper, $22.95. ISBN 0521588049. Reviewed by David J. Jeremy Though...

Understanding Decline: Perceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance.
March 22, 1998... Edited by Peter Clarke and Clive Trebilcock * New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xv + 313 pp. Notes and index. $64.95. ISBN 0521563178. Reviewed by David J. Jeremy Though the approaches are very different, these two books deal with...

The Productivity Race: British Manufacturing in International Perspective, 1850-1990.
March 22, 1998... By S. N. Broadberry * New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxv + 451 pp. Figures, tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $74.95. ISBN 052158440X. Reviewed by Sidney Pollard The debate on the alleged decline of the British...

Merchants, Bankers and Middlemen: The Amsterdam Money Market During the First Half of the 19th Century.
March 22, 1998... By Joost Jonker * Amsterdam: NEHA, 1996. 383 pp. Index and bibliography. 59.90 Dutch Guilders. ISBN 9057120015. Reviewed by Larry Neal This valuable work describes in excellent detail, both qualitative and quantitative, all the features of...

The UFA Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945.
March 22, 1998... By Klause Kreimeier * New York: Hill and Wang Publishers, 1996. viii + 451 pp. Photographs, notes, and index. $35.00 ISBN 0809094835. Reviewed by Clemens Verenkotte The UFA was born during the First World War as a child of the German High...

Airbus Industrie: Conflict and Cooperation in US-EC Trade Relations.
March 22, 1998... By Steven McGuire * New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. viii + 224 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00. ISBN 0312175329. Reviewed by Kenneth Owen The complex sequence of events in the long-standing trade dispute between the United...

Burgundy to Champagne: The Wine Trade in Early Modern France.
March 22, 1998... By Thomas Brennan * Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xxi + 350 pp. Tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0801855675. Reviewed by Norman R. Bennett Thomas Brennan, author of the stimulating...

The Balkan Economies c. 1800-1914: Evolution Without Development.
March 22, 1998... By Michael Palairet * New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi + 415 pp. Tables, maps, photographs, figures, graphs, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $69.95. ISBN 052158051X Reviewed by Ivan T. Berend Palairet's new Balkan...

Crisis Banking in the East: The History of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India.
March 22, 1998... By Stuart Muirhead * Aldershot, U.K.: Scolar Press, 1996. xvi + 379 pp. Tables, figures, plates, appendices, references, and index. $75.95. ISBN 185928244X. Reviewed by Amiya Kumar Bagchi The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and...

Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth.
March 22, 1998... By J. Mark Ramseyer * Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvii + 189 pages. Tables, references, and index. $54.95. ISBN 052156386O. Reviewed by John O. Haley Odd Markets is an odd book. Authored by one of the most...

Coordinating Technology: Studies in the International Standardization of Telecommunications.
March 22, 1998... By Susanne K. Schmidt and Raymund Werle * Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1998. viii + 365 pp. Figures, tables, photographs, notes, references, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0262193930. Reviewed by Yumio Saneyoshi A common refrain of academics...