Business History Review articles from March 1999

Business History Review archives from March 1999

Banks and economic development in post-revolutionary Northern Virginia, 1790-1812.
March 22, 1999... The American Revolution, many historians contend, profoundly altered American society and culture. Yet the precise nature of that change remains disputed. Gordon Wood has argued that the Revolution gave rise to an expansive commercial society...

Bank ownership and lending patterns in New York and Pennsylvania, 1781-1831.
March 22, 1999... Recent scholarly research has advanced the idea that capital market development was a prerequisite for the growth of the U.S. economy, and that financial innovations and practices helped stimulate economic advancement.(1) The commercial banking...

A ready-made business: the birth of the clothing industry in America.
March 22, 1999... By the eve of the Civil War there were 430 clothing houses doing business in New York City. This stood in marked contrast to the twelve "slop sellers," as dealers in cheap garments were known, listed in the city's New Trade Directory just half...

Burgerliche Gesellschaft and consumer interests: the Berlin public market hall reform, 1867-1891.
March 22, 1999... Applying industrial technology to the benefit of consumers involves the twists and turns of numerous business and political decisions. The process is particularly tortuous when the concept of consumer interests itself is fluid. Industrializing...

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Ron Chernow. New York, Random House, 1998. xxii + 774 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, index, notes, and photographs. $30.00. ISBN 0679438084. Reviewed by Kenneth Warren To undertake a scholarly study of the almost one hundred year...

Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Charles K. Hyde. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xvii + 267 pp. Bibliography, glossary, index, maps, notes, and tables. $40.00. ISBN 0816518173. Reviewed by Janet Finn Charles K. Hyde's Copper for America offers an...

Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiii + 382 pp. Index and bibliography. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0252024079; paper, $19.95. ISBN 025206710X. Reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky ...

Power at Odds: The 1992 National Shopmen's Strike.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Colin J. Davis. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xii + 244 pp. Tables, photographs, notes, and index. $19.95. ISBN 025206612X. Reviewed by Shelton Stromquist Few strikes loom larger on the historical landscape of...

Business History and Business Culture.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by Andrew Godley and Oliver M. Westall. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. xiii + 258 pp. Figures, tables, and index. $79.95. ISBN 0719041449. Reviewed by Kenneth Lipartito Over the past several years, a small...

A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Janice A. Radway. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiii + 424 pp. Photographs, notes, list of sources, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0807823570. Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Meikle Rarely does a work of cultural studies...

A History of Popular Women's Magazines in the United States: 1792-1995.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Mary Ellen Zuckerman. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. xvii + 272 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0313306753. Reviewed by Elizabeth D. Leonard As an historian of American women and a subscriber at...

Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Kathy Peiss. New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 1998. xii + 334 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $25.00. ISBN 0805055509. Reviewed by Regina Lee Blaszczyk Maybelline, Revlon, Max Factor, Cover Girl: few...

Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By G. Pascal Zachary. New York: The Free Press, 1997. viii + 518 pp. Photographs, notes, and index. $32.50. ISBN 0684828219. Reviewed by Michael A. Dennis Endless Frontier is the first complete biography of the engineer Vannevar Bush....

Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Margaret Levenstein. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998. xiv + 277 pp. Figures, appendicies, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50. ISBN 0804730032. Reviewed by William J. Bruns, Jr. Margaret Levenstein has written a...

The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1900.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Dora L. Costa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiii + 234 pp. Figures, tables, notes, appendix, references, name and subject indices. $40.00. ISBN 0226116085. Reviewed by Jon Moen Dora Costa and Steven Sass have produced...

The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Steven A. Sass. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. viii + 332 pp. Tables, figures, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0674945204. Reviewed by Jon Moen Dora Costa and Steven Sass have produced two important but extremely...

The Americanisation of European Business: The Marshall Plan and the Transfer of US Management Models.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by Matthias Kipping and Ove Bjarnar. New York: Routledge, 1998. xv + 235 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $85.00. ISBN 0415171911. Reviewed by Robert R. Locke These essays consider the Americanization of European...

Market Dominance: How Firms Gain, Hold, or Lose It and the Impact on Economic Performance.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by David I. Rosenbaum. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1998. viii + 274 pp. Bibliography and index. $69.50. ISBN 0275956040. Reviewed by Kathryn Rudie Harrigan In Market Dominance, Rosenbaum has assembled an exciting history...

Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms: Buying and Selling Securities in Canada, 1870-1940.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Christopher Armstrong Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xxvii + 390 pp. Photographs, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0802041841. Reviewed by David Monod For those of us who know "Blue Skies" largely as a...

In Order Not to Fall Into Poverty: Production and Reproduction in the Transition from Proto-industry to Factory Industry in Borne and Wierden, 1800-1900.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By F. M. M. Hendrickx . Amsterdam: International Institute voor Sociale Geschiedenis, 1997. 255 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, appendices, and bibliography. ISBN 9068611437. Reviewed by Julienne M. Laureyssens It has been more than...

Davidsons of Mugiemoss: A History of C. Davidson and Sons, Makers of Wrapping Papers, Paper Bags, Paperboard and Plasterboard Liner.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By J. N. Bartlett. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: The Athalone Press, 1977. xii + 208 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00. ISBN 048511514X. Reviewed by Jorma Ahvenainen When searching in the volumes...

The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by Mark Harrison New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxiii + 307 pp. Tables, notes, and bibliography. $49.95. ISBN 0521620465. Reviewed by Daniel Beaver This edited volume deals with economic issues related to the Second...

Economic Growth in Europe Since 1945.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by Nicholas Crafts and Gianni Toniolo . Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xiii + 600 pp. Figures, tables, and index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 0521496276; paper, $29.95. ISBN 052149964X. Reviewed by Michael Edelstein ...

From State to Market? The Transformation of French Business and Government.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Vivien A. Schmidt . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv + 476 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0521555531. Reviewed by Michael S. Smith From the work of Vivien Schmidt it is becoming...

For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in Sao Paulo, 1920-1964.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By Barbara Weinstein . Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvii + 435 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0807846023; paper, $24.95. ISBN 0807846023 ...