Business History Review articles from March 22 2000

Business History Review archives from March 22 2000

Histoire de l'electricite en Suisse. La dynamique d'un petit pays europen, 1875-1939.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Histoire de l'[acute{e}]lectricit[acute{e}] en Suisse. La dynamique d'un petit pays europ[acute{e}]n, 1875-1939, 2 volumes. By Serge Paquier. Geneva: Editions Passe Present: 1998, 1216 pp. Appendices, bibliography, charts, graphs,...

Industrial Culture & Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany.
March 22, 2000... Industrial Culture & Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany. By J[ddot{u}]rgen Kocka, New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. xviii + 325. Bibliography, figures, index, and tables. $59.95. ISBN 1571811983. Among...

Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism. By David Woodruff Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. xvii + 228pp. Appendices, figures, index, and tables. $29.95. ISBN 0801436605. David Woodruff's Money Unmade is a...

Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: The Formation of a Business Environment.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: The Formation of a Business Environment. By Sergio de Oliveira Birchal. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xvii + 233 pp. $65.00. ISBN 0312217161. Sergio de Oliveira Birchal's book is an...

United States-Latin American Relations, 1850-1903: Establishing a Relationship.(Review)
March 22, 2000... United States-Latin American Relations, 1850-1903: Establishing a Relationship. Edited by Thomas Leonard. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. 303 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95. ISBN 0817309373. Thomas Leonard's...

Merchants, Companies and Trade.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Merchants, Companies and Trade. Edited by Sushil Chaudhury and Michel Morineau. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xi + 330 pp. Index, notes, and tables. $69.95. ISBN 0521563674. This volume assembles sixteen essays (plus an...

Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance: The Era of the Insurance Giants.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance: The Era of the Insurance Giants. By Clive Trebilcock. Boston: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 1056 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, and index. $150.00. ISBN 0521254159. ...

Business, Race and Politics in British India, c. 1850-1960.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Business, Race and Politics in British India, c. 1850-1960. By Maria Misra. Oxford: Historical Monographs, 1999. xiii + 250. Bibliography, figures, index, and tables. $72.00. ISBN 0198207115. Scars take time to heal. The Raj ended over...

The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States. By Christopher Howard. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xi + 250 pp. Appendices, index, notes and tables. $17.95. ISBN 069100529x. Between 1966...

Forged Consensus: Science, Technology and Economic Policy in the United States.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Forged Consensus: Science, Technology and Economic Policy in the United States. By David M. Hart. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xiv + 272 PP. Bibliography, charts, and index. $42.50. ISBN 069102667x. Science and technology,...

Southern Hospitality: Tourism and the Growth of Atlanta.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Southern Hospitality: Tourism and the Growth of Atlanta. By Harvey K Newman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. x + 372 pp. Bibliography, notes, photographs and index. $24.95. ISBN 0817309721. Harvey K. Newman has written a...

Little Labels--Big Sounds: Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Little Labels--Big Sounds: Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music. By Rick Kennedy and Randy McNutt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxiii + 198 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0253335485....

The Concepts of Luxury and Waste in American Radicalism, 1880-1929.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Concepts of Luxury and Waste in American Radicalism, 1880-1929. By Sulevi Riukulehto. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1998. 239 pp. Bibliography and index. FIM 140. ISBN 9514108507. In 1885 economist Richard T. Ely noted that a...

F. K. Weyerhaeuser: A Biography.(Review)
March 22, 2000... F. K. Weyerhaeuser: A Biography. By Charles E. Twining. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1997. ix + 332 pp. Bibliography, index, maps, and photographs. $29.95. ISBN 0873513568. More than three decades ago Ralph W. Hidy, Frank...

The Politics of Purity: Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Politics of Purity: Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy. By Clayton Coppin and Jack High. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 219 pp. Bibliography, index, and notes. $49.50. ISBN 0472109847. Coppin...

The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945. By Victoria Saker Woeste. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii + 369 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and...

Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor. By Paul Buhle. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999. ix + 315 pp. Index and notes. $18.00. ISBN 1583670033. Taking Care of Business is...

Tuck & Tucker: The Origin of the Graduate Business School.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Tuck & Tucker: The Origin of the Graduate Business School. By Wayne G. Broehl, Jr. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1999. x + 110 pp. Illustrations. $19.95. ISBN 0874519160. Wayne G. Broehl, Jr.'s, Tuck & Tucker is a slim...

The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics. Eds. Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 288 pp. Figures, index, and notes. $18.95. ISBN...

Provincial Lives: Middle Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Provincial Lives: Middle Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West. By Timothy R. Mahoney. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 334 pp. Bibliography, appendices, illustrations, index, and notes. $54.95. ISBN 052164092x....

From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation.(Review)
March 22, 2000... From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. By Amy Din Stanley. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi + 277 pp. Bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0521414709. This is...

The Atlantic Slave Trade.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Atlantic Slave Trade. By Herbert S. Klein. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxi + 234 pp. Appendix, bibliography, figures, maps, index, and tables. $49.95. ISBN 0521465885. This is a book aimed, as the preface tells...

Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. By William G. Roy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. Notes, tables, references, and index. 360 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 069104353; Paper, $18.95, ISBN...

The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power, 1653-2000.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power, 1653-2000. By John Steele Gordon. New York: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1999. 319 PP. Bibliography, index, notes, and photographs. $25.00. ISBN 0684832879. John Steele Gordon's...

FAST FOOD.(Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle "Uakle and Sculle] are not into breast-beating or finger-pointing. Their mission, in this meticulously detailed study of the origins and growth of fast-food...

COMPANY MEN.(White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 22, 2000... White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941 Clark Davis "The 'company man' is so ensconced in American culture that we take him for granted. Maybe that is why historians have ignored him. In this eye-opening...

IMAGINING CONSUMERS.(Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning Regina Lee Blaszczyk "Imagining Consumers embodies a depth of archival research, an exquisite detail and clarity in explication, and an astuteness in analysis that should make it a classic...

INVENTING OURSELVES OUT OF JOBS?
March 22, 2000... America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981 Amy Sue Bix "Focusing on how the Depression impelled a national debate over technological unemployment, Bix examines the terms of that debate while exploring what it has to...

Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates. By Charles R. Geisst. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. x + 300 pp. Bibliography, index, notes, and illustrations. $30.00. ISBN 0195123018. Having...

Morgan: American Financier.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Morgan: American Financier. By Jean Strouse. New York: Random House, 1999. 769 PP. Bibliography, photograph, references, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0375501665. The period from the Civil War to World War I still fascinates us. It was, after...

The J. and W. Seligman Archives at the Harry W. Bass Business History Collection.
March 22, 2000... In 1955 Harry W. Bass, prominent in the petroleum industry and a former student at the University of Oklahoma, provided the money to establish a special collection in business history that would later be named in his honor. Bass recognized the...

A Private Bank at War: J.P Morgan & Co. and France, 1914-1918.
March 22, 2000... This article examines the relationship between J.P. Morgan & Co. and France during the First World War. It argues that the dealings between the French government and the partners of J.P. Morgan & Co. from 1914 to 1918 were characterized by...

The Cuba Company and the Expansion of American Business in Cuba, 1898--1915.
March 22, 2000... The Cuba Company was the largest single foreign investment in Cuba during the first two decades of the twentieth century and remained one of the largest corporations. This article presents a detailed history of the commercial networks forged...

The U.S. Cable Television Industry, 1948-1995: Managerial Capitalism in Eclipse.
March 22, 2000... Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., observed that under managerial capitalism, salaried managers tended to pursue policies that promoted the long-term stability and growth of their enterprises. The U.S. cable television industry provides a case study of...