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Business History Review archives from September 1986
America's business.
September 22, 1986... America's Business.
By James Oliver Robertson. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1985. x 277 pp. $17.95.)
This book is a short overview and synthesis of "America's business' from the earliest colonial days to the present. It divides the past...
Provisioning Paris: merchants and millers in the grain and flour trade during the eighteenth century.
September 22, 1986... Provisioning Paris: Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade during the Eighteenth Century.
By Steven L. Kaplan. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984. 666 pp. $39.95.)
This is a splendid book. The core of Steven...
Mechanical metamorphosis: technological change in revolutionary America.
September 22, 1986... Mechanical Metamorphosis: Technological Change in Revolutionary America.
By Neil Longley York. Foreword by Brooke Hindle. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. xvii 240 pp. $35.00.)
It is an axiom that the spokesmen of the...
Coxey's army: an American odyssey.
September 22, 1986... Coxey's Army: An American Odyssey.
By Carlos A. Schwantes. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xii
321 pp. $22.95.)
On Easter Sunday 1894, about two hundred men, led by Jacob Coxey, a prominent local quarry owner,...
The Southern Railway: road of the innovators.
September 22, 1986... The Southern Railway: Road of the Innovators.
By Burke Davis. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. viii
309 pp. $19.95.)
I recently took an enjoyable excursion from Atlanta to the north Georgia mountains aboard...
Essays on the postbellum southern economy.
September 22, 1986... Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy.
Edited by Thavolia Glymph and John J. Kushma. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1985. x 119 pp. $17.50.)
The title of this book could easily mislead potential readers. It is...
Breaking the land: the transformation of cotton, tobacco, and rice cultures since 1880.
September 22, 1986... Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880.
By Pete Daniel. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1985. xvi 352 pp. $22.50.)
In recent years there has been an upsurge of scholarly...
Steel at the Sault: Francis H. Clergue, Sir James Dunn, and the Algoma Steel Corporation, 1901-1956.
September 22, 1986... Steel at the Sault: Francis H. Clergue, Sir James Dunn, and the Algoma Steel Corporation, 1901-1956.
By Duncan McDowall. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984. xxii 326 pp. $35.00.)
In a book which might have been titled...
Citibank, 1812-1970.
September 22, 1986... Citibank, 1812-1970.
By Harold van B. Cleveland and Thomas F. Huertas. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. xi 456 pp. $25.00.)
Citibank, 1812-1970 is an excellent history of an important economic institution. It is at...
Willis R. Whitney, General Electric, and the origins of U.S. industrial re- search.
September 22, 1986... Willis R. Whitney, General Electric, and the Origins of U.S. Industrial Research.
By George Wise. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. xi 375 pp. $29.00.)
We are currently reaping a rich harvest of works exploring the complex...
The continuous wave: technology and American radio, 1900 - 1932.
September 22, 1986... The Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio, 1900-1932.
By Hugh G. J. Aitken. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. xvii 588 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $19.95.)
Hugh Aitken's The Continuous Wave is a masterful...
Business architectural imagery in America, 1870-1930.
September 22, 1986... Business Architectural Imagery in America, 1870-1930.
By Kenneth Turney Gibbs. (Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1984. x
200 pp. $39.95.)
When Henry James returned to New York in 1904 after twenty years abroad, he expressed...
Advertising the American dream: making way for modernity, 1920-1940.
September 22, 1986... Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940.
By Roland Marchand. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. xxii
448 pp. $35.00.)
Never let it be said that historians are not risk takers in the...
The invisible hand of planning: capitalism, social science, and the state in the 1920s.
September 22, 1986... The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 1920s.
By Guy Alchon. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. x 252 pp. $25.00.)
Perhaps the central public question of the era of...
The Brooking Institution, 1916-1952: expertise and the public interest in a democratic society.
September 22, 1986... The Brookings Institution, 1916-1952: Expertise and the Public Interest in a Democratic Society.
By Donald T. Critchlow. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1985. xiv 247 pp. $23.00.) $23.00.)
In recent years, private...
Employing bureaucracy: managers, unions, and the transformation of work in American industry, 1900-1945.
September 22, 1986... Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900-1945.
By Sanford M. Jacoby. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. ix 377 pp. $35.00.)
In 1900 industrial workers changed jobs...
The American ethos: public attitudes toward capitalism and democracy. A twentieth century fund report.
September 22, 1986... The American Ethos: Public Attitudes toward Capitalism and Democracy. A Twentieth Century Fund Report.
By Herbert McClosky and John Zaller. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984. xvii 342 pp. $27.50.)
Pity the pollster...
New deals: the Chrysler revival and the American system.
September 22, 1986... New Deals: The Chrysler Revival and the American System.
By Robert B. Reich and John D. Donahue. (New York: Random House, 1985. 359 pp. $17.95.)
At an investment seminar conducted during the summer of 1981, the CEO of a smallish...
Awkward dominion: American political, economic, and cultural relations with Europe, 1919-1933.
September 22, 1986... Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919-1933.
By Frank Costigliola. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984. 381 pp. $27.50.)
In the past decade Frank Costigliola has won...
Research in economic history, volume 9.
September 22, 1986... Research in Economic History, Volume 9.
Edited by Paul Uselding. (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1984. viii 253 pp. $45.00.)
This latest collection of research papers in the JAI Press's series in economic history is a windfall for...
Money and banking in medieval and Renaissance Venice. Volume 1: coins and moneys of account.
September 22, 1986... Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice. Volume 1: Coins and Moneys of Account.
By Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. xx 684 pp. $45.00.)
Like Halley's...
Samuel Roberts, clock maker: an eighteenth-century craftsman in a Welsh rural community.
September 22, 1986... Samuel Roberts, Clock Maker: An Eighteenth-Century Craftsman in a Welsh Rural Community.
By W. T. R. Pryce and T. Alun Davies. (Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, Welsh Folk Museum, 1985. xvii 450 pp. 19.50.)
W. T. R. Pryce teaches...
The historian and the business of insurance.
September 22, 1986... The Historian and the Business of Insurance.
Edited by Oliver M. Westall. (Dover, N.H.: Manchester University Press, 1984. x 189 pp. 19.50.)
Insurance has been a curiously marginalized sector of British business history. Neglected by...
German yearbook on business history: 1984.
September 22, 1986... German Yearbook on Business History: 1984.
Edited by Wolfram Engels and Hans Pohl. (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1985. 158 pp. $16.00.)
This volume is the fourth in an annual series providing English translations of a sampling of...
Food, politics, and society in Latin America.
September 22, 1986... Food, Politics, and Society in Latin America.
Edited by John C. Super and Thomas C. Wright. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xv 261 pp. $22.95.)
It is not often that general patterns of food production, distribution, and...
Latin American oil companies and the politics of energy.
September 22, 1986... Latin American Oil Companies and the Politics of Energy.
Edited by John D. Wirth. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xxix
282 pp. $29.95.)
This volume is an interesting mixture of oil history and discussion of current...
Coal in Queensland: the late nineteenth century, 1875-1900.
September 22, 1986... Coal in Queensland: The Late Nineteenth Century, 1875-1900.
By R. L. Whitmore, (New York: University of Queensland Press, 1985. xxi
338 pp. $27.50.)
R. L. Whitmore, a professor of mining and metallurgical engineering, has written...
Japanese yearbook on business history: 1984.
September 22, 1986... Japanese Yearbook on Business History: 1984.
Edited by Keiichiro Nakagawa and Hidemasa Morikawa. (Tokyo: Japan Business History Institute, 1984. x 185 pp. 7,000 Yen.)
This new series, modeled after the German Yearbook on Business...
Racism, slavery, and free enterprise: black entrepreneurship in the United States before the Civil War.
September 22, 1986... Racism, Slavery, and Free Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship in the United States before the Civil War
Blacks, both slave and free, participated in America's antebellum economy as entrepreneurs within the tradition of creative capitalists....
Bacchus in the East: the Chinese grape wine industry, 1892-1938.
September 22, 1986... Bacchus in the East: The Chinese Grape Wine Industry, 1892-1938
The Chinese wine industry has grown rapidly in the past few years. National shows have been held intermittently since 1955--depending on the political climate--and production,...
The house that Parcheesi built: Selchow & Righter Company. (history of toy company) (company profile)
September 22, 1986... The House That Parcheesi Built: Selchow & Righter Company
Like other areas of American society, business has its mandarins and pundits who have described its past, present, and future. One interpretation of developments in business...
Associationalism, statism, and professional regulation: public accountants and the reform of the financial markets, 1896-1940.
September 22, 1986... Associationalism, Statism, and Professional Regulation: Public Accountants and the Reform of the Financial Markets, 1896-1940
The historiography of twentieth-century economic reform in America seems to confirm either one of two broad, but...
The life and legend of Jay Gould.
September 22, 1986... The Good That Men Do: A Review Essay
"The one event that separates American history into two distinct eras is not the Civil War but the Industrial Revolution,' or so Maury Klein asserts in his magisterial new biography of Jay Gould, who was...
Archival sources for business history at the National Museum of American History.
September 22, 1986... Archival Sources for Business History at the National Museum of American History
Although the natural and physical sciences were the primary focus of the Smithsonian Institution in its early years, its holdings in the fields of history and...