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Business History Review archives from September 1988
Family partnerships and international trade in early modern Europe: merchants from Burgos in England and France, 1470-1570.
September 22, 1988... In fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Europe, international trade was often conducted by family partnerships. Commonly, one partner remained in the family's native land, while one or more family members established themselves temporarily or...
"Giants of an earlier capitalism": the chartered trading companies as modern multinationals.
September 22, 1988... Much has been written about late-nineteenth-century multinationals and their relationship to the transnational firms of the present, but both historians and economists have largely discounted the relevance of the earlier chartered trading...
Risk and control in multinational enterprise: German businesses in Scandinavia, 1918-1939.
September 22, 1988... In the following essay, Dr. Schroter examines a specific case, German
multinational activity in Scandinavia between the wars, and uses that information to raise more general questions about the nature of multinational enterprise. Before...
Not politicians but sound businessmen: Norton Company and the Third Reich.
September 22, 1988... The lengthy dispute about the role of big business in Hitler's Third Reich has generally portrayed business leaders either as instigators or as victims. The experience of Norton Company, an American multinational in Germany between 1933 and...
Multinational competition in the British advertising agency business, 1936-1937.
September 22, 1988... American multinational advertising agencies first made inroads into the British advertising industry in the early twentieth century. Some were pioneers, but most came to Britain to service the advertising of American-based multinational...
Sources for mining company history in Africa: the history and records of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation (Ghana), Ltd. (company profile)
September 22, 1988... The history of mining enterprise has recently become an important growth industry in both African and British Commonwealth business history, A number of important multinational mining corporations have in recent years opened their archives on...
The Essential Alfred Chandler: Essays Toward a Historical Theory of Big Business.
September 22, 1988... The Essential Alfred Chandler: Essays toward a Historical Theory of Big Business. Edited and with an introduction by Thomas K. McCraw. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1988. vi + 538 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes,...
Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction.
September 22, 1988... Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction. By Larry Schweikart. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xiv + 367 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00.
Larry Schweikart...
The paddy camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821-61.
September 22, 1988... The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821-61. By Brian C. Mitchell.
Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xiii + 247 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95.
In The Paddy Camps,...
Soldiers, Sutlers, and Settlers: Garrison Life on the Texas Frontier.
September 22, 1988... Soldiers, Sutlers, and Settlers: Garrison Life on the Texas Frontier. By
Robert Wooster. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. xv + 240 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $22.95.
Some...
The Great Northern Railway: A History.
September 22, 1988... The Great Northern Railway: A History. By Ralph W Hidy, muriel E. Hidy, and Roy V. Scott, with Don L. Hofsommer. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1988. xv + 360 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes on...
Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad, 1862-1893.
September 22, 1988... Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad, 1862-1893. By Maury Klein. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987. xiii + 685 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes on sources, bibliography, and index. $27.50.
The driving of the golden spike at Promontory,...
"Just a Housewife": The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America.
September 22, 1988... "Just a Housewife"'- The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America. By Glenna Matthews. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xvii + 281 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $19.95.
For over a decade, historians have recognized the special...
Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan.
September 22, 1988... Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan. By Ronald Edsforth. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986. xvi + 294 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $40.00; paper,...
Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950.
September 22, 1988... Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food processing industry, 1930-1950. By Vicki L.
Ruiz. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. xviii +
194 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes,...
The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929-1939.
September 22, 1988... The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929-1939. By Michael A. Bernstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xvii + 269 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.
This...
Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City.
September 22, 1988... Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City. By Scott L. Bottles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xiii + 302 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, notes, and index. $27.50.
Los Angeles, a long-time target...
Medical Science and the Medical Industry: The Formation of the American Pharmaceutical Industry.
September 22, 1988... Medical Science and Medical Industry: The Formation of the American
Pharmaceutical Industry. By Jonathan Liebenau. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. ix + 207 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00.
In...
Strategic Uses of Public Policy: Business and Government in the Progressive Era.
September 22, 1988... Strategic Uses of Public Policy: Business and Government in the Progressive Era. By Donna J. Wood. Marshfield, Mass.: Pitman Publishing, 1986. xiii + 258 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $24.95.
Donna Wood's...
Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the Exercise of Power in the Age of Alfred E. Smith.
September 22, 1988... Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the Exercise of Power in the Age of
Alfred E. Smith. By Elisabeth Israels Perry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xiv + 280 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95....
Liberal: Adolf A. Berle and the Vision of an American Era.
September 22, 1988... Liberal. Adolf A. Berle and the Vision of an American Era. By Jordan A.
Schwarz. New York: The Free Press, 1987. xi + 452 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography of unpublished sources, and index. $24.95.
As an academic,...
The Decline of American Steel: How Management, Labor, and Government Went Wrong.
September 22, 1988... The Decline of American Steel. How Management, Labor, and Government Went Wrong. By Paul A. Tiffany. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xiii + 282 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.95.
More than a century after...
Leadership and Innovation: A Biographical Perspective on Entrepreneurs in Government.
September 22, 1988... Leadership and innovation: A Biographical Perspective on Entrepreneurs in Government. Edited by Jameson W Doig and Erwin C. Hargrove. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xii + 459 pp. Charts, notes, and index. $39.50.
...
Trustees, Trusteeship, and the Public Good: Issues of Accountability for Hospitals, Museums, Universities, and Libraries.
September 22, 1988... Trustees, Trusteeship, and the Public Good: Issues of Accountability for
Hospitals, Museums, Universities, and Libraries. By James C. Baughman. Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1987. xvii + 187 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $35.00....
The Wealth of the Nation: An Economic History of the United States.
September 22, 1988... The Wealth of the Nation: An Economic History of the United States. By
Stuart Bruchey. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. x + 259 pp. Tables and index. $18.95.
Stuart Bruchey bas written a provocative extended essay that surveys the...
Geographie du Capital Marchand aux Ameriques, 1760-1860.
September 22, 1988... Geographie du capital marchand aux Ameriques, 1760-1860. Edited by Jeanne Chase. Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, 1987. 231 PP. Charts, tables, appendixes, and notes. 145F.
From what must have been a most interesting...
International Business in the Nineteenth Century: The Rise and Fall of a Cosmopolitan Bourgeoisie.
September 22, 1988... International Business in the Nineteenth Century: The Rise and Fall of a
Cosmopolitan Bourgeoisie. By Charles A. Jones. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. xi + 260 pp. Notes and index. $45.00.
This is the story of an...
Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850.
September 22, 1988... Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850. By Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. 576 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, select bibliography, and...
A History of GKN. Volume 1: Innovation and Enterprise, 1759-1918.
September 22, 1988... A History of GKN. Volume 1: Innovation and Enterprise, 1759-1918. By Edgar Jones. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, Ltd., 1987. xxxviii + 442 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index.
In 1905,...
Sheffield Steel and America: A Century of Commercial and Technological Interdependence, 1830-1930.
September 22, 1988... Sheffield Steel and America: A Century of Commercial and Technological
Interdependence, 1830-1930. By Geoffrey Tweedale. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xvi + 296 pp, Maps. charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and...
Business, Banking and Politics: The Case of British Steel, 1918-1939.
September 22, 1988... Business, Banking, and Politics: The Case of British Steel, 1918-1939. By
Steven Tolliday. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. vii + 433 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $42.00.
...
Industrial Structure, Capital Markets, and the Origins of British Economic Decline.
September 22, 1988... Industrial Structure, Capital Markets, and the Origins of British Economic Decline. By William P Kennedy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xii + 230 Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50.
A flurry of...
The Bureaucrats of Buenos Aires, 1769-1810: Amor al Real Servicio.
September 22, 1988... The Bureaucrats of Buenos Aires, 1769-1810: Amor al Real Servicio. By Susan Migden Socolow. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1987. xxi + 356 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, glossary, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index....
Arbeitsmarkt und Angestellte im Deutschen Kaiserreich, 1880-1913: Interessen und Strategien als Elemente der Intergration eines Segmentierten Arbeitsmarktes.
September 22, 1988... Arbeitsmarkt und Angestellte im Deutschen Kaiserreich, 1880-1913: Interessen und Strategien als Elemente der Integration eines segmentierten Arbeitsmarktes. By Toni Pierenkemper. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1987. 391 pp. Charts, tables,...
Der Kampf um die Mark, 1923/24: Die Deutsche Wahrungsstabilisierung Unter dem Einfluss der Nationalen Interessen Frankreichs, Grossbritanniens und der USA.
September 22, 1988... Der Kampf um die Mark, 1923/24: Die deutsche Wahrungsstabilisierung unter dem Einfluss der nationalen Interessen Frankreichs, Grossbritanniens und der USA. By Hans Otto Schotz. Hawthorne, N.Y.: Walter de Gruyter, 1987. ix + 206 pp. Charts,...
Slaves, Spices & Ivory in Zanzibar: Integration of an East African Commercial Empire into the World Economy, 1770-1873.
September 22, 1988... Slaves, Spices & Ivory in Zanzibar: Integration of an East African Commercial Empire into the World Economy, 1770-1873. By Abdul Sheriff. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1987. xx + 297 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes,...