Business History Review articles from September 1989

Business History Review archives from September 1989

Misused product costing in the American railroad industry: Southern Pacific passenger service between the wars.
September 22, 1989... Misused Product Costing in the American Railroad Industry: Southern Pacific Passenger Service between the Wars Reflecting recent studies that have highlighted the importance of product cost accounting, this article traces the...

The development of discounted cash flow techniques in U.S. industry.
September 22, 1989... The Development of Discounted Cash Flow Techniques in U.S. Industry This article supplies a missing piece in the story of the growth of managerial technology--the development of discounted cash flow techniques for projecting the...

Creating control systems: Edwin F. Gay and the Central Bureau of Planning and Statistics, 1917-1919. (economic historian and first dean of Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration)
September 22, 1989... Creating Control Systems: Edwin F. Gay and the Central Bureau of Planning and Statistics, 1917-1919 In tracing the work of Edwin Gay in the mobilization effort during the First World War, this article presents an intriguing picture...

"Islands of conscious power": Louis D. Brandeis and the modern corporation. (American jurist)
September 22, 1989... "Islands of Conscious Power": Louis D. Brandeis and the Modern Corporation In this examination of the beliefs of Louis Brandeis about the twentieth-century corporation, we are given a paradoxical portrait of a man strongly committed...

The Economy of Early America: The Revolutionary Period, 1763-1790.
September 22, 1989... The Economy of Early America: The Revolutionary Period, 1763-1790 Edited by Ronald Hoffman, et al. * Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988. Reviewed by Jackson T. Main This collection of essays contains much-revised versions of...

The Politics of Progress: The Origins and Development of the Commercial Republic, 1600-1835.
September 22, 1989... The Politics of Progress: The Origins and Development of the Commercial Republic, 1600-1835 By Hiram Caton * Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1988. Reviewed by David E. Narrett Hiram Caton, professor of politics and history at...

Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.
September 22, 1989... Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 By James Harvey Young * Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. Reviewed by Jack High As the subtitle indicates, Pure Food chronicles the events that led to the passage of...

The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian, 1914-1917.
September 22, 1989... The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian, 1914-1917 By George H. Nash * New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1988. Reviewed by D. Gary Carman Fame is fleeting and capricious. There is no better case in point than Herbert Clark Hoover. After...

The Baltimore Sun, 1837-1987.
September 22, 1989... The Baltimore Sun, 1837-1987 By Harold A. Williams * Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. Reviewed by Linda Lawson A celebratory history written by an employee of the institution being chronicled unavoidably raises questions...

Creating America: George Horace Lorimer and the Saturday Evening Post.
September 22, 1989... Creating America: George Horace Lorimer and the Saturday Evening Post By Jan Cohn * Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. Reviewed by Mary Ellen Waller-Zuckerman For the first half of this century, the pictures, stories, and...

Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work.
September 22, 1989... Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work By Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt * Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. Reviewed by Gary Cross Benjamin Hunnicutt has done us the service of resurrecting the debate about...

Entrepreneurs vs the State: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America, 1840-1920.
September 22, 1989... Entrepreneurs vs. the State: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America, 1840-1920 By Burton W. Folsom, Jr. * Reston, Va.: Young America's Foundation, 1987. Reviewed by Mansel Blackford In this extended essay, which grew out of...

The Making of an American Pluralism: Buffalo, New York, 1825-60.
September 22, 1989... The Making of an American Pluralism: Buffalo, New York, 1825-60. By David A. Gerber * Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Reviewed by Richard Oestreicher David Gerber's analysis of the cultural and political interaction among...

Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900-1980.
September 22, 1989... Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900-1980 Edited by Keith L. Bryant, Jr. * Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography, series ed. William H. Becker. New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Facts on File, 1988. The publishers of the...

Regulation and Deregulation of the Motor Carrier Industry.
September 22, 1989... Regulation and Deregulation of the Motor Carrier Industry Edited by John R. Felton and Dale G. Anderson * Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1989. This collection of eleven papers, written by faculty members and former doctoral students at...

The New Deal at the Grass Roots: Programs for the People in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
September 22, 1989... The New Deal at the Grass Roots: Programs for the People in Otter Tail County, Minnesota By D. Jerome Tweton * St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1988. Reviewed by Peter Fearon This book is the result of a praiseworthy "Thirties...

Harnessing the Genie: Science and technology Forecasting for the Air Force, 1944-1986.
September 22, 1989... Harnessing the Genie: Science and Technology Forecasting for the Air Force, 1944-1986 By Michael H. Gorn * Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1988. Michael Gorn's history of science advising and technology forecasting for the...

The Irony of Victory: World War II and Lowell, Massachusetts.
September 22, 1989... The Irony of Victory: World War II and Lowell, Massachusetts By Marc Scott Miller * Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988. As the United States approaches the fiftieth anniversary of its involvement in the Second World War, attention...

The New American State: Bureaucracies and Policies since World War II.
September 22, 1989... The New American State: Bureaucracies and Policies since World War II Edited by Louis Galambos * Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. "Who's running the new and formidable American state?" Louis Galambos asks in the introduction...

American-Soviet Trade in the Cold War.
September 22, 1989... American-Soviet Trade in the Cold War By Philip J. Funigiello * Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. The Cold War--for nearly four decades a symbol of the post-Second World War division between East and West in general and...

Progress Without Planning: The Economic History of Ontario from Confederation to the Second World War.
September 22, 1989... Progress Without Planning: The Economic History of Ontario from Confederation to the Second World War By Ian M. Drummond * Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 1987. Business historians of Canada will welcome Ian Drummond's work as a...

The Management of Strategic Change.
September 22, 1989... The Management of Strategic Change Edited by Andrew M. Pettigrew * New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987. This book contains the papers from a research seminar organized by the Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change at Warwick University in...

Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England.
September 22, 1989... Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England By E. A. Wrigley * New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. This short book comprises the Ellen MacArthur lectures presented by E. A. Wrigley at...

The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune.
September 22, 1989... The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune By R. S. Fitton * New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. Vilified by Karl Marx, lionized by Andrew Ure, Sir Richard Arkwright played a leading role in the history of the Industrial Revolution. A...

Risk and Failure in English Business, 1700-1800.
September 22, 1989... Risk and Failure in English Business, 1700-1800 By Julian Hoppit * New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Not only is failure far more interesting than success; it is also an integral, yet neglected, area within the study of business...

Trade and Shipping: Lord Inchcape, 1852-1932.
September 22, 1989... Trade and Shipping: Lord Inchcape, 1852-1932 By Stephanie Jones * New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. Within the gallery of British entrepreneurs of the pre-1914 and interwar eras, James Lyle Mackay (Lord Inchcape, 1911; viscount,...

Labour under the Marshall Plan: The Politics of Productivity and the Marketing of Management Science.
September 22, 1989... Labour under the Marshall Plan: The Politics of Productivity and the Marketing of Management Science By Anthony Carew * Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1987. To many Americans and Europeans, the Marshall Plan remains one of the...

Money in Sixteenth-Century Florence.
September 22, 1989... Money in Sixteenth-Century Florence By Carlo M. Cipolla * Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Carlo Cipolla, the author of numerous important works on the economic history of medieval and early modern Europe, here extends his...

Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century France: Assuring the Future Harvest.
September 22, 1989... Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century France: Assuring the Future Harvest By Lee Shai Weissbach * Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. Lee Shai Weissbach has produced a solid, persuasive study of the movement to reform...

South America and the First World War: The Impact of the War on Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile.
September 22, 1989... South America and the First World War: The Impact of the War on Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile By Bill Albert * New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. The economic impact of the First World War has been a subject of intense scrutiny...

The Sugarcane Industry: An Historical Geography from its Origins to 1914.
September 22, 1989... The Sugarcane Industry: An Historical Geography from its Origins to 1914 By J. H. Galloway * New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. No crop is more associated with the exploitation of human labor for profit, and with alterations of land...

Expansion, Crisis, Reconstruction, 1917-1939.
September 22, 1989... Expansion, Crisis, Reconstruction, 1917-1939 By Karl-Gustav Hildebrand * Stockholm: Liber Forlag, 1985. Karl-Gustav Hildebrand provides an overview of the rise and fall of the Swedish Match Company (SM), which for a short period was the...

Technologischer Wandel und internationaler Handel im 18, und 19. Jahrhundert: Die Eisenindustrien in Grossbritannien, Belgien, Frankreich und Deutschland.
September 22, 1989... Technologischer Wandel und internationaler Handel im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Die Eisenindustrien in Gro[Beta]britannien, Belgien, Frankreich und Deutschland By Rainer Fremdling * Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1986. Rainer Fremdling's study of...

Railwaymen and Revolution: Russia, 1905.
September 22, 1989... Railwaymen and Revolution: Russia, 1905 By Henry Reichman * Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Henry Reichman's book is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature in English on the 1905 revolution. It offers a study of a key...