Business History Review articles from September 1991

Business History Review archives from September 1991

Money and credit in the fifteenth century: some lessons from Yorkshire.
September 22, 1991... This article explores some of the methods used to raise credit in an important trading region of late medieval England during a decline in overseas trade and an international bullion famine. It argues that, because ...

Vehicles of privilege or mobility? Banks in Providence, Rhode Island, during the age of Jackson. (Andrew Jackson)
September 22, 1991... Were banks in the Jacksonian era merely bastions of privilege or were they vehicles of upward mobility for those without capital? The authors attempt to answer these questions by analyzing changes in the wealthholdings of...

Going national: the life insurance industry's campaign for federal regulation after the Civil War.
September 22, 1991... Life insurance corporations were among the first businesses to expand their activities across state lines in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet their efforts were often impeded by protectionist state laws and uneven state...

German banking between the wars: the crisis of the credit banks.
September 22, 1991... This article argues that the business policies of the German credit banks were only a secondary cause of the troubles that befell them between the wars and that the primary explanation lies in the instability of their monetary...

U.S. commercial banking: historiographical survey.
September 22, 1991... In this wide-ranging essay, a banking historian surveys the major debates in the historiography of U.S. commercial banking. Touching on various controversies in the field-old, new, and brewing, from financing the Revolution to...

Manhattan for Rent: 1785-1850.
September 22, 1991... Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850. By Elizabeth Blackmar * Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990. xiii + 348 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $29.95. This thought-provoking study of New York's housing market...

Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in the United States, 1790-1860.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1991... Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in the United States, 1790-1860. By Ronald E. Shaw * Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991. x + 284 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $28.00. Canals for a Nation is a...

Distribution of Wealth and Income in the United States in 1798.
September 22, 1991... Distribution of Wealth mad Income in the United States in 1798. By Lee Soltow * Pittsburgh, Pa.: Pittsburgh University Press, 1990. xix + 328 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $49.95. Lee Soltow has done more...

Black Towns and Profit: Promotion and Development in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1877-1915.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1991... Black Towns and Profit: Promotion and Development in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1877-1915. By Kenneth Marvin Hamilton * Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. xii + 185 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and...

The Union League Movement in the Deep South: Politics and Agricultural Change During Reconstruction.
September 22, 1991... The Union League Movement in the Deep South: Politics and Agricultural Change during Reconstruction. By Michael W. Fitzgerald * Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. x + 283 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00....

Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia.
September 22, 1991... Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Ronald L. Filippelli * New York: Garland Publishing, 1990. xlviii + 609 pp. Selected bibliography, further reading, and index. $95.00. There exists an inevitable tension between...

Oleander Odyssey: The Kempners of Galveston, Texas, 1854-1980s.
September 22, 1991... Oleander Odyssey: The Kempners of Galveston, Texas, 1854-1980s. By Harold M. Hyman * College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1990. xxii + 486 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. Although this is not an...

The Spirit of Enterprise: The History of Pacific Enterprises from 1886 to 1989.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1991... The Spirit of Enterprise: The History of Pacific Enterprises from 1886 to 1989. By Douglas R. Littlefield and Tanis C. Thorne * Los Angeles, Calif.: Pacific Enterprises, 1990. ix + 198 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and...

The Gibraltar: Socialism and Labor in Butte, Montana, 1895-1920.
September 22, 1991... The Gibraltar: Socialism and Labor in Butte, Montana, 1895-1920. By Jerry W. Calvert * Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 1988. viii + 189 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $21.95. Jerry Calvert has written an...

For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption.
September 22, 1991... For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption. Edited by Richard Butsch * Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University, Press, 1990. viii + 239 pp. Tables and index. Cloth $39.95; paper, $16.95. For Fun and Profit is a collection...

Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers.
September 22, 1991... Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers. Edited by Sanford M. Jacoby * New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. ix + 249 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $35.00. This intriguing collection of essays...

The Wealth Creators: An Entrepreneurial History of the United States.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1991... The Wealth Creators: An Entrepreneurial History of the United States. By Gerald Gunderson * New York: Truman Talley Books, E. P. Dutton, 1989. vii + 278 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $18.95. "[Many] otherwise perceptive people," writes...

Innovation and Small Firms.
September 22, 1991... Innovation and Small Firms. By Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch * Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. x + 212 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $29.95. In this valuable volume Zoltan J. Acs and David B....

The Myth of America's Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990s.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1991... The Myth of America's Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990s. By Henry R. Nau * New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xvi + 424 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, bibliography, and index. $29.95. Academic fashions being what they...

Understanding Quantitative History.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1991... Understanding Quantitative History. By Loren Haskins and Kirk Jeffrey. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. xxv + 366 pp. Maps, charts, tables, and index. $27.50. Historians must tell stories--write narratives and describe situations and...

Changing Patterns of International Rivalry: Some Lessons from the Steel Industry.
September 22, 1991... Changing Patterns of International Rivalry: Some Lessons from the Steel Industry. Edited by Etsuo Abe and Yoshitaka Suzuki. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1991. v + 315 pp. Tables, index, and notes. $57.50. This volume, the seventeenth in...

Brazil's National Alcohol Program: Technology and Development in an Authoritarian Regime.
September 22, 1991... Brazil's National Alcohol Program: Technology and Development in an Authoritarian Regime. By F. Joseph Demetrius * New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. ix + 181 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.95. Nonliterary works...

From Outpost to Outport: A Structural Analysis of the Jersey-Gaspe Cod Fishery, 1767-1886.
September 22, 1991... From Outpost to Outport: A Structural Analysis of the Jersey-Gaspe Cod Fishery, 1767-1886. By Rosemary E. Ommer * Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. xvii + 245 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95....

The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London, 1660-1730.
September 22, 1991... The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society, and Family Life in London, 1660-1730. By Peter Earle * Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. xiii + 446 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes,...

Public Policy and the Economy Since 1900.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1991... Public Policy and the Economy since 1900. By Jim Tomlinson * New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University. Press, 1990. xii + 380 pp. Tables, further reading, notes, references, and index. $55.00. Reading a book is much like taking a trip....

Questions of Power: Electricity and Environment in Inter-war Britain.
September 22, 1991... Questions of Power: Electricity and Environment in Inter-war Britain. By Bill Luckin * New York: Manchester University Press, 1990. viii + 200 pp. Charts, maps, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. $49.95. Studies of the production,...

A New Economic Policy for Britain: Essays on the Development of Industry.
September 22, 1991... A New Economic Policy for Britain: Essays on the Development of Industry. Edited by Keith Cowling and Roger Sugden. New York: Manchester University Press, 1990. vi + 217 pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $17.95. The...

An Awkward Partner: Britain in the European Community.
September 22, 1991... An Awkward Partner: Britain in the European Community. By Stephen George * New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. x + 224 pp, Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. Observers of the European Community (EC) have been treated to a spectacle...

Forges et forets: Recherches sur la consommation protoindustrielle de bois.
September 22, 1991... Forges et forets: Recherches sur la consommation protoindustrielle de bois. Edited by Denis Woronoff * Paris: EHESS, 1990. 263 pp. Maps, illustrations, and notes. No price listed. In the eighteenth century France was one of Europe's major...

Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History.
September 22, 1991... Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History. By John Komlos * Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. xvii + 325 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and...

German Professions: 1800-1950.
September 22, 1991... German Professions, 1800-1950. Edited by Geoffrey Cocks and Konrad H. Jarausch * New York: Oxford University, Press, 1990. ix + 340 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $45.00. This collection of sixteen essays extends the scholarly literature in...

The German Economy in the Twentieth Century: The German Reich and the Federal Republic.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1991... The German Economy in the Twentieth Century: The German Reich and the Federal Republic. By Hans-Joachim Braun * New York: Routledge, 1990. xi + 279 pp. Charts, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. $36.00. The contours of German...

Revolution in the Factory: The Birth of the Soviet Textile Industry, 1917-1920.
September 22, 1991... Revolution in the Factory: The Birth of the Soviet Textile Industry, 1917-1920. By William B. Husband * New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. x + 227 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $32.50. Textiles were the largest employer...

Bahrain Oil and Development: 1929-1989.
September 22, 1991... Bahrain Oil and Development, 1929-1989. By Angela Clarke * Boulder, Colo.: International Research Center for Energy and Economic Development, 1990. 432 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $38.00. At first glance...

Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1991... Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan. By Andrew Gordon * Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xvi + 364 pp. Maps, charts, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $34.95. This is a...