Business History Review articles from September 1998

Business History Review archives from September 1998

Merchants as business groups: British trading companies in Asia before 1945.
September 22, 1998... British foreign direct investment (FDI) was much larger than that of the United States before 1945, and its organizational composition was very different. According to the widely-cited estimates of John H. Dunning, Britain accounted for 45...

Black power - Nixon style: the Nixon administration and minority business enterprise.
September 22, 1998... Over the past decade, historians have reassessed the presidency of Richard M. Nixon. "Nixon," argued Joan Hoff, "acted as an agent for change in five areas of domestic reform: welfare, civil rights, economic policy, environmental policy, and...

The struggle over management rights at US Steel, 1946-1960: a reassessment of section 2-B of the collective bargaining contract.
September 22, 1998... In 1959 the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) launched its longest postwar industry-wide steel strike. Lasting 116 days, the strike had severe consequences, including opening the United States domestic market to imported steel. Paul...

Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Philip Scranton Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. xiv + 415 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $39.50. ISBN 0691029733. Reviewed by Richard R. John In Endless Novelty, Philip Scranton takes a...

Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By David E. Nye Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. xii + 331 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $25.00. ISBN 0262140632. Reviewed by Nancy F. Koehn For some years now, Americans have known that they are energy gluttons. In...

Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Gary Cross Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. vii + 283 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0674898303. Reviewed by Susan Strasser The Mickey Mouse Club went on the air in October 1955, a...

Ready-to-Wear, Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Nancy L. Green Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. xi + 428. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0822318849; paper, $19.95. ISBN 0822318741. Reviewed by Isadora A. Helfgott Women's fashion is...

"Negro and White, Unite and Fight!": A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Roger Horowitz Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xvi + 373 pp. Tables, illustrations, photographs, notes, list of primary sources, and index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN 025202320X; paper, $17.95. ISBN 0679404937. By Daniel Letwin...

Pavilions of Plenty: Exhibiting American Culture Abroad in the 1950s.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Robert H. Haddow Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. x + 260 pp. Bibliographical references, notes, and index. $37.50. ISBN 1560987057. Reviewed by Jacqueline McGlade In Pavilions of Plenty, art historian Robert...

Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Louis Galambos with Jane Eliot Sewell New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xii + 274 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0521563089. Reviewed by Andrea Tone Despite a burgeoning literature on medical technology,...

Asian Dragons and Green Trade: Environment, Economics and International Law.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Daniel C. Esty and Simon S.C. Tay Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1997. x + 206 pp. Tables, notes, and bibliography. $25.00. ISBN 9812100970. Reviewed by Forest Reinhardt The editors of this compendium of fifteen essays from...

The Dynamics of the International Brewing Industry Since 1800.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited T. R. Gourvish and R. G. Wilson New York: Routledge, 1998. xv + 294 pp. Figures, tables, maps, bibliography, and index. $75.00. ISBN 0415147050. Reviewed by Anita M. McGahan The Dynamics of the International Brewing Industry...

Mester to Masters: A History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Clyde Binfield and David Hey . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. xvii + 341 pp. Photographs, illustrations, figures, tables, maps, notes, appendix, and index. $65.00. ISBN 0198289979. Reviewed by Lars Magnusson During...

Cutting Edge: Gillette's Journey to Global Leadership.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Gordon McKibben Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998. xi + 429 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0875847350. Reviewed by David Sicilia In this commissioned history of the world leader in razors...

Industrial Policy in Britain: 1945-1951, Economic Planning, Nationalization and the Labour Governments.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Martin Chick New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi + 221 pp. Tables, bibliographical references, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0521482917 Reviewed by Neil Rollings The record of the 1945-51 Labour governments in Britain has...

Business, Government, and the End of Empire: Malaya, 1942-1957.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Nicholas J. White New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xxii + 331 pp. Maps, tables, graphs, figures, photographs, glossary, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $60.00. ISBN 9835600082. Reviewed by Donald Shodgrass ...

Small Firms in the Japanese Economy.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By D. H. Whittaker New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii + 238 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0521581524. Reviewed by Minoru Sawai D. H. Whittaker's Small Firms in the Japanese Economy is an...

El credito de la monarquia hispanica en el reinado de Felipe IV.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Carlos Alvarez Nogal Avila: Junta de Castilla y Leon, Consejeria de Educacion y Cultura, 1997. 398 pp. Tables, graphs, notes, and bibliography. Reviewed by Carla Rahn Phillips Historians have long understood why Spain lost its...

?Que inventen ellos? Tecnologia, empresa y cambio economico en la Espana contemporanea.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by Santiago Lopez Garcia and Jesus [M.sup.a] Valdaliso Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1997. 373 pp. Bibliographical references. ISBN 8420628808. Reviewed by Nuria Puig "Let them invent?" asks the title of this book. The original...

Bilbao's Modern Business Elite.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By Eduardo Jorge Glas Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1997. Tables, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95. ISBN 0874172691. Reviewed by David Ringrose The Industrial Revolution of nineteenth-century Europe emerged...

The Records of American Business.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Edited by James M. O'Toole Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1997. xvii + 411 pp. Notes, figures, photographs, map, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0931828457. Reviewed by Albert F. Bartovics This volume provides a sample of...