Business History Review articles from September 1999

Business History Review archives from September 1999

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century: Making Markets for Processed Food.
September 22, 1999... This article assesses the brand-building strategies of Henry Heinz. Heinz began selling bottled horseradish to Pittsburgh residents in 1869. When he died in 1919, his company, H.J. Heinz, was one of the largest food processors in the world....

Pioneering Foreign Direct Investment in British Manufacturing.
September 22, 1999... This article analyzes all known cases of foreign direct investment in British manufacturing prior to 1890. From 1890 onwards the bulk of foreign entrants were industrial goods producers. Before 1890, the pioneering entrants were mostly consumer...

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution.
September 22, 1999... Business historians have illuminated how first movers in many emerging industries secure an enduring leadership position, but have devoted less attention to the processes by which industry leaders relinquish their dominance. This paper examines...

Putting Foreign Consumers on the Map: J. Walter Thompson's Struggle with General Motors' International Advertising Account in the 1920s.
September 22, 1999... In the late 1920s and early 1930s the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, fueled largely by a deal with General Motors' international operations, opened thirty-four branch offices in Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, India, Australia,...

The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneuriship.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneuriship. By Juliet E. K Walker New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998. xxvi + 482 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0805716505. One advantage Walker's study...

Why the American Century?(Review)
September 22, 1999... Why the American Century? By Olivier Zunz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi + 254 pp. Index and notes. Cloth, $24.00. ISBN 0226994619. It has become commonplace to characterize the international order of the post-World War...

A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896.(Review)
September 22, 1999... A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896. By Karin A. Shapiro Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi + 333 pp. Maps, notes, and index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0807824232. ...

Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893. By Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. x + 261 pp. Bibliography, index, notes, and tables. Paper, $59.95. ISBN 0313279438. In 1950 Henry Steele...

The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy: 1830-1996.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy: 1830-1996. Edited by Mira Wilkins and Harm Schroeter . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxi + 480 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $66.50. ISBN 0198290322. Mira...

The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement. By Barbara H. Fried . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. x + 338 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN...

E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers. By Gerald J. Baldasty Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1999. xii + 217 pp. Appendices, bibliography, illustrations, index, notes and tables. Paper, $16.95. ISBN 0252067509. This book is...

Curtiss-Wright: Greatness and Decline.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Curtiss-Wright: Greatness and Decline. By Louis R. Eltscher and Edward M. Young. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998. xiii + 213 pp. Tables, photos, and appendices. Paper, $33.00. ISBN 0805798293. Eltscher and Young's Curtiss-Wright is a case...

Builders: Herman and George Brown.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Builders: Herman and George Brown. By Joseph A. Pratt and Christopher J. Castaneda College Station: Texas A & M University Press: 1999. xxi + 326 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $36.95. ISBN 0890968403. Pratt and Castaneda have...

Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900-1960.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900-1960. By Gail Cooper Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. x + 228 pp. Essay on sources and index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0801857163. Increasingly in recent...

Selling 'em by the Sack: White Castle and the Creation of American Food.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Selling 'em by the Sack: White Castle and the Creation of American Food. By David G. Hogan New York: New York University Press, 1998. x + 199 PP. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0814735665. This compact and readable...

The Filenes.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Filenes. By George E. Berkley . Boston: Branden Publishing Co., 1998. 291 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $18.95. ISBN 0828320357. Having just crossed Boston Common on a bright day in the spring of 1888, the young merchant...

The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations. By Karen S. Miller. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii + 261 pp. Illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0807824399. In...

Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism. By Judith Stein . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi + 410 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0807824143. ...

Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession. Edited by Sarah Stage and Virginia B. Vincenti. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. xii + 347 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $52.50. ISBN...

Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes. By Allen J. Matusow Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xii + 323 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0700608885. In Nixon's Economy, Allen J. Matusow...

Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and the Labor Movement.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and the Labor Movement. By Richard Magat Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. x + 242 PP. Index, notes and photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0801435528. In a sly preface to this...

Medieval Merchants: York, Beverley and Hull in the Later Middle Ages.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Medieval Merchants: York, Beverley and Hull in the Later Middle Ages. By Jennifer Kermode . Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvii + 381 PP. Maps, index, charts, and tables. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 052149737. Studies of late...

Les Draps de Sedan, 1646-1870.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Les Draps de Sedan, 1646-1870. By Gerard Gayot Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1998. 579 pp. Bibliography, charts, figures, graphs, illustrations, index, and tables. 300 FF. ISBN 2713212413. ...

Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843. By Richard S. Mackie Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997. xiv + 420 pp. Figures, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN...

London, Hub of the Industrial Revolution: A Revisionary History 1775-1825.(Review)
September 22, 1999... London, Hub of the Industrial Revolution: A Revisionary History 1775-1825. By David Barnett. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 276 pp. Tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $59.50. ISBN 1860641962. David Barnett...

Made in Lancashire: A History of Regional Industrialisation.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Made in Lancashire: A History of Regional Industrialisation. By Geoffrey Timmins Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. 365 pp. Illustrations, endnotes, tables, and bibliography Cloth, [pounds]50. ISBN 0719045398. Geoffrey Timmins,...

Managing the Business of Empire: Essays in Honour of David Fieldhouse.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Managing the Business of Empire: Essays in Honour of David Fieldhouse. Edited by Peter Burroughs and A. J. Stockwell. Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 1998. 262 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0714648264. Collections...

A Sense of Security: 150 Years of Prudential.(Review)
September 22, 1999... A Sense of Security: 150 Years of Prudential. By Laurie Dennett. Cambridge, U.K.: Granta Editions, 1998. ix + 438 pp. References, pictures, bibliography, and index. ISBN 185757060X. A Sense of Security was commissioned to celebrate the...

Management Education in Historical Perspective.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Management Education in Historical Perspective. Edited by Lars Engwall and Vera Zamagni . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. xiii + 177 pp. Figures, index, references, and tables. Cloth, $59.95 ISBN 0719051835 Professors...

Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990. By Eun Mee Kim Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. xvii + 280 pp. Bibliographic references and index. Cloth, $59.50. ISBN 0791432092. ...

Economics: The Culture of a Controversial Science.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Economics: The Culture of a Controversial Science. By Melvin W. Reder . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xi + 384 pp. Bibliography, figures, and index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0226706095. What is modem neoclassical economics good...