Recently added articles from Business History Review:
One Nation, Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe
Jul 01, 2009; ... One Nation, Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe. By Robert E. Wright. New York: McGraw Hill, 2008. ix + 419 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0071-54393-4. Reviewed by Bruce G. Carruthers Here is a book that immediately ...
The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York
Jul 01, 2009; ... The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York. By Gail Fenske. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, xii + 399 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-24141-8. Reviewed by Peter Eisenstadt There ...
Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870-1916
Jul 01, 2009; ... Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870-1916. By Jeffrey Haydu. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. ? + 268 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39-95- ISBN: 978-0-801-44641-2. Reviewed by Daniel Brunsvold Class ...
A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Jul 01, 2009; ... A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. By Karen Pastorello. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xxii + 273 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-03230-1. Reviewed by Daniel ...
Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing
Jul 01, 2009; ... Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing. Edited by Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 267 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-24973-8. Reviewed by Pennee Bender This collection of ...