Business History Review back issues from January 2001:
State regulators and pragmatic federalism in the United States, 1889-1945
Jan 01, 2001; ... State regulators played a large part in constructing the American regulatory system from the late nineteenth century to the mid-- twentieth. They faced an adversary relationship not only with businesses but also, beginning with passage of the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887, with national ...
Chambers of commerce and business elites in Great Britain and Brazil in the nineteenth century: Some comparisons
Jan 01, 2001; ... Chambers of commerce were the main pressure groups serving as intermediaries between the business elite and the government in Great Britain and Brazil in the nineteenth century. The most important problem they faced in both nations was promoting a legal and institutional framework that would ...
The National Association of Manufacturers and the militarization of American conservatism
Jan 01, 2001; ... The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) played an important role in the emerging conservative movement in the United States, both before and after World War II, but its contribution to the increasing militarism of that movement has received little scrutiny. Between 1958 and 1975, a ...
Tea processing in China, circa 1885--a photographic essay
Jan 01, 2001; ... At the time these photographs originated in an unspecified location in late-nineteenth-century China, the Chinese had been cultivating tea (Camellia sinensis) and processing it for almost two millennia. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, after decades of false starts and ceaseless ...
Edison: A Life of Invention
Jan 01, 2001; ... Edison: A Life of Invention. By Paul Israel. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. 480 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $18.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-471-52942-7; paper 0-471-36270-0. More than forty years ago, Matthew Josephson complained that, for all the ink ...
Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850
Jan 01, 2001; ... Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850. By Donna J. Rilling. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 280 pp. Photos, maps, illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-812-23580-0. Reviewed by Ronald Schultz In the years ...
Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America
Jan 01, 2001; ... Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America By Edward J. Balleisen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 344 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, illustrations. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth, 0-807-82600-6; paper, 0-807-84916-2 ....
Ties that Bind: Economic and Political Dilemmas of Urban Utility Networks, 1800-1990
Jan 01, 2001; ... Ties that Bind: Economic and Political Dilemmas of Urban Utility Networks, 1800-1990. By Charles David Jacobson. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 202 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index, bibliography. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-822-94133-3. Americans spend a substantial ...
Covering Iowa: The History of the Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, 1849-1985
Jan 01, 2001; ... Covering Iowa: The History of the Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, 1849-1985. By William B. Friedericks. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000. 318 pp. Photos, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-813-82620-9. Reviewed by Richard B. Kielbowicz As a business history, ...
Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest
Jan 01, 2001; ... Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest. By David Blanke. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. 282 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-821-41347-3; paper 0-8214-1348-1. In Sowing the American Dream, David Blanke ...
Women in Labor: Mothers, Medicine, and Occupational Health in the United States, 1890-1980
Jan 01, 2001; ... Women in Labor: Mothers, Medicine, and Occupational Health in the United States, 1890-1980. By Allison L. Hepler. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000. xii + 177 pp. Photos, illustrations, index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $18.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-814-20850-9; paper ...
Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop
Jan 01, 2001; ... Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop. By Julie A. Willett. New York: New York University Press, 2000. 240 pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $18.50. ISBN: Cloth 0-814-79357-6; paper 0-814-79358-4. Within the last ten years, increased ...
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
Jan 01, 2001; ... On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker. By A'Lelia Bundles. New York: Scribner, 2001. 400 pp. Photos, index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN 0-684-82582-1. In writing a comprehensive biography of her great-great grandmother, the legendary Madam C. J ....
The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps
Jan 01, 2001; ... The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps. By Olen Cole Jr. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1999. 192 pp. Figures, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN 0-813-01660-6. Reviewed by Mark D. Higbee Despite a title ...
Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Jan 01, 2001; ... Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. By Elliott J. Gorn. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. xiii + 408 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.00. ISBN 0-809-07093-6. Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was a legendary figure in the annals of American labor. An icon of ...
Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists
Jan 01, 2001; ... Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists. By Gerald Horne. 335 pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Photos, notes, index. Paper, $22.95. ISBN 0-292-73138-8. In recent years, historians have acknowledged the significance of the ...
The Social Consequences of Economic Restructuring in the Textile Industry: Change in a Southern Mill Village
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Social Consequences of Economic Restructuring in the Textile Industry: Change in a Southern Mill Village. By Cynthia D. Anderson. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. xii + 169 pp. Index, appendix, bibliography, and references. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-815-33622-5. Sociologist Cynthia ...
Mexican American Odyssey: Felix Tijerina, Entrepreneur & Civic Leader, 1905-1965
Jan 01, 2001; ... Mexican American Odyssey: Felix Tijerina, Entrepreneur & Civic Leader, 1905-1965. By Thomas H. Kreneck. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2001. 432 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-890-96936-1. The life of Felix Tijerina is an ...
Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit
Jan 01, 2001; ... Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit. By Susanne E. Smith. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. 336 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index, Cloth, $26.50; paper, $15.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-674-00063-3; paper 0-674-00546-5. Reviewed by Kathy M. Newman ...
Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California
Jan 01, 2001; ... Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California. Edited by Ruth Milkman. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 2000. 272 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $18.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-801-43697-4; paper 0-801-48617-3. The expanding ...
Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959-2000
Jan 01, 2001; ... Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959-2000. By Mansel Blackford. University Press of Kansas, 2001. 296 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-700-61086-3. Reviewed by Harvey K. Newman More than twenty-five years ago, a member of the British ...
Corning and the Craft of Innovation
Jan 01, 2001; ... Coming and the Craft of Innovation. By Margaret B. W Graham and Alec T. Shuldiner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xvi + 505 pp. Index, notes, and photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-19-514097-4. Joseph Schumpeter's first view of creative destruction, as espoused in his Theory ...
Wings of Power: Boeing and the Politics of Growth in the Northwest
Jan 01, 2001; ... Wings of Power: Boeing and the Politics of Growth in the Northwest. By T M. Sell. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. xxx + 162 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-295-98049-4. Reviewed by David D. Lee Journalist and political scientist T. M. Sell ...
Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After
Jan 01, 2001; ... Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After. Edited by Agatha C. Hughes and Thomas P. Hughes. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. 513 pp. Index, notes, and figures. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-262-08285-3. This anthology discusses ...
Telecom Nation: Telecommunications, Computers, and Governments in Canada
Jan 01, 2001; ... Telecom Nation: Telecommunications, Computers, and Governments in Canada. By Laurence B. Mussio. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. x + 308 pp. Photos, illustrations, index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-7735-21755. Reviewed by Hudson janisch This ...
The Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada, 1869-1900
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada, 1869-1900. By Glen Norcliffe. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Photos, maps, illustrations. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-802-04398-4; paper 0-802-08205-X. Most books about cycling-including the history of the ...
Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850-1930
Jan 01, 2001; ... Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850-1930. By Robert Lewis. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xvii + 336 pp. Illustrations, maps, photographs, index, notes. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86349-X. In this finely detailed book, Robert Lewis ...
Ontario's Cattle Kingdom: Purebred Breeders and Their World, 1870-1920
Jan 01, 2001; ... Ontario's Cattle Kingdom: Purebred Breeders and Their World, 18701920. By Margaret Derry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xx + 221 pp. Sketches, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-802-04866-8. In this slim volume, an expansion of her doctoral ...
Un siglo de deuda publica en Mexico [A century of public debt in Mexico]
Jan 01, 2001; ... Un siglo de deuda publica en Mexico [A century of public debt in Mexico]. By Leonor Ludlow and Carlos Marichal, eds. Mexico: Instituto Mora, 1998. 269 pp. Notes, figures, bibliography. Paper, $19.00. ISBN 9-686-91 490-0. For nearly two hundred years, governments in late-developing ...
Gales: A Study in Brewing, Business and Family History
Jan 01, 2001; ... Gales: A Study in Brewing, Business and Family History. By Barry Stapleton and James H. Thomas. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2000. xvi + 192 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $89.95. ISBN 0-754-60146-3. In 1847 when Richard Gale (1802-86) acquired the Ship and Bell Inn ...
The Coventry Motor Industry: Birth to Renaissance
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Coventry Motor Industry: Birth to Renaissance. By David Thoms and Tom Donnelly. Aldershot, UX.: Ashgate, 2000. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, photos. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN 0-75460-108-0. According to the authors, David Thoms and Tom Donnelly, this book represents a "substantially ...
The Business of Medicine: A History of Glaxo
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Business of Medicine: A History of Glaxo. By Edgar Jones. Profile Books Limited, 2001. xxiii + 520 pp. Tables, photos, illustrations, index, notes, and bibliography. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 1-861-97340-3. Few pharmaceutical companies have been the subjects of scholarly histories. Within ...
The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause. By Julian L. Simon (Timur Koran, editor). Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 240 pp. Tables, graphs, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN 0-472-11097-7. Julian Simon, who died at the age of sixty-five in 1998, was an unusual ...
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000. By Niall Ferguson. New York: Basic Books. 2001. xix + 552 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $17.00. ISBN: Cloth 0-465-02325-8; paper 0-465-02326-6. If one felt compelled ...
Money and Politics: European Monetary Unification and the International Gold Standard (1865-1873)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Money and Politics: European Monetary Unification and the International Gold Standard (1865-1873). By Luca Einaudi. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2001. xix + 241 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $72.00. ISBN 0-19-924366-2. In discussing a precursor of ...
Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805
Jan 01, 2001; ... Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805. By Leonard N. Rosenband. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 240 pp. Graphs, tables, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-80186392-9. This is a ...
Naissance d'une industrie touristique: Les Anglais et la Suisse au XIXe siecle [Birth of a tourist industry: The English and the Swiss in the nineteenth century]
Jan 01, 2001; ... Naissance d'une industrie touristique: Les Anglais et la Suisse au XIXe siecle [Birth of a tourist industry: The English and the Swiss in the nineteenth century]. By Laurent Tissot. Lausanne: Editions Payot, 2000. Paper, F149; C22.71. ISBN 2-601-03257-X. Until quite recently, most ...
Das "Stahltrust"-Projekt: Die Grundung der Vereinigte Stahlwerke A.G. und ihre Unternehmensentwicklung, 1926-1933/34 [The "steel-trust" project: The founding of...
Jan 01, 2001; ... Das "Stahltrust"-Projekt: Die Grundung der Vereinigte Stahlwerke A.G. and ihre Unternehmensentwicklung, 1926-1933/34 [The "steel-- trust" project: The founding of the United Steel Works AG and its business development, 1926-1933/34]. By Alfred Reckendrees. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2000. 639 pp. Cloth, ...
The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property. By Harold James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 280 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN 0-521-80329-2. James's book is the second study produced in the ...
Naukratis: Trade in Archaic Greece
Jan 01, 2001; ... Naukratis: Trade in Archaic Greece. By Astrid Moller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 321 pp. Table, plates, drawings. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN 0-198-15284-1. Historians of the ancient economy generally fall into two camps according to their attitudes regarding modern economic ...
Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations
Jan 01, 2001; ... Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations. By Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown. Palgrave, 2000. xii + 328. Figures, tables, maps, index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN 0-3433-75344-5. The 1997 Asian economic crisis rekindled interest in the role of overseas Chinese ...
A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization
Jan 01, 2001; ... A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization. By Kerry Smith. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 325 pp. Figures, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN 0-674-00370-5. If you are like most academics, you have a "must read" pile ...
The Rise of "the Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrialization Economies
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Rise of "the Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrialization Economies. By Alice Amsden. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 416 pp. Notes, reference, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-19513969-0. Reviewed by Robert Forrant The Rise of "the Rest" is a well ...