Business History Review back issues from January 2002:
Editors' note
Jan 01, 2002; ... This issue brings together five articles on innovation in telecommunications and computer technology. Written by economists, historians, and specialists in business, the essays range in their subject matter from latenineteenth-century pioneers in wireless communication to researchers at Xerox ...
From free privilege to regulation: Wireless firms and the competition for spectrum rights before World War I
Jan 01, 2002; ... The activities of commercial wireless companies in the United States before World War I were critical forerunners of the unique system of property rights in the radio spectrum that developed in the United States between 1899 and 1927. These activities formed the basis for commercial claims to ...
Constructing an industrial divide: Western Union, AT&T, and the Federal Government, 1876-1971
Jan 01, 2002; ... An 1879 contract between Western Union and Bell partitioned the electrical communications industry between the telegraph and telephone markets. Historians typically view this contract as the start of both Western Union's decline and Bell's rise, and they have treated these as largely separate ...
Corporate learning and traffic management at the Bell System, 1900-1929: Probability theory and the evolution of organizational capabilities
Jan 01, 2002; ... This study analyzes the evolution of organizational capabilities for assessing market growth and capital budgeting in the traffic management operations of the Bell System from 1900 to 1929. The initial impetus for developing the complex procedures that were integrated into this process was the ...
IBM's early adaptation to cold war markets: Cuthbert Hurd and his applied science field men
Jan 01, 2002; ... The International Business Machines Corporation adapted early on to the opportunities created by the cold war economy in the United States. This account of IBM's adjustment to the circumstances of that time unveils the detailed process by which a firm situated outside the traditional defense ...
Graceful exits and missed opportunities: Xerox's management of its technology spin-off organizations
Jan 01, 2002; ... The Xerox Corporation has devised several strategies for managing the numerous spin-off firms that independently commercialized many of its technologies. From 1979 to 1998, thirtyfive technology-based organizations emerged from Xerox's research centers. Contradicting the common perception that ...
Announcements
Jan 01, 2002; ... The Editorial Board of the Business History Review and the Newcomen Society of the United States announce the winners of the 2ool NEWCOMEN-HARVARD AWARDS IN BUSINESS HISTORY. Article Award Martin Campbell-Kelly, "Not Only Microsoft: The Maturing of the Personal Computer ...
Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries
Jan 01, 2002; ... Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries. By Alfred D. Chandler Jr. New York: Free Press, 2001. xiv + 322 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-743-21567-2. Alfred D. Chandler Jr. explains the genesis of Inventing the ...
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
Jan 01, 2002; ... The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900. By Richard Franklin Bensel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxiii + 549 PP. Index, notes, figures, maps, tables. Cloth, $70.00; paper $25.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-77233-8; paper 0-521-77604-X. In this large and ...
From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighborhoods
Jan 01, 2002; ... From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighborhoods. By Lawrence J. Vale. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. vii + 460 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN o-674-00286-5. It is an ambitious undertaking to situate ...
Concret and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City
Jan 01, 2002; ... Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City. By Matthew Gandy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.344 PP. Index, notes, maps, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-262-0224-6. Reviewed by Richard Longstreth The city of New York has long offered fertile ground for ...
Steel and Steelworkers: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh
Jan 01, 2002; ... Steel and Steelworkers: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh. By John Hinshaw. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. xvii + 348 pp. Index, notes, tables. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.95. ISBN: cloth 0-791-45225-5; paper 0-791-45226-3. I wish John Hinshaw had ...
Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism
Jan 01, 2002; ... Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism. By Elizabeth Faue. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xii + 249 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-801-- 43461-0. Elizabeth Faue knew she had found a juicy subject in pioneering woman ...
Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration
Jan 01, 2002; ... Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration. By Hasia R. Diner. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. xvii + 292 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-674-00605-4. As cultural history becomes increasingly popular, ...
City Lights: Illuminating the American Night
Jan 01, 2002; ... City Lights: Illuminating the American Night. By John Jakle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. x + 292 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86593-X. In City Lights: Illuminating the American Night, John Jakle has-one hesitates only ...
Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wildnerness Movement
Jan 01, 2002; ... Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modem Wilderness Movement. By Paul S. Sutter. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xvi + 343 PP. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-295-98219-5. Reviewed by John Paul Rossi Paul S ....
Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890-1960
Jan 01, 2002; ... Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890-1960. By Patrick J. McGrath. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. x + 248 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-807-82655-3. The subject of Patrick J. McGrath's book is the role of science in the political ...
America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918-1947
Jan 01, 2002; ... America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918-1947. By Janet R. Daly Bednarek. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. viii + 226 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 1-585-44130-9. Historians of aviation or related topics have paid little ...
Making Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA
Jan 01, 2002; ... Making Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA. By Margaret Walsh. xvii + 245 pp. Aldershot, UX: Ashgate, 2000. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $74.95. ISBN 0-75460207-9. Making Connections is a collection of seven previously published journal ...
The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s
Jan 01, 2002; ... The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s. Edited by Philip Scranton. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2001. xiv + 310 pp. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-820-32218-0. From the 1880s to the 1970s the growth of a modern ...
Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism & the American Dream
Jan 01, 2002; ... Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, & the American Dream. By Nancy Beck Young. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2000. xix + 428 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN o-870-74453-4. Impeccably researched, marvelously detailed, ...
Taking Trade to the Streets: The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization
Jan 01, 2002; ... Taking Trade to the Streets: The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization. By Susan Ariel Aaronson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 248 pp. Tables, index. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-472-11212-0; paper 0-472-0886-X. Susan Ariel Aronson delves ...
Barnett: The Story of "Florida's Bank"
Jan 01, 2002; ... Barnett: The Story of "Florida's Bank." By David Ginzl. Tampa: University of Tampa Press, 2001. xix + 441 PP. Index, notes, illustrations, photos, tables. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 1-879-8522-1. Reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti When Barnett Bank was integrated into NationsBank in 1997, ...
Fixin' to Git: One Fan's Love Affair with NASCAR's Winston Cup
Jan 01, 2002; ... Fixin' to Git: One Fan's Love Affair with NASCAR's Winston Cup. By Jim Wright. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 305 pp. Index, notes, figures, photographs, tables. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN 0-822-32926-3. Jim Wright is a sociologist (presently at the University of Central Florida) with a ...
Hollyworld: Space, Power and Fantasy in the American Economy
Jan 01, 2002; ... Hollyworld: Space, Power and Fantasy in the American Economy. By Aida Hovic. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. 256 pp. Photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-801-43926-4. At the start of a new century, an unprecedented global economy has emerged that intersects with multiple ...
Corporate Governance and Sustainable Prosperity
Jan 01, 2002; ... Corporate Governance and Sustainable Prosperity. Edited by William Lazonick and Mary O'Sullivan. Basingstoke, UX: Palgrave, 2002. Index, figures, references. Cloth, $72.00. ISBN 03-33777-573. The theme of this well researched and powerfully argued volume is that corporate governance ...
Straining at the Anchor: The Argetine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935
Jan 01, 2002; ... Straining at the Anchor: The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 188o-1935. By Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xviii + 275 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN ...
Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela
Jan 01, 2002; ... Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela. By Darlene Rivas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 290 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs. Cloth, $49-95. ISBN 0-807-82684-7. In the past few years, the Rockefeller archives have ...
Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil
Jan 01, 2002; ... Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil. By Maureen O'Dougherty. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. xv + 262 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, photographs, maps. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-8223-2879-8; paper 0-8223-2894-1 ....
Protestantism and Capitalism: The Mechanisms of Influence
Jan 01, 2002; ... Protestantism and Capitalism: The Mechanisms of Influence. By Jere Cohen. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 2002. vii + 296 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $53.95; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth 0-202-30671-- 2; paper 0-202-30672-0. By Michael Lessnoff Max Weber's famous thesis ...
Barclays: The Business of Bankin, 1690-1996
Jan 01, 2002; ... Barclays: The Business of Banking, 169o-1996. By Margaret Ackrill and Leslie Hannah. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xxi + 480 pp. Index, notes, appendices, figures, photographs, tables. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-521-79035-2. Margaret Ackrill and Leslie Hannah must be commended ...
Business Structure, Business Culture and the Industrial District: The Potteries, c.1850-1914
Jan 01, 2002; ... Business Structure, Business Culture and the Industrial District: The Potteries, c.1850-1914. By Andrew Popp. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2001. viii + 288 pp. Bibliography, tables, index. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN 0-754-60176-5. Conceptually challenging and enlightening, although sometimes hard ...
Food for War: Agriculture and Rearmament in Britain before the Second World War
Jan 01, 2002; ... Food for War: Agriculture and Rearmament in Britain before the Second World War. By Alan F. Wilt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. vi + 262 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-- 198-2o871-5. This study of British food, agriculture, and rearmament during the 1930s ...
The Bouchayers of Grenoble and French Industrial Enterprise, 1850-1970
Jan 01, 2002; ... The Bouchayers of Grenoble and French Industrial Enterprise, 1850-- 1970. By Robert J. Smith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiv + 247 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, photographs, tables. Cloth, $42.50. ISBN 0-801-86683-9. Reviewed by Michael S. Smith ...
Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue
Jan 01, 2002; ... Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue. By Paul F. Jankowski. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiv + 326 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-801-43959-0. The crisis created by the collapse of Serge Stavisky's financial house of cards appears in ...
Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France
Jan 01, 2002; ... Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-- Century France. By Steven Harp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2001. xiii + 356 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-86651-0. Anyone who has ever visited France has no ...
Die rheinischen Sparkasse: Entwicklung und Bedeutung fuer Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft von den Anfaengen bis 1990 [The Rhenish Savings Banks: Their Development and Economic and Social Significance, from the Beginnings to 1990]
Jan 01, 2002; ... Die rheinischen Sparkasse: Entwicklung and Bedeutung filer Wirtschaft and Gesellschaft von den Anfaengen bis 199o [The Rhenish Savings Banks: Their Development and Economic and Social Significance, from the Beginnings to 1990]. By Hans Pohl. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2001. 319 pp. Notes, ...
European Banks and the American Challenge: Competition and Cooperation in International Banking under Bretton Woods
Jan 01, 2002; ... European Banks and the American Challenge: Competition and Cooperation in International Banking under Bretton Woods. Edited by Stefano Battilossi and Youssef Cassis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. vi + 228 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 0-19-92502-8. This ...
The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000. Volume 4: Economic and Business Relations
Jan 01, 2002; ... The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000. Volume 4: Economic and Business Relations. Edited by Janet Hunter and S. Sugiyama. New York: Palgrave, 2002. xiii + 355 PP. Index, notes, photographs, figures, tables. Cloth, $78.00. ISBN 0-333-79197-5. This book, the fourth volume in ...
Unmaking the Japanese Miracle: Macroeconomics Politics, 1985-2000
Jan 01, 2002; ... Unmaking the Japanese Miracle: Macroeconomic Politics, 1985-2000. By William W. Grimes. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. xix + 254 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-43849-7. As the title suggests, Unmaking the Japanese Miracle by ...
Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines
Jan 01, 2002; ... Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines. By David C. Kang. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Index, notes, figures, tables. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-5218o8y-o. Although South Korea and the Philippines struggled with "money politics" in the ...
Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation
Jan 01, 2002; ... Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation. By Hagen Koo. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. xii + 240 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95. ISBN: cloth 0-801-43835-7; paper 0-801-43835-7; paper 0-801-48696-3 ....
The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace: State, Revolution, and Labor Management
Jan 01, 2002; ... The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace: State, Revolution, and Labor Management. By Mark W. Frazier. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii + 286 pp. Index, notes, tables, bibliography. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0-521-80021-8. The danwei (work unit) occupied a central ...