Business History Review back issues from April 2003:
APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism
Apr 01, 2003; ... APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism. By John Ravenhill. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Index, notes, bibliography, tables, figures, XII + 294 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth 0-521-66094-7; paper 0-521-66797-6. John Ravenhill has given us the ...
Market and Society in Korea: Interest, Institution and the Textile Industry
Apr 01, 2003; ... Market and Society in Korea: Interest, Institution and the Textile Industry. By Dennis McNamara. New York: Routledge, 2002. x + 254 pp. Index, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN 0-415-27481-8. Under what conditions does extensive government intervention into the economy not ...
Capitalist Development and Economism in East Asia: The Rise of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea
Apr 01, 2003; ... Capitalist Development and Economism in East Asia: The Rise of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea. By Ku-wai Li. New York: Routledge, 2002. XVIII + 300 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $100.00. ISBN 0-415-26873-7. Ku-wai Li argues that the many scholars ...
Britain, France and the Financing of the First World War
Apr 01, 2003; ... Britain, France and the Financing of the First World War. By Martin Horn. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. VI + 262 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-198-20871-1. The financing of the First World War has not attracted much scholarly attention ...
Mao's Crusade: Politics and Policy Implementation in China's Great Leap Forward
Apr 01, 2003; ... Mao's Crusade: Politics and Policy Implementation in China's Great Leap Forward. By Alfred L. Chan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. XIII + 321 pp. Index, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-199-24406-5. The Great Leap Forward (GLF) campaign from 1958 to 1960 presents a ...
An Economic History of London, 1800-1914
Apr 01, 2003; ... An Economic History of London, 1800-1914. By Michael Ball and David Sutherland. New York: Routledge, 2001. X + 470 pp. Index, figures, tables. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN 0-415-24691-1. Michael Ball and David Sutherland set out to move London history in new directions, departing from previous ...
Bankkredit oder Kapitalmarkt: Alternativen der Industriefinanzierung in Deutschland [Bank Credit or Capital Markets: Alternative Methods of Industrial Financing in Germany]
Apr 01, 2003; ... Bankkredit oder Kapitalmarkt: Alternativen der Industriefinanzierung in Deutschland [Bank Credit or Capital Markets: Alternative Methods of Industrial Financing in Germany]. Wissenschaftliche Beirat des Instituts fur bankhistorische Forschung e.V. Bankhistorisches Archiv: Zeitschrift zur ...
Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought
Apr 01, 2003; ... Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought. By Andrea Finkelstein. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. XIX + 381 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-472-11143-4. How should the history of economic theory ...
Le Demon Moderne: La Pollution dans les societes urbaines et industrielles d'Europe [The Modern Demon: Pollution in Urban and Industrial European Societies]
Apr 01, 2003; ... Le Demon Moderne: La Pollution dans les societes urbaines et industrielles d'Europe [The Modern Demon: Pollution in Urban and Industrial European Societies]. Edited by Christoph Bernhardt and Genevieve Massard-Guilbaud. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Biaise-Pascal, 2002. 465 pp ....
Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England
Apr 01, 2003; ... Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England. By Timothy Alborn. New York: Routledge, 1998. ix + 297 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $90. ISBN 0-415-18079-1. Modern polities and economies are structured around a small set of seemingly hard-and-fast cultural ...
The Lancashire Working Classes, c.1880-1930
Apr 01, 2003; ... The Lancashire Working Classes, c.1880-1930. By Trevor Griffiths. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2001. XI + 390 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 0-199-24738-2. The British working class might have been made in the crucible of the industrial revolution, ...
Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War
Apr 01, 2003; ... Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War. By John Mason Hart. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. XI + 677 pp. Index, notes, maps, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-520-22324-1. In 1987, John Mason Hart published Revolutionary Mexico, an influential ...
The End of Baseball As We Knew It: The Players' Union, 1960-81
Apr 01, 2003; ... The End of Baseball As We Knew It: The Players' Union, 1960-81. By Charles Korr. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. XVIII + 336 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-252-02752-3. There was a revolution in baseball in 1977. That year, after living under the reserve ...
Capitalizing Knowledge: Essays on the History of Business Education in Canada
Apr 01, 2003; ... Capitalizing Knowledge: Essays on the History of Business Education in Canada. Edited by Barbara Austin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. XIII +371 pp. Index, figures, tables. Cloth, $60. ISBN 0-8020-4234-1. This ambitious book of essays attempts both to provide an overview of ...
States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940
Apr 01, 2003; ... States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940. By Stuart McCook. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. XIV + 201 pp. Tables, illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-292-75256-3; paper ...
The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements
Apr 01, 2003; ... The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements. By Woody Register. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. XI + 400 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-195-14493-7. In The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American ...
Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies
Apr 01, 2003; ... Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies. Edited by Warren Belasco and Philip Scranton. New York: Routledge, 2002. VIII + 288 pp. Index, notes, figures, illustrations, tables. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 0-415-93077-4. New directions in historical research and writing should be ...
Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago
Apr 01, 2003; ... Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. By David Naguib Fellow. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. IX + 234 pp. Bibliography, index, photographs. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-262-16212-1. Business historians will find Garbage Wars an irritating book, which was in part ...
Uplift: The Bra in America
Apr 01, 2003; ... Uplift: The Bra in America. By Jane Farrell-Beck and Colleen Gau. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. XV + 243 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-812-23643-2. Ninety-five-year-old Selma Koch still fits women with brassieres at the Town ...
Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
Apr 01, 2003; ... Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century. By Hal Rothman. New York: Routledge, 2002. XXVIII + 340 pp. Photographs, bibliography, index. Cloth, $27.50. ISBN 0-415-92612-2. Books about Las Vegas tend to fall into one of two categories: solid scholarship-like John M ....
The Cotton Dust Papers: Science, Politics, and Power in the "Discovery" of Byssinosis in the U.S.
Apr 01, 2003; ... The Cotton Dust Papers: Science, Politics, and Power in the "Discovery" of Byssinosis in the U.S. By Charles Levenstein and Gregory F. DeLaurier, with Mary Lee Dunn. Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood, 2002. XI + 160 pp. Cloth, $32.95. ISBN 0-895-03265-1. "Monday fever" is a condition long common ...
Before They Were Cardinals: Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis
Apr 01, 2003; ... Before They Were Cardinals: Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis. By Jon David Cash. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. XIV + 279 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-826-21401-0. Jon David Cash, an adjunct ...
To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology
Apr 01, 2003; ... To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology. By Ross Knox Bassett. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. XII + 421 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN 0-801-86809-2. Metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistors ...
Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry
Apr 01, 2003; ... Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry. F. Robert van der Linden. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. XV + 349 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-813-12219-8. During the 1920s and the early ...
Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World
Apr 01, 2003; ... Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World. By Louis Galambos and Eric John Abrahamson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. X + 310 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $29.00. ISBN 0-521-81616-5. Anytime, Anywhere tells the story of Sam Ginn's ...
Cotton's Renaissance: A Study in Market Innovation
Apr 01, 2003; ... Cotton's Renaissance: A Study in Market Innovation. By Timothy Curtis Jacobson and George David Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. XVI + 346 pp. Index, notes, figures, illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-521-80827-8. In 1973, cotton accounted for only 33 percent of all ...
Strike-Breaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America
Apr 01, 2003; ... Strike-Breaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America. By Stephen H. Norwood. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. XII + 328 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-807-82705-3. Stephen H. Norwood catalogues a ...
My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965
Apr 01, 2003; ... My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965. By Becky M. Nicolaides. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. XVIII + 412 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.00. ISBN 0-226-58300-7; paper ...
Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council
Apr 01, 2003; ... Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council. By Joseph A. Pratt, William H. Becker, and William M. McClenahan Jr. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xvii + 292 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 1-585-44185-6. A ...
The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478-1776: From Commercial Arithmetic to Life Annuities and Joint Stocks
Apr 01, 2003; ... The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478-1776: From Commercial Arithmetic to Life Annuities and Joint Stocks. By Geoffrey Poitras. Cheltenham, U.K.: Elgar, 2000. x + 522 pp. Index, figures, illustrations, references, tables. Cloth, $120.00. ISBN 1-840-64455-9. The first issue of ...
Selling the Old-Time Religion: Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920-1940
Apr 01, 2003; ... Selling the Old-Time Religion: Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920-1940. By Douglas Carl Abrams. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. XIV + 168 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-820-322946. Few places and times might seem less congenial to fundamentalist ...
How Economics Became What It Is
Apr 01, 2003; ... How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science. By Geoffrey M. Hodgson. New York: Routledge, 2001. XIX + 422 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, references. Cloth, $120.00; paper, $36.95. ISBN: cloth 0-415-25716-6; paper 0-415-25717-4. How Economics ...
Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979
Apr 01, 2003; ... Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979. By Christopher MacGregor Scribner. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002. XII + 188 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 0-820-32328-4. One of the great municipal rivalries of the last century ...
The business trip: Maritime networks in the twentieth century
Apr 01, 2003; ... Global maritime business networks channeled the flows of people and goods for modern production and consumption societies. The principal instrument for constructing and sustaining these networks was the business trip. In the course of their travels, shipping-company and trading-company ...
The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914
Apr 01, 2003; ... The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914. By Nancy Cohen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 318 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, illustrations. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82670-7; paper 0-807-85354-2. With The Reconstruction of ...
A White-Collar Profession: African American Public Accountants Since 1921
Apr 01, 2003; ... A White-Collar Profession: African American Public Accountants Since 1921. By Theresa A. Hammond. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. XII + 216. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82708-8; paper ...
Otto Kahn: Art, Money, & Modern Time
Apr 01, 2003; ... Otto Kahn: Art, Money, & Modern Time. By Theresa M. Collins. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. XII + 383 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-807-82696-0. Although Otto Kahn (1867-1934) has long since ceased to be a household name ...
The economies and conveniences of modern-day living: Frozen foods and mass marketing, 1945-1965
Apr 01, 2003; ... American frozen foods were originally considered a luxury product; the industry did not develop a mass market until the late 1940s. Only a few years after achieving mass-market sales, however, frozen-food producers tried to segment the market in order to increase profits. This change was partly ...
Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States
Apr 01, 2003; ... Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States. By Clete Daniel. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press. x + 327. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-43853-5. Clete Daniel details the travails of American textile unions in his latest book, ...
Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment
Apr 01, 2003; ... Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. By Emma Rothschild. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. x + 358 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $18.95. ISBN: cloth 0-674-00489-2; paper 0-674-00837-5. Economic Sentiments "is about laissez-faire when it was new" ...
Cold war Americanism: Business, pageantry, and antiunionism in Weirton, West Virginia
Apr 01, 2003; ... After World War II, Weirton Steel remained a critical barrier to the unionization of the steel industry. Weirton kept unions at bay through a plan of high wages, welfare, and company unionism, which it combined with an authoritarian style of management. Forbidden from using intimidation by the ...