Business History Review back issues from July 2004:
From Independence to Integration: The Corporate Evolution of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, 1904-2004
Jul 01, 2004; ... In the century since its founding, the Ford Motor Company of Canada has evolved from a relatively independent entity within the Ford empire, with a strong element of minority ownership and its own overseas subsidiaries, to a fully integrated and wholly owned part of Ford's North American ...
Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence
Jul 01, 2004; ... Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence. By Bruce H. Mann. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. viii + 344 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-674-00902-9. As Congress starts and stalls on bankruptcy-law reform in the early twenty-first century, amid ...
The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History. Edited by Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer. xiv + 422 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. References, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-691-11376-9; paper ...
God's Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola
Jul 01, 2004; ... God's Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola. By Kathryn W. Kemp. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002. 312 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, appendix, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-865-54782-3. More than a century after its incorporation (on January 29, 1892), Coca-Cola ...
Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s
Jul 01, 2004; ... Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s. By Carolyn S. Loeb. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xvi + 273 pp. Photographs, maps, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-86618-0. The development of the American penchant for suburban ...
The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation and the American Corporate State, 1877-1929
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation and the American Corporate State, 1877-1929. By R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. x + 168 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-801-87054-2. In the last few years, state and local ...
Territories of Profit: Communications, Capitalist Development, and the Innovative Enterprises of G. F. Swift and Dell Computer
Jul 01, 2004; ... Territories of Profit: Communications, Capitalist Development, and the Innovative Enterprises of G. F. Swift and Dell Computer. By Gary Fields. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xviii + 281 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, references, index. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth ...
The Second Information Revolution
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Second Information Revolution. By Gerald W. Brock. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. xiv + 322 pp. Index, references. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-674-01178-3. The Second Information Revolution is essentially two books in one, with chapters interleaved to provide a rough ...
Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002
Jul 01, 2004; ... Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002. By Richard Sounders Jr. De Kalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois Press, 2003. xxii + 436 pp. Tables, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-875-80316-4. Richard Saunders covers the rebirth of the nation's railroads in the last ...
Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective
Jul 01, 2004; ... Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective. Edited by Daniel E. Bender and Richard A. Greenwald. New York: Routledge, 2003. xii + 300 pp. Photographs, illustration, notes, index. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-415-93560-1; paper ...
Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development
Jul 01, 2004; ... Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development. Edited by Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. vii + 350 pp. Tables, figures, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN ...
Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930
Jul 01, 2004; ... Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930. By Julie A. Charlip. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. xiv + 288 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $28.00. ISBN 0-89680-227-2. In Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930, Julie ...
Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition
Jul 01, 2004; ... Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition. By James H. Mills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 239 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-199-24938-5. James Mills's study of British attitudes and policies toward cannabis ...
Vauxhall Motors and the Luton Economy, 1900-2002
Jul 01, 2004; ... Vauxhall Motors and the Luton Economy, 1900-2002. By Len Holden. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2003. xviii + 249 pp. Tables, photographs, illustrations, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-851-55068-1. Len Holden's study of Vauxhall Motors is ...
La banque nationale de crédit: Histoire de la quatrième banque de dépôts française en 1913-1932 [The National Credit Bank: History of the Fourth French Deposit Bank, 1913-1932]
Jul 01, 2004; ... La banque nationale de crédit: Histoire de la quatrième banque de dépôts française en 1913-1932 [The National Credit Bank: History of the Fourth French Deposit Bank, 1913-1932]. By Hubert Bonin. Paris: Éditions PLAGE, 2002. 237 pp. Index, notes, figures, illustrations. Paper, euro70. ISBN ...
The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000. By Mark Cioc. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xiii + 252 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, bibliography, notes. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-295-98254-3. European historiography contains only a handful of river biographies, among them ...
The Chemistry Must Be Right: The Privatization of Buna Sow Leuna Olefinverbund GmbH, 1990-2000
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Chemistry Must Be Right: The Privatization of Buna Sow Leuna Olefinverbund GmbH, 1990-2000. By Rainer Karisch and Raymond Stokes. Berlin: Buna Sow Leuna Olefinverbund GmbH and Edition Leipzig, 2001. 252 pp. Tables, photographs, maps, illustrations, appendix, notes. Cloth, no price. ISBN ...
Russia's Economic Transitions from Late Tsarism to the New Millennium
Jul 01, 2004; ... Russia's Economic Transitions from Late Tsarism to the New Millennium. By Nicolas Spulber. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxiv + 420 pp. Maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 0-521-81699-8. This book is an exercise in comparative economic history. Nicolas Spulber ...
China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation
Jul 01, 2004; ... China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation. By Karl Gerth. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. xv + 445 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 0-674-01214-3. In China Made, Karl Gerth offers an original and ...
The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising. Edited by John McDonough and Karen Egolf with the assistance of the Museum of Broadcast Communications. New York: Routledge, 2002. 1958 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, 3-volume set: $385.00/Can. $578.00. ISBN 1-579-58172-2. This comprehensive ...
Enforcing Business Contracts in South America: The United Fruit Company and Colombian Banana Planters in the Twentieth Century
Jul 01, 2004; ... In the first half of the twentieth century, the United Fruit Company, based in Boston, Massachusetts, created an impressive network that produced bananas in Colombia for distribution to the U.S. market. The company grew its own fruit but relied as well on local entrepreneurs. United Fruit ...
The History of Corporate Governance: The Importance of Stakeholder Activism
Jul 01, 2004; ... The History of Corporate Governance: The Importance of Stakeholder Activism. Edited by Robert E. Wright, with Wray Barber, Matthew Crafton, and Anand Jain. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2004. 2560 pp. Introduction, index, facsimiles. Cloth, six-volume set, £595/$950. ISBN ...
The Organization of Industrial Research as a Network Activity: Agricultural Research at Philips in the 1930s
Jul 01, 2004; ... Business historians have shown the importance of industrial research in the process of innovation. Most have focused on the industrial research departments themselves. Less attention has been paid to the position of these departments within research networks outside the firm. This article ...
Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Jul 01, 2004; ... Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. By Helen Tangires. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xx + 265 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-801-87133-6. One of the miracles of civilization is that we can buy food ....
C. F. Martin and His Guitars, 1796-1873
Jul 01, 2004; ... C. F. Martin and His Guitars, 1796-1873. By Philip F. Gura. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xix + 250 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-807-82801-7. Like a Martin guitar, Philip Gura's book is a pleasure to ...
Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903-2003
Jul 01, 2004; ... Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903-2003. By Henry D. Fetter. New York: Norton, 2003. xi + 461 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN 0-393-05719-4. The Yankees have long been the premier franchise in baseball, and they may well be the ...
Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America
Jul 01, 2004; ... Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America. By Tona J. Hangen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ix + 220 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $18.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82752-5; paper 0-807-85420-4. In Redeeming ...
Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
Jul 01, 2004; ... Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America. By Todd DePastino. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxv + 325 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN 0-226-14378-3. As the official number of homeless Americans is once again increasing in ...
Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century
Jul 01, 2004; ... Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century. By Glenna Matthews. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xvii + 313 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-8047-04154-9; paper ...
Arnold O. Beckman: One Hundred Years of Excellence
Jul 01, 2004; ... Arnold O. Beckman: One Hundred Years of Excellence. By Arnold Thackray and Minor Myers Jr. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2000. xvii + 379 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-941-90123-8. The centenarian smiling on the front dust jacket of this lavishly ...
Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946-61
Jul 01, 2004; ... Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946-61. By Colin J. Dams. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003. [chi] + 246 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-252-02878-3. Comparative studies in labor history can produce uneven results. Waterfront Revolts ...
The Interwar Depression in an International Context
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Interwar Depression in an International Context. Edited by Harold James. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2002. xv + 192 pp. Figures, notes, references. Cloth, euro44.80. ISBN 3-486-56610-5. Harold James's edited volume on the Great Depression, covering the years 1929 to 1933, arises from ...
The Silver King: The Remarkable Life of the Count of Regla in Colonial Mexico
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Silver King: The Remarkable Life of the Count of Regla in Colonial Mexico. By Edith Boorstein Couturier. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. x + 224 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth 0-826-32873-3; ...
The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914. By Margot C. Finn. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 362 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, £50.00. ISBN 0-521-82342-0. This is a wonderful book. Margot Finn's ...
Operational Research in War and Peace: The British Experience from the 1930s to 1970
Jul 01, 2004; ... Operational Research in War and Peace: The British Experience from the 1930s to 1970. By Maurice W. Kirby. London: Imperial College Press, 2003. 444 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $97.25; paper, $35.00. ISBN: cloth 1-860-94297-0; paper ...
Le Crédit lyonnais (1863-1986): Etudes historiques [The Crédit Lyonnais (1863-1986): Historical Studies]
Jul 01, 2004; ... Le Crédit lyonnais (1863-1986): Etudes historiques [The Crédit Lyonnais (1863-1986): Historical Studies]. Edited by Bernard Desjardins et al. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2003. 1020 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. Paper, euro43.90. ISBN 2-600-00807-1. The development of joint-stock banks ...
Lost Momentum: Austrian Economic Development, 1750s-1830s
Jul 01, 2004; ... Lost Momentum: Austrian Economic Development, 1750s-1830s. By Herman Freudenberger. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2003. 301 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, euro45. ISBN 3-205-77061-7. Herman Freudenberger is the unquestionable doyen of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Austrian-Bohemian ...
August Thyssen und Hugo Stinnes: Ein Briefwechsel, 1898-1912 [August Thyssen and Hugo Stinnes: Correspondence, 1898-1912]
Jul 01, 2004; ... August Thyssen und Hugo Stinnes: Ein Briefwechsel, 1898-1912 [August Thyssen and Hugo Stinnes: Correspondence, 1898-1912]. Edited by Manfred Rasch and Gerald D. Feldman, prepared and annotated by Vera Schmidt. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2003. 752 pp. Cloth, euro39.90. ISBN ...
Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944-1947: From Liberation to the Truman Doctrine
Jul 01, 2004; ... Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944-1947: From Liberation to the Truman Doctrine. By Athanasios Lykogiannis. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. ix + 287 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, appendix, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-826-21422-3. Greece's ...
Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life
Jul 01, 2004; ... Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life. By Tim Rowse. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ix + 419 pp. Illustrations, references, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-521-81783-8. When I arrived in Canberra in 1991 to take up a senior lectureship at the Australian National University, I ...
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Edited by Joel Mokyr. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 2824 pp. Cloth, 5-volume set: $695.00. ISBN 0-195-10507-9. A new encyclopedia covering global economic history, from prehistoric times to the present. It is intended for students, ...
The History of Corporate Finance: Development of Anglo-American Securities Markets, Financial Practices, Theories and Laws
Jul 01, 2004; ... The History of Corporate Finance: Development of Anglo-American Securities Markets, Financial Practices, Theories and Laws. Edited by Robert E. Wright, with Richard Sylla advising. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003. 2600 pp. Cloth, six-volume set, £595/$950. ISBN 1-851-96749-4. Vol. 1, ...