Business History Review back issues from October 2004:
Counterpoint to Reform: Gilbert H. Montague and the Business of Regulation
Oct 01, 2004; ... During a career that stretched from the Progressive Era through the 1950s, Gilbert H. Montague served businesses as a lawyer and lobbyist, managing relations between companies and the government. In this capacity he had a significant impact on the evolution of regulation, particularly antitrust ...
Planting a Seed: The Nineteenth-Century Horticultural Boom in America
Oct 01, 2004; ... Between 1850 and 1880, enthusiasm for horticulture swept the nation, particularly the Upper Midwest. Nursery owners and seed traders welcomed the escalating demand for trees and flowers but soon faced consumer complaints about their questionable business practices. Customer dissatisfaction had ...
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange: Adapting to Survive in Changing Markets
Oct 01, 2004; ... This article analyzes the evolution of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), America's oldest stock exchange, from 1950 through 2000. PHLX was able to compete against the much larger New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) because it exploited loopholes created by fixed minimum trading commissions ...
Carnegie
Oct 01, 2004; ... Carnegie. By Peter Krass. Hoboken: John Wiley, 2002. ix + 612 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $35. ISBN: 0-471-38630-8. Some individuals embody such qualities of eminence, character, or complexity that long after they are dead they continue not only to fascinate but ...
The Roots of American Industrialization
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Roots of American Industrialization. By David R. Meyer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 333 pp. Tables, figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-801-87141-7. Industrialization in the antebellum Northeast, U.S. history textbooks tell ...
The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square. By James Traub. New York: Random House, 2004. xvii + 313 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 0-375-50788-4. Over the last two decades, the writer James Traub has looked on Times Square and felt disturbed ...
Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England
Oct 01, 2004; ... Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England. By MichaelJ. Connolly. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. ix + 210 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN: 0-826-21499-1. If the Jacksonian period in American history was the era of the common man, it ...
Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry
Oct 01, 2004; ... Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. By Lawrence A. Peskin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 294 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-87324-X. "Although much has been written about the 'industrial ...
Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
Oct 01, 2004; ... Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. By Angela Lakwete. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 232 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45. ISBN: 0-801-87394-0. As somebody who regularly teaches an introductory survey of U.S. history, I ...
Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860
Oct 01, 2004; ... Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860. By Michael Zakim. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. x + 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $30. ISBN: 0-226-97793-5. Ready-Made Democracy transforms what might have been a narrow ...
"Origins of the New South" Fifty Years Later: The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic
Oct 01, 2004; ... "Origins of the New South" Fifty Years Later: The Continuing Influence of a Historical Classic. Edited by John B. Boles and Bethany L. Johnson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. ix + 305 pp. Tables, notes. Cloth, $62.95; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-807-12905-4; paper, ...
Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West
Oct 01, 2004; ... Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West. By Claire Strom. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. x + 228 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35. ISBN: 0-295-98348-5. Farming in the ...
A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade
Oct 01, 2004; ... A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. By Robert H. Gudmestad. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xvi + 246 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-12884-8; paper ...
The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880. By Candy Gunther Brown. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiv + 336 pp. Index, notes, appendix, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-807-82838-6; ...
Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889-1909
Oct 01, 2004; ... Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the Oil Industry, 1889-1909. By Jonathan W. Singer. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xiii + 344 pp. Illustrations, appendix, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 1-585-44160-0. In Broken Trusts, ...
Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950
Oct 01, 2004; ... Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950. By Mark Tebeau. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 425 pp. Index, notes, appendix, illustrations. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-86791-6. Mark Tebeau's ambitious, informative, and absorbing book explains, among many other ...
The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad
Oct 01, 2004; ... The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad. By Robert E. Mohowski. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xix + 205 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-801-87222-7. In 1957, Northern Pacific's President Robert S. MacFarlane predicted that ...
Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law
Oct 01, 2004; ... Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law. By John Fabian Witt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 311 pp. Index, notes, index, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-01267-4. Specifically a case study of workmen's compensation, ...
The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. By Gijs Mom. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 423 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 0-801-87138-7. Gijs Mom, who trained in Dutch ...
The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM's Founding Father and Son
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM's Founding Father and Son. By Richard S. Tedlow. New York: Harper-Business, 2003. xi + 340 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN: 0-060-01405-9. A salesman for the National Cash Register Company once encountered ...
Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World
Oct 01, 2004; ... Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World. Edited by Glenn Adamson. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xi + 219 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, appendices, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-262-01207-3. Brooks Stevens, whose Milwaukee-based design career ...
Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region
Oct 01, 2004; ... Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region. Edited by Joel A. Tarr. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. 312 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $32. ISBN: 0-822-94156-2. There are many ways to start a book on the environmental history ...
Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter and Gamble
Oct 01, 2004; ... Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter and Gamble. By Davis Dyer, Frederick Dalzell, and Rowena Olegario. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004. x + 467 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: ...
Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security
Oct 01, 2004; ... Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security. By Edward D. Berkowitz. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xvii + 455 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-299-18950-3. Edward Berkowitz, a history professor at George Washington University and the director of ...
Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers
Oct 01, 2004; ... Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers. By Pablo J. Boczkowski. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. xi + 243 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $30. ISBN: 0-262-02559-0. Less than a generation has passed since the "invention" of the Internet proclaimed by Al Gore. And ...
The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War
Oct 01, 2004; ... The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War. By Jorma Ahvenainen. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2004. 427 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Paper, euro35. ISBN: 9510 -410 -0947-3. The economic ties of Latin America with the developed ...
Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood
Oct 01, 2004; ... Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood. By Andrew Brodie Smith. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2003. 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-870-81746-9. Since the mid-1970s Hollywood has considered the ...
The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester. By Stephen Mosley. Cambridge, U.K.: White Horse Press, 2001. χ + 271 pp. Index, notes, maps, bibliography, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $65.00/£35. ISBN: 1-874-26749-9. The great strength ...
The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space. By Reinhold Martin. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xix + 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-262-13426-8. From around 1950 to the middle of the following decade, the office building sheathed in a ...
The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Preindustrial West
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Preindustrial West. By John Landers, xiv + 440 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Tables, figures, appendix, bibliography notes, index. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN: 0-199-24916-4. John Landers's analytic framework is ...
Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America
Oct 01, 2004; ... Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. By Walter A. Friedman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 368 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-674-01298-4. Compared to the rapidly mounting stack of books on the history of American ...
The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development. By Isabella Mares. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvii + 319 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $65; paper, $24. ISBN: cloth 0-521-82741-8; paper 0-521-53477-1. Isabella Mares's book is not a ...
A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953
Oct 01, 2004; ... A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953. By Julie Hessler. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi + 366 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, tables. Cloth, $39.50. ISBN: 0-691-11492-7. When Vladimir Lenin led the ...
The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries. By James W. Cortada. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvii + 494 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-195-16588-8. There is an ...
Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640-1845
Oct 01, 2004; ... Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640-1845. By William J. Ashworth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiii + 396 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN: 0-199-25921-6. In this book on eighteenth-century excise administration in England, William J ....
Geiz und Gerechtigkeit: Ökonomisches Denken im frühen Mittelalter [Avarice and Justice: Economic Thought in the Early Middle Ages]
Oct 01, 2004; ... Geiz und Gerechtigkeit: Ökonomisches Denken im frühen Mittelalter [Avarice and Justice: Economic Thought in the Early Middle Ages]. By Rettina Emmerich. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. 334 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Paper, euro68. ISBN: 3-515-08041-4. Bettina Emmerich ...
The Michelin Men: Driving an Empire
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Michelin Men: Driving an Empire. By Herbert R. Lottman. London: I. B. Tauris, 2003. ix + 310 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 1-860-64896-7. The Michelin Men is a revised, English edition of Herbert Lottman's Michelin: 100 ans d'aventures (Paris, ...
Chemie und Politik: Die Geschichte der Chemischen Werke Hüls, 1938-1979 [Chemistry and Politics: The History of Hüls Chemical Works, 1938-1979]
Oct 01, 2004; ... Chemie und Politik: Die Geschichte der Chemischen Werke Hüls, 1938-1979 [Chemistry and Politics: The History of Hüls Chemical Works, 1938-1979]. By Bernhard Lorentz and Paul Erker. Munich: C. H. Beck Verlag, 2003. 461 pp. Photographs, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, ...
From Cotton Mill to Business Enterprise: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China
Oct 01, 2004; ... From Cotton Mill to Business Enterprise: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China. By Elizabeth Köll. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xvi + 242 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, figures, photographs, tables. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN: 0-674-01394-8. From Cotton Mill ...