Business History Review back issues from April 2007:
Collusion and Competition in Colonial Economies: Banking in British West Africa, 1916-1960
Apr 01, 2007; ... This article examines the collusion between the only two major banks to operate in British West Africa for most of the colonial period after 1916, Barclays and the Bank of British West Africa. The companies' records reveal that the alliance was more far-reaching than has previously been shown, ...
International Management in a Free-Standing Company: The Penang Sugar Estates, Ltd., and the Malayan Sugar Industry, 1851-1914
Apr 01, 2007; ... Although free-standing companies helped facilitate international capital flows in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, their ability to operate effectively over the long run in a global economy has been questioned. This essay looks at one free-standing company, the Penang Sugar ...
Corporate Legitimacy and Advertising: British Companies and the Rhetoric of Development in West Africa, 1950-1970
Apr 01, 2007; ... Development, modernity, and industrialization became dominant themes in corporate advertising in Africa in the 1950s and remained prevalent through the following two decades while many African nations were gaining independence. British businesses operating there created a publicity strategy that ...
The Business Firm in Africa
Apr 01, 2007; ... In spite of the impact of business firms on the African continent, relatively little work has been done on uncovering the history of these firms or of the people who founded and ran them. This neglect should come as no surprise to Africaniste, economic historians, and business historians. In ...
Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930
Apr 01, 2007; ... Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930. By Angel Kwolek-Folland. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xiv + 256 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-801-84860-1; paper, ...
"Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire."
Apr 01, 2007; ... "Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire." By Geoffrey G. Jones and Ingrid Vargas. Harvard Business School Case No. 9-804-078. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, December 15, 2005. Reviewed by Matthias Kipping In place of a book or an article, I have selected a case study ...
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Rise of Silas Lapham. By William Dean Howells. New York: Signet Classic by New American Library, 1980. 350 pp. Paper. ISBN: 0-45151400-9. First published in 1885 by Ticknor and Company. Reviewed by Pamela Walker Laird Decades of digging in archives, ancient trade journals, ...
Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe
Apr 01, 2007; ... Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe. By Peter Spufford. London: Thames and Hudson, 2003. 432 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $29.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-500-25118-5; paper, 0-500-28594-2. Reviewed by Margaret B. W. Graham Academic historians have justly faulted themselves for ...
Big Business and the Wealth of Nations
Apr 01, 2007; ... Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. Edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Franco Amatori, and Takashi Hikino. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 574 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $34.99. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-48123-6; paper, 0-521-66347-4. Reviewed by Nuria Puig Difficult as ...
The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship
Apr 01, 2007; ... The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship. By Juliet E. K. Walker. Woodbridge, Conn.: Twayne, 1998. 482 pp. Cloth, $52.00. ISBN: 0-805-71650-5. Reviewed by Maceo Crenshaw Dailey Jr. The History of Black Business in America, by Juliet Walker, is ...
Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation: How Companies Can Seize Opportunities in the Face of Technological Change
Apr 01, 2007; ... Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation: How Companies Can Seize Opportunities in the Face of Technological Change. By James Utterback. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-875-84342-5. Reviewed by Mike Parsons and Mary B. Rose The concept of "dominant ...
Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions
Apr 01, 2007; ... Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions. Edited by Thomas K. McCraw. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xii + 711 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $35.00. ISBN: cloth, ...
Concept of the Corporation
Apr 01, 2007; ... Concept of the Corporation. By Peter Drucker. New Brunswick, N. J.: Transaction Publishers, 1993. Third Edition. 329 pp. Paper, $24.95. ISBN: 1-560-00625-0. Reviewed by Wyatt Wells Every other year, I teach The History of American Business, which examines not only the evolution ...
Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860
Apr 01, 2007; ... Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860. By Tom Downey. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 2006. xii + 262 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, maps, tables. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-807-13107-5. Reviewed by Stephen A ....
Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873
Apr 01, 2007; ... Debtor Diplomacy: Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, 1837-1873. By Jay Sexton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ix + 287 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN: 0-199-28103-3. Reviewed by Mark Wilson While historians of ...
Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965
Apr 01, 2007; ... Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965. By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xvi + 466 pp. Appendices, tables, graphs, notes, illustrations, photographs, essay on sources. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN: 0-808-18236-2. Reviewed by Marc ...
John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier
Apr 01, 2007; ... John Sutler: A Life on the North American Frontier. By Albert Hurtado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xvii + 412 pp. Photographs, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 0-806-13772-X. Reviewed by Ryan J. Carey Recently, the noted historian of ...
Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes
Apr 01, 2007; ... Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. By John Franck. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.374 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-252-03099-0. Reviewed by Perry R. Duis Chicagoans familiar with their city's history recognize the name of Charles ...
Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950
Apr 01, 2007; ... Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950. By Rosemary Feurer. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xix + 320 pp. Index, notes, photographs. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-03087-7; paper, 0-252-07319-3. Reviewed by Tami J. Friedman Rosemary Feurer, in ...
How New York Became American, 1890-1924
Apr 01, 2007; ... How New York Became American, 1890-1924. By Angela M. Blake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 242 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 0-801-88293-1. Reviewed by Daniel Levinson WiIk In 1903, popular essayist Hamilton Wright ...
Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction
Apr 01, 2007; ... Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction. By David A. Zimmerman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xii + 294 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. ISBN: cloth, 0-807-83023-2; paper, 0-807-85687-8. Reviewed by ...
Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s
Apr 01, 2007; ... Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 19305. By Inger L. Stole. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xviii + 290 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-252-03059-1; paper, ...
Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption
Apr 01, 2007; ... Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption. By Laura J. Miller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. x + 316 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-226-52590-2. Reviewed by Michael Winship In May 1990, Crown Books, a leading ...
Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin
Apr 01, 2007; ... Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin. By Pamela Walker Laird. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiv + 439 PP- Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01907-5. Reviewed by Kathy Peiss "Social capital" is now part of the ...
America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941-2001
Apr 01, 2007; ... America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941-2001. By Richard M. Abrams. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix + 345 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-521-86246-9. Reviewed by Howard Brick To make sense of wrenching changes in American society, ...
The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century
Apr 01, 2007; ... The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century. By Christopher D. McKenna. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxi + 370 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN: 0-521-81039-6. Reviewed by Neil Fligstein The ...
Empresas y empresarios en la historia de Colombia, Siglos xix-xx: Una colección de estudios recientes. [Firms and Entrepreneurs in the History of Colombia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Collection of Recent Studies]
Apr 01, 2007; ... Empresas y empresarios en la historia de Colombia, Siglos xix-xx: Una colección de estudios recientes. [Firms and Entrepreneurs in the History of Colombia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Collection of Recent Studies]. 2 vols. Edited by Carlos Davila L. de Guevara. Bogotá: Editorial ...
From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000
Apr 01, 2007; ... From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000. Edited by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.377 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. ISBN: cloth, ...
Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery
Apr 01, 2007; ... Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery. By David Warsh. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. xxii + 426 pp. Index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 0-393-05996-0. Reviewed by Michael A. Bernstein A financial affairs and economics journalist, David Warsh has written a ...
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. By Deirdre N. McCloskey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xviii + 616 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN: 0-226-55663-8. Reviewed by Charles Tilly Promise or threat? At the start of her ...
The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse. By Bryan Cowan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xii + 364 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN: 0-300-10666-1. Reviewed by Michelle Craig McDonald Commodities ...
A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century
Apr 01, 2007; ... A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century. By Giorgio Riello. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii + 302 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 0-199-29225-6. Reviewed by Michael ...
Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Greatest Business Families
Apr 01, 2007; ... Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Greatest Business Families. By David S. Landes. New York: Viking, 2006. xx + 379 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $25.95. ISBN: 0-670-03338-3. Reviewed by Harold James The very distinguished Harvard economic historian David ...
Les archives des entreprises sous l'Occupation: Conservation, accessibilité et apport [The Archives of Companies under the (German) Occupation: Conservation, Accessibility and Contribution]
Apr 01, 2007; ... Les archives des entreprises sous l'Occupation: Conservation, accessibilité et apport [The Archives of Companies under the (German) Occupation: Conservation, Accessibility and Contribution]. Edited by Hervé JoLy. Lille: IFRESI, 2005. 314 pp. Notes, figures, illustrations, tables. euro40.00 ....
Da danske møbler blev moderne: Historien om dansk møbeldesigns storhedstid [Danish Modern: A History of the Golden Age of Danish Furniture Design]
Apr 01, 2007; ... Da danske møbler blev moderne: Historien om dansk møbeldesigns storhedstid [Danish Modern: A History of the Golden Age of Danish Furniture Design]. By Per H. Hansen. Copenhagen: Aschehoug, 2006. 644 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, DKK399.00. ISBN: ...
Innovation + Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1973-2002
Apr 01, 2007; ... Innovation + Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1973-2002. By John Singleton with Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke, and Frank Holmes. Auckland: University of Auckland Press, 2006. xii + 340 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index, plates. Cloth, $33.95. ISBN: ...
The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845. By Paul A. Van Dyke. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xviii + 280 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 9-622-09749-9. Reviewed by Madeleine Zelin Paul Van ...
The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. By Madeleine Zelin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xxix + 404 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, photographs, tables. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-231-13596-3. Reviewed by Christopher ...
Announcements
Apr 01, 2007; ... The ALFRED D. CHANDLER JR. INTERNATIONAL VISITING SCHOLARS IN BUSINESS HISTORY PROGRAM. Established scholars in business history based outside the United States are invited to spend a period of time in residence at Harvard Business School. The primary activities of the program will be to ...